Chapter 1165

But if it was to stop Hearing Cheng Jiao and the others, to go find the Bing Mo Shen.

Then what was Wei Zhuang to do?

On one side was his good junior brother Wei Zhuang, who had shared life and death since childhood, trained together, grown up together, as close as blood brothers.

On the other side was the belief that Hearing Gai Nie had held fast to for a lifetime — to protect the common folk of the world.

At this moment, Hearing Gai Nie felt nothing but torment.

Xiao Zhuang, why must you fall into the demonic path at this very moment?

"Hero Gai, Hero Gai, can you hurry it up?"

Watching Hearing Gai Nie sink into thought, Bai Feng grew anxious as well.

He had thought Hearing Gai Nie was pondering how to save Wei Zhuang.

"Sigh…"

Urged on by Bai Feng, Hearing Gai Nie finally snapped back to himself — there was no time left.

If he kept stalling like this, not only would Wei Zhuang be unsavable, he wouldn't be able to stop the Bing Mo Shen either.

Xiao Zhuang, you chose to fall, insisted on walking the dangerous demonic path — your senior brother can't save you today.

Hope you can hold on a little longer. Once your senior brother stops Hearing Cheng Jiao and the others, I'll come back to save you!

Gazing at the downward passage, Hearing Gai Nie said in silence.

Then he slipped into concealment and, following the upward passage, headed toward where the Bing Mo Shen lay.

In the end, he still chose the greater good of the world.

"Hero Gai, Hero Gai…"

Seeing Hearing Gai Nie vanish without saying where he was going, Bai Feng first rejoiced, thinking Hearing Gai Nie had gone downward to save Wei Zhuang.

But when he realized Hearing Gai Nie had actually taken the upward passage, Bai Feng cried out in urgent alarm.

Only this time, Hearing Gai Nie would no longer pay him any heed.

Watching Hearing Gai Nie gradually disappear up the passage, Bai Feng could not help stamping his foot in fury.

"Damn it. I thought you could save him, but I never expected you'd abandon him too.

Now what is he supposed to do?"

Bai Feng was both frantic and helpless.

After all, his own strength had always been beneath Wei Zhuang's.

Now that Wei Zhuang had fallen into the demonic path, he was even less of a match.

He wanted to stop Wei Zhuang, yet lacked the strength to do so.

"Vain of me to call you Hero Gai — you won't even lift a finger to save your own junior brother."

In the end, Bai Feng shouted with all his might toward the passage.

"What Hero Gai?"

Just then, a faint voice suddenly drifted from behind Bai Feng.

Bai Feng turned to look and could not help but freeze on the spot.

Hearing Bai Feng's words, Hearing Gai Nie's guilt deepened.

Yet the speed beneath his feet only quickened.

He wanted to stop Hearing Cheng Jiao sooner, then free his hands to go save Wei Zhuang!

After all, the greater good weighed heavy, but Wei Zhuang weighed heavy too!

If the Bing Mo Shen's calamity were not truly so vast, he would never have abandoned Wei Zhuang.

Hurrying along, before long he saw a burst of light above.

Hearing Gai Nie knew the passage was nearly at its end.

Which meant he had reached the place where the Bing Mo Shen lay.

Without further hesitation, he used his Swift Wind Steps, preparing to slip in quietly and see for himself.

He had barely emerged from the passage when a blade aura like a blaze of fire came rushing toward him.

This blade aura had substance yet no form, as if condensed from yang-attributed true essence.

Before it even struck, a searing, unbearable heat washed over him.

Hearing Gai Nie was baffled — this Swift Wind Steps clearly shifted him into another dimension.

Earlier, down below, even Bai Feng's feather hidden weapons hadn't harmed him.

So how could this flame blade aura faintly wound him?

Without time to think, Hearing Gai Nie could only employ the Guigu Vaulting Art.

Once out of the passage, he flipped backward several times in succession, retreating more than ten steps.

But that flame blade aura, having missed once, brought even more flame blade auras surging in.

In an instant, countless flame blade auras wove themselves into an invisible net of blade aura before Hearing Gai Nie.

No matter how fine his lightness skill, dodging it was impossible.

"Haaah—"

Knowing there was no way to evade, Hearing Gai Nie could only give a soft shout.

Drawing the Yuan Hong Sword, he condensed a sword aura laced with killing intent.

And drove it straight into that invisible net of blade aura.

Each of those flame blade auras carried no less than the force of an Earthly Immortal Realm strike.

And with the boundless flame within them, faintly carrying a thread of fire-intent, their power was truly extraordinary.

In truth, even an ordinary Heavenly Being Realm cultivator would not dare take it lightly.

If this had been before he inherited the legacy of the green-skinned blade-wielder, then no matter what, Hearing Gai Nie's sword Qi would not have been able to break through the layer upon layer of Ning Daoqi's net of blade Qi.

But now, he had the aid of the green-skinned blade-wielder.

After fusing with the killing intent of the green-skinned blade-wielder's clan, his own sword Dao cultivation had not actually increased.

But in terms of offensive power, he was already a completely different person from before.

That single sword Qi, almost like crushing dry weeds and snapping rotten wood, directly tore open this terrifying net of blade Qi.

Seeing sparks fly in all directions and the blade Qi dissipate.

Behind the net of blade Qi stood none other than the recently defected-to-Despair Shanzhuang Great Wheel Ming Wang, Jiu Mozhi!

This flame blade Qi was clearly his signature skill, the Flame Blade.

And that invisible net of blade Qi was the masterwork collection of his proudest Wu Gong.

Originally, this net of blade Qi—even a late-stage Heavenly Being Realm expert would not find it easy to break through.

He never expected that the current Hearing Gai Nie could break it with a single sword Qi.

This startled Jiu Mozhi so badly his jaw nearly dropped.

It took him a long while to come back to his senses.

"Hearing Gai Nie, why did you hide your strength?"

Jiu Mozhi truly could not figure it out. Back when they were at Despair Shanzhuang, he could sense that Hearing Gai Nie was a formidable opponent.

But he reckoned the gap between himself and Hearing Gai Nie was not that great.

After all, Hearing Gai Nie had also been poisoned by the Despair Grass, and moreover had been defeated by Wei Zhuang.

He never imagined that in such a short time, this move he took such pride in would be broken by Hearing Gai Nie just like that.

Apart from hiding his strength, Jiu Mozhi truly could not think of any reason why Hearing Gai Nie's gap between before and after would be so enormous.

Hearing Gai Nie himself had not expected that his single sword Qi now possessed such tremendous power.

He froze for a moment, then noticed that behind Jiu Mozhi, Murong Fu was also watching like a tiger eyeing its prey.

A hundred paces behind the two of them, there was a stone house.

Beside that stone house stood a huge, ferocious-looking statue of the Soldier God Demon's head.

Clearly that stone house was very likely the key to controlling the Soldier God Demon.

Hearing Gai Nie had no time to explain to Jiu Mozhi and said directly,

"Jiu Mozhi, step aside!"

In order to stop Cheng Jiao, he had even temporarily set aside the matter of Wei Zhuang.

Where would he find the time to keep talking with Jiu Mozhi?