Chapter 1173

Just then, after a sword Qi that spanned the eight directions shattered, the Wei Zhuang with no markings on his face spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and was sent flying.

"Xiao Zhuang…"

Although there were two Wei Zhuangs, Hearing Gai Nie still leapt toward this Wei Zhuang.

He caught Wei Zhuang in his arms, and even dissolved the dense sword Qi covering his body.

If Hearing Gai Nie had not acted in time, the sword Qi spanning the eight directions would have surged into this Wei Zhuang's meridians.

Even if it didn't kill him, it could have caused him endless torment.

"Senior Brother…"

With Hearing Gai Nie's help, after this Wei Zhuang recovered, a faint smile bloomed on his cold, stern face.

"Xiao Zhuang, what on earth is going on?"

Hearing Gai Nie looked at this Wei Zhuang before him, only feeling that this Wei Zhuang was warmer, more familiar.

The Wei Zhuang in the distance, holding the Sharktooth Sword, with markings on his face, felt somewhat unfamiliar instead.

"I didn't expect you to come and die as well!"

That marked Wei Zhuang laughed coldly, looking at Hearing Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang,

"I had originally planned to kill Hearing Gai Nie first, then go find you. I didn't expect you'd deliver yourself to my door."

"Cough, cough!"

This Wei Zhuang spat out a mouthful of black blood, his face turning even paler, before finally coming back to his senses. Leaning on Hearing Gai Nie for support, he stood up and said softly to Hearing Gai Nie,

"Senior Brother, this guy really is Wei Zhuang, or rather he really is me…"

Wei Zhuang's words were abrupt, without beginning or end, and quite absurd.

Hearing this, Hearing Gai Nie could not help but furrow his brow greatly, unable to make sense of it for the moment.

"Ha ha! Very well then, let me let you die an informed ghost!"

That marked Wei Zhuang, after absorbing the fresh blood Wei Zhuang had spat out.

Not only did the markings on his face grow increasingly bewitching and bizarre, even his aura became exceedingly murky and unfathomable.

Clearly, having first obtained Hearing Gai Nie's blood, then Wei Zhuang's, this marked Wei Zhuang's strength was undergoing earth-shattering changes through some bizarre method.

He reckoned that, following this trend, victory was already in his grasp.

Thinking that his wish to annihilate the Vertical and Horizontal schools was about to be fulfilled.

This Wei Zhuang, utterly brazen, on one hand hastened to absorb the Vertical and Horizontal power within Hearing Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang's blood to boost his strength.

On the other hand, he said casually,

"I come from the Great Qin world, not your Great Qin here!

The purpose of my coming is to kill you two, so that my Demon Sword can reach completion!"

Speaking of the Demon Sword, this Wei Zhuang raised the Sharktooth Sword in his hand.

Only now did Hearing Gai Nie notice that this Sharktooth Sword looked much the same as the original Sharktooth Sword.

However, this Sharktooth Sword was engraved with many mysterious talismans.

Moreover, this sword had been constantly drinking blood, feeding it back to this Wei Zhuang.

So much so that this sword was not only incomparably eerie, but also wildly domineering.

Hearing Gai Nie's heart stirred, and in an instant he realized.

Earlier at the crossroads, Bai Feng had said this Wei Zhuang was searching for a demonic weapon below.

When this Wei Zhuang first appeared, he had only seen him still holding the Sharktooth Sword, and had wondered where the demonic weapon had gone.

So it turned out the demonic weapon was none other than this different Sharktooth Sword in this Wei Zhuang's hand!

Or rather, this could no longer be called the Sharktooth Sword, but the demonic weapon Sharktooth Sword.

And this Wei Zhuang was not his childhood junior brother, but the demonic weapon Wei Zhuang from another realm!

"Just to complete the demonic weapon in your hand, you would kill me and my junior brother?"

Hearing Gai Nie kept one hand pressed against Wei Zhuang's back, continuously channeling true essence to heal his wounds.

Fortunately, although the Vertical and Horizontal sword arts generate and overcome each other.

Their internal arts, however, share the same origin—both are the Guigu Breathing Technique.

Hearing Gai Nie's true essence entered Wei Zhuang's body, and the heavy blows Wei Zhuang had taken from demonic weapon Wei Zhuang gradually subsided.

Moreover, Hearing Gai Nie was astonished to discover that junior brother Wei Zhuang's strength had now made tremendous progress.

He had actually crossed from the previous Earthly Immortal Realm to half a step into the Realm of Heavenly Beings.

But now, with a great enemy before him, he had no time to ask or think.

"Ha ha! Once the demonic weapon is complete, I shall be Chiyou reborn. What harm is there in sacrificing you two?"

Demonic weapon Wei Zhuang's aura gradually converged, clearly he was nearly successful.

Feeling proud at this moment, he was confident that once successful, even if Hearing Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang combined the Vertical and Horizontal, they would no longer be a concern.

So he said directly,

"Moreover, the people of Mancheng have long been captured by me for sacrifice.

You, Hearing Gai Nie, don't you pride yourself on being a great hero who would save all the people under heaven?

Now this peerless demon who slaughtered all of Mancheng to consecrate his sword stands before you, yet you still play dead over there?

Could it be that you're afraid?"

At these words, Hearing Gai Nie was instantly shocked dumbfounded.

When he had entered the small town earlier, he had seen that although the streets had the air of daily life, not a single person was to be seen.

Around all the shops and houses, apart from bloodstains, there was nothing else.

At first Hearing Gai Nie had thought the green-skinned people had come from somewhere unknown and committed this heinous atrocity.

Therefore, he had little goodwill toward the green-skinned man.

But who could have imagined that now this demonic soldier Wei Zhuang would claim it was all his doing?

All for the sake of a single demonic soldier, all to raise his strength.

The entire city's populace — had they all been sacrificed by the demonic soldier Wei Zhuang?

For a moment, Hearing Gai Nie even sent far less true essence over to Wei Zhuang.

He was utterly dumbfounded.

"Ha-ha! What? You don't believe it?"

That demonic soldier Wei Zhuang suddenly beckoned with his hand, and Miss Xiao Li was seen being seized from god knows where, drawn to him through the void.

At this moment Miss Xiao Li's eyes were brimming with tears, and the little pixiu was nowhere by her side.

Her four limbs were bound tight by an invisible force.

She couldn't even twitch.

Upon seeing Hearing Gai Nie, she burst into tears at once and shouted,

"Hero Gai, you must avenge Miss Xiao Li!

Sob… my clansmen are all dead, all killed by this demon Wei Zhuang…"

It was true…

Everything was really true…

This demonic soldier Wei Zhuang — had he truly slaughtered every member of Miss Xiao Li's Lu Li tribe?

Hearing Gai Nie's spirit was greatly shaken, yet he had no idea what to do.

Admittedly, the demonic soldier Wei Zhuang was not his own junior brother Wei Zhuang.

But from his meaning, he too was a Wei Zhuang from another world.

In some sense, he truly was Wei Zhuang.

Wei Zhuang had committed such a grave wrong — should he really kill him and purge the demon to defend the Dao?

For a moment, Hearing Gai Nie fell into deep thought.

Little did he know that his junior brother Wei Zhuang, having received Hearing Gai Nie's aid, was already mostly recovered.

As Hearing Gai Nie's closest junior brother, Wei Zhuang understood this senior brother of his best of all.

He stood up at once and said to Hearing Gai Nie,

"Senior brother, if one day I commit such a grave wrong, I hope you can kill me with your own hands."

"Ah? Why?"