Published: March 8, 2025
“Brother Li! Brother Li!” Cai Xiaocheng rushed over in a panic, thinking that Li Changlong had fallen victim to some dark arts.
Li Changlong looked up in confusion, and Cai Xiaocheng was taken aback, stumbling back three steps.
At that moment, Li Changlong's face was already covered in wrinkles, looking aged; his lifeless eyes suddenly lit up as he murmured, “Practicing martial arts is to protect; Panpan, I want to go back!”
“I want to go back!” Li Changlong suddenly stood up and shouted towards the sky in madness.
Cai Xiaocheng was bewildered and did not understand what was happening.
Behind them, a leading figure from the Zhuge family, cloaked in black, quietly lowered their hand, within which hundreds of fine blue needles as thin as cow hair vanished without a trace.
“This Li Changlong has suddenly gone mad, but that's fine; I won't have to do it myself!” he thought to himself, “That bastard from the Ao family almost took this whole bunch out! Simply despicable!”
“Keep your distance!” another cloaked figure glared at Ao Langyun and shouted, “Are you blind or deaf? When I told you to chase, I didn't mean to wipe them out! If we were going to wipe them out, would we still be waiting until now? Idiot!”
Ao Langyun felt anger clouding his vision.
He could hardly contain his frustration and retort; but was ultimately stopped by Ao Mengyun: “We only need to kill Ao Xieyun; let them be for now, as long as we ensure Ao Xieyun dies in the end!”
“Hmph!” Ao Langyun snorted heavily.
At that moment, the four black-cloaked figures from the Zhuge family all suddenly straightened their expressions, and seriousness flashed in their eyes as they looked toward the distant sky.
In the far-off sky, a powerful pressure suddenly emerged, sharp as a precious sword, cutting through the air!
The overcast sky suddenly revealed brilliant starlight in the distance!
It was a surge of fury that completely shredded the dark clouds!
The four of them were stunned!
They exchanged glances, and one of them quietly asked, “Who is that?”
This question was obviously pointless, as they were too far away to identify who it was. But one thing was certain: that person was extremely formidable!
The leading black-cloaked figure pondered and suddenly looked shocked: “Could it be that in our pursuit to lure the awakened, we have drawn the attention of the Nine Calamity Sword Master?!”
As soon as those words were spoken, the few people rushing forward suddenly halted in unison, followed by a dead silence!
Then, they sensed something and turned around simultaneously.
They saw in the distance behind them, another surge of sharp sword energy shooting into the sky! In the blink of an eye, the dark clouds in that area were violently swept away!
Two waves of sword energy, one south and one north, faced each other from afar!
Suddenly, the wind blowing through the sky felt like it could cut through skin!
One south, one north; two sword energies breaking through the sky appeared in the air, like two unrivaled swordsmen, preparing for battle, each drawing their swords from their sheaths!
Just the preparation alone unleashed such a might, so what would happen when these two actually clashed?
After a moment, the two sword energies retracted.
But the oppressive atmosphere in the air grew heavier!
“It's definitely not the Nine Calamity Sword Master!” another black-cloaked figure said: “As everyone knows, there is only one Nine Calamity Sword Master! But now, two have clearly appeared!”
The leading black-cloaked figure nodded slightly and said, “It seems I was mistaken. However, for such two extraordinary swordsmen to appear in these Middle Three Heavens, isn't that extremely strange?”
“The so-called Nine Heavens Principle only restricts ordinary people. Brother, with our status, we naturally know that certain transcendent beings are not bound by the so-called Nine Heavens Principle.”
“That’s true.”
“Let’s go, pursue them.”
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In the distance, Chu Yang stared wide-eyed at the place where the sword energy emerged, the starry clouds slowly coming together again, as if the stage that had just been unveiled was now slowly closing.