Jiang Huai never liked wasting words.
His body vanished from the rain in an instant. The sword’s edge seemed to stir wind and thunder. The moment the sword light appeared before Mo Dan’s eyes, the sword had already pierced his eye socket, piercing through his head.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Jiang Huai immediately swung his sword again towards Mo Dan’s head. Even if Mo Dan had the cultivation of the Void Refining first layer, so what? They were both at the Void Refining first layer now. His Overlord Art had been cultivated to great perfection. With every sword strike, Jiang Huai recalled the bone-deep pain from cultivating the Overlord Art, which made his sword even more sharp and fierce.
“Refined Yin… assist me!” Mo Dan spoke almost instantly. At that very moment, his head was split in two by Jiang Huai. The scattered flesh and blood quickly turned into red worms, crawling all over Mo Dan’s body again, forming a new head.
After he spoke, a hazy black phantom separated from his body. That was the gu spirit of the Refined Yin Demon Gu. The gu spirit’s face was blurry. At this moment, it lunged towards Jiang Huai. But in that instant, Wen Wanwan, standing in place, had her soul leave her body. She unleashed that sword strike.
That sword strike was the culmination of True Person Purple Slaughter’s lifelong learning. It carried both True Person Purple Slaughter’s hatred and her hatred. This spiritual sword, filled with obsession, should burn everything in its path.
That sword landed on the gu spirit. The gu spirit, which had not yet reached Jiang Huai, had its already hazy phantom become even more transparent and even more tattered. It swiftly retreated into Mo Dan’s body. But Wen Wanwan’s next sword strike arrived immediately. Her soul sword shadow directly stabbed at Mo Dan’s brow, her eyes filled with murderous intent.
Mo Dan let out a shrill howl. He tried to swing his sword towards Wen Wanwan, but the next moment, Jiang Huai’s blade severed his arm. Even though his arm turned into tiny red worms and crawled back onto his body, attempting to reconstruct his body, Jiang Huai’s sword fell again very quickly.
Chu Xianning had taught Jiang Huai the secret of Mist Slash. The ultimate fast sword, so fast it was almost invisible, as if it had already struck the moment it was unleashed, impossible to dodge.
Jiang Huai had never possessed such surging spiritual energy before. The moment he unleashed his sword, even he was a little stunned. He never knew his sword could be this fast. He found every acupoint on Mo Dan’s body and pierced his sword tip into each one. All actions happened in a single instant. After that instant, countless sword marks appeared on Mo Dan’s body. His body disintegrated in that instant, turning into countless red worms flying in different directions, as if trying to escape.
“Mirror Flower.”
In the next instant, Jiang Huai activated Mirror Flower, engulfing all the red worm gu. The path before the red worm gu instantly lost its direction. No matter how it moved forward, it would eventually return to its starting point, ultimately having no choice but to reform into Mo Dan’s body.
Mo Dan’s face was contorted with ferocity, his body covered in gu patterns. His pupils were gradually filled with black and red blood ink. The surrounding world seemed to warp, and the wind and rain instantly ceased, being driven out of this realm.
“I didn’t expect… you could push me this far… Yening Sword Spirit, it’s been many years.” Mo Dan’s voice was strange, seeming to twist.
The sword spirit within the Yening Sword instantly warned Jiang Huai, “This aura… it’s the gu spirit of the Refined Yin Demon Gu. It’s about to act personally. It followed the Refined Yin Demon Venerable for many years and knows many of his Daoist magic!”
The moment the Yening Sword Spirit spoke, countless black energies surged from behind Mo Dan. Those black energies condensed into two spirit swords, floating on Mo Dan’s left and right. At that very moment, it unleashed its soul domain, attempting to drag Jiang Huai into it. But Wen Wanwan beside him immediately drew her sword, the blade wounding its soul, forcing it to abandon its soul-based techniques.
The two spirit swords behind Mo Dan immediately lunged at Jiang Huai. Jiang Huai gripped his spirit sword and shattered the two spirit swords with a single blow. The next sword strike pierced directly into Mo Dan’s heart. Mo Dan raised his hand to block with his gu sword, but the gu sword also developed many cracks at that moment, and his body was directly blasted into the ground by Jiang Huai.
The ultimate of a sword cultivator is to break all spells with a single sword.
Jiang Huai’s sword’s might was just a moment away from completely falling upon Mo Dan, but his body twisted, and he instantly appeared elsewhere. But as soon as he dodged, Jiang Huai’s next sword strike arrived immediately, giving him no chance to breathe.
With his remaining spiritual energy, he instantly formed a circular shield technique to block. But the next moment, Jiang Huai’s sword edge shattered his circular shield completely. Mo Dan had no choice but to use a technique to twist his position again. But clearly, this technique consumed a lot of energy. When he wanted to replenish his spiritual energy from this realm, he found that the spiritual energy of this realm was all under Jiang Huai’s control. Not a trace of spiritual energy could be absorbed into his body.
“Why?” he couldn’t help but ask. Jiang Huai did not offer any explanation. The next moment, he appeared at Mo Dan’s new location, like a mad dog pouncing forward and refusing to stop, each bite aiming for his vital points.
Mo Dan obviously couldn’t absorb any worldly spiritual energy because the spark within Jiang Huai’s sea of energy was burning fiercely. It was the last will of the remnant souls of three Ninth Realm Immortal Venerables influencing this world.
Mo Dan clearly could no longer sustain the spatial tearing Daoist magic’s consumption, and had to use his gu sword to block Jiang Huai’s Yening. But each time he blocked, the gu sword shattered a little more, until it completely broke after the sixth sword. Jiang Huai had already appeared before him again. He had nowhere to retreat.
“You have more talent than this idiot named Mo Dan… why don’t you and I… together…”
“I’ll kill you first, then him!” Jiang Huai glanced at Wen Wanwan. Wen Wanwan immediately understood. She condensed the Purple Slaughter sword body with her soul and swung the blade towards Mo Dan’s brow. At the same time, Jiang Huai used Water Moon to strike at Mo Dan.
An instant later, he heard the mournful screams of the Refined Yin Poison Spirit. This time, Mo Dan’s body seemed to regain control. Mo Dan looked at his own face in terror.
Jiang Huai took a step forward. “You can beg for mercy.”
“Please… spare my life… I am willing to let you carve a slave mark and walk in the darkness for you… do things that cannot see the light for you…”
“But I won’t agree,” Jiang Huai added slowly.
Realizing he had been tricked, Mo Dan looked up, his eyes filled with venom. The gu patterns on his body began to glow, as if he was prepared for a desperate fight. He was burning his accumulations from these past few years. In just a few years, he had relied on the Refined Yin Demon Gu to cultivate from the Foundation Establishment stage to his current Void Refinement cultivation. He absolutely refused to fall here like this. His beautiful dreams were not yet over, he didn’t want it to end like this… never!
Jiang Huai’s first sword strike fell upon him, but only cut off a piece of his flesh and blood. The flesh and blood immediately turned into red worms, but the next moment, they were shattered by Jiang Huai’s sword strike.
Jiang Huai launched his second sword strike.
The third sword strike.
Every time Mo Dan tried to counterattack, Jiang Huai’s sword would fall upon him. An instant of immense force would send him flying far back, and Jiang Huai’s body would follow closely, only to cut off another small piece of his flesh and blood.
The moment his flesh and blood turned into red worms, they were cut into dust by Jiang Huai’s sword Qi.
Only now did he finally understand that there was nowhere to retreat, but he couldn’t even struggle.
He suddenly recalled that several years ago, when he was still a Qi Refining disciple in that small sect, he had envied the inner disciples immensely. But every time, he could only look at their backs from afar. Occasionally, he would be a sparring partner for inner disciples during their sword practice. It was like this… only able to be passively beaten, without any power to resist.
He could clearly end himself with one sword, so why did he only cut off a piece of flesh and blood with each sword strike?
When his spiritual energy shield was completely shattered by Jiang Huai, the pain from the Yening sword edge on his body finally began to reach his mind. He couldn’t remember how long it had been since he last felt such pain. So much so that he now only wanted to curl up tightly, but even so… Jiang Huai’s next sword strike came without a moment’s hesitation.
He wished Jiang Huai would strike faster and just give him a quick death. But Jiang Huai calmly swung his sword, one after another. He couldn’t help but roar, “Why don’t you kill me with one sword?!”
“Too easy,” Jiang Huai’s eyes gradually lost their ferocity. The anger in his heart seemed to dissipate as he saw Mo Dan’s pathetic rage.
One sword.
One sword.
Jiang Huai calmly swung his sword, one after another, until his heart became incredibly calm. Mo Dan had already been cut off by more than half his body. Even now, he was still alive, not completely dead.
During this time, he had tearfully begged for mercy, or cursed, even trying to sever his own heart veins with spiritual energy, but all were blocked by Jiang Huai. He wasn’t even given a chance to gather spiritual energy.
Now he couldn’t speak any more words. Only half of his body remained on his thin frame. Jiang Huai finally sheathed his sword, and Mo Dan’s body finally fell to the ground from mid-air. Jiang Huai walked up to him, lowered his head, and looked down at him.
“Please… kill me.” Mo Dan’s voice trembled. All the arrogance and ferocity on his face had vanished, leaving only the most humble plea.
Jiang Huai raised his spirit sword. The spiritual energy at the sword’s edge gathered, and he gripped the blade tightly, plunging it into his head again. The spiritual energy at the sword’s edge exploded at this moment. His flesh and blood turned into thousands of red worms, but this time, not a single one of them tried to scatter, because they knew there was nowhere to escape.
Every red worm lay prostrate on the ground, all turned into powder by Jiang Huai’s sword Qi. His Blue Bone Gu, having lost its source of support, also turned into a pile of blue bone powder. Within the bone powder, the last wriggling black worm remained.
This was the Refined Yin Demon Gu itself.
The poison spirit’s aura was now extremely weak. It sent its final transmission to Jiang Huai, “I can make Mo Dan cultivate from Foundation Establishment to Void Refinement within three years, and I can also recast your shattered sea of energy. You are the person with the strongest sword Dao talent I have seen in three thousand years. If you and I join forces… we will surely be able to overlook the world in the future.”
“Join forces? Shouldn’t you call me Master?”
“Of course! Of course! Master… please give me a chance…”
Jiang Huai smiled helplessly, then lifted his leg. “I was just giving you some hope to disgust you. Don’t take it seriously.”
Saying that, he unhesitatingly stepped down and crushed the Refined Yin Demon Gu under his feet.
