“This is a guy at the sixth level of the King Profound Realm! He has been at this level of strength for many years. His profound strength is incomparably strong, and he also carries an extremely sharp aura.” Jasmine said in a cautious voice: “I didn’t expect that there is someone who has set foot in the middle stage of the King Profound Realm on this land. With your current strength, you can’t possibly be his opponent.”
Middle stage of Wang Xuan?
Yun Che looked to the south with a solemn expression. After listening to Jasmine's words, Yun Che immediately thought of someone... At the same time, he also thought of Ling Jie's warning that day.
The number one person in Blue Wind——Ling Tianni!!
In the Cangfeng territory, the only one who possesses such strength is Ling Tianni!
Ling Jie's warning had come true... no, it was even more thorough than his warning. Not only did he attack, but he also chased him to the Imperial City in person and spread word throughout the city that he wanted to kill him!
Ling Tianni, the previous master of Tianjian Villa, is the most legendary figure in the Blue Wind Empire and is recognized as the best in the Blue Wind Empire. He was famous in the world when he was young and was obsessed with swords. He became the best in the world twenty years ago. His profound strength and sword skills have reached the pinnacle and no one can match him. To this day, he has not appeared in public for twenty years, but his legend has always been spread in the Blue Wind Empire. Most of the young profound practitioners have listened to his legend and grown up with endless yearning for him.
But now, this legendary figure appeared in front of the public, with the purpose of killing Yun Che.
Only Yun Che has ever received such an honor.
When Ling Tianni spoke, he was already quite close to Yun Che. Yun Che could sense that he was less than three miles in front of the palace. He even suspected that Ling Tianni had already discovered where he was, but just didn't want to enter the palace to attack.
After all, Tianjian Villa and the Blue Wind Royal Family had a great connection in the beginning.
“He didn’t show up until the Burning Heaven Sect was wiped out. I thought all my worries were unnecessary. Unexpectedly, he finally showed up.” Yun Che whispered to Jasmine, “However, he has already caught up with me and even went so far as to spread the news throughout the city just to force me to show up… If I retreat and don’t respond, how can I, Yun Che, do that!”
"Humph, I knew you would say that!" Jasmine said disdainfully, "If you are unwilling to escape, then you can just rush up and fight him. Although you cannot defeat him, you have the blood of the Dragon God to protect you, so it won't be that easy for him to kill you. But if you don't know when to advance or retreat, you will surely die."
"I understand. My life is more precious than anything else. How can I allow myself to die here in vain? Since he is here, it is just right for me to see this world-famous number one in Cang Feng!"
"Xiaochan, let's go!"
The Snow Phoenix Beast carried Yun Che, let out a long cry, and flew straight to the direction where Ling Tianni was. At the moment when the Snow Phoenix Beast took off into the air, a heavy aura as heavy as a mountain also locked onto Yun Che's body.
"What? That person is... Ling Tianni? The legendary swordsman?"
This was the Imperial City after all, and many of the older generation had seen the Sword Saint's demeanor in his past. So when Ling Tianni appeared above the Imperial City, some of the elders shouted out his name in shocking voices.
"Sword... Sword Saint? The legendary Sword Saint? Oh my God! I actually saw this Cang Feng legend with my own eyes!"
“No wonder Ling Ran wanted to kill Yun Che…Apart from the Sword Saint, who else has such strength and courage?”
“Yun Che is in trouble now. No matter how abnormal he is, he can never be a match for the Sword Saint. If Yun Che is smart enough, he should hide immediately.”
“I heard that the Sword Saint has not been concerned with worldly affairs for twenty years. This time, Burning Heaven exterminated the clan and shocked Cangfeng, and even alarmed him.”
“I heard that the Sword Saint has a personality as straight as a sword, hates evil as much as he hates evil, and he had a deep friendship with Fen Tian Sect’s Grand Master Fen Yi Jue. It’s not surprising that Yun Che would show up in person when he wiped out Fen Tian Sect this time.”
Three miles in front of the palace, a dark figure floated in the sky, his black robe fluttering in the wind. Below him, the crowd gathered more and more densely, and the discussion was overwhelming. Countless people quickly surged here, looking up at the legendary sword master.
At this moment, a long cry came from the imperial palace. Soon, a white shadow approached like lightning, stopped in front of the man in black robe, and looked at him.
“Ah? It’s… it’s Yun Che!”
"He is actually in the Imperial City... and he showed up!"
“Although his strength is so abnormal that he can destroy the Burning Heaven Sect, he can never be a match for the Sword Saint… The Sword Saint clearly wants to kill him, yet he still dares to show up!”
"This is going to be a good show."
Ling Tianni looks to be around 40 years old. Although he is the father of Ling Yuefeng of Tianjian Villa, he looks younger than Ling Yuefeng. He looks 60% similar to Ling Yuefeng, but the sword energy that naturally emanates from him is several times sharper than that of Ling Yuefeng.
The moment Ling Tianni’s gaze turned towards Yun Che… just that glance made Yun Che instantly feel as if he was being pierced by several sword energies.
“Are you Yun Che?” Ling Tianni spoke slowly, his voice as calm as water.
“Junior Yun Che, greetings to Senior Ling. It is a great honor for this junior to meet the legendary Sword Saint.” Yun Che said politely.
“You are so young, and your profound strength is only at the seventh level of Earthly Profound, but you can destroy the Burning Heaven Sect. This achievement is far inferior to what I achieved when I was young.” Ling Tianni’s cold admiration, Yun Che was definitely the first person to let the Sword Saint say the four words “far inferior”. But after the admiration, there was a cold murderous intent: “With your talent, you could have looked down upon Cang Feng, become a master of a generation, and reached a height that even my Tianjian Villa could only look up to. If you represent Cang Feng in the Tianxuan Seven Kingdoms Ranking Tournament in the future, it is possible to change the shame of Cang Feng’s last place for a thousand years and gain supreme glory. But your heart is so vicious! Because of personal grudges, you actually massacred 73,600 people from the Burning Heaven Sect! Such behavior is outrageous!”
Yun Che smiled faintly and said, “Senior, you are too kind. Although I am not a good person, I definitely don’t dare to call myself ‘evil’. Although I have killed many people, I have never killed anyone without reason. I wiped out the Burning Heaven Sect because they touched my bottom line. They deserved it. I can also use this opportunity to tell everyone the consequences of touching my relatives... However, this matter is a grudge between me and the Burning Heaven Sect. What does it have to do with you?”
"Humph, the Burning Heaven Gate tragedy is an outrage to both humans and gods. You are such a vicious beast, you deserve to be punished by heaven and everyone can kill you! I will kill you to enforce justice on behalf of heaven!"
“Enforcing justice on behalf of Heaven? Hahaha!” Yun Che laughed loudly, and his voice turned cold: “I haven’t been in contact with Burning Heaven Sect for too long, but I deeply feel that the actions of the people in Burning Heaven Sect are despicable and vile. This sect must have done countless ugly things in the past thousand years. The number of people who have been oppressed by them, or even killed directly or indirectly by them, is far more than 73,600! Where were you at that time? Why didn’t you come out to enforce justice on behalf of Heaven!”
Ling Tianni was suddenly speechless.
"I heard that Tianjian Villa and the Cangfeng Imperial Family have a very deep connection. The founder of your Tianjian Villa and the founder of the Cangfeng Imperial Family were brothers who shared life and death. When they founded Tianjian Villa and the Cangfeng Imperial Family, they swore to rely on each other and support each other. However, Tianjian Villa has become increasingly prosperous and has found Tianwei Sword Domain as a backer. The Cangfeng Imperial Family has become weaker and weaker. Today, it is even more in crisis. It was even taken advantage of by Xiao Zong and Fentian Sect, and even the Cangfeng Emperor was plotted against. With the power of your Tianjian Villa, it is impossible that you don't know the crisis of the Cangfeng Imperial Family, but during this period, why didn't you see any help from your Tianjian Villa! You said that you want to enforce justice for the heavens, but why do you completely ignore this most basic morality! On the contrary, I saved the life of the Cangfeng Emperor. If it weren't for me, the Cangfeng Emperor would have died now. After you die, I want to see how you face your ancestors!"
Yun Che pointed at Ling Tianni and frowned, “What you call ‘acting on behalf of Heaven’ is just a joke to me! You have no right to condemn me at all! If you weren’t called the ‘Sword Saint’, I wouldn’t even be interested in looking at you today! On the contrary… I wiped out the entire Burning Heaven Sect not only to vent my hatred, but also to truly act on behalf of Heaven!”
Ling Tianni came with an army to question Yun Che, who had massacred the entire Fentian family and committed a blood debt. He was originally on the side of morality, so he was not afraid to speak publicly, and even planned to punish Yun Che in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, he was scolded by Yun Che in front of everyone, and every word hit the point, so that Ling Tianni could not say a word to fight back. Ling Tianni, who came to "do justice for the heaven", was turned into a heartless and ungrateful person by Yun Che in a few words, and the reasons listed made the crowd below feel involuntarily.
Especially for those profound practitioners who were often bullied by powerful sects but dared not speak out, Yun Che's words hit their hearts directly. Those who had been bullied by the Burning Heaven Sect or the Burning Heaven Outer Sect clenched their hands, their hearts surged, and their admiration for the Sword Saint faded a little.
Ling Tianni sighed: "Not only is your talent amazing, your strength is amazing, but you are also so eloquent. But even if you are eloquent, you can't cover up the heinous blood debt you have committed. For the sake of the 70,000 souls who died at your hands, today, I will punish you with my sword. No matter how many reasons you have, don't think you can escape death."
“Ha!” Yun Che sneered: “Do you think that I wasted so much time talking to you just now because I wanted you to let me go? You think too much. With your own strength, you are not qualified to scare me, let alone kill me.”
Facing a person who wanted to kill him, Yun Che naturally would not be polite anymore. He swung his arm, and a nine-foot dragon fault appeared in his hand. He roared a dragon’s roar and said, “Today, I will meet you, the Sword Saint. Let me see if your ‘Tao’ is qualified to shake my ‘Tao’!”
Yun Che leaped down from the Snow Phoenix’s back, his Burning Heart activated, and his aura suddenly surged. Dragon Fault drew a dark trail in the air, and blasted towards Ling Tianni with a might that shook the wind and clouds.
Ling Tianni slowly raised his eyes, and in his hand, a green long sword appeared silently. The sword body was dull and even the edge could not be seen, but when it was held in the hands of the sword master, it released a kind of domineering power that made people unable to look directly at it.
Facing Yun Che’s attack that contained a violent force, Ling Tian did not move, without any intention of avoiding the attack. Instead, he faced Dragon Fault and slowly stabbed with his sword.
That’s right, it was stabbed out slowly. Whether it was Yun Che or any of the people below, even if they were just a Xuan practitioner in the Nascent Profound Realm, they could all clearly see the trajectory of the sword’s movement. However, it was such a slow blade, but it seemed to have crossed space and even time. Half a breath ago, it was still thirty feet away, and half a breath later, it actually stabbed Yun Che’s chest so slowly...
An extremely dangerous aura suddenly attacked him. In front of him, a mighty wave of air suddenly appeared without any warning, like a landslide. A strong pain also came from his chest. Yun Che was suddenly startled, and without thinking, a fragment of a Star God suddenly flashed away, and then rolled down quickly.
When he landed on the ground, his chest was already bleeding profusely, with two half-foot-long sword marks deeply engraved on it… and Yun Che didn’t even know how he was stabbed by his sword.
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