Chapter 210 During the Sacrifice:
Shen Bingsi passed through the Heaven-Sealing Formation and pierced the center of the giant flower plate with her sword, causing the flower demon to let out a shrill cry.
At the same time, a silver longsword pierced through from the other side, and the powerful spiritual energy brought by the sword wind tore a hole in the center of the flower plate, revealing Lu Yingqi's crazed face on the other side of the hole.
Time seemed to stand still. Shen Bingsi could only hear his own heavy breathing. He couldn't believe that he had so easily eliminated such a troublesome flower demon. Just now, Brother Jiang had even self-destructed his primordial spirit to ensure its complete annihilation.
The next moment, the flower demon was torn to pieces, disappearing into the air amidst screams and hissing white smoke.
Shen Bingsi and Lu Yingqi remained in the position of pointing their swords at each other, while the mountain wind swept through the two flying swords, one gold and one silver.
Lu Yingqi's blood-red eyes suddenly twitched and turned to the back.
wrong!
Shen Bingsi instinctively became alert as a strong presence appeared in the void to her left, the same spot where Lu Yingqi's gaze had turned.
A faint red hue gathered there, and even the strong mountain wind couldn't disperse it. Suddenly, a translucent flower disc swept across the pale red, like a blood moon gliding across the water.
The flower demon did not die; it merely pretended to be stabbed, splitting into many petals to escape from the flying swords of Chen Lu and the other two!
Shen Bingsi narrowed his eyes, his chest surging with abundant spiritual energy. He hadn't felt this excited in a long time.
"Whoosh!"
Shen Bingsi leaped up and transformed into a golden light once more, striking directly at the location of the red mist.
Lu Yingqi also turned halfway around, holding a silver longsword, his eyes following the movement of the red mist, his gaze fixed and waiting for an opportunity.
In an instant, the golden light twirled several times in the air, like a bolt of lightning that undulated up and down, constantly chasing the red mist and piercing it again and again from different angles.
The red mist trembled a few times, and its movement slowed down. If you look closely, you can see that the edges of the mist are contracting and expanding, like a seriously injured person panting.
A faint outline emerged from the red mist and vanished in a flash.
Lu Yingqi's gaze froze.
The golden light relentlessly pursued the red mist, subtly forcing it toward Lu Yingqi. The red mist was injured time and again, and each time it was injured, a faint outline would appear for a fleeting moment.
Lu Yingqi remained motionless, like a statue, until—
The red mist was injured again when it was less than ten feet away from him. In an instant, a few moments later, its vague outline was about to appear!
A burst of silver light erupted as Lu Yingqi merged with his natal flying sword, transforming into a massive vessel the size of an ocean liner. It charged fiercely into the red mist, smashing the outline of the flower plate that was faintly visible within it to pieces!
Shen Bingsi barely dodged, rolling backward. The incomparably powerful sword wind of the Nascent Soul stage hurled him and his sword several feet away, almost causing him to fall into the bottom of the Heart-Questioning Gorge.
Shen Bingsi cursed, but his heart was filled with joy. He wiped the blood from his lips, rode the Shengxie Sword and slowly rose back to the edge of the cliff.
Lu Yingqi had returned to his original form, standing with his back to him. The mountain wind blew his tattered blue disciple robes, making him appear exceptionally weathered at this moment.
The red mist disappeared, and there were no traces of monsters around. Shen Bingsi used the Shengxie Sword to probe the surrounding demonic energy, but the hilt of the sword did not tremble.
Shen Bingsi was overjoyed and was about to report the situation to Judge Jiang and Rong Xie.
Suddenly, Lu Yingqi turned around, his gaze frantically fixed on Shen Bingsi, a strange smile playing on his lips.
"Tsk," Shen Bingsi couldn't help but curse, "Lu Yingqi, I just praised you for your good cooperation with me, you wouldn't betray me right now, would you?"
Shen Bingsi was very familiar with this smile; it had appeared before on Sect Master Feng and five other people possessed by flower demons.
This foreshadows that... Lu Yingqi has also been possessed!
"No," Shen Bingsi stretched her arms, "Does this flower demon even have any sense of reason? Didn't they say that hypnosis was needed to control it? Lu Yingqi, you're supposed to be a Nascent Soul stage expert, how come you were controlled so easily? Wouldn't it be incredibly embarrassing if word got out?"
"Shen Bingsi, get out of here quickly! There's still time!" Jiang Caijie's voice came from the ball of light beside them.
“Brother Jiang, I’ve wanted to have a big battle with Lu Yingqi after he attained enlightenment for a long time,” Shen Bingsi said, stretching her neck and looking excitedly at Lu Yingqi who was floating in mid-air. “Didn’t you realize? I’m expressing my excitement!”
Judge Jiang was speechless for a moment: "There's still a quarter of an hour left."
"That's enough!" Shen Bingsi said, then leaped into the air and engaged Lu Yingqi, who had transformed into a giant silver sword, in battle.
In the blink of an eye, the two flying swords, one gold and one silver, clashed hundreds of times, and the sound of explosions caused by the collision of spiritual energy echoed in the air, shaking the entire Wenxin Gorge and the main peak.
After watching Shen Bingsi enter the Heaven-Sealing Formation, Rong Xie withdrew his gaze, took out a staff specially used for drawing formations, and began to write and draw on the ground. The repeated patterns overflowed from the other end of the staff as his arm moved quickly, gradually taking shape.
Throughout the process, Rong Xie remained focused, never raising his head, as if he had no interest whatsoever in the aerial battle.
At this moment, the magic circle was finally completed. Rong Xie let out a soft breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
When Jiang Caijie's attempts to dissuade Shen Bingsi failed, he had no choice but to look towards Rong Xie. When he saw the magic array that Rong Xie had finished drawing, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
Jiang Caijie did not recognize the magic array, but he could guess its purpose from its constituent elements.
"You...could it be..."
Rong Xie held up one finger: "Shh, even if Brother Jiang guesses it, don't say anything."
Jiang Caijie knew that Rong Xie was meticulous and did not want to reveal a word to the flower fairy.
“There’s less than a quarter of an hour left,” Judge Jiang sighed. “It seems you’re not planning to leave here either?”
“Hmm.” Rong Xie raised his head and looked at the two sword lights clashing in the air. “I will stay with Shen Bing Si until the very last moment.”
"You...you are truly affectionate." Judge Jiang didn't know how to describe it, after all, he cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness.
"No, I just... believe he will win!" Rong Xie said seriously. "If he doesn't win, I will be very angry, because I'm betting my future wonderful life of traveling around the world and eating all kinds of delicious food on him winning."
"Ah..." Judge Jiang did not expect this answer.
"I will not... live and die with a loser." Rong Xie stared at the two people fighting rapidly in the air, his eyes brightened by the sword light.
Shen Bingsi had never felt so relaxed.
Lu Yingqi's powerful spiritual pressure constantly loomed over Shen Bingsi's head, threatening to crush him into pieces if he made even the slightest mistake.
However, he was not afraid at all. On the contrary, he was very excited. The closer he got to the danger, the more he could feel the wonder of his swordsmanship. He had complete control over his body and the Shengxie Sword, weaving and maneuvering in the huge silver sword light. Even if the opponent was several times stronger than him, he could still hold his own against the opponent with his superb swordsmanship and exquisite spiritual power control.
Moreover, his strength continued to improve during the battle. His expanding spiritual power gradually increased his dantian. He could feel that the power he had lost in his confusion was now returning in the battle. The speed of his leveling up was extremely fast. If there were a spirit testing stone nearby, one would see that his spiritual power limit was rising steadily, already approaching his cultivation level before his Dao Heart was shattered. Moreover, it was still rising, and the upward trend showed no signs of slowing down.
"boom!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Shen Bingsi met Lu Yingqi's sword tip head-on, using several upward thrusts to deflect the silver greatsword, and gradually approached the core of the silver light—the location of Lu Yingqi himself.
Lu Yingqi was expressionless, his gaze lowered, his figure enveloped in a faint red mist.
"You're hiding here, huh?" Shen Bingsi didn't even blink, deflecting the swords coming from all directions with a few deft moves, and continued to approach Lu Yingqi. "I won't show any mercy. Don't think you're invincible just because you're hiding inside Lu Yingqi's body. Today, right now, is your death day!"
Suddenly, the silver greatsword's attack stopped.
The feeling was strange. The pressure around Shen Bingsi suddenly disappeared, just like when he passed through the South Island a few years ago and chased a cunning dragon demon on the storm-filled sea. He followed it into the center of a rapidly spinning storm. At that time, Shen Bingsi thought he would be torn apart by the storm and barely made it to the center of the storm.
A strange thing happened: there was not a breath of wind at the eye of the storm, and everything was peaceful. The sun shone on the sea, and the surrounding area was a thick wall of dark clouds. In this calm and sunny space, Shen Bingsi could float comfortably and enjoy the warm feeling of the sun on her body.
At this moment, just a step away from Lu Yingqi, it was like a clear sky in the eye of a storm. There was no attack from the silver giant sword, no crushing pressure from the powerful spiritual pressure. The pressure on Shen Bingsi was suddenly relieved, and she could float and move forward freely, and even kill the person in front of her with a single sword.
Lu Yingqi raised his eyes, a strange smile appearing on his face: "Shen Bingsi, do you really think you can defeat me?"
"?" Shen Bingsi sneered, "What else? I've already defeated my defeated opponent once."
Lu Yingqi tilted his head slightly, as if recalling something: "Your growth in battle is indeed amazing. That time, I was careless."
Shen Bingsi raised her eyebrows, a strange feeling rising in her heart.
“However, this time is different,” Lu Yingqi lowered his head and looked at Shen Bingsi. “I have already killed my wife to prove my Dao and sacrificed Xiaozhi. My cultivation will soon break through the Nascent Soul stage and will grow every day… Until today, I am just a little bit away from reaching the Integration stage. You should know that among the three sects, no one has been able to reach the Integration stage yet, and I will be the first.”
"..." Shen Bingsi was furious when she heard Lu Yingqi's words. "How dare you say that?"
"Want to give it a try? Try and see if you can kill me?" Lu Yingqi said calmly. "Your mouth is indeed very sharp, but you can't win a battle by being good with words. If you continue, all the people behind you will die: Jiang Caijie, Rong Xie, Sect Master Feng, the Fifth Elder, and the three hundred people below Wenxin Gorge. They will all die because of your overestimation of your abilities."
Shen Bingsi frowned, her hand bones bulging as she gripped the sword: "Stop talking nonsense, prepare to die!"
Shen Bingsi poured all his spiritual power into the Shengxie Sword, causing it to shine brightly and vibrate with a buzzing sound. He held the sword with both hands and thrust it forward with a sudden thrust—
"puff".
The sound of the sword piercing flesh and bone was particularly clear. This feeling was not unfamiliar to Shen Bingsi. He had used the Shengxie Sword to pierce the flesh and bones of all kinds of monsters, those with thick skin and flesh, those covered in scales, and those as soft as jelly without bones... Only humans were the fewest he had ever pierced. He was the Demon-Slaying Sword Saint who slew demons and eliminated evil spirits. Humans were not within his killing range. Except for a small group of monsters that transformed into humans, Shen Bingsi had never pierced a real mortal.
A strong sense of guilt tightened around him like a dense net in an instant, and then that strange feeling rose again, filling his heart.
Shen Bingsi raised her head and looked at Lu Yingqi. The red mist fluctuated violently, as if it wanted to break free from Lu Yingqi's body, but it was firmly locked in this body by an invisible force. Lu Yingqi looked down at Shen Bingsi and smiled with satisfaction.
That was a vivid expression that had never appeared on the face of a ruthless cultivator since he entered the Dao.
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