Embers of Sword

Chapter 509 Sword and Sword

"laugh……"

The cold wind stirred the sword energy and flames, and the icy light enveloped the end of the mountain path.

Squatting on the ground, "Xie Zhen" silently stared at the crawling Prince Jiangning. His dark eyes held no sympathy or pity, like a cold sea.

next moment.

He held out his palm.

Five fingers were gently placed on the forehead of the Prince of Jiangning.

Sword energy burst forth.

boom!
Dozens of slender streams shot out, intertwining and colliding within the head of the Prince of Jiangning, before finally bursting out from the back of his head and transforming into a purple lotus flower!
The body of the Prince of Jiangning collapsed completely in the muddy mountain path.

"Gululu."

However, the head, shattered by the sword energy, rolled like a ball until it reached Xie Xuanyi's feet. This was probably one of the most painful ways to die in the world... The sword energy instantly tore apart his mind and then invaded his face, shredding his features. At this moment, the head was like a toy whose brain had been drained by an evil cultivator, leaving only remnants. Even the most loyal servant of the Jiangning Prince's Mansion could not identify the head's owner.

However, the murderer's identity is not difficult to identify.

This wisp of sword energy contained the aura of "annihilation." In addition, the lotus sword energy of the Great Spike Sword Palace was emanating from the broken facial features.

"..."

Xie Xuanyi glanced down at the tattered head of the Prince of Jiangning, then slowly moved his gaze upwards.

The end of the mountain path.

The person in black who had been crouching slowly stood up.

He looked at Xie Xuanyi and asked with a hint of sarcasm, "Is it really necessary to go to such lengths to kill just one person?"

He could tell.

The Prince of Jiangning had many wounds.

The two traversed the long darkness, one fleeing and the other chasing. Xie Xuanyi had drawn many swords, resulting in his injuries, none of which were fatal...

This is something he cannot tolerate.

A sword should be drawn to kill.

Why waste so much effort on something that can be resolved with a single sword strike?

"It depends on the person."

Xie Xuanyi shook his head: "Not everyone in this world deserves a clean and quick death. Some people... deserve to die more slowly and painfully. Didn't Lu Yuzhen teach you this principle?"

The man in black paused, taken aback.

He tilted his head slightly, frowned, and said, "You knew about me all along?"

Then came a long silence.

A cold wind blew against the mountain rocks, creating a crisp, rustling sound like scales. Fine pebbles fell in a flurry, the result of the entanglement of the two Dao Domain sword energies. Although neither of them actively drew their swords, the killing intent had solidified into a tangible form. The air within a hundred feet was compressed by the sword energy, almost forming frost and snow. Xie Xuanyi scrutinized the black-clad figure before him. Lu Yuzhen had "thoughtfully" draped the black-clad figure in a skin identical to his own, but the skin was merely an outward appearance. Some people, even with a changed face, still possessed a striking inner quality. The cold wind was biting and piercing, and every wisp of sword energy entwined in the sky originated from Da Sui… Standing in the shadowy darkness of the mountain path, through the flickering sword energy, Xie Xuanyi felt as if he were looking into a giant mirror.

At the end of the mirror, he saw himself from ten years ago.

In fact, he caught a glimpse of this abrupt yet familiar aura halfway down the mountain path.

This is why he did not kill the Prince of Jiangning directly.

The Prince of Jiangning wanted to see what lay at the end of the mountain path.

He wants to too.

Now... Xie Xuanyi saw it.

"you are me?"

Xie Xuanyi sighed softly, took out the "Image of All Beings," and put it on again. At this moment, looking at the identical "self" at the end of the mountain path, a faint sense of absurdity welled up in his heart.

The scene he saw on the Bingyou ship made him think that the other party was a fake body created by the paper doll technique. But now that he has actually seen it, he finds that the person in front of him is almost exactly the same as himself. Whether it is his eyebrows, eyes, expression, style of doing things, or sword intent, no wonder Renzuan was fooled, because the person in black is almost another "himself".

"I am you. You are me."

The man in black stared expressionlessly at the headless corpse on the ground: "Ten years have passed, and your sword has slowed down." Xie Xuanyi chuckled.

If I had known about the betrayal by the Prince of Jiangning ten years ago, I wouldn't have wasted so much breath; I would have simply rushed to his residence and killed him with a single sword stroke.

If others try to stop it.

Then it was another sword strike.

The way this man in black behaves is exactly the same as mine ten years ago...

Therefore, he killed the Prince of Jiangning with just one sword strike.

Previously, when he shattered the Bingyou Formation, he only used one sword strike.

"I've never quite understood it."

Xie Xuanyi chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Why is it that after waking up in Yuzhu Town... I've forgotten a lot about what happened ten years ago? You should know that I'm not someone with a bad memory."

"..."

The man in black raised an eyebrow but remained silent.

"After drinking the Drunken Immortal Brew at Qixia Mountain, I saw some images, but they were still fragmented and incomplete."

Xie Xuanyi paused, then said seriously, "You were born with a disability, so you can't understand how painful it is for someone who was born whole to become disabled."

"???"

Upon hearing this, the man in black's eyes twitched slightly.

The murderous intent in the air suddenly intensified by three points.

"At that time, I wondered if something had happened after it fell into the North Sea."

Xie Xuanyi slowly said, "Lu Yuzhen is the only one who knows about the affairs of Beihai... He arranged for the coffin in Yuzhu Town. If anyone could tamper with me, it must be him, and only him."

Without evidence, this conjecture remains just that—a conjecture.

But now the evidence has emerged.

“I’m not quite the same as Chen Jingxuan.”

Xie Xuanyi said quietly, "I do many things without reason, only based on my feelings... but my feelings are always extremely accurate."

From the very beginning, he could not feel any goodwill towards Lu Yuzhen.

Now, the truth has come to light.

Although she still didn't know what tricks Lu Yuzhen had played on her...

But the appearance of this second "Xie Xuanyi" is enough to prove the unpredictable intentions of this paper-figure Daoist.

Who would have thought that there were two Xie Xuanyi in the Bai Ze Secret Tomb!
No matter how much evil Xie Xuanyi, the paper elf, committed—murder, arson, and all sorts of wicked deeds—the world will only hold him accountable!
boom!
Before the words were even finished, a thick sword aura swept down the mountainside.

The giant lotus shattered the gloomy sky, its petals blooming across the entire dark firmament. The man in black drew his sword, and this sword aura was more than ten times more magnificent and dazzling than the one used to attack Bingyou. The narrow mountain path was filled with sword intent, and the rolling sword aura, like a tornado, instantly crushed the corpse of the Prince of Jiangning and arrived in front of Xie Xuanyi in an instant.

Xie Xuanyi calmly watched this scene of sword energy blooming.

In a sense, this wasn't their first encounter.

Xie Xuanyi had actually seen himself "ten years ago".

That was the inner demon I encountered when I was ascending to the Cave Heaven realm.

Ironically, many people's inner demons are Xie Xuanyi, and Xie Xuanyi himself... is no exception.

The thought settled.

Xie Xuanyi moved forward expressionlessly, stepping into the wave of lotus sword energy. Life and death intertwined with his arms, and the golden body of the Martial Dao Divine Embryo appeared. With a wave of his arm, he deflected all the dense lotus sword energy in front of him. Ten years have passed, and he is faster, more accurate, and more ruthless than he was back then.

In the blink of an eye, Xie Xuanyi teleported to the front of the man in black and pressed his hand against the man's face in the latter's incredulous gaze.

boom!
The rocks are broken!

The paper figure thanked Xuan Yi before being slammed heavily into the mountainside!
(End of this chapter)