In a small forest at the edge of Hongzhou, a group of four men were running in a hurry.
The four men were tall and sturdy, with slightly black skin, and as they ran, their qi inadvertently leaked out, leaving black marks on the ground.
“Big brother, we’ve been chased by that group of Blood Cloth House scum for three days, and they’re still biting at us, so why don’t we turn around and fight them?”
Amongst the four, someone panted slightly as he hurriedly ran.
After being chased for three days, day and night, even they, martial artists with uncommon martial arts skills, were starting to get tired. If they continued to run, they might not be chased to death, but rather they would die of exhaustion first.
“It’s not like we haven’t done it before, but what’s the point? The Blood Cloth House has inherited the a*sa*sin hook from the Green Dragon Society, and the worst thing they have is cannon fodder killers. Let’s run into the big cities nearby and hide our tracks.”
The middle-aged man called “Big Brother” said without looking back.
“That’s a nice thought.”
There was a snicker in mid-air, followed by a greenish sword energy.
The sword qi was as fast as lightning, and with a single swerve, the head of the big man running at the end was instantly separated, and a six-yang kuih-head flew up in the air, spinning around to reveal that expression with fear.
“Purgatory Peak’s scum, it’s pretty hard to catch up with you.”
The dark shadow that glowed with dark green sword light flashed, and appearing in front of the three big men was a blood-haired man dressed in black robes.
On the black robe, the word Xuan Yin was embroidered with dark green silk thread, seemingly a representation of status, and was displayed by the blood-haired man in front of people.
“Ji Tang!” The “elder brother” in the lead gritted his teeth as he recited the name of the man who had blocked the way.
“It is I,” Ji Tang smiled as he looked at the three hated men as if they were lambs to the slaughter, “Three, the time has come, please go on your way.”
The long sword with a dark green glow swept across the room, and the most sinister and evil sword qi suddenly flashed out, instantly penetrating the hearts of the three men, extracting all their essence blood into the sword qi.
“Four divine elements, this should be the last bit of Purgatory Peak’s people in this area. After that, if we want to kill in, we’ll have to keep an eye on Department Six to come.”
The Purgatory Peak’s main area of activity was still in the south, and these people in the north were basically the ones who had come from the previous trip to Northern Zhou. Now after the sweeping by both sides of the three Demon Dao Sects and Qing Yu’s side, the Purgatory Peak disciples in the north were basically killed off.
“Department Six, they are much harder to deal with than the muscle brutes of Purgatory Peak ——”
“Who?!”
Ji Tang suddenly had to swing his sword horizontally, sword light sweeping behind him, dark green sword qi had a ghostly light flashing on it, it was obvious that he had already activated the true power of that Xuan Yin sword qi in his body with this sword.
However, this sword was lightly blocked by a black longsword that looked a bit tattered.
The black longsword, or should I say the black stone sword, was made of black stone, and its entire body was mellow, without a single seam, as if it was carved out of black stone.
There are four openings in the blade, and it looks very plain and tattered.
But this seemingly ordinary and tattered stone sword was in the hands of an extraordinary man.
When Ji Tang turned to look, what struck him most was the other man’s eyes.
Numb and frantic, they seemed to be chasing after something, seemingly paranoid about something. It was a pair of eyes full of despair and seeking hope, and as soon as Ji Tang saw them, his eyes seemed to sting.
“Who is Your Excellency?” Guitang blinked, slightly adjusting to the sting of the square.
“Make that ethereal green sword qi, or die here.”
The swordsman dressed in sackcloth looked at Ji Tang, his numb and mad eyes suddenly exploding with overpowering sword power, his figure swept forward and his black stone sword swung out with an unrelenting tragedy and wild intent.
“You ——”
Too late to say more, Ji Tang’s sword blade danced and instantly intersected with the black stone sword for several rounds.
With a flash of sword shadow, Ji Tang steeply leaped several times, dodging several sword qi and stopping ten paces away.
Looking down at the longsword, the extraordinary quality of the sword was now covered with sword marks and looked like it was about to break.
“Who the hell are you?” Ji Tang said in shock and anger.
Ever since he had acquired the Xuan Yin Sword Qi, this was the first time he had been crushed to such an extent by someone with a mere sword dao. The other party had not used any power beyond his own, yet he had been crushed to the point of no return.
“The end of the road is astonishing, and the sword opens up a divergent path. Everyone in the jianghu world calls me a sword madman.” The swordsman in numb clothes said back in an ancient way.
“Jedi Sword Maniac.” This name came out of Ji Tang’s mouth.
He was the second on the Earth Ranking, a famous sword madman in the jianghu, who went around looking for famous swordsmen to fight, both to win and lose, and to decide whether to live or die.
His swords are filled with a kind of madness and tragedy on the verge of extinction, and each sword seems to have the weight of ten thousand pounds, opening up a path of extinction ahead. This is why he is called the “Sword Maniac of the Road of Despair”.
“Let go of your mind and let that sword dominate your will, or you will die with the next sword.”
The Jedi Road Swordsman held his sword up in front of him and looked into Ji Tang’s eyes from both sides of the blade, with a wild and cool sword intent shining through, which gave him a tingling sensation just by looking at him.
”Here we go again ——”
Ji Tang blinked his eyes and finally made up his mind, ‘The other party is a Jedi Sword Frenzy, so there is no way out.’
This was an enemy he absolutely could not defeat, and he knew that the other party was right, if he did not let that sword dominate his own will, with the next sword, he would die.
“Hoo-suck…”
Inhaling deeply and exhaling again, Ji Tang’s eyes closed slightly as his mind merged with the dark green sword shadow in his heart.
“Miso…”
The sudden opening of his eyes seemed to have triggered a sword sound, Ji Tang’s eyes were dark green, and a dark red sword mark appeared on his forehead.
“Qiankun Renmei.”
Mind to body to sword, mind, body and sword all three in one, the long sword in Ji Tang’s hand seemed to pierce through space and pierced the blade of the stone sword erected in front of him by the Jedi Path Sword Frenzy.
”That’s it!”
In this instant, the Jedi Sword Frenzy seemed to see hope as the stone sword erupted into an explosion of sword momentum, engaging the ethereal green longsword stabbing at its blade.
“Miso miso ——”
The sound of swords chirping continued as the sword intent emanating from the clash of the two swords tore through the air, causing countless sword sounds to resound in the air.
“Boom…”
Once again, an impact erupted between the dark green sword qi and Lie Jie’s sword power, and four more sword marks instantly appeared on Ji Tang’s body as he flew backwards.
A smile of excitement spread across the Jedi Sword Frenzy’s face as he took a step forward and grabbed the blade of Ji Tang’s longsword, stopping his retreat.
The sharp sword qi had left a trail of wounds on his hand. Even if he had refined his sword body, it would be a daydream to rely purely on his physical body to counteract the Xuan Yin sword qi.
The sword qi infested the wounds, but the Jedi Sword Frenzy’s face was growing more and more frenzied.
“This… is my way forward.”
An extremely strong unwillingness brewed endless longing, and the determination to cloak oneself in thorns and briers, to get hope even if one sacrifices everything, triggered a strange change.
