622: Sword Heart Technique

They had been suspecting whether Xie Feng was the culprit, and at this moment, they were almost certain.

What else could he be doing here? He was clearly here to clean up the Prison Heart Pavilion and happened to run into them.

Their guess was indeed correct; the person responsible wasn't staying away, they just hadn't reached this place yet.

Having mastered the Three Corpses Severing Method for many years, the three of them knew very well how powerful the combat strength of a Quasi-Saint was.

Furthermore, they had witnessed it with their own eyes during the last assembly.

Watching the three of them flee in their respective directions, Xie Feng didn't even move; a figure emerged from within his body.

“Sword Heart Art—Shadow Sword Style!”

The figure split into three, chasing after them in three different directions.

The speed was extremely fast, far faster than the Three Immortals, catching up to them in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Li Xi, A person from Xu Kun Sect, and A person from Fen Tian Palace each engaged in combat, thinking that with their strength, they should be able to exchange a few blows with a clone of a clone.

However, things didn't go as they hoped. Just as they were caught, they were all defeated by a single sword strike.

Though the reality was cruel, they had no choice but to admit it.

After Slaying Three Corpses, Xie Feng, who had become a Quasi-Saint, was too powerful, having long since reached a level they could only look up to.

But what puzzled the three was that these shadow clones seemed only to defeat them without delivering a killing blow.

What was the meaning of this?

Next, they were brought back by the three shadow clones to Xie Feng's side.

After completing this, the three shadows merged back into one and re-entered Xie Feng's body.

What Xie Feng had just used was the second most powerful sword technique of the Ultimate Sword Sect, called the Sword Heart Art.

It was divided into many sword styles: Sword Control Style, Heavenly Sword Style, Severing Sword Style, Dividing Sword Style, Shadow Sword Style... and so on.

Unlike the Ultimate Nine Swords, a sword technique that every disciple had to learn.

The Sword Heart Art could be studied individually, or one could choose to learn only a few of its styles.

Xie Feng was not fully proficient and only knew a few of the styles within; in particular, he had not mastered the most powerful style.

Because it contained many diverse and varied styles, it wasn't particularly iconic.

If a few styles were taken out individually, many similar techniques existed in the outside world, though these were more powerful.

It was difficult to identify that the Sword Heart Art was being used, so using it in public was not a problem.

Compared to himself, his senior brother had mastered both the Ultimate Nine Swords and the Sword Heart Art in their entirety, and his attainment was even more profound.

However, after he and his senior brother parted ways back then, there had been no news, and he didn't know where his brother had gone to wander.

Nevertheless, Xie Feng believed his senior brother should still be alive.

Back then, the other man was already a powerhouse comparable to the Quasi-Saint level; combined with the Ultimate Nine Swords and the Sword Heart Art, he could be called invincible within the Quasi-Saint domain.

One must know that even he, relying on the Ultimate Nine Swords, could challenge a Second Corpse Quasi-Saint.

Not to mention his senior brother, who with the Ultimate Nine Swords, definitely had the ability to challenge a three corpse expert as a One Corpse cultivator.

As long as he didn't actively provoke a powerhouse of the Saint Extreme Realm, there would absolutely be no problem.

“Sect Master Xie, what exactly do you want?”

“Also, was it you who attacked our sects?”

The three were currently unsure of what would happen next.

But they also knew that their life or death had already been decided by the other party and wouldn't change because of anything they said.

Hardening their hearts, they simply asked outright.

Anyway, those meant to live would live, and those meant to die would die.

Xie Feng shook his head. “I won't kill you, and the person who attacked your sects wasn't me.”

“The culprit is very secretive, especially regarding concealing their own existence; I was only able to detect them after they made their move.”

In fact, he hadn't noticed at all earlier that someone was going around destroying various sects.

He had been searching outside to see if he could find any traces of Xu Lan or the Hall Master of Luohong Hall.

Because the opponent acted so quickly and with such overwhelming force, it was like someone was eating hotpot and singing songs when suddenly they were just gone; no great battle had even broken out.

Without a fight, there were no fluctuations, so how could he have detected it?

He hadn't found Xu Lan, but he did find some traces of the Hall Master of Luohong Hall.

Thus, he followed the clues all the way and eventually ended up near the Heavenly Ice Pavilion.

Thinking that the Hall Master of Luohong Hall should have recovered some of her sanity, and since she and Ci Bing were the only two female sect masters among the Ten Sects of the Sacred Ring.

It didn't seem strange for the two to have a slightly closer relationship.

Running to the Heavenly Ice Pavilion now might very well be with the intention of seeking help.

Considering this, Xie Feng planned to head to the Heavenly Ice Pavilion to take a look.

It would have been fine if he hadn't gone, but upon arrival, he found the vast Heavenly Ice Pavilion was gone.

Yes, gone!

Just like Xu Lan's Yuanxu Sect, it had mysteriously evaporated.

Regarding the disappearance of the Yuanxu Sect, Xie Feng would have thought it was like Luohong Hall—an issue with Slaying Three Corpses, causing them to exterminate their own sect.

But the problem was, he had just seen Ci Bing of the Heavenly Ice Pavilion.

It couldn't possibly be that she failed Slaying Three Corpses and wiped out her own sect, right?

Of course, there was also a possibility that Ci Bing had moved her sect elsewhere before leaving.

However, under normal circumstances, one wouldn't do such a thing.

Xie Feng was not stupid; he quickly realized there was a problem.

Especially the disappearance of the Heavenly Ice Pavilion made him feel that the matter of the Yuanxu Sect also seemed to harbor some strangeness.

Could someone be deliberately targeting them?

It just so happened that Ci Bing was rushing this way, so Xie Feng went straight to her.

If the sect had been moved, what would Ci Bing be doing back here? So that shouldn't be it.

Then he brought her over.

When Ci Bing saw him, her first thought was to run, but unfortunately, she was simply no match for him.

After coming over, Xie Feng directly had her look at the scene here and asked her what had happened.

After some communication, Xie Feng learned from Ci Bing that this wasn't the only place where something had happened; two other places ahead had already encountered problems.

Initially, one thought he had after seeing Ci Bing was that the Hall Master of Luohong Hall had come here and was somewhat sane at the time.

But during the time Ci Bing was away, her sanity suddenly failed again, and she destroyed this place.

As for whether Ci Bing knew the Hall Master of Luohong Hall had come, that question was still up for debate.

It was also possible she came while Ci Bing was away and then happened to go mad.

It was even possible Ci Bing was there when she arrived, but she only went mad after Ci Bing left.

But now that Ci Bing said this wasn't the only place, most of that guess could be discarded.

Because he had followed the traces of the Hall Master of Luohong Hall all the way here, but according to what Ci Bing said...

The other party had first gone to the Xu Kun Sect and Fen Tian Palace. If there were traces, he should have tracked them to those two places first.

But now, he had tracked them directly to the Heavenly Ice Pavilion.

At this moment, the possibility of the Hall Master of Luohong Hall doing all this was very, very small.

Because the first stop would definitely be here, yet the Heavenly Ice Pavilion was still there when the first two sects were destroyed.

If she didn't go mad, she wouldn't attack, and if she did go mad, she would definitely destroy the Heavenly Ice Pavilion first.

It wouldn't make sense for her to go mad, leave the Heavenly Ice Pavilion, destroy two sects, and then come back to destroy the Heavenly Ice Pavilion.