The joy of anglers.

The tavern owner watched as Chu Xinghe handed him a sword, leaving him somewhat bewildered.

"Your task is to take this sword over there."

"You don't need to do anything else."

Hearing this, the tavern owner did not doubt him.

A Restriction had been set within his body; he couldn't even manage to flee.

Using this sword to commit suicide was, however, a possibility.

Could it be that the person before him simply wanted him to take his own life?

Watching the tavern owner walk over trembling with fear, the corners of Chu Xinghe's mouth curled upward.

"Master, that fellow is going to use that sword to kill himself."

Chu Xinghe had already turned to leave.

"His suicide is exactly what I intend."

Long Yi understood Chu Xinghe's intentions and stopped questioning him.

The tavern owner walked to the place where messages were previously left.

He placed the drawing he held on top.

Looking at the sword in his hand,

Without a moment's hesitation, he committed suicide.

Blood splattered across the Mass Grave.

However, that blood flowed down along the tombs.

Chu Xinghe turned to leave.

"Let's go, we'll change locations. Someone should be coming over in a while."

Chu Xinghe was looking forward to watching a good show.

Not long after Chu Xinghe left,

Before long, a rustling sound appeared around the tombs.

A figure completely shrouded in a black robe appeared.

The aura on his body seemed to have undergone Fusion with the Mass Grave.

If one didn't know better, they would think it was a ghost crawling out of a grave.

After arriving at the Mass Grave, his gaze sized up the tavern owner who had taken his own life.

His body slowly lowered.

He picked up that lotus pattern drawing.

After opening it, his gaze fell upon it.

With a flick of his finger,

The tavern owner's corpse sank into the grave.

Looking at that iron sword,

He hesitated for a moment, just about to pick it up.

Rumble.

In the sky, Sword Qi permeated the air.

A vast Sword Qi directly sliced through the heavens.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

A sword formation covering a hundred-mile radius appeared.

With a ripping sound,

The Void Realm cracked open.

An old man with white hair and a youthful complexion walked out from within.

He carried his hands behind his back.

Looking down at the Mass Grave below, his brow furrowed.

His gaze fell upon the person completely shrouded in black robes.

However, he was quickly attracted by the heaven opening sword.

He took out a jade plate from his ring.

The jade plate trembled incessantly.

The Sword God Sect Sect Master's eyes were filled with excitement.

Chaos had emerged.

He hadn't expected to actually be able to retrieve the divine sword that anchored their Sword God Sect.

"Fellow Daoist, could you return this sword to me?"

The person completely shrouded in black robes did not speak.

He didn't even pay attention to the Sword God Sect expert in the sky.

Holding the sword, he prepared to leave.

"Fellow Daoist, this is an item of my Sword God Sect. Could you please return it?"

The person shrouded in black robes halted his steps.

The Sword God Sect Sect Master did not act rashly.

This fellow was too mysterious, giving him a strong sense of oppression.

"Noisy."

A raspy voice rang out.

As the words fell,

Borrowing the power of the heaven opening sword, he swung out a strike.

The hundred-mile sword formation in the sky shattered instantly.

Horror appeared on the Sword God Sect Master's face.

The jade plate in his hand bloomed with a powerful dao rhyme.

It blocked this attack.

Rip.

The Void Realm was sliced open.

The Mysterious Person in black robes directly bypassed the Restriction.

He appeared before the Sword God Sect Master.

The heaven opening sword in his hand pierced directly into his heart.

Puchi.

The Sword God Sect Master spat out a mouthful of blood.

The two people following behind were about to take action.

The Mysterious Person swung his sword.

Clang, clang.

Two sounds that shook heaven and earth rang out.

The Man in Black Robe turned to leave.

In the sky, the heads of the two people who had come with the Sword God Sect Master rolled right off.

The Sword God Sect Master's eyes grew dim.

Before dying, he crushed a jade pendant.

With a thud, his corpse fell onto the Mass Grave.

The Man in Black Robe stopped.

He lifted his head to look at the sky.

At some unknown point,

The bright sky had turned golden.

Densely packed cracks appeared in the Void Realm,

Spreading like a spider web.

Crack, crack.

The Void Realm shattered.

An old man appeared, leaning on a cane with a hunched body.

Clang.

Clang.

Clang.

The cane tapped against the Void Realm as if it were tapping on solid ground.

The old man's beard was tied up with a piece of string.

His eyes were cloudy.

Looking at the three fallen corpses below, his expression didn't change at all.

He tapped his cane lightly.

The entire Mass Grave began to split apart.

The three corpses floated up beside him.

Even the corpses of the two Sword God Sect experts whose heads had been cut off by the mysterious Man in Black Robe were restored to wholeness.

The old man tapped his cane once more.

An invisible wave of Qi appeared.

Everything within a ten-thousand-mile radius was leveled to the ground.

The Man in Black Robe gripped his robe tightly.

Rip, rip.

His clothes continued to tear.

The old man stood in the sky with his hunched body.

He tapped the Void Realm again.

A sword light only the size of a thumb appeared.

The Man in Black Robe raised the heaven opening sword to block it.

"Using my Sword God Sect's item to kill my Sword God Sect's people... what audacity."

As his voice fell, he pointed his cane.

The heaven opening sword immediately quieted down.

It floated toward the old man.

The Man in Black Robe formed hand Seals.

A black barrier blocked the space in front of him.

Crack, crack.

The barrier met the sword light and held for a moment.

Instantly, densely packed cracks appeared.

Bang.

The barrier shattered.

The Man in Black Robe let out a muffled groan.

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

His body was sent flying back a hundred miles.

"Bind."

The old man's word fell.

Four different swords suddenly floated out from the Void Realm.

They stabbed into the Void Realm,

Transforming into a Sword Prison that enveloped the Man in Black Robe within.

The old man paid no heed to the Man in Black Robe.

His gaze shifted to the split-open Mass Grave.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.

A sound like flowing blood rang out.

The old man descended.

His cloudy eyes seemed capable of seeing through the darkness.

"If given more time, you might have actually amounted to something."

Just as the old man's voice fell,

Densely packed cracks suddenly appeared on the ground.

Boom.

A red light soared into the sky.

The earth split, and the Void Realm shattered.

A bloodless, pale dried corpse with tightly closed eyes appeared.

It struck out, reaching toward the old man.

The old man tapped his cane.

A three-layered sword formation appeared in the sky.

Ten million swords suddenly merged into one.

It fell from the sky toward the dried corpse.

Crack.

A crisp sound echoed.

The dried corpse was split directly in two.

The old man tapped his cane, and the dried corpse was obliterated.

A Void Passage appeared behind the old man.

He turned and stepped inside.

The Man in Black Robe, bound by the sword formation, didn't even let out a scream.

He died, his Dao vanishing.

Chu Xinghe, hiding with the help of the System, watched this scene from tens of thousands of miles away.

"How was it?"

Long Yi took a deep breath.

"That old man is in the Quasi-Emperor Realm."

"The Man in Black Robe was at the Late Stage of the Supreme Realm, and the dried corpse was also at the Early Stage of the Supreme Realm."

The corners of Chu Xinghe's mouth curled up.

[Supreme subordinate deceased. Wen Rushui's destiny value decreased by 50,000. Master gained 5,000,000 destiny value.]

"This place should just be an experimental site."

"Let's go. Losing a subordinate should give that fellow a headache for a while."

"She'll probably suspect if someone is investigating her now."

"Let her be at peace for a moment, lest she comes out to ruin things."

Wen Rushui, just wait. We'll take it slow and see how I pluck you bald.

...

Qingzhou, a hidden location.

Wen Rushui felt a bit uneasy.

The bronze token in her hand suddenly flickered with light.

Wen Rushui took out the token.

"Qing Jiu is dead. The area he was responsible for has been wiped out. The Sword God Sect's Quasi-Emperor Old Ancestor has come out."