149: A sword agreement, a gamble on fate

"Now, do you still believe that your path is the only correct one?"

Wine Sword Immortal's questioning was like a heavy hammer, repeatedly striking Li Chengqian's Dao Heart.

Li Chengqian clenched his fists tightly; he could feel that his connection with the 'Power Of Will of Humanity' was becoming tenuous.

This wasn't a weakening of power, but a kind of... loss of control.

For the first time, he felt that the power he wielded had its own 'thoughts'.

This feeling terrified him more than any blade to his body.

His Dao was absolute control!

It was an unquestionable will!

But now, this drunkard had, in a way he couldn't comprehend, torn a hole in his 'Dao'.

"Heretical talk!"

Li Chengqian squeezed out four words through gritted teeth, the surging killing intent in his eyes almost solidified.

He couldn't let this drunkard speak any longer.

If he continued, everything he had painstakingly built would crumble!

"Shu Mountain, heed my command!"

Li Chengqian's voice was like ice from ten thousand years, "Form the Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin Array! For me... kill him!"

He couldn't care less about anything else now.

He would use the most absolute power to completely erase this existence that shook his Dao Heart from this world!

"Yes!"

In the sky, Daoist Qingwei and the five Elders, though they had doubts, dared not disobey Li Chengqian's command.

Moreover, in their view, Wine Sword Immortal's actions were indeed sabotaging the grand plan to save the world!

"Junior Martial Uncle! Please forgive us!"

Daoist Qingwei shouted, and the Three Thousand Sword Immortals moved instantly!

The three thousand longswords, originally suspended in the air, transformed into three thousand streaks of light, like rivers flowing into the sea, frantically rushing towards the ancient wooden sword in Daoist Qingwei's hand!

"Buzz—!"

A terrifying Sword Qi pressure, enough to destroy heaven and earth, instantly enveloped the entire Xuanwu Gate!

The sky changed color, and the earth trembled!

This was the strongest combined sword array of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin!

It was said that once this array was unleashed, it could slay gods and demons!

However, facing this terrifying scene that could make heaven and earth lose their color, Wine Sword Immortal below the city merely pouted, his face still bearing that lazy expression.

"Tsk tsk, can't handle it anymore? Going for a group fight?"

He shook his head and sighed, "Qing Wei, oh Qing Wei, you've truly shamed Shu Mountain."

As he spoke, he suddenly pointed a finger at the sky.

It was just an ordinary, unremarkable finger.

"Freeze."

He softly uttered a single word.

The next second, an incredible scene unfolded.

The three thousand Sword Qi torrents, already converged and about to strike, actually stopped dead in mid-air!

Time, at this moment, stood still.

Space, at this moment, solidified.

Daoist Qingwei and the three thousand Shu Mountain Disciples in the sky all had reddened faces, exerting their full strength, wanting to make the Sword Qi torrent advance another inch, but that torrent was firmly gripped by an invisible large hand, unmoving!

With one finger, he froze three thousand immortal swords!

What kind of terrifying, inconceivable Divine Ability was this!

"This... this is impossible!"

Daoist Qingwei exclaimed in shock, his eyes filled with incomprehensible horror.

This was not a clash of powers!

This was... the suppression of a Law!

Wine Sword Immortal had actually comprehended the Realm of 'What is said is done'!

"I told you, you don't understand swords."

Wine Sword Immortal withdrew his finger, and the vast Sword Qi torrent instantly lost control, transforming into a sky full of light rain, dissipating into the air.

The three thousand Shu Mountain Disciples all groaned in unison, many with blood spilling from the corners of their mouths.

Wine Sword Immortal no longer paid attention to them; his gaze returned to Li Chengqian on the city wall, whose face had become extremely grim.

"Kid, do you see? In front of an absolute 'Dao', your power, accumulated by killing, is a joke."

"You can't even defeat me, yet you still want to fight the Heavenly Demon Emperor?"

Li Chengqian fell silent.

He stared intently at Wine Sword Immortal, the turbulent waves in his heart beyond words.

For the first time, he doubted himself.

He doubted the path he had chosen.

"You..."

After a long pause, Li Chengqian spoke hoarsely, "What exactly do you want?"

He knew that today, he couldn't kill this drunkard.

He couldn't even force him to retreat.

"I don't want anything."

Wine Sword Immortal picked up the wine gourd from the ground again, took a swig, and said lazily.

"I just think that for someone like you, who claims to save the common people, yet doesn't even know what the common people are like, isn't that ridiculous?"

"To save the common people, one must first understand the common people."

Wine Sword Immortal looked at Li Chengqian and suddenly grinned.

"Kid, dare to make a bet with me?"

"What bet?"

Li Chengqian asked cautiously.

"It's simple."

Wine Sword Immortal said, "You and I, let's make a pact with one sword."

"You take one sword strike from me. If you can stand after my one sword strike, without relying on your messy black Qi, and only by your own ability, then you win. I'll immediately leave and never meddle in your affairs again."

"But if you lose..."

Wine Sword Immortal's smile became somewhat enigmatic.

"What if I lose?"

Li Chengqian asked coldly.

"If you lose, you must come with me."

Wine Sword Immortal said, "Take off your Dragon robe, give up your throne, and just be an ordinary Mortal. Follow me, and go to this human world, to see and walk around properly."

"Go see the farmers in the fields, listen to the street vendors, and smell the smoke of human life."

"After you've seen it all, walked everywhere, if you still believe that your method of killing everything is correct, then I will never stop you again."

"So, kid, do you dare to make this bet?"

Wine Sword Immortal's bet was like a giant rock thrown into the dead calm lake in front of the Xuanwu Gate, stirring up thousands of huge waves.

Everyone was stunned.

This drunkard actually wanted to gamble with His Highness the Crown Prince?

And the stake was to make His Highness the Crown Prince give up his throne and travel the world with him?

This was simply insane!

"Your Highness! No!"

Daoist Qingwei was the first to react, urgently trying to dissuade him.

"This person has malicious intentions! He wants to shake your Dao Heart!"

Daoist Qingwei saw clearly that Wine Sword Immortal's bet was simply a trap!

Li Chengqian's Dao was built upon absolute power and unquestionable will.

To make him give up his throne and experience Mortal life was tantamount to fundamentally dismantling his Dao!

Once Li Chengqian's Dao Heart wavered, his immensely powerful black Emperor Qi would immediately lose control and backfire!

At that time, let alone saving the world, he himself would be the first to explode and die!

"Your Highness, think twice!"

"This villain is full of tricks, you must not fall for it!"

The five Elders in the sky also spoke up one after another.