44: Invincible Kitchen Knife 2

As expected, the invincible kitchen knife soon flew out.

It saw the villagers tied to the pillars and looked at Su Xue, who stood to the side with a cold sneer, instantly understanding her conspiracy.

"Lord Invincible, save us!"

The villagers cried out.

Su Xue stood with her arms crossed, smiling triumphantly:

"Knife, look, it's all because of you that these people are going to their deaths."

"As long as you return to the Jade Maiden Sect with me, I'll let them go."

The surrounding Cultivators discussed animatedly, some beginning to blame the invincible kitchen knife:

"Lord Blade God, for the sake of these villagers, just go with her!"

"Yeah, don't let innocent people suffer!"

Su Xue's smile became even more triumphant.

She knew that the invincible kitchen knife cared about its reputation and would definitely compromise!

But in the next second, the invincible kitchen knife suddenly swung, not at Su Xue, but at the ropes binding the villagers!

The blade was incomparably precise, instantly severing all the ropes without harming the villagers in the slightest.

"Go!"

The invincible kitchen knife's Spiritual Sense was transmitted to the villagers.

"With me here from now on, no one can bully you."

The villagers were stunned for a moment, then scrambled away.

Su Xue's smile froze on her face as she looked at the invincible kitchen knife in disbelief:

"You... you dare ruin my plans?"

"Ruin your plans?"

The invincible kitchen knife flew in front of Su Xue, its body cold.

"Su Xue, did you think that using villagers to threaten me would make me compromise?"

"You're wrong. Not only will I not go with you,"

"I will also let everyone see what a despicable person you are!"

It swung its blade fiercely, and a burst of Saber Qi slashed toward the high platform behind Su Xue. Scenes suddenly emerged on the platform.

They were scenes of Su Xue oppressing the common people, burning, killing, and looting!

The flames, the cries, and her cruel smile were clearly displayed before everyone.

"What? Fairy Xue is actually this kind of person!"

"How cruel! Burning villages, stealing grain, and killing so many commoners!"

"To think I respected her before; she's actually a demon!"

The murmurs instantly turned into curses.

Su Xue's face turned as pale as paper as she looked at those images, shouting frantically:

"It's not true! That's fake! It forged them!"

But no one believed her.

The Ten Thousand Sword Sect's Sect Head roared even more furiously:

"Su Xue! You dare use such despicable means to frame Lord Blade God,"

"And even commit such atrocious acts!"

"Today, my Ten Thousand Sword Sect will not let you off!"

Countless Cultivators surrounded her, their eyes filled with anger.

Su Xue was scared out of her wits, her Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, as she turned to run.

But how could the invincible kitchen knife give her the chance?

The blade flashed, blocking her path, and the edge pressed against her neck.

"Trying to run?"

The invincible kitchen knife's voice was cold.

"Su Xue, what you owe the common people and what you owe me, it's time to start paying it back."

Su Xue looked at the kitchen knife before her and felt the chill on her neck, feeling fear for the first time.

She said tremblingly:

"Knife, I... I was wrong... please let me go..."

"Let you go?"

The invincible kitchen knife sneered.

"When you burned the villages back then, why didn't you let those villagers go?"

It suddenly withdrew its Saber Qi but tapped lightly on Su Xue's Dantian.

Su Xue screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood. Her cultivation instantly dropped from the Peak of the Soul Transformation Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage!

"Get lost! If you commit evil again in the future, I will surely not spare you!"

The invincible kitchen knife said coldly.

Su Xue slumped to the ground, watching the departing back of the invincible kitchen knife, her eyes filled with resentment.

She swore she would take revenge!

She would definitely destroy this kitchen knife!

...After her cultivation regressed, Su Xue became even more insane.

She no longer hid her evil; instead, she colluded with the evil practitioners of the Cultivation World.

She slaughtered more villages and plundered resources, wanting to restore her cultivation as quickly as possible.

She even fell into the Demonic Path and cultivated the forbidden technique "Soul Devouring Formula," relying on consuming the souls of Cultivators to increase her strength.

In just half a year, she restored her Soul Transformation Stage cultivation and became even stronger.

She led a group of evil practitioners and aggressively charged toward the Ten Thousand Sword Sect with only one goal—to seize the invincible kitchen knife!

"invincible kitchen knife! Come out and meet your death!"

Su Xue stood outside the Ten Thousand Sword Sect's mountain gate, her whole body emitting Devilish Qi, holding a Demonic Sword stained with blood.

"Today, not only will I seize you, but I will also slaughter the Ten Thousand Sword Sect so everyone knows the consequence of offending me, Su Xue!"

The evil practitioners began to attack the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, and the mountain gate was instantly shrouded in Devilish Qi.

The Ten Thousand Sword Sect Disciples resisted with all their might but were no match at all.

Su Xue's Demonic Technique was too bizarre; it could consume people's souls. Many Disciples were turned into dried corpses as soon as they approached.

Just as the Ten Thousand Sword Sect was about to be breached, the invincible kitchen knife flew out.

Its whole body was surrounded by golden Saber Qi, forming a sharp contrast with Su Xue's Devilish Qi.

The blade shook, and the golden Saber Qi spread out, forcing back all the evil practitioners.

"Su Xue, you actually dared to fall into the Demonic Path and harm so many Cultivators!"

The invincible kitchen knife's voice was filled with anger.

Su Xue laughed manically:

"Harm? You all forced me!"

"If it weren't for you, how would I have fallen to this state?"

"If it weren't for you, I would have already been the Supreme of the Cultivation World!"

She raised the Demonic Sword and stabbed at the invincible kitchen knife with overwhelming Devilish Qi:

"Today, I will cut down you, this broken knife, and make you pay the price for your stubbornness!"

The Demonic Sword carried the power of soul devouring; wherever it passed, the air distorted.

The invincible kitchen knife was completely fearless. With a swing of its blade, the golden Saber Qi collided with the Devilish Qi, producing an earth-shattering roar.

"Boom—!"

The Devilish Qi and Saber Qi were at a stalemate, but a sinister smile curled on the corner of Su Xue's mouth.

Her Demonic Sword could absorb Spiritual Qi. As long as she held on for a little longer, she could drain the invincible kitchen knife's Spiritual Qi!

But she didn't expect that the invincible kitchen knife's Spiritual Qi was actually inexhaustible and instead grew stronger and stronger.

The Red Inscriptions on the blade began to glow, and faint Divine Runes emerged within the golden Saber Qi.

During the battle, it was actually about to break through the Peak of the Divine Artifact Realm and Attain the Dao of the Supreme!

"Impossible! How could you possibly achieve a Breakthrough!"

Su Xue shouted in disbelief, her jealousy and fear making her lose her mind.

She frantically injected Devilish Qi, wanting to forcibly suppress the invincible kitchen knife.

But it was too late.

A dazzling golden light erupted from around the invincible kitchen knife, and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi gathered frantically.

A golden pillar of light shot straight into the clouds, completely dispersing the Devilish Qi!

Its aura surged instantly, breaking through the Peak of the Divine Artifact Realm and reaching the Supreme Realm!

"This is... the aura of a Supreme!"

"Lord Kitchen Knife has attained the Dao of the Supreme!"

The Ten Thousand Sword Sect Disciples cheered, while the evil practitioners were scared out of their wits, turning to run one after another.

The invincible kitchen knife smiled coldly and swung its blade, the golden Saber Qi instantly slashing out.

It turned all the evil practitioners into ashes, leaving only Su Xue.

Su Xue trembled all over as she looked at the Supreme kitchen knife surrounded by golden light.

She knew she had lost, lost completely.

"No... I'm not willing!"

Su Xue rushed toward the invincible kitchen knife like a madwoman.

"If I can't have you, I'll destroy you!"

The invincible kitchen knife swung lightly, and the golden Saber Qi landed on Su Xue, but it didn't harm her.

It only Sealed her Demonic Technique and crippled her cultivation.

Su Xue slumped to the ground, changing from a powerful demonic practitioner to a Mortal without even the strength to truss a chicken.

"Why didn't you kill me?"

Su Xue shouted in despair.

"Killing you would be too easy on you."

The invincible kitchen knife's voice was calm and indifferent.

"I want you to live and remember the evils you've done,"

"To make you live in regret and pain for the rest of your life."

Su Xue looked at the kitchen knife before her and suddenly understood; it wasn't that it wasn't cruel,

But that it wanted to use the most cruel method to make her repay all her sins.

She remembered the commoners she had oppressed, the Cultivators whose souls she had consumed, and the ordinary iron kitchen knife she had discarded on the stove back then... Regret surged like a tide, almost drowning her.

"I was wrong... I was really wrong..."

Su Xue knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly.

"Knife, please forgive me! Please give me another chance!"

The invincible kitchen knife looked at her, its blade tilting slightly as the cold light fell on her face:

"Forgive you? Su Xue, you harmed so many people and destroyed so many families; do you deserve it?"

"When you abandoned me back then, why didn't you think of today?"

It turned and flew away, leaving Su Xue kneeling alone on the ground, crying heart-wrenchingly.

The surrounding Cultivators gathered, their eyes angry, but they were stopped by the invincible kitchen knife's Spiritual Sense:

"Don't touch her. Let her live and repent properly."

...Su Xue became a "street rat" in the Cultivation World.

Without cultivation or power, she was cursed and driven away wherever she went.

The commoners hated her for the burning, killing, and looting of the past, and the Cultivators hated her for falling into the Demonic Path and harming her peers.

No one was willing to give her a bite of food, and no one was willing to let her get close.

She could only live in a ruined temple, surviving by begging.

Her hair was white, her clothes were in rags, and her face was covered in wrinkles; she no longer had the glory of the Fairy Xue of the past.

Every day she lived in regret,

Regretting that she shouldn't have abandoned the invincible kitchen knife,

Regretting that she shouldn't have oppressed the common people,

Regretting that she shouldn't have fallen into the Demonic Path... but no amount of regret could bring back everything from the past.

Sometimes, she would watch the invincible kitchen knife from afar.

It had become the Blade Sovereign of the Cultivation World and established new rules:

No oppressing the common people, no killing the innocent, and no practicing evil arts.

It patrolled the Cultivation World every day; wherever there was injustice, there was its golden Saber Qi.

The common people respected and loved it, building countless Living Shrines for it, with constant incense offerings.

Su Xue looked at those pious commoners and the invincible kitchen knife surrounded by golden light, her heart aching as if pierced by needles.

She remembered back then when this kitchen knife was in her hands cutting vegetables.

She had also once been a kind girl.

She thought, if she hadn't been blinded by the cultivation Opportunity back then, if she had taken it with her, would she have ended up in this state today?

But there are no "ifs" in this world.

This day, Su Xue was very ill, lying in the ruined temple, on the verge of death.

She clutched a piece of rusty iron scrap tightly in her arms.

That was a piece that had fallen off the invincible kitchen knife back then, which she had cherished for three hundred years... The invincible kitchen knife came and hovered in front of her.

Su Xue slowly opened her eyes and saw it. A glint of light flashed in her cloudy eyes, then faded away.

She opened her mouth, her voice hoarse:

"Knife... I know... I was wrong... My whole life... has been spent in regret..."

The invincible kitchen knife looked at her, its blade calm, without the anger of the past, only a faint sense of detachment:

"Su Xue, your wrong was not toward me, but toward those people you harmed."

"I... I know..."

Su Xue began to cough, blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth.

"I'm sorry... to those commoners... sorry... to the Cultivators whose souls I consumed... and sorry... to you..."

She gently pushed the iron scrap in her arms toward the invincible kitchen knife:

"This... I'm giving it back to you... Back then... it was my fault..."

The invincible kitchen knife didn't move, just watched her quietly.

Su Xue smiled, her face full of wrinkles, and tears flowed down:

"If there is a next life... I will never Cultivate again... I only want... to be an ordinary person... and be a good person..."

As her voice fell, her head slumped to the side, and she no longer breathed.

She still clutched that iron scrap tightly in her hand, a trace of a relieved smile on her face.

The invincible kitchen knife looked at her corpse, its blade trembling slightly.

It remembered the kitchen stove in the small town back then.

It remembered the girl who cut vegetables.

It remembered the two hundred years of waiting in the woodpile... Finally, it swung its blade, and a burst of golden Saber Qi buried Su Xue's corpse in the ground behind the ruined temple, with no tombstone and no name.

From then on, Su Xue no longer existed in the Cultivation World, only a legend about "the evil woman who abandoned her knife and fell into the Demonic Path, and the Blade Sovereign who attained the Dao and punished evil."

The legend warned every Cultivator: Do not forget your original intention, do not commit evil deeds, and do not abandon true feelings.

Otherwise, no matter how glorious your status or how powerful your cultivation, it will all eventually turn into a bubble, leaving only a lifetime of regret.

The invincible kitchen knife remained the Blade Sovereign of the Cultivation World. It stood above the clouds, looking down upon all living beings, its golden Saber Qi protecting this land.

It never thought of Su Xue again, because the person it had once pined for for two hundred years had already died the moment she raised her Butcher Blade.

And its path would only move forward, never looking back.