523: Chapter 523 Swordplay Duel, Intentionally Injured

Yao Shinian shouted loudly, her power surging instantly. Around her, incomparably majestic figures emerged.

"What is that?"

Qin Wushang's eyes fixed on them, and he immediately felt a stinging pain.

"Cannot be observed?"

He was incredibly shocked.

Those figures, much like ordinary Cultivators looking at the Immortal Lord, were a hazy blur, making it impossible to see exactly what they were.

They guarded Yao Shinian, forcing her Saber Dao to skyrocket continuously.

"Great Sun Saber Technique!"

Qin Wushang raised the immortal slaying demonic saber in his hand and swung it fiercely!

The saber strike was like a sun, but it was a pitch-black sun, just like that black sun of the white moon.

The moment the saber was swung, the sky turned black, sealed off from all light.

Under the shroud of darkness, all Dao trembled beneath Qin Wushang's saber.

The saber strike Yao Shinian slashed with collided with the black sun, and the erupting power gushed out layer after layer, resonating with her own Saber Dao.

Yet, it could not break through!

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the pig-slaughtering knife shone with brilliant blood-red light, its massive blade split open, and a flying dagger emerged from within.

"There is a world within the saber!"

"It seems Ziyao was defeated by this very strike!"

Qin Wushang instantly saw the flying dagger submerged in the storm through the endless Saber Qi.

That thing appeared to lack substance, like a Soul; it belonged to a very special type of Divine Sense power, so special that it was not affected by Qin Wushang's Saber Qi.

"Boom!"

The moment the black sun exploded, the flying dagger attacked.

So fast!

But the moment it was about to land, it split into thousands, appearing from all directions!

"What a bizarre attack!"

"Hum!"

Qin Wushang scanned with his eyes and discovered that they were all real.

This didn't even take 0.00001 seconds!

It was as if it were a strike that had traveled through time to attack!

"Chaos Seed Dao Lotus!"

With a thought, he unleashed his Divine Ability again, and a Dao lotus instantly unfurled, shielding him.

"Puchi!"

Suddenly, a sharp pain came from his chest, and Qin Wushang spat out blood violently.

He looked down in disbelief; his chest had been pierced.

"Wrong!"

He exclaimed.

"Real and fake, you think you can trick me?"

"Boom!"

His aura shook, his Qi and blood surged, and the saint ring rotated, its terrifying power instantly obliterating everything around him.

The world he was in shattered like glass.

Fake!

Everything about him being stabbed was fake, including the sensation—it was also fake!

The real flying dagger had not yet landed; it was still there!

"Bang!"

Terrifying power erupted, the Chaos Dragon-Elephant Undying Scripture activated, and a fearsome Undying Golden Dragon of Qi and blood rushed out of his body, swallowing the flying dagger in one gulp.

"Roar!"

The Undying Golden Dragon of Qi and blood exploded, the terrifying power recoiled, and Yao Shinian was sent flying.

Qin Wushang sheathed his saber and looked ahead.

Everything, at this moment, had become ruins.

"Puchi... It's coming..."

Yao Shinian spat blood and rushed out from the ruins.

She was injured, heavily, but her aura did not wither; instead, it was climbing.

"The feeling has come..."

She smiled, her aura in turmoil.

The pig-slaughtering knife in her hand turned deep red, and the surrounding Saber Qi began to change.

"I'm coming!"

"You better be careful!"

"This is a very strong strike!"

She shouted to Qin Wushang and began to close her eyes.

She held the saber, no longer attacking, but instead began to gently wipe the blade.

Her jade hand slid from the hilt to the tip, her movements slow and devout, as if performing some ancient and solemn ritual.

The blood-colored patterns on the blade faded away one by one under the caress of her palm.

They didn't disappear; they were drawn into the saber by her.

The blood color receded, and the blade became bright, shimmering with a cold luster.

And she herself, the moment the saber light faded, became like the rising sun, incomparably dazzling.

The more she wiped, the brighter her own light became.

The brighter she became, the more terrifying the saber was.

Endless Saber Qi gushed out from her body, not spreading outwards, but condensing around her to form an invisible saber domain.

In Qin Wushang's eyes, she was no longer a person, but a saber.

The entire Small World was trembling.

The sky was trembling, the earth was shaking, the Dao was quivering, and all Laws were sinking.

The Dao of this world was bowing down to that saber, submitting to the Saber Intent emanating from her body.

Qin Wushang's eyes lit up.

"Has it finally come?"

He could feel that this was Yao Shinian's true trump card, the one for which she hadn't been able to find the right feeling.

The ninth form of the Butcher Knife Technique!

Qin Wushang took a deep breath and gripped the immortal slaying demonic saber tightly.

Devilish Qi surged on the pitch-black blade, as if responding to its master's Battle Intent.

"This strike of mine will also be my strongest strike."

He looked at Yao Shinian, his words earnest.

"Do you dare to receive it?"

Yao Shinian did not open her eyes, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"Come!"

A single word, crisp and decisive.

Qin Wushang said no more.

His aura skyrocketed, his body interwoven with golden light and Devilish Qi, like a devil god standing between heaven and earth.

The Void Realm behind him cracked open, and an incomparably majestic phantom emerged.

The phantom of a Supreme Emperor!

It stood tall, looking down upon all living beings.

That phantom overlapped with Qin Wushang's figure, their movements identical.

Qin Wushang raised his saber, and the phantom raised its saber as well.

With the saber in hand, heaven and earth fell silent.

"Three Slashes of the Heavenly Dao!"

Qin Wushang let out a low shout, his entire body rising from the ground and merging into the phantom.

The phantom and his true body became one, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-long saber light, spanning across the sky.

"Dao-Reversing Slash!"

The ten-thousand-foot-long saber light slashed down.

That strike was unreasonable, following no Heavenly Dao, reversing rules, and shattering everything.

Wherever the saber light passed, the Dao crumbled and the Laws snapped...

At the same time, Yao Shinian opened her eyes.

She pushed the saber in her hand gently.

The blade was straight, the edge facing forward, like a butcher inspecting a knife they had sharpened, confirming if it was sharp enough, if it could cleanly and efficiently end the life of a pig.

Purifying the body, she sheathed the blade.

This strike condensed everything onto the blade of that pig-slaughtering knife, restrained to the extreme, pure to the extreme.

The two blades collided.

"Boom!"

With a loud explosion, the ten-thousand-foot-long saber light and that seemingly ordinary pig-slaughtering knife crashed together, and an unprecedented power exploded.

Yao Shinian's Saber Intent dissipated, her saber momentum collapsed, and she was sent flying by that irresistible power.

Her figure spun hundreds of times in mid-air before finally falling onto a patch of ruins.

"Puchi!"

She vomited blood, not a single part of her body was intact, her rough green clothes were in tatters, and the pig-slaughtering knife in her hand was stuck in the ground, showing many cracks.

She was defeated.

Qin Wushang sheathed his saber and landed, his robes fluttering, his breathing slightly rapid.

He looked around; everywhere his gaze fell, it was a scene of devastation.

Mountains were shattered, the earth was split open, and cracks in the Void Realm were still leaking Chaos Qi.

And above the sky, there was a straight crack extending from the eastern horizon all the way to the western end.

It was not a crack in the Void Realm; the Small World had been cut open.

The two's Saber Intent had split the entire Small World in two, and the sky was torn in half.

Then, the corners of his mouth moved, curling up slightly, and his whole body instantly aged; he forcibly drew up a mouthful of blood and then spat it out violently.

"Puchi!"

"This... should count as being injured, right!"