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"Damn!!"

Two beams of sword energy shot straight into the sky, affecting such a vast area that nearly an entire region’s elements were retreating. The pure sword intent seemed to even cut through space.

For this sword intent, Old Liu was not unfamiliar, but the other one was!

How could there be two such sword intents?

Old Liu’s grandson looked at his grandfather in astonishment. He rarely saw the old man lose his composure like this, not even when he learned that the Space-Time Jade was lost by his eldest brother!

"Grandpa?" The little grandson swallowed and said, "Why don’t you go first? I can handle things here alone... huh?"

When he realized it, he found that the Old Liu who had exclaimed was nothing more than an image left behind.

Looking at the blurry figure, he touched it gently with his hand, confirming that it was indeed empty.

The child stood there dazed, his eyes full of complexity. He knew things must be very serious, but it seemed his grandpa didn’t even have the time to look after him.

He was now very vulnerable, and the Northern Territory was full of Celestial Serpent demons.

At this moment, if one happened to pass by, he might become their feast. His grandpa surely had a way to place him securely, but even for those few seconds required for setting him up, he didn’t want to waste that time. ..

People always said he was the most beloved grandson of his grandpa, but in reality... in the eyes of someone seeking longevity, what beloved descendants were there?

The child gave a faint bitter smile, suddenly feeling nostalgic for the Old Liu of the past. He remembered when his father first joined the army, his grandpa spent most of the time taking care of him.

Back then, his grandpa was a majestic general out there, and at home, he was a gentle elder who indulged his grandsons.

If things didn’t happen as they did later, his grandpa might have continued in that role forever. When did he start to change?

Looking up at that sky-bound sword energy, he suddenly felt... maybe a world like this, being shattered by a sword, wouldn’t be such a bad thing...

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How could this happen?

Old Liu was putting all his effort into rushing towards that direction, but now with the spiritual energy surging, he dared not use king-level power lightly.

The air resistance was more than a hundred times what it was before, and his speed was reduced significantly.

Despite his anxiety, this was already the limit of his speed.

Otherwise... he would either be forced to unleash king-level power, or his skin, flesh, and bones would be ground to powder by the friction with the air.

Yet even with such serious consequences, he kept probing the boundaries repeatedly. Because he knew, if he couldn’t make it in time, something big might happen this time!

Chen Qing couldn’t escape the northern part, no matter what choices he made. This was the result of calculations done millions of times, but he never expected... such a loophole for him to exploit.

The Sword Dao Fruit was something born from the world consciousness itself, like an artificial intelligence developing something on its own, beyond the prediction of any data or intelligence.

Including how strong the Sword Dao Fruit was, he couldn’t estimate at the beginning.

But now he knew; it was an existence comparable to top-tier innate dao fruits like life and death, time, and space, because the world consciousness deliberately played a trick on them.

It made them subconsciously believe that the person named Lin Feng was the Sword Dao Fruit itself.

But in fact, he even forgot, that once a dao fruit acknowledges the existence of a certain creature, it merges with them, which is why many venerable ones can take shape.

Back then, Ao Zhen defeated Lin Feng, and they planned to let Lin Feng reincarnate, thinking they could control this dao fruit through life and death reincarnation, believing that the Sword Dao Fruit was beneath the Life and Death Dao Fruit and could be controlled by reincarnation.

But he underestimated that back then... the reincarnated dao fruit was not complete, half of it.

.. might have long been fused with Ao Zhen!

Ao Zhen had been chosen by the world consciousness millions of years ago!!

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A shocking battle, where two entities not yet at king-level demonstrated a momentum that even peak king-level couldn’t match.

From afar, the Joyful Buddha felt the loss of vision in an instant.

For the victory or defeat of the Sword of the Sovereign, a Buddha like him was not qualified to watch...

Both he and the Buddhist mother spying from afar using the Thousand Eyes Technique lost their vision in an instant.

There was no external injury to their eyes, but their eyes just went blind, an invisible sword energy severed their spying along with their vision.

As for Chen Qing, as the sword intent arose, he immediately closed his eyes. At that moment, as the master of the Divine Path, he knew he couldn’t watch this duel.

Even though he was the master of the Divine Path of Ao Zhen!

"Senior..." The Buddhist mother was somewhat panicked.

"Your eyesight is gone, no need to struggle or try any divine skills to save yourself. Your eyes are not injured; your vision was simply severed by swordsmanship. From now on, you will have no vision!"

At this moment, Chen Qing finally understood what the dao fruit on that Sword Spirit represented.

Such a terrifying thing indeed!

Actually, from the start, he felt it strange. The sword... was just one of a hundred weapons, how could it become a Dao?

What does the Sword Law represent?

Seeing the effect now, he understood.

Those sword masters, having cultivated Ao Zhen back then, had unprecedented confidence in their techniques, so for generations, they vigorously honed their swordsmanship.

Over time, the sword... became an all-powerful entity, with everyone having an obsession, that was to cut through the weak bottleneck of human bloodline with this technique.

It hadn’t been a technique for a long time, but a Dao!

To cut through everything, to go forward relentlessly, this is the true essence of swordsmanship. Bloodlines can be severed, and so can anything in the world.

Space and time can be, life and death can be!

It might not be capable of this yet, but the will of the Heavenly Dao noticed this power, wanting this power to become reality, so it made arrangements in the dark to support this power.

So... Ao Zhen was chosen right from the start!

In an instant, Chen Qing understood everything, with some speculation in his heart, he looked towards the sky.

This world consciousness... is alive, not merely an artificial intelligence, this world consciousness maybe....

Is it you?

That bold speculation flashed through Chen Qing’s mind for just a moment before he dared not think further, fearing something terrible would be triggered.

"Senior... what do you mean by those words? My vision... has been severed from now on?"

"Yes..." Chen Qing, facing this presence that threatened her very existence, rarely showed patience: "It was severed. If she wants, she could sever your voice, your taste, even... your fate!"

"What nonsense is this?" The woman growled, "How could such a thing exist?"

Unable to recover vision?

An incomplete being could never compete with a Buddha. With a defect, their Dao remains incomplete, meaning she could never... become one of the venerable ones!

"Perhaps there wasn’t before..." Chen Qing laughed, "But now there is!"

"Is that so?" The Buddhist mother’s aura became indescribably cold, "Then I’ll make your eyes like mine, and see whether you have a solution!"

But as she stepped forward, she found her whole body seemed unresponsive.

As if something within her had disappeared...

What was it?

In the world she couldn’t see, Chen Qing coldly gazed at her remains. The head had separated from the body, thus unable to command the legs to step forward.

Yet, Chen Qing hadn’t lifted a finger from beginning to end.

The surge of sword intent arose calmly and vanished quickly, causing no damage except to the Buddhist mother.

From the start, Chen Qing only intended to cut off the opponent’s head, so the sword only severed there, and around it... nothing happened.

"I’m truly sorry... it seems you indeed lack my intelligence..." Chen Qing said coldly, "Had those old fellows been here, at the moment Ao Zhen displayed this sword intent, they would’ve distanced themselves far from me already!"