Luo Yuanfei flipped his palm, tossing the hat into the air with a flourish, and as he caught the hat again, the torrent-like Sword Energy from Jiang Qiemo surged out from inside the hat, rushing towards Jiang Qiemo.
Jiang Qiemo's sword thrust did not slow down at all, piercing through the torrent of Sword Energy and striking Luo Yuanfei's chest.
Luo Yuanfei placed the hat in front of his chest. It was just a thin hat; how could it possibly withstand a Divine Weapon like the Blinking Divine Sword?
The sword of Jiang Qiemo plunged straight in, yet strangely, the tip did not erge from the other side of the hat; it vanished as if there was a segnt of missing space there.
Jiang Qiemo withdrew the sword for another stab, but each thrust was blocked by Luo Yuanfei with the hat. The sword tip would pierce into the hat and disappear like a magic trick, having no effect whatsoever.
"The Blinking Grim Reaper is just so-so; you can't hurt ," Luo Yuanfei boasted, montarily forgetting himself, and blinked.
In Luo Yuanfei's perception, this blink had no impact at all, yet he saw that the Blinking Divine Sword, at so unknown mont, had pierced through the side of his hat and stabbed cleanly through his chest.
"The Blinking Grim Reaper... truly lives up to its na..." Luo Yuanfei said, flicked his hand, and a match appeared between his fingers, which he then fiercely struck against the matchbox in his other hand.
The flas ignited, casting a glow that reflected in Jiang Qiemo's eyes.
Luo Yuanfei let out a prideful laugh, "Try the might of my Heart Fla, and I hope you enjoy this way of dying."
Luo Yuanfei laughed and laughed, but then noticed sothing was amiss.
The match had burned halfway down, yet not a wisp of cyan smoke rose.
"Impossible... how can you not have self... how can a living person not have self?" Luo Yuanfei exclaid, staring in shock at Jiang Qiemo.
The Heart Fla feeds on one's self as fuel to burn; a living person must have self.
"A living person cannot be without self, but what if I am a dead man?" Jiang Qiemo said expressionlessly.
His thoughts went back to when he entered the Death Gate; he originally went in search of Chen Guan, but Chen Guan entered the Life Gate while he entered the Death Gate.
Within the Life Gate, Chen Guan experienced the rise and fall of that ancient village, while Jiang Qiemo, who entered the Death Gate, experienced the constant death of self.
It seed as though he reincarnated over and over again, his soul continuously reborn into different bodies, living their lives, and ultimately heading towards death.
Life after life, death after death.
Jiang Qiemo seed trapped in an unending cycle of reincarnation, from which he could not escape.
The stronger his desire for survival was, the more he wanted to transcend the cycle and find Chen Guan, the more trapped he beca.
Until at last, Jiang Qiemo grasped the true aning of rebirth after death, letting so things go, his heart becoming like dead ashes, eventually escaping that cycle, gaining a handful of dead ashes, and awakening because of it.
"Your tricks that toy with the heart are useless against ," Jiang Qiemo said as he drew out the sword that pierced through Luo Yuanfei's body, using his other hand to slice the match in two, and continued to swing the blade towards Luo Yuanfei's head.
Luo Yuanfei clutched his chest and leaped backward, dodging the horizontal slash from Jiang Qiemo.
But the heart that the sword had pierced suddenly exploded, blood and flesh spraying out from the wound at the back, leaving the heart shattered into fragnts.
"Injured by , you cannot recover," Jiang Qiemo stated calmly, looking at the heartless Luo Yuanfei.
"Well done, Jiang Qiemo!" Luo Yuanfei gritted his teeth, still neither dead nor fallen, and reached into the spatial rift to grab a stone, placing it where his heart used to be, seemingly to use it as a replacent.
Jiang Qiemo frowned slightly, seeing Luo Yuanfei press his palm against the chest wound, which then closed without a trace.
The once-dying Luo Yuanfei instantly regained vitality, as if he'd never been wounded.
"Replacing the heart with a stone, what kind of technique is this?" Jiang Qiemo asked in surprise.
"You're strong, but just like him, neither of you can kill ," Luo Yuanfei said, staring at Jiang Qiemo, "I also can't kill you, but I can kill others. If you stay put, that's fine, but if you interfere and stop , for every ti you stop , I'll kill one person."
With that, Luo Yuanfei went towards Chen Guan.
Jiang Qiemo frowned slightly; he could make a move to save Chen Guan, but he wasn't confident he could save everyone.
Yet, in the next mont, Jiang Qiemo still acted.
Though other lives were also important, in comparison, Jiang Qiemo couldn't bear to see Chen Guan die.
"This is your choice, don't bla ," Luo Yuanfei said as he swung his cloak, and the Blinking Divine Sword cut it in two, yet Luo Yuanfei's figure was nowhere to be seen.
Jiang Qiemo turned to look and saw Luo Yuanfei holding a dagger to Xiao Qinghua's throat.
"Jiang Qiemo, take another step, and I'll kill her," Luo Yuanfei said with a sneer.
Jiang Qiemo had to stop his steps; he knew Xiao Qinghua was Chen Guan's childhood friend, and if possible, he couldn't disregard her life and death.
"You can't kill ," Xiao Qinghua spoke up.
"Shut up, won don't get a say here," Luo Yuanfei snapped, flipping his other hand, revealing another match in his fingers, and struck it alight with a flick along his waist.
This ti, Luo Yuanfei didn't use the Heart Fla against others but rely let the match burn between his fingers.
Soon, Jiang Qiemo noticed sothing was wrong; a cyan smoke began to rise rapidly from the match and drifted towards the Cyan Smoke Ancient Buddha facing Chen Guan, intensifying its imposing aura.
Jiang Qiemo slashed towards the Cyan Smoke Ancient Buddha, but it flowed like water, unbreakable by even the fastest and sharpest blade.
After the Sword Energy passed, the cyan smoke remained, with the Buddha sounds clearer and more thunderous with each word.
"Have you realized? It's already too late. The Heart Fla can only be endured three tis at most; if you haven't escaped its grasp by the ti three matches burn out, you will perish with the smoke, your soul scattered to blissful realms. This was his second match," Luo Yuanfei said as the match in his hand burned out.
Luo Yuanfei prepared to grab another match, but to his surprise, Xiao Qinghua, though the knife was at her throat, made a sudden move and took the matchbox from his waist before he could react.
"Courting death!" Luo Yuanfei shouted as he slashed Xiao Qinghua's neck with his knife.
Clang!
Luo Yuanfei was shocked to find that his knife didn't sever Xiao Qinghua's neck; instead, it was blocked by a layer of Protective Jade Light around her body.
"Oh, so you have Body Protection Divine Skill," Luo Yuanfei's knife flashed like a stream of light, slashing again and again at Xiao Qinghua.
Xiao Qinghua's Body Technique was sowhat mystical, but not mastered enough to dodge attacks of Luo Yuanfei's Level.
The sound of steel clashing echoed as Luo Yuanfei slashed over a dozen tis, each ti landing on Xiao Qinghua, yet every strike was deflected by the Protective Jade Light, leaving her unhard.
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