If it were an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator, they might not harbor such a strong intent to kill, mainly because most cultivators cultivate for the sake of longevity. Therefore, their techniques tend to align with the Heavenly Dao, resulting in a relatively gentler aura.
But Sword Cultivators are different.
Sword Dao cultivation places the utmost importance on killing and combat, with each Sword Cultivator's True Yuan being exceedingly sharp. In order to grow, every Sword Cultivator must go through countless battles. Therefore, not only is their Sword Qi fierce, but their intent to kill far exceeds that of ordinary cultivators.
Now, as a Sword Cultivator who had cultivated for hundreds of years, Jiang Yinghong was filled with rage and hatred, her intent to kill even stronger than usual.
Qin Feng had only just reached Foundation Establishnt after all, and even though they were quite far apart, he was significantly shaken by her murderous intent.
If it had only been the intimidation of the murderous intent, that might have been the end of it. However, imdiately after, he saw the woman raise her hand and a streak of Sword Light flew out, heading towards him like a fleeting gleam.
Qin Feng's heart was filled with horror. Such powerful Sword Qi was definitely not sothing he could fend off.
He wanted to dodge, but even though they were so far apart, he found himself unable to avoid it. It was as if he were rooted to the spot, forced to watch helplessly as the Sword Light advanced towards him.
This was because the opponent's sword moved too fast, surpassing his body's ability to react, which created the illusion of being immobilized.
Just as he thought he couldn't escape, a cold snort suddenly sounded from the Tower Ship.
Then, he saw a splash of water-like brilliance descend about thirty feet in front of him, blocking the incoming Sword Light.
"Jiang Yinghong, are you seeking death?"
The languid voice of Liu Xuanling drifted over.
She slowly flew out from the Tower Ship, her beautiful figure revealing an extrely stunning silhouette amidst the mountain breeze, making the female disciples from various sects on several nearby peaks envy her beauty.
"The grand Taiyi Mountain Golden Core Peak Sword Cultivator is actually attacking a junior from the Beast Taming Sect who has just established their foundation. Taiyi Mountain truly lives up to its reputation as a long-established major sect, with such actions worthy of emulation by our peers."
A trace of mockery appeared in her eyes before her expression turned cold. "But to attack our Beast Taming Sect's disciple in our presence, are you trying to start a war here?"
Jiang Yinghong's figure flew out as well, retorting coldly, "He killed my niece, my elder brother's only child."
"Oh, and so what?"
Liu Xuanling replied indifferently, "Our sects have been enemies for many years, with continuous killings among the disciples. Which year hasn't resulted in casualties?
If everyone acted as you are now, claiming to avenge juniors and directly attacking the younger generation of other sects, the cultivation world would have collapsed into chaos by now.
If you kill a Beast Taming Sect disciple today, tomorrow, I would dare strike down hundreds of ordinary disciples from your Taiyi Mountain.
Once the rules are disrupted and the higher echelons of sects can freely cut down opposing sect's younger generations, in a few years, the disciples below will likely all be dead. Do you ancient ones from Taiyi Mountain also plan to personally take in disciples and start teaching from the Qi Refining Realm?"
Jiang Yinghong's expression changed. She knew her earlier actions were sowhat impetuous, but she now felt a mysterious fla burning deep inside her, unable to suppress the raging fury.
Through clenched teeth, she said, "If that junior had fought in a fair and upfront manner, even if he had killed Qian'er, that would have been the end of it. We would have accepted it as Qian'er's lack of skill. But that boy used despicable ans and a sneak attack to harm my niece, how can I allow him to live?"
"Hmph, even if he did use a sneak attack, so what?"
Liu Xuanling was dismissive of Jiang Yinghong's words. "At the ti, he was only at the late stage of Qi Refinent and managed with a seventh layer Qi cultivation to ambush and kill a Taiyi Mountain Foundation Establishnt Sword Cultivator. That takes skill. If you're capable, why don't you train a Qi Refining Realm disciple to sneak attack a Beast Taming Sect Foundation Establishnt Cultivator? The grievances between juniors can simply be resolved by having a few disciples take action. To personally attack like you did today, it seems like you are the one seeking death. If there's a next ti, I will take your life!"
"Don't speak such big words."
Jiang Yinghong was a proud person at heart. "You've only cultivated for a few years, a re junior, and you think you can kill ? Even your senior brother, Zhao Qiankun, couldn't kill all those years ago, and now you dare to boast as well."
"Heh..."
Liu Xuanling scoffed coldly. "It was one thing when your strength matched my senior brother's back then, but now my senior brother has established his Purple Mansion and ford his Nascent Soul. And you? You've lived all these years in vain, still stuck in the Golden Core Realm, and you still dare to compare yourself to my senior brother. How preposterous!"
"You..."
Jiang Yinghong, having her shortcoming pointed out, was furious, with a hint of fla flickering in her eyes as she glared unrelentingly at Liu Xuanling.
"What's wrong, you can't accept it?"
Liu Xuanling's eyes narrowed. "Since you can't accept it, I will beat you until you do!"
With those words, she flipped her palm, actually striking directly, sending a moon-white Spirit Light towards the other party.
She had never been one to have much patience, and had already grown sowhat tired of talking with the other woman. Since Jiang Yinghong dared to defy her, they might as well have it out and beat her into submission.
"How dare you attack ? You're courting death!"
Jiang Yinghong's anger surged, and with a swoosh, her Flying Sword lashed out, blocking the Spirit Light from Liu Xuanling. Her Flying Sword then spun, cleaving towards Liu Xuanling with a sharp Sword Light.
Liu Xuanling's sleeve fluttered, and a Long Silk flew out, wrapping around the oncoming Flying Sword like a Spiritual Snake.
That Long Silk of hers was made of no ordinary material—flexible yet tough, faintly gleaming with Spirit Light. Jiang Yinghong's Flying Sword felt an odd resistance when it struck, powerless and ineffective. But once it was tangled by her Long Silk, it would take so effort to break free.
Jiang Yinghong was taken aback. It was fortunate that her Flying Sword moved at her will; otherwise, were it any other Golden Core Cultivator facing Liu Xuanling, they would have had a hard ti escaping the binding of this Long Silk.
Liu Xuanling's Long Silk grew longer and longer, seemingly endless. She had already released it for several hundred feet. With a slight flick of her wrist, the Long Silk spread in circles in the Void, stirring up space like a giant vortex, trapping Jiang Yinghong's Flying Sword within it.
"Hmph, you really think you've got pinned down?"
Jiang Yinghong's expression was ice-cold as she shouted angrily, "Fiery Fire Red Lotus, burn away all in existence, Red Lotus Sword Technique, slash! Slash! Slash!"
As her voice fell, the Flying Sword that had been trapped in the vortex of Long Silk suddenly transford. Flas several zhang high surged upon the sword blade, and then the sword spun, slicing through illusion after illusion, like a blooming lotus of fire.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The fire lotus blossod, and thousands upon thousands of Fla Sword Qi sliced in all directions, actually disrupting the vortex created by the Long Silk. Then, like a downpour, the Sword Qi rained down towards Liu Xuanling.
Inside the Sword Boat, Yin Bieli let out a gentle sigh, "Jiang Yinghong is as fiery as a blaze, and her cultivation of the 'Fiery Fire Red Lotus Sword' originally complented her well. It's a pity that her heart was trapped by love in her early years, stuck at the Golden Core Peak for two hundred years without any progress. Over the years, she has been frequently scorched by her inner fire, her Daoist Heart unstable. If this continues, I fear she may encounter problems."
"Indeed."
Another female Elder by her side also felt so emotion, "Back when she and Jiang Dongliu, the siblings, were at Foundation Establishnt Realm, they had already made quite a na for themselves. Later on, they both achieved Golden Core, and for a ti, no one could match them. I wasn't her equal back then, but who knew she would fall so deeply in love and be unable to extricate herself? Otherwise, with her talent, she would not have languished at the Golden Core Realm."
"Should we ask her to stop?"
A white-haired old man with a calm disposition spoke, "After all, it was Jiang Yinghong who first broke the rules. If Liu Xuanling gets injured, the Beast Taming Sect certainly won't let it go easily, and this could trigger a great battle right here."
"Hmph, let them fight then. Are we afraid of them?"
Sword Cultivators from Taiyi Mountain rarely shied away from battle. Upon hearing what the elder had said, they imdiately expressed their discontent, "The Beast Taming Sect just relies on their Spiritual Beasts to show off. Without those beasts, relying solely on their own cultivation, they're not worthy of being enemies with our Taiyi Mountain."
"There's no need to belittle your opponents, because that only serves to lower your own status."
The old man said indifferently, "Should it co to fighting, I certainly wouldn't fear the Beast Taming Sect, but now is not the ti to act.
Wait until the next ti the Secret Realm opens. In the battle for the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm, you'll find it hard not to fight even if you don't want to."
"Alright."
Yin Bieli waved his hand, "Since Jiang Yinghong wants to fight, let her have a bout with Liu Xuanling. With Luo Zhancheng around, Liu Xuanling won't die so easily."
The elder shook his head, "I'm just afraid that once Luo Zhancheng makes a move, things won't end well. Once that fellow goes berserk, he doesn't care about the consequences. Escalating things now won't benefit us."
"Heh, who told you Liu Xuanling will definitely lose? She hasn't even used her Lifebound Spiritual Beast yet."
On the Tower Ship of the Beast Taming Sect, Luo Zhancheng was listening to his disciple's account of her experiences in the Secret Realm while watching the duel between Liu Xuanling and Jiang Yinghong from afar.
When he heard Li Miaozhen speak about the Guiding Array, a look of surprise couldn't help but show on his face, "I didn't expect Taiyi Mountain to have found sothing like this. It's a good thing they didn't succeed in claiming it, otherwise, we might have had to start a major Sect war ahead of ti."
Beside him, Elder Mo Li asked, "What should we do now, just let Junior Sister Liu keep fighting with Jiang Yinghong?
If Junior Sister Liu happens to kill her, the people from Taiyi Mountain probably won't just let it go."
"Hmph, Jiang Yinghong broke the rules herself, if she gets killed, she deserves it. If those from Taiyi Mountain dare to spout nonsense, I'll cleave them with my saber."
As he spoke, he reached out to grab sothing from Li Miaozhen, but he caught nothing and was montarily stunned, "Eh, where's my saber?"
"Cough..."
Li Miaozhen coughed lightly and said, "Master, I left your saber in the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm."
"What?"
Luo Zhancheng's eyes widened, "You damn girl, why would you throw my saber into the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm? Could it be that among the disciples from the various factions that entered, soone was actually a threat to your life, forcing you to abandon your saber and flee?"
"No, Master, I didn't have the chance to finish explaining earlier before you interrupted ."
"Speak, if you can't give a good reason, I'll throw you into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to struggle for survival for three years."
Luo Zhancheng was nearly driven mad with anger; the White Tiger Saber was his most cherished weapon, absolutely irreplaceable. Had it not been for his concern for his disciple's safety, he would have been reluctant to even lend the saber to her.
And now, what had happened was that the wretched girl actually left his White Tiger Saber in the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm, which could put him at a disadvantage in a possible showdown with Yin Bieli should he lack his weapon.
Li Miaozhen hurriedly pleaded, "Please calm your anger, Master. It was like this: at that ti, Qin Feng slashed to death the Taiyi Mountain disciple who aid to destroy the Guiding Array, and convinced Zhuo Feifan to help us set up the array properly. So then, I left your White Tiger Saber within the Guiding Array.
With your cultivation, you should be able to sense the location of the White Tiger Saber, and later on, you can use the Guiding Array to summon yourself over. Then you can also rearrange your thods and transport our Supre Elders from the Beast Taming Sect into the Underground Space beneath the Heavenly Pool Cave Heaven..."
Before she could finish speaking, Luo Zhancheng stood up with a whoosh, his large and mighty fra reminiscent of a Giant Bear, his eyes gleaming as he looked at his disciple, "Are you saying the Guiding Array is perfectly intact?"
"That's right."
Li Miaozhen nodded her head.
Luo Zhancheng twitched the corners of his mouth and suddenly burst into laughter.
This ti, his laughter did not escape the cabin, as he had cast a spell to seal it off.
"Very good, very good, truly my excellent disciple."
Luo Zhancheng raised his huge palm and patted Li Miaozhen's shoulder, nearly knocking her to the ground.
The other eight Elders of the Purple Mansion Realm were also shocked and delighted, not expecting such a pleasant surprise.
Luo Zhancheng paced back and forth in the cabin for a few steps, finally calming his excited emotions.
He took a deep breath and sat back down, asking, "And just who is Qin Feng?"
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