SQLJBFDTW Chapter 100

Chapter 100: Gentle Snow, Who Shares the Grave?

Mo Tanzhou was blocked, a sword formation tightly enveloping him.

Lord Qishan began to chant an incantation, and the sword formation rapidly transformed with his hand gestures, displaying what seemed like thousands of formations, dazzling the eye. Chao Jianxue’s eyes grew strained just watching, let alone being inside.

He closed his eyes briefly to alleviate the strain, then heard Lord Qishan say to him, “Watch carefully!”

Chao Jianxue immediately opened his eyes, not daring to blink, focusing all his attention on Lord Qishan’s moves.

He understood that Lord Qishan was teaching him.

He hadn’t understood Lord Qishan’s sword techniques before, but now that his cultivation had advanced, the intricate and profound details directly entered his mind. Perhaps for Chao Jianxue’s sake, he incorporated all the sword techniques he had learned in his life into these incantations, allowing Chao Jianxue to witness them closely.

The sword light was complex and varied, the cold sound whistling and surging.

Chao Jianxue watched and memorized, his mind becoming dizzy, but Lord Qishan’s opportunity to impart sword techniques was rare. Even if the spiritual energy in his Purple Mansion was reaching its limit, he was reluctant to look away.

The ninth form of the Wuwu Sword, but even more complex than the ninth form, countless frost and snow appeared in the sword wind, accompanying the sword shadows like sharp needles.

“—Break!” With the final incantation, Lord Qishan flicked his finger, the frost and snow froze, and instantly thousands of sharp sword lights soared into the sky, turning Mo Tanzhou’s demonic body in the formation into a hedgehog.

Lord Qishan was overly exhausted from this attack, and his body swayed. Chao Jianxue immediately supported him, worriedly asking, “Are you alright?”

Lord Qishan wiped away the blood overflowing from the corner of his lips, his gaze kind, “Did you learn it?”

To answer honestly, with such fast movements and such a short time, how could he completely learn it? But Chao Jianxue didn’t want to disappoint him. He had memorized over ninety percent, and he could naturally comprehend the rest slowly on his own.

He confidently and firmly said, “I learned it!”

“That’s good…” Lord Qishan raised his hand, trying to disperse the sword formation. Chao Jianxue clearly saw his arm tremble slightly, and couldn’t help but be stunned.

His fingers were numb, and a sense of unease struck him, but at such a critical moment, he couldn’t say anything, so he just gripped Ming Qianli tightly in case of accidents.

The sword formation dispersed, and Mo Tanzhou was indeed pinned in mid-air, but he was still alive. Although his head was hanging down, his eyeballs were still moving flexibly.

The pair of demonic eyes darted around, suddenly lifting and staring directly at the two of them with a terrifying, blood-red gaze.

“Heh heh heh—Lord Qishan, long time no see…”

Chao Jianxue’s shoulders slumped under the shocking weight of the voice. It was indeed an indescribable pressure.

Lord Qishan’s gaze darkened, and he prepared to raise his sword again.

“Don’t waste your energy. After using that attack, you’re already at the end of your strength. You can’t kill me, just like back then.” The demonic eyes twitched, as if laughing.

Back then? Had Lord Qishan killed this great demon before?

A sword light flew out, hitting the demonic eyes directly, but the demonic eyes were not harmed at all, and laughed, “You don’t dare to mention those things, do you? I have lived in this world for who knows how many millennia, I know everything, and I have seen everyone. What are you afraid of? You should admit what you did yourself, it’s not a big deal at all.”

Chao Jianxue clearly felt Lord Qishan’s body stiffen slightly, and couldn’t help but wonder: What does this mean? What did Lord Qishan do?

Suddenly, the demonic eyes blazed, looking at him: “The blood of that person flows in your veins. Do you know—”

“Shut up!” Lord Qishan drew his sword, but the demonic eyes dodged it again.

It said, “The person beside you killed your blood relative. Heh heh.”

Chao Jianxue struggled to understand what it meant, frowned, suppressed the surging thoughts, and Ming Qianli transformed into a curved sickle, attacking it.

Demons will always seek the holes in people’s hearts; anger, doubt, distrust… all can become holes for it to invade the mind. Who knows if it’s deliberately talking nonsense?

Chao Jianxue’s heart would never waver. The sword light he unleashed carried no hesitation.

The demonic shadow sneered. Suddenly, thunder rumbled above Fumo Pass. The demonic shadow actually twitched Mo Tanzhou’s body, ignoring that the vessel was riddled with holes, and forcefully dragged itself out of the sword thicket.

“Can’t let it go back!”

It already had two vessels, and absorbing the demonic energy in Fumo Pass would only make it stronger.

The two of them rushed to chase, and just as they were about to approach Fumo Pass, they heard Yu Wei’s stern shout from behind: “Be careful!”

Chao Jianxue thought he had told him not to come up, and was about to turn around and tell him to retreat, but when he looked back, he saw a sharp blade flying quickly towards him.

He dodged to the side, almost cursing: Who made the move? Even if you want to kill the demon, you have to watch the direction. Such a treacherous route can easily injure allies.

Who knew, he dodged the blade, and thought the blade would directly attack the demonic shadow, but then he heard a “Puff” sound, and the blade spun out from Lord Qishan’s chest before striking the demonic shadow.

A purple figure appeared out of nowhere, her face full of murderous intent.

Lord Qishan was injured, and his body immediately slumped down. Chao Jianxue couldn’t believe it: “Lord Ziwei?”

Lord Ziwei didn’t look at him, just brushed past him, grabbed Lord Qishan, and before the demonic shadow completely hid in the vortex, she raised her hand and cleaved open her own chest, offering a snow-white and bright pearl.

The pearl instantly shone brightly, engulfing her and Lord Qishan, as well as the demonic shadow of Mo Tanzhou in front.

“Wait—” Chao Jianxue’s limbs felt like they were filled with lead. Yu Wei reminded him: “Senior Brother!”

He met Yu Wei’s worried gaze, and almost immediately made up his mind, pulling Yu Wei’s hand: “Let’s go together!”

Because he knew that even if he didn’t let Yu Wei go, he would follow. They were both worried about each other, so it was better to face it together.

The two of them leaped into the white light. Just as the edge of the white light disappeared, a strand of Yu Wei’s hair was cut off, showing how dangerous it would be if the body didn’t completely leap in.

The people below watched the white light flash again and again above, and finally disappear, all anxious and not knowing what was going on. But countless demonic energy suddenly surged out of the vortex, sweeping downwards.

The great demon had disappeared, and these restless demonic energies could no longer be suppressed, but the people of the Xuanzhen Realm were not to be trifled with. They were slightly inferior in the face of the great demon, but they still had the strength to deal with these demonic energies, it was just that the numbers were greater and the battle would be longer.

With a cry of charge, the spiritual energy of the Xuanzhen Realm clashed with the demonic energy, and the sun, moon, and stars were all obscured.

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Chao Jianxue fell to the ground with a “Ai ya”, it had been a long time since he had fallen on his butt so solidly.

Yu Wei also fell beside him and got up coughing.

In his confusion, seeing each other beside him calmed Chao Jianxue down a lot. So he also needed Yu Wei to be by his side.

“Just now, Lord Ziwei did it on purpose…” Chao Jianxue recalled what had just happened, and thought he had seen it wrong, but when he saw Yu Wei nod, he felt absurd, and asked himself, “Why?”

Lord Ziwei clearly belonged to the immortal sect, so why would she hurt Lord Qishan?

And where were they now? Where was Mo Tanzhou, who had come in with them?

This place was also a mystery.

The two of them stood up. It was a deep pit, and he didn’t know if they had smashed it out when they fell. If it was, then this deep pit was several zhang deep, and the force of the fall was too strong—no wonder it hurt so much to fall.

The two of them climbed out of the deep pit, and suddenly the sky was bright, and a gentle coolness fell on Chao Jianxue’s raised face.

He was stunned, raised his hand to touch it, and felt dampness.

“It’s snow,” Yu Wei said.

The falling snow was gentle, fluttering in pieces, but it was not cold, only a pleasant coolness was felt. Even the grass in front of them was full of green, and various small flowers grew in it, swaying with the breeze that came.

This scene was too beautiful and comfortable, far removed from the chaos in front of Fumo Pass. Chao Jianxue suspected that he and Yu Wei were already dead, and this was the afterlife.

He trembled as he tugged at Yu Wei, his voice shaking, “Pinch me.”

Chao Jianxue didn’t want to die so inexplicably. He had to admit that he wasn’t afraid of anything, except death.

Yu Wei didn’t move for a moment, he was hesitating.

Chao Jianxue became anxious, and said again: “Pinch me quickly! Or hit me! See if it hurts!”

Yu Wei didn’t pinch him, nor did he hit him, but leaned over and bit his lips lightly.

Chao Jianxue immediately became as calm as an old monk in meditation.

Well, this tingling, itchy, numb, and soft feeling, he wasn’t dead.

He blinked to melt the snowflakes on his eyelashes and breathed a long sigh of relief: “That’s great.”

After saying that, he realized that something was wrong. He said “That’s great” after Yu Wei kissed him. Was he saying that the taste was great? Or something else was great? There were really many ambiguities. Chao Jianxue licked his lips and added, “It’s great to be alive.”

With this interlude, his tense mood relaxed a bit.

Yu Wei chanted a spiritual incantation, his brows furrowed and solemn: “This is not reality, nor is it a narrow space, it’s more like a domain.”

His face was not panicked, quite calm: “Should I and Senior Brother explore separately, or together?”

This was nonsense. For Chao Jianxue, the danger of acting separately was a foregone conclusion, of course he would choose “together”, not to mention that he felt at ease only when Yu Wei was there, and he was unwilling to separate from Yu Wei from the bottom of his heart.

So the two of them chose a direction and headed forward.

The scenery in this place was as beautiful as a painting, and there was no trace of danger at all. As they walked, Chao Jianxue couldn’t help but let down his guard.

The grass blades were soft, not prickly like ordinary grass. The wind and snow, the softness and delicacy, were all the gentle domains they had never set foot in.

The two of them aimlessly shouted “Lord Ziwei” a few times, but it was still quiet and there was no movement. Chao Jianxue rose into the air, saw the grass stretching to the end of the horizon, and had to give up.

Yu Wei chanted a spiritual incantation in a low voice, and the Only Sword rose into the air, stopping above them. Chao Jianxue blinked, and the Only Sword “call out” flew away.

“What did you send it to do?” he asked.

Yu Wei looked at the horizon: “To explore the end of this place.”

“We came in with Lord Qishan and them, it’s impossible for us to have gone to two places. I think this place has separated the two spaces. We are on the surface, they are in the inner layer.”

“Wow!” Chao Jianxue said.

Yu Wei raised his eyes and looked at him. Chao Jianxue’s “wow” was genuine. The more he looked at Yu Wei’s calm and confident demeanor, the more he liked him.

His eyes were bright, and his tone was sincerely admiring: “You’re so amazing, Junior Brother!”

The tips of Yu Wei’s ears turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. He covered his mouth with his sleeve and coughed softly, avoiding Chao Jianxue’s gaze.

Just at this time, the Only Sword “Whoosh” flew back.

He closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said: “The end of the boundary is chaos, indeed as I thought.”

“Senior Brother, stand firm, I’ll try with the Bitter Cold Heart.”

He wanted to use his own domain to resist the surface domain here. Chao Jianxue nodded when he heard this, and condensed his energy to stand beside him.

As Yu Wei mobilized his spiritual power, the wind stopped and the snow ceased.

Pale blue spiritual light covered the grass, and the ground trembled.

Chao Jianxue was overjoyed: “It’s working!”

The two of them rose into the air, and in the blink of an eye, they saw the gentle scene return to chaos.

A wisp of gentle wind caressed Chao Jianxue’s cheek, and he smelled a faint fragrance of flowers.

Where did the fragrance come from?

After pushing away the chaos, a row of crows swept across the red sky.

The sudden weightlessness made Chao Jianxue forget the fragrance of flowers and the gentle wind. His heart clenched, and he held Yu Wei’s hand tightly, falling high from the sky.

The long wind and the red sunset were dazzling.

Directly below, a huge skeleton was lying in the snow, the setting sun and the remaining snow, extremely desolate.

This was a tomb.