The eastern reaches of Yue Country’s nameless valley had been utterly flattened.

Space here was weak, the pits exceptionally deep, and the Yuan Qi a chaotic maelstrom.

The two warring factions had maintained a tacit understanding of a “silent and swift decisive battle,” a pact finally shattered by uncontrollable power.

That terrifying heavenly phenomenon of lightning, thunder, and darkened skies was no longer concealed, exposed to the world. Though a hundred *li* away, it was still clearly visible.

In an instant, a white rainbow shot directly eastward, while a black shadow turned towards the west.

From “this fellow can be extinguished with a casual flick” to “this person is extremely dangerous,” the world-harming Wusheng Jiaozu and the Shan Hai monster, merely wearing human clothes, finally reached a consensus.

Thus, one to the east, one to the west, each retreated.

Under a bright, clear sky, a white rainbow pierced through the clouds.

The sea of clouds silently swallowed the rainbow light, and within it, a white bone seed landed, transforming into the figure of Wusheng Jiaozu, Zhang Linchuan.

At this moment, his appearance was disheveled, devoid of any composure.

His right ear, along with a small portion of his scalp, had been sliced off. Although the bleeding had stopped, blue veins, red blood, white bone, and red flesh twisted into a neat cut surface, a terrifying sight.

His left hand had also been forcibly severed of three fingers!

In planning Yue Country as one of the targets for this body’s tribulation crossing, Yue Country’s lord, Wen Jingxiu, and the hidden minister, Gao Zheng, were the only two expected dangers. At most, he might have considered a possible timely intervention from Mu Gu Academy. He could never have anticipated that a seemingly ordinary Shenlin cultivator in Yue Country would possess such strength.

Though he had been intentionally calculated against by terrifyingly powerful Zhenren of the Dao path, like Zhongxuan and Chu Liang, causing his realm to fall, he considered himself capable of sweeping through Shenlin cultivators.

Facing ordinary Shenlin cultivators, it wasn’t like slaughtering chickens, but neither was it a significant challenge. Even a strong Shenlin like Zhang Xun, he could kill without injury.

In this fourth tribulation, he had been cautious and careful, selecting the most appropriate targets and avoiding potential dangers within Yue Country. He utilized the current world’s vulnerabilities to cut off the possibility of being tracked by Yue Country’s hidden minister, Gao Zheng. Yet, in his encounter with Ge Fei, they fought to a draw, gaining no advantage…

With the vision of a once-ascended true god, with a nearly perfect white bone sacred body, and with a body possessing ever-changing profound laws and divine arts, he was actually unable to easily kill his opponent as expected.

On the contrary, he was frequently injured.

At the cost of three fingers, one ear, and a small portion of his scalp, he had only managed to tear off one of Ge Fei’s arms.

By the end of the fight, neither side could control the intensity of the battle, shattering all their restrictions.

His identity, after all, could not withstand exposure. He could not fight for long, nor could he risk being noticed by any righteous path powerhouses. Seeing that the sound and shadow sealing boundaries had been shattered, he launched his final wave of attacks and seized the opportunity to leave—

Precisely as that Ge Fei had also thought and planned.

He had always been alone in his life, never truly connecting with anyone. But for the first time, in Ge Fei, he had sensed the breath of a “same kind.”

Both were equally cold and ruthless. But his ruthlessness was the absolute nature of extinguishing emotion, with only the Dao in his heart. Ge Fei’s ruthlessness was the complete dominance of bestial nature, with the Dao serving as the pursuit of original desire.

Their paths differed, but their manifestations were similar, their endpoints near.

Zhang Linchuan vaguely guessed that this Ge Fei was not *that* Ge Fei, just as he himself had substituted his life with seven souls, replacing the six identities outside this body.

If the original Ge Fei truly possessed this ability, why did he remain obscure at Guanhe Terrace and return without achievement in the Shan Hai border?

This current Ge Fei, however, far surpassed Zhang Xun!

He guessed that this current Ge Fei’s true identity similarly could not withstand exposure. Otherwise, why did Ge Fei tacitly maintain quiet during their fight to the death, and why, after exposing his true strength and breaking the seal, did he also choose to leave in haste?

However, at the moment, he had no time for such exploratory thoughts.

The feeling of being near a “same kind” would not evoke any sense of closeness in him. Given the opportunity, he would certainly crush Ge Fei, extract this person’s secrets one by one, and he believed he could do it. But that would require more time for planning, and not now.

Currently, six tribulations were being crossed simultaneously. Every identity faced life and death directly. He had no extra time to waste.

The present world was vast, with many secrets.

He, Zhang Linchuan, was not utterly unique.

Regarding this trip to Yue Country, beyond acknowledging his bad luck, he had nothing else to say.

He had stumbled, he admitted it, and then he continued to walk forward.

Just as in Fenglin City, when the White Bone Dao’s plan failed, he turned to scheme for the sacred body. In Lushuang County, when Lei Zhangan’s identity was wiped out, he turned to scheme for the evil seed. The day before yesterday, the Wusheng Jiao was destroyed overnight, and he turned to walk the nine tribulations!

The path was walked by people.

In this life, there was no dead end.

Let heaven’s will be as it may!

Having left the battlefield far behind, he once again isolated divination and concealed his traces. After that, he began to plan this body’s tribulation once more.

True powerhouses treated life and death with calmness, but absolutely did not despise life and death.

Six bodies were crossing life and death tribulations simultaneously. The tribulation designed for each identity was the best choice for that body’s situation, all meticulously planned countless times in the past.

Of course, he didn’t divide his mind among six lives. Each soul inherited the wisdom of this body, merging with its new identity and possessing independent thinking ability. They were all, however, dominated by him.

However, he often descended his main thought into a vice body, using this to mobilize more power and help the vice body develop better.

Every one of his identities was operated with the greatest effort. He was intimately familiar with all the possibilities that originated from this body. The future’s evolution had been planned countless times. Thus, in this tense situation, he could quickly formulate and launch plan after plan.

Among them, this body received the fewest constraints, allowing him to fully utilize his strength. Consequently, he lost the convenience that “identity” brought. After losing the Wusheng Jiao, he particularly needed a pair of eyes to spy through the fog, a physical body to probe danger, and at the same time, more impromptu responses.

Therefore, he had put the most effort into this body’s tribulation crossing.

For this body’s fourth tribulation, Yue Country was originally the best choice. Unfortunately, heaven did not favor him, and ultimately, things could not proceed smoothly… That was already the territory circled by another fierce beast.

He pondered casually, and while unfolding his next steps, perhaps he could also conveniently send an anonymous report letter to Mu Gu Academy.

Just report that fellow Ge Fei is not human! Say he’s a demon, a monster, force this fellow to find a way to prove himself.

Of course, this wouldn’t have much effect.

Judging from Ge Fei’s performance, he had clearly already gained Gao Zheng’s support.

As long as Yue Country didn’t find Ge Fei problematic, anyone else seeking problems would be meaningless.

But to disgust Ge Fei a little, disrupt his mood a bit, slow down his development speed a bit, and expose more of Ge Fei’s information… That would also be convenient for their next confrontation.

He had no particular curiosity, but his intuition told him that the secrets behind Ge Fei were extraordinary. This world had too many possibilities, too many opportunities. He would dig them up slowly later.

The premise was that he could successfully complete the nine tribulations this time and reopen the situation. Otherwise, it would be difficult to even stay in the present world, and all secrets would be unrelated to him.

Where should he go next?

South Dou Hall?

Jian Ge?

The Blood River Sect, which had just lost Blood River Zhenjun, Huo Shi Ji?

Or, kill his way back and finish off that Chen Si Wu in Song Country? In the situation where so many powerhouses were gathered in Dan Country, causing trouble in Song Country seemed terrifyingly dangerous. It must be a perfect killing tribulation.

Cannot be hasty, cannot be hasty. He still needed to gather more intelligence before making a choice…

But the Wusheng Jiao had already been destroyed, and now the world was full of enemies. Every step was difficult. Where could he seek intelligence?

His headquarters were in the Three Fen Fragrance Building in Chu Country?

Zhang Linchuan, while slowly bandaging his broken fingers with a white gauze cloth, also compulsively tied several symmetrical, good-looking flower knots. Simultaneously, he was seriously contemplating his next plan…

Suddenly, he felt an extremely powerful spiritual consciousness, like a howling tide, sweeping over the area with extreme rudeness, instantly colliding with him, this rock!

The moment their spiritual consciousnesses instinctively collided, he knew he had been discovered.

Who? When? Why?

Countless thoughts raced through his mind.

He suddenly lifted his head!

And saw a familiar person.

Familiar clear and cold eyebrows, familiar eyes filled with hatred and determination.

And he saw a familiar sword.

The sword hilt like ink, the sword body like snow. The entire body without half a flaw. Above the sword spine, near the sword guard, were inscribed three characters in Qi script. They read: Yan Gui Chao.

The world-famous sword, Long Xiang Si!

From Linzi to Yanyun Mountain, from Wei Country to Song Country, and then from Song Country to Yue Country…

Wind and dust-laden, having pursued for millions of *li*, the Great Qi Wu An Hou approached at terrifying speed. Behind him was a round red sun. His fatigue had been lightly buried. He seemed to be dragging the sun with him, crashing down!

Wearing frosty wind, bathed in red fire, stepping on green clouds, shining with five lights, the Nine Heavens Sword Immortal descended to the human world.

The moment his spiritual consciousness locked onto Zhang Linchuan, the sword in his hand was already drawn!

No one could know what kind of mood Jiang Wang was in at this moment.

No one could describe Jiang Wang at this moment.

He did not say a single word.

He had run too far, too long.

At this moment, his eyes held only Zhang Linchuan, and in his heart, only this one sword to be struck.

The hand gripping the hilt of Long Xiang Si was, at this moment, exceptionally calm, steady. That night in the Wild Man Forest, blue veins had burst, blood had stained his fingers… Today, here, it would be fully unleashed!

Inside the sea of his five mansions, a frost-white divine seed instantly expanded to its limit. It broke its shell and saw snow, blooming to the extreme, unfolding a cold white frost flower!

The moment he had picked this divine seed from Buzhou Feng, it was born from that moment of extreme anger, extreme killing intent, stirred by the killing of life, finally taking form.

This time, carrying the world’s great momentum, running for millions of *li*, sweeping away the thief’s hatred. Extreme killing intent and magnificent great momentum mixed, the divine sense of blooming unfolded the heavenly will to kill.

Its momentum and intent had long been fully brewed. Zhang Linchuan’s arrival merely triggered the frost.

And the frost wind that blew and folded all things was not due to emotional fruit.

This was the purest killing thought.

To kill an enemy might be unrelated to love or hate, or even unrelated to the enemy himself.

Jiang Wang, at the age of twenty-one, had practiced the sword for over ten years, experienced countless life and death situations. This was, so far, his most cold and ruthless sword.

This sword collided with the sheath soundlessly, howled yet was silent, having even killed sound itself!

Momentum, intent, force, technique, all at their peak.

Beyond heaven, the Big Dipper trembled.

Beyond the body, sword qi raged.

At this moment, millions of *li* of rivers and mountains prostrated, strong pines and rotten wood all folded by the wind!

Trees around Zhang Linchuan withered, weeds condensed frost, walking beasts prostrated, startled birds fell like rain.

A terrifying sword, shattering the meaning of time and space, suddenly arrived.

This sword, rising from the Wild Man Forest in Lushuang, Qi Country, accumulating momentum for millions of *li*, was struck for his old friend, Lin You Xie!

Zhang Linchuan, a top-level Shenlin, felt the danger completely at this moment. He suddenly realized that this was his fourth tribulation!

He did not hesitate in the slightest, nor could he hold back any longer.

His entire being suddenly became devoid of breath, as if his flesh and blood were gone, his divine might absent. Standing here, yet not here. Not surrounded by the five elements, not included in yin and yang.

This was the divine sense, Wugen!

Because it had no root or bottom, it could not be investigated or explored. It could separate cause and effect, break Qi mechanisms, erase traces, and conceal paths. In battle, it could eliminate the possibility of being hit.

But in the next moment, the majesty of the divine path emanated, the powerful breath of a top-level Shenlin surged to the sky. Zhang Linchuan’s flesh and blood reappeared in the human world.

Jiang Wang drove the blooming Buzhou Feng divine sense, urging this Dao sword style with his complete sword immortal body, having fully unleashed the Frost Kill All Things Dao.

It reached the peak of his life’s sword momentum.

The frost wind that extinguished all things shattered that kind of “nothingness”!

He would strike Zhang Linchuan out of the Wugen state, extinguish his possibility of escape, and force him to face death.

Around Zhang Linchuan, space rippled like water.

He did not want to take this sword head-on. At this moment, he desired to use the Qian Kun Suo and hide in the world’s rift again.

But those ripples were also shattered!

Jiang Wang’s sword was too extreme, too cold and ruthless. Besides killing intent, nothing else existed. Besides killing intent, nothing else was allowed to exist.

Then kill!

Zhang Linchuan could not avoid it. The light in his pupils was also as cold as a knife blade.

Since Wugen and Qian Kun Suo could not allow him to escape, he simply rushed towards Jiang Wang with overwhelming killing intent. With a light flick of his fingers, he actually drew out a bone from his own chest, transforming it into a bone pen, directly pointing towards Jiang Wang’s brow!

Demolishing bone as a pen!

In Wei Country’s Late Sang Town, Qin Wenqi, to facilitate Ruan Qiu’s divination, once, under the dark instruction of the Eastern Master, demolished the bone of the dismissed county guard and gave it to Jiang Wang as a pen, letting him write a letter.

Although this was a punishment for crime, it also contained malicious intent.

Zhang Linchuan, after harvesting the evil seed, then witnessed this scene with Jiang Wang.

And this scene, at this moment, became Zhang Linchuan’s weapon, his starting pen, allowing him to launch the Wang Sheng divine sense.

The “Zhao Cangwu” records, “Wang Sheng person, virtually substitutes reincarnation, leads residual souls, living can go far, dead cannot be reborn.”

In its specific manifestation, this divine sense could pull the opponent’s soul, causing one’s three souls to shift and seven souls to extinguish. And he had an even higher level of development: he could directly bury an evil seed within the enemy’s soul, waiting for the evil seed to sprout, at which point he could directly harvest.

Initially, in the Wild Man Forest in Lushuang County.

Whether it was the detailed description of Lin You Xie’s death, or the deliberate mention of Fenglin City, even the last statement strongly supporting his residual body and mocking Jiang Wang with “can’t afford to play.”

All of it was to hook Jiang Wang’s hate, break his heart defense, and bury an evil seed deep within his soul.

Convenient for their future engagement, allowing him to harvest at any time.

That was this moment!

With the scene of demolishing bone as a pen as the guide, and the scenes from the Wild Man Forest as the source, evil thoughts and hateful thoughts intersected at this moment, countering kill with kill, announcing the end—

This is the judge’s pen, breaking your soul to depart!

This was absolutely a means close to the limit of Shenlin. If not for Zhang Linchuan’s Dongzhen eye vision, he could not have easily done it.

At this moment, carrying the heavenly will to kill, Long Xiang Si had already arrived at his body. A slight swirl of frost wind on the blade edge held the solemn ruthlessness of killing all things. And Zhang Linchuan faced it indifferently, demolishing bone as a pen, directly pointing at Jiang Wang’s brow.

Life and death offset, vying for a single line!

One had to admit, this was absolutely the stance of a stronger person.

But in Jiang Wang’s ice-cold eyes, he only saw immortal red-gold color.

The evil seed was never planted from the beginning. Jiang Wang’s will was unshakable!

The Wang Sheng divine sense had been urged to its limit, but it could not fundamentally move Jiang Wang’s soul.

The white bone judge’s pen barely touched Jiang Wang’s brow, leaving a blood mark, and stopped right there.

Then it transformed into bone powder, rustling down.

This body of Zhang Linchuan had already retreated fifty *zhang* away.

*Pa da!*

In the void, a pale, faceless divine image just so cracked into several sections, falling into reality, falling to the ground, utterly losing its spirituality.

This was his Wusheng God Lord image, which could be said to be the manifestation of his essence on the divine path, his most proud achievement.

Yet it was shattered here.

Proving that he had indeed encountered life and death just now!

Even a top-level Shenlin like Ge Fei was unable to achieve this.

Jiang Wang’s sword, accumulated for millions of *li*, had done it.

Zhang Linchuan was silent for a while. This surprise twisted his expression, making his face, with a small portion of his scalp shaved off, even more hideous.

“How did you know I was here?” he asked Jiang Wang.

Jiang Wang held his sword horizontally in front of him, his right-hand fingers together, lightly wiping the blade edge, wiping away those few drops of blood.

His red-gold eyes were above the sword edge, parallel to it, always staring at Zhang Linchuan.

Then, in that posture, he said, “How could someone like you be easily seen through? It wasn’t that I predicted your choice, it was that you have committed too much evil, and you have narrowed your own path.

Presumably, you also understand that, currently, you have very few choices.

After the matter in Dan Country, I thought you would come to Yue Country.

I asked someone to contact Yue Country’s hidden minister, Gao Zhenren. His answer was that it was absolutely impossible for you to have any harvest in Yue Country. He is a major figure leading the Yunxian Alliance. I trust his power.

Then I only needed to ask myself—suppose you were frustrated in Yue Country and didn’t die, what would be your next step?

When you encounter accidents or troubles, you won’t run towards Shushan, nor towards Chu Country. Because you know, you are a rat in the gutter, you cannot be exposed. Some powerhouses may not have the leisure to hunt you down, but they would absolutely not mind wiping you out conveniently.

If you cannot go west or south, then you will either go north or east.

I just happened to be guarding the eastern side and happened to capture traces of your battle. Then I paved the ground with my spiritual consciousness and blocked you… This wasn’t considered difficult.”

This indeed wasn’t considered difficult, as long as one was willing to put in the heart, willing to make the effort, not give up, dare to be desperate, and have a firm killing intent!

While speaking, those few drops of blood belonging to Zhang Linchuan had already been absorbed by a dirty knife coin.

And Jiang Wang only looked coldly at Zhang Linchuan: “Perhaps it is as you say, Senior Brother Zhang, this is our fate.”

“Good! What a fate!” Zhang Linchuan laughed. Even now, having witnessed the blooming of Jiang Wang’s divine sense in that sword, he still laughed with composure: “Then who is the person blocking the northern side?”

“If you go there, you will naturally see.” For this extremely calm, extremely cunning opponent, Jiang Wang was unwilling to reveal half a piece of useful intelligence. He only said, “Why don’t you try and see if you can still escape?”

“I’m not escaping.” Zhang Linchuan laughed and shook his head, actively walking closer to Jiang Wang: “I am using the nine tribulations law to forcibly cross life and death tribulations. Presumably, Junior Brother, you have also guessed this, otherwise you wouldn’t be surrounding and blocking me like this. However, I originally thought I would encounter you in the ninth tribulation, thus experiencing fate and not failing our master-disciple relationship.”

“But you are too impatient,” he said softly. “How is it that I have only reached the fourth tribulation, and you wish to divide life and death with me?”

While he spoke softly, a faint thread like lightning suddenly exploded on Jiang Wang’s body surface! Like a poisonous leech, it drilled through the Ruyi Xianyi, trying to entangle itself within Jiang Wang’s body.

And at the same time—

*Hong long long!*

A dazzling lightning bolt streaked across the sky.

Zhang Linchuan leaped high, reaching out to grasp the lightning as a knife, splitting this enormous lightning bolt that divided the sky and chopping it towards Jiang Wang’s body!

The rift that once existed within Fenglin City had not shortened. He had spent a lot of effort and taken many risks precisely to prevent this rift from being crossed.

Since they wanted to fight, then let them fight.

Since it was a killing tribulation of heaven’s will, he would cross it himself.

He didn’t believe that Jiang Wang could use that sword, accumulated for millions of *li*, a second time!

At the same time.

The wheel of his five mansions in Jiang Wang’s chest and abdomen opened, bursting with blazing light. A clear glazed light again circulated throughout his body.

The Tian Fu body opened!

The Xuan Tian Liu Li Gong opened!

Initially, Tu Hu had supplemented him with the “Xuan Tian Liu Li Gong,” precisely because of this body protection gong law’s inclusivity, which could complement Jiang Wang’s Tian Fu body, acting mutually inside and out.

At this moment, the two joined forces, easily isolating those faint dark electric threads on his body surface.

Jiang Wang’s entire body flowed with dark light, yet he remained completely unfazed, treating it as light wind and fine rain.

He smashed the Qing Yun imprint with one foot, propelling himself upwards, his sword held horizontally across the sky!

*Sou sou sou sou!*

Infinite and endless frost-white sword threads surged towards the sky.

The sky was first illuminated by the enormous lightning bolt, then suddenly dimmed after Zhang Linchuan drew away the lightning. At this moment, ten thousand sword threads stretched across the sky, like moonlight and flying snow, illuminating the sky once again.

Ten thousand sword threads had already become snow; the human world saw frost and snow, bright!

The lightning knife connecting heaven and earth collided with the sky-covering frost-white sword threads.

The vast, sea-like frost-white sword threads were also torn apart like the sky itself. This momentum was hard to withstand! The cold knife light instantly approached his face.

In Jiang Wang’s red pupils, an incomparably dazzling golden light suddenly burst forth!

The god soul battle erupted just like that!

A fan of ancient, noble doors *hong hong long long* opened in the sky. It possessed infinite and endless majesty, seeming to command all heroes in the world to kneel before it.

Beyond heaven was far, the human world was the minister.

The present world’s most top-level god soul killing law, its name was Chao Tian Que!

Once this door opened, it suppressed everything.

In the eight wastes and six harmonies, only I am supreme!

And this square Yuan Shen sea was different from the ordinary, different from any god soul residence Jiang Wang had attacked.

Above, there was no cosmic void; below, there was no vast, quiet sea.

One could not see the Dao pulse soaring dragons, nor spy the distant dome’s tiny stars.

One could not even hear the roaring of the four seas, nor feel the standing breath of the five mansions.

Only corpses and fresh blood.

Infinite and endless corpses, and infinite and endless fresh blood.

It was a piece of corpse mountain and blood sea!

Or perhaps, everything here was already “Wusheng.”

In the center of that sea of blood, a corpse mountain was piled high.

On the peak of that corpse mountain was a huge white bone throne.

Zhang Linchuan, with indifferent eyes, sat precisely on that white bone throne, looking up at the open door in the sky, yet reaching out with an overlooking posture!

His pale, thin hand suddenly reached across the sky and earth, encompassing the universe, grasping towards that great door—

“Before life and death, there are no emperors or kings. Die with me!”

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