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Countless semi-transparent sword qi roamed throughout the sky.

Jiang Wang, with his hair bound by a jade crown, and Lu Shuanghe, with his white hair cascading over his shoulders, faced each other, separated only by this Yanfu Sword Prison.

The sword qi roaming between them seemed like that afternoon many years ago.

He was struggling helplessly at the bottom of the small river, and he happened to see that pair of eyes… How heartless and calm those eyes were!

At that time, through the rippling water waves, he saw that pair of eyes look away, and then there was a frosty-white sword light, like lightning suddenly appearing, cutting through the long sky and far away.

This is a scene he often thinks of, and it also planted a seed of the extraordinary in his heart.

So many years had passed, and Lu Shuanghe hadn’t changed at all.

But Jiang Wang, at this moment standing in the Yanfu Sword Prison, surrounded by sword qi, was no longer that child from the beginning.

He was not helpless, not afraid. He just stood there suspended, his hand resting on the sword hilt.

This world-renowned sword named Longxiangsi had accompanied him in his southern and northern campaigns, and it also accompanied him in facing his childhood.

The person he could once only look up to, only look at from afar, only recall, was now in his sight, now not far away.

“Lu Zhenren,” Jiang Wang said solemnly, “Why block my way?”

There was still some distance between Lu Shuanghe and the Yanfu Sword Prison. He stopped, but his gaze was like sword light, piercing into this domain and intersecting with Jiang Wang’s red-gold pupils.

“I’ve waited for you for a long time,” he said.

Jiang Wang only smiled, “At Xuankong Temple, I didn’t say many words in total. It shouldn’t have delayed Lu Zhenren much, right?”

“No,” Lu Shuanghe said slowly, “The time I’ve waited for you is even longer than you can imagine.”

The smile on Jiang Wang’s face gradually faded, making the lines of his face sharper.

Just like a long sword being unsheathed.

His voice was calm, “Tell me, what have you been waiting for me for?”

“You killed Yi Shengfeng,” Lu Shuanghe said.

“That was… I can’t remember. It should have been a long time ago.” Jiang Wang made a thinking expression, “You only thought of it today? He doesn’t seem important.”

“His death is indeed not important,” Lu Shuanghe said, “What’s important is you.”

“I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to say, Mr. Lu,” Jiang Wang looked at him, “But if it’s because of Yi Shengfeng, you should have come to find me earlier.”

Lu Shuanghe said, “I said, I was waiting for you.”

Jiang Wang said, “Waiting for me to leave Qi Country, waiting for me to no longer be the Marquis of Ba Country?”

Lu Shuanghe said calmly, “Waiting for you to reach the Cave True realm.”

“You know, Mr. Lu Shuanghe. I was originally very disappointed, originally felt you were just average. The number one killing force after Fengqi, the one sword that broke the immortal-mortal barrier, made me see that people in the cultivation world are also just cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong… Your answer made my eyes light up,” Jiang Wang said, “You didn’t disappoint me. I think if you want to draw your sword and stand opposite me, you indeed shouldn’t disappoint me.”

There was almost a master-disciple connection between them. It was Lu Shuanghe who first showed him the extraordinary world, and it was also Lu Shuanghe who first made him feel the cruelty of the extraordinary world.

So Jiang Wang said this. He thought he was facing the sword immortal from his childhood memories, and he really didn’t want his initial imagination of the imperial sword Qingming to be a person who couldn’t bear the imagination.

But Lu Shuanghe only said, “I don’t bear anyone’s expectations. Your disappointment or not disappointment is all very unreasonable.”

The two confronting True Persons were both very calm.

Lu Shuanghe’s calmness was like the constant heavenly path, unmoved.

Jiang Wang’s calmness was his true self from the original heart, with the courage to face everything in the world. “Then tell me, why wait for me to reach the Cave True realm?”

Lu Shuanghe said, “Yi Shengfeng was a disciple I cultivated with all my effort. I gave him the Seven Kills fate, the South Dipper true transmission, the Killing Life upper law. His only goal in this life of cultivation was to become the present world’s number one killing force True Person—and then kill me.”

Jiang Wang had already understood, “To help you break through?”

Lu Shuanghe said, “Perhaps it was me helping him. I would provide an absolutely fair environment, conduct an absolutely fair fight. No matter who took the final step, it would be the true Seven Kills—but now talking about these is meaningless. You killed him, and you should inherit him.”

“This really surprises me,” Jiang Wang’s eyes were somewhat complex, “I imagined the scene of meeting you many times. I prepared for you wanting to avenge your disciple, including you blocking my way today. I didn’t think Yi Shengfeng fundamentally wouldn’t be the reason.”

Lu Shuanghe’s face was expressionless, “Intervening in the Qi-Xia war was the decision of Changsheng Jun. The losses suffered by the South Dipper Hall as a result are all borne by him alone. It’s the same with Yi Shengfeng. He himself wanted to join the battlefield, wanted to seek you out, fight with you, and then dying in battle was his own choice. What enmity is there between you and me? Only a contest of Dao.”

Jiang Wang shook his head, feeling somewhat emotional for a moment, “I really don’t know, whether that year he pushed me down the river was almost killing me, or saving me. I also really don’t know whether I killed him in Minxi was killing him, or helping him be free.”

Lu Shuanghe said faintly, “He is not the same as you. He will not care about these things. If I told him he needed to kill me, he would only consider how to kill me.”

Jiang Wang had already let go of that matter from his childhood, and now he only said, “He is indeed the most suitable disciple for you.”

“So, you understand now why I waited for you,” Lu Shuanghe said, “At the Outer Building realm, he built his building in the Seven Kills star domain, which is also where my Dao path lies. You killed him and also plundered him. In my eyes, it means becoming him.”

“I didn’t gain anything from him,” Jiang Wang said.

“No, you already gained.”

“At that time, the star building was somewhat absorbed, but only absorbed his Po Jun and Tan Lang, because I also built these two buildings. As for Seven Kills, I felt nothing at all.”

“I clearly felt the Seven Kills, already stained by your fate.”

True Person Jiang still hoped to convince people with virtue, so he said, “You said there is no enmity between you and me, so why must there be a life-and-death struggle. Do you know Zhuang Gao Xian? He has a deep-seated enmity with me, early on wanting me dead. After I took first place in the Yellow River, he secretly used many means, but never publicly pursued and killed me. Do you know why?”

Lu Shuanghe actually cooperated and answered, “Because you carry the light of the human path, and are a hero of the human race returning from the demon world. He doesn’t want to be judged, and he fears death.”

Jiang Wang was observing Lu Shuanghe’s sword. This long sword, with its sheath, the sword sheath engraved with silver-white hollow patterns, was currently carried diagonally on his back.

He had been observing for a long time.

This meant that he was always prepared to fight.

He was twenty-three this year, still very young. But he had experienced a lot, already surpassing many people’s lifetimes. Lu Shuanghe was not the first opponent he had met, nor was he the strongest one.

He only asked, “Zhenren enjoys a lifespan of twelve hundred years. Zhuang Gao Xian fears death, but perhaps you don’t fear it?”

It was only at this moment that Lu Shuanghe revealed a smile.

The smile of the Seven Kills Zhenren of the South Dipper Hall was very calm. It didn’t seem to represent the meaning of laughter, but it was absolutely not a cold or sinister laugh. A more accurate description—it was just an arc, representing no emotion.

This actually gave people a particularly cruel feeling.

Cruel to oneself, and cruel to others.

He said, “To hear the Dao in the morning, and die in the evening is acceptable.”

‘Hearing the Dao in the morning’ was the name of the sword he carried.

This was a seemingly not cruel name, yet it was the most cruel sword in the world.

He began to walk forward, as if walking on the edge of a sword, ready to be injured by the edge at any time, facing death at any time. Just like this, he calmly approached the Yanfu Sword Prison.

“Wait!” Jiang Wang said very seriously, “You both said ‘hear the Dao’. I think it’s not time yet. Don’t you want to cultivate a present world’s number one killing force True Person to kill you? You should wait again. I am only twenty-three years old and still have room for growth.”

“I always feel that the current you is already very much worth looking forward to,” Lu Shuanghe continued to walk forward. He walked too directly, as if he were a long sword, cutting open heaven and earth, “Jiang Wang, the child by the small river in the past years, is now the first True Person in history. Let’s contend together for the limit of the killing force in the Cave True realm, and see who will be the last one to appreciate that absolute peak scenery.”

The Yanfu Sword Prison instantly became violent, rumbling, and wind and thunder rose from the flat ground!

Amidst the rolling thunder in the sky, Jiang Wang only asked, “Is your intention already decided?”

Lu Shuanghe did not respond, Lu Shuanghe continued to walk forward.

“Good. You don’t listen to reason, and you don’t appreciate courtesy. Since that’s the case—” Jiang Wang slowly drew out his long sword, “Today, only one of us can live.”

Above the heavens and below the earth, there were no thoughts, only Longxiangsi at this moment.

In the center of his red-gold eyes, a brilliant light of fire suddenly brightened.

This point of fire light rapidly spread throughout his body, expanding in all directions.

Then it was like a candle lighting up the darkness of a room, like the sun lighting up the human world!

The True Source Fire Realm instantly spread out!

Sword qi surged wildly within it, and the whistling sounds also transformed into blades and soldiers, and then gave birth to new sword qi… Sword Sparrows flew before Flame Sparrows!

The flame flowers were especially brilliant, and a red sun was a wheel on the horizon.

This realm had towering steles like mountains, this realm had male cities standing tall, this realm moved thunder to the southeast, this realm blew frosty winds to the northwest!

Based on achieving the small world True Source Fire Realm, the Yanfu Sword Prison and the Knowledge Immortal Domain were temporarily merged into it.

Three realms merged into one!

Realm within realm, mountain beyond mountain.

There were no mediocre True Persons in the world, but True Person Jiang’s glorious light would not be covered by history!

This terrifying power seemed like the chaos of the universe, heaven and earth reopening.

And Lu Shuanghe, with his white hair flying, stepped into this with big strides—

Sword momentum and sword momentum collided together.

In this instant, hearing and vision were both filled.

Too much complex knowledge rushed and exploded everything, to the point where nothing was seen, everything was heard as empty.

Jiang Wang, with unparalleled sword qi, ruled this area of heaven and earth, showing Lu Shuanghe his killing force—

Kill sight! Kill hearing! Kill body!

“Sight” can feel pain, “hearing” can also be a harm.

Manipulate knowledge into “immortals”, giving them “spirit”.

Above the heavens and below the earth, the offensive was everywhere.

Seven Kills Zhenren seemed trapped in a sea, and among every drop of water, there was an attack from Jiang Wang!

What a first True Person in history!

Lu Shuanghe walked within such a world, his feet treading on sword light splitting wind and fire, traversing this world along an edge.

All enemies in the world, alone in heaven and earth.

Originally he should be lonely, but he was not lonely. No matter what direction, what world, he was originally a solitary person. Only at a certain moment, his sword-like eyebrows lifted like swords, his eyes had a moment of blankness… This world was being stabbed painful!

He slightly opened both hands—

Silent then silent, unseen then unseen.

But above the heavens and below the earth, front back left right, one sweep after another, a clear sky!

Such a terrifying small world, unexpectedly manipulated by no one, just like this, one sweep after another, calmly disappeared.

After vision and hearing recovered, Lu Shuanghe only saw above the heavens and below the earth, front back left right… Everywhere was Jiang Wang!

A green jade small crown bound his long hair, his figure graceful like an immortal.

Every Jiang Wang, all of them were treading on green clouds, every Jiang Wang, all of them were like lightning.

Four sides, eight directions, thousands upon thousands, all scattered!

Which one was the true body?

This was the natural first question.

No true body.

This was the answer that Lu Shuanghe was slightly startled by after instantly seeing through everything.

He thought his vision and hearing had recovered, but they were actually still twisted.

Hence, he used a wisp of sword qi, wrapped around his fingertip, to cut through that kind of twist.

Sword pupils penetrated heaven and pierced the earth, illuminating everything with heartless and heart, this truly captured Jiang Wang’s figure that penetrated like a rainbow.

He was actually already at the end of sight.

Lu Shuanghe didn’t take any action, a terrifying sword whistling sound just rang inside his body.

This was a sound that could penetrate eardrums and kill courage.

His figure flashed and disappeared, leaving only several strands of black cracks in the original place, which were the aftermath of tearing space!

The next instant, Lu Shuanghe then chased after Jiang Wang.

That unmatched body technique in the world was also unable to escape from under the sword of a top-level True Person of the present world.

But Jiang Wang did not escape again, instead leisurely turned around, holding his sword and looking at him.

Between the two True Persons, there was only a distance of less than a hundred zhang, which was almost negligible.

But Lu Shuanghe did not move forward again either.

Because Jiang Wang’s feet were treading on the Star Moon Plain, and his body had starlight.

“Didn’t you say that today, only one of us can live?” Lu Shuanghe asked.

There seemed to be an invisible dividing line between heaven and earth, and they stood on opposite sides of this line.

Jiang Wang said, “You will know if I’m deceiving you if you cross over.”

“Very good,” Lu Shuanghe said without showing any emotion, “Escaping with your life is a very important skill. It can determine how far you go. All born talents need to be alive to be embodied.”

“You shouldn’t want to kill me,” Jiang Wang said, “From now on, you are my enemy.”

“If this can make you face me, go all out to kill me, then I am very willing,” Lu Shuanghe said, “I will give you the opportunity to kill me.”

Jiang Wang looked at him, “Just now you didn’t seriously try to keep me. Why?”

“You also didn’t show your full strength,” Lu Shuanghe said calmly, “I said I would wait for you, not only wait for your cultivation, but also want to wait for you to be fully prepared. Today I just came to remind you slightly—you are already a True Person, you can begin to prepare for this fight. Quickly ascend to the peak of the Cave True realm, your enemy has already been waiting on the mountaintop for many years.”

“I am climbing the mountain not because of you. An unclear desire to duel, and you didn’t even ask if I’m willing?” Jiang Wang asked.

“It has nothing to do with whether you are willing. You killed Yi Shengfeng, this is your karma. The Seven Kills star is already entangled with your fate and mine,” Lu Shuanghe said, “When you walk to the end of the Cave True realm, you will find there is no other road ahead. Without killing me, you cannot continue forward.”

Jiang Wang brushed his clothes, the starlight on his body was not brushed away, “And you didn’t ask if my friends are willing?”

Lu Shuanghe did not answer, turned and walked away towards the distance, his voice trailing behind, “Wait for you to reach the limit of the Cave True realm, come and find me. Or I will come and find you.”

“What if I don’t reach it?” Jiang Wang asked.

Lu Shuanghe’s figure had already disappeared, leaving behind his last sentence, which was also like the light on the horizon, an accidental wind, without any emotion—

“Then that means I saw the wrong person. You are also completely meaningless to me.”

Jiang Wang scoffed, “Who cares?”

But a moment later, he said again, “That year I didn’t come and answer you, now I am the only one facing your question—”

He paused, “Lu Shuanghe, as you wish.”