With a single leap spanning a great distance, the sword pierced its form.

Unlike before, Jiang Wang this time felt a far more tenacious resistance as Long Xiang Si plunged into the white giant fish of the Yin Yang You Sha Array. Having learned from the previous encounter, the array had been adjusted. Dense and continuous waves of soldier evil, like an endless tide, rose and fell, relentlessly dividing, swallowing, and extinguishing the sword energy.

“You’re not going to manage this alone,” Jiang Ning’s voice echoed within the Heavenly Passage. “Let me lend a hand!”

Jiang Wang ignored him. The paths of the nine great star rivers revolved within the Heavenly Passage, and the star spirit snakes leaped continuously.

With the Heaven-Earth-Human swords raised together, Jiang Wang’s entire being crashed into the body of the white giant fish, once again enveloped in dazzling sword energy, emerging bathed in blood!

He had already surged out of the array, leaving the scattered soldier evil of the white giant fish behind.

Meanwhile, Qian Zhi Shi, a formidable figure in the Teng Long Realm, strode through the air, using his wealth essence to commune with the divine, urging the black giant fish to yield a path.

Almost at the very moment Jiang Wang crashed into the white giant fish, Qian Zhi Shi angled his double fingers before him. Between them, a hazy, purple-tinged knife coin materialized.

Its form was none other than the Essence of the Knife Coin!

As the currency that circulated throughout the land of Qi, the Qi knife coin was imbued with the nation’s fortune. And the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, being the largest merchant group within Qi’s borders, was, to a certain extent, permitted to borrow upon this national fortune.

Of course, limited by Qian Zhi Shi’s own strength, the portion he could borrow was but a negligible sliver.

Yet, this merest sliver… proved astonishingly potent.

Qian Zhi Shi held this Qi knife coin, drawing it diagonally downwards.

“Wealth and Goods, Two Settle!”

The Qi knife coin then dissipated without a trace between his double fingers. And the black giant fish, formed by the gathered soldier evil, suddenly split asunder, cleaved into two halves!

For a moment, the Yin Yang You Sha Array, previously only black and white, was once again stained with the color of blood. This was the fresh blood of the fallen and injured soldiers.

Amidst the surging soldier evil, a fierce shout suddenly arose: “Soldier’s edge points, a single strike collapses all armor!”

But behold. As the cleaved black giant fish sprayed fresh blood, the two halves twisted. One guarded the Yin, the other turned towards the Yang. And after each expanded, they instantly condensed back into the black and white Yin Yang fish.

Not only so, the black giant fish opened its maw and spat forth knives, guns, swords, and halberds in a dense, overwhelming torrent that covered the sky and ground, rushing towards Jiang Wang, who had already fought his way out of the array.

And the white giant fish whipped its tail through the air, vanishing instantly from its original position, its head crashing directly into Qian Zhi Shi’s body!

This collision was like a collapsing mountain and a roaring sea, condensing the thousands of soldiers’ roar and killing intent, intending to swallow that person in an instant.

But in the very next moment, the gold belt coiled around Qian Zhi Shi’s waist erupted with brilliant light. To be precise, it wasn’t the gold belt itself, but the small knife coin embedded within it.

Only a third the size of a normal Qi knife coin, yet at this moment, its precious light shone brilliantly.

The treasure light converged, and the white giant fish’s crash struck “empty.” It had clearly struck, yet this blow failed to slay the person.

Qian Zhi Shi reappeared before the gates of Qing Yang Town, still shaken and unsettled. The Qi knife coin embedded within his gold belt had just cracked open, its brilliance exhausted. This was a treasure refined by a special artisan of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, only available to those at the Zhi Shi level, and it had bought Qian Zhi Shi’s life within the Yin Yang You Sha Array!

At this moment, the Yin Yang You Sha Array lay across the front of Qing Yang Town, with Jiang Wang standing alone on the opposite side, his connection with Qing Yang Town’s aura severed by the array.

The Yin Yang You Sha Array demonstrated its divine might, rampaging and causing havoc. The hearts of Qing Yang Town’s inhabitants were all in their throats, watching the scene with immense unease.

At this time, the seemingly inexhaustible knives, guns, swords, and halberds howled forward, pressing down upon Jiang Wang head-on.

And Jiang Wang stood his ground, like a solitary peak. He wasn’t unable to see Qian Zhi Shi’s plight, nor was he blind to the danger of the Yin Yang You Sha Array. But he stood firm, unmoving.

Rumble, rumble!

It was as if thunder rolled across the vast sky, yet there wasn’t a single cloud in the ten thousand li! An ancient aura seemed to be awakening, yet paradoxically, the people only saw the ferocious display of the Yin Yang giant fish within the Yin Yang You Sha Array.

The entire battlefield, even within Qing Yang Town itself, within the range of the naked eye, saw the Yuan Qi instantly become chaotic and violent! Such turbulent Yuan Qi flow caused people immense fear and unease.

And in the void behind Jiang Wang, in some unknown place, a stone-like door gradually solidified.

The door was tall and grand, ancient in form, with three horizontal lines dividing it into three equal parts. Vague characters flickered upon the stone door, their forms uncertain.

The moment it appeared, the surging, chaotic flow of Yuan Qi pushed away the soldier evil that dared to approach.

This was the Heaven-Earth Door!

Such might was rarely seen in the world.

“What exactly is his background? Such a hero couldn’t possibly just be a guest of the Chong Xuan Family!” Qian Zhi Shi was so shocked he was speechless. Even with his self-proclaimed experience of traveling north and south, doing business throughout the land, he had never seen anyone whose mere manifestation of the Heaven-Earth Door could evoke such a weather phenomenon.

And for Jiang Wang himself, such a Heaven-Earth Door was still not perfect, only adequate!

Who didn’t yearn for the scenery of being invincible in the world? This was why he had delayed breaking through, repeatedly refining himself, wanting to explore the limits of the Heavenly Passage Realm, to walk a path only the most exceptional geniuses could tread. He even… wanted to attempt to break the limits.

He was already substantial in his steps, approaching that not-so-distant, illusory scenery.

But today, the situation no longer allowed him to delay. The Jia City City Guard Army, though not considered a truly powerful army, was still a formidable fighting force when several thousand elite soldiers gathered into a soldier family war array. Shi Jing wielding this war array possessed the strength to easily sweep Qing Yang Town.

Jiang Wang was thus forced to stop, choosing to break through his realm temporarily. He only needed to cleave open the horizontal lines, push open the door, and he could stand upon the Dao Pulse, soaring like a Teng Long, thereby witnessing another kind of scenery of flying and escaping the ground.

Within the Yin Yang You Sha Array, Shi Jing’s voice, filled with extreme fury, transmitted: “Dare to break through your realm before the grand army?!”

The army array moved, instantly suppressing the chaotic Yuan Qi. The soldier evil erupted, gathering as one, knives baring their edge, guns pointing at stars, swords chopping light, great halberds smashing in anger!

“You should know that the soldier family’s killing methods are most effective against madmen!”

The white giant fish suddenly moved, following the evil energy and soldier weapons, crashing towards Jiang Wang’s head. The Heaven-Earth Door was right behind him, but it wanted to force Jiang Wang to be unable to pull himself away to push the door!

Jiang Wang held his sword upright before him, a swirl of blood color around his body, and he had already escaped the soldier evil, borrowing from the same energy branch as the Jia City City Guard Army, the Li Wen Chi Flag, and crashed into the Yin Yang You Sha Array once more.

Shi Jing wasn’t surprised but overjoyed; this person entering the array was like a bird entering a cage. The Yin fish inverted, the Yang fish turned back.

However, what he overlooked was that along with Jiang Wang entering the array this time, that faint door in the void, belonging to Jiang Wang’s Heaven-Earth Door, also followed him in! The Yuan Qi instantly became chaotic once more, and in the next instant, it was suppressed again.

But in this single gap, Jiang Wang turned back, his sword vertical, and a vast human sea surged from a single sword! Within the chaotic, resplendent sword light, amidst the human sea of a hundred worldly states, he finally saw Shi Jing hidden within the army array.

Vertical sword, advancing!

Knives, guns, swords, halberds, sticks… the soldier evil conjured countless soldier weapons, layer upon layer, strangling towards Jiang Wang. Two massive Yin Yang fish leaped across each other, waiting for an opportunity to attack. Trapped within the grand array, it was like entering a mud swamp. The more one struggled, the faster they were buried; the more one advanced, the closer they were to death.

And Jiang Wang always advanced!

Long Xiang Si danced into a graceful silver light, countering the countless attacks within the grand array. Every step forward required the maximum burst of Dao Essence.

Four steps.

These were four steps that were absolutely swift yet incredibly difficult. After merely four steps, Jiang Wang was already bathed in blood from head to toe. But after four steps, he had already seen Shi Jing.

Four eyes met!

An eighteen-year-old youth, an old man past fifty. The solitary figure with a single sword, Jiang Wang, and the one who held the title of City Lord, Shi Jing. One had accumulated wounds on his body, the other had a formidable army array in hand.

However, their eyes were so different! From within Shi Jing’s shocked eyes, Jiang Wang saw his own self, firm and bravely forging ahead.

And what Shi Jing fearfully saw…

Behind Jiang Wang, a force of will power, as if substantial, grabbed hold of that faint door in the void. The unknown void reflected the present world.

Rumble!

Jiang Wang had actually used the power of his divine soul to lift the Heaven-Earth Door! And this Heaven-Earth Door was directly “pulled out” from the void, flattening all the violent Yuan Qi, and it heavily smashed down upon Shi Jing’s head!