Martial Cultivator

A terrifying surge of qi erupted from his fist. An oppressive force like a mountain instantly burst forth. At that moment, a gale rose between heaven and earth, blowing so hard that the trees along both sides of the mountain path rustled loudly.

But this punch did not land on the purple-robed daoist. When it was still several inches from him, a ripple spread out. Then the qi of the punch was dissolved by that ripple, and an invisible, enormous force pushed Chen Chao backward.

Chen Chao simply stomped and shattered a piece of blue stone beneath his foot, steadying himself. With a hint of realization, he said, “So this formation follows this kind of path.”

A daoist sage had absolutely no possibility of withstanding one of his punches. The only explanation was that the cultivation realms of these daoists were linked through the formation. If Chen Chao attacked one person, it was equivalent to fighting all sixteen at the same time.

The principle was simple, but to break it, one would have to search for the formation’s eye and find the weakest point of the formation.

Aside from that...

A terrifying surge of qi instantly erupted from in front of Chen Chao. Chen Chao who seemed about to retreat moments ago, suddenly stepped forward, and the bodies of those purple-robed daoists all arched backward at the same instant.

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The purple-robed daoist’s expression became extremely ugly. To break this grand array, the most conventional method was naturally to find the formation eye and block the circulating qi of the formation, thereby shattering it.

But there was another method, in fact even simpler and more direct.

That was to crush it with brute force.

It was just that this formation, in theory, had a Nepenthe cultivator presiding over it. Even an ordinary cultivator at the end of Nepenthe...

The purple-robed daoist’s thoughts raced, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

A sound like spring thunder rang out between heaven and earth, or like a mirror shattering at this moment. The dozen over daoists in front of him were instantly sent flying backward.

The mountain path rumbled loudly.

Chen Chao stood in place and smiled. “If there were a great daoist sage at the end of Nepenthe presiding over this, it might be a bit troublesome. You, a mere Nepenthe Realm, what are you even thinking?”

After saying this, Chen Chao continued walking forward along the mountain path. On either side of him were purple-robed daoists unable to move.

Chen Yi swallowed hard as he looked at this scene. He very much wanted to take back what he had just said. This Lord Warden Commander looked easy to talk to, but once he actually made a move, it was completely different from before.

He Liang silently continued climbing the mountain.

In truth, whether it was the current scene, or those stories long spread among the world about annihilating Glaze Temple, Three Streams Manor, and the like, none of it was all that shocking.

In these years, what truly made the world feel shocked, even unwilling to look at, was actually that rainy night, when Chen Chao carried his saber up Clearwater Mountain.

That night, along the entire mountain path, blood flowed like a river, streaming downward. Not a single corpse was intact.

Compared to Clearwater Mountain, today’s Mt. Tai Xuan was, in fact, nothing more than a light brushstroke.

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On the subsequent climb up the mountain, in He Liang’s view, things were somewhat hair-raising. First, two daoist sages at the Nepenthe Realm came down the mountain, each holding a peachwood sword, saying they wanted to properly see what level this Lord Warden Commander, famed throughout the world, truly stood at.

The two each drew upon lightning techniques, constructing a lightning pool along the mountain path. When the dense bolts of lightning fell and briefly submerged Chen Chao, a moment later Chen Chao appeared outside the lightning pool, right in front of the two of them. He first reached out and grabbed one of them by the neck, and asked whether Purple Leaf Grotto really had only this much ability. He then exerted force and twisted that person’s neck apart. With a sweep of his sleeve, he sent the other one flying.

That is to say, in the blink of an eye, two genuine daoist sages lost their lives in front of Chen Chao, this peerless martial artist.

This left Chen Yi feeling utterly shaken. One had to know that after searching high and low, the Mountains and Rivers Sect currently only had the Grotto Heaven Sage as a single Nepenthe Realm. It was not that Nepenthe Realms being killed were not rare, but rather that in front of this young martial artist, the Nepenthe Realms of this world seemed to have no meaning at all, no matter how many came.

One Mt. Tai Xuan - how many cultivators at the end of Nepenthe could there be?

Aside from that Daoist Redsky, were there any others?

But even if that Daoist Redsky made a move, could one really say with certainty that he would steadily defeat Chen Chao?

So up to this point, the Purple Leaf Grotto still intended to adopt a war-of-attrition approach, first exhausting Chen Chao’s cultivation, and only then having that Daoist Redsky appear to deliver the decisive blow?

If that were the case, then the price would truly be far too great.

After all, if their people continued to be slaughtered like this, even if Purple Leaf Grotto ultimately killed Chen Chao on the mountain, it would likely be left severely crippled afterward.

”But why?”But why?

Chen Yi could not think of an answer.

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On Purple Leaf Peak, Daoist Redsky merely watched the reports that were sent back to Purple Leaf Peak from time to time. He then gazed into the sea of clouds with an expressionless face, his demeanor calm.

This leader of the Purple Leaf Grotto stood beneath that ancient pine, as though everything currently happening on Mt. Tai Xuan had nothing to do with him.

And before that cold pool, the young sword immortal Lu Chu, seated cross-legged and gazing at the water’s surface, had been watching the pool the entire time. Earlier, the bell sounds within the mountain had roused him from seclusion. By now, he already knew what was happening in the mountain.

He knew it was that young martial artist climbing the mountain from below, but he still had no intention of leaving this place. Even if he now wished to kill that young martial artist, he had to understand one truth: there was a gap in their realms. Nepenthe against the end of Nepenthe, it would be difficult for him to have any real chance of victory.

Still gazing at the cold pool, Lu Chu’s eyes grew ever sharper.

He recalled that battle in the Divine Capital years ago, when Chen Chao had directly and without hesitation shattered the sword repository between his brows.

It was precisely the shattering of that sword repository that caused his life over the following years to be far from smooth. In an instant, he fell from being a heaven-blessed prodigy to someone met only with cold stares. During that period, he was far from being as calm and detached as he now appeared.

On those nights of deep torment, Lu Chu had sworn that one day, he would return every bit of the humiliation he had suffered back then, in full.

He only needed some time.

“But you are unwilling to even give me that time?”

Lu Chu stared at his reflection in the pool, looking at that face that had already grown somewhat ferocious.

Lu Chu clenched his teeth. His expression gradually eased, calming from that ferocity. He lifted his head, his gaze deep, and looked toward the jade slip at his side.

Reaching out, he grasped the jade slip. Lu Chu exerted a little force and crushed it to pieces.

Watching the fragments fall into the cold pool, this most outstanding young sword immortal of Purple Leaf Grotto in this generation said softly, ”Let’s go. Since I have no choice but to meet this old acquaintance, there is no hiding from it.”

As he spoke, the surface of the cold pool began to boil. Moments later, a flying sword burst forth from the water and was caught in his palm.

It was precisely the lifeblood flying sword that had accompanied his cultivation for so many years, named Everlasting Light.

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Chen Chao and his group were almost at the mountain summit.

Chen Chao suddenly stopped and looked toward a distant peak.

Then this Lord Warden Commander turned his head, looked at Xu Qiu behind him, and smiled. ”Looks like the sword immortal you cannot stop thinking about is coming.”

Xu Qiu was stunned. She then raised her head, her eyes filled with complicated emotions. It was actually hard to say what they were, because so many feelings were tangled together that, at this moment, none of them could clearly be named.

Sure enough, just as Chen Chao had said, when she looked up, there truly was a snow-white long streak sweeping across the sky. It looked like its destination was exactly this mountain path.

Chen Chao stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm.

A voice sounded from the horizon. ”Chen Chao, we have not met for several years. Today we meet again. Do you dare fight?”

Chen Chao clicked his tongue. ”Lu Chu? How is it that after all these years, you have made so little progress, that you are only a sword immortal?”

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