"I was long ago expelled from the Demon Blade Sect."
The man sitting cross-legged on the mountaintop finally stood up. The next moment, he appeared out of thin air before everyone. His cold gaze fell upon the old woman, and he said indifferently, "Deputy Pavilion Shifu Long, you have good means to have actually passed Qin Feng's barrier."
His voice was feminine, lacking the vigor a man should have, yet not as soft as a woman's voice. It sounded very uncomfortable.
The old woman glanced at Chu Xin, who was standing on tiptoes and leaning against the railing nearby. "If not for this little girl making a move, I wouldn't have been able to beat that Qin Feng."
However, the guy before her had already entered the Martial Saint Middle Stage years ago; his strength was even greater than that of Qin Feng.
She stared intently at the man, her brows furrowed, and asked in a deep voice, "You keep blocking the Governor from entering the Prefecture Government; what is the reason for this?"
"You do not need to know."
The man's feminine voice rang out again, his tone still indifferent: "Will the Governor come with me willingly, or must I kill everyone else before taking you away? Do not fantasize about escaping. You might have escaped from Qin Feng, but before me, Shadow Demon Blade Saint, there is no possibility of escape."
"Yin Demon Blade Saint, Shadow Demon Blade Saint?"
The old woman's expression sank, her brows revealing deep worry.
Long Yufei and the others also had their expressions change drastically, a trace of fear appearing in their eyes.
"Is this lecherous demon very strong?"
Chu Xin tugged on Long Yufei's sleeve and asked, looking up curiously.
"It is Yin Demon Blade Saint, not lecherous demon,"
Long Yufei corrected her, her tone solemn: "His strength is indeed very strong, but what makes people fear him is not his strength, but his methods of torture. People who die at his hands are not slashed to death by him. Instead, he uses that bone-eroding Saber Intent to repeatedly erode their entire skeleton, causing all their bones to be destroyed. At that point, the cultivator cannot support their own body and is crushed to death by their own body, their internal organs pulverized, dying in unimaginable pain."
"How scary."
Chu Xin patted her little chest with a fearful expression, then patted Chu Chen's little shoulder, saying in an old-fashioned manner: "Little brother, Daddy said, use other people's Dao on them. Did you remember that?"
Long Yufei said with a wry smile: "You mean 'to treat others as they treat you'?"
"Yes, yes, yes, that's it." Chu Xin nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice.
"Mm! Remembered." Chu Chen nodded heavily, a very serious expression appearing on his chubby little face.
"Don't mess around, this guy is stronger than that Qin Feng." Seeing the two little ones eager to try, Long Yufei hurriedly stopped them.
"Mm!" The sister and brother, Chu Xin and Chu Chen, nodded. They never messed around.
Seeing this, Long Yufei breathed a sigh of relief, looked up again at Shadow Demon Blade Saint floating in the air, her face full of worry.
"Since you know my name, do not put up any futile resistance."
Shadow Demon Blade Saint's gaze fell on Long Yufei, and he said in a feminine tone: "Come with me obediently, and I will let you go in a month. Otherwise, they will all die in great pain, including your two children." This chapter is updated first at novelping(.)com.
"My children?"
Long Yufei was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the sister and brother.
At the same time, Shadow Demon Blade Saint's gaze also shifted from Long Yufei and landed on Chu Xin and Chu Chen. He said coldly: "The Governor wouldn't want to watch her own children have their entire skeletons eroded, finally being crushed to death by their own little bodies, with their internal organs pulverized in agony, right?"
Long Yufei's lips moved, but she ultimately did not refute him.
Although this sister and brother were not her own children, she could not watch them be tortured to death.
But if she left with the Yin Demon Blade Saint, the matter of Lan Province could not be resolved, and wouldn't she be failing her sister?
"Shadow Demon Blade Saint, with me here, don't even think about hurting any of them."
The old woman produced the seven-star sacred sword in her hand. Sword Intent surged around her. She then formed a hand seal for the Sword Art, swung the sacred sword, and a Sword Qi slashed through the air.
At the same time, she held the sacred sword, becoming one with the sword, and followed the Sword Qi into the air.
"Just by you?"
Shadow Demon Blade Saint snorted coldly, swung his palm-blade, and a feminine black Saber Qi slashed out.
With a boom, it collided with the Sword Qi. After only a moment of stalemate, the Sword Qi was shattered. The black Saber Qi did not lose momentum and struck the seven-star sacred sword. The powerful force directly knocked the old woman out of her sword-and-human-as-one state.
"What a strong attack, what strange True Qi."
The old woman stood in mid-air, holding the seven-star sacred sword, her expression extremely gloomy. A stream of feminine True Qi was rampaging inside her body, constantly dissolving her own True Qi.
Furthermore, a bone-eroding Saber Intent had invaded her body, constantly eroding her bones.
Although this True Qi and Saber Intent were not much, it took her a great deal of effort to dispel them.
It was foreseeable that once she fought him for a long time, the True Qi and Saber Intent invading her body would become more and more, and in the end, even as a Martial Saint, she would likely find it difficult to suppress them.
"I will hold him off, you all leave quickly."
The old woman sent a secret message, preparing to risk her life to buy time for Long Yufei and the others to escape.
Long Yufei shook her head; for her to abandon her Shifu and escape alone was something she could not do no matter what.
Shadow Demon Blade Saint seemed to guess what the old woman had done. The feminine Saber Intent within his body burst forth. At that moment, it seemed to activate something; within a range of several hundred zhang, streaks of black Saber Qi suddenly emerged, crisscrossing.
The old woman's expression changed in horror. She hadn't expected that this guy had long ago set up a terrifying blade formation here. Now it would be even harder to escape.
Shadow Demon Blade Saint sneered: "Correct, I am the eye of this Shadow Demon Blade Formation. You can only break this formation by killing me."
He revealed the secret of the Shadow Demon Blade Formation without reservation, but the old woman could not feel happy at all.
Shadow Demon Blade Saint's own strength was extremely strong, and now with the addition of the Shadow Demon Blade Formation, his strength was even more terrifying. Who could kill the Yin Demon Blade Saint with the formation's support?
She raised the seven-star sacred sword in her hand, True Qi surging into it frantically, and a Sword Qi shot straight into the sky.
Rumble!
High in the sky, lightning and thunder flashed in an instant, and terrifying Sword Intent billowed.
The old woman's face turned somewhat pale, her body swaying, but she still gritted her teeth and persisted.
"Heavenly Sword, Slay Evil!"
She shouted angrily, and the seven-star sacred sword swung down violently. The clouds high in the sky scattered, and a giant sword descended from the sky, accompanied by lightning and thunder.
At that moment, the vast and mighty Sword Intent crushed down, as if the entire sky were pressing down.
"Heavenly Sword Intent? It is a pity your Realm is not high enough."
Shadow Demon Blade Saint looked at the old woman in surprise, his tone still cold and indifferent.
Then he swung his palm-blade, the bone-eroding Saber Intent triggering the Shadow Demon Blade Formation. Endless Saber Qi shot up into the sky, converging into a black magic blade, which slashed toward that Heavenly Sword.
With a loud boom, the entire world seemed to shake.
After the Heavenly Sword and the magic blade stalemated for a moment, the magic blade began to vibrate violently, as if it would shatter at any moment.
Shadow Demon Blade Saint let out a muffled groan, and a trace of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.
But just at this moment, the old woman suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Her True Qi was cut off, and the Heavenly Sword dissipated along with it.
Shadow Demon Blade Saint looked at the old woman and said coldly: "The Heavenly Sword Intent is indeed very strong, but it is a pity you cannot control it. Now that you have suffered a backlash, your strength is greatly diminished in the short term, so how will you stop me?"
After saying this, he turned and flew through the air toward Long Yufei.
"Stop!"
The old woman shouted angrily, wanting to step forward to stop him, but she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her body swaying, and she almost fell from the sky.
"Lecherous demon, do not be rampant."
A small figure soared into the air.