In the Shushan World, nearly every cultivator possessed a Flying Sword, numbering in the tens of thousands. Ranking at the top were the Purple Ying and the Green Rope, with the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword coming in third!

Lin Han pinched his sword technique and controlled the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword to transform into a twenty-meter-long vermilion arch, descending into the enemy crowd. It circled forward and backward, sweeping side to side. Wherever it passed, the enemies' Flying Sword Magical Treasures were no better than paper mache. Those who dodged quickly only had their swords snapped, while the slower ones, along with their swords, were slashed into four pieces!

The master of White Rhombic Reef, originally a lascivious woman, had cultivated a magic that stole vitality from men. Seeing the unstoppable force of the Flying Sword, she hastily cast a spell and flew towards Lin Han. Lin Han recalled his Flying Sword and countered with a circular slicing motion, but she deceived him with two illusions and flew directly to the edge of the platform in front of Lin Han.

Seeing Lin Han's handsome and youthful appearance, brimming with vital essence, she harbored evil thoughts. Stretching out her hands, she shed her clothes and began casting her spells.

She had barely performed three movements of her "Heavenly Demon Dance," when Lin Han cursed, "Wench!" The Nanming Leaving Fire Sword returned and thrust forward, piercing through her heart from behind, exiting through her chest.

The demon woman wondered why her magic had no effect on this seemingly innocent young man. Even Independent Immortals who had practiced for years could not withstand more than two or three of her movements without their blood boiling and their souls shaking, yet he showed no reaction at all.

Although she was impaled by the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword, her well-nourished Primordial Spirit remained condensed and, despite being injured by the sword qi, Lin Han's limited Dao Level couldn't completely destroy her body and soul. Her Primordial Spirit flew out of her body, teeth bared and claws out, attempting to seize Lin Han's soul and steal his physical body.

Lin Han wielded the Xuan Guang Ruler, drawing a large circle that trapped the demon woman's Primordial Spirit. Despite her attempts to fly and transform, she was enclosed within the Five-Colored Light Rings and couldn't break through. Only then did she know fear, but it was too late. Lin Han waved his ruler and cast a spell, rapidly shrinking the circle from the size of a basin to that of a teacup. The demon woman's Primordial Spirit was compressed to a point at the center of the circle and finally, with a crisp "pop," dissipated into wisps of blue smoke, completely annihilated, body and soul!

Meanwhile, Shi Sheng charged into the enemy crowd, drawing significant firepower. His Taibai Split Light Sword was of notable quality, yet it couldn't easily sever the opponent's Flying Sword. He darted through the air, a perfect harmony between man and sword light, flying and walking with the Qimen Step, controlling the sword with his right hand and launching the Maternal Child Three Talents Demon-suppressing Flying Needles with his left.

Following Shi Feiyang's guidance, he had practiced this set of needles to act with heart, retracting and extending at will, launching in patterns of one mother and three children, three mothers and nine children, with mutual attraction between the needles.

Shi Sheng, intelligent in his approach, did not release all the maternal and filial needles simultaneously. For instance, he launched three child needles from the first set, keeping the mother in hand, then sent out the mother needle and two child needles from the second set, keeping one child needle behind, and so on. Since the child and mother needles naturally attracted each other, once launched, they automatically returned without needing deliberate force.

The mothers sought the children, and the children clung to their mothers, cycling back and forth. When the child needles were launched, they appeared as streaks of Mars, and when the mother needles were released, they looked like a line of fire, aiming for people's eyes, ears, mouths, nostrils, and other facial orifices, while the mother needles targeted the center of the forehead to pin down the opponent's soul. As these were sent and retrieved in tight successions, thousands of needle strikes were achieved within moments.

The disciples from the two islands had never seen such tactics and could only shout as they released their Flying Swords to chase after Shi Sheng, but they couldn't catch up. For one, Shi Sheng's sword light was faster; for another, Shi Sheng's step was elusive, appearing now here, now there, often leaving the disciples baffled about his location. They saw only a fleeting shadow ahead and a flash of light before their eyes were blinded and their eyeballs scorched by fire, causing them to jump in pain and scream. Before they could cover their eyes, Shi Sheng had already spotted the opening and sent his Taibai Split Light Sword to horizontally slash them in two.

Another island master, Divine Monarch Xu, seeing his Flying Sword destroyed, felt his courage falter, especially after witnessing the death of the White Rhombic Reef master. With the continuing screams and the fall of his comrades, he beat a retreat in his heart. Suddenly, the vermilion arch transformed by the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword descended again from the sky. Knowing he couldn't resist, Divine Monarch Xu quickly grabbed a disciple beside him, swiftly struck the disciple's front and back, and hurled him towards the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword.

The disciple was inevitably split into two by the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword in mid-air, but the body didn't fall. Instead, it burst into a blood mist, not scattering in all directions but instead gathering inward, coating the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword. This was a Secret Demon Technique that Divine Monarch Xu had learned from Tie Shu of the Red Body Sect, which could transform the essence, energy, and blood of a living person into Demon Blood, contaminating the enemy's sword and Magical Treasure, making it lose its spiritual effect and even fall to the ground, no longer obeying its master. If the opponent retrieved it later, it could use the soul of the dead to transform into a Demon and curse them from afar, infiltrating their body and corroding their flesh and gnawing at their soul.

The Nanming Leaving Fire Sword, now enveloped in Demon Blood, saw its twenty-meter-long sword light disappear, leaving only its three-foot body visible, completely covered, showing only the continuously churning flesh on the outside.

Had it been an ordinary Flying Sword, it might indeed have been a lethal hit, but since Lin Han wielded the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword, refined repeatedly by the miraculous methods of both Buddhism and Daoism, it was impervious to all evil. Lin Han spat out True Yuan from afar, pointed his sword technique into the air, and instantly, the Nanming Leaving Fire inside the sword exploded into a fireball, incinerating all the Demon Blood into smoke.

Divine Monarch Xu, coveting the power of the sword, although unaware that it was the renowned Nanming Leaving Fire Sword, was astounded by its unimaginable strength. After enveloping the sword with Demon Blood and attempting to seize it, he was unlucky as the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword burst into flames, burning off the Demon Blood entirely. Lin Han, spotting the opportunity from the peak, controlled his sword from afar, making a slanted cut that sliced him in two from the shoulder!

With the two island masters dead, fewer than twenty disciples remained, terrified out of their wits, scattering like birds and beasts, desperately fleeing while crying out.

Shi Sheng still wanted to pursue, but Lin Han flew down to stop him, "Let's just do as our master instructed and hold this place."

Similar scenes unfolded concurrently at various locations within the Central Wuming Palace, where a formidable enemy had appeared. Automatically, the demon evildoers from the Forty-Seven Islands converged towards the Central Palace, directly facing Yuan Hua and Jin Xunu.

Yuan Hua was an Ape Spirit Ghost Immortal who had lost his physical body. He discussed with Jin Xunu, "Today, we are outnumbered. Instead of a frontal assault, we could split into visible and hidden groups to support each other and launch a joint attack."

Jin Xunu was someone who seldom made decisions on his own. Whatever others suggested, he would agree to, naturally allowing Yuan Hua to proceed with the plan.

Yuan Hua then concealed his presence and lay in ambush. When the crowd of evil beings arrived at the Five Bright Palace, they only saw Jin Xunu, who appeared to be a young man of eighteen or nineteen, with delicate features and a pretty face, easy to bully at first glance.

Someone recognized him and shouted loudly, "This fellow is originally from the Purple Cloud Palace—Jin Xunu, a Merfolk who attained Dao. He has a Lifebound Primordial Pill within him that harmonizes the Yin and Yang energies. Gaining it could add a thousand years to one's Dao Level!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd rushed at him, with over a hundred and seventy people making their move. They released Flying Sword Magical Treasures, attacking Jin Xunu.

Seeing so many people attacking him at once, Jin Xunu also panicked. He quickly waved the Taiyin Qingning Fan with all his might. A ten-thousand-foot red light formed a screen of light that reached up to the sky and across the ground, sweeping forward. As soon as it touched the crowd's Flying Sword Magical Treasures, it transformed into numerous fierce hurricanes, twisting chaotically in all directions—up, down, front, back, left, and right—irrespective of people or treasures, gathering everything it encountered in large quantities.

Among Shi Feiyang's disciples, Jin Xunu's Daoist powers and mana were ranked at the top. Even Deng Bagu couldn't be sure of defeating him. At this moment, Jin Xunu used the Taiyin Qingning Fan to its fullest, fanning it dozens of times. Nearly two hundred evil beings were caught in the hurricane, unable to control themselves. They were blown about chaotically, rolling back and forth, each turning into a tumbling kite in the air, and eventually, they were all thrown a thousand miles to the south, landing amidst a battlefield where numerous Demon Beasts were clashing and tearing each other apart. Some fell into piles of monsters, their Flying Swords and Magical Treasures blown away, those with deep Dao Levels could promptly cast spells to dodge and escape, while those with shallow Dao Levels were torn to shreds by the Demon Beasts.

Silently, Yuan Hua materialized on the jade steps, looking toward the distant night sky where the crowd had vanished, speechless.

After ensuring that the disciples in all areas were constrained, Qian Kang in the sky said to Ruan Zheng, "Let's go directly to the old lair of the Demon Dragon in the northwest and slay it swiftly, to avoid prolonged complications."

As he was friends with Ruan Zheng, he did not need to worry about damaging the latter's dignity. He flung his robe sleeves, displaying the Yuqing Immortal Skill of shifting, and a water-like clear light enveloped the group, whisking them away like a shooting star towards the Qianling Mountain's Heavenly Heart Palace. In just a moment, they traversed a thousand miles, arriving and landing on the white jade platform in front of the Heavenly Heart Palace.

Seeing five people suddenly appearing from the sky, Mo Ying, who was sitting on the threshold, was the first to jump up. Holding a Divine Circle in hand, he blocked the doorway, "Have you come to kill my brother?"

With a loud voice, Ruan Zheng declared, "The Demon Dragon used despicable means to secretly harm my junior brother back in the day. Today, I've come for revenge!"

Mo Ying's body was purple, yet his eyes were aqua, emitting green light. Quickly spotting Zhuge Jingwo in the crowd, who in this life had reincarnated again and was now only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. Upon birth, he was taken by Master Xuanzhen and brought back to the Immortal Sect to awaken his past memories, still using his former life's name.

Now, the Emei Sect's Sect Leader couple had also reincarnated and returned, and were both young, with their Daoistic powers still in the process of recovery. The diminutive Zhu Mei had reincarnated as well. Bai Guyi, who had last time attempted to destroy Ling Hun's physical body without success, was also worried about Ling Hun's retaliation, thus he sought a secluded place for cultivation and did not emerge.

Only Master Xuanzhen and the Ascetic Monk were left to maintain support among the Three Immortals and Two Elders. Regrettably, during the last confrontation in the Qinling mountains, Shi Feiyang had killed Zhu Hong of the Wutai Sect. Originally, Zhu Hong planned to steal a Daoist book and the Mountain Treasure Taiyin Five Smoke Net from the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor in the second swordfight. This lead to the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor being besieged to death during the second swordfight, with body and soul utterly ruined.

However, Zhu Hong was preemptively outmaneuvered and slaughtered by Shi Feiyang this time. With the Taiyin Five Smoke Net in hand, although the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor was also besieged by the Three Immortals and Two Elders, the Five Smoke Net was a protective treasure. Once deployed, it was solid as a mountain, impervious to water, fire, wind, and thunder. With this treasure, the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor's life was spared, and he did not die.

The Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor believed he had won the second swordfight, as Qi Shuming's decline was evident. If they continued to duel, Qi Shuming was undoubtedly going to lose. However, at that moment, the two elders from Song Mountain interrupted, proposing a draw in the name of mediation, which led to a stalemate in discussions and a brawl ensued. The Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor couldn't be sure who struck first—it could even have been someone from Huashan Sect—but the target of the Three Immortals and Two Elders was to besiege him, and he also got hit by Master Xuanzhen's Invisible Sword.

Fortunately, he survived. Feeling that continuing to duel Qi Shuming alone was meaningless as the opponent would not accept defeat regardless, he set the date for a third sword duel in another sixty years, which would not be limited to him and Qi Shuming but would involve a bloody battle between the Wutai Sect and Emei Sect, or even between the two camps. This would not just be a gentleman's agreement but a decisive battle that would determine life and death; the losing faction would be annihilated forever!

Anticipating this formidable opponent, Master Xuanzhen and the Ascetic Monk were constantly secluded at Fishing Rock, practicing swordsmanship and refining treasures.

This time, when Zhuge Jingwo came, Master Xuanzhen had not emerged from seclusion for several years. He was approached by Ruan Zheng without Master Xuanzhen's knowledge. Of course, he too was eager for revenge.

Standing on the threshold, Mo Ying stretched out a small hand, pointing at the other party and shouted loudly, "What right do you have to seek revenge on my brother? Back then, I was living well on the island, about to transform, when you came to harvest me for your alchemy! If it weren't for my brother's rescue, my thousand years of Dao Level would have been utterly destroyed! You're here to seek revenge on my brother, which makes no sense! I should be the one seeking revenge on you!"

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