Imperial Cultivation

Chu Zhiyuan felt himself gradually entering a state of perfection.

The Glazed Blade Sutra was both a mental cultivation method and a blade technique. He rarely practiced this blade technique.

Now, using it in conjunction with the Glazed Blade Sutra's mental cultivation method, he felt extremely light and agile.

He felt as if he had become one with the Bright Moon Blade, moving lightly, without obstruction, without restraint.

Each weapon, each figure, was a target for his passage. Their attacks became slow and clumsy, stiff and sluggish. Compared to his own lightness and agility, they seemed to be in slow motion.

Even with many people and a dense formation of swords, they posed no threat to him, like cutting melons and vegetables. Each blade that sliced across a neck seemed to emanate a cool aura, enhancing the blade's spirituality.

Chu Zhiyuan became more and more attuned to the blade's spirituality, feeling the blade becoming stronger and more agile, and himself becoming more agile as well.

After the blade intent merged with the blade spirit, during the dance of killing, the blade intent underwent a strange transformation.

It became more refined and pure.

This kind of transformation could not be achieved through painstaking cultivation in the Spirit Transformation Realm. This Glazed Blade Sutra was actually a killing blade technique.

Chu Zhiyuan was both immersed in this wonderful feeling and maintaining his clarity. By the time he stopped his blade, all the Heaven Swallowing Sect experts had been slaughtered by him. Li Hongzhao and the other six experts stared at him.

He lightly flicked the Bright Moon Blade, its body as bright and flawless as snow, without a trace of blood, nor any stench.

The stench all came from the fresh blood, from the rows of standing headless corpses. He stroked the Bright Moon Blade with his left hand, feeling the blade's spirituality greatly increase, and revealed a smile. He stood among the rows of standing corpses, standing in the flowing blood, stroking his blade and smiling, making everyone who saw him feel their hair stand on end.

Li Hongzhao sheathed her sword: "What a powerful blade technique!"

"You flatter me." Chu Zhiyuan swept his gaze around, looking at the two Grandmasters not far away. The two Grandmasters were locked in a fierce battle.

One was already enraged to the point of explosion, while the other was clinging on, not letting him rush over.

Chu Zhiyuan floated into a wooden house, then quickly came out, and said in a deep voice: "Let's retreat."

Li Hongzhao shouted: "Go!"

Once a Grandmaster fought with their life on the line, it was most terrifying, and they might be affected. As for Su Qiuyan, she naturally had the ability to protect herself, so they didn't need to worry.

What they needed to worry about was their own lives. Staying here would only distract Su Qiuyan.

The group quickly sped away into the distance, disappearing from the Grandmaster's sight in the blink of an eye. Chu Zhiyuan suddenly stopped, waving his hand: "We'll part ways here."

Li Hongzhao looked at the six people: "You go ahead, leave as soon as possible and don't delay. Shen Siming, you take them back."

A flying knife had already emerged from Chu Zhiyuan's sleeve, suspended one meter above his head.

Li Hongzhao was silent.

Chu Zhiyuan's words meant that this matter was indeed real.

The flying knife transformed into a clear, cold wave of light, floating gracefully into the distance, floating into the battle between the two Grandmasters.

The knife contained the blade intent he had just condensed, an incomparably pure blade intent. The Grandmaster who was slowly fighting with Su Qiuyan was a middle-aged man. He had ordinary features, unremarkable in a crowd.

But in the eyes of Su Qiuyan and Li Hongzhao, he was deeply imprinted, gnashing their teeth. Without this Grandmaster, the Heaven Swallowing Sect would never have dared to assassinate in Jade Capital. Chu Zhiyuan also gnashed his teeth.

They actually dared to break into Jade Capital City to assassinate!

The Grandmasters of the Grandmaster's Mansion had not yet moved out, perhaps because it happened too quickly at the time, leaving no clues.

Or perhaps because it involved the Great Mongol Empire, they deliberately delayed.

But no matter what, daring to assassinate in the inner city of Jade Capital was unforgivable. He would never allow him to live, even if he was a Grandmaster, he would still have to die. The flying knife lightly shot towards him.

He immediately concentrated his attention, already having learned the strangeness of the flying knife. Su Qiuyan suddenly felt a surge of energy.

The flying knife shot towards the middle-aged man, and the blade intent on the knife suddenly erupted, causing him to falter.

Su Qiuyan was overjoyed, and struck down with a palm.

The middle-aged man took a palm to the chest, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Another flying knife had already arrived nearby.

He froze again, and the domain formed by the visualization diagram was disturbed. Su Qiuyan struck again with a palm in the same position, causing him to spit out another mouthful of blood. As he spat out this mouthful of blood, the first flying knife suddenly shot into his forehead. The flying knife burst out with a strong cold light.

The middle-aged man's forehead suddenly lit up, condensing a mass of dark light to block the flying knife. It was like ink shimmering with a black luster in the sunlight.

Su Qiuyan floated behind him like a ghost, lightly striking the back of his head with a palm. "Poof." A soft sound came from inside his head, like the sound of a watermelon cracking open. Then the divine light in his eyes quickly dimmed, and he fell heavily to the ground with a "bang".

After landing, the divine light in his eyes completely extinguished, and he was already dead. "Whew—!"

Su Qiuyan let out a long breath, looking at the middle-aged man lying on the ground. She had actually killed a Grandmaster!

It was too difficult for a Grandmaster to kill a Grandmaster, and they almost always lost but didn't die.

Now, with Chu Zhiyuan's help, she had actually killed an old opponent who had been entangled with her for decades.

For a moment, her emotions were complex and inexplicable.

There was both exhilaration and disbelief.

It was hard to believe that this old opponent, who could never be killed, was killed so easily.

Chu Zhiyuan said: "Let's go, let's go take a look."

Li Hongzhao stood on the peak of the mountain, seeing everything that happened. She looked at Chu Zhiyuan in surprise.

Chu Zhiyuan said faintly: "I can only interfere a little, I can't kill a Grandmaster."

The Grandmaster's spiritual power protects the body, even better than Gang Qi, and to kill them, one can only shoot them in the head.

But many Grandmasters' spiritual energy also covers their heads.

So in the past, he had no way to deal with Grandmasters, he could only interfere. But after practicing to the Spirit Transformation Realm, after the blade had blade intent, it was different. Blade intent can directly invade the brain, thereby interfering with the Grandmaster's visualization, thereby affecting the operation of spiritual energy.

If the blade intent is strong enough, he may not be able to kill a Grandmaster on his own.

Now it seems that his blade intent is not enough, and he is still a little short of killing a Grandmaster.

"This is already amazing enough." Li Hongzhao shook her head: "This time, it's all thanks to you." The Grandmasters below were vulnerable under Chu Zhiyuan's blade.

But that doesn't mean they aren't strong.

If they were forced to use self-destructive moves, the experts on their side would not be able to retreat unscathed.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled: "Then repay me well, don't hide anything in the intelligence."

"I've decided that I'll tell you the news from Asking Heaven Cliff from now on."

"Nothing could be better." Chu Zhiyuan smiled.

Su Qiuyan searched the middle-aged man's body, finding nothing, and floated to them.

She looked at Chu Zhiyuan with a complicated expression.

Chu Zhiyuan cupped his fist and smiled: "Mr. Su doesn't need to thank me."

Su Qiuyan smiled: "I still have to thank you, if it weren't for you, it really would be..." Being assassinated but unable to do anything to the opponent was really too frustrating, especially with a heretical sect like the Heaven Swallowing Sect.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled: "They dare to come to Jade Capital City to assassinate, how can we allow them to leave alive."

Su Qiuyan nodded.

"Let's go." Chu Zhiyuan glanced at the valley below, and turned to float away. Inside the space iron ring, there was a dark box lying there, which was the Spirit Sealing Box.