Chapter 165

Chapter 165: Soul Severing

While the Devil Path still hesitated, the ground of the courtyard split open, and strange lines surfaced below.

The bodies of the dead turned to blood in an instant and filled those lines.

Fed by the blood, the remaining Devil Path’s eyes turned even redder.

A fierce aura spread from them. Their combat strength rose again, but their reason faded further.

Those who had feared Li Shuang now seemed driven by something and charged at her, ready to die.

Li Shuang’s eyes sharpened.

Black Abyss stayed keen and her swordwork stayed fine, but her enemies’ bodies had been strengthened. A strike that once killed now needed two.

After they died, their corpses turned to blood and made the rest even crazier.

They trained in the body, so they had no worry about spiritual power.

Li Shuang’s spiritual power was richer than most, but it had a limit.

At this rate, she might be drowned by the human tide.

Seeing her lifting arm grow slower, Ye Zhao Zhao felt a flicker of joy. [Could it be.] [Li Shuang might really die here so easily?] [Wait!] [Wait a little longer!] [I failed once. I cannot fail again.] [If I strike, it must be perfect.]

In the air, Liu Jun Cheng and the others were still locked with the Gold and Silver Devil Guards.

They all clenched their teeth.

Li Shuang alone would not last long. They had to get rid of these two Devil Guards fast.

They wanted a quick fight, but the Gold and Silver Devil Guards only defended, trying to stall.

The Silver Devil Guard chuckled and said: “You are truly cold. Will you leave your Junior Sister to die?”

He kept needling them: “Delay a little more and she will die. We can afford to drag this out. Can you? If it were me, I could not be this cold.”

The words drilled into their minds.

Liu Jun Cheng gritted his teeth and said sharply: “Trust Little Shuang. Control these two first!”

These two were at Nascent Soul Stage. Only by forming a five-person Sword Formation could they hold.

If the two broke out, that would be the real life and death crisis.

At this moment, they could not retreat.

In the underground kingdom, Luo Ming Yue chased the fleeing “Copper Devil Guard” with a blank face.

Streets that looked calm were now covered with strange blood-red lines.

Blood rivers rose from the ground, and the Copper Devil Guard appeared and vanished, popping up anywhere.

Luo Ming Yue narrowed her eyes. Blood was the heart’s source of power. To catch the Copper Devil Guard and kill the Devil Heart’s activity, she had to cut off its blood supply.

[Blood, is it? I have raging fire to burn away filth.]

Flames rose in layers from Luo Ming Yue’s sword.

Endless wails came from the channels as the blood churned.

She said coldly: “When I burn away the sea of blood, where will you run?”

The three fronts had all reached a fever pitch.

The most dangerous side was still Li Shuang’s.

Those Devil Path had lost their minds. They had no fear or panic, only the instinct to fight.

Li Shuang’s clothes were soaked with blood. Countless had fallen under Black Abyss Sword, but the rest still charged.

Ye Zhao Zhao asked, seeming concerned: “Fellow Daoist Li, can you still hold on?”

Li Shuang glanced at her and said evenly: “Do not trouble yourself.”

Ye Zhao Zhao stared but saw no change in Li Shuang’s expression. Regret flickered in her eyes. [Does she still have a way?]

Li Shuang did have ways.

She had several options to break the game.

Inside her, a Spirit Essence Orb could feed her spiritual power without end if she wished. She could last for days and nights.

Besides that, she also had the Heaven and Earth Furnace. With spirit stones and treasures on her, it would be easy to trade for hidden methods.

Only, she had not used them.

A voice in her mind kept telling her she had another way.

She had another path to win this battle.

What path?

Li Shuang’s swordwork suddenly changed.

It was no longer sharp or profound but messy and without pattern.

She looked like a child of three who had just started learning the sword.

Every move looked awkward and young.

The mind-lost Devil Path noticed nothing and kept piling in.

Ye Zhao Zhao watched, eyes flickering with doubt. [What is Li Shuang doing!] She hated Li Shuang, but she had always admitted Li Shuang’s talent. Otherwise she would not dream of stealing everything from her. [But now? Li Shuang’s swordwork looks like it’s at my level! These people have no minds left. Does she want to trick them?] She could not figure it out.

Li Shuang did not care. Surrounded on all sides, her messy sword still blocked attacks from every direction at just the right time.

At first it looked like pure luck, but a subtle rhythm soon grew from her swordwork.

In the jade slip, Su Mu’s lips curved in a faint smile.

At such a life and death moment, Li Shuang was practicing the sword.

She was walking two paths that led to the same place.

She had already understood the first move of the Emotionless Sword Art. Now she was feeling out a new, nameless path of her own.

What sword move would this path give birth to? Su Mu was curious.

With so many people lining up as sparring partners, Li Shuang sank completely into the Way of the Sword.

Her moves still looked confusing, but the Dao within grew clearer and clearer.

Li Shuang swung once. Within the Sword Dao Domain, a Devil Path cultivator’s spirit shuddered. Even though Black Abyss had not touched him, he suddenly fell, breath gone.

From within Black Abyss Sword, Li Li’s delighted voice rang out: “Sister Li Shuang, I understand.”

A gentle smile flashed in Li Shuang’s eyes.

This strike was called Soul Severing.

She had fully grasped it.

Li Shuang called: “Li Li.”

Li Li answered: “Understood.”

In that moment, Li Shuang’s divine sense merged completely with Li Li’s Spirit Body.

She struck with all her strength from a strange angle as the sword fell.

All was silent.