Chapter 059 - Junior Brother Yun, Let's Meet Again in the Next Life

The ear-shattering killing intent even permeated the tranquil Sword Pavilion! Right before Yun Xiao's eyes, the woman, whose appearance had become blurry, breathed a fragrance as delicate as orchids, her shadow encircled enchantingly.

It seemed like many were calling out to him! But amidst the chaos, he could only hear the woman’s murmuring in his ears, her words gentle and sweet, dreamy and illusionary, as soft as down feathers brushing against his senses.

“Romantic softness of love, it is the ultimate bliss in the mortal world. Why ascend to the Heavenly Dao and guard a lonely life?” Her tender, coquettish voice, strand by strand, seeped into Yun Xiao’s ears, dragging him into an abyss from which he struggled to escape.

“We can't let it go on like this, can we?” Blue Star suddenly interjected.

“T-then, may I suddenly strike, sneak a bite perhaps?” Red Moon drooped its tongue, its eyes gleaming with excitement as it peeked out.

“You want to try?” Blue Star quirked an eyebrow, a playful smirk adorning its features.

“Then I shall not be polite!” Red Moon declared.

“Go ahead, you little trash eater!” Blue Star derided.

“Hmph! I'll finish it in one mouthful!” Unable to resist being goaded, Red Moon, with quick eyes and nimble mouth, sprang from Yun Xiao’s embrace just as the woman leaned in, baring its massive maw to deliver a potent bite.

“What the heck! There's nothing!” With a mouth full of blood, Red Moon, its face masked with disappointment, retracted back.

“You feel stupid now, don’t you? Hahaha!” Blue Star erupted into laughter.

Accompanying its mirth was a woman’s agonized scream.

“What?” A sudden piercing pain in his head forced Yun Xiao to stagger back several steps. Before his eyes, a woman screamed in pain, clutching her blood-soaked body. It was Jiang Yue!

Yun Xiao was momentarily dazed, but memories rapidly replayed in his mind. The pervasive demonic aura, Jiang Yue’s appearance, possession by a demon...

“What bit me?!” Jiang Yue, her eyes ablaze with a pink light, glared furiously at Yun Xiao.

A demon lurked within her! Moreover, there were more than one of these creatures in their vicinity. The Sword Pavilion was in danger!

Yun Xiao’s eyes suddenly flared a bloody red!

“Damn it all! Even demons dare to infiltrate my Azure Spirit Sword Sect? Damn!!” Profanities spilled from his lips, anger coursing through his veins, as his Sword Soul ferociously rocketed out, aimed directly between Jiang Yue’s brows!

In this moment, even considering bringing her head back to the Cloud Nation was an afterthought! A soul-piercing strike!

Jiang Yue’s eyes widened, the pink light within them flickering out as a pink smoke violently split her head open, attempting to flee.

“Trying to escape?” Yun Xiao’s Flying Sword pivoted in mid-air, soaring past Jiang Yue, and instantly piercing through the pink smoke. A shrill, fox-like scream echoed from the dissipating vapor!

“Yun Xiao, dare to slay my avatar, and my true form will make death a luxury you cannot afford!” The pink mist coalesced into a beautiful rosy vixen, a gaping hole in its chest courtesy of Yun Xiao's Sword Soul.

“Moon Fairy...!” Jiang Yue's voice, brimming with a woeful lament, pierced through the unsettling silence as she collapsed to the ground. Tears cascaded down her cheeks, mingling despair with dread.

“That's Moon Fairy? The guest invited by Ye Tiance?” A cold smirk danced across Yun Xiao’s lips.

Seizing an opportune moment, the rosy vixen transformed back into a cloud of pink mist, attempting to flee. But Yun Xiao, relentless, pursued and slashed it down with a single stroke of his sword.

“This avatar of yours... it's nothing much, eh?” Yun Xiao nonchalantly seized its throat, his sword slashing repeatedly.

Swish! Swish!

The vixen's tail and limbs scattered in all directions.

The creature, eyes ablaze with an unyielding spirit, hissed venomously, “Destroying my avatar ensures your doom!”

“You first!” Unwavering, Yun Xiao pressed the fox to the ground. His sword descended repeatedly, chopping with the routine ease of one dicing vegetables. After dozens of strikes, the creature was reduced to a mere pulp.

“I, my true form will...” The vixen’s proclamation was cruelly cut short, meeting its demise within Yun Xiao’s firm grip.

Apparently, while its charming illusion technique was decent, its unique form had weak magic power. Once the charm failed, it was nothing but meat on Yun Xiao’s chopping block. There wasn't even time for a proper scream.

Jiang Yue, pallid and stricken, witnessed the brutal scene before her.

“Jiang Yue, who would've thought you, a useless nobody, would even have the merit to partake here? You sure can hop around. Couldn’t you just wait obediently for Ye Guying’s demise?” Yun Xiao glanced sideways only to realize that the members of the Ye Family had been abducted. This had to be Ye Tiance colluding with the demons!

“I was possessed...” Jiang Yue, a portrait of misery and despair, barely mustered a whisper, finding life more punishing than death itself.

“Even though you were possessed, it’s clear you were quite eager to see me perish, no?” Yun Xiao was on the brink of extinguishing her life when—

“Junior Brother Yun!” Battles roared at the entrance of the Grand Hall. Zhao Xuanran, the two elders, and Grandpa Qin, were bathed in their own blood, engaged in fierce combat.

“So many demons? Some bewitching, some rescuing, and some killing?” Yun Xiao’s heart thundered, enkindling a fiery rage that bellowed within. Moon Fairy! She’d been in the Azure Spirit all along!

Even now, with sounds of sword fighting echoing from outside the Sword Pavilion, Yun Xiao did not need to ponder; Ye Tiance was blocking those coming to assist. “Does he wish for these demons to annihilate my Sword Pavilion?”

Those folks were undoubtedly reveling, sneering in malicious delight, awaiting the Sword Pavilion’s complete destruction. Little did Ye Tiance know, Moon Fairy’s avatar had been obliterated by Yun Xiao.

“Ye Tiance, your end will not be a pleasant one!” Without a moment’s hesitation, Yun Xiao surged forward, directing his fury towards the battle at Grand Hall.

“Yun Xiao! Hurry!” Qin Tong's voice quivered in desperate urgency.

“These three wolf demons are all eight-hundred-year-old Demon Kings! They're as strong as Sword Venerables in the Establishment Divine Sea Realm!” Cai Maomao spoke, his voice shaking like leaves in a violent wind.

Three Sword Venerables! With the enchantment of Moon Fairy and the murderous assault of the three Demon Kings each at the Sword Venerable level, Ye Tiance was brimming with unabashed confidence, certain of his impending victory!

However, in his wildest dreams, he couldn’t fathom that nestled within Yun Xiao's arms lurked a coffin soul beast.

“Eight hundred-year-old Demon Kings...” As Yun Xiao dashed, his eyes, cold as a winter river, scanned the unfolding chaos.

These three Demon Kings had revealed their true forms! Three towering grey-white wolves stood, their fur sharp and menacing, eyes a malevolent crimson, claws and fangs honed razor-sharp. They were enshrouded in a malevolent aura, each seeming to be swathed in a ghastly mist of death!

Zhao Xuanran could only manage one! With Elder Wang gone to send a message and only three elders left to face these eight-hundred-year-old Demon Kings, dangers reared and snapped at every turn!

Grandpa Qin, once a swordsman of the Establishment Divine Sea Realm, now enfeebled by age and blinded, had drastically reduced combat abilities. The other two elders, each at the Perfect Divine Sea Realm, could only join forces in a precarious holdout. And yet, within a mere moment, they were all scratched and gashed, wounds deep enough to carve into bone!

With disaster looming and the Sword Pavilion disciples panicking, Zhao Xuanran’s face mirrored her inner turmoil, her fury barely contained.

“You think you can ascend to heaven all by yourself, but the reality is, you can't save anyone! Only Senior Brother Ye is the chosen one...” Jiang Yue’s eyes, though dim and vacant, still perceived the impending calamity enveloping the Sword Pavilion. When her hope wilted into despair, only Ye Guying remained a steadfast pillar in her heart.

“Yun Xiao!” Zhao Xuanran, wielding her black longsword, bellowed sharply.

Whoosh!

She hurtled towards the foe facing Grandpa Qin, leaving her own back exposed, entrusting it to Yun Xiao!

Grandpa Qin was already pinned to the ground by a fearsome wolf, she had no choice but to assist! However, in doing so, she placed herself in peril!

“A mere child, daring to battle me, and even turning your back to this sovereign?” The first Wolf King sneered menacingly, chasing after Zhao Xuanran, a foul, bloody wind assaulting her form. In her mind, she could only think of one thing. She'd save all the people she could first. Then, she'd leave the rest to fate! She'd leave it to Yun Xiao!

“Senior Sister Zhao!” Witnessing this scene, a furious fire blazed within Yun Xiao, murder bubbling in his veins. A mere mongrel dared to assault Zhao Xuanran?

“Perish!!!” Yun Xiao, transforming into a streak of white, charged forward, his Sword Soul materializing into a Flying Sword, shooting forth!

Ten-Step Scale!

The azure Flying Sword detonated in mid-air ten times in succession, each explosion louder and quicker than the last! In the end, it spun into a cyclonic tempest, resembling azure fish scales, and slammed into the Wolf King from the side!

It was Azure Spirit's number one Flying Sword! A Moon grade sword technique!

“Insig...” The Wolf King, intending to laugh malevolently and dismiss Yun Xiao, found his expression violently shifting just at the utterance of the word, his face a canvas of terror and disbelief!

Whoosh!

A turbulent azure storm plunged into the beast's eyes, instantly piercing through its skull from behind. The gory mixture of red and white matter scattered in all directions.

Boom!

The residual force of the Flying Sword caused the beast king’s entire head to burst open. Its body flew backwards, crashing violently into the outer wall of Grand Hall. The impact was so violent it left the wall splattered with demon blood, trembling the entirety of the hall. A Demon King of eight hundred years was felled in a single sword blow!

"Junior Brother Yun..." Cai Maomao, Qin Tong, and others stared with their eyes wide open, their hearts pounding with shock.

Zhao Xuanran didn't even have to look back. She had entrusted her life to Yun Xiao while battling fearlessly. Racing towards Grandpa Qin, she released her Azure Dragon Squall sword technique, repelling another beast king and rescuing Grandpa Qin from the jaws of death.

"Can Yun Xiao be this powerful?" Grandfather Qin exclaimed, sobbing with relief.

The battle was not over yet!

"You insignificant demons think you can slaughter us in our Azure Spirit Sword Sect?" Yun Xiao challenged, "I haven't even set about exterminating you from your Northern Wastelands yet!"

With such arrogance, how could the demons endure it?

Yun Xiao stretched out his hand to retrieve his Heaven Burial Sword Soul. The moment he set foot on the ground, the floor fractured beneath him.

BUZZ!

Swinging his sword like a roaring dragon, Yun Xiao charged at the second Wolf King.

This demon had already injured two of the elders, leaving them wounded and bloody. The Sword Pavilion was already struggling, and these three elders could have retreated to other Sword Peaks. Yet, they chose to stay and fight. How could he let them die with regret?

"This kid!" That Wolf King shrieked in horror, roaring, "Serpent Emperor, why aren't you making a move?" Before its words even fell, Yun Xiao was right before its eyes! Wearing a white robe and wielding an azure sword, Yun Xiao was a dragon unleashed. His sword blasted out, the aura like a roaring azure dragon!

Azure Dragon Squall! His first sword technique, Ask the Heart, was a piercing strike, like a dragon biting a fierce wolf!

The Wolf King growled, swiping its claws at Yun Xiao! His claws were half a foot in length, sharp as a knife and imbued with thunderous power. Moreover, they enveloped a gray flame, sweeping towards Yun Xiao!

KLANG!

Yun Xiao's powerful strike pierced through the beast's ferocious claws and with a push of his sword handle, the wolf king's jaw was impaled!

BAM!

With a swift kick to the beast king's lower jaw, he sent the creature spinning mid-air. When it crashed to the ground, its eyes were wide open as it drew its last breath in despair. Yun Xiao's strength had left it in utter hopelessness.

"One more to go!" The youth didn’t hesitate. He gripped the Heaven Burial Sword Soul, ready to continue his onslaught when an alarmed cry of "Demon Emperor!" came from Grandpa Qin’s direction.

These words threw the Sword Pavilion into turmoil!

"A second Emperor from the Northern Wastelands?" Elder Zhou cried with a voice as cold as ice.

"Watch out!" Elder Zheng shouted in dismay.

"What?" Yun Xiao asked, his heart leapt. Moon Fairy's original form was the Demon Emperor of the Northern Wastelands. Another thousand-year-old Demon Emperor appearing, and even coming to Azure Spirit in person was stronger than the avatar of Moon Fairy. It might be even stronger than Ye Tiance in the Origin Core Realm!

It was a true Demon Emperor!

Yun Xiao quickly turned. In front of Grand Hall, a dense black fog had devoured the courtyard. From the shadowy obscurity, a hideously dark serpent darted out from the forest, its rancid aura engulfing the Sword Pavilion.

It appeared too suddenly! Zhao Xuanran, who was still battling the last wolf Demon King, was totally unprepared for the appearance of a stronger Demon Emperor.

BOOM!

This giant jet-black serpent spewed out a cloud of demon fog that engulfed Zhao Xuanran, then with a swift headbutt, sent her crashing onto the ground!

"Ahhh!" Zhao Xuanran was covered in blood! She tried to struggle to her feet, but her body was racked with unbearable pain—her muscles torn, her bones broken—an impossible effort.

The colossal black serpent then caught her in its massive jaws, raising its head, bearing a scornful smirk at Yun Xiao! The fair lady in the serpent's jaws! This horrific sight caused every onlooker in the Sword Pavilion to bristle with rage.

"Senior Sister Zhao!" Yun Xiao cried, his eyes immediately flared crimson. This was the woman who had sewn clothes for him all night long...

The serpent demon smirked, the beautiful woman covered in blood—a dreadful sight!

In the vicinity, those conniving with the demons, Ye Tiance, and Yao Manxue were still distorting the narrative. They enjoyed keeping their opposition threatened and felt a pride taken from an inflated sense of achievement.

"Foolish lot, unable to understand the ways of the world, willing to throw away your lives in the name of misguided righteousness! How could you possibly stand a chance against me?" Ye Tiance shouted. As the Origin Core Realm expert, he was unrivaled, casting a shadow over all. "After tonight, Azure Spirit will be free of the Sword Pavilion's vermin. I will be the world’s unchallenged hero, the rightful leader!"

In this world where demons ran rampant and villains trod upon those beneath them, the loyal had their bodies buried under the green hills, without a path to return. Was this the path of Immortality?

What merit was there in traversing this Heavenly Dao if one could not wield their sword and fight through? Even if given a chance to live again, would it bear any significance?

A surge of wrathful blood stormed through Yun Xiao’s veins, momentarily clouding his mind and painting his world a stark crimson.

“Release her, and let your fate entwine with mine!” His voice, both a plea and a challenge, trembled as much as the hand clutching his sword.

A serpent demon, its face masked with scorn, met his challenge with a derisive, unrestrained chuckle. “You, a mere mortal worm, briefly fluttering from birth to death, deem yourself worthy to cross blades with me?”

With a single bite from the demon, Zhao Xuanran's complexion turned a haunting pallor.

SPLUTTER!

A gush of dark blood surged from her mouth, her life force dissipating like a wisp of white smoke.

Gazing at the stunned Yun Xiao, her eyes dimmed, whispering softly, “Junior Brother Yun, it seems our next drink will have to wait until the next life.”