The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Seeing that Ji Mucheng was using the earth and stones as cover to gradually increase the distance.

Long Duoduo's steps remained steady, and his sword strikes continued unabated. However, despite his sharp eyebrows, piercing eyes, prominent nose, and flamboyant white robes, he was still worried that Ji Mucheng had left, leaving Zhongzhou in a state of constant anxiety.
Just then, a powerful and domineering surge of energy came from behind him, and the intense killing intent of the sword aroused Long Duoduo's desire to compete.

The will follows the heart, and the sword moves as the will.

The Tai'a sword emitted a righteous and clear Dao sword cry in harmony.

Long Duoduo raised his hand and held up his sword, unleashing an aura of righteousness and majesty!

If someone looks closely, they will only see that Long Duoduo's movements from drawing his sword to swinging it are extremely slow, even deliberately pausing and freezing. However, if you compare it with the situation around him, you will know that everything happened in the blink of an eye!
Then, with Long Duoduo as the origin of the sword hilt, a giant sword appeared out of thin air. It seemed to move very slowly, but it became sharper and more dazzling at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It shone brightly on the left and right, alongside another seemingly harmless, pure sky-blue sword light that erased and eliminated everything in its path!
After Gongsun Yu and Long Duoduo launched attacks on Ji Mucheng, who was determined to escape, Yue Jingyun finally had time to pay attention to Ji Mucheng's situation.

Seeing that both men had failed to stop him, Yue Jingyun disregarded his own safety and unleashed his wide-range killing move, "Heaven-Shattering Sword"!
Long Duoduo responded tacitly with "Xuan Tian Zhan".

One sword originates from the contemporary sword demon.

The sword strike was delivered by the disciple of the Sword Immortal, who was also the successor to the Sword Saint's sword path.

While there is a difference between demons and saints, Yue Jingyun and Xiao Yutong's swordsmanship has always been considered by most swordsmanship experts in the Central Plains as belonging to the same category: straight swordsmanship, which means taking a direct, fierce, and forceful approach.

The way of the Sword Demon and the Sword Saint is nothing more than two sides of the same coin of the straight sword.

The Sword Demon is domineering and unreasonable, while the Sword Saint is upright and inviolable!
When these two swords, one demonic and one holy, belonging to the same sword system, come together, it can be called a historic fusion of demon and holy, a perfect combination of two swords!
The bright moon and stars in the sky pale in comparison at this moment.

Rumble!
In the vast valley, soil and rocks flew everywhere, and the earth shook violently!
Dust and stone chips, like a vast cloud of fog, obstructed people's vision!
The extent of the casualties among the corpse soldiers that passed by the two sword strikes was still unclear.

However, the corpse soldiers in the valley, who had already lost their minds and did not need to consider their balance, almost 98% of them fell to the ground in the shockwaves from the clash of the two swords.

Meanwhile, Gongsun Yu, Bingyi, A Liang, A Mei, and others could barely maintain their footing and were naturally unable to maintain their original offensive and defensive postures.

However, this earth-shattering event was merely a grand interlude on the battlefield. Before the dust and debris had settled, the battle in the valley resumed.

A deep crease resembling the character "乂" can be faintly seen in the center of the southeast direction of the valley!

Himeki Cheng stood obediently in front of the intersection of the character "乂".

Perhaps only Ji Mucheng himself knew that the earth and rocks he had previously been able to control were either silenced and could no longer be controlled, or they were crushed into mud and dust!
It can be described as the combined power of the sword saint and the sword demon of this era, it is terrifying!
This finally forced Ji Mucheng to turn around and deal with the situation, unfolding the Immortal's Cloth Scroll that he had been carrying on his back.

Having failed to escape immediately, Ji Mucheng now faces opponents beyond just Yue Jingyun and Long Duoduo.

There are also Tathagata Saint Hand, Ning Xiaoyao, Xue Qinghuan, and Wu Li'ao, who are rapidly exploring the area in front of them.

If we don't find another solution, it will be difficult to get out of these mountains.

Ji Mucheng thought to himself.

His eyes seemed to be looking away, as if he had lost his focus.

However, he slammed the unfurled scroll of immortal favor to the ground with both hands.

This shroud, whose purpose is little known, yet which, according to the legends of Poisonous India, has saved countless people who were dying or already dead, fell heavily onto the eggshell-shattered ground.

A faint sound could be heard, and a speck of dust could be seen.

Subtle changes were quietly taking place within the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of undead soldiers, centered on Ji Mu and expanding outwards...

First, a zombie soldier stood stiffly upright. Then, without any squatting or bending of the knees to gather strength, it shot straight towards Xue Qinghuan from where it stood, in a manner beyond the realm of ordinary understanding, like an arrow!

Xue Qinghuan's eyes narrowed slightly. Her figure, shrouded in a flowing robe, moved three steps to the left, giving the approaching enemy room to land.

With his left hand lightly pressing the jade flute at his waist, he drew his sword and slashed diagonally with his right!
The sword blade fell straight down onto the side of the flying corpse soldier's neck, without missing a beat.

Struck by this blow, the corpse soldier, whose headbutt missed its mark, veered off course and its head did not fall!

Beneath Xue Qinghuan's long hair, tied up with a white silk ribbon, were deep forehead wrinkles, and her eyes were filled with astonishment.

Having dealt with the zombie soldiers for more than half a year, he naturally had a mastery of decapitation force. However, this sword strike not only failed to cut off the zombie soldier's head, but the blade also failed to penetrate the zombie soldier's neck.

Moreover, judging from the force feedback I just felt in my hand, unless the force was doubled, the result would probably be the same.

Is there anything unusual about these corpse soldiers?

Or did Ji Mucheng use some evil magic to strengthen the body of this corpse soldier?

Xue Qinghuan stared at the corpse soldier that was launched again, her sword brimming with energy. She used three times the force as before and once again struck the back of the soldier's neck with perfect accuracy.

Boom!
These corpse soldiers were like human-shaped iron pillars, while the sharp blade in Xue Qinghuan's hand was merely an iron rod that could not harm them in the slightest, and could only knock them to the ground.

Although compared to their initial form, the current zombie soldiers have all their limbs rendered useless, greatly reducing their agility and lethality, their resistance to attacks has increased several times over, and their movement patterns are extraordinary, making them much more difficult to deal with!
Beheading is no easy task.

Seeing the corpse soldiers lying on the ground a few feet away suddenly rise up and launch themselves at her again, Xue Qinghuan secretly thought that things were not going well and had no choice but to deal with them with all her might.

Unsurprisingly, there is more than one such undead soldier.

Where the Immortal's Cloth Scroll met the ground, an eerie, ghostly light spread silently like ripples. One after another, the bodies of the zombie soldiers began to emit a teeth-grinding sound of bones grinding together, stiffening and straightening. An invisible killing intent permeated the valley!
The corpse soldiers that approached Ji Mucheng were mutated and strengthened one after another, turning into "iron pillars".

Long Duoduo, Xue Qinghuan, Wu Li'ao, Ning Xiaoyao, and Rulai Shengshou were uninvited guests who had mistakenly entered the "Iron Pillar Forest," which displeased the owner of the "Iron Pillar Forest," who then ordered the "Iron Pillars" to block their way and shoot straight at them!

Each "iron pillar" was a dismissal order, and for a moment the five of them really couldn't come up with a good way to deal with it.

Xue Qinghuan's left hand was bruised from the combined blows of the two iron pillar corpse soldiers. Her fighting spirit diminished, and she retreated step by step, moving further and further away from where Ji Mucheng was standing.

Ning Xiaoyao's golden pipe was not a weapon of mass destruction. He always carried a handy short dagger, which was specifically for beheading corpse soldiers. He failed to cut off the head of the iron pillar corpse soldier twice, and the short dagger disintegrated instead.

Fortunately, his short, stout dwarf body was actually an advantage here. Instead of confronting the enemy head-on, he jumped and dodged between the flying pillars with much more ease than others, though he was still quite busy!
Wu Li'ao was known for his strength. He lowered his waist and stepped forward, gripping the giant sword Dragon Spine with both hands and swinging it left and right.

Of the nine Iron Pillar Corpse Soldiers, only one had its head severed and another had its torso cleaved in half; the remaining seven were still alive and kicking!

After nine strikes, Wu Li'ao, whose hands were slightly numb, was discouraged and could only stand still and try his best to destroy the corpse soldiers in order to reduce the number of his enemies.

Of the five, three either stopped in their tracks or were forced into a series of defeats.

The heavy burden of pressuring Ji Mucheng fell on the shoulders of Tathagata Saint Hand and Long Duoduo.

After attempting to decapitate someone three or five times, succeeding only twice, the Buddha-like Master stopped forcing the issue. Instead, he used his ghostly movements, like a monkey, to climb and traverse the dense forest, steadily approaching amidst the flying "iron pillars."

If too many "iron pillars" attack, the Buddha's holy hand can always strike out with lightning speed, skillfully shaking and deflecting the direction of the iron pillar soldiers, or causing them to miss or collide with each other.

Even if they couldn't destroy the corpse soldiers, they could at least delay them for a while.

Long Duoduo's response was the most direct and aggressive. If one sword strike couldn't cut it, then two, three, five... ten sword strikes!
As the clanging sounds continued, Long Duoduo's hand holding the sword gradually became numb, forcing him to hold the sword with both hands to maintain his balance.

After expending more than half his strength to unleash fifty sword strikes, severing the heads of five Iron Pillar Corpse Soldiers and directly destroying the bodies of ten more, Long Duoduo's face turned ashen.

But he had already closed in on Ji Mucheng by fifty steps!
He hadn't stopped walking.

The purpose of the sword strikes was no longer to destroy the corpse soldiers, but to knock them away. This greatly reduced the amount of energy required and the energy consumption was also much lower.

puff!
A soft sound.

A fist-sized rock was dispersed by Long Duoduo's true energy an inch in front of his forehead!
While urging the nearby corpse soldiers to become "iron pillars" that could be launched into the air, Ji Mucheng also used his internal energy to drive the stones around him as hidden weapons.

Of course, he was focusing more on the Iron Pillar Corpse Soldiers at this time, with only a small amount of energy left to deal with the more threatening Tathagata Saint Hand and Long Duoduo.

At first, only one or two flying stones hit vital areas.

Soon enough, the range of the flying stones was enough to cover the space in which the two of them could move!
The two of them continued forward, braving the rain of stone pillars.

The Buddha's skillful hands always manage to evade danger and avoid peril.

Long Duoduo's aggressive and forceful approach quickly backfired, and he soon learned his lesson.

An inconspicuous piece of flying stone grazed Long Duoduo's left cheek when he was careless in protecting himself with his true energy.

Bright red blood seeped out from the straight wound.

Despite the pain, Long Duoduo did not reach out to wipe away the blood.

It wasn't that he couldn't free up his hands, but rather that he felt doing so was somewhat unnecessary.

However, his next move seemed even more superfluous to onlookers.

Long Duoduo's lips curled up, revealing a bright smile to Ji Mucheng.

Under the moonlight, her smile was as pure and bright as the moon's glow.

With a smile, Long Duoduo seemed to have cleansed and refreshed his body, mind, and spirit, and returned to his peak condition!
It was like a signal to launch an attack, yet it also seemed to come without warning.

Long Duoduo lightly touched the ground with his toes and launched himself forward!

He became an iron pillar!
Admittedly, compared to the rotting, flesh-colored corpses beneath their tattered clothes, the pillar formed by Long Duoduo, whose entire body was enveloped in the light of the Golden Light Mantra, could be called the "Golden Dragon Pillar"!
Amidst the roars of tigers and the howls of dragons, the "Golden Dragon Pillar" smashed through three or five "Iron Pillars" with unparalleled might, arriving within fifteen steps of Ji Mucheng!
At this point, Long Duoduo took the second step in his attack!

One step to heaven!

This sword fell from the sky!
The Heaven-Defying Dragon Sword!
This sword strike was simple and unadorned.

Yet it contains the power, agility, skill, and sharpness of ten thousand swords!

It subtly transcends the third level of "one sword transforms into ten thousand swords" in the four realms of swordsmanship as defined by the sword immortal Li Jiechen.

Entering the fourth realm—Ten Thousand Swords Return to One!

This sword strike is unstoppable.

This one sword is like ten thousand swords, capable of responding to any situation.

Under this sword, Ji Mucheng had nowhere to hide and seemed to have no choice but to die!

However, when the sword fell, there was no sound and no bloodshed.

The sword plunged into a dark void.

It was like a clay ox sinking into the sea, or like an unstoppable sword cleaving through a pile of cotton thicker than a horse.

Ji Mucheng unfurled the scroll of immortal favor that had always been kept closed.

There was no celestial energy or any treasures or weapons hidden within the scroll; it was nothingness.

But this void was like the dark, indistinct sky that could not be seen or touched.

With a single sword strike, the immense destructive power failed to cause even the slightest ripple!

this! ?

Even with his extensive experience, Long Duoduo didn't believe he could settle the matter here with a single sword strike. However, he was surprised by the incredible resilience of the gray, smelly shroud, which completely absorbed and neutralized the power of his sword strike!
"Come again!"

Long Duoduo’s eyes flashed with a fierce light, as if he had the resolute killing intent to drag Ji Mucheng into the underworld even if it cost him his own life!
But this time, before the Tai'a sword could dance again, the gray and drab Immortal's Cloth had already risen from the ground.

Ji Mucheng used the Immortal's Cloth Scroll as a shield, sliding northwards and continuously rising into the air.

Long Duoduo drew his sword and gave chase, inevitably braving the "pillar forest and stone rain" once again as he continued forward.

As the "cloth shield" moved further and further away from the ground, it turned out that more and more corpse soldiers were stacked up like a human pyramid to form a cylindrical shape. The top of the column used the head and the palms of both hands as the foothold for Ji Mu to stand on, constantly lifting it higher and higher.

It looked as if Ji Mucheng was standing on the head of a giant snake, commanding thousands of corpse soldiers.

Without needing to raise a hand or give any command, the "giant snake" beneath his feet obeyed his will, making a large circle to the north, bypassing the location of the heroes of Zhongzhou, and then making a sharp turn towards the southeast exit.

Long Duoduo snorted angrily, and as one with his sword, he carved a straight path through the "pillar forest and stone rain" and charged towards the southeast!
Under the bright moonlight, a streak of blue light reappeared, seemingly vying with the moon for brilliance!
It turned out that the ghostly demones and the six-person group including Gu Xinhun, who had entered the mountain from the narrow strip of sky on the south side of Buding Mountain, arrived upon hearing the sound. They helped Sanrenju and Fengmingxuan relieve a lot of the pressure from the corpse soldiers, and the Sword Demon was able to free up his hands again from the encirclement. He condensed his energy into a Qi-breaking sword and cut a long, sky-blue arc in the dark night!

The blue cracks were naturally reflected on the "giant snake's" body.

It swallowed up that section of the "snake's body"!
There were roughly a dozen or so undead soldiers who vanished from the world.

When the "giant snake" was severed, Himeki Naruto, who was standing at the "snake's head," also fell down a bit.

The missing part of the "snake's body" was quickly replaced by the corpse soldiers below, and the "giant snake" was as good as new!
However, as heroes from Zhongzhou continued to gather, their united will prevented their morale from being easily dampened by the current situation.

On the other hand, Ji Mucheng dared not retract the Immortal's Cloth Scroll, and instead observed the movements below with a serious expression, clearly not optimistic about his own situation.

Only Himeki Cheng, who held a high position, could see it.

The figure wearing the Buddha mask has found a way out and is moving freely among the corpse soldiers and iron pillars!

The white-clad swordsman, radiating golden light, had already reached the "snake's" feet!

Another glimmer of sky-blue light is about to shine in the darkness!

Ji Mucheng cursed under his breath, "Madman!" (End of Chapter)