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The lake wind howled, startling the flock of ducks into flight. They landed on the water, stretching their heads out to observe the activity on the lakeshore.

Chen Jue stepped onto the rough stones and entered the arena. He unleashed the true meaning of the Perfect Six Harmonies Saber Technique, his momentum and his manhood merging together, radiating an extremely dangerous aura.

The pig demon, transformed from a priest of the Fire Cult, immediately noticed him.

"Who are you?!"

"Wait, who am I?! The God of Fire... a priest..."

The pig demon held his head in one hand, reminiscing, while gripping the soft sword in the other. He poured a massive amount of true energy into it, straightening the sword as if it were a red-hot steel ruler.

Upon hearing this, Chen Juexing's eyes narrowed slightly.

It is this feeling.

Once a follower of the Fire Sect transforms into a demon, another consciousness within their body will be awakened.

However, the time since the Fire Cult priest in the room consumed the elixir was too short, the pig demon's consciousness had not yet had time to digest the memories of its predecessor.

"Isn't this a form of possession?"

Chen Jue took a step forward, his figure as swift as the wind, and instantly arrived in front of the pig demon.

The long sword cut through the wind like a spear, leaving afterimages, and suddenly pierced the pig demon's left heart with incredible speed.

Blood suddenly gushed out, and the pig demon opened its eyes wide, its gaze instantly shifting from confusion to ferocity.

"You are the enemy! Enemies deserve to be torn to pieces!"

The pig demon stretched out its hairy black hand and grabbed the long knife that was piercing its left heart. Its right hand held a taut soft sword that flashed with cold light and slashed towards Chen Jue's head.

Chen Jue snorted coldly, and his Five Elements True Qi suddenly erupted. With a twist of his long sword, he instantly cut open half of the pig demon's hand and easily pulled the blade out from the bloody wound.

At the same time, he stepped out with the perfected Dragon Step, leaning his body slightly to the side and back, barely dodging the soft sword that was slashing horizontally.

Whoosh! The sound of wind breaking through the air was heard.

The pig demon, having failed with his first sword strike, drew his sword again with a swift backhand.

The sword was already scorching hot from the excessive amount of true energy it had been infused with, and its light carried a strange, blood-red hue, as if it might explode at any moment.

Chen Jue parried with his sword, and a "clang" was heard.

He felt as if he had been struck head-on by the force of nine oxen and two tigers; the soles of his shoes plowed furrows in the gravel, and his body was uncontrollably swayed backward more than ten meters.

"That pig demon is incredibly strong!"

Chen Jue was shocked. Since his Qi and Blood value had been rising, except for when he encountered Meng Liang, whose realm had fallen, he had never been at a disadvantage in a contest of strength.

Of course, the two are not comparable.

After all, when he met Meng Liang, his Qi and Blood value was still far from 200%.

Tonight's pig demon is a late-stage True Qi Realm martial artist who has consumed the Chamber Fire Demon Pill.

The difference in combat power between the two is too great; they are no longer on the same level.

Realizing he couldn't win by brute force, Chen Jue immediately changed his tactics.

He exploited the boar demon's weakness of being larger and less agile than himself, and directly changed his strategy from head-on confrontation to "roaming and basic attacks".

His swordsmanship was so skillful that it was ingrained in his very bones. As he fought and dodged, each strike was precise and cunning. The spiritual runes on his arms were constantly charging and flashing, continuously amplifying the damage of each of his strikes.

The pig demon was overwhelmed and slashed more than ten times, bleeding profusely from its body.

But it showed no fear, and even abandoned its defense, swinging its overheated soft sword and hacking and slashing at Chen Juesheng like it was playing whack-a-mole.

Chen Jue used the perfected Dragon Body Technique, his figure moving like a shadow, dodging every fatal slash from the pig demon.

As for some of the wild and unpredictable moves, he simply couldn't dodge them and had no choice but to take them head-on.

In just a few times, his arm went numb from the shocks.

Bang bang bang!

After several failed attempts, Chen Jue gradually realized that something was wrong.

The berserk pig demon before them was like an unkillable cockroach; despite having more than twenty wounds all over its body, it was still full of energy and possessed immense strength.

During the fight, Chen Jue carefully observed the boar demon and discovered that not only was its body covered with a faint layer of blood flames, but there was also a faint layer of light red ligament beneath its skin.

His own strikes were accurate, piercing through the opponent's skin and blood flames, but he could not break through the pale red membrane beneath the flesh.

No... actually, it's not that it can't be broken.

Instead, each time it breaks open, those red membranes, like water that has been split open, will recombine and form a highly defensive membrane again beneath its riddled flesh.

Needless to say, the repair of the red ligament will definitely require a lot of energy.

Strangely enough, the pig demon who had consumed the pill beyond its level was not lacking in energy.

It's a case of two bugs stacked together, which suddenly made it work.

Chen Jue even wondered if the pig demon wouldn't be killed if these membranes remained intact.

"Looks like we'll have to take it slow and painstaking..."

Chen Jue once again engaged the pig demon in battle, using the pig demon as a target to hone his swordsmanship, carefully studying each swing of his blade.

His external three-in-one technique had already reached its peak when he realized how to integrate the strength of his whole body into a single entity.

Only the internal three-in-one technique—mind, intention, and energy—can never be perfected or reached its pinnacle.

Now that he has perfected his swordsmanship, looking back at the Inner Three Combinations technique, he is suddenly overwhelmed, as if seeing a towering mountain after clouds, marveling at its magnificence and the vastness of the world.

He gradually integrated and mastered the vague truths he had occasionally gleaned when his swordsmanship had reached its peak.

He felt his mind becoming increasingly clear, gradually seeing through illusions, and finally uniting his "heart, intention, and energy" into one, transforming it into a "true self" that could control both the inner and outer worlds.

Chen Jue named the true essence of this sword technique "Eight Desolations and Six Directions, with 'I' as the Supreme".

With this true essence of swordsmanship added to him, Chen Jue's Six Harmonies Swordsmanship began to become "idealistic".

which is:

When he wants to strike his enemy, the true essence of his sword technique will lock down their vital energy, making it difficult for them to dodge.

If he wants to seriously injure someone, the true meaning of his sword technique will predict how much true energy will be needed based on the specific difficulty.

Once you have enough true energy, any hit will inevitably cause corresponding damage.

"That seems pretty impressive..."

Chen Jue seized the fleeting opening after the pig demon's violent slashes, dodging and creating a blind spot. The spiritual runes on his arms drew in the spiritual power of heaven and earth, enveloping him in the true energy of the five elements, and unleashed five consecutive slashes.

With the combined force, true qi, and spiritual power, a large hole was blasted into the pig demon's waist, blood mist exploded, and the light red membrane inside was completely destroyed. When it recovered, the color had faded by three-tenths.

"Holy crap! What kind of defense is this? That attack actually destroyed thirty strands of my Five Elements True Qi!"

After delivering the blow, Chen Jue was heartbroken and quickly retreated.

There was a loud "bang"!

Suddenly, a strong wind blew across his face, and a shattered sword light came straight for Chen Jue's face, which he quickly parried with his sword.

It turned out that the pig demon had become even more frenzied after being injured, and with a violent backhand strike, the sword exploded before the light of the sword even hit the ground.

"roar!"

After his weapon shattered, the enraged boar demon seemed to have triggered its third-stage state.

His body erupted with blood flames, and the crimson true energy, like tentacles, materialized and burst forth one by one from the wounds all over his body, exuding a terrifying power.

Chen Jue was not like the three martial artists from before, who would just stand by and watch the pig demon "transform" without doing anything!

He moved swiftly, dodging the blood-red tentacles that reached for him, and when he was only three steps away from the pig demon, he fired a shot straight at its face.

Bang!

A flash of light!

Countless three-inch-long steel needles, like a rain of pear blossoms, covered the pig demon's face, instantly destroying its scarlet eyes.