Over Star Sea, sword qi soared into the sky, sweeping the jade-blue heavens clean and drawing away the clouds for a thousand miles. Sea and sky merged into one, seamless and natural—a magnificent sight indeed.
"Sadly, someone had to spoil the view."
Lu Yang sighed, then looked at the sword-browed young man glaring at him from straight ahead. "Fellow Daoist, you have pursued me all this way. May I know your name?"
"Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, Tian Xing!"
Ye Xingfeng made no attempt to conceal it. Or rather, Sword Cultivators of the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion had never disdained to hide their origins; they took pride in their identity.
After all, even against the First Saint Sect, the Sword Pavilion could stand as an equal.
Throughout the Righteous-Demonic War, the Dao Court and the Pure Land had always paddled along as spectators. Only the Sword Pavilion charged forward without hesitation, fighting the Sacred Sect to the death on the front lines.
The blood feud between the two sides needed no explanation.
Thus, Lu Yang could only sigh. "I have been at Foundation Establishment for less than a century and have never killed anyone from the Sword Pavilion. There is no enmity between us, is there?"
Ye Xingfeng shook his head at that. "There is no enmity, but there is Karma. You inherited the Witch Ghost Sect's legacy and joined the Jiangbei Demon Sect to commit evil. That was an evil cause. Today, I have come to kill you; that is the evil result. You brought this upon yourself by failing to accumulate merit and virtue. You ought to suffer this tribulation."
".As expected of the Sword Pavilion."
Thinking of Yun Miaozhen, whom he had met before, Lu Yang was not surprised. She had already been that deranged at Qi Refining;