At that moment, sword cries echoed throughout all of Jiangdong.
From Spiritual Treasures down to ordinary iron, so long as they possessed the form of a "sword," they all responded. Their clear cries of steel became earth-shaking thunder.
Everything, everything, focused on the man who had suddenly appeared in Jiangdong.
He was neither handsome nor imposing. Dressed in a black robe, with an unkempt beard, he looked like some down-and-out wandering swordsman one might encounter anywhere amid the streets and markets of the Red Dust.
Yet no one paid attention to the man's appearance or bearing. Their gazes were fixed solely upon the sword in his hand. In stark contrast to its ordinary wielder, that sword shone with incomparable brilliance. Merely looking at its blade gave rise to the illusion of being sliced apart.
On the other side, Lu Yang's eyes widened.
After all, he knew that sword better than anyone.
Master Demon-Queller!
At this time, True Person Demon-Sweeping Ye Guangji should have been in secluded cultivation in Jiangnan, wholly focused on delaying Empty Attainment's Sword Dao and utterly unconcerned with the outside world!
Why had Master come here?
The instant the thought arose, Lu Yang smacked his forehead, silently cursing himself for having dealt with bad people for so long that his thinking had failed to shift at once.
Why had True Person Demon-Sweeping appeared?
The reason could not have been simpler: Guangming Buddha's Son had entered Jiangdong, and every human and beast in his path had been exterminated. Under such circumstances, how could True Person Demon-Sweeping possibly stay away?
He had to come!
Not only had True Person Demon-Sweeping come, he had arrived brimming with fury. He gave Guangming Buddha's Son no chance to speak, raising the No-Kill Sword and slashing down with all his might!
Guangming Buddha's