￠￥|||||The weather was fair, the sky clear as washed jade, and the thousand-strong audience had all been drawn to Li Poxiao and Li Duanyue. Not one of them had been captivated by me—the young man in Daoist robes with a shoulder bag slung across his back.
When Du Gujian killed my master, he destroyed his physical body, then carried his head with him as he hunted me down. If the Old Ancestress hadn't traveled a thousand li at top speed to save me, I would have died long ago. Since ancient times, people had spoken of avenging grudges to their hearts' content. Today, I had come as an Earth Immortal, and I was determined to kill this old bastard the same way!
"Sword, come!!!" I roared. I pointed sharply at the sword case carried by one of the disciples. Stirred by my immortal power, it let out a buzzing clang, and before the disciple could even react, the jade-green sword had already fallen into my hand. "Old bastard Du! Hand over your head!"
Everyone immediately turned to look at Du Gujian and me. Shock flashed across Du Gujian's face. The instant I seized the sword, my immortal power had alarmed him.
"Good! So you've become an Earth Immortal! No wonder you're acting so arrogantly! Today, I'll use your blood to consecrate the opening ceremony of my Nine Swords Dao!" Du Gujian glared coldly, his brows knotting into a single slit. A silver talisman soon appeared in his hand. "Blood duckweed drifting over sand...;...;"
"Before blood duckweed drifts over sand, this sword had no old friend who knew it. When the setting sun breaks the wild geese, their songs resound. Old moon, withered grass—when will it ever end?" I chanted the incantation coldly and took out an Earth Immortal talisman as