This Isn't Underhanded? A Battle Between Monsters

Li Qingluan gazed into the unfathomable resolve in his eyes, and after a moment, finally sighed softly and said no more.

After giving him one last deep look, he turned and led Ye Jianwei away from the street corner that was about to be swept away by the storm.

What happened next was no longer their time to be present.

"What's wrong, Ninth Brother?"

"You're making this farewell sound like a life-or-death separation," Qin Hongchen's voice came.

He casually joked as he waved to Fang Yun, signaling her to come back to his side.

They clearly sensed something was wrong.

A sense of impending doom made him instinctively want to protect Fang Yun by his side.

But it was too late.

Qin Wangchuan turned around, his gaze not falling on Fang Yun nearby, but passing over her slender back and landing straight on Qin Hongchen, and he spoke:

"Sixth Brother, there's something you've misunderstood."

"Hmm?" Qin Hongchen looked at him with a questioning gaze.

"The one who doubts her isn't Second Brother— "

Qin Wangchuan's voice was crystal clear, echoing in the gradually freezing air:

It's me.

Before he could finish speaking...

A dazzling Sword Light suddenly appeared beside Qin Wangchuan without warning!

The moment the Ten Directions Profound Sword was drawn, time seemed to stretch out and freeze.

Fang Yun turned around subconsciously, not even having time to react. What she saw reflected in her pupils was a cold glint that moved with incredible speed.

A flash of Sword Light.

A head, soaring high into the air.

Qin Wangchuan reached out precisely and grabbed the head amidst the flying strands of hair.

He lifted him high, so that the face, still bearing a blank and frozen expression, was directly facing Qin Hongchen, exploding like thunder in the suddenly Deathly Stillness street:

"This woman—is a fake!"

The expression on Qin Hongchen's face froze completely in that instant.

His mouth gaped open, his eyes widened to their limit, and deep in his pupils was a blank of astonishment and incomprehension, as if everything happening before his eyes was just an absurd nightmare.

Immediately, the shock receded like a tide, replaced by a heart-wrenching pain that could devour everything.

It was an expression of extreme pain, mouth wide open, but the throat felt constricted, unable to utter any meaningful sound, only the hissing sound of air rubbing together.

Time flowed incredibly slowly, yet it also seemed to rush so fast it was suffocating.

Finally, a suppressed, inhuman roar suddenly erupted from deep within Qin Hongchen's throat!

"!! what have you been doing!!!"

He was like a madman, his terrifying aura erupting without restraint!

With one step, the ground cracked, and his figure shot towards Qin Wangchuan like a cannonball.

He kicked it away violently, and at the same time, he stretched out his trembling hands and hugged the head that had rolled to the ground tightly in his arms, letting out a suppressed and shrill scream like a wild beast on the verge of death.

"Get out of here--!!!"

Qin Wangchuan managed to block the kick by summoning his Dragon Silk Arm Armor in time, and then staggered back more than ten steps to regain his footing.

He did not retaliate, but simply stood silently to the side, watching.

Watching a man suffer such excruciating pain after losing his beloved.

Finally, the heart-stopping screams gradually subsided, turning into broken sobs.

Qin Hongchen carefully pieced Fang Yun's body back together, her movements so gentle it was as if she were merely asleep.

When he finally straightened up and slowly raised his head--

Those eyes were now a terrifying blood red.

Rage, madness, and the desire to destroy everything surged within it, like a ferocious beast driven to the brink of despair by utter rage.

But this ferocious beast was still using the last shred of its remaining rationality to suppress its overwhelming Killing Intent.

Qin Hongchen stared intently at Qin Wangchuan, each word uttered slowly and deliberately, every word soaked in blood and pain:

"Before I kill you... do you have anything else to say?"

Qin Wangchuan met his Sixth Brother's murderous gaze calmly, repeating the same sentence as if stating an unalterable fact:

"She's a fake."

"Where's the evidence?" Qin Hongchen's voice trembled, filled with extreme anger and the last glimmer of hope that even he himself no longer believed.

Qin Wangchuan was silent for a moment, then said frankly, "... No."

"Okay." Qin Hongchen nodded, the word "okay" sounding light and airy, yet carrying immense despair and murderous intent.

As the sound faded, his hand slowly rose.

The Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth suddenly surged violently, converging towards the sky above and compressing into a single point of pure, breathtaking light.

The light was not dazzling, but it carried a chilling cold that could freeze the Divine Soul and a destructive aura that could annihilate all laws.

Qin Hongchen uttered four words softly, as if Deity issuing a judgment:

"Skylight Rift!"

As the raised hand swung down fiercely, a slender, thread-like beam of light descended from the highest point of the sky.

The light condensed into a thin line, yet its edges blurred and distorted space. Wherever it passed, everything fell silent, colors faded, as if being dragged into an absolute void and silence.

This is no ordinary method.

Qin Wangchuan immediately summoned the Nine-Layer Profound Heaven Ring to defend himself.

However, the Mystic Heaven Ring shattered instantly upon contact.

His pupils contracted slightly.

The next instant, my vision was swallowed by blinding white light—the beam of light fell without hindrance, and the chill of death pierced my Divine Soul like an ice pick.

Just as the boundary between life and death was about to close completely.

Qin Wangchuan's lips curled upwards slightly.

That's not the expression one should have when facing death.

Then, a whisper uttered:

"Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages"

The void behind them suddenly trembled.

The enormous Dharma Manifestation stood up, shattering the heavenly light.

The bloodshot in Qin Hongchen's eyes intensified.

He held nothing back, taking a step forward, causing the void behind him to tremble violently as well.

"The Heaven and Earth Law? Formless Seeing My Sole Truth!"

A colossal Dharma Manifestation with a completely different aura then appeared.

The Dharma Manifestation was ethereal and uncertain, seemingly real yet illusory, as if reflecting all things in the world yet transcending them, its body flowing with the profound Daoist Dao Rhyme of "no self and no form".

The two towering Dharma Manifestation faced each other from afar, their terrifying pressure causing the entire Cloudrest City to tremble slightly, the air solidified like iron.

But this stalemate did not last long.

Qin Hongchen formed a hand seal.

Behind his "Formless Seeing My Sole Truth" Dharma Manifestation, a huge, ancient round mirror slowly emerged, its surface shimmering with a hazy light, as if in the beginning of chaos.

"My Natal Dharma? I Reflect All Beings!"

A flash of light from the mirror.

Qin Wangchuan's pupils suddenly contracted.

A colossal Dharma Manifestation, identical in aura and form to his "Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages," stepped out from the mirror!

Two Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages Dharma Manifestation facing each other, their tribulation energy clashing and shattering the void.

[I Reflect All Beings]: Can perfectly replicate the laws seen. If used in the state of Heaven and Earth Law, it can replicate Heaven and Earth Law.

Qin Hongchen's face was contorted with rage as he took a step forward, manipulating the Heaven and Earth Law.

But the next moment he froze.

Behind Qin Wangchuan's "Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages," the Wheel of Fate silently emerges, then opens halfway.

A low shout, as if Law Follows Words:

"I Borrowing Law — 'Formless Seeing My Sole Truth.'"

From that open portal, a colossal Dharma Manifestation, imbued with the Dao Rhyme principles of "no self and no form," stepped out!

It is Qin Hongchen's Heaven and Earth Law!

Almost at the same instant, the other side of the Wheel of Fate also silently opened.

"I Borrowing Law — for Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages."

As the second decree sounded, another majestic and ancient "Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages" Dharma Manifestation, shrouded in the aura of endless tribulations, emerged from the other half!