Chen Ajiu, Who Traversed the Ages; No One Can Withstand This Blade!

BOOM!

Inside the Ancient Temple, a surge of blood-red energy soared into the sky!

The first to strike was Murong Canghai. He merely gripped the hilt of the blade at his waist, and his entire aura suddenly shifted!

An incomparably terrifying and sharp pressure instantly swept across the scene!

He had not even drawn his blade, yet everyone present found themselves completely unable to move!

This was the power of Blade Momentum!

Just at this moment.

Hum—

A sound like the roar of a dragon rang out, desolate and clear.

It was Shen Changsheng!

He drew his longsword, and the sword light erupted, three parts colder and clearer than the bright moon in the sky!

Li Qiming felt the sword light sting his eyes and couldn't help but close them. When he opened them again, a bloodstain had appeared on the necks of ten Bone Refining martial artists!

Thud! The ten black-clad martial artists collapsed to the ground one after another, dead on the spot!

These were Bone Refining realm martial artists, ten of them, yet they had been killed in an instant!

Seeing this, a deep chill surged in Li Qiming's heart!

A battle of this level was not something he could participate in!

Either way, it was death!

He made a split-second decision, unleashing his minor-accomplishment level Swallow Skimming Grass. His body became like a ghost as he leaped directly out through a broken window to the side!

Qin Yu, Mo Su, Wang Liang, and the other disciples of the Dragon Roar Martial Hall, along with several Blood Refining and Bone Refining martial artists from the Weiyuan Escort Agency, were stunned for a moment before they reacted and scrambled to jump out the window to escape!

"That kid is quite clever; he didn't waste the opportunity we created for them," Murong Canghai said, watching Li Qiming's retreating back with a hint of praise.

Shen Changsheng nodded. He hadn't expected this junior brother, who had seemed somewhat dull along the journey, to be so sharp at a critical moment.

The two of them had struck intentionally to create an opening. If these junior brothers hadn't run, Shen Changsheng and Murong Canghai wouldn't have been able to protect them once the real fight began!

"Don't worry, they won't get away."

Chen Shuang did not stop them; instead, he didn't care at all.

His demeanor made Shen Changsheng's heart skip a beat. It seemed there were still Demon Sect members outside!

"Now, we can have a proper fight!" A cold sneer curled the corners of Chen Shuang's mouth.

"Who do you intend to deal with?" Liu Yun, the Demon Sect elder who had remained silent until now, suddenly asked.

"Murong and I both use blades, and we are both once-in-a-century geniuses of the blade path. I am curious: is my Demon Blade faster, or is his Canghai Blade Art faster?!"

Chen Shuang looked at Murong Canghai, his eyes brimming with fighting spirit!

Although Murong Canghai had not drawn his blade, the mere Blade Momentum he had displayed earlier had already given Chen Shuang a vague realization!

At this moment, Chen Shuang was incredibly eager for his opponent to draw his blade!

"You're using me as your whetstone?" Murong Canghai said in a deep voice.

"That's right. I have a premonition that if I kill you, my Blade Momentum will finally be fully realized!"

As he spoke, Chen Shuang drew his blade with a violent motion!

The moment he struck, his figure actually vanished from within the temple!

Shen Changsheng's eyelids twitched; he couldn't sense the opponent's position at all!

The Demon Blade was truly bizarre and unpredictable!

The next moment.

A flash of blade light appeared to the side. Chen Shuang had appeared directly behind Murong Canghai, his blade radiating an eerie red glow as he brought it down!

"Watch out!" Shen Changsheng thrust his sword toward Chen Shuang.

"Your opponent is me!" Liu Yun suddenly lunged forward, his pair of black iron fists crashing down like meteors!

Shen Changsheng could have injured Chen Shuang, but he would likely be killed by this Organ Refining expert!

He couldn't help but pause his sword momentum and turn his blade to defend!

Just at this moment.

Clang!

Murong Canghai drew his blade!

Li Qiming was fleeing frantically down the mountain!

Suddenly, he felt something, stopped in his tracks, and turned his head to look back.

The Ancient Temple on the hillside came into view, its interior glowing with a cold light as bright as day under the moonlight!

Vaguely, he seemed to see a sea emitting a ghostly blue hue flowing within the Ancient Temple, surging and crashing violently!

Even from a great distance, he felt a chill permeate his entire body, as if pricked by needles!

"This is... Blade Momentum?!"

It was hard to imagine how Chen Shuang and the others could possibly face such a strike!

"Junior brother, stop looking! Run!"

Qin Yu and the others had caught up, their faces still pale with shock. They looked at Li Qiming with surprise; no one had expected that the usually honest and simple-looking Li Qiming could run so fast at a critical moment!

Even Qin Yu, at the Great Perfection of the Blood Refining Realm, had almost failed to keep up!

During this period, although Li Qiming had made no progress in his blade techniques, he had not forgotten to practice his movement techniques, and his Swallow Skimming Grass had improved significantly.

[Swallow Skimming Grass (Minor Accomplishment): 45/100]

On the day of the disciple assessment, Li Qiming had broken through to the mid-stage of the Blood Refining Realm, and his Swallow Skimming Grass had entered the stage of Minor Accomplishment. His progress during this time had been extremely obvious.

"Senior brother, what should we do now?" Li Qiming asked.

His heart was pounding. This was his first mission, and he had encountered such a crisis. He felt that if he had run even a second slower or hesitated for a moment, he would have ended up dead inside that Ancient Temple today.

"You all go back to the martial arts hall! Request support from the elders and the hall master! Brother Wang and I will cross the mountain to Zhennan Prefecture City. There are several prestigious clans there that will surely help us!"

Qin Yu pondered for a moment, organizing his thoughts before speaking.

The Brother Wang he referred to was one of the few Bone Refining martial artists from the escort agency.

The group nodded in agreement.

Li Qiming also felt this was reasonable. After all, Dragon Spring City was relatively far away; even with a fast horse, it would take a full day.

Distant water cannot quench a nearby fire!

As for Zhennan Prefecture City, the Bone Refining martial artists from the escort agency in their group could likely reach it in less than an hour!

The group was just about to split into two paths.

"None of you are going anywhere!"

A mocking voice suddenly rang out.

Swish!

A group of black-clad martial artists suddenly lunged out from the surrounding dense forest, among them many at the Bone Refining stage!

The attire of these people was identical to that of Chen Shuang and his group!

"The Demon Sect actually had an ambush?!" Qin Yu was shocked, his heart sinking to the bottom.

Li Qiming secretly sized them up, feeling a sense of despair. Among this group of black-clad men, there were at least seven or eight Bone Refining martial artists. Standing among them was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy holding a blade, whose appearance was seven parts similar to Chen Shuang!

"The world knows that my brother, Chen Shuang, has astonishing talent in the blade, but no one knows that I, Chen Ajiu, have a talent for the blade that spans the ages!"

Chen Ajiu clutched his blade, staring at the group with a fierce expression, seemingly dissatisfied that no one recognized him!

It was just that his martial cultivation had not yet caught up.

Once he grew a bit older in a couple of years, he would surely make his blade famous throughout the world!

What shocked Li Qiming the most was that standing beside Chen Ajiu was an old woman in a gray robe, leaning on a red mahogany snake-headed cane. Her aura was hidden and unreleased, but she was definitely an Organ Refining martial artist!

Li Qiming's heart was filled with terror!

It seemed that death was inevitable today?!

"None of you move. My Bloodthirsty Mad Blade can no longer be restrained!"

Although Chen Ajiu was the youngest, his martial cultivation had already reached the early stage of the Bone Refining Realm!

He truly had the capital to be arrogant!

The next moment, he drew his blade, and the sky was suddenly filled with the figures of Chen Ajiu!

Dozens of blade shadows, suffused with a thick, bloody, and malevolent aura, slashed down directly at Li Qiming and the others!

Every single blood-red blade shadow was real and carried terrifying power!

Brother Wang and the other Bone Refining martial artists from the escort agency felt their scalps go numb.

No one present could withstand this strike!