Two Suns Hang in the Sky

The second blazing sun shone overhead! The Yellow Sprout Giant Tree in his dantian showed no fear at all. Even as it swayed beneath the Xun Wind, it spread its branches wide and absorbed the radiance of the sun!

"Teacher always said that with every additional sun I possess, the Seven-Star Sword Formation gains another layer of power! Heaven is helping me today!" Liu Yunshen had no time to think before the Sun-Moon Sword Qi and the Netherworld Mad Saber shot at his ribs again with ghostly, unfathomable speed!

"Dipper Handle Points South, Reddening the Realm! Let me show you the true Blazing Sun Sword!" Liu Yunshen became like the sun itself, his brilliance eclipsing the Netherworld saber force and the Sun-Moon Sword Qi! Terrifying waves of air burst in every direction!

Tu Chunqiu and Ming Jiuxiao dodged in shock and fury, but the fierce Sword Qi carrying the might of a midsummer sun had already stabbed toward their hearts!

"How did this Sword Qi suddenly become so much stronger?!" A wound more than a foot long opened across Ming Jiuxiao's left chest. He vomited blood and plunged into the forest! Liu Yunshen had no time to pursue him. He turned and struck with his sword, meeting the Netherworld long saber head-on!

"A sword relies on nimbleness, while a saber prizes weight and ferocity! You brat know nothing of martial arts, yet you dare dream of breaking a saber with a sword—you're courting death!" Tu Chunqiu roared, driving all his power into his body as his long saber slashed toward Liu Yunshen's neck!

Liu Yunshen shouted, thrusting his longsword straight through the center line and sending the saber flying with the force of a rainbow piercing the sun!

"How is that possible?!" The long saber flew from his hand. Tu Chunqiu stared with bulging eyes as that sword strike, brimming with boundless power, reached his chest!

"Big Brother! Second Brother! Let us be brothers again in the next life!" A piercing agony tore through Tu Chunqiu's heart, and his consciousness blurred. When he opened his eyes again, his eldest brother Mi Luohou had hooked an arm around his right arm and carried him over his shoulder. "Big Brother! You..."

"Take the pills!" Mi Luohou tossed him a porcelain bottle, then immediately drew one saber and one sword! Ming Jiuxiao also rose, gathering his strength. "Brat, with my eldest brother taking action, and the two of us beside him, you will undoubtedly die today!"

Liu Yunshen drew a deep breath and looked inward at his dantian. The Yellow Sprout Giant Tree was beginning to wither in appearance. Amid his overwhelming alarm, one sun swiftly sank beneath the riverbed!

Benevolent Heart Ripples' Water Profound Qi surged into his dantian with wild force, and only then did the Yellow Sprout Giant Tree gradually recover its vitality!

"It seems I must never use this move recklessly. Too much is as bad as too little; it brings harm, not benefit!" Liu Yunshen fixed his gaze on the tall man before him. "But this man's aura is a notch stronger than those two just now. If I hold anything back, how can I fight the three of them?"

"Brat! I will have revenge for today no matter what!" Tu Chunqiu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gripped his saber once more! Suddenly, a fist force like gold and iron blasted up from below!

"What was that?!" The three Mi brothers dodged the fist force!

Three figures stood atop the trees. At their head was a burly man nearly nine feet tall, with a presence like a mountain. Boundless fury filled his voice as he spoke. "What I despise most is ganging up on the few with the many! And I hate even more scum like you, who slaughter common folk without distinguishing right from wrong!"

"What do you know? My eldest brother simply..."

"Third Brother, there is no need to explain!" Mi Luohou remained calm as he turned his head and stared at Liu Yunshen!

The burly man threw a punch through the air, smashing directly toward Tu Chunqiu!

Tu Chunqiu shouted and hacked his long saber into the man's shoulder, only for the recoil to send it flying back! "What demonic art has this old fossil cultivated? He is not even afraid of my divine weapon!"

The burly man pressed his advantage without mercy, punching at Tu Chunqiu's face!

"Old ghost, you're seeking death!" Tu Chunqiu flew into a rage, twisting his long saber as he slashed straight at the man's fist!

After a resounding clang of metal striking metal, the burly man and Tu Chunqiu both retreated more than a dozen yards, each landing atop a tree crown!

"Big Brother!" The other two brothers hurried forward to inspect his injuries!

Tu Chunqiu sneered. "That bastard's fist must be ruined! He dared use bare flesh to clash against a divine weapon. I don't know whether to call him foolish or stupid!"

"Forgive me for making you laugh, brothers!" The burly man threw back his head and laughed. A black aura like clanging gold and iron radiated from his palms. When the black aura gathered again, his fleshy palms were completely unharmed!

"Could that old dog be practicing some demon sorcery?!" Tu Chunqiu's face drained of color. He stared blankly at those bare palms.

"You're the old dog! Your whole family is old dogs!" A youth beside the burly man shouted angrily!

Mi Luohou cupped his hands. "May I ask your name and sect, sir?"

"I'm not afraid of you coming to make trouble for me! I am Qiu Cangyue of the Jade Mountain Sect! These two are my sworn brothers, Qiu Yitian and Qiu Congxiao!" The nine-foot burly man stood upon the tree, imposing and majestic.

"So it is Senior Qiu of the Jade Mountain Sect. Sect Master Ouyang often spoke of you!" Liu Yunshen cupped his hands in thanks, his eyes full of respect.

Qiu Cangyue grinned. "Second Brother, Third Brother, deal with the sword wielder!"

"Yes, Big Brother!"

"I will hold back the one wielding both saber and sword!"

"Brothers, let us join forces to repel the enemy first. We can discuss everything else afterward!" While Qiu Cangyue and the others discussed their strategy with Liu Yunshen through voice transmission, Mi Luohou calmly observed the situation.

"The Jade Mountain Sect? I have only heard that fifteen hundred years ago, when the Great Hong Dynasty fell, its Chancellor Wen was captured and died for his country, while its last emperor, Hong Bing, leapt into the sea and died! Afterward, a sect called the Jade Mountain Sect rose to prominence. For several centuries, it remained active among the common people, intending to overthrow the rule of the Great Qian Dynasty! Then dynasties rose and fell, the Great Qian Dynasty was destroyed, and the Jade Mountain Sect vanished without a trace!"

While Mi Luohou was thinking, Liu Yunshen did not launch a sneak attack. The three Qiu brothers had already engaged Tu Chunqiu and Ming Jiuxiao in battle!

"You do keep to the rules."

"You are a righteous man as well. What a pity that a bright pearl has been cast into darkness!"

Liu Yunshen's words provoked him. Anger appeared on Mi Luohou's face. "My lord is a sage sovereign without equal, who loves the people as his own children. He will not tolerate your filthy slander!"

"Right and wrong, truth and falsehood—public judgment will decide them! Surely I need not say more!"

"You!" Killing intent rose in Mi Luohou. Saber and sword collided, and countless bursts of force sliced fine cracks through the air! Liu Yunshen dodged in horror. Dipper Handle Points East—vital energy flourished across a hundred yards, ten thousand trees contended in spring, and green shoots danced wildly!

The trees' branches bound Mi Luohou's limbs, and Liu Yunshen thrust his longsword straight forward!

"Reincarnation Debate!" Mi Luohou called softly. The trees immediately withered, and a deathly stillness filled the hundred-yard space! The force behind Liu Yunshen's strike vanished, and his dantian became utterly still. "What a formidable move!"

Saber and sword qi gathered and scattered without pattern. Liu Yunshen was wounded more than a hundred times. None were fatal, yet he was in a miserable state!!

"Dipper Handle Points West, Autumn Across the Realm!" A stern, killing aura swept forth with a clang. Killing intent and deathly stillness overlapped, but the killing intent gradually gained the upper hand! Blood-red radiance filled the heavens!

"What other tricks do you have? Use them all at once!" Liu Yunshen barked, and his killing aura descended like a mountain cleaving down!

Mi Luohou looked up with a smile. "My move is not so easily broken!"

"This is..." Liu Yunshen was too stunned for words. His dense killing aura struck empty air!

The aspect of deathly stillness underwent nirvana once more, transforming into vitality! Mi Luohou seized the chance to counterattack!

Liu Yunshen had lost the initiative. Beset on all sides, he defended with great difficulty! Mi Luohou sighed. Just as he was about to use saber and sword together to grind him apart and take his head in a single strike, he suddenly retreated several steps!

"He clearly held the overwhelming advantage. Why did he suddenly withdraw?" Liu Yunshen broke out in a cold sweat. As he gasped for breath, he also detected sounds behind him!

Several hundred disciples of the Myriad Swords Sect had arrived in formation!

"Liu Yunshen! Hand over the Heavenly Pivot Sword Technique, and we will spare your life!"

"Nephew Liu, I urge you to recognize the times!" Man Jiuying of the Myriad Swords Sect, a fourth-stage Qi Refining cultivator, flew over with a smile and looked down upon the crowd below!

"Man Jiuying, stop bullying the young with your age!"

"What if our Four Swords Sect refuses to hand him over?!"

Several furious shouts rang out!

Lei Zhouyue, Cai Tingyue, Gong Haoyue, Sun Yunji, and Cao Wuji looked extremely pale after rushing out of the Zhou Enclosure Deer Park barrier, yet they still stood before Liu Yunshen and stared at that old man from the Myriad Swords Sect!

"Lei Zhouyue, don't think I fear you just because your cultivation is profound. When your Four Swords Sect failed to appreciate kindness and broke away from my Myriad Swords Sect, the Grand Sect Master did not hold it against you. Yet now you dare shelter this wanted criminal of the Zhou Kingdom. Do not blame me for tearing away all pretense!"

Man Jiuying carefully studied Lei Zhouyue's complexion, calculating inwardly as a plan formed in his heart.

"You turn right and wrong upside down and confuse black with white! Back then, within the sect, you made things difficult for our Four Swords Sect disciples at every turn! And now you even dare to accuse us first!"

Man Jiuying was furious. He transmitted his voice to the hundreds of disciples behind him. "Children, form the formation!"

Several hundred people moved through the four directions according to the Three Talents, gradually forming an encirclement to trap and block the Four Swords Sect members!

"This is the Heavenly Prison Sword-Cage Formation!" Cao Wuji cried out!

"Brother Liu, go quickly! We'll hold them back!!" Cai Tingyue transmitted his voice.

Liu Yunshen shook his head and smiled at them. Zhou, Cai, Gong, Cao, and Sun were astonished, then secretly nodded and gathered around Liu Yunshen!

"That old fossil Lei Zhouyue always thinks his martial arts are so great and looks down on me. Today, I'll make you die!"

The dantian power of the hundreds of Myriad Swords Sect disciples connected. Even those in the third and second stages could stand floating in the air! Dantian power coursed through the formation, and a colossal sword thousands of yards long, like a mountain, crashed down from the sky!

"First Sword!"

The five grandmasters surrounded him! Seven stars rose! Liu Yunshen sighed. Two suns again hung high in his dantian. "What a pity Brother Hu and Brother Zhao Da are not here! The Left Assistant Star and Right Aide Star positions are vacant!"

"We will help you!"

The Qiu brothers leaped into the formation. Qiu Congxiao and Qiu Yitian stood at Liu Yunshen's sides.

"Brothers, this formation is dangerous!"

"Brother, the two of us know a little swordsmanship. If I am not mistaken, these should be the Left Assistant Star and Right Aide Star positions!" Qiu Congxiao and Qiu Yitian placed their palms against Liu Yunshen's left and right waists!

The two dark stars of Left Assistant and Right Aide slowly rose!