A Single Blade Cleaved Open the Road of Life and Death, Two Feet Stepped Beyond the Body of Right and Wrong

A knife?!

A chill ran through Jiang Yi's heart. His body tensed, and every hair on him stood on end.

In a life-or-death crisis!

He instinctively twisted aside and rolled away, somewhat miserably evading the blow.

He was not arrogant enough to believe he could catch a blade barehanded.

All he could say was—

This bastard had no martial virtue, giving him a run for his money!

A sharp black gleam descended, sending dirt and stones flying as it cleaved a deep furrow into the ground.

It was a Ghost Head Great Saber!

A savage ghost head was carved into the hilt, its open jaws clamped around the broad, straight black blade.

Huang Qi gripped it with both hands, his face twisted viciously!

"You little bastard, obediently die!"

"With this Fierce Ghost Saber forged from refined iron in my hands, even if you're a half-step martial artist, you'll still become a dead soul beneath my blade."

Seeing Jiang Yi evade his strike!

Huang Qi grinned savagely and charged forward again, wielding the saber in both hands as he hacked down ruthlessly once more.

Faced with the might of a sharp weapon!

Jiang Yi could only choose to temporarily avoid its edge.

In martial arts!

His opponent was inferior to him, but once Huang Qi took up a weapon and gained the advantage of a sharp blade—

It undoubtedly leveled that gap.

This was not what Jiang Yi wanted. What he wanted was—

A swift battle and a swift decision!

As one saber strike after another chopped toward him, Jiang Yi dodged repeatedly, avoiding their edge.

His eyes flickered as he tried to catch the flaws hidden within them!

Suddenly!

His sea of consciousness blurred for a moment, and waves of coolness rose within it, piercing straight into the depths of his soul.

A faint voice, seemingly boundless and majestic, rang out.

It made his entire soul feel as though it were ascending!

"Return to the origin; creation in the beginning; yin and yang revolve; the Great Dao is whole..."

This was unmistakably the Nameless Scripture (Incomplete)!

It contained only sixteen short characters. In his previous world, they might have been nothing more than ordinary words.

But here!

Each character seemed to commune with some great existence hidden in the unseen.

An indescribable mighty power emerged!

Before his eyes!

All things in the world were endlessly magnified, until he could clearly see every line and pattern upon them.

Everything became incomparably slow, as though performing sluggish movements.

Only he alone remained unchanged!

Even Huang Qi's descending saber was no exception.

In Jiang Yi's pupils, its movements crawled like a turtle!

It allowed him to effortlessly judge the path of the Ghost Head Great Saber's descent.

Jiang Yi took a small step back and slanted his body sideways!

The sharp blade light fell, passing barely three inches from his body.

The opportunity had come!

Jiang Yi's heart pounded violently, power surging throughout his body.

Before Huang Qi could draw up the saber again!

He struck first!

He fiercely stomped down on the hilt of the Ghost Head Great Saber!

His body bent slightly, his arms spreading wide from his waist. He clenched his fists, palms facing one another.

They snapped together at both sides of Huang Qi's head, violently striking his temples.

"Aah—puh!"

Huang Qi screamed, spraying blood from his mouth. Visible to the naked eye, blood continuously seeped from all seven of his orifices.

This showed just how terrifying that strike had been!

Under the agonizing pain, Huang Qi could no longer hold the Ghost Head Great Saber. His hands loosened, and he staggered backward again and again.

Jiang Yi seized the hilt in reverse. With a clang, he wrenched it completely out of the dirt and stones.

Now, the tides of attack and defense had turned!

It was his turn, a half-step martial artist, to wield this sharp weapon.

I have the martial arts, and now I have the saber too!

Jiang Yi dragged the great saber as he walked forward step by step.

Huang Qi seemed to sense something and forced open his blood-filled eyes.

Through a blur, he saw a frail figure standing before him.

In its right hand rested a broad, black object that looked all too familiar.

That was his saber!

A thick wave of fear surged through his heart!

He sensed it!

A calm gaze so terrifying it chilled him to the bone was fixed upon him.

That gaze was like someone looking at a lamb awaiting slaughter!

And he was that lamb!

"Y-you... you can't kill me! My big brother is the Second Chief of Black Wind Stronghold."

He's a true martial artist, not someone a mere half-step like you can afford to provoke!

Spare... spare me. I can pretend I never saw what happened before..."

"No need."

Jiang Yi withdrew his gaze!

His left hand lightly stroked the blade, and he even extended a finger to flick it.

Ding!!!

A clear, lingering ring echoed out!

"It's time for you to hit the road. Don't worry—your big brother will soon go down there as well, so you can—

reunite together!"

"What?"

Jiang Yi suddenly raised the saber and sprang forward. With a single horizontal slash, a fine head flew high into the air.

"Buzz!"

Another slash came down!

With the force of splitting Mount Hua, it cleaved from top to bottom, dividing the body that had not yet fallen into two.

As blood spurted forth, Jiang Yi stepped over it with his saber in hand!

One blade cleaved open the road of life and death; two feet stepped beyond the gate of right and wrong!

[Killed one enemy proficient in fist and foot techniques, plundered 8 years of lifespan.]

"Almost forgot! There's one more!"

Jiang Yi detected a trace of movement!

He turned to look behind the collapsed wooden hut, where the last bandit remained.

Having just crawled out from the ruins, he was scrambling and tumbling toward the forest, trying to flee.

Jiang Yi would not give him that chance!

He covered three steps in two, rushed forward, and sent him to hell with one slash.

[Killed one ordinary enemy, plundered 4 years of lifespan.]

[Life Master: Jiang Yi]

[Cultivation: Half-step Skin Refining]

[Physique: None]

[Cultivation Scripture: Rock Steadiness Fist (Mastery), Nameless Scripture (Incomplete)]

[Lifespan: 59]

Jiang Yi made a rough calculation!

Aside from the lifespan he had plundered from those bandits—

As he cultivated martial arts, his own lifespan had also increased accordingly.

He now possessed fifty-nine years of life!

He only needed to leave one year behind. The rest could be used to advance even further.

He understood clearly!

This was far from over!

The ones he had killed were merely minor lackeys!

The true culprit was still living freely and happily in that mountain stronghold.

Those people would only be stronger than the bandits he had just killed.

If he blindly charged in headlong, it would undoubtedly be like striking a stone with an egg.

He would be throwing away his life for nothing!

Black Wind Mountain was the name of this mountain, while Black Wind Stronghold was the bandit fortress that occupied it.

Several years ago!

A group of powerful bandits who had appeared from nowhere seized this mountain and took to the wilderness as outlaws.

They usually robbed passing merchants and even descended the mountain to raid villages.

In the span of just a few years, they had become a notorious bandit scourge throughout the surrounding miles!

It was said that the three Stronghold Masters of Black Wind Stronghold were all martial artists who had stepped across the threshold of the martial path.

Their strength was incomparably formidable!

Some villages had once paid a great price to hire martial arts experts from nearby towns.

Yet the experts either suffered crushing defeat or simply let the matter drop, utterly unable to do anything to those powerful bandits.

In the end, with no other choice!

The nearby villages made an agreement with them to hand over a certain amount of wealth every year.

Only then had they barely managed to survive.

Likewise!

Their Jiang Family Village was no exception.

But for some reason, things had changed this time. Without any warning, they had directly slaughtered everyone in Jiang Family Village.

At this thought!

Jiang Yi's face darkened beneath a heavy shadow, and wisps of murderous aura surfaced in his eyes once more.