Hearing this, Lin Qingnu suddenly raised his eyes toward Su Chan, then grinned and said:
"Su Chan, you needn't goad me."
As he spoke, Lin Qingnu raised the Immortal Sword Windfeather in his hand, pointing its blade straight at Su Chan, then continued:
"You should know better than anyone."
"When I strike at you no longer bound by that wager, but following my true wish to help Zhenwu win this Sword Inquiry, I will have severed my karma with Lin Qinggu completely."
"From this day onward, I am myself. Between heaven and earth, no one is freer than I am."
With those words, a vast, untrammeled air suddenly rose from Lin Qingnu.
Then he summoned the Spring Breeze Divine Intent once more, sealing the hole Su Chan had torn in the Sword Qi Vortex.
Hearing those words, Xu Taiping, A Meng, and the others all felt their hearts suddenly clear.
Xu Taiping murmured:
"Those three elders of the Taihao Sect appeared to be making a fair wager with Lin Qingnu, but in truth, the wager itself was a plot against him."
"So long as Lin Qingnu agreed to the wager, stepped onto the Sword Platform, and fought with all his might for the seat of Sword Champion, even if he truly won, in his state of mind, he would still be Lin Qinggu's Three Corpses true body, still a puppet the Taihao Sect could manipulate at will."
"But the choice Lin Qingnu made when facing Su Chan allowed him to leap straight out of this plot. At least in his heart and nature, he is no longer the Taihao Sect's puppet, no longer Lin Qinggu!"
Beside him, A Meng and the others all nodded at these words.
The Taihao Sect's three supreme elders probably never dreamed that what Lin Qingnu