Terrifying killing intent spread outward, frosting the earth and battering the mind.
Mountains of corpses and seas of blood seemed to rise before their eyes, threatening to break their mental defenses.
Yet faced with such surging killing intent, Lu Changfeng actually... smiled.
"Let's put the matter of trump cards aside for now."
Lu Changfeng spoke calmly, as though chatting with an old friend. "I do have a few questions I'd like to ask. After all, this situation... really does arouse my curiosity."
"Xiao Zhu" seemed quite amused as well, that strange mingled voice carrying a mocking edge. "I like people who can still smile with death at their doorstep. Ask away. I shall tell you everything I know."
Lu Changfeng studied this half-male, half-female being with its uncanny aura and asked his first question. "What state are you in now, exactly? Have sword spirits entered your body, a cuckoo taking over a magpie's nest? Is Gan Jiang's sentience alone in control, or... is Mo Xie in this body too?"
Xiao Zhu slowly raised both hands, her left gently stroking Gan Jiang's blade while her right beckoned toward Mo Xie, and spoke slowly:
"Both-here-"
Those two words rang out with astonishing clarity in two entirely different voices, one male and one female, spoken simultaneously yet blending perfectly into a single utterance!
Gan Jiang's savage male voice intertwined with Mo Xie's venomous female voice, sending chills down the spine!
Lu Changfeng's pupils contracted slightly before he nodded emphatically. "Truly breathtaking! At the Sixth Realm's divine wandering stage, souls can leave the body and spiritual forms can endure for a long time. That has always been possible. But to think that one day, the sentience within swords could actually develop intelligence-simply inconceivable!"
"It is quite simple."
"Xiao Zhu" answered leisurely, "Devour enough divine