According to the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox's description, there should have been two "Heavenly Demons" in these ruins.
One was Tian Zhu, and the other was Wan Ren.
During his earlier conversation with Tian Zhu, Tian Zhu had mentioned this as well.
Viewed from that angle, it was not strange for Wan Ren's sword body to appear in the Sword Tomb.
Yet Xu Changxing still felt that something was amiss.
Wan Ren's aura was simply too similar to Tian Zhu's, differing only in the most minute details.
Xu Changxing pondered outside the Sword Tomb for a long time but found no useful clues.
He simply separated out a wisp of immortal essence and tried to draw on the broken swords within the Sword Tomb.
Yet the instant that wisp of immortal essence entered the Sword Tomb, it was like a drop of ice water falling into a pan of hot oil, immediately provoking a heaven-shaking chorus of sword cries.
The sword intent of hundreds of thousands of broken swords converged, nearly piercing the firmament.
Even with Xu Changxing's cultivation, the pressure of that sword intent forced him to retreat step after step.
Such formidable sword intent made Xu Changxing's expression shift slightly.
Then he resumed pondering.
Tian Zhu actually commands such formidable power.
In that case, why didn't he confront me directly instead of leaving a trial?
Xu Changxing absolutely did not believe that some mission had kept Tian Zhu from doing so.
To preserve his own consciousness, Tian Zhu had slaughtered countless versions of himself across parallel planes.
How could such an overbearing, ruthless demonic sword spirit give up eliminating a threat like Xu Changxing because of a mission?
Since he didn't leave this trial because of my mission, what is his purpose?
*Or rather, what does he want to