Scoring Two External Soul Bones!

If Li Ye had known what Liu Erlong was thinking, he would certainly have told her that he wasn't confident either. He simply wanted to take a gamble.

After all, with a little gambling, a bicycle could become a motorcycle. He had already won An Dong'er's heart-that was, Bibi Dong's-so why should he fear failing to win two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings now?

Yet inside the mental space belonging solely to Li Ye, he was currently fleeing for his life, constantly twisting his body to dodge the Titan Giant Ape's and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's attacks.

Inside his mental space, neither he nor the Titan Giant Ape and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear could use Soul Power or skills. They could only fight with their bodies.

Although Li Ye could still use his Martial Soul, swordsmanship, and Spear Execution, he struggled to inflict any effective damage on the two powerful Soul Beasts.

"Grandpa Sword, Grandpa Spear, can't you help me? Do you really have to stand there watching me get beaten up?"

"Ah, Xiao Ye, it isn't that Grandpa Sword doesn't want to help you. It's just that if I help you inside your mental space, you'll suffer a backlash to your soul after you leave."

"What the hell! Why didn't you say so earlier? Soul backlash or not, that's still better than letting me die here!"

After the Titan Giant Ape hammered him flying to Sword Old Ghost's side, Li Ye heard what Sword Old Ghost said and immediately shed sorrowful tears, pounding the ground to vent his grievances.

He had been getting beaten for an entire hour and had cried for help so many times, only for that rotten old man Sword Old Ghost to tell him this.

It really proved that saying: you rotten old man, you're wicked to the core!

Sword Old Ghost and Spear Old Demon thought over Li Ye's words and found that he seemed to have a point, so they used rock-paper-scissors to decide who would act.

Several rounds later, the Titan Giant Ape had already grabbed Li Ye by the leg and dragged him away before the two rotten old men finally decided a winner.

"Huh? Where's Xiao Ye?" Having just won, Sword Old Ghost was about to demonstrate the divine might of the Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords for Li Ye, only to discover that he was nowhere in sight.

Only after searching around did he spot Li Ye holding a spear in one hand and a sword in the other, surrounded and battered by the Titan Giant Ape and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Seeing Li Ye struggling desperately to hold on, Sword Old Ghost chuckled and shook his head.

"Sword, come!"

At Sword Old Ghost's call, the Ghost-Cold Sword in Li Ye's hand instantly flew into Sword Old Ghost's grasp.

With one weapon gone, half of Li Ye's sense of security instantly vanished. Just as he thought the Titan Giant Ape on his left was about to pummel him to death, Sword Old Ghost acted.

"First form, Mountain-Moving and Sea-Filling!"

Holding the Ghost-Cold Sword, Sword Old Ghost made a simple diagonal upward sweep, raising two powerful streams of sword energy on either side of Li Ye that intercepted the Titan Giant Ape's and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's attacks.

"Second form, Star-Turning and Moon-Overturning!"

Immediately afterward, Sword Old Ghost stepped forward, instantly stirring up two gusts of sword wind that hurled both Soul Beasts into the air.

Had he not been demonstrating the sword moves for Li Ye, that move alone would have sliced the two Soul Beasts into several pieces.

"Third form, Universe-Shaking Sky-Rending!"

Sword Old Ghost then leaped into the air. The Ghost-Cold Sword gave a piercing explosive shriek in his hand, tearing several rifts in the illusory space around him and splitting into two sword shadows that slashed straight toward the two Soul Beasts.

"Tch. Flashy but impractical."

Although he said that, Spear Old Demon had to admit inwardly that Sword Old Ghost's Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords were considerably stronger than his Seven Desolate-Breaking Techniques.

If his cultivation hadn't been somewhat higher than Sword Old Ghost's in his previous life, he really might not have been able to fight him to a draw.

After that single strike, the two Soul Beasts were already at death's door.

"Xiao Ye, watch closely. Next comes the move you've never been able to get right."

"Fourth form, Sun-Breaking Moon-Chasing!"

Sword Old Ghost ran his hand along the Ghost-Cold Sword's blade, making it ring softly. Then, with the momentum of chasing stars and pursuing the moon, and the intent of breaking the sun and rending the sky, he severed the Titan Giant Ape's and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's heads in succession.

"The first four forms of the Nine Heaven-Slaying Swords focus on four things respectively: power, finesse, swiftness, and agility. As long as you comprehend their essentials, learning to use them well won't be a problem."

"But to learn the fifth form, you must comprehend your own intent. Only then can you possess the strength to shatter stars and sever the moon, the ability to split the earth and part the seas, the might of furious thunder startling the heavens, and the resolve to annihilate heaven and earth."

"Finally, when your sword intent reaches full mastery, you can hope to grasp Sword Dao Law Power and gain the tremendous power of Immortal-Slaying God-Killing."

"Sword Old Ghost is right. Xiao Ye, you haven't grasped your own intent yet, so the subsequent spear and sword techniques will be difficult to master. You need to fight more and comprehend it as soon as possible."

Once Spear Old Demon finished giving his instructions, Sword Old Ghost returned the Ghost-Cold Sword to Li Ye.

Taking the Ghost-Cold Sword, Li Ye bowed to the two elders and left his mental space.

Although he often heard the two elders talk about intent, he could never grasp its essentials and didn't understand how to comprehend it.

His talent for martial arts wasn't high, not even half of Tang San's. Moves that Spear Old Demon and Sword Old Ghost could perform with ease took him a year or two of practice to learn.

Sword Old Ghost, Spear Old Demon: Come on, young man, come here and let's have a proper talk. We spent over a thousand years creating these sword and spear techniques, and you've learned nearly half of them in just a few years. Have ordinary martial arts geniuses-even that Tang San fellow-practice them, and they'd probably need a dozen or even several dozen years just to barely touch the realm of intent. You've touched it in a few years, and you're telling us you're dull and have no talent for martial arts?! We thought you'd need at least ten years to touch upon intent and three hundred years to cultivate it to full mastery. Now it looks like a few decades will do.

"Ye Li, you've finished absorbing them. Nothing's wrong, is it?"

"Not at all. To me, this was simply as easy as."

How could Li Ye lose face in front of his woman? Refusing to admit weakness and boasting were things men were born with, all right?

"Wait, Ye Li, look! What's that?" Liu Erlong said, her face filled with shock.

Hearing her, Li Ye immediately followed Liu Erlong's gaze.

But before he could make out what it was, a crushing sense of death surged from within his heart. Immediately afterward, Li Ye passed out.

Seeing this, Liu Erlong abandoned the Soul Bones dropped by the Titan Giant Ape and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, gathered Li Ye into her arms, and hurriedly checked his condition.

At that moment, Li Ye felt only that his soul had arrived atop a lone, magnificent peak. The surrounding sky was filled with people who had come to slaughter him.

Most of these people stood on flying swords, while a very small number stood upon the clouds.

"Demon, today is the day you meet your execution!"

Before Li Ye could say anything, the people around him commanded their flying swords and launched a fierce assault on him.

In an instant, countless flying swords pierced Li Ye's body, giving him a taste of the agony of ten thousand swords impaling his flesh.

Just as Li Ye felt he was about to die, he returned to that magnificent peak, holding a longsword as he faced tens of millions of people.

Seeing this, Li Ye desperately wanted to resist, but he was so weak that he couldn't withstand even a single flying sword. How could he possibly block the boundless sea of flying swords filling the sky?

It was as though Li Ye were enduring the punishment of ten thousand swords piercing his heart. He fell, returned to the starting point, fell again, and returned again, suffering torment over and over in an endless cycle.

After who knew how long, Li Ye felt he had already gone numb. It wasn't physical numbness but mental numbness-or rather, numbness of the soul. He didn't even have the chance to die.

Finally, at a certain moment, a figure dressed in white robes stood before Li Ye and blocked every flying sword for him.

After blocking the flying swords, the man said nothing. He simply leaped into the air and began slaughtering the people around him.

Watching the swordsmanship he used, Li Ye kept finding it familiar, but couldn't recall it for the moment.

Yet this man, alone with his sword, slew a thousand people with each step and executed ten thousand immortals with each strike. Alone, he slaughtered all the immortals and gods filling the sky, his killing intent shattering the heavens and the cosmos, the sound of heaven-slaying echoing across the boundless skies.

While marveling at the man's formidable strength, Li Ye suddenly discovered that he looked extremely similar to Sword Old Ghost-practically a younger Sword Old Ghost.

Before he could ask anything, a flash of sword light swept toward him, and Li Ye instantly jolted awake.

"Ye Li, you're awake! Hold on, we'll be out of Star Dou Forest soon. I'll take you to find a healing-type Soul Master right away. Hang on!"

"Long'er, there's nothing seriously wrong with me anymore. I'm just a little dizzy. Put me down."

"But..."

Liu Erlong was just about to say more when she felt Li Ye's restless hands beginning to misbehave again.

She immediately put Li Ye down, then leaned into his embrace and let him do as he pleased.

After a bout of affectionate entanglement, the two finally straightened their clothes and slowly walked out of the forest hand in hand.

"Ye Li, you were unconscious for three days and three nights. Is there really nothing wrong?"

"Uh, of course not. If you don't believe me, I'll prove it."

As he spoke, Li Ye tried to hop a couple of times to prove it to Liu Erlong.

Seeing this, Liu Erlong hurriedly held Li Ye back and told him to walk properly. Then she took out the Soul Bones she had dug from the Titan Giant Ape and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and handed them to him.

Looking at the Titan Giant Ape Left Hand Bone and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone in his hands, Li Ye was utterly stunned.

"Two External Soul Bones!"