In the south lay Green Mountain, within Green Mountain lay Hidden Peak, and among its peaks stood a cave abode.
Perhaps because Tong Yan's story was so good, the cave abode's stone door had not closed this time.
Zhao Layue and the others walked out of the cave abode and discovered that the Unthought Sword and Universe Edge had already vanished beyond the horizon, no longer visible.
This was a speed neither she nor Gu Qing could achieve, no matter what they did.
Leaving the cave abode did not mean they could leave Hidden Peak. They stood among the lush green peaks in silence.
A white line suddenly appeared in the sky, with a flying sword at its very tip.
Immediately afterward, countless white lines combed across the blue sky. Countless swords were leaving Green Mountain for the north, like rain sweeping sideways, or an enormous white ribbon.
At the sight, Yuan Qu's mouth fell open in shock, Zhuo Rusui's eyes widened in shock, and Gu Qing looked utterly bewildered, thinking, What is going on?
Zhao Layue remembered something from many years ago.
That day, she and Jing Jiu had been preparing to enter Haizhou City. The Pure Heaven Bureau was hunting them relentlessly, and powerful cultivators of the orthodox path had gathered in great numbers. She had been somewhat worried, and Jing Jiu had asked her a question.
"Have you ever heard of a sword technique that descends from the sky?"
Some years earlier, while she and Jing Jiu were walking through Sword Peak, the swords among the peaks had suddenly grown restless. She had asked what was happening, and Jing Jiu had asked her that question again.
Now, of course, she knew what this sword strike descending from the sky was, or rather, what it meant.
"This is