Sword Venerables speed was very fast, but it was still no match for the tsunamis terrifying waves.
Almost in the blink of an eye, that frightening towering giant wave instantly swallowed the small boat carrying Sword Venerable and Solon completely.
Bang… That sturdy wooden small boat, at this moment, seemed like a paper toy and was instantly torn to pieces.
And Solon and Sword Venerable were directly slapped by the giant wave straight to the depths of the seabed.
The force of this instant slap was not several thousand jin, nor several tens of thousands of jin, but an even more astonishing and terrifying force.
At this moment, if Solon relied solely on his own cultivation and body, there was only one result, that he would be thoroughly smashed to pieces and turned into minced meat.
At that time he would definitely die without doubt, even with the Demon Star inside his body.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao hesitated for a moment, then surged out incomparably powerful dragon power and completely protected both himself and Solon.
Because he still had many puzzles that needed Solon to solve.
Boom… The heaven shaking giant wave fiercely slapped onto the bodies of the two men.
Even with Sword Venerable Bi Xiaos dragon power protection, the heaven shaking force still slapped fiercely onto Solon.
Almost instantly, he felt the entire heaven and earth completely overturn. His eyes suddenly went black and he instantly lost all sensation.
…
When he opened his eyes and woke up again, he was already deep inside the closed door cultivation cave of Bi Xiao.
Next, it was once again the time that decided Solons life and death, and once again the time to test his wisdom and will.
At this time Bi Xiao sat cross legged on the ground, closing his eyes to regulate his breathing. His aged face carried a trace of defeated aura.
It was obvious that although he had escaped with his life while bringing Solon in this tsunami, it had also brought him internal injuries.
The moment Solon woke up, Sword Venerable Bi Xiao also opened his eyes.
Do you need me to ask? Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said.
Solon shook his head and said, The first thing you want to know is why I came back to life?
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao nodded.
I do not know either, Solon shook his head and said. It was as if at a certain instant I came back to life. Inside a very strange space, that space was a piece of nothingness without boundaries. I kept running and running, but it was always boundless and endless, and I could not see a second person. Apart from me there was nothing else in existence.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said, That is because I pushed you into the Heavenly Tomb coffin, and the nothingness world you spoke of is your spiritual domain.
It should be, Solon said.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said, Do you mean the Heavenly Tomb brought you back to life?
Solon nodded and said, Perhaps I was not completely dead originally. It was my body that died, but my soul and spirit were not completely dead. After entering the Heavenly Tomb, I gained another kind of immortality.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao thought for a while, neither agreeing with Solon nor denying him.
The second matter, why were you able to come out from inside the Heavenly Tomb? Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said. In this world, no one can come out from inside.
Solon said, Not long after I entered the Heavenly Tomb world you spoke of, I was attacked by a powerful spiritual woman. Although she also could not move and could not invade my spiritual domain, her spiritual power was incomparably powerful. She directly launched attacks outside my brain domain, causing resonance in the brain waves inside my brain and creating all kinds of illusions inside my mind. Incredibly frightening illusions, incredibly… seductive beauty illusions, and terrifying noise illusions.
That is the female priestess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple. She wanted to kill you, Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said. Because the Heavenly Tomb is the greatest secret of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple. Any intruder must die.
Solon said, She attacked me so crazily, thousands of times, tens of thousands of times. My spirit was already on the verge of destruction and collapse. She was about to deliver the fatal blow to me and thoroughly kill my spirit.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said, What illusion did she create for your fatal blow?
Solon said, The nightmare I fear most deep in my heart, my sister committing suicide in front of me.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao was silent for a moment, glanced at Solon, and said, You, you and your sister, have an improper relationship?
The sister in his mouth naturally referred to Suo Ning Bing.
Solon nodded bitterly, acting extremely realistically.
Of course he would not tell Sword Venerable that he was impersonating Solon and therefore had no blood relation with Suo Ning Bing. It was just that deliberately leaking this most private scandal of his to the other party would instead easily gain the other partys trust.
But… what he had not expected was that Sword Venerables face became incomparably desolate and painful. In his aged eyes there flashed quickly a painful yet sweet memory.
Solons heart trembled instantly. He seemed to have learned certain things he should not know.
For example, why Sword Venerable was willing to hand over his territory? Perhaps because he too had once had an improper romance?
Because his scandal had already been known by the royal family? If he did not act with high moral integrity and offer his territory, what he faced would be complete destruction, not only himself but also the destruction of his beloved.
This was perhaps the true secret why Bi Xiao was willing to reveal his familys territory?
Solons shocked expression flashed past, then he pretended as if he knew nothing.
And then? Sword Venerable Bi Xiao quickly restrained all his emotions and continued asking.
Solon said, Then, when that female priestess launched the fatal attack, I made a desperate counterattack and killed her.
Impossible, Sword Venerable said. The spiritual power of a heavenly buried priestess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple is incomparably powerful, a thousand times or ten thousand times yours. Their faith is incomparably pure and sincere, their will incomparably firm. It is not something you can counterattack.
Solon said, That is correct, but the moment she is at her strongest is also the moment she is at her weakest. When she delivers the fatal blow to me, it is also the moment she has no defence at all.
Sword Venerable said, That makes sense, but even so, with your spiritual power you fundamentally cannot interfere with her spiritual domain.
Correct, Solon said. But what if I use the energy she herself releases to backlash against her? With a very small spiritual power attack I can detonate her incomparably powerful spiritual power. Because when she attacks me, the spiritual power she releases is both powerful and unstable. As long as the energy frequency is found correctly, it can be easily detonated to backlash.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao was not as high in spiritual domain attainment as in sword technique. But after all he was the top swordsman in the world, and a swordsman in the end would definitely involve the spiritual domain. Therefore in spiritual cultivation he was also very profound.
He closed his eyes and deduced slightly. Sword Venerable felt that Solons words were at least theoretically valid.
Even so, how firm is her willpower? How could she collapse so easily? Sword Venerable questioned. The faith of a female priestess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple is incomparably noble and pure.
Solon said, Because the nightmare memory that was stirred up in her completely overturned her faith.
What nightmare? Sword Venerable asked.
Solon said, When she was three years old, her parents were killed by someone, and the killer was her most beloved master, the master she regarded as her lifelong idol, that great cultivator of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
So that is how it is! This matter was indeed enough to overturn anyones faith and cognition. And once the faith of a saintess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple was overturned, her spiritual world would also be thoroughly destroyed, because faith was already her everything.
Sword Venerable eased the aggressive look in his eyes.
Then how did you come out from the Heavenly Tomb? Sword Venerable asked. In this world, no one can come out.
Solon said, After killing that female priestess, I cultivated the latter four moves of the Nine Swords of Calamity inside. However, just when I was cultivating the ninth sword of Calamity, suddenly the Heavenly Tomb world shook violently as if heaven and earth were collapsing and thoroughly shattered.
Sword Venerable nodded. The person who was heavenly buried had her spirit already dead, so the Heavenly Tomb self destructed. This was very reasonable.
Solon continued, Then I seemed to wake up from countless layers of dreams and returned to the real world. After opening my eyes I saw a woman without a single thread on her. She was that heavenly buried female priestess. Immediately after her body also turned to ashes and smoke. Then I desperately escaped from the Heavenly Tomb cave, and then I saw you. Everything that happened afterwards you already know.
Ninety nine percent of his words were true. There was almost not a single false sentence. He had only hidden a very small part of the content. For example the Demon Star, and for example that he had devoured the female priestesss incomparably powerful spiritual power.
Sword Venerable said, Did that heavenly buried female priestess tell you any secrets of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple?
Solon shook his head and said, No. We could not even have any communication between us. She did not know who I was and did not know what I was thinking. She only released spiritual attacks of specific frequencies to create fear, desire and irritability illusions inside my brain, wanting to make my spirit thoroughly destroyed.
He was not lying. The female priestess indeed had not told him any secrets of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple and there had been no direct communication at all.
Everything that needed to be said had already been said.
Next, it was time to pronounce Solons fate. Would Sword Venerable kill him or not?
Now, this Heavenly Tomb had already been thoroughly destroyed, so it was no longer a secret that required killing to silence.
At this time, the only reason for Sword Venerable to kill Solon was that he had indirectly destroyed the Heavenly Tomb. Once the Divine Dragon Holy Temple knew, he, Sword Venerable, would also undoubtedly die.
And Solon was the only person who knew.
Just based on this one reason, Sword Venerable had the necessity to kill Solon.
Even an extremely tiny reason is enough for me to kill you, Sword Venerable said. And the only reason stopping me from killing you is that I have already killed you once. Killing you a second time, I would have psychological obstacles.
Sword Venerable once again raised the wooden sword and said, But I cannot take any risk. If the Divine Dragon Holy Temple knows that I have always been searching for the Heavenly Tomb and even indirectly destroyed one Heavenly Tomb, then I will undoubtedly die.
Solon said, I cannot leak this secret, because I directly destroyed the Heavenly Tomb.
Correct, you indeed will not leak it on your own initiative, Sword Venerable said. But if you fall into the hands of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple, you will not be able to keep any secret in your heart. Even if there is the slightest possibility, I must eliminate the future trouble.
Sword Venerable placed the wooden sword on Solons neck.
Last time, I killed you, but for some reason you did not die completely, Sword Venerable said. Then if I directly chop off your head, you should not be able to come back to life again.
Solons heart trembled.
If his head was chopped off, let alone the Demon Star, even immortals could not save him.
And at this moment, Night Startled Feathers voice came from outside the cave, Master, are you inside? There is only one day left until your duel with Gui Qin Shao.
Then Night Startled Feather tried to walk in. But she was blocked by a wave of energy and could not advance an inch.
Solon did not respond. Instead he directly closed his eyes and waited for Sword Venerables verdict, life or death?
At this time he could completely say top secrets to save himself.
For example, there were memory fragments of the female priestess inside his brain, so there would be information about the Dragon Emperor. It was just that he needed to wait for time to settle so these memory fragments could become orderly inside his brain.
Or for example, the word tomb written in the Nine Swords of Calamity referred to him.
Or for example, the Dragon Emperor came from another world called Earth, and he and the Dragon Emperor came from the same world.
He could even say that he himself was the Demon Star that destroys the world in the language of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
But he said nothing. He was not that stupid.
Then he and Sword Venerable just confronted each other like this.
The sword in Sword Venerables hand could lightly fall and chop off Solons head, thoroughly killing him.
Outside, Night Startled Feathers voice became more and more worried and more and more urgent as she desperately tried to rush in.
Solon just closed his eyes like this, saying nothing and asking for nothing.
Then…
He did not know how long had passed. He opened his eyes. The wooden sword was still on his neck, but Sword Venerable had already disappeared.
Inside the entire cave there was only him alone.
Next, a hot female figure rushed in and hugged Solon, saying, Master, what happened to you? Are you alright?
Looking at Night Startled Feathers worried and anxious face, Solon shook his head and said, I am fine.
He looked around. Sword Venerables figure could not be seen at all.
In that instant just now, between him and Sword Venerable, it was a collision of wisdom and also a collision of will.
Sword Venerable knew that he still had secrets he had not spoken, and they were very crucial secrets. Therefore he tried to use death to force Solon to speak and save himself.
However Solon was not that naive and said nothing.
Thus Sword Venerable gave up the spiritual blackmail, and to avoid the awkwardness of meeting after Solon opened his eyes, he directly drifted away.
But without doubt, from now on there would be an extra pair of eyes behind Solon.
Sword Venerable would definitely stare at his every move. Once any information about the Dragon Emperor or the Heavenly Tomb appeared, he would definitely appear in front of Solon.
Let us go. We will descend the mountain and return to Coastal City to participate in the duel, Solon said.
Then he and Night Startled Feather descended Mist Mountain, arrived at the seaside, boarded a ship, and returned to the Coastal City territory.
Several hours later, the land ahead could already be vaguely seen.
Solon smiled and said, At this moment Gui Qin Shao does not know whether she hopes I appear or hopes I do not appear.
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At this time, inside City Lord Gui Xing Fus mansion, a high sword platform had already been built.
All the guests had already taken their seats completely.
Although this duel would have no suspense at all and the result had already been decided.
But they were still full of anticipation, after all it would be very, very interesting.
Ten days ago, the people who had attended Solons welcoming banquet were now all gathered under the sword platform, waiting for this bizarre and extremely uneven battle.
And Gui Qin Shao, wearing tight sword attire, accentuated her devilish curves even more shockingly.
She was currently sitting on the sword platform, closing her eyes to rest, with a wooden sword in her hand.
Her figure was really too explosive, especially the nearly exaggerated explosive curves of her waist and hips. Because she was sitting cross legged, her small waist really looked as elastic and slender as a snake. The round hips below swelled dramatically. That full and round beautiful flesh almost seemed about to burst the clothes and pants.
Such a peerless delicate beauty with such high martial arts and sword techniques, it was truly unknown which man in the world could have the fortune to enjoy her.
And under the high platform, almost all the mens gazes fell on Gui Qin Shaos devilish delicate body curves.
Only one mans gaze fell on Gui Qin Shaos face. His gaze was filled with absolute possessiveness.
He was the attendant of Prince Zhi Li, the future highest military commander of the kingdom, the most outstanding young talent in the entire Furious Wave Kingdom, Ling Ao!
At this moment, seeing all the mens crazy and fiery gazes, Ling Ao felt full of disdain and pride in his heart.
Gui Qin Shao, this woman who drives all men crazy, belongs to me. Only I am worthy of such a beautiful, such outstanding, such hot woman. This was the only monologue in Ling Aos heart.
As for Solon? That destined fool who was going to perish was at most just a tragedy.