Chapter 380 The Forever Silent World
It was impossible!!!
That was the first reaction in Gu Xingyun’s mind.
There was no such thing as the const.i.tution determining everything in the Dark World, but there were a few special phenomena that truly enjoyed exceptional advantages in practicing Martial Arts.
Martial Arts were the combination of body and willpower.
Heavenly King Heart made it easiest to temper the most determined willpower.
Wind and Thunder Veins made it easiest to push the limits on the strength of the body continuously.
These were the most precious innate conditions.
Dual Wind and Thunder Veins?
Gu Xingyun had never thought about this concept, not to mention that he had ever heard of it.
Tribulation, who possessed Dual Wind Veins, went further and further in the Qi-controlling Realm. He didn’t enter the Ice-condensing Realm, the Fire-flaming Realm, or the Thunder-shocking Realm. Finally, when he was infinitely close to the Invincible Realm, he directly slaughtered the East Island’s Supreme Ninja.
He was the most formidable Lord of Shadow on the list of a.s.sa.s.sins.
It was only three years since Dijiang, the one who possessed Double Thunder Veins from the w.a.n.g family of Beihai, showed up, but he led the Tiannan Freedom Corps and shocked the entire Dark World numerous times.
Before entering the Invincible Realm, Tribulation and Dijiang were enough to make Invincible Realm experts be on their guard for all possible dangers.
The strongest features of the two were focused on Li Tianlan alone.
Dual Wind Veins.
Double Thunder Veins.
That was equivalent to the potential of two w.a.n.g Shengxiao. To what horrible extent would the four veins in Li Tianlan’s body expand his potential?
Absolute power, absolute speed.
The moment Gu Xingyun thought about the future Li Tianlan, he would have a headache and even fear.
The future was illusory.
Gu Xingyun was very realistic.
But given his current state, he had no choice but to think about it.
It could be expected that in the next few years, his injuries could not fully heal.
Gu Qianchuan did not have the strength to check and balance Li Tianlan.
Li Xi had this ability, but Gu Xingyun dared not fully believe her stance.
Without the suppression of absolute force, when his injuries healed, to what terrifying extent would Li Tianlan be a few years later?
Gu Xingyun’s body shuddered instinctively.
He didn’t want to admit his fear, but he grew sadder inside.
He suddenly found that in this situation, when the future deadly threat of Kunlun City rose under his very eyes, the only thing he could expect was w.a.n.g Tianzong’s courage.
The Sword Emperor had a sword in hand, but facing the eyes of the world, the 40,000 elite troops of the Border Control Corps, and the Dongcheng Clan, did he dare to behead Li Tianlan with a sword stroke?
He had the guts to do so.
But he needed support.
But when the seriously injured Gu Xingyun was surrounded by the corps of the Dongcheng Clan, the thing that he could not give w.a.n.g Tianzong today was support.
“The future of Zhongzhou State… is going to be lively, I guess.”
Gu Xingyun lowered his head, and his voice was hoa.r.s.e with undisguised reluctance and faint anger. He wore a self-deprecating smile and said, “Dual Wind and Thunder Veins. With one sword in hand, I believe he can go anywhere freely in the future.”
“I believe it, too.”
w.a.n.g Tianzong nodded and said calmly, “But he has no chance.”
Dongcheng Wudi, sitting next to the two, turned around and looked at w.a.n.g Tianzong, his eyes indifferent. “What does Tianzong mean?”
“Nothing.”
w.a.n.g Tianzong shook his head. “The future of Zhongzhou State may be exciting and lively. But I don’t think it has anything to do with Li Tianlan.”
He held the sword Listen to the Sea next to him and slowly stood up.
The world could not see w.a.n.g Tianzong.
But the eyes of all spectators on the stand were focused on w.a.n.g Tianzong in a moment.
Under the stand, the mighty 40,000 troops suddenly stood up straight, and their killing intent soared into the sky.
Dongcheng Wudi was neither angry nor irritable.
He just looked at w.a.n.g Tianzong quietly, his eyes indifferent and determined.
That was the determination without yielding an inch.
w.a.n.g Tianzong smiled slightly.
He looked at the 40,000 orderly troops below.
It was a sea of people as far as the eye could see.
“I won’t kill him.”
w.a.n.g Tianzong whispered, “But he shouldn’t have such brilliance. Nor should the Li family.”
“Dual Wind and Thunder Veins?”
In Emperor Hall on Mount Dibing.
The conversation, which was like a chat, a negotiation, and also a confrontation, continued.
Summer Solstice saw the legendary Night Walking that only existed in the Invincible Manual.
She saw Li Tianlan’s majestic and powerful punch.
Countless words and figures were swept away by the storm of power on the screen, blood rushed into the woods with smoke and dust, and a pa.s.sage hundreds of meters long appeared in the woods.
In that punch full of death and destruction, all that Summer Solstice could see was power.
The ferocious force capable of crushing everything.
“Is he handsome or not?”
Qin Weiba’s eyes were a little blurred.
In her sight, Li Tianlan floated in the air, expressionless.
At this moment, there seemed to be endless coldness and majesty all over him.
So familiar, and yet so strange.
The sword light, the crowd, the woods, and even the heavens and the earth, all shattered and dissipated under his one punch.
He stood quietly in the air, and everything around him seemed to be fragile.
Qin Weibai laughed. Her delicate and dreamy face was full of happiness and joy, and her eyes were curved. At this moment, Qin Weibai was no longer the superior and cold G.o.ddess. She seemed to gather all the beauty and joy in the world invisibly.
It was a smile that no one dared to face.
She finally saw what she wanted to see.
She cautiously moved the chess pieces on the chessboard, and the ending didn’t let her down.
“Goodbye.”
Qin Weibai stood up, smiling softly.
Summer Solstice froze, squinting at Qin Weibai.
She said, “The maneuver is not over.”
“It was over. At the very start, as soon as Tianlan entered the maneuver area, the maneuver was over. Now it’s just that all the accidents have been snuffed out.”
Qin Weibai shook her head.
“Tianzong is still in the Sky Academy.”
Summer Solstice stared into Qin Weibai’s eyes.
Qin Weibai’s smile slowly faded, and finally, she calmly said, “So what?”
She pointed to the stack of materials on the table.
Summer Solstice had read the materials.
Qin Weibai did not lie. It was the most direct, undisguised threat.
Qin Weibai said, “Take the materials.”
She turned around and walked out of Emperor Hall.
It wasn’t until this moment that she was really completely sure that everything had come to fruition.
A new era was coming.
No other forces could suppress Li Tianlan and the East Emperor Palace.
The w.a.n.g family of Beihai couldn’t.
The Sword Emperor of Zhongzhou State couldn’t, either.
Summer Solstice did not go over the materials on the table again, nor did she send Qin Weibai off.
Her eyes fell on the screen again.
On the screen, Jiang Shangyu and Gu Hanshan stood together.
When all the elite members were wiped out, the two tried to approach w.a.n.g Shengxiao.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao still stood quietly.
The fierce Sword Energy was getting more and more violent by his side. The thick and heavy sword intent filled every inch of the s.p.a.ce, wholly wrapping w.a.n.g Shengxiao in the center.
The Sword Energy, which undulated like waves at first, was now like a sea, surging incessantly!
Gu Hanshan and Jiang Shangyu tried to approach w.a.n.g Shengxiao, but they couldn’t get close to him in the sea-like sword intent.
Gu Hanshan seemed to realize something. His face changed, and he quickly opened his mouth and shouted.
The statue-like heavy Firmament moved slightly.
Summer Solstice could not hear what Gu Hanshan was saying.
But she saw the trembling sword blade of Firmament.
The low-key, almost unknown master at the peak of the Invincible Realm sighed softly.
She felt that her son had done well today.
But there was one thing she wouldn’t ignore, either.
That was, Li Tianlan had never pulled out his sword, in addition to the sword intent that had deceived all the people on the spot.
“Are you crazy?!”
When Gu Hanshan found it impossible even to approach w.a.n.g Shengxiao, he finally realized what w.a.n.g Shengxiao was doing.
His face went a little pale for a moment. He looked at w.a.n.g Shengxiao, who was extremely quiet with his eyes closed, in disbelief.
Li Tianlan was quietly suspended in the air.
More than half of the members of the six teams were killed or injured. At this point, the maneuver was about to come to an end.
Li Tianlan was peaceful and indifferent inside.
His aura was always stable at an optimal balance point. It was not high or low, and there was no fluctuation at all.
He held the branch that he tore off at the beginning of the maneuver, and a few green leaves trembled gently.
He was as illusory as wind, but again, he was as real as the scorching sun in the sky, with the peace and fieriness that could burn everything.
He was motionless.
He waited silently for w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s strongest blow, as well as Gu Hanshan and Jiang Shangyu to join forces.
The whole world saw his word and should also see his might.
He didn’t think about the so-called Sword Emperor or Sword G.o.d of Zhongzhou State. Now he was standing here, facing his opponent.
He waited for his opponents’ strongest blows, and then wholly crushed all their counterattacks with his strongest sword.
From this day onwards, he was the Chosen One.
Without the prefix “young”.
Without the suffix “one of”.
The Chosen One should be the Chosen One, the sword was the sword, and Martial Arts were Martial Arts.
“He is more courageous than you. Whether it is fighting against the enemy or looking for one’s own path, you are a far cry from him,”
Li Tianlan said calmly.
Gu Hanshan gritted his teeth and said coldly, “I’m just more sober and calm than he is.”
He was penetrated by Li Tianlan’s sword. At this time, his body was tight, but his wounds were getting worse, and his legs were already dyed red by blood. Since he did not quit the maneuver under such circ.u.mstances, he did not feel that he lacked courage.
“Calm?”
Li Tianlan raised his eyebrows. “Under the gaze of the world, your calmness is cowardice. You lose the maneuver, courage, and boldness. When the glory of Kunlun City is gone, your Heavenly King Heart is a joke.”
“You f*cking…”
“I don’t think he’s wrong.”
A sound suddenly sounded, interrupting Gu Hanshan.
Jiang Shangyu slowly took a step forward.
Gu Hanshan frowned and asked, “What do you mean?”
“He is strong.”
Jiang Shangyu didn’t look at Gu Hanshan but just looked at Li Tianlan. “None of us is his match. But no matter how strong he is, he is not invincible in the world. We still have a chance to win. I cannot care about this maneuver, but I must get back the dignity and confidence that he shattered. I don’t want to let go of my courage while the odds are still in my favor.”
He glanced at Gu Hanshan. “Your conservativeness may be calmness. But I think it is cowardly to give up.”
“I’ll give you a chance.”
Li Tianlan’s tone was calm but revealed absolute confidence. “You will all be at my feet today. After today, you’re no longer my match.”
“Arrogance!”
Gu Hanshan’s face was livid.
Jiang Shangyu didn’t say anything. He just took a deep look at Li Tianlan, and suddenly he laughed and went straight to w.a.n.g Shengxiao.
His body became hazy, and a faint blue light covered his whole body.
Jiang Shangyu’s aura began to rise crazily, twisting s.p.a.ce and tearing the ground. His figure seemed very heavy.
“Why?!”
Gu Hanshan finally couldn’t help but ask.
Jiang Shangyu’s figure paused, and he said blandly, “To win.”
He didn’t care about Li Tianlan’s future threat, because it had nothing to do with him.
He was willing to pay what he could pay for it, all because of his most determined mind state, and… victory!
The Sword Energy that was roaring around w.a.n.g Shengxiao like tides, suddenly wholly calmed down.
It was like the sea after the tsunami, calm and silent, but it was more dangerous.
Jiang Shangyu walked into the sword intent of w.a.n.g Shengxiao.
He moved with great difficulty but did not flinch at all.
Starlight illuminated the sea-like sword intent.
Silent Sword Energy started flashing.
Gu Hanshan’s face changed. He hesitated several times but didn’t move at last.
He didn’t want to pay too much.
In his opinion, both w.a.n.g Shengxiao and Jiang Shangyu were fools.
Two fools stood side by side in the sword intent and starlight all over the sky.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao, who had been silent for a long time, finally opened his eyes.
He held the heavy sword Firmament with both hands.
The heavy sword trembled in his hands.
The Sword Energy that pervaded the whole sky dissipated, like the fall of the tide, and disappeared instantly.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao stood there.
One person and one sword.
Simple.
His imposing manner continued to rise, but his spirits began to decline slowly.
In everyone’s sight, w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s short hair lost l.u.s.ter and eventually turned pale at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
It was as if the snow had covered his head.
But his aura was more peaceful and powerful than ever.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao laughed, with white hair and a bright smile. “I still have a sword stroke.”
“Good stroke.”
Li Tianlan’s calm eyes, which had always been indifferent, became serious at last. “But that’s not enough.”
Jiang Shangyu suddenly asked, “How about my joining him?”
His spirits were also weakening, but his aura was constantly rising. He seemed to break through his limits in an instant.
The cultivation of Martial Arts was the pursuit of more extreme destructive power, from ascending the Invincible Realm at the very beginning to constantly breaking realms and growing strong in the end.
In the case of being unable to break through for the time being, the extreme personality seemed to be carved into the heart of every member of the w.a.n.g family of Beihai.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao took the opposite approach.
The same was true of Jiang Shangyu.
They didn’t break realms.
They were lowering their realms!
After all, Jiang Shangyu’s contribution was a little smaller.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao was totally gambling at the risk of everything.
He took a big step back and chased Li Tianlan’s back ever since.
Under tremendous pressure, he only had this sword stroke!
A sword stroke that represented his entire strength of the Thunder-shocking Realm!
He made a sword stroke at the cost of the entire Thunder-shocking Realm.
It was bound to be the strongest stroke he had ever made in his life while he lowered his realm.
No matter he won or lost, that was all his fighting desire.
The journey of Martial Arts was like sailing against the current. It was quite challenging to enter a new realm, and the same was true of the fall of a realm.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao clenched the hilt of his sword and took a step forward.
The distance between the two was less than 100 meters.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao kept moving forward.
He was getting faster and faster.
The heavy sword Firmament trembled madly in his hands, making a sound of howling that almost tore the eardrums!
The distance of 100 meters was shortened in an instant!
w.a.n.g Shengxiao turned into a flash of lightning.
It was the best moment of his life. His mind was at peace, without victory, defeat, future, or fetters. All he could think of was his sword.
His sword did not carry lightning, raging fire, gales, or even Sword Energy.
Everything disappeared on his heavy sword.
It was nothing but a sword!
w.a.n.g Shengxiao suddenly felt that he was extremely relaxed. His spirits seemed to be constantly sublimating.
He had never used Six Paths of Reincarnation—a technique of the w.a.n.g family of Beihai that was known in the Dark World, nor had he used any kind of unique skills.
He just stabbed straight with his sword.
He thought about nothing, so he kept on stabbing forward!
Jiang Shangyu followed him closely.
In the end, Gu Hanshan, who did not choose to lower his realm, also rushed up.
Without a sound, w.a.n.g Shengxiao and his sword came to Li Tianlan.
Li Tianlan’s body flew up.
His body kept rising and getting higher.
That branch trembled high in the sky.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao was also rising.
“Boom!”
In silence, a loud noise shaking the world suddenly sounded on the whole maneuver area.
There was still no Sword Energy or sword light on the sword Firmament.
But as the sword moved upward, everything in the surrounding area within hundreds of meters of the entire exercise area exploded with a loud bang.
Broken trunks, muddy ponds, scattered floating leaves, flying dust, together with the ruins of the teaching building and the warehouse, as well as countless rocks, were swept upward by this sword stroke!
It required not only sword intent but also speed and power!
Everything on the ground was swept up and smashed into Li Tianlan in an overwhelming fashion!
w.a.n.g Shengxiao held the sword quietly and vertically.
The simplest and most direct way!
A soft smile finally flashed through the eyes of w.a.n.g Tianzong, who saw this scene on the stand.
It looked like an ordinary sword stroke. It was not a unique skill, but it was better than a unique skill.
Given this sword stroke alone, w.a.n.g Tianzong felt that he did not come here in vain.
The sword light was getting faster and faster.
Li Tianlan was getting higher and higher.
The maneuver area was getting smaller. It was so small that one could see the full picture of the maneuver area as well as the huge training ground and the stand outside the maneuver area.
Li Tianlan saw Song Ci, who had given up partic.i.p.ating in the maneuver, rush out of the woods and charge at him, carrying a long sword with sharp sword light.
She was lowering her realm, too.
She was desperate, gentle, and decisive.
The sun was still shining.
The horizon was dark.
Gu Hanshan launched the Tenth Unique Domain with all his strength.
Starlight lit up in the Tenth Unique Domain.
The heavy sword Firmament pa.s.sed through the dark, stabbing straight forward in the starlight.
Song Ci, who had a maximum breakout of power, rushed into the pseudo domain at the same time with unparalleled sword light, like a shooting star that cut through the night sky.
There were no other enemies in Li Tianlan’s eyes.
Gu Hanshan had not lowered his realm.
But besides w.a.n.g Shengxiao and Jiang Shangyu, there was another person—Song Ci, who was lowering her realm!
The trio became a quartet.
This blow wholly surpa.s.sed the domain formed by the previous strongest one by the trio.
Li Tianlan finally lifted the branch in his hand.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s sword finally came to Li Tianlan’s side.
Everything happened in a second.
In the blink of an eye, w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s powerful aura suddenly reached its nadir.
However, the sword intent that he acc.u.mulated and condensed to the extreme, along with all his strength and physical power, burst forth in this second in the most hysterical fashion at the same time!
The sword intent and Sword Energy around the heavy sword Firmament surged at the same time.
The pseudo domain trembled at the same time as the starry sky.
A black dot appeared high in the sky.
The black dot immediately expanded and instantly became a huge vortex with a diameter of hundreds of meters.
The vortex spun wildly.
Endless Sword Energy poured down with the most naked and maniac smell of destruction.
The Sword Energy penetrated the pseudo domain and s.p.a.ce.
The s.p.a.ce within hundreds of meters was utterly distorted and shattered. The view in midair was mottled. This straight stab of the sword seemed to really tear the sky!
It was an all-out sword stroke.
At the cost of the entire Thunder-shocking Realm.
After this stroke, w.a.n.g Shengxiao would fall back to the peak of the Fire-flaming Realm.
But the power of this stroke had infinitely approached that of the true Invincible Realm!
The Sword Energy burst forth endlessly, surging in the sky and never stopping.
The pseudo domain began to compress like crazy.
Starlight diffused and then converged into fist shadows.
Song Ci, who was also lowering her realm and going all out, screamed and struck Li Tianlan with her sword.
Everything high in the sky became wholly frantic.
Bloodstains appeared on Li Tianlan’s body.
But his expression remained calm.
He erected the branch before himself.
It was sadly beautiful, like lifting a sword.
In the mottled sky, his figure seemed to disappear in a moment.
He stayed in the sight of everyone, but he seemed as illusory as a phantom.
Nevertheless, the branch in his hand, which seemed to have never existed, became real as never before.
That was Li Tianlan’s sword.
His kendo.
His all-out sword stroke as well as the perfect one he had ever performed!
It was the only comprehensive style he could fully master in his kendo.
It was the combination of Cutting the Sky and Breaking the Sea as well as the one of other sword intent.
w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s sword carried nothing. It was now a pure sword.
However, Li Tianlan’s sword became the world at this moment.
A green leaf detached from the branch and kept flying in the twisted pseudo domain.
The moment the pseudo domain collapsed, heaven and earth seemed to press against each other without reservation.
The whole world was continuously shrinking while the green leaf was flying, getting smaller and smaller and squeezing everyone’s s.p.a.ce of activity.
That green leaf constantly fluttered in the shrinking s.p.a.ce, getting bigger and bigger and occupying almost all the vision of everyone.
The lines on the leaf became clearer and clearer, carrying rotating sword intent. The whole world was so quiet that this floating leaf seemed to be the only thing left.
In the silent darkness, the light that filled the consciousness of all suddenly lit up.
The speed of the floating leaf increased sharply, and it whirled wildly with illusory but all-inclusive sword intent.
The world had never been quieter. Mountains, rivers, seas—the so-called grandeur was pulled down infinitely so that everything was so illusory. They seemed to freeze at the most unreal moment to eternity while the leaf was shuttling.
This sword stroke was wholly out of the 24 Moves of Sword.
It was the kendo that had never appeared in the Dark World.
Currently, it was Li Tianlan’s strongest stroke.
The Forever Silent World!
The floating leaf pa.s.sed through the quiet and contracting world, speeding up abruptly at a distance that seemed distant and yet near. It carried a touch of irresistible Sword Energy, real and yet illusory.
“Clang!”
The floating leaf hit the huge and heavy Firmament.
The dark, solid heavy sword was torn by the fragile, floating leaf. There were cracks all over the heavy sword, and there was even a leaf-like hole in its tip.
The leaf continued to drift. It pa.s.sed directly through w.a.n.g Shengxiao’s abdomen, penetrated Song Ci, crushed the sword of Gu Hanshan, and eventually rushed out of Jiang Shangyu’s body.
Dark red blood sprayed everywhere.
Li Tianlan, who was also covered in blood, shook his arm.
Suddenly, all the leaves on the branch in his hand flew up at the same time.
Between the reality and the illusion that the world seemed to be compressed once again, the purest darkness flashed instantly.
The world seemed to be shrinking.
A big hand appeared in the shrinking world.
The big hand was wide open.
All the fallen leaves of Li Tianlan hit the big palm one by one, and then they were crushed into powder by the big hand.
Tremendous pressure suppressed everyone, forcing them to fall madly from high above and drop to the ground.
Li Tianlan was forcibly pressed down.
But his expression was still as calm as water.
With the Forever Silent World, he defeated w.a.n.g Shengxiao, Jiang Shangyu, Gu Hanshan, and Song Ci.
Eventually, the Patriarch of the w.a.n.g family of Beihai, namely the Sword Emperor of Zhongzhou State, appeared in front of him and crushed his strongest sword intent at will.
Li Tianlan looked at w.a.n.g Tianzong indifferently.
w.a.n.g Tianzong stood before four young people.
He looked down at his palm.
The sun shed on his hand, and a drop of blood gradually appeared on his palm, dreamy and magnificent.
w.a.n.g Tianzong’s eyes contracted.