All the cultivators headed towards the Eighth Night Pillar. There were many holes in the Eighth Night Pillar, which were caused by Spiniger and its subordinate Spiniger Bugs.
Seeing that the Eighth Night Pillar wanted to escape, the sea of insects surged and charged at the Blood Colored Pavilion.
Thorny Sarcoma continued to shoot out spikes. Xue Lou's face became paler and paler, but he still persisted.
When the Eighth Night Pillar rushed towards the Continent of the Nine Clouds, he withdrew the Blood-Red Pavilion. The Blood-Red Pavilion was filled with Blood Qi. He looked ferocious and crazy. "You guys have fought enough. It's my turn now. Blood-Red Pavilion Eight Strokes!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a blood-red color filled the starry sky and engulfed the sea of insects.
After executing the Bloody Eight Styles, Xue Lou's body was dragged towards the Eighth Night Pillar by an invisible force. It was the spirit thread that bound him to the Eighth Night Pillar. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to catch up to the Eighth Night Pillar. If he stayed here, he would only be waiting for death.
Blood-red Eight Styles covered heaven and earth. Xue Lou took the opportunity to climb up the Eighth Night Pillar by following the spiritual threads. Gan Mo and the others hurriedly supported him, only to see five sharp thorns deeply inserted into his back. They almost tore Xue Lou's head apart.
Although he was not dead, Xuelou was still seriously injured.
Luckily, the eighth night pillar managed to get rid of the sea of insects and flew towards the Continent of the Nine Clouds.
The Nine Clouds Universe floated up four times. This was the battlefield of the Third Night Pillar.
Even with the speed of an Immortal Realm Grass Master, it would still take some time to transmit a message across the vast universe.
At this moment, the Third Night Pillar had yet to receive the order to retreat from the battlefield. They had to wait for this order for at least a few months.
On the battlefield, Sky Bearing was still chasing after Hua Yan. Hua Yan had killed human experts one after another, causing Sky Bearing to be filled with hatred. Other than the experts from the Third Night Pillar, there was also the Death Hill Fourth Summit who came to the battlefield with the Third Night Pillar.
The overall strength of the Third Night Pillar was not comparable to the Eighth Night Pillar. The Eighth Night Pillar had several Blood Tower Upper Imperial Disciples, especially Xuelou, who were extremely powerful.
On the other hand, the Third Night Pillar only had one Heaven Bearer and one Ku Ah Consummate who had accepted spiritual cultivation. They couldn't support the entire battlefield, which was why they had the support of Death Hill.
The leader of the Death Hill's Fourth Peak was Gu Jing. His sword swept across the battlefield. If it weren't for the experts of the Fourth Peak, the Third Night Pillar wouldn't have been able to hold on.
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After several months, Grandmaster Green Grass finally approached the battlefield of the third night pillar. However, what he saw was a calm starry sky and a calm sea of insects. There was no fighting, nothing. It was peaceful.
The Third Night Pillar retreated?
No, Grandmaster Grass saw the Third Night Pillar floating in the starry sky. There was a gigantic creature coiled around the Third Night Pillar, the Hou.
One of the four Insect Lords of the Insect Nest Civilization, Hui, was wrapped around the Third Night Pillar, and all life in the Third Night Pillar disappeared.
Grandmaster Green Grass stood in the distance and watched in a daze. The Third Night Pillar had been completely destroyed.
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In the Continent of the Nine Clouds, the Seventh Night Pillar was called the Holy Land of the Sword Dynasty. Since ancient times, many strong cultivators had carved sword skills there. As long as the Seventh Night Pillar was in the Continent of the Nine Clouds, many cultivators would come there to study sword skills.
Unfortunately, most of the sword moves were not something that these people could see. It was not that Seventh Night Pillar was holding back, but that there were some sword intents that they could not withstand.
They couldn't even reach the place where the sword moves were carved.
Gu Duanke sat in front of the stone wall, looking forward.
The stone wall was filled with sword moves. Every move and every move was infused with the blood and sweat of a cultivator. There was no one around. They had all been chased away by him.
A few days ago, news came that the Third Night Pillar had been completely destroyed.
On the third night pillar, there was a lonely silence.
Since he had received the news, he had been sitting in front of the stone wall and watching. Nobody had disturbed him. Nobody knew what Gu Duanke was thinking.
It was not until ten days later that Gu Duanke pulled out his sword and held the hilt tightly. The long sword spun in his palm, and as he struck out with his palm, the sword penetrated deep into the stone wall. Strange patterns were cut around the sword edge. They were not deep, far from the depths of the engravings of the surrounding sword moves on the stone wall. However, it was these shallow strange patterns that made all the sword wills on the stone wall dim, as if they were suppressing everything.
Gu Duanke was recognized as the best swordsman in the Continent of the Nine Clouds. He was called the first swordsman of the Continent of the Nine Clouds. Nobody had ever seen his real sword intent because nobody could make him use his sword a second time.
Some people could see the difference in strength at a glance.
When facing people who were stronger than him, Gu Duanke would not use his sword. When facing people who were weaker than him, nobody could make him use his sword a second time. That was his sword intent: the Zen Sword.
The world only knew that Gu Duanke had the sword intent of the broken sword. He gave all creatures the profound meaning of the broken sword. He could break the sword, seal the blade, erase the shape, and break the meaning. In fact, the broken sword intent came from the Zen Sword intent. His sword did not kill people, but only broke moves.
At this moment, he put the Zen Sword and the broken sword into the stone wall, waiting for the fated person. At the same time, he pushed the stone wall out of the Seventh Night Pillar.
"Night Chief?" Jian Hong shouted. He did not understand what Gu Duanke was doing.
Many cultivators of the Seventh Night Pillar looked at Gu Duanke.
Gu Duanke sighed. "The sword intent above should not be limited to the Seventh Night Pillar. If one day, the Seventh Night Pillar does not return, the efforts of these predecessors will be gone."
"From now on, I am no longer a member of the Seventh Night Pillar. The Seventh Night Pillar is no longer the holy land of the Sword Dynasty." After saying that, he smashed the stone wall into the ground outside the Seventh Night Pillar. He stepped into the void and disappeared.
Gu Duanke went up the Startled Sparrow Terrace.
In the past, the Imperial Land could not be entered unless absolutely necessary.
However, it was different now. With the arrival of war, the Startled Imperial Lord had ordered that anything related to the war could be reported to the Startled Sparrow Terrace.
Lu Yin was sitting on the Startled Sparrow Terrace at this moment. From time to time, he would scan the ground with his consciousness. This place was very convenient for him to check with his consciousness, even though it was a little far from the ground.
This place was also convenient for the Startled Imperial Lord to inform him of the news at any time.
Gu Duanke came and sat down beside Lu Yin. He looked very casual.
Lu Yin did not look at him. He knew that Gu Duanke would come because Gu Jing was dead.
When the news of the Third Night Pillar's destruction spread to the Nine Heavens, it caused a huge uproar.
The Death Hill's Fourth Peak also spread along with the news of the Third Night Pillar's destruction.
Gu Jing and Gu Duanke were definitely related. Even though Gu Jing wanted to surpass Gu Duanke to become the Nine Heavens Sword Head and even kill Gu Duanke, their relationship was not ordinary.
"Mister Lu, can you do me a favor?"
"Speak."
"Go to the battlefield and drag the Third Night Pillar back."
Lu Yin's eyes moved. "Do you want to drag the Third Night Pillar back or Gu Jing back?"
Gu Duanke said, "It's the same. Since she is dead, the Third Night Pillar has to come back at least to give him an explanation."
Lu Yin looked at Gu Duanke. "What's your relationship with Gu Jing?"
Gu Duanke pondered for a moment and said slowly, "How many friends can a person have in their life?"
Lu Yin did not answer. This was a question that did not need to be answered.
"Not many, especially for cultivators. They have even fewer friends. Do you have a friend that you can entrust everything to?" "I have one.
Her name is Jing. She is a very straightforward woman. She is not scheming and has a bad temper. She likes to punish evil. Such a person can't survive in the cultivation world. Fortunately, she has an extremely high talent in swordsmanship. Whenever an enemy comes looking for her, she can always break through faster than them and kill the enemy with her own hands. In her words. "
Gu Duanke laughed and reminisced. "It saves me the time to look for you. Thank you. You finally did something good before you died."
Lu Yin raised his eyebrows. These words instantly made him think of the woman called Serenity.
She was clearly such a person, but why was she called Jing?
Jing as in Gu Jing.
"It was a misunderstanding that I met her. We were both swordsmanship geniuses. We fought and killed each other until the misunderstanding was resolved.
Finally, we became siblings. "
Lu Yin was speechless.
He could not help but look at Gu Duanke.
"Jing's talent in sword dao is high, and she's able to adapt to the circumstances. As for me, I'm obsessed with sword dao. We've known each other for a long time, and we've sparred for a long time. Gradually, she couldn't give me any help in sword dao, so I crazily looked for people to test my sword. Sometimes, I couldn't hold back, and the blood debt grew. The cultivation world doesn't care about right or wrong.
Gu Duanke closed his eyes and was full of regret. "Who said that it does not care about right or wrong?
Did she deserve to be killed by you?
Just to fulfill your swordsmanship?
She also had her own life. There was no hatred. Why did she kill you?
I was wrong. I was really wrong. Jing helped me pay for this mistake. "
"I won a swordsmanship test, and she lost a swordsmanship test. She followed in my footsteps. Under the premise that I did not know, she adopted a child. In order to pay the debt, she took the initiative to accept the cultivation spirit and used it to pay the debt for me. When I found out, it was too late."
"She bore all the sins for me to make up for my mistakes. In the end, she died under the sword of others."
Gu Duanke was silent.
Lu Yin was silent too. Such a woman was admirable, even though she was stupid.
Everyone had their own way of dealing with things. She was stupid, but she succeeded.
"When I found out about this, I had a great realization. I put down my sword. I put it down for a thousand years. When I picked it up again, my swordsmanship had changed. I did not need to test my swordsmanship against others. I improved every day. My swordsmanship became stronger every minute and every second. I became the leader of the Continent of the Nine Clouds Sword."
"In the entire Continent of the Nine Clouds, nobody can compete with me in swordsmanship, except for the unfathomable Supreme God."
"But I was not happy at all. I was tired. I wanted to put down my sword and live in seclusion. If I had let go of the seventh night pillar, I would not have persisted until now."
"Until I found out about his existence."
Lu Yin said, "Gu Jing?"
Gu Duanke nodded. "His real name was not Gu Jing. He was adopted by Jing. He saw Jing test her swordsmanship again and again for me. She failed miserably again and again until she died. He hated me to the core."
"I knew about him, but I pretended not to know about his background. I praised his talent in swordsmanship and accepted him as a disciple. I gave him the name Gu Jing and nurtured him."
"Unfortunately, before I knew about him, he had already started cultivating. Otherwise, his future would not have been like this."
Lu Yin did not understand. "Then why did he join Death Hill?"
Gu Duanke said, "Because he thought that he would not be able to improve from me. I don't even know how I became stronger. I abandoned my sword for a thousand years and gained enlightenment. He could not understand this kind of mentality, so he joined Death Hill. He wanted to walk the same path as I did."
"He did not look for people to test his swordsmanship on, but he could kill people who violated the rules of Death Hill. Those who violated the rules were not weak. These people were just there to test his swordsmanship. He hoped that one day, he could surpass me and even kill me to avenge his foster mother. I am also waiting for that day."
Lu Yin gazed into the distance. This story was very heavy.