Chapter 2375: I Sever the Mountain Peak Below the Mountain

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In the year 3917 of the Daoli calendar, a young man named Jiang Wang, who was on the verge of death, stumbled upon an Opening Meridian Pill in a pool of thick blood and broken flesh outside a dilapidated Daoist temple named "Huanzhen."

That was the great Heavenly Pride of Great Chu, Zuo Guanglie, and it was the Tianyuan Great Pill he had prepared for his younger brother, Zuo Guangshu.

All stories begin from this point.

In the benevolence of the battle, Zuo Guanglie protected the dying beggar inside the Huanzhen Temple.

Zuo Guanglie's persistent heart before death was what caused only this pill to remain after the explosion of the Zhu Rong seed.

But also, Li Yi, who came with a sword from the west and killed Zuo Guanglie, silently permitted all of this to happen.

Jiang Wang inherited Zuo Guanglie's karma, yet he also had to bear a share of Li Yi's favor in leaving the pill. The Tianyuan Great Pill was extremely precious, although he might not have cared. In a certain sense, that was his spoils of war. Although after killing Zuo Guanglie, he sought nothing.

At that time, the sick beggar who remained in the broken temple was less than an ant, whether he lived or died no one cared. How could the other beggars, who were the same as ants, have not died hastily in the aftermath of the battle? Was that not profound enough?

So Jiang Wang will draw his sword against Li Yi, but absolutely not bully in the dark, nor harbor hatred. He will only issue an upright and frank challenge, letting Long Xiang Si whistle for Zuo Guanglie today.

Today, he has already become... what Zuo Guanglie did not become.

Today, he has already created a legend that Zuo Guanglie never even created.

Jiang Wang's challenge to Li Yi is the champion of the inner mansion field at the Yellow River Meeting in Daoli 3919, drawing his sword on behalf of the champion of the inner mansion field at the Yellow River Meeting in Daoli 3909.

The one he challenged is precisely the champion of the unrestricted field at the Yellow River Meeting in Daoli 3919.

Two Yellow River Meetings, three Yellow River champions, a fated intersection outside the Huanzhen Temple twelve years ago.

All are in this sound.

All are in this sword cry that resounds throughout the Central Plains and shakes the world.

"Li Yi!!!"

Between heaven and earth, there were infinite echoes.

On the side of Cloud Terrace, he suddenly straightened up!

He had originally been silently watching this battle, although he felt it was wonderful, he was too lazy to lift his eyelids more, like a fish on the shore on the verge of death, only leaving a casual image of himself in this world. At this moment, his whole body was shocked, stiffly standing there—as if he had finally died thoroughly.

The emotions in his heart were indescribable!

Many years ago, he traveled the world with his master, Xiang Fengqi, and witnessed Xiang Fengqi's unmatched name. He also immediately witnessed Xiang Fengqi fall like a meteor.

Today, he has also come to the Central Domain with Jiang Wang, and also witnessed Jiang Wang defeat Lou Yue and become an unmatched True Person.

Today's Jiang Wang... has already replaced the name.

He is not the Xiang Fengqi of the new era, he is the Jiang Wang of this era.

But Jiang Wang is not satisfied.

He already surpasses Xiang Fengqi in existence, but still wants to complete something that Xiang Fengqi never did—

He wants to challenge the Yan Dao with his Cave True body!

The so-called "Ancient Fame" and this unmatched "Shi" (势) of course are not just "name" alone.

If Lou Yue walked this path and reached the absolute peak, in the forest of Yan Dao, he would be considered a strong one, and his hope of transcendence could increase. So he has stopped here for many years contending for fame, comparing himself with Huangfu for a lifetime's height and low. Until his path forward was completely cut off by Long Xiang Si, he finally decided to move forward.

Now that Jiang Wang is standing here, this unmatched "Shi" in the world, the recognition that people all over the world must give when they hear of this battle, is a kind of power!

With the world's "Shi" on his shoulders, and the world's gaze bearing on his body, this heavy weight is also power.

Only by carrying this great "Shi" can such a challenge be possible.

Although he desires to challenge the Yan Dao with his Cave True, he does not seek nameless people—of course, at the absolute peak of Yan Dao, there are no nameless ones. But within the forest of the absolute peak, there are indeed differences in strength.

Xiang Fengqi of yesteryear, Jiang Wang of today. Two unmatched strong ones of the Cave True realm, in the final step of the unmatched road, both want to ultimately sublimate themselves, and both choose to challenge a contemporary, famous, and peak-state Yan Dao True Monarch.

Jiang Mengxiong, who killed You Qinxu, the first person in the Central Plains with a single punch that year, and now Li Yi, who is unmatched in the world!

The so-called "enemy of the flying sword path," "swan song of the era," the so-called "legacy of Zuo Guanglie," "friendship of the Zuo family," all count as the karma between them, the mortal world ties behind the challenge.

Only the swords in their palms, their world-shaking extraordinary powers, are the necessities for the challenge to proceed.

If the challenger were not Xiang Fengqi, Jiang Mengxiong would not even look at him twice, let alone punch him.

By the same principle, if it were not Jiang Wang speaking today, no one would feel that this matter truly exists and can indeed happen!

In the sky, only a clear light flashed, and powerful figures descended instantly, one after another!

Quietly looking at their silhouettes, each one had a different demeanor.

Dou Zhao, Zhong Xuanzun, Huang Sheli, Qin Zhizhen, Cang Ming, Zhong Xuan, Ju Kui!

All the members of Tai Xu Ge arrived, more complete than the past few Tai Xu meetings!

Since the creation of Tai Xu Ge, the Tai Xu Wuju has never been used on such a large scale uniformly.

I don't know if the Tai Xu Dao Master will have some feelings. But He must also be observing this impending struggle in some way—

This also counts as the first formal confrontation between members of Tai Xu Ge.

A Cave True challenging the absolute peak is absolutely impossible.

But this True Person is named "Jiang Wang."

Within all impossibilities, possibility grows.

Ji Jinglu was surprised, Ji Bainian was silent, Ji Jianrong drank a cup by himself!

And the clouds in the sky floated over again, with the expressionless Ji Qingnu standing on the cloud.

Ji Bainian looked at him: "Did Rui Wang not say he was busy and couldn't come?"

Ji Qingnu, who had just gotten out of the sedan chair and had not yet had time to knock open the gate of Yu Fu, brushed off the non-existent dust on his sleeves: "I've come to see Tai Yu True Monarch!"

"Then..." Ji Jinglu pondered for a moment: "Tai Yu, eh?"

Jiang Wang carried the "Shi" of great victory, his voice transmitted through one domain, shaking the world.

But fundamentally, he did not receive an immediate response.

No matter what, Jiang Wang had already issued a challenge, and not making a sound is also not a good thing. Spreading it out would lead to thinking that the True Monarch fears a True Person, or that Jing Guo does not dare to do anything to Jiang Wang.

Of course, Li Yi would not care about these.

But the people of Jing Guo on the scene could not but care for him.

"Still in closed-door cultivation, right? It's not time for him to come out yet," Ji Jianrong said.

Li Yi does not have the saying of "time to come out," that is after joining Tai Xu Ge, the matter of leaving Tianxia City, he will only regularly come out of seclusion to attend at the time when each Tai Xu meeting is convened.

"I think he fundamentally won't watch the battle," Ji Bainian said. "What does Lou Yue and Jiang Wang sparring have to do with him?"

"Tai Yu doesn't care about anything, including Jiang Wang's challenge today. He only cares about his cultivation—do you want to go and call him?" Ji Qingnu asked.

But this question no longer needed a follow-up.

Because above the sky, a sword cry rang out—

As if the heavens wanted to rain, yet lighter and more agile than thunder.

There was an illusion of paper edges brushing past the ears, causing a sensation of thin pain.

Within the entire range of Jing Guo, all the long swords that cried in response were cut off by such a sword cry.

It wasn't exactly cut off.

Just as this sword cry sounded, all other sword cries were suppressed and could no longer be heard.

With this sword cry, all sword weapons in the world were silent!

Only Long Xiang Si, tied to Jiang Wang's side above this Cloud Terrace, was still crying discontentedly.

But pressed down by Jiang Wang, it did not come out of its sheath.

Li Yi, in white clothes carrying a sword, just so abruptly appeared before Jiang Wang. There was no trajectory of flight, no ripple of space to be seen.

His appearance here seemed as if he was originally meant to be here.

With heaven and earth as the dome, he resides within it.

All mortal world karma is like flowing wind, not disturbing his cultivation.

It was always an extremely simple posture, one person, one sword, one hairband, one clean and tidy white garment.

There was no overly magnificent momentum, but no one could ignore his existence.

At this time, Lou Yue had already retreated, returning to his home in Ying Tian Fu. Li Yi had just ascended the stage, facing Jiang Wang.

So calmly facing each other.

Their first time facing each other like this was at Guan He Tai.

At that moment, Li Yi was the youngest True Person in history whom no one dared to face with a single sword, breaking the historical limit of no Cave True within thirty years old. Later, this title was replaced by Jiang Wang.

Now Li Yi is the youngest True Monarch in history, and this record will evidently be broken by Jiang Wang again.

They are both people who constantly create new history in an era where Heavenly Prides are parallel.

Everyone felt that they were originally meant to face each other like this.

And just as Ji Jianrong and the others said, Li Yi was indeed in closed-door cultivation.

But unlike what they said—

From Jiang Wang's challenge, Li Yi did care.

As early as at Guan He Tai, he asked Jiang Wang, why did my sword cry.

And after ten years, Jiang Wang sent back the answer—

Because before you suddenly realized, your sword already understood... it met an opponent!

Crying ten years ago, contending ten years later!

Bai Yuxia sneakily moved to Xiang Qian's side, bumped Xiang Qian's arm, and bumped this stiffly straight dead fish eye back from intense emotions.

Xiang Qian came back to his senses, only to find something extra in his hand.

"What is it?" He lowered his head to look.

Bai Yuxia said earnestly: "Just wear it. To ward off evil."

Xiang Qian was silent for a moment: "This seems to be for suppressing evil."

"Our custom in Langya is to use it to ward off evil," Bai Yuxia said. "Don't think too much, I also have one."

Saying so, he took out a second Lei Zun Suppressing Evil and Bringing Fortune jade, quickly hung it around his neck.

Then he also helped Xiang Qian hang one on.

This was truly a too important battle.

No matter how solemn and serious it is, it is not excessive.

As the shopkeeper, Bai Yuxia was doing his messy efforts—if worshiping gods was useful, he could give three Dao Zuns a kowtow now.

As the boss, Jiang Wang only raised his sword.

At this moment, in his eyes, there was only his sword, and his opponent. Only this battle he had waited for a long time.

He held the sheath horizontally in front of his body: "This sword is named 'Long Xiang Si,' born in Nanyao, following me through battles in various heavens. Ground with blood and fire, tempered with steel bones. One cycle, one cry, wishing for all under heaven to know. The sword's edge is not stained with blood, it is all strong ones leaving regrets. Now with this sword, I request instruction from Tai Yu True Monarch."

Li Yi lowered his head and looked at his own sword, then raised his head: "My sword has no name, born in my palm, existing with my Dao Pulse. If I must give it a name. Just call it... 'One.'"

Li Yi's One.

The One that gives birth to Two, and Two gives birth to Three.

The most concrete, most minute existence in the Source Sea.

What a sharp name!

Innately born with the Dao Pulse, this sword roams within it.

Li Yi paused for a moment, seeming to feel that he should still say something, whether out of politeness, or conventional habit. Thus he said: "Your challenge, I accept."

True Monarch, teacher of heaven and earth.

This one word, a decree like destiny. The cloud sea spread out, vast and boundless.

Jiang Wang sought battle, Li Yi promised.

Two True Strong ones who constantly refresh the history of cultivation, discarding their identities as members of Tai Xu Ge, face each other on this occasion, contend on this occasion!

Still infinitely in all directions, heaven is not the absolute top. Still each follows heaven's fate.

The battle began under the gaze of all.

Right here above Jing Guo, upon the Cloud Terrace!

Jiang Wang drew his sword for the first time!

The clang did not stop for a moment.

One sound was of the strongest True Person named Jiang Wang, drawing out the world-famous sword Long Xiang Si.

One sound was of that Immortal Dragon Dharma Body, whose glory had manifested who knows when, ethereal and high suspended behind Jiang Wang, raising a hand in a gesture—the Yanfu Sword Prison, constantly evolving infinite sword styles, actually manifested as a sword shape, grasped in his palm.

This glorious Immortal Dragon Dharma Body was still as clear and elegant as in the past, only on its forehead, a frost-colored heavenly pattern was printed. This made him a little more indifferent amidst the immortal elegance.

Above the sky of True Person Jiang Wang, was a heavenly dome covered with spreading frost.

Infinite sword qi connected to heaven, pulling the heavenly dome down.

Beneath the feet of the Immortal Dragon Dharma Body, was a bottomless void.

Including the cloud sea, all were sinking, annihilating everything, self and others did not exist.

Heaven tilted northwest, earth sank southeast!

Jiang Wang, with the Immortal Dragon Dharma Body, simulated a sword immortal substituting for the Heavenly Way. He merged these two Dao sword styles, tip to tip, exhibiting unparalleled killing power.

In an instant, he shook this world!

Different from Lou Yue's palm universe, where all Hongmeng birth and destruction were in his palm.

Jiang Wang, who grasped the unmatched "Shi" at this moment, was truly shaking the present world!

At least the heaven and earth within the range of Jing Guo instantly approached the edge of collapse. The heavenly phenomena, which were with difficulty maintaining order, all showed signs of chaos at this moment—the blazing sun in the east, flying snow in the west. Cold and heat embraced each other.

Even Ji Jinglu and the North Heavenly Master Wu Daoyou, who had flown over from the side of the field who knows when, had to immediately act to collect the residual waves outside the field.

The country protection great array that covered Jing Guo and influenced the entire Central Domain all quietly and silently began to operate.

This was indeed power infinitely approaching the limit of the present world.

But after all, it did not truly arrive.

Between the Cave True and the Yan Dao, there is a clear limit.

Jiang Wang was standing below the mountain, tiptoeing up, his sword chopping at the mountaintop.

And Li Yi on the mountaintop, his sword, occurred before all this.

That was a "horizontal," that was a "line."

It was clearly embodied within this world where heaven tilted and earth sank, yet it chopped down before heaven tilted and earth sank.

So that glorious Immortal Dragon Dharma Body had actually already collapsed.

That style of "earth sinking southeast" was completely chopped out by inertia—it was precisely this thorough collapse that did not affect his actions at all, that truly showed the profoundness of Li Yi's sword.

The world all knows that the fundamental Dao canon of Da Luo Mountain's cultivation is the "Hunyuan Jiang Sheng Jing."

It is as famous as Yu Jing Mountain's "Zixu Gao Miao Tai Shang Jing" and Peng Lai Island's "Gao Sheng Tai Shang Yu Chen Jing."

But in fact, the fundamental Dao canon of Da Luo Mountain's cultivation still has one part, its name—"Kaihuang Mo Jie Jing."

It is passed down through a single generation, sometimes even skipping a generation.

It is only for "fated ones" that the canon is passed down.

Li Yi is the contemporary cultivator of the "Kaihuang Mo Jie Jing."

He controls the power of the End Tribulation.

His sword is "One."

But at the moment he draws his sword, his sword is the sword of the End Tribulation.

The exterminating sword that shakes the present world is also exterminated within the End Tribulation!

Jiang Wang, who manifested the Ten Thousand Immortals True State Sword Immortal Person for the first time, was also inevitably going to receive a sword.

His person and his body shone brightly on Cloud Terrace. His sword and his "Shi" destroyed heaven and earth.

Afterward, the scattered clear light and sword light of the chaotic flow, as if witnessing the sad dance of the Immortal Domain and the Yanfu Sword Prison.

Alas!

Li Yi's sword wanted to annihilate everything, just as that year, Jiang Mengxiong killed Xiang Fengqi with a punch.

An unmatched Cave True cultivator ultimately had to stop before the absolute peak of the present world's limit.

He had no malice towards Jiang Wang, but he would not hold back either. The promise of battle itself was already his full respect.

But as this sword fell, the first thing to arrive was starlight.

Outside Jiang Wang's body, a prison cage suddenly floated up.

This cage was ringed solid with starlight, and four towers fixed it.

Within the cage was red gold, indestructible, eternal and unworn.

Li Yi's End Tribulation sword first chopped through this cage!

And from within the cage, a hand extended, an eternally brilliant golden hand, with frost-colored heavenly pattern engravings on it. The flowing light of the constantly collapsing Yanfu Sword Prison was re-grasped by it, into an indifferent sword.

This is Jiang Wang's heart prison.

Imprisoning his Heavenly Person within!