Chapter 14: The Heaven and Earth Sword Technique! A Single Slash Carries a Thousand Pounds!
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Seeing this, Ye Changsheng stopped striking the gong.
As the sound faded away, Jiang Yun finally let out a sigh of relief.
“At last, it’s stopped.”
Jiang Yun looked at Ye Changsheng with no trace of pretense, only a desperate longing to live.
“Sir, I was wrong! I had no choice—I was forced into this! Please, give me a chance to live!”
Seeing Jiang Yun’s pitiful appearance, Ye Changsheng smiled.
“If you beg me, I might consider it…”
At that moment, Jiang Yun cared about nothing except staying alive. Without another thought, he dropped to his knees before Ye Changsheng.
He kowtowed repeatedly as he pleaded for mercy.
“I was wrong! Please, spare me!”
“I was blind and looked down on you. Surely a great man like you won’t hold it against someone as insignificant as me…”
Ye Changsheng crouched down and looked at Yun Che, smiling faintly. “What’s my name?”
“Uh…”
At that question, Jiang Yun fell silent.
Though he could see what Ye Changsheng looked like, there was no way for him to know his name.
“If you don’t know my name, couldn’t you come up with a pleasant title for me?”
“Father! My dear father!”
Jiang Yun was remarkably quick-witted. The two words slipped straight out of his mouth.
Ye Changsheng shot him a disdainful glance.
“I don’t have a worthless son like you…”
“Grandfather! My dear grandfather!”
“Grandfather, I’ve called you that already. Have you made your decision?”
“I have. You deserve to die…”
Only then did Jiang Yun realize that something was wrong. He abruptly raised his head and glared at Ye Changsheng, wishing he could tear him apart and swallow him whole.
“You tricked me!”
“You’re only realizing that now? Tricking you was exactly what I intended!”
With that, Ye Changsheng raised one hand and brought it crashing down upon the Soul-Sealing Gong.
The sound was deafening, its thunderous boom resounding throughout heaven and earth.
The next instant, a terrifying force erupted from within Jiang Yun, violently tearing at his soul.
“Argh!”
Jiang Yun threw back his head and howled. His agonized screams echoed through the area.
Ye Changsheng stood where he was, quietly watching as Jiang Yun’s body disintegrated.
Jiang Yun fixed him with a furious stare and roared, “Even if I become a ghost, I will never let you off!”
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“Don’t worry! With me here, I won’t even let you become a ghost!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yun dissolved into a cloud of black mist.
After dealing with him, Ye Changsheng landed steadily on the ground.
“Thud!”
Without his soul, Jiang Yun’s body was nothing more than an empty shell. It collapsed to the ground and lay motionless.
“Is he dead?”
Su Qinqin stared at Jiang Yun’s corpse, her face full of confusion.
“He just died.”
Su Qinqin asked curiously, “Should we dig a hole and bury him?”
“That old beast doesn’t deserve it. Burn him.”
With a sweep of Ye Changsheng’s hand, a blazing flame rose into the air and reduced the man’s corpse to ashes.
“Sir, where are we going now?”
“We can’t stay in Westsea City. We’ll head somewhere else.”
Ye Changsheng found a carriage. Su Qinqin lay in the back and slept while he drove from the front.
That night, Ye Changsheng stopped the carriage and found a quiet place to sit cross-legged.
He had originally intended to test the current level of his cultivation, but the moment he closed his eyes, he unexpectedly entered an entirely new miniature world.
The surroundings were pitch-black, filled with nothingness.
“What kind of cursed place is this?”
Ye Changsheng looked around and discovered—
“This is the Supreme Bone?”
As soon as he spoke, ancient characters slowly lit up across the Supreme Bone.
Together, the characters formed three separate cultivation arts.
“What does this say?”
Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes and leaned closer. One of the cultivation arts soon became clear.
“Heaven and Earth Sword Art?”
The instant he uttered those four words, streams of text surfaced in Ye Changsheng’s mind. Every move and form was engraved there in its entirety.
“What rank is this sword art?”
In this world, one’s realm represented only part of one’s strength. The power and grade of a cultivation art had just as profound an influence on a cultivator.
[Heaven and Earth Sword Art: a Supreme cultivation art, outside the conventional ranking system. Its power increases as the host grows stronger.]
“Outside the ranking system? Now this is interesting!”
Based on Ye Changsheng’s experience reading novels in his previous life, techniques like this were usually astonishingly powerful.
“There are two more. Let’s see what they’re about.”
Ye Changsheng circulated his spiritual energy and expanded his vision as far as possible, but even after staring for a long while, he still gained nothing.
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“What’s going on? They’re clearly right in front of me, so why can’t I see them clearly?”
[Reminder: The host’s current strength is insufficient to comprehend the subsequent cultivation arts.]
“Insufficient strength to comprehend them? These days, even looking at something depends on how strong you are?” Ye Changsheng said helplessly.
“Never mind, never mind. One should not bite off more than one can chew. I’ll take them one at a time.”
There was nothing else he could do but console himself this way.
Ye Changsheng did not wander about. He sat cross-legged where he was and began comprehending the sword art.
With the Supreme Bone, Ye Changsheng possessed astonishing talent. In barely half an hour, he had already grasped the basics.
Night fell. The surrounding area was a primeval forest, and darkness swiftly swallowed everything.
At that moment, a group of uninvited guests arrived in the distance.
Sensing that something was amiss, Ye Changsheng slowly opened his eyes.
He had not noticed them before, but the sight still failed to surprise him.
A group of people stood around him, most of them from the Azure Cloud Sect.
“They’re back again…” Ye Changsheng wore an expression of helplessness.
“You pack of bastards, are you ever going to stop? It’s the middle of the night! Can’t you let me get some proper rest? Do you really have to come here and throw your lives away?”
Ye Changsheng sighed. “I’d already finished work, yet you insist on making me work overtime.”
In his previous life, Ye Changsheng had been an ordinary office worker. He had always hated working overtime and had often wished he could curse his boss’s ancestors for eighteen generations.
Now that he had arrived in the world of cultivation, he still could not escape it.
The newcomers presumably did not want to waste Ye Changsheng’s time. Without uttering another word, they attacked at once.
“Brothers, kill him!”
At the command, everyone charged forward in unison.
“You like making me work overtime? Then I’ll make proper arrangements for all of you today.”
With that, Ye Changsheng abruptly raised one hand. A branch from a nearby tree flew through the air and landed in his grasp.
He slightly spread his fingers, and the sturdy branch became enveloped in endless sword energy. In moments, it transformed into a long, slender wooden sword.
“Perfect. I’ll use you to practice!”
Ye Changsheng clenched all five fingers around the hilt and fixed his gaze straight ahead.
“One Slash, a Thousand Tons!”
Ye Changsheng swung his hand violently. Without the slightest hesitation or wasted motion, the wooden sword in his grip slashed forward.
“Crash!”
The sword energy swept forth like a thousand armies galloping into battle, while silvery-white sword light tore across the darkness.
Although the Heaven and Earth Sword Art was a cultivation art inherited from the Supreme Bone, its first technique contained no flashy flourishes whatsoever. Its execution was exceedingly simple.
It was nothing more than a single sword strike.
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