Chapter 241: Chapter 200: A Wisp of Qing Feng in Hand Can Destroy the Nine States

"Heh heh... General Jinghong, what bold words."

"You’re all alone. You have no grand army to back you up. How dare you invite us to our deaths?"

"Hee hee ha ha... Death is imminent, yet you remain oblivious."

"Little girl, you’re a far cry from your father, Xiao Fengchun."

The moment Xiao Jinghong finished speaking, several strange, sharp voices echoed from deep within the forest.

They mocked her for overestimating her own strength.

It was likely the three Upper Three Grades Realm experts on their side that gave them such confidence.

"Even if your father, Xiao Fengchun, were here, we would still cut him down—"

"Kill!"

As Elder Demon Jia spoke, he plucked three strings, as if to bolster the morale of his fellow Evil Demons.

The music began.

Three wisps of wind stirred.

Like blades, they shot across fifty zhang in an instant, slicing straight for Xiao Jinghong. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Xiao Jinghong’s cold gaze, however, remained unchanged. With a flick of her slender hand...

SHIIING—

A sword hummed, and a flash of snowy light erupted.

She vanished into the night sky.

A chill shot through Black Tooth. With no time to warn the others, he instantly unleashed the Gang Qi in his body.

As his robes swelled, the Heaven and Earth’s Spiritual Mechanism converged in a two-zhang radius around him.

He had mounted his full defense the very instant he saw Xiao Jinghong disappear.

The next moment, Black Tooth saw the snowy light that had just streaked across the distant night sky materialize right in front of him.

It was as bright as day, bathing several Evil Demons in its glow.

The other Third Grade Realm Swordman finally reacted. Fear filled his eyes, and his long blade was already out of its sheath before he could even form a conscious thought.

Bathed in the snowy light, Elder Demon Jia from the Illusory Sound Sect let out a strange cry, his fingers plucking rapidly at his instrument.

The other Evil Demons with weaker cultivation, however, had no time to react.

Or rather, before they even could, they lost the chance to react at all.

The next moment, the light abruptly faded.

Only a faint, silvery-white trace remained, flickering in and out of existence.

It cast an unsteady, flickering light on Xiao Jinghong’s form, who now stood behind Black Tooth and the others.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three...

Only then did Black Tooth let out a breath. The force of his exhale split the black iron mask on his face down the middle.

The two halves slid off and fell to the ground.

CLANG. CLANG.

A faint line of blood appeared on Black Tooth’s otherwise handsome face.

But he paid it no mind.

To be precise, he was gazing at the scene before him with a look of both terror and admiration—

Within a fifty-zhang radius, every thick tree and large rock had been silently sliced in two.

The air filled with the continuous RUMBLE of their collapse.

It drowned out the sound of more than ten Evil Demons, also cleaved in half, falling to the ground.

Both the quick-reacting Third Grade Swordman and Elder Demon Jia, who had managed a single attack, had died to that one sword strike from Xiao Jinghong.

They died in bewilderment and terror, without making so much as a ripple.

As the noise died down and dust filled the air, Black Tooth touched the bloody line on his face.

The crimson blood glowed, shifting from bright to dark red under the flickering, ethereal light.

Black Tooth glanced at the blood, sighed, and praised in admiration, "A wisp of Qing Feng in hand can shatter the mountains and rivers of the Nine State."

"That sword technique... was that the legendary ’Qing Feng,’ the ultimate art of the old Sword Master?"

Without waiting for Xiao Jinghong to answer, Black Tooth nodded to himself. "It must be."

"Thirty years ago, the Elder Sword Master, already over a century old, went to the Wind and Rain Tower to duel Immortal Bai. They fought fiercely for three days and three nights, but he lost by a single move."

"I heard his final strike was this very ’Qing Feng’."

"They say one strike could sever a thousand-li wave of clouds. The sight must have been magnificent."

"A pity... I was not fortunate enough to witness it."

Black Tooth sighed softly. He turned to face Xiao Jinghong, who stood ten zhang away, and sized her up before continuing.

"Ten years ago, the Elder Sword Master accepted an invitation from the senior Sword Ghost to a duel on Kunlun Mountain. There were few spectators, but a few details still got out."

"Sword Ghost didn’t last ten moves. The Elder Sword Master then forsook his sword and went into seclusion. And one other thing: the Sword Master’s ultimate art had found a successor."

Black Tooth paused, his expression turning serious. "You must be the little girl who was at the Elder Sword Master Li Wudang’s side back then, aren’t you?"

"The whole world has been deceived. Who would have thought that the renowned General Jinghong was a disciple of the Sword Master? That she was the same little girl who defeated the head disciple of the Kunlun Sect at the age of ten?"

"Even I believed you were merely a master of both sword and spear, with a Fourth Grade Cultivation."

"Heh heh, there’s no shame in this loss. Ha ha, no shame at all."

Black Tooth laughed heartily for a moment, then abruptly stopped. "Kill me."

’He knew he was no match for Xiao Jinghong.’

’Even with his Great Success in Fist Dao, he couldn’t block a single strike from someone like Xiao Jinghong, who possessed the Sword Master’s ultimate art, had achieved Sword Dao Perfection, and had such a formidable cultivation.’

’Resistance and struggle would be useless.’

Xiao Jinghong regarded him calmly and said flatly, "I will spare your life, but I want to know who hired your Bright Moon Building."

"My apologies, General Jinghong, but it’s against the rules of the Bright Moon Building. I cannot say."

Black Tooth grimaced, a rare, bitter smile on his face.

’He could hardly remember the last time he’d felt so powerless.’

’But now, here it was again.’

Xiao Jinghong gave him one last look and said nothing more.

She simply thrust her sword forward.

Once again, a brilliant light flashed. Once again, the sword’s energy surged out fifty zhang, sending trees and rocks flying.

Black Tooth’s head flew into the air, a final breath still left in him.

As his head spun through the air, he laughed again. "What a pity, General Jinghong! Burdened by the Xiao Family, you were forced to cultivate the Spear Dao as well. I’m afraid it will be nearly impossible for you to advance your Sword Dao any further now."

"Ha ha ha... To think that even a goddess floating in the heavens can fall to the mortal world."

Amidst his laughter, Black Tooth’s head hit the ground and rolled a couple of times.

In his final moments, a single question remained in his mind—’Who betrayed the Bright Moon Building? Who told Xiao Jinghong to lay an ambush here?’

’You son of a bitch, I’ll be waiting for you in hell!’

Once the dust settled.

After confirming there was no one else suspicious, Xiao Jinghong flashed away, returning to the warehouse in Cang Lang Town.