"How dare you, vile fiend! Do you think you can act so brazenly within the Shushan Sword Sect?!"
At that moment, a thunderous shout echoed through the heavens.
A straw-hatted man had sensed the disturbance and shot into the sky, his aura surging with a powerful blood essence. He wielded a green longsword, his beard and hair flying as he charged toward the rift that had opened near the Sword Forging Pool!
"A fiend?"
Jason Chu heard Master Gavin's shout, surprised.
In this world, specters and demons roamed unchecked, but he hadn't expected that a fiend would emerge here, within the domain of a supreme force like the Shushan Sword Sect.
"So weak."
Jasons second reaction was one of disdain. Whether it was the fiend that had just emerged or Master Gavin, whose blood essence had erupted in full force, they both seemed pitifully weak to him.
Jason even felt as though he could squash them both with a mere wave of his hand.
"Where did this insect come from? A mere Foundation Establishment Practitioner dares to block my path?!"
"Get out of my way!"
An arrogant sneer resounded.
The shadowy figure shifted slightly, unleashing a bloody, oceanic force.
Boom!
With a dull thud, Master Gavin, who had seemed as imposing as a god descending, was casually swatted away by the fiend's shadowy figure.
A streak of scarlet blood arced across the sky, starkly illustrating the vast chasm in power between the newly-emerged fiend and Master Gavin.
"…"
Jason sensed this scene and fell silent.
He hadn't expected Master Gavin to be so weak.
Judging by the fiend's remarks, Master Gavin was merely at the Foundation Establishment level?
Here he was at Grandmaster Ninth Layer… was he being deceived?
"Well, at least he's not dead."
Master Gavin had treated him kindly, so Jason quickly checked on him, breathing a slight sigh of relief.
The fiend's monstrous aura, dark and oppressive, swept across the entire Swordmaking House like a tide, threatening to engulf and annihilate it.
"As expected of a fiend's emergence; nothing remains unscathed."
Jason's expression shifted as he took a step forward.
In an instant, his aura surged like an unsheathed divine sword, slashing toward the fiend without hesitation.
In this world, fiends were everyone's enemy.
Besides, Jason had been quite content in the Swordmaking House. It was quiet and ideal for cultivation—he wouldn't allow this fiend to ruin it.
"What's happening?!"
"Damn it! Could it be a Golden Core Sovereign?!"
"Where on earth did I end up?!"
"Run!"
A terrifying sword aura sliced through the sky.
The fiend, who had been basking in his arrogance, suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a horrific sword aura, feeling a profound sense of impending doom.
The fiend was seized by a paralyzing terror, scrambling to flee.
Unfortunately for him, compared to the sword aura, he was like a glowworm against the full moon—utterly outmatched.
He wanted to escape, but it was far too late.
The pure golden sword aura descended, tearing the shadow apart in an instant, erasing him from existence and from this world forever.
"Weaker than I expected."
"Seems my strength is greater than I thought."
Jason was a bit taken aback by how easily he had dispatched the fiend that had only just emerged with such arrogance.
He swore he hadn't even exerted himself.
How did the fiend die so quickly?
"Legends say that fiends are incomparably powerful, but that wasn't much of a challenge."
Shaking his head, Jason turned to head toward the area where Master Gavin had fallen, intending to check on him.
He had only taken a few steps when he stopped abruptly.
"Someone's coming."
Jason sensed two auras approaching from the sky and realized that the Shushan Sword Sect must have detected the fiend's emergence and sent reinforcements.
He immediately abandoned his intention of checking on Master Gavin and returned to the Sword Forging Pool, feigning obliviousness.
After all, he had already vanquished the fiend. Let someone else deal with the aftermath; he'd be more than happy to leave it to them.
…
"Master, what was that aura that appeared at the Swordmaking House just now?"
"Why did it disappear so suddenly?"
In the distance, a tall young woman flew toward the Swordmaking House, standing upon an ice-blue divine sword.
Her eyes held a hint of confusion as she glanced at the elderly man beside her, who was dressed in black robes with a head full of white hair.
The black-robed elder hovered in the air, exuding a powerful presence.
At that moment, he too wore a look of confusion, appearing somewhat uncertain. "How strange."
"Sarah, go quickly and inform the Sect Leader."
His gaze fixed on the blood-red sky above the Swordmaking House, his mind full of questions.
Moments ago, he had sensed a dense fiendish aura.
Yet, by the time he had hurried over, it was as if nothing had happened in the Swordmaking House.
As the Great Elder of the Shushan Sword Sect, he certainly did not doubt his own senses.
This only deepened the puzzlement in his eyes.
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