Chapter 213: The Counterattack of 'Feng Yun'! Suppressing Space! World-Destroying Sword Twenty-Three! (Part 2)

"Why can't I move?!" Not only those within the drama, but even Liang Shi, Song Qingfeng, and the others watching were filled with doubts!

One must understand that this was not the kind of overwhelming pressure used to crush an opponent and render them immobile; any warrior with a slightly higher cultivation could achieve that!

What they were witnessing now was all the oncoming masters halting abruptly mid-air!

Even their blood was suspended in the sky, as if time itself had ground to a halt!

This was the truly terrifying part!

Death tightly shrouded the Three Division Martial Arts Arena, and all signs of life faced the peril of eradication, yet not a single soul present could stir!

In this instant, looking out across the vast arena, among the hundreds and thousands of elites from the Under Heaven Society, not one could move a single muscle!

The audience currently watching Wind and Cloud saw only the Sword Saint passing through the dense crowd, life instantly turning to ashes wherever he went!

They watched quietly from the sidelines, and even as mere onlookers, they dared not move a fraction at this moment, fearing in this immersive scene that if they moved in the slightest, they too would end up like those elites of the Under Heaven Society!

Everyone seemed to have received the summons of the Grim Reaper, stripped even of their instinct to cry out; the entire arena fell into a dead silence!

Even Xiongba, the one with the highest cultivation present, could not budge a fraction at this moment!

Let alone a fraction! Not even a single finger could move, nor could an eyelash blink!

This seemed like a realm that no human could possibly attain!

Before him, everything lost the right to survive; all things in the world were left to his mercy!

Perhaps at this very moment, in the eyes of everyone, this crumbling, aged swordsman truly deserved the title of "Sword Saint"!

And perhaps only at this moment could he be crowned as a "Saint", well-deserving of the name!

The Sword Saint before them brought his fingers together into a blade, piercing straight toward Xiongba's chest!

The previously invincible Xiongba now had no choice but to await his demise!

If seeing the Sword Saint at the final moment of his life, still unyielding in his obsession with the way of the sword and the decisive battle, inspired them before, then at this moment, they beheld an old swordsman obsessed with the sword his entire life, a twilight martial artist who refused to bow before fate, transforming from a chrysalis into a butterfly!

The previous wave of touched emotion and regret transformed in this instant into an unprecedented shock!

They seemed to hear the roars of all martial artists, the cries of countless predecessors who had sacrificed for the martial path!

Seeing this scene, seeing this terrifying swordsmanship and sword intent, all the martial artists watching Wind and Cloud felt their eyes grow somewhat moist!

This was a martial artist! A true martial artist! Perhaps they had never imagined it before, but at this moment they saw a martial artist who could fight against heaven and earth for his life!

And it was only at this time that they noticed the Sword Saint was actually still standing perfectly fine atop the thousand-step staircase!

He had barely walked less than half the distance?!

What was going on?!

And at this moment, they saw Bu Jingyun, carrying Kong Ci's corpse, finally turning against Xiongba openly, charging up to the Under Heaven Society to seek vengeance!

Perhaps it was Bu Jingyun's intense hatred that drove his psychological urge to kill Xiongba with his own hands, or perhaps it was truly the mandate of heaven between Xiongba and the Sword Saint!

A single palm struck down!

But when palm met skin, he discovered that the Sword Saint here was already a cold corpse!

On the other side, far away in the Three Division Martial Arts Arena, the Sword Saint in front of Xiongba seemed to feel the impact, his expression scattering!

The entire arena, the entire space that had been completely frozen earlier, finally unsealed at this moment, and the people, buildings, tables, and chairs previously sliced by the sword qi instantly shattered apart, blood spraying out as flesh and blood flew everywhere!

Miserable wails pierced the sky, blood gushing like pillars; almost in an instant, the entire Under Heaven Society turned into an Avici Hell!

Only now did the audience watching Wind and Cloud begin to realize that though the Sword Saint was dead, his fighting intent had not vanished; driven by his powerful will, he had actually transformed into an unparalleled force to battle Xiongba!

And because his body was already dead, he had broken free from the shackles of mortals, comprehending a shocking demonic sword that no mortal could ever grasp—Sword Twenty-Three!

Unfortunately, his true body was struck by Bu Jingyun, and his fighting intent collapsed along with it!

Song Qingfeng, Liang Shi, and everyone else witnessed the entire process of the Sacred Spirit Sword Technique being created, from the twenty-second style to the twenty-third style, this world-destroying sword strike!

Yet fate still could not be defied, even at the very moment he was infinitely close to success!

At this moment, the hearts of Liang Shi, Song Qingfeng, and the others could perhaps no longer be described by the word shock!

Perhaps no language could describe their feelings at this moment!

The only feeling that could describe it was perhaps regret—regret that even though the old Sword Saint had comprehended such a terrifying, world-destroying move as Sword Twenty-Three, he still failed to kill Xiongba! He still could only suffer defeat in this decisive battle, dying with his eyes wide open!

If Wind and Cloud had previously been just a teaching drama with a decent plot and a mature system of martial arts moves in their eyes, then now, Wind and Cloud had almost sublimated into a myth of martial artists!

"Too terrifying! The Sword Saint is too strong!" Today's episode had already reached its end, but from the exclamations of Song Qingfeng and the others, it was clear that though the Sword Saint lost, it felt like a victory!

"What's wrong, Young Master Song! Making such a fuss, did the Sword Saint win?" Lin Shao, who was concentrating on playing Counter-Strike nearby, was a bit irritated by his noise.

"No..."

"If not, then what are you shouting for?!" Lin Shao became even more impatient.

"Sword Twenty-Three!" Song Qingfeng shouted, "The world-destroying Sword Twenty-Three! It's simply too terrifying!"

Liang Shi's side was also filled with exclamations, not just shocking to the soul, but even wiping everything in their hearts into a blank space, leaving only that terrifying style in their minds!

"As soon as this move was used! It was just like time stopped!" Song Qingfeng shouted in utter shock, "Everyone became unable to move! Just suspended in mid-air! Even blood couldn't spurt out! Even Xiongba could only stand there waiting to die!"

"What?!" Hearing Song Qingfeng's words, only then did a few martial artists, such as Liang Heihu and others, turn their heads, "You're not bragging, are you?! The martial artists in here are at most Grandmasters, no higher!"

"He is definitely not bragging!" Liang Shi and several other martial artists said loudly, "I watched it too! That scene was simply too terrifying! I've never even heard of such terrifying swordsmanship before! It was just like a deity descending to earth, everything was at his mercy!"

"How could there be such a sword technique in this world?!" Beside Liang Heihu, Xiao Lengyu, the Fifth Prince, and the others completely disbelieved it, "Even if there is, with that old fellow the Sword Saint's cultivation, it's absolutely impossible to execute!"

The Fifth Prince said, "You guys aren't saying this on purpose just to trick us out of our training time, are you?"

"Even Old Man Nalan said this TV series is no good!" Ji Yu also spoke up, "It can only help us lay some foundations!"

Song Qingfeng looked speechless: "Watch it or don't."

Then he urged Lin Shao, Xu Luo, and the others on the side, "I really recommend you guys go watch it, Sword Twenty-Three is too terrifying!"

"What are you arguing about so fiercely?" Nalan Hongwu was sitting beside Nalan Mingxue at this time, and the clamor here clearly affected him as well.

"The old master is here, let the old master judge!" Ji Yu said, refusing to be outdone, "They've praised Wind and Cloud to the high heavens! Even if I like this TV series too, they shouldn't blow it out of proportion like this!"

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Postscript: Wind and Cloud is a combined version of the TV series and the comic. The storyline is mainly taken from the TV series version because it is simpler and easier to understand, and most people have watched this version.

The power level of the martial arts is mostly based on the comic version, such as Sword Twenty-Three.