Chapter 91: Distant Escape

  Yun Xiao Jian's spiritual awareness was not strong, but it was absolutely not weak either, vaguely reaching the level of a mid-grade spiritual artifact.

  The spiritual consciousness of this sword is not only stronger than the Yunxiao Sword, but also surpasses it by a large margin. Even if it's not a top-grade spiritual sword, it's absolutely the most peak existence among mid-grade spiritual swords.

  "This person actually holds such a divine sword in his hand, his identity is probably not simple..."

  Qin Tianji's gaze shifted and fell back onto the corpse.

  The corpse had been dead for twenty-five to thirty years, and all the clothes on his body had rotted away, but this spirit sword, as well as a ring on his hand, were still intact.

  Obviously, neither of these two items is an ordinary object.

  Just as Qin Tianyi was about to reach out and take off this ring for further study, a faint noise suddenly came from outside the Divine Soldier Pavilion.

  The next moment, Qin Tianyi's figure flashed and he had already hidden beside a nearby weapon rack.

  While he was hiding his figure, a young man and woman had already entered the Divine Soldier Pavilion.

  "This is... the corpse of a Lingshuang young beast! Someone has been to Shenbing Tower!"

  The man's face changed color when he saw the corpse at the entrance.

  "How is it possible that those thirty-three swordsmen, all under our observation, are now fighting to the death with those lord-level fierce beasts, helping us clear out the fierce beasts... apart from the two of us, no one has ever broken through the defense lines of those fierce beasts..."

  "There's nothing impossible, this blood, just flowed out, this young beast was obviously just killed, and from the other party's method, it's not hard to see... Just one sword, this tenth-level fierce beast has already died, absolutely a strong swordsman's move..."

  The young man's face was gloomy, and he had never thought that the originally flawless plan would produce such a variable.

  "I'll go inform Master Shu right away."

  That young man looked at the woman who had turned and left, then looked again at the corpse of the Lǐlóng juvenile beast. His gaze swept through the Divine Soldier Pavilion: "You should still be in the Divine Soldier Pavilion right now, so don't hide your head and show your tail. Come out immediately, leave everything you've obtained behind, and we can spare your life. Otherwise, when several of your masters arrive, all that awaits you is a road to death."

  "Master..."

  Qin Tianyi, although hidden on one side of the weapon rack, could still sense the aura of the two newcomers, both of whom were high-ranking swordsmen, especially the young man, whose cultivation had already reached the mid-stage of a Sword Master, condensing into an air vortex.

  Those who can be respectfully referred to as Shifu are not just a high-ranking sword master who condenses true fire, but a great sword master. Once such a strong person arrives, even if he unleashes the full power of the X-01 biological armor and bursts out with all his might, there is only one dead end.

  "With a sudden turn of mind, Qin Tianyi summarized his previous speculation and lowered his voice, filled with gloom: 'You Wanjianmen are really good at plotting, letting us be your vanguard, cannon fodder, fighting against those Lord-level fierce beasts. You will ultimately reap the benefits without lifting a finger. And if I'm not mistaken, even if we manage to kill all those Lord-level fierce beasts, it's likely that only one path remains - death. Your Wanjianmen people will never allow us to spread this news. But what would happen if I were to reveal this information to our friends who are currently fighting against the fierce beasts?'"

  "Are you threatening me?"

  The young man's expression suddenly turned cold, and he spat out a few short words that seemed to carry an irresistible majesty.

  "It's not a threat, it's just that we've spent so much effort and finally arrived here, if in the end we gain nothing, how can we be willing to give up?"

  The young man fell into thought.

  "Don't think about delaying and waiting for the arrival of your Master Uncle, my patience is limited. Your Wanjian Gate wants to rely on our power to deal with the fierce beast, proving that you don't have the strength to contend with the fierce beast at all. Once we stop helping you restrain the fierce beast, or even help the fierce beast to deal with you, I believe that your Wanjian Gate, which has just recovered a bit of vitality, will suffer heavy casualties again."

  "Alright, you can take away what you have now obtained, and I also guarantee to let you leave. However, it's best if you don't try any tricks. Perhaps you can stir up trouble and cause some damage to our Wanjian Sect, but I believe that if you do so, you will absolutely not be able to leave the Dayun Mountains alive."

  The young man had already made up his mind after careful consideration.

  "Of course, a friend in need is a friend indeed, but if I get what I want, the life and death of others are none of my concern."

  Qin Tianji said, and had already walked out from the side of the armor rack where he was hiding.

  The man looked at Qin Tianyi with a hint of surprise in his expression, clearly not expecting him to be so young.

  However, when his gaze fell on the sword in Qin Tianyi's hand, his face suddenly changed: "The Sect Master's Thousand-Year Sword!?"

  "The lord wears a sword!?"

  Qin Tianyi took a glance at the spiritual sword in his hand, named Qian Gu Jian, and suddenly understood that things were going to go bad.

  The lord wears his sword!

  Its value is obviously not something that an ordinary spirit sword can compare to!

  As expected, almost at the same time Qin Tianyi realized this, the man's mouth had already let out a low shout: "You are not allowed to take this sword away!"

  As they spoke, he suddenly made a swift move, reaching out from afar to grab the Thousand Year Sword in Qin Tianji's hand.

  Qin Tianyi's body slightly retreated, the Thousand Ancient Sword shook and was once again grasped in his hand, avoiding the young man's swift grab.

  "What does this mean..."

  "Great Swordsman!?"

  Qin Tianyi had just retreated and didn't have time to activate the X-01 bio-mech, but was already seen through by this young man. Thinking that he was actually intimidated by a great swordsman, his face turned dark and murderous: "A small great swordsman dares to covet our Wanjianmen's treasure, come and meet your death!"

  The young man's sword burst out with all his might, and the sharp sword light chopped down, bringing a deafening roar that almost solidified the surrounding air flow. Even the strongest great swordsman would be powerless to block this sword.

  Qin Tianji seemed to be equally shocked by the young man's sword, and when faced with this sword, a look of horror appeared in his eyes. He wanted to move, but it was too late to defend himself, and he could only watch as the young man's sword pierced his chest and heart.

  "Hah!"

  The sword pierced his body, and a sinister smile had already appeared on the young man's face.

  However, he soon discovered that his spiritual sword seemed to have encountered tremendous resistance when it pierced into the opponent's body. Although this resistance could still be broken through, it would require him to re-condense his true yuan and re-ignite a new power, which would cause a momentary delay.

  However, it was this moment of delay that Qin Tianji's sword in his hand suddenly moved.

  A sword, as if a stream of light across the sky.

  The young man's eyes caught a glimpse of a white strip, and the next moment, a terrifying aura made his hair stand on end at his throat.

  "You scoundrel! You dare to fight back!"

  The young man let out a loud roar from his mouth, and the aura all over his body burst forth, condensing entirely at his throat.

  In his mid-term as a sword master, he gathered a cyclone, the true yuan was born and never stopped, and the protective aura that condensed out could completely ignore the attacks of ordinary great swordsmen with all its might.

  However, this sword that Qin Tianyi cut out with a single slash obviously cannot be measured by the standards of ordinary great swordsmen.

  "Boom!"

  With a dull thud, the young man's protective aura was shattered like withered wood, and the sword light cut through, a head flew up into the air, carrying a large amount of blood.

  "What...?"

  The young man's head flew out, his eyes wide open, and the unbelievable gaze in his eyes seemed unwilling to believe that he was actually killed so easily by a great swordsman.

  "Hiss!"

  Qin Tianji gritted his teeth and pulled out the sharp sword that had been inserted into his body, wincing in pain.

  Fortunately, relying on the strong control of his spirit over his physical body, he quickly suppressed this pain and crawled to the nearby cells, stopping the bleeding.

  "With just a single sword wound, he killed a mid-tier swordsman. Underestimating the enemy, indeed the main reason for capsizing in a ditch."

  Qin Tianyi secretly took this as a warning.

  If they were to engage in a fair fight, Qin Tianyi might have had a chance to contend with this man in the cramped space of Shenbing Tower, but wanting to defeat him, let alone kill him, was simply impossible.

  Especially...

  As time passed, the woman who left returned with her uncle, a great sword master. At that time, he would face his true predicament.

  Without any extra time to consider anything else, Qin Tianyi's figure flashed and he was already standing beside the corpse. He took off the extraordinary ring with one hand, and without daring to linger for a moment, he ran in the direction he came from.

  Although there were other rooms nearby, such as the Alchemy Room, the Book Pavilion, the Spiritual Beast Garden, the Warehouse, and the Medicine Room, which might contain various treasures collected by the Wan Jian Men sect over the generations, Qin Tianyi did not have any attachment to them.

  As he rushed out of the Divine Soldier Pavilion, he was also stirring up the vital energy in his body. A long whistle echoed through the entire underground cave: "Everyone, we've fallen into their trap! This is the Wan Jian Men's plan to drive away wolves and swallow tigers! Once we're exhausted from fighting those fierce beasts, the powerful swordsmen of their sect will appear and capture us all, completely reclaiming this land!"

  Under Qin Tianyi's loud shout, it was also a sound that shook the four directions. Even the strong swordsmen who were fiercely fighting with those fierce beasts in front of the mountain cave could hear it clearly one by one.

  At this moment, the scene immediately fell into chaos.

  But what happened next had nothing to do with Qin Tianyi, taking advantage of the fact that the great sword master Shifu had not yet arrived, he quickly rushed out of the ground along the cave, and in the blink of an eye, he plunged into the dense forest, disappearing without a trace.