Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 649: The Power of Truth
The sword that Li Minghu launched in a sneak attack was the most basic move of White Rainbow Piercing the Sun, but it was not a simple White Rainbow Piercing the Sun.

He had to use two swords to fight against four swords at the same time. In addition, the surrounding corridors were narrow and it was inconvenient for him to move around. He could only rely on swordsmanship to defend himself. Therefore, the Taoist gatekeeper was very nervous.

He needs to look ahead and behind at the same time, his attention constantly switching between the two, and his spiritual sense is also continuously scanning and running, without being able to stop for a moment - he must ensure that no matter whether there are flying swords attacking from the front or the back, he will use his spiritual sense to lock onto the opponent's sword path as soon as possible, so as to maintain a comprehensive defense that is leak-proof.

Reversing the thinking, when the two flying swords on this side were knocked away, the Taoist gatekeeper would most likely transfer his consciousness to that side.

Li Minghu seized this opportunity and calculated the moment when the opponent's consciousness moved away, then he used all his strength to strike out with the Sky Flash Sword.

When the Taoist gatekeeper turned his consciousness behind him again, the Sky Flash Sword had already rushed in from the blind spot of defense and was about to approach him!

This person also had extremely rich experience in sword fighting. He immediately judged that it was too late to mobilize the flying sword to defend himself. So he simply did not dodge, but took a half step sideways, allowing the Tianshan Sword to pierce into his right chest, but it avoided the heart.

The next second, he saw the Liangyi Weichen sword energy also piercing into the left chest!
Li Minghu seized the moment when the Taoist gatekeeper's mind was distracted and drew his sword, but he didn't hide it from Yan Yu beside him. Although the two of them had no communication, they were both technically and computationally savvy, like a mother and son in this regard. Yan Yu instantly understood Li Minghu's intentions—even the Taoist gatekeeper's next move, a step to the left to evade, was within his expectations!
The Liangyi Sword flashed along with the sword energy and pierced the gatekeeper's left chest again, and the timing was perfectly accurate.

This time, the Taoist gatekeeper had no strength to dodge anymore, and his figure shattered like a dream.

Lin Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly heard the Mirror Fairy say:
"Don't be too happy too soon, he's not dead yet, and things will get serious soon."

"What do you mean?" Lin Ning was suspicious for a moment, then her face changed. She immediately rushed to Yan Yu and told him about the fairy in the mirror. She then quickly took out the ancient mirror and threw it on the ground as if it were a dangerous item.

Yan Yu frowned and scanned it with his spiritual sense, and found that the bronze mirror was dull and had no spirituality. It didn't look like a magic weapon at all, but more like some ordinary old object.

He picked it up and looked at it for a moment, becoming more suspicious that it was not a magic weapon at all, and turned to look at Li Minghu next to him.

Li Minghu shook his head, saying that he couldn't see it either... This thing looked like an ordinary object no matter how you looked at it.

Lin Ning knew this, of course, but the voice transmission from the Fairy in the Mirror was genuine, and she hurriedly urged:
"Talk to my captain!"

The Fairy in the Mirror ignored her and simply chose to pretend to be dead without saying a word.

Lin Ning was so anxious that she stamped her feet, wishing she could drag the fairy out of the mirror immediately to prove that she was not lying.

Li Minghu raised her eyebrows slightly and said nothing, while Yan Yu pondered for a moment and explained to her:

"Ningning isn't the type to make jokes for no reason."

"Captain!" Lin Ning's eyes suddenly filled with tears.

"As for this thing..." Yan Yu pondered for a moment, "If it really is a magic weapon, and the spirit is acting so aloof and silent, it's probably some hidden conspiracy. As long as we don't take it with us and just leave it here, everything will be over."

"What if it's not a magic weapon?" Lin Ning asked.

"Then there will be no psychological burden if we throw it away," Yan Yu said.

"That's right," Li Minghu agreed. "The best way to deal with an unknown attack is to not respond at all."

Do you need to tell me that? Lin Ning complained in her heart, but said:
"Then just leave it here."

"Wait a minute!" The Mirror Immortal finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent a telepathic message to Lin Ning, "Lin Ning! I was the one who guided you to find your captain, wasn't I? Even if you don't trust me, you should still remember all the kindness I've shown you along the way! The Sword Immortal you just dealt with hasn't been completely killed yet. I can tell you how to take care of him once and for all!"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh, you helped me, but how does this relate to a favor? Stop making a big deal out of it!" Lin Ning immediately retorted, repeating the words of the Fairy in the Mirror.

Yan Yu looked thoughtful, thinking that this spirit of the weapon seemed to have a rather eccentric personality.

It is not surprising to encounter strange things in the world of cultivation, but I have lived two lives as a human being. Could I be mistaken about whether this broken bronze mirror is a magic weapon?

Ningning has no experience in handling this kind of things, so why not leave it with me for the time being and I will keep it for her!

"Then tell me how to deal with that Taoist gatekeeper." Yan Yu said.

"First of all, the Taoist gatekeeper is the former founder of the Zhenmei Sword Sect, leaving behind his mind-born body." The Mirror Immortal said to Lin Ning, "When he left the Zhenmei Sword Sect, he not only left behind his mind-born body, but also the sword intent of the Sun Zhenmei Sword."

"Sun True Dark Sword?" Yan Yu felt as if he had heard this name somewhere before. Oh, right, it was the ghost mother in Chen Lingyun's banner who mentioned that the last leader of the Emei Sword Sect had taken the sect's guardian sword and fled.

"If the difficulty of dealing with this mind-born body left by the founder of your sect is 1 with your current strength, then dealing with the sword intent of the Sun True Darkness Sword is 10," the Mirror Immortal continued. "With the former, you can still rely on your swordsmanship, but with the latter... you won't even have a chance to draw your sword; you'll be crushed and killed."

Lin Ning recounted it verbatim, and the three of them frowned together.

real or fake?

"You mean, this mind-created body wasn't killed by us, and it's now going to get the sword intent of the Sun True Darkness Sword." Yan Yu said slowly, "But... you know, our world is still recovering its spiritual energy. Can the power of the Sun True Darkness Sword's sword intent exceed the upper limit allowed by the environmental spiritual energy?"

The Fairy in the Mirror was silent for a moment, then replied:

"Iron and wood are of equal weight, and when they collide, the latter breaks instantly."

This was said in a roundabout way, but Yan Yu and Li Minghu were not stupid people and immediately understood the metaphor in her words.

True essence differs not only in quantity but also in quality. The Sun's True Desolation Sword is of too high a grade. Even if its sword intent is locked by the upper limit of the illusionary spiritual energy, its power is too powerful for you, a bunch of little kids who haven't even formed a core, to withstand.

Li Minghu was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"A Jiang and Xu Jin are still inside! How long will it take them to extract that sword power?"

"At most the time of an incense stick." The Fairy in the Mirror replied.

Everyone's expression changed suddenly, and they hurriedly turned back to look for Li Zhaojiang and Xu Jin.

Fortunately, the Zhenmei Sword Sect's base was underground, unlike the surface area, where there were many paths and passages. Anywhere not enclosed by walls was accessible. After running along the passage for a while, I finally found the two men in the treasure room—they were rummaging through things.

There were a large number of sword puppets guarding the treasure room, which should have been a fierce battle. However, Li Zhaojiang's Yuanci Divine Light happened to encounter them. With just a sweep and a roll, all the sword puppets were twisted into a knot.

The Yuanci Divine Light can restrain gold and iron, this is not just talk!

After capturing the treasure room, the two began sorting it out separately. Li Zhaojiang was in charge of the magic spells and artifacts, while Xu Jin was in charge of the flying swords and elixirs. They gathered the most valuable items together so that they could pack them up and take them away later. When Yan Yu and the others arrived, they didn't have time to explain too much. They just said that the Taoist gatekeeper was coming again and told everyone to run away quickly.

The situation was urgent, so everyone could only pick out the best few and then quickly turn around and run away.

However, in the cave of the back hall not far from the treasure room, the Taoist priest guarding the gate reappeared with two big holes in his chest, but no blood flowed out. He just looked embarrassed and ferocious.

He lunged toward the altar within the cavern, upon which rested a flying sword. Its form was ethereal, its force sharp. Though it shone without a shimmer, even approaching it felt as if one were enveloped in an endless blaze of heat, poised to melt in the next instant.

The Taoist guarding the gate ignored him and reached out to take it.

His sleeves were first ignited, followed by the entire sleeve of his robe, and finally even his beard and hair were ablaze. His entire body was bathed in the blazing fire, and his voice became hoarse from the scorching heat, but his tone remained fierce and tough:
"You still think it's my fault, right?"

"I haven't done anything wrong! God's will is irreversible, and the situation is irreversible. What can I do?"

"I have done my best within my ability!"

"The Taoist heritage of Emei Sword Sect cannot be destroyed in my hands!"

"Let me ask you this last time... just one last time, okay?"

"How shameless! For the sake of my ancestors..."

"Use your strength..."

"Lend it to me!"

His hand, which had been burned to the point of only bones, finally penetrated through layers of light and heat and grasped the vague and shapeless hilt of the sword.

The sun is shining.

The first thing to melt was the cave chamber at the rear hall, and then light and heat radiated outward endlessly, melting and vaporizing all the stone bricks and rock walls wherever it passed, until most of the Zhenmei Sword Sect's headquarters collapsed out of control.

The people rushing outside also felt the ground tilting downwards violently. At the same time, a hot wind blew in from below, like the scorching breath of hell's sulfur. The wind was mixed with the hoarse, frantic shouts of the Taoist gatekeeper:
"Take my sword... If you can take my sword, I will accept you as an Emei disciple... and pass on my Taoist tradition to you!"

Yan Yu's expression remained unmoved, but he was a little horrified in his heart: There was such a powerful scene before I even drew my sword. If I were really stupid enough to take your sword, wouldn't I be burned to death along with my bones and flesh?
"Don't be impulsive." The Mirror Fairy also said to Lin Ning, "As the saying goes, the first push is strong, the second weakens, and the third is exhausted. The sword's will is at its strongest when it is just unsheathed. Go south to the Pure Land Sect's headquarters, where you can consume the True Darkness Sword Will. Don't try to fight it head-on before it reaches its last gasp!"

"So where should we go?" Lin Ning shouted anxiously. Her scalp was numbing from the faint sword intent coming from behind, and her body felt as if all the pores were being pierced by tiny nails.

"Turn left ahead!"

Lin Ning quickly accelerated and began to lead the way for everyone.

Following closely behind was Yan Yu, who was also using the Fenyun Bagua Step. He controlled the puppet Ah Zhen while running quickly, and picked up Li Zhaojiang, the slowest runner, and put him at the end of the team.

Li Minghu and Xu Jin followed behind Yan Yu, using their magical speed skills at full speed, not daring to stop and rest even for a moment.

Only Li Zhaojiang was being held by the puppet Ah Zhen. He didn't need to do anything and simply swept his spiritual sense to the back.

The passageway behind was engulfed by the surging light and heat. Clearly, the gatekeeper was still in hot pursuit. Li Zhaojiang visually assessed the distance and noticed it was gradually increasing... In other words, if he could maintain this speed, there would be no risk of being caught and killed.

But this is already everyone’s fastest speed. If there is even the slightest mistake from now on, the distance will be immediately caught up!

The passage ahead suddenly widened, and everyone had already completely moved away from the Zhenmei Sword Sect's headquarters and arrived near the upper reaches of the underground river that ran through the entire secret realm.

The shore was littered with broken swords, with countless sword puppets hiding among them, prowling and ready to attack any creature that entered their territory.

Seeing the five people breaking in, the sword puppets were about to launch a sneak attack, but suddenly they sensed the surging sword intent in the light and heat behind them. They were like hyenas encountering a prehistoric monster, and they were so scared that they fled madly in all directions.

"Ajiang!" Li Minghu shouted, "Build an iron ship!"

"Okay!" Li Zhaojiang, who had been idle all the time, finally found a place to use his skills. He quickly put his hands together and swept the Yuan magnetic divine light around.

Wherever it passed, whether it was the fleeing sword puppets or those lifeless broken swords, they were all mixed up into a ball by the Yuanci divine light, and then forcibly squeezed into a curved boat hull, and finally fell heavily into the dark river.

"Get on board!" Yan Yu gave an order, and everyone rushed to jump on board.

Li Zhaojiang once again activated the Yuanci divine light, as if a rocket engine was installed at the stern of the iron ship, immediately causing it to break through the large river waves and speed up rapidly to rush forward.

The sword intent of light and heat followed closely behind, charging into the underground river. Countless river waters evaporated almost instantly, the heat spreading in all directions along the water. A large number of bubbles began to surge upwards, and the entire underground river was almost boiled in an instant!

The heat came from the boiling water, and everyone felt the burning sensation beneath their bodies. Lin Ning couldn't help but shout:

"Can it be faster?"

"I tried my best!" Li Zhaojiang shouted, his face flushed red, his true energy surging to the point of almost tearing his clothes.

"Not fast enough!" Li Minghu looked behind him and quickly estimated the distance, but heard Xu Jin screaming desperately:
"There are rocks ahead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the puppet Ah Zhen rushed to the front, spewing out extremely fine and dense golden threads from his mouth! The Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire shot into the river below, accurately cutting through the bottom of the reef. Then, two or three more sweeps swept across, cutting the loose reef into pieces.

The iron ship flew over the reef like an arrow, and the tiny stone chips that bounced up hit everyone's face painfully. Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a more dangerous situation appeared before them:
Multiple sharp turns in succession!

At the terrifying speed of the iron ship at this time, it was simply a pipe dream to expect it to pass the turn smoothly. It would definitely crash into the cliff wall of the river bend.

At this moment, Yan Yu suddenly made a sword gesture, and the Huangting Sword and Liangyi Sword flew to the side of the boat, shouting:
"Everyone come and help me!"

Lin Ning, Li Minghu and Xu Jin quickly stood up, controlled their flying swords to the side of the Huangting Sword, and pressed the sword body tightly against the side of the boat, leaving no gap at all.

"Go!" Yan Yu suddenly shouted.

At this time, the iron ship had already entered the bend. The four sword immortals urged their flying swords with all their strength, and at all costs, they held on to the outside of the ship, trying to force the high-speed ship into the inner bend!

(End of this chapter)