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Lu Xian'er sensed that the person carrying the treasure was in a small town near the Absolute Sword Valley.

When she arrived, the other person did not move at all, as if they were deliberately waiting for her.

To her left was the legendary Valley of Absolute Swords.

When Lu Xian'er arrived at the nearby town, she found the surroundings completely silent!

What came into view was blood and corpses. Men, women, and children were all dead, and the strong smell of blood was nauseating.

Lu Xian'er walked along the main road, her eyes scanning the corpses around her.

All the corpses were fresh, clearly just killed, many of them even busy inside the house, when suddenly some force pierced their hearts and killed them.

Some of them looked terrified, while others were completely bewildered, not understanding why this had happened.

The town was permeated with an aura of death.

Just as Lu Xian'er reached the center of the town, a black figure gradually appeared on the eaves of a house behind her.

He carried a blood-red scythe on his shoulder and smiled at Lu Xian'er.

"As expected of the young valley master, he truly has extraordinary courage, daring to come all this way alone?"

Lu Xian'er ignored him and quietly gazed at a nearby house.

This is a family of three. The woman in the house is mending her husband's coat on the bed.

When her husband came home from work, he was carrying a warm roast duck and a box of rouge.

The young daughter excitedly greeted her father at the door as he returned home.

But all that beautiful scenery has vanished like smoke.

All that remained was the woman's corpse lying on the bed inside the house, and the father protecting the little girl at the doorway, both of whom were shot through.

The two corpses, along with the roast duck and Rouge, lay quietly in a pool of blood, next to a cluster of unsold candied hawthorns.

Lu Xian'er stared for a long time before turning around to look at the man in black and asking in a cold voice.

"Did you kill all these mortals?"

"Yes, it's me."

"Why kill them?"

"Isn't this to welcome you, Young Valley Master?"

The man in black grinned and spoke the truth without any hesitation, then said with a frustrated expression.

"Come to think of it, killing these mortals is really boring."

"It's like crushing an ant, there's no sense of accomplishment at all. The only interesting thing is the screams before death. I wonder if you, Young Valley Master, would like it?"

Lu Xian'er remained unmoved by his deliberately provocative words.

She looked at the man in black and asked coldly.

"Don't try to provoke me. Is that thing really in your hands?"

"That's natural, isn't that what you want?"

Upon hearing this, the man in black smiled slightly and reached out to take out a black box.

He even arrogantly opened it and showed the contents to Lu Xian'er.

He then tucked the box into his pocket, looked at Lu Xian'er, and sneered.

"Speaking of which, Hehuan Valley prides itself on being a prestigious and righteous sect. Does it intend to forcibly seize other people's treasures?"

Lu Xian'er looked at him and said calmly.

"Yan Bei, a rogue cultivator of the demonic path, with a cultivation level at the peak of the Emperor realm."

"He has repeatedly annihilated entire families and harmed tens of thousands of innocent people by stealing cultivation techniques and magical treasures and practicing evil arts."

"And with what you've done today, do you even deserve to call yourself a human being?"

Yanbei shook his head and sighed softly.

"Tsk tsk, you've really investigated thoroughly."

"But isn't it said that one can become a Buddha by laying down the butcher's knife? Aren't you going to give me a chance?"

As he spoke, he kept staring at Lu Xian'er.

He would launch a killing move the moment his opponent relaxed even slightly!

"Of course."

Lu Xian'er pointed her sword at him, a cold, sharp sword aura surging around her, and said indifferently.

"Hand over the stuff, and we'll leave you with a whole corpse!"

Upon hearing this, Yanbei laughed sarcastically.

"Leave him a whole body? You think you can?"

"A pampered young master probably doesn't even know how to kill someone, right?"

Over the years, there has been very little news of Lu Xian'er's battles on the mainland.

This led Yanbei to naturally regard Lu Xian'er as a simple young lady who, although close to the Dao Building Realm, was merely a person with cultivation but was actually highly protected.

Compared to a demonic cultivator like him who had fought his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, they were simply not on the same level.

But before he could finish speaking, Lu Xian'er swung her long sword horizontally, and a fleeting arc of icy white light chopped off his left hand in an instant!

This was Yan Bei's instinct honed from years of fighting; he immediately dodged with all his might, otherwise his head would have been the one falling on him.

At this moment, Lu Xian'er looked at him calmly.

"I didn't hear what you just said. Could you repeat it?"

"This guy……"

Yanbei's face turned ashen, and his previous arrogance vanished.

Looking at his severed arm, he realized that his opponent's strength had indeed exceeded his expectations.

Lu Xian'er said calmly.

"Use whatever ambush you have, or I'll take your head within two sword strikes."

Even if the other party looked down on her, she didn't believe they would dare to wait for her here without an ambush.

As expected, a look of madness appeared on Yanbei's face.

"Alright, then I'll show you!"

He stood up, raised the sickle in his hand, and shouted sternly.

"Blood Fiend Eight Directions Formation!"

As soon as he finished speaking, lines emerged from the ground of the town, forming a huge array that covered the entire town!

The blood of all the surrounding corpses, as well as the pools of blood on the ground, seeped into the formation and became nourishment for the entire formation!

A crimson wave, like a tidal wave, converged on Yanbei, causing his aura to rise steadily, eventually reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm!

At this point, his entire body was shrouded in blood mist, and his severed arm had been restored!

Yanbei brandished his blood-red scythe and grinned at Lu Xian'er.

"The real battle has only just begun!"

……

Bai Xiaoxue stood on the cliff, gazing at the canyon in front of her, which was said to have been cleaved open by a single sword.

"This is the Valley of Absolute Swords, it's truly magnificent..."

The entire canyon is over a hundred miles long and over a thousand meters deep; it is simply bottomless!

Bai Xiaoxue could hardly imagine how terrifying one's strength must be to leave such a terrifying mark with a single sword strike!

Even after thousands of years, one can still feel a trace of the ultimate essence of swordsmanship within the canyon!

"This is what sword intent feels like..."

Bai Xiaoxue closed her eyes and carefully sensed the ancient sword intent before her.

Although her comprehension wasn't particularly good, she couldn't withstand the 999-fold increase.

Before long, she did indeed vaguely sense that she had touched upon something.

But it was only a fleeting touch. The sword intent was so weak that it was too blurry to perceive when she tried to feel it more closely.

Soon after, Bai Xiaoxue opened her eyes, her face full of frustration.

"Seriously, this is so blurry..."

She even felt that if someone who had mastered sword intent could continuously demonstrate it in front of her, she would be able to understand it in no time!

The problem is, where can I find a powerful swordsman with sword intent?

Just as Bai Xiaoxue was feeling down, a series of loud noises coming from nearby caught her attention.

"Huh? Could it be... a fight?"

Bai Xiaoxue paused for a moment, then walked curiously to the other side of the cliff.

From here, you can get a perfect view of a nearby town.

Right above that town, a fierce battle, a clash of titans, was taking place!