From the beginning of Swordsman, he created a legend in the martial arts world.

Aya looked at A'luo's peaceful yet lifeless face in her arms, her voice carrying a deathly calm: "That's from Miao territory... a secret and rare poison. Those poisoned... will fall into a state of suspended animation, like... a deep sleep, their breath and pulse so weak they're almost gone, but their life force... never ceases."

"This poison... has no antidote. Those who are poisoned... will remain dormant for a thousand days, and after a thousand days..."

Aya didn't finish her sentence, but Meng Fei already understood what she meant.

"A thousand days... of sleep..."

Meng Fei murmured these three words repeatedly, feeling a chilling despair mixed with overwhelming rage and killing intent that instantly swept over his entire body.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Bin, who was kneeling not far away, as well as Ji Du and the others. The blood-red light in his eyes, which was caused by the demonic seed, showed signs of getting out of control.

"Who did this?! Who poisoned them?"

A violent killing intent, mixed with the sinister aura of the "Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique," permeated the air as if it were a tangible force, sending a chill down the spines of everyone present.

"It's...it's the Five Poisons Sect...Blue Phoenix!"

Li Bin suddenly raised his head and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Among those cultists who infiltrated the backyard, there was a woman skilled in using poison. Her methods were unpredictable. A'Luo was injured in the arm by a hidden weapon from her while protecting Sister A'Ya, and then..."

The Five Poisons Cult? Blue Phoenix?

Meng Fei instantly recalled the Miao witch whose inheritance he had destroyed in the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, and whom he had met once before in Mount Song.

"Blue Phoenix...Good! Very good!"

His eyes suddenly flashed with a blood-red light, and the demonic seed within him sensed his killing intent and began to stir again.

"Aya, you wait!"

He then abruptly stood up, and a chilling killing intent instantly emanated from him.

"I'll go to Blackwood Cliff right now and capture Blue Phoenix! I'll make her hand over the antidote!"

Before he finished speaking, he turned around without regard for anything else and was about to rush out of the courtyard!

The "demon seed" within his body was stimulated by this extreme anger and killing intent, causing it to throb violently and showing signs of going out of control.

"Wait a minute! Brother Meng!!"

Aya's voice was urgent and pleading, even with a hint of desperate sobs.

She struggled to stand up, but was too weak to get up because she was holding A-Luo.

A thousand days of sleep...it...it was originally...

Aya's voice carried a deep sense of helplessness and sorrow, as if revealing a cruel truth.

"It is not an ordinary 'poison'... To be precise, it was once... a 'secret technique' used to preserve the dying person's life and await a miracle or special treatment."

"It requires several kinds of rare and exotic flowers and herbs that have long been extinct, combined with Gu techniques to make it... Moreover, the method of making it has long been lost, and very few finished products have been passed down. No one knows the true solution..."

"and……"

Seeing him staggering, his clothes stained with blood, Aya felt a pang of heartache and choked out, "Brother Meng, you're so badly injured! Going to Blackwood Cliff now isn't about saving people, it's...it's about going to your death!"

"You're all alone, and severely injured. How can you accomplish anything? What if... what if something happens to you again? What will happen to me and A'Luo?"

Aya's words were like a bucket of ice water poured over his head, gradually calming the burning anger in his heart.

He stood frozen in place, his chest heaving violently. In an instant, a mouthful of blood surged to his throat, which he then forced down.

Just then, a strong sense of dizziness and weakness swept over him like a tidal wave. Coupled with the enormous shock to his mind at that moment, he finally couldn't hold on any longer and stumbled.

"Master!"

Upon seeing this, Li Bin exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly tried to step forward to help, but was stopped by Meng Fei's extremely cold gaze.

Then, he slowly turned around and looked at A-Luo, who was sleeping soundly in A-Ya's arms. The bloodlust and violence in his eyes were forcibly suppressed little by little.

"good!"

After a long silence, Meng Fei's hoarse voice broke the suffocating silence.

"Li Bin! Carefully move A Luo to the room and take good care of her. Aya, you... take care of her first, and take care of yourself too!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and looked coldly at Jidu and the other two.

"Pass on my order: use all means to gather intelligence on the Sun Moon Cult, especially on Lan Fenghuang of the Five Poisons Cult. I need to know... all of Ren Woxing's whereabouts."

"A month later, when I have fully recovered..."

"I will storm Blackwood Cliff and raze the Sun Moon Cult to the ground..."

"yes!!!"

The three of them suddenly erupted with a fanatical, bloodthirsty light. They could feel the terrifying killing intent of the "Star Lord" before them, which was suppressed to the extreme and was about to destroy everything.

Upon hearing this, Li Bin suddenly raised his head, his gaze towards Meng Fei filled with a determination to die: "Master, your disciple is willing to be the vanguard and swear to follow you to the death!"

Meng Fei didn't speak again, but took a deep look at Aya and the sleeping A Luo. His eyes showed guilt, pain, and an unwavering determination.

Without lingering, he forced himself to walk toward the secluded stone chamber in the backyard.

time!

At this moment, he needs time more than ever.

He not only needs time to heal his injuries, but also time to consolidate his newly mastered Thirteen Deadly Swords, and even more time... to break through to the third level of the Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique!

Only by pushing his own combat power to its peak can he be 100% confident in crushing the Sun Moon Cult, capturing Blue Phoenix, and finding a glimmer of hope for A'Luo!

"boom……"

The door to the stone chamber slammed shut behind Meng Fei, cutting off all external interference.

Inside the stone chamber, the flickering candlelight cast his long shadow onto the cold stone walls.

Meng Fei slowly closed his eyes, calming his mind. Aya's sleeping face, Aya's desperate tears, Ren Woxing's resentful eyes... all these images were suppressed in his heart.

Immediately, he took out the various healing pills he had won in the lottery and, together with the Yi Jin Duan Gu chapter of the Nine Yin Manual, began to carefully repair the damaged meridians.

Several days later, after treatment with the combined use of elixirs and the Yi Jin Duan Gu Pian (a traditional Chinese medicine text), his injuries finally stabilized. Although he had not fully recovered, he was no longer in serious condition.

After that, he turned his attention to the Thirteen Deadly Swords, which he had mastered.

However, Meng Fei was not in a hurry to practice his newly mastered thirteenth sword technique, "Boundless".

Instead, he was like a novice disciple, starting with the first move of the Thirteen Deadly Swords, "Spirit Serpent Probing the Cave," slowly and earnestly re-practicing each move.

The first sword was cunning and unpredictable, the second sword was swift and splitting, the third sword was unstoppable... until the thirteenth sword, "Boundless," a pure destruction that seemed to come from the depths of hell and end everything...

He repeatedly disassembled, combined, pondered, and comprehended the thirteen sword moves from beginning to end.

It's not just about the transitions and changes in moves, but also about pursuing the sword intent behind each strike and what kind of artistic conception it represents!

Sword shadows danced in his mind, as if he were in a world where there were only swords, conversing with his own way of the sword and communicating with the ultimate sword intent of that way of the sword!