Red Heart Patrols the Sky

Chapter 2583 - 127: All Living Beings Pity Me, I Pity All Living Beings!

Zhang Linchuan at this moment could not tear his gaze away, nor could he see the Seven Stars reflecting the world. But he could feel the starlight streaming down, sensing the coldness of the world like the onset of winter.For the first time, he truly felt the crisis of "death approaching."

Zzz, zzz.

A white mist rose around him, boiling like steam. Yet it was not scalding, but cold.

This was the Qi of Non-Life, an alienated application of his faith in the Church of Lifeless, cursed to kill the soul, believers lifeless, non-believers suffer eternally!

Because he had long prepared methods to sever ties with his followers, after the collapse of the Church of Lifeless, the accumulated Faith Power hadn’t lost much; now he was unreservedly unleashing it, battling and entangling with Wang Changji’s gaze, and his invisible fishing line!

His right hand drew back, extracting a rib for a blade, his head and neck unmoving, while his body spun.

Meeting sword with blade.

Meeting the Blade of Non-Life with the Sword of True Self!

The slender Bone Blade clashed with the bright longsword, a sonorous clang that stirred the spirit.

Sword Qi and Blade Qi collided wildly, with Divine Thought vying for life and death.

Their Tao Paths collided at the fundamental level of the World Without Life!

Poof!

And he heard the sound of flesh being pierced, an abrupt noise in his ear. It was too absurd, too incredible. A crazed, brutal, murderously cold sword had pierced into his lower back!

"Ah!"

At this moment, he let out a low growl of pain.

The Qi of Non-Life curled around him like a white dragon, and he instantly cut away Jiang Wang, breaking free from Wang Changji’s gaze, discovering the person behind him—

A young man with blood-red eyes, in a frenzied state, his entire body taut from exertion, every muscle tight, his whole face twisted into a knot, veins bulging like unsightly worms. He gripped that brutal sword, still desperately thrusting it forward!

He said nothing, because even speaking required strength that needed to be used in this sword. He hadn’t even blinked once, keeping his eyes fixed intensely on him.

As if this was the only opportunity in his lifetime to strike, willing to pour his entire being, soul, and spirit into this one strike.

The previous lift of the fishing pole by Wang Changji brought this person into the World Without Life!

He had previously asked Wang Changji what he had figured out?

This sudden strike, penetrating his lower back, was the answer!

But Zhang Linchuan could not accept this answer!

In the four directions, an eerie chant rang out—

"I come from the Sea of Bitterness, floating and sinking with my flesh. All those beset by six fails and seven fates are troubled beings. To be among the three sorrows and eight sufferings, are the innocent of the world. The living pity me, and I pity the living..."

Once, twice, hundreds, thousands... tens of thousands of chants, tens of thousands of prayers!

Above Zhang Linchuan’s head, a Taoist book with a pallid cover gently opened. It was as if a whole new world unveiled its outline to the audience. Every word on it, every mark, was his life, his Tao Path.

He and the space around him, the sword crazily ravaging his body functions, and the person who drove the sword into his lower back, at the same moment became illusory and surreal, a mix of truth and falsehood.

At this moment, he was already trapped in the realm of "Lifeless Eternal, Neither Thought nor Existence."

This was a realm long imagined in the No-Life Dao, because maintaining every moment of it required burning a massive amount of faith.

Relying on this realm, he briefly dodged the pursuit of Wang Changji and Jiang Wang, giving himself some time to tend to his wounds, to handle this blood-red eyed... one seeking death.

Swipe!

The slender Bone Blade in his hand casually flicked, and a head was sent flying into the sky!

This man’s swordsmanship was somewhat noteworthy, but his strength was too weak; if not for Wang Changji and Jiang Wang’s interference, he couldn’t possibly have pierced him. Not even in a sneak attack,

He had no thought of reminiscing, just as in the past when a casual Thunder Technique slew his father, killing this one vaguely named as Helling didn’t require any sentiment.

Boom, Boom!

A pain in the heart!

No!

Just as the blade fell.

A sudden alarm rose in Zhang Linchuan’s heart—

He shouldn’t have killed him!

He grasped backwards, intent on stuffing the residual soul back into the body.

But it was too late.

Fang Helling’s severed head was laughing wildly; having completed all his "missions," he finally could laugh wildly: "The waste from the Maple Forest is part of Zhang Linchuan’s death!!!"

The blood red in his eyes remained, but the light dimmed.

He was already dead.

But Zhang Linchuan’s pale Bone Holy Body began to seep with the color of blood!

The blood spread across his limbs, on his visage, even on his No-Life Dao Scripture!

What is the broken swordsmanship?

It is a sword of utmost evil and malice.

The so-called "Heaven ruined, Earth deficient, humanity severed."

The so-called "Separating one part of the soul, cutting two parts of bone, slicing three parts of flesh, severing four parts of blood. The body as the furnace, life as the fire."

Proclaimed as "Born with Cave Heaven flawed, moving with ground shattering!"

It is a forbidden technique of the Flying Sword Era!

Even Yan Chunhui, standing at the Beyond the Peak, mentions this technique as a "vicious sword."

To Fang Helling’s capabilities, wielding this sword was too strenuous.

It could even be said that, even offering all he had, he couldn’t bear the cost of this forbidden sword.

Yet with Wang Changji’s help, he used the Secret Technique of "Life-Linking Heart-Eating" sourced from the skill of hatred, linking the broken swordsmanship with his own life. Killing him was akin to killing the sword.

That is to say—

The cost of using a complete broken swordsmanship, would be borne together with Zhang Linchuan who killed him!

Zhang Linchuan now endured the backlash of the complete broken swordsmanship!