Stronger by Killing

Chapter 415: Chapter 286: Battle

Gu Zhan looked at Qi Baiyu below, slightly frowning.

He had never met Qi Baiyu,

but subconsciously, he always had an impression of this greatest adversary since his debut.

However, now that he saw Qi Baiyu,

he felt that this person was very different from what he imagined.

The Qi Baiyu he imagined should be indifferent and disdainful of everything, but the Qi Baiyu standing before him now was filled with violent energy.

"Fallen Demon?"

Gu Zhan scrutinized Qi Baiyu, somewhat surprised.

As the aura around Qi Baiyu intensified, he sensed demonic qi nearly identical to Sword One’s.

This is a great era of Martial Arts, with various martial techniques emerging endlessly, and those who fall into demon paths are also diverse, each with a different way and appearance of falling, related to their cultivation techniques and personalities.

But now, the aura around Qi Baiyu seemed to share the same origin with Sword One.

"Are you cultivating the Yellow Court Scripture?"

With the Wu Family Patriarch revealing before his death that Lu Yuan Dao’s mastermind behind Beidou Bang was linked to Sword King City, Gu Zhan immediately speculated that Qi Baiyu had also cultivated the Yellow Court Scripture.

"Roar..."

Suddenly, Qi Baiyu let out a beast-like roar.

In that instant, his hair flew up, terrifying demonic qi surged out, and his robe billowed without wind, as if endless phenomena converged within him.

Boom!

Qi Baiyu swung his sword,

leaping forward, his momentum sweeping across, making all vegetation bow.

His formidable aura pressed down as if the sky was collapsing, gathered upon his heavy piece of iron, slashing down towards Gu Zhan from above.

To be precise, it was not a slash,

because his sword was no longer a sword, just a very heavy lump of iron.

Gu Zhan bit into an oil cake, slapped the ground, and swiftly retreated behind the stone steps, pulling out two Horizontal Sabers.

He was certain,

Qi Baiyu had undoubtedly become a Fallen Demon.

Recalling when in Canglan City, the Astronomical Bureau’s Chen Xian brought him news of a mass-murdering grimace-mask man in Yundong, it could now be confirmed that this person was Qi Baiyu.

As for why Qi Baiyu, even after falling into demonic paths, still remembered him,

Gu Zhan could only speculate that their hatred was too immense.

Boom!!

Qi Baiyu’s sword smashed onto the stone steps, without tumultuous true essence or the turbulence of heaven and earth primordial qi, as if it was just sheer force hitting the ground. Yet, even so, it stirred vast phenomena, his sword broke the stone steps, and a deep ravine rapidly spread towards Gu Zhan.

Gu Zhan’s eyes lit up,

this was the image of Qi Baiyu he held in his mind, a man famed for slaughter in the Martial World, his killing skills had likely reached the peak of perfection. Such a person would not waste an ounce of true essence, all power would be utilized optimally, truly returning to simplicity.

After one sword,

Qi Baiyu didn’t immediately pursue, but gripped his iron lump with both hands, staring at Gu Zhan, like a tiger hunting, waiting patiently for the prey to reveal a flaw.

Qi Baiyu had become a Fallen Demon,

but his killing techniques were deeply ingrained.

"Actually, I’ve been anticipating this battle for a long time too!"

Standing on the battered stone steps, Gu Zhan slowly combined the two Horizontal Sabers, tightly gripping the handle and twisting it with force, veins bulging on his arms, muscles prominently defined.

The handle of the Horizontal Saber made of Thousand-year Cold Iron seemed like soil in Gu Zhan’s hand, forcibly squeezed into fusion, then he began twisting the blades together, forming a lump of iron similar to the sword in Qi Baiyu’s hand.

Gu Zhan gripped the Horizontal Saber with one hand, gazing solemnly at Qi Baiyu, slowly saying: "If I wasn’t exhausted, and you weren’t a Fallen Demon, out of respect, I would certainly fight you fairly, but your appearance now, it’s already unfair, so..."

In that instant,

Gu Zhan summoned the system in his mind:

[Use 1 billion Experience Points]

[Upgrade Profound Nether Spell to the Eighth Floor]

[Current Realm upgraded to Peak Grandmaster]

...

"Bang"

The stone beneath Gu Zhan’s feet shattered,

he bent his legs slightly, diving down in one step,

at that moment,

his cultivation advanced from Grandmaster to Peak Grandmaster, reaching the martial arts pinnacle known to most in this world.

In that instant,

Gu Zhan sensed the Inner Mansion Spirit Platform emerging in his Dantian,

identical to Mo Jingzhou’s,

only an empty Spirit Platform, nothing else.

But, it didn’t matter now,

because in that moment,

his true essence had recovered, ushering in a new peak, the Divine Thought Third Realm, the legendary Peak Grandmaster, directly leaping to the pinnacle of Peak Grandmaster Realm.

An intangible Martial Arts Will leisurely emerged from the sky,

in Gu Zhan’s hand gripping the Horizontal Saber,

slashing towards Qi Baiyu,

this slash,

almost identical to Qi Baiyu’s earlier sword,

but that time, Gu Zhan evaded,

but now, Qi Baiyu did not evade,

his sinister face showed a trace of a smile, filled with rampant brutality in his eyes, he let out a roar, stomping as he slanted a sword towards Gu Zhan.