Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 1690: Chapter 1688: Determine Victory and Defeat, Decide Life and Death!

”No––” At the moment, Qingye Sanzang displayed a look of terror in the face of this horrifying sword strike.

The power wrapped within the sword was too frightening.

His ’Four Symbols Combined Sword’ unleashed with the Sky-Cutting Sword was already powerful enough to easily slaughter an early level Ninth Stage Grandmaster, yet the might of that sword, compared to the one Lin Dong was cleaving with, was like a single grain of rice in the vast ocean.

Qingye Sanzang knew that such a terrifying sword strike could only be unleashed by Lin Dong once.

He might borrow the power of Ninety Thousand Miles of Mountains and Sea again, but the Sword Momentum nurtured by the Yangxin Sword over five hundred years could not be revived.

If he could block this sword, he would definitely win this battle.

But could he block it?

Qingye Sanzang had no choice but to condense all of his lifetime’s Inner Qi into a defense in an attempt to resist this sword strike.

Immortal Golden Body, unleashed!

Grandmaster-level Protective Qi, unleashed!

The Sky-Cutting Sword was raised in front, forming a barrier of Sword Dao Gang Qi.

Furthermore, right at the forefront, he deployed a defensive spell known as the ’Xuanwu Array.’

All sorts of skills were condensed into a defense, intent on blocking Lin Dong’s sword strike.

”Crack––” A sound echoed; however, the Sword Qi hadn’t even arrived yet, still tens of meters away from the outermost defense, when that very outer ’Xuanwu Array’ defense shattered with a cracking noise.

When the Sword Qi reached it, the ’Xuanwu Array’ defensive formation was directly shattered.

The Sword Qi relentlessly continued on its path!

The second line of defense was formed by the Sword Qi Gang Qi released by Qingye Sanzang’s Sky-Cutting Sword.

However, strong as the Sky-Cutting Sword was, it was more proficient in offense. Its Sword Qi Gang Qi was utterly incomparable to that formed by the Yangxin Sword, differing as vastly as cloud and mud.

”Boom!” The Sword Qi annihilated Qingye Sanzang’s second line of defense, the Sword Qi Gang Qi of the Sky-Cutting Sword, in an instant.

At this moment, the Sword Qi had reached within seven meters of Qingye Sanzang.

A seven-meter defense of a Ninth Stage Grandmaster should be indestructible even by a nuclear bomb, yet under the slice of Lin Dong’s sword, it was torn apart as if it were scrap metal.

One sword shattered Qingye Sanzang’s Strong Protective Qi.

Then, the endless Sword Qi flooded into Qingye Sanzang’s body.

”Ah...”

At that moment, Qingye Sanzang let out a scream, and all the aspects of his life flashed through his mind in an instant.

He began practicing the sword at three, became a Martial Artist at five, and a Swordsman.

At seven years old, he used a sword to kill for the first time.

At eight years old, he was involved in the trial to become an heir to his Clan.

The Clan elders placed him on an island to fight for survival; on that island, including him, there were a hundred Martial Artists of similar strength, but all older in age.

Out of the hundred Martial Artists on the island, only one could survive. If he was that person, it meant he passed the Clan’s trial and could become one of the three heirs. However, if he failed, death was his only fate.

An eight-year-old, during those trial days, witnessed all forms of human nature’s depravity.

Cunning, crafty, betrayal, temptation, and all the vile facets of human nature – he had experienced them all. Amidst them, he could trust no one but the sword in his hand.

With the sword in his hand, he successfully killed ninety-nine adult martial artists and passed the clan’s test, becoming one of the clan’s heirs.

At the age of twelve, he was already a young kendo Sword Master.

At thirteen, he challenged the first kendo Sword Master of Yinghua Country and was defeated in one move.

The following year, when he was fourteen, he once again challenged that same number one kendo Sword Master of Yinghua Country and shattered him.

Yes, the man had spared him the previous year, but the second year he cut him down with a single sword strike. For him, he could not allow someone who had beaten him to live on.

At fifteen, he fought another heir and killed him, becoming the number one heir of the Qingye Clan.

At eighteen, he traveled across the East Sea to the origin of martial arts, the Holy Dragon Nation. In Dragon Country, he challenged eighteen Grandmasters. He won against them all!

Afterward, he went on to challenge the proud ’Kunlun King’ of Dragon Country at that time. Both were young Grandmasters, brilliant and full of spirit, deciding life and death through kendo. Eventually, after a battle that lasted a day and a night, he, Qingye Sanzang, was defeated by the ’Kunlun King’.

In the following time, he always regarded the Kunlun King as his target, swearing to surpass him. But while he was a proud son of heaven, the other was an even more extraordinary existence.

As time accumulated, the Kunlun King left him further and further behind.

At thirty, he achieved a breakthrough and became an Earth Realm martial artist. Full of confidence, he once again traveled across the East Sea to Dragon Country to challenge the ’Kunlun King’. However, this time they did not fight a day and a night; the Kunlun King defeated him within a hundred moves!

By forty, he had become the number one martial artist in Yinghua Country, the first Swordsman Grandmaster. Once again, he confidently went to Dragon Country to challenge the Kunlun King for the third time.

But that battle nearly shattered his Tao Heart to pieces. In that fight, the Kunlun King defeated him in less than ten moves.

Unwilling to accept this, he returned to his country and focused only on the pursuit of a breakthrough in strength. He had recently discovered a ’Dragon Lock’ site, thinking that if he could absorb all the ’Dragon Qi’ there, he might have the opportunity to challenge the Kunlun King again.

But now, he never expected that he would actually be defeated by the emerging proud talent, Master Lin, of Dragon Country.

”I always considered the Kunlun King as my opponent, targeting him, wanting to defeat, surpass, and kill him. Who would have thought, in the end, I would be beaten by such a rising star.”

”I’ve become just a stepping stone on this Master Lin’s path of martial arts in Dragon Country...”

All this time, others were merely stepping stones in his eyes, as he believed himself to be the protagonist of this era, the center of the Martial Arts World.

Yet, right before his death, he realized that on the path of martial arts, a proud son of heaven like himself, was merely insignificant. He too could become a stepping stone for someone more outstanding.

As the sword thrust into his body, he didn’t know why, but his mind began to drift through his past.

This sword seemed to carry the power of time.

This sword indeed had the power to turn back time, and as it surged into his body, his past memories not only emerged in his mind but were also acquired by Lin Dong.

Lin Dong skimmed through his life’s memories in a transcendental state.

Suddenly, when the Sword Qi completely entered Qingye Sanzang’s body, everything came to an abrupt halt.

Then,

”Boom!!!!”

Even Qingye Sanzang’s flesh could not withstand that terrifying Sword Qi; the endless Sword Qi filled his body, causing him to burst open like a water balloon.

His body exploded with a ’boom’, scattering into the skies as countless fragments.

Qingye Sanzang, such a legendary figure who had occupied the position of the foremost person in the martial arts world of Yinghua Country for decades, thus died at the hands of Lin Dong.

Died under that one sword!