Chapter 43: Chapter 41: The Heart Like Blossoms and Trees, Growing Toward the Sun; Life Is Like a Fist—How You Choose Is Up to You!

Silence.

A deathly quiet.

Two existences with a disparity in cultivation as vast as the distance between mountain and sea, facing off against each other.

Neither of them felt anything significant.

But Tantai Ye, who had just taken a few steps, felt his blood and bones chill all over.

Enveloped within the domain of a Third-Step Great Demon Fiend.

The cultivation of Circulation Qi Collection was as insignificant as a frog peering at the moon from the bottom of a well.

Even if the Zither Sword Pavilion was broken through by this demon and they seemingly had an irreconcilable blood feud, Tantai Ye, full of fury, couldn’t even take a step forward.

This has nothing to do with the firmness of your Dao Heart,

Nor does it matter whether you harbor an unyielding determination at the brink of life and death.

It’s merely the simplest disparity in power, causing despair!

"You’re mad."

After the rage burned through, Gua Hua stopped, his brow calming down instead.

But just this demeanor.

Was precisely the most terrifying Great Flood Dragon Lord of Xuanqing Lake, having restrained his frivolity and cynicism.

"Decades ago, the master who left behind the ’Green Blood and Red Heart Painting,’ his cultivation at that time was only slightly above mine."

"I’ve wandered the world for over a hundred years, having seen every kind of storm and turmoil. In terms of experience, you immature brat, having obtained some legacy, you think you can challenge me?"

Gua Hua took a step forward.

In an instant, a surge of blood qi roared like a furnace, as if a thousand-foot snow mountain collapsed overnight, all avalanches...

All of it pressed towards the thin figure ten feet away, as if to crush his spine and break his knees.

"You fancy yourself talented, having received some legacy, do you really think..."

"You can rely on this to bridge the gap between us?"

"That’s quite laughable."

Gua Hua, hands behind his back, with a great sun like a furnace on his left shoulder, and a great avalanche in front of his right, two martial arts forming celestial phenomena as divine techniques, he walked forward step by step.

"Not afraid to tell you."

"Outside,"

"That old thing from the Zither Sword Pavilion who stepped into the Third Realm of ’Great Innate,’ just a hair’s breadth from a Primordial Pill, I’ve chopped off his two fingers, crippled half his martial arts, rendering the supreme skill ’Zither Sword Clang’ difficult to perform again."

"That Tantai Yao who clashed into Xuanqing Lake a year ago, with just one move from me, his sword and zither were destroyed, blood qi collapsed, and he lost an arm. If it weren’t for your meddling, I would have taken another ’stepmother’ for you..."

Gua Hua wore a faint smile.

His words did not anger that silent, immovable figure.

Instead, by releasing the enormous pressure towards Song Chai Xin, it allowed another furious, outraged youth to break free and step forward:

"I’ll cut you down!"

Tantai Ye, in a rage like an angry dragon stepping out, surrounded by Green Blood and Blue Ink Qi on his fists,

But in the blink of an eye, Gua Hua dismissively glanced at him, allowing the ’snowflake’ on his right shoulder to drift towards him. In an instant, it smashed his internal organs, making him cough up blood and fly backwards.

"Oh?"

"To survive against a single snowflake, that’s some luck."

"But I, have never shown mercy to leave ants a thread of life."

Gua Hua gazed at Tantai Ye, bloodied and lying by the clear poolside, crushing the stone tablets, struggling yet unable to rise again.

He chuckled, flicking his finger.

However, that flick never landed.

"..." Gua Hua raised an eyebrow; belonging to his Primordial Pill cultivation, he suddenly sensed sharply that not far away, Song Chai Xin’s mental realm began to soar.

And then, a fist was thrown.

From nothing to existence, it unleashed waves of Fenghuo Langyan, continuous and complete!

[You tore apart the ’Green Blood Red Heart Painting,’ absorbing a wisp of Divine Thought into the fist seed!]

[Afterwards... you saw an image of the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall, once inscribed on a city head with the words ’Concern not with fame’ by a reputable scholar-turned-general.]

[Facing a Great Cultivator, youthful and imperious, his Divine Thought met yours within the fist seed, then instantly disintegrated, turning into countless characters, imprinting into you.]

[Each character embedding into you strengthens your Divine Soul, while the wisp of Divine Thought you got from tearing the treasured scroll grows dimmer.]

[Until this image completely fades, though you haven’t entered the Vajra Body, nor are you Great Innate, yet such mysterious means allow your current Divine Thought to affect reality!]

["Heart like flora, growing towards the sun, so too with the fist."]

["In the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall, ’Baiyujing Capital’ Yang Xiu, if this fist strikes, sever the bloodline bonds, with your talent, hereafter, you may be my Dao Lineage’s Named Disciple!" the figure said before dissipating.]

[Yang Xiu’s approval towards you has increased: from Jianghu Encounter → Sort of Fateful Meeting.]

As the words ended, the fist struck, and the celestial phenomena suddenly changed!

The green hue covered the dimness, with a touch of vermilion as embellishment, while years of accumulated ’Green Blood and Red Ink Qi’ from this clear pool of the Zither Sword Pavilion, all flowed madly towards Song Chai Xin!

Originally, Gua Hua planned to casually crush the little bug that dared to offend him.

But seeing this scene, he suddenly frowned, his heart skipped a beat; in a moment of distraction, he seemed to see another shadow enshroud this ’offspring’!

Whoosh~~

A wisp of spring breeze blew past.

"Bang... Bang Bang... Bang Bang Bang...!!"

With a heart full of green blood and a single red heart, the youth’s heart pulsed. Then, the fiery intent of his fists, like a smoke signal, roared lowly and broke through the great flood dragon’s domain barrier, relying on this punch!

Forcibly striking several bloody holes onto Gua Hua’s body!

The snow on his right shoulder collapsed in an instant!

The sun on his left shoulder faded just as quickly!

"I don’t care about my origins."

"But the fists I cultivate are all the accumulation of this past year, what has Xuanqing Lake done for me?"

"Gua Hua, remember this!"

"My name is Song Chai Xin!"

"No longer that little Half-Demon you can mold at will!"

Song Chai Xin’s eyes seemed to carry a spark of ’fire’.

This was lent to him by the master of the ’Green Blood and Red Heart Painting’.

"You cannot control my destiny."

Feeling the strength from that wisp of divine thought on his body wearing away, and the burden on his body growing heavier, but Song Chai Xin didn’t care.

In his bones and blood, he was just such a gambler, stubborn and headstrong.

If I think clearly and believe something is right, and I’m happy, then...

Even if there are a thousand bones beneath my feet and millions of corpses floating, it is right!

In the past year,

Song Chai Xin had been extremely vexed by this thing called ’bloodline’.

What kind of life I want to choose is not for you to decide for me?!

What does the world have to do with me!

Song Chai Xin, as if perfectly transcendent, hit with every punch landing true, the layer of invincible divine thought on him making Gua Hua, who was studying the two ’Martial Arts Celestial Forms’, unable to do anything, retreating step by step!

For a moment, Gua Hua coughed up blood, eyes ablaze:

"You wicked creature, do you intend to patricide?!"

Song Chai Xin laughed heartily, stepping forward:

"What if I kill you!"

Hearing this, even though Gua Hua was usually unperturbed, he couldn’t help but become angry:

"How long can that wisp of divine thought support you?"

"Half an incense stick, a whole incense stick, a quarter of an hour, half an hour?"

"By then, when you’re exhausted and the situation reverses, if I want to kill you, it’s as easy as turning my hand!"

The two exchanged blows, with neither able to take the upper hand.

But Song Chai Xin was fearless, decisively shouting:

"Half an incense stick, a whole incense stick, a quarter of an hour, half an hour?"

"By then, if any one of the Third Realm from Wutong Prefecture arrives, intercepting you, can you still escape?!"

Hearing this retort, Gua Hua was just about to sneer.

But then, suddenly, the jade pendant at his waist became scorching hot, causing his expression to change as he looked towards Wutong Prefecture, his face changing several times!

Finally, he still coldly glanced at his ’good son’, seeming somewhat unwilling:

"Do you think because you are doing well in Wutong Prefecture, it’s better than following me?"

"Naive!"

"Before that one took the throne in Great Zhao, it had always ruled the world with ’One Mountain, One Alliance, and One Dragon Court’. If it weren’t for that lowly bandit leader rising against the odds, establishing the Demon Hunting Department, and opening the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall, driving the three Dao Lineages out to the Northwest Wilderness, outside of Baoping State..."

"We could have been called ’Royal Family and Relatives’!"

"Do you think outsiders can accept that?"

"Or do you think insiders will accept you as one of their own?"

"Don’t even think about it, Song Chai Xin!"

"You are destined to be ’unforgivable’!"

After saying this, he made to leave, revealing his true form, quite anxious, seemingly because a great threat was coming from afar.

Watching Gua Hua hastily attempting to retreat into the dark clouds, Song Chai Xin sneered coldly:

"Noisy!"

"Today you dare not kill me,"

"will there still be a tomorrow?!"

Watching the dark mist trail away, Song Chai Xin clenched his fists and stepped forward, consuming, exhausting all his remaining energy, and then unleashed a punch...

With a ’bang’ sound!

Seizing that momentarily opportunity, he fiercely struck the tail end of the dark mist, a section of Jiao Dragon Tail Wing, causing the ’Green Blood Red Heart Pool’ to be completely dyed red!

"Next time,"

"it will be my turn to charge a thousand miles and return after slaying the flood dragon!"

The spring breeze came, questioning one’s heart.

Before the youth collapsed from exhaustion, he spoke these resolute words!

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