"Hmm. Child's play. Wouldn't my grandfather agree that we should speed this up." The sect master told the cold looking corpse.

After a long while, a voice finally speaks up

"The enlightened sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect sure hold a grudge."

Then come the exchange. The two come at each other hard and fast, with Zheng Jie holding an advantage, even though he was the first to be hit, the sect master manages to even the score by dealing a killing blow on the devil path ancestor.

However, even if he says it is a killing blow, would anyone believe him? Yan Yu is still going strong and fast, wheezing out just barely from Zheng Jie attack. From the moment he receives those wounds, Yan Yu has already realized. The Sect Master's "sword" is not a sword, his attack is not an attack either.

However, at this moment, he still cannot figure out just how the sect master is doing this. After three thousand exchanges faster than any peak master who was previously inside the Royal Court could see, their attacks tore apart the whole Heavenly Court. The giant jade wall, 10,000 km high collapse from the intensity of the Qi in the air. Stray objects disappear within their range. Even though Yan Yu could not see how Zheng Jie is doing it, he has started to see the pattern.

Zheng Jie is extremely straightforward, and even though he has stopped using a physical weapon, and even though he is already formless, attacks always come from expected places. With his viciousness, the devil ancestor manages to evade and even counter some of the attack, but in the end, it is just too relentless. Even with all of his experiences, he cannot see a way to win as he is. So even though they were "exchanging", Yan Yu was already-

"-Wait. Come out Yan Yu. The heaven has blessed me today, you can't escape!"

Even though they were in the middle of fighting, using one of his life saving technique, Yan Yu manages to physically escape in the middle of the fight. And even though the sect master was on high alert, he could not detect the movement of the devil ancestor until the last second.

Live for another day, if I could not defeat you, I would just cultivate some more before returning. That was what was on Yan Yu's mind.

In the first place, even though Zheng Jie is winning in the exchange, the one who has an advantage is Yan Yu.

Out of the two of them, only one person has been living in a Qi-less dimension for more than ten thousand years, Yan Yu realizes that truly, if he considers age, Zheng Jie would not even be a blink in his eyes. Truly if fate will it, perhaps the techniques the Sect Master is currently using come from Yan Yu somehow, or that the sect master is related to him somehow. Both of them feels it, Zheng Jie and Yan Yu has a very strong karma connecting them.

When Zheng Jie refers to Yan Yu's "grandfather" insult, it refers to that time Yan Yu has randomly insulted the sect master by insinuating that Zheng Jie come from him. However there is a truth in that, nothing is by chance, and when Yan Yu thinks about it, that insult was not by chance either.

Something is telling him that Zheng Jie did somehow "come from" Yan Yu. Their karma dictated it so. And both the masters could feel it after the exchange. Their fate is related.

...And that is why the sect master is even more vigorous in trying to root out the devil ancestor.

But that is all in the past now, Yan Yu is about to achieve a great result after escaping. Definitely, after this, even if Zheng Jie tries to fight, he wouldn't be able to.

For the last ten thousand years, Yan Yu has been living in the Hell dimension, a harsh place, without any Qi or resource. He has to resort to using his own body as cultivation resource in that harsh place. However, even if he didn't escape, even if this is just a temporary world, the system created, it is the perfect place for his new physique. The special cultivation technique that he has been practiced take to the normal world like fish to water. It is like for the first time in ten thousand of years, a dried sponge is thrown into the ocean. It drank all of it. And not just that, just taking in Qi like some normal cultivation technique is too normal, how could the special technique to let Devil Cultivator survive hell be that normal?

No, in the first place, when that technique was created, a profound law extremely fitting of the devil cultivator's philosophy was incorporated.

The law of

Self

It was-

The devil ancestor fends off an attack in his hiding spot.

"He found me? Very well, let see if he could pursue me faster than I could complete my great feat."

The devil ancestor slips away from the heavenly saint's gaze, and no matter how much Zheng Jie's tries, the mysteriousness of that technique of Yan Yu still befuddle him. Zheng Jie could see all the heaven and earth, however he dare not use that technique right now, and yet his normal range should still cover most of this continent, Yan Yu still escapes. It makes Zheng Jie wonders if other Devil Cultivators could have similar devious technique to survive Zheng Jie's previous purge. However, it did not continue for long, because immediately after, he found Yan Yu again.

The exchange last for moment, all over the continent, no matter how much Yan Yu tries to hide, Zheng Jie would still find him after. The devastation of the grandest continent under the heaven was only alleviate by the fact that it was just a mirror world. Even so, countless profound location, Sect's ground, strange landscape and cities was destroyed within those moments. Even thousands of years of tradition and reinforcement couldn't stop the attack of the sect master from destroying even the most famous locations of the cultivation world.

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And not just the sect master attack either.

Zheng Jie immediately dodges a mysterious meteoric blade being telekinectically thrown at him from the remain of the Devil Slaying Sect. This sword, it has to be said that it is an extremely mysterious sword, the sole remaining survivor from a bygone era when devil and heaven cultivator wage all out war. It is the heirloom of the entire sect, even Zheng Jie has to show some respect after seeing the weapon. Its power has to be said to be the anathema to a devil cultivator, it has gained its power over time from the blood of the devil cultivator it has slain. And yet, in moment, the devil ancestor was able to corrupt the sword's devil slaying Qi and use it for his own purpose.

"Where is he attacking from? I'm sure he is out of my range, but how could his range be greater than me?" It has to be said that in a battle between Devil cultivator and Heaven path cultivator, the heaven path cultivator would have the advantage in range of detection with their divine sense, and yet-

"From this map, it seems Zheng Jie has emerged unscathed from that sword's attack. Useless thing, wasting my Qi, but still, that is fine, there are many surprises left for the dignified sect master in this continent."

Incorporated into Yan Yu's sense, there was an even better sense, a sense that could even be said to be omniscient in certain aspect, a sense that come from the system itself.

The system map. Even hundreds of millions of kilometers away, Yan Yu could still see the red dot and arrange his escape as well as leaving behind trap. The detail is extremely difficult to make out due to the system map being zoomed out at extreme range, but using his superior intuition and judgement, Yan Yu could still predict precisely what happened just from the fluctuation of the red and green dot.

The mysterious weapon of the sect master of the Devil Slaying Sect did not even wound the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Yet it has managed destroy all the land from the Devil Slaying Sect to the Royal Capital of the Nine Cloud Kingdom itself, if there was anyone living in this world, the damage would have been unthinkable.

Even still, Zheng Jie has realized something, the most dangerous aspect of Yan Yu was not just his cunning and power. Even though the heirloom weapon of the Devil Slaying Sect didn't even faze the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Yan Yu's surprise attack at the start did. Was a devil's claw even more dangerous than a sect's heirloom? Yes, yes it was. More importantly, that strange miasma emitting from Yan Yu's body... It is extremely strange and corroding. Zheng Jie's inner core is stable and so is his body, but the effect of that miasma on other is extremely strange. For a moment, the jade wall of the Royal Court shatters into pieces, the matter of the mysterious meteoric blade of the Devil Slaying Sect has to also be related to this strange miasma. It feels as if wherever Yan Yu went, and whatever he touches start to 'feel' like him. In the first place, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect did not want to cause all that destruction, but his divine sense told him that whatever Yan Yu did, the place was akin to Yan Yu himself. And so he cleanse them completely to avoid further complication.

Zheng Jie has never encountered such a powerful Devil Cultivator before, and more probably he never will. Devil Cultivators who reach certain realms was all taken to the Hell dimension, and so of course Zheng Jie would be wholly unprepared. All of that about Yan Yu is extremely dangerous, but no, the matter that is the most dangerous for Zheng Jie right now, what he worries the most about-

At this rate, this battle is going to be dragged to the Heavenly Sword Sect's sect ground. Even if the sect land was located in a far off, almost adjacent continents, by the way Yan Yu has escaped again and again, and the range of the battle keep extending further, this battle will be dragged to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and even the Sword Saint Abode will not be safe.

He has determined at the start that this world is a complete copy of the normal world, and because it is a complete copy, it is the most dangerous aspect of this whole "PvP".

The thing that is sealed under the Sword Saint Abode could not be allowed to see the light of day.

At that moment, in a place far away, Yan Yu was observing Zheng Jie from the system map. He was trying to assert what the sect master was doing, for a single second, the sect master has been motionless. The lone red dot did not move at all for that single second, however in the next moment, Yan Yu's entire map momentarily flashes red.

In retrospect, he should have try to ascertain the meaning behind the entire system map turning red then and there, however he was currently occupied.

The Sect Master destroys the first continent of the Nine Cloud Kingdom.

At that moment, Devil Path Ancestor Yan Yu lost his first "life".