Mortal Bones

Xu Taiping felt the same way at this moment.

This was the first time that he felt the power of the swordsmanship of the Great Emperor Zhenwu so vividly.

"Zheng!"

Almost at the same time when Cui Tiegu's sword force was generated, accompanied by an ear-piercing sword sound, the white sword light that wrapped Cui Tiegu suddenly stretched out, and then broke through the clouds and mist and rushed into the sky.

From a distance, Cui Tiegu's sword light was like a vertical stroke written by the god, straight through the sky, standing between heaven and earth.

Then, Cui Tiegu shouted to Amon in an extremely heroic voice:

"Brother Amon, let's see how many epiphyllums I can cut with this sword!"

As soon as the voice fell, the sword light that stood between heaven and earth on the Jianping slashed towards the direction where Su Chan was.

At this moment, Su Chan finally broke through the golden barrier transformed by the immortal weapon Zhen Gang's divine will with the Taotie sword intent and the huge Taotie phantom transformed by the sword energy.

The Zhen Gang sword then returned to Cui Tiegu's hand.

At the moment when the Zhen Gang sword returned to Cui Tiegu's hand, the single-plank bridge transformed by Su Chan's demonic power once again stood between him and Cui Tiegu.

But the next moment, the single-plank bridge between the two cliff phantoms disappeared with a "boom" under the huge sword force carrying the power of Mount Tai.

Then, Su Chan, carrying the Taotie phantom and the black sword energy in the sky, was also submerged in the sword light.

"Bang!..."

In the deafening explosion, two phantoms of Epiphyllum bloomed and withered quickly at the place where Su Chan originally stood.

However, at the moment when the two epiphyllums withered, Su Chan suddenly revealed his demonic body, transforming into a huge monster that was a hundred feet tall, with black horns on its head, vertical green eyes, and black scales all over its body except its face.

"Zheng!"

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a sharp sword sound, an equally huge Taotie phantom jumped up from behind Su Chan and bit the sword light that Cui Tiegu had condensed with the Zhenwu sword intent.

Although two more epiphyllums withered, this time, the fluctuation of Su Chan's aura did not weaken, but increased.

Immediately, Su Chan waved the long sword in his hand, letting his Taotie sword energy swallow up the sword light that Cui Tiegu had transformed with the Zhenwu sword intent in an instant.

Then, he said calmly:

"If Bu Xueting could perform this epiphany with the appearance of a semi-immortal, perhaps my cultivation would be weakened every time an epiphany flower withered."

When he said this, Su Chan's mouth corners slightly raised, squinting and smiling:

"But unfortunately, Bu Xueting had fallen into a lower realm at that time and could not perform the epiphany of great perfection."

"Now, as long as I still have an epiphany flower on me, I can still have a cultivation and combat power above the Shocking Heaven Realm!"

After saying this, the aura fluctuations around Su Chan suddenly rose again, and then covered the entire Jianping like a tide.

Seeing this, Cui Tiegu said loudly with some regret:

"Brother Amon, it seems that this last piece of hard bone still needs you to chew!"

Then, he looked up at the sword champion, clasped his fists and said:

"In this sword contest, I, Cui Tiegu, am inferior to others, and I am willing to admit defeat!"

But just like before, when Cui Tiegu admitted defeat, Su Chan still slashed out with a sword, wanting to kill Cui Tiegu on the sword platform.

But the moment Cui Tiegu's voice fell, a thick golden sword energy barrier rose straight from between Cui Tiegu and Su Chan.

"Bang!"

In the end, like Lin Qingnu before, the sword champion took Su Chan's sword for Cui Tiegu.

But the difference is that this time the thick golden sword energy barrier summoned by the sword champion was actually split by Su Chan.

After seeing this crack, everyone understood why Su Chan knew that the sword champion would "take action" to stop him, but still slashed out with this sword.

Xu Taiping looked at the sword marks on the sword barrier of the Sword Champion, and murmured solemnly: "The reason why he still slashed out with this sword is that he is confident that this sword can cut through the sword barrier summoned by the Sword Champion."

Sanhuang Daogong Yun Ye nodded and said:

"The reason why it failed to cut through is that the sword barrier summoned by the Sword Champion at this moment is much thicker than the sword barrier that protected Lin Qingnu."

As the two were talking, Cui Tiegu's figure appeared beside Xu Taiping and Yun Ye after leaving a residual image on the sword platform.

Before the two of them came forward to ask, Cui Tiegu turned his head and looked at Amon and said:

"Brother Amon, it's your turn!"

Yun Ye was puzzled and said:

"The Sword Champion has not announced who will ask the sword yet, why are you so sure that it will be Senior Amon?"

He continued:

"In my opinion, there is only one Epiphyllum left on Su Chan. If Taoist Taiping and I can cut off this Epiphyllum, and then Senior Amon goes up to ask Su Chan for the sword, the chance of winning will be the greatest."

Xu Taiping did not speak, but in his heart he actually agreed with Yun Ye's statement.

However, he always felt that the Sword Champion had "other intentions" in this sword-asking, so he did not dare to determine how the Sword Champion would be chosen in the end.

Without waiting for Cui Tiegu to answer, the voice of the Sword Champion rang out again-

"The one who asks the sword in this Zhenwu is Chunyang Sword Sect, Amon!"

As soon as this was said, the surrounding stands were once again filled with surprise and doubt.

Obviously, the people in the stands around them also thought, as Yun Ye thought, that letting him and Xu Taiping go on stage to ask for swords first would give them a better chance of winning.

However, Amon and Cui Tiegu smiled in relief after hearing this.

Immediately, Amon walked towards Jianping and said without looking back:

"For the Sword Champion List, the real purpose of this sword-asking contest is not to help Zhenwutian win the battle between the gods and demons, but to select a satisfactory sword for Zhenwutian and Shangqingjie."

This made Xu Taiping and Yun Ye confused.

Cui Tiegu, who was standing by, looked at Amon's back as he stepped onto the stage, and said with a somewhat desolate tone:

"Do you still remember why there was this Zhenwu Sword Master Meeting?"

Yun Ye thought about it carefully and then answered:

"When the Zhenwu Emperor ascended, he left his lifelong swordsmanship inheritance in the Sword Master List, and the Sword Master List wanted to find a successor for these inheritances, so the Zhenwu Sword Master Meeting was held."

Hearing the word "successor", Xu Taiping's heart "beat" for a moment, and then murmured: "Senior Cui, do you mean to say that compared to the victory or defeat of the battle between the gods and demons, the Sword Master List wants to find a true successor for the Zhenwu Emperor more?"

Cui Tiegu looked at Xu Taiping deeply, then glanced at Yun Ye, and then said:

"Xu Taiping, you said That's right. "

"The purpose of the Zhenwu Sword Champion Association is to find a successor for the Zhenwu Emperor."

"However, in the past hundreds of thousands of years, there have been many Zhenwu Sword Champions, but very few have been Zhenwu descendants."

"And in previous Zhenwu Sword Champion Associations, whenever the Sword Champion List had a successor candidate, it would make the Zhenwu Sword Champion Association extremely difficult."

"Just like the current battle between the Heavenly Demon and the Demon."

Yun Ye of the Three Emperors Dao Palace, who was still somewhat puzzled, asked again:

"Even if the Sword Champion List wanted to find the successor of the Zhenwu Emperor in this sword-asking contest, there was no need to arrange for you and Senior Amon to appear in advance and deliberately lose this sword-asking contest!"

In Yun Ye's view, there was no conflict between selecting a successor and winning this sword-asking contest.

Cui Tiegu smiled bitterly and said:

"Because Amon and I are not the ones that the Sword Champion List is looking for."

In the puzzled eyes of Xu Taiping and Sanhuang Daogong Yunye, Cui Tiegu sighed and then explained:

"If the Sword Champion List wanted to choose me and Amon as the successor, it would have chosen me and Amon hundreds of years ago when Amon and I first participated in the Sword Champion Meeting."

"The reason why it didn't choose us is that it didn't think highly of us."

He paused for a moment, glanced at Amon who was walking towards the sword platform, and then continued :

"The only role of the two of us in this sword contest is to clear the stumbling blocks for the final test of you two by the Sword Champion."

In the stunned eyes of Xu Taiping and Yun Ye, Cui Tiegu turned his head and looked at the two again, then smiled and said:

"Yes, the Sword Champion has selected you two."

"After the last Epiphyllum blooms."

"You two will face the final test of the Sword Champion."

"Whoever wins."

"Whoever wins will get the true inheritance of the Zhenwu Emperor in the Sword Champion."