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The first clash, Sabre God Nangong Duanjian's blade energy crumbled, without gaining any advantage.

Supreme Unbeaten, truly standing in an invincible position. No matter how the Sabre God attacks, the Supreme Taoist simply releases Xuan Yuan One Qi, All Techniques are impervious, and all blade energies and glows cannot come within a foot of him.

"Supreme Unbeaten, secondly, defeat with a means to succeed. Sabre God, you have crossed swords with me three times, and in these three times, you have revealed all your secrets before my eyes. If you do not have a stronger move, you won't get near me."

The Supreme Taoist looked at Nangong Duanjian calmly, his words carrying no arrogance nor humility, yet showing the strongest confidence and greatest hubris.

The meaning of "Supreme Unbeaten, secondly, defeat with a means to succeed" is simple—it either means remaining unbeaten, or if defeated, finding a way to succeed thereafter.

It is akin to the well-known toxic encouragement, "Failure is the mother of success." But when this toxic encouragement is truly realized a hundred percent, it becomes the most despairing truth for others.

The "Supreme Unbeaten" of the Supreme Taoist is to overcome all factors of failure he has encountered, erasing all observed failures to achieve ultimate unbeaten.

This is the truth of "Supreme Unbeaten." Simple yet despair-inducing unbeatable technique.

Sabre God Nangong Duanjian has crossed swords with the Supreme Taoist three times: the first time, there was still a chance to win; by the second and third encounters, the chances of victory became increasingly slimmer. Until now, if Nangong Duanjian does not create a stronger move or, frankly, overwhelmingly crush the Supreme Taoist with foundational power, then he stands no chance of winning.

"Supreme, you are indeed an inspiring opponent," Nangong Duanjian said with a smile, "Every time I see you, my Sword Path improves significantly."

Supreme Unbeaten's move restrains existing techniques, so one must create stronger and more profound sword styles. Nangong Duanjian never stops moving forward; on the contrary, the existence of the Supreme Taoist is his best whetstone.

"One Strike to Cut the World."

The ultimate sword, severing all things in the world. Even the light of the sun was shattered by this strike, seen as a fan-shaped shadow. That was the trajectory of the Broken Sword's slash.

Facing this unprecedented ultimate sword, the Supreme Taoist could not neutralize it with "Supreme Unbeaten," but even so, it was not enough to startle the Supreme Taoist.

"Dao Transformation One Light."

Xuan Yuan One Qi nurtures One Element Light, transforming all life, countering the sword that breaks the world.

"——"

The clash of the two moves was silent, followed by an inexplicable crisp shattering sound.

"Crack…Crack…"

The space between them shattered like broken mirrors, revealing vast expanses of black void. And at the two ends of this void were two motionless figures.

"Supreme, you always defensively respond. Are you afraid of my sword?" Nangong Duanjian laughed, raising his blade.

So far, every time it had been the Supreme Taoist who sought out Sabre God Nangong Duanjian, and after witnessing Nangong Duanjian's moves, he would then drift away.

It seems as if he is probing Nangong Duanjian's depth to maintain his unbeaten position. But is this truth?

"I am merely measuring," the Supreme Taoist replied calmly.

"Measuring what?"

"Measuring how far you are from me."

The Supreme Taoist slightly shook his head, "It seems, not enough."

"Sabre God, before you can truly stand shoulder to shoulder with me, breaking the limits of heaven and earth does not meet my expectations. Your progress is too fast!"

With these words, the Supreme Taoist for the first time took the initiative to strike. Xuan Yuan One Qi merged within, as if encompassing the entire world within himself, bringing about the ultimate disaster with supreme and wonderful dao power.

"Supreme Heaven Opening Tribulation."

Indescribable, ineffable mysterious energy filled the void in all directions, and the earth and sky were covered with inexplicable mystic energy.

This area seemed cut off from the world.

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"Sabre God!"

Elder Shiming suddenly turned around, seeing the distant sky filled with desolation. A sense of foreboding filled his heart. Elder Shiming hadn't encountered this premonition in at least four hundred years, but now, after four hundred years, he once more felt this intense unease.

Unconsciously, he pinched his fingers for calculation, but as he reached a certain point, an invisible force suddenly exploded on his palm, crushing the calculating fingers, twisting them down onto his palm.

Just calculating faced such powerful backlash. If confronted directly...

Elder Shiming silently shook his head. With his strength, to confront the source of that power head-on would absolutely be a death with no burial place.

"But fortunately, I finally found Sabre God's Qi Mechanism, and this time Sabre God will be without danger."

Suppressing his unease, Elder Shiming continued in the set direction. Without danger, Sabre God should be fine. Even if there is an error, given Elder Shiming's strength, he cannot intervene, so he should first handle the matters Sabre God entrusted to him.

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Zhenwu Sect.

Qing Yu, who was holding the Heavenly Crystal in meditation, suddenly had a sudden flash of insight, opening his eyes, with the Ten Directions Destruction appearing before him, the Trigram Order spinning, and weaving a Great Wisdom Space with the trigrams.

Clear light circulated, and scenes flashed before his eyes.

But just as the scenes changed to someone's face, the Great Wisdom Space suddenly collapsed, the scenes exploded, and a qi force flew out.

Qing Yu promptly used his left hand to block the qi force, "Boom—"

A dull sound was heard, the qi force burst into his palm, blood splattered, the hand was a blur of flesh and bone, with faintly visible tendons and bones.

"An inexplicably familiar qi mechanism..."

For the bloodied hand, Qing Yu's expression did not change, only operating the Heavenly Son's Qi Observation Skill to examine the remaining trace of qi mechanism in his hand.

"I've seen this qi mechanism, from when I fought Xuan Du. Supreme Heaven Opening Scripture, Xuan Du? No, it's the Supreme Taoist."

The face flashed in his mind—though it was only for an instant, Qing Yu firmly remembered that face, hard to forget.

"Has the Supreme Taoist finally shown himself?"

Towards this number one person of the Central Plains, Qing Yu always held strong curiosity and vigilance. Because his Heavenly Person's Heart Realm was derived from the Supreme Forgetfulness Realm recorded in the Taoist Scriptures. Naturally, Qing Yu sometimes compared the similarities and differences of the two mental states.

The result of the comparison was—very similar.

Which means, someone like Qing Yu, who is both tenacious and ruthless, not bound by emotions and completely emotionless when necessary, at least one more person like this exists in the world.

And he is stronger, much stronger than Qing Yu.

Thus, how could Qing Yu not be cautious of the Supreme Taoist?

Qing Yu does not believe that the Supreme Taoist would play some Supreme Non-action game. The less he shows himself, the more cautious Qing Yu becomes. Now, he has finally appeared.

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