Chapter Fourteen: Soulfire Sword Technique

  "Soulfire Sword Technique."

  Shen Dou was drenched in sweat, all the alcohol evaporating with it, his head clearer than ever before, a conviction burning within him - he must not die.

  His soul faintly wiped away the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth, and then he saw that his face was ferocious, with a sword tied to his palm, looking like he was about to get serious.

  "I didn't expect that you could actually block my concentrated sword strike. Tell me, what kind of sword technique did you use?" Hundun asked with a face full of unwillingness and a hoarse voice.

  "Jiuyou Daisui Jian Jue!" Shen Du replied in a low voice.

  The Jiu You Dui Jian Jue's gathering energy in one sword can take away a person's seven souls. Unexpectedly, the soul was still able to stand up straight and speak. Shen Dou's face also showed a hint of solemnity. Although he had practiced this sword technique for three years and had already mastered it, the biggest drawback of this technique is that the moves are too simple. If used repeatedly, the opponent might easily kill him.

  "Huh? The Nine Underworlds Slumbering Sword Technique, isn't that a sword move of the Ling person? How can you... Could it be that you're her successor?" Hún Dàn's face was filled with astonishment as he stared at Shěn Dōu.

  When mentioning Ling Ren, Shen Du's shock far surpasses his calmness.

  "How did you know Lian Ren? Have you met before?"

  "Hmph, it's not just that I've seen it before. The Nine Underworlds Slumbering Sword Manual was originally stolen by Happy Brother from the Snow Monster, and unexpectedly, before he could even cultivate it, it was snatched away by a mysterious woman. And unexpectedly, her successor would personally deliver herself to my doorstep for me to slaughter." After finishing speaking, Soul Weakness let out a deafening maniacal laugh.

  Hahaha~~~~

  The sound echoed through the forest, even shaking off a few snow rocks from the distant snowy mountains.

  Shen Du felt his eardrums ache and covered his ears with both hands, his face contorted in pain as he shouted: "Stop laughing! Stop laughing!"

  Who would have thought that the soul was so weak and had not prepared to stop, the flying birds and beasts in the forest fell to the ground one after another.

  Shen Du could no longer bear it, his brows furrowed and his eyes gleaming with a nearly crazed light, he bellowed: "Then don't blame me for being ruthless! Look at my sword!"

  With a sword aura protecting his entire body, he concentrated his spirit and energy, stabbing out with one sword. The speed was faster than a sudden clap of thunder, and in just an instant, he appeared before Soul Dull's face.

  His soul seemed to be enraged, his red hair was disheveled and he charged forward with a long sword, quickly and accurately blocking Shen Dou's attack, but felt his soul shaken, stumbled backward dozens of steps, shook his head violently, and saw stars.

  Shen Du saw the situation and didn't hesitate at all, taking advantage of the victory to pursue and attack, his sword flashing once, seemingly slashing diagonally towards Hundan, but actually making a diagonal sweep.

  His soul was barely awake, and he saw Shen Du rushing towards him. He dodged to the side, and this time he became much smarter, no longer touching Shen Du's sword.

  "Hey, the reaction isn't bad, it's just... still too slow." Shen Du said in a low voice.

  "Hmph, is that so." Soul heard this and his facial muscles twitched, he said resentfully: "Shen Du, you have completely enraged me!"

  "Then go all out!" Shen Du said, his long sword rapidly stabbing out, in just an instant, he had already stabbed out two hundred swords, forcing Soul Duan to retreat step by step.

  With no room to retreat, a gigantic ancient tree loomed behind him. Before he could react, the Soul-Extinguishing Long Sword flashed horizontally, slashing towards Shen Dou's neck, forcing him to draw his sword in defense.

  However, Danling still didn't dare to touch Shendu's sword, taking advantage of the gap, grasping the opportunity to fly up and stand on top of a large tree. The long sword swung out again, a golden light shot straight towards Shendu.

  If it were a sword move confrontation, Shen might have an advantage over Hundun, but in terms of sword energy and sword energy confrontation, Shen is probably far from comparable.

  Shen Du stared at the rapidly approaching light, and was stunned in place, his entire body feeling extremely hot, unable to move even a little.

  "What's going on here?!" Shen Du thought to himself, and that sword energy had already pierced through his left shoulder.

  "Yah ha!" Shen Du let out a muffled hum, "Hun Dan, what kind of evil magic did you use to control my limbs?"

  "Hmph, I've warned you before, the greatest ability of the Soul Ignition Sword Technique is to control the enemy's three souls and seven spirits. Your Nine Underworlds Slumbering Sword Intent also has a similar ability, but the Soul Ignition Sword Technique can infuse this controlling ability into the sword energy itself. As soon as the sword energy is released, it will already have controlled the enemy's three souls and seven spirits. The Nine Underworlds Slumbering Sword Intent can only hide this controlling ability within the sword, far inferior to my Soul Ignition Sword Technique." Hun Dun stood on top of a large tree, looking down at Shen Dou who was half-kneeling on the ground due to his injuries with a smug expression.

  Shen Du's right hand never let go of the long sword in his hand, a pair of starry eyes stared at Soul Dan with unwavering determination, and said in a low voice: "It seems that you are very confident in your own swordsmanship."

  "Of course, I have no reason to be unconfident. Looking at the entire Soul Mountain, who can match my Soul Dampening swordsmanship?"

  "Haha, sometimes being too confident is just arrogance. There are mountains beyond mountains, and people beyond people. No one is forever the strongest, this world only has stronger, no strongest." Shen Du said calmly, and surprisingly covered his wound and stood up.

  Watching Shen Du actually get back on his feet, Hun Dan's face was shocked.

  "You, you actually......!"

  "How, you look like you don't dare to believe what you see." Shen Du's face revealed a sly smile, and he continued: "Seeing your honesty, I'll also tell you the truth. Just in that moment, I felt very strange too, but I didn't know why. I found that my body wasn't completely under your control, as if I had an extra three souls and seven spirits compared to ordinary people. Even I myself feel very strange."

  "You, what did you just say?" Hún Dàn's eyes widened in incredulity as he stared at Shěn Dōu.

  "That's right, but later I realized that Eagle Brother's soul had been in my body for six whole years. And when you let out that long laugh just now, Eagle Brother's soul began to merge with me. And then, when you drew your sword at me again, Eagle Brother's soul had already fully merged with mine. So from now on, you'll never have the chance to control all of my souls again." Shen Du's smile grew even thicker, his longsword quivering as orange light burst forth, shining down to the tree branches beneath Soul Dull's feet.

  His soul suddenly flew up, and saw that the thick tree branch was easily shattered by Shen Dou's sword energy, making a loud "Ka Cha" sound.

  "Go." The soul's faintness caused the old trick to be used again, and a golden yellow sword energy shot out from the sword.

  But Shen Dou no longer had his previous fear, and with a swift flash, he was already standing behind Hundun.

  Instead, his face turned pale with a look of terror, "Not good!" In the midst of shock, he only felt a chill coming from behind, and had no choice but to swing his long sword to block Shen Dou's slash.

  This blow was Shen Du's concentrated spirit and gathered energy in one strike, enough to make the beautiful soul of the Burning Soul Sword Technique fade away. However, the Burning Soul Sword Technique used its sword energy to block this blow, which seemed to have also reduced the effectiveness of the Jiuyou Juejian Sword Technique.

  "Hey, you actually blocked it." Shen Du's face showed a hint of surprise, "It seems that the only way to settle this is through swordsmanship." With that, he attempted to strike again.

  Only to see his face turn pale and stern, his red long hair restored its softness once again. He untied the sword strap from his hand and wrapped it around his palm again, this time seemingly tighter. Then he saw him swiftly swinging his two-meter-long sword, forming a full moon-shaped sword aura in the air.

  "Shendu, you're forcing me." Hundan said with a cold hatred, his sword swinging faster and faster, his face growing more ferocious.

  "Yeah! What is this?" Shen Dou couldn't see clearly, but only felt a scorching flame burning inside his body, scorching his internal organs.

  "How's that? This is the Moon Shadow Kill, four levels higher than the Soul Ignition Sword Technique." Hún Dàn had a look of pride on his face, but it was also clear that he was in pain.

  Shen Du endured the scorching flames within, his forehead dripping with sweat, and panted: "It seems that your swordsmanship isn't very proficient, or perhaps you've gone mad from practicing too much, otherwise your sword wouldn't become increasingly laborious with each swing."

  His face was shocked, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed, as if he had been hit by Shen Du's words. His skin began to peel off, as if he was also suffering from the scorching flames.

  "You're talking nonsense, although I only got the second half of this secret book, with my unparalleled super talent that has no predecessor and no successor, how could I possibly go crazy." Soul Tuo shouted.

  "What's next, the second half."

  When Soul faded out this move, Moon Shadow Kill, Shen was thinking that the swordsmanship route was too similar to Shenmen Fifteen Swords, and it was likely the second half of Shenmen Fifteen Swords. After Soul's explanation, he could roughly confirm that the swordsmanship he had been practicing was indeed Shenmen Fifteen Swords, and his heart was instantly filled with great joy.

  "In that case, I have no choice but to kill you. Otherwise, I suppose you wouldn't easily hand over the sword manual."

  "What, you say you want to take the sword manual!" Hundan's face was shocked: "Do you know that this sword manual is extremely subtle and ordinary people can't even understand it if they get it. You're just a little kid, how dare you speak such arrogant words."

  "Hey, that's because you didn't know, this secret recipe originally belonged to my Shen family, it can only be considered as returning to its rightful owner!" Shen Du said, strongly suppressing the flames that were burning his five viscera and six bowels, his toes lightly tapping on the void, his long sword shooting out towards Soul Duan.

  "What a reckless guy, aren't you afraid of destroying your meridians and dying?" Hun Dan couldn't understand Shen Dou's behavior, showing a hint of terror, but immediately withdrew his attack and said: "Look at my You Ji Sword!"

  The moment the sword was unsheathed, its long blade suddenly transformed into a virtual shadow and turned into a slender woman who stood in front of Soul.

  Shen Douchi was shocked and lost his composure, thinking that it was another real person, and he couldn't help but mistakenly hurt her. He slanted his long sword to avoid the woman, but he himself was only three feet away from her.

  At that moment, the woman's hand suddenly appeared with a slender iron sword, simply stabbed out at an astonishing speed, and happened to stab Shen Dou's left arm.

  "Who are you!" Shen Dou shot back several feet, landing lightly on the top of an ancient tree, looking at the woman with a surprised expression.

  The woman suddenly transformed back into her true form and returned to Soul's hand.

  Shen Du finally understood that the ability of the demon-slaying sword was actually so miraculous, it seemed that this battle wouldn't be as easy as he thought.

  Relying on Eagle Brother's three souls and seven spirits, he can still resist the scorching hot Soul Burning Sword Technique, but this Demon Silent Sword can make the soul-dulling attack become unpredictable, I'm afraid it won't be that simple.