Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao-Chapter 1314 - 57: Stubborn to the End

The void trembled.

Amid the horrified and fearful gazes of the Heavenly Heart and Demon Heart practitioners, Zhou Yan unleashed a radiance that could destroy heaven and earth.

Tu Sanhun was now unstoppable.

To be killed with Zhou Yan’s full strength was already his best outcome.

Even after the light faded, Tu Sanhun stood where he was, completely covered in blood, seemingly unaffected by Zhou Yan’s deadly strike.

But Zhou Yan’s attack could not have been without effect.

"Zhou Yan... Does Chang Peipei really have no regrets?"

As Tu Sanhun faced destruction, his body turned to dust, yet did not shatter. Instead, he suddenly posed a rather irrelevant question.

Zhou Yan felt a jolt in his heart, immediately recalling someone from the depths of his memory.

A pitiful and tragic woman, someone who could treat her purity and emotions with great calm but was incredibly stubborn about feelings — Chang Peipei.

"She said, in this life, she belongs only to you, even if she knew in her heart she was merely an outlet for you, she remained obsessed and unrepentant."

Zhou Yan pondered for a moment and gave an answer.

"Yes, still obsessed and unrepentant, so don’t you think, women are quite strange?"

Tu Sanhun smiled self-deprecatingly. At this point, he could no longer even muster an expression, his body on the verge of shattering.

Yet his terrifying will kept him from dying — of course, he was also extremely weak now, so weak that even a gentle breath from an ordinary person would blow him to dust.

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Yan’s heart chilled, feeling an unusual and disquieting sensation.

Nowadays, it was rare for Zhou Yan to feel uneasy, but such a feeling had appeared.

"You should understand, shouldn’t you? You’re so smart, it’s impossible you haven’t thought of this. My obsession’s persistence is just to tell you, to win a woman’s heart, first conquer her body, then thoroughly conquer both her body and soul, and that will be sufficient."

"Besides, Peipei’s greatest sorrow was her heart’s death; dying to her is a form of liberation. Her living was the greatest torment. But at least, when I conquered her body and mind, she was happy."

"Zhou Yan, what do you say?"

"I’m about to be completely destroyed, but before that, I will leave everything I’ve realized to you. You just need to devour me with your Soul Sea; this is my repayment for you having killed Peipei."

After Tu Sanhun finished speaking, his whole body suddenly shattered, but a powerful Soul Sea power didn’t dissipate. Instead, it transformed into a unique soul liquid, flying towards Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan gazed at the mass of soul liquid, not blocking it but rather naturally opening his Soul Sea at his brow, absorbing it all.

In that moment, the rule mark at Zhou Yan’s brow directly replaced Tu Sanhun’s thirteen hundred sixty-second rank. At the same time, Zhou Yan’s realm advanced multiple stages in succession, reaching the fifty-first layer of the Sea of Suffering Realm.

Only, Zhou Yan was not pleased; instead, he felt a sense of lament and loss in his heart.

Tu Sanhun, such a character, was a true genius, and even true geniuses would still fall.

Such a genius died by Zhou Yan’s hand.

As for him, Zhou Yan, what about the future? Would he too fall by the hand of some other genius?

These thoughts were of secondary importance; more importantly, what exactly was Tu Sanhun trying to convey?

It seemed that Tu Sanhun also held knowledge of some secrets that shouldn’t be known, and these secrets were equally unknown to others.

Is it possible that every genius harbors corresponding secrets? Corresponding privacy?

Zhou Yan had no way to deduce it, for there was not enough information to make such calculations. But Zhou Yan knew that Tu Sanhun did not lack love for Chang Peipei.

Because Tu Sanhun knew better than anyone that for Chang Peipei, perhaps only destruction was liberation.

Compared to the current cruel and harsh world, death was truly a great blessing.

And at that time, could it be that Tu Sanhun had already realized this? Or perhaps, at that time, was Tu Sanhun already far more intelligent than Zhou Yan imagined?

...

Within the inner space deep in the Soul Sea.

Gu Xi, sensing everything outside, inexplicably sighed softly, her expression touched.

"Brother Zhou Yan, what Tu Sanhun said is very true."

Gu Xi, lost in thought, appeared to slip into some kind of memory, speaking from her heart.

"I understand."

Zhou Yan nodded, also quite rueful.

"Brother Zhou Yan, if there are women who love you by your side, then conquer them first."

Gu Xi’s pretty face blushed with two lovely streaks of red, her words utterly sincere.

"Are you hinting that I should devour you?"

Zhou Yan laughed.

"Xi’er, your body and mind have long been conquered by Brother Zhou Yan. At any time, that’s a very happy thing, isn’t it?"

Gu Xi spoke softly, her face blushing though she did not avoid Zhou Yan’s gaze. Instead, her eyes were bright, filled with tenderness.

Zhou Yan’s gaze fell on Gu Xi’s face, and in that moment, all concerns seemed to be let go, as if only Zhou Yan and Gu Xi remained in this Soul Sea.

...

"Is Tu Sanhun saying that no matter how much a woman likes me, if someone else forcibly takes her down, conquering her body and mind, she could very well betray?"

"Although this possibility is small, it is not impossible."

"Just like Long Xianyin initially disliked me, but after being conquered by me physically, her heart began to draw near me. Although she always refused to admit it, she often couldn’t bear to see me suffer."

Zhou Yan took a deep breath, the Half Soul True Self intertwined with Gu Xi’s Soul Body within the Soul Sea, while the other Half Soul was outside, comprehending the Tao insights of Tu Sanhun and some specially meaningful words left behind.

Soon, Zhou Yan absorbed all these Tao Traces, his comprehension deepened immensely, and his combat power increased significantly.

But Zhou Yan did not hesitate; after accepting the range of his Domain, he chose to merge his two ’Soul Suppressing Stele’.

Indeed, at the moment the two Soul Suppressing Stele connected, the region immediately changed.

The regions connected together, the Void seemed to adjust, causing mysterious disturbance.

After the mysterious great disturbance, Zhou Yan felt the Soul Suppressing Stele become stronger, the merged Soul Suppressing Stele taller, larger.

On the Soul Suppressing Stele, some Runes appeared, like carved Emperor Patterns, giving Zhou Yan a sudden familiar feeling.

"This is—"

In Zhou Yan’s mind flashed a Spirit Light, immediately recalling that endless stele inscription regions.

That place, with countless stone pillars, inscribed with various Emperor Patterns.

That place was the Reincarnation Ancient Land.

Regarding the Reincarnation Ancient Land, Zhou Yan couldn’t possibly forget—in fact, his memory of it was very profound.

...

Everything about the Reincarnation Ancient Land reappeared before Zhou Yan’s eyes.

This time, Zhou Yan seriously recalled the scene he had once observed, sensed.

The open space in the valley of the Reincarnation Ancient Land was vast, on it stood ancient stone pillars, each like a hand silently towering on the ground.

These connected stone pillars were not generally tall, some towering into golden clouds, others only about the height of a person.

On each stone pillar’s front there existed a sapphire, glittering statue of a woman.

The woman’s appearance was clearly visible, incomparably beautiful, with sapphire shimmering long hair, but under the sapphire glimmer, the waist-length hair revealed a snow-white halo.

In the glow, the woman also lacked arms, both arms severed, but at her arms’ places hovered two swords, pulled by sapphire glow, never falling.

The two swords, one like frost, the other like snow, stood left and right, tips downwards.

The stone pillars varied in size, each identical, some tall, some short.

And beneath the sword tips—where the sword tips touched the ground, was a lush expanse, emerald green as washed, showed vibrant life energy.

But this green of life wasn’t an endless expanse of plain, it was littered with dazzling Runes.

On the ground, the emerald lush environment, varied in depth, stamped with ancient Emperor Rune don’tell, like carved Starry Sky patterns, complex and strange.

Among them were not only orbits of celestial bodies, star rivers, and star systems, irregular various patterns and totems, also an unspeakable ancient mural

...

Zhou Yan repeatedly deduced this memory’s scene, always feeling it hid the real secret, and this secret, was close to being unlocked, yet could not be.

Thus, amid frequent recall and deduction, Zhou Yan concentrated and held his breath, began to engrave this scene using Emperor Patterns and Soul Sea Power.

But this time, when engraving the scene halfway, as the woman’s statue outline appeared, everything suddenly collapsed.

Zhou Yan’s mind shook, uncontrollably spitting a mouthful of blood, his mind jolted, for a moment experiencing suffocation.

At the moment, Zhou Yan clearly noticed, after transformation, a trace of statue seemed to slip past the Soul Suppressing Stele.

Zhou Yan felt a sense of shock, almost instantly linking the Soul Suppressing Stele, the Summoned, and the Reincarnation Ancient Land.

Various-sized stone pillars, various-sized Soul Suppressing Stele, seemed to directly overlap.

Then, does the ultimate fate of the Summoned all turn into Soul Suppressing Stele filled with endless life energy, finally becoming a source ground of life energy?

Consider, those stone pillars possessed no life energy, but below them lay immense suffocating life energy.

Then, must the Summoned and their corresponding areas all die out, to form complete stone pillars?