Chapter 525 No. 1 in the World

Ye Hongjian would never forget this face.

When she was a child, she lifted her up high and said that when Little Red Paper grew up, she would be the most beautiful girl in the world.

This face that told her of the great righteousness of her country, that life took precedence.

The face that told her so many stories and so many truths.

Once upon a time, the owner of this face was the most perfect person in the world that Ye Hongjian believed. He was full of experience, but he was also thinking of the world.

She had once taken him as a role model, treating him as her master, wanting to be like him.

However, in the end, her yearning made her an accomplice in Xu Han's meticulous planning for several years. She was filled with guilt towards Xu Han for this, but she still couldn't believe that the kind old man in her eyes would use such a poisonous scheme.

Of course, she had already buried these doubts in her heart. After all, the Headmaster was already dead.

To die somewhere she did not know was not something that was open to question. The broken life tablet was ironclad evidence.

But now, the Headmaster was standing in front of her again, within a hundred feet of her.

This was not her misconception, because the fear on Xu Han's face also conveyed this fact to her.

But why is he here? Do you want to come back from the dead or borrow the corpse to revive? What was his purpose? What do you want to do?

At this moment, these questions inevitably surged into Ye Hongjian's heart.

But she didn't have time to think about these questions.

Rumble!

Just now, he could see the dark clouds covering the horizon of the stars and the moon, and a huge thunderous roar rang out.

The gale blew, and all the lights on the streets were extinguished, and the merchandise of the merchants was blown up, and the clothes of the pedestrians were lifted up.

Instinctively, everyone who knew that the heavy rain was coming quickly walked towards the eaves on both sides of the street.

Xu Han and the cyan ghost were cleared of a path that could lead directly to each other. The gazes of both sides exchanged, and they were silent on the street where the sudden gale blew.

Drop!

The first drop of rain fell from a distance of ten thousand feet and landed heavily on the paved streets of the Royal City. With a crisp sound, it shattered into pieces.

However, that soft sound was like some sort of order.

The heavy rain poured down in an instant, and the pedestrians who didn't have time to hide from the rain let out cries of alarm and ran quickly through the streets.

The old man standing at the corner of the street, dressed in a crow-green robe, suddenly stirred up against the wind.

At that moment, the ground where his feet were standing also slightly bulged, and two cracks appeared.

In the next moment, the bulge spread at an astonishing speed towards the place where Xu Han and Ye Hongjian were. It seemed that the two cracks were also rising along with this bulge, continuously flowing towards the place where the two of them were.

The faces of Xu Han and the other two darkened, and the true essence and sword intent around their bodies surged out at that moment.

The muscles in Xu Han's body bulged high, and his majestic aura spread out. Ye Hongjian's clothes were stirred, and the phantom image of a Divine Phoenix Bird appeared behind him, and at that moment, it flapped its wings and let out a long cry.

Boom!

A loud noise rang out.

At that moment, the bluestone slab paved the streets of Horizontal Imperial City was suddenly raised. Gravel and dust flew into the sky. Pedestrians on both sides let out loud cries of terror as they randomly tried to avoid the flying stones, but they were still hit by the stones.

The two thigh-thick vines in the dust revealed their true bodies like poisonous snakes. They attacked Xu Han and the other two as if they had intelligence.

Relying on his powerful body, Xu Han stretched out his hand to grab the whistling vine. The force in his hand sank as he tried to tear the vine apart, but his expression changed the moment he attacked. He had clearly exuded all the strength in his body, but the vine was extremely tenacious. His pull was like mud bulls falling into the sea, not causing even the slightest damage to the vine.

One had to know that Xu Han's fleshly body had already reached the Seventh Undying Realm. The strength of that fleshly body was no longer something that could be described with just the words'terrifying '. It was not too much to say that it could be used to split a stone with its fleshly body, but at this moment, there was actually no way to use this vine at all.

This is a good illustration of some of the problems.

Xu Han couldn't help but raise his head to look at the green-robed ghost at the corner of the street. At that moment, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he could clearly smell the aura of an immortal from the figure's body!

On the other side, the Divine Phoenix Bird called out by Ye Hongjian seemed to have some restraining effect on the vine. The Spiritual Flames stimulated by the Divine Phoenix Bird and the scorching temperature attached to her sword could actually cut off the strange vine that Xu Han had no choice but to do, but all she could do was limited to this.

Those vines would quickly extend out new branches where they were cut off, and not only that, they would be cut off on the ground and take root when they landed, turning into another vine of the same thickness that swept towards Ye Hongjian.

The battle took place too suddenly.

Neither Ye Hongjian nor Xu Han had the mood to delve into why the Headmaster had appeared here, much less why he had acted so decisively against the two of them.

Under the attack of the powerful and strange vines, they had no choice but to go all out.

Ye Hongjian was in danger. Although she had the ability to cut the vines, every time she cut the vines, a new vine would grow. This method multiplied the pressure she needed to face.

Realizing this, Ye Hongjian used her long sword to force away the vines that were coming at her again. After that, she retreated a few steps. Then, her eyes sank, and the cold sword that shone brightly was easily erected in front of her chest. The Divine Phoenix Bird behind her also seemed to feel something. At that moment, it flapped its wings and let out a long cry. Then, it turned into a streak of light and attached itself to Ye Hongjian's sword.

At that moment, the scorching fire on the snow-white sword lit up, and something rose from the woman's picturesque eyebrows.

"Feng Tianxiang!"

Her mouth was as soft as an edict.

The longsword swung out once again, accompanied by a phoenix phantom, and it shot straight towards the vine that was whistling towards it!

It had to be said that Ye Hongjian was praised by Great Zhou as the most talented person in the younger generation. When Xu Han left Chang'an, this girl's cultivation was only at the early Heaven Hunt Realm, and her face had disappeared. At this moment, her cultivation was still at the Great Ascension Realm, and her body had faintly touched the threshold of the Great Evolution Realm. Moreover, with her talent, the combat strength she displayed was probably no less than that of most Great Evolution Realm experts.

The power of the sword intent and the Phoenix Spirit Flame was even greater.

Suddenly, it was as if a phoenix had truly appeared.

Under this sword intent, the vines that were brandishing their teeth and claws were cut into pieces like they had been defeated. However, before these broken branches could reach out again, the Phoenix Spiritual Flames that had come along with the sword intent also displayed their might. The broken branches had just fallen, and the Spiritual Flames wrapped around them and instantly burned them to ashes.

Before Ye Hongjian, who had achieved such a result, had time to reveal a happy expression, the green-robed old man standing at the corner of the street began to stir up his clothes again. Two enormous vines grew out from the ground beneath his feet and attacked again with a whistle.

Ye Hongjian frowned.

It was not only because of the difficult vines, but also because she could not accept fighting with this old man.

However, the other party did not have the slightest temper to sit down and chat with her.

Ye Hongjian's heart gave off an indescribable smell, like the sorrow after some beliefs collapsed, but she had no choice but to suppress this sorrow. She turned to look at Xu Han, who was trembling with the vine, and said in a deep voice, "Xiao Han!"

Hearing this, Xu Han swung the pitch-black divine sword in his hand. Three thousand golden sword shadows appeared. No one could defeat the vines, but they temporarily stopped Ling Lie's attack.

Then he turned to look at Ye Hongjian, and the two of them exchanged glances, even though they understood each other's intentions.

At that time, Ye Hongjian's eyes narrowed as she waved the sword in her hand, and the raging Spiritual Flames once again rose from her sword.

…

The rain became heavier and heavier, wetting the streets of Heng Imperial City thoroughly.

The city wall covered in dark clouds didn't have a single ray of light, only the sword shadow on the street flashed.

Ordinary people had never seen such a scene before. Most of them were running with their heads crossed. They wished they could escape from this place far away. Those who could not escape also hid in shops on both sides of the street. They only dared to observe this battle that ordinary people could not understand through the cracks in the door.

Under one of the eaves in the middle of the street, the old man and the young man seemed to be out of place.

The old man dressed in linen was holding an oil paper umbrella. A downpour of rain fell along the skeleton of the oil paper umbrella, forming a water curtain in the old man's eyes.

The girl with the horn braids under the old man looked pink and tender, Her face was somewhat baby fat. She was currently eating a steamed bun in her arms. However, compared to the steamed bun in her hand, it seemed that this battle of life and death that could affect the fish in the pond at any time would attract the little girl's attention. She narrowed her eyes and looked at everything in front of her, her eyebrows filled with yearning.

"Master, are they also fighting?"

"Yes."

"Why is it different from before?"

"There are countless cultivation methods in the world, so the method of fighting is naturally different."

"Then which one is more powerful?"

"All of them are powerful, but none of them are the most powerful."

"Then will you be the strongest?"

"Of course."

"Then when will you teach me?"

"I've already taught you."

"You're lying!" The little girl tilted her head and thought carefully. The old man had taught her how to write, how to squat, and how to eat not only meat but also vegetables. However, these were far inferior to the comings and goings in front of him.

She was just about to ask the old man to reason, but the old man seemed to have lost interest in the great battle before her at that time and was about to leave.

Seeing this, the little girl hurriedly chased after him in the rain. She muttered discontentedly, "If you don't teach, you don't teach. You know how to lie."

The old man looked sideways at the girl whose cheeks were bulging like goldfish and smiled.

"The most powerful kung fu in the world…"

"What is it?"

"Survive."

"Survive?"

"Mm. You are the most powerful person in the world after all the people who are stronger than you have survived."

"For example?"

"Wei Changming…"

"What about another example?"

"Wu Xiaohe…"

"Is there anything else?"

"Wang Yangming…"

"Are you the strongest now?"

"No, there's still one more person left."

"Who?"

"Li Dongjun!"

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