The Legend of the Northern Blade

Eun Han-Seol threw herself out of the window and dashed toward a hill on the outskirts of Chang'an, with Baek Nam-Hoe and the Kunlun Sect Taoists hot on her heels.

"Are you running away, witch?" Baek Nam-Hoe shouted, his eyes flashing fiercely.

Activating the Nineteen Stances of the Cloud Dragon, the Kunlun Sect's unique movement arts, he cut through the air like a dragon dancing among the clouds. Every time he lightly kicked the ground, his body shot out more than ten feet.

However, even using movement arts at full speed, he could not catch up with Eun Han-Seol.

Finally, when they reached the hilltop, Eun Han-Seol stopped.

Baek Nam-Hoe swung his sword at her without hesitation, sending a ray of light toward her.

BOOM!

A deafening roar resounded, shaking the heavens and the earth and creating a huge cloud of dust.

Baek Nam-Hoe narrowed his eyes. His attack had packed enough power to smash even a house-sized rock in a single blow, but it had only bounced off Eun Han-Seol's silvery-white qi barrier.

Silvery-white qi stretched out from within the dust like a whip.

"Gasp!" Startled, Baek Nam-Hoe filled his sword with blue sword qi and raised it to block the attack.

CLANG!

A terrifying sound like gnawing at iron rang out.

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"Witch!"

The two Taoists behind Baek Nam-Hoe swayed and swerved to the sides. Surrounding Eun Han-Seol from her left and right, a bluish sword qi flickered from their swords as they unleashed the Thirteen Swords of the Cloud Dragon, the signature sword technique of the Kunlun Sect.

Like a dragon piercing through the clouds and ascending, the swords zoomed toward Eun Han-Seol's vital points with a terrifying aura, but she did not bother evading their attacks.

WHOOSH!

The silver aura swirling around her body easily knocked away the two men's swords.

The eyes of the Kunlun Sect Taoists wavered. The silvery-white aura that enveloped Eun Han-Seol's body was both an impenetrable iron wall and the sharpest sword. They had never seen or heard of this kind of martial art before.

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Baek Nam-Hoe shuddered. His Divine Unparalleled Art of Supreme Clarity was reacting madly to the silvery-white aura swirling around Eun Han-Seol's body. It was as if a needle was poking between his eyebrows.

"Evil arts?" he roared. "Now I'm certain! You must be walking the path of evil!"

He swung his sword at Eun Han-Seol again, releasing the Dragon Slaying Void Sword, one of the highest-ranking sword techniques among the many secret arts of the Kunlun Sect, towards Eun Han-Seol. �

SHWAAAA!

As the terrifying name suggested, the Dragon Slaying Void Sword boasted tremendous power. Dozens of sword qi streaks struck where Eun Han-Seol was standing, shaking the heavens and overturning the earth, but this was just the beginning.

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Baek Nam-Hoe unleashed the Dragon Slaying Void Sword's ultimate moves, such as the Supreme Formless Dragon and Dragon Slaying Strike, one after another.

Coordinating with him, the other two Taoists' attacks also intensified.

CRASH!

The storm of clashing qi quickly smashed the hilltop to ruins, and the very air shook under the formidable attacks.

Even though Baek Nam-Hoe felt that even a god would find it impossible to survive their attack, he did not relax. His sixth sense was still alerting him that his enemy had not yet fallen, and her counterattack would begin soon.

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As if to prove him right, Eun Han-Seol, surrounded by a silvery-white aura, dashed out of the scattering dust and sent whips made of silver qi spiraling toward Baek Nam-Hoe and the Taoists.

"Ugh!"

Baek Nam-Hoe and the Taoists' faces turned pale at the tremendous pressure crushing them from all directions.

As far as his observations went, Eun Han-Seol's martial art appeared to be some type of reflective qi barrier that could also be used for attacking. The problem with this type of martial art was that it was impossible to consistently maintain it for a long time due to the qi consumption, unless one had near infinite qi.

However, the young girl in front of him seemed to be doing it nonchalantly.

As the saying goes, for every step the righteous climb, the devil climbs ten steps ahead. Baek Nam-Hoe thought grimly. It seems that a scary demon that will plunge the world into chaos has been growing in the shadows. I must kill the witch no matter the sacrifice. If I don't, the world will fall into ruin.

Baek Nam-Hoe steeled himself and poured all of his energy into the Divine Unparalleled Art of Supreme Clarity. With a clear sword cry, as if a dragon was roaring, his sword split into ten thin blades and hovered in the air as if surrounding Eun Han-Seol.

This was the Soul-Stealing Ten Swords, the ultimate technique of the Dragon Slaying Void Sword, which contained the secrets of the art of controlling floating swords with qi.

With a single thought, the ten sword blades shot towards Eun Han-Seol, each flying with a completely different trajectory and speed.

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"I will not leave even a fragment of your soul intact. Disappear from this world, witch!" Baek Nam-Hoe shouted.

"Hmph!" Eun Han-Seol snorted and concentrated more power on her silver barrier, strengthening it and stretching it out in all directions.

BOOM!

The silvery-white qi barrier and the ten sword blades collided, sending countless sparks flying.

"Ugh! My qi…" Baek Nam-Hoe grit his teeth. Blood was trickling from his lips, and his face was as white as a sheet. Unable to overcome the opponent's powerful inner arts, his qi was flowing backward and destroying his blood vessels.

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CRACK!

His wrist fractured, then his elbow and shoulder, and finally, his entire arm exploded.

"Argh!" he screamed, his voice echoing around the hill.

Eun Han-Seol's silvery-white qi was already enveloping his body. As he was swallowed up by the aura, he yelled desperately, "Don't mind me! Quickly inform Kunlun of the witch's appearance!"

"Master!"

"Hurry!"

Even as the silvery-white aura devoured Baek Nam-Hoe's body and squeezed like a python, the two young Taoists ran off in different directions at their master's frantic cry.

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BAM!

A rain of blood erupted from within the silvery-white aura and scattered in all directions. Baek Nam-Hoe was dead, without even a corpse left to bury.

Eun Han-Seol raised her head. Her eyes shone a perfect silvery white, her gaze bearing the emotionless quality of a killer. The fleeing Taoists were already more than thirty meters away, in opposite directions.

She put her hand into her chest pocket and took out the Moonlight Chakras.

WHIRR!

With the sound of gears turning, the Moonlight Chakras left her hand.

The Taoists, who thought they had escaped from Eun Han-Seol, looked back, tears flowing from their eyes.

"Witch, I'll never forgive you!"

Unfortunately, the sight that greeted them was not Eun Han-Seol, but a small chakra spinning toward them.

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"Ahhh!" Screaming, the Taoists fell to the ground, spraying blood everywhere.

The Moonlight Chakras returned to Eun Han-Seol's hand. They had taken the lives of two people, yet there was not a single drop of blood on their surface.

Eun Han-Seol returned the Moonlight Chakras to her chest pocket, ignoring the fact that they were crying as if they didn't want to be put away. Only then did her eyes, which had turned silvery-white, return to normal.

She stared blankly at the tragedy she had created, biting her lip. She hadn't originally intended to kill the Taoists. She had only wanted to wound them enough to chase them away. However, the moment she used the silvery-white qi, she could not control herself.

The intense feeling of wanting to destroy everything had dominated her mind. The result was the disaster that unfolded before her eyes.

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The path of the Witch of the White Night.

Her master, and her master's master, had warned her. No matter how well one mastered the Heart of the Silver Soul, if one got careless, one would immediately lose the thread of reason.

Before, whenever she ran wild like that, she had killed many people. It took years before she could exert some rough control over her killing intent. Even then, it wasn't perfect.

"Haa…" she sighed, shaking her head and leaving the scene.

Hours later, after night had fallen, a group of martial artists appeared on the ruined hill and looked around.

"There was definitely a fight here."

"Then the commoners' report is true."

They were martial artists of the Zhongnan Sect, which was located a few dozen miles away.

During the evening, some of the commoners living near the hill had visited the Zhongnan Sect and asked them to investigate some loud noises. More than ten people had shown up. The Zhongnan Sect could not simply dismiss them and dispatched two second-generation disciples and ten third-generation disciples.

"Just how powerful were the martial artists who fought here to leave such traces?"

The Zhongnan Sect disciples exchanged worried glances. It was clear that there had been a fight here between unknown martial artists so great that they could not even dare to guess how strong they were.

"Sigh, why did this have to happen near the Zhongnan Sect?"

The third-generation disciples were scattered around, searching the hill. They started shouting.

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"There's a body here!"

"Junior Uncle, I found a survivor!"

"What?"

The lead Zhongnan disciple hurriedly ran toward his shouting disciple nephews. He found a Kunlun Sect disciple lying on the ground with a deep gash across his chest, revealing his bones.

"Is he really alive?"

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"Yes! He looks dead, but he's still breathing faintly."

"Give him our sect's life-saving elixir. We must find out the truth of what happened here."

"Yes, Junior Uncle!"

The martial artist who answered took out a black elixir wrapped in paper and gave it to the Kunlun disciple. The Zhongnan Sect's life-saving elixir was nowhere near as effective as legendary elixirs. However, it could still delay someone from dying immediately.

As long as the man was alive, the Zhongnan Sect would be able to save him somehow.

"Carry him to our sect!"

"Yes!"

"Everyone, be on high alert!" the lead Zhongnan disciple commanded, his eyes alert and wary.