At this moment, the mountains and rivers are silent, and heaven and earth are silent.
At the top of Genting Mountain, only the man stood proudly.
Everyone was frozen in place.
There was trembling, panic, sadness and endless emotion.
Tang Yun, this name that once resounded throughout the world’s martial dao.
This woman, who had once, like Ye Fan, risen as a comet in the martial arts world and represented a legend of her time, had finally come to her final end at this moment.
No one doubted that Tang Yun, who had been pierced through the chest by Ye Fan’s final sword, had any possibility of surviving.
After all, Ye Fan’s power was there for all to see.
His final sword was like a heavenly god descending to earth, breaking Tang Yun’s seven sword techniques in an invincible manner.
Being pierced through the chest by such a supernatural sword art, what other possibility could there be for survival?
However, just when everyone thought that a great beauty had fallen.
In the ruins ahead, the bloodstained silhouette staggered, and once again, slowly stood up from the ruins.
“This…”
“Not… Not dead?”
Everyone was stunned.
The War God’s eyes were wide, and the Sword Saint and the others were even more dismayed and filled with dismay.
The Chu Clan crowd, while shocked, undoubtedly surfaced with a touch of unspeakable joy.
They were still alive.
Their Sect Master Tang Yun was still alive.
It turned out that just now, Ye Fan’s final sword had deflected a few points after all.
It grazed Tang Yun’s chest and pierced through her left shoulder.
The crimson blood stained Tang Yun’s arm sleeve.
Although, Ye Fan’s sword intent still left Tang Yun greatly injured after all.
However, her life was undoubtedly preserved.
However, to Tang Yun now, life and death were no longer important.
With a pale face, she stubbornly stood up from the ruins.
The majesty and nobility of the past was no longer there on that stunningly beautiful face, all that was left was endless misery and distress.
“For… Why?”
“Why is it… Would it be like this?”
“My Tang family’s Cloud Smoke Sword Skill, why… Why would I lose to a foreigner like you?”
“Why is my sword technique, which I have cultivated for years, still… Why is it still inferior to your improvised skills?”
“Why, why the hell is that?”
Tang Yun was filled with frustration.
She really couldn’t accept it, this fact before her eyes.
Just a few minutes ago, she was so confident.
Feeling that she was the only one who could dominate the world’s sword dao.
She thought that even if Ye Fan had performed the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill, he was only making a fool of himself, disgracing himself and adding to the joke.
But who would have thought that it would be herself who would be the one to make a fool of herself in the end.
The one who added to the joke was himself!
The defeat this time was undoubtedly a huge blow to Tang Yun.
It shattered all of her pride and dignity, all of it.
The so-called Chu Sect Sect Master, the so-called magnificent, had now, after all, only become the defeated man in front of her.
Faced with Tang Yun’s loss and desolation, Ye Fan stood expressionless with his sword in his hand.
On his clean face, there was no joy or sorrow.
Defeating Tang Yun was not something to be happy about for Ye Fan.
On the contrary, it also made him feel a lot of sadness inside.
If it was possible, he would have preferred this battle, which did not happen.
“Tell me, why… Why?”
“Why did I lose?”
At the corner of his mouth, there was still fresh blood flowing down.
The huge amount of blood loss caused Tang Yun’s pretty face to become paler and paler.
Her whole body was also getting weaker and weaker, and her eyes were blackening.
However, this was no longer important.
Even life and death did not matter to Tang Yun.
What she valued most in her eyes was her sword.
She just wanted to find out why she had lost?
Why had she lost to Ye Fan!
Obviously, the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill was the sword skill of the Tang family, obviously she had cultivated it for longer than Ye Fan, obviously Ye Fan’s sword techniques were all performed haphazardly and against the philosophy of the sword dao.
But why, instead, it was herself who lost.
Facing Tang Yun’s doubts, Ye Fan coldly replied, “Tang Yun, I know, you don’t remember anymore.”
“But, I still have to tell you.”
“Your Cloud Smoke Sword Skill, from the very beginning, was taught to you by me, Chu Tianfan.”
“In that sense, I, Chu Tianfan, am your teacher of the Sword Dao.”
“If I taught you the sword technique, how could you be a match for me?”
“Impossible!” Tang Yun immediately shook her head, not believing Ye Fan’s words at all, “You are my Chu Clan’s enemy, you have slaughtered so many people from my Chu Clan, how could I learn the sword from you, don’t be ridiculous. What’s more, my Tang family’s sword technique, how could you, a foreigner, possibly know about it, my sword technique, there’s no way you taught me…”
Tang Yun shook her head and said, her beautiful eyes were already filled with panic.
But Ye Fan was still looking at him, his cold voice continuing to ring out.
“Tang Yun, you should stop deceiving yourself and others.”
“Do you really think that my Cloud Smoke Sword Skill was not learned today?”
“Several years ago, you and I already met each other.”
“Your Dragon God Body and your Cloud Smoke Sword were all acquired from my dual training.”
“Otherwise, how else can you explain that I also know the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill?”
With these words, Ye Fan’s question left Tang Yun speechless.
She only felt that her mind was in turmoil.
A headache was about to split.
As if, there was a very important memory that she couldn’t recall no matter how much she thought about it.
“As for the same Cloud Smoke Sword Skill, why didn’t you defeat me.”
“This reason, back three years ago, when you and I fought on Chu Men Mountain, I had already given you the reason.”
“The sword intent of the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill is the sword of femininity, the sword of sentience.”
“You think that by forgetting your emotions on the top and clearing your mind, you can help you practise the strongest sword.”
“There may be some truth in practising the sword in this way. Being emotionless and desireless can certainly make you concentrate more on the martial arts of the sword.”
“But Rhyun’er, you don’t know that practising the sword in this way is to put the root down and go astray.”
“The essence of the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill is the strong love and righteousness in it.”
“If you abandon your seven emotions and six desires, you are doomed to never master the essence of the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill.”
“Your sword dao was wrong from the start, so how can you defeat me?”
Ye Fan spoke in a hushed voice.
Those low words, to Tang Yun, every word seemed like a huge blow.
“Shut up!”
“You’re talking nonsense?”
“Impossible, the sword technique of our Tang family, how could I possibly comprehend it wrongly?”
“How could you, a foreigner, know the essence of my Tang family’s sword technique.”
“You are the one who is talking nonsense…”
“There is no way I could have practiced it wrong…”
“You’re a foreigner, you don’t know the Cloudy Smoke Sword Technique at all, so how are you qualified to taste my Tang Family Sword Technique?”
Tang Yun shouted as hard as if she had gone mad.
Her beautiful eyes were red, and her pretty face was already filled with tears.
This was the last of her pride.
Ye Fan could deny that her skills were inferior to others, but, he could not deny her sword dao.
This was the last pride of a swordsman.
She would never accept Ye Fan’s denial of her sword dao philosophy.
She could not accept, even more, that all these years, the sword dao she had practiced was all wrong.
“The Tang Family Sword Technique?”
“Tang Yun, do you really think that the Cloud Smoke Sword Technique, is a sword technique created by your Tang Family’s ancestor?”
Ye Fan shook his head and said coldly.
“To tell you the truth, the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill was created by my Chu Family’s ancestor, Chu Yunyang.”
“Back then, my ancestor Yunyang created these sword techniques precisely because of his strong feelings and endless sorrow for your Tang ancestors.”
“My ancestor Yunyang fought in all the worlds, but in the end he could not give your Tang ancestors the companionship and fame they wanted.”
“I feel ashamed in my heart, and even more so, I feel that I have failed your Tang ancestors’ deep love.”
“Before I left, I gave your Tang clan the Cloud Smoke Sword Skill.”
“The word cloud is the same as in my Chu family ancestor’s Chu Yunyang, the word cloud!”
“These, are not just my words, but what is written in my Chu Family’s inheritance, the Cloud Dao Heavenly Book.”
“Do you say that I, Chu Tianfan, as the rightful heir of the ancestor of Yunyang, am qualified to taste the sword created by my ancestor?”