Chapter 13: Severing Cultivation, Severing Talent, Severing the Dao Rhythm! Ye Bufan and the Other Become Wretches! (Please continue reading, favor, and recommend)
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Ye Bufan froze. Su Wan’s blade had already struck him, slicing through flesh.
“Do not let the blade touch you! You must not let that blade injure you!”
The remnant soul of the Saint roared furiously. Ye Bufan had yet to recover his senses.
“Master, what happened?”
Li Xuan gazed indifferently at Ye Bufan within the projection.
“Continue.”
Two people were brought forward.
The remnant soul of the Saint felt a chill in his heart.
“Idiot! Ye Bufan, your cultivation is falling! That blade is cutting away your cultivation!”
The remnant soul of the Saint was terrified. How could such an ability exist in a mere blade?
At first, he had not noticed anything. Then Ye Bufan’s cultivation suddenly plummeted from the peak of Qi Refining to the third level of Qi Refining.
From the twelfth level down to the third!
Ye Bufan finally came to his senses and checked his cultivation. His face instantly turned deathly pale.
His cultivation…
It had fallen from the peak of Qi Refining to the third level!
[You have shocked the Chosen One, Ye Bufan. You have gained 1,000 Villain Points and one additional year of lifespan!]
A system notification appeared, but Li Xuan paid it no attention.
Ye Bufan took a step back and looked up at Li Xuan.
“No, Li Xuan! How can you be so ruthless? That blade can cut away my cultivation!”
“You finally noticed?” Li Xuan chuckled. “But you cannot blame me. You failed to notice it yourself. Besides, was this not what you wanted?”
Li Xuan asked lightly, with some curiosity, “Could it be that you are unwilling to save your brothers? It is only cultivation, not your life!”
Ye Bufan’s face grew even paler.
Damn it. Damn it all!
He cursed furiously in his heart. Li Xuan was truly vicious—he had completely cut off every retreat.
Su Wan also came to her senses and checked her cultivation.
With a clatter, the blade slipped from her hand and fell to the ground. Her face was deathly pale as she stared at Li Xuan.
“My cultivation! My cultivation! How did it fall from the middle Nascent Soul stage to the middle Golden Core stage?”
“Where is my cultivation?!”
[You have shocked the Chosen Daughter…]
[…]
Another string of notifications appeared.
Li Xuan said innocently, “Your cultivation naturally went toward saving the brothers of your beloved Ye Bufan. What touching affection. You did not even know Ye Bufan’s brothers, yet you were willing to use your own cultivation to save them.”
Li Xuan smiled brightly.
“I believe you now. You truly are soulmates.”
Su Wan was rendered speechless. Tears streamed down her face. She could not accept it. How was she supposed to accept falling from the middle Nascent Soul stage to the middle Golden Core stage?
Ye Bufan glared furiously at Li Xuan. Once again, Li Xuan had toyed with him—toyed with him mercilessly.
The more he thought of what he had previously intended to do, the more hateful Ye Bufan found Li Xuan.
Li Xuan was sinister!
The remnant soul of the Saint pondered over the strange blade. He seemed to have heard of it somewhere before.
At that moment, the entire Tai Long Sect fell silent.
The members of the Su Family panicked. That blade could sever a person’s cultivation. Would Ye Bufan be willing to endure its strikes?
The disciples of the Tai Long Sect also fell silent. They had only just seen a glimmer of hope. If they could live, who would want to die?
They did not want to die either. Yet now, they were suffering terribly.
They had seen hope. Could it be that there was none after all?
Terrifying. Li Xuan was practically a demon.
Leng Yanshuang’s heart pounded with fear.
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She had thought Li Xuan’s methods were already ruthless enough. She had never imagined that he could be even more merciless.
He had forced Ye Bufan and Su Wan to hack at each other, and now he was making them cut away each other’s cultivation.
If you wanted to save someone, you had to sever the cultivation of your own partner!
It was horrifying. Such an open-and-deadly scheme was truly terrifying!
Most terrifying of all, Li Xuan had seized the vital weaknesses of both Ye Bufan and Su Wan.
Ye Bufan placed tremendous importance on the Tai Long Sect. As for Su Wan, her father and her entire family were here.
Anyone able to attend Su Wan’s wedding had to be familiar with her.
At that moment—
“Bufan! Do not save us!”
“Brother Bufan, to have walked beside a prodigy like you in this life has already been my good fortune.”
“Brother Bufan, do not trouble yourself anymore. We have already been crippled. I only hope that we can walk beside you again in our next lives!”
“As your elder, I absolutely will not allow you to save us again!”
One after another, the disciples and elders of the Tai Long Sect spoke up.
Ye Bufan burst into tears, his eyes nearly splitting with rage. His mind was in utter confusion.
He thought, I only need to cut Su Wan to save you! I do not need to cut myself!
Su Wan ought to agree. No—she loved him so much that she would certainly agree!
Nearby, Leng Yanshuang felt an even deeper chill. She understood now. With the Tai Long Sect’s disciples speaking up at such a time, even if Ye Bufan no longer wanted to save them, he had no choice but to do so.
Leng Yanshuang glanced at the guests nearby. As expected, they had already begun whispering among themselves.
“The Tai Long Sect is truly united!”
“United? Was this entire mess not caused by Ye Bufan?”
“Ye Bufan will definitely save them!”
“Speaking of which, the Li Family is truly formidable.”
They spoke in hushed voices, not daring to raise their volume. Although they had not seen as deeply into the matter as Leng Yanshuang, they were still impressed by the methods of Li Xuan and the Li Family.
Absolutely ruthless!
But deserved!
After all, Ye Bufan had crashed the wedding and tried to steal the bride.
Who could tolerate that?
As for blades capable of severing a person’s cultivation, they had never heard of such a thing before.
…
…
Two people were brought forward. Li Xuan spoke.
“Now, are you still going to save them?”
Ye Bufan and Su Wan exchanged a glance.
Ye Bufan looked gently at Su Wan.
“Wan’er, I have to save them. They are all my brothers!”
Su Wan shook her head.
“Bufan, no. I must save them too! But my cultivation…”
Worry filled her eyes.
Ye Bufan immediately promised, “Wan’er, I will find a way to restore our cultivation. I will save you!”
Su Wan gritted her teeth.
Just then—
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Li Xuan gave the order.
“Kill them.”
Swish.
Two faint sounds rang out.
Two corpses collapsed to the ground.
Ye Bufan and Su Wan shuddered.
[…]
Li Xuan blocked the system notifications.
“Li Xuan.” Ye Bufan spoke in a low voice, his expression grim. He no longer shouted and raged.
At the same time, he silently sent a message to the Saint Lord of Xiyue.
Li Xuan smiled.
“You have wasted too much time. If you are going to cut, then cut quickly.”
Ye Bufan gripped the blade. Su Wan sniffed and looked toward Li Xuan before speaking with difficulty.
“Li Xuan, do you really have to go this far? Since you cannot have me, must you cripple me?”
“Will crippling me make you happy?”
Li Xuan froze, suddenly feeling disgusted. He immediately ordered, “Bring out three members of the Su Family and kill them.”
In an instant, three members of the Su Family were dragged forward. The blades fell.
Su Wan froze, her face turning deathly white.
“No! Stop! Li Xuan, why must you force me like this? Are you not afraid of offending the Holy Land of Xiyue?”
Ye Bufan also stared darkly at Li Xuan.
Li Xuan replied calmly, “I have no obligation to resolve your confusion.”
Ye Bufan steadied himself and asked his master whether he knew the origin of these two blades. The remnant soul of the Saint was still thinking.
Ye Bufan and Su Wan had no choice. The two of them began striking at each other.
Li Xuan kept his word. Every time they struck each other once, he released two people.
Before long, Ye Bufan’s cultivation fell once more from the third level of Qi Refining. Not the slightest trace of cultivation remained within his body.
Su Wan’s cultivation was likewise cut down to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
The faces of Su Wan and Ye Bufan were deathly pale. Their cultivation was gone—all of it. The solid, powerful sensation that had filled their bodies had disappeared, leaving them deeply uncomfortable.
Li Xuan, however, received both lifespan and Villain Points.
“Excellent.” Li Xuan took a sip of tea, looking highly satisfied. “There are still a few people left. Continue.”
Ye Bufan and Su Wan said nothing. They picked up their blades. At this point, they had no other thoughts. They only wanted to settle this matter and save their people.
Ye Bufan was puzzled, and his eyelids twitched violently. His cultivation was already gone, so why did Li Xuan still want him to keep cutting?
There had to be something he did not know.
The two of them swung their blades again.
Su Wan’s cultivation was gone as well, and each blade that struck her caused intense pain. She was extremely dissatisfied.
“Li Xuan, I admit that I was wrong. My cultivation is already gone. You should release my family now!”
Ye Bufan seized the opportunity to say, “Li Xuan, I admit that I was wrong too. You can let them go. Otherwise, my master from the Holy Land of Xiyue will never forgive you!”
Li Xuan looked at them in surprise.
“Are you truly this naive? I told you that the moment you crashed the wedding, your fate was already decided.”
Ye Bufan and Su Wan’s expressions immediately turned ugly.
At that moment, the Saint Lord of Xiyue entered. Seeing Ye Bufan and Su Wan, she immediately frowned.
“Bufan, Su Wan, how did you become like this?”
In the next instant, the Saint Lord of Xiyue strode forward and seized Ye Bufan by the arm. Her expression grew extremely grim.
“Ye Bufan, how did your cultivation, physical condition, and innate Dao resonance become so poor?”