730: Chapter 179: The Situation is Different_1 730: Chapter 179: The Situation is Different_1 Zhuang Chenggan suppressed Song Wanxi, who had succumbed to her inner demons, with strength far from sufficient.
It was an absolute gap in their realms.
Facing the sa situation with a perspective far exceeding that of Jiang Wang, he handled it as smoothly as a skilled butcher dissects an ox.
Now that the threat was eliminated, Jiang Wang naturally wanted to regain control of his flesh body right away.
“It’s okay now!” he said.
But within Tongtian Palace, Zhuang Chenggan took a large stride towards Jiang Wang, “What’s okay?
Okay where?”
At this mont, Zhuang Chenggan controlled the flesh body, and even though the Tongtian Palace was the foundation for Jiang Wang, the pressure it could exert on Zhuang Chenggan was significantly weakened.
With every step Zhuang Chenggan took, Jiang Wang was forced to retreat several steps.
The tables had turned!
“Don’t forget, you made an oath upon your Dao heart!” Jiang Wang said in shock and anger.
“I admire everything about you, including your naivety!” Zhuang Chenggan let out a laugh, “An oath of the Dao heart?
I have two hundred and thirty-one thods to break it.
Do you need to teach you?”
He never intended to keep his promise.
The so-called return of the body after fending off Song Wanxi was nothing but a lie, it was simply to deceive Jiang Wang into giving up resistance montarily.
Just one hand was indeed not enough to defeat Song Wanxi; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to fool Jiang Wang.
But at such a life-or-death mont, he still wasn’t planning to keep his word and instead deceived Jiang Wang with the peril they both faced.
To him, oaths were just paper; promises, just words.
An unbreakable oath might have so constraining power.
But in truth, for a true genius, such an oath might not even exist.
Whether it’s an oath of the Dao heart, a great oath against the Heart Demon, or a Blood Sacrifice Contract, they are essentially an evolution of Dao Technique.
These oaths establish unseverable bonds, either through the Dao heart or through bloodlines.
But any Dao Technique can potentially be broken.
The Dao Technique system has developed to this point where thods to deceive the Dao heart are too nurous.
This is why the current major Transcendent powers no longer rely purely on oaths to constrain their disciples.
Zhuang Chenggan pressed on step by step.
Truth be told, he was quite looking forward to seeing if Jiang Wang could still surprise him.
Only those who hold a winning hand and have enough confidence in themselves anticipate surprises.
Of course, Zhuang Chenggan was one of them.
Although he didn’t think that Jiang Wang, as he was now, could achieve much.
He closed in step by step while Jiang Wang retreated, soon there would be nowhere to escape.
“If you choose only to retreat at the last mont, I will be greatly disappointed in you,” Zhuang Chenggan said with a condescending tone.
Just as this sentence fell in the Tongtian Palace, he heard a voice in his ears.
An old yet furious voice—
“Take your filthy hands off!”
The murderous intent was chilling, echoing in the Demon Grotto below.
The ‘Zhuang Chenggan’ controlling this body turned around abruptly: “Song Hengjiang?!”
An elder who couldn’t conceal his rage fire, his face vicious, stood at the entrance to the grotto, fists clenched, his aura fierce.
It was the master of the eight hundred li of Qing River!
Why had Song Hengjiang returned?
It made no sense.
Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui had already left, having seen all that was to be seen, and said all that was to be said; there was no reason for him to co back.
The ‘Zhuang Chenggan’ in control spun his thoughts rapidly, quickly realizing where the problem lay.
Before Jiang Wang first entered the Demon Grotto, his mind was restless, and his steps were slow, causing him to be struck by a nearby blood-patterned sarcophagus.
At the ti, it seed to have no effect, but now, in hindsight, that collision was certainly problematic!
“You did sothing to that blood-patterned sarcophagus?” Zhuang Chenggan asked Jiang Wang inside Tongtian Palace.
“I was rely reminding Song Hengjiang that soone is aware of his secret,” Jiang Wang replied with a grave tone and without further regard, his spirit imdiately evacuated, leaving Tongtian Palace.
Unlike any brief departure in the past, this ti he took with him all his spirit and soul power, almost equivalent to completely abandoning this fundantal place!
During the whole process, he didn’t even glance at the Starbinding Python Twined.
By leaving Tongtian Palace to Zhuang Chenggan, he was in effect leaving Song Hengjiang entirely in Zhuang Chenggan’s hands to deal with.
anwhile, he himself fled into the Inner Mansion No.1.
His retreat in the face of Zhuang Chenggan’s pressing was not a sign of cowardice but a delay tactic.
The reason their fight escalated to a white-hot level from the very start was not due to Zhuang Chenggan’s urgency.
In fact, throughout the fight, it was Jiang Wang who was accelerating the pace.
Because he was in a rush for ti!
Because he knew that Song Hengjiang would soon double back!
In preparation for the battle against the imagined Jiang Yan, he had made many preparations.
Fla Sparrows of the spirit and soul, Lingkong Hall, the Sword Spirit of Lovesickness, the Red Mirror…
Due to his insufficient cultivation level, his preparations were not perfect.
That’s why he had been very tolerant towards “Jiang Yan,” often seeming to forget the presence of this unwelco visitor in Tongtian Palace.
But in fact, towards Jiang Yan, who had been trying to influence his will, he had never had any tolerance, any trust.
His forbearance was solely due to uncertainty.
On that rainy night outside Xin’an City when the Heart Demon was conceived, he realized that the decisive mont had arrived.
In his earliest plan, he intended to defeat Jiang Yan in the shortest ti possible and then flee.
If these thods were ineffective, it ant he was no match for “Jiang Yan”—then he would find an opponent for “Jiang Yan”!
Even if Jiang Yan killed him and successfully took over his body, Song Hengjiang would be able to kill Jiang Yan.
After becoming a Neifu Cultivator, even if Tongtian Palace collapsed, his spirit would still survive within the Inner Mansion.
As long as his flesh body was intact, he would still have a chance to find a way to repair Tongtian Palace—the premise being he could retake control of his body and persuade Song Hengjiang to stop before his body was destroyed, after Song Hengjiang had crushed Jiang Yan’s spirit.
This was undoubtedly very difficult, even to the point of minuscule chances of success.
But it was better than being silently crushed by Jiang Yan, a calculated risk in a desperate situation.
Having a choice is always better than having none at all.
The changes in Tongtian Palace happened in an instant.
‘Zhuang Chenggan’ had no ti to track Jiang Wang’s God Soul Origin and was already relinquishing control over Song Wanxi’s body, retreating from the stone platform.
Because Song Hengjiang’s fist was incoming!
This Lord of Qing River punched through space, now appearing next to the slightly closed-eyed Song Wanxi, taking over the spot that ‘Zhuang Chenggan’ had previously occupied.
After carefully looking over Song Wanxi and seeing that she hadn’t suffered any fatal injuries, he turned back and coldly stared at ‘Zhuang Chenggan’: “I’ll give you ten breaths to explain all of this to .”
The man before him conjured a complex set of emotions.
The opponent dodged his punch, certainly because he had intentionally controlled his power, fearing Wanxi would get hurt, but it also showed the opponent’s high level of skill.
Yet the aura of this man could not possibly surpass that of the Outer Building.
The man’s flesh body seed very young, not because of advanced cultivation retaining youth, but young in the way of soone of not many years.
Yet the depth in his gaze seed like it had lived through many years, an age that did not match the eyes of a young man!
Moreover…
on this stranger, for so reason, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.
This was the reason he gave the other party a chance to speak.
Of course, all of this was predicated on the fact that Song Wanxi had not truly been hard.
‘Zhuang Chenggan’ was very clear that he could not match up against Song Hengjiang.
Song Wanxi possessed strength without consciousness, allowing him to overpower her despite being weaker.
Song Hengjiang, however, was a true powerhouse, previously close to the threshold of Dongzhen.
He was not soone ‘Zhuang Chenggan’ could overco with his past realm alone.
Thus, without hesitation, he begged for rcy: “I trespassed here by mistake, it truly offends Heaven.
But Lord of the Waters, I once saved the life of your daughter, Song Qingzhi!”
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