Chapter 398 - 193: Thousand Snows Annihilation
Chapter 398: Chapter 193: Thousand Snows Annihilation
Ye Wufeng sat high on his throne, his cold, stern eyes silently watching Fang Shuwen step into the great hall.
In the few short months since he had first set foot in the Northern Domain, he had risen meteorically through the Jianghu.
He had been invincible every step of the way.
The desk before him was piled high with intelligence reports detailing every facet of Fang Shuwen.
Ye Wufeng understood Fang Shuwen’s personality and was familiar with his Martial Arts.
But the more he knew, the more Ye Wufeng felt this person was an anomaly in the Jianghu.
’An almost unsolvable anomaly!’
He had started as a mere Protector for the Zhou Family, a product of the Four Seas Martial Arts Hall. The first eighteen years of his life were transparently unremarkable.
Yet on the night the Zhou Family was on the verge of annihilation, he had displayed astonishing Martial Arts.
No one knew where Fang Shuwen’s Martial Arts truly came from.
The Jianghu was vast, home to countless masters and prodigies.
Inheritances, fortuitous encounters—who could say upon whom they might fall? Many people had become experts overnight due to a single chance event.
But none of them were as dazzling as Fang Shuwen.
At first, Ye Wufeng hadn’t paid him any mind, thinking him just an arrogant young man who didn’t know his place. But after the battle of Anyue City, Ye Wufeng had no choice but to take him seriously.
He had used the Feng Family Manor to set a trap, hoping Fang Shuwen would die without a trace, or at the very least, be severely wounded.
But he never expected the plan to go wrong from the very beginning.
As a result, the scheme at Feng Family Manor was a complete and utter failure.
Residual Snow Black Sword and the members of Seven Kills Hall had all died at Fang Shuwen’s hands.
At Celestial Martial Peak, he had sent Sword Master Geng—not just to hinder Fang Shuwen’s advance.
In Ye Wufeng’s eyes, Sword Master Geng’s Martial Arts, even with the backing of over a hundred Divine Swordsmen, were not enough to halt Fang Shuwen’s progress.
The only reason he had appeared at Celestial Martial Peak that day was to see if Sword Master Geng could force Fang Shuwen to reveal more of his techniques. Perhaps then he could find a flaw in the man’s Martial Arts.
Unfortunately, while Sword Master Geng was incredibly arrogant, he was also utterly incompetent.
He not only failed to test the depths of Fang Shuwen’s Martial Arts; what was even more preposterous, he hadn’t even been able to draw his own sword.
This had made Ye Wufeng realize that Fang Shuwen was no ordinary Jianghu person.
He was more aggressive, more ruthless.
’Just like now...’
The young man who had appeared in the Sword God Pavilion did not say a single word, merely walking slowly toward him.
His steps were light, as if he weren’t facing the Northern Domain Sword God, nor some Jianghu legend.
Just an ordinary person he was about to beat to death!
At any other time, Ye Wufeng would have been enraged by such condescension.
But at this very moment, his heart was perfectly calm.
Fang Shuwen’s steps grew faster and faster, gradually, as if crackling with electricity.
Meteor Flash!
As he crossed the halfway point of the Sword God Pavilion, Fang Shuwen seemed to truly transform into a bolt of lightning.
In a flash, he was right in front of Ye Wufeng.
Without a word, a massive fist rose high!
But in that very instant, cold snowflakes scattered throughout the Sword God Pavilion.
The Sword God Palace was on Celestial Jade Mountain. Celestial Jade Mountain was a branch of the Great Ice Glacier, a place of perpetual wind and snow.
However, this was indoors.
’How could there be snowflakes?’
A figure silently emerged from behind Ye Wufeng.
He was very young, at least younger than Ye Wufeng.
He looked to be in his thirties, his face slightly pale.
His narrow eyes revealed endless sorrow and hatred.
Ye Wufeng’s expression did not change in the slightest.
He had anticipated all of this.
’Fang Shuwen is too strong!’
Especially after he had walked into Cold Valley Town and rendered Zhao Wuji’s strike—one that had been charged for twenty years—completely useless.
Ye Wufeng knew. ’Facing this man, I have absolutely no chance of winning on my own!’
He was the legend of the Northern Domain Martial World.
’I cannot lose!’
Ye Wufeng was not afraid of death; he was more afraid of being dragged down from his pedestal.
But Fang Shuwen was unstoppable, and because of the Saintess Sect, he could no longer use any schemes against him.
He could only watch helplessly as this Human World Demon God approached the Sword God Palace step by step. This torment was almost unbearable.
It was at this time that Mu Tiange of the Thousand Snow Pavilion had found him.
’If one person can’t kill Fang Shuwen, then what about two?’
Under circumstances Fang Shuwen could never have predicted, Mu Tiange, the Pavilion Master of the Thousand Snow Pavilion—one of the Northern Domain’s Five Great Forces—had hidden behind Ye Wufeng. At the exact moment Fang Shuwen’s entire focus was on Ye Wufeng, he launched a sneak attack!
Mu Tiange did not disappoint Ye Wufeng.
He unleashed the most powerful technique of the Thousand Snow Annihilation Grand Art—Snow Silence!
This was the snow of annihilation, the sorrow of heaven and earth.
Every single snowflake was formed from Mu Tiange’s Inner Strength.
This was not a technique of slaughter... but of annihilation!
It would extinguish all life force.
Ye Wufeng looked up, seemingly wanting to see the shock and horror in Fang Shuwen’s eyes.
But in the next instant, Ye Wufeng’s pupils contracted violently.
He saw it...
But there was neither shock nor horror in Fang Shuwen’s eyes.
He was smiling!
In this precarious moment, this instant between life and death, while facing the Thousand Snow Annihilation Grand Art, a smile actually flickered in Fang Shuwen’s eyes.
An intense sense of crisis instantly washed over Ye Wufeng.
The Sword Qi coursing through his body began to boil.
As he raised his right hand, the River of Sword Qi began to coalesce.
But... he was a step too slow.