"Teng Qingshan!" The blind Sword Saint, 'Tie Wu,' though unable to see with his ashen eyes, sensed the man's aura and sneered. "You truly kept your secrets deep. Returning here, you actually restrained yourself from using your real name, instead using 'Jing Yi.' Void Realm at twenty-one! Excellent. I, Tie Wu, never expected to meet an opponent like you before my own final reckoning arrives."

"Nor did I expect that on the land of the Nine Provinces, I would incur such a bitter enmity with your Qinghu Island. One side must be utterly destroyed before this can end!" Teng Qingshan stood atop the Undying Phoenix, sighing with emotion.

The two Void Realm masters, at this moment, simultaneously gathered their power.

Both sides were prepared for a fight to the death!

"Grand-Master, hurry and leave," cried Tie Pan urgently, held tightly by Teng Qingshan.

Teng Qingshan casually tossed Tie Pan downward. At only a few dozen zhang high, Tie Pan plummeted like a useless stone. As he neared the ground, he managed a nimble roll to absorb the impact, but still coughed out a mouthful of blood with a soft 'pffft.' He then straightened up, raising his head to look skyward.

Above, the two Void Realm powerhouses had eyes only for their opponent.

"Grand-Master," Tie Pan worried in his heart.

Leave quickly?

When had the blind Sword Saint 'Tie Wu' ever not wanted to flee? But beneath the earth, the speed of the Undying Phoenix, and its astonishing burst from underground to directly in front of him just moments ago in the air—both in the earth and in the sky—told the blind Sword Saint one thing: escape was impossible today.

Since he could not flee, he might as well fight to the death!

"I am a perfected Void Realm expert! This Teng Qingshan is clearly not perfected yet. I refuse to believe I cannot kill him!"

"Although he has the Undying Phoenix as aid, if I can slay Teng Qingshan today, it means snapping the sharpest spearhead of the Guiyuan Sect. My Qinghu Island will have hope of regaining control of Yangzhou!" The blind Sword Saint understood clearly that the Guiyuan Sect had Void Realm demonic beasts, but they all followed Teng Qingshan's lead.

If Teng Qingshan died, why would those beasts continue to serve the Guiyuan Sect?

Therefore, the blind Sword Saint saw only one path.

"To seek life by embracing death!" The Sword Saint's resolve instantly solidified like bedrock. The two black, fierce beams in his ashen eyes narrowed to pinpoints, like pupils suddenly emerging.

"Teng Qingshan, I hear your spear technique is formidable. In this battle, will you use your axe or your spear?" the blind Sword Saint's chilling voice carried across the air.

"Since this is the final battle with you, Tie Wu, I will naturally use my spear!"

Teng Qingshan held the Reincarnation Spear in both hands, resting it diagonally before him.

"I, Tie Wu, have roamed the world for over four hundred years. Today, I fight the youngest Void Realm master in history to see who lives and who dies!" the blind Sword Saint sneered. "Of course, if you feel it's unfair, feel free to let that Undying Phoenix of yours assist. I, Tie Wu, will meet it all!"

"Dealing with you is enough for me alone!"

Teng Qingshan’s eyes sharpened, his battle intent surging, fully entering a life-and-death combat state.

It had been more than half a year since he grasped the 'Way of Water.' How much had he improved in this period? This battle would tell! "I possess the Vast Heaven Divine Armor, and I have summarized many ultimate techniques from the 'Thirty-Six Styles of Mountain Splitting.' Furthermore, the Undying Phoenix covers my back. My momentum completely overwhelms my opponent. If even so, I cannot kill this blind Sword Saint, why would I even aspire to spread the lineage of internal martial arts?"

"It's not him who dies," the blind Sword Saint roared internally, "It is I who perishes!"

The resolve in both their minds was firmer than ever!

Silence.

The auras of the two Void Realm masters condensed to their absolute peak. That invisible yet palpable pressure of their presence was like the suffocating stillness preceding a torrential storm. At that instant, a large patch of dark cloud happened to cover the sun, and the sound of cicadas in the countryside vanished instantly. Absolute dead quiet settled.

Only Tie Pan on the ground watched upward, tilting his head back.

"Hah!"

Teng Qingshan, on the back of the Undying Phoenix, let out a sudden, fierce shout, like a spring thunderclap. His entire body leaped up like a mighty eagle, and in mid-air, using the momentum of his dive, he raised the Reincarnation Spear high above his head. For that moment, Teng Qingshan resembled a god carving open the heavens and earth.

The blind Sword Saint, suspended in the air, held a thin iron rod, standing placidly.

"Rumble—" The Reincarnation Spear swept down from high altitude, instantly causing the heavens and earth to change color.

"Ridiculous." The Sword Saint's lips curved upwards, and with lightning speed, he thrust the thin iron rod straight upward.

A simple thrust!

The thin rod precisely struck the shaft of the Reincarnation Spear. However, a visible, strange spatial ripple shot rapidly along the rod toward the blind Sword Saint. The Sword Saint’s expression shifted slightly. The thin rod vibrated imperceptibly several times, and the Sword Saint himself staggered backward, falling to the ground, his face flushed crimson.

"How was that 'Mountain Splitting' strike?" Teng Qingshan laughed heartily, plummeting rapidly from the sky.

Bang!

Landing heavily on the ground, Teng Qingshan's feet shifted instantly, and he vanished from his original spot like a massive, slippery loach. He reappeared right beside the blind Sword Saint. The spear shaft of the Reincarnation Spear spun, the entire length flexing like a roaring great dragon as it lashed out.

The blind Sword Saint sneered and thrust out three swift strikes with his rod.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Struck three times successively on the spearhead by the thin rod, Teng Qingshan felt the rhythm of the 'Crimson Gold Tiger Cannon' he was about to deploy completely broken. Without hesitation, he took three quick steps—each covering several zhang—drawing a 'Z' shape. The blind Sword Saint’s ashen eyes flashed fiercely, and he lunged forward just as fast, piercing out seven consecutive lines of black light toward Teng Qingshan.

One retreated, one attacked.

"Hahahaha!" Teng Qingshan suddenly burst into wild laughter, surprisingly ceasing his retreat. Instead, he twisted his body and charged toward the blind Sword Saint.

"Sssshhh—"

Teng Qingshan’s spear tip rotated; in an instant, electric sparks seemed to flash from the point, tearing through heaven and earth, carrying a bizarre rotational force, drilling toward the blind Sword Saint like a colossal electric drill piercing reality. The immense power, felt even through the sensory domain, made the blind Sword Saint’s expression change.

It was the 'Thunder Fire Poison Dragon Drill'—one of the two ultimate moves he had arduously comprehended!

The blind Sword Saint himself roared, "Die!!!" His thin iron rod instantly blurred into nine streams of light, making it impossible to discern the real from the false for a moment. When the nine black lines intersected with Teng Qingshan's fierce spear thrust, there was not the slightest sound.

No block!

The blind Sword Saint did not block the spear thrust, and Teng Qingshan did not parry the terrifying stab aimed at him.

"Clang-clang-clang—"

Strangely, a black shortsword appeared in the blind Sword Saint’s left hand, stabbing swiftly toward the flame-wreathed tip of the Reincarnation Spear.

"Break for me!!!" Teng Qingshan roared.

The terrifying rotational energy contained in the spear tip made the blind Sword Saint’s left hand instantly numb, his tiger's mouth splitting open and oozing blood. The black shortsword was flung away. The rotating spear tip of the Reincarnation Spear instantly pierced through the blind Sword Saint’s left arm! At that precise instant, the Sword Saint’s thin iron rod simultaneously struck Teng Qingshan's chest.

Bang! Bang!

Both were sent reeling backward by the impact, the earth itself shuddering as if trampled by two demonic gods, splitting open into deep fissures.

"Hahaha… Iron Blind Man, you truly have audacity. Fighting me to the death without even putting on your divine armor." Teng Qingshan wiped a trace of blood from his lip, laughing loudly, yet his eyes were as sharp as blades as he rapidly charged toward the blind Sword Saint step by step. Although both had struck the other just now, Teng Qingshan relied on the Vast Heaven Divine Armor to withstand the blow.

But the blind Sword Saint had lost an arm.

"Why aren't you injured at all?" the blind Sword Saint roared in disbelief. "I used the 'Vibrating Character Technique'! Even with your divine armor, you shouldn't be able to withstand that blow and still live..."

"My abilities are not something you can fathom!" Teng Qingshan laughed.

To dare to withstand that thrust from the blind Sword Saint head-on, besides the Vast Heaven Divine Armor, his greatest reliance was a body that had achieved perfect integration of inner and outer strength. The resilience of his internal organs alone was tougher than profound iron. For such a body, the blind Sword Saint’s attempt to slay Teng Qingshan with a single 'Vibrating Character Sword Technique' was utterly a pipe dream.

"Hahaha, take a few strikes of my Thunder Fire Poison Dragon Drill!" Teng Qingshan’s steps were like thunder, and moving like an ancient deity, he rushed forward, disregarding defense, instead madly thrusting the spear again and again at the blind Sword Saint.

The spear was like rushing thunder.

Swift as lightning.

In an instant, lightning flared ceaselessly, engulfing the blind Sword Saint. The Sword Saint dared not take another reckless gamble relying only on defense.

"Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!"...

The blind Sword Saint retreated, managing to parry nine consecutive thrusts from Teng Qingshan!

But these nine overwhelming thrusts also elevated Teng Qingshan's momentum to its peak. The blind Sword Saint immediately felt a sense of dread: "Not good. If this continues and his momentum reaches its apex, it will be disastrous." However, Teng Qingshan’s agility and speed were in no way inferior to his own. Moreover, the attack speed of that Reincarnation Spear was simply too fast for the blind Sword Saint to evade.

"Hahahaha..."

After nine continuous strikes, Teng Qingshan, exhilarated to his peak, let out a sudden roar: "Tie Wu, I'll send you on your way!"

The tip of Teng Qingshan's Reincarnation Spear instantly became wreathed in threads of black, fierce light. In that moment, heaven and earth seemed to darken and fall silent. In the space between heaven and earth, there was nothing but Teng Qingshan's spear. The scarlet tassel on the spear spun and fluttered wildly. In that instant, space itself trembled beneath the spear’s might.

"Hrrgh!"

A low roar tore from the throat of the blind Sword Saint. The thin iron rod in his hand instantaneously transformed into a massive black greatsword, meeting Teng Qingshan’s ultimate peak strike head-on.

Bang!

The moment the spear tip touched the black greatsword, the terrifying impact it carried caused the greatsword to tremble violently, threatening to dissipate. Simultaneously, with a mere spin, it bypassed the greatsword and thrust forward swiftly—

Pfft!

The tip of the Reincarnation Spear pierced out from behind the blind Sword Saint's neck. The scarlet tassel immediately sucked its fill of the Sword Saint's blood.

It was Teng Qingshan's most profound ultimate move, painstakingly comprehended—the World-Ending Ruin Spear!