It was another late night, the moon hung in the sky, spilling light onto the earth; the stars were ten thousand points, flashing brightly!
On the dark ink-like night sky, not a single floating cloud could be seen. On a mountain as tall as Cloud Peak, the floating clouds have long been trampled underfoot, leaving only the boundless starry sky above, deep and endless.
On the cloud viewing platform, the gale wind was howling as in the past, blowing Ao Fan's robes. At this moment, he had sunk into his cultivation, forgetting all the wind and grass because of the jade match in his arms.
In the depths of his consciousness, his research on the rest of the moves had already made a preliminary headway. He was certain that with a short period of time, he would be able to continue to improve a stance and transform it into a suitable one for himself.
However, right at this moment, his heart sank violently, as if there were bells and drums roaring in his heart!
"Ta ta ta ta ..." The sound that came from nowhere seemed so strange, vibrating Ao Fan's heart and mind, extremely unstable.
He immediately stopped under the cultivation, recovered all sentience, towards the four sides of the induction and go. A footsteps, although light but in this silent night seems so obvious, easily let a person know where the sound.
Ao Fan hurriedly turned around and looked towards the dark passage connecting the Water Moon Cave Sky, his eyes flickering. That burst of footsteps with a hint of pressure was actually coming from within this passageway.
At the mouth of the dark passageway, a foot stepped out first. White boots with gold filaments wrapped around them, appearing extremely flashy. Immediately after, the full figure of a person appeared on the Cloud Viewing Platform.
This person was dressed in a white robe with gold inlays, appearing extremely dignified. However, his face was arrogant with a sinister, tiger-like gaze towards Ao Fan.
He was actually Yang Tian!
Yang Tian, who had lost to Gu Qingfeng some days ago and had landed in serious injuries, and had only managed to escape with a secret method, had now reappeared. He was covered in injuries that could not be seen at all. Obviously, as a junior valued by the Heavenly Sword Dao Master, he had many healing elixirs and medicines, and he had healed his injuries before many days were spent.
He had come here, without a doubt, to find Ao Fan to seek revenge. Although on that day, Gu Qingfeng had severely injured him and was in a terrible state, he was the one who made him hate him the most, and he should have sought revenge on Gu Qingfeng first after he healed his injuries.
However, Gu Qingfeng is far away in Freezing Mist Town, Ao Fan is in Cloud Peak, the distance is much closer, and the cultivation is in the first turn of the Dao realm, that day also with a palm let him lose face. As for Ao Fan, Yang Tian was confident that he could kill him first, and then think of a way to deal with Gu Qingfeng, just by himself, he did not have the confidence to defeat Gu Qingfeng.
A cold, cold wind came whistling from the Phantom Sword Abyss below the Sea of Clouds, rolling countless sands and stones on the stone walls. A sliver of moonlight gently shone down, enveloping Ao Fan's entire body. He looked at Yang Tian, and the corner of his mouth hooked up into an incomprehensible smile.
Yang Tian looked straight at Ao Fan and said out loud, "Late this night, I will personally take action and send you down to the Yellow Springs. After resolving you, the other fellow I will also go back for more lessons, so that you guys can have company down there as well."
Ao Fan did not pay attention to Yang Tian's words, but took the initiative to ask, "Are you the only one?"
Anger flashed in Yang Tian's eyes as he said, "To deal with you with a mere first turn of the Dao Realm cultivation, do I need to call out for another person to help?"
Ao Fan laughed coldly, "I remember on the snowy plain outside Freezing Mist Town, you said the same thing. As a result, it didn't hurt the two of us in the slightest, but you yourself escaped in a sorry state with serious injuries, not even as good as an animal."
"You seek death!" Yang Tian was furious at the words, since childhood, all that surrounded him were complimentary words, how had anyone ever dared to hurl abuse in front of him?
He immediately made a move and formed a sword with his fingers, pointing it at Ao Fan. A silver-white sword qi then shot out quickly, in the blink of an eye appeared in front of Ao Fan's body, looking to penetrate him.
Ao Fan was not in a hurry, flicked his sleeve to retreat, leaving the Guanyun Terrace suspended in mid-air. The sword qi shot onto the viewing platform, leaving a deep gully.
This view cloud platform is not an ordinary thing, is the cloud peak people deliberately set up, not to avoid perennial wind blowing and break down, set up at the time of the internal with a clever technique carved a special prohibition, making this stone platform hard as steel. However, under Yang Tian's attack, the viewing platform appeared very fragile.
"Hmph, you can escape for a while, but you can't escape for a lifetime after all." Yang Tian proudly said, soaring up, his body was like floating light, and in a snap of his fingers, he had swept in front of Ao Fan.
Ao Fan once again retreated and flew far into the sea of clouds. It was not that he was afraid of Yang Tian, but he knew that the Water Moon Cave was closer to the Drunken Moon Cave, and he was afraid that the noise caused by the battle would be discovered by Yun Drunken Moon.
In the Nine Swords Sect, he couldn't deal with the Nine Swords Sect disciples here because there were people present everywhere, and the aftershocks of the fight would inevitably attract attention, and he would be the one who would be unlucky at that time. However, the fact that Yang Tian dared to come to this remote place alone without a single person gave Ao Fan an opportunity.
Yang Tian wanted to secretly kill Ao Fan when no one was around at night, why wouldn't Ao Fan want to kill him at such a moment?
Therefore, the two retreated and chased each other, appearing to be fighting, but in reality, they didn't use their full strength at all. Neither of them wanted to fight close to the cloud peak, and retreated as they fought, coming within the sea of clouds.
When he retreated to a certain distance, Ao Fan suddenly felt his whole body shaking as if he had passed through an invisible barrier. Not only him, Yang Tian also felt this. They both knew that this was because they had left the range of the formation protecting the cloud peak.
Ao Fan was only guessing about this, but Yang Tian deeply understood that there was a set of formations covering each peak of the Nine Swords Sect. Among them, the formation around the cloud peak, there is a characteristic, that is, only allowed to go out, not allowed to enter. If one wanted to enter the Cloud Peak, the only way to do so was the road that Cloud Drunken Moon had brought Ao Fan on that day.
After leaving the coverage of the cloud peak, Yang Tian's attack immediately strengthened, like a violent storm, fiercely bombarded Ao Fan, actually wanted to kill Ao Fan quickly!
It was a pity that he didn't realise that Ao Fan, being the body of a divine beast, had a strength that far exceeded his apparent cultivation, so how could he be easily defeated? All of Yang Tian's attacks were blocked by Ao Fan, and they were still easy to use.
"Boom!" With a single impact, the two separated.
Yang Tian looked at Ao Fan and said coldly, "Your strength is indeed more than I expected, but I didn't use my full strength either. Do you know why I forced you out of Cloud Peak's formation coverage? Because here, I can kill you more recklessly without being detected."
Ao Fan snorted and said, "If I wanted to stay inside, how could you force me out. The reason why I came to come out is because I also want to kill you without a sound."
A murderous aura suddenly soared up and surrounded them! The floating clouds around them, under the effect of these two killing intent, dissipated or retreated on their own, revealing a part of the void in the middle.