"Senior Chess Saint was joking."

Li Yunsheng sneered at Zhang Tianze's seemingly complimentary words.

"Where are you talking about this when you little friend Yunsheng?"

Zhang Tianze put down his bloody hands, crossed them and placed them under his abdomen, showing a faint smile on his face.

"Senior should know better than anyone else. In order to kill me, you, the Immortal Alliance, and even the Yan Yu, have spared no effort. The reason why I am still alive is just because you can't kill me, that's all."

Li Yunsheng stated expressionlessly.

After saying that, the amber sword in his hand whispered another soft whisper, and the sword light was like a tiny pillar of water flashing with golden light, cutting a hole in front of the invisible barrier in front of the Bodhi tree.

The branches of the Bodhi tree immediately fell backwards as if they were blown by strong wind, and the relics on the tree were also shaking.

"Young people today have the heart to take such heavy hand to an old man."

Zhang Tianze smiled bitterly.

As he said that, he raised his bloody hands again, and black rings with small runes carved out of the flesh and blood of his fingers. Except for the index finger of his right hand, there were such identical rings on each finger of his hands.

Just as these rings appeared, a hole was cut by Li Yunsheng and closed again.

However, just as the barrier was closed, the black ring on Zhang Tianze's left index finger burst together with his index finger.

"What a terrible sword technique."

Zhang Tianze looked at his broken index finger and sighed.

"In each of my Xuanwu Rings, there is a Xuanwu Turtle Snake array that can withstand all magical attacks. Even the sword cultivator with the most powerful attack power is no exception. However, this was originally used to deal with Xu Honghu, and I thought it would be useless, but I didn't expect it to be used in the end."

He said with great emotion.

"Tell me so much, are you trying to persuade me to give up?"

Li Yunsheng put the amber back into the sheath, but the hand pressed on the hilt of the sword had no direction. The condensed sword force formed a huge spiritual vortex behind him, and the sword intent of the mountains and seas was dormant and his spiritual consciousness. At this moment, the scene of the sixth layer of golden top was like the eve of a storm.

"I guess you have already guessed that once the relic fruit on this Bodhi tree is ripe, you will have no chance of winning."

Zhang Tianze did not deny it. He then glanced at the Xuanwu Ring on his finger, and then said:

"And I still have eight rings on my hand. Even if your sword is as sharp as Xu Honghu, it will take at least eight swords to destroy the Bodhi tree behind me. But by then my relics must have been fully mature."

"Since you are so sure, why do you advise me to give up? A chess saint, shouldn't you feel sorry for those few Xuanwu Rings?"

Li Yunsheng asked.

"I persuade you not because I am afraid of you, but because I need a sharp sword like you to welcome the next prosperous era of the gods of the ten states."

Zhang Tianze opened his arms, with an extremely heroic and authentic expression.

"Gods?"

Hearing this word, Li Yunsheng frowned.

"The foolish ancients also called them: strangers from other places."

Zhang Tianze continued to explain.

"Sure enough, Zhang Tianze, like the city lord of the Never Sleep, knew that the strangers from the outside world were about to arrive in the ten states."

After hearing the word "a strange guest outside the sky" mentioned by Zhang Tianze, Li Yunsheng thought in his heart.

"When did you know about this strange guest?"

Li Yunsheng asked.

"It was very early. Before Yu Xuzi was forced to go crazy by the fake Tianmen, I was the only one in the ten states who knew that this stranger outside the sky was exactly there."

Zhang Tianze seemed to show his sincerity in front of Li Yunsheng, so he did not hide it.

"So you know the reason why there will be strangers in the Ten State, too?"

Li Yunsheng continued to ask.

"certainly."

Zhang Tianze answered incredibly affirmatively.

"If you are willing to be surrendered to me, I can tell you all this."

He then tempted Li Yunsheng.

Li Yunsheng shook his head, then frowned:

"The arrival of strangers from other places will only be a disaster for the ten states, and it will be a disaster that is enough to destroy the ten states."

"It seems that you know a lot about the stranger in the world."

Zhang Tianze smiled when he heard this, and then continued:

"If you only look at it from the familiar side of your life, you will always get one-sided result.

"It's like now, from the standpoint of the ten states cultivators, the arrival of strangers from the sky is a bad thing.

"But if you look at it from the perspective of Jiutian Xingyu, you will find that this is the best way for us low-level cultivators to jump directly over the Tianmen and get in touch with the world above. We can get more powerful skills from them and get..."

"So even though you know the causes and consequences of all this, you still choose to surrender?"

Li Yunsheng interrupted Zhang Tianze.

"If you see all this and see how strong they are, you will make the same choice as me."

Zhang Tianze's face gradually became colder:

"Complaint is not weakness, it is the way to survive that the weak must learn."

Although Zhang Tianze did not say everything about the strange guest outside the sky, Li Yunsheng had guessed it at this moment, and even the Bodhi tree behind him, he probably knew what Zhang Tianze was doing.

"This is your choice, it's beyond reproach."

Li Yunsheng thought for a while and then spoke:

"But this is somewhat different from my previous guess. I learned about the existence of strangers from the sky from the Dragon Emperor, which just solved a lot of confusion in my heart.

For example, my uncle Yu Xuzi, I thought he was scared by the way of heaven, but now I know that everything he did was to deal with strange guests who were about to arrive outside the sky, and for this, he gave up his cultivation, his body, and his family."

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Tianze again:

"I thought you were the same. With the infamy of being despised by the monks of the ten states, they destroyed Qiushui and the sects, and gathered the cultivators of the ten states under the control of the Immortal Alliance, just to compete with the strangers from outside the sky who were about to come.

"Because of this, although I have an irreconcilable hatred with you, this does not prevent you. I have a little respect for you in my heart.

"But now it seems that I am wrong. Everything you do is just to make yourself a dog that can please your owner."

He said calmly with a hint of disappointment.

"At the beginning, I really wanted to do that. I was like those of Yuxuzi and the Deadhead Alliance, full of enthusiasm and strength to compete with these strangers outside the world. If possible, who would want to be a dog?"

Zhang Tianze smiled faintly again, and then continued:

"But after truly seeing their power, I felt in addition to the instinctive fear of being an ant, and also my infinite longing for this power. Then I figured out, as long as I could have this power, what is it to be a dog for hundreds of years in this long river of time?"

When he spoke, there was no unnatural on his face, which was completely heartfelt.

"I have never seen strangers from heaven, so I can't be sure what choice I will make after seeing their power, but I can be sure that even if I don't have to choose, I will not be a dog under their feet."

Li Yunsheng did not scold or judge Zhang Tianze's words, but expressed his thoughts very seriously.

When he said this, his hand holding the hilt of the Amber Sword suddenly exerted force, and then he drew his sword and said:

"And I think you underestimated Qiu Shui's sword and also underestimated the cultivators of Shizhou."

As soon as the words fell, a sword sounded, the long-accumulated storm began to explode on the sixth layer of golden top.

"The seventh style, the scoundrel."

In the roaring storm, an extremely small sword light hit the invisible Xuanwu turtle and snake formation in front of the Bodhi tree like an embroidery needle.

This seemingly extremely weak sword light effortlessly dispersed the Xuanwu Turtle and Snake Formation. The unique blue-gray halo of the formation flashed and disappeared directly.

However, Zhang Tianze was extremely calm. The other seven rings in his hand lit up together, and seven blue-gray invisible walls appeared one after another.

But what made Zhang Tianze miscalculated was that the seven turtle and snake formations that lit up one after another were blown away by the sword light in just one moment.

Zhang Tianze's seven rings exploded and his ten fingers were completely broken.

The Bodhi tree appeared under Li Yunsheng's sword without any obstacles.

But when he raised his sword again and was about to cut off the Bodhi tree with one sword, a golden relic fruit on the tree fell from the tree and happened to block in front of him.
Chapter completed!