Chapter 540 - Facing Another Ding Hao

Li Jianyi was slightly stunned; he was as overjoyed as a child.

He finally held this pair of small hands through which he gained lots of encouragement and warmth once again after so many years. The familiar yet strange feeling dispersed his fickleness and calmed him down.

As he felt the warmth from her small tender hands, the depression that had troubled him suddenly dissipated.

“You’re right. This is by no means a catastrophe but a rebirth of our sect. Even if we’re smashed to pieces, the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect will soar and shock the whole continent sooner or later,” Li Jianyi held her small hands and said quietly, “If I can meet her again, I’ll tell our kid to cut the tether and live as she wishes!”

At this moment, Li Jianyi seemed to think of something and said, “Junior Sister, if I come to a bad end, you have to live well and tell her what I said.”

Luo Lan just smiled gently, putting on a sad expression without saying anything.

Neither of them noticed that a man was standing a hundred meters away in the cold wind.

It was Tang Folei, the chief of the Sentencing Hall.

This hardhearted man’s eyes were suffused with a singular obsession and infatuation, as well as an indelible regret as he stared at Luo Lan, the head of the Water Sword Peak.

“The two of you got together again? Great, great…”

After staring at her obsessively for a while, Tang Folei suddenly turned around and left.

His eyes showed a firm look the moment he turned around, as if he had figured something out. He moved forward with indomitable will.

The eleventh section of the ancient westbound road was extremely odd.

Ding Hao opened the space gate of the last section of the ancient road with the last piece of the stone tablet map left by Ji Yingnan. To their surprise, they found that it was a dark and gruesome corridor leading to nowhere after entering. They didn’t smell danger while they walked in this dark corridor.

But soon after, everyone was shocked.

In the next moment, numerous and strange white lights appeared at their feet in a flash and flickered, transmitting them to different areas abruptly.

Ding Hao didn’t know what kind of challenges the others would encounter.

As for himself, he was in a horribly bizarre situation.

Because another Ding Hao, a person exactly resembling him, was standing in front of him.

Dressed in a cyan warrior robe and with hair tied up with a jade hairpin, the person looked gentle, calm, elegant and unrestrained, carrying Ji Yingqi on his back. On his shoulder sat a fat white cat and a small dolphin with light golden scales. Everything was so similar that he felt he was standing in front of a mirror, for this person looked just like him.

“Meow…” Evil Moon, who was originally lazy, suddenly came to his senses and widened his sapphire-like eyes. He said in disbelief, “Why is there another cat? Why does it looks exactly like me?”

The fat cat on the opposite side said in anger, “Meow. Who are you, fat and stupid guy? How dare you change into the shape of a cat? You’re courting death!”

“Hey, I haven’t made trouble for you. You fake cat are actually going after us!” Evil Moon became angry all of a sudden. “I can’t hold my temper anymore. I haven’t eaten people for more than a month. You fake cat, come here, I’m going to tear you up.”

“You fake cat, you’re courting death!” The other fat cat jumped from Ding Hao’s shoulder on the opposite side and rushed over.

Two streams of white light flowed.

The two fat cats scuffled with each other.

Soon Ding Hao and Ji Yingqi were completely dazzled, failing to tell which one was real and which one was fake. They two cats were similar from head to toe.

Ji Yingqi’s extraordinary keen intuition was no longer in force at this point.

Even if Ding Hao exerted his Divine Senses at the level of A World inside the Body to the extreme, he couldn’t distinguish them.

“Hey ga-ga!” Adorable, the little dolphin, spat out a bubble to cover one of the fat cats.

“Hey ga-ga!” On the shoulder of the Ding Hao opposite him, another little dolphin also opened her mouth and blew a bubble.

Boom!

A horrible aura was spread like ripples after the two bubbles collided with a loud explosion. The force unleashed was as strong as that brought by a full-strength blow of an expert at the six or seven-apertured Martial King Realm, which was terrifying.

“Hey ga-ga!”

The two little dolphins also fought it out.

“You have to pass this barrier if you want to go through the ancient westbound road and find the mysterious ruins.” The illusory Ding Hao on the opposite slowly put Ji Yingqi, who was on his back, on the ground. As he clenched his hands in the void, two weapons appeared in his hands.

Ding Hao narrowed his eyes.

Because the two weapons emerging out of the void were the rusted sword and the broken saber.

Ding Hao was secretly amazed.

In fact, he had actually calmed down a long time before, although he had been shocked at the very beginning. He understood that he was in an illusory world, and the opponent he was facing was precisely another Ding Hao who had been created by the ancient westbound road. Perhaps, the visional person possessed the strength that was similar to his.

After all, he had already shown almost all of his skills and competence while he traveled along the ancient westbound road. Therefore, it was reasonable that this ancient road was able to create such a vivid replica.

But he didn’t expect that it could even conjure up the rusted sword and the broken saber.

Could there be Supreme Power in the rusted sword and the devil saber created by the ancient road?

Although Ding Hao was astonished, he did not dare to cold-shoulder his opponent. He slowly placed Ji Yingqi on the ground and set a small formation to protect her. Then he took out his rusted sword and the devil saber to approach another Ding Hao step by step.

On the opposite side, the illusory Ding Hao moved and wielded his saber. What he performed was exactly the Seven Black Cut—Horizontal Cutting.

This was the first time that Ding Hao would have to counter such a move.

He only felt that all the space around him for dodging had been blocked by this movement, so he had no choice but to face it head-on. Simple as this movement was, it gave him an illusion that it was able to split mountains with unparalleled force.

“Is this really a move created by me?”

“How could it be so powerful?”

Ding Hao’s heart skipped a beat. He also waved the devil saber in his hand and exhibited Seven Black Cut—Horizontal Cutting.

Boom!

The two devil sabers, which were almost identical, met with a crash.

Terrible air billows were undulating after the clash, just like a spreading storm, sweeping up heaven and earth. The two white fat cats who were fighting not far away, were also lifted by the currents in an instant.

Ding Hao only found that his wrists had gone numb.

He had been knocked back by a tremendous force.

The illusory Ding Hao on the opposite side was also in the same situation.

The two of them were evenly matched.

“How strong it is!”

Ding Hao sighed.

For the first time, he realized that he was quite formidable.

The two of them, like flowing lights, exchanged blows again.

Horrible waves surged in the entire ghostly environment.

The longer Ding Hao fought, the more frightened he became.

Apart from the identical appearance, the strength, moves and fighting style of the illusory Ding Hao were almost the same as his.

This was not a close confrontation, for his opponent was really terrifying. Even after showing openings on purpose, he couldn’t achieve the desired effect. It seemed that as long as he had an idea, the opponent could perceive his intentions and produce the toughest response.

Ding Hao wouldn’t have been in such a dilemma even if he met an opponent whose strength was far beyond his own.

Soon, both of them were injured.

Blood dripped down.

Ding Hao had also tried to perform the Beast Transform and the skill of three heads and six arms, but the opponent was also skilled at those moves.

Ding Hao managed to drive the Supreme Power of the rusted sword and the devil saber, but the rusted sword and the devil saber in the illusory Ding Hao’s hands could also release a similar power.

“Every section of the ancient westbound road has its special meaning, which has a particular impact on the tempering of the martial artists’ cultivation. So, what is the purpose of the last section of the illusory ancient road?”

Ding Hao fought fiercely while thinking hard.

“Facing another me? Will everyone who enters this ancient road face an opponent who is exactly the same as themselves?”

Another thought flashed across Ding Hao’s mind, “Is it to help the martial artists conquer their inner demons? Only when we’re able to conquer ourselves will we have iron nerves to become powerful masters. Therefore, even Evil Moon and Adorable met the opponents who looked just like them.”

Fat Cat Evil Moon was chasing after his illusion and fighting with it in the distance.

The two fat cats were like two shrews fighting with and biting each other, resorting to extreme measures. Their white hairs flew in all directions, and they kept calling. Since the two white cats were both enraged, they rolled and jumped up and down. Even the white feathers of the wings on their backs fell to the ground.

On the contrary, the battle between Adorable and her illusion was not as fierce.

The two dolphins puffed their cheeks to blow bubbles as if they were in a bubble-blowing competition. Transparent bubbles flew out of their small mouths in succession and collided with each other, followed by a sequence of crisp and melodious sounds…

As for Ji Yingqi and her illusion, they sat quietly on the ground and didn’t fight with each other.

Ji Yingqi knew nothing about martial arts and was incapable of attacking, so she obviously couldn’t fight with her illusion. From this perspective, nobody was safer than her.

Ding Hao gradually fell into a bitter struggle.

He tried a lot of ways, but none of them worked.

At this moment, both of them were injured. If they continued to fight this way, they were bound to perish together.

Ding Hao had never realized that he himself was this difficult to deal with.

Perhaps the experts of the Human Clan and the Demon Clan had felt anger and helplessness when they had fought against him.

The vigorous Qi cultivation…

The brilliant fighting skills…

The Four Sword Intents of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter…

The strong body…

The lightning reaction speed…

The indomitable and uncompromising fighting style…