Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

“I have a weird feeling about Xuan Xiao…” Hearing the maniac-like obsession in Xuan Xiao’s tone and seeing it on his face, the players found that he was no longer the ethereal-looking Daoist who had cultivated on the immortal mountains for years.

Even the viewers could see it through the screen, let along Yun Tianhe in the game.

Naturally, Yun Tianhe didn’t agree with Xuan Xiao and insisted on the latter returning the Wangshu Sword. With the activation of the tremendous power in the Wangshu Sword, Han Lingsha’s condition was getting worse each day. He wasn’t sure if she could survive until the day of ascendance.

Xuan Xiao who was obsessed with the ascendance wouldn’t return the sword; there was no doubt about that.

When Yun Tianhe lived on the mountains, he had nothing and knew nothing. He would be delighted by things such as catching a wild boar or a having a fine clear day.

Just as Yun Tianqing had taught him, Yun Tianhe had been a fearless man. He didn’t fear anything even when he collided with the godly dragon and faced the Immortal General Gou Mang. However, at this moment, fear suddenly struck his mind.

He was afraid that he would never see Mengli again, and he was afraid that he couldn’t stop Xuan Xiao and even more afraid that he couldn’t save Han Lingsha.

The godly dragon once said, “Perhaps you haven’t seen enough suffering in the world and think that everyone can solve their problems with their own power.”

At this moment, Yun Tianhe suddenly understood that there were certain things in the world that he couldn’t achieve even though he tried his best.

“Tianhe is still too naive…” Watching this part, the players in the new shop and the old shops all felt deeply touched. Finally, the fearless savage became afraid of something. However, what he feared wasn’t the godly dragon or a god.

“Tianhe, we’re just mortals.” Murong Ziying was obviously more open and more resigned to fate. “Everything in life including birth, aging, sickness, and death has been prearranged by the Heavens… We’re humans; how can we fight with the Heavens?”

“Yeah… It’s all fate…” In the Jiuhua City Shop, Yuanyang City Shop, and Half City Shop, people like Nalan Hongwu, Ning Bi, and Su Tianji had played the Legend of Sword and Fairy 1 and the Legend of Sword and Fairy 3. Despite Li Xiaoyao’s great power, he still couldn’t save Ling’er. Despite Fei Peng’s great power, he was still struck down into the mortal world.

Some things were just beyond the power of humans.

For the players in the new shop, even though they didn’t have concepts such as the Mandate of Heaven, they knew about destiny which was a mysterious and magical force that no one could touch.

For Helen, Commander Elven, and the others, it was as distant as a god.

For Merli,n who was a supreme existence, destiny was probably scarier than gods.

Even if they could predict something, they didn’t have the power to change it. This sense of powerlessness was enough to drive people into despair.

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In the Breeze Stream, the main characters tried to enlist help from Chong Guang and Qing Yang, the only two elders of Qionghua who had survived the war 19 years ago. However, they found that Chong Guang was dead, and Qing Yang was severely wounded. Obsessed with ascendance, Xuan Xiao had become so evil that he had attacked these two elders so that no one could find the weaknesses in the dual swords from the forging notes left by Zong Lian.

The Qionghua Faction used several generations of accumulation and created the ultimate dual swords Xihe and Wangshu that were famous around the world. These two elders had once regarded all these glories with great pride, but they eventually realized that everything was just a dream.

The ethereal-looking faction on Kunlun Mountain was now fraught with smoke and evil.

The Qionghua Faction’s last sword maker, Zong Lian, Murong Ziying’s grandmaster, had recorded that the power in the dual swords was too aggressive in his notes. Anything too extreme will create the opposite effect. The sword hosts must be self-disciplined during cultivation. Otherwise, they would lose control of this power and get killed by it. The dual swords were spiritual artifacts that could help people ascend but could also become fierce weapons leading to catastrophes.

The dual swords were too powerful. If the power of the dual swords got out of control, there wasn’t a perfect solution. The only solution was the deaths of the hosts, which would lead to the evaporation of the power in the dual swords.

In the Boxian Town at the foot of the mountain, everyone was talking about the rumors involving the ascendance of the Qionghua Faction.

The viewers could hear mortals talk among themselves, “I heard that place is where the immortals live. They are going to return to the Heavens and abandon us and our town. They will no longer give us clean water to drink…”

Except for ascendance, Xuan Xiao had no other thoughts on his mind. After taking enough energy crystals, he did Yun Tianhe a favor and released the old, weak, sick, and crippled demons back to the demon realm and withdrew the seal that the dual sword placed on the demon realm.

In this war, the casualties of members of the demon realm were so great that only Liu Mengli and a small group of demons survived. Now, it was time for them to depart.

Liu Mengli became the new lord of the demon realm and flew away with the demon realm.

Just as the words in the song described, “Our intertwining fate will continue in the next lifetime. What is love? People live and die for it.”

Perhaps it was the main characters’ destiny to continue their fate in the next lifetime.

The memories of them touring the world, doing valiant deeds, and releasing flower lanterns were so fresh as if these experiences had just happened yesterday.

However, there were too many regrets and powerless moments in a mortal’s life.

In the sky, the huge mountain that hosted the Qionghua Faction began to slowly rise toward the radiant Kunlun Heavenly Light.

This scene stunned everyone. None of them, regardless if they were players in the old shops or the elves and knights in the new shop, had ever seen or heard of such a feat.

Their hearts trembled at this scene.

However, at the same time, a sense of melancholy filled their minds.

When the main characters flew up on flying swords, they saw the ruined walls and buildings littering the Qionghua Faction. Corpses lay in blood puddles on the square before the mountain gate, and the Qionghua Faction that was as balmy as spring all year round was now deadly silent.

The few remaining disciples were nowhere to be seen.

On the Cloud Platform, Xuan Xiao and Su Yao controlled the Xihe Sword and Wangshu Sword respectively. Although Su Yao wasn’t the host, she was the faction master and could control the Wangshu Sword with Xuan Xiao’s help, but the consumption all came from Han Lingsha.

One sword condensed chilly frost while the other released blazing fire. The tremendous power from the dual swords had far surpassed the limit of mortals!

“This… This…?!” In the new shop, all the audience members were so shocked that they were at a loss for words.

Ascendance and becoming immortals were the dream for several generations of members of the Qionghua Faction. Xuan Xiao had cultivated and became a sword host for this purpose.

Regardless of how Yun Tianhe dissuaded him, he couldn’t change Xuan Xiao’s mind.

In the previous battles, the godly dragon didn’t use its true power, and Gou Mang just used some attacks to test the main characters’ strength. But now, they faced a life-and-death battle.

In the Qionghua Faction, Su Yao was jealous of Yun Tianhe’s talent, which was why only Murong Ziying had taught him how to cultivate. Also, Yun Tianhe had learnt lots of stuff from Xuan Xiao.

Xuan Xiao was master and friend to Yun Tianhe, but now they had to meet in a battle as opponents.

Everyone felt emotional at this scene. Perhaps the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 4 would come to its end with this battle.

Would Yun Tianhe succeed in stopping Xuan Xiao’s ascendance? Or would Qionghua succeed in its ascendance with Han Lingsha dying during the process? It all depended on the result of this battle.

Everyone stared at the screen without blinking, afraid to miss a tiny detail.