"Jie, to intercept, to seize, to slay! Not the 'Jie' of Jie Jiao!"

"The Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, Three gives birth to all things. Conservation of energy—everything in the world is one, is Dao."

"All things possess fate, all have an origin. The true meaning of 'Jie' is calamity, to slay and seize. Each time something is intercepted, its origin is seized, bringing one a step closer to the Dao. When all things return to one, one attains the Dao."

Attaining the Dao by intercepting the void.

Ethan Clark, the number one expert in the Zhenxuan World, was supposed to retire from the stage of history. However, due to a possession and a sword of interception, his life trajectory changed dramatically, turning the world upside down!

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The fifth novel following ""Sword Devours the World,"" ""Star God Sacrifice,"" ""Supreme True Body,"" and ""Seeking Defeat.""

Prologue

"Bang!"

In the dense forest, a figure shot out like a thunderbolt, his whole body flying straight out of the woods like a cannonball. Blood mist sprayed through the air, and he crashed heavily into an ancient tree outside the forest. A shrill scream pierced the air, sending chills down the spines of several martial cultivators who had just rushed in from outside the woods.

However, fear only made them hesitate for a moment. These martial cultivators seemed to have an unwavering goal, their eyes burning with crazed greed. They once again activated their movement techniques and charged into the forest.

At this moment, deep within the forest, a young man drenched in blood was fiercely battling a sword master who appeared to be in his thirties. As their figures flickered, the young man's blood-soaked hands, as sharp as the finest divine weapons, flashed with a soul-stealing brilliance and struck directly at the sword master's throat.

"Crack!"

The sound of a throat being instantly severed was accompanied by a gush of blood. In just a few moves, a sword master of obvious high attainment fell easily at the hands of this young man, who looked no older than twenty-five.

No sooner had the young man killed the sword master than a dazzling, brilliant sword light, carrying the chill of a sky full of stars, shot toward him. The awe-inspiring aura and murderous sword energy made the young man's pores stand on end.

Sword energy like frost, star rain like needles!

This was clearly a master who had already condensed innate sword qi, reaching the realm of external qi.

According to the latest statistics from the ""Zhenxuan World"" official forum, among the hundreds of millions of cultivators in the Divine Continent, those who have reached the innate realm and condensed external qi number less than a hundred. Of these less than a hundred qi-forging masters, more than half are reclusive leaders of great sects, hidden away in deep mountains and forests.

Amidst the storm of sword energy, a sharp light burst from the young man's eyes. In an instant, a powerful aura rose from his seemingly frail body. Facing the innate sword qi that enveloped him like a cold starry sky, he relied on his exquisite skills to charge into the sword qi, his blood-forged hands blasting aside the sword behind the energy, piercing through layers of sword light, and landing directly on the sword's owner—a young man with long hair.

At the moment his punch reached its peak, his right fist suddenly transformed into a palm at the last instant, both forces erupting simultaneously on the young qi-forging master's body.

"Bang!"

A tremendous force pierced through the young man's chest, the domineering energy bursting out his back, instantly shredding his clothes into countless scraps that scattered into the void.

"Splurt!"

Crimson blood gushed from the long-haired young man's mouth. In the face of this violent energy, the qi-forging master was like a tattered leaf, flung backward and crashing into the crowd surrounding them. The shock and terror in his eyes faded within three seconds, losing all color...

"Logan Reed!"

"Master Logan Reed!"

"Ah! Master Logan Reed he..."

Exclamations burst from the mouths of the cultivators who witnessed it all. The martial cultivators nearby rushed over, their voices filled with undisguised shock and fear.

Logan Reed, ranked eighth among the recorded experts of the cultivation world, his innate qi condensed to the point of near materialization, his cultivation at the peak of qi-forging, just one step away from the grand completion of qi, the transformation of qi into the body—the Huaqi realm. He stood at the very pinnacle of the Divine Continent's cultivation world, overlooking all!

With his formidable strength and chivalrous deeds over the years, he had earned immense prestige in the cultivation world.

But now...

His chest had been completely pierced by that domineering energy, his life force plummeting... Clearly, this super expert, just one step from the Huaqi realm, was about to fall here.

"Henry Grant..."

Looking at the young man in blood-stained white clothes who still did not fall, and at the hundreds of corpses scattered throughout the forest, every cultivator present felt a chill rise from the depths of their hearts.