Chapter 244: Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique!

Inside the Blessed Land fragment.

Ye Guyue’s beautiful eyes were cold and menacing. Sizing up the dark mountains and blood sea directly ahead, she finally made a decision: “Zhiqiu, follow me to break the formation.”

Although the Treasure-Laden Youth chose to surrender and didn’t probe out much, Lu Yang had still demonstrated several variations of the formation. Ye Guyue took it all in and, confident in her means to break the formation, quickly restored her calm expression. She directly activated a streak of escape light and flew into the formation!

“Good timing.”

Seeing this, Lu Yang smiled instantly. He shook the banner, rousing the blood sea to suppress downwards. But then he saw Ye Guyue directly pluck a precious pearl from her dress.

“…Go!”

Ye Guyue tossed it casually. The precious pearl fell into the blood sea and instantly blossomed with brilliant light. Like a whale drinking the sea, it actually swallowed all the blood waves inside!

As the blood sea continued to pour in, the originally clear and white precious pearl gradually turned blood-red. At the same time, its aura became increasingly ferocious.

Lu Yang raised an eyebrow seeing this and immediately stopped the blood sea from pressing down. He had already understood Ye Guyue’s method. This precious pearl could swallow external Qi. She was waiting for it to absorb enough of the blood sea, then she would cast a spell to detonate it, paying him back in his own coin to break the formation in one fell swoop!

As for the [Mind-Seizing Smoke] in the blood sea, it wasn’t even worth mentioning.

Ye Guyue only needed to hold her Sword Heart firm. No matter what soul-shaking methods he used, she could easily slash them open with Sword Intent; they couldn’t affect her at all.

“Good method.”

Lu Yang looked indifferent. Then he took down the Centipede-Bee Pouch from his waist and released over a hundred million [Qi-Eating Insects], merging them into the blood sea to surge toward Ye Guyue.

Seeing this, Ye Guyue still used the precious pearl to meet them.

However, this time, after swallowing the blood sea, cracks appeared on the precious pearl. Looking closely, one could see countless insects densely packed inside!

“[Qi-Eating Insects]…”

Ye Guyue frowned slightly, calculating the origin of the insects. By mixing these demonic insects into the blood sea, Lu Yang greatly reduced the upper limit of the blood sea the precious pearl could contain.

For every wave of blood it swallowed, the precious pearl had to endure an extra bit of tearing and biting from the [Qi-Eating Insects]. The result was that before the precious pearl could accumulate power to its limit, it would be damaged by the [Qi-Eating Insects]. But if she detonated it early, the power wouldn’t be enough to blast open the formation. The result would be utterly futile, like a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood.

And what was even more troublesome was…

Swish—!

In the next second, a soundless, colorless, shadowless, and formless sword light quietly landed on the back of Ye Guyue’s heart. The unstoppable sword edge was about to slay her!

[Formless Sword]!

Lu Yang found this spiritual sword, specialized for sneak attacks, extremely handy to use. Naturally, he wouldn’t hold it back now; he had long since mixed it into the blood sea, waiting for an opportunity to strike!

In an instant, with the explosive sound of metal clashing against iron, the brilliant light of a Divine Ability blossomed. Shockingly, a spiritual sword intercepted it in the nick of time.

Lu Yang looked over and saw that the sword light of that spiritual sword was extremely bizarre, lacking any righteous aura. Instead, it reflected a bewitching naked beauty, accompanied by the sound of bell-like laughter. As the laughter fell upon the [Formless Sword], it even made Lu Yang feel his divine sense vaguely tremble.

“This thing… Demonic Corpse? Banner Spirit?”

Lu Yang had a strange expression. He recalled the [Formless Sword] and then smiled. “I didn’t expect the dignified Sword Pavilion, leader of the righteous path, to also use the methods of my Saint Sect?”

“How could a Jiangbei demon recognize the wondrous methods of my Sword Pavilion?”

Ye Guyue said coldly, “This sword technique is formed by harvesting the Qi of the [Divine Weapon World Realm] and is ranked at the second rank. Although the demonic Qi is dense, it is the righteous path of controlling demons!”

Almost simultaneously, warning signs rose sharply in Lu Yang’s heart.

In the next second, the [Mystic Cloak of Hundred Wards and Subdued Perils] shone brightly. At the same time, seven sword edges stabbed out from the void simultaneously, aiming straight for his vital points!

Crack!

The protective brilliant light didn’t last long before shattering with a boom. However, Lu Yang had already disappeared from the spot, landing in the distance and looking over with interest.

He saw that behind each of the seven sword edges that had just assassinated him was a naked beauty with a smile on her lips. Strangely, their figures were illusory and elusive. In just the blink of an eye, they disappeared from the spot again, turning a blind eye to the formation Lu Yang had laid down, moving and shuttling through it without any hindrance!

“[Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique]!”

Ye Guyue formed a sword seal, and immediately eight spiritual swords appeared around her. In the blink of an eye, they shuttled and slashed toward Lu Yang’s direction again.

“Nice sword technique. Pity… it’s not yet perfected?”

Lu Yang laughed loudly. The [Investigating Heaven Sphere] between his brows operated, and under the illumination of the true eye, he quickly saw through the details of the spiritual swords. The eight demonic swords were all split child swords.

There was still a flaw in their maneuvering.

“Nine is the extreme number. You should have nine swords. Only after the nine child swords unite to achieve the mother sword will this spiritual sword of yours be truly formidable.”

“Why haven’t you refined it completely? Oh right… I destroyed one earlier.”

Lu Yang recalled the bizarre escape method Ye Guyue used when facing the combined strike from him and Sui Ying, and a look of realization appeared on his face.

On the other side, Ye Guyue looked grave. She had already done her best to conceal karma to avoid having her details calculated by Lu Yang, but the roots of the [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique] were still figured out by him. This bizarre divination power was clearly illogical. Did this person possess a heavenly secret treasure?

The situation is somewhat unfavorable…

A trace of gloom rose in Ye Guyue’s heart. As Lu Yang said, her [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword] was currently missing one sword-controlling Heavenly Demon.

Missing one Heavenly Demon meant she couldn’t form the sword formation.

If this continued…

…Will I lose?

With this thought, Ye Guyue instantly pursed her lips, unwilling to admit it in her heart. Yet Lu Yang’s strength had indeed exceeded her expectations.

Unless I can replenish the last Heavenly Demon.

Thinking of this, Ye Guyue glanced in the direction of the Treasure-Laden Youth. Her original plan was to use this person to sacrifice to the sword and make up for the defect in her sword technique.

That was why she had thought of sending the Treasure-Laden Youth to his death earlier. However, the Treasure-Laden Youth surrendered too quickly, leaving her with no opportunity. Not to mention, now that she was engaged in a spiritual battle with Lu Yang, she couldn’t spare any energy to kill the Treasure-Laden Youth. Therefore, after thinking it over, the only usable one right now was probably only…

Ye Guyue turned her gaze and looked at Yun Zhiqiu beside her.

The indifference in her beautiful eyes made Yun Zhiqiu shudder. He whispered, “…Uncle-Master?”

“Zhiqiu, this is also your karmic affinity.”

“Huh?”

Before Yun Zhiqiu could react, a sword light directly pierced through his body, beheading him. His flesh, blood, and spiritual power were all devoured completely.

A stunned soul emerged from the spot.

“Zhiqiu, you have made a great contribution this time. After you reincarnate, you can come find me. I will return an opportunity to you,” Ye Guyue said indifferently, appearing very calm.

For the Sword Pavilion, death was not the end.

Reincarnation was the norm.

However, in the next second, Yun Zhiqiu looked terrified. If it were ordinary reincarnation, it would be fine… but he was currently in a state where both fate and merit were deficient!

Reincarnating like this meant being a pig or dog for at least three to five lifetimes before being reborn as a human. By then, the five lifetimes of longevity for a Foundation Establishment cultivator would have long been ground away. Moreover, he was only at the Initial Stage of Foundation Establishment. Even if he luckily survived, it would be difficult to break the [Mystery of the Womb]. What difference was there between that and having his cultivation ruined?

Alas, he could no longer speak.

In just the blink of an eye, Yun Zhiqiu’s soul fell into reincarnation filled with unwillingness. Immediately after, the ninth Heavenly Demon was cultivated by Ye Guyue.

“Demon, you harmed my Junior Brother’s life. Today you will be executed!”

Ye Guyue’s gaze was torch-like. Nine Heavenly Demons, each holding a sword, united instantly. At the same time, two Innate Divine Abilities boosted it, further increasing its power.

[Master of Armaments]!

[Aiding Golden Brilliance]!

“What a sharp sword…” Lu Yang exclaimed in admiration.

In an instant, a sword light blazed like flames. Wherever it passed, the blood sea evaporated. The sharp Sword Intent made Lu Yang feel a stinging pain between his brows.

However, in the next second, he smiled.

“But my sword isn’t necessarily dull!”

As his voice fell, Lu Yang had already deployed the [Avici Sword] from his sleeve. It was filled with blood light, clearly having accumulated power for a long time. At this moment, a sword cry whistled out!

Inside the Blessed Land fragment, a blood-colored long rainbow rose from the ground.

Following closely behind, the [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword] slashed head-on, sword after sword!

For a time, a series of explosions were heard in the dome of the sky. Huge mushroom clouds interwoven with flying fire and flowing electricity almost tore the entire Blessed Land fragment apart!

Boom!

This collision completely blew apart the [Heavenly Sea Massacre Sword Formation Diagram]. Ye Guyue looked in astonishment as her [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword] let out a wail. Then, disregarding her command as its master, it transformed directly into light and flew back into her sleeve, unable to be wielded anymore!

(End of this chapter)

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