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Chapter 245: Ye Guyue (Solitary Moon)! Death!
Chapter 245: Ye Guyue (Solitary Moon)! Death!
"The Avici Sword is badly damaged."
Slipping the Avici Sword into his sleeve, Lv Yang's eyes gleamed with astonishment. "So this is Sword Pavilion's second-tier true martial art—the Nine Matron Celestial Demon Extermination Sword Manual?"
He couldn't hide his desire.
This wasn't surprising. If they fought head-on, the Avici Sword was technically inferior to the Nine Matron Celestial Demon Extermination Sword. Not because the Avici was weaker, but because Ye Guyue was a sword cultivator.
She could amplify her Sword Core's power through her Life-Bound Divine Ability and innate Divine Ability, while Lv Yang relied entirely on the Avici Sword's Divine Essence.
Fortunately, before this duel, Lv Yang had killed several sword cultivators with the Avici Sword, stacking its Soul Reaper special attack to extreme levels. This counterbalanced Ye Guyue's advantage. Combined with his prepared ambush, he barely gained the upper hand.
But this result hinged on multiple factors.
The Avici Sword's attack required charging and only had one strike's worth of power. If Ye Guyue had stayed clear-headed, she could have dragged the fight into a prolonged battle.
Yet she chose to clash head-on.
"In the end, she's been drained by Chongguang's karma and cursed by calamity qi!"
Even using Sword Pavilion's secret techniques to maintain her clarity, she couldn't fully escape the effects. Her judgment faltered slightly in a critical moment.
Otherwise, Lv Yang could at best fight her to a draw—never mind killing or capturing her.
But in cultivation battles, only results mattered.
And he had won.
The next moment, radiant light erupted from Ye Guyue's body, enveloping her as she tore through space to escape the Fortune Ground Fragment Realm.
Clearly, she had accepted reality.
She had lost. If she didn't flee now, she would die. Even at the cost of severe injuries from breaking out prematurely, she had no choice.
Lv Yang naturally wouldn't let her go.
"Embrace Mountain!"
His Divine Ability activated, a towering mountain of spiritual energy stabilized space itself, shattering Ye Guyue's radiant escape and sending her crashing down.
Almost simultaneously, he unleashed another technique.
"Imperial Mountain-Moving Technique!"
Hand seals, incantations, and finger techniques blended seamlessly.
Though Ye Guyue reacted instantly, sealing her seven orifices to block out sound and sight, she couldn't avoid his fingertip's strike.
Mud erupted from her slender body, instantly transforming her into an immobile clay statue. The statue fell, rooting itself to the ground.
But soon, Lv Yang frowned, halting mid-motion. With a casual flick, he shattered the clay figure—only to find it hollow.
"Golden Cicada Shedding Shell?"
His forehead's divine eye opened, and his Ultimate Heaven Instrument activated. Cinnabar fire radiance illuminated the six directions, revealing a fleeing silhouette.
"Where are you running, immortal maiden?"
Lv Yang laughed loudly, altering his technique. The Embrace Mountain's essence shifted from solid to ethereal, crushing down like a mountain crashing through space.
"Boom!"
Ye Guyue staggered. She had relied on her Sword Core for flight, but now the Embrace Mountain's suppression rendered her once-obedient Sword Core unresponsive like a stone sinking into the sea.
Then came the Imperial Mountain-Moving Technique again.
Ye Guyue could only helplessly form another hand seal, releasing a Celestial Demon clone to die in her place as she fled a thousand miles away, hoping to buy time.
"Hold on!"
"This Fortune Ground is about to shatter completely!"
Despite calamity qi clinging to her, Ye Guyue's sword heart remained piercingly clear. She grasped her final chance—once the Fortune Ground naturally fragmented, she'd have a path to survival.
With this thought, she struggled to flee.
Indeed, the Nine Matron Celestial Demon Extermination Sword's disaster-avoidance power proved miraculous. It dodged seven of Lv Yang's suppressive attacks, keeping her alive.
"Crack!"
At last, a clear breaking sound echoed through the heavens.
This Fortune Ground fragment, even maintained by Chongguang's power, finally cracked under the repeated collisions!
"Now!"
Ye Guyue inhaled deeply, channeling her remaining spiritual energy. As the Fortune Ground fissure appeared, she shot a beam of light and vanished through the crack.
The next moment, her vision expanded!
Before her lay the Qing Kingdom's ruins outside the Fortune Ground—several familiar cultivators were conversing nearby, representatives from Dao Court and Pure Land.
The sky remained dark, showing the True Monarchs' battle hadn't ended.
But regardless—
"I'm free!"
Even with Ye Guyue's composure, surviving brought exhilaration. She inwardly vowed: "Demon, we're not finished!"
Her priority now was finding protection.
Turning toward Dao Court and Pure Land, she opened her mouth—only to suddenly sense a colossal surge from behind!
Whipping around, she saw the void splitting to reveal the Fortune Ground Fragment Realm. On a towering mountain, Lv Yang sat cross-legged, his robes flapping fiercely in the wind.
Above his head, dazzling lights emerged—Ten-Thousand Spirit Banner, Avici Sword, Invisible Sword, Ultimate Heaven Instrument, Hundredfold Barriers Cloak, Purify Qi Pagoda, Celestial Edict Seal, Imperial Decree of Golden Inscription—eight supreme Spirit Treasures simultaneously roared with power!
Plus countless treasures stripped from Zhong Ming.
These were Chongguang True Man's collection—no supreme treasures, but all were rare lower-to-middle-tier treasures far surpassing ordinary ones.
Now, they gathered as one.
Lv Yang's hands formed seals, executing a long-forgotten technique.
"Ten Thousand Treasures River!"
Nearby, the Treasure-Child, heir to the Ten Thousand Treasures River, stared in shock.
This technique traditionally relied on quantity—combining hundreds of treasures to mimic supreme treasures' power. But Lv Yang's version was different. Every component was already a Spirit Treasure!
At this moment, every cultivator outside the Fortune Ground felt their vision darken, their spiritual bodies shaking as if thrown into a storm-tossed ship.
Before them surged a magnificent river!
This colossal waterway roared from the Fortune Ground Fragment Realm toward Ye Guyue.
The cultivators couldn't believe their eyes. The river's sheer scale felt unstoppable, like a tidal wave with a bottomless whirlpool that threatened to swallow everything.
Ye Guyue's face paled: "Help—"
"Quick, retreat!"
Several Foundation Building True Men from Dao Court and Pure Land turned livid. Ignoring Ye Guyue completely, they unleashed their escape techniques.
"Boom!"
The Ten Thousand Treasures River crashed down.
Before everyone's eyes, Ye Guyue was seized by the treasure-laden floodwaters, her body wrapped up and dragged back into the Fortune Ground.
A Demonic Sect's holy devil capturing Sword Pavilion's immortal maiden?
The cultivators looked at each other, still reeling, when Ye Guyue's voice rang out from the Fortune Ground Fragment Realm:
"Demon! How dare you!?"
Lv Yang's laughter followed: "Naive! What wouldn't I dare? Today, I'll claim your second-tier true martial art!"
"No—let go of me!"
"Are you afraid of Sword Pavilion's retaliation?"
"What cultivation technique do you want? I'll tell you—"
Ye Guyue's words cut short with a pained cry. Lv Yang's voice rang out again: "Tell me? What if you deceive me?"
"Senior Chongguang taught me—rely only on yourself!"
"I trust only myself!"
The Holy Sect's True Men, after slight surprise, quickly regained calm.
"Sounds like Yuan Tu (Slaughter)?"
"Oh, that explains it."
(End of Chapter)
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