Chapter 217: Giant Sword Array Opens!

Yuan Yao raised her sword to meet the opponent's attack, Boom, she was again shaken back a distance by the opponent's powerful demonic power.

The demon king's strength is actually comparable to that of an early-stage human Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator.

Her expression shifted, then she immediately focused her spiritual power, covering her own spiritual power onto the blade of the Phantom Spirit Sword.

Seeing her still stubbornly resisting, the Crane King also began to use his true power.

With a Swish, the Crane King's true form illusion emerged from behind him, that gigantic white crane illusion exuding an extremely powerful aura, its presence instantly causing the surrounding grass to sway violently.

"Gold Egg." Yuan Yao summoned the Gold Egg.

Afterwards, she solemnly raised her sword and, together with the Gold Egg, rushed toward the Crane King.

"Overestimating yourself!"

The Crane King snorted coldly, the illusion behind him spreading its wings, his hands turning into claws, swiftly moving to meet Yuan Yao and the Gold Egg's attack.

Clang clang clang—

The fierce sound of claws colliding with the long sword rang out.

Yuan Yao waved the long sword in her hand, powerful spiritual power wrapping the blade instantly surged toward the Crane King.

The Crane King's claws shot out, directly blocking the sword's blade aura and then ruthlessly tearing it apart.

The Crane King's attack speed was extremely fast.

Yuan Yao continually raised her sword to block, yet was forced to retreat repeatedly by him.

The Gold Egg seized the moment, its body smashing toward the Crane King's head!

Boom!

The gigantic crane illusion behind the Crane King flared its wings, and already shook the Gold Egg away!

The Gold Egg stared in shock: "How is this demon king so strong? I can't break through his defense!"

Suddenly, the Crane King's right claw grabbed Yuan Yao's shoulder, just as he was about to tear open her flesh—

Yet he discovered that Yuan Yao was actually wearing the high-grade defensive artifact Myriad Shackles Robe!

Yuan Yao took advantage of his stunned moment, gripping her sword with both hands, and immediately slashed at the Crane King's body!

With a Clang, the Crane King reacted in time, using his claws to block the sharp sword.

"Slash him!"

Yuan Yao instantly erupted with terrifying spiritual power, the Phantom Spirit Sword, bolstered by spiritual power, suddenly broke through the Crane King's defense and flung him away.

The Crane King's claws also showed deep cracks.

Immediately, she flickered her body and directly rushed toward the Crane King.

"One Layer of Drunken Life and Death!"

"One Sword Flame Fills and Transforms into a Swimming Dragon!"

"Primeval Sword Art, Cross Cut!"

"Thousand Mountains Myriad Laws, Sword Suppresses All Phenomena!"

She consecutively unleashed four sword moves, nearly exhausting her internal spiritual energy.

The Crane King's expression slightly changed, he quickly crossed his claws in front of his body to defend.

Boom—

The Crane King was shaken back several steps, and his defensive spiritual shield was also shattered by the sword qi!

Instantly, several slashes of sword qi cut open wounds on his body.

"You're not a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator! You're hiding your strength!" the Crane King's face fell.

Yuan Yao's strength could not possibly be possessed by an ordinary human Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator! She very likely wears a spiritual artifact capable of concealing her true cultivation!

Before the Crane King could counterattack, the Gold Egg smashed toward him like a cannonball.

The Crane King immediately unleashed a seal.

"Eight Directions Wind and Rain!"

A seal totem emitting white light roared toward the Gold Egg!

In an instant, the Gold Egg felt as if it were amidst a violent wind and rain, unable to move an inch!

Seeing this, Yuan Yao swiftly swung a sword, allowing the Gold Egg to break free!

Afterwards, she actually flickered her body straight toward the Crane King, the long sword in her hand bursting forth with incredibly sharp sword qi.

The Crane King's expression slightly sank, and in the flip of his hand he unleashed a powerful palm strike toward Yuan Yao.

The aura of this palm strike was enough to uproot all the surrounding grass and twist the spatial airflow!

Yuan Yao's face was calm as water, her eyes firm as a rock, showing no fear; only seen, she slightly turned her wrist, and the Phantom Spirit Sword in her hand plunged into the ground with lightning speed.

Immediately after, she quickly formed hand seals, and mysterious ancient runes flowed from her fingertips into the sword blade.

"Giant Sword Array Opens!"

As the sound fell, the five-colored Phantom Spirit Sword actually began to rapidly expand!

In the blink of an eye, it turned into a massive object, width reaching three meters, height reaching an astonishing fifteen meters! The entire sword blade shimmered with blinding light, as if containing boundless power.

"Boom!"

At the moment the extremely terrifying palm strike contacted the Phantom Spirit Sword, an intangible force suddenly burst from the sword, forming an extraordinarily solid gang wind spiritual shield that firmly blocked this strike.

The Crane King's face showed astonishment.

And at the same time—

The Gold Egg instantly burst forth with intense golden light, almost covering this grassland area, blinding enough to make one unable to open their eyes.

The Crane King's expression slightly changed, he immediately realized Yuan Yao intended to seize this opportunity to flee!

He closed his eyes, using his spiritual sense to search for Yuan Yao's position.

And just at that moment, a lurking clump of spiritual power surged toward his spiritual sense, silently gnawing and devouring it!

A fierce stabbing pain emanated from the Crane King's Sea of Awareness!

He immediately tried to withdraw the spiritual awareness he had released!

These humans are really too sinister!

Her spiritual power can actually devour its own spiritual power!

As the two sides' spiritual powers tore at each other, the golden light gradually faded.

When he opened his eyes, he found that Yuan Yao and the Golden Egg were gone.

The opponent's spiritual power also vanished in an instant!

The Crane King only now realized that these humans had employed the "luring the tiger from the mountain" tactic!

Damn it!

"Lord Crane King!" The demon tribe soldiers only now arrived.

They immediately reported: "There are many human Cultivators fleeing in the city! They have killed many soldiers!"

Upon hearing this, the Crane King's complexion grew even worse, but he first returned to the city to deal with the matter of those human Cultivators' escape.

As for that human girl just now…

"Search the area around Sky Moon City immediately for that human girl's trail! She is gravely wounded! She cannot have run far!" he ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes, Lord Crane King!"

The demon tribe soldiers respectfully took the order.

…

On the other side.

A white figure staggered into the woods; in the night, the girl's face was extremely pallid, blood streaming from the corner of her mouth, and her white clothes were stained bright red with blood.

She kept running forward.

The map showed that as long as one passed through this forest, one could soon reach Tian Rui City.

She walked on, and with a "Wow—" she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Her whole body became weak and feeble.

When the giant sword formation was just opened, the Crane King's palm seal was so powerful that it caused her to suffer a backlash of force.

The Golden Egg, which had been running away together with her, saw this and immediately flew to her front: "Climb up quickly, hold me, and I'll fly you."

Yuan Yao just as she tried to reach out, pulled at the wound on her shoulder, and the pain made her frown slightly.

"No, I can't hold you."

The Golden Egg hesitated a moment: "Then you… then you sit down."

It roared inside: I am the magnificent Lord Dragon, and I am supposed to be a human's mount! Ah ah ah! If it weren't for her pitiful state… sigh… I'll reluctantly let her sit once!

The Golden Egg's body grew a bit larger.

It floated to a distance of one inch above the ground, then waited for Yuan Yao to sit down.

Yuan Yao, rarely seeing it so conscientious, couldn't help but smile.