Chapter 248: Ye Guyue! Die!

"The Abyss Sword has taken considerable damage."

Stowing the Abyss Sword in his sleeve, Lu Yang's eyes revealed a trace of awe: "So this is the Yushu Jiange's Grade-Two True Art? The Nine Sons and Mother Heavenly Demon Sword of Slaying Immortals Art."

I want it so badly!

It was no wonder Lu Yang coveted it.

After all, if they truly fought head-on, the Abyss Sword was actually inferior to the 【Nine Sons and Mother Heavenly Demon Sword of Slaying Immortals】, not because the Abyss Sword's quality was weaker.

But because Ye Guyue was a Sword Cultivator.

She could use her Innate Divine Ability and Innate Talismanic Ability to empower her own magic sword, causing its power to explode, while Lu Yang relied entirely on the Abyss Sword's own divine wonders.

Fortunately, before this sword duel, Lu Yang had used the 【Abyss Sword】 to kill several Sword Cultivators in succession, stacking the 【Human Butcher】's special attack bonus to an extremely high level, which offset Ye Guyue's advantage; combined with his long preparation, he managed to gain a slight upper hand.

Moreover, this result was caused by the influence of multiple factors.

After all, the Abyss Sword side was charging up, possessing only a single strike's power; if Ye Guyue's mind had been clear, she could have chosen a method of entanglement and maneuvering to wear him down.

Yet she chose to clash head-on.

'Ultimately, her fate and merit were drained by Master Chongguang, and calamity qi has wrapped around her!'

Even though she relied on the Yushu Jiange's secret method to maintain clear thoughts, she still found it difficult to completely escape the influence, resulting in tiny errors in critical decisions.

If not for this, Lu Yang would at most have fought her to a draw, unable to kill her, let alone capture her alive.

However, in cultivator magical duels, only the result matters.

And the result was that he won!

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The next second, blinding brilliant light appeared on Ye Guyue's body, wrapping her entirely, as she prepared to break open the void and forcibly escape the Blessed Land fragment.

Obviously, Ye Guyue had already recognized the situation.

She had lost; even if she didn't flee now, she would die! So even though forcibly escaping the Blessed Land fragment would cause severe injuries, she could no longer care.

But how could Lu Yang let her leave?

"【Bao Shou Shan】!"

The next second, the divine ability activated; the towering black mountain stabilized the spiritual qi, calmed the void, extinguished the brilliant light on Ye Guyue's body, and dragged her down.

Almost simultaneously, Lu Yang cast another Daoist technique.

"【Imperial Mountain-Transferring Righteous Dharma】!"

Forming the hand seal, chanting the incantation, pointing to the mystery—three steps completed in one breath.

Although Ye Guyue reacted extremely quickly, closing her seven orifices immediately, hearing none of Lu Yang's chanting voice and seeing none of his hand-seal movements.

She still could not avoid being pointed at by his finger.

Immediately, clumps of mud and water gushed out from her graceful body, instantly turning her into a mud statue difficult to move.

The mud statue fell from the air, taking root upon landing.

However, soon Lu Yang frowned, stopped his hand movements, casually flicked his hand to shatter the mud statue, only to see that the inside was completely empty.

"Hehe, a golden cicada shedding its shell?"

Lu Yang's magical eye in his brow opened, the Heaven-Examining Instrument rotated, the Fire of Bing illuminated the six directions, and immediately revealed a graceful silhouette stealthily departing.

"Where does the Fairy intend to go?"

Lu Yang laughed loudly, immediately changed the magical formula, switched to the divine wonder of Bao Shou Shan, and the towering mountain shadow solidified from the void, crashing down heavily onto Ye Guyue.

"Boom!"

The next second, Ye Guyue's figure stumbled.

She had originally been flying via her sword pill, but now with 【Bao Shou Shan】 suppressing her, the sword pill that usually operated smoothly was now completely unresponsive, like a stone sinking into the sea.

Immediately, 【Imperial Mountain-Transferring Righteous Dharma】 struck her again.

Seeing this, Ye Guyue could only helplessly form a hand seal, release another Heavenly Demon substitute to die in her place, and then flee a thousand li away, actually intending to stall for time.

'Hold on!'

'This Blessed Land... is about to shatter completely!'

Ye Guyue's sword heart was now crystal clear; even with calamity qi wrapping her, she still seized the last thread of life, for when the Blessed Land shattered naturally, she would still have a way to survive!

Thinking this, Ye Guyue continued to struggle and flee.

And the disaster-avoiding ability of the 【Nine Sons and Mother Heavenly Demon Sword of Slaying Immortals】 was indeed incredible; it forcibly dodged Lu Yang's seven suppressions and actually managed to hold on.

"Crack!"

Finally, a clear shattering sound rang out between heaven and earth.

It was merely a fragment of a Blessed Land; even with Master Chongguang's magic power consolidating it, after enduring so many collisions, it finally could not bear the burden and clearly shattered!

'Now is the time!'

Ye Guyue took a deep breath, mobilized all her remaining magic power, and at the instant the Blessed Land fissure appeared, rode a beam of escape light, disappearing into the fissure.

The next second, her vision suddenly opened up!

What came into view was unmistakably the former site of the 【Qing Kingdom】 outside the Blessed Land; at this moment, several familiar cultivators were still conversing, including those from the Dao Court and the Pure Land.

The sky remained dim, obviously the duel between True Lords had not ended.

But regardless—

'Finally out!'

Even with Ye Guyue's temperament, escaping death this time inevitably produced a bit of wild joy, and she thought secretly: 'Demon, I will never rest easy with you in the future!'

However, the immediate priority was to find someone for protection!

Thinking this, Ye Guyue immediately turned her gaze toward the direction of the Dao Court and the Pure Land; just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt a mighty wave surge from behind her!

She turned her head to look.

She saw the void crack open, revealing the scene inside the Blessed Land fragment; on the towering Gaoshan, Lu Yang sat cross-legged, his clothes fluttering wildly in the wind.

Above his head, streams of spiritual light emerged at once: the Ten Thousand Spirits Banner, the A Ni Sword, the Formless Sword, the Jiutian Instrument, the Hundred Forged Xuan Cloak, the Jingping Qingfen Treasure Pagoda, the Purple Micro Emperor's Supreme Golden Seal, and the Imperial Mansion's Golden Inscription, the Doushu True Edict—eight superior spiritual treasures roared in unison!

In addition, there was a large pile of treasures seized from Chongming.

These were all the collections of Master Chongguang; though none were superior spiritual treasures, each was at least a lower- or mid-grade treasure, their quality far surpassing the mundane.

At this moment, all these magical artifacts converged together.

Lu Yang then formed hand seals and activated a Dao art he had never used before.

"【Ten Thousand Treasures River】!"

Not far away, Duobao Tongzi, the rightful heir of the 【Ten Thousand Treasures River】, stared in stunned silence.

This Dao art was meant to triumph through quantity—combining hundreds of magical artifacts to unleash the power of a superior spiritual treasure—but in Lu Yang's hands, it had changed entirely.

Even the weakest components of his 【Ten Thousand Treasures River】 were spiritual treasures!

At this moment, all cultivators outside the blessed land felt their vision darken, their physical forms trembling, as if they had become a solitary leaf adrift in a storm-tossed sea!

Before their eyes appeared a magnificent, endless river!

This river was vast, awe-inspiring, flowing out from the fragments of the blessed land with a thunderous roar, sweeping toward Ye Guyue.

Seeing this, everyone could scarcely believe it; the river's power was overwhelming, vast and unrestrained, like oceans surging across the land—mere proximity brought an indescribable suction force, like a sea vortex, ready to swallow them whole and bury them beneath its depths.

Ye Guyue's lovely face turned instantly pale: "Help!"

"Run!"

From the Dao Court and Pure Land directions, several Foundation Establishment True Persons turned ashen, ignoring Ye Guyue entirely, and without hesitation launched their escape lights and fled.

The next instant, the 【Ten Thousand Treasures River】 crashed down.

"Boom—!"

With a deafening roar, Ye Guyue was engulfed by the river of spiritual treasure light before all eyes, her body snatched up and dragged back into the blessed land.

Was this a Mo Sect demon seizing the Yushu Jiange's immortal maiden?

The crowd exchanged stunned glances, still unable to react, when a sharp cry came from within the blessed land fragments hidden beneath the 【Ten Thousand Treasures River】:

"Demon! How dare you!?"

Immediately, Lu Yang's voice rang out, laughing loudly: "Naive—what do I dare not do? Today, I will take your second-rank True Art without fail!"

"Wait, let me go!"

"Aren't you afraid of the Yushu Jiange's revenge?"

"What art do you want? I'll tell you!"

Before Ye Guyue could finish speaking, she cried out in pain, and Lu Yang's voice came again: "Tell me? What if you lie?"

"Master Chongguang taught me: one must rely on oneself!"

"I trust only myself!"

Only the True Person of the Holy Sect, after a moment of surprise, quickly regained composure.

"The voice sounds like Duanmu Yuan Tu?"

"Ah, then it's not surprising."

(End of Chapter)