Chapter 884: A Falling Leaf (2/2, begging for monthly votes)

Qi Ba Jiu?

Fang Yue subconsciously turned his head to look.

He saw that behind him, Weiba was already suspended in the air, his left eye like frost, his right eye like fire, like a god.

"Activate the mountain-protecting grand array to assist me. Weiba's body can't hold me for too long. I need to end this quickly."

Leaving behind a casual remark, Lord Qi Ba Jiu had already whooshed, transforming into a Shadow, and crashed toward Jianmu Laoren's direction.

"Lord Qi Ba Jiu!"

"It's Supreme Sect Master Lord Qi Ba Jiu!"

"Immediately activate the mountain-protecting grand array, lend Lord Qi Ba Jiu a hand!"

The moment they saw Qi Ba Jiu appear, the Sect Master and Elders of the Jibing Sect were all instantly invigorated, hurriedly running off to activate the mountain-protecting grand array.

Up ahead, Qi Ba Jiu had already engaged Jianmu Laoren in battle, erupting with deafening sounds of combat.

The two sides fought fiercely, from the core area of the Jibing Sect all the way to the western district. Along the path, countless buildings collapsed, and large numbers of disciples wailed and fled for safety.

Among them was the Jibing Sect's Senior Brother Duan Ju!

He stared wide-eyed, his mouth silently agape, dumbly watching the two figures rapidly passing overhead, nearly frozen to the spot.

"J-just now, what flew past was... Weiba?"

Coming back to his senses, he hesitated for a moment, then quietly followed.

The fact that the Jibing Saintess was Supreme Sect Master Lord Qi Ba Jiu was top-secret information—not just anyone was qualified to know.

Even within the Jibing Sect, only those of Elder-level existence could know.

As for everyone else, they had to rely on their own abilities to uncover this information.

Of course, after Weiba's rampage at the Juan Niao Lou auction, how long this could be kept secret was anyone's guess.

The fierce battle between the two sides caused panic among the Jibing Sect disciples, and the crowds fled outward.

But when they rushed to the mountain gate exit, they discovered... a pale blue pillar of light suddenly rose into midair, centered on the Jibing Sect, transforming into a blue, water-curtain-like shield that covered the entire Jibing Sect, making even the thought of escaping a luxury.

They were trapped within the Jibing Sect—or rather, protected within the Jibing Sect.

With the activation of the mountain-protecting grand array, the temperature within the Jibing Sect plummeted, and wind and snow rose in response.

If this were in the wild, such a harsh environment—even for Jibing Sect disciples circulating the Jibing Sect's Heart Methods and Martial Arts—would greatly affect them, preventing them from unleashing their full strength.

Yet at this moment, this artificially created environment instead made all the Jibing Sect disciples like fish in water. Not only could they circulate their power and suddenly boost its might, even sitting down to cultivate, their cultivation efficiency skyrocketed several times over.

"Th-this is the legendary mountain-protecting grand array of the Jibing Sect! Precisely because of this array's existence, the Jibing Sect has stood unshaken for so many years, becoming one of the oldest sects in Qing Guo."

"Have you noticed? Within the mountain-protecting grand array, when we circulate our Jibing Sect's techniques, both efficiency and might are greatly amplified. But circulating other Martial Arts feels like blocked internal energy, greatly reducing circulation efficiency."

"Exactly! That's right! This is the foundation of our Jibing Sect!"

"Jibing Sect! Jibing Sect! Jibing Sect!"

The crowd grew excited, shouting loudly in support.

Those Elders, even more so because of their suddenly surging strength, showed joy on their faces and hurried toward the battlefield one after another.

"Lord Qi Ba Jiu, we've come to lend you a hand!"

Seven or eight Elders around the Cloud level, whoosh whoosh whoosh, dove into the battlefield.

"Excellent! It's the Twelfth Elder! The Thirteenth Elder and the others!"

"Though we don't know who the enemy is, with the Elders joining, this battle absolutely cannot be lost!"

"That guy is done for! Lord Qi Ba Jiu personally taking action, plus the Elders assisting on the side—he won't escape even if he grew wings!"

"Today, we shall make the invader come but never return!"

"With Supreme Sect Master Lord Qi Ba Jiu and the Elders leading the charge, what is there to fear? Senior Brothers and Sisters, let's go together! Lend the Elders a hand!"

Senior Brother Duan Ju, who had been on the scene all along, now suddenly raised his arm and shouted: "Charge, charge, charge! Fight for the glory of the Jibing Sect!!"

The disciples below responded excitedly in unison, many even wanting to leap high into the air and join the fight.

But the next moment...

Shwa shwa shwa shwa shwa!

Above the battlefield, over a dozen golden, blinding sword-qi suddenly erupted.

Immediately after, from the battlefield in midair, a large shower of minced flesh and Blood Rain came pouring down, among them several Elders' blood-colored heads.

By the time the heads hit the ground, and the Blood Rain drenched the disciples.

The Jibing Sect disciples, who had just been in a frenzy of excitement, all fell silent at once, falling into an eerie quiet.

Senior Brother Duan Ju, looking at the Elder corpses on the ground who had died miserably like vegetables being chopped, looking at those eyes that seemed to have died on the spot from being unable to react, his entire body uncontrollably trembled violently.

He... was afraid.

Those were Elders!

Elders of the Jibing Sect!

Compared to him, this Senior Brother, their strength was unfathomably higher!

Yet the result of charging in was just one encounter, and they died miserably on the spot, their bodies chopped into who knows how many pieces of minced flesh, dying without a whole corpse.

If he went up instead, probably just one glance from the opponent and he'd be done for.

A monster... the one fighting Lord Qi Ba Jiu up there is a monster!

"Demon-Slaying Stab!!"

Just as Duan Ju thought of this, a fierce shout suddenly erupted from above.

He dumbly looked up and saw that midair suddenly wildly swept up massive amounts of frost from the surroundings, rapidly taking shape, forming a giant ice spear nearly a hundred meters in size.

Though shaped like an ice spear, the tip of the ice spear was like a red-hot branding iron, emitting sizzling sounds and giving off white steam.

Ice and fire merged so harmoniously into one, yet seemed utterly natural.

And at this moment, the tip of the giant ice spear was pushing someone along, the scalding red spearhead piercing straight through the target's body, stabbing both person and spear together into the Danyao Ge below.

Boom!!

With a thunderous explosion, the Danyao Ge was blasted apart by ice lances, shattering on the spot, wood splinters flying everywhere, reduced to fragments, revealing a massive deep crater.

Beneath the deep crater, the figure pierced through by the enormous ice spike fell into everyone's view—it was none other than… Jianmu Laoren!

"Ice-Fire Supreme… Qi Ba Jiu…"

Jianmu Laoren's pupils began to scatter, his spiritual power no longer able to focus.

He understood that his end had come.

Only he himself had never imagined that he would die here, in this place.

"Stronger than I thought… even more, this still isn't your full power…"

Gazing with scattered eyes at the terrifying existence in midair like a war god, Jianmu Laoren's consciousness plunged completely into darkness.

A powerhouse who had guarded the Heavenly Sword Sect for hundreds of years, he thus perished on the territory of the Extreme Ice Sect.

At this moment, everyone knew the Heavenly Sword Sect was finished.

The Heavenly Sword Sect, though like other powerful sects, had its hidden trump cards and a Rain-Rank Sect Master holding the fort.

(End of chapter)