Chapter 1018

Only, every time he looked at it, he felt this sword art had its own unique merits, and couldn't help but softly murmur a line.

Zhou Zhiruo gave a light cry, and thrust this sword toward Bi Xuan.

He saw silver light flash out, and the raging flames that came howling in were split directly in two by this sword.

Narrowly avoiding disaster, the flames swept past Zhou Zhiruo and Abbess Extinguisher, burning away.

"Ah? Damn it…"

Bi Xuan hadn't expected that the sword Zhou Zhiruo thrust out would be so overwhelmingly powerful.

A single sword could directly break through his strike, which had been blended with the primordial force of heaven and earth!

Then the sword's momentum did not fade, but charged straight toward Bi Xuan.

He was furious in his heart; having once been defeated at Xue Damo Hall had already made him lose face terribly.

If now, in front of General Zhebie and Meng Chixing, he were to be defeated again by Zhou Zhiruo, he would likely have no face left to serve as any Great Yuan's offering.

Only, this sword of Zhou Zhiruo's secretly contained the power of the stars.

Bi Xuan knew even more clearly that Zhou Zhiruo was also thoroughly versed in the powers of Nine Yin and Nine Yang.

At Xue Damo Hall, it was precisely those powers of Nine Yin and Nine Yang that had caused his crushing defeat.

Therefore this sword was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

If he truly assumed it contained only the power of the stars and went up against Zhou Zhiruo, he would inevitably take a fall.

His thoughts racing, he considered how he should face the enemy.

Suddenly he saw Abbess Extinguisher, frozen in place behind Zhou Zhiruo.

Inspiration struck Bi Xuan, and he thought of a clever plan at once.

Since this Zhou Zhiruo had just set conditions for General Zhebie, wanting him to spare Abbess Extinguisher.

Then clearly, in this little girl's heart, this old nun was extremely important to her.

With a cold laugh in his heart, he naturally did not go to meet Zhou Zhiruo's sword coming head-on.

He made a feint, waved his great hand, and stirred the Blazing Yang Marvelous Art, sweeping along the primordial force of heaven and earth as it surged mightily toward Abbess Extinguisher to kill her.

"Despicable…"

Zhou Zhiruo had never expected that Bi Xuan, as a generation's strong expert, would not only dare not face her head-on, but would also deliberately attack the immobilized Abbess Extinguisher.

But at this moment, in order to achieve a stunning debut, Zhou Zhiruo had poured all her heart's blood into the sword in her hand.

As Bi Xuan had anticipated, on the surface this sword secretly contained the power of the stars, but in truth Zhou Zhiruo had long since gathered the Nine Yin Divine Art and Nine Yang Divine Art.

She was only waiting for Bi Xuan to engage; then she would unleash the Great Demon-Slaying Heaven-Round Sword Art together with the Destruction Sword and the Extinction Sword.

Striving to win against Bi Xuan in an extremely short time, and overawe these three Great Yuan experts.

Therefore this sword truly carried a certain flavor of charging forward with no thought of retreat.

Even if Zhou Zhiruo wished to withdraw her move and go back to rescue Abbess Extinguisher, it would be immensely difficult.

But thinking that she herself had escaped death, and that if not for Abbess Extinguisher taking her into the Emei Sect's doors, she would have long since died in the turbulent jianghu.

If now she were to watch without saving her, how would she differ from a beast!

Sigh…

Zhou Zhiruo sighed inwardly, and could only disperse the power of the stars, turning sharply to go rescue Abbess Extinguisher.

Gathering the power of the stars was never a simple matter to begin with.

Once dispersed, Zhou Zhiruo's imposing momentum plummeted even further.

Just as she was preparing to turn her sword back to rescue Abbess Extinguisher, suddenly streams of demonic-seed strange force pierced through Bi Xuan's raging flames and swarmed in.

This was truly beyond Zhou Zhiruo's expectations.

The vital acupoints all over her body were pierced through by this demonic-seed strange force in an instant.

"Ah…"

Zhou Zhiruo had not managed to activate the Nine Yang Divine Art; struck by this painful blow, she could only let out a wretched cry, and her breathing instantly became chaotic.

806 Are all Great Yuan's people so despicable?

"Two Great Yuan offerings, dealing with a mere weak woman—one threatens with the life of someone she cares about, the other feints to strike elsewhere and launches a sudden sneak attack.

Could it be that all Great Yuan's people are such despicable persons?"

Just as Zhou Zhiruo had been successfully ambushed by Meng Chixing, and Bi Xuan was overjoyed and preparing to rush forward to seize the Heaven's Sword.

Suddenly, from within this dense forest, a resonant and forceful voice rang out abruptly.

"Who is it? Come out!"

General Zhebie was greatly alarmed; not only had this hidden person immediately exposed the identity of them as Great Yuan's people.

More critically, he could be this close to him, yet he had no way of detecting him.

Could it be that this person's strength was actually above his own?

His thoughts flashing like lightning, General Zhebie casually loosed an arrow.

Toward the direction of that voice, it blasted forth.

General Zhebie's arrow was the Four Symbols Arrow.

Once the arrow left, the four great elements of earth, water, wind, and fire accompanied the arrow's body.

Needless to say those whose cultivation was lower than his, even those roughly equal to him could not take this arrow head-on.

In the original battle at Lanruo Temple, the Xuanxinzheng Sect, in order to stop General Zhebie, had no choice but to send out the strongest defensive Divine General, the Xuanwu Divine General, to succeed.

If it had been any other Divine General, they might not necessarily have been able to intercept General Zhebie.

General Zhebie was also fully confident that, once this arrow was loosed.

No matter who the comer was, as long as their cultivation was not far above his own.

Even if it could not wound him, it could force this person to reveal his form.

Yet this arrow shot like a rainbow, slicing through the dense forest and shattering countless ancient trees outright.

Along the ground it passed, it carved a terrifyingly extreme scar.

Even so, this arrow flew swift as a meteor and vanished into the distant horizon.

"This… did I sense it wrong? Or is it that the newcomer's cultivation truly surpasses my own?"

Seeing this arrow miss, General Zhebie's face was full of suspicion.

Watching Bi Xuan too, because of that voice and General Zhebie's arrow, slowed his sword-snatching motion by several beats.

At this moment, seeing General Zhebie's arrow so terrifying, in his heart no matter what expert it was, they must be dead.

He let out a fierce laugh and lunged once more at Zhou Zhiruo.

This time Zhou Zhiruo had been injured by the demonic-seed strange power that Seeing Meng Chixing had driven with full force; although her Earth Yuan Qi was not harmed, she had after all lost the ability to move for the time being.

On top of that, Seeing Meng Chixing did not stop at a single burst of demonic-seed strange power; instead, following the demonic-seed strange power, his martial-intention will surged into Zhou Zhiruo's body along with it.

He was a grand master of the spiritual realm to begin with, and this strike of his held no mercy whatsoever.

So much so that Zhou Zhiruo need not speak of moving — her entire focus was placed on resisting Seeing Meng Chixing's spiritual invasion.

But Seeing Meng Chixing was indeed worthy of being a grand master of the spiritual realm; advancing all the way, conquering territory after territory, he beat Zhou Zhiruo into steady retreat, on the verge of breaching her heart's defense.

Such a fine opportunity — how could Watching Bi Xuan bear to miss it.

His figure moved once more, wrapped in boundless raging flames, and rushed to snatch the Heaven-Relying Sword from Zhou Zhiruo.

"How dare you!"

Just as Watching Bi Xuan was about to grasp the Heaven-Relying Sword, that earlier voice actually rang out once more.

Immediately after, a figure abruptly appeared at Zhou Zhiruo's side.

Draw sword, thrust out — all in one fluid motion!

This person's sword move, in Watching Bi Xuan's eyes, could hardly be called all that exquisite.

Watching Bi Xuan was fully confident that so long as he roused his raging flames, he could crush this man outright.

He never expected that Watching Bi Xuan's utterly confident strike suddenly exposed an enormous opening, and went "delivering" itself right into this person's sword move!

Exactly!

Watching Bi Xuan's motion was as if he had delivered his own opening right onto this person's sword move.

Within Watching Bi Xuan's incredulous gaze, this person's sword tip stabbed into Watching Bi Xuan's palm.

The long-absent sting of pain came through; if Watching Bi Xuan forced the snatch of the Heaven-Relying Sword any further, this palm would inevitably be left here.

"Ah…"

Watching Bi Xuan let out a wretched cry and retreated hastily.

Compared to the merit of the Heaven-Relying Sword, he cared far more about his own palm.