Chapter 998

Moreover, this woman was clearly wounded.

But Zhou Zhiruo ran ahead, and whenever the flames attacked, she would strike back with a move of Mount Emei swordsmanship.

Wherever the sword-light reached, no matter how Watching Bi Xuan reinforced his fireballs, they would all be flicked away by the Heaven-Reliant Sword.

The fireballs had not yet gone out, and once again set part of Xue Damo Hall ablaze.

As the fight went on, Zhou Zhiruo stopped using Mount Emei swordsmanship altogether.

She merely thrust, flicked, or swept at random.

All of them were basic swordsmanship moves.

This sight made Watching Bi Xuan's eyes nearly split with rage, so furious he almost lost control.

He became all the more certain that the treasured sword in Zhou Zhiruo's hand was absolutely Immortal-grade, or even Divine-grade!

"Yah yah yah! Wicked woman, stop dodging!"

Seeing Zhou Zhiruo slip through his grasp, every one of his attacks deflected.

Watching Bi Xuan was furious beyond endurance.

Suddenly he drew a deep breath, then punched the empty air.

Immediately after, the boundless surrounding Heaven and Earth Prime Force was driven by him, bearing down with might.

Then, with Watching Bi Xuan at the center, ring after ring of raging flames spread outward.

The entire Xue Damo Hall was filled with endless raging flames, the temperature climbing steadily.

This move was the ultimate killing stroke within Watching Bi Xuan's Blazing Sun Divine Art.

He was confident that beneath this move, he would surely be able to keep this woman here.

Sure enough, once this move was unleashed, Zhou Zhiruo could no longer, as before, weave about with Mount Emei body arts.

Even thrusting and slicing with the Heaven-Reliant Sword was like stabbing into empty air; she could no longer deflect ring upon ring of ever more fierce raging flames.

Instead, with every thrust, a wave of heat traveled along the blade of the Heaven-Reliant Sword into Zhou Zhiruo's body.

It made her feel scorching heat all over, as though her meridians were being burned.

Were it not for the Nine Yang Divine Art she had cultivated, these repeated burnings alone would have been enough to make her lose.

"Ha ha! This move is this old man's killing stroke—how could a single divine weapon break through it!

Little girl, if you know what's good for you, hand over the divine weapon and the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, and I may spare your life."

Seeing Zhou Zhiruo in agony, a trickle of blood already at the corner of her mouth, clearly wounded.

Watching Bi Xuan was immensely pleased, continuing to drive this move forward while jeering wildly.

In his eyes, since this divine weapon had already been pushed to its limit, victory was firmly in his grasp.

Zhou Zhiruo at this moment was also deeply worried, knowing that if things went on like this, she truly would lose.

By then, the Heaven-Reliant Sword and the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom would certainly not be kept safe.

Her own life, most likely, would not be kept safe either!

Huh!

Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom?

Zhou Zhiruo, thinking this far, suddenly recalled that when she had just obtained the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, its aura alone had eased her injuries somewhat.

That strange power had been dispelled quite a bit.

If she swallowed the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom whole, could she completely expel this strange power and recover her full strength?

But if she took the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, how would she complete the Chenciji Society mission?

While her mind was still conflicted, Watching Bi Xuan, amid wild laughter, drove the next ring of raging flames to attack.

This ring of raging flames was fiercer by several degrees, nearly seeming to swallow Zhou Zhiruo whole.

Zhou Zhiruo understood that this ring of raging flames, no matter what, she could not withstand.

Enough, enough!

According to the intelligence provided by the Great Ming court, there were three Heavenly Fragrance Cardamoms.

This one, though crucial, was not the only one.

If she did not take it, she would only let Watching Bi Xuan reap the benefit.

Once her mind was made up, Zhou Zhiruo swiftly took out the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom.

"Wait!"

"Huh? You're willing to hand over the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom and the divine weapon in your hand?"

Watching Bi Xuan, seeing this, could not help but rejoice greatly.

The offensive in his hands also slowed a little.

Taking this chance, Zhou Zhiruo tilted her head back and tossed the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom straight into her mouth.

"Ah? How dare you!"

Watching Bi Xuan, seeing Zhou Zhiruo swallow the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom rather than die, was so angry his scalp nearly burst,

"You wretched slave, how dare you act thus!

Today this old man will grind your bones and scatter your ashes, but he must still obtain the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom!"

Saying so, Watching Bi Xuan roused his whole body's true essence, drew on the nearby Heaven and Earth Prime Force, and drove this ring of raging flames to its utmost.

On the other side, the moment the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom entered her mouth.

The strange power that had been stagnating within Zhou Zhiruo's body, just as expected, melted away swiftly like warm spring snow, and was then expelled from her body.

Afterwards, the Nine Yin and Nine Yang true essence that had long been immovable gradually returned to Zhou Zhiruo's control.

"Hmph! Old fool, do you really think I was afraid of you?"

The moment her strength recovered, Zhou Zhiruo said to Watching Bi Xuan, full of contempt.

GLOSSARY:

Zhou Zhiruo, Mount Emei, Liu Ruofei, Xue Damo, Watching Bi Xuan, Great Ming, Qinglong Society, Chenciji Society, Biding Society

He then mobilized the Nine Yin true essence, channeling it into the Extinction Sword, and the Nine Yang true essence, channeling it into the Absolute Sword.

Then, using a joint-strike sword technique, he attacked directly.

"Rumble rumble rumble…"

Both of them were the elite among those in the Heavenly Being Realm.

It was just that Zhou Zhiruo held in her hands an immortal-grade Heaven's Reliance Sword!

Coupled with the Nine Yin true essence and the Nine Yang true essence — the former being true essence of the yielding, yin path, was truly the bane of yang-path attacks like the Blazing Yang Divine Art.

The latter being true essence of the firm, yang path, could instead absorb a great deal of the Blazing Yang Divine Art's attack, converting it into her own offensive force.

With one strike launched by Zhou Zhiruo, relying on the Heaven's Reliance Sword's uniqueness, and combined with Nine Yang and Nine Yin, she directly shattered this strike that Bi Xuan was determined to land.

Countless raging flames were no longer under Bi Xuan's control, scattering and drifting down.

Drawing rumbling roars, they set the entire Yunzhou Shaolin Damo Hall — standing for who knows how many years — ablaze.

The power of heaven and earth that Bi Xuan had manipulated scattered even more wildly.

Mingling into the raging flames, it caused the flames to explode outward.

787 Just what is her background?

Damo Hall was a sacred ground of Yunzhou Shaolin.

Yet because of this exchange between Bi Xuan and Zhou Zhiruo, the towering flames were ignited, and an explosion ensued.

Amid the thunderous roar, this Buddhist hall that had stood for untold years was reduced to flying ash in an instant.

The violent explosion and the rumbling sounds naturally drew the jianghu people still on the mountain, with every faction rushing over in unison.

Who would still care about any Tudao Assembly.

Earlier, in the front courtyard of Damo Hall, the battling Abbess Extinction, Gu Hongzi, and the three Gao Seng of the "Liao" generation.

When the explosion was about to begin, Abbess Extinction, because she was facing Damo Hall directly, noticed something strange.

Taking advantage of the moment when the three monks' attention was drawn by the commotion inside the hall, she and Gu Hongzi together, spotting an opening, fought their way out of the encirclement.

The three monks, on the other hand, bound by duty, were tasked with guarding Damo Hall.

Therefore, upon seeing Damo Hall catch fire, the three monks had no mind to bother with Abbess Extinction and her companion.

Watching the two break out of the encirclement, the three exchanged a glance, and instead of retreating they advanced, charging into Damo Hall instead.

They had just barely rushed into the great hall, not yet having discerned the situation within.

The towering flames immediately exploded outward; the three monks still tried to resist using their Yunzhou Shaolin divine skill.

Unfortunately, these flames were already a mishmash of the power of heaven and earth, originating from the Blazing Yang Divine Art of Bi Xuan, a Grand Yuan court-supplied expert.

They were then driven on by Zhou Zhiruo's Nine Yin and Nine Yang true essence, and then pried open into explosion by the Heaven's Reliance Sword.

These flames had long ceased to be ordinary, mortal flames.