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Zhuge Zhan felt the flaring energies of the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation before him and the sharp radiance of sword minds as he turned towards Luo Qingwu. “I am at an impasse with the power of the sword formation, and nobody can do anything to the other. Even though you have yet to reach the immortal soul stage, your mantras and spells are far superior to other nascent soul stage cultivators and you might be able to achieve something. I will protect you against the pressure from the sword formation.”

Luo Qingwu nodded her head solemnly and said, “Big senior brother is already on his way. However, the situation can change at a moment’s notice and we might be overestimating ourselves. Still, I will have to try – thank you, Mister Zhuge.”

The moment the Saintly Celestial Sword was reborn, the outcome of the battle between the Tiangang Swordmaster and the Cang Ming Swordmaster would be difficult to predict.

Even though nobody knew how long was needed for the Saintly Celestial Sword to be re-forged, the sword Qi from the other sword sects like the Lightning Sword Sect and the Heavenly Master Sword Sect were still being continuously withdrawn. If the situation was allowed to continue, the losses would only become greater and greater.

This was on top of the fact that the Tiangang Swordmaster was no longer around the Southern Wilderness and he was away from the inter-world passageway. Zhu Yi was all by himself in the standoff against the Shen Dragon King. If the Shen Dragon King knew the truth, he would launch his own invasion without hesitation.

Luo Qingwu took a deep breath as lights started to flicker above her head and a giant light shadow appeared above her.

The giant figure was pure black all over, and it possessed four heads and eight limbs. All eight limbs reached deep into the void and triggered the Heaven, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Water, Fire, Mountain and Swamp – the Image of the Eight Trigrams.

The four heads were blurry, but there was single sword drifting in the void in front of every face.

One was formless like the rolling winds, another flared with raging flames while, yet another was flowing like water and the other was dense and weighty like the great earth beneath.

The giant figure was just standing there. The aura coming from it wasn’t sharp or intimidating, but it appeared to form a seamless harmony with heaven and earth.

It wasn’t like the Saintly Celestial Sword Qi, which used all beings under the sky as its blade, and it was dissimilar to the Heaven-Destroying Sword Qi either, which converted the Heaven and Earth Savage Energy into a sword.

The giant light shadow appeared as if all beings in the world could be used as a sword, but its own being wasn’t compatible with that concept. Instead, it formed a unique complementary existence with the world around it and coexisted in perfect harmony.

Specks of light sparkled silently in the middle of the brows of all four heads – they were chilly and isolated at the same time.

This giant was Luo Qingwu’s cosmic form, attained after she reached the nascent soul advanced stage.

The icy and dark Xuanche Sword appeared in Luo Qingwu’s pale-white hands. She directed using her sword tip and the sounds of roaring waves began to resonate between heaven and earth.

At the same time, one of the faces of the gigantic cosmic form and the sword that was hovering before it began to tremble.

Boundless patches of black burst about between heaven and earth and transformed into raging black tides that swept up Luo Qingwu and Zhuge Zhan forward.

That seawater was incredibly cold and dark, and was chilly to the bone, as if it was about to swallow all sources of light and was the ultimate form of Yin, darkness and coldness.

Countless numbers of enormous black ice swords with tips that resembled the summit of a mountain shot up from the sea of black. All of them exuded with icy sword Qi as they crashed forward like a with unstoppable force toward the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation.

The sword in front of Luo Qingwu’s cosmic form that was trembling like the raging tides started to dance in the void at this moment and produced a feeling of unique and rhythmic beauty.

Zhuge Zhan unleashed his own skills and spells as he faced off against the white light coming from the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation before he joined Luo Qingwu inside the endless black ocean and surged towards the deeper regions of the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation.

This was Luo Qingwu’s Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword of the Great Four Appearances Saint-Slaying Sword technique.

The icy black swords formed by the flowing black ocean took Luo Qingwu and Zhuge Zhan all the way forward and even deeper into the sword formation.

Zhuge Zhan glanced at Luo Qingwu with a surprised look and muttered under his breath, “This little girl…”

Even though he had been the Celestial Sect of Wonders’ honorary elder for a long time and had periods of interaction with Luo Qingwu before, Zhuge Zhan had never seen how this little girl looked like when she gave her all, and he was a little shocked now that he had seen it. “Even though I have long known that her spells and mantras are far superior to other nascent soul advanced stage cultivators, isn’t this a little too much?”

“It’s not the same as our sect leader’s Heaven-Destroying Sword Qi, and it’s not the same as Mount Shu’s swordplay either. It’s not the same as any swordplay in the world…”

Luo Qingwu continued to unleash the Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword as they pressed onward into the sword formation.

At this moment, lights flickered inside the sword formation as a flash of sword radiance surged across and stabbed toward Luo Qingwu.

The speed of the sword radiance was so swift that it appeared to transcend the laws of space and time. It arrived before Luo Qingwu in the blink of an eye.

The Shaoze Sword of the Mount Shu Sword Sect!

The person directing the sword was a scholarly-looking middle-aged man with a smile on his face. It was the Shaoze Swordmaster of the Mount Shu Six Passages of the Sword’s Shaoze Sword.

This elder had long reached the second-level immortal soul stage. However, during the Anti-Celestial Sect War, his virtual entity was shattered by Luo Qingwu and her senior, Shi Tianhao, and he regressed into the first-level immortal soul stage.

Even though he was still the leader of the Shaoze Sword Passage after recovering from his injuries and he was still the most powerful individual in his passage, it would take a long time before he could form the Virtual Entity once more.

There was a faint smile on his face, but that smile just seemed to strange as his scholarly features appeared even a bit contorted.

“The Saintly Celestial Sword is being re-forged. How can we let you interfere? How can we let anyone interfere?!” The Shaoze Swordmaster roared into the sky as his body quivered and the space all around started to twist out of proportion. The air layered onto one another as they enveloped Luo Qingwu and Zhuge Zhan.

These layered spaces were like a transparent wall and the surface of a mirror at the same time. The Shaoze Swordmaster’s figure appeared on this mirror surface, but his positioning and movement were obscure and hard to discern.

Luo Qingwu knew that the Shaoze Swordmaster was channeling the power of the Shaoze Sword to the highest possible level. This wasn’t something about the virtual and reality, but a high-level mantra that embodied a deep understanding of space and time.

He appeared like he was standing on multiple dimensional planes at the same time. This meant that anything was possible, but every single possibility was also reality.

Following the Shaoze Swordmaster’s exclamation, the multiple figures immediately slashed towards Luo Qingwu.

At the same time, the white lights coming from the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation grew ever so radiant as they pressured Zhuge Zhan, leaving him no quarter to take care of Luo Qingwu.

Zhuge Zhan furrowed his brows as he laughed coldly. The radiance around his body that resembled that of a rainbow changed all of a sudden and transformed into the brilliant and scorching Sun once more as it erupted in all directions and repelled the layers of white light.

He took this chance and hurriedly turned towards Luo Qingwu. Luo Qingwu was moving continuously as she channeled the Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword and took the two of them further into the sword formation. At the same time, she pointed the Xuanche Sword in her hands into the void.

Streaks of sharp and unforgiving gusts of wind shot out from the tip of her sword. These uncountable squalls continuously layered over one another and compressed together to form a dense existence – formlessness was converted into the brilliant Heavenly Wind Sword Radiance.

These Heavenly Wind Sword Radiances spiraled in the sky as they returned to their formlessness and phased in and out of the void, while they came together and dissipated continuously. The sword radiances were obscure and their movements unpredictable, they were formless yet they possessed a feeling of completion and a sharpness that could pierce through everything.

One sword to draw up mystical winds of the earth – the Heavenly Wind Formless Sword of the Great Four Appearances Saint-Slaying Sword.

Luo Qingwu was already channeling her abilities to the highest possible level and managed to attain eighty-one streaks of formless sword radiance – the Origin-Returning Formless Sword!

These sword radiances intertwined and surged across the skies. They were impossible to fathom and obscure, but seemed as if they were omnipresent and charged up the entire void.

The Shaoze Swordmaster’s attacks from all directions were completely blocked off by the formless sword radiances and he couldn’t move an inch closer.

The sword belonging to one of the faces of Luo Qingwu’s cosmic form above her head that seemed to be formed from formless gusts of wind started to dance in midair. It was singing harmoniously with the unfathomable and omnipresent formless sword radiances in the void.

The Shaoze Swordmaster felt a chill run up his spine as he heard Luo Qingwu mutter under her breath, “Break.”

Before her voice dropped, the formless sword radiances launched their own attack as eighty-one streaks of formless sword radiances combined into one at this moment yet appeared like they were spreading out into infinity – it was no longer possible to count.

At this moment, the Shaoze Swordmaster who appeared like he was part of innumerable worlds at once and whose movement was impossible to predict, felt the strike from the uncountable streaks of formless sword radiances at practically the same time.

The Shaoze Swordmaster grunted as he fell backwards, the layers of space that formed a barrier to block off Luo Qingwu and Zhuge Zhan started to crumble.

The crystal and transparent wall formed by the layers of space cracked like a shattered surface of ice.

Even the various images of the Shaoze Swordmaster started shattering one by one.

Every dimension broke apart along with his image. Between the shimmering images of the Shaoze Swordmaster, everything returned and combined back into one as his sword reappeared in his left hand – his right hand had been cut off at the wrist! Bursts of light erupted from his gaping wound like fresh blood.

The Shaoze Swordmaster looked up and glared at the purple-robed young girl before him. The Shaoze Swordmaster that he had practiced his entire life was beaten just like that – this made him both appalled and indignant at the same time.

He recognized this young girl to be the youngest disciple directly under Lin Feng’s wing. He knew that this girl was the most adept with swordplay compared to the rest of his disciples. However, he also knew that Luo Qingwu didn’t follow behind her master’s Heavenly-Destroying Sword Qi, the same entity that broke open Mount Shu.

More accurately put, Luo Qingwu practiced a kind of swordplay that was unique to herself, with the Heavenly Classic of the Way’s Virtues as the foundation and with the help of Lin Feng’s pointers.

If he lost to the Heaven-Destroying Sword Qi, the Shaoze Swordmaster would still be able to accept that fact. However, he was defeated by Luo Qingwu’s unique swordplay – an immortal soul stage cultivator lost to a nascent soul stage cultivator, and this made him even more dizzily furious.

“The Mount Shu Sword Sect’s swordplay will not be so easily humiliated. Don’t be too outrageous, little girl – take this strike!” An ear-splitting roar could be heard as a single streak of sword radiance slashed towards Luo Qingwu as if it could split open the skies.

Limitless levels of sword Qi and sword minds condensed together into a single streak of sword radiance that was at least ten thousand feet long. The streak of sword radiance was almost entirely material and seemed like a divine sword as it surged across the skies with incredible explosiveness and violence.

The Shaoshang Sword!

The original Shaoshang Swordmaster had been captured by Lin Feng and sent up the Heavenly Gods-Sealing Banner. The Shaoshang Swordmaster before Luo Qingwu was the newly appointed one afterwards. Even though he had yet to form the Virtual Entity, his mastery was already the highest amongst the other cultivators of Mount Shu’s Shaoshang Sword Passage.

At this point, he channeled the power of his sword to the highest possible level as he lunged towards Luo Qingwu furiously.

Luo Qingwu looked up at him and said plainly, “Even though you guys have been defeated by my master before, I have always been rather respectful towards Mount Shu’s swordplay. However, people like you don’t belong in the list.”

As she spoke, she gripped the Xuanche Sword with her right hand as she waved her left hand and a bamboo staff shimmered in the sky.