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The giant bamboo staff swiftly minimized into less than a foot long as it followed Luo Qingwu’s finger. Its thickness was large enough for a normal grip and the whole thing appeared like the handle of a sword without its blade.

Luo Qingwu grabbed onto the bamboo staff with her left hand as she pointed it at the Shaoshang Swordmaster, who was pouncing towards her at full throttle.

The Seven Treasures Bamboo Fire Cane in her hands started to flicker with greenish flames. The dancing streaks of fire that raged concentrated into a blade above the tip of the staff that was only about a foot long.

Following the True Torch of Ksitigarbha, the Pure Yang Primordial Fire, the Grand Sun Primordial Fire and the Nanming Primordial Fire poured out one after another as they all respectively transformed into a foot-long blade that possessed varying colors. They connected in order and formed a blade that was four feet long in an instant.

A frightening and explosive power came out from within as the Shaoshang Swordmaster’s face changed.

One sword to pierce the heavens and seven divine edges – the Seven Fires Sky-Reaching Sword of the Great Four Appearances Saint-Slaying Sword!

It wasn’t vast or endless like the Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword and neither was it nimble and highly mutable like the Heavenly Wind Formless Sword. The pure explosiveness and offensive power of this sword was superior to the previous two.

Concentrating all seven primordial fires to form a seven-feet-long sword blade was the ultimate form of this sword. However, the number of primordial fires that could be contained within the Seven Treasures Bamboo Fire Cane was temporarily limited to four due to Luo Qingwu’s level of mastery.

Even so, this terrifying sword was enough to bewilder the Shaoshang Swordmaster.

He revealed his immortal soul avatar at once. His entire body transformed into a giant bronze sword that was about ten meters long and as wide as a door. It was as dense and heavy as it was fierce and overbearing. This form was complementary to the powerful sword radiance he had unleashed previously and made it even more powerful as he faced off against Luo Qingwu’s Seven Treasures Bamboo Fire Cane.

The Shaoshang Sword was known for its power and its ferocity and its defensive capabilities were not its forte. His only choice was to fight fire with fire for a chance of victory.

The sword radiance of the Shaoshang Sword was vast like a sky river and there was no end in sight. The four-feet-long Seven Fires Sky-Reaching Sword couldn’t even be compared on the same scale and appeared as tiny as a needle before it.

However, the moment both forces clashed, the green colors, the milky-white colors, the pure golden colors and the flickering red-blue colors and all the raging flames detonated all at once!

The roaring flames undulated and carried the power of annihilation. Under the direction of its acute sword mind, they transformed into a gargantuan sword that was even more fearsome than that of the Shaoshang Sword and clashed with the Shaoshang Sword’s sword radiance.

That blindingly brilliant sword radiance that flowed like a river in the sky was slashed in half by the colossal sword formed by flames between heaven and earth.

The sword radiance was blown into smithereens. The powerful and ferocious sword Qi shot outwards in all directions, but before they could truly extend, they were consumed by the sea of flames and annihilated.

There was only a sword mind unique to Luo Qingwu inside the violent flames. It was complementary to the raging fire and permeated the skies.

With a dull hum, the green-bronze giant sword formed by the Shaoshang Swordmaster’s immortal soul avatar struggled to break out from the sea of fire. However, the body of the sword was full of cracks that resembled a spider web.

Every crack appeared thin and miniscule, but they came together like the threads in fabric and made the giant and ferocious sword appear like a fragile porcelain item.

A wave of light flashed over the surface of the giant sword and the web-like cracks disappeared in an instant as the blade was reverted to normal.

However, the brilliant sword radiance that was on the body originally vanished as well. The entire sword suddenly seemed like it was old and decaying and was no longer sharp.

The Shaoshang Swordmaster returned to his human form and his face was as pale as paper. He no longer had the sparkle in his eyes as he looked at Luo Qingwu with a face of astonishment.

He was unambiguously defeated under the sword of this young girl after the Shaoze Swordmaster, and the swordplay of his opponent was completely different from the Heavenly Wind Formless Sword.

Luo Qingwu broke the speediest sword passage of Mount Shu with her nimble and extremely mutable Heavenly Wind Formless Sword. Then, she fought fire with fire and used the explosive and violent Seven Fires Bamboo Fire Cane to break the most ferocious sword passage of Mount Shu, the Shaoshang Sword!

Both the Shaoshang Swordmaster and the Shaoze Swordmaster glared at Luo Qingwu. The purple-robed girl standing before them appeared ever so casual as if she had no aura at all just revealed a sense of pride and dominance that came from within.

Beating her opponents at their own game!

This was the very same manner in which Lin Feng stepped into Mount Shu all those years ago and took on the various powerful cultivators from the Mount Shu Sword Sect. She took after her master.

“Little girl – are you trying to imitate your master and challenge the various swords of Mount Shu? It’s a pity because you don’t have your master’s kind of power.” A clean-looking middle-aged man revealed himself from within the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation and stared right at Luo Qingwu.

The sword Qi around his body was obscure and misty, feminine and mutable – it was the head swordmaster of the Grand Moon Sword Passage of the Mount Shu Six Passages of Sword, the Grand Moon Swordmaster.

Compared to the days of old, the eyes of the Grand Moon Swordmaster of today seemed a little insidious and gave off an ominous feeling.

After the previous Shaoshang Swordmaster was imprisoned inside the Celestial Sect of Wonders’ Heavenly Gods-Sealing Banner, and after the Shaoze Swordmaster and the Guanchong Swordmaster’s virtual entities were shattered into pieces, there were only three people left amongst the head swordmasters of the Mount Shu Six Passages of Sword who were still in the second-level immortal soul stage – the previous Shaoyang Swordmaster who took over the sect, Ji Wenrui, the Lixiong Swordmaster and the Grand Moon Swordmaster.

The Grand Moon Swordmaster stared at Luo Qingwu with a dark and chilly expression. Luo Qingwu was as calm as usual and said, “I cannot compare to my master, and neither can I compare to Xiao Yan. However, time waits for no man and I must do the best I can. Let’s battle.”

The Grand Moon Swordmaster’s eyebrows twitched as he heard her words.

In the days of the Anti-Celestial Sect War, during the situation inside Ethereal Mountain, he already had his virtual entity but was ultimately no match for Xiao Yan, who was only in the nascent soul advanced stage. Xiao Yan broke open his defenses with just one palm, and the Grand Moon Swordmaster took a blast from the Virtuous Zen Master’s Zen Light of Great Liberation.

If not for the fact that he possessed the sword Qi and sword mind of the supreme elder, Jie Luoshi, who was in the third-level immortal soul stage, he would have struggled to even escape from the fight.

Yet, the person standing before him now was another nascent soul advanced stage disciple under the direct mentorship of the leader of the Celestial Sect of Wonders.

The Grand Moon Swordmaster unleased his sword stance and the sword Qi and sword mind around his body transformed into sprawling patches of cloudy white mist. Tiny streaks of air that were thinner than hair layered upon one another inside this cloudy mist and spiraled in the air. There were so many that it was impossible to count as they intertwined with one another.

Every tiny strand was formed by the Grand Moon Swordmaster’s sword Qi and sword mind. They were as effeminate as it could be as they roamed the skies. They appeared like they had a mind of their and condensed together like mist.

The Grand Moon Swordmaster said coldly, “You’ve brought this upon youself today.”

As he spoke, the countless strands of air riled up like a thunderstorm and covered the entire sky as they crashed down towards Luo Qingwu.

Luo Qingwu unleashed the Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword once more as the enormous sea of black that had no end in sight blanketed over the innumerable air strands. That seawater that was the ultimate form of Yin, darkness and coldness was like the chilly netherworld as all the air strands that shot into it froze.

The black ocean transformed into uncountable streams at this moment. An equally numerous amount of sword minds concentrated together as they launched their own assault towards the Grand Moon Sword. The Grand Moon Swordmaster squinted his eyes as his expression became ever so glum and gloomy.

If he was only in the first-level immortal soul stage like the Shaoze Swordmaster and the Shaoshang Swordmaster, he probably would have been defeated by Luo Qingwu after this strike.

If they were still in the nascent soul advanced stage, the Grand Moon Swordmaster didn’t even dare to think what would happen if they faced off against Luo Qingwu.

He directed his sword as the air strands formed by the Grand Moon Sword became increasingly nimble and their volumes rose exponentially as well. One came after another as they appeared like they were going to trample all over Luo Qingwu’s Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword and the black ocean.

Luo Qingwu’s eyes sparkled. “A powerful second-level immortal soul stage sword cultivator after all.”

She swung the Xuanche Sword in her right hand as she withdrew the Seven Treasures Bamboo Fire Cane with her left hand. She began to cast another spell as a streak of icy-blue sword radiance lit up. It was dark and bleak while the vast black ocean glimmered with deathly white rays of light.

The rolling black tides paused momentarily before the entire body transformed into glaciers, and pale-white radiance flickered within the icy-blue glaciers.

The Nine Yin Vast Ocean Sword of the Great Four Appearances Saint-Slaying Sword was converted into the Ten Terrestrial Yin-Terminating Sword of the Heave-Given Six Unity Sword Mantra!

Two swords were combined into one as the chilly and bleak sword mind was unleashed. The icy-blue glaciers that were flickering with deathly white rays of light was converted into a colossal sword of ice that cut across the void in an instant and froze the air strands formed by the Grand Moon Sword into ice.

The air strands that were frozen became dust in the next moment and vanished into nothingness.

And then, the sword of ice broke apart and a single speck of red light arose from within like a phoenix and arrived before the Grand Moon Swordmaster in the blink of an eye and sent the coldest of chills up his spine.

The Eastern Young Yin Sword of the Heaven-Given Six Unity Sword Mantra!

Voluminous amounts of air strands concentrated between the Grand Moon Swordmaster’s eyebrows. They spiraled around swiftly as they intercepted the brilliant streak of red light.

The streak of red light pierced through these air strands continuously as they broke apart continuously. Newly formed air strands steadily replaced the ones that were dispelled and started to grind down the streak of red light.

The Grand Moon Swordmaster flew backwards at the first possible moment and fought against Luo Qingwu’s Eastern Young Yin Sword under the most perilous of circumstances.

However, the tip of Luo Qingwu’s sword rotated once and rays of pale-white lights started to dance in the sky. They resembled rivers after rivers of time, and anything that entered these rivers experienced a different concept of time. Time became fast and slow at different times and was unpredictable.

The Western Grand Yin Sword of the Heaven-Given Six Unity Sword Mantra.

The moment this move matched up against the Grand Moon Swordmaster’s Grand Moon Sword, the air strands that were initially completely under his control became a lot less agile and flexible.

The Grand Moon Swordmaster felt his eyes go cold as he switched his stance as well. The Grand Moon Sword passage transformed into the Shaoze Sword passage as he leapt out from the pale-white rays of light created by Luo Qingwu’s Western Grand Yin Sword.

He reverted to the Grand Moon Sword passage once more and continued his assault against Luo Qingwu.

Both parties switched between moves and stances as they came at one another again and again. Sword Qi and sword minds permeated the heavens as they surged through the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation.

Above the sword formation, the Tiangang Swordmaster and the Cang Ming Swordmaster were also at the climax of their battle. The Cang Ming Swordmaster was forced to draw a large amount of energy from the Saintly Celestial Primordial Sword Formation, and this reduced the pressure heaped upon Zhuge Zhan. Zhuge Zhan took this opportunity and unleashed a giant rainbow as he took Luo Qingwu and himself deeper into the sword formation.

The Shaoshang Swordmaster and the Shaoze Swordmaster garnered their remaining courage and followed closely in pursuit.

On their journey deeper into the sword formation, another streak of sword radiance lit up. It was dense and weighty – the Guanchong Swordmaster stood in the way, with the Guanchong Sword in hand.

Luo Qingwu’s eyes surveyed the Guanchong Swordmaster, the Shaoshang Swordmaster and the Shaoze Swordmaster. She took a deep breath as she gripped onto her sword tightly with her right hand, while she raised her left hand over her face and covered both of her eyes.