Zhu Youmu's flurry of actions had achieved nothing, but instead left him in a disheveled panic.
He let out a muffled grunt and swiftly changed his hand signs, releasing the Buddhist sect's mightiest Boluo Divine Flame. The golden Buddha Fire merged into the Sandalwood Buddha Light, bolstering the ferocity of the flame with the brilliance of the light. The mingled radiance surged like golden tides, assaulting the Five-Colored Arch once more.
The others realized that relying solely on his power was insufficient to break the enemy's Immortal Array and began to unleash their own Flying Swords and Magical Treasures.
Shi Feiyang had already completed setting up the Immortal Array. From the Five-Colored Arch to his newly constructed Xuanyuan Hall, streams of colorful radiance surged like a sea of light, deflecting all the attacking spells from those people.
He focused solely on defense, using the Array to resist all assaults, and only attacked when the enemy unleashed something mighty like the Vajra Giant Spirit God Palm or a significant killing Magical Treasure.
After more than two hours of standoff, the opponents still couldn't breach the defenses, and the Five-Colored Arch continued to shimmer brightly, dazzling to behold.
Meanwhile, Jiang Xuejun led another group flying in from the west, opting for an indirect attack. Guided by Xuan Shu, they infiltrated from the rear of Qiao Mountain using an Escape Skill.
Having cultivated for many years on Qiao Mountain, Xuan Shu's dwelling was in an extremely hidden part of the rear mountain.
Her Escape Skill was truly miraculous; upon activation, her body was enveloped with a protective Gang Sha Qi. When released, the earth and stone would part like water, creating a passage, and then restore seamlessly behind her, leaving not a trace of disturbance, not even changing the original layers of soil.
Using this skill, she had previously penetrated the inner regions of Qiao Mountain and the Holy Mausoleum. However, the ancient Prohibition Techniques, laid by the thirty-six ministers who ascended with the Yellow Emperor, were still in effect. Even a Heavenly Immortal venturing within would face certain death, so she dared not venture toward the core. Having briefly explored the peripheries of the corridors, she was so frightened that she hastily retreated, not daring to delve deeply.
On this occasion, she once again led Jiang Xuejun and the others back to her abode, before carving a path with her Escape Skill. They tunneled through the mountain, bypassing the Holy Mausoleum, taking a wide detour, and finally emerged beside Shi Feiyang's newly erected Xuanyuan Hall.
Suddenly, the ground split open, and a dozen people burst forth. Jiang Xuejun flew into the air and, seeing Shi Feiyang sitting on a jade-tiled platform, engaged in a duel with the likes of Zhu Youmu outside. Amid the tumultuous thunder and the dazzling array of rainbow lights, she twisted her body and released a cyan and a red sword light straight towards Shi Feiyang.
Shi Feiyang stretched out his hand and emitted a Five Finger Divine Light to meet her Flying Sword. In addition to her, there was Xuan Shu, Chen Yufeng, Master Su Yin, Dragon Slayer, Yi Jing, Yang Jin, and others—all released their Flying Sword Magical Treasures, directing their assault at Shi Feiyang.
Out of this group, Jiang Xuejun possessed the greatest cultivation, with Yang Jin being the least proficient. Nevertheless, each Flying Sword Magical Treasure they wielded was a rare and valuable treasure. Aside from Jiang Xuejun's two Immortal Swords, there was the Dragon Slayer's Dragon Slayer Saber, Yang Jin's Prajnaparamita Saber, Yi Jing's Anan Sword, and more, mingled with other Magical Treasures such as the Kanli Shuttle, the Purple Gold Shuttle, the Five Fire Sumeru Needle, and the Demonic Destruction Moon Crossbow firing the Scattering Light Pills—all sorts of Magical Treasures and Divine Thunders.
As these attacks rained down in one fell swoop, Shi Feiyang's Five Finger Divine Light couldn't hold back the onslaught. The vanguard of his five-colored Light Energy began to dissipate, steadily retracting.
Jiang Xuejun thought to herself that this demon wasn't all that impressive after all, and then raised her hand to unleash the Heavenly Dragon Scissors bestowed upon her by Yan Yingmu.
In the Shushan World, there were many Magical Treasure scissors, like Bing Rong's Red Flood Dragon Scissors, the Golden Needle Saint Mother's Double Dragon Scissors, and Divine Camel Yi Xiu's Black Dragon Scissors. Right then, Yang Jin unleashed the True Essence Scissors. The power of these scissors varied greatly, but overall, they were formidable - their minimum power was high. Upon encountering an adversary, they were thrown and clamped, slicing their target in two.
However, none of these scissors compared to the Heavenly Dragon Scissors crafted by Yan Yingmu. Once released, they transformed into two dragons, one gold and one jade, which intertwined and cut fiercely. With this treasure, she had managed to fight Tian Can and Di Que single-handedly without being overwhelmed in the original story. The appearance of the divine dragons radiated tremendous dragon might, accompanied by dragon roars, and they swooped down, intending to cleave Shi Feiyang in half!
Shi Feiyang had already summoned the Circulation Hunyuan Umbrella, a treasure he had acquired from the Tie San, which had undergone numerous refinements and was now far more powerful than before. Ascending into the air, it transformed into a vast cloud of five-colored light, lifting the twin dragons. The scissors futilely twisted and turned upon the colorful radiance, unable to strike down.
Then, Shi Feiyang pointed his finger, and the divine symbols on the umbrella burst forth in brilliance, forming a golden light screen that shone into the sky like a light funnel, wide at the bottom and narrowing at the top. It captured everyone attacking him, and as he cast, the umbrella whirled them all into a frenzy. In but a moment, they made three thousand six hundred spins, completing a full Circulation, then another Circulation. Soon, there were fewer and fewer coherent people left...
His treasure could emit Nine Heavens Divine Light, trapping people within it. As it spun, time and space became chaotic inside. With each revolution, the people inside aged a year. After three hundred sixty spins, they experienced an ordeal. Three thousand six hundred spins signified ten ordeals, where they faced countless cycles of birth and death, all manner of disasters—all were extracted and pieced together from the actual memories of the individuals affected, plunging them into confusion and getting them lost in distorted timelines in the blink of an eye.
This technique was exceptionally effective against minor factions whose resolve faltered quickly, causing them to become disoriented and unstable, much like flies sprayed with insecticide tumbling from the sky.
Thankfully for the Dragon Slayer, who had suffered a major setback in the Star Constellations Sea, she returned to the Poison Dragon Reef of the East Sea, where her master, the Xin Ru Nun, had imparted to her many new Magical Treasures and Divine Talismans.
The Xin Ru Nun, originally named Xin Ruyu, was one of the Cosmic Six Strange during the Eastern Jin dynasty. With a volatile temperament, she recognized no authority, challenging the heads of the Orthodox Sect, fringe factions, and Demon Cult one by one to duels at the slightest grievance.
Later, she arranged a fight with the Stone God Palace Master from the Demon Cult, setting a time and a place to have a proper battle. However, on her way there, she met a high monk who enlightened her to the ways of Buddhism. She experienced a profound realization and converted to Buddhism, shaving her head and leaving her home to become a nun. She no longer engaged in duels with others, and to atone for her past combative nature, she specifically traveled to Julu Island at the junction of the two seas in the northeast, to meditate amidst the Poison Dragon Reef.
The Poison Dragon Reef was not a pleasant place; it sat atop a large volcano. The rocks on the reef were all saturated with deadly poison, surrounded by a multitude of poison dragons. The winds and waves were ferocious all year round, and the place was shrouded in a gloomy haze. Here, she suppressed the volcano and neutralized the poison stones for over a thousand years...
She surmised that the Dragon Slayer, with her straightforward and strong-willed nature, would face many hardships in the future and gave her numerous Spirit Talismans to use against enemies.
The Dragon Slayer was originally cultivating the Nine Heaven Mysterious Scripture with Master Changmei at Emei Sect. Later, she went on to study the Great Buddhist Techniques with Xin Ru Nun. If it weren't for some flaws in her character, she would have already achieved enlightenment.
She was already highly advanced in her cultivation and possessed the Dragon Subduing Pearl. Over the years, she had refined it with Buddhist methods, and it had become incredibly powerful. When she invoked it to hover above her head, she settled into a meditative lotus position in mid-air, and it stabilized her in the spinning rotation.
Under her leadership, she emitted Buddha Light, and Chen Yufeng reacted the fastest, releasing the Separation and Reunion Divine Light that merged with her light, also stabilizing her physical and spiritual form.
They were like islands amidst the terrifying ocean waves, timely in their actions to rescue their companions lost and disoriented in the luminescence. Su Yin had followed Master You Tan for many years in the study of Buddhist Law, and at this time, he had not been thrown into chaos or knocked unconscious, but once pulled into the golden light barrier, even he was nauseated and vomiting severely. The goddess Yi Jing fainted straight away, her body lying unconscious, while her consciousness fell into various horrific hellish visions, as if trapped in a never-ending and extremely terrifying nightmare without external guidance to awaken!
Among these people, Yang Jin had the least cultivation effort, but the Magical Treasures she employed were of the highest quality, especially the Dharma Flower Vajra Wheel. It was a Mountain Treasure formerly belonging to Master Fen Tuo. Once she released it, it created a protective barrier around her, impervious to all evil, and when used to attack, it could crush and envelope an enemy, instantly grinding them to dust.
Jiang Xuejun was highly capable in her mana, and the Magical Treasures she carried were of excellent quality. She managed to stabilize her form and spirit despite waves upon waves of Circulation Divine Light, though it left her frustrated and nearly driven to madness.
It was only upon reaching this place that she realized Shi Feiyang's incredible power and put away her contempt, choosing to unleash a Qiantian Taiyin Soundless Divine Thunder.
With her level of skill, she was not able to cast the Thunder Skill barehanded. The Thunder Pearls she used had been previously refined by Yan Yingmu and bestowed upon her. Ying Mu's Daoist power far exceeded that of an ordinary Heavenly Immortal, and each Thunder Pearl she refined bore infinite power. In the original text, with these Thunders, she shattered Deng Yin's painstakingly forged top blood flames, forcing the Blood Spirit to flee in terror, all within a wave of her hand.
The Soundless Divine Thunder, silent as it was cast, possessed enormous might. Once the golden lightning burst forth, the multi-colored radiance on the Hunyuan Umbrella was instantly scattered, and the treasure shook violently, becoming nearly impossible to control.
At that moment, Jiang Xuejun unleashed another Divine Talisman, which transformed into a golden hand as large as a small mountain from the sky, intending to seize the opportunity and snatch the Hunyuan Umbrella away!
This was another Divine Talisman Yan Yingmu had prepared in advance for her disciple. When she released the giant golden hand, its power was comparable to Fen Tuo old nun's Vajra Sumeru Hand, second only to Bai Mei Zen Master's Vajra Giant Spirit God Palm.
Shi Feiyang also realized that if the Hunyuan Umbrella were seized, it would indeed be taken from him. Therefore, he retracted the umbrella and instead invoked Suiren's Drill, sending a colorful flying spike directly into the palm of the giant golden hand, shattering its energy and exploding it into a large mass of five-colored light flames.
Shi Feiyang used an Array to keep Zhu Youmu outside, intentionally not preventing Jiang Xuejun and her group from entering, wanting to teach them a lesson.
This duel of spells was lightning-fast and dazzling, leaving no time for the onlookers to catch their breath. As the five-colored light flames in the sky had yet to dissipate, Jiang Xuejun sent down two Flying Swords and a pair of Double Dragon Scissors.
Shi Feiyang originally had some ultimate moves up his sleeve that he did not wish to use. They wanted to drive Shi Feiyang away, and he only wanted to drive them off. Seeing her so foolhardy, he released the Nine Heavenly Demon Slaying Immortal Swords.
Once the nine swords were unleashed, the world seemed to change colors, and nine pale red Blood Rainbows shot straight into the sky. Every three swords would intercept a Heavenly Dragon, six swords entangled with the Double Dragon Scissors, and the remaining three confronted Jiang Xuejun's Flying Swords.
Jiang Xuejun was thrilled to see the opponent using the Flying Swords in this way, for her treasure sword was specifically designed to sever the Flying Sword Magical Treasures of her enemies. If the enemy employed swordsmanship from the side, they could still avoid trouble, but daring to send it in between the Double Dragons, she just needed to close them together, and they would be instantly snipped in two!
She spat out golden light, pointed with her hand, and as the Heavenly Dragon Scissors merged, they instantly snipped the six Demon Swords into pieces, filling her with delight: "What's this about the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword scaring everyone in the world? It's nothing after all!" She was reveling in her success when suddenly the Yingmu Divine Talisman she wore on her chest heated up and emitted light, forming a golden sphere that enveloped her.
Three Demon Swords had already penetrated the sphere, thrusting straight at her. Jiang Xuejun let out a scream, hastily unleashing another Soundless Divine Thunder and attempting to summon her Flying Sword back to her so she could merge with it and flee. However, she realized her Flying Sword did not respond and could only control her escape light to fly backward.
She flew far away before stabilizing, then concentrated and looked again.
The Double Dragon Scissors were still entangled with the six Demon Swords. What she had seen earlier, the Demon Swords being snipped into pieces, was an illusion. Her own two Flying Swords, which she had nurtured for hundreds of years, had already been shredded by the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword. The three Demon Swords that followed almost struck her, and had the Yingmu Divine Talisman not automatically protected her, she would have already been chopped into four pieces, with her Primordial Spirit sucked into the swords!
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