Though Chaotian couldn't share the same winter and summer, they could share the same sunset glow, though it was a fake sunset glow.
Countless sword wills danced and traveled in the square of the royal palace toward the outside of the city, cutting the spring sunlight falling down from the sky into pieces and refracting it into a warmer, fiery light.
In the center of the fake sunset glow, Ping Yong-Ka sat on the ground with his eyes closed, his face ashen. Every part of his body was trembling incessantly.
Every time his body trembled, a pure and sharp sword will would come out.
Standing in front of the grand hall and watching the scene, Apiao's face was even paler than Jing Jiu's. The black hair in front of her forehead tousled in the wind, and her voice trembled slightly.
"What the hell are you doing? You are risking your life … "
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The Great Formation of the royal palace had already been activated, pressing down on the old plum garden like a real mountain.
A violent wind whipped up on the street outside the old plum garden. The owners of the chess stalls fled in all directions, crying and screaming, not knowing what was going on.
Standing by the lakeside, Liu Shisui looked at the old nunnery on the other side of the bridge, his body trembling slightly, his feet sinking into the ground.
The Lone Sword left his wrist and shot into the nunnery after turning into a flash of silvery light; but it didn't sever the connection with him. He could sense what the Lone Sword was doing, and he knew it was the Sword Formation of Slaying Fairies set up by his Young Master. But … whom did Gu Qing and Ping Yong-Ka intend to kill?
Thinking of all this, Jing Jiu crossed his arms in front of his face and took a step toward the bridge.
The bridge collapsed after one step. Then, countless cracking sounds rang out, and innumerable sparks appeared on his arms.
The sword wills of the Sword Formation of Slaying Fairies were too powerful. Crushed by the Great Formation of the royal palace, the sword wills were like real flying swords, able to cut everything in their path to pieces easily.
In an instant, the cloth on Liu Shisui's arms was torn to shreds. In the next moment, the cloth on his body was torn apart in many places.
It was then that he suddenly heard a gloomy and brutal shriek in the sky. In the next moment, he saw two shadows landing on the surface of the lake.
The Dark Phoenix descended from the sky, spreading his wings as dark as the night. The tail feathers of more than one hundred feet long turned into a real sword. He broke through the Great Formation of the royal palace by force and flew toward the old plum garden.
Liu Shisui was well aware of how powerful this Aoyama's defense was. He drew back his arms and held the Guard-City Pen in his sleeve with his right hand. As he was about to wield it, he suddenly sensed a dark energy coming from the west of the city … As expected, the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect had come to Zhaoge City.
The sound of chanting came from outside the old plum garden. Countless petals appeared in the sky, and a beam of light appeared in the rain of petals.
The beam of light was actually made up of dozens of light rays. It looked like a cage, locking the Dark Phoenix in the sky.
The Dark Phoenix let out an angry shriek as he attempted to break through those rays of light. Along with a sizzling sound, the colorful feathers gave off green smoke, bringing him extreme pain.
But how could pain stop it!?
The Dark Phoenix kept on crashing into those rays of light along with the increasingly frenzied whistling.
Boom!!! The whole of Zhaoge City could hear the sound of the Dark Phoenix and sense the dreadful quakes in the sky. The people came out of the room in terror. They couldn't help but scream in terror when they saw the huge bird dashing in the beam of light.
The people outside the old plum garden had fled a long time ago. Countless Go boards were lying on the ground, broken into pieces, and the Go pieces were scattered everywhere.
Zen Master stood in the middle of the black and white Go pieces, stepping on a Go piece barefoot. He held a light mirror in his right hand and pointed it at the sky.
The surface of the light mirror had many complicated patterns on it, and many scripts were carved on it. It was getting brighter and brighter, emitting countless rays of light that reached the sky.
As the Dark Phoenix dashed wildly, the light mirror was flickering. Zen Master's face looked a bit pale, as he said helplessly, "It's not enough to keep an eye on you, and now I have to keep an eye on your child. Why?"
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The Dark Phoenix was fixed in the sky by Zen Master's light mirror. Liu Shisui of course knew what to do. He punched the ground without hesitation, and the black and red demonic flames rose up as he escaped underground. Soon, he arrived in the west of the city.
The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect was drinking wine in the pavilion in the west of the city. He held a small ceramic cup in his left hand, and fiddled with the round Heavenly Retrieval Orb in his right hand, looking quite relaxed.
As the demonic grandmaster of the deviant sects, it was a bit inconvenient for him to enter Zhaoge City. For the sake of safety, he had been guarding outside the city the entire day.
The Zhongzhou School wouldn't care about what was going to happen today. The Aoyama Sect would have a significant event that day, and the truly powerful figures in the Cultivation circle were not here. Taiping Zhenren, the Dark Phoenix, and him … With such a lineup, it was possible for them to take down Zhaoge City; there was nothing to worry about.
There was a small river not far from the pavilion. The water suddenly boiled, and Liu Shisui leaped out of the water and landed on the bank of the river. The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect found that the newcomer had an extraordinary Cultivation state despite his young age. He was a bit surprised, but he wasn't worried at all. He put down the wine cup in his left hand and slapped at Liu Shisui with his palm, ready to slap him to death.
The violent wind whistled, and the pavilion collapsed. The sunlight in the sky dimmed abruptly. A black palm the size of a Buddhist hall appeared out of nowhere, heading toward Liu Shisui's head.
Liu Shisui had come to the west of the city prepared. He didn't use any of the sword styles of the Aoyama Sect, the Buddhist methods of the Guocheng Temple, or the secret methods of the Bloody Demon Church. He merely relied on the righteous energy of Yimaozhai in his chest … to wield the City-Guard Pen.
Whoosh!!!! The sound was like a gust of wind blowing over the woods, or like a piece of paper being fanned by a naughty child. The water in the river shot up like a waterfall, and a rainbow emerged from the water droplets, heading toward the huge black palm.
The huge black palm suddenly broke into pieces, and the rainbow created by the City-Guard Pen also broke into pieces. The huge wind was still howling.
Liu Shisui's body flew toward Zhaoge City a few miles away like a kite with a broken string.
A few seconds later, he crashed heavily against the city wall with a dull thud. Fortunately, he didn't suffer any irreparable injury. However, the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect was a formidable figure. The seemingly casual palm strike actually contained endless killing intent. The remaining power was endless, and the shapeless force continued to fly toward Liu Shisui's body along with the wind.
The willow trees on the city wall dimmed slightly, but the greenery became darker.
A figure darted out from the willow and grabbed Liu Shisui's left arm. Before the shapeless palm could land on him, the figure leaped a hundred feet away.
Boom!!! Even though the Great Formation of the royal palace had been activated and the city wall of Zhaoge City was as hard as metal and stone, a deep palm print was left on it. The surface of the bricks within a hundred feet were all crushed into powder. If the palm had landed on Liu Shisui, he would have been severely wounded even if he didn't die.
"He didn't die?"
The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect was a bit surprised. He took a look at the Retrieved Heavenly Orb in his right hand and thought of the Immortal's instruction. He swallowed the orb and arrived in front of the city wall in one step.
The person who had darted out from the willow tree was affected by the palm wind. His conical hat was broken into pieces, exposing his green face.
"What a filial grandson …" the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect said to Su Ziye with a smile.
Su Ziye flashed a humble smile at the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect, saying, "Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect, please spare this humble one."
The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect sneered. Two jets of white devil fire shot out from his nostrils, shooting toward Liu Shisui and Su Ziye like sharp arrows.
Su Ziye turned around and fled after letting out a weird scream.
Liu Shisui took out a fan from his sleeve and waved it toward the white devil fire.
The violent wind kicked up, and the willow tree branches were broken into pieces. The devil fire was slowed down by the wind.
In the next moment, another rainbow shot out and created a passage in the white devil fire, heading toward the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect.
The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect waved his palm with a grave expression and shattered the rainbow, saying, "Kid, your Cultivation state is not bad; but how come you have so many treasures?"
Liu Shisui remained silent. He adjusted his energy in secret, ready to employ the City-Guard Pen again.
After one hundred years of hard work, his righteous energy of a gentleman had become extremely pure and powerful; it was no longer the same as before, when he could exhaust Zhen Yuan with only one stroke.
A white hair suddenly drifted down in front of the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect. He touched the sparse hair on his head and shouted angrily, "Go to hell!"
Along with this angry shout, dozens of hairs on his head stood up like thorns, and a gloomy but not gloomy and cold energy came out from his clothes. The energy condensed in the water and turned into countless ghost fires, heading toward Liu Shisui at a crazy pace.
There was a white bony face in front of each ghost fire, looking extremely horrifying. It was the long-lost method of the Mysterious Dark Sect: the Ten-Thousand Souls Biting Bones.
Without hesitation, Liu Shisui wielded the City-Guard Pen again. If it was only the Path of Morality brought out by the City-Guard Pen, it would not have been enough to stop such a large number of will-o '-the-wisps. However, what was surprising was that the straight lines drawn by the City-Guard Pen formed a sword formation in front of Chaoge City!
He employed the Inherited Heaven Sword style with the City-Guard Pen!
Seeing this, the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect had a slightly changed expression on his face, as he commented, "Not bad."
Even if it was not bad, it was merely not bad.
No matter how talented Liu Shisui was, how strange his encounters were, how many treasures he had, and how many sects he came from, he was no match for this deviant grandmaster no matter how talented he was.
A moment later, the Inherited Heaven Sword Formation drawn by the City-Guard Pen couldn't hold on any longer. Ghosts cried in front of Zhaoge City, and heaven and earth changed color.
Seeing those horrifying white bony faces approaching, Liu Shisui's face grew paler. It was because Zhen Yuan had consumed too much energy, not because he was scared.
"Why can't you just run away?!"
With an angry yell, Su Ziye returned to the front of the city wall.
The White Flame Devil Fire that had chased after him had been extinguished by some unknown method.
It was then that the ghost fires in the sky of the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect arrived in front of the city wall.
Su Ziye let out a grunt, an eerie glow appearing on his green face, as if he had turned into a malicious ghost, biting at the ghost fires!
In a few seconds, dozens of ghost fires had been swallowed by him.
"Not bad, not bad. You are indeed the hope of our sect's revival."
The Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect laughed out loud, waving his sleeve slightly. He would look like an immortal if not for his spiky hair.
As he waved his sleeve slightly, the ghost fires in the sky grew more formidable, and they were on the verge of swallowing Liu Shisui and Su Ziye.
"Release your fire," said Liu Shisui all of a sudden.
Though the Mysterious Dark Sect had the word "yin" in its name, they practiced the magic method of the fire. Su Ziye was born in the Scorching Sun Gorge, and he was a rare genius of the Mysterious Dark Sect, so he was good at this method. He didn't understand what Liu Shisui meant, but he ignited his own ghost fires without hesitation.
Liu Shisui took out the fan again, and fanned his burning palm.
Boom!!!
Two seas of fire appeared in front of Zhaoge City.
One sea of fire was full of white bony faces.
The other sea of fire was full of gloomy and cold wind.
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The nunnery hall was already shattered.
The wooden bridge was also shattered.
The plum forest was also shattered.
Even the lake was a few feet shallower. It wasn't because the lake water had flowed into the ground, but because the water had been compressed into something heavier than ice.
The Great Formation of the royal palace had been strengthened by a few major sects over a hundred years, and was much more powerful than before.
Kneeling on the ground, Gu Qing was covered in blood, and many of his bones were broken. He couldn't withstand the pressure of the Great Formation of the royal palace, and could die at any moment.
Yet, he was still staring at Yin San. He held the Thoughtless Sword Rope in his right hand and the Sword of the Universe in his left hand, supporting the Sword Formation of Slaying Fairies to prevent Yin San from coming over.
Sensing the commotion in the west of the city, Yin San curled up the corners of his mouth, flashing an appreciative smile, saying, "They are indeed a group of lovely young people."
His appreciation was genuine, and so was his evaluation of them as lovely.
Yin San liked these young people very much.
These young people dared oppose such a powerful senior.
Even though they would fail in the end, they were still formidable enough.
Unfortunately, these young people were Jing Jiu's disciples, not his.
Yin San sighed. He had finally moved his body.
As he moved, there were many residual shadows, and his red cloth was as red as blood.
The bloody shadows condensed into a sword shadow, which broke through the defense of the Sword Formation of Slaying Fairies soundlessly and pierced toward the center of Gu Qing's eyebrows.
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The sunset glow in Zhaoge City and Aoyama was fake that day, so it was hard to determine the time by the sunlight.
It was unclear what time it was exactly.
Perhaps it was when Zhao Layue pointed her finger at Fang Jingtian, or when Gu Qing broke the seventh bone, or when Liu Shisui spat out the third mouthful of blood, or when Xiao He had just finished shaving the last mouthful of tofu rice in her bowl.
Jing Jiu opened his eyes and woke up.
Countless sword lights appeared in the deep end of his eyes, and then dispersed into specks of golden light, disappearing into the calm lake in the end.
Jing Jiu got up and walked toward the outside of the study room. After glancing at the spot where the begonia tree should be, he asked, "Where is it?"
Everything happened so naturally, as if he hadn't slept for one hundred years, and as if he had woken up a long time ago.
The Blue Bird on the eaves said in the human language, "The old plum garden."
A surprised scream suddenly burst out behind him.
Jing Jiu turned around and saw Xiao He. He nodded to her, and then disappeared from the original spot.
Xiao He's hands loosened, and the rice bowl fell onto the stone steps and broke into pieces. Fortunately, the rice in the bowl was finished.
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