A giant sword hung in the air, showing a tendency to slowly sink downward.
Above the sword hilt, Meng Po floated upright, casting a sidelong glance at the throbbing position on the ground. A cold snort exploded in the air, “Trying to run?”
The man suddenly crashed into the rear end of the sword hilt like a meteor.
Boom! It was like thunder rolling down from the nine heavens.
The giant sword whistled as it descended from the sky. Meng Po stood at the rear of the sword hilt, constantly casting spells to push the giant sword to accelerate its impact. The falling speed of the giant sword grew faster and faster, faster and faster. Such a massive object finally became a mere phantom.
Three heads emerged one after another on the lake surface, some closer to shore and some farther away. They were precisely Yu Qing and his two brothers.
When Meng Po and Xiang Lanxuan smashed through the ground, the violent storm they raised blew the three people who had been lying on the ground pretending to be “filling” flying out, tossing them into the lake along with a pile of rubbish.
The three involuntarily took a bath, subconsciously popping their heads up to see what was happening.
They saw the scene of Meng Po drawing endless dust up to the heavens, saw the dust that swept up into the sky condense into a giant sword in the firmament, and now saw the giant sword smash toward the earth like a phantom.
Boom crash!
The giant sword was like ten thousand jun of thunder, instantly sinking into the ground. The dust shockwave rushed in all directions in an instant.
Meng Po stood steadily on the ground, his clothes fluttering in the wind. Situated at the blast centre, he was instead not disturbed by any dust. He turned his head to look at the small insect crouching on his shoulder, and Big Head also turned its head to look at him.
Xiang Lanxuan swung her sleeve. The shockwave hit her body, rippled once, and flowed around her.
“Ah…” A shrill scream emerged from the underground fissures, as though coming from a ghost in the abyss, then was submerged and drowned by the shockwave’s noise.
Tian Yu, who had already floated into the air, raised his sleeve to cover his face and turned sideways, allowing the shockwave carrying flying sand and rolling stones to brush past his body.
The three Yu Qing were stunned. Was this the strength of the legendary High Xuan realm? It was actually so terrifying!
It was the first time the three had witnessed someone of this realm taking action. It was truly an eye-opening experience, their eyes full of envy. They did not know what year or month they themselves might possess such earth-shaking cultivation.
Seeing the devastating shockwave approaching, the three were frightened and quickly dived into the water. They suddenly discovered the underwater noise was extremely loud. The sharp, chaotic sounds nearly pierced their eardrums, forcing them to cover their ears with both hands. They also saw large quantities of bubbles surging up from the silt at the bottom, followed by raging waves that tossed the three of them floating and sinking away.
The shockwave quickly passed, but the ground still trembled with faint, mist-like dust.
On this stretch of grassland, as far as the eye could see, there was almost not a single blade of grass. The ground also showed large areas of collapse.
Suddenly the ground rang out with continuous bangs. Earth and stone exploded, and massive tentacles broke through the ground. Large plots of land overturned, and the massive creature that had drilled underground burst out again.
The underground hollows had completely collapsed, blocked everywhere. It had been buried alive underground. If it did not come out, there would be no way out.
No wounds could be seen on the massive creature’s body, but its size had clearly shrunk considerably.
Finally forced out. Meng Po and Xiang Lanxuan, standing on the ground, also looked up and saw the person adhered to the large fleshy disc above. Only then did the two have certain suspicions.
They had never seen what Yun Xi in the Jian Yuan Mountain ancient tomb looked like, but they had heard of her.
Xiang Lanxuan cast her voice toward the person ahead with a spell and spoke aloud, “This creature seems similar to the one in the Jian Yuan Mountain ancient tomb. Could it be the same kind of thing?”
Meng Po snorted, “The Yun Xi in the tomb originally came from Little Cloud Space. It is no surprise that there are similar creatures in Little Cloud Space. This creature is presumably the ‘mountain guardian beast’ of Little Cloud Space. I did not expect its strength to be merely so-so, far inferior to those in the Sea Market!”
Xiang Lanxuan slightly raised an eyebrow. Whether its strength was strong or not was not important. The key was how many secrets of Little Cloud Space this creature knew.
The Yun Xi on the large fleshy disc had already fixed her eyes on the two people below. Countless massive tentacles on her body spread out like a hedgehog. With a twist of her body she began to spin, instantly creating a scene like wind rising and clouds surging. Her volume was truly too enormous.
Moreover, the rotation speed grew faster and faster. The momentum of those countless massive tentacles whipping about was simply terrifying. Even a mountain swept by them would likely be left in ruins.
The spinning massive creature pressed down toward the two people on the ground.
“Chirp chirp chirp.”
Big Head, crouching on Meng Po’s shoulder, let out a resonant chirp.
Meng Po turned his head to glance at it, rather surprised. He discovered this little fellow was quite bold, not afraid at all upon seeing such a monster.
Bang! He suddenly stomped one foot, making the ground tremble three times. The ground behind him collapsed in a large area. Amidst the pervasive dust, a sudden whooshing sound burst out.
What burst out from underground were flying swords, earth-yellow in colour, about twice the size of ordinary heavy swords.
A few, then dozens, then hundreds, then thousands upon thousands, then countless. Dense, innumerable flying swords poured out endlessly from underground.
Facing the massive creature pressing down upon him, Meng Po stood unmoving in his original position. He established his life with his body, controlled the law with his heart. The surging sword cloud behind him suddenly shot forth like a circling dragon, rushing toward the spinning, pressing massive creature with an unending “whoosh whoosh whoosh” momentum.
The spinning massive attack force constantly smashed the sword rain into exploding dust.
The dust in the howling strong wind did not scatter in all directions. Instead, it drifted back to behind Meng Po like flowing cloud ribbons, once again condensing into flying swords, once again joining the sword rain’s attack. This cycle repeated unceasingly, the offensive momentum endless.
Although the spinning massive creature was constantly dispersing the sword rain, it was also constantly being wounded by the sword rain. This was unavoidable.
The constant impact of the sword rain was essentially increasing resistance. The massive creature’s rotation speed grew slower and slower. The slower it became, the easier it was to endure more attacks. The more attacks it endured, the slower its rotation speed became.
Xiang Lanxuan in the back, seemingly watching the excitement, blinked her bright eyes repeatedly. She discovered that after this great monster suffered wounds, its size seemed to be growing smaller.
There was no helping it. No matter how strong Yun Xi’s limb regeneration ability was, it still required consuming the main body’s energy to recover.
The spinning offensive had not been launched for long before it was forcibly stopped by Meng Po’s circling dragon sword rain. Yet the circling dragon sword rain’s offensive did not stop, directly killing toward the true body on the fleshy disc.
Yun Xi immediately raised a cluster of tentacles to block before her body in defence, her expression pained.
Forcibly enduring attacks like this was fundamentally not a solution. The tentacles were instantly beaten into a mangled mess by the sword rain and fell away.
The observing Xiang Lanxuan’s eyes flickered. She suddenly flashed and moved away, actually taking advantage of the moment when Yun Xi raised her tentacles and blocked her own line of sight. With several flashes, she drilled in through the gaps in the tentacles on one side, pressing directly toward Yun Xi’s true body on the large fleshy disc.
Yun Xi abruptly turned her head to look, greatly alarmed. She was about to wave her tentacles to defend, when something flashed at the corner of her eye. She turned her head sharply and discovered that Tian Yu had somehow penetrated through again at some unknown time. She was instantly caught off guard.
Seeing someone had gotten there first, Xiang Lanxuan roared in anger, “Tian Yu!”
Tian Yu had already grabbed Yun Xi’s shoulder. Like tearing a sheet of paper from a wall, he directly ripped her entire person off the fleshy disc, lifted her up, and flashed away.
“Ah!” Yun Xi let out a shrill scream, her face full of suffering. Dark green fluid spurted from her back like blood.
The entire massive creature went slack. Two figures flew out from above one after another.
With one sweep of his gaze, Meng Po knew what had happened. He was instantly both anxious and furious. He discovered that it was truly difficult to cooperate normally with these two groups. The slightest delay and they would exploit the gap.
He had been working hard attacking here, yet those two fellows took the opportunity to snatch the peach. He could not sit by and watch. He shouted, “Stop!”
With a sweep of his large sleeve, all the flying swords instantly disorderedly collapsed into dust. He had already soared into the sky in pursuit.
At this moment, Big Head, which had been stopped on his shoulder, finally flashed and flew away. He merely glanced back, unable to attend to other matters, urgently chasing after those two who mattered.
The reason Big Head flew away was because it saw Yu Qing.
Yu Qing had finally returned to the shore. Seeing that experts had subdued Yun Xi, he finally dared to come back. Who knew that he had just landed, just climbed up the slope to watch the battle, when those three experts suddenly pulled this stunt.
The demon had not even been defeated yet, and you lot were already having internal strife. What was the meaning of this?
And Big Head. Yu Qing looked at Big Head landing on his shoulder and immediately cursed, “Where the hell did you go? When we nearly lost our lives, when we needed you to restrain this demon, you hid without a trace. When there was no danger, you ran out again. You really know how to slack off!”
Cursing aside, while cursing he still drew his sword, exhausting all his cultivation to charge toward the massive creature that was still struggling and swaying.
There was no helping it. He had fought Yun Xi at the bottom of the ancient tomb back then, and had once severed Yun Xi’s physical body from that fleshy disc with one sword stroke. Who knew that Yun Xi’s physical body was not actually her vital point? That fleshy disc was her fatal place. Without destroying that fleshy disc, even if Yun Xi’s physical body was destroyed, she could be reborn.
Because he had not known at the time, the result was regret beyond measure. He had nearly been buried alive. Now those three experts had actually made the same mistake.
Nan Zhu and Mu Aotie, who came ashore one after another behind him, saw this and understood what was happening, because they had all experienced it at the bottom of the ancient tomb. They immediately drew their swords and charged forward with all their might.
The wound on the large fleshy disc had already congealed, already like a layer of membrane. Beneath the membrane, movement had already begun to throb.
The rhythm of this rebirth was very fast.
Yu Qing jumped onto the tentacles one by one, leaping upward with all his strength. He saw that the membrane on the fleshy disc had already tightened and squirmed, on the verge of breaking open at any moment in the rhythm of rebirth.
He immediately grew anxious. In his desperation, he jumped high, holding his sword upside down, swinging his arm and throwing it with all his cultivation.
Fortunately there was no obstruction in between. The long sword flew out nearly fifty zhang. With a pu sound, it struck squarely the bulging, squirming position in the centre of the fleshy disc.
The massive creature immediately twisted violently.
Yu Qing, who had fallen and crashed down, flipped over and clung to a massive tentacle that swept past, then began desperately leaping upward again.
When he was about to rush up to the fleshy disc, two hands drilled out from behind the taut membrane, grabbed the sword stuck in the body and pulled it out, then casually threw it aside.
Yu Qing was greatly alarmed. He leaped forward to catch the sword, kicked off the massive folds beneath the fleshy disc, and once again exerted himself to spring upward.
Pu! The membrane covering the fleshy disc completely burst open. Another Yun Xi broke through, shaking her head and tossing her long hair.
The first thing she saw upon emerging was Yu Qing leaping up. “Ah!” She immediately opened her mouth toward Yu Qing and let out her most furious roar.
A cold light flashed overhead.
Shua! Yu Qing’s sword slash sent dark green fluid splattering, splitting Yun Xi’s head into two halves on the spot.
The massive creature once again struggled and swayed violently.
But Yu Qing was unwilling to let matters rest. He grabbed onto the fleshy disc, his single hand wielding the sword in a frenzy of chaotic hacking and slashing. Not only did he chop the newborn Yun Xi to nothing, he actually carved out a hole in the fleshy disc. He actually drilled inside, swinging his sword wildly in all directions.
Suddenly he looked down and discovered his feet were like sinking into a swamp, already submerged to the knees. A powerful suction wrapped around his legs and forcibly dragged him inward.
“Big Head, damn you, what are you staring blankly for?” Yu Qing grabbed Big Head from his shoulder and directly threw it into the dark green fluid, roaring, “Boil water!”