Cohabitation with Sword Spirit

Chapter 378 - 114: How Can One Falter at Such a Crucial Moment? (Part 2)

The vast space of hundreds of zhang has completely turned into a magnificent and splendid dead zone. Li Wanqing couldn’t even comprehend this technique of transformation from life to death!

"This is the Sea Moon." Wang Jiu explained briefly, "During the Jiuzhou Era, a great Immortal Venerable broke through the limits of predecessors and ascended to the moon. Yet on the moon’s surface, he found neither magnificent palaces nor enchanting fairies, only a brilliantly glowing, desolate land full of pits. It was a stark contrast to the myths of thousands of years. The mood of that moment gave birth to the Sea Moon."

Before the words had even faded, in the next moment, the golden sea shattered, and the entire mountain where Zhao Jincheng stood ruptured, along with all the surrounding golden-stained rocks and vegetation, turning into dust.

Golden dust fell from mid-air, forming a golden desert, and in the center of the desert, a massive circular array was slowly taking shape.

The pure white Celestial Divine Sword trembled slightly.

An unprecedented excitement spread throughout the Divine Sword. Since awakening, this was the first time Wang Jiu experienced such intense excitement.

An excitement in encountering a formidable enemy.

In that circular array, an opponent of terrifying prowess was about to descend, with power far surpassing the current Celestial Divine Sword, even exceeding the City Lord of Shen City!

Undoubtedly, this was the most powerful foe Wang Jiu had encountered since his awakening, although still not matching up to those old friends of the Jiuzhou Era, the nature of the power already infinitely approached that glorious era.

Thus, Wang Jiu absolutely would not allow such a terrifying opponent to truly descend.

In the next moment, Wang Jiu, riding his mount, drove the skeletal arms of his mount to cleave out a green Sword Qi into the void, which wasn’t strong or swift, yet upon entering the Sea Moon’s bounds, it caused a great uproar. Those serene golden sands suddenly came alive, boiling violently, akin to prairie beasts encountering a natural enemy, scrambling to retreat in all directions. This completely exposed the Moon Shadow Array in the Sea Moon’s center under the sword’s edge.

The Sea Moon technique infused by the City Lord Golden Jade into the protective talisman was thoroughly broken by this Sword Qi.

Wang Jiu sighed slightly: "Ha, still the same old flaw as before, fitting for the True Inheritor of the Zhao Family."

The next moment, without much hesitation, Wang Jiu urged his mount to surge forward, following the trajectory cleaved by the Sword Qi.

Theoretically, the Sea Moon is a nearly invincible area control Immortal Technique, where every grain of sand within contained the reflections of the Immortal Venerable’s feelings after his fanciful dream shattered post-ascending to the moon. Yet, Wang Jiu’s Sword Qi was similarly extracted from that Immortal Venerable, making it a nemesis to Sea Moon.

Back then, the Immortal Venerable was almost recklessly determined to ascend the moon, exhausting all his wealth to forge the Ascension Flying Shuttle. When he finally saw the true face of the moon and survived myriad dangers returning to the Jiuzhou Continent, he found his supportive wife had quietly remarried, and his passionate lover had found a new flame. Though he completed the great feat of traveling to and from the moon, he also gained quite a few unsightly labels. Wang Jiu perfectly emulated his feelings at that time, completely restraining the Sea Moon.

With the Immortal Technique of the protective talisman broken, Zhao Jincheng was immediately startled while setting up the Moon Shadow Array, deeply aware of his sister’s skill. Although it was merely Immortal Technique infused in the protective talisman, he never imagined it could be broken by a single sword!

In the midst of crisis, Zhao Jincheng suddenly noticed the surrounding golden sands changing again.

Those receding golden sands, after Wang Jiu charged straight in, suddenly reversed, instantly forming a vast sandstorm that enveloped Wang Jiu and his mount.

The sudden shift was so rapid that even Wang Jiu was caught off guard. Once engulfed by the sand, he startlingly realized that this Sea Moon had significantly evolved from the version possessing lethal flaws back then.

It was truly unexpected that in this era of waning Immortal Dao, someone could achieve breakthroughs on the foundation of the Jiuzhou Era!

Yet now was not the time for sentiment. Ensnared by the Sea Moon’s backlash, Wang Jiu’s situation became extremely precarious, prompting the Celestial Divine Sword to swiftly make a decision.

Bang!

With a dull thud, Wang Jiu directly swept Li Wanqing, his mount, with the sword hilt, sending her rocketing backwards like a shooting star, crashing fiercely against the mountain rock.

While the pure white sword body remained in the golden desert, engulfed by the sandstorm.

Confronting the life-and-death transformation of the Sea Moon, even with Yuqing Moral Armor for protection, Wang Jiu wasn’t fully confident in safeguarding the life of Secondary Mount — let alone in subsequent battles, she wouldn’t likely contribute much. Instead, the body of the Celestial Divine Sword was eternally untainted, unaffected even by the Sea Moon.

However, the opportunity to immediately break the Moon Shadow Array was already missed. The Celestial Divine Sword now had to face the terrifying opponent about to arrive.

——

Meanwhile, in the Shen City Lord’s Mansion, watching the projected image, Shen Ruoshi nodded lightly.

"It’s over."

"Not at all!" Shen Qingming suddenly slapped the dining table, "Ah Jiu won’t just go down like that! You have no idea how powerful he is!"

Shen Ruoshi shook his head: "I don’t need to know how powerful he is. Since he couldn’t break the Moon Shadow Array immediately, his power is still limited. And when the City Lord Golden Jade descends, not one of those setting this ambush for Zhao Jincheng will escape. Your siblings might survive due to their Li Family identity, but Wang Jiu is surely doomed."