Cohabitation with Sword Spirit

Chapter 379 - 114: How Can One Falter at a Critical Moment (Part 3)

Shen Qingming really wanted to sneer and say, even the Sect Leader of the Saint Sect might not be able to ensure certain death for a Celestial Divine Sword. But just as she was about to speak, she felt her heartbeat become irregular again.

Shen Ruoshi looked at his granddaughter and continued, "Moreover, even if Wang Jiu truly has some ability for immortality, with the means of City Lord Golden Jade, he can easily exile him forever. For instance, to the Chaos Border, or perhaps the Primordial Ruins, throwing that boy in there, even ten thousand years might not be enough for him to find a way back to the Xiangzhou Continent."

Hearing this, Shen Qingming finally turned pale.

Indeed, this should be Wang Jiu’s only fatal flaw. The Celestial Divine Sword is eternally indestructible, but it’s far from recovering its omnipotence of the peak period. People cannot kill him, but they can exile and seal him. In that case, even if Wang Jiu could break the seal and return after many years, by then, Shen Qingming would no longer exist on the Xiangzhou Continent.

Thinking of this, the girl couldn’t help but press her chest more forcefully, as if a long-held surge of hot blood was about to explode from within. At this moment, she was feeling extremely oppressed and suffering.

The advancement of the Immovable Tyrant Body, how could it happen now!?

What the hell, Ah Jiu mentioned that this breakthrough is exceptionally significant and must be approached with great caution... Yet at this critical moment, that guy Ah Jiu isn’t by my side!

Beside her, Shen Ruoshi glanced at his granddaughter and furrowed his brows slightly.

This girl, her Qi Blood is condensed, and her True Essence is active. She doesn’t seem injured; instead, it looks like... a precursor to a breakthrough in her realm?

Well, a breakthrough is a breakthrough. Even if there’s some issue when a little girl in the Wind-Rising Realm breaks through, I can still intervene in time to protect her.

However, just as Shen Ruoshi thought of this, he saw the girl before him, her chest surged with condensed Qi Blood that suddenly burst, and as the Qi Blood spread, her physical body began to change drastically.

Her limbs grew long, her chest swelled, her waist became slender, her hips rounded...

In an instant, Shen Qingming transformed from a petite child into a tall and graceful young lady.

Like a cocoon turning into a butterfly, she was reborn in an instant.

"!?" At that moment, even the experienced City Lord of Shen City couldn’t help but widen his eyes and stand up.

"What the hell is this!?"

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Meanwhile, on the battlefield south of the city, a startling mutation occurred.

Zhao Jincheng, setting up the Moon Shadow Array, suddenly felt his pressure increase tenfold! Every part of his body throbbed with unbearable pain, as if his narrow body cavity was being stretched to the extreme, making him feel as though he’d been torn apart.

The source of the pain came from the other side of the Moon Shadow Array.

His sister originally planned to descend as a Shadow Clone, but now it felt as if her true body would force its way through!

"Sister, you..."

"Shut up! Maintain the Moon Shadow Array!"

Zhao Jincheng immediately closed his mouth; there was an overwhelming seriousness in his sister’s tone that allowed no room for doubt.

Then, he heard his sister’s murmur by his ear.

"...Is it you? No, it shouldn’t be, but even if it’s an illusion, I must see it with my own eyes."

Although he couldn’t understand the meaning of her words, Zhao Jincheng at least knew that his sister’s determination to descend was unwavering, leaving him no room to argue.

Very well, it’s better for her to descend in person; only then can their marriage truly be settled between him and Qingming.

Thinking of Qingming, Zhao Jincheng couldn’t help but close his eyes, focusing his attention on the image projected by Shen Ruoshi.

As long as he could see the face of his beloved, he could endure any amount of pain.

However, in the image, there was no longer the petite and exquisite figure of the girl.

Instead, there stood a tall, graceful young woman, whose charming figure was completely unfamiliar, arousing no interest at all...

"Who is... this?"

As this question arose, Zhao Jincheng suddenly felt the drive that sustained his endurance of pain and maintained the Moon Shadow Array rapidly fading away.

And as he focused his eyes again, recognizing the ill-fitting yet immensely familiar dress on the woman’s body, he immediately realized the truth.

"Qing, Qingming??"

Gazing at that face, completely shed of childishness, as pure and beautiful as a lotus fresh out of water, Zhao Jincheng suddenly felt...

A heart like dead ashes.

The next moment, the True Essence maintaining the Moon Shadow Array abruptly spiraled out of control.