Chapter 675: Long Zhuanshan Battle

At Changzhuan Mountain Market, Chen Mobai was slightly taken aback by the old man's words beside Xuan Shu.

"They went to look for Ming'er and the others!"

"With Xuan'er wielding the Moonlight Blade, and the control of Grandma Ming, that old ghost, they should be able to kill Fang Xuanyang, right?"

As Chen Mobai was thinking this, Xuan Shu, who was in front of him, suddenly blurred. Then, a blue-gold light abruptly appeared before Chen Mobai and sliced across his neck with lightning speed. Amidst the flickering flames, Chen Mobai's body, which had been struck across the neck by Xuan Shu's Skywind Finger, suddenly disintegrated into a shower of sparks.

Xuan Shu slightly frowned, his figure blurring again and vanishing from his spot. At that moment, Chen Mobai's true body appeared behind Xuan Shu using the Ground-Leaving Flame-Light Escape. A golden flame erupted in his palm like a sword gleam, slashing through the afterimage Xuan Shu left behind. The two exchanged blows in the blink of an eye, so fast that even Zhou Shengqing, standing nearby, barely caught sight of it.

"The speed of the Wind Escape is truly elegant," Chen Mobai remarked with some admiration to Xuan Shu, who had returned to his original position. He reached up and touched his neck, where a thin line of blood marked the wound inflicted by Xuan Shu's Skywind Finger. If his Ground-Leaving Flame-Light Escape hadn't also reached the realm of instant command, he might have suffered more than just a superficial skin wound.

"The Longevity Sect's heritage is quite impressive," Xuan Shu acknowledged, nodding when he saw a faint green glow appear on the bloodline on Chen Mobai's neck, and the wound completely heal within a few breaths.

"Junior Brother, should I intervene?" Zhou Shengqing, wearing a mask, asked from not far away.

"Fellow Daoist, let my Junior Brother and Sect Master Chen fight alone. If you're eager for a fight, I can certainly keep you company for a while," Xuan Qi said with a smile, taking out a golden spear from his storage bag and pointing it at Zhou Shengqing, advising him to stay out of it. As the oldest Core Formation cultivator in Xuanxiao Dao Palace, he had also cultivated to the late Core Formation realm. Although his vitality was declining, his combat experience was the richest, and he possessed two hidden fourth-grade spiritual talismans, confidently believing he could easily stall even Mo Douguang, the Eastern Barrens' foremost sword cultivator.

Zhou Shengqing's eyes, beneath his mask, narrowed slightly upon hearing Xuan Qi's words, but then he suddenly burst into laughter. In his three hundred years of life, he had never found anything as amusing as this moment.

"Don't worry," Chen Mobai interjected at this point, saying something that made both Xuan Shu and Xuan Qi's expressions change. "Today, Xuan Shu will die only by my hand."

"Arrogant!" Xuan Shu sneered, deciding to hold nothing back.

With a resounding roar, a blue-gold whirlwind formed around him, sweeping up spiritual energy from all directions. With a whooshing sound, brilliant golden spears, gleaming sharply, shot towards Chen Mobai like a volley of ten thousand arrows. Chen Mobai had lost count of how many times he had encountered this Sun-Shooting Divine Spear Art. However, there was no doubt that Xuan Shu's use of this spell was far more terrifying than anyone from the Southern Profound Sect before him. Under the augmentation of his perfected Core Formation realm, each golden spear soaring out of the whirlwind possessed the power of a peak third-grade attack. Even if Mo Douguang were here, he could only rely on the speed of his Sword Fiend Thunder Roar to evade them!

But Chen Mobai stood his ground, unmoving. An ancient mirror flew out from his sleeve, hovering above his head, instantly erupting a brilliant golden flame barrier that enveloped him entirely. All the incoming golden spears, upon encountering the flame barrier, were instantly melted into golden liquid and flowed down, like gold nuggets dropped into lava, forming a perfect golden ring on the ground.

This ancient mirror was, of course, Chen Mobai's Haotian Mirror. For this fight, he had already had Yin Qingmei send it back in advance, and he had replaced its original frame with fourth-grade Longevity Wood. This fully unleashed the Haotian Mirror's power. However, since this mirror was the foundation of the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, the two Pure Yang spells originally infused within it were now used to block the Sun-Shooting Divine Spear Art: Pure Yang Fire and Profound Yang Divine Light. When upgrading it to the Haotian Mirror, Chen Mobai had also consulted Hong Mengkui and made provisions to merge these two spells, sublimating them into the "Grand Sun Pure Yang Divine Fire Shield," a technique for both offense and defense. The key to merging these two spells was the Grand Sun Fire. Pure Yang Fire, if refined with the pill fire of Pure Yang spiritual power to become Grand Sun Fire, could be sublimated into the Grand Sun Pure Yang Fire, one of the six great precious flames of the Immortal Sect. The "Grand Sun Pure Yang Divine Fire Shield" drew its inspiration from this. Testing it out for the first time, it effortlessly blocked Xuan Shu's barrage of Sun-Shooting Divine Spears.

"Another powerful artifact from the Longevity Sect? What luck!" Xuan Shu's brows furrowed at this sight, but since he dared to ambush Chen Mobai in the Eastern Barrens, he had naturally anticipated this. After all, even he had sought fourth-grade artifacts within the ruins of the Sea-Overturning Sect. However, his Golden Mist Pearl was specifically reserved for a clash with Chen Mobai's Purple Lightning Sword. Therefore, facing the "Grand Sun Pure Yang Divine Fire Shield" that combined offense and defense, Xuan Shu unleashed the most formidable spell he had cultivated after reaching perfected Core Formation!

He pointed a finger, and the whirlwind of heaven and earth that had centered on him instantly began to shrink, continuously condensing into a spiraling beam of shimmering blue-gold light. Immediately, Xuan Shu's figure blurred from his spot and reappeared in front of Chen Mobai. He raised his index finger, guiding the blue-gold spiral beam, and lightly tapped it onto the flame barrier.

Chen Mobai's expression subtly changed. He poured the Pure Yang spiritual power from his Dantian Qi Sea into the Haotian Mirror, activating the "Grand Sun Pure Yang Divine Fire Shield" to its utmost power. However, the brilliant golden flame barrier twisted and shrunk under the blue-gold spiral, inch by inch pushing towards Chen Mobai's glabella.

"A fourth-grade spell?!" After resisting for a few breaths, Chen Mobai finally realized why Xuan Shu dared to clash with his Haotian Mirror using just one finger.

With a bang! The "Grand Sun Pure Yang Divine Fire Shield" finally could not withstand the fourth-grade Skywind Finger and dispersed into a shower of sparks. But after Xuan Shu shattered the flame barrier, he did not see the expression of despair on Chen Mobai's face that he had expected.

"I will crush your most cherished sword dao again, shattering your Dao heart completely!" Xuan Shu's voice was cold as he mercilessly pressed his index finger, surrounded by the blue-gold spiral, towards Chen Mobai's glabella.

Then, he saw a faint white light, so intense it seemed to distort the void, surge forth from Chen Mobai's mouth. The white light was like lightning, dazzling and brilliant! But what made Xuan Shu's eyes widen in disbelief was how incredibly swift this white light was; though it struck later, it managed to block his Skywind Finger. He then felt his index finger grow hot. In the blink of an eye, the skin was scorched, flesh boiled, and his finger bone was almost exposed. He immediately stopped his Wind Escape and rapidly retreated!

But Chen Mobai, having unleashed the Extreme Yang Slash, naturally wouldn't let him off easily! The Ground-Leaving Flame-Light Escape was also activated simultaneously, bringing him right in front of Xuan Shu, who was retreating with his Wind Escape. Under Chen Mobai's spiritual sense command, the faint white light was like a scorching bolt of lightning flashing through the void, instantly piercing through the wind walls that stood in its way, one after another. However, Xuan Shu also seized this opportunity to distance himself further. At the same time, he raised another finger, his brow furrowed with anger, unleashing the Skywind Finger, which he had cultivated to the fourth-grade, to its absolute maximum power!

Chen Mobai having cultivated the fourth-grade Extreme Yang Slash was indeed beyond Xuan Shu's expectations. Furthermore, his wind spiritual power was naturally countered by the opponent's fire spiritual power. However, Xuan Shu believed that his abundant spiritual power, cultivated to perfected Core Formation, definitely far surpassed Chen Mobai's, who had just broken through to mid Core Formation. Xuan Shu knew best how much spiritual power a fourth-grade spell consumed, so upon discovering the Extreme Yang Slash, he immediately adopted a new combat strategy.

The blue-gold whirlwind surged again! Xuan Shu directly engaged the flashing faint white light in a head-on clash once more! Although Chen Mobai was somewhat surprised, this was exactly what he wanted. Faint golden lines subtly appeared in his left pupil. Amidst a series of thudding sounds, the two fourth-grade spells clashed head-on, unleashing terrifying spiritual power fluctuations that caused Xuan Qi, standing by, to subtly change his expression. This Sect Master Chen from the Eastern Barrens countryside had talent even more frightening than rumored! One should know that in the past, the Primordial Ancestor had forged a formidable reputation across the Six Domains of the Eastern Land, partly thanks to this very Extreme Yang Slash, which could cut through anything! Fortunately, Xuan Shu had also mastered the fourth-grade Skywind Finger this time; otherwise, Xuan Qi would have fled towards the Eastern Barbarians without looking back the moment he saw the Extreme Yang Slash.

As Xuan Qi was thinking this, Chen Mobai and Xuan Shu had already clashed and changed positions over a dozen times in mid-air, their escape speed so rapid that they left behind successive afterimages. The two fought as they moved, and at some point, the sky above Changzhuan Mountain was filled with their figures. Finally, carrying terrifying spiritual power fluctuations, they crashed into the mountain wall. Accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, half of the mountaintop was shattered by the two of them! Amidst the swirling dust, the blue-gold whirlwind and the faint white light, like two bolts of lightning, continuously collided and intertwined, erupting even more vast and terrifying spiritual pressure.

Sect Master Chen of the Divine Wood Sect certainly had incredible resilience! Xuan Qi, observing from the side, saw the Extreme Yang white light being suppressed by the blue-gold spiral several times. Yet, each time it was about to be completely extinguished, it would flare up again with brilliant radiance, as if doused in oil, prompting his admiration. But he didn't know that Xuan Shu, who was directly clashing with Chen Mobai, was growing increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed. He had no idea how many potent elixirs Chen Mobai had consumed in advance. Every time he painstakingly managed to deplete Chen Mobai's spiritual power to near exhaustion, the opponent would suddenly recover to peak condition.

After this happened three times in a row, Xuan Shu cursed inwardly and also took out a golden-red pill from his storage bag and swallowed it. He refused to believe it! After consuming the great elixir for spiritual power recovery, Xuan Shu's expression turned fierce. He once again activated his fourth-grade Skywind Finger, sticking to his combat strategy, determined to exhaust and overwhelm Chen Mobai's spiritual power.

After two more such occurrences, Xuan Shu, feeling his Dantian Qi Sea once again half-empty, suddenly realized something. He looked at Chen Mobai, whose spiritual power was still at its peak, though his spiritual sense seemed to have dropped slightly, and the precision and reaction time of his Extreme Yang Slash were not as good as before. He then knew his strategy might have been flawed. Facing the faint white light that was once again flashing and slashing towards him, Xuan Shu finally couldn't hold back. He opened his mouth and spat out the fourth-grade artifact he had reserved for the Purple Lightning Sword: the Golden Mist Pearl!

Chen Mobai had seen this artifact from the Sea-Overturning Sect long ago, but he still couldn't resist unleashing the Extreme Yang Slash upon it. With a dazzling flash of brilliant light, the Extreme Yang Slash failed to cut through this fourth-grade artifact. Chen Mobai then felt a terrifying, invisible binding force, centered on him, begin to relentlessly squeeze in from all directions. He tried again, and after realizing that he indeed couldn't break through by conventional means, he couldn't help but reach out and clench his hand in the void.

Amidst the crackling of thunder and lightning! The Purple Lightning Sword descended from the void and was grasped by Chen Mobai. This top-grade fourth-grade sword, which had long been in perfect harmony with his will, then shone with a brilliant purple electric light. With a boom, Chen Mobai, sword in hand, burst through the Golden Mist Pearl's violent wind restraint!

After deploying their fourth-grade artifacts, neither of them held anything back! Full of confidence in their respective artifacts, they unleashed their escape arts and charged straight up!

"Heaven-Overturning Violent Gale!" Xuan Shu activated the artifact-wielding spell he had painstakingly cultivated for years, which could unleash the Golden Mist Pearl's true power. He himself became like a golden whirlwind, holding the treasured pearl in his palm, surging fiercely towards Chen Mobai! Chen Mobai, who had not yet tested the upper limits of the Purple Lightning Sword's power, was also fearless. He raised his sword and brought it down! The broad sword blade clashed with the Golden Mist Pearl! In an instant, the entire Changzhuan Mountain was engulfed in only purple and gold!

Xuan Qi's eyes widened. He wanted to witness the outcome of their clash, but under the impact of the two fierce fourth-grade powers, he could only continuously retreat to avoid being caught in it himself. It was then that he suddenly noticed the person wearing the wooden mask hadn't retreated a single step, instead allowing the residual fourth-grade energy to completely envelop him. "Are all sword cultivators reckless to this extent?! Or does he want to save Chen Guixian?" In Xuan Qi's eyes, Zhou Shengqing was Mo Douguang, the Eastern Barrens' foremost sword cultivator. Seeing this, he couldn't help but shake his head.

At this very moment, the clash between the Purple Lightning Sword and the Golden Mist Pearl reached its most terrifying climax. Chen Mobai felt the skin on his arm begin to crack inch by inch, bleeding profusely. This was because his physical body could not withstand the Purple Lightning Sword's power at that moment.

"Master, quickly release me..."

Chen Mobai obediently let go. Xuan Shu, seeing this, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He gripped the Golden Mist Pearl and pressed forward again. He had won!

However, at that moment, he saw a giant, translucent skeletal hand appear behind Chen Mobai. As five-colored light swirled, flesh appeared on this large hand, and it directly grasped the hilt of the Purple Lightning Sword!