Chapter 871: Reverse Law One Door and Reverse Law One Sword

Jiyuan’s expression was calm, showing no smile. Maintaining a serious demeanor was his greatest respect for the Dragon Girl, and he simply nodded slightly, responding softly and briefly.

“Very good! Your abilities have indeed improved a lot.”

As Jiyuan finished speaking, he extended his right hand, and the Azure Vine Sword, spinning with a flash of light, landed in his grip. The moment he took hold of the vine-wrapped hilt, the sword energy, which had previously enveloped the blade like dense mist, completely vanished, and the immortal sword returned to its clear, pristine, and unadorned original form.

While holding the sword, Jiyuan’s left hand, forming a sword-finger, gently traced the blade of the Azure Vine Sword. A reflection, like sunlight, seemed to move along the blade, slightly slower than his fingertip. As his fingertip slid to the sword’s tip, his sword-finger pointed towards the ocean below, and this beam of light followed, descending in that direction.

This sword light was incredibly fast, reaching the Dragon Girl in an instant. She swung her fanning fan, its surface directly sweeping against the sword light. Ripples of light twisted and turned, like water diverting upon hitting a ditch, and the sound of metal scraping against metal rang out before Ying Ruoli.

“This treasure handles so well!”

The Dragon Girl praised, concentrating her magic power. Her peripheral vision swept over the sword-dancing illustration on the fan’s surface. She swung the fan as if it were a sword, its surface resisting the sword light, which continuously melted away. Then, mirroring the embroidered scene on the fan, she swept it skyward.

“Wooooosh—wooooosh—”

Jiyuan’s recent sword light had surprisingly merged into the wind stirred by the fan. As this wind howled, it carried with it a metallic, ringing sound, as if made of gold and iron, while countless sparkling ice shards from the sea danced together, sweeping towards the sky.

Not only in the area where the Dragon Girl and Jiyuan stood, but even those observing from afar near the Phoenix Tree could feel the wind intensifying. This howling gale seemed to carry sharp metallic blades, startling many, and even the outer fringes of the Phoenix Tree showed faint flashes of fiery red light, seemingly affected by the power.

The power of that single fan-sweep from afar seemed to conjure a beautiful, shimmering rain of ice and snow, sweeping against the heavens.

“Excellent!”

The Old Dragon couldn’t help but cheer softly. This fan-sweep by the Dragon Girl seemed to contain no accumulated divine power, nor complex hand seals, yet it possessed a sense of effortless mastery and a return to simplicity. Such a technique was often Jiyuan’s favorite to use, and now it had the clever advantage of being turned back on him.

The expressions of the various Dragon Lords varied, some showing slight surprise, others remaining calm. However, in the eyes of those at their level, this single fan-sweep surpassed the previous flashy Water Dragon Formation, and might even be considered superior to the reckless charge of the dominion towards the Sword Momentum of Heaven’s Tilt.

Jiyuan was also slightly moved. The Dragon Girl’s fan-sweep, while beautiful, was full of sharp intent. Though still slightly lacking, it was quite unexpected that the Dragon Girl could achieve such a sweep.

However, while the Dragon Girl’s fan-sweep, utilizing the power of Jiyuan’s sword light, possessed both beauty and might, the Azure Vine Sword’s light was not easily borrowed. It was impossible for it to remain borrowed for more than an instant, and Jiyuan took this opportunity to teach her a lesson.

Jiyuan had but a fleeting moment to think. In the next instant, the dangerous yet beautiful wind of ice and snow reached him. Every snowflake and every ice shard contained this sharpness, accompanied by the Gengjin (Metal Element) energy of the gale. Yet, Jiyuan could still detect a faint trace of the Azure Vine Sword energy within it.

At this moment, as the Dragon Girl intently watched the sky, seizing the chance to catch her breath and gather strength, and as numerous onlookers speculated how Jiyuan would dodge or defend, Jiyuan stood still in the sky, sword in hand, appearing ready to withstand the attack purely with his physical body.

‘Even with the body of a True Immortal, isn’t that too overconfident?’

This was the thought in many people’s minds. However, the Old Dragon Ying Hong, other true dragons, and a few beings like the Phoenix Danyue, did not share this idea. Though no outward signs were apparent, they could faintly sense Jiyuan’s confidence.

Besides, who is Mr. Jiyuan? He could never be someone arrogant or conceited.

At this moment, Jiyuan instead placed the Azure Vine Sword behind his back. Before the terrifying metallic wind could strike him, the true words of the edict, already held in his throat, were uttered.

“Halt.”

At this moment, the Dragon Girl had no impression of what happened, and the onlookers were unaffected. However, the sword intent hidden within the sweeping ice and metallic wind instantly reversed, triggering a chain reaction. The power of the Immobilization Spell expanded infinitely in an instant, as if Jiyuan’s spell had merged within the metallic wind itself.

What appeared before the Dragon Girl and all the spectators was the terrifying ice and metallic wind, which everyone had expected to be overwhelming. Within a single breath, it rapidly slowed down, then halted right in front of Jiyuan. The closest ice shard was even at the edge of Jiyuan’s sleeve.

“Is this… stopped in its tracks?”

“What kind of divine ability is this?” “Unheard of…”

“This is Jiyuan’s Immobilization Spell! I never thought it could even stop spells, let alone Ruoli’s immeasurably powerful fan-sweep…”

The Old Dragon’s calm expression finally broke, though it was still better than the expressions of utter shock on others’ faces. After all, he had long known that Jiyuan possessed an incredibly miraculous divine ability called: Immobilization.

While there are many divine abilities and spells in the world that control people, rendering them immobile, those either use brute force, instill fear through aura, or simply cause paralysis. These are fundamentally different from Jiyuan’s Immobilization Spell and are not worthy of the name ‘Immobilization’.

However, the very few who knew, including the Old Dragon and his son, had always thought the Immobilization Spell only affected people. They had never imagined it could even stop spells; or rather, no one had ever forced Jiyuan to use this particular application of it.

Compared to the onlookers, the one whose heart was most shaken was, of course, Ying Ruoli herself, who was battling Jiyuan.

After sweeping her fan, the Dragon Girl had felt a profound connection between herself and the folding fan. Combined with the fan’s power, even she had experienced a wonderful feeling of enlightenment, as if blessed by heaven. But this wonderful feeling lasted too briefly.

At this moment, the Dragon Girl stared blankly at the sky, her spellcasting paused.

Jiyuan frowned slightly at the Dragon Girl’s reaction below, but didn’t immediately remind her. His right hand, previously behind his back, swung the sword forward in a flourish. The frozen ice and metallic wind around them seemed to move along with the sword as if in an illusion.

“When battling others with spells, situations change in an instant; even a slight mistake can lead to irreparable disaster.”

Jiyuan hadn’t actually spoken, but his calm voice appeared in the Dragon Girl’s ears, startling her awake in an instant. At that moment, Jiyuan moved his sword, and wherever its momentum passed, the immobilized ice and metallic wind seemed to gradually thaw, moving with the sword’s shadow.

Jiyuan’s figure seemed to transform into a mirage, with traces appearing everywhere in the sky. Eventually, all the mirages converged back to Jiyuan’s position, floating in the sky, as if he hadn’t moved at all, but had simply sent a single sword strike downwards at just the right moment.

“Wooooosh—wooooosh—”

The ice and metallic wind, having reversed course within the recent sword shadows, carried an even stronger sword intent, now merged within the wind, and surged towards the ocean below. But this time, amidst the gale, a blurred white shadow moved with exceptional agility, like a spirit hidden within the tempest, continuously weaving through the wind, making it impossible to discern its form.

The moment Jiyuan’s voice sounded his reminder, a frantic alarm blared in the Dragon Girl’s heart. Just a brief instant later, she even felt death drawing near.

‘I absolutely cannot take this head-on!’

The terror that surged within her at that moment made the Dragon Girl forget she was merely sparring with her Uncle Jiyuan; she perceived it as a matter of life or death.

Ignoring her accumulating spell and casting aside any thought of resistance, the moment the sword tip pointed at her, the Dragon Girl plunged into the sea. A phantom dragon instantly entered the ocean depths, stirring up endless waves.

At that moment, the ice and metallic wind from the sky descended, like a beautiful winter scene.

“Crackle... crackle...”

At this moment, the ocean froze. As far as the eye could see, whether it was ripples or towering waves, everything changed color and solidified, as if struck by the Immobilization Spell. The thickness of the ice layer was unknown.

“RAWRRRRR—”

The blurred white phantom hidden within the wind and snow finally appeared, a step too late. The instant this phantom touched the frozen sea surface, a complete dragon form appeared, accompanied by a resounding dragon roar, then vanished just as quickly.

There was no sound in that instant. Then, in the next moment…

“CRACK... CRACK...” “CRACK... CRACKCRACKCRACKCRACKCRACK...”

The frozen ocean directly shattered, as if it had simply melted away. The ocean waves surged once again at this moment.

Jiyuan watched the waves on the sea surface, his previously slightly narrowed eyes now slowly widening, revealing a bright, snow-like azure hue.

“To face a formidable foe and stand against their sharp edge is indeed courageous, but to recognize the insurmountable and retreat is also a valid strategy!”

Several breaths after Jiyuan’s words fell, a column of seawater rose from the ocean, slowly lifting Ying Ruoli above the surface. Water still streamed from her, her clothes clinging to her body but seeming not to be soaked through. She looked at Jiyuan in the sky, her eyes reflecting a mix of emotions.

“Uncle Jiyuan, there’s no need to continue. Ruoli has lost…”

Although she knew her chances of winning were slim, and she still had many techniques she hadn’t used, the Dragon Girl couldn’t bring herself to say she wanted to continue. She knew Uncle Jiyuan still had many more profound and unfathomable abilities he hadn’t revealed.

“Alright, let’s stop here then!”

Jiyuan also subtly sighed in relief. The longer the battle continued, the more intense it would become, and even though they weren’t in the outside world, a mishap wasn’t impossible.

After conceding, the Dragon Girl showed no lingering gloom. Instead, she flew towards the sky with a lively smile.

“Uncle Jiyuan, how much of your true skill did you show?”

“I used my sword, so naturally, it was a hundred percent!”

“You’re lying…”

The Old Dragon and his family also sighed in relief. Having recovered, the Old Dragon looked around, but none of the observing guests spoke. The Dragon Lords, in particular, all had wide eyes after the snowy white dragon phantom appeared at the end.

‘Hah, I’m much better off than you!’

The Old Dragon mumbled to himself, a faint smile appearing on his face.