Jian Chou remained seated in the river’s heart.
Zhou Chenjiang began to step forward.
His first step fell on the riverbank.
The wind rose!
The originally cool river breeze suddenly turned bitter, carrying the killing intent of deep autumn turning to harsh winter!
His second step entered the river water.
The river flow stopped!
Heavy pressure seemed to block the entire river flow, actually causing it to pause for that instant!
His third step out, and he was standing above the vast Nine-Head River.
Then—waves surged violently!
The river flow that had stagnated for an instant, as if pressed down by that previous step, now struggled fiercely. The waves formed a wall of water, crashing toward Jian Chou at the center!
Crash!
Startling waves struck stone, raising thousands of piles of snow!
The black stone in the river’s heart suddenly seemed like a weak pebble, about to be swept away immediately.
Such fierce power…
Just this initial attack was already much more formidable than before.
The wind was cold.
The acupoints around Jian Chou’s body remained open. The instant the angry waves struck, she unhesitatingly raised her hand and brushed forward!
Her slender wrist turned in an arc, tracing a nearly perfect curve while carrying a cold, harsh severity.
The advantage of her Celestial Void Constitution suddenly revealed itself!
With a thought from Jian Chou, her meridian pathways instantly changed!
All the wind passing through her body’s acupoints, at this moment following the suddenly altered meridian routes, rushed madly from the acupoints in her arms!
Whoosh!
A hurricane was drawn forth by her hand!
The wall of waves ahead had already piled high, like a beast choosing its prey, about to topple Jian Chou and the black stone beneath her into the rolling waves of the Nine-Head River!
Boom!
At the critical moment, the hurricane carrying powerful spiritual energy instantly collided!
Wind and waves no longer harmonized, but clashed!
In this moment, centered on the black stone in the river’s heart, countless water droplets splashed and mist filled the air.
The hurricane had already shattered the towering wall of waves that had just attacked! Moreover, its momentum hadn’t decreased!
Zhou Chenjiang, standing above the river, immediately showed a look of surprise: “Wind?!”
No…
What exactly had she accomplished in these two years?
It was simply unbelievable!
This was even more terrifying than what he’d sensed upon first arriving. A person could actually merge with wind before reaching the Golden Core stage, and even “summon wind”?!
Shock, astonishment, followed by extreme delight!
An excellent opponent, an absolutely powerful opponent!
What could be more joyful than this?
The expression in Zhou Chenjiang’s eyes suddenly became fervent.
After shattering the wave wall, that hurricane didn’t slow but accelerated.
The violent wind force stirred the river flow again, churning up massive waves.
The river water in the entire heart of the river seemed to have dropped several feet after this wind blew, revealing ferocious waves rising at speeds far exceeding before, surging toward Zhou Chenjiang with bared fangs and claws!
On the broad river surface, how small were two people standing in the river’s heart?
Yet this massive wave seemed to have drawn away half the river’s water, standing between them and toppling toward Zhou Chenjiang with crushing force!
Zhou Chenjiang took a deep breath: “Well come!”
He directly raised his fist. The moment his five fingers clenched together, explosive sounds thundered, and his extreme speed gave him the power of thunder and lightning!
Facing that five-zhang-high massive wave!
Facing that sharp wind like frost blades!
Facing Jian Chou’s calm yet indifferent gaze from the river’s heart!
Boom!
One punch struck out!
The power in his body was completely mobilized at the moment he threw the punch, causing the battle disc beneath his feet to uncontrollably reveal itself completely.
Kunxian lines lit up one by one, but they were red-gold in color!
Like the gleaming scales on a five-clawed golden dragon’s body, they bloomed on this river, brilliant and dazzling!
Spiritual energy swirled around his fist, forming a vortex as it shot out, rushing into the wave wall!
The fierce punch, accompanied by the spiritual energy vortex, began spinning in the middle of the wave wall, instantly creating a water tornado!
Initially only the size of a fist, but in the blink of an eye it swept through the entire wave wall!
Splash!
The sound of water surged!
The towering wave wall immediately twisted, centered on Zhou Chenjiang’s fist, forming a spinning giant wheel on the river surface!
Zhou Chenjiang’s spiritual energy surged again, his entire fist surrounded by ripple-like tremors, sending strange vibrations shaking outward in all directions.
The giant wheel formed by river water and spray, struck by these fine ripples, suddenly exploded outward!
“Boom!”
The massive wave instantly shattered!
A wave of force shot outward.
The transparent river water, illuminated by moonlight and carrying frost-cold color, exploded into countless massive silver droplets, crashing down across the entire river surface, stirring up even more ferocious waves!
Zhou Chenjiang, struck by the tremendous force from his punch that shattered the wave, had been standing in mid-air with nowhere to borrow strength, and was now forced to retreat half a step!
Only half a step!
“Thump.”
A muffled sound.
His body actually slid straight back across the river surface, his heel landing and producing tiny breaking sounds.
Those were the dried fallen leaves he hadn’t crushed when arriving.
Half a step’s difference.
Jian Chou’s robe hem had been splashed wet by the countless massive waves Zhou Chenjiang had shattered with his punch.
At some point, she had stood up, standing upright on that black stone, looking at Zhou Chenjiang who had been forced back to the riverbank.
This was merely the beginning of their probing.
Zhou Chenjiang understood this completely.
But the result of this probing was enough to make one gasp!
What an amazing brush of her hand!
Drawing forth this hurricane, shattering the massive wave, and even forcing back the step he had just taken.
Even if only half a step, he had already fallen into disadvantage in that instant.
The surroundings remained quiet. Jian Chou wore the full moonlight, but her right hand that had just brushed forward was also trembling slightly.
She clenched it, letting the blood that had briefly stopped flowing surge again through her body, bringing that intense tremor—
Meeting a worthy opponent, no battle without pain!
Under her slightly narrowed eyes, a burning gaze flickered, like anticipation of breaking through massive waves, yet also like suddenly exploding nebulae, carrying tremendous momentum.
“This battle—you lose!”
“Zhou never knew that Yashan’s Senior Martial Sister was also one to speak so arrogantly.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Chenjiang was startled, then burst into laughter.
But the next moment, his laughter abruptly stopped.
Jian Chou, who had just been in the river’s heart, vanished instantly after her words fell!
Zhou Chenjiang’s pupils immediately contracted. A white shadow flashed before his eyes, and in the wind appeared an extremely faint silhouette. In that moment, his hair stood on end. Acting purely on instinct, he threw a vicious punch!
Boom!
One punch out, striking squarely into that white shadow!
Or rather, striking squarely into what appeared to be a delicate fist!
After a wave of air, Jian Chou’s figure immediately appeared in mid-air, her face bearing an incomparably brilliant smile.
Hard fist against hard fist!
Contact and retreat!
Evenly matched!
Jian Chou was knocked back by this punch, but her toes touched the river surface, her battle disc appeared, and her Dao Seal lit up!
Wind comes!
Riding the wind!
However fast she was knocked back, she attacked back even faster!
Since this was body cultivation, why take detours? Direct confrontation, fist against fist!
Boom!
Jian Chou unhesitatingly collided with Zhou Chenjiang again, fist against leg in instant impact, immediately showing blood flowing freely!
This was close combat that would seem brutal to outsiders!
Suddenly abandoning technique, suddenly abandoning weapons, just going bare-handed like this, fighting with sinew, bone, and flesh—who was harder, who was more ruthless, who was more vicious to themselves!
A white shadow, a gray shadow, rapidly approaching and separating, the river surface echoing only with the heart-stopping thuds of fist and foot collisions!
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
…
Once, twice, again!
The naked eye could no longer follow their speed.
On the riverbank, the chicken leg was about to fall from Fudao Shanren’s mouth: “My little Jian Chou… has actually become so fierce…”
Standing beside him was Dragon Gate’s elder who had been slapped into the Nine-Head River by him earlier—Pang Dian, now also watching the two figures on the river with a grave expression.
As a master, Pang Dian knew better than anyone what Zhou Chenjiang had put himself through these past two years to leap through Dragon Gate. Yet even so, Jian Chou, who had briefly fought him to a draw years ago, could still match him evenly, even gaining slight advantage in their initial exchange!
So…
What exactly had this female cultivator experienced in these two years?
In that instant, Pang Dian felt a chill.
“Senior Martial Sister’s flesh isn’t as hard as Zhou Chenjiang’s, but her recovery ability is extremely fast. After the black wind bone tempering, the hardness of her bones is completely worry-free.”
Qu Zhengfeng’s voice also came from beside them.
He stood on Fudao Shanren’s other side, his black robes merging with the shadows of the towering ancient trees, except for faint dark gold patterns—everything else was unclear.
All three had arrived when this battle first began.
After all, this was also a great battle, a wager between these two unreliable old fellows. Originally it didn’t matter, but if others learned the result of this battle, it would concern the face of both sects.
So Fudao Shanren and Pang Dian had jointly raised a barrier. Centered on this location, within ten li in all directions, no one would notice the disturbance here.
Now all three watched Jian Chou and Zhou Chenjiang intently.
Zhou Chenjiang’s path was fierce strength, while Jian Chou’s was tenacious endurance.
One difficult to break, the other able to quickly recover even when broken.
This was like two monsters, using bodily collisions again and again to establish their territory—savage and shocking!
“Crack…”
The sound of dry leaves breaking suddenly came from the darkness.
Qu Zhengfeng suddenly frowned and looked behind.
A snow-white figure appeared in the forest behind—it was Wu Duan.
Wu Duan at this moment couldn’t see Jian Chou and Zhou Chenjiang, but could see Qu Zhengfeng by the river.
There seemed to be an invisible barrier ahead, blocking his view.
Vaguely, Wu Duan felt he had encountered something.
He didn’t know why he had come here, but seeing Qu Zhengfeng in that instant, he somehow felt he had come to the right place.
Qu Zhengfeng looked back at him with indifferent eyes, glanced back at Jian Chou, then casually waved. The barrier revealed a gap just large enough for one person to pass through.
The moment this gap appeared, the terrifying fluctuations from within the barrier immediately transmitted out!
A wind rushed at his face, and Wu Duan immediately showed a horrified expression!
Because through this small gap, he could completely see the two figures violently colliding on the river surface!
Yashan’s Jian Chou, Dragon Gate’s Zhou Chenjiang!
Meeting when the moon rises?
So it was a battle appointment all along!
And also…
Wu Duan was extremely surprised. After a long while, he finally recovered, quickly stepping forward to Qu Zhengfeng’s side. Without much talk, he focused on the two figures on the river, his eyes shooting out brilliant light!
What excellent close combat!
And between a male cultivator and a female cultivator!
Jian Chou’s flesh would often shatter from violent impacts, but for her, having endured two years of torment in Black Wind Cave, this was nothing at all.
On the contrary, she would become more courageous as she fought!
For two whole years without stretching her muscles and bones, Jian Chou almost felt every bone in her body was rusting.
This battle was perfect for polishing them all bright!
And Zhou Chenjiang, also practicing body cultivation, was exactly such a beautiful whetstone.
This battle—she absolutely would not lose.
That premonition, perhaps confidence, perhaps arrogance, came without reason yet so intensely!
Jian Chou raised a fist to strike, while directly kicking out a leg!
Not using the Heaven-Overturning Seal, only pure physical strength!
Zhou Chenjiang gritted his teeth and similarly flew forward to collide!
Bang!
At the moment of impact, he only felt his sinews and bones violently trembling, pain as if he was about to fall apart—simply abnormal.
Fist against fist, leg against leg.
However…
This time wasn’t so simple.
Jian Chou, drenched in sweat, suddenly smiled at the corner of her lips. When the bone collision reached a peak of pain, she unhesitatingly head-butted Zhou Chenjiang who was extremely close!
In that instant, Zhou Chenjiang never expected Jian Chou would pull this move. Was this still a female cultivator?
Caught off guard, he was struck squarely by this head-butt!
Jian Chou’s skull was also terrifyingly hard—it didn’t seem like a beauty’s delicate head, but like a hard meteorite falling from the sky!
Bang!
The moment Jian Chou struck, a sheet of golden light suddenly spread from the impact point!
On Zhou Chenjiang’s forehead, golden scales suddenly appeared automatically, instantly blocking Jian Chou’s vicious strike!
Then, borrowing the impact force, Zhou Chenjiang immediately withdrew backward, escaping Jian Chou’s attack range in one step, coming to a stop suspended above the river.
The bitter river wind blew his blood-stained robe hem, making it flutter.
Under Jian Chou’s surprised yet amazed gaze, scale by scale, centered on Zhou Chenjiang’s brow, spread across his entire forehead, cheeks, neck, arms, and every other part…
Dragon scales!
Was that the Dao Seal?
Everything from Black Wind Cave suddenly flashed through Jian Chou’s mind one by one.
She knew what this was!
However, this was her first time seeing it.
That flowing golden color on each dragon scale carried a cold yet powerful beauty—breathtaking!
Zhou Chenjiang’s eyes seemed to be tinged with pale gold at this moment.
He looked at Jian Chou and suddenly laughed: “To force out these dragon scales I’ve only recently mastered, even if Fellow Daoist Jian Chou loses this battle, you can still be proud among all heroes.”
From “Senior Sister” to “Fellow Daoist.”
This change in address—Jian Chou clearly understood what it meant.
However…
“Lose?”
Jian Chou suddenly laughed.
Her right hand’s five fingers spread and tensed, her slender fingers stiffening. The moment their curves became rigid, five black wind blades appeared at her fingertips!
Her left hand’s five fingers curved loosely toward the center, five ice-blue wind blades spinning in her palm!
The moment these two completely different types of wind blades appeared, Zhou Chenjiang seemed to suddenly understand something, immediately showing great surprise.
She…
Those two types of wind comprehended in Black Wind Cave!
Even from a distance, Jian Chou could clearly see the expression on his face.
Thus, her originally unhappy mood suddenly became cheerful.
“Crack.”
Twisting her neck, producing an almost evil sound.
Jian Chou’s smile carried a touch of indescribable arrogance: “This trip to Black Wind Cave yielded small gains. I heard Fellow Daoist Zhou regrettably failed to comprehend these Dao Seals—lamentable, lamentable!”
In this instant, Zhou Chenjiang’s expression completely cooled.
In terms of provoking opponents, this gentle Senior Martial Sister from Yashan truly had a talent that made people grit their teeth in hatred!
He slowly lowered his body, and his heart also sank. His tense body showed a relaxed yet more dangerous posture, like a great dragon pulling back its claws, coiled atop a celestial pillar, looking down at the prey below, or rather—
The ant!
“Roar!”
The great dragon burst forth!
Zhou Chenjiang, already at Golden Core stage, had extremely refined and concentrated power. His speed was originally a cut above Jian Chou’s. If not for Jian Chou’s ability to “ride the wind,” she would have already fallen into disadvantage.
Now with Zhou Chenjiang’s dragon scales, as airflow passed over each scale, it gathered his power around his body with almost no dispersion, reaching a nearly terrifying level.
What did spiritual energy with no waste mean?
It meant extremely high attack power!
The moment he charged toward Jian Chou, he even created a massive wave on the river surface!
Jian Chou tensed her body, and at the moment of meeting him, spread her five fingers again!
Pop pop pop!
Three more wind blades joined those swirling between her hands!
Power equally concentrated to the extreme, compressed into small wind blades. Though small, they absolutely couldn’t be underestimated!
Wind lifted her body, allowing her to shoot forward at a speed nearly matching Zhou Chenjiang’s!
A fierce collision!
The palm covered in dragon scales, claw-shaped, struck Jian Chou’s two palms pressed together toward the center.
Whoosh whoosh.
Two wind blades shattered instantly upon contact with the dragon scales!
Zhou Chenjiang’s pupils held very faint golden light, revealing the indifference of looking down on all beings from above.
Whoosh.
Another wind blade shattered on contact!
But Jian Chou’s two palms showed no retreat, as if wanting to grasp Zhou Chenjiang’s attacking palm in this instant, thunderously pressing toward the center!
Pop pop!
Two more crisp sounds!
One black wind blade and one ice blade shattered again!
At this moment, four wind blades remained in each of Jian Chou’s palms!
However, Zhou Chenjiang’s dragon-scale-covered palm continued its momentum, as if about to completely shatter both her palms in the next moment!
Just at this moment!
Jian Chou’s two palms finally pressed together toward the center.
Crack!
A gray-black wind blade finally met an ice-blue wind blade!
A cold air suddenly spread out.
Zhou Chenjiang’s pale golden pupils showed surprise for the first time.
Crack!
The second pair of wind blades met!
A ice-blue lotus suddenly bloomed in Jian Chou’s palms!
Crack!
The third pair of wind blades met!
A strong light exploded from the lotus center as black and ice-blue wind blades burst together, intertwining into the shape of a giant sword!
Crack!
The final pair of wind blades met!
After an explosion, refined spiritual energy instantly poured into the entire lotus, filling that giant sword!
Time seemed slow, but it was fast—in just the instant Jian Chou pressed her palms together, an ice sword about one zhang long suddenly appeared in her grasp!
Cold moonlight, cold light, lotus containing sword!
Zhou Chenjiang immediately frowned, dodging sideways at the critical moment.
This giant sword actually passed by his waist and abdomen, immediately tearing his robe and revealing the scale armor at his waist!
Outside the sharp blade, tiny wind blades constantly shot out like black threads, appearing extremely fragile, yet each wind blade that struck the dragon scales made their color fade slightly!
Threat.
A massive threat.
Had he still underestimated her?
He thought he couldn’t be more cautious!
Zhou Chenjiang retreated a step, his palms instantly grasping the giant sword as golden power surged out.
Crack crack crack!
The ice sword in Jian Chou’s hands instantly shattered!
Countless ice fragments exploded outward, scattering everywhere, but upon flying into mid-air, they turned into streams of wind and disappeared.
Jian Chou had no intention of giving Zhou Chenjiang any breathing room.
No matter how strong, it was only one Dao Seal!
Though the Black Wind Cave walls hadn’t explicitly stated where the reverse scale was, in this instant, Jian Chou had already glimpsed its weakness!
Dao Seal!
It was sustained by spiritual energy. No matter how strong Zhou Chenjiang was, he was currently only a Golden Core stage cultivator!
One desperate gamble?
Not necessarily impossible!
She held her breath and concentrated. The moment Zhou Chenjiang stepped forward, she retreated one step, taking the opportunity to merge into the boundless river wind, her traces immediately becoming ethereal.
Five fingers spread again!
Still wind, still ice!
On the river, she wouldn’t use fire—after all, the five elements restrained each other.
Pop!
Palms together again, still an ice sword!
Without a sword, Jian Chou possessed nearly endless ice swords!
In this instant, Zhou Chenjiang was forced into a predicament.
His speed was fast, but Jian Chou’s speed was also fast!
On the river with wind, she had the most natural advantage.
Once merged into the wind, her form became ethereal and hard to catch. Palms together created ice swords. In an instant, ice lotuses bloomed and fell on the river, giant swords condensed and exploded. Before one ice sword’s afterimage disappeared, another giant sword appeared!
Jian Chou, relying on speed alone, had “surrounded” Zhou Chenjiang with her individual power!
For a moment, the three observers on the riverbank all felt Zhou Chenjiang was about to become a porcupine.
Dragon Gate Elder Pang Dian’s expression showed extreme shock.
He never would have imagined that Zhou Chenjiang, having just leaped through Dragon Gate and not yet having time to display his prowess, would fall into such a prolonged bitter battle!
Yashan’s Jian Chou…
Others lived up to their reputation poorly, but this one was exactly the opposite!
Fudao Shanren in the middle was already about to slap his thigh and laugh!
Hahaha!
His little treasury was about to be saved!
Go Jian Chou girl, beat this Zhou Chenjiang to death for this old man! Win old Pang Dian’s little treasury and this mountain man will share two more pieces with you!
Wu Duan, who had been there for a while on the right, now had eyes full of brilliance.
A battle between Foundation Establishment peak and Golden Core early stage could actually be so varied and spectacular!
Zhou Chenjiang, who could last eleven moves under Xie Buchen’s hands, was indeed extraordinary. However, what surprised him more was Jian Chou. If at the Western Sea he had only thought she was indeed excellent—skilled, decisive, worthy of being Yashan’s Senior Martial Sister—then what appeared before him now was a completely qualified berserker!
Zhilin Sou ranking her at one hundred would probably trap countless arrogant fools who underestimated her!
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
…
On the river surface, the moon had reached its zenith.
Qu Zhengfeng’s gaze was also fixed tightly on Zhou Chenjiang, on those neatly arranged dragon scales, which seemed to follow some mysterious arrangement pattern.
His hands were behind his back, tucked in his sleeves.
Except for Qu Zhengfeng himself, no one else could discover that his five fingers were rapidly calculating, as if computing something.
Reverse scale…
Where was the reverse scale?
Under his slightly narrowed eyes, light flashed rapidly through his calculations.
In the field.
Jian Chou’s figure was still an afterimage, but had slowed somewhat compared to before.
This was the moment!
Boom!
Another ice lotus exploded. This time, Zhou Chenjiang no longer dodged, standing straight in the distance, only striking out with lightning speed the moment the ice lotus exploded, viciously grasping toward Jian Chou’s afterimage!
Puff!
The giant ice sword finally struck Zhou Chenjiang’s body hard!
Blood scattered!
Zhou Chenjiang was injured, but Jian Chou showed no joy, instead becoming extremely wary!
A golden claw shadow attacked, like a golden dragon’s claw, that golden light like a shadow cast by the setting sun—brilliant to the extreme!
Jian Chou, who had been “surrounding” him, was caught off guard by his sudden attack!
He had taken this sword deliberately to severely wound her!
Her pupils contracted as she instinctively tried to avoid it.
However, at this moment, Zhou Chenjiang’s golden pupils contracted and dilated, faintly emanating something.
Jian Chou’s mind scattered for that instant.
The next moment, alarm bells rang!
Too late!
In just that moment of distraction, Zhou Chenjiang’s five fingers formed claws, already landing on her shoulder!
Intense pain struck!
Five bloody holes immediately appeared!
Pop!
The spirit bead embedded in her shoulder joint finally shattered under this claw’s tremendous force!
A massive tearing force immediately came from Zhou Chenjiang’s five fingers. If this claw landed fully, Jian Chou would lose an arm!
She gritted her teeth, forcing down the intense pain, suddenly raising her head to look into Zhou Chenjiang’s eyes!
Golden pupils!
Every clear word from the Black Wind Cave walls appeared in Jian Chou’s mind at this moment. Though only a short passage, it seemed to want to burst her entire brain!
As if reflecting the pale gold in Zhou Chenjiang’s eyes, a trace of faint gold also appeared in her eyes—
Pale gold!
In that moment, Zhou Chenjiang only felt that the flesh and blood under his hand, which should have been easily destroyed, suddenly became hard.
As if scale-like things were floating up from Jian Chou’s shoulder.
However, through the layer of clothing, he couldn’t confirm what this was.
It was a…
Very familiar feeling.
Zhou Chenjiang even saw the layer of golden light in Jian Chou’s eyes, but upon blinking realized it was only his own pupil’s reflection in her eyes!
Was it?
Or wasn’t it?
Zhou Chenjiang became uncertain.
This was the moment!
In battle, no matter what happened, distraction was taboo!
The opportunity had come. Jian Chou unhesitatingly shook her shoulder, allowing Zhou Chenjiang’s five fingers to leave five striking bloody marks on her shoulder, immediately escaping while simultaneously sweeping out viciously with her leg!
A hurricane was brought forth by this leg, immediately striking Zhou Chenjiang!
Bang!
His body immediately flew backward!
Splash!
A massive wave exploded layer by layer on the river surface!
At this moment, Zhou Chenjiang finally realized he had made a grave error in this battle!
Unfortunately, Jian Chou had already completely seized this opportunity and was swiftly counterattacking!
Clean and efficient, without a moment’s hesitation!
She calmly crouched down, extremely close to the river surface, opening her body’s acupoints to the extreme. The wind on the river suddenly grew stronger!
Whoosh whoosh…
Her moon-white robes, stained with patches of bright red blood, danced with the wind!
Her hands formed claws pointing downward. Jian Chou exerted slight force, actually forcibly pulling out a stream of the wide Nine-Head River, like grasping a dancing giant serpent or a soaring dragon, hurling it toward Zhou Chenjiang!
Splash!
Clear river water, silvered by moonlight, surged forward!
Zhou Chenjiang was already on high alert.
He knew Jian Chou wouldn’t waste this excellent opportunity—
The next moment, countless winds were gathered into her body, concentrated, then struck out only from her palms.
Wind blades—overwhelming wind blades!
Some gray-black, some ice-blue, varying in depth and shade, but densely packed like a locust swarm, forming a dragon made of wind blades that actually caught up with the water dragon ahead in an instant!
The moment the first wind blade climbed onto the water dragon, a crisp “crack” was heard!
The soft water dragon instantly solidified, transforming into an ice dragon at a speed faster than the water dragon itself, ferociously pouncing forward!
Fierce aura filled the entire river surface!
Bang!
Water flowers bloomed on the river surface.
Those were the waves formed when Zhou Chenjiang stepped on the water to retreat and dissipate force!
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
…
The ice dragon came fiercely. Zhou Chenjiang’s dragon-scale-covered palms firmly grasped the dragon’s head, but couldn’t completely dissipate that massive impact force, not to mention the endless wind blades behind him!
The ice dragon continued solidifying without limit!
In just the blink of an eye, Zhou Chenjiang had already retreated a full thirty zhang!
On the river surface, a fierce ice dragon with grotesque water-splash ice spikes covered its body, winding thirty zhang!
Pop!
Another massive wave exploded under his feet!
Zhou Chenjiang gritted his teeth hard, suddenly roaring!
“Roar—”
Dragon’s roar!
The long, resonant call directly faced this fierce ice dragon!
Pop.
A tiny crack suddenly appeared on the ice dragon’s body, then expanded at terrifying speed!
Sound waves spread in layers, the entire river churning with endless angry waves.
Even the countless wind blades from Jian Chou’s palms rolled back at this moment, even cutting her own body, instantly covering her and the river surface beneath her feet in blood.
She stood quietly in place, letting the hurricane brought by the dragon’s roar pass over her.
Moon-white robes, raven-black hair.
Flying.
The massive dragon roar finally gradually weakened and faded.
In its mournful final note, the ice dragon let out a “crack” of lamentation, finally shattering completely the moment the dragon roar disappeared, transforming into countless streams of water like a falling galaxy, plunging into the river and creating rippling waves between Jian Chou and Zhou Chenjiang, separated by dozens of zhang.
The dragon scales on Zhou Chenjiang’s body rapidly receded, finally all hiding in his brow.
His face had turned pale.
But he had still won.
The corner of his mouth curved up, a slight smile blooming.
However…
Just as this smile appeared, with a “crack,” Zhou Chenjiang’s body suddenly stiffened!
At the back of his neck, a chilling cold suddenly appeared! As if about to pierce through the skin at the back of his neck!
The four observers on the river all showed expressions of disbelief and extreme admiration.
On the river surface, Zhou Chenjiang turned around at an extremely slow speed.
Then he saw a scene he would never forget in this lifetime—
An ice-blue lotus, like a beauty under the moon, quietly bloomed three zhang before him. From the lotus heart burst a giant ice sword, like a massive icicle hanging from a glacier, sharp and cold, pointing directly at his throat as he turned.
Before he turned, it had pointed at the back of his neck.
Beyond this ice sword, on the river surface, were tens, hundreds more ice swords!
Even in places his eyes could reach, there were groups of wind blades hidden on the dark river surface, colliding with each other, rapidly generating new ice swords.
Endless.
The same color, the same size, all—
Aimed at him alone!
A magnificent and shocking expanse of blue!
Full river of blue, full river of lotus, full river of swords!
Jian Chou stood thirty-odd zhang behind him, her previously injured arm now raised with difficulty.
Her five fingers, stained with blood, formed a rigid arc, loosely cupped.
She had little strength left, but locking onto Zhou Chenjiang with her energy was more than sufficient. As long as he dared move even slightly, she could immediately use these hundreds and thousands of wind-wrapped ice swords to turn Zhou Chenjiang into a proper porcupine!
The dangerous feeling—Zhou Chenjiang naturally understood.
He didn’t move, or perhaps had no strength left to move.
After a long time, he blinked slightly and asked: “When?”
“When I was using the same move to surround you.”
The smile on Jian Chou’s face finally became incomparably sincere.
Zhou Chenjiang suddenly couldn’t say a word.
What meticulous planning?
This magnificent expanse of ice swords before him had all been laid while surrounding him earlier. She had been gradually driving him into a trap. When both were exhausted, she only needed to preserve a tiny bit of spiritual energy to control the entire situation at this moment.
He remembered his master Pang Dian had once praised his exceptional talent when first instructing him in combat.
However…
Compared to Jian Chou now pointing thousands of ice swords at him, what did that amount to?
Keen and intuitive, lacking nothing; meticulous and cold-blooded, possessing both!
Battle talent?
Battle talent!
Jian Chou stood behind, tilting her head slightly, watching his back.