Jun Changxiao communicated his consciousness into the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, and his soul instantly merged inside.
It was an independent space. Inside stood a lifelike stone statue emanating an aura of righteousness reaching the heavens.
Silkworm brows, phoenix eyes, a five-strand long beard.
This was… Lord Guan!
Jun Changxiao hurriedly bowed with a respectful heart.
“Swish!”
Lord Guan’s eyes flickered with light, as if suddenly gaining life.
When Jun Changxiao bowed to Guan Gong, the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade in the outside world emanated cyan flowing light, gathering into a majestic phantom.
This was Guan Yu.
This was the Martial Saint’s Soul!
Although it had no physical form, the aura pervading from its body inspired awe!
“I am the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion, Guan Yunchang!”
Lord Guan raised his blade, his voice like a great bell, his words incomparably proud.
If martial cultivators were present, they would definitely be shaken to their souls.
But before him was a massive Stone Man that understood no sentiment. Not only did it show no reverence, it instead raised the mountain wall and viciously smashed down, erupting with power even stronger than before!
That detestable human had suddenly stopped—it had to seize the opportunity to pulverize him into meat paste!
“Whoosh whoosh!”
The stone wall pressed down overhead, wild winds howling!
Facing the fierce incoming tremendous power, Jun Changxiao’s heart didn’t panic at all. Gripping the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade tightly, his body bent slightly downward: “Lord Guan, please grant me strength.”
“Swish!”
The Martial Saint’s Soul’s eyes flashed with brilliance as cyan energy currents enveloped him.
“Whoosh whoosh!”
In an instant, cyan energy currents emanated from Jun Changxiao’s entire body, and the power in both arms rapidly increased!
How much had it increased?
He didn’t know. He had only one thought in his heart.
Swing the blade!
“Step!”
Jun Changxiao took a stride, the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade fiercely chopping toward the sky above. During this process, Lord Guan behind him also made a blade-swinging motion.
At that moment, the two seemed to merge into one!
“Whoosh—”
An incomparably powerful crescent-shaped energy shot forth.
The blade light streaked past, cutting through the descending mountain wall, instantly carving out a long, slender cyan blade mark.
“Crack crack crack!”
The mountain wall crumbled, directly splitting apart.
Jun Changxiao stood in place, his eyes flashing with cyan light, his expression incomparably proud!
The stone wall chopped in half crashed thunderously on both left and right sides, shaking the ground and raising dust in all directions.
With one blade strike, he severed the massive mountain stone that the Stone Man had hurled down with concentrated power—this was absolutely terrifying!
However.
The terror had only just begun!
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao leaped upward. Taking advantage of the Stone Man’s arms not yet withdrawn, the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade slashed over again.
Lord Guan behind him similarly assumed a blade-swinging posture, their movements synchronized.
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
Blade light flashed, cyan brilliance dazzling!
Rising to the highest point, Jun Changxiao held his blade and slashed forth again, shouting loudly: “I am the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion, Guan Yunchang!”
“Whoosh—”
Powerful cyan flowing light shot forth explosively, directly sweeping across the Stone Man’s head, gradually dissipating between heaven and earth after passing through.
“Step.”
Jun Changxiao landed on the ground, the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade held horizontally before him. Behind him, Lord Guan’s phantom also stood proudly, stroking his five-strand long beard—truly magnificent and extraordinary!
“Roar!”
The Stone Man let out a mournful roar. Its entire body immediately displayed cyan blade marks, finally beginning to crumble on a large scale.
Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the fierce beast as tall as a small mountain collapsed into a pile of stones.
“Whoosh!”
Jun Changxiao exhaled a breath.
Behind him, Lord Guan’s soul gradually dispersed, transforming into cyan energy currents that merged into the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.
Directly slaying the High Fifth Rank Stone Man—this special effect was truly powerful!
Rumble rumble!
At the sealed tunnel entrance, the terrain began to shake, gradually splitting apart, then returning to its previous appearance.
“Aiya, aiya!”
Su Xiaomo, who had painstakingly just climbed up the mountain wall, tragically fell down again as the terrain changed and suddenly retracted.
With the sealed entrance opened, Li Qingyang and the others rushed in hastily, immediately seeing the sect leader standing with blade in hand.
Everyone gathered around.
“Sect Leader.”
Xiao Zuoji said: “Are you alright?”
After saying this, he fell silent.
Because although Jun Changxiao stood holding his blade, magnificent and extraordinary, when they saw his face, his eyelids were rolled back and white foam spewed from his mouth—his appearance was quite miserable.
“Sigh.”
The system murmured: “The Azure Dragon Crescent Blade’s special effect is very strong. With the host’s current realm, tragedy was inevitable.”
…
Having relied on the Martial Saint’s Soul to slay the Stone Man, Jun Changxiao, due to using excessive force, had his muscles frozen stiffly in place, more statue-like than Lord Guan’s stone statue.
“Senior Brother, what is the sect leader doing standing there?”
“In my view, he should be cultivating his mental technique. Everyone, don’t disturb him.”
“He can even cultivate while standing—the sect leader is too formidable!”
The disciples surrounding Sect Leader Jun once again gazed with worship.
“Huh?”
Su Xiaomo looked at that pile of stones and jumped over in surprise.
Soon, he dug out a crystal core emanating heaviness from inside: “Senior Brother, there’s actually a crystal core in the stone pile!”
“This isn’t a stone pile.”
Li Qingyang’s expression was grave: “This should be a stone-element fierce beast!”
“What?”
Su Xiaomo was so frightened he hurriedly jumped down from it.
“Stone-element fierce beast?”
“That’s as rare an existence as lightning-element!”
“No wonder the tunnel entrance closed earlier, no wonder there was earth-shaking!”
“There are blade marks on the stones—the sect leader must have killed it!”
The Iron Bones Clanging Sect disciples discussed among themselves.
Ye Xingchen speculated secretly: “This stone-element fierce beast is definitely stronger than the Fire Dragon Beast. That he could kill it…”
Thinking this far, she looked at the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade Jun Changxiao gripped tightly and said firmly: “This blade’s quality should have already reached the supreme grade level!”
As expected, my sect leader has real substance!
…
One hour later.
Jun Changxiao’s muscles changed from stiff to soft. He also recovered to normal from foaming at the mouth, then sat on the Stone Man’s corpse, breathing heavily in and out.
Both blades were fierce.
However, the side effects they brought were damn terrible!
The system said: “The side effects of the Difficult-to-Sheath Blade cannot be avoided. If the host’s physical body were stronger, the side effects of activating the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade’s special effect could be avoided.”
“Are you deliberately saying I’m weak?” Jun Changxiao said.
The system was speechless.
The meaning of these words was that when his strength increased to a certain level, using the special effect wouldn’t have side effects anymore. Yet he specifically understood it as deliberately belittling him.
Jun Changxiao pulled up the mission panel. Seeing the countdown still had over 3 hours remaining, he said depressedly: “Might as well have given a kill mission for convenience.”
No help for it.
He had to wait until the time limit.
Jun Changxiao could only order his disciples to set up camp, then spend the night here.
During this time, he took out the mid-grade Sect Leader Ball and threw it at an empty area, shouting: “Go, Pikachu!”
“Whoosh—” The Sect Leader Ball flew forth.
Just before landing, the taiji pattern flashed with light, and the Purple Lightning Young Tiger, two or three meters in stature, immediately appeared!
“Roar!”
The Purple Lightning Young Tiger raised its head and roared furiously, lightning spraying forth—majestic and awe-inspiring!
However, after seeing the Stone Man’s corpse, it instantly tucked its tail and ran behind its master’s rear, its eyes showing humanized wariness.
“…”
Jun Changxiao’s face filled with black lines.
Please, you’re a lightning-element tiger beast—how can you be this cowardly!