Splash…

Rain pounded the deep sea, waves surging.

Wu Duan stood on his white bone sword suspended in mid-air, his body tense. After hearing Qu Zhengfeng speak those two words, he could hardly believe it.

Tremendous pressure accompanied those spoken words, “draw sword.”

Qu Zhengfeng’s gaze held an inexplicable coldness in the wind and rain.

An astonishing sword intent surged from that originally gentle Sea Light Sword, as if venting all the ocean’s roaring fury.

Yet in the world of swords, there was only silent stillness.

He felt the white bone sword beneath his feet, as if sensing the Sea Light Sword’s intent, began trembling with excitement, bit by bit vibrating, casting off crimson light fragments.

Draw sword?

Wu Duan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Yashan’s belligerence?

If only Yashan were belligerent, did that mean Kunwu wasn’t?

Wu Duan said nothing, only suspended in mid-air, slowly extending his hand to his side.

The white bone sword gradually floated up, grasped in his palm.

The rain was too wild and heavy, obscuring vision, yet unable to extinguish burning battle intent.

Wu Duan’s body slowly sank, his robes soaked by rain, clinging tightly to his back, outlining an extremely dangerous curve.

He was like a fully drawn bow, gathering momentum.

Initial explanations, earlier surprise—all vanished.

Wu Duan’s five fingers tightened as he said in a low voice: “Kunwu, White Bone Dragon Sword, Wu Duan, requests Senior Brother Qu’s guidance!”

As his words fell, his entire being transformed into crimson light, tearing through this dimly lit vast sea!

Like a fierce flame ripping through darkness!

The person followed the white bone sword’s path. Wu Duan’s momentum was extremely fierce!

Qu Zhengfeng’s sword tip pointed diagonally downward, his stern gaze gradually becoming lighter.

When diving to investigate earlier, he’d felt this wasn’t good weather.

Indeed, it wasn’t.

However, this was weather suitable for bloodshed.

The curve of his lips slowly lifted as Qu Zhengfeng’s figure flashed, directly breaking through the wind and emerging!

Raindrops fell from the sky, covering the entire Western Sea.

Sharp rain beads struck the unbroken ice on the sea like beating war drums!

Countless sounds filled their ears, yet none could match what echoed through heaven and earth in this vast rain curtain—

Sword song!

Jian Chou, Jiang He, and others stood aside, watching the brilliant light blooming before them with near amazement.

Wu Duan’s sword was the White Bone Dragon Sword, forged from dragon bone grinding, releasing blood light that filled the sky when drawn, as if sealing fierce souls within. When blood light emerged, it seemed a giant dragon’s roar echoed through the heavens!

Compared to Wu Duan’s sword’s magnificent momentum, Qu Zhengfeng’s Sea Light Sword remained seemingly gentle.

Flowing blue light emerged as if from the deep sea itself, utterly natural, with a feeling of the sea embracing all rivers.

One rigid, one flexible; one fierce, one mild.

It seemed to be reaching an exciting moment.

Jian Chou unconsciously glanced at the sea…

She still remembered when she first stood on the Sea Light Sword, Qu Zhengfeng’s words: “The sword is named Sea Light, forged from a thousand-year sea jade from a thousand zhang beneath the Western Sea.”

At this moment, Qu Zhengfeng, holding the Sea Light Sword, seemed to merge with the great sea.

Jian Chou believed that if she closed her eyes, she could sense Wu Duan’s presence but not Qu Zhengfeng’s!

Nearly perfect breath concealment!

At this moment, Qu Zhengfeng not only surpassed Wu Duan in cultivation but also held the advantages of timing and terrain.

What Jian Chou could perceive, Wu Duan naturally could as well. Where the White Bone Dragon Sword struck, blood light filled the sky.

Qu Zhengfeng’s sword work had a quality of using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds, coming and going, deflecting the White Bone Dragon Sword’s power back.

On the sea surface, rain intensified.

Dense rain carried thunder, rolling forth. Under the rain curtain, one red and one blue shadow flashed from the sea surface to the sky.

Jian Chou couldn’t help but raise her eyes to follow.

Qu Zhengfeng’s hand was steady, holding his sword with a feeling of blood-connected hearts.

With the Sea Light Sword on the sea, this was already his kingdom and domain.

Clang!

A fierce sword strike collided, the massive spiritual light carried by both swords exploded, ring-shaped air waves immediately surging outward, separating the two figures!

Even Jian Chou and others standing farther away were invaded by this spiritual energy fluctuation, somewhat unsteady, retreating considerably before stabilizing in mid-air.

In that moment, they retreated, but Qu Zhengfeng advanced instead of retreating!

Only retreating three zhang, he pointed the Sea Light Sword toward the sea surface, and towering waves rose from behind, sending Qu Zhengfeng’s entire body back.

The surging waves rose to Qu Zhengfeng’s feet, and he rode them thus, delivering another sword strike!

“Whoosh!”

Three water tornadoes shot skyward from the sea surface with tremendous momentum!

The massive water sounds even drowned out the thunder between heaven and earth!

They roared and shouted as if alive, then turned their “heads” and all pounced toward Wu Duan, standing on the sea surface!

Wu Duan swung his white bone sword, creating a crimson light like a wall, centered above his head, spreading in all directions like a mirror.

As the three water tornadoes descended from heaven, he blocked them outside the mirror surface!

“Boom!”

Deafening collision sounds!

Massive vibrations!

Heavy seawater rushed forward with momentum, exploding with tremendous impact force upon falling.

Wu Duan originally stood in high air without support. In this instant, as ten thousand pounds of weight crashed down, he felt his blood surging as if struck on the head.

His entire body fell downward like a stone!

Bang!

The ice surface was smashed into a huge hole.

Water tornadoes followed closely, frantically pouncing!

Crack.

The hundred-zhang-wide ice surface finally couldn’t withstand such tremendous impact force and suddenly shattered!

For a moment, on the sea surface where water splashed everywhere, ice blocks were also scattered. After a period of frantic explosion, they rejoined the boundless seawater, becoming transparent.

The central black reef finally revealed its true form again.

However, in this moment of pouring rain and towering waves, it was like a lone boat that could capsize at any time!

After Wu Duan crashed through the ice surface, he finally disappeared.

The battle seemed to enter a momentary pause.

Qu Zhengfeng stood in mid-air holding his sword, completely calm, as if he’d done nothing before. He scanned the sea surface.

The waves gradually calmed.

Where had Wu Duan gone?

An extreme sense of danger gradually surged in his heart.

Jian Chou watched Qu Zhengfeng, seeing the Sea Light Sword in his hand glowing dark blue, then deep blue, as if catalyzed to its limit in this moment. His gaze seemed to track some point, slowly roaming the sea surface, from near to far, far to near.

In the vast deep sea, only the sound of rain continuously falling.

Qu Zhengfeng’s hair was completely soaked by rain, his bare upper body also appeared somewhat sturdy, and when gripping his long sword tightly, some strong muscles were revealed.

His solid back, stained red with old wound blood, was also washed by rain, gradually fading to reveal the old wound’s original color.

Hideous, terrifying.

Yet his spine was straight as a long spear.

His roaming gaze finally gradually stopped.

That point was locked on.

Something seemed to float in the air, extremely tense.

But Qu Zhengfeng’s aura became extremely faint in that moment.

Where his gaze fell, beneath the sea surface, a long white shadow seemed to flash by, as if something was swimming beneath the surface.

Just as that white shadow appeared, a massive wave shot skyward!

Accompanying the rising wave, mixed within, was a huge white bone dragon!

The dragon’s body was very long. The moment it burst from the seawater, torrential rain struck the dragon bones, and water splashed everywhere.

Fierce bone spurs protruded outward. When the dragon’s head raised, the earth-shaking dragon roar echoed!

In that instant, Jian Chou and others heard no rain sounds, no thunder…

Only their breathing sounds and this dragon roar!

White Bone Dragon Sword!

Thus it was named!

Wu Duan’s figure was already invisible.

He seemed to have transformed with this sword into this ancient bone dragon.

No sword, only dragon!

The bone dragon burst from the seabed, arching its body at extreme speed. In just a blink, it had locked onto Qu Zhengfeng’s qi mechanism.

Qu Zhengfeng, standing in place, seemed shocked by this ancient dragon’s pressure, not moving at all!

The white bone dragon’s eyes suddenly lit with two excited red lights!

From those empty pupils, Jian Chou saw Wu Duan’s gaze!

This was an excited gaze, the gaze of one about to defeat an opponent.

The seemingly massive bone dragon body, after arching, struck toward Qu Zhengfeng like lightning!

Qu Zhengfeng, standing above the sea surface, was upright as a sword, bright and upright like the entire Yashan mountain.

He didn’t draw his sword, didn’t even let the Sea Light Sword’s light emerge.

Only…

This sword became extremely deep blue, like flowing seawater.

Boom!

The white bone dragon finally struck!

Compared to the dragon’s massive body, Qu Zhengfeng’s existence was too insignificant.

Wu Duan thought that under this strike, Qu Zhengfeng would surely die on the spot.

There was even a shocked cry nearby: “Second Senior Brother!”

However, as the fierce bone dragon pierced through Qu Zhengfeng’s body, boundless seawater suddenly fell from the air!

Qu Zhengfeng’s body transformed into flowing seawater, becoming massive water splashes that scattered in all directions upon the bone dragon’s impact!

For a moment, rain curtains, heaven, and earth were all water splashes.

Under the bone dragon’s strike, Qu Zhengfeng’s body disappeared!

Wu Duan realized, but it was already too late…

The bone dragon’s body was too massive. This strike was his certain-victory attack. Once launched, its momentum continued, falling straight toward the sea surface on the other side.

Just as the dragon’s body was about to crash into the sea surface, countless seawater suddenly appeared from nowhere in the air behind the bone dragon, gradually solidifying.

Qu Zhengfeng, with blood at the corner of his mouth, emerged from the seawater.

The bone dragon’s earlier strike hadn’t left him uninjured, but borrowing some quality of the Sea Light Sword and the advantage of being on the sea, he managed to escape.

This was an extremely risky move!

However, once successful…

Cold light flashed in his eyes.

Raising his sword, Qu Zhengfeng’s movements were remarkably slow, carrying a nearly cruel elegance and venom.

He slowly stepped through the air, walking behind the bone dragon.

The bone dragon was still falling toward the sea, but seemed to sense the danger behind it, struggling desperately to turn around!

Red spiritual fire flickered angrily in the bone dragon’s hollow eyes.

It finally turned around with difficulty, seeing only Qu Zhengfeng’s raised right hand.

Hand up, sword down!

A nearly sky-blue light line, carrying extremely refined power, instantly descended!

The bone dragon’s gray-white skeleton was immediately scored by this light!

No…

How was this possible?

They were both Nascent Soul stage!

The strength Qu Zhengfeng displayed far exceeded!

Nascent Soul Peak for one hundred thirty years, never advancing an inch!

What kind of transcendent understanding had time’s accumulation given Qu Zhengfeng, who’d been immersed in this realm for so long?

Wu Duan didn’t know.

He only knew that as that pure blue light struck toward the White Bone Dragon Sword, everything was already over.

The white bone dragon roared skyward, uttering its final groan.

The massive dragon bone was severed at the waist by this sword!

Two sections of the bone body, falling into the deep sea one after another, transformed from substance to nothingness!

A flash of blood light passed, and the white bone sword and Wu Duan finally revealed their true forms, falling straight into the deep sea.

However—

What Wu Duan hadn’t expected was that it wasn’t over yet!

The moment his figure was revealed, Qu Zhengfeng’s figure also appeared beside him!

A direct, clean kick!

Bang!

Wu Duan felt his chest struck by tremendous force, his entire body like being hit by a heavy hammer, flying straight into the distance!

The vast sea surface seemed gentle, but when a person fell from high altitude without protection, it was like being slapped directly against a hard mountain wall!

In that instant, Wu Duan spat a mouthful of fresh blood and was finally buried by the endless seawater…

One battle, victory.

Qu Zhengfeng held his sword, stepping on the waves, rainwater falling along his facial contours, instantly revealing an indescribable firmness and coldness.

Only now did Jian Chou recall Jiang He and others’ fear of him.

Looking at his ruthless, cunning, vicious strikes…

A completely tough character!

Absolutely not to be trifled with!

An inexplicable sense of shock surged in her heart—

Was this Yashan’s former chief disciple?

A breath of stale air, held for so long, was finally slowly exhaled.

Jian Chou’s heartbeat was still somewhat fast.

Qu Zhengfeng stood in place, looking at Wu Duan’s nearly unconscious figure on the sea surface, finally blinking slightly. No longer caring about Wu Duan’s life or death, he turned to fly toward Jian Chou and others.

Mo Yuanxing watched him with near-terrified eyes, trembling with fear.

As a Nascent Soul stage cultivator of the same realm as Wu Duan, probably only Mo Yuanxing here could understand how terrifying and amazing Qu Zhengfeng’s transformation into seawater and water condensation technique had been!

As long as he held the Sea Light Sword on this sea, he was a nearly immortal, invincible existence!

Nascent Soul Peak?

Nascent Soul Peak!

Seeing Qu Zhengfeng approaching, Mo Yuanxing felt someone gripping his throat tightly, about to suffocate.

The battle’s residual power still enveloped him, making him appear cold and unapproachable.

Jiang He shrank his neck, seeing Qu Zhengfeng like this, almost ready to cry.

How long had it been?

How long since he’d seen Second Senior Brother angry?

The Second Senior Brother had cultivated his character for so many years. Suddenly this damned Wu Duan came and awakened Qu Zhengfeng’s nearly ferocious nature. Would their junior brothers’ future days be easy?

Jiang He wanted to follow the unlucky Wu Duan and dive into the sea, never to emerge.

But thinking carefully, who on this sea surface could be more formidable than Qu Zhengfeng?

Damn, hiding inside would be even more suicidal!

Thus, Jiang He forcibly stopped that impulse, forcing himself to stand in place with an ugly smile.

Wei Xiang, who’d been shouting “Senior Sister Jian Chou is so handsome” earlier, now felt her knees go weak. If not for being on the sea surface, she would probably have knelt directly to him the moment Qu Zhengfeng approached.

So… so strong!

Were all Yashan cultivators this terrifying?

Wei Xiang felt all her hair standing on end!

Only Jian Chou remained relatively calm.

She watched Qu Zhengfeng slowly approaching, her gaze sweeping past the huge scar on his chest.

Between Qu Zhengfeng and Kunwu, there was probably some great enmity.

Perhaps this Second Senior Brother was quite to her taste.

Jian Chou smiled.

She looked at Qu Zhengfeng, but he suddenly frowned.

Jian Chou was surprised, then a hair-raising feeling suddenly struck her!

Almost simultaneously, Qu Zhengfeng also flashed over directly, striking the Sea Light Sword across the sea surface, creating a wave wall that rose from the surface, slapping Jian Chou and others toward him!

Left hand Jiang He, right hand Jian Chou, Qu Zhengfeng steadily caught both!

Beneath where they’d originally stood, the reef revealed on the sea surface suddenly trembled!

That feeling was like a terrifying beast finally awakening from its nap, moving slightly…

Great Dream Reef slowly rose from the seabed.

Countless seawater rushed down from the reef as it rose, splashing huge white waves!

Like the entire seabed being overturned.

The sea surface suddenly seemed to boil, rolling waves flying up!

Rumble…

Tremendous sounds shook the entire heaven and sea.

Great Dream Reef kept rising, rising continuously.

Countless fish and shrimp originally inhabiting around the reef all scattered in panic at this moment, fleeing desperately in all directions from Great Dream Reef as the center, a spectacular sight!

Jian Chou had originally looked down at Great Dream Reef, but now raised her head higher and higher, changing to looking up!

Too high, too high!

The Great Dream Reef that originally exposed only a tiny bit above sea level had now become a small mountain on the surface!

When it reached some peak height, the rising speed finally slowed.

A small mountain fell sideways, slanting down!

The falling speed wasn’t fast, but the moment it fell, it splashed countless waves!

In these snow-white waves, a huge black shadow finally rose from the sea surface, like a corner of a giant fish’s tail fin!

Boom!

That tail fin corner moved gently on the sea surface, creating ten thousand zhang of rolling waves!

For a moment, the angry sea generated waves for thirty thousand li, rolling back toward the sky!

The entire rain curtain under the sky seemed to pause.

Originally, falling raindrops seemed to sense this terrifying power, not daring to fall, actually flying backward toward the sky and in all directions!

Jian Chou and others had to continuously rise to avoid being affected by the seawater.

Looking down in shock, they saw that this wave’s range was extremely wide, actually extending thousands of li, covering the entire sea surface!

Rolling waves suddenly struck the northern and southern Western Sea shores, as if the entire Shijiu Zhou land trembled with it!

At the seaside, whether Wangjiang Tower, Wanghai Tower, or the northernmost Nanhai Chan Sect, and finally countless large and small coastal sects, all felt this tremendous trembling…

On Shijiu Zhou’s land, countless powerful cultivators looked up in shock!

Kunwu, Hall of All Heavens.

At the moment, the Western Sea stirred as if the entire seabed would be overturned. True Person Hengxu, sitting in the hall, couldn’t control the huge star disc stored within his body!

Countless flowing mercury-like light frantically poured from his back, swirling and condensing at the Hall of All Heavens’ highest point!

A sword-like silver light pierced through the entire star disc!

True Person Hengxu suddenly opened his eyes, and beneath his usually emotionless gaze, he couldn’t help but reveal indescribable shock.

Western Sea, the Kun awakens!

Supreme demon and evil will emerge in the world!

On Shijiu Zhou’s land, great chaos will arise.

Would this be Kunwu’s catastrophe?

In that instant, he slowly stood up, his gaze from the extremely high Hall of All Heavens projecting toward the distance, seeming to pierce through layers of mist and rain curtains, reaching that storm-covered, furious-wave-towering Western Sea!

The vast Western Sea was comparable to the entire Shijiu Zhou land.

At this moment on the seabed, a dark shadow gradually emerged, already covering the entire visible sea surface. People standing on the sea surface would only feel the seawater beneath their feet darkening, but standing much higher, one could glimpse the entire seabed’s emerging outline.

This was a fish.

A fish called “Kun”!

Countless seawaters surged for it, vast and boundless.

In the Northern Dark, there is a fish, its name is Kun. The Kun is so huge, no one knows how many thousands of li…

Great Dream Reef had fallen, and that giant sleeping in ancient legend had finally awakened.

That shadow seemingly covering the entire Western Sea slowly emerged from the seabed, exposing only an island-like tip of the iceberg on the sea surface before slowly sinking back down.

Another wave rolled backward as it slowly sank.

Humans are so tiny, the sea so vast.

Jian Chou, standing on the sea surface, was like a small dot, as if one wave could slap her down.

On the huge Ghost Axe, countless ghost shadows, stirred by this heaven and earth transformation, finally all emerged, floating around Jian Chou as if protecting her.

Looking far away, that slowly emerging “island” was very flat, seemingly just a tiny portion of that fish’s back.

On that “island,” a tiny shadow also stood.

A youth.

Green-blue robe edges, worn and old, with ancient patterns covering every corner of this outfit.

Too far to see his expression or appearance.

But that posture seemed carved into Jian Chou’s heart.

The island slowly sank, covered by boundless seawater.

Rain continued falling.

Making Jian Chou’s vision blurry.

The youth’s shadow also slowly sank with that island, finally covered by endless seawater, disappearing.

Mayflies are but heaven and earth’s most minute, like a grain in the vast sea, the tip of autumn hair; while Kun is the fish of the Northern Dark, vast for thousands of li.

Using heaven and earth’s minuteness to command heaven and earth’s vastness.

He stood on Kun’s back, a tiny shadow, yet seeming to stand alone beyond the world, slowly disappearing into the deep blue seawater…

Kun headed southwest.

A huge black shadow slowly passed beneath the sea surface under Jian Chou and others’ feet.

After an unknown time, the deep blue ink-like seawater finally became clear and bright as if illuminated by sunlight.

Great Dream Reef had vanished like a great dream.

As far as the eye could see, only boundless seawater.

Jian Chou looked far in the direction where that black shadow disappeared, but had an extremely clear thought in her heart:

It was him.