Lend?
How was this lending?
This was clearly robbery!
Gu Qingmei simply couldn’t believe that standing before her was the eldest senior sister of Yashan. How dare she be so shameless!
For a moment, she trembled even more violently, clenching her teeth and showing an expression of extreme anger, yet her heart was engaged in intense internal struggle.
To lend meant never getting it back; not to lend…
Earlier, when trapped under that fish eye’s radiance, they had all thought Jian Chou had suffered terrible misfortune and would surely endure hardship.
But unexpectedly, she had emerged completely unharmed, even with divine light gathering in her eyes. Not only was she uninjured, but her cultivation seemed to have improved by a thread!
Not lend?
Then it would be a battle!
Due to the residual radiance from attacking the fish eye earlier, Gu Qingmei had already sustained minor injuries. She never expected Jian Chou to suddenly break free and attack, resulting in injury upon injury.
Counting on her fingers, she had accumulated quite a few wounds, large and small.
How unlucky she was!
In her current state, if she fought Jian Chou, what chance did she have of victory?
Gu Qingmei stood there, her eyes flickering, struggling and hesitating, truly in extreme agony.
Jian Chou only asked quietly: “Have you considered it?”
“…”
For a moment, Gu Qingmei said nothing. Her fingers clutched tightly at a Sky-Reaching Platform Seal at her waist, the curved arc extremely rigid, seemingly filled with ten thousand reluctances.
Seeing her actions, Qian Que was stunned for a long time before finally pounding the table and laughing wildly in his heart!
Serves you right for being so arrogant!
Serves you right for being so rampant!
Serves you right for stabbing people in the back!
Dumbfounded now, aren’t you?
Confused now, aren’t you?
Know you were wrong now?!!
Know you’ve met your match now?
Too late!
Qian Que was already celebrating completely in his heart!
With a sideways glance, Gu Qingmei could see Qian Que’s barely contained wild joy, and killing intent couldn’t help but burst forth in her eyes!
Her fingers had already taken down that Sky-Reaching Platform Seal.
Seeing this, Jian Chou pondered for a moment, then with a thought, the fish eye she had previously collected suddenly flashed with faint flowing light, and the previously tightly closed great door rumbled open!
In the dim Fish Eye Tomb, a ray of light finally shone through.
Qian Que was slightly surprised.
“This is…”
Jian Chou glanced at him: “Why aren’t you leaving quickly?”
Leave quickly?
Qian Que was stunned, then looked at Jian Chou, his mind unable to keep up with the rhythm.
But then, seeing Gu Qingmei completely under Jian Chou’s aura, he suddenly understood: Good heavens, Jian Chou only borrowed one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal from Gu Qingmei, so Gu Qingmei still had one left.
Jian Chou had gathered ten seals to pass through, but what about himself?
He still had one seal!
“Holy shit! Fairy Jian Chou, you can’t trick me like this!”
Just thinking this, all of Qian Que’s hair stood on end, and he screamed in fright.
Why aren’t you leaving quickly?
Leave?
Leave my ass!
He needed to run!
Despite his serious injuries, when Qian Que got up from the ground, his movements were swift and decisive. He poured pills into his mouth like they cost nothing, mournfully turning his backside: “Life-threatening! Life-threatening!”
Saying this, he shot into the sky without hesitation!
His broken golden abacus glowed with six feet of golden light again, carrying him straight into the white mist outside!
The magical artifact’s radiance left a meteor-like tail flame!
Jian Chou shouldered her axe, watching with some amusement.
Qian Que’s laughter, suddenly gaining new life and exhilaration, echoed throughout the misty sky: “Hahaha, this old man is out! This old man is out! You little bastards, this old man still made it out!”
“Kunwu disciple Gu Qingmei is shameless, attacking companions, attacking Yashan’s eldest senior sister, shameless!”
“Fairy Jian Chou’s life-saving grace, Qian Que will never forget until death, and will surely repay with tied grass and jade ring in the future!”
“This Qian takes his leave first!”
“Hahaha…”
…
Completely vanished without a trace.
But these words…
Everyone still looking up from the foot of Kunwei Mountain was stunned.
After Jian Chou’s team entered the Fish Eye Tomb, nothing could be seen, so everyone’s attention had turned to other groups. Who would have thought that as the number of people in the misty sky dwindled, the Fish Eye Tomb still showed no movement.
Until just now, several figures flew out of the misty sky in a bedraggled state, crashing to the ground unconscious, and everyone knew something major had happened in the Fish Eye Tomb!
Sure enough, shortly after, that tightly closed fierce door opened.
But what did this “Meng Xizhou” mean by his words?
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Kunwu disciple Gu Qingmei was shameless? Attacking companions? Attacking Yashan’s eldest senior sister?
This…
How was this possible?
Everyone immediately looked at each other in confusion.
On the field, Yashan’s eldest senior sister Jian Chou and the weak, pale Kunwu’s Gu Qingmei still stood face to face.
They really had gotten into a fight.
The moment Qian Que ran out, everyone’s attention turned completely to the Fish Eye Tomb!
Seeing Qian Que had escaped, Gu Qingmei ground her teeth in secret hatred.
Jian Chou also glanced at the opened door, a thin light flashing in her eyes. Seeing that Gu Qingmei clutched that Sky-Reaching Platform Seal and couldn’t bear to hand it over, she only laughed once: “Sister Gu.”
This call brought Gu Qingmei’s attention back.
Her fingers tightly gripping that Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, her gaze fell back on Jian Chou, with quite a bit of teeth-gnashing flavor: “Bullying with power, pressing aggressively – is this Yashan’s style?”
“Of course not.”
Jian Chou smiled slightly, extremely calm.
“This is Sister Gu’s style as a Kunwu disciple!”
“You!”
Gu Qingmei glared angrily.
Jian Chou’s delicate eyebrows coldly arched: “Sky-Reaching Platform Seal!”
Give it or not!
“Hmph.”
With a cold snort, Gu Qingmei seemed to steel her heart, yanking the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal down and extending it forward: “Isn’t it just one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal?”
Now she acted generous.
Jian Chou raised her hand to take the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal from Gu Qingmei’s hand.
But the moment her fingertips touched this gray-black Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, an extremely cold, icy sensation transmitted from the seal!
Indeed, there was treachery!
Jian Chou abruptly raised her head and saw the triumphant smile on Gu Qingmei’s face!
“Want to borrow a Sky-Reaching Platform Seal? Wishful thinking!”
Her fingers tapped three times on the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, and immediately a layer of deep blue ice covered it!
The cold qi took shape, shooting out like sharp swords!
Gu Qingmei’s plan was very clear.
Jian Chou shouldn’t have, absolutely shouldn’t have helped Qian Que open the door and let her see a ray of hope!
The reason she had to compromise earlier was because the space was cramped, she couldn’t fight Jian Chou head-on, and there was nowhere to escape. But now Jian Chou had broken this enclosed space herself!
This was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity – she’d never encounter such a foolish person again!
So she pretended to agree to give the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal while actually sabotaging it beforehand.
Caught off guard, as soon as Jian Chou touched it, she would surely withdraw her hand.
If she then followed up with a heavy strike, with good luck she could severely injure Jian Chou, and even with bad luck, she could escape with the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal!
Her mental calculations clattered loudly, but the thought lasted only an instant!
After those sword-like cold qi shot out, Gu Qingmei instinctively pulled back!
Pull…
She couldn’t pull it back!
The palm-sized Sky-Reaching Platform Seal could no longer show its original color, looking like a piece of deep blue ice, with piercing cold qi!
But Jian Chou’s fingers resting on it showed no sign of movement whatsoever, steady as a rock.
How was this possible!
Seeing this, Gu Qingmei felt like someone had hammered her head hard!
Her ice stab technique – though her cultivation was shallow, because the Dao seal itself was sophisticated, even with her shallow cultivation she could kill people unprepared and defenseless!
This technique had been repeatedly successful before. Why had it lost its effect today?
She didn’t know that Jian Chou’s specialty was body cultivation, not to mention she had already practiced the five-layer “Human Weapon” body cultivation method.
Using black ice stabs to attack her?
She was hitting exactly the right spot!
Pure black bone patterns emerged through her body, and almost the instant the cold qi condensed into black ice stabs, they were already crushed to pieces!
“Bang!”
The extremely shocked Gu Qingmei had no time to think about what had gone wrong before feeling tremendous force transmitted from that Sky-Reaching Platform Seal!
Terrible!
She’d been calculated against!
Gu Qingmei was furious, hastily raising her ice sword, and in this extremely close distance with Jian Chou, thrust out a fierce ice dragon!
“Die!”
Breaking through Foundation Establishment and forming a Golden Core within two years, with Kunwu’s powerful foundation supporting her.
Every Dao seal Gu Qingmei cultivated could be said to be carefully selected.
Especially this ice dragon thrust out in desperation – it could be called a rare exceptional performance under crisis!
The ice sword’s tip immediately surged with snow-white light, endless cold qi pouring out, condensing into a massive ice dragon!
Exquisite dragon horns, a crystal-like body – under the ordinary light of the misty sky, it actually had a brilliant, shining feeling!
Such a beautiful, cold ice dragon!
In this instant, countless people held their breath!
How narrow was the gap between Jian Chou and Gu Qingmei?
The ice dragon, as soon as it appeared, already crushed toward Jian Chou with overwhelming force!
Jian Chou held the axe shouldered in one hand, while her other hand rested on the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal. Even if she wanted to swing the axe in this cramped space, there was no room to maneuver!
Even Gu Qingmei herself probably hadn’t expected this desperate thrust to have such stunning effect.
A surge of tremendous satisfaction rose in her heart!
Exerting force with her hand, she was about to pull back the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal while the ice dragon swept forward…
However, it still wouldn’t budge!
Jian Chou’s calm eyes showed only the slightest touch of amazement, like deep-colored clouds painted on the horizon.
In that instant, the ice dragon had reached her face and was about to crash into her!
Time seemed to stand still!
No sound remained, only a frozen picture.
Several strands of Jian Chou’s black hair suddenly flew up, brushing past her pointed chin.
“Bang!”
What broke this suffocating calm was a suddenly blooming ice lotus!
At this critical moment, when she had no way to avoid it!
A three-foot blue lotus, formed by intertwining ice blades, with pure black wind blades like silk threads shuttling through it, adding several degrees of terrifying aura to this ice lotus!
“What?!”
Gu Qingmei immediately cried out in alarm.
“Clang!”
In the center of the ice-blue lotus, a blazing sword light lit up.
Sword song!
Sword sound!
Like an unparalleled precious sword unsheathed, demanding the whole world hear its voice!
Her voice!
Ice sword against ice dragon!
Puchi!
A light sound!
The extremely close distance and extreme collision left no time for reaction!
In this instant, this massive ice sword had already pierced through the ice dragon’s head, penetrating its entire body!
Fierce winds also instantly swept without reason!
They came from every aperture in Jian Chou’s body!
The originally mighty ice dragon, pierced through by Jian Chou’s sword and then swept by fierce winds, immediately made sounds of fragmentation!
Crack crack crack crack!
Countless fissures appeared on the ice dragon’s body, starting from the head. The entire dragon, like a village swept by mountain floods, was instantly destroyed, leaving only countless ruins!
Boom!
The ice dragon completely collapsed.
Countless snow-white transparent ice crystals exploded, dancing through the air!
The terrifying impact force swept up the currently weakened Gu Qingmei. Her entire body, like those shattered ice crystals, could no longer grip that Sky-Reaching Platform Seal and was thrown high into the air!
The moment her fingers left the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, Jian Chou’s spiritual power surged, and that layer of black ice immediately shattered into countless fragments, falling to the ground and revealing the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal’s original appearance.
Casually hanging this seal at her waist!
Ten seals!
But Jian Chou didn’t spare it a glance. She only looked up at the airborne Gu Qingmei!
The thrown Gu Qingmei didn’t resist this force, instead making a decision in an instant.
Since she couldn’t compete, better to cut off her arm like a brave warrior and simply abandon one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal!
The misty sky was so vast, there would surely be other targets for her to hunt.
With this thought, she directly slapped a talisman onto herself in mid-air.
Immediately, blue spirit fire burned from the talisman, then a hurricane blew, supporting Gu Qingmei’s body. Taking advantage of the momentum from Jian Chou breaking her ice dragon, it carried Gu Qingmei even farther!
Her entire body immediately transformed into a gentle breeze, about to go far!
“Yashan’s Jian Chou? What can you do to me!”
Her originally clear voice, tainted with venom, sounded particularly twisted.
The calculation failed, ultimately losing one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal!
Gu Qingmei was nearly mad with hatred!
This feeling was no different from that in the Crimson Slaughter Realm.
Whenever she thought she was about to succeed, someone would always jump out to slap her face, using actions to tell her: You think you’re worthy?!
Whenever she thought her ultimate moves were unleashed and others couldn’t possibly cope, someone would always jump out to break her attacks move by move!
It was always her!
Always her!
Gu Qingmei’s eyes filled with twisted venom, hatefully saying in the mist: “The grudge of taking my Sky-Reaching Platform Seal will be repaid doubly in the future!”
Eh.
Repaid doubly?
There was such a good thing?
Jian Chou was slightly surprised.
Since it was double repayment, as a qualified gambler, how could she not raise the stakes at this moment?
Besides…
What can you do to me?
A dark light flashed in her eyes as she slowly took down the axe from her shoulder and looked at it.
After the original simplest Void-Splitting Slash Dao seal, with rust spots falling off, several deep red blood dots had appeared – these should be the “innate Dao seals” belonging to this magical artifact.
Now was obviously not the time to study it.
Her fingers gently stroked the axe body, and a faint golden light flowed over.
The axe had obviously undergone a transformation.
When golden light had filled the air earlier, Jian Chou had already understood clearly.
She wondered…
How would the renewed axe perform with Void-Splitting Slash?
Jian Chou shook her wrist, looking at Gu Qingmei who was now only a blurry shadow.
Then—
She raised her hand high and swung forward!
Not swinging the axe, but throwing the entire axe out!
Boom!
Even the surrounding air exploded the moment Jian Chou threw the axe, constantly trembling due to instability!
That was a swift axe throw that even Jian Chou herself hadn’t expected!
It could even be said that it was no longer an axe, but a golden-red lightning bolt!
“Leaving you one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal was kindness. Since Sister Gu doesn’t appreciate it, why not leave the second one too!”
The black axe transformed into a sharp, brilliant light. The moment it left Jian Chou’s hand, the Dao seal on the axe body lit up bit by bit, as if illuminated by human blood!
The spreading golden light immediately emanated from the axe body!
Too fast, so fast that even Jian Chou couldn’t react!
The golden-red lightning almost immediately appeared behind that blurry black shadow the moment it flew from Jian Chou’s hand.
The extreme speed brought terrifying power!
From Jian Chou’s side, she could only see the golden-red lightning strike the blue talisman fire that was carrying Gu Qingmei forward!
The blue talisman fire immediately extinguished like an exploding star!
Bang!
Under the tremendous sound, the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal hanging at Gu Qingmei’s waist actually exploded!
The Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, originally formed from a Sky-Reaching Platform, showed its massive true form at the moment of shattering!
A huge platform thirty zhang high split into pieces, becoming countless fragments that crashed down with a thunderous roar!
Everyone who witnessed this scene at the foot of Kunwu Mountain fell completely silent!
That was a Sky-Reaching Platform from the Left Three Thousand Small Assembly!
With just one axe strike!
It was shattered!
What terrifying attack power this must be!
This ghost axe was more terrifying than they had imagined!
Gu Qingmei, wearing the Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, was currently at the center of this explosion, suffering a heavy strike from the ghost axe. She was immediately slammed toward the ground like a stone!
At this moment, countless huge stone fragments surrounded her, also falling together!
Rumble rumble rumble!
In the extremely chaotic thunderous sounds, Gu Qingmei, who had just finished her boastful words barely two breaths ago, was directly buried under countless giant stones!
Whoosh!
Wind sounds approached!
The golden-red lightning seemed to cheer once, and after attacking Gu Qingmei, it traced a smooth yet sharp-edged arc across the sky, flying back to Jian Chou’s hand.
Snap.
The ghost axe’s rough handle fell into Jian Chou’s palm, and she gripped it firmly.
On the massive ghost axe, that trembling sensation only then began to gradually dissipate.
The myriad ghost patterns were like burning blood, scalding hot.
Jian Chou’s gaze fell on them, also seeming to ignite instantly.
An indescribable feeling of spiritual connection came over her.
Her heart also grew slightly hot…
Her heartbeat like beating drums.
Ten years sharpening one sword, today testing the frosty blade!
She understood its joy at seeing daylight again, and she understood its determination and ambition to shatter everything.
What she held was not a sword, yet surpassed swords!
Surging and magnificent.
Jian Chou let that emotion rush and gallop through her body, only raising her head to look into the distance!
In the thin mist, broken stones had piled into a small mountain.
Gu Qingmei had long since fallen unconscious, but her remaining aura had already vanished in an instant.
Gu Qingmei, eliminated!
From the Cosmos Eye Jian Chou had collected in her sleeve, a gray-white light separated and fell back onto the portrait hanging on the front wall of the Fish Eye Tomb.
At the same time, the flounder’s emotionless voice sounded.
“From the beginning, you never intended to let her take away the second seal…”
“Did I?”
Jian Chou’s lips curved in an enigmatic smile as she looked back.
That beautiful woman, holding the huge pearl mother, stood by the seashore, her figure extremely graceful, full of love.
The gray-white light separated from the Cosmos Eye gradually disappeared into the painting.
All the withered vine leaves had vanished, turning into pools of ugly liquid on the ground, which were soon absorbed by the Fish Eye Tomb and disappeared.
The flounder spoke ethereally: “Meticulous thinking – deliberately asking for only one Sky-Reaching Platform Seal, knowing that if she survived, she would definitely target the golden abacus, so you opened the door to let the golden abacus escape first. To others, all your actions were reasonable; to that pitiful fool, this was a false hope you lit for her, making her unhesitatingly calculate against you at the crucial moment, so you could righteously strike back. Even though she’s from Kunwu and you’re from Yashan, no one would dare say you were wrong in the slightest.”
“You blocked Kunwu’s mouth, protected the relationship between Kunwu and Yashan, avenged your own grievances, saved Qian Que, and obtained the Sky-Reaching Platform Seals. Five benefits from one move – what a brilliant plan!”
“You humans are truly interesting.”
Jian Chou looked at this painting as countless phantoms flashed before her eyes.
That was a graceful, alluring figure in the mist, sword held in reverse, rainbow sword qi falling from above, slaying the flounder that had slaughtered the entire seaside village with one sword strike, gouging out its remaining eye, severing its huge fish head, and throwing the cleaned fish body into the sea.
With a wave of her elegant hand, she drew a circle by the seaside.
Thus, undersea magma flowed, volcanoes erupted, boiling the seawater within the circle, and the flounder’s body immediately turned white.
A sea of fragrant fish soup was soon cooked.
“Boiling the sea to cook fish, beautiful! Beautiful! Satisfying! Satisfying!”
A loud laugh seemed to come from this scene.
The green shadow extended an elegant hand holding a jade bowl, scooping up the “fish soup” below and drinking it all in one gulp!
“Foolish fish and this ancestor also have the fate of filling the stomach. Today I’ll give you a Fish Eye Tomb and Fish Bone Hall, to forever suppress evil spirits and wicked souls, never to be reborn!”
Bang!
The fish head thrown on the seashore was cast into a misty area, crashing to the ground.
Snap!
Like discarding worn shoes, a precious Cosmos Eye was casually thrown by her, directly smashing into the fish head, deeply embedded!
The green-robed figure stepped into the sky and vanished without a trace.
The scene appearing before Jian Chou’s eyes also disappeared like dispersing clouds and rain.
The flounder’s voice gradually faded: “Fellow fallen one, the Cosmos Eye I give to you – disturb my peace no more.”
Fellow fallen one?
Jian Chou reached out her hand, and the fish eye fell into her palm, its radiance completely restrained.
A treasure that could glimpse through time…
She slowly stepped out of this Fish Eye Tomb. When she saw the sentence carved on the steps again – “Would that all worldly passions and desires be buried, so that we cultivators might all achieve the Great Dao” – she felt infinite complexity.
Only…
What was wrong with emotions and desires?
Perhaps she had not yet achieved enlightenment.
Jian Chou still stepped on the characters carved in the steps, one step, two steps, three steps.
The Fish Eye Tomb slowly closed its door behind her, rumbling shut and completely sealing.
In the thick layers of mist, a late-arriving brilliant blue light shone down from above, like the light that had previously shone on Xia Houshe, now falling on Jian Chou like a pillar of light reaching heaven.
The scalding heat on the ghost axe gradually cooled.
Standing here, she raised her head and could already clearly see the outline of Kunwu’s main peak.
An ancient, simple, cold voice echoed throughout the misty sky.
“First trial, ninth person, Yashan’s Jian Chou, ten Sky-Reaching Platform Seals, permitted to pass!”