Longzang

Chapter 867 I Have a Sword

In a completely dark world, a ray of light suddenly appeared.

The light was a dark silver color, not very bright, but with a mercury-like texture, seemingly very heavy, slowly flowing in the darkness, gently pushing the darkness aside.

The light reached a person, slowly creeping up her body and revealing her from the darkness.

She was dressed in a simple blue robe, without any embellishment or patterns. Even her long hair was simply and naturally draped over her shoulders. She was as pure as a sword light, without any impurities.

Zhang Sheng slowly opened her eyes, countless sword lights surging within her pupils. She looked around, showing no surprise or panic, and calmly asked, "Which senior is here?"

Ripples of dark silver light spread across the ground, like waves on water. From the ripples emerged a little girl. She was originally very beautiful, but she seemed to have suffered a fatal wound to her mouth, causing her entire chin to be covered in blood, making her look eerie and terrifying.

She was holding a knitted doll in her hand. The doll also looked to be in extreme pain, as if it was screaming in agony, and its expression was frozen in that moment.

The little girl said, "I am not your senior. If I had to say, I am your enemy now."

"You now?" Zhang Sheng asked thoughtfully.

The little girl said, "Yes, the me in my current Dao Foundation state will be an enemy you never expect to encounter."

"If that's not Daoji, then who are you?"

"You'll understand once I take you away from here."

Zhang Sheng smiled, not intentionally, but genuinely finding it amusing, and said, "We are both at the Dao Foundation stage, and you want to take me with you?"

"Because my Dao Foundation is different, this Dao Foundation no longer exists. That was the Dao Foundation used by your human race 300,000 years ago."

Zhang Sheng raised an eyebrow slightly and asked seriously, "The human race in the Primordial Era? Was the Dao Foundation they used then different from the one we use now? Shouldn't the Dao Foundation become stronger with each generation?"

"You'll find out soon enough. Oh, by the way, are you really planning to resist? You cultivate the Heart of Invincibility; if you fight me, your Dao Heart will shatter once more."

Zhang Sheng said calmly, "We are both at the Foundation stage of the Dao, but your current realm is not yet perfect, so I cannot lose."

A strange smile reappeared on the girl's face as she said, "I'm starting to like you a little. If you feel you're outmatched later, admit defeat early, or it'll hurt a lot."

Zhang Sheng stood up, his expression solemn.

Suddenly, the surroundings began to brighten, and a dark silver light surged in all directions, pushing away the darkness. Now, the two of them were like two tiny black dots standing in a square.

The little girl stood there, motionless, while the square continued to expand infinitely.

Zhang Sheng gradually felt that the world around him had become sticky, as if he were in a lump of glue, and it took a lot of effort to lift his arm.

It's light...

Zhang Sheng frowned slightly. This light was very strange. It had actually transformed into an invisible entity. It seemed to be Taiyin but was not pure. It contained many other things, yet it maintained a strange balance.

This made Zhang Sheng, who was used to analyzing the attributes of his opponent's Dao power and attacking the weak with the strong, feel somewhat uncomfortable. He couldn't determine the attribute of the light at all and didn't know how to proceed.

As she looked at the ever-expanding square, she suddenly remembered something: the light was coming from above!

Zhang Sheng looked up and saw a huge full moon hanging in the sky!

The full moon was enormous, almost taking up most of the sky!
Looking up, the entire field of vision was filled with the moon, and there was no darkness at all!
The moonlight, like water, was gradually falling to the ground, making the square seem to grow larger and larger.

Strangely, there was a small gap on the moon, like a tiny wormhole in a large pancake. Although small, Zhang Sheng could see it clearly; it wasn't dark, but rather a piece was missing.

Zhang Sheng suddenly thought of something, and then even she, who was always calm and composed, finally lost her composure and asked, "Is this your Dao foundation?"

The little girl's smile even had a hint of sweetness: "Yes! Isn't she beautiful? You can still admit defeat now."

Zhang Sheng was utterly shocked. How could the sun and moon become the foundation of the Dao? This was like a three-year-old trying to move a mountain—absolutely impossible!

But that's impossible; it's right in front of her now!

Zhang Sheng asked in a deep voice, "Who exactly are you? And where are we?"

“This is not an illusion, it is real. Look at her again, she is real too. See, she is still turning.”

Upon closer inspection, Zhang Sheng saw that the full moon was indeed rotating, albeit very slowly, and its rotation speed was exactly the same as that of the full moon in this world.

The little girl said, "In some outer worlds, the moon is stationary, and all living beings can never see its other side. Our moon, however, rotates, but its rotation is not perfectly vertical."

So there is a place on the moon that people can never see. That eternal darkness within the light is me, Kaguya. We are now standing on my body.” “So it is the Celestial Witch Kaguya, no wonder. But even if you are a Celestial Witch, you cannot silently teleport me to the Witch Realm, can you? This is beyond the capabilities of a celestial being, after all, you are not the only celestial being in this world.”

"It is indeed a bit troublesome, but as long as you are willing to cooperate, we will be able to reach the Witch Domain soon."

Zhang Sheng said calmly, "Do you think I'll cooperate?"

"If you want your Dao heart to shatter again, then try it. I know you won't obediently listen, so I've specially prepared a Dao foundation, which is enough."

Zhang Sheng asked, "Is your foundation enough, or can you only offer one foundation?"

"Is there a difference?"

"A big difference."

A figure emerged from Zhang Sheng's body—a swordsman almost identical to her, wielding a sword that was neither fully extended nor fully extended. Though the sword was ordinary, the person was extraordinary.

The swordsman rose up with his sword, stepping on the moonlight like raindrops, and charged towards the full moon in the sky!
At that moment, the moonlight took on a murderous intent; countless moonbeams instantly transformed into threads, piercing through the swordsman's body and riddling him with holes. But before dissipating, the swordsman mustered all his strength to unleash a final strike.

The sword light was not particularly bright; in the mortal realm, it would only be at the level of an ordinary Dao Foundation cultivator. However, it pressed forward relentlessly, going against the current of countless moonlight until its last ray of light dissipated.

Zhang Sheng stood with his hands behind his back, and this time two swordsmen emerged from his body. The two swordsmen exchanged a glance, nodded, and then charged side by side toward the full moon in the sky.

But they were all just ordinary swordsmen, wielding two swords side by side, and they only went slightly further than the first person.

Zhang Sheng remained expressionless, and four more swordsmen emerged from his body. The four swordsmen bowed to each other, then flew side by side through the air, stepping on the moon, and charged towards the full moon in the sky!
The little girl just sneered, but when she saw eight swordsmen emerge from Zhang Sheng's body, each brandishing their swords in harmony, and then fighting together, she was finally slightly moved: "Are they all born with spirituality?"

Zhang Sheng said calmly, "Otherwise what? You think I'm faking it?"

Eight swordsmen went against the current and had already crossed the center line. Next came the sixteenth, then the thirty-second swordsmen!
The little girl's face had changed, and the moonlight falling from the sky had become noticeably thinner. The swordsmen were almost upon the full moon!

She found it incredible; it was simply impossible. Although both were Dao Foundation Establishments, Kaguya was born from a body possessed by a Heavenly Witch, while Zhang Sheng was merely a Dao Foundation Establishment.

Even if Kaguya had used her Primordial Dao Foundation, or even an ordinary Dao Foundation, she would still possess the will, knowledge, and experience of a sage, as well as some supernatural abilities that could be used even at a Dao Foundation level. It could be said that any ordinary Dharma Form would be killed with a single strike if it came to her.

Kaguya's investigation revealed that Zhang Sheng had not only never achieved a Dharma form, but his Dao heart had also been shattered once, and he only survived thanks to a rare immortal artifact. Generally speaking, such a person is not even as good as an ordinary cultivator.

Kaguya thought she could easily defeat such an opponent, but she didn't expect Zhang Sheng to be so difficult to deal with. This battle is actually... going to be tough?

Sixty-four swordsmen formed a sword formation, marching and singing until the moonlight was completely dispelled, leaving more than a dozen sword marks on the full moon.

Huiyue was stunned. She never expected that she would get injured in a fight with a junior who had cultivated for less than a thousand years.
Then came the 128 people, who greeted each other and went up in formation.

Until two hundred and fifty-six swordsmen appeared and formed a great formation, the swordsman at the center of the formation flicked his longsword and shouted, "I will fight alone for eighty thousand miles..."

Before he could finish reciting his poem, countless swordsmen surged towards the full moon like a swarm of bees. Zhang Sheng hadn't yet devised a sword formation of 256 people.

Numerous swordsmen ascended to the full moon and began hacking and slashing wildly. The swordsman who had initially uttered the words "Alone I traverse eighty thousand miles" was now frantically digging at the earth with his longsword, completely abandoning his composure.

Looking at the large group of swordsmen fighting independently, the little girl felt a chill in her heart. These swordsmen all possessed innate spirituality.
She turned to Zhang Sheng and asked, "These aren't enough to kill me. Is there anything else?"

"...A single sword strike chills nineteen provinces."

After chanting, Zhang Sheng held an ordinary sword in his hand, one that possessed no supernatural power, neither emitting light nor heat. He said, "I have one last sword. I have one sword, and that is enough."

Kaguya looked at the sword and suddenly said, "I lost."

Zhang Sheng said calmly, "Losing is to be expected."

Kaguya's eyes flashed with anger, which she almost couldn't suppress. Only then did she realize that Zhang Sheng actually had another sword in his mouth.

The little girl sneered and said, "If I were truly only at the Foundation Establishment stage, then I would indeed have lost. Unfortunately, I am Kaguya. I've decided to trade this for your sword."

Zhang Sheng suddenly felt a lightness in her hand. She looked down and realized that the long sword in her hand had been replaced by the woven silk doll of misfortune.

The little girl vanished into thin air, and Zhang Sheng returned to his secluded cultivation spot beneath the Nether Iron Mountain in the Desolate Realm. But the sword within her Dao Foundation was truly gone!
It didn't disappear; it was taken away.

At the same time, Wei Yuan slowly opened his eyes, looked at the dark silver light gradually spreading beneath his feet, and frowned slightly. He then looked up and saw a full moon hanging in the sky.

But the full moon looks... somewhat broken right now?
There's a sword stuck in the moon's surface, but you can't see it unless you look closely.

(End of this chapter)