I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 257 A Thunderous Sword (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The strings of the Floating Life Qin vibrated as Jiang Yi focused intently, his fingertips flying across the strings.

The Heavenly Melody of Breaking Demons begins with the force of a clash of swords and the sound of each string resonating like a sword being drawn from its sheath. The sound waves, carrying the sword energy of the Breaking Tribulation Sword within the instrument, transform into countless sharp green bamboo blades that slay Liu Taozhi.

Liu Tao's pupils shrank sharply. She blocked with the Cold Moon Sword, its sword energy condensing into a wall of frost, but it was still easily crushed by the sharpness of the green bamboo and the sound waves, causing Liu Tao to retreat three steps.

Jiang Yi's strength at this moment was several times greater than before; she was practically a different person.

The sword energy transformed from the zither music is all-pervasive, soaring like a phoenix in the heavens and plunging like a dragon in the abyss. Its tone is clear and cold like a surging ice spring, yet it can burst into a raging inferno in an instant.

The piece of music alone sent chills down everyone's spines and made them uneasy, their emotions rising and falling uncontrollably with the melody.

Faced with such powerful sonic waves and sword energy, Liu Taozhi quickly retreated, her sword flashing out seven arcs, slashing down the incoming sonic swords one by one.

"So fast!"

The cultivators below the stage gasped in surprise. They saw Jiang Yi's hands already flicking out afterimages, the sound waves growing stronger with each wave, and the sword energy bursting forth like a flood, making it almost impossible for Liu Taozhi to breathe.

The Cold Moon Sword danced into a snow-white light curtain, and Liu Taozhi's figure appeared and disappeared in the storm of sword energy. Her plain white sword robe was torn in several places by the sound waves.

"break!"

Liu Tao suddenly shouted, and frost energy exploded from the sword's edge, causing nine ice peaches to bloom in mid-air, briefly freezing the sonic wave sword energy.

Seizing the moment, she moved with lightning speed, her sword aimed straight at Jiang Yi's throat!
"They're getting close!"

Everyone held their breath.

Jiang Yi lowered her eyes, the zither music had not stopped, and when the sword tip was only three inches away from her, her figure suddenly became ethereal, turning into a black shadow and disappearing.

Borrowing the power of magic, the phantom escape!
Borrowing the magic, golden light divides the shadow!

Liu Tao's sword pierced through nothing, and suddenly three figures of Jiang Yi appeared before her, all sitting cross-legged playing the zither. Their fingering was in unison, and the zither music resounded, causing her sea of ​​consciousness to ache terribly, as if she were being slowly tortured by a dull knife.

Liu Taozhi frowned, and without hesitation, she slashed the Cold Moon Sword to the left.

Where the sword's edge passed, the afterimage dissipated!
Liu Taozhi spun around, and the Cold Moon Sword swept back to the right, breaking through another illusory image.

"You are the real one!"

Liu Tao's sword pierced straight at the last figure, but the music suddenly stopped, and Jiang Yi raised his hand and threw out five talismans.

"It was the mountain-suppressing talisman I gave to Ayi!"

Shen Puning recognized her at a glance and excitedly grabbed Xin Wushuang's arm and shook it violently. Xin Wushuang frowned. She was not as strong as Shen Puning and could not break free, so she could only give in.

The talisman swelled in the wind and transformed into five towering mountains that crashed down with a deafening roar.

Caught off guard, Liu Taozhi's sword suddenly turned and slashed upwards. The Frosty Sky and Cold Moon sword intent erupted with full force, and the ice peach petals curled upwards, colliding with the mountain.

Boom!

The first mountain crumbled, the second followed closely behind, and veins bulged on Liu Tao's forehead. When the third mountain pressed down, her knees trembled. And then came the fourth and fifth...

These mountains have temporarily trapped Liu Taozhi in place, preventing her from leaving.

Jiang Yi grabbed the side of the Floating Life Zither with his right hand, and a burst of blue light erupted. The long-hidden Broken Tribulation Sword was drawn like a thunderclap!

cut!
With a single sword strike, the frosty sky and the cold moon shattered!
Liu Tao's pupils shrank suddenly, and she felt a tremendous force that could shatter mountains and split peaks crash down on her. She tried her best but couldn't stop it for even a moment, and the Cold Moon Sword flew out of her hand!

The aftershocks of the sword energy were like a raging sea; the senior sister showed her no mercy whatsoever!

Liu Taozhi was very happy because this showed her senior sister's respect for her as an opponent.

Click!

A cyan light pierced the sky and shattered the entire glass arena in two. Yellow sand surged to both sides like giant waves, and the remaining power of the violent sword energy continued to slash straight towards the crowd of onlookers!

"not good!"

The Golden Core cultivators high in the sky attacked simultaneously, their spiritual light weaving into a net that swept up Foundation Establishment cultivators who had no time to dodge and tossed them to either side.

The sword energy slashed across the spot where the crowd had just been, splitting the desert open like tofu, creating a deep, bottomless ravine.

The wind howled and sandstorms filled the sky.

Liu Taozhi was swept away by a beam of green light and landed below the shattered arena. She barely managed to steady herself and stared in horror at the abyss cleaved open by the sword energy, where yellow sand poured in like a waterfall.

"Is this... still the sword aura of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator? This is terrifying!"

The entire place was deathly silent; even the sound of the wind seemed to freeze.

When the smoke and dust cleared, Jiang Yi was still sitting there cross-legged, head bowed and eyes lowered, her posture indifferent.

She completely concealed the power of the Thunderclap Sword, leaving only a Floating Life Zither lying across her lap.

The jagged crack in the desert silently proclaimed the outcome of this duel. It also told the world that today's Crane Shadow surpasses the Phoenix Shadow of the past!
Jiang Yi brushed the yellow sand off the zither, slowly stood up while holding the instrument, and when she looked up, her eyes reflected the light of the sky and the shadows of the clouds, clear and without any obsession with winning or losing. She smiled at Liu Taozhi below the stage.

"Concession."

As she uttered those two words, her dress billowed in the wind, lacking the fiery intensity of a phoenix rising from the ashes, but possessing the serene tranquility of a white crane perched on a pine tree.

At this moment, Jiang Heying is just like the true meaning of her Taoist name.

Do not strive for the highest heavens, nor wade into the mire; though the world is vast, go wherever your heart desires.

Liu Taozhi felt a lump in her throat, but she smiled brightly and clasped her hands together.

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Jiang! I am truly impressed!"

"Crane Shadow! Crane Shadow! Crane Shadow!"

Cheers swept across the desert like a tidal wave, and the Cangling Sect disciples almost shouted themselves hoarse.

Shen Puning leaped up, raising his arms and shouting as his sleeves fluttered in the wind, filling his mouth with sand. He spat it out. Xin Wushuang rubbed his arm, which had been pinched sore, and smiled silently.

"We won! The Cangling Sect has won!"

Qi Tian grabbed his junior brother's neck, only to find it was Feng Wuhen. The two looked at each other, simultaneously grunted, let go, and turned back to howling at the top of their lungs.

Zhao Cangyun shouted towards the Xuan Ying Sword Sect, "This is my senior sister Jiang Heying, hahaha!"

The Xuan Ying sword cultivators were pale. Losing all their resources wasn't a big deal, since it wasn't much anyway. The most important thing was that they had lost their senior sister.

If the eldest senior sister were still the eldest senior sister of the Xuan Ying Sword Sect, they would be the ones cheering like a tidal wave right now, just like before, raising their arms and shouting with her, laughing wildly together.

The Xuan Ying sword cultivators felt a surge of suppressed anger in their chests; if they weren't in a public place, they would have burst into tears.

Xu Manxiu rushed over immediately, his gaze shifting back and forth between Liu Taozhi and Jiang Yi, his mouth agape but unable to utter a single word.

Liu Taozhi looked at Jiang Yi first, and when Jiang Yi nodded, she said to Xu Manxiu, "That's right, she is our senior sister."

Xu Manxiu's eyes suddenly reddened, and he forced back his tears, bowing respectfully as always.

"Sister!"

Jiang Yi put away the Floating Life Zither and stepped down from the arena.

“I am no longer the senior sister of the Xuan Ying Sword Sect.”

Xu Manxiu looked up in astonishment, "But... what... what exactly happened in these eight years?"

Not only Xu Manxiu, but everyone was curious and puzzled about this at this moment. No one left, and everyone was waiting for Jiang Yi to give everyone an explanation.

Jiang Yi blinked, scratched her head, and started spreading rumors.

"Actually, I don't know what happened either. I was unconscious for a long time, and when I opened my eyes, I was in the sleeping quarters of True Monarch Danxi of the Cangling Sect. For details, you'll have to ask True Monarch Danxi...!!!"

Jiang Yi suddenly felt a chill run down her spine as a red shadow abruptly appeared behind her, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw a pair of eyes that seemed to want to stab her.

"Teacher, master!"

Jiang Yi shrank back, a fawning smile curving her lips. The anger raging in her master's eyes was enough to burn two holes in her.

"Come with me!"

Danxi pressed her palm heavily on Jiang Yi's shoulder, so hard that Jiang Yi's knees buckled.

Just as Jiang Yi was hanging her head in resignation, a frost-white sword aura suddenly shook Dan Xi's hand away.

"Master, Master?!"

This time it was Liu Tao who shouted it.

Jiang Yi was startled. When she looked up, she saw her mother, whom she hadn't seen for eight years, suddenly appearing before her.

She was still dressed in white, her eyebrows like frosty blades, her eyes like cold pools, and her body was surrounded by a chilling sword aura that never faded, even the scorching sun was driven back by her coldness.

After eight years apart, my mother was still so cold she seemed unrecognizable.

But she is no longer the child who practiced swordsmanship in the icy barrier until her hands were covered in blood, just to please her.

Jiang Yi gave a relaxed smile, as if it were just an ordinary reunion, and called out softly.

"Mother, it's been a long time."

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