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Chapter 282. Harmony (1)

"Om————"

In the dark, silent depths of the lake, a thin, transparent shadow suddenly pierced the water, hurtling straight toward her eyes.

That is the most vulnerable part of the human body—if pierced, the sharp tip will instantly pierce through the eyeball, go straight through the skull, and pulverize the brain.

Such a swift and sudden attack would kill an ordinary person before they even had a chance to react.

But it faced a sword master who had been through countless battles.

Almost at the same instant the sharp sound of water rang out, Jiang Jianxin dodged to the side. The transparent tentacle brushed past her temple, severing a few strands of hair and leaving a faint white mark on her cheek.

The empty tentacles touched the lake surface, making a "splashing" sound like rain.

That reaction... is impressive.

Intuition exclaimed in her mind.

Its omniscient perception had just caught the trace of the tentacles, before it could convey a warning to her—and she had already managed to dodge.

Jiang Jianxin raised his hand to wipe away the white marks on his face, his expression solemn.

A strong sense of threat was emanating from the depths of the dark crevice—she could sense that an unprecedentedly large creature was lurking within.

Do you know what's inside?

She asked her intuition.

It is a monster born from the contaminated zone. Or rather, it is the contaminated zone itself.

Respond calmly based on intuition.

This thing is extremely difficult to deal with. The human-faced tadpole you just killed was actually desperately trying to escape its prey.

Jiang Jianxin never expected that the two had such a relationship.

Faced with a formidable enemy, her first thought was of the low-level talents around her.

They huddled in the dark water, their eyes silently fixed on her.

She had seen the same look in her eyes during the final battle of the cultivation world—

Countless disciples and elders of the sects exhausted their spiritual energy and fell like rain, leaving only rampant black mist in the world.

At that time, only Tang Guang's sword light cleaved through the darkness, supporting the last piece of sky.

And now, the eyes that are watching her in the water are exactly the same as they were back then—burning, trembling, and filled with a longing for life.

"Om————"

Jiang Jianxin waved his hand and swung his staff towards the water beneath the feet of the group of low-level talents.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Golden waves rippled outwards, cutting across the entire body of water and greatly preventing the black rift from extending its tentacles to attack them. At the same time, she shouted sharply:

"Take off your vest and swim upstream, don't look back! Swim out before the golden light disappears!"

"Gulu gulu..."

One by one, gray vests were hastily discarded, sinking like withered leaves. The crowd struggled desperately to swim upwards, the water roaring.

Jiang Jianxin gripped the black stick tightly, his brows furrowed, his gaze fixed on the deep crevice.

"Om-"

The sound of water again.

This time it was sharper and clearer than the previous one.

The people who were rising resisted the urge to look back, only to hear a loud roar from the depths beneath their feet, as if the entire lakebed was shaking.

In the darkness, Jiang Jianxin's pupils suddenly contracted—

Countless tiny tentacles were surging wildly from the crack. Unlike the stereotypical large, octopus-like tentacles, they were extremely thin, and when a large clump emerged, it was like rapidly extending enoki mushrooms, stabbing fiercely at her.

"Om-"

Without a moment to think, she swung her stick to meet the attack.

A golden wave, imbued with a heavy aura of death, crashed violently into the cluster of tentacles—

"Boom—" A burst of brilliant golden light suddenly erupted, instantly illuminating the entire dark lake bottom.

Jiang Jianxin stared intently at the crevice, clearly seeing that although the tentacles protruding from the black crevices had been severed, they were rapidly reviving in the lingering golden light.

He even kept stabbing at her again.

"Wow..."

Jiang Jianxin dodged the tentacles to the side and then swung his sword again. Golden waves spread out and severed the tentacles, but it ended up with the same result as before.

[This is bad. My wave attack is too slow. It recovers as soon as I finish attacking.]

Taking advantage of his heightened intuition, Jiang Jianxin spoke to it.

[...This nascent scythe isn't just for swinging on waves.]

My intuition told me.

[Didn't you consider that it was constantly rippling—perhaps because you were infusing it with spiritual energy using the techniques of sword strikes?]

[It's a sickle, and although it's currently in the form of a staff, it's ultimately unrelated to a sword.]

Jiang Jianxin slightly raised his eyes, his mind instantly becoming clear.

—My intuition always gives me the right advice.

She channeled spiritual energy into the scythe, and the black stick only rippled with golden waves. She thought it was a random reply, but she never expected that it would keep rippled without ever changing its moves. This was a pattern, meaning that it could be controlled.

The key to control lies in her method of infusing spiritual energy.

How do I control it?

With countless tentacles approaching and their power boundless, the Sword Master remained calm despite the terrifying spectacle, even calmly studying the scene in his mind.

Have you seen Ali Bobo? The wizard Ali Bobo in the movie has a long, thin magic wand.

The unfinished Grim Reaper's scythe is like a large magic wand. You need to manipulate spiritual energy so that it doesn't disperse throughout the staff like a sword strike, but rather gathers at the tip and flows from there...

Knowing that the Sword Master had never heard of this theory and worried that she wouldn't understand it, I instinctively explained the details a bit more.

Before it could finish speaking, Jiang Jianxin blinked and suddenly said:
Thank you, the answer is true, I understand.

【…? 】

My intuition tells me it's incredible.

No, I've only just begun; I haven't even gotten to the core content yet. Do you really understand?

It thought Jiang Jianxin was a know-it-all with only a superficial understanding, but to its surprise, she straddled the black broomstick and glided out underwater like a witch in flight. The next second, a point of golden light gathered at the tip of the black broomstick and shot out, striking the tentacles fiercely.

"Om——"

A burst of brilliant golden light erupted once more, this time with an even more concentrated and fierce attack, instantly causing a burst of burning golden flames at the base of the tentacles.

Jiang Jianxin rode the black broom, nimbly weaving through the wildly dancing tentacles, golden rays of light sweeping out like sharp swords, constantly dissolving the incoming attacks.

After clearing away most of the tentacles, she seized the opportunity and shot a beam of blazing golden light directly at the black crack.

"Om——"

Another sharp screech of water.

Jiang Jianxin saw that deep within the black crack torn by golden light at the bottom of the dark and murky lake, an indescribable, enormous shadow was slowly wriggling out.

Its sheer size surpasses the limits of visual perception, like a submerged black mountain awakening from an ancient slumber. Its outline twists and expands in the gloom, making even the water in its path viscous and suffocating.

Countless wriggling tentacles and indescribable appendages rolled and tangled on the shadowy surface, as if the malice of the entire contaminated zone had come to a physical form.

Its mere appearance caused a surge in water pressure and distorted light. The darkness was swallowed by it, and the lake trembled at its presence.

It was a terror that struck the very depths of the soul, requiring no understanding or recognition—merely witnessing this spreading shadow was enough to shatter even the bravest human mind, plunging it into primal dizziness and despair.

Jiang Jianxin frowned, gritted his teeth, and said to Ayu through Bluetooth:

"Ayu, contact Sang Xiaoxiao and Garcia. I need the support of a support-type talent."

"receive."

Bluetooth went silent.

Three seconds later, a deep and magnificent organ sound rose from afar, as if carrying infinite light, penetrating the lake water and pressing down heavily.