Sword Sect Outer Sect

Chapter 26 Reversal
Wan Songran slowly walked to the two demonic beasts and skillfully dissected their bodies to extract their cores.

"This one is a small gift for you as a token of our meeting."

He casually tossed one demon core to Song Yan, and kept the other for himself.

"Fellow Daoist Wan is truly showing his sincerity..."

Song Yan accepted the demon core with a nonchalant attitude.

They proactively revealed the "Celestial Flute" to me, and also gifted me this precious late-stage first-tier demon beast core as a sign of their sincerity...

It seems that in the end, it all comes down to who can survive and leave this secret realm.

The two exchanged a smile, their eyes both concealing a murderous intent.

"Let's go."

"where to?"

"Go find a burial place for Wang Xi."

Song Yan remained silent and followed Wan Songran to a muddy swamp.

"The Xuan Yuan Sect wants the spiritual vein but doesn't want to be criticized, so they're staging a drama where disciples from both sects are taking advantage of the situation and intend to kill the inner disciples of the Xuan Yuan Sect."

"So that I can ask you and me for food in the future."

Beside Song Yan, the peach wood and metal flying sword hummed and hovered: "How can we be sure he will come alone?"

"The Xuan Yuan Sect wants more than just spiritual veins. This joint mission includes many other things, such as figuring out the strength of the two inner disciples..."

As Wan Songran's fingertips brushed across the flute, the vines on the ground began to writhe eerily.

“This Wang Xi is arrogant and conceited. He can’t stand being looked down upon. He would never ask anyone to help him kill ‘ants’ like us.”

"Who knows, he might have already killed several sect disciples who were caught up in this secret realm with us..."

"This is also our opportunity."

Song Yan's face darkened, but before he could speak, Wan Songran's expression hardened.

"……coming."

Before she finished speaking, Wan Songran turned to look at the dense forest behind her. A figure in a yellow robe slowly walked out, his robe stained with blood, and a yellowish-brown spiritual light flickering in his palm.

It was Wang Xi, an inner disciple of the Xuan Yuan Sect.

"Huh... you two are both here."

"That saves me the trouble of searching for them one by one."

Along his journey, Wang Xi encountered two disciples of the Spirit Talisman Sect and one disciple of the Cave Abyss Sect.

He killed one of the Lingfu Sect disciples, intending to frame him later.

Let's keep the remaining two as a way to confuse the issue.

He glanced at Wan Songran, his eyes sweeping over the red and black flute in his hand, and then sneered, "A disciple of the Wan family? Too bad he'll perish here today!"

Song Yan held the sword in his hand, his fingertips gently tracing the blade of the peach wood Gengjin sword.

Wang Xi snorted coldly, made a hand seal, and three earth spirit spells shot out simultaneously.

The battle is about to break out!
Song Yan's sword technique spun rapidly, the flying sword suddenly swirling, sparks flying as the earth spirit clashed with the sword.

The decaying soil beneath Wang Xi's feet suddenly collapsed and rolled like waves, as several rock pythons burst from the ground and lunged at Song Yan and Wan Songran!

Wan Songran sneered, holding a black flute horizontally in front of him, and a strange melody began to play.

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

A sharp light burst from Wang Xi's knuckles, and a yellowish-brown spiritual light rose from his palm.

In an instant, all the surrounding vegetation bowed down. A small, earthen-colored seal swelled in the wind, and the tortoise relief in the center opened its stone eyes. Dense spiritual patterns flowed down the seal's body, eventually condensing into the phantom of a mountain in the air.

Its power was just like the spell used to suppress and kill the crucian carp demon in the Hidden Moon Pool Valley.

Song Yan's flying sword deflected the rock python, but before his feet even left the ground, he felt an immense spiritual force pressing down on the top of his head. His protective spiritual energy shattered like thin ice, and his kneecaps made a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

The entire swampy area was crushed two inches, and the foul-smelling mud, along with the broken branches, pressed him into the swamp as if an invisible hand was repeatedly grinding him down.

"Wan...Song...Ran!"

Bang!
A tremendous sound, like a colossal object breaking through the mud, came from the center of the swamp. A massive, armored crab, at the mid-stage of the first tier, ripped through the mud, brandishing its enormous claws, and charged straight at Wang Xi. "Hmph, unorthodox methods!"

With a flick of his spiritual power, Wang Xi transferred the power of the Mountain-Suppressing Seal in his hand to the giant crab, giving Song Yan a chance to catch his breath.

With a flick of his fingertips, several green vines shot out from the mud and coiled around Wang Xi.

"Just accept your death obediently, why waste time!"

boom! ! !
The mountain phantom on the Zhenshan Seal crashed down, crushing the armored giant crab in the swamp.

At this moment, the green vine had already wrapped around Wang Xi, and Song Yan's left hand made a loose grasping motion, and the green vine was suddenly covered by raging flames.

"laugh……"

Wang Xi's body was filled with spiritual energy, and a bright, earth-yellow spiritual pattern suddenly swept away the chaotic, burning green vines.

"Your spiritual sense is indeed unusual. At the fifth level of Qi Refining, you can control spells from over twenty feet away without them dissipating. After I kill you, I'll have to see what kind of secret technique it is!"

"Even in the late stage of Qi Refining... the difference in the effectiveness of spells is so great..."

Wan Songran cursed Song Yan inwardly, wondering if she would have to use her final trump card.

Is the Dongyuan Sect truly destitute, with all its disciples being mediocre?
He gritted his teeth and unleashed the remaining fragment of a talisman.

"Song Yan! With a life-or-death enemy at hand, show us what you've got up your sleeve! If you don't get serious..."

"I'm afraid there won't be another chance!"

Song Yan felt a chill run down his spine. He summoned three pale talismans from his hand, which were ignited by spiritual power, turning into dark light and disappearing into the clouds.

The "Essentials of Swordsmanship" records many techniques and methods for controlling flying swords.

However, most of them need to establish a Sword Palace to cultivate the Sword Dao, plant the seeds of the Sword Dao, and use their innate sword energy and spiritual power together to unleash their power.

Only a small portion of these techniques can be used without a specific sword type, but they are subject to numerous limitations.

Rumble!
Thunderclouds filled the sky, and faint flashes of lightning could be seen.

"What tricks are you playing?!"

Wang Xi's spiritual energy surged, and unprecedented spiritual energy fluctuations reverberated in the swamp!
Pure spiritual energy emanated from his body, condensing into a round, earth-yellow bead. Several streams of spiritual energy transformed into rocks, and surrounding clods of earth and hard stones also condensed there.

"It's this trick again!"

The fish demon in Hidden Moon Pool perished under this move, "Collapse Earth and Shake Mountain Curse".

Wan Songran closed her eyes tightly, her spiritual power surging, and the half-finished talisman in front of her finally lit up.

A dangerous smile crept across his lips: "Wang Xi, you will die today, no matter what!"

Rumble...

Beneath the swamp, the earth's veins suddenly began to tremble violently, and the massive root systems beneath the towering ancient trees in the deep forest surged toward this swamp!

The earth elemental power here collapsed and dissipated like a flood.

At the same moment, the upside-down mountain suspended in the air also began to collapse.

"Yi Wood Severing Spirit Talisman!"

Wang Xi's eyes were bloodshot with rage, and for the first time, he felt a sense of crisis. He turned around and tried to leave the area covered by the talisman.

"boom!"

The armored giant crab, dragging its broken body, blocked Wang Xi's path.

“Get out of here!!”

Rumble!
Just then, Song Yan's flying sword hovered several feet above him, and a powerful bolt of lightning struck the sword directly, but the sword remained unchanged.

Song Yan made a hand seal, and several green vines wrapped around the sword. Then flames ignited, burning away the vines, leaving the raging flames covering the sword.

Rumble!
The second bolt of lightning struck!
On the blade of the peach wood and metal flying sword, blue and white flames swirled around the sound of thunder, and the sword emitted an unbearable thud.

Song Yan put two fingers together and gently stroked the sword. The spiritual energy protecting his body dissipated abruptly upon touching the thunder and fire energy.

"Thunderbolt Sword Style from the Clouds!"

(End of this chapter)