Gong Buyu stared blankly at the sword he had swung out. There was no strange vision or power revealed under the sword light, only a fatal sword that stripped away all the complexities.
This sword seemed to be born only for killing, melting the remaining magic power and spiritual consciousness in Gong Buyu's body into a killing weapon. Just from this sword, one could vaguely glimpse the profound meaning of the simplicity of the great way. The Green Dragon, who was in the middle stage of Qi training, surrendered without any resistance.
More importantly, Gong Buyu clearly sensed that this was a sword slashed out by her master using her body, and the magic power and divine thoughts contained in it all came from herself.
If she was at her peak, Gong Buyu would have the confidence that she could easily kill the Green Dragon, but she was already at the end of her strength at this moment. The fact that Shen Yuan was still able to strike out with this sword without damaging her own essence was beyond Gong Buyu's understanding.
But then, a blush appeared on Gong Buyu's cold and pretty face, and there was an indescribable excitement in her eyes.
“Is this Master’s swordsmanship?
My imitation of Master's slashing of the cold moon was just a clumsy imitation. Master's swordsmanship has far exceeded my imagination."
Gong Buyu was not aware that Shen Yuan, who had acquired the Disha Sword Technique, was not following the path of an ordinary swordsman.
Ordinary sword practitioners practice complicated sword techniques and use them to comprehend the heaven and earth and incorporate them into their own bodies. They then discard the complexity and simplify it, integrating what they have learned to condense the foundation of the simplest sword technique.
However, as the source of all sword techniques, Disha Sword Art has stood at the end of the simplest way from the very beginning.
The Disha sword technique does not have complicated sword techniques, only the sword that is simple to the extreme to kill the enemy. The use of spiritual power and magic power in sword techniques has long reached perfection.
It was precisely because of the Disha sword technique as a foundation that Shen Yuan was able to use the Huiming sword to summon Gong Buyu's magic power and spiritual power and easily cut out the dragon-slaying sword.
This sword not only surprised Gong Buyu, but also shocked everyone at the conference.
Just before, many people noticed that Gong Buyu was already exhausted after using the innate Qi capture technique, but in the next moment he was able to draw his sword and kill an evil dragon in the middle stage of Qi training. Such strength shocked everyone.
Many accomplished practitioners turned their eyes to the Huiming Sword. With their level of cultivation, they didn't even notice how the Huiming Sword appeared in Gong Buyu's hand.
It was as if Gong Buyu had been holding this sword from the very beginning.
After repeated observations and confirmation that this rusty sword did not contain any spiritual essence of a magic treasure, most of the practitioners gave up some of their speculations.
However, more people reacted after Gong Buyu killed the green dragon, and looked at Sun Lanyu with a sarcastic look on his face.
“It seems that the guardian spirit beast of your Jishui Sect is not very good. It was in poor condition when it wanted to bully this Excellency, and was killed by a sword instead.
What are your Jishui Sect's plans for next? Are you, the Sect Leader, going to take the field yourself?"
"The group of small fry behind you are basically only at the Qi Transformation Stage. I want to see what kind of waves you can create."
"Although all the water gods on the entire Jishui River are nominally under your control, that is limited to giving you a little face in some unimportant situations, and by the way, giving you flags to cheer you up and win some benefits.
If you really encounter a major event like facing the Great Xia court, those confident Qi training water gods will never allow you to use them as cannon fodder."
"The Jishui Sect was just founded. It's not going to be destroyed so soon, is it? That's really unfortunate. I mean, it's really sad."
The mocking voices made Sun Lanyu so angry that his face turned blue, but at this moment Sun Lanyu had no room for rebuttal.
Glancing at the dragon corpse on the iceberg, Sun Lanyu cursed in a low voice:
"What a waste!"
Behind Sun Lanyu, many water creatures looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard Sun Lanyu's scolding, but in the end no one dared to speak in rebuttal.
Trying hard to suppress the anger on his face, Sun Lanyu looked up at Gong Buyu who was holding the Huiming Sword and said:
"Your strength is beyond my imagination. I would like to apologize to you for my arrogant remarks before."
As he spoke, Sun Lanyu actually bowed respectfully to Gong Buyu.
At the moment he bowed his head, a barely perceptible coldness flashed across Sun Lanyu's face, but it disappeared without a trace after he raised his head. Everything happened in a flash.
"There is another person from my Jishui Sect who wants to challenge you.
If you are able to accept this, my Jishui Sect will immediately withdraw from the Conference and will never interfere in the affairs of the Conference again from now on.
But if you lose, you will bear all the consequences yourself. What do you think?"
After a slight pause, Sun Lanyu seemed to realize that it was not appropriate to say this, and quickly put on an amends gesture and said:
"Of course, since you are of noble birth, if you do not want to accept the challenge, you can just withdraw. After all, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. If you choose to withdraw at this moment, everyone can understand.
The only pity is that all the Qigong masters who could make it to the stage of the entire Dao Conference were defeated by you. I am afraid that if you retreat, you will hand over the fruits of victory to my Jishui Sect."
As he spoke, Sun Lanyu showed a look of regret.
Once these words were spoken, the monks from all the major sects in Xuanhuang Tower were shocked.
"Promise him to kick this human scum out of the Dao Conference!"
"I think it's inappropriate. Sun Lanyu's remarks must be deceptive. It's better to be careful."
"Even if Sun Lanyu is deceiving, he is at most a water creature in the Qi training stage with a protective magic treasure. This fairy has defeated so many Qi training masters, so are you afraid that he will send another one to die?"
"Even if the fairy is not in good condition, she will have no problem protecting herself against the Qi training monsters. At worst, she can withdraw and leave the mess to the Imperial Observatory. Don't worry."
There was an uproar of public opinion in Xuanhuang Tower. Some people supported Gong Buyu to accept the challenge, while others asked Gong Buyu to protect himself first and refuse the challenge. Some even wanted to give Gong Buyu a panacea to help him recover.
But Shen Yuan couldn't help but frowned and looked at the hundreds of aquatic creatures behind Sun Lanyu.
Just before Sun Lanyu appeared, Shen Yuan sensed a dangerous aura approaching. He thought it was the green dragon under Sun Lanyu, but after lending the Huiming Sword to Gong Buyu to kill the green dragon, the dangerous aura did not dissipate.
"There must be something wrong here!"
Just as Shen Yuan was about to stop Gong Buyu from accepting the challenge, Gong Buyu said in a cold voice:
"If you have any tricks up your sleeve, just use them!"
Although Gong Buyu has little contact with the outside world, he is not a fool and can naturally see through Sun Lanyu's provocation.
But this is the first task given to her by her master to win the championship in this discussion conference. She must do everything possible to complete it, and she cannot give in even if Sun Lanyu has other plans. "Okay!"
Sun Lanyu's face immediately showed ecstasy, and he clapped his hands and said loudly:
"In that case, then I would like to ask the great elder of the Jishui Sect to show up."
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge wave suddenly arose in the place where the aquatic creatures gathered, and a black mountain slowly rose from the water.
As the waves receded, everyone was shocked to find that what was rising was not a mountain, but the shell of a giant alligator turtle.
Just a quick glance revealed that this alligator turtle was several times larger than the evil mountain water god seen before, and the enormous sense of oppression it brought when it lay across the river was far greater than that of a ship.
A ferocious head covered with scales poked out from the water, and a powerful aura spread in all directions without reservation.
The huge sense of oppression from Mingquan Turtle Phase not only acted on the physical body, everyone could feel the trembling coming from the soul, and someone on the Xuanhuang Tower finally couldn't help but exclaimed.
"The Great Demon of Transformation!"
"The spiritual energy tide has not yet fully returned, how dare a great demon appear in the world at this time?"
"It is definitely not a great demon that was promoted after the spiritual energy tide. It must be from the blessed land of the cave!"
“Jidu Dragon Palace! It must be that Jidu Dragon Palace paid a certain price and temporarily suppressed the backlash.”
"But temporarily suppressing it is already the limit. The Great Spiritualization Demon has already surpassed the rules of the world and is not allowed to appear in the world at all. Once you take action, you will definitely have to pay a heavy price."
Hundreds of aquatic creatures immediately prostrated themselves in the water and saluted the giant alligator turtle. Even the arrogant Sun Lanyu bowed and said:
"I have seen Mingquan Turtle!"
Mingquan Lake is one of the top tributaries of the Jidu water area. The position of Dragon King has always been held by the direct descendants of Jidu Dragon Palace in all dynasties. During the period of depletion of spiritual energy, there are several places to enter the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven.
In the last spiritual tidal era, the current Mingquan Dragon King was the biological son of the eldest prince of Jidu Dragon Palace.
The last Jidu Dragon King was nearing the end of his life, and the eldest prince of Jidu Dragon Palace, who was about to take over the throne, revealed the loss of the Jidu Dragon Seal. Eventually, the third prince and other gods of the Dragon Palace awakened an old dragon from the ancestral land and successfully overthrew the eldest prince of Jidu Dragon Palace.
The eldest prince of Jidu was expelled from the Jidu Dragon Palace and could no longer enter the cave heaven. The third prince of Jidu had an unstable foundation and was afraid of a counterattack from the eldest prince of Jidu, so he deposed several of the eldest prince's descendants, including Mingquan Dragon King, from the title of Dragon King and prevented them from entering the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven.
In order to appease the people of the water tribe, the third prince of Jidu distributed the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven quota that should have belonged to the eldest prince of Jidu and his descendants to the major water systems.
Mingquan Guixiang, as the second most important figure in the Mingquan Lake water system after Mingquan Longjun, immediately surrendered to the Third Prince of Jidu and was granted the qualification to enter the Jidu Dragon Palace.
Normally, even if a cultivator at the Spirit Transformation Realm enters a blessed land, he cannot use the methods of other True Immortals or True Lords to survive the long period of three thousand years of spiritual energy depletion.
This is also the reason why cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm are rarely seen in the major blessed lands of the human race.
But Mingquan Turtle was different. As a member of the turtle clan, he had a long lifespan. He did not use any self-sealing secret techniques and relied on his innate bloodline to survive the 3,000-year period of spiritual energy depletion.
Such a situation is rare even in the entire Jidu Dragon Palace.
With the help of the information obtained from Bai Zhao, Sun Lanyu claimed that he had confirmed that Luo Yun was in the Xuanhuang Tower, and that the Jidu Dragon Palace must send a big monster to intimidate the human race in order to track down the clues.
None of the existing strong men in the Jidu Dragon Palace could come out, and in the end, Mingquan Turtle Prime Minister, who had the lowest status and would suffer the least backlash from heaven and earth after taking action, was lifted out.
Mingquan Guixiang was unwilling to make this journey from the bottom of his heart. Once he forcefully took action in this world and endured the backlash of the rules of heaven and earth, it would almost mean that his path to promotion would be completely cut off, and all the suffering he had endured for three thousand years would be destroyed in an instant.
But since the Jidulong Lord had given the order, he, a mere traitor to his master, had no room to refuse.
Mingquan Guixiang's turbid eyes looked at Gong Buyu on the iceberg, and suddenly he felt a familiar breath coming from the iceberg below.
With his eyes wide open, Mingquan Turtle said angrily:
"You are the one who killed my descendants?"
The roar shook the river, and the surging waves created a huge torrent that continuously bombarded the eternal iceberg.
After leaving Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven, Mingquan Guixiang unexpectedly learned from Sun Lanyu that he had a descendant with extraordinary talent, who was promoted to the Qi training stage at the beginning of this spiritual energy tide, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely become a demon king in the future.
This piece of news greatly surprised Mingquan Guixiang. He was delighted that his descendant had such a genius. His move could just leave a good impression on Jidulongjun and gain some benefits for his descendant of this genius.
When one's own path is blocked, placing one's hopes on the younger generation is a way out.
But just a moment later, Sun Lanyu told Mingquan Guixiang that the genius descendant had died and was very likely related to the purpose of this trip.
Mingquan Guixiang originally thought that this was Sun Lanyu's attempt to make him try his best, but after seeing the frozen body of the Evil Mountain Water God and the iceberg suppressed by Gong Buyu, Mingquan Guixiang completely believed what Sun Lanyu said.
"die!"
The huge body of Mingquan Turtle carries the power of rivers. As a great demon with three thousand years of accumulation, Mingquan Turtle has already mastered the method of controlling water to perfection.
A huge wave rose into the sky, and it seemed to have transformed into a blue water curtain, smashing down heavily towards the area within a radius of several miles.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of river water were enough to destroy all living things under the force of gravity. Under the power of this great demon, Gong Buyu was as small as an ant.
In fact, all of this had already been resolved when Mingquan Turtle appeared.
A powerful person who has achieved the state of Yin God has completely escaped from the mundane world. Whether it is the control over Qi or the power of Yin God, it is enough to push magic to another completely different realm.
This is a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.
If Gong Buyu at his peak period were facing a cultivator who had just entered the stage of Divine Transformation, he might be able to escape with his life if he tried his best.
But now, when he is at the end of his rope and facing a great demon who has accumulated power for three thousand years, Gong Buyu has no chance of winning at all.
"After all, is this the end?"
Faced with the might of this great demon, even someone as stubborn as Gong Buyu had to admit that this was an existence that she was far from being able to contend with.
She loosened the Huiming Sword that she was holding tightly in her right hand and chose to entrust her safety to her master.
The green water sky curtain fell down with a loud bang, but just before it was about to touch Gong Buyu, the green water sky curtain was cut open by an invisible sword. The sword energy cut through the sky and went straight into the sky, and the surging river water was diverted down.
Then, an indifferent voice slowly sounded.
"You want to bully my disciple?"