131 Three Realms Shifting Talisman
Within the crimson glow, a crystal-clear jade hairpin quivered incessantly, emitting a wave of invisible sonic energy that once again brought Pang Yue's spiritual consciousness, projected onto the sword puppet, to the brink of collapse!
Clang!
In the flash of a flint, a sword cry rang out.
A profound and abstruse sword intent emerged, blocking the sonic waves. Countless minuscule sword lights flew out from the Myriad Beasts Sea-Swallowing Formation, converging in the blink of an eye into a hazy, glowing sword puppet.
On the sword puppet, a strand of sword intent connected the heavens to the sea, lofty and magnanimous, fiercely protecting Pang Yue's spiritual consciousness.
Fighting each other from a distance with extraordinary and wondrous techniques popping up one after another, both felt a deep sense of meeting their match in each other.
Looking at the sword puppet, Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful eyes flickered with wondrous colors as she praised, "What a fine puppet, and what a fine tier-three flying sword!"
Her red jade hairpin was no ordinary item; it was likewise a tier-three magical treasure, capable of piercing through anything and exceptionally adept at penetrating a cultivator's protective spiritual light!
Even a Golden Core cultivator, if caught off guard for a moment, would find it difficult to withstand this treasure of hers.
Earlier, she had launched a surprise attack on the sword puppet with her red jade hairpin, expecting to destroy it in one blow, only to discover that her opponent was actually a puppet.
What surprised her even more was that the core of this puppet turned out to be a tier-three flying sword!
Being exceptionally skilled in combat herself, she immediately executed a secret technique, attempting to shatter the opponent's spiritual consciousness anchored within the puppet.
To her astonishment, her opponent used sword intent to protect their body, successfully blocking the sonic waves.
The sword puppet looked at Shangguan Wan'er with indifference, then suddenly raised its thumb and silently made a throat-slitting gesture!
...
On Flower-Fragrance Island.
Pang Yue let out a gentle sigh, a look of regret crossing his face.
He had originally hoped to use the sword puppet and the Monster-Taming Pot to eradicate several demonic cultivators in one fell swoop, but looking at it now, that would not be possible.
With a single sweep of his hand, over a hundred brilliantly glowing spiritual stones appeared.
Every single one of them was a top-tier spiritual stone!
The dense spiritual energy caused the various spiritual plants on Flower-Fragrance Island to sway slightly for a fleeting moment.
With a casual wave of his sleeve, the hundred top-tier spiritual stones flew down onto the island, sinking seamlessly into the nodes of the Supreme-Unity Golden Lightning Formation.
Following that, he produced another hundred top-tier spiritual stones and, repeating the same process, scattered them into a different hundred or so nodes.
Pausing for a moment, Pang Yue gritted his teeth, brought out yet another hundred top-tier spiritual stones, and scattered them with a heartache!
A short while later.
He gently formed a hand seal and let out a low shout!
Between heaven and earth, a response seemed to echo.
The golden lightning filling the sky suddenly surged violently!
Tens of thousands of golden thunderbolts, each ten zhang in length, swelled abruptly as if being inflated.
The Supreme-Unity Golden Lightning Formation, which had originally covered the skies above Flower-Fragrance Island, suddenly expanded threefold!
Overflowing golden lightning filled the firmament like a towering, gushing giant spring, bursting forth in all directions.
The Myriad Beasts Sea-Swallowing Formation, pressing down upon the Supreme-Unity Golden Lightning Formation, was instantly swallowed by the violent golden lightning!
Shangguan Wan'er and the flood dragon, along with the other demons, found themselves submerged by the lightning without the slightest power to resist.
The golden thunderbolts rolled like monstrous waves and violent tides, repeatedly scouring and destroying everything within!
The Myriad Beasts Sea-Swallowing Formation held out for merely a single breath before it was utterly destroyed.
The Eagle Demon King and the Snake Demon King resisted with all their might, but their demonic power flickered like a candle in the wind and was extinguished in the blink of an eye.
The two Golden Core great demons were wiped clean from existence without even a single feather left behind!
That black flood dragon revealed its true form, opening its maw to spit out a gleaming, perfectly round demonic pearl that emitted an eerie blue aquatic light, shielding it within.
Shangguan Wan'er was the most relaxed of all.
Sitting cross-legged in the void with a cyan feather hovering above her head, all the thunderbolts approaching her vicinity were swallowed whole by that feather!
With her at the center, a radius of three feet became an absolute vacuum.
A trace of coy anger lingered on her pretty face, though she kept it suppressed. Her starry eyes merely flashed with brilliant light as she seemed to begin re-evaluating her opponent.
A full thirty breaths!
The Supreme-Unity Golden Lightning Formation resembled a ferocious beast, roaring in fury for thirty breaths before finally growing quiet.
The golden lightning receded, returning to its original state.
Only trailing afterimages and wandering sparks of electricity remained across the sky.
The flood dragon's demonic pearl was covered in cracks, its entire body charred black, with many dragon scales peeling off and wisps of black smoke curling upward.
Its demonic power had plummeted to rock bottom, with less than ten percent remaining.
Shangguan Wan'er's expression shifted slightly as she called out softly, "Master's uncle, watch out!"
Before her words could even fade,
a brilliant streak of rainbow sword light that seemed to tear the heavens and split the earth arrived in the blink of an eye!
With a light flick of her slender finger, the red jade hairpin transformed into a dazzling red beam and flew out, engaging the sword light in battle.
The flood dragon was also startled. Had it not been for Shangguan Wan'er's warning and rescue, it likely would have already become a dead dragon.
However, it suddenly felt a wave of gray divine light wash over it.
Following that, its demonic power and cultivation plummeted in a straight line!
Roar!
It let out a fierce roar, twisting and winding as it attempted to use its physical might to counter the incoming enemy.
Shangguan Wan'er, on her side, also sensed that something was amiss and intended to come to the rescue, but she was entangled by that heaven-shaking sword light and found it difficult to make a move.
Though she used the cyan feather to protect her body and the sword light could not harm her in the least, she could no longer spare any attention for the others.
A tall figure abruptly materialized right in front of the flood dragon.
With a flick of his finger, a brilliant white sword light, resembling a bolt of lightning, flashed and vanished instantly, piercing directly into the flood dragon's massive eye.
Truly, it was as fast as the blink of an eye!
With a gentle twist of the sword light, it was about to destroy the flood dragon's brain...
Terror washed over the flood dragon as it violently opened its mouth and spat out its demonic pearl once more!
A blinding light erupted from the demonic pearl, threatening to detonate and perish together with the enemy.
An aura of terrifying proportions slowly spread outward.
"Alas..."
Yet that man merely flicked his finger in a circle, and a wisp of sword light flew out, skillfully flicking the demonic pearl away and sending it soaring into the distant horizon!
Boom!
In the distant sky, a heaven-shaking explosion rang out.
A blinding glare replaced the scorching sun in the sky, and white light enveloped a radius of a hundred miles, turning everything into a stark, blazing white to the naked eye.
Violent spiritual pressure and howling hurricanes swept across the area, roaring endlessly.
Yet that man's voice clearly carried across the surroundings—
"Of all the people you could provoke, why did you have to come to my Flower-Fragrance Island?"
In less than the time it takes to burn half an incense stick, a single person had slain four Golden Core great demons!
Amidst the howling gale of the exploding demonic pearl,
Shangguan Wan'er stood motionless in the void.
She calmly asked, "May I ask the Daoist friend's name? I have yet to hear of the Heavenly Sword Sect producing a talent like yourself."
Pang Yue pressed down with his hand, and the gray divine light of the Monster-Taming Pot poured down toward Shangguan Wan'er.
"Once you become the guardian spiritual beast of my island, I will tell you..."
"Do you have any idea how many spiritual stones you just cost me?"
Shangguan Wan'er smiled faintly, completely ignoring the gray divine light, and said softly, "It was my carelessness this time, failing to anticipate the enemy's moves beforehand, nor did I expect that in such a remote sea area, there would be a figure like you, Daoist friend."
"However... since Daoist friend has killed my master's mount, I shall send Daoist friend on your final journey!"
With that, she pointed her slender finger, and a talisman, one foot wide and three feet long, entirely enshrouded in a hazy cyan glow, materialized before her.
The talisman fluttered once against the wind and then fixed itself rigidly in mid-air!
At that moment,
from Flower-Fragrance Island below, the urgent voice of Ren Shuying suddenly rang out: "Run quickly! It is the Three Realms Teleportation Talisman!"
Hearing this, Pang Yue knew things were taking a turn for the worse. Decisive as ever, he transformed into a streak of sword light and instantly dived back into the island.
"Too late."
Shangguan Wan'er smiled faintly.
Changing her hand seal, she caused the cyan talisman to bloom with dazzling light.
A massive wave of cyan radiance slowly spread across the firmament.
Following that, the cyan radiance cascaded down upon Flower-Fragrance Island!
Silently and without a sound,
the Supreme-Unity Golden Lightning Formation showed no reaction whatsoever.
A moment later,
the cyan radiance vanished entirely.
And vanishing along with it was the entirety of Flower-Fragrance Island!
Between the sea and the sky, absolute serenity returned.
The wind was clear, the clouds were light, and only a slender, graceful, and enchanting figure stood proudly in the open air.
The disciple of the Primordial Spirit great demon wore an expression of profound boredom.
"I suppose I should go find a few of the Heavenly Sword Sect's Ten Great Successors to properly stretch my muscles, lest I be reprimarded by Master when I return..."
Murmuring to herself, Shangguan Wan'er vanished abruptly from the spot.