Chapter 34: Ji Qingyou Battles the Heavenly Sword Sovereign

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But Ji Qingyou was no ordinary person!

In an instant, she unleashed a quasi-emperor secret art and teleported Ye Zhetian to one side.

“Hm?” The Heavenly Sword Venerable abruptly turned around.

At the same time, Ji Qingyou’s expression grew stern. She raised her hand and summoned the god-and-demon puppet from Ten Thousand Arts Peak. With her master’s permission, she had already left her mark upon it. Though the puppet was far away, she could temporarily borrow a strand of its god-and-demon aura.

Whoosh!

With a wave of Ji Qingyou’s hand, a stream of god-and-demon aura resembling a black dragon came roaring from the direction of Ten Thousand Arts Peak, completely blocking the Heavenly Sword Venerable’s second attack.

At the same time, as she looked upon the Heavenly Sword Venerable, who had taken on the appearance of her master, Ji Qingyou’s eyes turned cold.

Slash!

At that very moment, Ye Zhetian was furious as well. A bolt of lightning burst from him and shot toward the man who had framed his master.

Elsewhere, a thunderous boom rang out. The god-and-demon puppet within Ten Thousand Arts Peak had been summoned through the air by Ji Qingyou!

When he saw the enormous puppet, the Heavenly Sword Venerable’s expression changed instantly.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, countless people stared in shock at the god-and-demon puppet that had suddenly appeared.

“What is that? Have the ancient gods and demons risen again?”

“Wait—has it actually been refined into a puppet?”

“What level of power is this? Why does merely sensing it from afar feel so terrifying?”

Looking at the formidable god-and-demon within the image, some people broke out in gooseflesh.

In the Great Yan Dynasty, the assembled civil and military officials were struck pale with terror by the sudden appearance of the god-and-demon puppet. Yet the old State Preceptor gazed on in delight when he saw the puppet walking toward the eldest princess.

Only the Crown Prince, Ji Hao, who had hurried over upon hearing the news, looked up at the scene with a gloomy expression.

“Such an evil creature must be destroyed! Otherwise, Great Yan will be doomed!”

But immediately afterward, he seemed to think of something. As he stared at the god-and-demon puppet walking toward Ji Qingyou, a covetous gleam appeared in his eyes.

At the same time, Ji Qingyou stepped forward. Drawing upon the mark she had left on the god-and-demon puppet, she entered it directly.

The Heavenly Sword Venerable, who had transformed himself into Lin Jun, tried to stop her, but his expression changed drastically when he saw this.

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“Who gave you the courage to slander my master?”

Within the god-and-demon puppet, Ji Qingyou’s eyes were icy cold. Controlling the puppet, she drove it straight toward the Heavenly Sword Venerable.

“You insolent disciple! What are you doing?” The Heavenly Sword Venerable, still disguised as Lin Jun, was thrown into a panic. Though he had already broken through to the Soul Formation realm, he was utterly outmatched before the god-and-demon puppet!

He dodged swiftly, but under Ji Qingyou’s control, the puppet moved like a ghost. With a single blow, it forced the Heavenly Sword Venerable back into his true form.

Pfft!

Though the Heavenly Sword Venerable fought desperately to resist, the puppet’s single strike left him disheveled and pale as paper. Blood poured from his mouth as he staggered backward.

“You!”

Seeing the terrifying god-and-demon puppet and finding himself exposed before everyone, the Heavenly Sword Venerable was consumed by fury and shock. He had never imagined that his supposedly flawless plan would be ruined by one of Lin Jun’s disciples!

“I will never let you off!”

A vicious expression crossed his face as he looked at the enormous god-and-demon puppet. With a flicker of his body, he raised the demonic sword and shield forged from Lin Qingxuan and once more engaged Ji Qingyou in battle.

“Master! He is not the real Lin Jun—the Sect Master has transformed into him!”

“宗主! Why are you doing this to us?”

“Am I blind? Where is justice in this world?!”

Seeing the “Lin Jun” in the sky suddenly transform into the Sect Master, the dying disciples below were filled with rage and horror. They had never expected that the person trying to kill them was not the devil Lin Jun, but their own Sect Master!

At the same time, the outside world erupted in uproar when the Heavenly Sword Venerable was suddenly forced back into his true form.

“The one slaughtering the disciples is actually the Heavenly Sword Venerable! Am I seeing this correctly?”

“As the master of a sect, has the Heavenly Sword Venerable gone mad? He had a perfectly good position as Sect Master, yet he chose to enter the demonic path?”

“I am not so sure,” someone said sagely. “Perhaps that devil, Lin Jun, is trying to frame the Heavenly Sword Venerable.”

Within the Great Dao Sect, the Heavenly Sword Venerable and Ji Qingyou, who controlled the god-and-demon puppet, continued their battle. He had assumed that Ji Qingyou was young and inexperienced, and that controlling such a massive puppet would inevitably leave openings.

He had never expected her control to be flawless.

What enraged him even more was that Lin Jun’s wretched disciple kept spitting lightning at him from the side, launching a sneak attack whenever the opportunity arose. The attacks were not fatal, but they were excruciatingly painful.

That wretched beast even targeted his most vulnerable parts!

From a distance, the back of the Heavenly Sword Venerable’s robe was riddled with holes, revealing flashes of pale flesh beneath.

“I will never forgive you!”

The Heavenly Sword Venerable roared furiously. He had thought that, after breaking through to the Soul Formation realm, he would be invincible. Yet he could not even defeat one of Lin Jun’s disciples.

It was a humiliation he could never accept!

The head of Lin Qingxuan, transformed into a demonic sword in his grasp, continued to wail in agony.

Though Lin Qingxuan possessed a special sword body and had been refined into a demonic sword, the god-and-demon puppet was far too terrifying for him to shake.

Held by the Heavenly Sword Venerable as it collided again and again with the mighty god-and-demon puppet, he felt as though he had fallen into the eighteenth layer of hell.

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“Did you really think that I, the dignified Heavenly Sword Venerable, possessed only this much ability?”

“Come, sword!”

After being locked in a prolonged battle, the Heavenly Sword Venerable suddenly erupted like a madman. With a sweep of his hand, the entire Heavenly Sword Peak tore itself from the ground.

Amid a succession of thunderous booms, the mountain transformed under his control into a colossal Heavenly Sword that blotted out the sky and sun!

A primordial aura exploded outward, as though the entire heavens had been obscured.

Beneath that enormous “Heavenly Sword,” even Ji Qingyou, who was piloting the god-and-demon puppet, appeared comparatively tiny.

Inside the puppet, Ji Qingyou’s expression changed.

As a reincarnated quasi-emperor, she could instantly discern the power contained in the Heavenly Sword Venerable’s strike.

If she currently possessed the cultivation of the Nascent Soul realm, then even if the Heavenly Sword Venerable unleashed several more attacks of this magnitude, controlling the god-and-demon puppet would make crushing him as easy as stepping on an insect.

But despite the puppet’s overwhelming strength, her own cultivation was limited, and so was the energy she could draw upon. Suppressing the Heavenly Sword Venerable was no problem, yet in the face of this earth-shattering sword strike, she herself could not withstand the force, even if the puppet remained unharmed.

Moreover, she had already used her quasi-emperor secret art once and could not use it again within such a short time.

As they watched the mountain transform into a flying sword, the people outside were left utterly stunned.

“The Heavenly Sword Venerable truly is an unparalleled genius. He actually refined his own natal mountain into a flying sword. His calculations are profound indeed.”

“I sense the aura of tribulation transcendence within this strike. If I were beneath it, I would certainly die.”

“With a sword like this, the Heavenly Sword Venerable is unquestionably worthy of the title ‘Sword Venerable’!”

In the Great Yan Dynasty, the Crown Prince, Ji Hao, looked on with a trace of regret as the god-and-demon puppet fell beneath the Heavenly Sword Venerable’s “sword of the mountain.”

“Die!”

At that moment, earth-shaking energy erupted. Wielding the sword of the mountain, the Heavenly Sword Venerable released all the resentment that had built up while Ji Qingyou suppressed him.

Wherever the sword passed, countless disciples were annihilated.

Then, with devastating force, it descended upon Ji Qingyou, who controlled the god-and-demon puppet.

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