Free Web NovelChapter 255: Chapter 229: Twelve Celestial Divination Sword Array (Part 2)
At the same time, several shields of different shapes materialized before Hu Haiqing. With a deafening rumble, they shot up, transforming into massive walls that barred the space between the two men. Each wall was several dozen feet high and seven feet thick!
Every single one was a Tier Two Middle Grade Defensive Magical Artifact!
BOOM! RUMBLE!
The Pure Jun Sword cleaved through three shield walls, losing most of its momentum. When it struck the fourth, the massive wall shuddered violently. Cracks instantly webbed across its surface, and it hummed and trembled as if about to collapse at any moment, but it ultimately withstood the blow.
Over ten figures crashed down like boulders, THUD THUD THUD, forcing Chen Che back while simultaneously gathering around Hu Haiqing.
’Have the reinforcements arrived?’
Forced back several dozen steps, Chen Che’s expression turned grim.
The pressure of the deep sea was significant, not only preventing him from fully utilizing the Nine Transformations Spirit Flame Technique, but also keeping Little Chick from taking action. If this were anywhere else, he could have killed Hu Haiqing several times over before his reinforcements arrived.
"Hahaha, Chen Che! You thought you could kill me? What about now?"
His senses returning, Hu Haiqing’s gaze sharpened. He clutched his severed arm, his eyes filled with madness. "I never imagined I’d be pushed this far by a junior... This is the most dangerous battle of my life. A pity you were still one step short!"
"Form the Array!"
At his shout,
the twelve newly arrived Hu Family Foundation Establishment Cultivators spread out in unison. In an instant, their breathing, heartbeats, pulses, and even their True Essence all seemed to synchronize as one. As they raised their hands, the seabed trembled, and twelve streams of Sword Qi erupted violently.
BOOM!
The Sword Qi parted the seawater, creating a vacuum over a thousand feet long on the ocean floor. The reefs in its path were sliced in two. As the attack blasted forward, the streams of Sword Qi converged, twisting and intertwining to form a Sword Qi Vortex.
The Sword Qi Vortex was a thousand feet long, seeming to span the entire seabed.
The vortex surged forth from in front of Hu Haiqing, stretching all the way to Chen Che!
"Slash!"
Chen Che’s gaze focused, the Pure Jun Sword in his hand.
Instantly pushing his True Essence and Qi and Blood to their absolute limits, he brought his blade down fiercely on the stream of Sword Qi!
CLANG!
The tremendous sound rolled through the water. On the surface, the Major Cultivators locked in battle felt the water beneath them tremble as if it were boiling.
The ground beneath Chen Che’s feet gave way, and the nameless rock of the seabed shattered. Countless fragments shot out for hundreds of feet like bolts from a crossbow. He was forced back several dozen steps, each one leaving a deep footprint in the rock.
’The Twelve Celestial Divination Sword Array!’
Chen Che’s eyes narrowed.
After the battle at Primordial City, he had asked Meng Changtu about it and learned the array’s name. It was like a miniature Spirit Gathering Realm, capable of drawing upon the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to amplify the power of Sword Techniques. If the array’s casters were perfectly synchronized in mind and spirit, the Sword Momentum’s might could be amplified several times over.
"You little bastard, you were having a grand time killing earlier, weren’t you?"
Hu Haiqing roared as he watched Chen Che get pushed back.
Ever since he became the clan head, when had he ever feared anyone with his strength? He had even slain many Cultivators of the same tier. Yet now, he had nearly died at the hands of a junior—a junior who had stolen his business and killed his clan’s Grand Elder!
To hell with composure! To hell with magnanimity!
If his right arm hadn’t been severed, he would have charged forward to kill Chen Che himself.
And now, the Sword Array’s second strike was upon him.
The twelve men raised their swords and formed Sword Formulas with their hands.
Beneath the waves, Sword Qi danced wildly, twisting and coiling in the blink of an eye. It transformed into a Flood Dragon that had long lain dormant. The creature seemed to ignore the water, weaving through it gracefully before lunging directly at Chen Che. The Black Dragon Lock Chain protecting him was instantly knocked aside!
Chen Che’s expression was graver than ever before.
At this moment, the Pure Jun Sword in his hand felt as if it weighed ten thousand tons.
CLANG!
Chen Che struck again, but the stream of Sword Qi was solid and refused to disperse. It blasted him back several dozen steps, each one shattering the reef beneath his feet, before he finally managed to slice through it. The Pure Jun Sword in his hand trembled violently, as if about to snap at any moment.
BOOM!
The third strike was already on its way.
Chen Che’s face grew darker. He raised his sword, met the blow, and was forced back once more.
"Didn’t you come here specifically to kill me?"
Hu Haiqing roared. "Come on! Come and kill me!"
CLANG!
Chen Che gave his opponent a blank look, then reverse-gripped his Pure Jun Sword and plunged it into the ground.
"What, giving up? It’s too late for that!" Hu Haiqing sneered.
"You’re right. It is time for this to end."
Chen Che ignored him, simply forming a Seal Technique.
This was a war between two sects, after all. He had wanted to keep one more trump card in reserve, but now he had no choice but to use it.
"You still have a trump card?"
Hu Haiqing didn’t believe it for a second.
’That Spirit Flame from before was certainly terrifying, but it was severely limited underwater. Besides, my family’s Twelve Celestial Divination Sword Array has nothing to fear from such a technique.’
The smile on Hu Haiqing’s face suddenly froze.
A flash of light emanated from between Chen Che’s brows, and a Sword Pill flew out from his sea of consciousness. Bathed in a gentle Spiritual Light, the Sword Pill slowly rotated, blooming like a flower bud. The Flying Swords on its outermost layer then peeled away, one by one, like wilting petals.
There were nine of them!
The first time Chen Che had activated the Sword Pill, his Divine Sense had only been at the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer, with a range of just twenty thousand feet. His opponent had been Ye Jingzhou. But now, his Divine Sense had reached the Golden Core First Layer, with a range exceeding one hundred and eighty thousand feet.
And his opponent had changed to Hu Haiqing and the Hu Family Twelve Sword Array.
"Grind him to dust for me—"
Although he didn’t know what the object was, the sight of the Flying Swords peeling off like flower petals terrified Hu Haiqing.
The twelve Major Cultivators controlling the Sword Array also had a bad feeling.
BOOM!
In that instant, the Sword Array flared to life again.
They formed Sword Formulas, and the longswords in their hands floated into the air.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Streams of Sword Qi burst forth from their bodies and their swords.
As Hu Haiqing took a step forward, this vast Sword Qi surged forward like a mountain flood held back for three days and three nights, now bursting through a dam. Hu Haiqing clenched his hand, and with a tremendous boom, the roiling Sword Qi rapidly condensed, merging together in the blink of an eye.
The impact of this Sword Qi churned the seawater as if it were boiling, and countless bubbles erupted in a radius of ten thousand feet.
But in the next moment, they were torn apart by the sheer force!
A massive vortex burst from the froth. The tip of the Sword Qi Vortex quickly elongated, morphing into a great maw filled with fangs. Then, above the jaws, a pair of elegant dragon claws formed...
Followed by more claws, and then scales...
The description is complex, but it all happened in a flash. The giant dragon formed from Sword Qi soared and danced, its majestic and powerful body entering Chen Che’s vision almost instantly.
BOOM!
The Sword Dragon burst from the water, a full three thousand feet long.
Like a Demon Dragon bringing chaos to the world, it stirred up a storm of blood and gore, seemingly unstoppable.
SCREEECH!
The ground in its path was instantly torn asunder, gouged with deep furrows.
"Good!"
Facing the Demon Dragon that had burst from the water, the fighting spirit in Chen Che’s eyes flared.
He clenched his hand.
BOOM!
The nine Flying Swords that had peeled from the Sword Pill rose into the air, linking head to tail. With a wave of Chen Che’s bare hand, they transformed into a thirty-foot-long Sword Aura that parted the water, shooting straight toward the Demon Dragon that spanned the seabed.
Thirty feet versus three thousand!
A hundredfold difference!
They collided in an instant!
In the eyes of Hu Haiqing and the Hu Family’s Major Cultivators, this Sword Aura should have been like a dry twig in a raging flood or a blade of grass beneath a collapsing Tai Mountain—crushed to dust in a single moment!
But the result...
The Sword Aura, as if meeting no resistance, plunged into the Sword Qi Demon Dragon’s head. It continued onward with unstoppable momentum, its power undiminished, and sliced the creature clean in two from head to tail.
BANG!
The very instant the Sword Qi Demon Dragon was torn apart, the bodies of the twelve Hu Family Foundation Establishment Cultivators shuddered and exploded on the spot. The Array had been broken, and they had suffered the backlash from the Twelve Celestial Divination Sword Array!
"Not good!"
Hu Haiqing froze. The Sword Aura was already upon him. He wanted to dodge, but it was too late.
PFFT!
The Sword Aura passed through his body in a flash, exiting from his back. It dissolved into specks of light that flowed like a fluorescent stream back to the Sword Pill. Hu Haiqing’s raised foot froze in mid-air.
Chen Che looked up.
"I’ve killed him. So what?"
"...You."
Hu Haiqing’s eyes were wide with rage and disbelief, but the life in them had already faded completely. With a THUD, he collapsed into the water, silent forever.
