Li Muyang had never expected that the terrifying monster, which had always wandered above the Misty Sea, would one day come onto the land.
It wasn’t even to kill him, but rather to take Yu Chan away.
What madness had possessed this creature?
Hadn’t it proclaimed its intent to slay the Ascendants?
With Ascendant Li Muyang right before its eyes, it ignored him completely and instead took the insignificant Yu Chan?
Inside the cabin of the Flying Boat, watching the Holy Spirit Monster striding through the night sky in the distance, Li Muyang’s eyes were nearly splitting with rage.
He directly commanded the Startling Swan Immortal Sword, using the sword technique passed down by the Jade Immortal which sliced through the night and shattered the moonlight, slashing towards the Holy Spirit Monster afar.
However, as the flying sword just left the boat, it was engulfed by a surge of mist.
Then, Li Muyang unbelievably lost half of his Sword Control; his Divine Sense instantly lost its bearings.
The sword light that was meant to sweep forward eerily reversed its direction, shooting back towards the Flying Boat where Li Muyang was.
In the midst of hasty panic, Li Muyang exerted all his strength in Sword Control, trying to divert the sword light.
But the residual might of the sweeping sword light still struck the edge of the Flying Boat.
In the booming sounds of explosions, successive blasts caused by the broken Array echoed on this expensive Flying Boat he had chartered at a high cost.
The might of Li Muyang’s sword had swept away a tenth of the Flying Boat’s hull.
The Flying Boat, swiftly traversing the night sky, began to plummet rapidly, quickly gliding toward the forested mountains ahead.
The others aboard the Flying Boat were thrown into complete panic, rushing out one after another.
“What’s happened?”
“Has the enemy caught up?”
“Where is the young master?!”
The several Cultivators of Tingyu Tower were in utter chaos.
They tried to rush out of the Flying Boat, yet above the boat, mist shrouded everything.
Within this mist, the Cultivators’ sense of direction was completely jumbled.
Even though the space inside the Flying Boat was extremely confined, the Cultivators kept bumping into walls, losing their sense of direction; for a moment, they were unable to flee the plummeting Flying Boat.
In the distant night sky, that immense and eerie monster drifted away with the young girl Li Yuechan, without looking back.
Until…
Boom!
A terrifying blast resounded inside the cabin of the descending Flying Boat.
Endless torrents of Sword Qi broke through the rising mist on the Flying Boat. Sharp sword beams surged wildly, and this costly Flying Boat was utterly cleaved into pieces, disintegrating directly in mid-air.
And amidst the explosion’s blazing lights, the figure of a female Immortal with vacant eyes and an expressionless face, wielding a peerless Immortal Sword, soared upwards.
The body of the Ancient True Immortal Mo Immortal once again appeared in the world!
The keen swirling Sword Intent surged mightily under the moonlight.
This time, the Sword Qi torrent was nothing like Li Muyang’s previous sword light.
The sprawling, vast surge of Sword Qi resembled a long river, endlessly rushing under the moonlight, slashing straight towards the void in the distance.
The Holy Spirit Monster, which had been moving away atop the moonlight, finally halted.
It slightly turned and glanced back.
“…Mo Immortal?!”
The Holy Spirit Monster recognized the identity of this True Immortal’s remains and finally accorded it sufficient reverence.
It stopped its stride and turned around.
A thick ancient book ascended above its head.
The Reincarnation Record.
Basking in the cold light of the mysterious ancient book, the Reincarnation Record, the Holy Spirit Monster murmured to itself.
“So it turns out that the true immortal remains you controlled, as mentioned in the tales of the world, are of Mo Immortal… Interesting.”
“Would such a haughty Immortal like Mo Immortal be willing to let his physical body become someone else’s Magic Artifact?”
In the distant sky, the surging torrent of Sword Qi was already upon him.
But the holy yet grotesque creature, with the Reincarnation Record above its head, bathed in the bleak, deathly light, showed no fear whatsoever.
The onslaught of Sword Qi that the remains of Mo Immortal sliced out was effortlessly blocked by the Reincarnation Record.
Witnessing all of this, Li Muyang’s gaze was icy cold, showing no sign of discouragement.
The distance between the two was so great that his strike was meant to detain the ancient holy spirit, not to kill.
As the fierce torrent of Sword Qi came rushing and duly stopped the departure of the holy yet grotesque creature, Li Muyang too stepped on Tunneling Light, moving alongside Mo Immortal’s remains.
One man and one corpse, swiftly traversing the skies, getting ahead of the holy yet grotesque creature.
From a distance of hundreds of feet, facing the grotesque creature with a terrifying appearance yet an incredibly holy aura, Li Muyang’s eyes were piercing cold.
This was his deadly enemy; Li Muyang had known this for a long time.
But he dared not enter the Misty Sea, and the holy yet grotesque creature dared not come ashore, so both sides had no chance of direct confrontation until now.
Yet unexpectedly, this creature came quietly, planning to take away Yu Chan…
Under the moonlight, Yu Chan— with an indifferent gaze and a frosty demeanor — quietly stood to one side.
She seemed like an indifferent spectator, watching the arrival of Li Muyang.
Clearly, Yu Chan had fallen under some sort of Illusion Technique.
And the culprit was the creature before him.
Li Muyang narrowed his eyes: “You finally came to the continent…”
This creature was powerful, wandering over the Misty Sea, hard to find.
But it was suppressed by the Heaven and Earth Seal, and no matter how strong its cultivation, it could only exert the battle power of the Heavenly Eternal Realm.
Facing the remains of Mo Immortal, the creature had no advantage.
One could say that this was the perfect opportunity to slay the monstrous being.
The creature might have been wary of the Ancient True Immortal remains that Li Muyang had refined, hence it didn’t provoke Li Muyang and instead planned to stealthily take Yu Chan away.
Confronted with Li Muyang’s arrival, the holy yet grotesque creature smiled faintly.
Despite being an ugly and ferocious monster, it unexpectedly revealed a smile characteristic of humans.
Holy, grotesque, evil, sinister… a plethora of complex auras mixed within it, evoking an extremely odd discomfort.
As well as a spine-chilling sense of dread.
It smiled and said, “Ascendant, we meet again.”
“Your last time on the Tianyuan Continent, you saved the lives of many, a feat unparalleled.”
“But unfortunately, in the end, you unleashed a vicious creature.”
“If you could have been more cautious and perfect the last time, that ancient demonic fiend would not have been able to emerge.”
The holy spirit creature was referring to the ancient Demon Cultivator Miao Fengjun.
Narrowing his eyes at the creature before him, Li Muyang coldly said: “What do you want to do by taking away my sister? If you have a grudge, come at me, why involve family?”
Li Muyang didn’t take up the creature’s conversational gambit.
Summoning the remains of Mo Immortal to the world, every second was consuming a great amount of Li Muyang’s mana, he had no time to idle away chatting with the creature.
The monster seemed to have no intention to stall for time either; seeing that Li Muyang didn’t take its bait, it no longer dwelled on the topic and simply shook its head with a polite smile.
“Ascendant, your words are amusing. Yu Chan is a divine ghost of The Peaceful Realms, the daughter of the Ghost Moon Fox, what does she have to do with your Human World? When has she become your sister?”
“I could have let her stay by your side, secretly influencing her, using the fact that you are completely unguarded against her to harm you.”
“But out of pity for the deep bond between you two, I couldn’t bear to commit such an ignoble act, hence I’ve come to take her away and let her return to her origins. This is already a great mercy.”
“Yet, Ascendant, you are so aggressive, trying to stop me. Where is the reason in that?”