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Chapter 440 Sword Mountain (Page 12)
Inside the Jade Pool Palace, golden light and emerald green intertwine.
Just as Loki was about to swallow the elixir of immortality—
"boom--!!!"
The glazed tiles on the roof of the palace shattered, and a crimson dragon shadow swooped down!
"Candle Dragon - Time Stop!"
Zhang Yun's voice was exceptionally clear in the frozen space and time. His dragon claw precisely gripped Loki's wrist, while his other hand swiftly snatched back the golden elixir that shimmered with starlight. The entire movement was fluid and seamless, leaving no time for even the medicinal mist drifting through the pill hall to ripple.
"What?!" Loki's pupils shrank.
The body he was controlling, Leng Xuan, suddenly twisted into a bizarre angle, his spine making a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound, and he actually grabbed Zhang Yun's throat in a way that violated human anatomy!
"Crack!"
Lin Qiye's black box-shaped straight sword slashed down, severing the strange arm at the elbow.
Without any blood splattering, the severed limbs transformed into dozens of hissing black snakes as soon as they hit the ground!
"Seven Nights, be careful!" Zhang Yun quickly retreated three steps, the True Flame of the Candle Dragon igniting in his palm. "This is Loki's [Thousand Serpents' Touch]!"
More black snakes emerged from Leng Xuan's severed arm. These snakes, head to tail, quickly coalesced into a new arm.
Lin Qiye looked at that familiar yet unfamiliar face—Leng Xuan's eyebrows and eyes were covered with dark green lines, and the arc of his mouth stretching to his ears was beyond human capability.
"Use this!" Yang Jian tossed over a jade bottle. "The holy water of Yaochi is especially effective against evil spirits!"
The black snakes suddenly sprang to life! They detached from Leng Xuan's body and intertwined in the air to form a dense web. Each snake's vertical pupil reflected a scene from a different time and space—a myriad of mirror images stolen by Loki using his [Deceitful Trick].
"Eternal Night - Devouring the Heavens!"
Lin Qiye's blade stirred the dark vortex, sucking in half of the black snakes. The remaining snakes suddenly exploded, instantly filling the pill palace with dark green poisonous mist.
Loki's sneer echoed through the mist: "Using the bodies of my followers against me? Is this all the Great Xia gods are capable of?"
The poisonous fog was suddenly torn apart by golden light.
Qingluan, wielding the Kunlun Mirror, arrived on a cloud, its surface reflecting the three intertwined souls within Leng Xuan's body—
The original Leng Xuan soul was squeezed into a corner, on the verge of death;
Loki's fragmented soul coiled around it like a poisonous vine;
Deep inside, there was a small black python on the verge of death, which was the spirit of Leng Xuan and Loki's contract!
"So that's how it is." Yang Jian's eyes widened in anger. "He even tampered with the souls of his own people!"
Zhang Yun suddenly tossed the golden elixir to Lin Qiye: "Catch!"
Almost simultaneously, Leng Xuan lunged forward at superhuman speed, his five fingers sprouting chilling bone spurs. The instant Lin Qiye caught the golden core, the bone spurs were already pressed against his heart—
"Ding!"
A copper coin appeared out of thin air, and the bone spur was deflected 0.01 millimeters from the heart.
"You're asking for death!" Loki controlled Leng Xuan to spin and kick, but was frozen in mid-air by the sudden freeze in space and time.
Zhang Yun, bleeding from all seven orifices, maintained the time stop: "Seven Nights...faster...I can only freeze for 0.5 seconds..."
Lin Qiye's blade ignited with black flames, but it abruptly changed direction when it touched Leng Xuan's clothes, only severing a strand of hair.
In that instant of hesitation, Leng Xuan's right arm suddenly exploded, and flesh and blood transformed into chains that wrapped around Lin Qiye's wrist.
"Womanly compassion!" Loki grinned maliciously as he tightened the chains. "Then I'll use your hands—"
The chains suddenly began to tremble violently.
Leng Xuan's left eye briefly regained its clarity, and the little black python actually bit Loki's soul. "Si Xiaonan... go..." His true soul roared, and his eroded skin cracked inch by inch.
A heart-wrenching scream came from outside the hall. She broke through Qingluan's obstruction, her silver needle piercing Leng Xuan's Baihui acupoint: "Wake up! You said you'd stay with me until the end!"
The silver needles melt the moment they touch the skin.
Loki laughed maniacally and grabbed Si Xiaonan's wrist: "Just what I needed, a new puppet..."
"Now!" Yang Jian suddenly turned his three-pointed double-edged sword around and slammed the hilt heavily into Leng Xuan's acupoint.
The holy water from Yaochi, hidden in the blade, flowed into Leng Xuan's body through his acupoints, and the hissing sound of a venomous snake being burned immediately echoed within his body.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Qiye pressed the golden pill onto Leng Xuan's brow.
When the elixir of immortality encounters evil, it automatically activates its purifying power, with golden light cascading down and cleansing every inch of the meridians.
Loki's split soul emitted a non-human scream and had to detach from its host and retreat.
How dare you—
The dark green soul reassembled in mid-air, only to collide with the Kunlun Mirror Light that had been waiting for a long time.
Qingluan bit her tongue and smeared the blood on the mirror: "In the name of the Queen Mother of the West, seal!"
The mirror light transformed into nine layers of chains, binding the soul.
Loki suddenly gave a strange smile, and his soul spontaneously split into a hundred parts.
Ninety-nine of the false souls were sealed by the mirror light, while the last true soul used the power to escape outside the palace.
"Chase!" Yang Jian flew off.
The Kunlun Mountains are shrouded in a sea of clouds.
Loki's remnant soul streaked across the sky like a ghostly green meteor, hurtling towards the depths of Kunlun.
Behind them, a golden light followed closely—
"Shh-!"
The Queen Mother of the West's divided soul stepped out of the Kunlun Mirror, and the power of time flowing on the mirror paved a golden road beneath her feet.
Her hair was as white as snow, her phoenix eyes held a murderous glint, and the Kunlun Mirror in her hand reflected Loki's escape route.
"Loki, you can't escape."
Her voice was as cold as ice from the heavens, piercing through the clouds and striking straight at Loki's soul.
Loki glanced back, a cold smile playing on his lips: "Queen Mother, why are you chasing me so closely? I didn't steal any of your peaches."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly accelerated, and the eerie green soul light burrowed into the depths of the clouds like a venomous snake.
Kunlun Mountains, Nameless Sword Peak.
Loki's lingering soul suddenly stopped, his pupils shrinking slightly.
Before us, a majestic sword mountain stands amidst the sea of clouds, its body as sharp as a blade, piercing straight into the sky.
—What's even more chilling is that the mountain is covered with countless ancient swords!
Bronze swords, black iron swords, white jade swords... each one is covered in rust, yet exudes a suffocating aura of death.
“This is…” Loki’s soul trembled slightly, “The Sword Mountain of Great Xia?”
He had never seen so many ancient swords gathered in one place. What was even stranger was that these swords were not inanimate objects, but rather resonated faintly, as if they were sleeping and waiting for some kind of summons.
"Something's wrong..."
He instinctively sensed danger, but the Queen Mother of the West was closing in behind him, leaving him no time to hesitate.
"Shh-!"
He gritted his teeth and charged toward the sword mountain, attempting to use the sword formation to block the pursuers.
The instant Loki stepped into the Sword Mountain area—
“Zheng——!!!”
A bronze sword suddenly trembled, its cry like a dragon's roar, echoing through the sky!
Immediately afterwards, the second, the third... all the ancient swords on the entire Sword Mountain hummed together, and sword energy swept over like a tide!
"What the hell?!" Loki's soul was struck by the sword energy, and its eerie green light dimmed by three points.
He abruptly retreated, only to see a phantom slowly coalescing atop Sword Mountain—
He was a swordsman in white, carrying an ancient sword on his back, his eyes like cold stars.
Though it was just a phantom, the moment the sword was drawn, the world fell silent!
“The Great Xia Dynasty…the First Generation Sword Immortal?!” Loki’s heart trembled violently.
Without hesitation, he turned around and fled to the other side.
"Want to leave now? It's too late."
The Queen Mother of the West's divided soul has arrived, and the Kunlun Mirror hangs high, its light like a cage sealing off all directions!
"Tsk...troublesome." Loki's soul was scorched by the mirror light, and the eerie green light continued to dissipate.
He narrowed his eyes, suddenly looking into the depths of Sword Mountain, a wicked smile curling at the corner of his lips: "Since we can't escape... let's play for the big prize!"
He suddenly made a hand seal, and his soul body suddenly split into hundreds of dark lights, which shot towards all parts of Sword Mountain like a rainstorm!
"What do you want to do?!" The Queen Mother of the West's phoenix eyes narrowed.
“Of course…” Loki’s remnant soul grinned maliciously, “to borrow his sword!”
"boom--!!!"
Hundreds of beams of light simultaneously entered the ancient sword, causing the sword mountain to erupt in chaos!
"Clang clang clang—!!!"
Thousands of ancient swords rang out in unison, their sword energy soaring into the sky, weaving together in mid-air to form a sky-covering sword net that descended upon the Queen Mother of the West!
"Little tricks."
The Queen Mother of the West snorted coldly, and the Kunlun Mirror flipped over, reflecting the trajectory of the sword net on its surface.
"Time Reversal!"
"Shua——!!!"
The sword net suddenly froze, then, as if playing in reverse, it decomposed back into countless sword energies and returned to the sword mountain.
"What?!" Loki's pupils shrank.
He never expected that the Queen Mother of the West had such control over the Kunlun Mirror that even her sword energy could reverse time and space!
"You've lost." The Queen Mother of the West lightly tapped the mirror with her fingertip. "Sealing the Soul!"
The mirror-like light, like a waterfall, completely enveloped Loki's lingering soul.
...
Kunlun Mountain, the Jade Pool and the Crimson Palace.
The medicinal mist inside the hall had not yet dissipated, and the golden light and the lingering shadows of eerie green intertwined, reflecting on Lin Qiye's solemn face.
He stared at Si Xiaonan, his black-boxed straight sword trembling slightly, his voice low and deep: "Sister Xiaonan... what's wrong with you? Why are you hanging out with Loki?"
Si Xiaonan lowered her head, her fingertips digging deeply into her palms beneath her black robe, her knuckles turning white. Her lips trembled slightly, but she couldn't utter a single word.
—How do you explain this?
—Could it be that she and Leng Xuan had already been bound by a contract with Loki, leaving them with no control over their own lives?
—Could it be that they have been lying in wait for years, just to find a glimmer of hope?
She can't.
Because right now—
"Take back the Elixir of Immortality and kill Lin Qiye... or I will immediately annihilate Leng Xuan!"
Loki's voice resounded in her heart like a venomous snake, cold and piercing.
Si Xiaonan's pupils suddenly contracted, and her blood seemed to freeze.
She slowly raised her head and looked at Lin Qiye, her eyes filled with a mixture of pain and determination.
"I'm sorry... Seven Nights."
She suddenly raised her hand, and silver needles from her sleeve poured out like a torrential rain!
"Shua——!!!"
The needle-like rays pierced the air, striking directly at Lin Qiye's major acupoints!
"Clang clang clang—!!!"
Lin Qiye's black box straight sword danced like a blur of ink, blocking all the silver needles and sending up dazzling sparks.
His eyes were full of confusion: "Sister Xiao Nan?! You—"
"Shut up!" Si Xiaonan shouted, his short sword already drawn, its blade wreathed in eerie green runes, aimed straight at Lin Qiye's throat!
This sword strike was as fast as lightning and as ruthless as a venomous snake!
Lin Qiye dodged to the side, his blade blocking, but he was forced back three steps by the runes on the sword!
"You've been controlled?!" he growled.
Si Xiaonan did not answer, but changed her sword stance again, each move deadly!
Her eyes were filled with tears, but she held the sword without hesitation.
She must reclaim the elixir of immortality!
She had to save Leng Xuan!
Zhang Yun rushed in from outside the hall, the True Flame of the Candle Dragon igniting in his palm: "Seven Nights! Be careful!"
Just as he was about to make a move, he saw Si Xiaonan suddenly change his move, feint with his short sword, and flash behind Lin Qiye like a ghost, grabbing the jade box at his waist!
"Shh-!"
The jade box was opened, and golden light burst forth!
—The Elixir of Immortality!
Si Xiaonan grabbed the pill, but froze the moment she touched it.
"Only... the Elixir of Immortality?"
Her fingertips trembled, and the starlight flowing on the pill reflected on her pale face.