Just as Chen Tang predicted, Meng Qi did not want to die.

She had even less desire to exchange her life with Chen Tang.

It wasn’t worth it.

Nor was it necessary.

She could completely block Chen Tang’s saber light and then maneuver her flying sword to launch an attack.

The flying sword was far faster and more agile than this youth’s sword techniques.

Whoosh!

Meng Qi abandoned her offensive on Chen Tang, redirected her flying sword under the guidance of her sword fingers, intercepting the burst of saber light from Chen Tang mid-way!

The saber light abruptly halted!

Stopped in mid-air.

Chen Tang withdrew his saber, not continuing to strike down.

Even when facing a Foundation Establishment Mage, he remained extremely calm.

The flying sword refined by a Foundation Establishment Mage was likely sharper than the treasure saber in his hand, after all, it was a Mystic Master who collected various rare iron ores to forge it, supplemented by Innate Essence Qi, refined over many years.

It was said to cut gold and jade, slicing through iron like mud!

Although Chen Tang’s treasure saber was crafted by Cai Yin with iron ore from the Cyan Dragon Bureau combined with Cold Domain Iron Ore, it likely could not withstand Meng Qi’s flying sword.

More importantly, Chen Tang was only in the Seventh Grade.

In terms of both the Profound Sect realm and the martial arts realm, the opponent far surpassed him.

The outcome of a direct clash between sword and saber had only one possibility.

The saber would break, and he would be severely injured!

“This youth is quite alert.”

Meng Qi said with a cold smile on her lips, pinching her sword formulas, pointing at Chen Tang.

The flying sword shot through the air!

Swish!

But soon, a blaze of light filled the space between them again, somewhat blinding!

The moment Chen Tang withdrew his saber, he struck again!

The speed of the second slash was still extremely fast; in Meng Qi’s view, only a flash of the saber light remained.

This move was so familiar to Chen Tang.

He practiced it repeatedly every day.

Drawing the saber, withdrawing the saber, striking again…

It was as natural as eating and drinking water.

It required no deliberate preparation, just the lift of a hand!

“Hmm?”

Meng Qi’s expression changed slightly.

How could this youth, who clearly hadn’t cultivated Inner Qi, unleash such a swift saber strike?

Moreover, with no gaps, continuously striking!

Meng Qi could only maneuver her flying sword to intercept once more.

Chen Tang did not wait for his saber and the sword to collide, once again withdrawing his saber.

Striking again!

In an instant, Chen Tang unleashed sixteen consecutive strikes!

Previously at Wushan Village, during the One Breath Divine Illumination, Chen Tang already unleashed eleven strikes, with no time in between to rest.

Now, with a breath, all the remaining sixteen strikes exploded forth!

In less than the time it takes to breathe, Meng Qi felt a sense of suffocation, pressure mounted suddenly, causing a cold sweat to break out!

Each strike from Chen Tang targeted her vital areas, forcing her to block and defend herself.

They were merely a distance of one zhang apart, filled with flashes of sword and saber.

The saber and sword never collided.

Yet the situation was fraught with danger!

The eyes of the Jade Flute Fairy suddenly flashed with a strange light.

Chen Tang’s sixteen strikes fully occupied Meng Qi’s other flying sword, almost rendering half her combat power useless.

At this moment, it was the best opportunity for Jade Flute Fairy!

The aura of the Jade Flute Fairy surged, waving the jade flute with her left hand, the flaring shadows accompanied by a peculiar melody that ensnared Meng Qi’s flying sword.

Buzz!

The Jade Flute Fairy gave a slight tremor with the sword in her right hand, the sound of sword chime echoed, and the blade instantly freed itself from the entanglement of the duster’s silver threads.

Crash!

The next moment, the Jade Flute Fairy leaped high, reaching above Meng Qi’s head, and descended from the sky, wielding her long sword.

The sword vanished, a burst of sword light exploded in mid-air, suddenly erupting in front of Meng Qi, transforming into a rain of light that enveloped Meng Qi!

Having unleashed the sixteen strikes, Chen Tang’s One Breath Divine Illumination had reached its limit, and he quickly retreated.

Without the support of the Divine Illumination state, under Meng Qi’s attack, he probably couldn’t withstand a single bout.

The rest was left to the Jade Flute Fairy.

The instant the Jade Flute Fairy made her move, it was as if Chen Tang saw a shower of raindrops shooting toward Meng Qi, even hearing the sound of a downpour in his ears.

Meng Qi’s pupils suddenly contracted, exploding her Inner Qi, with the three thousand silver threads of the duster in her hand exploding in an attempt to intercept the oncoming rain.

Clang clang clang!

Yet the threads, though dense, could not stop the force of the torrential rain.

How dense the rain was, pouring down abundantly, more than the count of three thousand in number!

Moreover, with the pouring rain, the raindrops, entangled by the fierce wind, came from every direction; how could they be fully blocked by the silver threads alone?

If Meng Qi’s other flying sword hadn’t been stalled by Chen Tang, she would have had a glimmer of hope.

But with one flying sword ensnared by the Jade Flute, the other occupied by Chen Tang’s fast saber, she was left with only her martial arts techniques to contend with the Jade Flute Fairy’s exquisite sword technique.

Poof poof poof!

As the rain passed, a fog of blood erupted from Meng Qi’s body!

Her body was pierced with countless blood holes from the recent sword rain.

In an instant, her blood soaked through her robe.

“The Ba Mountain Swordsmanship has reached such a level, good, very…”

Meng Qi spat out fresh blood, unable to continue speaking.

Under countless gazes, she quickly aged, many wrinkles appeared on her face, her hair turned gray, her figure shrank, stooping, teetering.

Her vitality ceased, and the power of the Purple River Evil Technique dissipated with it.

The Jade Flute Fairy slightly shook her head, sighing in her heart.

Meng Qi’s age should be around fifty.

But now, she looked like an elderly woman in her eighties or nineties.

Practicing the Purple River Evil Technique, maintaining her appearance through the lives of countless others, ultimately could not last long.

Once backfired, it was even more terrifying than her original form!

“What are you looking at!”

Feeling the gazes of those around her, Meng Qi seemed to realize something, and questioned sharply.

No one spoke.

Even the disciples of the Profound Celestial Temple looked at her with a hint of fear, a hint of pity.

No one expected that the beautiful and cold Observatory Master was actually a seventy or eighty-year-old old woman!

“Don’t you know what you’ve become?”

As Dugu Qingcheng thought of those women outside the city and the corpses in the backyard, she felt utmost hatred for her and sneered, “Take a look in the mirror, it’s enough to scare someone to death!”

“Nonsense! Utter nonsense!”

Meng Qi, enduring the excruciating pain inside her body, gathered the last bit of her Spiritual Qi, conjured a water mirror in front of her, and looked over.

The moment she saw, her whole body trembled as if struck by lightning.

Poof!

Yet another mouthful of fresh blood was spat out.

The water mirror shattered.

Meng Qi fell back and lay on the ground, already dead!

Chen Tang and the others exchanged glances, all feeling a sense of sigh.

This Observatory Master of the Profound Celestial Temple, in pursuit of eternal beauty, was ruthless, not hesitating to practice on living pregnant women’s Purple River Cars to cultivate.

But, the will of heaven is fair; the moment she died, she became what she least wanted to be.

Compared to her injuries, perhaps the old face reflected on the water mirror dealt her a greater blow.

Even if the Jade Flute Fairy hadn’t killed her, she probably wouldn’t have survived on her own.

The Jade Flute Fairy stepped forward, searched Meng Qi’s body a few times, retrieved a package wrapped in oilcloth, fished out a few pages from within, glanced at them, they were the Purple River Evil Technique.

She took out a fire starter, set the pages ablaze, turned them into ashes in the blink of an eye, and exhaled softly in relief.

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