Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Celestial Mirror Retrospection Spell

Having consumed a great deal of blood and flesh, especially that of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, thin sinews had begun to grow over the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s ghastly white skeleton. Its eyes flared with demonic light as it fixed its gaze on Song Min, who was controlling her Sword Light in the air.

’Blood… more blood!’

The Three Corpses Bone Demon’s intelligence was much lower than that of other Celestial Demons; it acted almost entirely on instinct. After arriving in the Nine Heavens World, they would hunt and devour ceaselessly until expelled by the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane.

The next moment, it used an Escape Technique and vanished, unleashing the White Bone Grand Capture in an attempt to seize Song Min, who was in her state of Body and Sword as One.

Song Min’s expression changed. With a twist of her sword, her Sword Light arced like a rainbow bridge, then descended like a Celestial Waterfall, piercing through the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s chest.

BOOM!

With a deafening roar, the Three Corpses Bone Demon was sent flying by the strike. Its body plummeted like a meteorite, crashing into the large lake outside Huashan County.

The Sword Light shattered, and Song Min reappeared, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon’s physical body was far too tough. She was already suffering from internal injuries, and the clash between her Sword Qi and the demon’s body had only worsened them.

She swallowed a Healing Elixir to suppress the Demonic Qi that had invaded her body. But before she could even recover her breath, layers of Demon Flame surged toward her.

Wu Chunqiu had pushed his Demon Skill to its absolute limit.

The great lake before Huashan County suddenly exploded. The Three Corpses Bone Demon shot out from it. The last sword strike had barely caused it any harm, leaving only a thin sword mark on its ribs.

Enraged, the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s body ignited with pale White Bone Phosphorus Fire. This was a type of Demon Fire that extinguished all life.

If a living creature was touched by even a speck, the fire would cling to it like a festering disease. If the afflicted limb wasn’t immediately severed, the victim would be burned to a pile of white ash in an instant.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon’s body of white bone was already abnormally tough. Now, wreathed in a layer of White Bone Phosphorus Fire, almost no one would dare engage it in close combat.

In the next instant, it shot into the air, charging toward the Sword Light in the sky.

Song Min had mastered Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and her Sword Escape was extremely fast, even slightly superior to the White Bone Escape Technique. However, Wu Chunqiu had used wave after wave of Demon Flame to seal off her room to maneuver. The Three Corpses Bone Demon, however, was completely unafraid of the dense Demon Flame and moved through it freely.

Fighting against multiple opponents, her Sword Light grew increasingly desperate.

Suddenly, Song Min failed to evade in time, and the Three Corpses Bone Demon shattered her Sword Light with a heavy blow. As her Sword Light dispersed, she reappeared, her gauze dress now soaked red with blood.

Wu Chunqiu’s Magical Combat experience was immense. He immediately summoned roiling Demon Flames to incinerate Song Min.

At this critical moment, Song Min could only summon a Yellow Umbrella. Spiritual Light cascaded down from its surface, protecting her. The roiling Demon Flames burned against the Yellow Umbrella’s Spiritual Light, crackling and popping on impact.

Orthodox Sword Cultivators typically carried no Magical Artifacts other than their swords. This was because when they used Sword Control in combat, their Sword Light protected them. Combined with the state of Man and Sword as One, their Tunneling Speed was unparalleled as they moved, making them untouchable to ordinary foes. They simply had no opportunity to use other Magical Artifacts.

When a Sword Cultivator was forced to rely on a Defensive Spiritual Artifact for passive defense, their defeat was already sealed.

What made Song Min grit her teeth and persist was the hatred in her heart. The grudge for her father’s murder was irreconcilable. The Taixu Sword Sect would implant a Celestial Mirror Retrospection Spell in every true heir. When an heir fell in battle, the Divine Mirror within the Sword Sect would reflect the scene of their death.

The longer she held on, the more details about her opponent the Divine Mirror could record.

However, Wu Chunqiu was also aware of the Celestial Mirror Retrospection Spell. He kept his distance, using his Demon Flame to wear down the Yellow Umbrella’s Spiritual Light while leaving the rest to the Three Corpses Bone Demon.

Even though Song Min’s Yellow Umbrella Spiritual Artifact was of high quality, it was ultimately no match for the Defense Array on the Flying Boat. Under the relentless assault of the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s White Bone Grand Capture and the searing White Bone Phosphorus Fire, it didn’t last long before it began to falter.

She gathered her Magical Power and poured it into the Flying Sword before her, preparing to unleash a final, Life-Sacrificing Sword strike. This would allow the Celestial Mirror Retrospection Spell to record Wu Chunqiu’s face and Magical Power.

Below in Huashan County, Yinjiao was riding a cloud and carrying Iron Head, flying cautiously toward a Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stake on the ground.

The Bone Demon holding the Demon Banner was secretly siphoning off the Demonic Qi converted by the banner. It had no time to spare for the Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stake that had been tossed aside like trash.

Iron Head carefully picked up the Celestial Star Stake in its mouth. Yinjiao rode the cloud to another Spirit Vein node, where Iron Head, huffing and puffing, dug through the soil with its claws and carefully drove the stake into the Spirit Vein.

Its Bright Qi Talent, combined with its Array Dao Mastery, allowed it to easily see the nodes rich in Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Vein. This let it achieve twice the results with half the effort during Array Formation.

While an ordinary Array Master might still be using a Compass, a Six Nines Disc, and a Lu Ban Ruler to measure the Spiritual Acupoints, it had already finished setting up the Array. The Spirit Vein nodes it chose were even more suitable than the original ones.

The two martial brothers—one steering the cloud, the other stealing and burying stakes—worked with astonishing efficiency.

If Wu Chunqiu had sent a Demon Cultivator to guard the Array, they might have collected the Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stakes to refine the precious Spiritual Gold from them later. But it wasn’t easy for these Bone Demons to make a trip to the Nine Heavens World, so they focused all their attention on greedily siphoning Demonic Qi and absorbing White Bone Essence Qi.

They couldn’t care less about some useless iron stake.

Before long, Yang Jing sensed through the Array Base that all thirty-six Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stakes had been driven into the Spirit Vein nodes according to the Star Map.

The Array’s operation was now even smoother than before.

Outside the Seven Stars Array, the Three Capitals Blood Demon Mosquito Mother was still frantically attacking the protective barrier, whose glow was growing increasingly faint. But Yang Jing didn’t immediately activate the Profound Black Celestial Star Array. Instead, he bided his time, manipulating the Spirit Vein Spiritual Qi to build up power between the thirty-six Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stakes.

He was waiting. Waiting for the right moment.

High above Huashan County, Song Min was in a desperate situation. The Three Corpses Bone Demon’s massive white bone hand had already pierced through the Spiritual Light and was gripping the surface of the Yellow Umbrella tightly.

The Bone Demon roared in excitement. It could feel that the Essence Blood of the Cultivator under the umbrella was extraordinary, and it couldn’t wait to drink its fill.

The Yellow Umbrella, a Spiritual Artifact, let out an overburdened creak. Its ribs, made of Cyan Jade bamboo, began to warp and turn a charred yellow under the searing heat of the White Bone Phosphorus Fire.

Song Min completely ignored the Three Corpses Bone Demon, which was now right upon her, and focused all her attention on the distant Wu Chunqiu. The moment the umbrella broke would be when she unleashed her final sword strike.

Wu Chunqiu naturally sensed Song Min’s piercing, ultimate killing intent. He even retracted his Demon Flames to protect himself, bracing for what would likely be a world-shattering sword strike.

A cornered beast will still fight. After all his careful scheming, he had no intention of failing at the very last step.

CRACK!

A sharp snap echoed amidst the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s roar. The Yellow Umbrella’s ribs were completely torn apart, and its canopy was crumpled into a ruined cloth.

“Die!”

Song Min burned her Essence Blood. Achieving Man and Sword as One, her Flying Sword erupted with unprecedented power. The blazing Sword Light was like a thunderclap. The Three Corpses Bone Demon, standing in the Sword Light’s path, was instantly blasted away. The sky-filling Demon Flame was torn open by the traversing Sword Light, leaving a gash over a hundred feet long.

Even the tenacious and dense Taiyin Demon Qi was ripped apart by this single strike. Behind the layers of Taiyin Demon Qi, Wu Chunqiu was split vertically in two.

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