Chapter 287 — Guarding the Remains
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Long Jiaonan sneered.
Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang had only just entered the Six Harmonies realm, while she and the Red Snake were both masters of the Seven Stars realm.
To enter the Seven Stars realm was to be fit for a general's post in Jingping.
Before the Dragon-Taming Sect turned traitor, she too had served in the army, dressed as a man!
With the strength they had, Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang were no match at all for her and the Red Snake.
"Courting death!
" Long Jiaonan turned her palm over, and her yuan qi became a great python coiled behind her, its jaws gaping wide; the air on every side howled and surged as it swallowed down at the two women in the sky. Though the Dragon-Taming Sect was never known for its spellcraft, its spells were not to be made light of; when the Imperial Teacher of Jingping carried out his reforms, the Dragon-Taming Sect absorbed the strengths of other schools and raised the power of its spells by a whole grade.
This one move, the Flood Dragon Swallows the Heavens, had captured its innermost essence.
Yet Ling Yuxiu gripped the Nine-Dragon Weapon in both hands and raised it high to smash down, and at once bolts of lightning gathered in midair, crack-crack, striking upon the Nine-Dragon Weapon.
The Nine-Dragon Weapon now became the Nine-Dragon Hammer; its vast head met the giant maw of the yuan-qi python, the thunder's might burst forth, and Long Jiaonan's spell was torn to pieces, its yuan qi collapsing and scattering away. Long Jiaonan's heart lurched.
On the other side Si Yunxiang waved a hand and a fine thread stabbed at her left eye; Long Jiaonan flicked her fingers again and again, but the thread took no force and came straight on. Si Yunxiang pressed her middle and index fingers together, pointed them sword-like at Long Jiaonan, and jabbed again and again, and the tip of the Thousand-Silk yuan weapon shifted with every motion, executing sword moves of the most exquisite subtlety.
"The Saintess Xiang's swordplay is not bad! " Long Jiaonan's left sleeve rolled and rolled; her yuan qi became a great python coiled into a jade wall, throwing the attacking sword-threads into disarray.
But just then she noticed that Si Yunxiang's right hand was before her and her left hand behind her, the left hand also forming sword seals and gesturing without pause; her heart lurched, and she hurriedly leapt into the air.
She had scarce risen when she saw her purple skirt flying, slashed into a hundred holes, leaking wind on every side. And above her, Ling Yuxiu swung the great hammer down; Long Jiaonan raised a hand to block, and with a thunderous boom the hammer burst forth with rolling firelight, its power terrifying beyond measure, and sent Long Jiaonan flying with a single blow! The Nine Dragons Emperor Art was in itself a first-rate cultivation method under heaven, supreme in spellcraft and vast as an ocean in the accumulation of dharma power; among cultivators of the same realm its dharma power was the most profound — save, of course, for Shen Mu's Mystic Body Three Cores Art.
Moreover, Emperor Yanfeng was the cleverest emperor since the founding of the dynasty and had long since become a master of the age; he had improved and refined the Nine Dragons Emperor Art, adding variations of combat technique and swordplay, so that its power far surpassed what it had been before.
This was the art Ling Yuxiu cultivated, walking the path where combat and spellcraft flow as one, wielding technique and magic together to swell the force of her attacks. Though Long Jiaonan was of the Seven Stars realm, caught between the two women and taken off guard, she was blasted away in an instant.