Chapter 1712: Chapter 987: Yellow Springs Road
Jiushan Cangxuan has already foreseen that a war between the family and the Ghost Sect is inevitable. Under that person’s leadership, the Ghost Sect has become increasingly extreme, showcasing a terrifyingly ruthless approach both internally and externally.
These old fellows like us are powerless against that person, but Shayue is different. She is the most outstanding young member of the family in nearly a century, and furthermore, she has inherited the Demon Sword from that ancestor, becoming the Ghost Slayer.
Since the day she inherited the Demon Sword, she has been the sharpest blade of the entire Ju Mountain Family, the final and most crucial trump card of the Ju Mountain Family.
Her destiny is to wait for the most opportune moment to strike, to end the Ghost Sect Leader with one slash and bury that person’s flesh and ambition together.
Of course, all of this won’t rely solely on Shayue. The predecessors of the Ju Mountain Family will pave the way for her, striving to jointly wound, and ideally heavily injure the Big Leader before then, creating the best opportunity for Jiu Shan Sha Yue to strike.
But even if everything progresses in the best direction they envision, Jiu Shan Sha Yue will at most only have one chance to strike.
Whether successful or not, she won’t survive. The expenditure of that slash will instantly drain her entire spiritual power, causing her to be counterattacked by the Magical Artifact.
But none of that matters. All she has to do is to strike with absolute concentration, exerting all her power into that slash, killing the Ghost Sect Leader, ending the Ghost Sect. This is the fate of the Ghost Slayer.
Mutual destruction is the best outcome. As for the aftermath, the rest will be left to others. Without the Big Leader suppressing it, the Ghost Sect is nothing but scattered sand, disintegrating in an instant.
To achieve this goal, the Ju Mountain Family has secretly trained Jiu Shan Sha Yue for ten years. The five strongest members of the Ju Mountain Family have personally taught her. Jiu Shan Jinglan taught her spiritual power perception. Jiu Shan Shunyu instructed her in sword skills. Houjisan Shuangjian guided her in the use of Space-type Magical Artifacts. Jiushan Huangye taught her heart technique refinement, battlefield situation judgment, and how to conceal her breath, reducing her presence to the lowest, only waiting for the best time to strike.
The Family Head, Jiushan Cangxuan, served as the chief instructor, focusing on enhancing Jiu Shan Sha Yue’s spiritual power strength.
To nurture Jiu Shan Sha Yue, the Ju Mountain Family has poured all its resources. All the best Magic Artifacts, Elixirs, and opportunities are prioritized for Jiu Shan Sha Yue, completely arming her from head to toe, even the puppet by her side is equipped with high-level magic devices that others dare not imagine.
Jiu Shan Sha Yue truly lives up to the name of Ghost Slayer. She progresses swiftly and harmonizes perfectly with the family’s ancestral Demon Sword. Her strikes carry pure killing intent, almost reaching the realm where sword and person become one.
Over ten years, they have molded Jiu Shan Sha Yue into the perfect killing machine. To avoid exposing this sacrificial pawn too early, Jiushan Cangxuan even took personal action to suppress Jiu Shan Sha Yue’s level, causing the strength she exhibits now to appear only close to the Peak of Ghost Level.
But even so, the strength Jiu Shan Sha Yue exhibits still places her firmly among the top tiers of the younger generation within Japan’s major families, and this is under the premise of concealing the existence of the Supreme Magical Artifact, the Demon Sword.
What they need the most now is time. To kill the Ghost Sect Leader, such strength is clearly not enough. Jiushan Cangxuan estimates that they need at least about five more years. However, the Ghost Sect’s actions are evidently quicker, and they may not wait until then.
To be honest, that Yang Xiao forcing Jiu Shan Sha Yue to wield the Demon Sword was something none of the Ju Mountain Family elders had anticipated. What’s even more shocking is that even with the Demon Sword in hand, Jiu Shan Sha Yue merely exchanged lives with Yang Xiao. From the outcome, there was no winner.
Jiushan Cangxuan repeatedly forbade Jiu Shan Sha Yue from engaging in private battles with others, especially prohibiting her from using the Demon Sword. This time, the reason the Demon Sword was wielded is twofold: firstly, Yang Xiao truly provoked her desire to kill; secondly, Jiu Shan Sha Yue knew that all this was under the surveillance of Family Head Jiushan Cangxuan, the top master of Japan’s Spiritual Magical Artifacts, who witnessed their entire battle process.
Even Yang Xiao himself hadn’t realized that during their recent chat, his memory had been quietly altered. The memories related to the Demon Sword were erased.
To say they were erased is inaccurate; they were actually replaced. In Yang Xiao’s current memory, while it’s true Jiu Shan Sha Yue unleashed the ultimate move, it was no longer the Demon Sword, but rather the bow and arrow.
He was shot through the heart by an arrow and died, and just before dying, he also ended Jiu Shan Sha Yue with a slash. The outcome remained unchanged: they exchanged lives, mutually destroying each other.
Jiu Shan Shunyu clenched the knife handle tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hand. Each time he thinks of Sword Lord Mo Wentian, he feels a violent urge to unleash the sword. Having been defeated years ago, he trained assiduously, vowing to avenge and restore his honor one day. But unexpectedly, after a few years, he first receive the news of Sword Lord Mo Wentian’s death.
During the conflict between the Patrol General Bureau and Yin Temple Influence, Sword Lord Mo Wentian unfortunately died in battle, and even the sword he carried was left in the Yin Temple’s territory.
He once used his connections trying to retrieve that sword, not to keep it for himself, but because he felt that such a sword should not remain in a wretched place like the Yin Temple. He hoped to redeem the sword, returning it to the Patrol General Bureau, leaving it to his descendants or disciples for commemoration.
But unfortunately, he couldn’t find any trace of that sword at all, and ultimately had to give up.
