Chapter 683: Battling Empty-handed
Translator: CKtalon Editor: CKtalon
The Nine Netherworld Ship was the manifestation of a mysterious Nine Netherworld. It was an extremely important treasure for the white-dressed woman and more than half her strength stemmed from the ship. It got to the point where it was a part of her life after extended periods of cultivation. Yet, it had been snatched away today!
“Was it you who snatched my Nine Netherworld Ship?”The white-dressed woman glared at Qin Yun and company from the spatial tide. To be precise, her eyes were fixated on Kong Xuan.
“That ship of yours is mine now,” said Kong Xuan with a smile.
“The four of you sure are capable, but you will soon regret it.” The woman’s gaze turned colder.
Kong Xuan secretly sent a voice transmission, “I tried using my Five-colored Divine Light to capture her in one go, but all I managed to get was the ship. This woman... is very unique. She’s not a body of flesh and blood, nor is she an Essence Soul. It’s a unique existence I’ve never seen before.”
“Special lifeform?” Qin Yun, Hou Yi, and Goumang were somewhat astonished.
“You once took down the Buddhist Ancestor due to his carelessness. Yet, you have failed to take down this woman?” Goumang asked with a voice transmission.
“Although the Buddhist Ancestor is powerful, he still has a body of flesh. However, this woman exceeds the properties of what my Five-colored Divine Light can capture,” replied Kong Xuan.
“She’s neither a body of flesh and blood, nor is she an Essence Soul; then what is she?” Qin Yun was puzzled as well.
“This has really broadened my perspective.” Hou Yi was similarly astonished as he turned even more serious.
Although Kong Xuan had snatched the Nine Netherworld Ship, he did not dare act carelessly.
Few could escape his divine power at his realm. It was truly rare.
“Prepare to die, all four of you!” The woman flipped her hand as a blackish-red saber appeared. It suffused a staggering banal aura that alarmed Qin Yun and company.
“Whoosh.”
The Five-colored Divine Light flashed.
And with that, the woman’s saber vanished into thin air.
“My saber...” The woman looked at this scene in a daze and was instantly filled with grievance and rage.
Most importantly, her Nine Netherworld Ship had been snatched!
The Demon Saber she had just obtained had been snatched the moment she held it in her hand!
These were two treasures that gave her the greatest help.
“You can continue trying. Produce another three or four treasures. Perhaps, I might fail to snatch one of them away,” said Kong Xuan with a laugh.
“His treasure-snatching ability can only be cast three times a day. Take out a few more and he won’t be able to use it,” said Goumang loudly. “Try taking out a few weaker treasures and give it a try. I’m not lying to you.”
The woman stood in the spatial tide and laughed softly. “Very well. Adept at snatching treasures. Your means are indeed rare. Don’t worry, I’ll kill the rest. As for you... the one good at snatching treasures, I won’t kill you. I will make you wish you were dead.”
With that said, the woman suddenly lunged at the Misty Rain Array.
She did not use any treasure, and simply relied on her body. As she lunged forward, her body grew in size rapidly. It became a gray aura tens of thousands of feet tall as it blanketed the Misty Rain Array.
The Misty Rain Array suffered an invisible assault as grinding sounds were produced. However, once the Misty Rain Array was set up, the Heaven, Earth, and Man swords formed a world in and of itself. It completely isolated the inside from the outside.
When the gray aura blanketed the Misty Rain Array, the array looked like it was on a verge of collapse, but it remained steadfast.
“Her body is very unique, somewhat similar to Negative Karma Fire,” said Qin Yun via voice transmission. “Of course, it’s more troublesome than Negative Karma Fire. That power blankets my Misty Rain Array in a bid to erode and destroy my Misty Rain Array. However... she’s far from capable of doing so.”
“With Sword Immortal Qin here, there’s nothing for us to worry about.” Kong Xuan smiled.
“More troublesome than Negative Karma Fire? She’s that powerful even without treasures?” Goumang was secretly alarmed. “Let me test her out.”
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Vines grew out of Goumang’s body as each vine easily extended out of the Misty Rain Array which gave it passage.
More than ten vines extended towards the gray figure that stood tens of thousands of feet tall. The female face on the gray figure revealed a sliver of mockery.
At the instant the vines touched the woman’s body, they immediately suffered the corrosive effect of her powers.
“Oh?”
Goumang’s expression changed.
At a discernible pace, the vines began withering from the spot where they made contact with the woman. Although Goumang transmitted rich vitality towards the withering vines to rejuvenate them, the radius of the withering expanded.
“No good. Her force is just too strange.” Goumang immediately severed portions of his vines and retracted the healthy ones. He abandoned the withered parts.
“She’s naturally extraordinary if my Five-colored Divine Light is unable to take her down,” said Kong Xuan with knitted brows. “Let me try again.”
Kong Xuan took out a bottle as a blob of lustrous glow appeared and shot towards the woman.
The beam was extremely incisive and at the moment it touched the woman’s massive body, the gray energies attempted to erode the lustrous glow, but the glow was vanquishing everything. It was constantly vanquishing the gray energies.
“Oh?” The woman was somewhat surprised, and with a thought, all her gray energies turned ethereal.
The beam of light could no longer touch the woman’s body.
The lustrous glow tore through the woman’s body like it was passing through empty space. It was as if they were situated in different worlds.
“I can’t touch her. It’s just like how my Five-colored Divine Light could not take her down before. Now, I can’t even touch her.” Kong Xuan’s expression changed slightly. With a thought, the lustrous glow immediately flew back into his bottle.
“Let me give it a try.” Qin Yun was surprised as well. Kong Xuan’s and Goumang’s means were extremely powerful; yet, they could do nothing to her?
Of course, Kong Xuan had done a great job.
The ship and the saber had been snatched away! It forced the mysterious woman to only attack empty-handed.
With a thought from Qin Yun, the Misty Rain Sword immediately conjured billions of sword beams.
“Whoosh~”
Instantly, billions of sword beams gathered and formed Streaming Dragon which shot towards the woman. Qin Yun had used this move when he was facing the eleventh Itinerant Immortal tribulation, and it was also the strongest offensive move of the Misty Rain Sword at the moment.
With a mere wave of her hand, the woman split off some gray aura that twirled around the Streaming Dragon.
However, the Streaming Dragon was cast by a sword immortal’s Intrinsic Sword Array. It was formed by drawing on the mystical powers of the Pangu bloodline and was indestructible.
“Puah Puah Puah...”
The moment they clashed, the woman’s expression changed slightly. She looked at Qin Yun and said, “I never expected a half-step Primordial realm expert to be among the four of you.”
The Streaming Dragon and the gray aura began draining each other upon contact. One one side, the sharpness was unparalleled and indestructible, as though it wanted to destroy all powers, and on the other side, an extreme softness attempted to cause destruction through permeation. They were opposites of each other, but continued causing damage to the other. However, it could be seen with the naked eye that the gray aura was suffering more damage.
After all, she was not relying on any treasures but herself.
“However, your move is too boorish and crude. I do not wish to fight you, and you won’t be able to touch me.” The woman sneered as her massive body’s energy turned even more obscure.
Although the Streaming Dragon swirled around again and again, it failed to touch her, as if it was flying through the void.
“She likely has the strength of a half-step Heavenly Dao realm, but her body is very unique.” Qin Yun dispelled his Streaming Dragon as he said via a voice transmission.
“You can’t hurt me, but I can destroy your array formation. I can sense that your array formation won’t last long.” The woman’s massive body enveloped the sword array. She had made the wrong judgment thinking she had a chance of cracking the array. After which, she could kill and capture her opponents. Most of her strength stemmed from the two treasures—the Nine Netherworld Ship and the Demon Saber—so she naturally had to take them back.
“Brother Hou Yi, we are all out of solutions,” said Kong Xuan.
“We are counting on you.”
Qin Yun and the other two had all made attempts. They were facing a power they had never encountered or even heard of before.
Hou Yi nodded. “My arrow will deliver a direct hit the moment it’s shot. I want to see if she can dodge my arrow.”
He flipped his hands and produced an ancient but unadorned longbow in one hand and a golden arrow in his other hand.
“It’s no use. You won’t be able to touch me if I do not permit it.” The woman scoffed.
However, Hou Yi continued pulling open his bow to a full draw before shooting out the arrow.
Shoo!
The arrow beam flashed and shot the woman outside the Misty Rain Array. Although her body was obscured, it still suffered a direct hit.
“Oh?” The woman looked in alarm at Hou Yi. “Your arrow contains a force similar to mine. Unfortunately, your strength is still too weak, even weaker than the punk who cast the sword beams.”
In terms of strength, Hou Yi’s first arrow of his nine successive strikes was on par with Qin Yun’s Streaming Dragon.
However, Streaming Dragon was equipped with “quantity” which allowed it to constantly harass and engage the enemy! Hou Yi only had one arrow which could not draw out a battle. Therefore, it was of lower threat to the woman.
“Second arrow.” Yet, Hou Yi flipped his hand and took out another arrow.
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