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Jian Xiao stood suspended in mid-air, his figure swaying almost imperceptibly. His once unwavering, mountain-like aura had become noticeably unstable.

He gazed at the scattered fragments of Wei Gu’s shattered body, his expression far from relaxed. Instead, his face was etched with deep unease.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that something was amiss.

Suddenly, Jian Xiao looked up, instantly realizing what was wrong.

Above, the black clouds in the Primordial Qi hadn’t dissipated. Instead, they had coalesced into a dark golden bolt of lightning, which tore through the clouds and descended.

Jian Xiao’s brow furrowed slightly as he abruptly raised his sword-finger.

His natal flying sword responded instantly, soaring upward to meet the descending lightning.

However, the sword’s power was noticeably diminished compared to before. Its radiant glow had dimmed, lacking the overwhelming force of a reversed silver river it had previously displayed.

As a result, the clash was no longer evenly matched.

The flying sword was once again struck down by the lightning.

Though its power had been halved, the Haotian Divine Thunder still descended toward Jian Xiao like a twisted, serpentine monster.

"Jian Xiao, you’ve already exhausted your Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure once. How much spiritual power do you have left now?" Wei Gu’s voice suddenly echoed through the air.

Jian Xiao followed the sound and saw Wei Gu had appeared over three hundred miles to the south.

"Life-substitution art! Wei Gu, impressive!"

As he spoke, a cyan pill suddenly appeared in Jian Xiao’s hand. He opened his mouth and swallowed it.

Instantly, Jian Xiao’s slightly weakened aura surged back to full strength, like parched earth drinking in a long-awaited rain.

A cold glint flashed, and the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword flew back into Jian Xiao’s hand.

Gripping the short sword, he casually slashed upward.

A black sword beam shot forth, tearing through the air toward the dark golden lightning that had descended to within ten meters of Jian Xiao’s head.

The lightning shattered explosively, transforming into countless tiny golden serpents that writhed wildly above Jian Xiao, casting his cold, iron-like face into the visage of a god of slaughter.

"Wei Gu, you have your Substitute Puppets. Did you think I’d come unprepared? Let’s see how many puppets you have left—and how many of my strikes they can withstand!"

Before his words faded, the short sword in his hand erupted with a sinister black light once more.

"Jian Xiao, you even managed to obtain a Wither-Bloom Pill? That’s quite impressive," Wei Gu remarked. "However, a single pill likely isn’t enough to restore your spiritual power to its peak, is it?"

The blood sea, which had been shattered into a rain of blood, had already been gathered by Wei Gu, reforming into a vast, thousand-mile blood sea churning beneath his feet.

"Enough to kill you!" Jian Xiao’s gaze was icy as his short sword suddenly shot forth.

Wei Gu remained composed. The blood sea surged upward, erecting layers of Blood walls before him.

As Wei Gu had predicted, Jian Xiao’s spiritual power was diminished, and the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword’s edge lacked its former devastating force.

When the sword light struck the Blood walls, they didn’t shatter instantly into a thousand-mile radius as before. Yet, they still crumbled like paper, easily pierced by the short sword.

One, ten, a hundred... the Blood walls shattered one after another.

Though slightly weakened, the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword’s momentum remained like a meteor chasing the moon, tearing through every Blood wall and hurtling straight toward Wei Gu.

A fierce glint flashed in Wei Gu’s eyes as a six-foot-tall figure materialized before him—a Corpse Puppet wreathed in swirling corpse qi.

"Roar!"

The Corpse Puppet roared skyward, its arms flailing as it lunged forward like a great bird, hurtling straight toward the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword.

Thwack!

Before it could grasp the short sword, the blade pierced its chest.

Rotting flesh and black blood splattered in all directions as a fist-sized cave erupted in the Corpse Puppet’s chest.

Just as the short sword was about to pierce through its body, two withered, black claws shot out and clamped firmly onto the blade.

The sword trembled violently, its swirling black light instantly grinding the decaying flesh on the claws into dust, revealing crimson hand bones beneath.

The bones began to crumble as well, unable to maintain their grip on the short sword.

The blade sank completely into the Corpse Puppet’s chest, its tip emerging from its back.

The Corpse Puppet twisted its body, attempting to forcibly trap the sword with its flesh.

But the black light on the blade erupted violently, instantly piercing the Corpse Puppet with countless holes, reducing it to a shower of rancid fragments that drifted away like foul-smelling dust.

Once again, the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword’s power diminished.

Meanwhile, Wei Gu’s body had become enveloped in a massive surge of corpse qi.

The corpse qi coalesced into a wrathful dragon, which lunged at the short sword still hurtling toward him.

The short sword pierced through the corpse qi, shattering the wrathful dragon piece by piece.

As the short sword pierced through the dragon’s tail, it had already reached within thirty feet of Wei Gu. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

A Bone Sword materialized in Wei Gu’s hand, and he swung it fiercely at the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword.

The Bone Sword, jagged like a serpent’s spine, emitted a ghastly pale light.

Clang!

The Bone Sword clashed with the short sword, producing a piercing metallic shriek.

A tidal wave of overwhelming force surged through the Bone Sword into Wei Gu’s arm. He felt a mountain-toppling power coursing through his limb.

In an instant, his right arm exploded in a crimson blood mist, and he was sent flying backward uncontrollably.

The Bone Sword was flung from his grasp. Upon closer inspection, a notch could be seen where it had struck the short sword, and several cracks now spiderwebbed across its blade.

Wei Gu tumbled back over a hundred feet before finally regaining his footing.

He raised his skeletal right arm and wiped a trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth.

Several strands of Sword Qi from the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword had pierced his body, inflicting moderate damage to his internal organs and meridians.

Yet his eyes betrayed no pain from his grievous injuries, only intense exhilaration.

Through layers of protective measures and the sacrifice of a mid-seventh-tier Blood Corpse, he had finally managed to withstand this earth-shattering sword strike.

To activate the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword, Jian Xiao had consumed the Wither-Bloom Pill, sacrificing his blood essence to forcibly replenish his spiritual power. His current condition must be dire.

Now was the perfect moment to kill Jian Xiao!

By killing him, the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword would become his.

On Jian Xiao’s side, his face paled drastically when he saw his sword blocked. He immediately recalled the Nine Calamity Heaven-Measuring Sword and turned to flee.

"Jian Xiao, where do you think you’re going?!"

Wei Gu’s furious roar echoed in Jian Xiao’s ears, followed by a thunderous rumble from above.

A dark golden bolt of lightning tore through the storm clouds and struck Jian Xiao directly.

Jian Xiao’s expression panicked, but seemingly without any other recourse, he activated his natal flying sword, sending it spinning rapidly around him to form a sword qi protective shield.

Boom!

The lightning crashed against the sword qi protective shield.

Jian Xiao’s natal flying sword instantly dimmed, its light fading to nothing.

The sword qi protective shield shattered.

The dark golden lightning continued to pour down, instantly engulfing Jian Xiao.

Like a meteor crashing to earth, the lightning slammed Jian Xiao into the ground.

The earth trembled violently, cracking into countless spiderweb-like fissures.

Rampaging thunderlight ravaged the area, pulverizing the soil within a hundred-zhang radius into fine dust.

(End of the Chapter)

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