The Lantern-Bone Giant Fish clearly remembered their last exchange, back when Ye Ling's Sword Force was shallow, at only One Layer.
Faced with its water-attribute divine ability, she could only retreat step by step, encountering danger at every turn, and was ultimately forced to flee with injuries.
Yet in just over a month, she had actually mastered Two and a Half Layers of Sword Force. Her strength in the sword Dao had undergone an earth-shattering transformation compared to before.
The giant fish knew deep down that this battle would be anything but easy, and immediately unleashed the full extent of its Tongxuan demonic energy.
In an instant, pitch-black demonic patterns crawled densely across the Lantern-Bone Giant Fish's massive body, and deep-blue water-attribute spiritual energy erupted wildly from the spring at the bottom of the pool.
The spiritual energy of the entire hundred-mile body of water was mobilized by it.
The temperature around Ye Ling plummeted, and the water mist instantly condensed into frost. A formidable pressure of the Tongxuan Realm swept across the surroundings.
“I am going to use my full strength. You had better be careful.”
“Ten Thousand Waters Border Seal!”
With that, the giant fish slammed its tail fiercely against the surface of the water!
Boom!
Two massive water walls with icy patterns, dozens of feet high, rose from the water. Facing each other from left and right, they slammed shut with a thunderous crash, forming a sealed water cage.
Ye Ling was locked tightly inside. Within the water walls, the cold was bone-chilling, and layers of demonic energy circulated, compressing the water prison.
This spell not only blocked all of Ye Ling's evasion angles but could also continuously squeeze the space within the formation, locking down her movement techniques.
It was a preparatory trapping spell unique to the Lantern-Bone Giant Fish.
Before the water prison could completely close, the giant fish opened its mouth and exhaled a freezing mist. The mist filling the sky instantly froze to the extreme!
“Ten Thousand Waters Condensing Icy Hell!”
In mid-air, countless deep-blue spots of light suddenly exploded, and thousands of ten-foot-long, diamond-shaped ice blades condensed out of thin air.
The ice blades were crystal clear all over, their cold light piercing to the eyes. Their bodies flowed with heavy Tongxuan demonic energy, and their hardness far surpassed that of ordinary black iron.
The ice blades were densely packed, swooping down like a torrential rain. They blanketed and bombarded Ye Ling from above, left, right, and diagonally below, leaving absolutely no blind spots.
Behind Ye Ling, dozens of transparent water threads as thin as hair quietly rose into the air, hiding within the rain of ice blades. They noiselessly wound toward Ye Ling's limbs and meridians.
High in the sky, the Lantern-Bone Giant Fish looked at its masterpiece, filled with absolute confidence.
This set of spells was its signature technique. Under this onslaught, ordinary Tongxuan Realm demon beasts would be completely defenseless.
Moreover, Ye Ling's cultivation was only at the mid-stage Xiantian Realm. No matter how monstrous or heaven-defying she was, there was not the slightest chance of her breaking free.
Down in the water prison, facing a lethal array fully deployed by a Tongxuan Realm expert, Ye Ling's expression remained completely calm and composed, without a hint of panic.
Is this the full strength of the Lantern-Bone Giant Fish? It is indeed terrifying.
If it were me from a month ago, I probably wouldn't have had any way to deal with this.
Looking at the water prison trapping her and the sky full of ice blades, a slight smile appeared at the corner of Ye Ling's mouth. Now, this is the kind of battle I wanted.
Then, she lightly tapped her foot against the void. As she circulated the True Dragon Unfettered Art throughout her body, a layer of faint golden light coated her skin, and her physical body instantly climbed to its peak state.
With a sharp snap, she broke the transparent water threads. Gripping the hilt of the Qinglan Sword tightly with her right hand, she poured the entirety of her Two and a Half Layers of Sword Force into the blade.
The next moment, a sharp light flashed in her eyes. Starting with her Sword Force, an exquisite killer move burst forth.
“Sword Blanketing a Thousand Mountains!”
This stance was a unique, self-created sword move that Ye Ling had comprehended during her secluded meditation after her life-and-death battle with the Giant-Horned Demon Goat.
Having experienced a life-and-death crisis and witnessed the shattering of mountains, she had broken free from the shackles of the sect's established sword manuals.
Using the Blue Billows Returning to One Sword as her foundation, her profound comprehension of the sword Dao as her basis, and her Two and a Half Layers of Sword Force as her support, she had created this killer move unique to herself.
At this moment, the path of the sword Dao that belonged to her was not yet fully constructed; she only had this single stance in her hands.
Yet, this was also the unique beginning of her sword Dao journey. Once her cultivation, comprehension of the sword Dao, and Sword Force progressed step by step in the future, she would be able to deduce and complete the subsequent stances herself, ultimately forging her own complete system of the sword Dao.
But this single stance alone was enough to crush ten thousand techniques!
As Ye Ling's soft shout fell, the true power of Sword Blanketing a Thousand Mountains was completely unleashed!
Unlike the agile and elegant orthodox sword techniques of the Qinglan Sword Sect, this strike was extremely overbearing.
Her entire Two and a Half Layers of Sword Force was gathered and condensed into this single strike.
The Qinglan Sword burst with brilliant green light. From the tip of the blade, the Sword Force surged into the sky, transforming into an endless, heavy, and vast green sword curtain.
The sword curtain was layered, like mountains stacked upon one another, forming a three-dimensional sword domain like a thousand falling mountains that suppressed everything from above with a thunderous crash!
It was as if ten thousand green mountains were collapsing from above, forcefully locking down the entire space of the water prison and causing the diving speed of the ice blades in the sky to suddenly slow by more than half.
Rumble!
A world-shaking explosion erupted in the pool.
Under this killer move unique to Ye Ling, the frozen water prison—which had been seemingly indestructible and tightly sealed—shook violently, its structure instantly covered in a dense network of deep cracks.
The solid defense constructed of ice and water pressure was like a mountain collapsing over it; there was simply no way to resist.
In an instant, the entire sealed water prison shattered with a bang, sending broken ice and freezing mist flying in all directions, while the green sword curtain of a thousand mountains that had broken through the cage crushed upward, directly meeting the rain of deep-blue ice blades falling from the sky.
Layers of sword qi stretched across the sky like mountain ranges.
Every single ice blade that crashed against it instantly shattered inch by inch upon touching the surface of the sword curtain, exploding into fine ice powder.
Not a single ice blade could harm Ye Ling.
High in the sky, the Lantern-Bone Giant Fish's pupils contracted sharply, a wave of unprecedented shock hitting its heart.
It had seen countless disciples of the sword sect perform sword techniques; those were all orthodox Qinglan killer moves, with orderly forms and familiar routines.
Yet, it had never seen a killer move so overbearing, vast, and unique in its own style.
This is definitely not something learned from the sect. This is the young girl's own sword move!
Having no time to marvel, the giant fish immediately channeled its demonic energy again. Its massive body spun in mid-air, its tail churning the entire pool of water.
Undercurrents at the bottom of the pool instantly gathered frantically, and the surging water spiraled upward, transforming into a pitch-black water tornado nearly a thousand feet high.
The water tornado roared with the wind, locking onto Ye Ling with a terrifying pulling force that threatened to swallow everything.
“Cold Abyss Swallowing the Sea!”
Countless tiny ice shards were hidden within the water tornado, spinning and strangling in a cutting motion. It attempted to dismantle her Sword Force with an ultimate devouring power, thereby breaking her killer move.
Yet Ye Ling's mind remained steady, and her Sword Force moved according to her will.
With a slight turn of the Qinglan Sword in her hand, the sword curtain of a thousand mountains, which had originally been rising from below, instantly spun and swirled, transforming into a round, heavy defense that spread close to her body.
Like a thousand peaks taking root, it firmly resisted the terrifying devouring and pulling force of the water tornado.
No matter how the wild winds surged and the vast waters roared, Ye Ling's figure remained as steady as a mountain.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The rapidly spinning water tornado and the Sword Force of a thousand mountains rubbed and clashed frantically!
Water vapor was continuously vaporized by the Sword Force, ice was constantly crushed by the Sword Force, and the turbulent currents were sliced and peeled away layer by layer by the solid sword.
The Cold Abyss Swallowing the Sea, which was originally immensely powerful and enough to trap a Tongxuan cultivator, was forcefully dismantled from the outside by this self-created sword stance.
In just a few breaths, the massive thousand-foot water tornado snapped in the middle and completely collapsed, turning into a mist of rain drifting through the sky.
Seeing its two major innate spells resolved head-on by the same killer move, the giant fish immediately controlled the remaining water mist, condensing seven or eight curved water whips as thick as barrels.
It sought to disrupt the rhythm of Ye Ling's single sword move, searching for an opening to break the stance.
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