A single drum roll rouses the spirit, the second weakens it, and the third exhausts it.
Zhu San never expected that after using all her strength to send the past Li Yunxian away, it would have absolutely no effect.
She wanted to try again, but for some reason, the suddenly frenzied attacks from Li Yunxian didn’t give her a second chance to search.
Fortunately, Zhu San herself no longer had the will to keep trying.
The stubbornness in her heart that insisted Li Yunxian pay a price had already dissipated.
She wanted to live even more.
Since that was the case, then…
Zhu San looked at the increasing number of wounds on her body, and then at Li Yunxian, whose sharp Sword Qi showed no signs of fading even after such a long time.
‘Exactly how much spiritual power does she have left?’
Zhu San originally thought she must have almost nothing left, but now she wasn’t so sure.
Feeling Li Yunxian’s sword get closer and closer to the position of her heart core with every strike, Zhu San lost her nerve.
She was just a beautiful human spider.
A beautiful human spider who wanted to survive.
Why was she here risking her life against this human?!
Zhu San had indeed thought about ascension.
However, ascension was not the most desperate, non-negotiable desire in Zhu San’s heart.
So why was she staying here to fight Li Yunxian?!
Why was her first thought back then to come to this Gap in Time?!
Zhu San regretted it.
She truly regretted it.
Thus, when the first fluctuation of the torrent of time connecting with the outside world occurred, Zhu San was so excited that she immediately turned and charged toward it without hesitation.
She knew it!
Persistence had meaning!
These fellows from the path of righteousness were always like this — as long as there was still a chance for rescue, they would never give up on anyone!
As for the fact that there was a passage prepared outside, meaning there would inevitably be many people on guard, and that she would face many enemies upon exiting… none of that mattered to the current Zhu San.
No matter how many opponents there were, as long as it wasn’t this Li Yunxian who left her with no opening to strike, it was fine.
As long as the people outside could be affected by her innate talent, there would be a gap, and she could escape.
She only wanted to run.
This time, she would hide herself away with extreme caution. She would wait another 1,000 or 10,000 years, until this generation of cultivators either ascended or perished.
By then, she could be free again!
And the moment Li Yunxian was waiting for… was also this very moment.
You Su Wenjing was there, Duan Huácǎi was there, and Sheng Yu, Ying Wenhe, and the many other friends she had met in Wanwuwu were there.
Just like Zhu San, Li Yunxian also believed that the people outside would definitely rebuild the passage to bring her out.
It was just…
‘They’re a bit too slow,’ Li Yunxian complained internally, as she absorbed her remaining spiritual power reserves — which she had been splitting into two portions — all at once.
She was back to her full peak state!
She couldn’t let Zhu San get out.
At the very, very least, she couldn’t let her leave in her current state, having suffered only a few flesh wounds!
Li Yunxian gripped the Heaven-grade Spirit Sword in her hand, watching Zhu San, whose attention had shifted due to the fluctuations in the torrent of time.
Now!
Countless Sword Intents on the body of Is Sword seemed to congeal into streaks of golden light.
Zhu San suddenly whipped her head around, sensing a fatal crisis. Every part of her body screamed the word “danger” at her.
The brief moment before dawn is the darkest; the moment Zhu San discovered she could leave the torrent of time was also the moment she was most relaxed.
Zhu San’s entire internal Qi was locked down by this single strike.
She couldn’t dodge.
She couldn’t run.
But… she didn’t necessarily have to dodge!
A look of ruthlessness appeared in Zhu San’s eyes, and a sheath-like magic tool appeared out of thin air in her hand.
With a hum, the spirit sword pierced straight into the magic tool. The sheath-like tool instantly shattered in Zhu San’s hands, but similarly, Li Yunxian’s grand, lethal strike was abruptly neutralized.
Zhu San immediately clamped down on Li Yunxian’s spirit sword and looked up, her eyes full of triumph.
“Min Juan and her lot gathered so many people to forge a Heaven-grade Spirit Sword. How could I not have come prepared…”
Although all signs had suggested that Min Juan and those righteous cultivators forging a Heaven-grade Spirit Sword had nothing to do with her, those at the transcendence stage would always have some sort of intuition regarding their own Jie Du.
Otherwise, why would Zhu San have subconsciously controlled the sect representatives to go and take a real look at Li Yunxian?
Zhu San was cowardly and afraid of death. After sensing a hint of unease from the Heaven-grade Spirit Sword, she had immediately made preparations.
Zhu San didn’t hesitate to use a low-grade targeted Defensive Magical Tool as a disposable item.
Nothing was more important than her own life.
However, that was only one sword. Li Yunxian didn’t know how other sword cultivators were, but to her, it didn’t matter much.
Before Zhu San could finish her boastful sentence, Li Yunxian’s figure had already closed the distance instantly.
Zhu San saw a sword abruptly appear in Li Yunxian’s other hand.
It was an Earth-grade Spirit Sword that carried the radiance of a nebula.
“Sorry, I don’t have just one sword,” Li Yunxian said.
The sword’s name: Spark.
Although Li Yunxian had never used it in a decent actual battle since the moment she received it, it was undoubtedly the spirit sword she had held the longest since her transmigration.
It was also… the spirit sword that Li Yunxian had nurtured with her Sword Intent for the longest time!
At such a close range.
A distance where it was absolutely impossible to miss again!
Li Yunxian clearly felt the sensation of the spirit sword in her hand piercing through the enemy’s heart core.
The heart core shattered. Zhu San stared blankly downward, watching the aura dissipating from within her chest.