The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Xiong Mengyan was sitting cross-legged, resting with her eyes closed, when suddenly she opened them. "He's here!"

Wang Sheng was taken aback. "You can sense his presence? How come I can't? Have you broken through again?"

Xiong Mengyan smiled slightly, "It has nothing to do with martial arts, it's indescribable! Perhaps it's telepathy!" She thought she was just smiling slightly, but in Wang Sheng's eyes, it was a smile that was bewitching and captivating, making one's heart flutter!
Duanmu Yan felt bitter inside, but smiled and said, "Really? Let me see!" He moved closer to the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance, but he did not see the white-clad figure. So he changed direction and finally spotted the familiar figure at the foot of the western mountain. Although they were far apart and the figure was less than a foot tall, Duanmu Yan was certain that the figure was Feng Jiuxiao!

He was accompanied by only one Tibetan!
"He actually came!"

Behind him, Xiong Mengyan's captivating voice rang out, "It seems I really am telepathically connected with him!"

Wang Sheng thought to herself: You think you're telepathically connected with him, but he's definitely not telepathically connected with you! Everyone knows that Yuan Zishan is his fiancée, and she's a notoriously jealous woman! She follows Feng Jiuxiao everywhere he goes, leaving him no personal freedom whatsoever. How dare he be telepathically connected with another woman?

But despite his thoughts, like Duanmu Yan, he would never utter a harsh word! What is love in this world that makes people willing to die for it? He once laughed at others for being foolish, but in the end, he himself was the fool!

"Where is he?" Wang Sheng asked.

Duanmu Yan said, "Baiyu Temple."

"What was he doing there?"

"I don't know. Strange, he's all alone; neither Pang Shiwu nor Yuan Zishan are with him! The person with him is actually a Tibetan!"

Xiong Mengyan also stood on the edge of the cliff, her white dress fluttering in the wind. From a distance, she looked like a celestial being, ethereal and otherworldly!
She looked at Baiyu Temple nestled halfway up the mountain and suddenly frowned, asking, "What are those Tibetans planning? To set it on fire?"

Duanmu Yan also found it strange, "Destroying temples doesn't seem like his style!"

Wang Sheng said, "It is indeed strange! Without his tacit approval, that Tibetan would never have lit the fire! To the Tibetans, temples are sacred and inviolable!"

Duanmu Yan said, "However, Tibetan Buddhism seems to be completely different from Chinese Buddhism. They actually use little girls' skin and little boys' skulls to make ritual implements. Even I find that too evil!"

Wang Sheng sighed, "In this world, there is only more evil, not the most evil; there is only more cruelty, not the most cruelty!"

Black smoke billowed from Baiyu Temple, finally attracting the attention of the martial arts heroes on the mountain!
A young Taoist priest exclaimed, "Fire?"

The fellow Daoist next to him frowned and asked, "Who is it? Why would they burn down someone's temple for no reason?"

An elderly man with white hair nearby said, "Destroying someone's temple, aren't you afraid of committing a grave offense?"

A boy in a yellow shirt next to him asked, "Is there a fire?"

The old man said, "We've been inside before, and there wasn't even a single stick of incense burning. How could there be a fire? Someone must have deliberately set it on fire!"

"Who is so bold? Once this fire starts, the thick smoke will billow straight to the sky and be clearly visible from a hundred miles away. Aren't you afraid of attracting Tibetan troops?"

"If the soldiers come, we'll just leave. What's there to be afraid of?"

"But then wouldn't we have come for nothing?"

"Yeah! Damn it, who's so wicked?"

"Shall we go take a look?"

"What are you looking at? Did you see those people move?"

"no!"

"That's right! Why should we go if they're not going? Remember, think twice before you act, and never be the first to stick your neck out!"

"I'll remember that, Senior Uncle!"

On the lakeshore, several middle-aged men who were searching for footprints along the shore looked at the billowing black smoke from the mountainside with surprised expressions!

"What the hell is going on? Who the hell has nothing better to do?"

"Perhaps someone thought of using firelight to lure out the ferocious beast!"

"Third brother, what did you say? You said... someone deliberately started a fire to lure out the ferocious beast? The ferocious beast likes firelight?"

"Damn it! Those who like firelight are just moths! It's said that the Ferocious Beast likes to come out at night, how could it possibly like bright light?"

"Damn it, who could that be? What the hell does lighting this fire mean?"

"Don't worry about it! Look, nobody cares about what's going on over there. Let it burn, what does it have to do with us?"

Feng Jiuxiao and Sang Jie returned the way they came!

The fire behind him grew bigger and bigger. Sangjie kept glancing at Feng Jiuxiao, unable to understand why this young man was so audacious!

Feng Jiuxiao smiled without turning his head and said, "Why are you staring at me like that?"

Sanjay said, "Aren't you worried that people will gather around and question us?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "What are you worried about? Those people have come all this way not to meddle! They're just standing by and watching the fire burn, not helping anyone in need—that's their usual behavior! Don't worry, no one will care if this place is destroyed! Unless there are priceless treasures beneath this temple, no one will risk coming to put out the fire!"

At the mountaintop, Xiong Mengyan watched the tiny figure gradually disappear into the distance, and a sense of melancholy washed over her. "Why did he go down the mountain?"

Wang Sheng said, "Maybe he doesn't know there are ferocious beasts roaming this mountain!" Actually, he really wanted to say: There's no scenery he wants to see or anyone he wants to see on this mountain, so why did he come up here? But if he said that out loud, wouldn't it be hurtful?

Xiong Mengyan said, "Impossible, right?"

Duanmu Yan said, "That's possible!"

Xiong Mengyan said, "Then let's go down the mountain!"

Duanmu Yan said, "Okay!"

Two maids approached from a distance, closely following Xiong Mengyan. Since the great battle at the Demonic Sect's Blood Pool, both of her zither-playing servants had died; these were two maids she had brought back from the Demon Island—Shiyin on the left and Diewu on the right! The two women took turns carrying the zither!

Seeing Feng Jiuxiao's figure disappear into the mountain valley, Xiong Mengyan became somewhat impatient. Just as she was about to take a step, she suddenly felt her true energy surging and churning within her body. After several cycles of rapid circulation, several bottlenecks in her eight extraordinary meridians were broken through, and a halo of light instantly bloomed on her body!

Wang Sheng and Duanmu Yan were both startled!
Xiong Mengyan actually broke through her cultivation level at this moment!
In fact, Wang Sheng and Duanmu Yan also felt they were close to breaking through to the Double Glazed Realm, but unexpectedly, Xiong Mengjian beat them to it! The two exchanged a glance, both sighing, "What is love in this world? It makes people infatuated, it makes people crazy, and it can even help people break through their realms!" It seems they also need some external stimulation!

The moment Xiong Mengjian broke through the double glass level, it triggered a strange phenomenon in the heavens and earth!

A dark haze hung in the sky, and a biting wind howled.

Snowflakes drifted down from the sky!

On the endless mountain range, the heroes of the Central Plains martial arts world, scattered like stars, all straightened their backs and looked up at the sky!

Finally, someone spoke up: "Someone has broken through to a higher realm!"

"Damn, in this place, at this time, he actually broke through to a higher realm? Holy crap!"

"Judging from the sheer force of this snowstorm, it doesn't seem like an ordinary breakthrough to the Glazed Realm!"

"If not the Glazed Realm, then is it the Celestial Realm?"

Someone lowered their voice: "You don't know, the Celestial Realm isn't even above the Glazed Realm! There are still six Glazed Realm levels to break through before you can even have a chance to break through to the Celestial Realm!"

"Holy crap! Are you serious? You mean above the Ninth Realm of Glazed Glass is Double Glazed Glass? Then Triple Glazed Glass, Quadruple Glazed Glass?"

"That's right!"

"Damn it! I'm only at the peak of the eighth realm. When will I ever break through to the double Glazed Realm? My senior brothers were at the peak of the ninth realm, but unfortunately they all died in the blood pool battle of the Demonic Sect. Otherwise, they might have had a chance to break through to a higher realm!"

Ow—

Suddenly a beastly roar rang out, like the howl of a tiger and the cry of a dragon, its sound shaking the surrounding wilderness!

Everyone's hair stood on end!

finally come!

At this moment, Xiong Mengyan's internal energy was surging wildly. She dared not move rashly, so she stood there quietly, trying her best to digest this sudden blessing from heaven! It was worth all her countless days and nights of hard work!

Wang Sheng and Duanmu Yan naturally stood on either side to protect him! Standing at the highest point of the mountain, looking around, they finally saw the huge figure rushing towards them from the direction of the Demoness Lake! Judging from the trajectory of the giant shadow, it was actually rushing towards the mountaintop!
Wang Sheng cursed, "Damn it, why did we come all the way to the top of the mountain if there's no food?"

Duanmu Yan said, "Could it be that they came for Mengyan?"

Wang Sheng's pupils contracted!

Could it be that the ferocious beast sensed the strange phenomena that Xiong Mengyan caused after breaking through to the next realm, and that some strange feeling on Xiong Mengyan attracted it?
The masters from various martial arts sects in the Central Plains below the mountain also showed excited expressions and quickly rushed towards the direction of the Demoness Lake!
The experts who roamed around the Fairy Lake were the first to observe the true face of the Thousand-Year Giant!
This beast was about two zhang tall, and people in front of it were as small as ants!

The first to attack was a high-ranking monk from the Shaolin School! A monk wielded a Vajra Staff and swept it across the beast's leg, but the beast ignored him and charged forward. The Vajra Staff struck its leg with a loud clang and bounced back, its counterattack even more fierce. The monk wielding the staff could not dodge in time and was struck in the chest by his own staff, spitting out blood and flying several feet backward!

A flurry of hidden weapons clashed and sparked as they struck the beast's hide!

Swift as the wind, like a wisp of smoke, it swept past, and the several people who were trying to intercept it fell to the claws of the ferocious beast!
More and more experts surged in from all sides, and many went up the mountain to set up defenses in advance. A straight line was formed from the Demoness Lake to the mountain peak, and the line became thicker as you went up! Because the higher you went, the more people gathered!

When the beast's claws pierced through Zheng Lin's chest without any obstruction, the muffled sound of flesh and bones tearing seemed to shatter the last taut string in everyone's minds!

Scalding hot blood mixed with fragments of organs splattered out, splashing onto the faces of the stunned people below. It was sticky and burning hot!
This is not just Zheng Lin's blood. In this depression shrouded in the aura of ancient wilderness, where the snow meets the bare black rocks, patches of intense and breathtaking human blood have already been splashed!

Limbs and severed arms flew everywhere, scattered across the pristine snow; a broken longsword lay forlornly stuck in the ground, and not far away lay a head, its features mangled beyond recognition, like a crumpled and flattened ball of bloody cotton; a few fragments of armor, their owners unknown, gleamed with a faint, cold light, dotting the carpet of this hellish battlefield.

The stench of blood rose high into the air, thick and heavy in the thin air of the mountaintop, seeping into the nostrils of everyone who still had a breath left, bringing an irresistible chill and a despairing, decaying odor.

The layers of defenses laid down by the martial arts masters of the Central Plains have now been utterly destroyed! The destruction was swift and devastating, like a whirlwind sweeping away the clouds!

Suddenly, a giant net descended and entangled the ferocious beast!
Someone shouted, "Caught it! Caught it! Is there still a net?" He saw the ferocious beast struggling wildly and worried that the net would break sooner or later!

Another person shouted, "Damn it, do you think this Fire Silkworm Net is some kind of vegetable or potato? There are only a few in the world, and that's all!"

"I still have the Seven Star Rope!" A long rope, like a venomous snake, coiled around the two hind legs of the ferocious beast!

But even at this moment, the ferocious beast remained standing, struggling desperately forward!

Its thick limbs were now bulging with veins, exuding a compelling sense of power, and its imposing figure was like a moving steel fortress radiating an aura of death!
What covered his entire body was not hair, but a thick, glossy, natural armor, like polished and inlaid black jade, shimmering with a breathtaking luster in the dim light.

Every slight twitch of the muscles caused a subtle yet teeth-grinding friction sound between the layers of thick armor plates, as if they contained endless destructive power!
Especially its head, with two sharp and thick fangs like ancient stalactite pillars, exposed menacingly as if ready to pierce through any flesh and blood at any moment; and when those beastly eyes widened, they burned with a ferocious, chaotic, and seemingly evil spiritual and hateful red light!
"Attack its lower body!"

A figure suddenly swept in from the left side of the giant beast, moving with the agility of a ghost. The judge's pen, forged from black iron, gleamed with a dark light. Without hesitation, the figure stabbed into the gap on the inside of the beast's hind leg knee joint—the only possible weakness that the figure had desperately observed.

However, the answer was revealed in the next moment in an even more desperate way!
The ferocious beast didn't even need to turn its head; its massive, five-colored tail, as thick as a beam, suddenly swept across!

The air was torn apart, emitting a sharp "whoosh." Before the dark, murky light of the black iron could even flash, a nauseating thud was heard. The figure that pounced on him, along with his steel-forged judge's pen, instantly turned into a pile of shapeless pieces of flesh and blood, like clay sculptures smashed by an invisible hammer, splattering all over the surrounding snow.

"You beast! Take this!"

Directly in front of him stood Li Baichuan, his hair and beard bristling, his eyes blazing with fury. As the master of the Iron Blade Sect, he wielded his treasured sword "Mountain Breaker" with the sound of wind and thunder, its powerful energy swirling wildly and piercing the air, condensing into a nearly tangible, dark golden aura that, like a blazing sun falling to earth, fiercely slashed towards the slightly collapsed lower back of the ferocious beast!

This strike combined his life's work with the raging fury burning within him.

"when--!!"

A deafening roar, like the sudden sound of a great bell, erupted! Blinding sparks flew out like festive fireworks, but Li Baichuan felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer. The blade of his Mountain-Breaking Saber hummed and seemed about to crack, and he felt a sharp pain in his hand as the saber slipped from his grasp! Looking closely at his hand, he saw that it was already covered in blood!

That strike, which embodied a lifetime of skill, merely left a barely perceptible shallow mark on the layer of black jade-like scales. The mark vanished in the blink of an eye, like a wisp of smoke brushing against a solid rock. After the smoke dissipated, the rock remained the same solid rock.

Several more long ropes wrapped around the front legs, while the other end was held tightly in the holder's hand! Some of the bolder ones began to grab a corner of the Fire Silkworm Net and pull it back desperately, like a tug-of-war!
Although the speed of the ferocious beast's charge had slowed down, it maintained its forward momentum!

Seemingly sensing that the silk net on its body was a burden, it suddenly paused and retreated backward. In this way, all the experts who were holding the corner of the net were unable to stop in time and were thrown forward. The ferocious beast bent over, and the fiery silk net actually slid forward and fell off its body!
With his bonds broken, Zheng instantly unleashed his power and charged forward!

Duanmu Yan frowned and said, "It seems it really is after Meng Yan!" He quickly took out the Great Compassion Bow, and like Feng Jiuxiao, condensed his energy into ice, turning the ice into arrows. The arrows were named Rebirth, and he aimed at the ferocious beast. Whoosh—the arrow light was like a dragon, tearing through the void, and rushing straight at the ferocious beast! (End of this chapter)