633: Dogs referring to people, opportunity, no falsehood, Tianjian Mountain

She didn't know how long she had been traveling.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck!"

A series of chicken calls appeared ahead.

Zhou Nanying's figure didn't stop, her eyes looking forward.

She saw chickens, each as tall as a person, with bright, vibrant feathers, facing sideways, large, and tri-colored, using their wings as swords, attacking Zhou Nanying.

"Tri-colored chickens wielding wings as swords..."

Zhou Nanying was silent, thinking that the one who set up this assessment must be an eccentric.

If she couldn't even defeat the tri-colored chickens... A thought inexplicably surfaced in Zhou Nanying's mind, and her body trembled, cold sweat dripping down her back.

It must not happen... Zhou Nanying steeled her heart and charged into the flock of tri-colored chickens.

At the same time.

Beneath the sea outside Wind Sand Island.

"Clang ~ Clang ~"

The sounds of Sword Cry suddenly became urgent and intense.

Within the Great Formation.

Zhou Liyue and Zhou Xiangfu kept their minds steady, looking with some worry at Zhou Nanying, who was sitting cross-legged in the air outside the Great Formation.

They saw Zhou Nanying's eyes tightly closed, her brows slightly furrowed, and an invisible Sword Intent emanating from her body, seemingly echoing the suddenly urgent Sword Cry.

"Xiangfu, has there been such a change before?"

Zhou Liyue, while maintaining the Great Formation, asked Zhou Xiangfu beside her.

"When the Sword Hall Disciples explored to this point before, there were also slightly urgent Sword Cries, but none were as intense as this."

Zhou Xiangfu slowly shook his head and said.

Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~

In front of Zhou Liyue, the Formation Plate vibrated with the sound of the Sword Cry.

As the Sword Cry grew stronger, her Great Formation was already struggling.

"You all leave first."

Zhou Liyue said to the several Sword Hall Elders behind her, whose expressions were difficult.

"Yes, Ancestor Yue."

The Elders did not insist on staying; if they stayed any longer, they might also fall into the Sword Cry, just like the Sword Hall Disciples before them.

After the Sword Hall Elders left.

Zhou Liyue's mind raced, the Formation Plate in front of her continuously spun, the formation patterns changed, and the Formation Flags rustled, as if adapting to the changes in the Sword Cry... In the boundless, vast space.

Zhou Nanying gasped for breath.

There was no passage of time in this world; she no longer knew how long she had been there.

She only knew that after dealing with the monkey pack and the tri-colored chicken flock, horse herds, deer herds, and bird flocks appeared.

Outside, these were mere animals and beasts kept by Mortals in the Mortal world, but here they possessed unimaginable power.

They were powerful, their sword techniques cunning, and each animal's sword technique was different.

Moreover, the further she went, the deeper their Sword Dao cultivation became.

By this point, she was already struggling to cope.

But... she looked at the Heavenly Peak, which, though much closer, still remained distant.

Zhou Nanying's heart sank slightly.

After a short rest, Zhou Nanying gripped the invisible longsword in her hand, which was not stained with blood, and took a deep breath.

She took a step and continued towards the peak of the mountain.

"Awoo!"

Just then.

Another long howl sounded.

"Wolves, huh...?"

Zhou Nanying's heart stirred.

However, when a group of animals, similar to wolves but not wolves, with apricot eyes, black and white fur, erect ears, and brush-like tails, each the size of a person, came charging, Zhou Nanying paused again.

"This... is a dog?"

At this moment, the leading large dog suddenly stood upright, its eyes squinted, and its front paw pointed at her.

A dog pointing at a person.

"???"

"Are you humiliating me?"

Zhou Nanying's heart stirred; who could tolerate this?

Boom!

Zhou Nanying transformed into a sharp sword.

She charged directly into the pack of dogs.

Sword Light overflowed, shaking heaven and earth.

A moment later.

Zhou Nanying sneered, didn't look back, and continued forward.

Outside.

"Clang!"

A Sword Cry, far exceeding any before, suddenly rose from beneath the sea.

Spreading in all directions.

The Sword Cry whistled.

Within the Chaotic Sea.

Cultivators, one after another, suddenly felt a stir in their hearts, all looking towards the source of the boundless Sword Cry.

And one after another, Cultivators who carried longswords and practiced the Sword Dao gripped their respective treasured swords, which were affected by the Sword Cry.

Their expressions suddenly changed, their consciousnesses sank, as if captivated by the Sword Cry.

Sword Cultivators, scattered in various places and simultaneously affected by the Sword Cry, had their consciousnesses sink into that boundless world at the same time.

At the same time.

In the northern part of the Chaotic Sea, on Gui Zhou Island, on Qingyang Peak, deep within the Sword Hall.

Inside a secret chamber.

"Clang!"

A Sword Cry suddenly echoed in the secret chamber.

Inside the secret chamber, a white-haired figure, sitting cross-legged with two longswords laid across his knees, quietly opened his eyes.

An invisible, powerful will, interwoven with scorching heat and extreme cold, erupted from his body.

It seemed to resist the sudden Sword Cry, actually managing to withstand its attraction and pull.

"Clang!"

The Sword Cry, echoing across the sea, rose again, but this time, it seemed to carry a hint of joy.

On Qingyang Peak.

Inside the Sword Hall's secret chamber.

"An opportunity..."

Zhou Xiuyuan's heart stirred; when the second Sword Cry rose again, Zhou Xiuyuan no longer resisted, gently closed his eyes, and his consciousness sank.

Inside the secret chamber, silence fell once more... "I can't hold on any longer..."

Zhou Nanying looked at the vast, dense flock of snow-white geese before her, their Sword Qi reaching to the sky, her eyes filled with bitterness.

Behind this large flock of snow-white geese was the towering mountain peak, like a sharp sword reaching to the heavens, now within arm's reach.

"Pah."

Zhou Nanying spat fiercely, expressing her dissatisfaction with the one who set up this place; to lose to poultry was truly unacceptable.

Bang!

With a ruthless resolve, Zhou Nanying charged out, continuously brandishing the incomplete invisible sword in her hand.

She would not give up until the very end.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The snow-white geese formed a Great Formation, and countless powerful sharp swords came from all directions.

Two fists could not contend with four hands; Zhou Nanying suffered successive injuries, and her consciousness slowly began to blur.

Just then.

A familiar will brushed past her.

Zhou Nanying's heart suddenly trembled, and a blurry figure seemed to appear before her.

"Hall Master!"

Zhou Nanying cried out in surprise.

Her consciousness sank, and when she regained her senses, she found herself back at the bottom of the sea; there were no traces of the snow-white geese that had formed the Great Formation around her.

In the boundless, vast world.

At the top of the tall mountain peak that connected heaven and earth.

A white-haired figure, with two longswords at his waist, ascended step by step.

Until he reached the summit.

On the summit, a longsword, constantly shifting between reality and illusion, was embedded in a bluestone on the peak.

"Wuxu."

Zhou Xiuyuan spoke softly, taking a step forward.

He slowly reached out his hand, gripped the Wuxu Sword embedded in the bluestone, and drew it out.

"Clang!"

A Sword Cry rose again, echoing throughout the boundless sea.

Only this time, it was different from the previous several times.

Boom!

When the Wuxu Sword was drawn.

The consciousnesses of figures who were fighting groups of animals in this boundless, vast world suddenly sank, and upon awakening, they had already left that peculiar realm.

"Sigh ~"

A feeling of loss resonated in the hearts of all Sword Cultivators.

Outside Wind Sand Island, at the bottom of the sea.

Zhou Nanying came to Zhou Liyue's side.

Within the Great Formation, the Zhou Family Sword Hall Disciples, who had been unconscious, woke up one after another, but their faces were all grim, as if they had experienced something unbearable to recall.

At this moment.

On Gui Zhou Island, on Qingyang Peak.

Buzz!

A massive Sword Intent soared into the sky, accompanied by a powerful Aura belonging to the Soul Transformation Stage, erupting and sweeping through the clouds above Gui Zhou Island.

Deep within the Sword Hall, in the secret chamber.

The white-haired figure opened his eyes, calming his surging Aura, and extended his right hand, submerging it into the void.

In an instant.

As the white-haired figure withdrew his right hand, a divine sword, seemingly existing between reality and illusion, was pulled from the void.

At the hilt.

Were the characters 'Wuxu'... At the same time.

In the Chaofeng Ancient Realm.

In the scattered realms, several figures—some carrying longswords on their backs, some sleeping with swords in their arms, some polishing swords with spiritual objects—felt a simultaneous tremor in their hearts, and an enlightenment arose from the swords in their hands.

"The tenth sword... has finally appeared..."

"Heavenly Sword Mountain is about to manifest..."

Some figures chuckled, their eyes filled with joy.