Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

24. First use of the ultimate move

"Heh, Wuya Qiubai, you really are a persistent ghost. Of all the people who want to get close to me, you're the one I hate the most, you know that?"

Hmm? Gao Zhun sniffed. What? It wasn't the sour smell of love, but rather the gunpowder smell of mutual dislike between the two of them?

Is God finally going to let this single dog off the hook this time?

However, just as Gao Zhun was teary-eyed and expecting the conflict between the two to escalate, Wu Yaqiubai, after hearing Yun Muning's words, blushed and shouted, "Yun Muning, you narcissist, who wants to get close to you?"

Gao Zhunmo, um, Miss Wuya, if you have nothing to hide, please don't defend yourself so loudly, and you should also tone down the blush on your face a bit, it will make you seem much more credible.

But at this moment, all she wanted to say was, "Damn, this stuff smells sour."

Yun Muning glanced at Wuya Qiubai: "The term 'narcissist' is really meaningless. So, Wuya Qiubai, explain your purpose. There are so many people lying in ambush here. What do you want? To take my life?"

"Take your life?" Wu Yaqiubai was clearly stunned for a second. Then, looking at Yun Muning's arrogant expression, which showed no regard for the surrounding forces that outnumbered them several times over, an inexplicable anger surged in her heart: "Today, I'm here to take your life, so you better hold on to the end. It's a battle of kings between us."

"Ha~"

As soon as Yun Mu Ning uttered that highly ironic word, Akomo's people actually made the first move, clearly wanting to seize the initiative.

"This Yun Mu Ning is really confident," Gao Zhun thought to himself. "But could you please not drag her into this? She's just finished a fight and is very tired. She needs to rest. She's still a patient with injuries, okay?"

However, the Blood Shadow and Light Shadow Alliance will not give Akomo or anyone else any chance to breathe. This ambush is clearly an operation that the other side has been planning for a long time. The long period of dormancy has made the fire in their hearts suppressed again and again. Now that it can finally be unleashed, how can they not go crazy?

Gao Zhun was extremely annoyed, but she had no choice but to summon her Azure Light Sword for the second time that day. She realized that ever since she was injured, she had been constantly encountering these unfortunate situations that required her to fight. Moreover, on this battlefield where half-step Nascent Soul cultivators were high-end combatants, although her early-stage Golden Core peak strength was not enough, she still made up the majority of the fighting force. The battles were the most brutal, and due to the disparity in numbers between the two sides, she was almost always surrounded and attacked. She didn't know where Akemo's people had been sent, as there were only so many people left in the area at the moment...

In contrast, Mo Nishang, Xuan Yuan Huanyu, Yun Mu Ning, and Wu Ya Qiu Bai, who are all at the half-step Nascent Soul stage, are in a much easier position than she is. After all, there are not many half-step Nascent Soul cultivators on either side, and they are almost all fighting one-on-one. Although it is difficult to determine a winner in a short time, it is still better than her being subjected to a series of battles.

As the battle continued, Gao Zhun's reflexes began to falter. Thinking about how to resolve the current predicament, a thought flashed through her mind—she remembered that moment of sudden enlightenment from a few months ago. How could she have forgotten that? She clearly lacked practical experience.

As she mocked herself, she suddenly switched the Azure Light Sword in her hand to her dominant right hand. After all, this was a sword move she had gained through enlightenment, and its immense power was self-evident. It also required extremely high skill in swordsmanship. How could she use such a move with her left hand? Not only would her left hand be crippled, but whether it could achieve the effect she had grasped during her enlightenment was another matter entirely.

On the other side, facing Xuan Yuan Huan Yu was a man dressed in fine clothes with an extraordinary temperament. Judging from the man's relaxed demeanor, his strength and the power behind him were probably on par with Xuan Yuan Huan Yu, of course, when facing Xuan Yuan Huan Yu who only used fire-type attacks.

If faced with the Emperor's True Eye at its full power, Gao Zhun was certain that the man would have difficulty lasting more than a hundred moves against Xuan Yuan Huan Yu. However, it was intriguing that his cousin had not yet activated the Emperor's True Eye. Nevertheless, there would be no danger.

Thinking this, Gao Zhun, who was still gathering his power, turned his gaze to Mo Nishang. Wait, what's going on? It's one thing that Xuan Yuan Huan Yu didn't activate the Emperor's True Eye, but now even Mo Nishang hasn't used that wide-range charm technique. Forgive her for not asking Mo Nishang the name of that move, so she has only been able to call it that all along. But that's not the point. The point is that these two are really a bit strange.

Gao Zhun frowned. Could it be that he had used it in the previous battle, and now he was a little overdrawn? Gao Zhun, who had not yet awakened his bloodline talent, did not know if there would be any restrictions on the use of such a talent, or if there would be something like a cooldown after use. However, he thought that if such a heaven-defying move could be used without restriction, it would be too contrary to the laws of nature, and it would probably be a loss to the strength of his bloodline.

When will I be able to awaken?

Gao Zhun thought about it, but shook her head. Unlike Xuan Yuan Huan Yu, she was not a monstrous genius who could awaken her bloodline talent on her own. If she wanted to awaken her bloodline talent, she could only hope for the inheritance opportunity in the inheritance pool that the family would reward her with after entering the direct line.

After all, the reason the Gao family is the head of the major clans is precisely because of their powerful bloodline talent. Because of this power, she has never heard of anyone like Xuan Yuan Huan Yu who could awaken their talent on their own. Even her father, Gao Zhi Lin, only awakened his Gao family bloodline talent after undergoing the inheritance in the Inheritance Pool. In terms of genius, she is worlds apart from Gao Zhi Lin. Although she is somewhat special now, it's mainly because her soul doesn't belong to the Immortal Spirit Continent and has been forcibly tainted with some of the energy of heaven and earth.

In terms of talent and future achievements, she may not be able to compare with Gao Zhilin.

Gao Zhun carefully sensed the speed at which his true qi flowed in his right hand. After dealing with more than a dozen small fry who had just entered the Golden Core stage, he had finally warmed up and hadn't overexerted himself. It was time to unleash his ultimate move.

Unprecedentedly, Gao Zhun did not let her mind wander. Her attention was highly focused on the use of her internal energy. She consciously guided the internal energy circulating through her meridians to her right arm, forming a small circulation within the meridians of her right arm. The massive amount of internal energy instantly accumulated in one arm. The rapidly rotating internal energy gradually swirled into a ball, and because its cross-section was too narrow, this ball of internal energy began to extend from her upper arm toward her fingertips. If someone were to observe the internal energy circulating in Gao Zhun's right arm at this moment, they would be able to see that a tornado of internal energy was forming within the veins of her right arm. Like a tornado that occasionally forms on land or water, it was violent and powerful, seemingly about to burst the meridians of her right arm as it swirled and collided restlessly.

In fact, after this guidance, Gao Zhun's right arm meridians were indeed widened by more than double by this true energy tornado. Originally, it could have continued to accumulate, but the clamor coming from the still unhealed wound made her involuntarily transmit two-thirds of her ultimate move through her fingertips and the connection between her and the Azure Light Sword to the sword. Sure enough, under the influence of this tornado-like true energy, the sword energy that had just formed around the Azure Light Sword was affected and also began to rotate and condense. The increasingly faster, more obvious, and more violent sword energy stirred up the dust in the air, forming a sword energy tornado around the sword just like the one in her right arm.

The appearance of the sword energy tornado excited Gao Zhun greatly. This was the first sword move she had gained through enlightenment on her path of cultivation. Although it was somewhat self-destructive, its power was undoubtedly very impressive. At this moment, she released the Azure Light Sub-Sword from her hand, activated the Azure Light Glazed Sword's inner technique, and used her divine sense to control the operation of the sub-sword.

Using her sword to defend against enemies was a sword technique she developed after advancing to the Golden Core stage, which allowed her Azure Glazed Sword to break through its cultivation level along with her own. With the added bonus of the sword energy tornado, the Azure Glazed Sword was practically invincible wherever it went. She was confident that even half-step Nascent Soul cultivators like Xuan Yuan Huan Yu would have to avoid her sharp edge when they encountered her Azure Glazed Sword, which came with its own sword energy tornado.

The high-speed rotation can twist the trajectory of any approaching physical attack, the powerful wind can shatter the twisted attack, and the phoenix eye has a strong destructive force wherever it passes. Within the same realm, unless the opponent has a defensive bloodline talent, anyone can only flee in the face of this move.

As for those who didn't escape, Gao Zhun had no psychological burden. After all, she had no intention of killing anyone. As for the celestial messengers from the Blood Shadow and Light Shadow sides, they would be safe as long as they were protected by the laws. As for the others, they were just illusory figures in the illusion, like virtual monsters in an online game. Even if she killed them, her hands would not be stained with a trace of blood.

There was no reason, not out of a ridiculous saintly mentality, but simply an intuition that she shouldn't kill. Since arriving in the Immortal Spirit Continent, she had always maintained this thought in her heart. After all, this was not the kind of time when killing was absolutely necessary. If she could avoid getting involved in the karma of life and death, she should get involved as little as possible. After all, cultivation was not easy, and it was always better to leave a way out for others so that they could walk in the martial world in the future.

But what should we call this move?

Such a cool move! I'll have to shout its name out loud every time I use it, that'll really make it feel awesome. Hmm, that's how it's depicted in the few anime and novels I've seen, and I can't be left behind.

"Mo Nishang, you're quick-witted. What's a good name for this move of mine?" Gao Zhun, who had absolutely no idea, decided to shift the blame to Mo Nishang. So, without caring that she was locked in a fierce battle with the enemy, he abruptly transmitted the message to her.