Chapter 231: Advance to Sword Monarch

Countless seven-coloured Spiritual Clouds floated out from the slit torn open in the night, and the entire canyon was shrouded in seven coloured neon clouds, beautiful and splendid. 

Spiritual Energy lightning struck Lou Mu Yan’s body one after another. She quickly mobilised her dan’tian, and the Sorcerer Skill roamed around her body, cooperating with her Spiritual Energy to temper her body again and again. 

Seeing this, the burly man was horrified. Disregarding the pain in his body, he wanted to turn away and leave, but a distant voice sounded in his Sea of Consciousness. 

“Kill her, kill her!”

His eyes that were filled with horror was replaced by scarlet, and he condensed the Demonic Energy of his entire body into his two giant palms, then slammed them towards Lou Mu Yan. 

In actual fact, the most powerful aspect of a Mountain Moving Beast wasn’t its attack, but its defence. The reason why Lou Mu Yan could hurt him was because her Fire Elemental Energy carried a trace of Purple-Gold Spirit Flames, otherwise even if a strong Sword Sovereign powerhouse came, it would be very difficult to hurt him. 

Seeing the trace of scarlet streak across the burly man’s jaded eyes and that he had raised his petrified palm to slap towards her, Lou Mu Yan narrowed her eyes. The opportunity had arrived. 

After the Mountain Moving Beast was petrified, he had a weakness where he would temporarily lose his reason, and there was an acupuncture point on his back that, when tapped, would paralyse him for a few breaths of time. What she wanted was precisely for him to go crazy. 

“Lou Mu Yan, be careful.” Seeing this, Luo Li flew up and wanted to help. 

“It’s fine.” Lou Mu Yan waved her hand at Luo Li, stopping him from helping. 

Luo Li sighed and stepped back. This woman was simply too stubborn. 

Lou Mu Yan disappeared in a flash and the seven coloured clouds followed her figure, manoeuvring around, as if an auspicious omen, shrouding her in a layer of seven coloured warm light. 

“Rise!” She shouted coldly and the golden sword beneath her feet instantly transformed into ten golden flying swords, all heading directly towards the petrified burly man. 

Once the Mountain Moving Beast was completely petrified, the flexibility of its body would be greatly reduced, and its defence would also become so tough it’d be a Demonic Beast Race that could be ranked among the top fifty. There were advantages and disadvantages. 

[DING DANG!!] 

The ten flying swords were instantly slapped away by the Mountain Moving Beast. Even if they all fell on him, it wouldn’t hurt him at all and made clanging sounds on the outer layer of the stone surface. 

Facing an already petrified Mountain Moving Beast, Lou Mu Yan naturally wouldn’t be stupid enough to fight flesh to flesh. Her body was indeed comparable to a Tier 6 Demonic Beast, but the petrified body of a Mountain Moving Beast was only even tougher than Bing Ji before his Demonic Energy was sealed and not inferior. 

If she forcibly tried to speak with her fists, then she would definitely receive internal injuries after being hit. 

[ROAR ROAR!!] 

The crazy Mountain Moving Beast who had completely lost his senses couldn’t hit Lou Mu Yan each time it attacked so it grew even madder, roaring and beating his chest with his fists as if a maddened orangutan. 

[BOOM BOOM!!] He raised his large hands and directly slammed the ground, causing the earth to split open into numerous ravines. 

The remaining force of the fist wind swept up the stones on the ground and flew towards Lou Mu Yan, forming a powerful whirlwind, it’s power astonishingly terrifying. 

Si Nan and the others looked ahead in shock and almost couldn’t resist acting. They were afraid that Lou Mu Yan wouldn’t be able to take on that power. Even if they took it on, they would probably also be injured. 

At the same time, the people below turned their attention to the direction of Lou Mu Yan in the distance, while a small part of their attention was on killing Demonic Beasts. They all wanted to see how she would deal with it. 

A slight arc rose on Lou Mu Yan’s lips. She closed her eyes and the moment they opened, they were dyed with a layer of light—a look that revealed that she had succeeded in her calculations.

With a thought, she set free her body’s limitations to absorb the Spiritual Force in the Spiritual Clouds. When her endurance instantly exceeded the load, she moved her hands gently in front of her and drew an Eight Trigrams in front of her chest. 

Then she immediately took a deep breath, pushed her palms out, and the violent Spiritual Force in her body was instantly transformed into Spiritual Energy through her dan’tian, forming a black and white aura. 

An Eight Trigrams formed from Spiritual Energy guarded before Lou Mu Yan and the violent whirlwind perfectly landed on the Eight Trigrams. 

The two Spiritual Energies of one black, one white whirled slowly, and the moment the whirlwind landed on the Eight Trigrams, it was blocked by a gentle power within it. 

The energy in the Eight Trigrams fluctuated slowly, but each time it circulated, the violent whirlwind would weaken a bit. 

[BOOM BOOM!!] The more than a dozen seven coloured Spiritual Clouds gradually converged into a huge Seven Coloured Spiritual Cloud, and the Spiritual Energy lightning bolts that fell on Lou Mu Yan’s body was even thicker. 

The lightning condensed from Spiritual Energy was different to normal thunder and lightning. It would only appear under certain circumstances, and it didn’t have the lethality of thunder and lightning. 

Of course, when the lightning condensed by Spiritual Force struck Lou Mu Yan, it would be used to temper her body through her Sorcerer Skill, so she not only wasn’t harmed by it, but she also obtained many benefits.

But if a Sword Master who didn’t have such a body refining method dared to temper their body with the help of the lightning from Spiritual Clouds, if they didn’t have any special means to absorb it, then their meridians would be blocked by a large amount of Spiritual Force in the future, and their cultivation would also be terminated.

That’s why her behaviour was so shocking.

Without making a loud noise, the violent whirlwind the Mountain Moving Beast brought was blocked bit by bit by the Eight Trigrams formed through borrowing the Spiritual Clouds and Spiritual Cloud lightning.

Seeing this, the Mountain Moving Beast rushed over, raised his huge palms, and began to slap the Eight Trigrams in an attempt to destroy it.

[CLANG!]

Lou Mu Yan heard a sound from her Spiritual Platform1 and the bottleneck she was stuck at between Sword King and Sword Monarch was instantly shattered by the violent Spiritual Force in her body.

Her body was like a sponge right now, vigorously absorbing the Spiritual Force in the Spiritual Cloud. The Spiritual Cloud gradually shrank, and the Spiritual Energy lighting weakened, then finally disappeared.

When the Seven Coloured Spiritual Cloud shrunk, faded, then finally dissipated, Lou Mu Yan’s cultivation base broke straight to the peak of Initial-Phase Sword Monarch.

After she advanced she felt that her entire body was filled with strength. The effect of the tempering of Spiritual Energy lightning sure was good. Plus, she had been drinking Blood Sac Wine for a long time, so her Sorcerer Skill actually automatically broke through from Level 2 to Initial Stage Level 3.

Right now, because of the dissipation of the Spiritual Cloud, the power of the Eight Trigrams was also weakened, and was finally slapped away by the Mountain Moving Beast.

His eyes were crimson, and he rushed towards Lou Mu Yan with his huge body.

A faint smile rose on Lou Mu Yan’s lips, and she counted softly: “Three, two, one.”

Everyone present was curious as to why she was counting, but when her voice landed on ‘one’, the incomparably ferocious Mountain Moving Beast actually stopped in place, as if dazed, then instantly fell to the ground with a bang.

[PENG!!]

His huge body fell to the ground involuntarily, and the earth trembled a bit, dust floating everywhere.

Lou Mu Yan tapped her toes and moved to the body of the Mountain Moving Beast in only a few steps using her Flash Steps, dust covering her and the Demonic Beast’s body.

As soon as she rushed over, landing on the Mountain Moving Beast, she immediately mouthed a difficult incantation, then slapped her palm heavily, and the Taoist Seals condensed from Spiritual Energy in her palm penetrated one after another into the Mountain Moving Beast.

The Spiritual Energy Taoist Seals that penetrated the Mountain Moving Beast made the crimson of his eyes fade, and he slowly regained his clarity.

After he completely regained consciousness, the Ancient Contract Skill was also deeply wound around the miniature version of the Mountain Moving Beast in his yao’fu.

When the dust and mist dissipated, everyone watched Lou Mu Yan jump off the body of the Mountain Moving Beast.

Then she looked at the Mountain Moving Beast with indifferent eyes and said: “You lost!”

1author never explained what it is, and it’s the first time it’s mentioned, but I’m pretty sure it might literally be a spiritual platform that’s there, blocking her advancement to Sword Monarch, like a physical layer.