Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?-Chapter 684: Appearance of a Strange Beast
Chapter 684: Appearance of a Strange Beast
Chapter 684: Appearance of a Strange Beast
After Lin Fan and Chen Niu left, the entire basin seemed to fall silent.
The surrounding sect Ascenders who had been watching covetously were either dead or had fled.
No one dared to continue coveting the Celestial Jade Marrow any longer.
The center of the basin was in complete disarray, with the smell of blood and scorched earth intermingling.
Hua Jin the True One sat rigidly on a rock, her face pale, her eyes somewhat unfocused, her fingers unconsciously picking at the jade bones along the edge of her folding fan.
Wang Shouyi stood guard nearby, watching her with concern, wanting to say something but afraid of disturbing her.
"Your Eminence..." he finally couldn't help but speak, his voice extremely soft.
Hua Jin the True One suddenly snapped back to attention, her eyes focusing, flashing with shame and annoyance at having her disheveled state seen through, then transforming into deep exhaustion and an almost paranoid vigilance.
She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her turbulent emotions, her voice hoarse: "Shouyi, help me set up the formation."
After much deliberation, Hua Jin the True One still felt uneasy.
Rather than guessing whether anyone would still try to snatch the last wave of Celestial Jade Marrow, it was better to take proactive preparations.
Her gaze fixed dead on the basin center where the purple-gold halo was beginning to coalesce again, thicker and more viscous than any previous time, almost revealing dark golden hues within the purple. This radiance made her heart surge with both wild joy and intense unease.
It was too abundant, abnormally so.
"There can be no more mistakes!" she gritted her teeth, as if speaking to Wang Shouyi, but more like speaking to herself.
The terrifying scene of that dreadful sword cultivator's ten thousand swords roaring in unison and the final silent yet mountain-splitting Sword Intent were branded deep into her Divine Soul like searing marks. She absolutely would not allow herself to become the object of mockery and crushing again, especially not before this final opportunity.
With Wang Shouyi's assistance, Hua Jin the True One nearly exhausted all the array disks and one-time restriction talismans she had stored away in her Storage Pouch. Streams of light, some bright and some dark, flew from her hands, precisely sinking into the ground, air, and even the edges of the churning purple-gold halo in the basin's core area.
Layer upon layer of transparent light membranes silently unfolded, like inverted crystal bowls, wrapping the area where the marrow was about to be born in multiple layers.
Runes flowed across the light membranes, emitting auras of confinement, deceleration, and rebound.
The air was filled with Spiritual Energy threads barely visible to the naked eye, weaving together into a deadly net.
At several concealed Formation Cores, powerful Thunderfire Talismans and ice-sealing talismans were buried; once triggered, they would cause a destructive chain reaction.
She even went so far as to expend her Vital Essence, setting up a "Body Shift and Shadow Exchange" restriction between herself and the core area, ensuring she could teleport there instantly at the first moment.
After completing all this, fine sweat already covered Hua Jin the True One's forehead, and her breathing was somewhat unsteady.
She looked at the basin core enveloped in layer upon layer of restrictions, like a dragon's den and tiger's lair, a trace of ferocity and... a barely noticeable, pathological sense of security flashing in her eyes.
Hehe...
Let's see this time.
Who could still compete with her!
Later she would directly teleport over and protect the Celestial Jade Marrow with her body!
"With Senior Zhang's great formation suppressing space on the periphery, and my Heavenly Net in the inner layer... unless that terrifying Sword Maniac returns..." she silently thought, unconsciously touching the hair ends that had been severed by the invisible Sword Qi, her heart still trembling with fear, "Otherwise, no one can touch my Celestial Jade Marrow again!"
Chen Huaian stood at the edge of the great formation, silently watching Hua Jin the True One's actions.
The layered restrictions were full of flaws in his eyes, but he didn't speak up to stop her, nor did he immediately summon Li Qingran.
For one thing, these restrictions could indeed cause some trouble; for another, watching Hua Jin the True One desperately setting them up, he inexplicably felt... he should leave her some hope, give her a chance that "seemed like it could succeed."
After all, if the blow was too great, what if she completely collapsed and stopped practicing the Heavenly Demon Art?
Buzz——!!!
The purple-gold halo at the basin center finally coalesced to its peak, no longer erupting as a pillar of light, but rather churning and boiling like viscous purple-gold magma.
A surge of majestic Spiritual Energy, ten times more refined and concentrated than before, suddenly erupted, carrying a certain ancient and majestic rhythm that made the entire basin resonate and tremble.
It's coming!
Hua Jin the True One's spirit instantly became highly tense, all her attention focused on the core area.
Clear light pulsed from the folding fan in her hand, ready to activate the restrictions and Body Shift and Shadow Exchange at any moment.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Three light sounds, like bubbles bursting.
Three premium Celestial Jade Marrows, each larger than any previous one, completely crystal clear, with what seemed like flowing liquid purple-gold galaxies inside, slowly emerged from the viscous halo—the spiritual light they emitted almost illuminated the entire night sky.
Three pieces!
Completely intact!
Clearly of better quality, and right before her eyes!
Hua Jin the True One's heart almost leaped out of her chest.
Wild joy instantly overwhelmed all unease, and she even ignored the extremely faint yet heart-palpitating abnormal fluctuations coming from deep within the purple-gold halo.
"Mine! Finally can be mine!" She didn't hesitate to activate the "Body Shift and Shadow Exchange" formation.
Her figure instantly blurred, about to appear beside the nearest marrow.
However, just as her figure was about to solidify—
"ROAR——!!!"
A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar, as if originating from the depths of the earth, from the boiling purple-gold halo itself, suddenly exploded.
This roar carried primitiveness, brutality, and a terrifying pressure composed purely of refined Spiritual Energy, instantly shattering Hua Jin the True One's joyful mental defenses that she had just moments ago.
Boom!!!
The viscous purple-gold halo suddenly exploded, then rapidly collapsed inward and condensed.
A claw.
A gigantic claw purely condensed from the most refined purple-gold Celestial Jade Marrow, emerged without warning from the center of the halo's collapse.
The claw was crystal clear, shining with treasure light, yet carrying a terrifying power that seemed capable of tearing everything apart.
The moment the claw appeared, the space before Hua Jin the True One shattered like fragile crystal.
The confinement light membranes, Spiritual Energy threads, hidden thunder and dark fire that she had painstakingly arranged... before this claw, they vanished like soap bubbles in sunlight, dissipating without even making a sound.
Time seemed to freeze.
The wild joy on Hua Jin the True One's face hadn't yet faded, but her eyes were already filled with horror and confusion.
Her half-solidified figure was directly in the path of the emerging claw.
Smack! With a dull sound.
Hua Jin the True One flew back like a kite with its string cut, her protective clear light instantly shattering, blood spurting wildly from her mouth, her entire person transforming into a blurry afterimage flying backward faster than she had arrived!
She smashed hard into the basin edge mountain wall hundreds of feet away, deeply embedded into it, with rubble from the mountain wall clattering down.
The purple-gold halo completely dissipated.
Revealing the existence within.
It was a monster, a majestic lion seemingly carved from perfect purple-gold crystal, yet larger and more imposing than any lion! Its entire body flowed with liquid treasure light, its lines full of power and wild beauty. Its massive head was slightly raised, its eye sockets containing two leaping purple-gold flames like concentrated stars, coldly gazing down at the devastated basin.
It didn't even glance at Hua Jin the True One embedded in the mountain wall, her fate unknown.
The head made of refined marrow slightly turned, opening its enormous mouth.
It gently inhaled toward the nearest premium Celestial Jade Marrow floating in the air.
Whoosh!
That marrow containing vast amounts of refined Spiritual Energy, completely unable to resist, transformed into a stream of light and vanished into its magnificent purple-gold mouth.
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Chapter 684: Appearance of a Strange Beast
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