This immortal was clearly ordinary, yet he was unusually confident.

Faced with Jiang Nishang's attack, Zheng Zhuang remained calm and even took a few glances at her with great interest.

Jiang Nishang's current form is somewhat of a stretch to call her a dragon; her dragon horns have not yet fully molted, but she has basically broken free from the category of snake.

Zheng Zhuang's eyes lit up; this was a new species he had never seen in his previous life!

Suddenly, a question arose involuntarily in his mind: Where did her clothes go?

Was it shattered at the moment of transformation, or did she store it away beforehand?

If it's the latter, then wouldn't she have been stripped naked beforehand?

No wonder it summoned a huge cloud!

Zheng Zhuang suddenly had a brilliant idea: if he encountered such an opponent again in the future, he only needed to blow away the dark clouds at the crucial moment, which would surely throw the opponent into chaos...

Seeing that Zheng Zhuang neither dodged nor avoided her, Jiang Nishang was filled with resentment but had not lost her mind. However, after feeling Zheng Zhuang's slightly frivolous gaze, she became furious and sped up.

"Looks like I'll have to show some real skills!"

Zheng Zhuang pondered to himself that he would like to transform himself, like Ultraman or something, but he couldn't, he really didn't know how.

As the dragon that Jiang Nishang had transformed into drew closer, Zheng Zhuang had a sudden inspiration and shouted:

"The Ten Directions Ascending Dragon Path!"

As soon as he finished speaking, ten water dragons, just like before, rose directly from the Qujiang River, baring their teeth and lunging at Jiang Nishang.

This move was incredibly powerful, and Jiang Nishang couldn't help but be slightly startled. However, she immediately revealed a contemptuous smile. After revealing her true form, her strength increased significantly, and her physical power was many times stronger than when she was in human form.

She showed no intention of dodging; instead, she charged headlong into the water dragon.

"boom!"

A water dragon was suddenly smashed into pieces by her, turning into rainwater that fell into the river.

Then she did the same thing, rampaging through everything in her path and smashing all the remaining water dragons to pieces!

After breaking the water dragon in Zhengzhuang, she seized the opportunity to attack, wielding her dragon claws as she charged towards Zhengzhuang.

But just as she was about to strike Zheng Zhuang, her expression suddenly changed, because a binding force suddenly appeared between heaven and earth, and her body seemed to rust, and her dragon claws could no longer move forward even an inch.

Then she saw a flying sword that shone with seven-colored light slowly emerge in Zheng Zhuang's hand. The light kept changing and was very beautiful, but the blade of the sword exuded an indescribable chill.

Zheng Zhuang, wielding the "Heavenly Beauty Sword," thrust it straight at Jiang Nishang.

Jiang Nishang sensed the sharp sword energy contained in the blade and knew that being hit by this sword would mean certain death or serious injury. She subconsciously wanted to dodge, but she was powerless to resist and could only watch helplessly as the flying sword approached her.

This sword strike seemed slow, yet it also seemed incredibly fast, as if it transcended time and space, leaving the user with no way to avoid it.

It was the same move Zheng Zhuang used against the Black Fox in the ancient tomb:

"Sword Twenty-Three!"

"Are you going to die?"

A complex expression flashed in Jiang Nishang's eyes, containing doubt, resentment, bitterness, and also a sense of relief...

I may never see Tianbao again, but that's for the best!

Tianbao will no longer die because of me. Perhaps in his next life he will meet a gentle and virtuous woman who will live a peaceful and stable life with him.

"Farewell, Tianbao."

Jiang Nishang gave up struggling and slowly closed her eyes.

Although "Sword Twenty-Three" can deceive the senses and give people a sense of inescapability, it was only something Zheng Zhuang had figured out unintentionally not long ago, and the attack power of the sword move is not as high as imagined.

As long as Jiang Nishang, in her dragon form, defends with all her might, this move will at most injure her.

Zheng Zhuang hadn't intended to take her life, but he hadn't expected her to give up so easily. By then, it was too late for him to sheathe his sword.

Just then, a layer of earth-yellow light suddenly appeared around Jiang Nishang. Zheng Zhuang looked closely and realized that it was actually a huge tortoise shell.

The tortoise shell shimmers with mysterious patterns, giving it an impression of being indestructible.

Zheng Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief. With the tortoise shell blocking the way, this sword strike should not hurt Jiang Nishang.

But to his surprise, Jiang Nishang, who had been encased in the tortoise shell, regained her mobility and suddenly poked her head out, excitedly saying:

"Tianbao, is that you?"

Her movement caused her to crash directly into Zheng Zhuang's flying sword.

Zheng Zhuang quickly withdrew most of his strength and shifted upwards by two inches at the last second, but still couldn't completely avoid it.

The Heavenly Beauty Sword was incredibly sharp; with just one touch, Jiang Nishang's dragon horn snapped off...

Jiang Nishang couldn't help but let out a painful groan, but she completely ignored her injuries, simply resting her head on the tortoise shell and saying affectionately:

"Tianbao, you saved me again, why are you so foolish?"

Zheng Zhuang silently sheathed his flying sword, watched the tortoise shell gradually dim, and sighed softly:

"What is love in this world? It makes people pledge to each other for life and death."

Zheng Zhuang sensed a faint soul within the tortoise shell. He realized that Sun Tianbao had paid a heavy price to teleport and block the sword, and was now at his last gasp.

Zheng Zhuang's deduction was correct. Although Sun Tianbao's soul was also connected to the Qujiang River veins and could be considered half a Qujiang River God, he was, after all, just a soul. In order to summon the tortoise shell, he did not hesitate to burn his soul.

If his soul were intact, Sun Tianbao could still be reincarnated, but in his current state, he will likely not escape the fate of his soul being scattered.

"Because I once said that I would protect you for the rest of my life."

A faint shadow slowly emerged from the tortoise shell, as if it would disappear at any moment, but it still smiled and looked at Jiang Nishang with tenderness in its eyes.

Jiang Nishang, looking at the increasingly dim phantom, cried out with tears streaming down her face:

"No! I don't want you to die! You said we'd be together forever!"

Jiang Nishang cried as she channeled her magic power, frantically pouring it into the tortoise shell.

Sun Tianbao shook his head: "Fool, don't waste your energy, it's useless."

"Don't go! Don't go!"

Jiang Nishang coughed up a mouthful of blood. Her dragon horns had been severed, and she was already severely injured, but she still recklessly poured her magic power into the tortoise shell.

Zheng Zhuang looked at the devoted lovers, sighed again, and gritted his teeth:

"I can't take it anymore, let's try anything, even if it's a dead end!"

A wisp of primordial yellow energy suddenly appeared at his fingertips, and his gaze sharpened as he said:

"Tang!"

In an instant, the primordial energy transformed into a thin thread, directly binding Sun Tianbao's soul.

"What are you trying to do?" Jiang Nishang shouted angrily.

Zheng Zhuang ignored him and instead manipulated the other end of the thin thread to wrap around Jiang Nishang.

Jiang Nishang wanted to dodge, but she was powerless and could only let the thin threads wrap around her body.

After the thin thread bound the two together, Zheng Zhuang clasped his hands together, solemnly uttering a single word:

"Knot!"

The two ends of the thin thread instantly became tangled together and then tied into a knot.

After completing this step, Zheng Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief, and the thin line gradually faded away.

Just as Jiang Nishang was about to speak, a strange feeling suddenly arose in her heart, as if she and Sun Tianbao had become one...