Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

What is a duel between sword cultivators like? To be honest, among the three present, only the assassin from the Blood Transformation Pavilion knew. As for Gao Zhun, who was also a sword cultivator, he simply didn't want Ah Zhong to get involved.

Gao Zhun's "Azure Glazed Sword Technique" had already been mastered without him realizing it, but he had never had the opportunity to use it. This technique, which was basically popular in the Gao family, was not a common skill. According to its grade, it was the highest-grade Heaven-rank sword technique among the four ranks of Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow, and he was not afraid that outsiders would learn it.

Because the founder of this sword technique was the first head of the Gao family, this sword technique was tailor-made according to the characteristics of the Gao family's bloodline inheritance. In the outer sect, people generally use the proficiency in this sword technique to estimate whether the offspring of the outer sect are qualified to enter the direct line. This is entirely because only those with sufficient talent can achieve something in this sword technique.

However, Gao Zhun was not that foolish. Although sword cultivators roam the world with a sword, ordinary sword cultivators have a fatal weakness - high attack but low defense. If we were to describe it in the terms of online games, the sword cultivators of the Immortal Spirit Continent would be a violent DPS with high attack and low defense.

However, that refers to ordinary sword cultivators, and even all the sword cultivators in the Gao family. Because the skill points for bloodline talent are allocated to the soul, there are many who lack physical strength. But this certainly does not include Gao Zhun, who possesses the Purple Night Thunder Spirit Body. Therefore, when she signaled Ah Zhong with her eyes not to interfere, she pushed her true essence to its limit, making the lightning shield around her body even more solid.

Facing an assassin who was a sword cultivator, Gao Zhun believed she had been cautious enough. She did not rely too much on her lightning shield just because it easily blocked the Blood-Transforming Divine Dart thrown by the opponent. After all, the Blood-Transforming Divine Dart was a deadly assassination weapon because of its extremely fast speed, which could catch the opponent off guard. In reality, the attack power of the Blood-Transforming Divine Dart was not great and could not be compared with a sword cultivator's ultimate move.

As soon as they clashed, both Gao Zhun and the assassin were aiming for a quick victory. As Nascent Soul cultivators, they had officially stepped into the threshold of immortal cultivation and were indeed able to communicate with some of the Yuan energy of heaven and earth. It was also obvious that communicating with the Yuan energy of heaven and earth was extremely costly before the true essence in their bodies had completely transformed into Yuan energy. Therefore, the fighting time between cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage and below the Integration stage usually did not exceed a quarter of an hour.

It is precisely because of this rapid style of combat that the battles between cultivators at this cultivation level are often the most intense and exciting. However, as the only observer, Ah Zhong has no leisure to enjoy or benefit from them.

The air was filled with the sound of clanging swords. In just a short time, Gao Zhun and the assassin's flying swords clashed no less than a hundred times under their respective mental control. Compared to the assassin's ease, Gao Zhun used all his strength in every strike. If Gao Zhun continued to fight like this, she would definitely be the first to exhaust her true energy and be defeated.

But did she have any other choice? Gao Zhun was merely a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages, facing a Nascent Soul cultivator at the late-stage peak, several minor levels below her. She had no choice but to fight with all her might to secure a chance of survival. If she hadn't gone all out with every attack, she would have been completely suppressed by now, and the chances and time of her defeat would have been greatly increased and shortened.

The situation was not optimistic. Outside the battle, Ah Zhong looked solemnly at the two people fighting in the air. Inside the battle, Gao Zhun's desperate resistance also made the assassin frown. He never expected that a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, even if he used all his strength in every attack, should not be his opponent.

The assassin frowned, his already palpable aura of killing intent intensifying. He deflected a sword flower attack from Gao Zhun with a single strike, but his unease grew stronger. There must be something he had overlooked, but what was it?

If Gao Zhun could know what the assassin was thinking, he would definitely laugh out loud. This assassin seemed to take her lightly because she was just a kid who had just formed his Nascent Soul. It seemed that she hadn't been serious when looking at the information about her. Otherwise, it would be obvious how she could always release the exact amount of true energy and strike the weakest point of the opponent's sword technique.

It's all because she still has a pair of eyes that can see through all illusions in this world.

Although claiming to have seen through everything in the world is obviously presumptuous, it is true that her ability to see through illusions is invariably successful unless there are special circumstances. And at this moment, it is clearly not a special circumstance.

At the same time, she had to circulate her true essence to reinforce the lightning shield around her body to defend against attacks from assassins, maintain the combat effectiveness of the Azure Light Sword, and keep the Eye of Truth running. Such a multitasking situation was something she had only rarely encountered, even in the most dangerous secret realm within her family. After maintaining this for less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Gao Zhun began to feel somewhat overwhelmed. However, she simply smiled coldly and immediately took out a bottle of spiritual wine from her storage ring that could quickly replenish a cultivator's true essence. She gulped down a large mouthful, and her internal cultivation technique began to operate on its own due to the sudden surge of rich true essence within her body. This was the first time Gao Zhun had encountered such a situation. If she weren't currently fighting an enemy, she would have liked to immediately sit down cross-legged and go into seclusion to refine the true essence within her body.

"It's actually a spirit wine that can directly replenish true essence. No wonder it belongs to the largest family—the Gao family." The assassin said mockingly, and his gaze toward Gao Zhun, besides being cold, finally showed another emotion—fanatical.

Gao Zhun had no idea that a single bottle of spirit wine, which she had stored in her storage ring and was now filled with countless treasures from the entire Inheritance Hall, could make an assassin so envious. It wasn't until she faced the assassin's frenzied attack that she realized what was happening.

"What triggered this assassin?" Ah Zhong watched as the assassin grew stronger with each battle, and he tightened his grip on his halberd. He was ready to strike when Gao Zhun showed signs of defeat.

With a side somersault, Gao Zhun dodged the assassin's ferocious sword strikes and energy in a contorted posture that even acrobats on Earth couldn't achieve. The panic in his heart was no longer as great as when he first encountered this formidable opponent.

As the old saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated." The ancients were right. When Gao Zhun first saw that she was going to face this powerful enemy, she was extremely flustered. It was the fear brought by the unknown. But the more she fought with the assassin, the weaker her fear became. Her chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down. On the other hand, her opponent's seemingly powerful and unrestrained attacks were actually disrupted after he saw that she had drunk the spiritual wine. His flaws gradually became more and more apparent.

Gao Zhun frowned slightly. Both the assassin and Ah Zhong thought she was at her limit and would soon be defeated. Little did they know that she was already dizzy from the numerous flaws in the assassin's body, and she was wondering where to start.

In a short while, Gao Zhun made a decision. She secretly gathered the true energy in her body into the meridians of her right arm. Fortunately, no meridians in her right arm floated to the surface of her body and throbbed. Such a scene was too disgusting, and she did not want such a thing to happen to her, who had been a woman for two lifetimes.

What Gao Zhun was preparing was naturally the sword move she had just comprehended—Azure Eye Storm. This was the first time she had used this sword move after successfully condensing her Nascent Soul and transforming the spiritual energy in her body into true essence. She didn't know how powerful the storm composed of true essence would be when it was input into the Azure Light Sword, but it was definitely more powerful than spiritual energy.

Amidst her racing thoughts, Gao Zhun channeled the storm of true essence into her Azure Light Sword. The subsequent changes surprised even Gao Zhun, the caster. The power of this Azure Eye Storm had become so immense, far exceeding her expectations.

In Gao Zhun's subconscious, a move like the Azure Storm was essential for group attacks. So when she faced off against the assassin, she didn't immediately think of using this move. Instead, she focused on exploiting the numerous weaknesses in her opponent's defenses, not wanting to miss any of them, which led her to come up with this group attack sword move.

However, Gao Zhun watched as the true essence left her body, and what was originally just a storm in her meridians had now turned into a hurricane. The hurricane howled and swirled as it rushed toward the assassin from the Blood Transformation Pavilion along with the Azure Light Sword she controlled.

"This hurricane..." Finally, a look of fear, unfamiliar even to himself, appeared in the assassin's eyes. He no longer cared about his mission to assassinate Gao Zhun. If he was not mistaken, if he were caught in this hurricane, even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator like himself would be torn apart by the immense power within the eye of the hurricane without hesitation. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would not be able to avoid it.

"Heh, do you think you can still escape?" Gao Zhun sneered. She put on the immortal artifact she had used to disguise herself as a Mahayana cultivator, using the high-level pressure of a Mahayana cultivator to freeze the assassin's fleeing figure. Sure enough, after this move was revealed, the assassin's face showed even more fear, and he looked at her as if he were looking at a monster.

After mastering the "Azure Glazed Sword Technique," Gao Zhun was able to wield the sword with complete freedom, as the hurricane on the Azure Glazed Sword would take some time to dissipate. So, she stopped worrying and turned her attention to the assassins.

"Answer me one question, and I'll spare your life, how about that?" Gao Zhun still couldn't forget the mysterious person in the Gao family who constantly wanted her dead. If she could find out that person's identity, she wouldn't mind letting this assassin go. (166 Reading Network)