Chapter 21: The Xuanyuan Sword Emerges, Mountains and Rivers Shatter!
"Is this a Martial Soul?!"
Looking up at the Xuanyuan Sword suspended in mid-air, Hu Liena was stunned!
Su Yuntao had once told her that Zhou Chen's Martial Soul was a mysterious golden humanoid figure.
But now, what appeared before her was a simple and ancient golden longsword!
Twin Martial Souls!
Zhou Chen was actually like her teacher, Bibi Dong, possessing Twin Martial Souls that were rarely seen in a hundred years!
No wonder his innate Soul Power was so strong!
Just like Hu Liena, all the men in black were equally sluggish.
As the Secret Guards of the Star Luo Empire imperial family, they had executed unknown numbers of missions and had long since become cold-blooded and ruthless, with hearts as hard as iron.
However, looking at this golden ancient sword that was as dazzling as the sun, for some unknown reason, they were like mice meeting a cat, feeling abnormally terrified and fearful.
Some of the weak-willed men in black even began to slowly retreat!
What they did not know was that the reason they were like this was entirely because of the might of the Holy Dao contained within the Xuanyuan Sword!
The might of the Holy Dao could deter all evil influences!
"Do not retreat!"
"Stabilize your minds, this sword is strange!"
"Everyone attack immediately! Do not be afraid! No matter how strong his Martial Soul is, he is just a child!"
The leader of the men in black shouted repeatedly, finally causing these dozens of men in black to wake as if from a dream and attack Zhou Chen madly once again!
The leader of the men in black even activated five Soul Skills at once!
He had a premonition that if this strike did not kill Zhou Chen, then today, they would all die here!
"Boom boom boom—"
Soul Skills containing terrifying energy attacked overwhelmingly, beating the golden pillar of light protecting Zhou Chen and Hu Liena until it was crumbling.
Facing such a dangerous situation, Hu Liena's face could not help but turn pale, while Zhou Chen remained unmoved, even closing his eyes.
It was not that Zhou Chen was truly calm and composed, nor was he preparing some ultimate move, but rather that at this moment, he simply could not control the Xuanyuan Sword, so he was asking the System.
"System, why can't I use this sword?" Zhou Chen asked urgently, his heart burning with anxiety.
"Ding... The Xuanyuan Sword is the personal sword of the Yellow Emperor, so naturally only the Yellow Emperor can use it."
"Understood."
Hearing the System's words, Zhou Chen instantly understood.
The System's meaning was very obvious. This Xuanyuan Sword should be an auxiliary Martial Soul to the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor Martial Soul. Only by coordinating with the main Martial Soul could it display its true power!
Therefore, it was necessary for him to summon his Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor Martial Soul to control the Xuanyuan Sword!
"Martial Soul Possession!"
Zhou Chen suddenly opened his eyes. In the next instant, a golden giant several zhang tall suddenly appeared behind him!
This giant wore a twelve-tasseled jade crown and was dressed in an apricot-yellow gilded imperial robe. Beside him, there were phantom images of mountains, rivers, grass, trees, the sun, the moon, and the stars!
"Buzz!"
As soon as the golden giant appeared, the Xuanyuan Sword continuously emitted joyful sword hums. In the next second, this Sword of the Holy Dao shot out and landed in Zhou Chen's hand!
"Boom crackle—"
And the moment Zhou Chen gripped the Xuanyuan Sword, streaks of golden lightning instantly tore through the sky, illuminating the dark night as if it were day!
The golden lightning was like a signal. In the next second, endless energy seemed to receive a summons, surging toward the Xuanyuan Sword together like the torrential Yangtze River!
In just an instant, countless amounts of massive energy gathered within the Xuanyuan Sword!
At the same time, seven words also appeared in Zhou Chen's mind.
These seven words represented the sword technique of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and were also the exclusive Soul Skill of the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul!
"The Xuanyuan Sword emerges, mountains and rivers shatter!"
A dream-like low chanting sound rang out. In the next moment, Zhou Chen held the Xuanyuan Sword high, and then, with the speed of lightning, he flipped his hand and thrust the sword into the ground!
"Boom!!"
In an instant, the entire earth began to tremble. With Zhou Chen as the center, spiderweb-like cracks were densely packed, instantly spreading in all directions!
And this was merely the beginning!
In the next second, the Xuanyuan Sword erupted with intense golden light. This light was only a dot at first, then immediately began to expand, turning into a huge ball of light in a short time, just like the sun, causing the stars to fade and the bright moon to dim!
In the blink of an eye, the intense high temperature and radiant heat submerged everything within a thousand meters!
The soil was dried up, rocks were melted, and trees were decomposed. Apart from Hu Liena, whom Zhou Chen had asked the System to deliberately protect, everything on the ground was vanishing.
As for those men in black, the vast majority were turned into nothingness by the intense light and heat right at the start. Only two Soul Kings above level 50, and the leader of the men in black whose strength reached that of a level 62 Soul Emperor, were still struggling to hold on.
However, in just a few seconds, those two Soul Kings were burned completely away, dying without even dregs remaining. This scene frightened the leader of the men in black into having to use his final trump card!
"Sixth Soul Skill—White Tiger Vajra Transformation!"
At this moment, the clothes of the leader of the men in black had already been completely burned away by the intense light and heat, and even his skin was severely burned. However, when he used his Sixth Soul Skill, everything reversed!
His originally burned skin instantly recovered, and black horizontal stripes appeared on it, exactly the same as tiger skin. His body also expanded again, his muscles bulging exaggeratedly, and his whole person almost reached three meters in size!
The most peculiar thing was that his whole person was shrouded in a layer of strong golden light, as if his body surface was plated with gold!
"Kid, want to kill me? Keep dreaming!"
Seeing himself recover, the leader of the men in black instantly felt a surge of heroic spirit. He actually thought he could turn the tables and kill, so braving the intense light and heat released by the Xuanyuan Sword, he rushed towards Zhou Chen!
Unfortunately, three seconds later, he also turned into ashes.
The Star Luo Empire Imperial Secret Guards, annihilated!
An unknown amount of time passed before that intense light and heat, as well as the violent trembling on the earth, finally dissipated.
A scene like a hellish apocalypse was finally revealed!
Within a radius of a thousand meters, everything on the ground no longer existed. The soil was scorched into glass-like crystals, and the river not far away was steamed dry! The earth was completely shattered!
Huge cracks hundreds of meters long and bottomless could be seen everywhere, and streams of crimson magma were surging out from the scorching underground!
Hu Liena stared blankly at all this, her bloodless lips trembling, unable to say a single word. Her gaze looking at Zhou Chen was filled with even more horror.
"The Xuanyuan Sword emerges, mountains and rivers shatter."
Hu Liena repeated these seven words Zhou Chen had just said in a low voice, one word at a time.
She originally thought this was just exaggerated rhetoric, but she never expected that the mountains and rivers really shattered!
(End of this chapter)
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