"Y-you, don't come any closer!"
Watching Lu Yang stride toward her, Chong Ling's face filled with alarm and fury. Recalling the fearsome reputation of "Yuantu," she could not help but clamp her legs together.
Yet Lu Yang had no intention of wasting words on her.
With a hand seal and a pointed finger, the Calamity Waves behind him immediately transformed into a blazing Sword Light that shot forth, cleaving straight toward the dragon maiden.
Gritting her teeth, Chong Ling reverted to human form. Her true form was simply too enormous—a perfect target for a Flying Sword. She then produced a pearl and raised it above her head. Countless rays of moonlight descended from it, like a canopy that firmly shielded her beneath it.
This treasure was called the Moon Tassel Pearl, a gift from Tian Qiu.
The countless rays of moonlight upon the pearl appeared thin and insubstantial, yet they were in truth as impregnable as a fortress of gold and iron. For a moment, they actually withstood the cleaving strike of the Calamity Waves, sparks scattering in all directions.
Chong Ling froze for a moment before joy appeared on her face. "So that's it—you can't strike a second sword!"
She had been scared out of her wits just now, thinking every one of Lu Yang's swords possessed such power. She had nearly believed that a Great True Person of the Sacred Sect stood before her!
Lu Yang merely gave a cold smile. That strike had indeed not been casual. He had used Proclaiming Might, the fourth wonder of the Calamity Waves, bolstered by his immense dharma power, and only released it after accumulating force for quite some time. It truly could not be replicated again in the short term.
But so what?
"Do you really think I need that