Plot Reversal, Sword Bone Dug Out Alive!

"Ye Chen, that battle isn't over yet. Again!" Qin Luo shouted at Ye Chen, Sword Qi swirling around him with a razor-sharp edge.

Fang Xing gave Qin Luo a pointed look. He had never expected this Ninth Prince, who had been left to drift outside, to possess such powerful Sword Force.

"Looks like the Imperial Capital is about to become even livelier," Fang Xing muttered inwardly.

"Hm?" The woman's displeased voice resounded in everyone's minds. Even the Taixu Ancestor's body swayed slightly.

He sent a voice transmission, asking, "Changhe, what is that woman's background?"

Liu Changhe was equally bewildered. How could he possibly know the woman's origins?

He had thought Ye Chen was merely an ordinary genius. Who would have expected such a powerful soul to be teaching him from behind the scenes?

"I don't know."

The woman's gaze fell upon Qin Luo. "Junior, do you know the consequences of refusing me?"

Qin Luo sneered. "What? You've already been beaten into a soul body, yet you still have the nerve to swagger?"

The instant those words left his mouth, towering fury shot from the woman's body straight into the skies.

This was the biggest thorn in her heart. Qin Luo was exposing her sore spot!

"Today, I'll teach you a lesson and let you know just how high the heavens are!"

Boom! She stepped forward, and scorching flames swept toward Qin Luo. Fang Xing took one step out and blocked her path, staring at the woman as he said in a grave voice, "No matter where you come from, don't even think of harming a prince of my Great Qin Dynasty before my eyes!"

The woman sneered disdainfully. "The Great Qin Dynasty, what imposing prestige! Hehe..."

Qin Luo could tell that the woman held the Great Qin Dynasty in some contempt, but no matter what her former status had been, she was now a tiger stranded on the plains!

"Marquis of the Four Regions, with the Taixu Bell added in, can you suppress that woman?" Qin Luo asked.

Fang Xing glanced at the Taixu Bell under Qin Luo's control and nodded almost imperceptibly.

"Good!" Qin Luo tossed the Taixu Bell to Fang Xing. Then, sword in hand, he charged straight at Ye Chen.

"Ye Chen, today I'll tear off that mask of false benevolence!"

As he advanced, the sword techniques in Qin Luo's hand began to shift. A blue-green gleam flashed—this was the Four Symbols Wood of the Four Symbols Sword Technique.

Wood Binding a Thousand Mountains!

Wood Binding a Thousand Mountains was an especially troublesome sword move. With one slash from Qin Luo, streams of Sword Qi, thin as threads, whistled toward Ye Chen.

Ye Chen's expression changed at once. As one with an Innate Sword Bone, he naturally sensed the power of this sword move.

"Perfection? It's Perfection again!" Ye Chen was utterly horrified, and at that moment, he wanted to call for his master to save him.

But his master tossed him only one sentence. "Deal with Qin Luo first. Let me drive back this Marquis of the Four Regions from the Great Qin Dynasty before anything else!"

Xi Huang had originally believed she could suppress Fang Xing, but after sensing the aura Fang Xing released, she became uncertain.

Moreover, Qin Luo had handed the Taixu Bell to Fang Xing, making her heart sink.

She knew perfectly well what the Taixu Bell could do. The Taixu Bell dealt greater damage to souls than to flesh.

With no master to rely on, Ye Chen could only depend on himself.

"I, Ye Chen, possess such heaven-defying talent. Could I really fear a mere Qin Luo?"

Wandering Dragon Step!

Ye Chen's body moved, swiftly unleashing the Wandering Dragon Step, fluid as a soaring dragon, intending to evade Qin Luo's vine-like entangling sword move.

Yet he had not expected Qin Luo's swordsmanship to be so bizarre and tightly woven. The sword move seemed to foresee his every action, making it difficult for him to break free from those invisible restraints even with a movement technique like a dragon's.

Qin Luo sneered. "The gap in cultivation, combined with my Four Symbols Sword Technique at the Perfection Realm—did you think you could dodge it?"

He had read countless novels. In those novels, many protagonists were beaten into dogs at the start, only to turn the tide against the wind in the end.

And what was Ye Chen's trump card? Wasn't it that soul body?

In cultivation, Ye Chen was inferior to him. In comprehension and control of sword techniques, Ye Chen was also inferior to him.

In short, he possessed the strength to crush Ye Chen.

As the thread-like Sword Qi rushed toward him, Ye Chen's expression turned ugly, but he did not fall into despair. He still had methods left.

Mirror Flower, Water Moon!

Boom! Ye Chen's body was shredded by Sword Qi, like a reflection in one's hand, while the real Ye Chen appeared in another direction.

He moved with flying strides, fleeing into the distance as he tried to hide among the crowd.

"Fine technique!" Qin Luo praised.

But trying to leave? It would not be that easy!

He leaped forth and landed before Ye Chen. Wood Binding a Thousand Mountains was unleashed again—he simply would not let Ye Chen leave!

"Get lost!" Ye Chen roared, unleashing an extremely powerful sword move of his own.

Boom! Like scorching flames, it surged straight at Qin Luo and immediately blocked Qin Luo's sword move.

When Lin Ruoxuan saw that sword move, she immediately blurted out, "This is... Nine Heavens Fire Dance!"

"Nine Heavens Fire Dance at the Greater Mastery Realm!"

Forced into a dead end, Ye Chen could no longer care about so much. Exposure was better than leaving his life here.

Besides, he had already thought of an excuse for how to brush off the Sacred Lord and the others.

But the very next moment...

A bell rang out. Fang Xing, who had been battling Xi Huang, struck the Taixu Bell. Xi Huang suffered a soul impact, causing her soul, which she had only recently managed to stabilize, to tremble violently again.

She was a decisive person. Her first move was to summon the Taixu Bell!

Inside Ye Chen's ring, the damaged Taixu Bell sensed the summons and broke through space, flying out and landing in Xi Huang's hands, just in time to block Fang Xing's next wave of attacks.

"The Taixu Bell—this is our Taixu Bell!"

The people of Taixu Sacred Land were all numb!

How had things reversed so drastically? Weren't the witnesses and physical evidence all right there?

How could reality be so surreal?

Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat. He knew he could not explain this away.

Bang! A tremendous roar erupted. The damaged Taixu Bell naturally could not compare to the intact Taixu Bell. As the two collided, massive shockwaves spread in all directions.

[Ye Chen's mentality has collapsed. His master actually betrayed him. He loses 5000 Fortune Points. Host gains 5000 Villain Points.]

Strike while you're sick, take your life!

Rainfall Without End! The sky seemed to be torn open with one rift after another, and dense rain-like sword strikes poured down like a cascading Milky Way, peerlessly sharp, shrouding the surrounding space in a field of killing intent.

"You're not good enough!" One-Second Suppression!

Qin Luo stared at Ye Chen before him, his eyes blazing with fervor.

He recalled a familiar trope from the novels.

Digging out bones!

Today, he too would dig out a bone!

Qin Luo ruthlessly employed his methods, driving the blade in his hand deep into Ye Chen's body and forcefully excavating the Sword Bone hidden within. Ye Chen's body trembled violently, his face white as paper, veins bulging across his forehead as agony wracked him.

A shrill, despairing howl burst from Ye Chen's throat. It was like the wail of a wild beast in the dead of night, filled with endless pain and struggle.

"Master! Save me!" Ye Chen shouted, but it could not change his fate. A bone radiating dense Sword Qi was dug out by Qin Luo.

[Ye Chen's Sword Bone has been dug out. He loses 200000 Fortune Points. Host gains 200000 Villain Points.]