An enormous blue-green flying sword hovered in the air, Sword Qi surging from it as it instantly pierced layer upon layer of clouds and soared skyward.
Its light stretched like a rainbow, sweeping away the gloom above the Great Marsh.
Jiang Yuechu stood atop the blade.
She lowered her eyes slightly, silently surveying the mountains and waterways racing backward beneath her feet.
The Fifty-Thousand-Li Great Marsh truly lived up to its name.
As far as the eye could see, misty waters stretched into infinity, water and sky blending into one.
Islands scattered like stars across a chessboard dotted the blue waves like emeralds.
Occasionally, an enormous softshell turtle surfaced, like a mountain spanning a river; now and then, birds swept past, like clouds hanging from the heavens.
Without these people from the Jieqing Sect leading the way, she would probably have lost her bearings on the spot if she had wandered blindly through these boundless waters alone, with no telling when she might ever find her way out.
Jiang Yuechu silently withdrew her gaze and, with a slight stir of her mind, summoned the panel within her head.
Lines of text appeared before her eyes.
[Available Demon Forms: Guanlan Immortal Lord, Blackwater Immortal Lord, Jade-Armored Giant Crab, Red-Tailed Water Ape...]
Aside from Guanlan Immortal Lord and Blackwater Immortal Lord, those two mighty demons at the five- or six-stone Chessmaster level, the other three or four were all demon generals with one- or two-stone Chessmaster cultivation.
Reconstructing all these Demon Forms had cost her over eight million years of Dao Cultivation.
Jiang Yuechu's expression remained unruffled as she looked at the sharply diminished Dao Cultivation balance on the panel.
What was the point of earning Dao Cultivation... if not to spend it?
*If I hoarded it like a miser