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"Raise the barrier, now!" Chen Zixiu's low command echoed all around.
At his voice, Bo Xian'er, Zhang Xiaofan, and Lu Xueqi moved as one, their figures swift as lightning.
In an instant, brilliant light surged from every direction above the Yin-Yang Two Forms Spring. An ice-blue barrier rose swiftly, enclosing the spring and all the surrounding magic formations.
Around Shen Tianjun, jade-green waves of energy churned like the tide within a ten-foot radius, with shapes like dragons and serpents flickering within them.
Streaks of fierce jade-green sword radiance erupted from the crown of his head and shot straight into the heavens. The ringing of his sword made everyone's eardrums ache.
Suddenly, an even clearer sword howl exploded from deep within his lower soul nest.
Inside the lower soul nest, the three-foot-six-inch Jade-Blood Sword martial soul, which had stood motionless before, began to shimmer with mysterious patterns, like waves rising on an azure sea, their overlapping crests forming intricate designs.
Nine jade-gold talismanic inscriptions lit up one after another along the sword's spine, their dazzling radiance illuminating the entire soul nest as brightly as day.
Under the power of those inscriptions, the once blood-colored sword qi transformed into countless jade-green waves, surging with majestic force.
Shen Tianjun sat upright within the storm of sword qi, his figure appearing and disappearing among the jade-green breakers.
The sword qi surged like dragons, carving deep tidal patterns into the barrier. Like layer upon layer of river tides, it battered the barrier ceaselessly, then formed a spiraling vortex in midair.
Within the vortex, sword qi ran wild, its tremors making the flames of all twelve ever-burning lamps lean eastward. Their light flickered as though they might go out at any moment.
In the hall outside, everyone was still