The Jia Wood Sword Qi, like an Azure Dragon, rampaged back and forth through Anvil Gorge. Seeing the Demon Monks emerge from their cave abode, it pounced at them.
With his cave abode destroyed, Monk Weeping Wind was naturally furious. Seeing the Sword Qi entangle him, he swept his sleeve, and fierce winds immediately rose through the gorge, with ghosts wailing and wolves howling.
Where the gale struck the rocks, they swiftly turned gray-white, crumbling into shards and dust. The mountain moss in the cracks of the cliff also swiftly withered in the wind,
turning to flying ash.
The Azure Dragon Sword Qi bore the brunt of it and was instantly blown back dozens of yards.
Monk Weeping Wind snorted coldly, paid it no further attention, and flew toward Cheng Xinzhan again.
But the Demon Monks had underestimated this strand of Sword Qi, nurtured within the Azure Pivot Sword for over twenty years. Its element was Jia Wood, governing burgeoning vitality; Declining Wind could not blow it away so easily.
The Azure Dragon Sword Qi retreated without dispersing and soon checked its retreat. Raising its head and swinging its tail again, it charged into the gale toward Monk Weeping Wind. Wherever it passed, fresh leaves sprouted from the withered moss.
After seeing the power of the Declining Wind unleashed by Monk Weeping Wind's casual sweep, Cheng Xinzhan was quite startled. Now, seeing the Demon Fiend charging toward him, he exercised the utmost caution and advanced with the Azure Pivot Sword in hand.
Though he advanced, he did not close in. When he was roughly thirty feet from Monk Weeping Wind, he struck again, slashing diagonally from upper right to lower left.
The Sword Qi, like a green rainbow shaped into a crescent moon, slashed toward Monk Weeping Wind.
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