Deep in the mountains of Luoshan Commandery, Ice Province, seven thousand li north of the Ironwall Mountains.
Chu Ming flickered through the mountain forest. Saber astral force spilled from her body, sweeping away every blade of grass and tree within ten li along her path and shaking them to dust.
An instant later, the target locked in her awareness had nowhere left to flee once the vegetation concealing it was gone.
It suddenly let out a furious roar and lunged at Chu Ming.
It was a lower second-rank Red-Eyed Saber Mantis. Like a fleeting shadow, it abruptly crossed three hundred zhang and appeared before Chu Ming.
Its incomparably sharp saber arms completely transcended the concepts of temporal sequence and the Grand Void.
But at that moment, sheets of mirrorlike saber light also flashed before Chu Ming.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Of the three hundred-odd slashes the Red-Eyed Saber Mantis unleashed in a tenth of a breath, Chu Ming reflected nearly seventy percent, instead slicing both the mantis and the void around it into over a thousand pieces.
Watching this second-rank subspecies of divine insect dismembered into tiny fragments, Chu Ming could not help raising the corners of her lips in satisfaction.
The Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber was powerful indeed. Paired with an upper first-rank cultivation body, it was practically unstoppable.
This Red-Eyed Saber Mantis belonged to a close bloodline branch of the divine insect Four-Armed Green Mantis. It was quite troublesome, with exceptional movement arts and extremely high combat strength. Even many figures on the Heavenly Ranking might have been unable to deal with it.
Yet aside from the time she had spent pursuing it, she had finished it off in just a tenth of a breath, over three hundred exchanges.
"Come out."
Chu Ming deftly spun her saber with a dashing