Mortal Realm Sword Ruins.
A majestic glazed celestial palace hung high among the clouds, auspicious clouds encircling it and ten thousand Daos resonating in harmony. Golden dragons coiled around jade pillars, fiery phoenixes perched on upturned eaves, myriad beasts adorned white jade railings, and glazed tiles shimmered with heavenly light.
A full moon hung high above the celestial palace, its moonlight pure and bright, dreamlike and illusory.
Wisps of supreme yin moonlight spilled over the celestial palace, radiating undulations of an immortal, imperishable presence. Sword cries and celestial music arose in the heart, while rosy light and auspicious colors filled heaven and earth.
This was the Bright Moon Sword Palace!
Han Yuyao gazed at the Bright Moon Sword Palace before her, and the scene of her Supreme Sword Bone being dug out surfaced in her mind. Her gaze grew ever clearer and colder.
After all these years, it was time to collect some interest on the debt of her stolen bone!
Han Yuyao strode forward. With every step she took, the imposing presence radiating from her doubled.
By the time she came within a thousand zhang of the Bright Moon Sword Palace, the imposing presence emanating from her had long since surpassed that of the palace before her!
Sensing the provocation, the Bright Moon Sword Palace erupted with unimaginably terrifying pressure, surging and vast as an ocean, sharp and overbearing as heavenly punishment.
The bright moon high above grew ever more radiant. Hundreds of millions of tiny, moon-white swords emerged within the boundless moonlight it shed, completely obscuring the entire sky and letting not a sliver of daylight through.
The supreme yin eclipsed the sun, moonlight veiled the heavens!
The entire sword palace fully awakened. Sword light burst from banks of auspicious clouds and rosy radiance, and Sword Qi crisscrossed within each glazed tile. Golden dragons roared in fury, fiery phoenixes shrieked, an immortal, imperishable presence surged through the cosmos, and terrifying Sword Intent blotted out the sky and sun.
"What a terrifying Bright Moon Sword Palace!"
The many sword cultivators watching from afar all paled.
This was their first time seeing the Bright Moon Sword Palace awaken. The might it exuded was countless times greater than that of the Void Sword River, leaving them unable even to entertain the thought of resistance!
"Is this the sword Dao comprehended with the help of the Supreme Sword Bone?"
Han Yuyao's gaze grew ever colder and clearer. As her flawless sword heart reflected everything, every change in every strand of Sword Intent within the Bright Moon Sword Palace appeared clearly in her heart.
This Bright Moon Sword Palace contained no fewer than three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight strands of Sword Intent!
The three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight strands of Sword Intent were perfectly fused together. A change in any one strand could trigger changes throughout the entire Bright Moon Sword Palace, making its transformations virtually endless.
Although both were Sword Intent constructs acknowledged by immortal sword intent within the Mortal Realm Sword Ruins, the Bright Moon Sword Palace was countless times more powerful than the Void Sword River!
Han Yuyao took a step through the air. The entire Bright Moon Sword Palace fully awakened, and vast, boundless moonlight of Sword Intent swept toward her, blanketing heaven and earth as though it would annihilate the entire world.
Han Yuyao's gaze remained clear. With effortless sweeps of her hand, all manner of Sword Intent constructs appeared out of thin air around her, transforming and combining with one another before sinking into the boundless Sword Intent before her.
The boundless Sword Intent released by the Bright Moon Sword Palace rapidly collapsed and disintegrated, but new Sword Intent soon formed, refusing to relent until Han Yuyao was dead.
Han Yuyao was in no hurry to unravel the Bright Moon Sword Palace. The speed of her unraveling only just exceeded the speed at which the palace generated Sword Intent, her movements as natural as drifting clouds and flowing water.
She merely wanted to see just how far Han Ziyan's understanding of Mortal Realm Sword Intent had reached after stealing her Supreme Sword Bone.
Seeing this, the many sword cultivators watching from afar thought Han Yuyao had been unable to unravel it despite all this time, and a clamor of comments arose.
"What a terrifying Bright Moon Sword Palace! Even if a Marquis came in person, they'd probably be killed in an instant!"
"The longer this drags on, the stronger the Bright Moon Sword Palace becomes! Fairy Yu is in trouble now!"
"Fairy Yu's momentum in unraveling these constructs is finally going to be checked. Otherwise, I'm afraid every immortal sword intent construct in the Mortal Realm Sword Ruins would suffer!"
"The Cold Moon Holy Maiden possesses two supreme talents, the innate Dao fetus and the Supreme Sword Bone. The Bright Moon Sword Palace she left behind is enough to shine through the ages! I believe in the Cold Moon Holy Maiden!"
"Exactly! Even if Fairy Yu's understanding of the sword Dao is unfathomable, there's no possibility of her unraveling the Bright Moon Sword Palace left by the Cold Moon Holy Maiden!"
"Fairy Yu's pace is neither hurried nor slow, and she shows no sign of panic! Perhaps she's still probing it and hasn't truly begun unraveling it yet!"
"Unlikely!"
Luo Qianqian's expression remained unchanged. She had complete confidence in this Sister Yu.
She could clearly sense how methodically Sister Yu was unraveling it, as though she were deliberately waiting for the many strands of Sword Intent within the Bright Moon Sword Palace to evolve to their utmost.
Sister Yu seemed to be preparing to wait until the Bright Moon Sword Palace's power reached its utmost before unraveling it!
An hour later, the transformations of Sword Intent within the Bright Moon Sword Palace were still unfolding without end.
However, the might radiating from the entire Bright Moon Sword Palace had already reached its limit. No matter how the Sword Intent within it changed, it could not increase in the slightest.
"That's all?"
Han Yuyao shook her head lightly and waited no longer.
With casual sweeps of Han Yuyao's hand, boundless Sword Intent appeared out of thin air. The sun and moon shone together, myriad stars blazed, winds rose and clouds surged, thunder rumbled and swords cried. All things between heaven and earth formed in an instant and sank into the Bright Moon Sword Palace.
Whoosh!
The entire Bright Moon Sword Palace froze in an instant, then vanished silently into the void, as though it had never appeared.
The Bright Moon Sword Palace had been unraveled just like that?
Everyone in the Mortal Realm Sword Ruins was too shocked to speak. The might the Bright Moon Sword Palace had just displayed had resembled a Divine Spirit awakening, yet it had been unraveled in an instant, leaving them all with a dreamlike sense of unreality.
"Heavens! The Bright Moon Sword Palace left by the Cold Moon Holy Maiden has actually been unraveled! This is unbelievable!"
"The Cold Moon Holy Maiden's aptitude is no weaker than that of the heirs to those Great Emperor lineages. I thought this Bright Moon Sword Palace she left behind would endure for ten thousand years. I never imagined it would be unraveled so easily!"
"As expected of a golden age with heavenly prodigies emerging one after another! Fairy Yu's aptitude probably surpasses even the Cold Moon Holy Maiden's!"
"Not necessarily! The Bright Moon Sword Palace was merely a Sword Intent construct the Cold Moon Holy Maiden casually left behind. Unraveling it doesn't mean she could defeat the Cold Moon Holy Maiden at the same cultivation realm!"
"If Fairy Yu left behind a Sword Intent construct, the Cold Moon Holy Maiden might well be able to unravel it!"
"Exactly! When heavenly prodigies contend, aptitude isn't all that matters. There's also fortune, background, bloodline, divine abilities, and more!"
"In a true battle at the same cultivation realm, the Cold Moon Holy Maiden is no weaker than anyone alive today!"
"The Cold Moon Holy Maiden is already an unrivaled Emperor who towers over her generation, while all Fairy Yu has shown is her future potential!"
"Until Fairy Yu reaches the same cultivation realm as the Cold Moon Holy Maiden, she truly isn't qualified to contend with her!"
Luo Qianqian was utterly thrilled. Sister Yu had indeed unraveled Han Ziyan's Bright Moon Sword Palace!
This meant that Sister Yu's attainments in the sword Dao regarding Mortal Realm Sword Intent surpassed even Han Ziyan's!
Having unraveled the Bright Moon Sword Palace, Han Yuyao's comprehension of Sword Intent had reached the peak of the ninth level of the Mortal Realm. She paid no further attention to the other immortal sword intent constructs and quietly closed her eyes where she stood, sorting through the myriad strands of Sword Intent she had mastered.
Her chaos sword physique and flawless sword heart operated simultaneously, and a profound, vast fluctuation of the sword Dao spread around her.