Chapter 56: This Is Just Too Awesome!
Ming Zhaoshuang stared intently at Fushuang, trying to find a way to improve their tacit understanding from his sword moves.
Her mind had never operated at such high speed as it did now.
She was very familiar with Fushuang’s sword moves!
She was extremely familiar with them!
She must have seen them before. Was it Ming Chenxing’s Setting Sun Sword Technique, Wei Xun’s Sky Eagle Sword Technique, or perhaps Ao Tian Sword Technique that Qin Du personally taught her to use?
No! It was neither!
It was the sword technique the System demonstrated before her that time!
Ming Zhaoshuang recalled carefully how the small figure, radiating silver light, used mid Foundation Establishment strength to defeat the mid Golden Core opponent.
She pondered and thought repeatedly.
Finally, Ming Zhaoshuang raised her hand and shouted lightly, “Fushuang!”
The next moment, Fushuang appeared in Ming Zhaoshuang’s palm, terrifyingly hot.
Immediately, everyone found that Ming Zhaoshuang seemed to have transformed.
Holding Fushuang, her swordplay was exquisite, her robes fluttering like a startled swan.
The Flesh-Tearing Beast, which had previously rendered them helpless, bled profusely under Ming Zhaoshuang’s sword, with no power to resist. It struggled a few times, but was restrained by Shen Liqian and the others, forced to passively endure the blows!
One sword! Two swords!
With the last sword, Ming Zhaoshuang gathered all her spiritual energy and plunged it fiercely into the Flesh-Tearing Beast’s neck!
Blood spurted out, splashing onto Ming Zhaoshuang’s face.
Ming Zhaoshuang stepped on the Flesh-Tearing Beast’s chest, pushed back several steps, and then wiped the blood from her face, exhaling heavily.
Shen Liqian and the others were also exhausted, standing or sitting nearby, resting.
Especially Shen Liqian, although Ming Zhaoshuang delivered the final sword strike, she was responsible for the majority of the output.
Her water arrows had shot out a full eight arrows, each hitting the Flesh-Tearing Beast’s vital points, preventing its attack on Ming Zhaoshuang. Otherwise, who knew how many times Ming Zhaoshuang would have died under the beast’s claws.
But to their surprise, this Flesh-Tearing Beast was not dead yet!
It let out a long howl, clutching its throat tightly. The eye it had shot out became increasingly red, filled with anger and madness.
The Flesh-Tearing Beast crawled on the ground with its two hands, charging fiercely towards Ming Zhaoshuang, erupting with thunderous power!
He Qingqing clenched her fists, her delicate brows furrowed, and said, “This is bad! This is the Flesh-Tearing Beast’s berserk state!”
If a Flesh-Tearing Beast dies with hatred and unwillingness, there is a very small chance it will enter a berserk state and kill its enemies fiercely!
This time, Ming Zhaoshuang reacted quickly and raised Fushuang to resist, but her hands went numb from the impact.
Blood instantly trickled from the corner of Ming Zhaoshuang’s mouth!
The others also rushed over quickly, one hand holding a sword, the other casting spells, surrounding the Flesh-Tearing Beast.
A flash of spiritual light shimmered, and sword light was ethereal.
He Qingqing said, “We cannot confront it directly! Flesh-Tearing Beasts are naturally adept at close combat, and in their berserk state, they are even thirty percent stronger than at their peak. We just need to… just need to hold it off for half an hour, and it will naturally become fatigued and only have a dead end.
Hearing He Qingqing’s words, the others could only offer wry smiles.
Hold it off, how could they?
The Flesh-Tearing Beast had already given them great trouble before, and now it was even stronger. Moreover, their spiritual power was almost depleted, and they simply couldn’t resist.
Let alone half an hour, they couldn’t even last for a quarter of an hour.
Shen Liqian’s brows furrowed, her fingers gripping Su Nu Chou tightly.
With her current strength, she could only draw ten arrows.
She had already used eight arrows. The remaining two arrows, although they could inflict great damage on the Flesh-Tearing Beast, would ultimately be futile.
What should she do to protect them?
To protect her friends with the remaining twenty percent of her spiritual power.
The bow and arrow form wouldn’t work; only the Konghou form could.
But how could a Music Cultivator in Konghou form participate in combat?
Music Cultivators, also known as Music Masters, are mainly divided into Music Healers and Music Killers.
The former use music to help teammates heal injuries and restore spiritual power; the latter use music to set up killing formations against enemies and confuse their minds.
If she used the former, she couldn’t stop the Flesh-Tearing Beast; if she used the latter, she couldn’t save Ming Zhaoshuang and the others.
Then there was only…
There was only—Domain Creation!
Shen Liqian caressed Su Nu Chou. Her gaze gradually deepened. The phoenix on her bow seemed to let out a soft cry, leading other spirit tool components to move rapidly, transform, extend, and assemble.
Finally, in the blink of an eye, it formed a brand new spirit tool, a brand new Konghou.
Shen Liqian squatted beside a stone, her jade-like fingers gently stroking the Phoenix God’s Destiny Feather.
Just as everyone was exhausted and could no longer hold on, Shen Liqian’s Konghou music pierced through the layers of trees and sounded in their ears.
In an instant—
The empty mountain condensed clouds, motionless; the river goddess wept by the bamboo, tears like mottled spots.
The Konghou music was extremely light and bright, gently pattering like boundless seawater on a golden beach, or slowly flowing like a gentle, long stream through clear green shade, or slowly shining like warm, bright sunlight on crisp lapis lazuli.
And with the sound of the Konghou, the young men all felt as if their bodies were filled with strength!
Although their spiritual power was not recovering quickly, they just felt lighter in their hands, looser in their legs, and they didn’t feel sore all over.
This was so awesome!
And the berserk Flesh-Tearing Beast’s actions gradually slowed down. Its originally reddish eyes gradually turned white, until they became somewhat dull.
When it looked at Ming Zhaoshuang, although it was still full of hatred, its slow movements no longer posed any threat to Ming Zhaoshuang!
This was Shen Liqian’s Domain Creation!
Domain Creation, as the name suggests, is to use musical sound to create a domain for people within a certain range, adding buffs to some and debuffs to others.
Legend has it that Domain Creation was created by the Music Saint Yiqi Huang and is a unique skill of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea, as well as the strongest cultivation technique in people’s mouths!
Of course, this skill relies heavily on talent. Those with strong talent can achieve its maximum potential with ease, while those with weak talent can’t even achieve one-tenth of it despite their best efforts.
Shen Liqian’s cultivation talent is extremely high; she is even an Innate Spiritually Connected Sacred Body of the Path of Musical Sound.
However, before this, she was completely unable to master the skill of Domain Creation, even though she had spent a lot of time on it.
It was truly strange that a Spiritually Connected Sacred Body of Musical Sound would find this skill so helpless.
She had asked her Honored Master, a Great Expert of the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
She asked him why her technique, effort, and understanding of this cultivation technique were all flawless.
Why couldn’t she strengthen with a raise of her hand, weaken with a wave of her hand, make the entire music field her domain, and control life and death?
At that time, her Honored Master told her: “You are the most talented disciple I have ever seen, but in the Path of Musical Sound, talent alone is not enough for a long journey; emotion is also crucial. Among so many emotions, you specifically lack ‘trust,’ yet Domain Creation relies most crucially on trust. You don’t trust your teammates and dare not bet on others; you only trust yourself.”
“Liqian, you will never learn ‘trust’ in the Path of Domain Creation.”
At this moment, Shen Liqian didn’t know if she had learned the word “trust” her Honored Master spoke of, but she genuinely felt her desire to save these young men with whom she had seen mountains and rivers and experienced the myriad forms of life.
For the first time, she successfully created her own domain.
