Martial Cultivator

Nine flying swords shot out in sequence. The sword right in the front, White Deer, carried a dazzling white light, briefly blocking the great demon’s vision. Just as he waved his sleeve to disperse the sword light before him, the second flying sword struck.

It tore through the surrounding demonic qi, opening a path.

The great demon waved its sleeve to force back this sword, but before it could catch its breath, another flying sword arrived as expected.

One sword followed another, the sword qi soaring skyward, interweaving, restraining, and attacking the great demon from all directions. The final sword hovered nearby, appearing and disappearing intermittently, creating a bizarre formation.

Xie Nandu’s nine lifeblood swords were already among the most formidable offensive methods in the world. Previously, when her cultivation realm was lower, the flying swords, though numerous, posed little threat to powerhouses. But now, having reached the Great Beyond Realm, she controlled the flying swords as if they were extensions of her own limbs, enough to make a Nepenthe realm powerhouse truly cautious.

In other words, Xie Nandu could now be regarded as a Nepenthe sword immortal in terms of combat ability.

The great demon before her, though still able to maintain its attack for the moment, could not break through the sword formation formed by the nine flying swords and could not reach the city wall to kill Xie Nandu.

Liang Xiang, observing from within the army formation, felt a pang of frustration. Were he not a general commanding the army, he might have abandoned the troops and leaped onto the city wall to personally slay the female sword cultivator.

Even so, he still dispatched a dozen or so Great Beyond Realm demon cultivators from his army.

Historically, in battles, while great demons could easily leap onto the city walls, for ordinary demons, reaching the walls was far from easy. After all, the divine crossbows on the walls were not mere decorations.

However, among these dozen or so Great Beyond demon cultivators, as long as half of them could make it onto the walls, they would likely wreak havoc on the current situation, and that woman would inevitably be killed.

“Cover.”

Liu Xiang issued the command expressionlessly, intending to use half of the Great Beyond demon cultivators to absorb a volley from the divine crossbows, buying time for the others.

This tactic was not common on the Great Liang side, but for the demons, it was standard practice. On one hand, the demons did not hesitate to use any means to win; on the other, their resources were deep enough that they could afford to do so.

As expected, several of the Great Beyond demon cultivators were pierced by the divine crossbows and fell from the city wall, but the remaining few had already leaped onto the wall.

Meanwhile, the great demon still trapped by the flying swords was being watched; the Great Beyond demon cultivators who had reached the wall had already spotted Xie Nandu’s location and pounced to attack.

A daoist cultivator on the wall frowned slightly and swung his whisk. Countless threads surged forward like a tide at the approaching demon cultivators, but in the next moment, one of the Great Beyond demon cultivators grabbed the threads, which snapped taut. The demon then appeared in front of the daoist soldier, reached out, and pierced his body through, pulling back his hand with a blood-soaked heart still beating.

The demon shoved it into his mouth, his face drenched in blood.

The scene was extremely gruesome.

The other demon cultivators had also approached close to Xie Nandu. She had no choice but to retract one of her flying swords, suspending it at her side, and swept past to pierce a lower-level demon cultivator with a single strike.

Sword qi surged violently.

Soon, the great demon, no longer restrained by that flying sword, subtly began to find openings in the sword formation.

Xie Nandu frowned slightly. Her realm alone was insufficient; she relied on all nine flying swords working together to fully restrain the great demon on the wall. Losing one instantly made the situation precarious.

But if she did not pull back the sword, the nearby demon cultivators would close in, making things even harder.

It was a dilemma, but there was no time to deliberate.

Afterwards, she could only risk pulling back another flying sword, leaving two flying swords circling her sides, one on the left, one on the right, blocking the demon cultivators before her.

At the same time, other cultivators on the wall also acted, attempting to intercept the demon cultivators. Yet demons of the same realm were naturally stronger than ordinary human cultivators, and the slaughter continued, with mostly human cultivators falling.

Pine Pavilion Pass had not usually been the first target for demon attacks, so the defenders and cultivators were few to begin with. Who could have imagined that, in this great battle, it would become the first place the demons would strike? From the very start, the situation for Great Liang was not promising.

But there was no other choice.

The situation was like this.

A cultivator accompanying the army killed a demon cultivator, but at the same time, his own body was pierced through.

The nearest demon cultivator was only two or three steps away from Xie Nandu. At this moment, she could already smell the thick stench of blood coming from that demon cultivator.

Not far away, that great demon had already crushed the sword formation and was charging toward this side.

Demonic qi spread across the top of the city wall, almost covering the entire sky.

Xie Nandu frowned slightly and took a step back.

That great demon pressed forward relentlessly, swatting away a flying sword that was harassing him in front of him. Then a terrifying surge of demonic qi poured out from his sleeve, crashing toward Xie Nandu on the city wall.

Xie Nandu had no choice but to retreat several steps, stacking flying swords in front of her to resist.

But even so, the lingering force of the demonic qi still made her face turn somewhat pale. Fortunately, ripples rose in front of her, blocking most of the demonic qi outside.

The great demon frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled, not understanding why it had turned out like this.

But in the next moment, just as the great demon was about to continue his assault, a streak of sword light suddenly cut across the horizon.

An incomparably overbearing and terrifying sword light swept past, tearing apart all the demons before it, so that by now, the top of the city wall was littered with shattered flesh.

After tearing through those demons, that sword light did not stop. Instead, it rose again and lunged toward the great demon.

At this moment, the demonic qi on the city wall was suddenly dispersed and shredded by the sword light.

The great demon’s expression turned extremely grim.

Within that sword light, he saw something terrifying.

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In the blink of an eye, a great sword immortal appeared on the city wall. In his right hand, he held the flying sword Wild Grass, the most outstanding flying sword of Sword Qi Mountain in the past hundred years. In his left hand, he held the head of a great demon, which he casually tossed down from the city wall.

This great sword immortal standing on the city wall narrowed his eyes and laughed, “If I’d come a bit later, Your Father’s good friend would’ve had to stay a bachelor!”

Then the great sword immortal raised his head to look at the sky and laughed loudly. “Dean, why not take a break and let this junior see just how capable this woman is? Of all things to learn, she freaking chose to learn the sword and become a sword cultivator. Your Father also wants to let her know what a true great sword immortal is!”