He nodded quietly.
'Dragon Saber, as expected of a top-class divine weapon.'
The slash just then contained saber will, and it instantly destroyed all body fortifications. It also dealt damage to the targets, so the players were unable to use their bodies to withstand Golden Haired Lion King Xie Xun's strength and the might of Dragon Saber!
Their ending could be easily imagined.
Happy believed that even if he activated Golden Bell Cocoon and Petite Dragon, he would still be unable to escape Golden Haired Lion King's slash unscathed. The players had simply rushed to their own deaths when they went over.
But what Happy did not expect was that the eyes of Zhou Zhiruo, who should not be present, would light up when she saw that Heavenly Sword had fallen out of Zhang Wuji's grasp.
"It's Heavenly Sword!" she said quickly and urgently. Her voice was full of excitement.
'That's right. Heavenly Sword is the treasure that keeps Emei Sect safe. It's Mistress Annihilation's sword, which she always kept by her side. In fact, when she was imprisoned, Mistress Annihilation was constantly worried about it.
'Right now, the treasure that protects Emei Sect is close, so there is no way that Zhou Zhiruo will not be excited.'
"Before my mistress died, she ordered me multiple times that I must find Heavenly Sword and bring it back. I also had to develop Emei Sect's martial arts and make them great.
"Young Swordsman Happy, why don't I attract Golden Haired Lion King's attention, and you seize the chance to help me get Heavenly Sword?"
"What?!" Happy was shocked.
'Really, good things never come true, but the bad things always do.'
He had just been thinking about how he would never do something as stupid as those players earlier had done even if someone pointed a gun at his head. Yet Zhou Zhiruo had immediately given him such a difficult problem.
Worse still was that the system also chose to come up and kick up a fuss.
"Help Zhou Zhiruo obtain Heavenly Sword. If you accept, you will have to look for a chance to help Zhou Zhiruo obtain Dragon Saber as well. There will be a chance to obtain Book of Wumu and Nine Yin Manual too.
"If you refuse, you will lose Zhou Zhiruo's trust."
'What the heck?! Are you done?!'
Happy suddenly realized that while helping Zhou Zhiruo get Dragon Saber and Heavenly Sword was not hard, maintaining Zhou Zhiruo's trust and affection toward him might be the truly difficult problem.
But even though Happy criticized it, when he saw the resolution in Zhou Zhiruo's eyes, he knew that if he rejected her request, all the hard work he did over the last month would go up in a puff of smoke!
He cast a glance at Zhang Wuji, who was fighting against the three Persian Ming Cult Holy Fire Order messengers fiercely, and he could not help but grow serious!
"I understand." He did not say anything for a while, then added, "You must be careful!"
Happiness spread through Zhou Zhiruo's face. "I knew that you would definitely help me."
Once she finished speaking, she tapped against the ground and shot out of the bamboo forest. Her snow white robes swiftly caught the attention of all the people in the battlefield, and the players in the bamboo forest cried out in surprise.
"Zhou Zhiruo!"
But Happy did not have time to care about that. He gritted his teeth and followed closely behind her out of the bamboo forest, but he soon changed direction to head toward Heavenly Sword almost soundlessly.
Chapter 469 - Wield Heavenly Sword, Sweep Through the Mass
Xie Xun might be blind, but he was unparallelled when locating his enemies based on the sound of wind! He surpassed countless powerful players in this regard!
"Hmph, you have guts!"
His ears twitched when he noticed the two people who shot out of the bamboo forest one after the other. He flew into rage, and his killing intent rose!
Zhang Wuji reacted very quickly. He swiftly shouted in surprise, "Senior Xie, she's my friend. She doesn't have any ill will."
"Your friend?" Xie Xun could sense that the aura around Zhou Zhiruo's body was weak, and that alone, she posed no harm to him. He snorted coldly and turned his ear slightly to the side. He then focused on Happy, who was charging toward Heavenly Sword.
When he saw that there was actually someone who would dare to covet Heavenly Sword, Xie Xun flicked his wrist, and a golden saber glare shot out from his Dragon Saber.
Happy concentrated on charging toward Heavenly Sword. He did not slow down, but he did pay some attention to Xie Xun's actions.
When he saw that Xie Xun looked away from Zhou Zhiruo, he could not help but groan. Zhang Wuji was someone who would definitely take care of his female friends, but he would selectively ignore a nobody like Happy...
'Who said that Zhang Wuji isn't selfish?'
While grumbling in his heart, Happy shouted out loudly, "Zhang Wuji… Young Swordsman Zhang, please tell Senior Xie that I have no ill will! I am acting based on Sect Leader Zhou Zhiruo's orders to temporarily take care of Heavenly Sword!"
He spoke in a tone that was neither humble nor arrogant! He sounded confident, righteous, and awe-inspiring!
Even though Zhang Wuji did not cooperate with him, when Xie Xun heard that someone had called out his foster son's name and seemed to have mentioned the person nearby as well, his emotions surged, and the fatal saber glare from his Dragon Saber instantly diminished by a large degree.
"You know my son Wuji?!"
When he spoke, it sounded like he was worried that he would injure the person who knew Zhang Wuji. His qi got restrained, and he lost the momentum that would allow him to destroy everything.
'Perfect chance!'
Bang!
A great power crashed into Happy, and he was sent flying into the forest.
However, countless players had seen very clearly that Happy had already obtained Heavenly Sword. They also saw his body fly horizontally toward them. They could even vaguely see a sparkling but not dazzling metallic gold light that was evenly spread over his body under his torn green robe.
'He made it!
'Someone actually managed to grab Heavenly Sword right under Xie Xun's eyes and brought it away from the most dangerous area.'
"Heavenly Sword!"
"What the heck!"
"It's mine!"
"Snatch it!"
When the various players who had been stunned by Xie Xun's mercilessness and strength in the bamboo forest and had subsequently calmed down saw that someone had crashed into the forest with Heavenly Sword, they instantly exploded.
As they cried out in surprise, countless people in night traveling clothes surged out like a swarm toward Heavenly Sword, which shone with a dazzling light!
W.h.i.n.e!
Hiss!
In the chaos, it was unavoidable that many people were prevented from getting close to Heavenly Sword. All sorts of sword and saber glares were accompanied by the heavy swish of axes and palm wind. They struck forward violently, and they also hit the people nearby.
There were people who went into defensive positions and launched counterattacks!
Anyway, because of the greed for Heavenly Sword, the bamboo forest flew into complete chaos.
Rustle…
Clang! Clang!
Bang!
All sorts of sounds of objects striking each other intersected with each other. The bamboo was nearly all cut down, and cries of pain rose nonstop. There were also plenty of roars that spoke of great anger.
Wherever Heavenly Sword's brightness appeared, light and shadows from swords and sabers would become a jumbled mess. Even some of the really calm players found it hard to remain level-headed in such a chaotic situation. They were dragged into a battle where they had no control over themselves. They could only passively swing their weapons and block as well as attack the players nearby.
Happy was in the center of the vortex, so it was natural that he could not avoid being dragged into it. He was the
one who received the greatest number of attacks!
When he had managed to escape from dying in Xie Xun's hands, he had been incredibly excited and delighted. But he did not expect that his loss of balance for a single instant would cause him to fall into an area with hundreds of great players.
There were people all around him. Even though he activated Rotating Spherical Cover to reflect damage, it still hurt. Life and Death Realm martial arts could cause Happy damage, even if it was not high.
Around a dozen players attacked him violently, and if Happy did not rely on his fourth-echelon Golden Armor to retain his posture and balance, he would have long since been stunned and made dizzy by the furious attacks.
Petite Dragon!
Happy avoided most of the damage from another round of attacks and moved out of the center of the battlefield as well as the area of attack like a swimming dragon. He circulated his qi frantically, and Heavenly Sword instantly shone much brighter!
Its light was cold and sharp!
Whoosh!
Many pairs of eyes fixed on Heavenly Sword, which shone with an astonishing light that penetrated the bamboo forest, and burned fiercely.
It was a divine weapon!
As expected of a top class divine weapon!
Before the wielder even attacked, it was already incredibly difficult to block its might. It revealed a momentum that could sweep away everything.
A few people outside the crowd stared at the person who seized the sword. He stood under the light of Heavenly Sword while wearing shiny Golden Armor that had three colors flowing in it. They s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths, and their expressions filled with shock.
"Run!"
"Hurry up and run!"
They warned each other with shouts at the top of their voices, but they sounded incredibly faint among the surging shouts crying out for them to steal the sword.
"Kill him!"
"To the person who gets Heavenly Sword, I'll buy it for ten million RMB!"
A voice from a wealthy man suddenly rose from the crowd. He stood outside the battlefield and stared at Heavenly Sword with burning eyes that made him look as if he was madly in love with the sword. Clearly, he had become completely filled with admiration for Heavenly Sword's might and submitted to its glory.
Ten million!
That sentence stimulated many of the martial artists in the bamboo forest.
Quite a lot of people gave up on the pointless battle and rushed toward Heavenly Sword!
When they saw that the person with the sword had been surrounded by countless martial artists, a roar that was accompanied by a piercing light exploded, and it came out with the force of a volcano that had been holding back an eruption for a long time.
Shick!
A snow white sword force suddenly shot through the crowd. In an instant, more than ten people's bodies were pierced by it!
The ears of Xie Xun, who held Dragon Saber in his hands, twitched. He turned in the direction of the players' conflict in the bamboo forest with disbelief on his face.
"He's so young and his qi realm is so low, but he managed to activate Heavenly Sword's sword will," he murmured. "He is an amazing talent… a great talent…"
As if to resonate with Xie Xun's words, the snow white sword force in the bamboo forest paused for a moment before sweeping madly in a horizontal fashion at an astonishing speed!
Whoooooossshhhh!
The snow white sword force instantly swept through dozens of players around it!
The bamboo forest was immediately filled with the terrifying snow white sword force.
The speed at which it swept about was incredibly fast.
It danced and intersected with each other in every direction, and it did so very swiftly!
Wherever it went, the qi of martial artists froze in its circulation, and they stopped in the air with baffled expressions.
All that might seem to have happened over a long period of time, but everything occurred in the blink of an eye.
In a second, the sword force had already moved nearly sixty-five feet above the people in the bamboo forest!
Only around two-three seconds went by from the moment the counterattack began until the time the bamboo forest fell into absolute silence.
When the light fell away and returned to Heavenly Sword, countless martial artists were revealed to have been cut into an innumerable number of pieces. They fell from the sky with rustling sounds, and blood rained down from the sky in a circular area of dozens of feet around Heavenly Sword.
Not a single person remained alive!
Chapter 470 - One Emperor
The forest was incredibly damaged.
Not a single shrub of complete bamboo could be seen in a circular area of 164 feet. The ground around the area had streams of blood flowing on it, and it looked like hell on earth.
Happy was dressed in Golden Armor, and he stood in the middle with a calm expression. He ignored everything around him, too focused on trying to understand the chilling cold spreading out of Heavenly Sword.
He released a faint hiss of heat from his mouth.
"Heavenly Sword, what a great sword!"
He had never fought against the person who had Heavenly Sword in his previous life. That person used a lot of money to hide his fame and kept the sword a secret, so Happy had never understood the true might of it.
Heavenly Sword:
High-grade divine weapon.
Increase attack by 2,000 points. Increase all attributes by 20 points. Cannot be blocked. Can easily destroy normal weapons. Can easily reduce the durability of masterpieces. With sword will, can trigger defense breaking effect and instantly destroy enemy's body fortification.
Hidden attribute: Hand over Heavenly Sword together with Dragon Saber to Zhou Zhiruo, and you will obtain Book of Wumu as well as Nine Yin Manual.
Lacks a sheath. Cannot be put into an item bag.
'It will really help me get Book of Wumu and Nine Yin Manual…'
Happy turned around, shifting his gaze away from Heavenly Sword. He looked up to stare at Xie Xun. The latter had stopped chasing after him once Happy seized Heavenly Sword, and while holding Dragon Saber, he continued to pay attention to Zhang Wuji fighting fiercely against the Persian Ming Cult's Holy Fire Order messengers.
"Young Swordsman Happy."
Zhou Zhiruo was ignored by everyone. When she saw that Happy had indeed safely retrieved Heavenly Sword, she jogged over with great joy on her face.
The system gave Happy a notification.
"Ding!
"Will you return Heavenly Sword to Zhou Zhiruo?
"If you return Heavenly Sword, you can continue with the hidden quest for Book of Wumu and Nine Yin Manual. If you refuse, you must immediately take Heavenly Sword and flee Spirit Snake Island. Once you leave Spirit Snake Island, Heavenly Sword will be yours."
Right when the system notification came to an end, Zhou Zhiruo jumped into the air with great joy and excitement on her face and landed in front of Happy.
Even though Happy had been slightly tempted, when he saw Zhou Zhiruo's pretty and charming face, along with her pure trust, he smoothly returned Heavenly Sword to her.
"It's indeed a sword without a match!" He sighed in amazement, which attracted Xie Xun and Zhang Wuji's attention.
"Young Swordsman Happy, you are very kind. I, Zhou Zhiruo, will remember your kindness on behalf of Emei Sect!"
Zhou Zhiruo returned the sword to its sheath once she regained her mistress' item. Then, she held up the sword, and she was so worked up that she wept.
"Miss Zhou, you're being too polite."
Happy stared at Zhou Zhiruo with a myriad of emotions in his heart while she was incredibly touched by his actions. "Now that you've regained Heavenly Sword, don't lose it so easily again. I'm weak, and that means that while I can protect it for a time being, it'll be impossible for me to protect it forever."
When he finished speaking, crazed laughter suddenly rose from the bamboo forest.
"Hahahaha… you'll be able to protect it for a time being, but not forever? Well said, you're pretty smart, boy."
Xie Xun and Zhang Wuji shot next to the duo while the three Persian Ming Cult's Holy Fire Order messengers had their weapons struck flying. Xie Xun's voice was loud when he spoke.
"You're smart, and you aren't ignorant of the matters around you, unlike the other wanderers. They're weak, but they dream about dominating the world of martial artists. They dreamt day in and day out, and they lost their lives in vain in my hands because of it. Hmph! This alone cements the fact that you will certainly become someone great in the future!"
"Senior Xie, don't mock me. I'm not someone courageous. Even if it were not for the fact that you are Young Swordsman Zhang Wuji's foster father, the brother-in-name of Zhang Cuishan, who is the fifth hero of Wudang Sect, and had concentrated on reflection before you repented on your ways while you were alone for many years in Ice Fire Island, I would have been able to understand just how great you are."
His words were neither humble nor arrogant, and Xie Xun nodded slowly.
A strange light shone in Zhang Wuji's eyes when he looked toward Zhou Zhiruo.
"Miss Zhiruo, your sect is fortunate to have a friend such as Young Swordsman Happy." He stopped talking for a moment before he continued. "I obtained Heavenly Sword from Zhao Min, and now that it has returned to your hands, I can be considered to have returned the item to you in perfect condition.
"But there are plenty of people on Spirit Snake Island, and the Holy Fire Order messengers from Persian Ming Cult's headquarters are here as well. I believe that it is best for us to leave this place in a hurry."
"He's right!" Xie Xun nodded.
"Those Holy Fire Order messengers have a strange and amazing martial art. I am not their opponent either. We shan't delay in this matter. We must leave first."
"Miss Zhou, you are not safe with Heavenly Sword in your hands. It is best that you come with us."
"I'll go with Young Swordsman Happy."
Zhou Zhiruo's words caused Happy to be happy, but he did not show it on his face.
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