This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable Chapter 1707 54: Official Announcement

Heaven and earth stretch on endlessly.

Boundless clouds draw out a million lines.

The Luo Shen Dharma Aspect flies through the void, a clear trajectory reflecting in her deep and sharp eyes like those of a divine being.

In the void where no water exists, yet under the feet of the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect, ripples are formed circle after circle, distorting the space.

She follows the trajectory, moving forward continually.

All the scenery around recedes rapidly.

Only behind, two figures are in relentless pursuit.

They are the last two of the War Demon Clan.

War Venerable and Chi Venerable.

Their auras converge intensely, even the mighty winds seem intimidated and cease to flow.

Chi Venerable's face remains expressionless, as if he's recovered from the shocking loss of Ming Venerable.

He forcefully gathers his strength, stepping hard on the void, leaping high, accelerating rapidly, dragging the Red Halberd in hand, assaulting the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect ahead.

Due to the extreme speed, the Red Halberd's shaft fiercely combusts upon friction with the air, pulling out a blazing tail over two thousand feet long across the Heaven's Vault, before fiercely smashing towards the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect.

The Red Halberd erupts with a thunderous roar, surpassing midsummer thunder, exploding everything in its path.

On the right shoulder of the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect, a woman stands proudly.

In a fluttering green robe in the wind.

Indifferent to the smashing Red Halberd, she continues to control the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect to advance.

However, a faint layer of water waves seems to ripple and undulate over the Dharma Aspect.

Mirror Flower Water Moon.

The halberd tip crashes at the waist of the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect, but it feels like a punch hitting cotton, striking nothing, as the Red Halberd goes in without resistance.

From the tip of the Red Halberd, a magnificent splash emerges from the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect.

It seems at this moment, Chi Venerable wasn't attacking a Dharma Aspect, but a tranquil lake.

The move ends, having no effect or interference on the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect.

However, in the next instant, the corner of the mouth of the woman standing proudly on the right shoulder of the Dharma Aspect faintly oozes blood.

After a failed strike, Chi Venerable doesn't think much, retracts the Red Halberd, and swings another strike through the void.

Boom!

Endless torrents of demonic qi extend mightily, sweeping towards the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect ahead.

Another tremendous explosion resounds.

This time, the overwhelming surge causes a momentary stumble in the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect's steps.

The Luo Shen Dharma Aspect is no longer as solid, its color has dimmed slightly.

Yet, like wild grass on the open plains, reborn with the spring breeze.

Strands of Sword Qi drift from Xia Daoyun's body, then climb onto the Dharma Aspect.

Thus, the dimmed color shines again, and immediately the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect steps forth once more, leaving Chi Venerable far behind once again.

Chi Venerable's eyes blaze with fury.

This scene has happened more than once before.

Could this woman truly be the reincarnation of Luo Shen, hence impossible to kill?

No matter how much he thinks, at this moment, Chi Venerable cannot abandon his pursuit.

He knows clearly that if Xia Daoyun and Lu Qingshan are stopped today, this war will come to an end prematurely.

The two exchange a glance, and the next instant, their figures vanish like arrows as they slice through the Heaven's Vault, fast as lightning, towards the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect.

The speed is so swift it forms phantoms, and just the shockwaves transform all life forms along the way into blood mist, denying them the chance to witness this peak battle between the Dao and Demon clans.

.......

The two engaged in a relentless, life-and-death pursuit.

From night to day, and from day to night, yet no conclusive result.

Seeing that they are nearing the brilliantly lit grand pass, the pair of man and woman on the Luo Shen Dharma Aspect, faces pale as gold paper, can't help but tug at their lips, their smiles arduous and forced.

"We're home." Lu Qingshan laughed heartily.

Xia Daoyun briefly closed her eyes, slightly nodding in acknowledgment without speaking.

First battling Chi Venerable, from Yumen Pass to the open wilds.

Then trapped in the Canghai World, besieged by the three venerables, beleaguered on all sides.

Just having escaped Canghai, plunged into life-threatening combat in the Heavenly Tribulation Sea.

Finally, relentlessly pursued by the two venerables for an entire day without a moment's rest.

Throughout the escape, she gave her all to try to shake off the two venerables, yet they shadowed her persistently, not letting go. If not for possessing the Ancestral Taoist's bloodline, allowing her to draw strength from it, she might not have been able to get this far with Lu Qingshan.

After half an hour more.

In the distance, the demon race army akin to a tide came into view.

This was the final barrier.

Lu Qingshan looked towards the endless demon tide, gathering his scant recovered mana with effort.

"Take a rest, leave the final stretch to me."

Xia Daoyun nodded slightly, a cool and detached expression.

Soon, the enormous Luo Shen Dharma Aspect shattered like foam, integrating into the void, disappearing without a trace.

Xia Daoyun's figure wobbled, but before she could gather her strength, she was tightly embraced, Lu Qingshan's voice echoing by her ear.

"This is the last time."

.....

Yu Canghai watched beyond the city, directing the battle, orchestrating the cultivators at Yumen Pass. By coincidence, he suddenly noticed within the rolling black demonic qi, a point of light.

Very small and dim, yet continually growing.

What is it?

However, the intense battle left him no time for further thought.

Until after a moment, that point of light became even more dazzling, making it impossible for him to ignore.

At this moment, he could already see the essence of that light.

Exceptionally intimate, exceptionally familiar.

Sword Light.

Lu Qingshan's Sword Light.

When the Sword Light appeared once again, enlarged once again, it had already broken through the sky full of demonic cultivators, filled with malice, dragging a long tail, like a gigantic meteor, flying towards Yumen Pass.

Everyone on the Yumen Pass walls was utterly shocked.

Most of them did not have the level to see through the Sword Light to the figure within.

But Yu Canghai could, and could promptly make arrangements.

"It's the Sect Master!"

Thus, the Long Wind Formation, guarding the Yumen Pass, flickered like water waves, admitting the entrance of this Sword Light.

...

On the crowded, bustling Yumen Pass ramparts, a pair of man and woman descended under the watchful eyes of all.

But the man's and woman's postures were somewhat peculiar, the man holding the woman, the woman half-reclining in the man's arms, neither of them looking well, their faces pallid.

It did not appear to be a rare posture, so why say peculiar?

Nothing else, this pair's identities were quite extraordinary.

Luo Shen Sword Immortal, Sword Sect Sect Master.

Once master and apprentice.

Now, they seemed more like Dao Companions.

"Sect Master, Peak Master Xia," Yu Canghai stepped forward, seeing the two in this state, couldn't help but sigh, hoarse in voice as he spoke: "It's good you're back."

Lu Qingshan held his chest, calming the recently disturbed internal energies due to the rush, apologetically said: "Sorry to worry you."

Yu Canghai wanted to speak, but beside him, a middle-aged man with a scholarly appearance spoke first: "Sect Master Lu, I can understand you Sword Sect cultivators are deeply tied by sentiment, but your identity is different, being the leader of Sword Sect, the master of Yumen Pass.

One of noble stature shouldn't sit under a dangerous structure, your reckless act of going out does not only risk your own life, but it also puts Yumen Pass, the Eastern Domain's future at risk!"

Yu Canghai could understand Lu Qingshan's decision to leave the pass, but it didn't mean others could.

All cultivators at Yumen Pass believed Lu Qingshan had a responsibility to this Eastern Domain because everyone believed that soon, Lu Qingshan would surely achieve Sword Immortal.

Therefore, none wished to see Lu Qingshan's untimely death.

"War is cruel, sacrifices must be made, this time you got lucky that both returned, but if luck turned, we at Yumen Pass would lose a Sword Immortal and a future Sword Immortal!"

The man who "criticized" Lu Qingshan was one of the several Nine Realms Cultivators at Yumen Pass, of extraordinary standing, hence dared to speak.

He was merely a representative; it could be imagined that there were certainly many cultivators at Yumen Pass who held the same thoughts.

Were these people malicious?

Naturally, they weren't.

On the contrary, they were firmly resolved; should the Long Wind Formation be breached, they would surely embrace death with Yumen Pass.

Yet even among individuals within the same faction, philosophies and views could never be uniform, there would inevitably be divisions.

Lu Qingshan could understand their thoughts.

But understanding didn't mean agreement.

"I am the Sect Master of Sword Sect, also the master of Yumen Pass, but more importantly, I am Lu Qingshan."

"Guarding Yumen Pass is what a Sect Master does, but leaving the pass is what I wish to do."

"Lu Qingshan must do what Lu Qingshan wishes to do."

The crowd looked at each other in confusion, momentarily unsure what to say.

After everyone was silent for a moment, Lu Qingshan looked around at them, as if speaking to himself: "If today I cannot protect my woman, do you think when I achieve Sword Immortal, I can protect anything?"

Everyone was stunned, raising their heads in surprise, staring wide-eyed at the couple before them.

Even Yu Canghai echoed their movements.

They were shocked not only at the passion in Lu Qingshan's words but also at the deep meaning contained in those four words.

"My woman."

Xia Daoyun smiled, not denying it.

Regarding others' "criticism," she remained calm.

She would never say to Lu Qingshan "After such a life-and-death ordeal, you mustn't risk yourself again to save me".

If it were him caught in dire straits, she would surely go forward without hesitation.

So how could she stop him from doing the same?

"Living and dying together" to them was already a matter of course.

"You're master and apprentice..." the Nine Realms Cultivator who "criticized" Lu Qingshan's action to leave the pass instinctively said.

"What does that matter?" Lu Qingshan laughed.

Not to mention he had already graduated, even if he hadn't, what then?

What master and apprentice, what identity and status, what the view of the world, as long as there is will, as long as there is affection, all could be discarded like worn shoes.

Xia Daoyun also laughed, her eyes warmly gazing at the man's profile beside her.

As she laughed and laughed, her face turned even paler, hastily extending a hand to cover her mouth, but crimson blood still seeped through her fingers.

During the latter part of the journey, Xia Daoyun hadn't spoken again.

That was the reason.

After entering the Sword Immortal Realm that Sword Cultivators dream of, yet before consolidating her realm, Xia Daoyun continuously faced waves of formidable foes like Luohu's incarnations and the three Venerables, it could be said she supported the situation with her strength before Lu Qingshan was truly capable of stabilizing the domain.

However, it was a landscape of illness.

Gains require sacrifices, whether it was giving up the Eight Tribulation Realm to achieve Sword Immortal Realm sooner, or forcibly drawing upon her lifespan to battle formidable foes, Xia Daoyun was squandering her potential.

Her resplendent beauty did not diminish in the slightest despite the dismal complexion, instead, it gained a rare delicate demeanor, like a lotus in the rain, unbearably tender.

Beside her, the man shared the same weary complexion and undeniable handsome features.

At this moment, everyone's mind simultaneously arose with a thought.

Beyond this moment, where else could one find such a pair?