Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 804: Breaking the Formation

Chapter 804: Breaking the Formation

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Hua Jin the True One's palm strike shook heaven and earth.

Yet it failed to shake Lin Fan, who was surrounded by myriad swords.

Tens of thousands of flying swords condensed into a sword formation above Lin Fan's head, the soaring sword qi dispersing the clouds within a hundred-mile radius, revealing the deep, azure sky.

Hua Jin the True One's palm force clashed against the sword qi. The sword qi was continuous and unending, but the true essence of this palm strike had a moment of exhaustion. The instant the true essence was depleted, she was sent flying by the sword qi.

A hundred zhang away.

Hua Jin's hand, hidden behind her back, trembled slightly. Her palm was covered with sword marks, deep enough to see bone. Only a wisp of true essence solidified over the wound, preventing blood from seeping out.

Even so, she still felt as if she were holding a sword that constantly thrashed left and right within her grasp.

"What formidable defensive power," Hua Jin the True One murmured, her pupils contracting as she stared at the motionless Lin Fan within the sword formation.

That palm strike had been her full strength, yet the person within the sword formation remained seated cross-legged, utterly unmoved.

*Pfft—!*

The flower bud on the crystalline cluster gradually solidified into substance, then slowly bloomed.

A premium Celestial Jade Marrow fell from within the flower bud. Lin Fan stood up, picked up the premium Celestial Jade Marrow, then turned and returned to his original position to continue meditating.

He didn't even glance at Hua Jin the True One.

The ancestor had said this woman couldn't be killed.

Otherwise, at least ten swords would be sticking out of her body right now.

As expected, the ancestor is still too kindhearted. Even if the other party shows only a little favor, he remembers it, and then repeatedly yields step by step?

Lin Fan looked up at the sky, his face full of compassion.

He, too, would be such a kindhearted person.

Lin Fan picked up Hua Jin the True One's personal sword, twisted it with both hands, directly snapping it into two pieces and tossing it aside. His casual, effortless manner was as nonchalant as swatting a bug.

Witnessing this scene, Hua Jin the True One, who had just forced herself to calm down, felt another surge of ghostly fire rush straight to her brain.

Meanwhile, the knight from the Sanctuary hugged his holy sword tightly.

Although the holy sword was broken, there was still a possibility of repair.

But if it fell into the hands of this mysterious Eastern cultivator, it would be completely finished. With just a thought from him, his holy sword might turn into a pile of scrap metal.

"Your Holiness, what should we do now?"

Albert looked at the deadlock before them, his expression grim.

According to the divine oracle, this was the last time the exotic treasure would descend. They hadn't dared to get involved in the previous instances due to insufficient strength. Now, finally feeling the timing was right, they discovered the competitors vying for the exotic treasure were each more difficult to deal with than the last.

"Wait." Beneath the Pope's white eye band, holy light faintly swirled. "We still have a chance... Someone is already creating an opportunity for us."

Compared to the Sanctuary, which still coveted the Celestial Jade Marrow, the vampire progenitor Cain appeared much more sensible.

He found a dark corner to shrink into, afraid of attracting the attention of the meditating Lin Fan.

It wasn't that he lacked greed.

Primarily, before coming to the Eastern lands, holy light was the only supernatural power that could inflict serious, unhealable damage upon him.

His combat power mainly focused on his near-unkillable regeneration.

And holy light suppressed his Blood Clan power, suppressing his regenerative ability.

Cain had originally thought holy light was his only bane.

But when Hua Jin the True One made her move, he also secretly tested the mysterious sword cultivator's sword qi. The result was having a finger sliced off. Normally, losing a finger wouldn't even count as an injury, would it? It would fully recover in less than a second.

But now, half a quarter-hour had passed, and his finger still hadn't grown back.

The cut surface was smooth as a mirror, with a wisp of silvery-white energy lingering around it, constantly gnawing away at his regenerating flesh.

This silvery-white energy shared the same origin as the soaring silvery-white light pillar within the mysterious sword cultivator's sword formation.

He heard the people around him refer to this silvery-white energy as—sword qi.

Just this tiny bit of sword qi had sealed his recovery ability. If he stood within that silvery-white sword qi light pillar, wouldn't he be instantly ground to dust, with no possibility of restoration whatsoever?

Thinking of this, Cain felt a chill run down his spine.

The mysterious Eastern continent was simply too terrifying. He shouldn't have come!

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"I refuse to believe this!"

Lin Fan destroying her magical tool right before her eyes was, to Hua Jin, a blatant provocation.

She clearly understood the flying swords surrounding this sword cultivator had already formed a great formation. If she attacked head-on, she would only end up suffering losses.

To shake this mysterious sword cultivator and seize the Celestial Jade Marrow, she must first break the formation.

And there were only two methods to break a formation.

Either find the trick of the formation and break it with finesse.

Or use absolute cultivation power to suppress and break it by brute force.

These two could be pursued simultaneously. The latter required Senior Chen to continue opening the Well of Heaven, lifting the restrictions of heaven and earth. Then, eventually, there would come a moment when her cultivation power surpassed that of the mysterious sword cultivator.

But before that, more Celestial Jade Marrow would certainly be born, and she equally didn't want to give up.

She had to find a way to break the formation.

Hua Jin the True One gritted her teeth, turned, and went to seek the two other seniors she trusted most—Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng.

Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng had come with the group.

But with Chen Huaian present, there was basically no need for them to take action.

So Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng had been spectating the entire time, even setting up a table in front of them to crack melon seeds.

Now, seeing Hua Jin the True One approach, the two looked utterly bewildered.

"Senior Zhang, Senior Gu, I beseech you two to help me break the formation!" Hua Jin the True One bowed respectfully, her expression earnest and full of entreaty. "This junior knows your attainments in formation arts are extraordinary. This junior is truly at her wits' end. I cannot break that sword cultivator's sword formation; it's like a turtle shell. Naturally, I cannot obtain the Celestial Jade Marrow either."

Zhang Yibai, Gu Changsheng: "..."

Hua Jin wanted them to help break Lin Fan's sword formation?

Hah?

Zhang Yibai's mouth twitched as he looked at Lin Fan inside the "formation."

It was called a sword formation, but it wasn't truly a formation.

A real formation required a formation core and formation patterns, with true essence flowing within it, forming its own system with special rules. But Lin Fan had merely arranged the flying swords infused with true essence into the shape of a sword formation. This formation wasn't a true formation; it only had the appearance of one.

The reason Hua Jin the True One couldn't break through this array of flying swords was simple.

—She was weak!

But they couldn't say that to Hua Jin the True One's face.

Hua Jin the True One had already come to them for help.

Although they didn't want to help—after all, Lin Fan was one of their own—they still had to put on a performance. Once they helped Hua Jin the True One "break" the formation, and Hua Jin still wasn't Lin Fan's match, she naturally wouldn't attribute her failure to obtain the Celestial Jade Marrow to being unable to break the "formation."

"Very well! Although this formation is exquisite! This old man is no pushover either!"

Zhang Yibai immediately stood up, rolled up his sleeves, and strode toward the great formation.

Seeing this, Hua Jin the True One's eyes lit up, a glimmer of hope rising in her heart.

Meanwhile, Lin Fan, who was meditating cross-legged within the sword formation, seemed to sense something and opened his eyes.

The moment his gaze met Zhang Yibai's.

It was like connecting to a signal.

A faint light flashed in both their eyes. Everything was understood without words.

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