Jiang Liuer took a step forward, the inky-black sky brightening slightly.
He had never experienced such a violent surge of power before, feeling as though his left hand could pluck stars and his right seize the moon – an unparalleled existence under heaven.
With a mere thought, he could "see" the entire Jiangzhou City's situation.
Though aware this was merely an illusion born from sudden power inflation,
it still revealed Jiang Liuer had temporarily transcended mortal constraints!
Moreover, uncertain whether Elder Tang Sanzang's gifted golden elixir carried strange side effects, Jiang Liuer found himself struggling to suppress rising ferocity, bloodlust, and murderous aura.
When locking eyes with the demonic dragon again, all oppressive sensations had vanished.
His sword finger rose, the Heaven-Subduing Sea Sword tearing through the air.
Overwhelming crisis made Ao Yi break into cold sweat, baffled how a single golden pill could transform the youth into a celestial warrior.
Ao Yi roared: "Petty tricks! Witness my umbrella shatter them!"
Channeling magic energy, his Precious Canopy Umbrella instantly unfurled –
spanning miles across,
blotting out the sky!
Resentment from hundreds of thousands transitioning from painful existence to agonizing death materialized into demonic energy cascading downward, thousands of tendrils assaulting the Heaven-Subduing Sword.
Continuous explosions shook the region, startling all Jiangzhou.
Unaware citizens marveled at the unusually loud thunder,
while malevolent spirits trembled in terror.
The Heaven-Subduing Sword pierced through the demonic storm, forcing Ao Yi to parry with his umbrella. The impact sent him staggering back, face contorted in shock.
Looking up, Ao Yi's pupils contracted – Jiang Liuer had closed the gap wielding the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle.
A heavy downward strike forced another desperate block,
unexpectedly punching a gaping hole through the umbrella's canopy.
Under radiant Buddhist light, the umbrella's accumulated resentment rapidly dissolved.
"What Buddhist treasure is this?!"
Ao Yi panicked, vaguely recognizing the pestle but lacking time for recollection. Abandoning decorum, he rolled aside clumsily to evade another strike.
Bellowing in rage: "Skilled brat! Those artifacts are formidable indeed! Dare face me weaponless with true martial prowess!"
Jiang Liuer formed another sword seal, the Heaven-Subduing Sword multiplying into ten thousand blades raining down like torrential storm.
Simultaneously hammering the pestle's holy radiance towards Ao Yi's crown, aiming to split the demonic skull:
"Elder Faming warned against provocation – mere deceitful taunts."
Remembering past mistakes when goaded into public violence,
now wiser against such ploys.
"Artifact mastery is true capability!"
The pestle's strike sent dragon blood splattering, Ao Yi howling as he retreated. Amidst the sword downpour, the demonic dragon desperately reopened his umbrella.
Gritting through pain, the canopy blocked most blades –
yet the prime Heaven-Subduing Sword pierced through, forcing Ao Yi to snap his umbrella shut, trapping the divine blade within.
"This dragon palace treasure is mine!" Ao Yi exulted through pain.
Unfazed, Jiang Liuer twirled his fingers –
the sword burst through the canopy, its edge grazing the dragon's snout and drawing blood.
Catching the damaged umbrella,
Jiang Liuer recalled his hovering sword.
"This wicked artifact is mine now," he echoed mockingly.
Ao Yi's scaled face flushed green then crimson.
The Precious Canopy Umbrella, painstakingly refined to complement his cultivation path towards longevity,
now stolen!
"Don't get cocky!" Ao Yi thundered: "My draconic blood grants peerless physique and martial prowess!"
Spitting out twin swords – male blade like short spear, female shorter than Jiang's sword –
the demonic dragon charged. True to his boast, each strike carried mountain-sundering force.
Jiang Liuer dual-wielded sword and pestle in close combat –
clashing explosively,
shockwaves collapsing government buildings.
Officials fled screaming "earthquake!",
as three deities scrambled away.
'Can't endanger civilians here,' Jiang Liuer invoked Nether Passage, dragging Ao Yi into the underworld.
Underworld guards sighed at another living intruder,
then gaped as human and demon battled fiercely –
weapon clashes echoing like war drums and thunder.
Ao Yi's blades sparked harmlessly against Jiang's toughened flesh,
while a pestle strike nearly dislodged the dragon's soul.
Enraged, Ao Yi speared divine lightning –
Jiang Liuer dodged but got blasted miles away.
The dragon gave chase, desperate to reclaim his umbrella now stored in Jiang's spatial ring.
Pale underworld guards muttered: "Since when was that child so powerful?"
"What deity is that dragon?"
......
Ao Yi loosed more lightning,
but Jiang Liuer unfurled the stolen umbrella.
"NO!" Ao Yi's eyes bulged.
BOOM!!!
The yang-aligned lightning proved the canopy's bane,
blasting another hole through the treasured artifact.
Heart bleeding, Ao Yi attacked with twin blades.
Storing the tattered umbrella, Jiang Liuer invoked Mountain-Bearing Seal –
gaining titanic strength: "I've deciphered your patterns. You're no match now."
"Arrogance!" Ao Yi swung his male sword.
The collision shattered the dragon's grip,
female blade's thrust deflected by the pestle –
SNAP!
The demonic blade's tip broke.
Jiang Liuer rammed the pestle into Ao Yi's dantian –
"URK!" Dragon blood sprayed as Ao Yi cratered a small underworld hill, dust pluming skyward.
Struggling up with gut wound,
Ao Yi growled: "I wished not to use this, lest attracting attention..."
His spirit disgorged a bowl-sized luminous pearl –
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