The reincarnation pen didn't know if there was enough time, but it knew that this lightning bolt was determined to kill Bai Shengyi.
The dark, purplish lightning struck with a deafening roar, carrying an oppressive pressure, sweeping down like autumn wind scattering fallen leaves, swift, rapid, and filled with killing intent.
"Come on!"
Bai Shengyi no longer thought of yielding. She flicked her sleeve, raised her head, and shouted, "This grandma is determined to forge her own path of reincarnation today!"
The long sword that the reincarnation pen had transformed into was quickly covered with layers of spiritual light. The hilt twisted nimbly, and Bai Shengyi leaped into the air, meeting the dark lightning with her sword.
"Boundless!"
The sword moved with her heart, and her heart followed the sword. As if sensing something, the Art of True Words was naturally infused into the sword body, and the rules of time she had comprehended were layered upon it.
"Annihilate!"
The sword tip burst forth with a dazzling radiance, even more blinding than the lightning. Immediately after, a deafening collision resounded. The lightning was actually blocked by Bai Shengyi.
However, the reincarnation pen also lost its ability to transform, returning to its original form as a brush.
Bai Shengyi knelt on the ground, raising a hand to wipe the bright red blood from her lips. Her beautiful face was filled with an oppressive coldness. Her gaze swept over her trembling hand, which was tightly gripping the brush. She said in a low voice to the reincarnation pen, "Little Reincarnation, send me to the time passage."
Today, she was determined to shatter this sky!
What about the heavenly law?
If she could shatter the sky once, she could shatter it a second and a third time!
The path she wished to tread, even if all the celestial kings came, she would not yield!
"Crack..." A faint sound seemed to echo, and Bai Shengyi felt a sudden lightness throughout her body.
Her state of mind, under such circumstances, had surprisingly advanced another level.
Yue Shuxin, whom Bai Shengyi had been carrying on her back all along, was now to enter the time passage. Bai Shengyi hesitated for a moment, but still decided to take Yue Shuxin with her.
Although the time passage was dangerous, compared to this treacherous and perilous swamp, she felt it was safer to keep Yue Shuxin by her side.
In the sky above, amidst the surging lightning, a narrow eye suddenly appeared. At that moment, the entire Shenqi Continent, including the cultivators of the Shenqi world, sensed a probing gaze that made their souls tremble.
"Who is it?"
"Who is so presumptuous?"
In the Shenqi world, the voices of numerous Mahayana cultivators, filled with anger and vigilance, rang out one after another.
But no one could answer.
Instead, the probing sensation soon dissipated, but the series of events it triggered had just begun to unfold in the Shenqi world.
Outside the swamp, clouds rapidly gathered and floated into the swamp, obscuring the hundreds of meters long eye.
This small act of resistance seemed to anger the eye, and several bolts of lightning struck down, directly scattering the clouds. Just as the lightning was about to continue, the air rippled, and Bai Shengyi emerged from the time passage.
In her hand, she held a long sword.
It was a sword inlaid with various colorful gemstones, yet it was mottled with rust.
It was the Divine Sword Tianji.
She caressed this sword, which felt both unfamiliar and incredibly familiar, and even though it looked like a piece of scrap iron at the moment, she still felt her heart surge with emotion.
A surge of heroism welled up within her.
"Heavenly Secret Sword, severing heavenly secrets and breaking karma." The sword tip pointed directly at the sky. "Tell me, if I break this heaven, what can you do to me?"
"Rumble!"
The thunder roared and raged, as if enraged by Bai Shengyi's wild untamed spirit. Two more thick, deep purple bolts of lightning rapidly condensed and followed, surging downwards.
The reincarnation pen had fallen into slumber. Bai Shengyi hung the brush on her body, placed Yue Shuxin aside, formed a barrier with her hand seals, and then charged forward with her sword.
"Come!"
Lightning exploded, sparks flying everywhere.
The lightning traveled through the sword to her hand, causing pain and numbness to wrack her body, yet she remained unafraid, tilting her head and continuing, "Again!"
"Rumble... rumble..."
From within the sea of lightning, the furious voice of the heavenly law seemed to echo.
Bai Shengyi sneered, and with one hand, she took the half-blossomed border wall lone flower presented by the Qingmeng Vine and tossed it into her mouth.
She was breaking through forcefully once more!
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured into her body, but it could not compare to her sharp and imposing aura.
"I've already done it, what is there to fear?" Bai Shengyi shouted. "You're the one who's afraid, aren't you? A coward hiding behind the clouds!"
Did she not discover it? That voice came from behind the clouds.
Gray clouds, vastly different from the lightning clouds, floated above the lightning clouds. As if hearing Bai Shengyi's words, they trembled slightly.
"Spring Swan's First Sword, Blooming!"
"Spring Swan's Second Sword, Wither and Flourish!"
"Spring Swan's Third Sword, Boundless!"
With all three swords unleashed, Bai Shengyi had reached the lightning clouds. In her left hand was the reincarnation pen, and in her right, the Heavenly Secret Sword. Her Dao heart soared from within her body, its radiance falling upon the tip of the brush and sword. With a wave of the brush and a slash of the sword—
"Break for this grandma!"
A strike imbued with infinite time and a firm Dao heart pierced through the lightning clouds, directly targeting the narrow eye.
"Ah!"
"Crack crack crack..."
A scream mingled with the shattering of the firmament. Bai Shengyi, unable to observe, was completely captivated by the magnificent scene before her.
Beyond the sky, behind the heavenly law, lay a boundless and vast river of stars.
The Star Chessboard, which she had collected from the time passage earlier, suddenly flew out of Bai Shengyi's storage bag and landed directly in the shattered gap. Myriad starlight flowed into it like a waterfall, and at the same time, a slender beam of light flowed into the Heavenly Secret Sword in Bai Shengyi's hand.
The rust on the Heavenly Secret Sword had diminished considerably.
However, the river of stars soon vanished, and the shattered area transformed into a bottomless, dark abyss.
But the grand and majestic sense of immersion, the feeling of insignificance beneath the vast and towering presence, lingered in Bai Shengyi's heart for a long time.
Holding the sword and brush, Bai Shengyi felt a surge of heroism and emotion.
It was no wonder that cultivators like Li Tingyun, at the Mahayana stage, would go to great lengths to ascend, and no wonder that countless people in the cultivation world pursued advancement and breakthroughs. If it were her, she would also want to advance further, and further still.
After all, there was always a sky beyond the sky. The Shenqi Continent, beneath the river of stars, was so tiny, as if it could be erased from the annals of history in a fleeting moment. Only by moving forward and upward step by step could one see a vaster world and encounter more magnificent scenery.
And if one ascended the heavenly ladder, they could pluck stars with their own hands.
Who wouldn't want that?
Just as Bai Shengyi was lost in thought, the sound of lightning before her pulled her back.
Since that scream, the lightning had stopped striking her. Instead, all the gray clouds had gathered together, surging towards the deepest part.
A figure suddenly appeared within the gray clouds.
Luxurious red robes and narrow phoenix eyes.
"A Si?"
Bai Shengyi hurriedly chased after him, but her path was blocked by a wall of ice constructed from frost.
Qin Si looked at her emotionlessly and shouted coldly, "Scram!"