Once more

Hei Fengjue raised his head to witness the gazes of at least a hundred people on him. Within these hundred gazes was Hei xie, who was still struggling to hold the deadlock with Zhou He. However, with the sight of his son appearing, a cunning smile leaked off of his face. on the other hand, Zhou He had an extremely uncomfortable expression. Hei Fengjue's arrival signified that the deadlock could tip in the favor of the rebels. Hence, everyone on the side of the Zhou family began feeling uneasy.

Hei Fengjue began walking towards a group of guards with a smile on his face. He was nowhere near powerful but his actions were able to cause a complete change in the battle. His sword was unsheathed and qi gathered along it's blade. The 7th level Qi circulation guard who was on the side of the Zhou family was barely able to hold on against a guard from the rebellion side. He began to feel pain in his chest from the sharp realization of imminent death.

"Kacha!"

The blade came swinging down but Hei Fengjue lost his grip on the blade half way and the sword fell while the guard had a tear in his eye. A familiar sensation of pain rang in Hei Fengjue's body, a needle had pierced Hei Fengjue's shoulder once more.

Following this, the pool began to rumble again and another figure shot out from within. Zhou Xinqiu looked quite different from before. After beginning the process of unification, her body had grown increasingly mature and her beauty had also grown exponentially. On top of this however, a red glow pierced out from her eyes.

"Qiu er.." Zhou He couldn't help but smile but he also felt a sense of sadness. His fear of his beloved Qiu'er leaving had just got a lot more closer.

Zhou Xinqiu landed on the ground softly and walked even more slowly up to where Hei Fengjue was standing. "Zhou Xinqiu, you really haven't ceased to surpass my expectations! After all of the drama you caused, you are still somehow here standing before me wanting more! Ahaha, doesn't this give you a feeling of dejavú? Once more, you are standing in front of me thinking you can defeat me while being at a level of cultivation under me! Haven't you learned your lesson!?" Hei Fengjue had really begun to lose his mind after everything that had happened today and started to spew random nonsense out of his mouth.

"Ok" Zhou Xinqiu closed her eyes with an indifferent face. "If I lose then I lose at least it will tire you out"

"You think you can tire me out!?!?"

"Xinqiu, I believe he has reached the second level of Qi circulation. However, even if you have not unified your bloodline yet, just awakening it has caused your qi to be as dense as a third level qi circulation expert." Qin gong explained inside her mind.

"Yin martial plasma technique! Low earth technique!" The dark purple sphere of lightning gathered in between both of his palms again while a smile gathered on his face. To him, he had already secured victory.

Zhou Xinqiu spun the qi inside her body faster than before and her aura grew brighter. With her breakthrough, not only had her qi grown denser but her origin soul had also grown and one more jade had broken. Whether this was due to something Qin gong had done… Who would know?

The plasma orb begun spinning extremely fast just like last time before dashing straight towards Zhou Xinqiu and causing a sonic boom. Zhou Xinqiu raised her arm into a pose and an elegant illusory green jade sword appeared in front of her. This sword was the illusory sword created from the nine sword dance art. She grabbed its hilt with her soft fingers before waving it in the air. The orb was now just 15 feet away from her face. Although she wasn't really afraid, a feeling of pressure and fear shivered down her spine. This feeling was actually an effect of the qi sealed inside the purple orb. After all, great amounts of yin can cause such a reaction in even the strongest experts.

Zhou Xinqiu closed her eyes and her soul sense immediately spread out from her brows. Everything suddenly became even more clear to her than with just her eyes. She grabbed the sword with her other hand as well this time and placed her left leg back. As the orb approached even closer adrenaline rushed through her veins and an extremely exciting and pleasurable feeling corrupted her body.

With the time it took to blink once, Zhou Xinqiu, with all her strength, swung her sword straight at the orb.

"Slash!"

The sword completely sliced the orb into two pieces almost as if it was a knife slicing through butter. The smile on Hei Fengjue's face immediately disappeared and an exceedingly terrifying smile erupted from Zhou Xinqiu's face. "How does it feel? My below earth tier technique destroyed your earth tier technique!" Hei fengjue just finished processing what happened when Zhou Xinqiu began walking towards him. "Is this how you planned on doing it to those guards? Hm?" Her steps rung inside Hei Fengjue's mind and his body froze. Her terrifying smile had made him paralyzed. Zhou Xinqiu placed her hand on his chest before whispering "Ten bronze soul imprint." The imprint appeared straight inside his body without any resistance and his Qi was immobilized. He had basically turned into a meat statue now and he went flying towards a tree.

At this moment, she had finally awoken not just her body but her inner self as well. Everyone became quiet and stared at her with fear. This fear was obviously not from her strength but from an innate feeling of danger.. an innate feeling caused by a true demon.