Chapter 149 - The Summoning Of The Greatsword (2/2)
Nearing Ju Feng, the elemental manifested massive claws and swung them towards him. The young cultivator ducked and spun around, letting momentum carry the blade into the elemental belly and on through its body. The elemental howled as it stopped and turned. It looked at the greatsword again in fury. Slowly, it raised one claw after the other. Then all of a sudden, it blurred towards Ju Feng in different after images.
Seeing the deadly attack , Ju Feng swung the sword in circles. The attack of the elental collided with the great sword, knocking Ju Feng flying. To Ju Feng, it felt like a titan hammer had been slammed down on him. It drained a bit of energy from him, reeling him for a moment. The elemental saw its advantage and moved. Instictly, Ju Feng slashed wildly upwards and felt the greatsword cut something, momentarily driving the elemental off.
The elemental seemed to be wary of the greatsword now. It was trying to avoid the sword by all means. Watching the sword, the elemental attacked again. But this time Ju Feng was prepared, riding the blow as he cut to the knee, then reversing his blade and ripping it up into the groin, and right through to the elemental's shoulder.
Again the creature screamed, but the cuts, heavy impacts as Ju Feng felt them, seemed to pass through and out without causing any obvious damage other than a blaze in the water of its body as the greatsword cut through it. Ju Feng wished he knew any sword technique now. If he was fighting the water sword elemental, he would have been dead since. This elemental was fast, but far from the level of the one he encountered at the Deathkeep.
Ju Feng gave steady ground, cutting forward again and again, until at last the elemental seemed to slow and he felt his chance come. With every scrap of a premier's power and speed, he slashed and tore at his enemy, using the size of the sword as a defensive shield while following each blow with another. The elemental reeled under his furious assault and squealed like a wounded boar before bursting apart into a sudden torrent of water.
Ju Feng stopped and looked around at the puddle of water he was standing in. There was no sign of the elemental. The still air above seemed frozen with shock at the raw power of the greatsword. He noticed his breathing again, ragged through his tight throat, and then the sounds of the valley once more rushed back to him. His toes twitched automatically as he felt the chill of the water invading his straw boots and that brought him much needed relief.
After some seconds, he looked at the greatsword and put it inside his spatial sac. He was supposed to pull it into his soul space but he hadn't opened his soul space yet. If he was to loose his weapon before forming his soul space, he would never be able to have another one until he entered reincarnation.
The darkness covering the valley disappeared. The seal blocking the entrance to his section of the valley also vanished. Ju Feng slowly made his way to the entrance just as the other four bloods too were leaving their own sections. There was no way for the bloods present to know who had the cosmic weapon among the five that exited the summoning grounds.
Outside the entrance, Ju Feng stopped and looked around. He was holding the generic sword. Others present didn't pay him much attention after seeing his soul weapon. Realizing no one was paying attention to him, he quickly made his towards the main entrance. He was about to exit when he heard his name.
”Ju Feng?”