39 Sword Art of the Pale Dragon!

Since she hugged Zhou Yan's body as tightly as she physically could, it would be impossible for her to be oblivious of the rising manhood. However, she persisted.

He was a little flirtatious, but he was able to buckle down and be serious just for her sake.

Was this not enough?

As she pondered, both her eyes were completely in a trance of love, thus, she did not attempt to hide away her feelings as she graced Zhou Yan her soft, tender lips.

Zhou Yan, on the other hand, could very clearly feel Gu Xi's most sincere feelings. He felt warm in his heart and without a moment of hesitation, he proceeded to kiss her lips passionately.

However, his hands were not as honest as they slid underneath Gu Xi's dress and proceeded to passionately grab onto her smooth, white round dough. He played with it to his heart's content.

…

Thus, evening sun rays peeked through the clouds.

This time around, Zhou Yan sent Gu Xi off alone—even Gu Yan was not present.

Gu Yan was aware of Zhou Yan's incredible combat prowess and so they left in an extremely low profile state. Since the Gu family had been dissolved, the finances of the Gu family were all gone so it would never draw any unwanted attention to them.

Besides, Gu Xi was a pupil of the Temple of the Frost Blades. Judging from her status and powers, no common-folk would dare to be on bad terms with her.

After saying his farewells to his daughter at home, Gu Yan did not follow them and left the remaining time to the reluctant-to-separate lovers.

At the moment, Zhou Yan had already sent Gu Xi out of the main gates of the City of Heavenly Prophecies and were closing in on the vicinity of the Mountains of Heavenly Prophecies.

"Brother Zhou Yan, you should return now. The senior pupils of my sect will be coming to pick me up in a short while. I had destroyed the carriage that belongs to my sect, hence I'm unable to be in contact with anyone from my sect since alchemy symbols that were in the carriage are in ruins."

Gu Xi was incredibly reluctant to part with Zhou Yan. However, she was forced to face it, hence she willed herself to collect her emotions.

"Then I'll wait till the people of your sect come pick you up, only then will I leave, since I was in solitary confinement in recent days and had been ignoring you."

"Brother Zhou Yan, being in solitary confinement is the right thing to do. If you were to abandon your training for my sake, I would regret it… My seniors are here."

As Gu Xi spoke, her gaze was focused at a distance.

There were four young ladies wearing white silk dresses, each riding on a pegasus that was pulling a carriage. Like a rainbow, it was drifting closer toward where the duo stood.

This was a unique sight to witness since the pupils in that sect had such a method of transportation.

From the perspective of any regular scholars, such a method of transportation was extremely excessive and luxurious. However, after witnessing the prismatic wagon from the arrival of the Lady of the Snow-Jaded Palace and knowing it was an even more luxurious and majestic scene, Zhou Yan was extremely calm.

While staring at the carriage, Zhou Yan unleashed his detection skill of his soul, and with a little sensing from his soul, the power level and the appearance of both women that were present in the carriage manifested into his mind.

Both of these ladies were wearing white dresses. The clothes the ladies wore had a better spiritual affinity than the women riding on those pegasuses outside. A long silver sword sigil was visible on these maiden's dresses.

Amongst both of these ladies, there was one who had a fit and slender body with a slightly mature appearance, the other one looked slender and adorable and seemed like she was still very young.

Judging from their combat prowess, one had ascended to the first rank in the realm of the Blade's Menace and the other was in the third rank of the realm of the Blade's Essence.

Even though Zhou Yan had unleashed his Soul's detection ability twice, none of them had a clue about Zhou Yan's presence.

When Zhou Yan withdrew his Soul's ability, that carriage had landed not far from Gu Xi.

When the doors opened, both ladies proceeded to step out of the carriage. These women glanced at Zhou Yan before an impressed and surprised gaze reflected in their eyes. It was only after that did they look at Gu Xi.

"Sister, when your carriage was fully destroyed your seal wasn't broken so we didn't rush to you at that time. 

"Since you've already had your vacation at your home for so long, master told you to come back for your training to hasten the process of becoming a Blade's Enforcer so you may ascend into the realm of the Blade's Menace."

"Yes, I understand, Ninth Sister, Youngest Sister. Then… Allow me to say a few words to Brother Zhou Yan before we part."

Gu Xi nodded. She knew it was all due to the high hopes and respect her master had for her to have graced her with such a treatment. Or else, why would her master care so deeply for her when there were plenty of other pupils in her sect?

"Thirteenth Sister, is this your infamous lover brother?" A tiny slender and adorable young lady who stood next to the quiet young lady spoke while she blinked in a teasing manner toward Zhou Yan.

"Yes...Yes, he is."

Gu Xi's face was slightly blushing and admitted almost immediately.

"Whoa...Thirteenth Sister, you truly know how to pick your lover though. Just look at how handsome he is."

That tiny slender looking young lady replied with a surprised tone.

"Youngest Sister, how could you say such a thing, hurry up and...apologize to Sir Zhou now."

The Ninth sister was also slightly blushing as she was ashamed of how bluntly the Youngest Sister was speaking.

"Oh it's fine. I won't be offended when the Youngest Sister speaks the truth with her blunt nature."

Zhou Yan replied with a gentle smile. He thought about how nice these pupils of the Temple of the Frosted Blades were since their personality seemed grounded.

"See, all I was saying was merely the truth. Only pretentious people will be resented!"

The Youngest Sister added.

Before Zhou Yan had a chance to speak, his body suddenly shivered slightly and shifted his gaze to a distant horizon.

After noticing Zhou Yan's behavior, the trio of women grew curious.

"You've been following for some time now. Show yourself!"

Zhou Yan spoke with a cold tone.

"Show yourself!... Show yourself… Show yourself…"

His voice echoed in the nearby forest as it resonated all around the area.

However, the entire area was deafeningly silent since there were not any drastic movements that could be detected.

"Xie Feng, as minor and insignificant as you are, you're still a man of reputation. Could you not cower? You don't even dare to yourself?"

Zhou Yan scoffed as his gaze was filled to the brim with absolute disdain.

"Hmph, I never expected a useless trash such as you could detect my presence! So be it. Today, I shall allow you to die in glory!

"But before that, I shall enlighten you with what exactly is 'Raping before murder'!"

"Elders from the tavern, it was this brat! His Infinite Spatial Ring contains at least a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals. I witnessed him gifting three Armor of Absolute Invincibility without even flinching!"

Xie Feng spoke to several elders who stood next to him.

All four elders were indescribably old as all of their faces looked exactly like shriveled up trees.

Not even the slightest hint of Blade's Essence could be detected from these elders. They were standing idly by and were like a blade that had been stripped away of its sharp edge by the sands of time!

However, this was the Blade's Menace of Hidden Restrain!

Only extremely powerful elders of the Blade's Menace could master such form of Blade's Menace!

When Zhou Yan glanced over to those elders, all four of them looked directly at him at the same time. All four of their gazes were like a bronze gong. Then instantly, all of them unleashed two rays of light toward Zhou Yan's body!

If Zhou Yan was to take a direct hit from a gaze filled with Blade's Menace, he would undoubtedly be mortally wounded in an instant!

However, he feared nothing. As the blade's light was approaching him, with a gentle twitch of his hand, Silver Frost that was being carried on his back instantly fell into his hand.

He unleashed a series of rippling waves from the sword in his hand followed by a series of 'Swooshing' sounds. He had immediately extinguished that menacing light that was being unleashed from the eyes of all four elders.

"Hmm?"

Amongst all four elders, two of which let out a confused sound. However, the remaining two stood like the undead, silent and emotionless.

Every move from their seemingly shriveled up old bodies was filled to the brim with a heavy wave of bloodlust.

"It seems I've underestimated you for having such a skill! However, the more toys you possess, the more excited I would be! That's because in a few moments, all of those will be mine." 

As Xie Feng cackled, a menacing gaze was reflected from his eyes.

Those were the gaze of a viper.

"Stay alert and be careful sister, these four elders are powerful foes in the realm of the Blade's Menace!"

The Ninth Sister who stood behind Gu Xi spoke with an extremely serious look on her face.

"There's no need to worry."

While Zhou Yan was staring at Xie Feng, he had an extremely calm expression.

Since there was no longer a need for him to hold back his powers, he immediately unleashed his Blade's Menace.

"Blade's... Blade's Menace?"

"Impossible! Impossible! You're nothing more than useless trash—a b*stard child. How could you possibly awaken your Blade's Menace? Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

When Xie Feng felt a strong menacing wave of Blade's Menace, his entire expression drastically changed and both his eyes were instantly bloodshot red—he looked inhumanly furious.

However, Zhou Yan said nothing. Instead, he cracked an extremely sinister smile in the face of the entire group of people who were ready for combat from their deadlock formation.

"Silver Frost, today, I shall use your body to manifest the first form of the Sword Art of the Dragon… Pale Dragon's Blade!"

Zhou Yan only bothered to speak to himself, as if he had completely ignored the existence of this group of people. However, his sinister grin made all four elders extremely nervous and the guard they kept up had seemingly been reinforced.

Thus, Silver Frost danced in the air while emanating a cheerful buzz.

With a single tap of Silver Frost's body, every ounce of blood within Zhou Yan's body began to boil and the double-helical Qi Column began to rotate. At the same time, every single meridian channel within his body was flowing smoothly as an immeasurable amount of energy was raging within him!

Silver Frost alone was a spiritual blade, and even on its own was already incredibly powerful since a single Blade's Menace from Silver Frost was capable of murdering Zhou Yan with an instant.

With the additional energy pouring into Silver Frost from the energy from the enormous blade within his forehead, Silver Frost unleashed an explosion of ancient essence.

The instant this essence was unleashed, the faces of all four elders instantly morphed into a drastic expression of pure fear.

Without any hesitation, the four elders instantly retreated in a manic episode!

An enormous explosion of energy was unleashed within their shriveled up bodies—energy that was more than ten times stronger and potent than the attack they unleashed moments earlier!

Not a single soul was able to imagine these shriveled up old bodies of these elders could unleash such powerful energy and at the same time had an explosion of Blade's Menace of such caliber.

However, as powerful as these men were, they were retreating as if their lives depended on it!

Standing behind Zhou Yan were both the Ninth and Youngest Sisters in addition to the four maidens who rode on the pegasus. They were all stunned by such a display of power.

Gu Xi, on the other hand, was shocked beyond belief!

"Buzz..."

From within Silver Frost's body, a menacing green dragon manifested itself. After it roared and raged, this green dragon split into five projections and shot out in five different directions.

This ancient beast of the gods was seemingly raging from both the heavens and earth!