Chapter 449: Celestial Mirror Order

At this very moment, Jun Wushuang gestured, suddenly recalling his Divine Sun Sword. He then took a step forward, arriving in the deep crater where Gu Muyun had fallen, and said coolly, "Junior Sister Muyun, you've lost!"

But the moment the words left his lips.

BANG!

A loud crash.

A wild cloud of sand suddenly erupted from the crater, and Gu Muyun's white-robed figure shot out with a WHOOSH. "No! I can still fight!"

Jun Wushuang looked at Gu Muyun, her hair disheveled and her face pale, and shook his head indifferently. "Junior Sister Muyun, the Spiritual Power in your Dantian is nearly depleted. How can you possibly continue to fight me?"

Yet, Gu Muyun's eyes were resolute. "It's not over until the very end!"

As she spoke.

CLANG!

A resonant phoenix cry suddenly rang out from within her body.

Immediately after, a massive phantom of a Nine Heavens Ice Phoenix flew out from her body. It spread its huge wings and charged upward, crashing straight toward Jun Wushuang.

Jun Wushuang silently shook his head again. He simply raised the Divine Sun Sword and slowly brought it down. A flash of crimson light streaked across the sky.

The Nine Heavens Ice Phoenix phantom threw its head back with a startled cry before it shattered with a BANG in the sky.

But when the Nine Heavens Ice Phoenix vanished, Gu Muyun, who should have been behind it, had suddenly disappeared.

Jun Wushuang froze for a moment. He turned his head to see four or five identical Gu Muyuns appearing all around him, surrounding him from every direction.

'Petty tricks!'

A slight smile touched Jun Wushuang's lips as he struck out with his Divine Sun Sword. In an instant, one of the Gu Muyuns turned into ice crystals and shattered upon the desert sands.

But just as Jun Wushuang cut down one Gu Muyun, another one nearby flickered and split in two, becoming two people.

After that, Gu Muyun stopped confronting Jun Wushuang head-on, instead using her clones to constantly harass him from the sides and rear.

「Meanwhile, as Gu Muyun and Jun Wushuang fought.」

Inside Stone City, Shen Daoxing moved forward with extreme caution. After each step, he would pause to confirm there was no danger before slowly proceeding.

TAP! TAP! TAP!

Shen Daoxing's feet tapped lightly as he ran across the top of a stone house. He leaped up, landing on the roof of a three-story stone building. The view suddenly opened up before him, revealing a large lake in the very center of Stone City.

And on a small island in the middle of the lake, a majestic Stone Palace was situated.

Above the Stone Palace, a dark green Jade Token floated, rotating slowly.

Shen Daoxing couldn't help but feel a surge of joy. He just needed to cross this lake to get the Celestial Mirror Order.

But just as he was about to move again...

The ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled. The roof of the stone house cracked open, and a bright red tentacle violently lashed out.

Startled, Shen Daoxing narrowly dodged backward.

The terrifying tentacle extended, curled gently in the air, and snagged a passing Spirit Bird. Then, with a SWISH, it rapidly retracted.

It turned out the terrifying tentacle was just trying to catch the Spirit Bird and hadn't noticed Shen Daoxing at all.

Shen Daoxing couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

He then waited for a good while. Seeing no further movement, he continued forward, leaping down into the lake and swimming toward the central island.

The monster was sensitive to Spiritual Power, and using it would easily get him discovered. Shen Daoxing couldn't use Sword Flight; his only option was to swim toward the center of the island.

Outside Stone City, Wan Hai, Gu Tianyao, and Tang Yi watched Shen Daoxing's relentless progress with worried expressions.

A short while later, Shen Daoxing had swum to the center of the lake. He was about to reach the island.

Suddenly, his feet touched something soft and squishy.

Shen Daoxing couldn't help but look down. He saw an enormous, round, red head lurking beneath the lake's surface.

This red head was unbelievably massive, even larger than the Stone Imperial Palace at the lake's center. From beneath it, countless thousands of tentacles spread out, burrowing into the mud below.

This red monster was none other than the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter.

Fortunately, at this moment, the hundreds upon thousands of eyes on the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter's round head were all tightly shut, as if it were in a deep sleep.

But suddenly, a hideous eye right beneath Shen Daoxing's feet snapped open. Shen Daoxing immediately moved, hiding behind the eye itself.

The eye's pupil rolled around a few times. Finding nothing, it slowly closed again, returning to sleep.

Seeing the hideous eye completely shut, Shen Daoxing slowly continued forward.

Before long, he finally reached the island at the center of the lake. A majestic Stone Imperial Palace stood tall in the middle of the island. He was not far from the Celestial Mirror Order.

Without hesitation, Shen Daoxing tapped his toes lightly on the ground and leaped up, tracing a graceful arc through the air to land on the Stone Palace's outer wall. He then leaped again, his toes tapping repeatedly against the palace wall as he scaled it.

Without any mishap, Shen Daoxing leaped up and landed softly. He had finally reached the roof of the Stone Palace. Before him, a dark green Jade Token floated, rotating slowly.

Shen Daoxing suddenly reached out his hand and grabbed the Jade Token.

In that instant, a dazzling light flared from the center of the Jade Token.

"He did it! Shen Daoxing did it! He got the Celestial Mirror Order!"

Outside Stone City, Wan Hai and Gu Tianyao saw the beam of light erupting from the city's center and were immediately overjoyed.

「On the other side.」

"Great Sun!"

Jun Wushuang pointed a finger forward, and a round sun shot out, smashing one of Gu Muyun's clones into a shower of ice crystals.

Yet, just as Jun Wushuang shattered one clone, another Gu Muyun nearby flickered and split, creating yet another copy of herself.

They were completely endless.

Jun Wushuang couldn't help but frown.

"Great Sun!"

He suddenly shouted, pointing a finger forward. A huge sun materialized out of thin air, hanging high in the sky.

Then, Jun Wushuang suddenly flung the Divine Sun Sword from his hand. With a WHOOSH, it struck the Great Sun in the sky.

BANG!

A deafening crash.

The Great Sun hanging high above abruptly shattered, raining down streaks of flame upon the desert with a sharp CRACKLE.

Gu Muyun's clones were struck by the flames.

BANG!

They instantly turned into a spray of ice crystals.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

...

Soon, all of Gu Muyun's clones were annihilated by the flames, leaving only Gu Muyun herself.

Jun Wushuang's eyes suddenly narrowed. He leaped up to catch the falling Divine Sun Sword, then flashed behind Gu Muyun in an instant.

Then, without a hint of hesitation or mercy for the woman before him, he raised the greatsword high and brutally slashed down.

BANG!

With a loud crash.

Gu Muyun suddenly exploded.

However, she merely turned into a shower of ice crystals. It wasn't her real body.