Chapter 134: Stegosaurus

"Yes!"

The fat man led the four disciples to resume their patrol. If one looked closely under the moonlight, this fat man was none of other than Nan Bowan, the one Ye Wuya had sent flying into the sky at the martial arts arena that night!

Ever since receiving Ye Wuya's special guidance, Nan Bowan had broken through to the sixth stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm!

He had leaped two consecutive realms in one go!

This filled the fat man with endless gratitude toward Ye Wuya...

After leaving the Azure Cloud Sect, Ye Wuya still felt a lingering sense of insecurity. He hoisted the red dragonfish on his shoulder and bolted through the night once more.

After crossing four or five mountain ranges, Ye Wuya finally came to a halt by a small river.

Looking around and finding no signs of human activity, he tossed the red dragonfish onto the riverbank.

He drew the blue longsword from his Sword Domain. Ever since he discovered that the Sword Domain could store swords, Ye Wuya had kept this blade, which had accompanied him for over half a year, inside it.

Taking it out now was naturally to deal with this red dragonfish.

With practiced movements, he scaled the fish, gutted it, washed it clean in the river, and felled a large tree, lopping off two sections with a couple of sword strokes!

A huge grilling rack was quickly fashioned by Ye Wuya.

He placed the fish onto the rack and gathered a large pile of dry firewood!

Taking seasonings from his universe pouch, he rubbed them all over the red dragonfish, and then produced a red fire talisman, his mind stirring!

The fire talisman spewed brilliant flames, bursting into a roaring blaze with a crackling sound.

"Mission accomplished!"

Ye Wuya smiled, continuously feeding firewood into the fire. The blazing flames illuminated his face.

His lonely figure sat there, quietly waiting for the red dragonfish to roast.

Staring blankly into the raging fire, the scene of the two young women being dragged away by that elder replayed in his mind, everything feeling as though it had happened just yesterday!

His eyes grew moist, and clenching his teeth fiercely, he muttered with bitter resolve: "Just you wait for your Lord Ya! The grievance of having my wife taken away—if Lord Ya does not avenge this, I am no man!"

Ye Wuya's mood was unimaginably heavy!

The very first girl he laid eyes on when he arrived in this world was Ye Ruyue!

If not for Ye Ruyue's kindness, he, Ye Wuya, would never have survived to this day!

Kind-hearted girls were always so foolishly endearing that it broke one's heart! Not just Ye Ruyue, but Ye Ruoxue was much the same.

Because of just a few words from Ye Wuya, the two girls had given up so much, offering their most precious treasures.

Including their lives, and everything they had.

"And Qing'er too, such a fool..."

At the mere thought of this, Ye Wuya was consumed by hatred!

Hatred for his own incompetence!

Had he not been good for nothing, the three girls would neither have left nor been taken away.

Feeling utterly depressed, he looked at the red dragonfish, which was almost fully roasted, sliced off a piece, and ate it with a tasteless detachment.

He tore into the meat savagely, as if chewing the flesh of the elder who had taken the two women away.

The moon was now directly overhead!

The flawless white moonlight, however, looked exceptionally ghastly.

The lake surface reflected the moonlight, the campfire, and a human figure!

A chilly night breeze swept past, the flames flickered, and ripples spread across the lake, glittering with silver light.

This three-meter-long red dragonfish had been eaten by Ye Wuya down to mere skeletal remains.

Wiping his mouth, he murmured, "That barely makes it seven-tenths full!"

Such a huge fish, and it only provided seven-tenths of his fill? Was this stomach a rice bucket, or rather, a rice vat?

Picking up the blue longsword in his hand, Ye Wuya stood up, and a sword materialized out of thin air.

Then came the second, the third!

He didn't stop until ten swords had appeared.

With a wave of his hand, the ten swords flew out, circled around, and flew back toward his position.

Passing behind Ye Wuya, they slowly sank into the void and vanished.

Immediately afterward, these ten swords emerged one by one from ten meters away.

They plunged into the void once more and disappeared from sight.

"Boom!"

With a loud crash, a large tree twenty meters away from Ye Wuya was pierced through by the ten swords.

Sword qi erupted, and the large tree was seemingly fed into a shredding machine, turning into a sky full of wood fragments.

Twenty meters was precisely the range of Ye Wuya's Sword Domain.

Ye Wuya recalled the swords!

With the Sword Domain gaining the ability to store items, Ye Wuya's methods had also multiplied.

These swords could be described as sudden and unpreventable, impossible to guard against.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Twenty swords slowly materialized!

Ye Wuya waved his hand toward a massive boulder in the distance, and the twenty swords flashed past swiftly, vanishing midway. When they reappeared, they were already behind that boulder.

Twenty holes perforated the surface of the boulder!

"This still isn't enough!" Ye Wuya murmured softly!

Although these swords could submerge into the Sword Domain and be released anywhere within its range to achieve a stealthy and unpredictable effect, while this effect was wonderful, the lethality was still far too lacking.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Wuya decided to increase the number of swords!

If the quantity reached a certain level, would the lethality increase as well?

Thinking of it, he acted!

This time, dense, glittering spots of cold light appeared around Ye Wuya. Upon closer inspection, those cold glints were actually emitted by the tips of countless swords.

"Go!"

With a mighty shout from Ye Wuya, a hundred swords roared forward!

They pierced straight through the dense forest ahead!

A hundred swords of varying sizes moved together in a tight formation, resembling a school of fish.

"This is still not enough!" Ye Wuya sighed.

How could he make the power greater?

Standing atop two swords, Ye Wuya stroked his chin in deep thought.

Swords hovered in mid-air, and Ye Wuya walked across them; the moment his foot stepped onto another sword, the previous one automatically glided to the front.

Walking on swords while deep in thought!

Holding two swords in his hands, he clinked them together with a "clang, clang," then casually tossed the sword from his left hand to be caught by his right.

"Huh?"

Ye Wuya took note of this subconscious action, and holding both swords in his right hand, he pondered further!

Suddenly slapping his head, he blurted out, "Damn it, why didn't Lord Ya think of this sooner?"

"Transformation!"

"Since these swords can be manipulated entirely at will, can they also form a single object, or even a living creature?"

Having conceived this idea, Ye Wuya summoned another hundred swords!

These two hundred swords continuously morphed into the shapes he envisioned in his mind!

Rectangles, squares, circles, trapezoids!

All kinds of shapes shifted and transformed freely. Ye Wuya made the two hundred swords collide and grind against one another!

"No! The power is still not enough!"

"Swords, come!"

With another thunderous roar from Ye Wuya, swords vied with one another to appear at rapid speed!

Around a thousand swords manifested in total!

"Aggregate!"

Ye Wuya roared again! Several thousand swords intertwined like mechanical components with crisp clanging sounds!

Soon, a huge dragon head appeared, followed by the dragon body, dragon claws, and dragon tail!

A ten-meter-long sword dragon appeared before Ye Wuya in all its majestic glory!

"Still no good. Controlling so many swords all at once disperses my spiritual awareness too much, weakening my control over the swords a little!"

Ye Wuya discovered that controlling a thousand swords simultaneously to form a sword dragon scattered his controlling intent, making the sword dragon somewhat uncoordinated.