The Four Elephant Sect couldn't possibly have so few people in action. People were hidden in nearby bamboo forests, and when Zhao Changhe caused trouble, they all rushed towards him. Many of them were at the Xuan Guan level seven or eight, highlighting the Four Elephant Sect's formidable strength. Zhao Changhe was like a small ant chased by a herd of elephants, fleeing into the bamboo forest.

Han Wubing was stunned. He didn't think it was this serious before. Did he fear that Han Wubing couldn't resist using his sword and put himself in danger?

Xia Chichi also frowned. Zhao Changhe would never intentionally harm himself unless he thought it was not good for him, but he couldn't convey the information and could only take risks. There must be something that everyone didn't know, which Zhao Changhe discovered in the past few days. Xia Chichi immediately ordered to stop the ceremony.

The elders were surprised. "Holy Maiden, it's just a troublemaker. It won't affect our ceremony." Xia Chichi sternly said, "You stop immediately! Are you the Holy Maiden or am I?" She took out the order from her superior and the elders reluctantly stopped.

Xia Chichi was about to find an excuse to help Zhao Changhe escape when she suddenly felt that something was wrong. The tremors from the lake didn't subside because of the cessation of the ceremony but became more obvious. The sword energy was so dense that even ordinary people could feel it.

"The Maitreya Sect is continuing to communicate with the spirit!" The Qinglong elder suddenly looked across the lake and saw a group of seemingly ordinary sword seekers. "Four Elephant Sect acts, and outsiders dare to interfere! Stay!"

The Maitreya Sect's argument was reasonable. They only wanted to see what the legendary ancient sword looked like. Since the Holy Maiden of the Four Elephant Sect gave up, they continued their actions and didn't interfere with the Four Elephant Sect's actions.

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However, the Four Elephant Sect was not a place where reason prevailed. The Qinglong elder didn't listen to the Maitreya Sect's words and attacked them. The scene began to chaos. A group of Four Elephant Sect powerhouses looked at their Holy Maiden with some resentment, wondering how she would respond to the situation. Xia Chichi said, "It's impossible for the people of the Maitreya Sect to meet the conditions for the selection of the divine sword. We retreat as far as possible and let them call the sword and commit suicide. The sword will naturally return."Being ruthless is being ruthless, but it means giving up on one's mission completely. The members of the Four Elephant Sect didn't know what Xia Chichi was thinking. Was this mission just a cover-up, and in reality, they were just trying to ambush a group of Maitreya Sect disciples?

This outcome wasn't bad at all, considering the bad relationship between the Four Elephant Sect and the Maitreya Sect. Without any objections, they immediately retreated. Xia Chichi also transmitted a message to the others in the forest, "Retreat, don't bother with Zhao Changhe, that rat!"

Zhao Changhe thought to himself, "Well, since you're so obedient, I'll let you insult me." He had been running away in the bamboo forest and had almost been caught. But now that nobody was chasing him, he doubled back and hid at the edge of the forest to observe how the situation would develop.

On the other side, Elder You and the fat man were in a fierce battle. They received the order to retreat from the Saintess and reluctantly exchanged another blow before leaving.

Further away, a much fatter monk than the previous fat man was sweating profusely as he faced Tang Wanzhuang, who was blocking his way. "Tang Chancellor, our Maitreya Sect is in conflict with the Four Elephant Sect. You should be happy about this. Why are you preventing me from killing the Four Elephant Saintess?"

Tang Wanzhuang sighed, "I don't know why you're so shameless, trying to kill others by taking advantage of their weakness... But we, the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, have other plans. If Xia Chichi dies here, we'll be in trouble. So, Maitreya Sect, please leave."

Maitreya took a deep breath, "Your lung is damaged now, so you might not be my opponent. Do we really need to fight?"

Tang Wanzhuang smiled faintly, "You can try."

The Spring Water Sword was drawn, and Maitreya's expression became extremely serious.

Knowing that the Four Elephant Sect Saintess had boundless potential, Maitreya, as the leader of the Maitreya Sect, didn't want to leave behind any future troubles by assassinating her shamelessly. Even if he had thought about having Zhuque and others come to protect him, he never imagined that the one protecting the demoness would be Tang Wanzhuang.

This was unbelievable.

As Maitreya hesitated whether to fight or not, he suddenly felt something, and Tang Wanzhuang's expression also changed. Both of them looked towards the direction of Sword Lake and said at the same time, "What's going on?"

To everyone's surprise, the sacrificial ceremony was not yet complete, and the Maitreya Sect had just joined in. The Divine Sword had not even appeared yet, but as soon as the members of the Four Elephant Sect retreated, an extremely fierce killing intent suddenly rose from the bottom of the lake, breaking through the surface.

The fat man who was still on the lake was frightened, and when he looked down, he saw that an invisible sword energy had reached his buttocks.

Even a powerful figure on the Human Ranking like him was scared out of his wits by this sword energy that seemed to cross space and time. He quickly turned around, and the sword energy grazed his buttocks, cutting off a large piece of flesh.

The fat man held his bleeding buttocks, angry and anxious, "Are you all idiots? I'm still on the lake, and you're summoning the sword to kill yourselves?"

The Maitreya disciples were all dumbfounded, "We haven't even completed the ritual yet! At most, we've just communicated with another dimension. The Divine Sword may not even have awakened yet!"

The fat man suddenly realized that this was probably not just a simple summoning. After communicating with another dimension, the Divine Sword sensed an extremely hateful aura and awakened on its own. He was probably going to suffer an undeserved disaster.The chubby guy who was still shaking with fear turned his head and saw that the sword energy had passed through his buttocks and ignored him completely, aiming straight at Xia Chichi who was retreating.

Xia Chichi: "?"

Zhao Changhe: "?"

Are you crazy? If you want to kill someone who has betrayed you, there are plenty of them here. Even if it's me, when would it be Chichi's turn to provoke so much hatred? Chichi can't possibly be your unfaithful lover, can she?

"Uh-oh." Now it was Tang Wanzhuang's turn to want to save the person, but Maitreya smiled and stopped her: "Tang Chancellor, it's fate, why force it?"

"Whoosh!" The sword energy came in an instant.

A group of Four Elephant Sect experts raised their swords and blocked in front of Xia Chichi. It was only then that they saw what the divine sword looked like. It was faintly glowing with an ice-cold blue light, very beautiful, but deadly.

As Zhao Changhe and Tang Wanzhuang had guessed earlier, the sword was too flexible, and it was very difficult to intercept it from left and right. Moreover, the separation between ancient and modern times was quite severe. The power of immortals and buddhas was unknown how many times stronger than now. You have experts on the human list and many at the eighth and ninth levels of Xuan Guan. Is that impressive? Would the divine sword even bother to look at you?

Just now, the imposing Elder You actually found that he couldn't even intercept the divine sword for a moment. It twisted past him effortlessly, and the ferocious blade still aimed at Xia Chichi.

Xia Chichi gritted her teeth and blocked the sword with her short sword. "Clang!" A matchless force came rushing in, and Xia Chichi's short sword broke. She gritted her teeth and held back the blood that had risen to her throat, borrowing force to fly backwards into the bamboo forest.

The divine sword relentlessly chased after her, and now it was a group of Four Elephant Sect followers chasing after the divine sword, but they were getting farther and farther away.

Seeing the Holy Maiden flying backwards into the bamboo forest, the Four Elephant Sect experts were ashen-faced.

"It's over." Ren, who had thought this was a relatively simple task, had done it several times before without any major incidents, at most the sword bearer was chopped up. Why did it turn out to be so unexpected this time? The Holy Maiden had already decisively given up, but the divine sword still wouldn't let go?

At this point, they had long forgotten their grudges against the Holy Maiden earlier and felt that the Holy Maiden had made a timely decision. Now this unexpected turn of events was their own incompetence. They rushed into the bamboo forest in a panic.

No one knew what was happening in the bamboo forest at this moment.

Xia Chichi fell into it headfirst and immediately fell into a warm embrace. Before she could react, the person holding her had changed places and stood directly in between her and the divine sword.

Looking at Zhao Changhe's resolute and decisive face, Xia Chichi felt that everything had slowed down, and her heart had turned to ashes in this slow motion.

In fact, our relationship is not that deep. I don't even know when I'll forget you.

Why do you have to be like this?

Strangely, the sword suddenly hung motionless behind Zhao Changhe.

Zhao Changhe turned his head and saw that the sword seemed to be avoiding him and was about to continue to stab Xia Chichi.

Zhao Changhe followed the sword's movement and turned his body, protecting Xia Chichi tightly.

Divine Sword:

Zhao Changhe and Xia Chichi looked at each other, their minds a mess.Originally, everyone thought that Zhao Changhe would be chopped into mud, and even if Xia Chichi was to be chopped, it would be after countless turns. Who knew that the hatred was all on Xia Chichi, and Zhao Changhe was actually fine?

After a stalemate for a moment, the divine sword suddenly became impatient, as if it didn't want to give Zhao Changhe any face, and intended to pierce him together with Xia Chichi.

However, just as the sword was about to stab down, Xia Chichi suddenly exerted force and protected Zhao Changhe behind her.

"Damn, are you stupid?" Zhao Changhe cursed subconsciously.

As soon as the curse came out, he felt something was wrong. Xia Chichi's face was as usual, and the divine sword didn't stab down?

Looking up, he saw that Han Wubing had arrived at some point and reached out to hold the hilt of the sword. The divine sword trembled slightly, but finally, there was no more murderous intent.

Han Wubing looked a bit out of breath, but his expression was very strange: "The divine sword told me to tell you two to get lost. It wants to kill the unfaithful and fickle people, not to watch a couple who can die for each other show their love in front of it. If it sees this for another moment, it might not be able to help but chop you both."

Xia Chichi jumped up: "Where did I become unfaithful and fickle? Explain it to me!"

Zhao Changhe pulled her clothes from behind and whispered, "The Azure Dragon Seal."

Xia Chichi suddenly realized and took out the Azure Dragon Seal she had been carrying with her.

The divine sword trembled violently, and even Han Wubing couldn't hold it anymore. As the sword touched the Azure Dragon Seal, the three of them suddenly felt the world spinning. When they opened their eyes again, they had disappeared from the spot.

At the first glance, it seemed as if Zhao Changhe and Han Wubing had kidnapped the saintess of the Four Elephant Sect, and no one knew where they had gone.