Upon seeing this, one of the demonic cultivators cried out, his voice trembling with extreme shock and disbelief as he stared at Jiang Lu in sheer terror. “You... who on earth are you?!”
There were only a handful of ghost cultivators in the cultivation world who could wield the Myriad Soul Banner, and it was impossible for them not to know who they were.
After all, those were existences that even Mahayana cultivators dared not provoke, so they naturally had to make inquiries when traveling outside.
Jiang Lu's eyes were as cold as frost, without a single ripple of emotion. She only spat out a cold, harsh sentence:
“Your sins are full to overflowing. There is no need to ask so many questions. Go ask King Yama in the underworld!”
With that, the souls of the two trapped in the net were instantly sucked into the Myriad Soul Banner.
As soon as she finished speaking, she spun around and immediately rushed forward to assist the other three. Her long leg swept out with a fierce gust of wind, kicking hard against a demonic cultivator's back.
Terrified by the Myriad Soul Banner and exhausted physically, the three dark figures instantly lost their balance, falling uncontrollably toward the net below.
The three of them exerted every last ounce of their strength, trying to escape and survive, but it was already too late.
The Myriad Soul Banner shook slightly. Three shrill, despairing screams suddenly pierced through the sky, cutting through the torrential wind and rain.
All five dark, turbid demonic souls were ripped from their bodies by the violent suction of the Myriad Soul Banner. They turned into five streams of black smoke, which were swallowed completely by the banner, thoroughly disintegrating into the air.
The Myriad Soul Banner shrank abruptly and returned to Jiang Lu's waist.
Looking at the bodies still radiating demonic energy, Jiang Lu released several wisps of spiritual fire from her hands. The flames enveloped the corpses, turning them to ash in a matter of breaths.
Jiang Lu lowered her gaze, her eyes piercing through the churning, turbid floodwaters to look at the array eye.
The water here twisted into a massive, deep vortex with endlessly circling undercurrents. This was the array eye of the entire Rain-Gathering Array.
She flew downward, her figure slowly descending until she stood firmly right above the array eye at the center of the vortex.
As the churning waters around her drew near, they actually parted to both sides on their own, unable to wet even a corner of her robes.
Jiang Lu looked up and gripped the Qianming Sword tightly. The blade suddenly erupted with a dazzling, deep purple spiritual light. The sharp sword qi pierced through the rain and mist, shooting straight into the gloomy sky.
A muffled rumble of thunder suddenly echoed from the heavy black clouds above.
Snakes of purple lightning began to slither and weave deep within the dark clouds.
They flashed incessantly, crackling as they gathered a power capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Rumble—!
A terrifying thunderclap shattered the sky!
Immediately following, a thick, fierce bolt of purple lightning tore through the layers of dark clouds. Carrying an earth-shattering power, it struck straight down toward the underwater array eye!
The Qianming Sword stood vertically in the air above Jiang Lu's head. Purple light flared brilliantly from the blade as it steadily absorbed the power of the lightning.
The lightning flowed and spread along the blade. With a single shudder of the Qianming Sword, a majestic wave of purple electricity swept in all directions.
In that instant, the rushing floodwaters seemed to suddenly freeze in place. The churning waves hung suspended in mid-air, and everything in the world fell into a moment of absolute silence.
Jiang Lu focused her mind and closed her eyes, using her divine sense to carefully perceive the chaotic, flowing auras between heaven and earth.
The array lines that had been intertwined and forcefully gathering the clouds and rain shattered inch by inch, vanishing without a trace.
The Rain-Gathering Array was broken.
The torrential rain that had been pouring down just moments ago came to a sudden, dead stop. Not a single drop of rain fell from the sky anymore.
Only the thick, dark clouds remained, still churning and swirling across the sky.
Jiang Lu raised her hand and waved it, and a cloud-controlling magic treasure radiating a gentle, warm glow flew out of her sleeve and plunged into the clouds.
The magic treasure's spiritual light dispersed and pulled at the clouds. The massive cloud banks were pushed by an irresistible force, slowly drifting toward the northwest as they churned.
In the gloomy sky, a sliver of bright sunlight quietly spilled onto the mortal realm through a crack in the parting clouds.
Four figures stood quietly in mid-air. A beam of clear sunlight poured through the gap in the clouds, landing perfectly on the four of them.
They were bathed in a warm, bright, gentle glow.
On the ground, countless fleeing commoners stared up blankly. They witnessed with their own eyes the torrential rain that had raged for days come to a complete halt, and the long-lost sunlight grace the earth once more.
The despair that had weighed on them for days collapsed in an instant. Tears mixed with the mud on their faces and rolled down as they wept aloud.
“Woohoo... The rain stopped! The rain has finally stopped!”
“Thank you, Goddess! Thank you, immortals!”
“We beg the immortals to show mercy and make these floodwaters recede!”
“We beg for the immortals' mercy!”
“...”
Cries and pleas rose and fell across the land. Countless commoners knelt in the mud, repeatedly kowtowing to the four figures in the air, their eyes filled with earnest hope.
Jiang Lu looked down at the thousands of kneeling people. Hearing their sorrowful pleas echoing in her ears, her heart sank.
Lu Lingfeng's brow was furrowed with deep worry. Turning to Jiang Lu beside him, he spoke softly,
“Junior Sister Jiang, though the array is broken, the floodwaters are still rampant. Fertile fields and villages have been completely destroyed, leaving countless commoners homeless. Should we step in to help divert the waters and calm this disaster?”
“Of course. However, our spiritual energy will be completely drained this time.”
Jiang Lu pursed her lips slightly, her gaze firm as she looked at the three of them.
Hearing this, the expressions of the three did not change. Their voices were resolute, carrying a determination that disregarded their own safety.
“If it is for the common people of the world, what does it matter if our spiritual energy is depleted? It is of no consequence.”
Xi Siyu and Liu Qingqing nodded in agreement.
Liu Qingqing looked at the land and the people below, her heart skipping a beat. She seemed to finally understand what Junior Sister Jiang had said that day.
Jiang Lu looked at the three of them with bright eyes. The four of them exchanged looks and laughed heartily toward the sky.
In the next instant, the four of them stepped into the air together, stopping above the floodwaters. Facing each other in pairs, they sat cross-legged.
As the four of them formed hand seals, countless brilliant, glowing array plates flew out from around them, gathering beneath them in dense, overlapping layers.
Thousands of array patterns intertwined as spiritual lights of various colors fused, ultimately condensing into a giant Salvation Array that covered the entire flooded disaster area.
The vast spiritual energy transformed into thousands of lustrous white threads of light that descended to the mortal realm, guiding the rampant floodwaters on the earth.
Under the guidance of the spiritual energy, the floodwaters that had been overflowing everywhere actually flowed backward obediently. They spiraled upward, turning into a massive curtain of water that slowly encircled the center of the four's formation.
The spiritual gourd floating at the center of the array shone with brilliant light. As its mouth opened and closed, an endless suction force was generated, continuously swallowing the vast sheet of floodwater into the gourd.
To the naked eye, the standing water on the earth receded rapidly. The submerged official roads, fields, and villages slowly revealed themselves.
Collapsed houses were exposed, with ruins and debris scattered everywhere.
The fertile fields had been washed beyond recognition by the muddy water. Plants were broken, soil was overturned, and the days of flooding had long since ravaged this lively land, leaving it in ruins.
Right at this moment, four majestic shadows of light slowly rose behind the four of them.
The shadows of light resembled four divine manifestations, their appearances identical to the four of them. Standing in mid-air, they quietly looked down upon the devastated land, their eyes filled with a gentle yet solemn compassion for all living beings, as a holy pressure enveloped the surroundings.
Dong—
A single chime of a bell rang out from the center of the array eye, rippling outward.
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