Liuren Divine Armor: seek good fortune, avoid calamity!

Liu Ren, much like the Zhou Yi, is an ancient art of divination.

The ancients practiced divination to foresee Calamity and avoid danger.

The Liuren Divine Armor Technique that Ge Honglin deployed drew upon the Liu Ren’s secret of seeking good fortune and avoiding calamity. By using a special Qi Meridian Circulation to form a Magnetic Field Treasure Armor, it not only enhanced his physical functions but also elevated his crisis perception to a profoundly mystical degree.

A gentleman does not stand beneath a collapsing wall!

Even the slightest malice would be perceived by the Liuren Divine Armor, granting Ge Honglin a power nearly equivalent to foreknowledge.

This was a top-tier Magic of the Qi Clan. The best way to counter this Skill was to simply crush it with overwhelming power.

After all, no matter how strong one’s sense of crisis, the body still needs time to react. If that limit is surpassed, one cannot respond in time, even with a premonition.

The other method was to conceal one’s malicious intent almost perfectly.

This method was extremely difficult to achieve.

If one couldn’t break this Skill and waited for the opponent to stack his Magic, victory would become exponentially more difficult. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Zhou Yuanjue and the others could see that Zhang Zhizhen’s current situation was not optimistic.

The successors of the great Spirit Guardian clans had strange and unpredictable abilities. A single moment of carelessness, and one could be led around by the nose. In comparison, the methods of Martial Artists seemed rather one-dimensional. No wonder these people had always looked down on Martial Artists.

In ancient times, a Spirit Level being would emerge from the populace only once every few hundred years. In the eyes of the Spirit Guardians, however, even these Spirit Level individuals couldn’t hold a candle to one of their own powerful members at the Peak of Mortal Level who possessed special abilities. It was only natural that they rarely took them seriously.

At this time, Zhang Zhizhen, who was fighting Ge Honglin, had missed with several attacks. As a battle-hardened Martial Artist, his opponent’s reactions, which were like foreknowledge, made him realize something was amiss.

’A perception of malice, or rather, hostility?’

’When a Martial Artist strikes, the intent always precedes the fist. That must be why he can sense it in advance.’

’I can’t let this drag on. My opponent can unleash bizarre Techniques. The one he’s building now is in his legs, so it’s probably speed-related. If he finishes it, it’ll be even harder for me to catch him.’

’Once he starts stacking his Techniques, he’ll eventually reach a point where he can just overwhelm me with sheer power.’

’In that case...’

Zhang Zhizhen’s expression changed slightly. At this moment, his eyes were devoid of human emotion. All that remained was coldness and impartiality, like the Celestial Dao itself, reigning high in the heavens and governing all things.

BOOM!!

Tribulation clouds gathered above his head. The lightning around his body grew even more intense. He then took another step forward and swung his palm down fiercely.

"Such an obvious attack..."

A smile touched the corner of Ge Honglin’s mouth, but his expression quickly changed. This time, he hadn’t felt any malice from his opponent!

’He figured it out?’

’But how was he able to conceal his malice in such a short amount of time? And so completely that my Liuren Divine Armor Technique gave no warning at all?’

’It’s unbelievable!’

What he didn’t know was that in that moment, Zhang Zhizhen’s consciousness was no longer that of a man, but of Heaven itself.

The majesty of Heaven is brilliant, its ways are constant. It rewards the good and punishes the evil, purging all demonic presence!

Man possesses good and evil.

But Heaven does not!

Even if Heaven descended to mete out punishment, this was just a law that had been in operation since time immemorial, just like thunder in the sky, the ebb and flow of tides, or the earth splitting and mountains crumbling.

Zhang Zhizhen had merged himself with the will of the Celestial Dao, transforming himself into the Celestial Dao. Naturally, he no longer possessed human malice.

This was Punishing on behalf of Heaven!

In this moment, Ge Honglin was a sinner who had violated the laws of nature, upon whom Heaven was about to descend with punishment.

BOOM!!

The Thunder Palm exploded. Caught off guard, Ge Honglin couldn’t dodge in time and could only cross his arms to block the blow head-on.

The immense force was transmitted through, and the lightning penetrated, rapidly destroying the Golden Armor on his body and eroding his flesh, causing the magnetic field within his body to be momentarily paralyzed.

This momentary paralysis could not fundamentally affect the already completed Techniques, but it was enough to interrupt the Technique that was still being constructed.

"Ghouls and goblins, ghosts and Demon Fiends!"

"Heaven’s might is vast, rewarding good and punishing evil!"

Zhang Zhizhen’s voice was as ethereal as the Celestial Dao. With his every move, the lightning around him exploded. Amidst the continuous attacks, the silver light fused into a single sheet, soaring into the clouds.

Ge Honglin, having made one misstep, was actually forced back again and again under Zhang Zhizhen’s frenzied, continuous assault.

The complexions of the Spirit Guardians present changed slightly under Zhang Zhizhen’s terrifying might, which was as vast as the sea and as inescapable as a prison. Looking at Ge Honglin’s current state, they found it hard to believe the tables had turned so quickly.

To instantly understand his opponent’s technique, transform his own will, and conceal his killing intent... This mental fortitude, this battle-hardened experience, and this composure in the face of danger truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.

This man was so young, yet in battle, he already had the demeanor of a great general.

However, no one believed that the successor of the Qi Clan would be defeated just like that.

Because, when it came to Thunder Skills, the Qi Clan was the origin of them all.

Ge Honglin resisted as he retreated. The lightning’s magnetic field continuously stimulated his body, making him extremely uncomfortable, and any Technique he tried to use was highly likely to be interrupted.

This sorry state made a trace of anger rise in his heart.

He had originally planned to use the Liuren Divine Armor as a base, stack a dozen or so Qi Meridian Circulations, and defeat his opponent as easily as taking a stroll in a courtyard. But now, it seemed that was impossible.

’He does have some skill, but when it comes to Thunder Skills, the Qi Clan are the ancestors!!’

While resisting the attacks, the Qi Veins inside Ge Honglin’s body began to undergo a massive change.

"Nine Qi Veins..."

Zhou Yuanjue narrowed his eyes slightly. He could feel that all nine of the opponent’s main veins had lit up, causing all the Qi Veins in his body to begin circulating in unison.

All nine veins moved as one. A special and terrifying circuit was rapidly forming.

The lightning’s magnetic field that Zhang Zhizhen had sent into his opponent’s body not only failed to interrupt this circuit, but instead accelerated its operation.

"He’s getting serious now."

Daoist Bailong said softly.

The faces of the Spirit Guardians present also grew solemn.

Inside Ge Honglin’s body, all his Qi Veins suddenly trembled slightly and, through a special method of circulation, formed a single, unified whole.

The Qi Meridian Circulation was complete.

At this moment, the lightning struck by Zhang Zhizhen could no longer affect Ge Honglin’s body.

Ge Honglin, who had been constantly retreating, stopped in his tracks. His eyes flew wide open as he met Zhang Zhizhen’s palm with a palm strike of his own.

CRACKLE!!

An intense purple light, accompanied by the sound of crackling thunder, erupted from Ge Honglin’s body, forming a Dharma Aspect behind him that was neither man nor bird.

Nine Veins, Purple Sky Divine Thunder Technique!!

BOOM!!!

The palms of the two collided, and the scene seemed to freeze in place.

On one side was Zhang Zhizhen’s silver-white tide of lightning.

On the other was Ge Honglin’s purple thunder god.

The new, versus the old!!