Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 980 - 65: Clash Once Again [2]
The Holy Emperor Venerable stood up. He leisurely collected the fragments of the Immortal Dao Burning Book List by his side, then pushed the door open and went out.
He could feel that the opponent was slowly accumulating energy, seemingly preparing a grand spell. He did not need to rush in attacking the opponent.
Accumulating his own momentum step by step and attacking the opponent in one breath was the best choice.
At the entrance of Jinshen Hall, there was always an attendant in the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage kneeling, waiting for the Holy Emperor Venerable's orders. Even though it's the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao, cultivators above the Nascent Soul Stage are not too many in number. The attendants around the Holy Emperor Venerable could only be people in the Golden Core Stage. That eunuch, seeing the Holy Emperor Venerable come out, respectfully touched the ground with his head, waiting for the supreme figure who covered the heavens with one hand to speak.
The Holy Emperor Venerable waved his hand, signaling this attendant to retreat, while he himself walked slowly towards the east.
Strangely, he seemed to walk very slowly, yet in reality, the eyesight of ordinary cultivators was not sufficient to capture his movements. In others' eyes, the Holy Emperor Venerable moved so fast that he almost left an afterimage.
Fast and slow, contradictory phenomena simultaneously existed on the Holy Emperor Venerable's body.
"Here it comes again," the Holy Emperor Venerable thought. He did not know that Mi and Wang Qi were two different people, he thought he was encountering a mysterious and powerful enemy.
—The ocean... the source of that guy's power is indeed the ocean.
—Which path among the forty-nine paths does it belong to? Concerning substance, is it the Innate Five Taos? Or Chaotic Hole?
Although the Holy Emperor Venerable had not left the underground palace of Phoenix Island, his mind had already permeated the space around Spirit Phoenix Island. This was his main domain. As soon as Mi induced the changes in heaven and earth, he noticed.
In his perception, a vast, profound, yet extremely ethereal emerald light spread everywhere, like peculiar rays of sunlight. These forces spread out like waves, completely irregular. When two strands of emerald-colored strange forces collided from different directions, they instantly turned into countless ripples like wave-breaking. The overlapping ripples finally converged gradually on the east side of Spirit Phoenix Island, transforming into boundless vitality.
"This time, it shall remain,"
The Holy Emperor Venerable thought, his figure flashed, disappearing within the underground palace of Spirit Phoenix Island.
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It is unknown from which star or realm the magic robe completely enveloped Wang Qi. Beneath the robe, Wang Qi connected with nature's spiritual energy. Above his head seemed to be a funnel, with the outer heaven spiritual energy descending like starlight, all attracted by this "funnel" and converging completely within Wang Qi's body.
For the past few months, Wang Qi had been posing as an Ancient Method Practitioner, severing his connection with heaven and earth. But at this moment, as he reconnects with the outer heaven's spiritual energy and connects with the Qi Vein River, he realizes that he actually made significant progress during these months. The pure outer heaven's spiritual energy, once entering his body, is instantly refined.
Wang Qi bent down, scooped up a handful of seawater, and the Elephant Phase Wave Skill emerged, forcibly revealing the wave nature of particles within the seawater. The physical nature of the seawater was forcibly altered, transforming into a mass of elusive light. Wang Qi grabbed this mass of elusive treasure light with his left hand and thrust it forward, the white light seemingly thrown, forming into a bow shape. While Wang Qi adjusted the Elephant Phase Wave Skill, Dragon's Defense was activated, with the strong interaction force liberated from within the atomic nucleus temporarily altering the physical properties of the particles, linking them together. A powerful bow appeared in Wang Qi's hand.
This powerful bow carried multiple magic seals and arrays within it, capable of harmonizing with Wang Qi's mana. Although Wang Qi had casually scooped up a handful of seawater, now under the blessing of various strange cultivation techniques, this bow, in a short time, could even rival some of higher-grade magic artifacts.
For Wang Qi, maintaining this powerful bow also required an astounding amount of energy. However, at this point, the various law gates in Shenzhou that combine spells and shooting skills are very mature, and he is merely borrowing this bow to exercise his own law gates.
Wang Qi stretched his hand in the void and lightly pulled, the invisible bowstring was opened by him. Then, the Heart Demon Curse Power transmitted remotely from the Divine Capital condensed into arrows in his hand.
It was still Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell.
Wang Qi did not want the Supreme Heart Demon Curse to be exposed in front of the Holy Emperor Venerable. He wasn't sure if the Holy Emperor Venerable really did not understand the "Heart Demon Curse". Initially, he and Chen Feng split the Heart Demon Curse from the Divine Tao through mathematical methods. And the Holy Emperor Venerable was evidently a master of the Divine Tao. If he had any kind of countermeasure against the Heart Demon Curse, it wouldn't be impossible.
Wang Qi didn't even want to expose any Heart Demon Curse beyond Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell.
This was also why he'd rather remotely transfer Heart Demon Curse Power from the Divine Capital than capture the Supreme Heart Demon Curse Power right at hand.
The Heart Demon Curse spreads at the speed of light, so the transfer from the Divine Capital to here has about a 0.04-second delay.
This delay is quite significant in the combat scenarios of high-order cultivators.
However, with the construction of the Divine Capital Special Zone, the Divine Capital's Human Dao System is becoming increasingly more powerful, and the Heart Demon Curse Power that Wang Qi can invoke is also growing. Instantly, the arrow took shape. Wang Qi released his right hand, and a golden light arrow flew towards Spirit Phoenix Island, trailing a faint trace behind it.
When the Heart Demon Arrow reached the highest point above Spirit Phoenix Island, Wang Qi detonated the arrow. The Heart Demon Curse Power instantly transformed into raindrops of spirit light, descending on Spirit Phoenix Island like fine rain. Wang Qi pressed his hand against his arm armor, fully maneuvering the Heart Demon Curse Power. His consciousness penetrated through the calculator, transforming the Heart Demon Pure Yang Spell Power into his eyes and ears, infiltrating the Human Dao System across all of Spirit Phoenix Island.
All beings on Spirit Phoenix Island felt a sense of crisis rising in their hearts. This inexplicable, almost impulsive sense of crisis was not unfamiliar to them. They had experienced this feeling several months ago.
That "Outer Demon" has come again!
Although they haven't seen any tangible evidence, this feeling is so real!
Wang Qi's consciousness rampaged. This time, his goal is to find those "Fallen Cultivators" and search for "Parasitic Gods." He already has a preliminary understanding of those "Parasitic Gods," soon locking onto numerous targets.
Wang Qi gently pinched the air again with his right thumb, index finger, and middle finger, ready to open the bow and shoot arrows once more, targeting the area where "Fallen Cultivators" gather most densely. Just then, Mi suddenly reminded him, "Be careful…"
An unparalleled mighty force descended from the sky, instantly overwhelming Wang Qi.
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The Holy Emperor Venerable did not intend to block Wang Qi's first arrow. Although he was very wary of that terrifying and inexplicable spell power, he also knew that the true critical point lay with the black-robed enemy before him.
He could sense that, although the aura of the person in black robes was mysterious, it was not as powerful as he had imagined.
—Finish it with one palm strike!
"Another awakened Banished Immortal, perhaps?" Watching Wang Qi perform, a trace of hatred flashed through the Holy Emperor Venerable's eyes. He is an Immortal, yet among Immortals, he belongs to the least experienced class. Many profound techniques possessed by deep Immortals are unknown to him.
Lord Hongtian had said that his foundation was shallow, seemingly even less than a piece of heaven and earth.
"An awakened Banished Immortal, relying on the deeper accumulations of a former life, comes to seize what is mine?"
"Fine, I shall capture you and slowly extract your secrets!"
In an instant, the Holy Emperor Venerable locked onto Wang Qi, throwing a punch imbued with the boundless might of the entire Divine Country. The Mahayana Realm's mana nearing the apex of the Mortal World, combined with the Spirit Phoenix Island's distorted Human Dao System-provided Divine Power and Emperor's Qi, simultaneously summoned to pressure Wang Qi with the power of splitting the sea and clouds.
Within ten miles, the seawater shattered like rigid glass under such terrifying pressure. A massive roar echoed throughout the sea. Sound waves travel far faster through water than air, causing the entire sea area to tremble.
Fine water droplets splattered, flashing emerald-colored spirit light that seemed to be completely suppressed by the Holy Emperor Venerable's overwhelming imperial might. For an instant, the scattered seawater obscured the Holy Emperor Venerable's view. He felt his strike had made contact. But for some reason, he sensed things were far from simple.
A long, piercing cry rang out, like a dragon's roar, like a tiger's howl. Within this strange sound, the Holy Emperor Venerable sensed the joy of life, the flow of blood. His eyes widened as a dark-colored spirit light erupted, transforming into the Great Wilderness God that covered the sky. This god stood as tall as a mountain reaching the heavens. It raised its hand and pressed down, a dragon spanning miles roaring out, wrapping around the Great Wilderness God's arm. The mighty force nearly overwhelmed the ancient deity worshiped by the Southern Barbarians for millennia, causing it to stagger within the seawater.
The Holy Emperor Venerable's eyebrows slightly raised. Regarding the Dragon Clan, whom Lord Hongtian referred to as the "Heavenly Favored Clan," he bore some apprehension. However, this dragon was not a true member of the Dragon Clan; it more closely resembled a spell-mimicked entity.
This is the "Tengling Riddle," the Sea God Type's musings about "Life."
What is life? Where does life originate from? What is the meaning of life?
The method this race's sages use to ponder this question is to mimic other life beings.
Over time, this "thinking" evolved into a skill to mimic virtual battles with other life beings.
However, within the Star Sea, life beings evolve with difficulty. The terrestrial spiritual energy of that planet belongs entirely to the Sea God Type's power, and those primitive shellfish either fail to absorb the Spirit Awakening Demon's power or, upon absorbing the Sea God Type's power, become assimilated into the Sea God Type itself. So, no matter how the Sea God Type mimics, Tengling Riddle just remains as it is.
Yet in this realm, there is no shortage of individually powerful life beings. Beyond the Human Clan crafted by Creation, there even exists the Dragon Clan standing atop the evolutionary tree!
Mi, having absorbed the Modern Immortal Path concept of life, and learned some dragon secrets from Yue Luo Liu Li, has amplified the Tengling Riddle's power many times over!
Now, she can use the Tengling Riddle to combat small-scale individual life beings, rather than previously unleashing map-wide destruction in each strike!
The Holy Emperor Venerable flicked his sleeve, dispersing the fine water droplets. Wang Qi's silhouette emerged once more. Nine forms of a giant dragon intertwined head to tail, firmly protecting him. The Holy Emperor Venerable noticed that even Wang Qi's motion of drawing a bow and not showing any disruption.
"Hmph, not bad skills."
