Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 981 - 66: Clash Once Again [3]

Mi's power is not like the sea; she is the sea itself. The bodies of the Sea God type exist in the form of the ocean. Their usual spiritual power flow embodies the demeanor of the sea. For them, fluidity is a basic attribute, inclusiveness is instinct, and vastness is an innate skill.

The emerald green spiritual light spreads outward wave-like from Wang Qi as the core. This power, like countless overlapping waves, is both resilient and strong. It was this power that blocked Holy Emperor Venerable's attack.

This power, when it collided with Holy Emperor Venerable's all-destroying hard fist, transformed into endless soft waves. Holy Emperor Venerable felt as if his blow had struck into the sea, immediately swallowed. Then, the ocean exploded.

Mi used the method of unloading force, letting the ocean bear the brunt of this strike.

The ocean's tremor did not travel far. The spiritual power field that Mi spread throughout the space absorbed Holy Emperor Venerable's palm power, using it for defense. On the nearby Spirit Phoenix Island, not even a single person could feel the tremor.

The boundless might was thus completely dissolved.

Holy Emperor Venerable's fist force collided with the sea's surface, the aftershock quaking the air. Wang Qi was momentarily dizzy, his ears even went deaf. Surrounded by the fist's aura, he couldn't unload any force. Holy Emperor Venerable's punch, merely the aftershock, nearly shattered him. But he trusted Mi's judgment, and his bow and arrow still aimed at the area most densely populated by those "stripped of cultivation."

That place was the Life and Death Cliff.

All those who had been stripped of their cultivation, in order to stabilize or further their cultivation, chose to enter closed-door life-and-death meditation. For cultivators, the time in such meditation could be hundreds or thousands of years, so apart from a few, those who entered the Life and Death Cliff had yet to emerge.

In the eyes of some juniors, the Life and Death Cliff might as well be the "Death Cliff."

Wang Qi vaguely sensed that something Holy Emperor Venerable was plotting was hidden there.

While the second arrow was still gathering momentum, Wang Qi seemed to hear a dragon's roar. This dragon's roar was somewhat similar to Yue Luo Liu Li's war cry, but different. In a trance, a giant dragon soared into the sky, charging toward Holy Emperor Venerable. A glint of spirit essence flickered in Holy Emperor Venerable's eyes as the Great Wilderness God appeared before Wang Qi.

The Great Wilderness God's divine body grew with the wind, as large as mountains, the giant dragon spirit body, by comparison, like a python battling a giant. Mi transformed a dragon silhouette to entwine the Great Wilderness God, the dragon body winding, faintly imbued with the taste of the Deep Space Dao.

The Great Wilderness God, entwined, let out an angry roar, his fists surging with divine power, executing a fist technique imbued with primitive wildness. This fist technique was simple and refined, yet carried an irresistible divine might and defiance of heaven and earth.

Divine fists propelled divine power, like a volcanic eruption. The dragon spirit body transformed into chains, forcibly binding this eruptive power. The mutation of divine power collided, extinguished, and offset with Mi's spiritual power, triggering a formidable aura.

Wang Qi released his second arrow amidst the combat of these two colossal beings.

"Such audacity!" Holy Emperor Venerable exclaimed, as Longevity Heaven darted from his eye socket. Thunder then swept the sea surface like a storm. A dragon form spirit body met it head-on. As the dragon body coiled, the divine punishment-like thunder was disrupted by emerald spiritual light, entirely deviating from its course. A third dragon form spirit body crashed into Longevity Heaven. The divine body and dragon shadow once again entwined together.

Holy Emperor Venerable reached to grab the arrow. At this moment, a thunderbolt mysteriously struck toward his face. This thunderbolt was bizarre, harboring an immensely angry and unyielding realm. Holy Emperor Venerable, sensing something amiss, blocked with his hand. Unexpectedly, the lightning, though seemingly of supreme yang and rigidity, was like an illusion, leaving not a trace upon striking his hand.

Heart Demon Great Spell of Ruyi Thunder.

Holy Emperor Venerable did not dismiss that strike for its weakness. He knew the shura-like wrath behind it was not to be trifled with. Upon sensing, he discovered an external force tainting his mana.

"Is that all?" Holy Emperor Venerable sneered, his mana containing Immortal will swept out, suppressing the Ruyi Thunder Spell. He considered maintaining some of the Ruyi Thunder Spell to study this opponent's cultivation. However, Ruyi Thunder Spell, purely of anger, resisted control and ultimately sought mutual destruction with Holy Emperor Venerable's power. Holy Emperor Venerable clenched his fist, instantly extinguishing the Ruyi Thunder Spell.

"So, this is the kind of power it is..."

During the clash with Ruyi Thunder Spell, Holy Emperor Venerable perceived some of its unique properties. He sensed that this power was not the same as the one that ravaged his Divine Country previously, merely possessing some obscure connection.

Wang Qi was reluctant to use other Heart Demon spells before Holy Emperor Venerable, but when necessary, he had his own determinations.

Mi was not quick in responding to unexpected events, a flaw innate to her. Therefore, Wang Qi could only release the Ruyi Thunder Spell to escort the arrow as he let it fly.

His primary goal this time was to engage with Mi and Holy Emperor Venerable, diverting Holy Emperor Venerable's attention, aiming to decipher the secrets of the Human Dao System of Spirit Phoenix Island.

Aside from this ultimate goal, nothing else mattered.

And once he deciphered the overall structure of that Human Dao System, Holy Emperor Venerable wouldn't be far from death.

Wang Qi's objective on Spirit Phoenix Island would also be achieved.

Thus, any price would be acceptable.

The Heart Demon Arrow became ethereal, piercing through Spirit Phoenix Island's outer layer and falling into the Life and Death Cliff, then exploding. The Heart Demon Curse Power, more intense than before, exploded in this tranquil place filled with cultivators' spirit of "struggling against destiny." Many high-level cultivators who still retained consciousness sensed this alien power and began to cultivate to resist it.

However, Wang Qi's target was never them.

The parasitic gods arranged by the Holy Emperor Venerable, many of them concentrated here, possessed the nature of life but lacked Spirit Wisdom. Their lower instincts were insufficient to discern the harmful nature of the Heart Demon Great Spell—no, the Heart Demon Great Spell, stemming from the Divine Tao, was most intimate for these parasitic things of the same nature.

Soon, those "parasitic gods" were thoroughly permeated by the Heart Demon Curse.

This time, Wang Qi had a certain understanding of the Holy Emperor Venerable's various law gates, so he noticed many things he hadn't seen before.

In Wang Qi's eyes, the Human Dao of Spirit Phoenix Island resembled a deformed beast. The Power of Human Dao enveloped it, seemingly shaped into countless Qi veins, interwoven, hiding mysteries. Some key points existed within this deformed beast, akin to acupoints on a human body, absorbing and exhaling divine power.

According to Wang Qi's past experience, the Power of Human Dao should not have a specific form; it circulated when each person played their role and lay dormant when connections between people ceased. From this perspective, it didn't possess a physical form but appeared as a "sum of power."

Yet... Spirit Phoenix Island was not like this.

——In a sudden flash, chaos was encountered, and chaos treated them well. They decided to repay chaos's goodness, saying: "Humans all have seven apertures for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, yet this one has none; let's try drilling them." They drilled one aperture a day, and by the seventh day, chaos died.

For some reason, Wang Qi suddenly recalled such a story.

Drilling seven apertures for a chaos that had none naturally led to that chaos's demise. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

And the essence of the Divine Tao was to shape Power of Human Dao for specific purposes, using it as material for spells and resources for cultivation.

The more advanced the Divine Tao technology, the deeper it alters and distorts the Power of Human Dao.

This might also be why the Holy Emperor Venerable arranged that distorted society and belief system on Spirit Phoenix Island.

The Divine Tao technology of Human Clan in this realm is only in its initial phase, so the issue isn't apparent yet. However, everything the Holy Emperor Venerable is doing now makes it clear: the more developed the Divine Tao, the more distorted the Human Dao.

Divine Tao technology's devastation of civilization is even more severe than the Ancient Method Immortal Path's harvesting of heaven and earth.

Then, the distribution of these particular points and the way Spirit Power flowed made Wang Qi feel he vaguely grasped the principles of the Divine Country Technique.

......

"Not good, those 'Sky Supporting Giant Spirits'... he realized what I'm doing! His target is the 'Sky Supporting Giant Spirits'!"

The Holy Emperor Venerable also sensed something.

In his perception, countless dazzling karma lines were tainted with a filthy color. The enemy's mysterious and bizarre spell power touched the karma technique, not invading the Human Clan's physical bodies on Spirit Phoenix Island but instead following the "connections" between people to erode Human Dao!

Cause and extinction can temporarily delay the spread of this eerie power but cannot block it.

Now, he faced a difficult choice.

Either he immediately abandoned the enemy revealing his true form before him, manifest his Divine Country, and turn this mystical confrontation across karma and connections into a solid clash of divine power. According to past experience, he's at an advantage with this method.

However, doing this might allow this enemy to escape.

Alternatively, he could completely abandon the two thousand years of effort to kill this enemy.

"Injuring ten fingers is worse than severing one! No matter what you consumed from me, as long as I kill you here, you'll obediently give it all back!"

On the Holy Emperor Venerable's body, countless colored spots of light shone. From glowing acupoints, columns of light shot up. Within these columns, hazy figures of divine spirits emerged, piercing and dispersing the dragon form spirit bodies contending with Longevity Heaven and Great Wilderness God.

However, compared to Human Clan cultivators, the greatest advantage of Mi is its immense body, fearless of depletion. Even though the Holy Emperor Venerable is a Banished Immortal, this life he is Human Clan, and cannot manifest the traits of his past life. Therefore, he is similarly constrained by the physical body of Human Clan.

For every dragon exploded, more spirit bodies emerged from the sea. Emerald spirit light and golden divine light battled for half the space. The combat between two entities elevated to the level of "war." Gods and dragons fiercely fought.

While the Holy Emperor Venerable dedicated all his spirit to battling Mi, Wang Qi began to penetrate deep into the Holy Emperor Venerable's Divine Country, much like a hacker.