Rebirth of the Supreme Immortal Emperor-Chapter 582 - 579: Eighteen Copper Men Formation! [Second Update]
Chapter 582: Chapter 579: Eighteen Copper Men Formation! [Second Update]
"Rise!"
A booming sound, reminiscent of a great bell, suddenly erupted as the Eighteen Copper Men simultaneously raised their wooden staffs.
Despite all exhibiting Shaolin stick techniques, their moves varied greatly. There were Monkey Sticks, Qimei Sticks, Mountain Suppressing Sticks, Coiling Dragon Staffs, Wind Wave Stick Skills, Splitting Mountain Staff Skills, and the like—eighteen distinct varieties of staff techniques.
Spears strike in a straight line, while staffs sweep across a wide area.
Though the Scripture Pavilion was not small in size, the simultaneous swinging of staffs by eighteen Copper Men could achieve a 360-degree, no-dead-angle coverage.
Li Chen pondered briefly before suddenly surging his True Yuan and bellowing in the air,
"Vajra Unbreakable!"
After he had summoned his Protective Gang Qi, he tentatively took a step forward.
However, before his foot could fall, the Eighteen Copper Men erupted into sudden violence, wielding their staffs in a tempestuous assault like a raging storm.
"Clang!"
"Bang clang!"
"Crackling and roaring!"
In but the blink of an eye, Li Chen’s Protective Gang Qi was already struck by nine staffs. Each blow carried the mighty force of a dragon subduing a tiger, or splitting mountains and shattering stones, and the fury of the attacks was unrelenting, growing stronger with each strike.
In an instant, the Vajra Unbreakable Protective Gang Qi was riddled with web-like fissures, resembling a solitary leaf adrift in a typhoon, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.
"Boom!"
As expected, when the tenth staff came crashing down, the Vajra Qi shattered thunderously.
Luckily, at this critical juncture between life and death, the Five Elements Battle Armor emerged, forming a small, enclosed defensive array to protect Li Chen.
While the Five Elements Battle Armor withstood the remaining eight blows, the fierce energy still shook Li Chen violently, causing the blood within him to churn. A slight misstep could result in ruptured meridians and an explosive death.
"What formidable attacks!"
Li Chen retreated again and again, his pupils sharply narrowing, his expression more solemn than ever before.
However, this only reinforced Li Chen’s determination to take them all with him. If used properly, the might of these eighteen Copper Men could crush three Divine-level Masters.
With this thought, a fierce glint emerged in Li Chen’s profound eyes.
Facing them head-on, he was no match for the Eighteen Copper Men, and he must deal with them one by one.
After making up his mind, Li Chen’s fingertips condensed a speck of starlight, tracing a circle of light in the air, enveloping the nearest Copper Man.
"Drawing the ground as a prison!"
The Copper Man was immediately trapped within the light circle, unable to move.
Overjoyed, Li Chen brought his hands together and formed a Thunder Technique.
"Five, Thunder, Righteous, Heaven, Technique!"
Five purple thunderbolts simultaneously struck five Copper Men.
Without lingering, Li Chen then conjured the Zhang Ling Sword and the Dragon Abyss Sword, throwing them out to entangle two more Copper Men.
"Fire Dance Tornado!"
"Move Mountains and Overtake Seas!"
"Heaven and Earth are Limitless!"
...
Apart from the Nine Heavens Star Technique, Li Chen went all out, unleashing various powerful and long-hidden moves one after another.
Even ten or eight Divine-level Masters witnessing Li Chen’s frenzied assault would immensely dread it and temporarily avoid the onslaught.
However, the Eighteen Copper Men were not human and lacked any sense of autonomy.
All they possessed were their indestructible, eternal Meteorite Iron Bodies, and the Divine Sense left by Huineng Master to "defend the Scripture Pavilion to the death."
Therefore, Li Chen’s relentless bombardment, though seemingly impressive, was essentially futile.
The Eighteen Copper Men were impervious to blades and fire, and even lightning could not harm them in the slightest.
Unless one formed a Golden Core to forcibly erase the Divine Sense left by Huineng Master, defeating them would be impossible.
Erase the Divine Sense!
At this thought, a gleam sparked in Li Chen’s eyes.
When Huineng Master imbued the Divine Sense into the Copper Men, he must have been a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
It would have been practically impossible for anyone else to erase his Divine Sense before forming their own Golden Core.
But Li Chen could!
Because he had the Nine Heavens Star Technique!
The Nine Heavens Star Technique was an unparalleled Cultivation Technique comprehended by Li Chen in his previous life while in a black hole, after meditating upon the Great Dao of the Three Thousand Worlds. It was one of the most profound techniques of the primordial cosmos.
It was divided into nine stages, and reaching the ninth stage would allow one to form an entity like a black hole, capable of devouring stars from the cosmos.
However, in his past life, Li Chen could only reach the eighth stage.
Just as he was prepared to use the Meteorite Heart from Outer Heaven to break through the last bottleneck, he found himself surrounded and slain by the entire Cultivation World, his life and path extinguished.
If it weren’t for the Meteorite Heart protecting his last wisp of divine sense at the very last moment, allowing him to be reborn, he would have long since been completely annihilated.
The current Li Chen’s comprehension of the Nine Heavens Star Technique remained at the first realm. He could only capture the force of meteorites and absorb the spiritual power around him. freeweɓnovel-cøm
If he reached the second realm, he could freely seize the spiritual power from any location on Earth. Even satellites like the moon could be utilized by him.
Should he achieve the third realm, his reach could extend to any corner of the Solar System, swallowing the forces of the sun and the Eight Planets for his own use.
Of course, these were still too far away from him. With the current situation, breaking through to the second realm was indefinitely out of reach, let alone the third realm.
Moreover, to date, there was a fatal flaw when deploying the Nine Heavens Star Technique. That is, Li Chen’s cultivation was too weak, and each time he would need to overdraw all the True Essence Spiritual Power within his body just to barely use it.
Once the technique was completed, he would immediately fall into a state of exhaustion. If his mental energy was drained, he would even fall into a comatose sleep right on the spot.
By then, he would be like a lamb to the slaughter. Even an ordinary person could easily kill him.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he would not lightly use this last resort.
But now it seemed that to break the Eighteen Copper Men Formation, he only had the option to take the risk.
"Little Dragon, come out!"
Weighing the pros and cons, Li Chen summoned the Jiao Long, still fast asleep, out of the Spiritual Pet Space forcibly, planning to let the creature act as his protector in case of any accidents.
"Ho-ho!"
Jiao Long, being deep in pleasant slumber and having his dreams disturbed, was quite grumpy. As soon as it came out, it bared its teeth and grimaced at Li Chen to express its inner protest.
Li Chen smacked its head and shouted, "Quiet down, stop causing trouble!"
Subdued by Li Chen’s reprimand, Jiao Long’s might immediately weakened. It sulked and shrank its head, its green beast pupils scanning around and setting on the Eighteen Copper Men.
"Ho-ho, ho-ho!"
It went on baring its teeth and grimacing, trying to intimidate the Eighteen Copper Men.
However, the Eighteen Copper Men completely ignored its existence, which hurt Jiao Long’s feelings. If it could speak fluently at that moment, it would surely yell "MMP, looking down on Grandpa Jiao Long, huh?"
Just as Jiao Long was about to pounce and teach these Eighteen Copper Men a lesson, Li Chen suddenly held down its head.
"Keep quiet and protect me!"
Hearing the words "protector," Jiao Long was reminded of the scene in the Underground Palace at Mount Fuji and immediately started to shake its head like a rattle-drum.
But for it, there was no problem that couldn’t be solved with a Dragon Blood Fruit.
If there was, then two.
When Li Chen took out two Dragon Blood Fruits, Jiao Long threw its integrity to the wind.
After all, integrity can’t be eaten, but Dragon Blood Fruit can.
Li Chen sat cross-legged, connecting the thirty-six heavens, large and small, gathering in his Dantian.
As spiritual power was infused, the Meteorite Heart within it began to rotate slowly.
When the rotation speed reached twelve-level wind speed, a dazzling starlight burst forth from the top of Li Chen’s head.
"Black Lotus Soul Extinguishing!"
As Li Chen shouted, a black lotus bloomed within the vortex.
All the surrounding spiritual power was drawn in as if magnetically attracted. As more spiritual power was concentrated, the black lotus bloomed even brighter.
The Eighteen Copper Men sensed danger and immediately arranged into an array, forming an iron wall as if to block the invasion of the black lotus.
Their defense was akin to towering mountains, impenetrable even by Sidewinder Missiles.
But the black lotus was not physical; it was a condensation of Li Chen’s spiritual power. Its penetrative and corrosive power far exceeded King’s Water by a hundred, a thousand times; even if you were an iron wall, it could still corrode through you.
In just a moment, the defense of the Eighteen Copper Men was corroded by the black lotus, creating a black cavity.
Immediately after, their entire defense burst open as if a balloon pricked by a needle.
Seeing his success, Li Chen was greatly shocked.
"Soul capture, annihilate!"
The divine sense of the first Copper Man was peeled off and erased on the spot.
Then came the second, the third, the fourth!
...
The seventeenth!
The eighteenth!
After the eighteen strands of divine sense instilled by Huineng Master into the Copper Men were all annihilated, Li Chen rejoiced in his heart.
"Finally succeeded!"
However, in the next instant, his vision went dark, and his body was completely exhausted.
Right as he was about to faint, Li Chen shouted his last words to Jiao Long.
"Little Dragon, take everything here and leave this place quickly!"
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