Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 453 - 402 - : 【？？？？】

Suppress!

The cold gleam of the long saber illuminated Qi Xiu’s cheek for an instant.

In the void, a towering golden radiance erupted, and a massive "Suppress" character materialized in the sky with an overwhelming presence. Its momentum was so potent that the land within a thousand-li radius shuddered and sank.

This "Suppress" character, like Divine Iron forged in the heavens, spanned the expanse between heaven and earth.

Every stroke of the character pulsed with endless power, wreathed in golden light, resembling a majestic five-fingered Divine Mountain pressing down on Du Zhong.

Roaring with golden light, it was not only dazzling but also carried an irresistible majesty, as if intending to suppress all obstinate existences in the world, condemning them to eternal subjugation.

"Hmm?"

His pupils reflected the boundless golden light. Du Zhong raised his saber to strike, and a terrifying blade gleam erupted from the ground. The sanguine radiance spread across heaven and earth, transforming into infinite killing power, like a Blood Sea surging upstream to violently collide with the descending "Suppress" character!

BOOM!

Two immense, boundless powers—one gold, one blood-red—violently collided.

In that instant, it was as if an ancient volcano had erupted. Tumultuous power suddenly filled the entire world. Layer upon layer of ring-shaped shockwaves spread continuously, threatening to tear apart and obliterate all of heaven and earth.

His feet plowing the earth, Du Zhong retreated a hundred li in a breath’s time, carving two long ravines into the ground. Billowing dust and surging yellow fog rose in his wake.

The blood saber in his hand hummed and trembled, a wisp of golden light clinging tenaciously to its edge.

"This is..."

His pupils constricted to pinpricks. Just as Du Zhong reached out to touch the golden light on the blade, a brilliant radiance abruptly flared, engulfing him in an instant.

CREAK!

Amidst a crisp, freezing sound, Du Zhong, along with his blood saber, was forcibly sealed within a block of golden, amber-like crystal.

Leaning against a weathered stone, Qi Xiu slowly opened his eyes a fraction.

He had witnessed everything that had just transpired.

This red-haired man’s strength far surpassed that of any foe he had previously encountered.

Even if Tai Yin and Taiyang joined forces, they could not have suppressed him.

If not for the precautions I laid out beforehand, I would likely have perished under his blade.

Losing my Cultivation was only the first step. This man is the deadly trial of my Great Dao Tribulation!

Slowly retracting his gaze, Qi Xiu laboriously raised his hands, forming a seal. His eyes flickered subtly towards the proficiency panel.

[Hunyuan Dragon Tiger Scripture Mystery] (Extreme Breakthrough 1%...2%...3%...)

After absorbing the Dao essence from the three hundred sixty-five divine corpses, the Hunyuan Dragon Tiger Scripture Mystery had met the conditions for an Extreme Breakthrough.

However, unlike previous True Scripture Volumes which completed their Extreme Breakthroughs instantaneously, the process for the Hunyuan Dragon Tiger Scripture Mystery was proving to be slow and arduous.

In normal circumstances, even if it were a hundred or a thousand times slower, he would not have cared.

But now... a single second’s delay could mean the difference between life and death.

I hope this [Zhen Fu], which I poured all my strength into creating, can suppress this person for a little longer.

As he thought this, a violently surging, iridescent brilliance erupted from the depths of Qi Xiu’s eyes.

An insight—born from the "Hunyuan Dragon Tiger Scripture Mystery" yet distinct from it, imbued with infinite Dao Charm and the resplendence of immortal light—was surging tumultuously within his mind.

These insights gradually coalesced, meticulously refined like drawing silk from a cocoon, transforming into countless scripture characters imbued with ancient Dao Charm and the Power of Heaven and Earth.

These scripture characters, as if meticulously forged from colored glaze, shimmered with vibrant light and radiated a seven-colored luminescence.

Each scripture character seemed to be a tangible manifestation of the "Dao."

They were not mere text, but embodiments of the Dao’s laws.

Some were as gentle as a light breeze, narrating nature’s harmony; others possessed the might of thunder, unveiling the mysteries of power; still others were as tender as water, conveying life’s warmth.

His pupils trembled faintly. Qi Xiu closed his eyes in deep contemplation, meticulously comprehending this new True Scripture Volume, allowing the glaze-like scripture characters to flow through his mind.

Gradually, rays of light bloomed within his mind.

Each ray illuminated his spirit, guiding him forward step by step on the path of exploring the "Dao," drawing him ever closer to the truth that transcends all existence.

CRACK!

Just as Qi Xiu was immersed in comprehending the new True Scripture Volume, Du Zhong, still suppressed and sealed, abruptly moved his eyes.

The next instant, the entire golden crystal sealing him abruptly fractured with countless cracks.

SNAP!

With a sharp shattering sound, Du Zhong broke free from his confinement. The exploding golden light transformed into a ring-shaped shockwave, instantly churning up a thousand-zhang-high wall of earth.

"You truly have many tricks up your sleeve." Brushing off the lingering golden afterglow from his body, Du Zhong clicked his tongue, unreservedly praising Qi Xiu. "If you weren’t utterly incapacitated right now, I genuinely might not have been able to take you down today."

He advanced, dragging his saber. The edge of the blood-red blade carved a crimson fissure in the ground, like a trail of Molten Lava.

"However, this is where it ends..."

Taking a step forward, Du Zhong’s figure suddenly became indistinct, flickering in and out of existence. The very brightness of the world seemed to blur and dim with his movement.

THUD! THUD!

THUD! THUD!

The sound of his footsteps was unnervingly distinct, like a death knell tolling relentlessly, intent on claiming Qi Xiu’s life.

"This world no longer needs any ’variables.’"

Arriving before Qi Xiu, Du Zhong looked down with frigid eyes, his saber suddenly slashing downwards.

"This time, I’ll see who comes to save you!"

As if from the unseen depths, a Blood Sea Supreme might have opened its eyes and awakened. A chilling murderous aura swept through the four corners of the world and the eight desolations. The blood-red saber pulsed with a power capable of annihilating everything. The descending slash was like a chasm of death cleaving through the air; heaven, earth, sun, and moon all lost their luster, unable to bear such pressure, on the verge of collapse and ruin.

CLANG!

The sound of the terrifying collision was deafening. Within the flash of Divine Light, fleeting images of fists, feet, sabers, and swords clashing could be seen.