Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 509 - 445: Tenacity Retention of the Righteous Dao
The surging Primordial Dao Essence was injected into the "Frost Cloud Flame" in hand.
Amidst the endless swirl of colors, the Precious Fan, originally the size of two palms, expanded wildly at a pace visible to the naked eye.
In a mere instant.
The Precious Fan transformed into a gigantic fan as large as a flag!
The fan surface alone was nearly ten meters wide.
With both hands gripping the pillar-like fan handle, Qi Xiu took a deep breath and exerted force to swing it.
Bang——
As the immense Frost Cloud Flame was fanned, a froststorm ten times more violent than before surged forth, as if the whole world was reverting back to the Ice Age, freezing even the void.
Icebound longswords dense as a torrential rain swept down.
Chunks of terrifying hailstones, like Ancient Divine Mountains, plummeted, and the fearsome vigor unleashed twisted the space into a viscous mess.
Just as the Snake Demon King’s face returned to calmness, the ground’s violent tremors and the drastic temperature drop caused the blood on his body to freeze into ice lumps.
He raised his head, and the vast frost-white storm barreled toward him as if to swallow the heavens and earth!
"You!"
His vertical pupils trembled violently, having assumed the devious practitioner was merely skilled at ambushes, never imagining he could unleash such a world-destroying offensive. In shock, the Snake Demon King gathered all his Dao Essence, invoking every conceivable strategy in desperation!
Roar!
Behind him, the Daoist Spirit, Green Abyssal Sand King, howled toward the sky before suddenly disintegrating, dissolving into an overwhelming tide of poison, where massive venomous dragons a thousand feet long gathered in the turbulent dark cyan waves, roaring with unstoppable might.
This wasn’t the end. After the Daoist Spirit, the Snake Demon King’s throat swelled, and he spat out a pouch woven as fine as a hair, glistening with a subtle dark gold Divine Marvel inside.
He lifted this pouch in his hand and tossed it upward, murmuring incantations as every drop of accumulated Dao Essence surged into this Magical Treasure.
Buzz——
The void trembled slightly, and the Divine Marvel within the pouch shone brightly.
The next instant, the pouch opened of its own accord, releasing a tumultuous, dark yellow river filled with countless severed limbs and screaming figures, overflowing like a breached dam.
Huangquan Budai!
The treasure privately held by the Snake Demon King.
Inside was sealed a tributary of Netherworld River Water.
The Netherworld River Water, extremely toxic, corroded flesh and soul, would kill an ordinary person upon contact.
Even a Dao Expert submerged in this river for long periods would lose their cultivation, soul decayed, becoming a corpse adrift in the river.
This Netherworld River Water also possessed the divine effect of erasing memories.
Due to its extreme danger, the Snake Demon King rarely used this treasure, and lacking a special Dharma Gate, even he would suffer memory loss upon contact with this Netherworld Water.
Yet today, with strength halved from the "Triple Yin Profound Sha," facing the terrifying assault before him, he had to grit his teeth and fight!
Daoist Spirit!
Magical Treasure!
Both trump cards revealed, their entwined chaotic powers manifested as terrifying visions of sun and moon’s descent in the void.
"As expected, a Dao Body Realm Demon King has some hidden abilities. Hit by my ’Triple Yin Profound Sha,’ yet still able to muster such an attack."
Sensing the Snake Demon King’s erupting power, Qi Xiu raised his head slightly, seeing two towering giant waves, one green and one yellow, thousands of feet high, rolling over his frost-white storm, counterattacking him.
"With such power, if I don’t kill you, who knows how many fellow Daoists will suffer."
Qi Xiu shook his head, and behind him, colors surged as the majestic Hunyuan Daoist walked out, treading on golden clouds and holding a Jade Ruyi.
Grasping the Frost Cloud Flame, he gave it a firm pull.
A sound like countless mechanisms colliding and reorganizing rang out, and the Precious Fan in Qi Xiu’s hand split into two pieces.
Turning into one red and one white!
Tossing the Frost Fan to the Hunyuan Daoist behind him, Qi Xiu held the Flame Fan.
Then, the man and the Daoist Spirit locked eyes.
In the next moment!
Boom boom boom boom boom boom——
The two massive Precious Fans were frantically waved!
In an instant!
Heaven and earth darkened, resembling doomsday.
It seemed like some giant black hand gripped the whole world tightly, squeezing it nearly breathless.
The ground trembled, terrifying scars-like cracks rapidly spread, as if the ancient blood under the earth was boiling. Intense flames erupted skyward, burning ghastly holes in the void, presenting a broken flow state.
The sky also suddenly tore open with sinister cracks like shattered porcelain, pouring down massive icicles, each a deafening crash like ancient celestial bodies descends from heaven.
Two extremes of power clashed violently between heaven and earth, twisting the air in such a confrontation, pressed so heavily that even breathing was impossible.
An overwhelming collision of tremendous force.
The vast pressure of the great path turned the surrounding space into a bloody red.
The heavens trembled!
The starry sky wailed!
Within a radius of several thousand miles, it turned pitch-black, no hand visible before one’s face, the sound of relentless collisions shattering everything in the world continuing unabated.
Swish——
Moments later, the darkness was torn open in astonishment.
Everything returned to nothingness.
The Snake Demon King stood feebly in place, his eyes weak. Fully activating the Daoist Spirit to revive the Huangquan Budai had nearly drained all his Primordial Dao Essence.
He should be almost the same...
Fully activating the Dharma Gate to recover strength, the Snake Demon King’s vertical pupils trembled as he searched for the figure of that Daoist.
But at this moment.
A middle-aged Daoist, plainly dressed and robed, with a calm and serene face, was approaching at a leisurely pace.
Feeling the still full and potent aura of the opponent, the Snake Demon King’s eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.
How is this possible?!
After unleashing such an extraordinarily terrifying offensive, his aura was still so complete!
Could it be that this person’s Primordial Dao Essence was inexhaustible and limitless?!
In this regard, the Snake Demon King was indeed hitting the mark, guessing with absolute accuracy.
Activating the Frost Cloud Flame to that extent, if it were any other Dao Expert, even if not as miserable as the Snake Demon King, they wouldn’t fare much better.
But for Qi Xiu, who practiced the "Immortal Scripture of Myriad Laws and Primordial Unity" and possessed the unparalleled physique of the Hunyuan Myriad Laws Immortal Body.
This amount of consumption was merely a splash.
If not for the intention to capture the Snake Demon King alive, he wouldn’t have even shown up but continued to fan the Frost Cloud Flame, completely extinguishing him in the icy fire.
The moment the Snake Demon King saw Qi Xiu, Qi Xiu naturally saw this Demon King too.
Universe in the Sleeve!
At the moment their gazes met, Qi Xiu waved his wide sleeve, and the terrifying robe that covered the sky and sun suddenly appeared above the Snake Demon King’s head.
An overwhelming suction force rolled up, pulling the exhausted Demon King steadily upward, intending to confine him within the sleeve where entry is allowed, but exit is forbidden.
Once inside, without power far surpassing Qi Xiu, one could only be at his mercy.
Watching as his feet began to lift from the ground, his body uncontrollably moving towards the dark hole of the sleeve.
With a look of resolve, the Snake Demon King’s pupils suddenly turned blood red.
"I will perish with you!"
With a shrill roar, extreme dazzling light suddenly exploded from his seven apertures.
After a momentary calm.
Boom——
Endless shock waves burst forth, distorting the winds and clouds, obliterating the sun and moon, from a point of brilliance, engulfing heaven and earth.
The terrifying destructive power ravaged thousands of miles, savagely tearing space, annihilating everything, turning the world into a chaotic void.
This is the power of a Dao Expert self-destructing.
Raising the Haotian Mirror to resist this world-annihilating force outside, Qi Xiu narrowed his eyes, a hint of suspicion appearing.
Would a Dao Body Realm Demon King truly be so fierce, choosing to die rather than surrender?
With a deep breath, Qi Xiu activated the Observing Qi Skill, purple intent surged within his eyes, scanning the nearly void transformed land before him.
Hmm?!
Upon examination, he indeed found some clues.
He saw a faintly imperceptible weak figure, taking advantage of the residual power of the self-destruction, crazily advancing forward.
"Ha, shedding skin for fake death? Quite the trickster indeed."
Having found the Snake Demon King, transformed into a thumb-thick small snake, Qi Xiu’s figure flickered, instantly appearing nearby, reaching out a large hand to capture him.
Aware of the strong wind overhead, the Snake Demon King looked up, lamenting with a mouthful of bitterness.
It was unexpected that even self-destructing his flesh could not deceive this Daoist.
But just as Qi Xiu reached out his hand, a vine interwoven with red and green suddenly shot out from the ground, wrapping around the Snake Demon King and pulling him into the earth.
Hmm?
Unexpectedly, someone snatched the prey from under his nose. Qi Xiu was first stunned, then directly struck with a palm.
Hunyuan Ultimate Cannon!
Accompanied by a primordial boom, a blazing white pillar of terror instantly pierced the ground, opening a straight and deep black path hundreds of meters in diameter.
Transforming into a cloud vapor and chasing up, he wouldn’t easily offer the prey he painstakingly weakened to another.
Qi Xiu pursued relentlessly, feeling he had already descended nearly a hundred miles underground.
Boom!
Suddenly, a withered yellow beam struck, permeating with the power of decay and destruction, rendering the surrounding earth shriveled and sandy, as if drained of all vitality.
Remaining expressionless, Qi Xiu raised a hand and met it with a palm.
Primordial Attraction!
Not even considering using the Hunyuan Ultimate Cannon, this single technique of Primordial Attraction was sufficient to counter it.
The withered yellow beam vanished without causing any ripple, fully absorbed by Qi Xiu.
But just as Qi Xiu was about to continue his pursuit, he saw a figure emerge, pinching the frantically twisting Snake Demon King with one hand, walking out slowly.
"I am Lin Cong, Sect Master of Qingmu Cliff of the Middle Ancient Era Dao Sect, greeting fellow Daoist."
Gazing at the emerging figure, Qi Xiu scanned with his eyes, then slightly curled his lips, revealing a hint of a smile.
Finally, meeting my Righteous Dao cultivator’s Tenacity Retention.
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