Long Qi jumped in fright, instinctively clutching Mo Qi's clothes.
Jie Yin shook his head and pointed below himself, "Do you think I still need a mount?"
"Then she won't be willing to go with you either," Mo Qi said.
Jie Yin frowned again, "This is not good. This is the will of fate, and it cannot be escaped. Even if she doesn't become my disciple today, she will tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then someday she will. This is destiny, and you cannot refuse it."
"However, this is also normal. In the beginning, no one is willing. Once they go to the West with me, they will naturally be immersed in the profound mysteries of Western Dharma, and then they won't want to return. Moreover, this matter is ordained by heaven. To go against it is like a fallen leaf; it may seem unrelated to worldly affairs, but in reality, it can cause earth-shattering changes."
"Get lost. I don't even want to talk to you anymore," Mo Qi said indifferently.
Jie Yin was furious. He felt that he couldn't reason with such a coarse person. You clearly had the world in your heart, but he thought you had ill intentions. It was truly incomprehensible.
Therefore, reasoning was useless; only force would do.
His body was about to resort to violence, but he maintained a calm demeanor on the surface, "In that case, I can only invite you with force."
Mo Qi glanced back at Long Qi, "I'll block him, you run."
"The emergency pills I gave you, you can take them. They can help you resist for a while if necessary."
Long Qi shook her head resolutely, "How can I escape alone? If we go, we go together. If we die, we die together."
Mo Qi turned to look at Jie Yin, "Did you hear that? She'd rather die than go with you. Are you still going to be so aggressive?"
Jie Yin said nothing and directly extended a hand, reaching for Mo Qi.
For saints like him, it was better to act than to speak whenever possible.
Because speaking was more tiring than acting!
The hand grew in the wind, flashing with golden light, expanding infinitely in the air. It was like a five-fingered mountain descending from the sky, covering the sky and obscuring the sun.
Sun Chasing Star Plucking Art!
Mo Qi's body leaped into the air, but the immense pressure bore down fiercely, preventing him from flying more than ten zhang high. He was immediately knocked back down to the ground.
Mo Qi rolled over and got up, consuming twenty emergency pills. The spiritual energy in his body erupted, expanding rapidly.
"Pangu Divine Power, Shatter Void!"
A white light, shaped like a sphere with gears on its edges, spun towards the giant hand.
The giant hand slammed down, hitting the white light without surprise.
The white light rapidly withered, like a leaf exposed to strong sunlight.
But sparks flew from the edges of the white light, and the gears spun incessantly.
One could clearly hear the sizzling sound, like objects being cut.
The giant hand trembled and retracted slightly.
At the same time, Jie Yin let out a muffled groan.
Mo Qi grabbed Long Qi and they retreated into the distance.
If he didn't dodge the giant hand once it fell, he would surely be annihilated.
Long Qi had also consumed more than ten pills, her eyes glowing red, but she still desperately suppressed her transformation into a dragon. Unless it was absolutely necessary, she did not want Mo Qi to see her in that state.
When cut by the white light, the giant hand only retracted slightly before pressing down again, even faster than before.
With a deafening roar, the white light exploded, its fragments scattering in all directions, instantly merging into the swirling dust.
The giant hand seemed unaffected by the explosion, still pressing down like a mountain. Mo Qi saw that with such speed and power, neither he nor Long Qi could escape. In a moment of desperation, he immediately summoned the Heaven-Overturning Seal.
The Heaven-Overturning Seal expanded rapidly like an inflated balloon, striking towards the giant hand.
The giant hand, without stopping, continued to press down with the same speed and power, unstoppable.
As the Heaven-Overturning Seal was about to touch the giant hand, it stopped expanding as if under a spell.
A halo of light suddenly lit up on the palm of the giant hand and shot down, hitting the Heaven-Overturning Seal in an instant.
The Heaven-Overturning Seal spun and fell back to the ground.
It almost hit Mo Qi.
"Dragon's Breath!" Long Qi looked up at the sky and suddenly let out a soft sneer.
The sky suddenly darkened, the air tightened, and then expanded violently. A strong, dark force struck the giant hand.
The giant hand underwent corrosive changes and rapidly collapsed.
Jie Yin tapped his right wrist with his left hand, and a light ring flowed down with his wrist, instantly covering his entire palm. The light ring filled the sunken parts, and then gradually merged. In the blink of an eye, the previously sunken and decayed parts grew back, restoring it to its original state.
"Dragon's Breath!" Long Qi again slightly parted her small mouth and exhaled Dragon's Breath.
However, the situation was the same. The palm decayed and then instantly recovered, unable to harm him at all.
Mo Qi then summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell. The Eastern Emperor Bell glowed and spun towards the giant hand.
The light instantly shattered.
The giant hand formed a claw and fiercely grabbed the Eastern Emperor Bell. The Eastern Emperor Bell whizzed through his fingers.
Taking advantage of the giant hand reaching for the Eastern Emperor Bell, Mo Qi used his hands to support himself on the ground, "Ice and Snow Divine Ability, Summoning Art!"
The earth trembled, the wind and clouds churned, and the sky became dark and oppressive.
Mo Qi had not used his Ice and Snow Divine Ability for a long time, especially the Summoning Art.
As his cultivation increased, the ice and snow divine beasts summoned by this art would also become higher-tier.
He was very curious about what kind of ice and snow divine beast he could summon now.
The thick clouds in the sky suddenly parted, as if a torrent was about to force its way through.
Immediately after, two giant white claws emerged from the clouds, along with a massive beak, like a hook hanging upside down in the sky, sharp as a thorn. The size of these claws and beak was no less than Jie Yin's giant hand.
Mo Qi supported himself on the ground, continuously channeling spiritual energy. The ground was covered with a thick layer of ice and snow, and snowflakes began to fall from the sky, drifting like white willow catkins, dense and numerous.
The claws and beak gradually revealed their full forms, and their downward movement slowed.
Mo Qi felt a churning sensation within his body, feeling that the pulling force generated by his divine ability had reached its limit, and any further exertion would cause his internal organs to rupture.
Jie Yin was initially a little apprehensive at the overwhelming presence, but then he saw Mo Qi's face contorted with effort, like he was trying to defecate, and the divine beast was taking so long to appear. Jie Yin couldn't help but show a look of disdain: if you can't do it, don't force it.
Once the claws and beak of the divine beast were fully exposed, they could not be pushed out any further.
The sky was covered with dense black clouds, flowing like a river of stars. The divine beast struggled intermittently, causing the cloud layer to tremble incessantly, as if it were about to shatter.
Jie Yin was still somewhat uneasy. Rather than waiting for the divine beast to emerge, it was better to strike first.
He immediately flew up, flipped his hand upwards, and his giant palm whistled towards the divine beast's claws.
"Roar!"
The divine beast let out a furious roar that shook heaven and earth, as if expressing its outrage at the unfair battle, or perhaps complaining about the summoner's incompetence.
The divine beast could not break free, but that did not mean it could not see.
The claws seemed to have eyes, revealing all four of their thorns with sharp edges, shining like giant swords suspended between heaven and earth.
Jie Yin was greatly alarmed and dared not confront it directly. He suddenly flipped his wrist, and the giant hand changed direction, striking the clouds between the beak and claws.
The divine beast was effectively being dangled and beaten!
Mo Qi could not stand idly by. He immediately retracted the hand pressing on the ground, and simultaneously, with his left hand in front and his right hand pulled back from his chest, the phantom of a bow and arrow appeared, unleashing a fierce burst of cold wind and imposing power.
As he continuously pulled his right hand back, the arrow shadow on the string thickened, gradually filling the entire bowstring.
He released his hand, and the arrow shadow whistled upwards against the wind, striking towards Jie Yin.
At the same time, the Demon King, appearing from who knows where, jumped into the twelve-petal lotus platform with a cheer, and began to eat the lotus leaves with such gusto that she completely forgot she was a lady!
As Mo Qi stopped channeling the Ice and Snow Divine Ability, the divine beast was no longer controlled, and its body rapidly retracted, its claws and beak disappearing quickly.
However, Jie Yin's attack could not be stopped. It continued to descend with the same speed and power, striking into the dark clouds.
With a muffled thud, the dark clouds surged like waves. The divine beast had already gone far, but the residual force of the divine ability still swept over his body. He suffered minor injuries and fled rapidly.
At this moment, Jie Yin felt the surge of power and spiritual fluctuations from below. He hastily looked down and saw an arrow shadow flashing towards him, sharp, piercing, and swift, as if it could penetrate everything.
Jie Yin dared not underestimate it. He clutched his prayer beads and pulled them forcefully. All one hundred and eight prayer beads shone brightly, suspended in the air.
Jie Yin pointed his hand, and the prayer beads shot out one by one, following each other in a straight line towards the arrow shadow. Under the wind, they rapidly expanded, instantly turning into plump spheres that darted through the air.
Then, a continuous series of "thud, thud, thud" sounds rang out. The arrow shadow struck the prayer beads one after another. Each time it struck one, it was knocked aside, causing it to fly off to the side.
The arrow shadow also slowed down with each impact, its image fading, and its light and energy gradually dissipated into the air.
The prayer beads fell to the ground one by one, while Mo Qi lowered his head, searching for and picking up each one, placing them into his storage bag.
Jie Yin was enraged. He prepared to swoop down and strike Mo Qi head-on. From above, coupled with his world-conquering divine abilities, he was confident he could instantly kill him.
However, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a figure lying on the twelve-petal golden lotus, busily eating lotus leaves.
At this moment, two petals of the twelve-petal golden lotus were already missing, and the red figure was still eating another lotus leaf.
Jie Yin was so angry he wanted to vomit blood, "Beast!"
His figure pounced down like a falcon, his movement incredibly fast, striking towards the Demon King like lightning.
The Demon King, chewing on lotus leaves, looked back at Jie Yin, revealing a chilling smile.
Jie Yin was stunned for a moment, but the arrow was already on the string and had to be fired. He immediately summoned the Jie Yin Treasure Banner and struck towards the Demon King. Seeing the treasure artifact emitting a sky-devouring, earth-swallowing radiance, the Demon King directly threw the twelve-petal lotus platform away. The twelve-petal lotus platform had now become a nine-petal lotus platform.
The twelve-petal lotus platform was a primordial supreme treasure and an extraterrestrial object. Although the Jie Yin Treasure Banner was also not ordinary, it was still inferior in comparison.
With a deafening roar, the light emitted by the Jie Yin Treasure Banner shattered and gradually dissipated. The Jie Yin Treasure Banner itself could not withstand the impact, a corner was broken, and it fell to the dust.
Jie Yin's body followed closely behind, his giant hand descending like the sky collapsing, striking towards the Demon King as if Mount Tai were pressing down.