529: Chapter 81: Sea of Fire, Sea of Blood 529: Chapter 81: Sea of Fire, Sea of Blood “This…”
Piercing the heavens, a torrential rain of arrows plummeted down, causing the watchers from the Fan Yin Temple delegation to hold their breaths in suspense.
Iron Eyes was visibly tense.
The monks dared not even look.
But unexpectedly, as the rain of arrows fell, only crisp tapping sounds were heard; these arrow shafts, attached with talisman paper, shattered pitter-patter like raindrops upon impact, scattering all over the ground.
The black-robed youth, Xuanyi, stood serenely pressing down his umbrella sword at the very center of the battlefield.
The exposed Vajra Body after his clothes had been torn was ablaze with Primordial Fire.
The radiance emanating from Xie Zhen alone…
overshadowed an entire sea of flames.
“Perfect Golden Body Realm?”
This scene caused Nalan Qiutong’s pupils to contract uncontrollably.
She knew.
This Xie Zhen had an extraordinary physical prowess, his close combat skills were impressive…
But she hadn’t expected that this fellow would also cultivate his body to the pinnacle, setting aside sword art, just his achievements in Golden Body alone were enough to top the Heavenly Pride List!
The battle had just begun.
Taking a deep breath, Nalan Qiutong formed hand seals; countless silver threads undulated, stirring up once more inside the Cage Immortal Array, pressing down upon Xuanyi’s head!
As the rain of arrows ceased, from all directions, immediate roars, bellows, and wails filled the air…
Those warhorses manipulated by String Skill charged forward like tidal waves.
“Sigh…”
Xuanyi watched this scene, exhaling a turbid breath lightly.
This time.
He no longer prepared to draw his sword.
Once the Cage Immortal Array was set, the consumption of every strand of Primordial Energy within the array could not be replenished.
The formation laid out by Nalan Qiutong was brilliant; the use of String Skill in conjunction with the iron cavalry’s relentless charges was enough to exhaust most cultivators caught within it.
Except for the Martial Artists.
Xuanyi took a step forward, targeting a warhorse charging at him and swung out a punch directly!
“Bang!”
With this punch.
The warhorse’s head shattered, bursting like a watermelon!
Scarlet blood mist splattered!
“Bang bang bang!”
Xuanyi continued to throw punches, and several more figures exploded.
This time, it was not only warhorses, but also members of the Camp Cang iron cavalry who engaged in close combat.
Since these iron cavalries were fearless in the face of death, then Xuanyi would simply grant them their wish to die.
Naturally, Nalan Qiutong would not mind.
She knew Meng Kejian was watching the battle; it was justifiable for her to use String Skill to destroy the Camp Cang’s crippled warhorses, but to kill Du Yunzhong’s elite soldiers without reason would lead to accountability after the battle.
Now that Xie Zhen was acting on her behalf, it would be pouring fuel on the fire.
With these iron cavalries dying here, it was perfect to use String Skill to patch them up and continue the fight!
“Kill!
Keep killing!”
Nalan Qiutong, her spirits high, exclaimed in a low voice: “I want to see how much skill and stamina you, Xie Zhen, truly have!”
Human strength has its limits.
Bolstered by Cage Immortal Array, the Human Sea Tactic controlled by String Skill seemed practically inexhaustible!
Now that Xie Zhen refrained from using the Flying Sword Skill, choosing to fight with his physical body instead, it seemed wise.
However, to kill one person, at least a bit of strength must be expended.
In just a short dozen breaths.
Tens of iron cavalries had rushed forward one after another.
The continuous sounds of bursting blood mist, with each punch from Xuanyi, resulted in another being blown into bloody fragments.
At this moment, all the voices from the outside world seemed to have vanished.
Xuanyi entered an unprecedentedly profound state.
In his previous life of Sword Cultivation.
He could not cultivate the second Sword Dao due to an inadequate physique.
In this life.
Thanks to the fortune from the Undying Spring, he finally achieved the Golden Body Divine Embryo that he missed out on in the previous life…
After the battle in the Great Yue Kingdom, Xuanyi thought of using the Life Dao Principle to shape the Divine Embryo, combined with the Rule of Destruction from the Sword Qi Cave Heaven, and with the double identity of “Martial Artist” and “Sword Immortal,” to step into this Yin God Realm, which he was only a hair’s breadth away from!
Unfortunately, his cultivation of the Principle of Life just could not make headway.
Jun Mountain says.
To cultivate the Life Dao Principle, one must save lives in this world.
This makes sense.
If one does not practice the Daoist skills of this world, how could one advance?
In the past life, he killed countless Evil Spirits and demonic beings using the Path of Destruction…
Hence his attainment of the Tao Rules came with almost no effort.
But in this life, the cultivation of the Life Dao Principle lacked just such a condition.
Now, this battle was exactly the opportunity that Xuanyi had long been waiting for.
He deliberately ignored the long cries of the [Chronic Illness], completely forgetting the existence of swordsmanship, and chose to use his physical prowess to confront the endless sea of String Skill controlled by the Cage Immortal Array…
With every punch he threw, the Primordial Fire in his acupoints trembled!
Xuanyi had never truly learned Fist Technique.
His understanding of Fist Technique mostly came from the Daoist Collection on Lotus Peak.
When Zhao Chunyang forced him to practice swordsmanship, he also glanced over those peripheral Daoist practices; in Xuanyi’s eyes back then, “Body Refinement” was just such a marginal Daoist practice—an art of worldly strife, trivial in the Jianghu.
Xuanyi had an eidetic memory, and with a Golden Body, he applied these tactics quite effortlessly.
There was also the recently perused secret manual from Wangyou Island, teaching Duan Zhao; Wangyou Island Master, in his attempt to coax his son into practicing boxing, infused boxing into sword art.
This manual seemed as worthless as chicken ribs, but in fact, it contained the Body Refinement insights of a Great Success Yang God Realm Martial Artist.
Although Xuanyi was unable to comprehend the true Wangyou Island Body Refinement Art, he could still sense the essence and mystique.
At this moment.
Relying on his instinctual mindset, he continued to swing his fists.
Each punch carried the momentum of “burning both enemies and self.”
Injure the enemy by a thousand, harm yourself by eight hundred.
He surrounded the umbrella sword that was inserted into the ground and stepped around it.
The iron cavalry on all sides, the swordsmen, and the fiery steeds all seemed like punching posts waiting to explode…
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Golden Primordial Fire burned upon the skin of Xie Xuanyi.
He forgot everything.
A wisp of snow-white radiance gleamed on his forehead, flickering with an unprecedented brilliance!
Nalan Qiutong’s smiling face gradually stiffened, and after a moment, cold sweat began to seep from her forehead.
Under her manipulation of the String Skill, these fallen soldiers could stand up, the shattered steeds could be patched up, but their “remains” after colliding with Xie Zhen were no longer intact!
Each of Xie Zhen’s punches was extremely heavy, leaving no complete corpses behind!
“Rustle rustle…”
After dozens of breaths of charging, a faint layer of crimson color emerged over the entire sea of fire.
The thick scent of blood could not be dispersed by the wind and enveloped the whole Qixia Mountain Road.
String Skill could only mend, not create!
Two warhorses had now become one through patching up!
Not to mention those soldiers—
And damn it, the black-robed youth standing in the center of the blood sea showed no signs of weariness, still punching with full strength one after another!
…
Watching the battle up to this point, Nalan Qiutong felt something was amiss.
This Xie Zhen was different from the orthodox Body Refiners who came from martial sects or the Buddhist tradition—
His physique was extremely strong, but his martial arts skills couldn’t be considered top-notch; his moves appeared to be big and broad, but the details were significantly lacking…
This was reminiscent of desperate outlaws in the worldly society, each punch thrown was a life for a life, either the opponent died, or they did.
This way of fighting was certainly fierce, but how could it last against the Human Sea Tactic?
That was why Nalan Qiutong’s back was soaked in sweat.
In this world, most things must abide by the laws of nature.
A Cultivator inside the Cage Immortal Array, when faced with the Human Sea Tactic, would soon lose all their Primordial Energy.
Even a Martial Artist would be drained of their blood essence and vitality.
But Xie Zhen…
he had nearly slain half of Camp Cang, yet there was no sign of his energy and blood running dry!
This was too unreasonable.
If the battle continued this way, could it be that her “String Skill” really couldn’t kill Xie Zhen with a Perfect Golden Body?
“Meng surnamed, why won’t you take action?!
What exactly are you waiting for?!”
Nalan Qiutong couldn’t help but transmit her voice.
She looked towards the side of the mountain road, in the direction of Duanchang Cliff, where there was no more movement after the Cage Immortal Array was set up.
Obviously.
With Meng Kejian’s character, he must be hidden deep in the mountains, silently watching this fight of a trapped beast.
For this battle arrangement on Qixia Mountain, her Master had given her great trust and bestowed considerable power.
If she failed to capture Xie Zhen in this battle…
once the report went up, she would undoubtedly disappoint her Master.
“Nalan maiden, Meng seems to remember that before the battle started, someone deliberately left a warning, not to act rashly without orders, to avoid claiming the military achievements…”
From Deep in the forest of Duanchang Cliff, a taunting, effeminate laughter sounded.
Meng Kejian clasped his hands inside his sleeves, as calm as can be, showing no sign of being perturbed.
He covered the great array with his Divine Thought, watching the increasingly interesting struggle with great interest, without any intention of joining the battle.
“The most prominent young talent of Great Chu.”
“Disciple of Xuanyi.”
“Top of the Heavenly Pride List.”
Meng Kejian couldn’t help but feel emotional, and then said with a smile, “This Xie Zhen’s head, how much military achievement is it worth?
Such a great opportunity is truly too big, it would be better for Meng not to get involved.
Now with the Cage Immortal Array suppressing and the addition of String Skill, Nalan maiden has the advantage of time, place, and people.
This battle…
should hold no suspense, right?”
…
Nalan Qiutong’s face darkened, and she had nothing to say for the moment.
The battle seemed to have no suspense and was still in her favor.
But in reality, the situation was slipping out of her control little by little.
Nalan Qiutong had already seen that the iron cavalry she controlled with her String Skill were nothing but punching bags for Xie Zhen.
With every punch he threw, it seemed as though he was damaging his own vitality, but as long as that wisp of snow-white brilliance on his forehead surged, the loss in his vitality would instantly be replenished…
Nalan Qiutong had never heard of such a thing.
After fighting for nearly a hundred breaths and dozens of charges, Xie Zhen’s boxing technique was still rough, yet a mysterious and profound mood was beginning to emerge, hovering around the sea of flames!
If the fight continued, Xie Zhen might actually advance in realm!
“Nalan maiden, a friendly reminder.”
Just at this moment, Meng Kejian’s mocking voice arrived again: “This Xie Zhen of Great Chu has comprehended more than one Tao Rule.
Besides the ‘Rule of Destruction’ passed down by his Master, he has also comprehended the “Principle of Life’…”
Nalan Qiutong’s expression grew even darker.
Principle of Life?
No wonder Xie Zhen dared to enter the battle with his body; no wonder each of his punches was so intense.
It turned out he had such an ace up his sleeve!
“Meng surnamed, you knew Xie Zhen had comprehended the ‘Principle of Life’, why didn’t you say it beforehand?”
Nalan Qiutong gritted her teeth and said, “Are you just going to watch as I use the Cage Immortal Array and String Skill to feed him punches?!”
“Nalan Qiutong, as the planner of the battle on Qixia Mountain, you made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
How can you blame others?”
Meng Kejian sneered.
After a pause.
“Retreating ten thousand steps…
even if this Xie Zhen truly advances, so what?”
Meng Kejian said expressionlessly, “He might be able to defeat you, but unfortunately, no newly advanced Yin God can escape from my palm, no matter what.”
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(There will be another update tomorrow at noon)