455: Chapter 43: One Sword_2 455: Chapter 43: One Sword_2 The image was strikingly beautiful, the gold entangling with the black.
Miao Zhen stood in place, silently appreciating this rare beauty…
He had to admit, this youth’s Sword Realm was truly extraordinary.
Even from the high vantage point of his past life as a Yang God, he could perceive many commendable aspects.
An intangible Sword Intent was already fermenting atop the Golden Body Tower, and it would not be long before this Sword Intent erupted, forming a storm.
At this moment, he stood at the very center of the storm, feeling “oppression” and “unease” with every sword energy fish that passed by.
To be able to achieve this indicated that Xie Zhen’s Sword Qi could indeed threaten his Golden Body.
A hundred breaths passed.
The Sword Intent continued to grow, the storm still brewing.
The unease and oppression deep in his Heart Lake grew heavier, but Miao Zhen did not speak to urge.
He had led the delegation westward to this point and had been preaching for seven days.
He had accumulated the momentum and auspices of seven days.
Now, Xie Zhen only had one chance to strike with his sword…
The young man needed time to accumulate sword force, which was fair.
Another hundred breaths passed.
The dark clouds enveloping the Golden Body Tower began to rumble with somber thunder.
Nearly the entire Golden Body Tower was filled with pitch-black Sword Intent.
The sword energy fish, imbued with the aura of the Principle of Destruction, swarmed densely around Miao Zhen.
The three-inch space where the young Buddha’s son stood became the last bastion of clarity in this domain.
The climb of Sword Intent had reached its peak.
The Principle of Destruction was condensed to ninety-nine percent.
Just a hair’s breadth away from complete consolidation, Sword Qi Cave Heaven would be fixed.
Xie Xuanyi precisely controlled this progress, suspending the Rule of Destruction just shy of Great Success.
“Your Sword Intent is strong.”
“But if this is all you have…
I would be very disappointed.”
It was at this moment that Miao Zhen’s deep voice resonated.
The two gazed at each other across the Buddha’s light infused with Sanskrit and swimming sword energy fish.
Through layers of pitch-black and glittering gold.
Xie Xuanyi saw a pair of eyes filled with a fervent intent.
“This is the battle I have been most looking forward to since my rebirth and relearning, without a doubt.”
“Even the Venerable of the South Border that I previously killed with my staff did not give me this feeling.”
Miao Zhen communicated his thoughts to Xie Xuanyi through telepathy.
The young Buddha’s son’s eyes seemed to pierce through the sword Qi and Cave Heaven, as if he could see into the deeper recesses of Xie Xuanyi’s heart.
He spoke slowly, his voice earnest and powerful.
“Some competitions come only once in a lifetime.”
“With this battle at the Golden Body Tower, you only draw one sword.”
“So why not give it your all?”
…
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“Crack!”
A crisp breaking sound emanated from the top of Red Mountain, catching the attention of many onlookers.
The spread of golden scrolls, which had been intact up until this moment, suddenly split apart.
The Karma Sea did the same.
So did the doors to the Great Pudu Temple.
Buddha’s light clashed with sword Qi, darkness struck against splendor, the snap echoing, and the scene before all “spectators” crumbled.
The crowd looked at each other in bewilderment.
No one knew what the current situation atop the Golden Body Tower was.
…
Xie Xuanyi frowned at the scene before him.
The immense Ming Sha Treasure Staff was pulled out from the ground by Miao Zhen, who wielded it casually and struck towards the outside of the tower.
A tremendous roar!
At this moment.
Xie Xuanyi could feel the link between the Golden Body Tower and the outside world being severed.
The Golden Light Array, Buddha Sound Forest, copper man walls, Karma Sea.
In a certain sense.
These were all part of “Buddha Country”.
Now, Miao Zhen had retracted the entire Void Buddha Country engulfing the Great Pudu Temple, condensing and pressing it at the highest point of the Golden Body Tower.
Within a few feet radius, radiance gleamed everywhere.
The gloom and shadows between the two were swept away by the Buddha’s light, even the dark Path of Destruction illuminated by the brilliant light—
Miao Zhen lifted the Treasure Staff, not to dispel the Sword Intent aggregated by Xie Xuanyi.
On the contrary.
He helped these “sword energy fish” to further solidify together!
Threads of invisible aura settled on Xie Xuanyi’s forehead, shoulders, and hair tips.
“Are you…
gifting me auspices?”
The golden light showering from the Heavenly Peak was precisely the auspices accumulated by the Fan Yin Temple delegation during their sermons over the past days.
Xie Xuanyi found it somewhat amusing; he hadn’t expected Miao Zhen would actively share a part of the auspices with him.
“I hope to have a fair fight with you.”
Miao Zhen spoke lightly: “It appears you have reservations; if you really do not wish to invoke your Lifebound Flying Sword, feel free to accept these auspices.
In addition, you need not worry about anyone overhearing our conversation, as Buddha Country has already severed the connection between the Golden Body Tower and the outside world.”
…
Xie Xuanyi took a step back and brushed off the golden light that had fallen on his shoulder.
What Miao Zhen said, rather than being a kindly offer, was better understood as a slight with a hint of provocation.
“I don’t need your luck.”
Xie Xuanyi stretched out two fingers and gently placed them on the spot between his eyebrows: “Even if you don’t use the Buddha Country to sever these visions, I would still take action.”
“…In this battle, I actually have no concerns.”
Miao Zhen gave a smile.
But, in the next moment, the smile on his face became slightly stiff.
Within the grotto heaven between the young man’s eyebrows, along with the pitch-black Rule of Destruction, there was also a wisp of snow-white and bright Sword Qi of Tao Rules, coalescing into being.
The second grand Tao.
Life.
This Principle of Life had always been nurtured at the deepest depths of the Sword Qi Cave Heaven, entwined around the Chen Ke…
At this moment, Xie Xuanyi extended his arm.
He thrust his palm into the void pieced together by the pitch-black sword energy fish.
Sword Qi burst forth, Sword Sound resonated!
The black and white light entangled, and what was pulled out with the Life Dao…
was a three-foot golden shining Lifebound Flying Sword!
“Two grand Tao, together shaping the grotto heaven.”
Miao Zhen revealed a genuine look of appreciation: “Indeed, you are also reborn and relearning…”
For a thousand years, prodigies in the cultivation world were as common as carp crossing a river.
While the top-level Tao Rules like life and death are difficult to comprehend, if you stretch the timeline, there should be a few exceptional geniuses capable of understanding such Tao Rules.
However.
One has only one life.
Almost no one can comprehend two Tao Rules within the Cave Heaven Realm, and to such a high standard at that.
If there are any.
Then they definitely cannot be just a seventeen-year-old youth.
Seeing this scene, Miao Zhen was extremely joyful.
He finally confirmed that thought in his heart.
The night at Moss Ridge was too hasty; he had hurried from Da Li to Chu Country, hoping only to exchange blows with his old rival “Jun Mountain.” Encountering Xie Zhen was purely a delightful surprise…
After that night, thinking back over the details of their engagement, the more he considered it, the more incredible it seemed.
Could Chu Country really possess such a prodigy, who at the Cave Heaven Realm, grasped two Tao Rules and managed to circle around both him and Jun Mountain?
“I heard that in the past sixty years, Great Chu has produced an extraordinary Sword Immortal named Xie Xuanyi.”
Miao Zhen placed one hand erect in front of his chest and slowly fiddled with the Buddha Beads.
Later he inquired everywhere about the youth from that night in Moss Ridge.
The monks from the Great Pudu Temple told him.
This youth was named Xie Zhen, a disciple taken in by Xie Xuanyi before his fall in the North Sea.
Miao Zhen said with a sigh, “I regret that I came into this world too late and did not have the opportunity to cross blades with Xie Xuanyi.”
“Heaven still favors you.”
Xie Xuanyi held onto Chen Ke, pondered for a moment, and slowly said, “Not only did you get another chance at life, but you also got the opportunity to resolve your regret.”
Having said that, he lifted up his sword, the sword tip pointing at Miao Zhen.
He opened his palm.
Sword Qi burst forth.
The two Tao Rules of life and death entwined, and the Chen Ke erupted with a low furious roar.
A grey chaotic long line of Sword Qi, in an instant, lashed out violently!
This strike pierced through the Golden Body Tower.
Instantly from the heavenly peak to the tower top!
Miao Zhen’s pupils suddenly constricted; the strike had come too fast.
The power unleashed by the fusion of the two top-level Tao Rules far exceeded his expectations.
Seventy Buddhist True Words converged in an instant to form a barrier, but it only blocked the long line of Sword Qi for a moment before being slashed open.
After being soaked in the Undying Spring, the quality of Chen Ke began to change, and at this moment, its clash with the Yang God’s Magical Device, the Ming Sha Treasure Staff, actually had the upper hand!
Boom!
A bolt of thunder descended upon the top of the Golden Body Tower!
With the somber thunderclaps, the Chen Ke Sword Qi surged wildly, shredding the Buddha Beads shield, tearing open the Kasaya robe, and striking the tall monk’s shoulder!
Crash!
A gap was torn in the Buddha light barrier between the Golden Tower and the Heavenly Peak.
Rain poured heavily.
Rainwater fell into the tower, splashing up scorching hot mist.
The towering figure of the tall monk shook heavily but ultimately managed to steady his stance.
The sound of Sword Sound lingered, echoing in the ears of both men.
At the top of the Golden Body Tower.
A faint scent of blood pervaded.
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(Tonight there will be another update.
It might be quite late, so everyone doesn’t need to wait.)