"How can this sentence... cancel my Divine Firmament Thunder Tribulation?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Miao Da Sheng, the voice echoed directly in his ears and heart. He couldn't recall which ancient text contained words capable of dissolving thunder magic.
Golden words, spoken decrees?
Did this unremarkable, crippled ascendant possess such formidable abilities?
Lightning, the pivot of Yin and Yang, the most rigid, yang, majestic, fierce, and blazing force of heaven and earth. Normally, it could not be blocked by a mere sentence!
Yuan Miao Da Sheng refused to believe it. Simultaneously, as a test, he once again channeled his astonishing thunder techniques. With just a thought, he could repeatedly wield immense magical power, a stark contrast to Old Zhang and Ji Xiang.
However, even as he conjured vast bolts of lightning, they were once again, repeatedly, dissolved into nothingness!
After neutralizing the thunder magic, Ji Xiang did not cease. He grabbed the Jade Emperor's divine position and retreated, chanting, "Contemplated by heaven and earth, it is not contrary; examined by ghosts and gods, there is no doubt." With this divine utterance, after walking for a while, he located the specific deity that Yuan Miao Da Sheng was communicating with.
His gaze fell upon a manifested divine tablet.
The Great Emperor of Longevity of the South Pole.
Yuan Miao Da Sheng had once flattered Emperor Huizong of Song, calling him an avatar of the Great Emperor of Longevity of the South Pole.
The three pillars of incense smoke were like a perm for the divine tablet of the Great Emperor of Longevity of the South Pole. Ji Xiang was not polite. He flew over, opened his mouth wide, and instantly devoured all that incense smoke.
Whoosh—!
The three vast streams of incense smoke were forcibly stripped away. After Ji Xiang swallowed them, his divine sense actually solidified considerably, and his cultivation at the Ascension realm gradually emerged, as if this divine sense was transforming into an avatar.
Ji Xiang's actions were simple, clean, and decisive.
But to Old Zhang and in Lin's perception, both of them were now awestruck by Ji Xiang's actions!
For a moment, in the Fu Li Heavenly Realm, the three ascendants all fell silent!
"Senior Brother, Senior Brother! What... what are you doing!"
Old Zhang's expression changed. Ji Xiang devouring the incense smoke from the divine tablet was something he had never seen before...
"It's simply unheard of!"
Yuan Miao Da Sheng, Old Lin's voice also rang out, filled with shock and solemnity!
"What are you doing!!!"
Ji Xiang wiped his mouth, "Eating. It's your incense smoke. The taste is average."
Yuan Miao Da Sheng couldn't comprehend Ji Xiang's actions.
But he was certain of one thing: Ji Xiang's current actions would shock any expert from the Inner Mountains and Rivers who witnessed them!
Although they always spoke of surpassing the gods and becoming their own masters, the profound truth of true immortals, no one had ever heard of someone being able to forcibly strip incense smoke from other divine positions within Fu Li and devour it with relish!
This was not the mortal world, this was Fu Li!
Monstrous gods like Ling Xiao Nu could steal people's incense smoke because they were essentially sitting at the doorstep of a processing plant, causing the factory's products to be misdirected from the very beginning.
But the incense smoke obtained in Fu Li was completely locked. It belonged to whoever it belonged to. How could anyone forcibly seize it? This was akin to outright robbery!
Yuan Miao Da Sheng's shock had not subsided, but the unexpected situation in his wishful thinking forced him to regain his senses.
"This is bad. The three sticks of incense smoke I burned with my cultivation have been eaten by him, and my method of 'Vastness of Brahma Ascending to Heaven' will also fail!"
Yuan Miao Da Sheng felt that Ji Xiang was very strange, but now that he had been tricked, he had to act quickly, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to obtain the Jade Emperor's position!
"Three Obstacles Evil Law!"
Yuan Miao Da Sheng labeled Ji Xiang with three tags: the Three Obstacles Evil Law, referring to demonic obstacles, karmic obstacles, and disaster obstacles.
Those afflicted by demonic obstacles would go mad during cultivation, and forced practice would lead to a decrease in cultivation instead of an increase.
Those afflicted by karmic obstacles would have withered bodies and decaying divine senses, leading to confusion in their perception of all things.
Those afflicted by disaster obstacles would suffer bone-scraping winds that injured the soul, fires that burned their essence and vital energy, and floods that dissolved their divine positions and powers.
The Three Obstacles Evil Law descended upon Ji Xiang, but at this moment, a strange situation occurred again.
The demonic obstacle evil law was directly rendered ineffective, leaving only the karmic obstacle and disaster obstacle successfully attached. This once again baffled Yuan Miao Da Sheng.
Ji Xiang merely felt something was amiss, as if he had just fused with something?
Outer realm celestial demons and having multiple laws within his body were also quite normal, weren't they?
Thus, he recited the divine words, "For the heart has differences between good and evil, and the law has variations between truth and falsehood." In an instant, the power of the karmic obstacle and disaster obstacle was completely dissolved!
Yuan Miao Da Sheng was greatly astonished. He quickly channeled his Divine Firmament Executioner's Thought, and a thunder sword immediately took shape!
But Ji Xiang struck with a flash.
"Stubbornly clinging to one's own opinions, wallowing in dusty words."
Before this thunderous strike could be unleashed, it was immediately scattered. His wishful thinking was damaged, and Yuan Miao Da Sheng's wishful thinking also suffered considerable injury, emitting strange grunting sounds.
Mental damage was even more terrifying than physical damage. Daoist practitioners primarily cultivated their divine sense, with the physical body being secondary. After all, at the Ascension realm, no one was a fragile glass cannon with just a tube of blood. As long as their divine sense was unharmed, some could even regenerate from a drop of blood.
Ji Xiang then began to recite the scriptures written by Celestial Master Sa, and Yuan Miao Da Sheng, after suffering several setbacks, finally remembered where these sentences came from!
They were from "On Thunder" written by his disciple Sa Shou Jian!
The heavens and earth roared, thunder rumbled, and suddenly, within a certain divine position in the Fu Li realm, a golden cudgel flew out, carrying the overwhelming thunder divine power of the sky, and smashed into the direction of Yuan Miao Da Sheng's voice through the void!
Boom! As if something was pierced, a phantom form and spirit appeared in the distant void!
"He's revealed himself! Junior Brother, cut down this last trace of his wishful thinking!"
Ji Xiang spoke at this moment. Old Zhang's spirit was already fully charged and naturally would not hesitate!
Within the phantom wishful thinking, two divine swords took shape. The divine position of the Ancestral Celestial Master bestowed divine power upon these consciousness divine swords. Soon, the appearance of these consciousness divine swords changed. The hilt was connected by five sections, and the blade was inscribed with talismans and images of the sun, moon, and stars. These two swords possessed the power to sweep away the six heavens' ancient ghosts and subdue all demons in the world!
The Three-Five Male and Female Sword Intent!
Yuan Miao Da Sheng's wishful thinking was already on the verge of collapse. Struck by the Three-Five Male and Female Sword Intent that pierced through the Great Thousand Fu Li, he could no longer maintain his wishful thinking voice. His form and spirit were pierced by the Male and Female Sword Intent, carrying a panicked cry!
Boom!
The wishful thinking shattered and vanished without a trace, but Ji Xiang knew that Yuan Miao Da Sheng was now facing a great disaster.
To make him manifest his form and spirit was to expose him outside the Great Dao, which was a betrayal of the Great Dao and would incur the punishment of escaping heaven. He wondered in what form it would reflect upon his true self?
.........
Inner Mountains and Rivers, Eastern Azure Sea, the Juku Continent of the Ten Continents and Three Islands!
By the banks of the great river named Ruo Yuan, the figure of Yuan Miao Da Sheng, Lin Ling Su, was reflected in the river water. He was filled with terror and wanted to find a place to hide. He rose into the air, intending to take refuge in the Dharma Realm, but the next moment, a massive backlash from the Great Dao directly acted upon his physical body and primordial spirit!
His aura weakened, and he plummeted from the peak of the Ascension realm. His vital energy escaped, his magical power decreased, his body became soiled, stained with the colors of the mortal world, and he was afflicted with the deathly illness of premature decay. His arm was severed, his throat was split, and even his primordial spirit was forcibly torn into two halves!
This "corpse" lay by the banks of Ruo Yuan, but he was still not dead!
Yuan Miao Da Sheng's thoughts were still turning, his heart filled with shock.
What kind of ghost did he encounter on this trip to Fu Li?
As expected, he shouldn't have helped the Song Dynasty. Those good-for-nothings had been constantly defeated, and now they had dragged him down with them!
And... and...!
"My Jade Emperor, my Jade Emperor! I was the one who first guided him! I nurtured him! You two thieves!"