381: Chapter 98: Bestowing the Ruyi 381: Chapter 98: Bestowing the Ruyi White papers fluttered, clouds dispersed.
Lu Yuzhen retreated lightly, his Daoist robe fluttering, hands tucked into his sleeves, truly embodying the posture of a spectator.
Xie Xuanyi shook his head; this Lu Yuzhen, his heart was really too big!
Before him stood a Heavenly Human Realm, just one step away from Ascending.
The final task of beheading was given to him?
However…
Despite these thoughts, Xie Xuanyi did not refuse.
He silently stepped forward and exhaled a breath of frustration.
Hum!
Chen Ke Sword Qi manifested from between his eyebrows.
The aura of the Path of Destruction surged in the void, onefold, threefold, quickly condensing to ninety percent…
He did not wish to fully condense the Path of Destruction at this moment.
This incomplete Tao Rule’s power was halted just shy of perfection!
“Lu-surnamed, entrusting this task to me, aren’t you afraid I might botch it?”
Rolling Sword Intent spread through the void.
Xie Xuanyi extended his hands, grasping out of thin air the hilt of the flying sword wrapped in dark thunderbolts, chuckling lightly, his voice still carrying a hint of teasing.
“Go ahead with your strike.”
Lu Yuzhen stated indifferently, “Killing, you’re most skilled at it.”
Xie Xuanyi’s smile gradually faded.
He poured all his focus into the flying sword!
To slay the dangerously poised Emperor Qi, relying merely on the incomplete Path of Destruction was certainly not enough…
There are few Cultivators in the world who could grasp two Great Dao in the Grotto Heaven Realm.
Two Tao Rules, lying on the aspects of Yin and Yang.
They should inherently repel each other.
But if they appear in one Cultivator, forced into fusion…
they would unleash inconceivable power.
Xie Xuanyi controlled a thread of the Principle of Life, landing it onto the Chen Ke Sword Qi.
The sword, wrapped in dark thunderbolts, began to vibrate intensely!
Under Xie Xuanyi’s powerful Divine Thought control, the Principle of Life slowly infused into Chen Ke, fusing with the Path of Destruction…
The Sword Qi that suddenly grew sharply robust in the void surprised even Emperor Qi, who sat in the Fire Domain.
The addition of the Principle of Life did not diminish the power of the Path of Destruction.
On the contrary.
The intertwining of the two Tao Rules made the Sword Intent that roamed the void become “overwhelmingly mighty”!
What a pity.
These were still the incomplete Tao Rules of Grotto Heaven.
If it was only this, it was still insufficient to inflict harm on an entity like Emperor Qi.
“Qing Li.”
Xie Xuanyi stood upon the white paper and clouds, suddenly speaking out the name.
The True Dragon next to him trembled gently, as if in response.
“Please assist me.”
Xie Xuanyi spoke solemnly, his expression earnest, “To slay Emperor Qi…
this sword, must borrow your strength!”
A Grotto Heaven Realm, no matter how much fortune it held, even if truly a Reincarnated True Person rebuilt, the power it could exert was ultimately limited.
Grotto Heaven is just Grotto Heaven.
To strike a Heavenly Human, one must rely on external forces.
And this scene was exactly what Lu Yuzhen was waiting for.
The Daoist standing at the edge of the white paper clouds wore a complex expression, lost in a trance as he watched the aurora streak across the horizon, True Dragon Dao converging beside the black-clothed youth, countless thunderbolts crackling, and within moments, a young lady in green stood next to Xie Xuanyi.
Xie Xuanyi stared at the face of the young lady in green, enveloped in radiant light.
He could no longer distinguish.
The “Qing Li” standing before him right now, was it her, or It.
But he could be certain.
This fierce battle had lasted too long, so long that both sides were exhausted, each unable to deliver a fatal blow.
Emperor Qi’s dharma, clasping tightly onto the True Dragon husk, even if igniting all his Taoist fire, still didn’t let go, naturally wishing to take this True Dragon on the “same path” if possible.
“This strike…
exert all your strength, spare none.”
The voice of Qing Li, like a celestial tune, directly struck the Heart Lake.
Xie Xuanyi nodded.
Immediately thereafter, the young lady in green slowly extended a palm, stacking it over Xie Xuanyi’s.
Instantly, the wind and thunder violently stirred, roaring clouds trembled and swept across.
The entire Great Yue Kingdom, originally silent as an apocalypse’s burning clouds, at this moment, felt a second tremor…
Qing Li imbued the scant remaining power of the True Dragon Dao into Xie Xuanyi’s flying sword, making this moment’s Chen Ke no longer just a flying sword, but one that contained three Great Dao.
Life, Destruction, and the Dao of Qing Li.
Especially the third Dao, which had nearly reached the perfect level of a Heavenly Human; upon entering the flying sword, Chen Ke’s sword body cracked, as if lashed by the whip of a great Dao, but in the next moment, it was again repaired by the True Dragon Dao, the fractures gradually sealing…
Qing Li’s infusion into this Dao was not meant to damage the sword.
Sword Qi surged a hundredfold!
Xie Xuanyi took a deep breath, raised his hands, and struck, all in the blink of an eye!
A massive sword light descended, cleaving down.
Like the axe that split the heavens.
Emperor Qi, seated right at the center of the Fire Domain in the heart of the dharma, looked up in an utterly calm manner, accepting his own “death.”
This death had been awaited for a thousand years.
Sword Qi like a dragon, arrayed downward.
In an instant!
Emperor Qi, along with his fiery throne, were both cleaved in half.
This strike was colossal, slicing through the imperfect and shattered giant, flaying and disemboweling with an overwhelming momentum…
Xie Xuanyi looked solemn, silently sensing the lingering aftertunes that clung to the flying sword.
The two Tao Rules of Life and Destruction, which he had infused, were still “minute” and had not yet matured into a Great Dao.
But Qing Li’s Tao Rule had almost reached its limit.
In this heaven-splitting strike.
The Tao Rule deployed by Qing Li was majestic like a roving dragon!
While Life and Destruction were like two small carps accompanying the dragon!
This residual Tao Rule’s aura was extremely dense, and it would take at least ten days to a fortnight to completely dissipate.