Chapter 3345: 1264: Qi Xia Self-Destructs, Demon Ancestor Returns
Chapter 3345: Chapter 1264: Qi Xia Self-Destructs, Demon Ancestor Returns
Deep within the Tianyuan Daoist Sect.
Under a cerulean barrier, two figures sat motionless in silence.
Yet within this seemingly harmless quiet, the most extreme Integration-level clash was unfolding.
Black-and-white Law Threads had turned this space into a Go board.
Venerable Tianyuan sat on the left, the Yan Emperor of the Yu Race on the right.
The two showed no visible movement, but their Primordial Spirits were already locked in the fiercest confrontation.
Heaven and earth as the board, Primordial Spirits as the stones.
Every placement of a stone was an immense drain on the Primordial Spirit.
A streak of azure light spread out from the Yan Emperor’s body, seeking to break the Extreme Sky Origin Shield that had once, in ancient times, annihilated a Combined Demon Venerable.
This azure light was incomparably sharp, as though it could cut through all things in existence, and it was omnipresent.
Just like the most common wind in nature.
Gentle at times, violent at others.
Falling upon the face of the Daoist seated cross-legged opposite, it carved out line after line of cracks.
But no matter how fierce the azure light, Venerable Tianyuan still sat in withered silence, unmoving, as though determined to play this game of Go until the seas ran dry and the rocks crumbled.
His attempt to break free thwarted, the Yan Emperor felt no panic.
In this battle, the two had already stepped into the deepest level of a Primordial Spirit struggle.
Though Venerable Tianyuan, like him, was in the Late-stage Integration, the other’s cultivation time was ultimately short and his foundation shallow.
In terms of Primordial Spirit strength, he was far inferior.
Even with the Extreme Sky Origin Shield aiding him, even with his mastery of the Dao of Go, he could at most prolong the battle for a while.
“You are decisive enough, directly using the Domain you’re best at to bog me down.”
“But if this stalemate continues, either your Primordial Spirit will be drained dry by me, or Qi Xia will break the Extreme Sky Origin Shield from the Outside World.”
“Whichever it is, your fate can only be one of death and Dao-dissolution!”
The Yan Emperor remained seated, a cold smile on his lips as he glanced at Venerable Tianyuan not far away, then closed his eyes.
In the Dao of Go, he too had dabbled.
Though not as proficient as the other, the key to victory in this battle lay on Divine Soul Endowment in the end.
What if Venerable Tianyuan found the move that could slaughter his entire dragon group?
If his Primordial Spirit couldn’t hold out, that stone would never be placed.
Yet as time passed, the Yan Emperor suddenly sensed something amiss.
His eyes snapped open, and through that cerulean shield he seemed to glimpse the situation outside.
“Who is that?”
Across from him, Venerable Tianyuan still kept his heart calm, his mind focused, his attention fixed upon the board.
But he knew what was happening in the Outer World earlier than the Yan Emperor did.
“You noticed?”
The Yan Emperor snorted coldly. “I don’t know who that person is, nor whether he’s a backup you arranged, but how could a mere Divine Transformation junior possibly contend with Qi Xia?”
Though he spoke thus, his heart was anything but calm.
Because in the battle outside the board, Qi Xia Emperor had clearly fallen into disadvantage.
All sorts of methods had proved useless; even the Holy Fire she prided herself on, and her Divine Beast Body, were completely countered by that giant.
That man was clearly one of those exceedingly rare Body Refiners!
If this continued, he didn’t know whether he could wear down Venerable Tianyuan to death, but Qi Xia Emperor would certainly suffer a devastating blow.
Especially when those two colossal millstones began to spin in the sky, his heart could not help but sink further.
Exactly what hatred or enmity did this person have with Qi Xia, that he would not hesitate to burn through his Essence to forcibly refine Qi Xia?
“I can’t just sit and watch any longer!”
Compared to killing Venerable Tianyuan, he cared more about Qi Xia’s life and death.
Because she was not only a rare Integration Great Venerable of the Yu Race, but also possessed the purest Phoenix Bloodline, with tremendous hope of breaking through to the Mahayana Period in the future.
If Qi Xia died here, even if he killed Venerable Tianyuan, he would have no way to explain himself to the Heavenly Phoenix Ancestor upon returning.
With that thought, the Yan Emperor could no longer restrain himself.
With a low shout, his Primordial Spirit Dharma Form roared out of his body and descended into the Go board.
“You’re thinking of leaving now?”
Across from him, Venerable Tianyuan naturally wouldn’t just sit back and watch the other act. He raised a finger, upon which a milky-white, holy Light emerged.
Then he slowly tapped it between his own brows.
The milky-white Light sank into his brow, and astonishingly diffused into the purest pitch-black.
“Earlier, you wouldn’t let me leave; now it’s my turn to keep you entangled.”
In an instant, Venerable Tianyuan’s Breath surged, and a Primordial Spirit Dharma Form that, though not entirely solid, was in no way weaker than the Yan Emperor’s, likewise emerged.
Only this Dharma Image looked rather unlike his true self.
Not only was it pitch-black all over, but there were actually two faces on its head.
One was his own, while the other was viciously twisted, with a blue face, fanged mouth, and blood-red twin pupils, like a…
“Demon Race!”
“You actually cultivate the Demon God Dao?”
The Yan Emperor blurted out in shock, clearly taken aback.
In the ancient Xuan Demon War, on this Youxuan Continent, the Tianyuan Daoist Sect had been the most ardent Sect resisting the Demon Race.
For at that time, one of the main battlefields was right here in the Tianyuan Daoist Sect.
Slaying a single Combined Demon Venerable was only part of their achievements. To drive back the Demon Race armies, the Tianyuan Daoist Sect had paid an incalculable price.
Who would have thought that the inheritor, Venerable Tianyuan, would abandon his ancestors’ teachings and willingly cultivate the Demon Race’s Primordial Spirit Dao.
Two spirits in one body, black and white coexisting!
No wonder his cultivation speed was so astonishing—he had leapt from Early-stage Integration to Late-stage Integration in just two thousand years.
He had previously thought the other’s Divine Soul Endowment insufficient, but now it seemed it was not much weaker than his own.
Venerable Tianyuan was not surprised; or rather, the moment he chose to reveal his Primordial Spirit Dharma Form, he knew that a well-informed figure like the Yan Emperor would immediately recognize the origin of his Demon Form.
He merely said calmly, “Holy and Demon are ultimately one body, existing within my single heart. Friend, you’d better think about how that Demon Phoenix is supposed to cling to life in that man’s hands first.”