Chapter 585: Three Punches to Take Down Bai Hongtu
Unlike the previous battle with Bai Hongtu, that time only had Bai Hongtu alone, while this time besides Yu Yin, there were also numerous immortal artifacts.
A single misstep could rewrite the trajectories of stars, drastically altering the starry sky.
Jiang Li and Yu Yin exchanged glances, both understanding each other’s intention, choosing to pierce through the dimensional barriers and fight in the void.
Bai Hongtu followed closely behind, arrays deployed around his body, talismans attached to him, allowing him to remain in the void without injury.
The battle erupted in the void, Yu Yin’s life force surged like a vast ocean, swallowing everything in the world, while Jiang Li’s aura was almost like that of a mortal, showing no trace of a cultivator.
Yu Yin attacked first, engaging in close-quarters combat, throwing out a killing fist, supremely rigid and strong, overwhelmingly domineering.
In terms of rigidity and dominance, Jiang Li had never seen anyone surpass Yu Yin, even male cultivators couldn’t deliver such a punch.
This punch had extremely high requirements for technique, mental state, and character. Yu Yin’s peers were psychologically scarred by this punch, waking up in nightmares.
Jiang Li didn’t hold back either, throwing out both fists, clashing head-on with Yu Yin. Massive energy spread in all directions, affecting the Nine Provinces World and altering its movement trajectory.
Their movements reached extreme speeds, fist afterimages flickering in the void.
Each appearance of a fist afterimage meant hundreds of fist collisions.
“Even after coming outside the Nine Provinces World, your power enhancement hasn’t weakened?” Jiang Li was astonished. This was the void, yet Yu Yin’s power from national fortune and the Spirit Plant Formation showed no decline at all.
He was using the same intensity as when he fought Bai Hongtu before.
Yu Yin didn’t speak, tearing through space, taking a step spanning thousands of light-years. Jiang Li followed closely, continuing the battle.
Yu Yin kept moving, getting farther and farther from the Nine Provinces, finally stopping at a position twenty thousand light-years away, calmly saying: “This is the limit of the power enhancement. Going any farther, the power will diminish.”
Twenty thousand light-years was merely near the Nine Provinces World, not far at all. Even so, this news was enough to make Jiang Li happy.
Bai Hongtu, seeing Yu Yin was dissatisfied with the distance, complained from afar: “You should be content! If anyone else set up the formation, they couldn’t achieve my effect.”
Yu Yin ignored Bai Hongtu, pulling the Other Mountain Stone from her neck and throwing it at Jiang Li. Jiang Li tore through space, and the Other Mountain Stone plunged into the spatial rift.
The Brahma Tower rotated its body, opening a spatial passage for the Other Mountain Stone, helping it escape.
Yu Yin activated the Brahma Tower, opening and closing passages above and below the Other Mountain Stone. When the stone flew into the upper passage, it would emerge from below. Each completed cycle increased the Other Mountain Stone’s movement speed, until eventually, its speed became terrifyingly close to the speed of light.
After approaching light speed, the space around the Other Mountain Stone was affected, objects moved as slowly as turtles, and Jiang Li was completely motionless.
Yu Yin pointed at Jiang Li, and the Other Mountain Stone, accelerated to its limit, shot out, giving Jiang Li no time to react.
The slowly moving Jiang Li suddenly accelerated, reaching a speed similar to the Other Mountain Stone, extending two fingers in a flower-picking gesture to pinch the stone.
The movement seemed utterly ordinary, like casually catching a stone thrown by a playful child at the seaside. But considering the speed required for this action, it was truly terrifying.
Jiang Li released his grip. Influenced by its sure-hit characteristic, the Other Mountain Stone struck Jiang Li’s chest, but by then it had no follow-through force and possessed no power at all.
Immortal light tribulation lightning bloomed like a massive flower, appearing below Jiang Li and closing to envelop him.
The four calamities of earth, fire, wind, and water manifested from the flower, transforming into the four immortal beasts guarding the four directions of the Immortal Realm: the White Tiger treading wind, the Azure Dragon controlling water, the Black Tortoise solid as rock, and the Vermilion Bird’s immortal flames blazing.
The four directional immortal beasts seemed to come alive, their eyes revealing a spark of intelligence.
Jiang Li formed a hand seal with Dao techniques, Netherworld Ghost Fire appearing in his palm, devouring the Vermilion Bird’s immortal flames, then using the White Tiger’s wind to make the Netherworld Ghost Fire burn even fiercer.
The Black Tortoise slammed toward Jiang Li, but he punched it out of the immortal light tribulation lightning flower’s range.
The Azure Dragon spat water, colliding with the Netherworld Ghost Fire. The ghost fire emitted sounds of ten thousand ghosts wailing.
Countless fierce ghosts crawled out from the Netherworld Ghost Fire, climbing onto the Azure Dragon, devouring it completely.
The fierce ghosts returned to the Netherworld Ghost Fire, making the ghost fire expand several times.
The Azure Dragon was formed from immortal lightning. The fierce ghosts devouring it equivalent to drawing the immortal lightning into the ghost fire.
A violent explosion occurred, the ghost fire exploding, returning the repeatedly strengthened ghost fire to its original state.
The immortal light tribulation lightning flower bloomed again, facing them was Yu Yin controlling the True Phoenix White Fire.
Black and white flames intertwined, the Four Seas Dragon Pearls bloomed, a blue beam enveloping Yu Yin, protecting her from the Netherworld Ghost Fire’s erosion.
Jiang Li gathered all the flames, concentrating them into his right fist in a cone shape, punching the beam.
With a crack, the beam shattered.
“Turning Stone to Gold.”
Jiang Li pointed at Yu Yin’s arm, gold spreading along the forearm, quickly covering the entire arm.
The Great Scholar’s Manuscript automatically wrote the character “return” and attached it to Yu Yin’s golden arm. The arm faded, returning to normal.
“Turning Void into Reality.”
Jiang Li cast a spell, solidifying the void around Yu Yin into substance, imprisoning her.
“Is this the Dao of Yin and Yang?” Yu Yin raised an eyebrow. It was her first time seeing this spell, but she quickly saw through its essence.
“Yes.”
This was a new spell Jiang Li developed while comprehending the Dao of Yin and Yang, capable of solidifying the void. It was extremely terrifying and had never been used before.
Yu Yin punched the prison bars, but the solidified void prison didn’t budge.
“Reality and illusion in a single thought.” Yu Yin held a painting brush, lightly drawing on the prison. The prison returned to its void state.
“Dao of Creation?” Jiang Li exclaimed in surprise.
“Immortal Elder said so.” Yu Yin answered truthfully. No cultivator in the Nine Provinces knew the Dao of Creation, not even Immortal Elder Changcun.
Yu Yin combined the Dao of Painting with Words Become Reality, comprehending something strange from it. Only after asking Immortal Elder Changcun did she learn this was the embryonic form of the Dao of Creation.
Reality and illusion belong to Yin and Yang, but are also products of creation.
Yu Yin employed the Dao of Painting, drawing Bai Hongtu’s image on the Great Scholar’s Manuscript.
Three clones of Bai Hongtu at the Earthly Immortal peak appeared, surrounding and attacking Jiang Li.
Originally, the Great Scholar’s Manuscript could only summon Golden Armor Guardians at the early Earthly Immortal stage. With the enhancement of Yu Yin’s Dao of Painting, it directly boosted the summoned guardians’ strength to the Earthly Immortal peak!
The strength of three Earthly Immortal peak experts couldn’t be underestimated. They could put up a fight against a Celestial Immortal, battling for a hundred rounds before defeat, incredibly powerful.
Jiang Li controlled his realm at the Celestial Immortal stage. The three Bai Hongtus could entangle with Jiang Li for a long time.
Seeing this, Jiang Li punched one Bai Hongtu after another.
The three Bai Hongtus turned into ink, returning to the Great Scholar’s Manuscript.
“Jiang Li, you bastard! How dare you say those three punches were at the Celestial Immortal stage!” Bai Hongtu jumped up and down nearby.
“Your face is just too irritating, accidentally used my real power.” Jiang Li replied casually, continuing to fight Yu Yin.
Yu Yin threw the Other Mountain Stone again. Jiang Li raised his power to the Golden Immortal stage, punching the Other Mountain Stone to help it undergo metamorphosis.