Chapter 161: All Means Exhausted!
Under the night curtain, Lu Yang’s gaze was grim. As soon as his voice fell, he didn’t wait for Wu Cang to react. With his palms joined together, he formed a hand seal, raising a golden light.
How dare he!
For a time, Wu Cang’s eyes flashed with shock and anger. He was at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment. A later generation at the Initial Stage of Foundation Establishment actually dared to take the initiative to attack him?
However, he had no time to think further. As the golden light fell, in just a blink of an eye, he fell into a vast and mighty golden cloud sea. All he could see were the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas transformed from auspicious clouds, as well as illusionary dragon-shaped light shadows shuttling through them.
Boom!
In the next second, Wu Cang acted almost without hesitation. With a swing of his sleeve robe, he threw out a small black-gold shield to protect his back, blocking the whistling sword light.
“Want to sneak attack me?”
Wu Cang smiled proudly. He had long scattered his spiritual consciousness around. Moreover, Lu Yang was currently within his formation; how could he hide from him?
However, before Wu Cang’s voice could fall, Lu Yang, holding the [Avici Sword] and slashing out, suddenly exploded with a blazing white brilliance. Then, at the critical moment, he shifted position again, teleporting from behind him to his front, the sword edge pointing straight at his brow center instantly!
Clang clang—!
Explosive sounds rang out from the center between the two. It was a black umbrella propped up by Wu Cang at the critical moment, Lu Yang’s sword edge slashing solidly on the umbrella surface.
And just as Wu Cang intended to counterattack, he saw the white light flash again.
By the time he reacted, he saw Lu Yang had already reopened the distance, holding the [Avici Sword] in reverse, sizing him up thoughtfully.
Still has some strength…
If Wu Cang were still at the Initial Stage of Foundation Establishment, he should have been slashed and injured just now. However, the stronger spiritual consciousness of the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment allowed him to avoid Lu Yang’s slash.
Of course, this was also because Lu Yang hadn’t fully unleashed the power of the [Avici Sword] yet. He could clearly feel the trembling of the sword edge in his hand. The sword spirit girl was screaming excitedly: “It’s him! Kill him! Initial Stage killing Middle Stage, sacrificing him to the sword can let me recover at least fifty percent of my strength!”
“Don’t rush, there will be a time for you to perform.”
Lu Yang smiled leisurely, putting the [Avici Sword] behind his back. Immediately afterward, the spiritual power inside his body, vast as a misty ocean, began to pour into it continuously.
However, this superior spiritual sword was truly a gold-swallowing beast.
No matter how much spiritual power Lu Yang injected, the [Avici Sword] accepted it all. The sword spirit girl even shouted “Not enough!”, like a bottomless abyss.
Of course, Lu Yang wasn’t anxious either.
After all, the more spiritual power the [Avici Sword] swallowed, and the longer the accumulation time, the greater the power of the sword. It was a trump card sufficient to decide victory or defeat.
More importantly, that sword strike just now confirmed one thing for him.
[Determine Intimacy and Distance] could still be used!
Being usable meant he actually wasn’t trapped by the opponent’s formation. With just a thought, he could escape out. At least safety was guaranteed.
Having a way out, Lu Yang naturally became much more composed. He didn’t need to think about running away, but could exhaust all means to have a good fight with Wu Cang!
Just right to test how much gap there was between himself and the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment!
However, while he wasn’t anxious, someone else was.
Wu Cang’s face was iron green. Clearly, he didn’t expect that with a higher realm, he was almost slashed and injured by Lu Yang. It was simply a great humiliation!
In the next second, Lu Yang discovered that the formation enveloping him began to operate. In an instant, countless branches hung down, blooming thousands of flowers. Combining with Wu Cang’s own aura, it finally transformed into a meandering large tree standing upright between heaven and earth, its canopy covering the universe!
“You are courting death!”
As his voice fell, on one of the branches of the large tree, flowers bloomed and bore fruit. In the blink of an eye, a pocket-sized fruit, crimson like fire, grew out.
Immediately afterward, the fruit fell.
And the moment the fruit fell, it transformed into a red light rolling with heat waves flying out. Wherever it whistled past, sounds of thunderbolts were incessant!
“Life-Bound Divine Ability?”
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows upon seeing this. While maintaining the charge of the [Avici Sword], he cast [Determine Intimacy and Distance] again, intending to send the red light away.
However, the situation was different this time. The light of [Determine Intimacy and Distance], which had always been successful previously, fell onto that crimson fruit. The moment it touched, the fruit exploded with a circle of red light, brilliant like flames. With a loud explosion, it broke through his Divine Ability and landed on his body in the blink of an eye!
Rumble!
In an instant, violent explosions and firelight swallowed Lu Yang. Its power was completely compressed by Wu Cang within a range of several hundred meters.
Foundation Establishment Perfected One, spiritual power like a dragon, large or small, freely transforming.
When large, it can cover a thousand li, destroying mountains and overturning peaks. When small, it can also maneuver within a square inch, transforming magnificent giant force sufficient to overturn a region into bits of sparks.
The latter was even more powerful!
However, watching Lu Yang being hit by the crimson fruit, Wu Cang had no joy on his face. Instead, he frowned tightly, looking at the place filled with firelight.
In the next second, the firelight dispersed.
Lu Yang’s figure stood steadily amidst the flowing fire. In his hand, he held a light of Divine Ability. Ripples spread from behind his head like a canopy, firmly covering him, isolating him from the flowing fire. The two were clearly distinct, never able to affect each other.
[Distinguish Same and Different]!
Besides being able to evade karma, this Divine Ability was also a superior body-protection method. Once maintained, ten thousand dharmas would not touch the body, and one Qi would be naturally pure!
Two kinds of profound mysteries…
Wu Cang frowned tightly. Although he was mentally prepared, the profound mysteries displayed by Lu Yang still startled him somewhat, making him dare not underestimate Lu Yang anymore.
One must know, Life-Bound Divine Abilities also had distinctions of high and low.
Generally speaking, a Life-Bound Divine Ability would only have one kind of profound mystery. Life-Bound Divine Abilities possessing multiple profound mysteries were either favored by the Dao Fruit or came from superior cultivation methods.
As for Wu Cang, his overt experience was actually very similar to Lu Yang’s. Both obtained the inheritance of a destroyed great sect to leap over the dragon gate, and both relied on offering the sect inheritance to join the Saint Sect. Therefore, although Wu Cang came from a rogue cultivator background, his cultivation and combat power were not weak.
So even though Wu Cang felt it was tricky at this moment, he was still confident.
I built the [Coiled Dragon Divine Wood Dao Foundation], cultivated the Life-Bound Divine Ability [Coiled Dragon Precious Fir Tree], and broke through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, only then condensing three kinds of profound mysteries.
This Yuan Tu, could he be stronger than me?
With this thought, Wu Cang looked at Lu Yang again and smiled calmly: “Fellow Daoist Yuan Tu, this Fire in Wood of mine is not so easy to deal with.”
Although Lu Yang used [Distinguish Same and Different] to protect himself at this moment, the surrounding rolling flowing fire didn’t dissipate. Instead, it entangled around his body like maggots on a bone. Once he stopped maintaining the Divine Ability protection, these flowing fires would immediately pounce and burn his true body.
Thus, it fell into a war of attrition.
And if Lu Yang fought him while enduring the flowing fire, how huge would the spiritual power consumption be? In just a few rounds, his spiritual power would be exhausted, leaving him to be slaughtered.
That was why Wu Cang appeared so calm and proud.
But in the next second, his expression changed.
Lu Yang, unhurried and unpanicked, took out a cloth bag embroidered with heaven and earth from his sleeve and opened it. Instantly, an insect sea covering the sky and obscuring the sun surged out from it.
Qi-Eating Insects!
A full one hundred and forty million Qi-Eating Insects. To store them, Lu Yang specially refined a storage bag capable of storing living things, naming it the [Centipede Bee Bag].
At this moment, the [Centipede Bee Bag] opened. The Qi-Eating Insects, like a tide or sea, spread directly onto the flowing fire surrounding Lu Yang and feasted heartily. Although this flowing fire was transformed from Wu Cang’s Life-Bound Divine Ability, it was ultimately transformed from spiritual power, one of the myriad Qis. And Qi-Eating Insects ate all kinds of Qi!
In the blink of an eye, the flowing fire was eaten clean by the Qi-Eating Insects!
Although the Qi-Eating Insects paid the price of nearly ten million subsidiary insects turning into flying ash for this, inside the Centipede Bee Bag, the Qi-Eating Insect King was still working overtime to breed more.
This bit of loss was not worth mentioning!
Worthy of being the extraterrestrial alien species praised by the Patriarch!
Lu Yang smiled with satisfaction upon seeing this. It was not in vain that he specially went to the Method Refining Secret Realm to sacrifice and refine this insect. With a scale of over a hundred million, it truly had the might of a Foundation Establishment Perfected One!
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