Chapter 759: Ancestral Witch Bloodline
Two yin spirits returned to Li Changge, who was holding a sword in his right hand and the no-longer blank Holy Xuan Card between the index and middle fingers of his left hand.
Yao Pei, having lost a fragment of her soul, should have been disoriented and sluggish. But with the support of the Taishang Emotionless Sutra, she could maintain her composure and did not show obvious signs of weakness.
Li Changge tucked the Holy Xuan Card into his sleeve. Mortal Vitality began to grow like a living plant, extending from 1 meter to about 10 meters.
Despite holding it single-handedly, he showed not the slightest sign of strain. The wooden sword moved as he willed it, as though the sword did not grow heavier. If it did, Li Changge’s Martial Arts Practitioner’s physique gave him ample strength to wield it. Whether or not he had the indestructible body, his strength was unaffected, and control remained fluid.
When throwing a punch, only a few key points along the strike’s arc were actually dangerous. So one just had to avoid these zones to endure the strike.
But it was a different matter with a sword or blade. Their sharpness made every point along the arc equally lethal. There was no blocking or enduring, only dodging.
Even though Mortal Vitality was a wooden sword, it was a semi-immortal object, more than capable of bisecting a Heavenly Being.
Now that the Mortal Vitality extended to 10 meters, its sweeping arc was wider than normal. Yao Pei found it hard to evade even with her Heavenly Calculation.
While Li Changge’s Heavenly Calculation was not as refined as Yao Pei’s, the moment she lost a fragment of her soul, their calculative abilities balanced out. Since he had the longer weapon, Li Changge could even suppress her.
The sharpness of Yield Sovereignty would have broken any other weapon after several clashes. But the regenerative property of Mortal Vitality rendered Yield Sovereignty’s advantage useless unless the latter could sever the former in a single blow. Otherwise, Mortal Vitality would keep regenerating. While it was true that Yield Sovereignty had sliced through the Fallen Soul Mirror, it might not be able to do the same to a semi-immortal object like Mortal Vitality.
This embodied the Daoist principle of soft overcoming hard.