Immortality from Taming Elephant

The fire dragon’s form suddenly halted, the flames around it wildly flickering, as if forcibly extracted and refined by an invisible force!

Though not instantly extinguished, its power and spirituality visibly diminished at a rapid pace!

The Refining Pattern Master’s heavenly patterns revealed their initial sharpness!

"Oh?" Ni Heng’s eyes showed even more surprise, "Able to break earth-binding and refine wildfire? Interesting!"

His body remained still, while his left sleeve swept.

"Flowing Wind!"

Woo—

Without warning, numerous cyan wind blades suddenly appeared around Xu Guang!

These wind blades did not cut in straight lines but, like living beings, slaughtered in sinister arc trajectories from all directions, top and bottom, leaving no dead angle!

Each wind blade was thin as a cicada’s wing yet incredibly sharp, enough to cut through ordinary second Nirvana protective Gang Qi, furthermore containing a rule of tearing and penetrating.

Wind-type divine techniques, formless and shapeless, impossible to guard against!

Xu Guang’s Heart Sword trembled at the center of his sea of consciousness, the Heart Sutra of Wu Xiang Jie circulating, elevating spiritual sense to the utmost, capturing the trajectory of each wind blade.

Meanwhile, the demonic thought dragon scale armor’s virtual image beside the True Monarch faintly flickered.

"Demonic Thought Barrier!"

Dark purple demonic thought power emanated from his body, not forming a shield, but constructing a layer of constantly twisting, rotating demonic thought force field within three feet of Xu Guang.

Within the force field, the abandoned demonic thought eroded all energy structures.

Chi chi chi chi——!

Numerous wind blades slashed into the demonic thought force field, as if trapped in a quagmire, their trajectories twisted, structures corroded, greatly diminishing their power.

Most wind blades, after penetrating the force field, were unable to break Xu Guang’s Five Emperors’ Protective Chaos Light, dissipating on their own. The few stragglers were accurately shattered by Xu Guang’s finger thrust like a sword.

"Feng Shui nurturing life, condense ice!"

Ni Heng, with extremely rich combat experience, saw the wind blades fail and swiftly changed tactics.

His right hand retained the wildfire, his left hand shifted the flowing wind, lightly uttering four words.

Seeing the residual fire energy of the red flame dragon weakened by Xu Guang’s refinement, yet not completely dissipated, abruptly converge with the ubiquitous flowing wind energy!

The triggering of Feng Shui was not a simple power overlay, but created a mystical attribute change!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle——

The temperature around Xu Guang suddenly plummeted!

Water vapor permeating the air, along with seawater steam evaporated by the fire dragon below, instantly condensed!

It was not ordinary frost but a unique profound ice, flashing cyan-black luster, unbelievably hard, bearing dual attributes of extreme cold and wind erosion!

Profound ice furiously grew, in the blink of an eye aiming to completely encase Xu Guang in a massive ice coffin!

Within the ice coffin, extreme cold froze essence blood and divine soul, wind erosion power penetrated without gaps, eroding vitality!

Earthly fire, wind, and water, four divine techniques, in Ni Heng’s hands were not simply independently used but began initial fusion and transformation, power greatly amplifying, mysterious and unpredictable!

Although Ni Heng possessed born four divine techniques, differing from ordinary practitioners, his four divine techniques incorporated earth, fire, wind, water four symbols, merging together, strength extraordinary.

Far surpassing the likes of Hong Tuoba.

This coordination and variation of the four divine techniques already subtly touched the edge of rule creation within the Holy Domain!

Up to now, Xu Guang faced the strongest second Nirvana master, Yu Qing, but Ni Heng’s strength, Xu Guang felt equaled to Yu Qing.

Of course, such figures all have ultimate moves, in true life-and-death situations, it’s not something he can judge merely by feeling.

Yet, even so, it caused a shock in his heart.

Xu Guang’s thoughts flashed, the Dantian True Monarch’s image radiated light, the furnace’s heavenly pattern dazzling brilliantly!

"True Monarch Image, manifest!"

Boom!

A magnificent, unique force, blending multiple supreme auras, surged from Xu Guang’s body!

Behind him, a True Monarch Image three feet tall fully manifested!

The left half donned Five Emperors’ Chaos Armor divinely glowing, the right half bore demonic thought dragon scale armor’s dark purple light, the chest’s furnace’s heavenly pattern shimmered golden, the top’s Extreme Soul Light Wheel invisibly commanded!

The moment the image appeared, the cyan-black profound ice enclosing rapidly halted as if striking an invisible wall, emitted a teeth-grinding "crack" sound, the ice surface featured dense cracks!

"What is... this Image?!" The observing Yin Zuo from afar exclaimed in shock.

He had never seen such a unique image, blending multiple distinct powers, yet wholly integrated!

Ni Heng’s dark golden pupils suddenly contracted, and for the first time, a look of seriousness appeared on his face.

"Multiple Dao traditions in one body? Such boldness! Such a form!"

The battle intent in Ni Heng’s eyes grew even stronger.

"Now this is interesting! Take my Earth Fire Feng Shui—Four Symbols Cycle!"

He suddenly clasped his palms together in front of his chest!

The void behind him trembled, and four massive phantoms loomed indistinctly.

The vast and expansive Xuánhuáng earth, the red flame that burns the sky and boils the sea, the formless and shapeless cyan Gang Qi, the gentle yet unyielding azure water flow!

The four phantoms did not remain static, but began to slowly rotate, with Ni Heng at the center!

As they rotated, the forces of Earth Fire Feng Shui no longer remained distinct, but began to merge and penetrate, evolving into more complex, more primordial power fluctuations!

A grand artistic conception of creating the world and redefining the Earth Fire spread forth!

The rock platform began to crack, seawater reversed course, and the sky clouds were stirred by invisible forces!

This was Ni Heng’s true power, leveraging the force of the Four Symbols, reenacting chaos, simulating the scene of the world’s inception with the Four Divine Techniques, its might boundless, nearly approaching the true power of the Holy Domain!

As it was unleashed, all surrounding rules were expelled.

The surrounding sea seemed to have only the power of the Four Symbols left.

Xu Guang took a deep breath, facing this terrifying strike, not only did he not retreat, but stepped forward instead.

Behind him, the True Monarch apparition followed, moving in sync with his body.

"Human Furnace Great Practice, Heaven and Earth as the Furnace!"

The furnace celestial pattern on the chest of the True Monarch apparition burst forth with unprecedented brilliance, and an invisible "Refinement" domain centered on Xu Guang rapidly expanded, covering a hundred feet in radius!

Within this domain, all rules and all energy seemed to become materials within the furnace, subjected to invisible forces of refinement!

"Five Emperors Cycle, Chaos Suppression of the World!"

On the left side of the True Monarch apparition, the Five Emperors’ protective chaos armor emitted a Five-Colored Divine Light that soared into the sky, intertwining into a massive chaos wheel, rumbling and turning, suppressing the rampaging Five Elements, stabilizing the chaotic void!

"Demonic Thought Swallows the Sky, All Magic Returns to Silence!"

On the right side of the True Monarch apparition, dark purple demonic thoughts surged from the Demonic Thought Dragon Scale Armor like a tide, transforming into countless sinister demonic thought tendrils, madly devouring and eroding all alien energies within the domain, especially the spiritual intent contained within Ni Heng’s Earth Fire Feng Shui!

"Extreme Soul Dominion, True Monarch Strike!"

Finally, with a flash of light from the invisible halo above, all powers—refinement, suppression, devouring, slaughter—under Xu Guang’s mighty Divine Soul dominion, perfectly fused, converging on the right palm of the True Monarch apparition.

The right palm of the True Monarch apparition pressed slowly toward Ni Heng and the rotating phantoms of Earth Fire Feng Shui Four Symbols.

This palm seemed slow, yet it appeared to lock time and space, encompassing all things.

Within the palm seal, there were the interactions of the Five Elements, the rise and fall of demonic thoughts, the flow of celestial patterns, a chilling killing intent, and more importantly, Xu Guang’s unwavering Martial Dao will!

This was the first form Xu Guang created after breaking through two transformations and condensing the True Monarch apparition, incorporating all his life’s learning, and also his currently strongest strike—

True Monarch World-Suppressing Palm!

The next moment.

The destructive torrent of the Earth Fire Feng Shui Four Symbols Cycle collided violently with the all-encompassing True Monarch World-Suppressing Palm!

There was no sound.

Or rather, sound was obliterated the instant it exploded by an even more powerful energy.

Only light remained.

A blinding light to the extreme, swallowing all colors.

Only energy remained.

A storm of energy so violent it defied words, sweeping out in all directions from the collision point!

The dark cyan rock platform on Sword Trial Island, as firm as refined iron, was eroded, shattered, and vaporized, as if swept by an invisible giant hand!

The seawater was pushed aside, forming a massive depression more than ten miles in diameter, with tidal waves hundreds of feet high surging from its edge!

The sky clouds were completely torn apart, revealing a deep blue firmament, but in the next moment, even the sky was twisted by the chaotic energy, presenting bizarre and motley colors!

Yin Zuo, Jin Buhuan, and the two Penglai disciples brought by Ni Heng were already aghast, retreating madly, retreating to the island’s edge, and only with multiple shields did they barely resist the engulfing wave of destruction.

Everyone’s gazes were fixed on the center of the light and storm.

It was unclear how long had passed, perhaps an instant, perhaps an eternity.

The light gradually dimmed, the storm subsided slightly.