Chapter 797 - 355:
The fire dragon’s form suddenly froze, and the flames around it swayed wildly, as if being forcibly extracted and refined by an invisible force!
Although it wasn’t instantly extinguished, its power and spirituality visibly diminished at an incredible speed!
The might of the Refining Pattern Master’s Heavenly Patterns began to reveal its sharpness!
"Oh?" Ni Heng’s eyes showed even more surprise, "Able to break the ground tether and refine pyrotechnics? Interesting!"
He stood still, waving his left sleeve.
"Flowing Wind!"
Whoosh—
Without any warning, countless azure wind blades erupted around Xu Guang!
These wind blades didn’t cut in a straight line; rather, they moved like living creatures, following mysterious arc-like trajectories, attacking from all directions without a single blind spot!
Every wind blade was thin as a cicada’s wing but incredibly sharp, capable of slicing through the ordinary protective Gang Qi of the second Nirvana, and contained an essence of severing and piercing rules.
Wind-based divine techniques, formless and elusive, impossible to defend against!
Xu Guang’s Heart Sword trembled in the sea of consciousness, and as he circulated the Heart Sutra of Calamity, his spiritual sense reached its peak, tracking each wind blade’s trajectory.
Simultaneously, the phantom of the Demonic Thought Dragon Scale Armor beside the True Monarch faintly flickered.
"Demonic Thought Barrier!"
The dark purple Demonic Thought Power surged out, not forming a shield but building a constantly twisting and rotating field of demonic thoughts within three feet around Xu Guang.
Within the force field, the malevolent demonic thoughts corroded all energy structures.
Chhh—chhh—chhh—chhh—!
Countless wind blades were caught in the demonic thought field, their trajectories twisted, structures corroded, diminishing their power.
Most wind blades, after penetrating the field, lacked the strength to break through Xu Guang’s Five Emperors’ Protective Chaos Light, dissipating on their own. A few stragglers were precisely shattered by Xu Guang’s fingers as if wielding a sword.
"Wind and water complement each other, congeal into ice!"
Ni Heng, with vast combat experience, switched his tactics upon seeing the wind blades fail.
His right hand maintained the pyrotechnics, while his left redirected the flowing wind, uttering four words softly.
Suddenly, the residual heat of the fire dragon, weakened by Xu Guang’s refinement, converged with the omnipresent flowing wind energy!
The interaction of wind and water was not merely a simple increase in power but led to mystical changes in attributes!
Zzz—
The temperature around Xu Guang plummeted abruptly!
The moisture in the air, along with the seawater vaporized by the fire dragon below, condensed instantly!
This wasn’t ordinary frost but a strange profound ice gleaming with azure-black luster, extraordinarily hard, with dual attributes of extreme cold and wind erosion!
The profound ice grew rapidly, about to completely encase Xu Guang in a massive ice coffin in the blink of an eye!
Inside the ice coffin, the extreme cold froze the blood and divine soul, and the power of wind erosion seeped everywhere, depleting vitality!
Earth, fire, wind, water, the Four Divine Techniques, in Ni Heng’s hands, were no longer simple independent uses, but began initial fusion and transformation, with exponentially increased power, mysterious and unfathomable!
Although Ni Heng only possessed naturally endowed Four Divine Techniques, unlike ordinary users, his techniques subtly combined the four elements — earth, fire, wind, water — together, his strength extraordinary.
Far surpassing the likes of Tuo Ba Hong.
The combined changes of these Four Divine Techniques had subtly touched the edge of creating rules in the Holy Domain!
To date, the strongest second Nirvana master Xu Guang had faced was Yu Qing, but Ni Heng’s strength, Xu Guang felt, was not beneath Yu Qing.
Of course, such figures all had their trump cards, and when pushed to the brink of life or death, it wasn’t something he could judge just by feeling.
Yet, even so, it sent shivers through his heart.
Xu Guang’s thoughts raced, and the light of the True Monarch in the dantian shone brightly, the furnace heavenly pattern on his chest dazzling!
"True Monarch Manifestation, appear!"
Boom!
A majestic, bizarre power, fused with multiple supreme auras, surged skyward from Xu Guang!
Behind him, a three-zhang tall True Monarch Manifestation fully appeared!
The left half of his body shone with Five Emperors’ Chaos Armor Divine Light, the right half adorned with the Demonic Thought Dragon Scale Armor’s dark purple light, the furnace heavenly pattern on his chest gleaming golden, and above his head, the Extreme Soul Halo invisibly commanded all!
The moment the manifestation appeared, the closing azure-black profound ice suddenly halted, as if colliding with an invisible wall, emitting a tooth-grinding "crack" as fine cracks spread across the ice surface!
"What is this... manifestation?!" Yin Zuo, observing from afar, cried out in shock.
He had never seen such a peculiar manifestation, blending multiple vastly different forces yet seamlessly integrated!
The dark gold pupils of Ni Heng suddenly contracted, and for the first time, a solemn expression appeared on his face.
"Multiple Dao inheritances in one body? Such boldness! Such a powerful manifestation!"
The battle intent in Ni Heng’s eyes grew even stronger.
"Now this is interesting! Take my Earth Fire Feng Shui—Four Symbols Rotation!"
He suddenly clasped his palms together in front of his chest!
The void behind him shook, four enormous phantoms faintly appeared.
The heavy and boundless Xuanhuang Earth, the fiery red flames that boil the sea, the formless and shapeless cyan Gang Wind, the extremely soft yet strong azure water currents!
The four phantoms were not static; instead, they began to slowly rotate with Ni Heng at the center!
As they rotated, the power of Earth Fire and Feng Shui began to merge and permeate, evolving into a more complex power oscillation closer to the source!
A grand artistic conception of creating the world and redefining earth and fire spread out!
The rock platform began to crack, seawater rolled back, and the clouds in the sky were stirred by an invisible force!
This was Ni Heng’s true power, using the Four Symbols’ power to replay chaos, simulating the scene of the world’s inception with the Four Divine Techniques, of endless power, infinitely close to the true power of the Holy Domain!
As it unfolded, all surrounding rules were repelled.
The surrounding sea area seemed to contain only the power of the Four Symbols.
Xu Guang took a deep breath. Facing this terrifying strike, he not only did not retreat, but stepped forward instead.
The True Monarch form behind him moved 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 form burst with unprecedented light, and an invisible "Refinement" domain rapidly expanded with Xu Guang at the center, covering a radius of a hundred feet!
Within this domain, all rules, all energies became materials in the furnace, subjected to invisible forces for refinement!
"Five Emperors’ Rotation, Chaos Suppression!"
On the left side of the True Monarch form, the Five Emperors’ Chaos Armor emitted the Five-Colored Divine Light, weaving into a gigantic Chaos Wheel, rotating with a rumbling sound, suppressing the rampant Five Elements and stabilizing the chaotic void!
"Demonic Thought Devours the Sky, All Magic Falls Silent!"
On the right side of the True Monarch form, the dark purple Demonic Thought surged out from the Dragon Scale Armor like a tide, transforming into countless sinister demonic thought tentacles, madly devouring and corroding all alien energies within the domain, especially the Spirituality thoughts contained in Ni Heng’s Earth Fire Feng Shui!
"Extreme Soul Dominion, True Monarch’s Strike!"
Finally, with a flash of light from the intangible light wheel overhead, all the forces—refinement, suppression, devouring, killing—under Xu Guang’s powerful Divine Soul dominion, perfectly merged, converging on the right palm of the True Monarch form.
The right palm of the True Monarch form slowly pressed down towards Ni Heng and the rotating phantoms of Earth, Fire, Feng Shui, and Four Symbols.
This palm strike seemed slow but appeared to imprison time and space, embracing all laws.
Within the palm seal, there was the birth and destruction of Five Elements, the rise and fall of Demonic Thought, the flowing of celestial patterns, the bleakness of murderous intent, and more so, Xu Guang’s unwavering Martial Dao will!
This was the first technique Xu Guang created after transcending the second Nirvana, condensing the True Monarch form with a lifetime of learning, and currently his strongest move—
True Monarch Suppressing Palm!
In the next moment.
The destructive torrent of Earth, Fire, Feng Shui, and Four Symbols Rotation clashed violently with the all-encompassing True Monarch Suppressing Palm!
No sound.
Or rather, the sound was obliterated by even more powerful energy at the moment of the explosion.
Only light remained.
Light so blinding it devoured all colors.
Only energy remained.
An unthinkably raging energy storm swept in every direction from the point of collision!
The dark blue rock platform of the Sword Trial Island, as hard as refined steel, was like an invisible giant hand swept over, layer by layer eroded, shattered, vaporized!
The seawater was pushed aside, forming a massive depression over a league in diameter, with tsunami waves hundreds of feet high surging toward the distance!
The clouds in the sky were completely torn apart, revealing the azure sky, but in the next moment, the sky was distorted by the energy turbulence, presenting bizarre colors!
Yin Zuo, Jin Buhuan, and the two disciples from Penglai brought by Ni Heng were already aghast, retreating madly, retreating all the way to the edge of the island, raising layers of shields to barely withstand the sweeping destructive aftershocks.
Everyone’s gaze was fixed on the center of that light and storm.
It was unknown how long had passed, perhaps a moment, perhaps a long time.
The light gradually dimmed, the storm slightly subsided.