Chapter 463 - 381: Roadblock (Part 2)
"Kill!"
The Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries swung his blade down. The seemingly simple movement transformed the blade into a stream of tri-colored light, shattering the space like glazed glass, revealing the chaotic scene beyond.
Time around was forcibly twisted. In Chen Sheng’s vision, the blade’s light simultaneously appeared at three points: past, present, and future, forming a triple-layer killing force.
The foremost two avatars had no time to dodge and were directly enveloped by the blade light. The Sword Light cleaved by the Cyan Nether Sword shattered like fragile paper.
The avatars’ forms were instantly corroded by scarlet killing Qi, torn by golden breaking power, and dissolved by black devouring Qi, on the verge of complete disintegration.
At this moment, a fine layer of Star Pattern suddenly lit up around the two avatars—it was the protective power of the "Circulation Primordial Magnetic Immortal Clothing."
The Primordial Magnetic Star Trajectories automatically unfolded, deflecting the killing force like a vortex, resisting the breaking power like a shield, and attracting the devouring force like a magnet, layer by layer weakening the blade’s might.
Amidst the "chis" sounds, the Star Patterns dimmed significantly, and the avatars’ forms became as transparent as paper. The Profound Robe was torn in many places, yet did not completely collapse.
While flying backward, star light flowed around, instantly healing the injuries, standing with the sword again.
"Killing, breaking the formation, devouring, perfect without flaw, even able to induce time-space distortion, what a terrifying Divine Technique!"
Hidden behind the main avatar, Chen Sheng felt a secret panic in his heart. If not for the blessed Immortal Clothing from his master, this strike would have caused half of his avatars to fall.
He dared not be negligent, and with a thought from Divine Sense, the thirty-six avatars all shouted:
"All Laws Return to One, Slash!"
Thirty-six Cyan Nether Swords simultaneously slashed out, and billions of pitch-black terminal Sword Qi converged in the air, forming a Sword Dragon spanning across the endless Cloud Sea.
The Sword Dragon was entwined with Primordial Magnetic starlight. At its dragon head, the profound meaning of "All Laws Return to One" condensed, and wherever it passed, even Star Sand was forcibly terminated, turning into pure energy and merging into the Sword Qi.
The Sword Dragon opened its giant maw, carrying the overwhelming power of devouring heaven and earth, charging towards the Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries.
The Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries also noticed the Star Patterns on the avatars, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he praised aloud:
"What a protective Immortal Clothing. No wonder you are so fearless, it seems your sect in the Spirit Realm is no ordinary one."
"Unfortunately—this place is Chongli Heaven. Even if you have the backing of a Creation Saint, I, who wield the might of the Star of Fate, fear no provocation!"
With that said, his form suddenly transformed into the image of a three-headed, eight-armed deity!
Each of the three heads corresponded to the Stars of Fate: the Killing Star’s face was scarlet and fanged, the Po Jun Star’s face was golden like a Buddha, radiating fierce power, and the Greedy Wolf Star’s face was black and fanged, hiding greed.
The eight arms held eight kinds of weapons: knife, gun, sword, halberd, axe, mace, hook, fork.
This deity form suddenly appeared, the surrounding void was filled with cracks like glass. Time flow sped up and slowed down erratically, and even light was twisted and deformed by star power.
Billions of Sword Qi clattered intensely as they struck the scales of the deity.
Although the terminal profundity in the Sword Qi could pierce the outer scales, it only left tiny bloodstains on the deity’s body.
Before Chen Sheng could react, the deity’s three heads simultaneously spewed out tri-colored light streams: red light stream to heal, gold to bolster defense, black to devour the energy of the Sword Qi, and the blood marks quickly healed, leaving not a trace.
"Hahaha!"
The Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries laughed aloud: "It seems you lack a handy Immortal Sword."
It was a mockery that his defense relied on Immortal Clothing and that his attack was weak without a powerful Immortal Sword.
"Since you have no Immortal Sword, then look at my Divine Technique!"
With that, the eight-armed deity within the Grotto Heaven Dao Embryo was boosted, simultaneously waving eight arms. The light from the eight weapons interwove into a net and combined with the star power from the Star Map of Fate, condensing into a terrifying Divine Technique.
"Three Realms Extermination Strike!"
The tri-color light net, carrying a crushing momentum, descended like a sky curtain upon the thirty-six avatars. Wherever the net passed, the void was utterly annihilated, even chaos was forcibly suppressed.
"Hold on!"
Chen Sheng’s Divine Sense whirled, all avatars simultaneously injected terminal power into the Immortal Clothing, the Star Patterns’ radiance intensified to the extreme.
The thirty-six avatars linked together, forming the "Circulation Star Formation" with the Primordial Magnetic Star Trajectories, maximizing the Immortal Clothing’s protective power.
But the power of this Divine Technique far exceeded expectations. The eight star avatars on the periphery only lasted for three breaths, then let out crisp sounds within the light net and were completely dissolved by the tri-colored light stream.
Chen Sheng’s heart sank, instantly assessing the situation—not able to confront head-on!
He decided swiftly, the light on his Immortal Clothing intensified again, manifesting visibly a series of Primordial Magnetic Star Trajectories.
The star trajectories wove into a Star Map, with thirty-six stellar nodes within it to interact with the remaining twenty-eight avatars.
"Disperse!"
The twenty-eight avatars simultaneously merged into the star trajectories, flickering within, sometimes splitting into several avatars to induce star power and set up temporary arrays, sometimes borrowing the star trajectories to deflect attacks.
"Circulation Movement" is renowned for its agility and transformation, now with the augmentation of the star trajectories, it was even more mysterious and was able to contend with the Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries for a while.
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Within the Cloud Sea, countless radiances interwove and collided, each clash triggered an energy storm spanning billions of miles, void rifts continuously opened and closed, star power and terminal power eroded each other, forming a forbidden domain of chaotic Laws.
After half an incense stick’s time of such clashes, numerous avatars of Chen Sheng were gradually extinguished.
However, leveraging the star trajectories, he could always quickly coalesce new avatars, though incapable of harming the enemy, it allowed him to delay with ease.
"What a piece of Immortal Clothing!"
The Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries praised once more. His expression unchanged, the speed of his eight arms waving increased, the three heads issued low roars, and the star power he invoked became more violent.
In the next wave of attack, what seemed like a pause in the blade-swinging movement, unexpectedly from his sleeve shot out three nets of light in red, gold, and black.
The nets unfolded in an instant, connecting with each other to form a Lock Space Array, within which the cycles of Killing, Breaking, and Devouring Principles circulated.
The array completely locked the shattered void of the Cloud Sea, even the circulation of Primordial Magnetic Star Trajectories became sluggish, significantly reducing the speed of avatar coalescence by thirty percent.
"Not good!"
Chen Sheng was suddenly alarmed, sensing an ultimate threat from the light nets through his Divine Sense.
This array not only locks space but also continuously weakens the Immortal Clothing’s defense by cycling through the Stars of Fate, sealing the flow of Dao Rhyme.
Once trapped, in less than half an hour, he would be extinguished by the array’s killing power.
"Indeed, those who have cultivated to the eleventh layer of Longevity hold no shortage of trump cards!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he activated one of the three life-preserving methods left by his master in the Immortal Clothing.
A golden star trajectory, towering to the heavens, erupted from his body, forcibly aligning the chaotic Principles wherever it passed, gradually restoring the locked void.
This star trajectory, like a sword cutting through creation, pierced straight through the tri-colored net of the Lock Space Array, extending infinitely in the void.
Chen Sheng’s main avatar instantly merged into the star trajectory, his form becoming blurred amidst countless interweaving temporal light shadows, ultimately disappearing completely.
Leaving only an ethereal voice:
"The divine might of the Stars of Fate from Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries is boundless. My current cultivation is insufficient to contend, so I can only flee hastily."
"Once my cultivation reaches Great Success, with a perfect Dao Domain, I shall visit again to seek instruction!"
On the spot, the Venerable Lord of Seven Mysteries withdrew the three-headed, eight-armed deity form, the silver robe covering his body once more, gazing at the residual star trajectory, his eyes flickering with a complex yearning:
"This star trajectory contains the wondrousness of creation and termination, perfectly aligning with the limits of Chongli Heaven, surely left by a Creation Saint of the Spirit Realm."
"This Cyan Nether Wanderer appears to be a Direct Disciple of a great saint and quite favored."
Recalling Chen Sheng’s previous bold words, he hesitated:
"Could it be that the Bai Ze Order isn’t in his possession, then where is the Jade Token hidden? Could there be another contingency plan from the Liu family back then?"