Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable

But Ye Tianling, at the mere Void Realm Seven Transformation Realm, had actually withstood such a strike head-on!

Didn’t this mean... that his Defense Power was nearly impossible for Void Realm Cultivators, or even Tribulation Realm Cultivators, to break through?

If they couldn’t break his defense, what suspense was left in this battle?

"A Saint Level Battle Armor? This is a Saint Level Defense Armor! Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!"

Lie Wuhen was so shocked his eyes nearly bulged from their sockets. He spat out "dammit" three times in a row, venting the shock and indignation in his heart.

He knew then that unless something drastic changed, his opponent was already in an unbeatable position!

A Saint Level Defense Armor was far, far more precious than a Saint Level Slaughter Weapon!

Weapons were for offense, Battle Armor for defense. Defensive Battle Armor was already rare and difficult in its Refining, so one could only imagine how precious a suit capable of withstanding Ancestral Dao Killing Intent was!

"Relying on Battle Armor to fight... What a useless coward! A complete disgrace!"

Lie Yuying’s face was also pale. She had already recovered from the impact of the Emperor’s Qi Dragon Swallowing Heaven Divine Technique’s Soul-Suppressing Sound and had seen Ye Tianling withstand the Ancestral Dao Killing Intent. As a result, she was just as flustered and furious.

Ye Tianling, however, paid her no mind at all.

’Relying on Battle Armor? A coward? How could they possibly know that I was the one who refined this armor myself?’

"The Celestial Secret Divine Son relies on Battle Armor to fight? And what about you? A single strike from the Celestial Secret Divine Son forced out your Ancestral Dao Killing Intent—three whole streams of it! Tsk tsk, who’s the real disgrace here? Don’t you have any self-awareness?"

"Exactly. Trash will be trash, and now you’re making excuses? There’s no shame in being less skilled. The shame is in being incompetent and refusing to admit it!"

Seeing their chance, Li Xushan and Li Yanjin of the Heaven-Sundering Sacred Land immediately chimed in with sarcastic remarks.

They had suffered great humiliation before, so now that they had an opportunity, why would they hold back?

Sure enough, after the two of them finished their taunts, the expressions on Lie Wuhen and Lie Yuying’s faces turned extremely foul.

At this moment, Ye Tianling deactivated the Tianshu Myriad Paths Imperial Qilin Armor’s defensive power.

’I was just testing it out before. The Ancestral Dao Killing Intent is certainly formidable, but it was just a single strike. With my comprehension of the Celestial Dao Rule Domain, combined with the Unparalleled Body Technique of the Kunpeng Hidden Dragon Technique, how could I possibly fail to dodge it?’

’Not to mention, when I launched my Absolute Kill strike against Lie Wuhen, I had already anticipated that his Ancestral Dao Guardian would be activated.’

’If I had used a strike from the Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao, his Ancestral Dao Killing Intent wouldn’t even have had a chance to counterattack; it would have been effortlessly crushed.’

’But my attack wasn’t an ultimate killing technique like the Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao, so the backlash from the Ancestral Dao Guardian was also within my expectations.’

’The Defense Power of the Tianshu Myriad Paths Imperial Qilin Armor is indeed impressive, but there are still some hidden flaws in its defense speed, activation speed, and overall effectiveness. It blocked ninety-nine percent of the killing intent, but the remaining Battle Power that pierced through was still powerful enough to slightly injure me, even with all six of my Divine Bodies activated.’

Through this battle, Ye Tianling had identified the defensive shortcomings of his Tianshu Myriad Paths Imperial Qilin Armor.

"You two ants! So what if our skills aren’t a match for his? What about you? If this lowly Human Race vermin hadn’t shown up, you’d already be dead, you know that?!"

Lie Wuhen’s voice was incomparably sinister, his face twisting with rage.

A single strike had forced out his Third Layer Ancestral Dao Guardian, yet the resulting Absolute Kill strike had failed to break Ye Tianling’s defense. This made him realize just how dangerous the situation was.

However, at this point, he had no intention of holding back either.

"Everyone, attack together!"

Lie Wuhen immediately called out to the other Lie Mountain Race People nearby.

Hearing his command, the original three clansmen, along with two more from further away, immediately charged toward Ye Tianling with killing intent.

There were five of them in total—four men and one woman. Their strength was only at the Late Stage of Sword Void Six Transformations, approaching Perfection, and their Battle Power was at the Breaking Seven level.

Such Battle Power would be considered quite formidable outside, but here, against Ye Tianling, it was clearly nothing to look at.

At the same time, Lie Wuhen used every trick at his disposal, pushing his Bloodline Power to its absolute limit. He joined forces with Lie Yuying once more and unleashed an even more terrifying strike.

The strike manifested as a flurry of crystalline, dark petals.

These dark petals were still a variation of the Mountain-Devouring Divine Skill. Only, instead of vast mountain ranges, it now manifested as thumb-sized, crystalline, dark plum blossoms.

Within the dark plum blossoms pulsed a destructive Devouring Power.

Each blossom contained the Dao Principle auras of Destruction, Devouring, and Slaughter, and held its own independent Great Dao Rune variations.

Each plum blossom was like a miniature Chaos, a small, independent cosmos that could detonate at any moment, triggering a cosmic Chaotic Big Bang.

This Cultivation Technique, which aimed directly for the Supreme Dao, was exceptionally formidable!

This Cultivation Technique was the core reason why the Lie Mountain Divine Race was feared by the Ten Thousand Races.

As someone well-versed in the Chaos Destiny Scripture, Ye Tianling naturally understood the significance of such a Cultivation Technique.

Moreover, after having mastered the Celestial Dao Rule Domain, Ye Tianling knew that his opponents’ Cultivation Technique was approaching the Origin Supreme Dao Level of the domain itself.

Therefore, even though Ye Tianling could have effortlessly slain the pair, his expression remained grave as he faced their technique. He didn’t kill them immediately, instead choosing to use them to hone his own comprehension of the Celestial Dao Rule Domain.

This was an extremely important battle—this Divine Son and Divine Lady of the Lie Mountain Divine Race would serve as the most effective whetstone for his own Supreme Dao cultivation.

As for the situation in the distance, the wailing aura of the Great Dao had actually begun to quiet down, as if it had stabilized. This allowed Ye Tianling to relax a little.

Whoever that Cultivator afflicted by the Venerable Soul Curse was, they had once again overcome its corrosion and temporarily stabilized.

With that, Ye Tianling’s worries lessened.

At this moment, the entire world was shrouded in a dense flurry of dark plum blossoms.

Endless dark plum blossoms drifted down. The scene might have seemed beautiful, but the flowers, the color of dried blood, were also exceptionally strange and sinister, creating a deeply unsettling atmosphere.

WHOOSH—

A gust of Dao-wind swept through.

All the plum blossoms in the void were swept up by the wind, quickly converging to form one giant blossom that floated toward Ye Tianling.

The scene appeared to unfold slowly, but in reality, it was incredibly fast.

It was as if it manifested an unparalleled Law of Profound Meaning that governed both speed and slowness. In a ten-thousandth of a second, it was already crushing down upon Ye Tianling.