Chapter 568: Great Soul Searching Technique
Ye Tianling’s expression turned grave. He activated his Celestial Dao Rule Domain, amplifying his Bloodline Power.
In that instant, he made contact with the massive, dark plum blossom.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Heaven and Earth suddenly trembled violently, like monstrous waves crashing toward the heavens. A Power of Destruction surged toward Ye Tianling, as if threatening to obliterate everything, shatter the void, and annihilate the world itself.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The giant plum blossom transformed into a black hole, enveloping Ye Tianling. It then immediately evolved into a Chaotic Big Bang, intending to shatter him and reduce him to Chaos.
Ye Tianling’s Celestial Dao Rule Domain manifested, and all of his Huaxia Dragon Soul Divine Blood converged, transforming at the Particle Origin.
FWOOSH—
In that instant, Ye Tianling’s qi and blood evolved to their absolute peak. The Samadhi Celestial Fire formed a Celestial Fire Battle Armor, creating a state akin to an unparalleled War Body.
As if wreathed in peerless flames, Ye Tianling’s body swelled, growing to three times its original size.
Now nearly six meters tall, Ye Tianling was a figure completely ablaze with raging flames.
At the same time, while in this state, he activated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique. Combining it with the most fundamental killing moves of the Nine Swords of Dugu, he charged toward Lie Wuhen.
SWISH—
Although Ye Tianling’s strike did not come from an unparalleled Cultivation Technique, it was infused with the power of his Celestial Dao Rule Domain. With it, any ordinary sword move became an absolute killing blow.
A single slash unleashed an indescribably terrifying Battle Power.
The Battle Power of the Nine Forbidden manifested directly. This eruption of thirty-six percent combat power rendered all other Slaughter Techniques meaningless.
An inexpressibly oppressive aura saturated the world.
World-destroying Force Qi ravaged the skies.
The eruption of this battle was like the Descent of a true apocalypse, striking fear and trepidation into the hearts of all.
BOOM—
His sword met the dark plum blossom head-on.
An explosion erupted.
But Ye Tianling’s killing blow pierced even further through the plum blossom, making the resulting explosion a mutual one.
BOOM—
A violent explosion erupted. The Force Qi in the void transformed into destructive shockwaves that surged skyward. In the distance, two incredibly solid cliffs were instantly struck by the waves and blasted into dust.
The tops of two mountains were blown clean off.
Mountains crumbled and the earth split. Dust filled the sky, rubble flew through the air, and colossal shockwaves rolled on.
In that moment, the Power of Destruction was simply unparalleled, stunning everyone present.
Ye Tianling charged straight through the violent Force Qi. Just as Lie Wuhen was retreating at top speed, his sword flew out in a diagonal slash.
SQUELCH—
Without his reserves, without his trump cards, without the Ancestral Dao Guardian, how could Lie Wuhen possibly withstand this attack?
Let alone the fact that he had already exhausted nearly ninety percent of his Battle Power in the previous exchange. With his body now almost completely depleted, what strength did he have left to resist?
He had originally planned to use the recoil from the blast to transform into a streak of Flowing Light and flee into the canyon depths, putting distance between himself and Ye Tianling.
But he never imagined that Ye Tianling, with his peerless power, would tear right through the Absolute Kill Divine Technique of the Mountain-Devouring Divine Skill, charge straight through the black hole, and come to strike him down.
At that moment, Lie Wuhen’s pupils constricted, and his face turned deathly pale!
"No—"
Lie Wuhen shrieked in misery, but he was completely unable to resist.
SQUELCH—
Ye Tianling’s sword sliced diagonally from his neck to his chest, cleaving him in two.
BOOM—
Raging flames ignited. In that instant, a phantom Battle Soul shot out from between Lie Wuhen’s eyebrows.
PFFT—
Ye Tianling immediately used the Great Soul Searching Technique to forcibly perform a Soul Search on the Battle Soul.
"Ahhh—"
An incredibly vicious soul-penetrating power erupted. Lie Wuhen’s Soul screamed again and again, the sound utterly bloodcurdling.
And through the memories of his Soul, Ye Tianling found many depraved scenes—for example, scenes of him and Lie Yuying engaged in all sorts of Dual Cultivation.
In most of them, Lie Yuying was the one taking the initiative, while Lie Wuhen was the one being tied up and abused.
Ye Tianling was stunned. ’I never thought the seemingly high-and-mighty Lie Wuhen and Lie Yuying would have such proclivities and sordid dealings.’
He had originally planned to torture and kill Lie Yuying with the Profound Ice Cold Iron Rod, but after witnessing this scene through the Great Soul Searching Technique, Ye Tianling immediately abandoned the idea.
To Ye Tianling, Lie Yuying was simply too filthy!
"Ahhh—"
The Great Soul Searching Technique continued, but Ye Tianling was unable to find any legacy memories of the Mountain-Devouring Divine Skill or the Lie Mountain Godslayer.
It was just like how Ye Tianling himself had mastered the Law of the Celestial Dao Rule Domain; if he ever tried to teach it to someone else, he would immediately find himself unable to speak of it or even recall it. This was a true untransmittable secret.
After using the Great Soul Searching Technique, Ye Tianling didn’t find anything else of use. However, he did see Saintess Li Xuting’s past.
The scene... was indeed tragic.
However, Li Xuting had not actually been defiled. Instead, at the critical moment, she had initiated self-Transformation Dao and utterly disintegrated.
But Lie Wuhen, unwilling to accept this, had captured a woman who resembled Li Xuting, violated and tortured her to death, and then announced to the outside world that the deceased woman was Li Xuting.
At the same time, Ye Tianling also learned from the Great Soul Searching Technique that the Lie Mountain Divine Land was merely a branch of the Heaven-Sundering Sacred Land that had broken away and started calling itself a ’Divine Land.’ He also discovered that Lie Wuhen had long harbored delusions about Li Xuting.
Li Xuting possessed the true Heaven-Sundering legacy, one that was more comprehensive than the Mountain-Devouring Divine Skill and more powerful than the Lie Mountain Godslayer.
If he could Absorb her, Lie Wuhen would be able to advance his Mountain-Devouring Divine Skill and Lie Mountain Godslayer technique to the next level.
Unfortunately, Li Xuting would rather die in glory than live in shame. At the critical moment, she activated her Ancient Bloodline and initiated self-Transformation Dao...
When the Great Soul Searching Technique concluded, Lie Wuhen’s Soul was also completely shattered.
Amidst those tragic and painful cries, it disintegrated into dust.
The burning Samadhi Celestial Fire also subsided in the space of a breath.
As for the attacks from the five members of the Lie Mountain Divine Race, they were barely a nuisance to Ye Tianling.
He hadn’t deployed the defense of his Tianshu Myriad Paths Imperial Qilin Armor, nor had he activated any Power of Defense. When the attacks from these Cultivators—who were only at the Sixth Change of Sword Void Realm with Battle Power Breaking Seven—landed on his powerful Divine Body, they had almost no effect.
Ye Tianling’s body hadn’t moved an inch. He had refined Lie Wuhen to death right where he stood, without even taking a single step back.
All of this had taken place in the span of about three breaths.
Then, Ye Tianling turned, his gaze falling coldly upon Lie Yuying.
"Wuhen!"
Witnessing Lie Wuhen’s horrific death with her own eyes, Lie Yuying let out a shrill cry, the hatred in her eyes blazing like a wildfire.
"I never thought you two actually enjoyed playing Dual Cultivation games. Given your bloodlines, you’re practically brother and sister, aren’t you? Tsk tsk... It really takes all kinds to make a world, doesn’t it?"