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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 5: [Seeking Immortality in the Eastern Sea]
Volume 5 (Pinyin): [Dong Hai xun xian]
Chapter 27 (464): [Tang Zhan and Liu Ye]
(27th of Volume 5)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The Xihe Formation Lotus Platform had sustained severe damage, with several petals shattered.
"Crack!"
Li Weiyi shattered the ice encasing his arms, a sharp pain searing through his skin, frostbite from the Frozen Hell Descent Dao Technique.
To engage in physical combat with an Inheritor of the Ninth Heaven, one needed to cultivate the Immortal Body to at least seventy percent of its full potential.
Li Weiyi's Tendons and Skin had reached sixty percent, while his Golden Bone lagged behind at fifty percent.
If he could elevate both to seventy percent, even a Third-Tier Great Technique would fail to harm him.
He could withstand such attacks without armor, protective Spiritual Qi, or even a battle robe.
Spiritual artifacts below the Thousand-Inscriptions Artifact level could be shattered with his bare hands.
Like certain Demon Beasts with powerful bloodlines, whose hides served as natural armor, claws as spiritual artifacts, and blood as spiritual power.
"Ultimately, there's still a gap between me and an Inheritor of the Ninth Heaven."
Li Weiyi's greatest asset remained his physical prowess.
His Martial-Mystic Dao cultivation and Psychic Power were merely embellishments.
The reason he had managed to cultivate his physical combat strength to such an absurd level was because he simultaneously cultivated the Wind Mansion Dragon Seed and the Divine Gate Twelve-Character Dao Seed.
Each breakthrough in realm tempered and enhanced his physical body.
Other Martial-Mystic Cultivators who reached the Sixth Heaven had only enhanced their physical bodies six times.
But Li Weiyi had already enhanced his twelve times: six times through the Wind Mansion and six times through the Divine Gate.
Seventy feet beneath the water's surface, Tang Zhan's telepathic message reached Li Weiyi's ears.
After listening, Li Weiyi nodded slightly, retrieved a Divine Speed Talisman, and affixed it to his chest.
He telepathically replied, "Thank you, Young Lord, and Your Excellency, for the warning. Let's move together."
When Li Weiyi was a Six-Star Spiritual Master, the "(Movement)" Divine Speed Talismans he crafted were already a notch faster than those used by ordinary Ninth Heaven Martial-Mystic Cultivators.
Now that his Psychic Power had broken through to the major realm of Seven-Star Spiritual Master, the speed of his "(Movement)" talismans was unimaginable.
Qiongji Daozi narrowed his eyes deeply, astonished that Li Weiyi had withstood the "Frozen Hell Descent" with only a slight reddening of his skin, showing no signs of serious injury.
'How could his physical body be so formidable?'
Qiongji Daozi's own physique was far from weak, having cultivated his Immortal Body to thirty or forty percent of its full strength, placing him at the forefront of all Ninth Heaven Martial-Mystic Cultivators in the Lingxiao Realm.
"Trying to escape with a talisman? Do you think you can evade my Dao Heart Manifestation?"
Qiongji Daozi pressed his hands to his temples.
The rice grain-shaped crystal between Qiongji Daozi's eyebrows instantly erupted with a starlight-like brilliance, unleashing tens of thousands of sword qi.
Each strand of sword qi tore through the sea surface, carving out towering waves.
Like a sword net, sword rain, and sword curtain, the overwhelming force surged from all directions, sealing off Li Weiyi's escape routes and filling every space above and below the sea.
Li Weiyi dodged, retreating rapidly.
The crystal between Qiongji Daozi's eyebrows slowly shifted outward.
It was an ancient crystalline sword, its blade seemingly erupting from his skull.
Above, a colossal sword shadow hundreds of meters long materialized in the sky, piercing through the clouds like moonlight.
The blade pointed downward, the hilt reaching toward the heavens.
The sword's tip locked onto Li Weiyi, who stood on the sea surface below, sealing his fate.
Within the area enveloped by Qiongji Daozi's Dao Heart Manifestation - the entirety of Moon Dragon Island Sea Market - all Martial-Mystic Cultivators' Spiritual Artifact Battle Swords trembled faintly.
"No matter how strong your physical body is, you cannot withstand a Thousand-Character Artifact. And you certainly cannot withstand my Heavenly Scripture Sword."
This sword, embedded between Qiongji Daozi's eyebrows, had been absorbed into his body when he was still a Benevolent Rice plant.
Moreover, during his fetal stage, he had devoured and absorbed his twin brother.
The Rice Ancestor believed that a child so domineering and ferocious even in the womb might grow into an uncontrollable menace.
Therefore, he entrusted the boy to An Xianjing's tutelage, hoping to temper his nature.
"Whoosh!"
The Heavenly Scripture Sword shot forth from Qiongji Daozi's brow, moving with the speed of a meteor and carving a long, white wake across the sea.
The sea parted in two.
The colossal sword phantom in the sky plummeted downward.
With a splash, Tang Zhan burst from the water, dual swords in hand.
"Boom!"
His right sword clashed with the Heavenly Scripture Sword, sending sword radiance blazing across the sky.
His left sword, striking from a mile away, unleashed sword qi that stirred the sea into a massive, arching wave.
Qiongji Daozi raised a Thousand-Character Artifact shield, but Tang Zhan's strike sent him reeling back several miles.
The hand holding the shield throbbed with pain and numbness, his Blood Qi churning violently.
He immediately recalled the Heavenly Scripture Sword hovering above the sea.
His pupils constricted as he glared at the suddenly appearing Tang Zhan.
Behind Tang Zhan, Li Weiyi swung his Peachwood Staff, shattering the descending sword phantom into a cascading waterfall of light.
Li Weiyi turned to observe the newly revealed Tang Zhan.
He realized that this man's cultivation was utterly unfathomable.
Any attempt to sense him dissolved into nothingness.
Any light that touched him was instantly devoured.
Like a black stone statue wielding twin swords, devoid of any other color.
"Who are you?" Qiongji Daozi sensed an extraordinarily unusual aura emanating from Tang Zhan.
"Who I am is irrelevant," Tang Zhan replied.
"Then I'll disperse the darkness shrouding you and reveal your true form," Qiongji Daozi declared, the Heavenly Scripture Sword in his hand glowing with renewed brilliance.
"You're not worthy." Tang Zhan glanced behind Qiongji Daozi.
On the dimly lit sea, a scarlet Rice People figure strode steadily forward, each step sending ripples spreading across the water's surface.
Like a three-meter-tall humanoid torch, its imposing aura dominated the battlefield.
"He is," Tang Zhan said, "Huoxin of the Rice Palace, born with a Pure Yang Physique, already possesses fifty percent of the physical strength of an Immortal Body and has mastered the fourth layer of the Blazing Ember Divine Flame. But tonight, there's no need. Let's go."
Tang Zhan and Li Weiyi erupted into their fastest speeds, fleeing into the deep sea.
"Hahaha! You know me so well, yet you still try to run? Tonight, neither of you will escape!"
Huoxin let out a long, sinister laugh as the scarlet light around him erupted in a fiery burst. Instantly, the sea within a mile's radius ignited, boiling the seawater to a scalding froth.
His speed surged, rapidly closing the distance between him and the two figures ahead.
At the harbor, the Martial-Mystic Cultivators aboard the numerous ships were awestruck by the maritime battle.
"Is this the pinnacle of combat beneath the Immortal Realm? It feels more like a clash between Great Powers of the Immortal Realm!"
"That Martial-Mystic Cultivator shrouded in darkness must be Liu Fengshu's companion. He's utterly dominant - shattering Qiongji Daozi's attack with a single sword strike and repelling him with the second. Truly, there are heavens beyond heavens, and masters beyond masters."
"This is an Inheritor-level confrontation. Each combatant possesses extraordinary skills, displaying their unique abilities."
"Even among Inheritors, there are tiers. The one from the Rice Palace is clearly exceptional."
"What a pity. They're all foreign heroes. Our Lingxiao Realm's Twenty-Eight Prefectures have gathered their elites, yet their brilliance is completely overshadowed. If Tang Wanzhou, Zuoqiu Ling, Song Yulou, and others hadn't broken through to the next realm, they could have shone brightly, representing Lingxiao in a dragon-serpent clash upon the sea, their swords challenging the heavens."
The power of the Divine Speed Talisman on Li Weiyi's chest erupted completely.
He unleashed a Psychic Radiance that enveloped Tang Zhan, carrying him forward at a speed even faster than Huoxin's.
Tang Zhan secretly marveled, suspecting this was a life-saving treasure bestowed upon Li Weiyi by the Jiu Li Hidden Sect.
A vast, ancient voice echoed from above: "Twin-born, rooted in the same earth, all Rice People are one family. To oppose the Lingxiao Twin Rice Sect is to oppose the Rice Palace itself."
Zhenxin stood in the heavens, bathed in starlight atop a gray-green cloud, radiating an icy blue aura.
In the next instant, he leaped from the cloud, descending like an Immortal descending to the mortal realm to intercept them above the sea, thousands of feet below.
"We can't let him stop us. Break through!"
Tang Zhan surged forward, his twin swords slashing in a cross pattern, forming a cruciform sword mark.
Fearless, Zhenxin clasped his hands in prayer before his chest, spiritual Qi and Scripture erupted from his Ancestral Field.
His body was instantly encased in an icy blue glacier, which collided with the cruciform sword mark hurtling toward him.
"Crack!"
The cruciform sword mark's power far exceeded Zhenxin's expectations.
With overwhelming force, it shattered the glacier's defensive Dao Technique like withered branches.
Zhenxin narrowly dodged the attack, his spiritual artifact robes torn by sword qi, leaving a bloody gash on his skin.
Before he could regain his balance, a peach branch lashed out at him.
The peach branch had sprouted from Li Weiyi's Peachwood Staff, materialized through Psychic Radiance.
"Boom!"
Zhenxin hastily unleashed a palm strike, colliding with the peach branch and sending him staggering backward.
In this initial clash, Tang Zhan and Li Weiyi's seamless coordination and keen grasp of combat opportunities, honed by extraordinary battle experience, shattered Zhenxin's attempt to intercept them.
Zhenxin glanced at the shallow bloodstain on his left arm, then turned to the fleeing figures.
"You two are formidable opponents. Killing you will be a true challenge - and immensely satisfying."
Zhenxin and Huoxin regrouped and pursued them into the deep sea. They refused to believe that Liu Fengshu's escape talisman could sustain its effect indefinitely.
"Whoosh!"
A long spear erupted from the seabed, slashing a hundreds-of-meters-long arc of spiritual Qi energy from south to north.
The sea surface before Zhenxin and Huoxin split open like a colossal maw, threatening to swallow them whole.
"It's you again!" Huoxin roared, unleashing the fourth layer of his Blazing Ember Divine Flame, causing the sea to boil.
Zhenxin spat out a pearl-like spiritual artifact, striking the seabed.
Recognizing their attacker through the long spear, the pair recalled their previous encounter in Old Yuzhou.
The opponent's combat prowess was formidable, making him the second-strongest young expert they had encountered in the East Sea, surpassed only by Princess Dengfeng.
Liu Ye burst from the water, unleashing a second spear strike.
"Boom!"
The entire sea erupted, sending all three combatants flying backward.
Liu Ye glanced toward the deep sea, noticing Li Weiyi and Tang Zhan had already vanished into the misty waves.
Without hesitation, he raised his spear and gave chase.
Huoxin watched the retreating figure with the spear growing smaller in the distance.
"Should we pursue?"
"With the two True Disciples absent, there's no point in chasing them. These three combined pose a significant threat - a truly troublesome situation," Zhenxin replied.
"Then let them live a few more days," Huoxin said.
"Where do these three come from? They can't possibly be from the Demon Kingdom, can they?" Zhenxin mused, lost in thought.
Their standards were high; only a few ancient sects and kingdoms in southern Yingzhou met their criteria for worthy opponents.
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END OF CHAPTER
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