Gains and Losses

With a loud bang, Lin Qingtong and her sword crashed into the ground. Even with her incredibly tough metal body, she was still stunned and unable to exert any strength after the impact.

Liu Qingqing gave her opponent no chance to breathe. Lacking combat experience, she subconsciously chose to imitate Si Ming's fighting style, striking while the iron was hot and finishing him off. Even if she wanted to engage in verbal sparring, she would wait until the outcome was clear.

"Mercury Arrow - Sea-Overturning Bitter Chill!"

A boundless and majestic aura surged forth, followed by a vast and powerful energy that seemed to spring forth from nowhere. As the aura and energy rose and fell, they converged and merged into Liu Qingqing's arrow, forming an indescribably powerful aura.

The wind howled like a steel knife scraping across the sky, growing sharper and more rapid. Snowflakes swirled and danced wildly, the biting cold intensified, white mist spread everywhere, the earth was covered with frost and dew, and countless tiny, sharp icicles condensed in the air.

Once the arrow was released, it was like a boundless ocean descending from the sky, a white Torrent obscuring the vast heavens, leaving no escape.

Lin Qingtong was already exhausted, and now she could hardly move. She could only lift the heavy sword and swing it into the sky with all her might. At this moment, she was as frail as a mantis trying to stop a rolling wheel.

The Mercury Arrow landed with immense water pressure, causing the earth to tremble. The ground within a ten-mile radius became smooth and flat, pressing down all the rubble and vegetation and covering them with a layer of ice crystals. Even Lin Qingtong was embedded in the ground in a "T" shape, staring blankly at the sky.

"I actually lost... to my useless little sister..."

If Liu Qingqing were using her father's martial arts derived from the "Scroll of Darkness," it would be one thing. Lin Qingtong knew that the other party had extraordinary talent in this area, and it would not be surprising if she achieved the Spirit Transformation with it. However, what Liu Qingqing was using was clearly an unrelated archery martial art based on the Five Elements. It was obviously a traditional orthodox Xuanmen Cultivation Method, which had nothing to do with the "Scroll of Darkness."

Lin Qingtong never took Liu Qingqing seriously, treating her merely as an interesting toy. She would play with her when she felt like it, and discard her when she lost interest, making her a dispensable figure. Yet, she herself had been defeated by this dispensable toy, severely damaging her worldview.

"Impossible, impossible... I don't believe this!"

Lin Qingtong struggled to get up from the ground. Her limbs were twisted and clearly fractured. Her metallic skin was covered with cracks, like a broken eggshell, but the Metal Cells were still stubbornly regenerating, desperately healing her injuries.

She looked up at the sky, but the blood-red figure, like a demon king, did not stop. Instead, it continued to exert its power, absorbing the five elements' energy, preparing for its next killing move. It seemed that it would not stop until it had killed her, giving her no chance to turn the tables.

A surge of humiliated anger brewed in her chest, eventually transforming into extreme resentment. Lin Qingtong gripped the equally battered alloy heavy sword tightly with both hands, squeezing out all the remaining Primal Qi within her body and channeling it into the sword, unleashing her ultimate move to decide the outcome.

"The Peng Wings Soar and Cover the Firmament!"

A massive hurricane rose out of nowhere, as if to sweep the entire earth into the sky. The ice crystals covering the ground were scraped off and merged into the storm, forming a hundred-zhang-long ice and snow roc that angrily charged towards the sky, truly possessing the momentum to soar ninety thousand li into the heavens. This move actually broke through the original level of Swordsmanship.

Faced with Lin Qingtong's attack that concentrated all her energy and spirit, Liu Qingqing showed no joy or sorrow, her face remaining calm as still water. The Myriad Filth Tainted Blood transformed back into a thin film, covering her entire body and greatly strengthening her Cultivation Body. At the same time, she pushed the Five Elements Spirit-Refining Formula to its limit, and the five elements of primordial Primal Qi gathered around her, forming different strange phenomena.

The five ultimate moves —Fire Cloud Divine Seal, Ice Soul Thousandfold Seal, Prison-Suppressing Dharma Form, Ten Thousand Jun Halts the Spear the Long-Lived Ailanthus Withers Once —condensed together, conjuring a phantom of a deity behind Liu Qingqing. As the ultimate moves were activated, the deity stretched out a five-colored, flowing palm and brought it down from the sky, the palm shimmering with a diagram of the five elements.

"The Five Elements Unite as One, Heaven-Cleaving Without Dao!"

The divine being pressed down on the Peng bird with his palm. The five Primal Qi and the hurricane Sword Qi clashed with each other, and the two sides were locked in a stalemate. However, Liu Qingqing had the backing of a huge Myriad Filth Tainted Blood, and her Primal Qi was inexhaustible. On the other hand, Lin Qingtong was already exhausted. Therefore, this stalemate only lasted for a very short time.

In an instant, the Five Elements Palm broke through the qi barrier, grabbed the Peng bird's neck, and squeezed it forcefully!

The already battered alloy greatsword finally succumbed to the strain and shattered inch by inch. Lin Qingtong's vision was suddenly filled by a hand, followed by complete darkness. All sound, smell, and touch vanished, leaving only her body plummeting downwards...

She didn't know how much time had passed, but when Lin Qingtong regained consciousness and barely opened her left eye, she found everything in front of her blood-red, as if shrouded in a bloody mist. Just as she thought her left eye was also injured, she heard—

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Drops of blood fell onto Lin Qingtong's eyes. She stared intently and saw her sister's face. Blood was dripping from her sister's right eye, as if the intense duel had caused the wound to reopen, and the blood was dripping onto her left eye.

Their eyes met, and Liu Qingqing calmly said, "Second sister, you lost."

"... Yes, I lost."

Chapter 753 Gains and Losses

Si Ming faced three Spirit Transformation cultivators alone: Fuzang, Diwen, and the Seal Talisman Master. The Seal Talisman Master was clearly weaker, as he was skilled in talisman arrays and not a martial artist. However, Fuzang and Diwen were indeed powerful Nascent Spirit Transformation, and they had a combined attack method. One used Buddhist School holy techniques, while the other used demonic Secret Method. Instead of conflicting, they complemented each other like the flow of Yin and Yang, endlessly generating new life. Si Ming was so anxious that he couldn't defeat them.

Four figures flew swiftly, their swords and fists clashing constantly. Their speed increased rapidly until they reached a certain threshold, at which point only four flashes of light could be seen, making it impossible to distinguish one from another. Their sharp, steel-blade-like energy spread outwards, continuously destroying the surrounding scenery.

In the past, if Si Ming wanted to break the Buddha-Demon alliance, he would have had no better way than to activate the three divine powers and use absolute strength to break through. After all, the two complemented and helped each other, and their flaws in moves, intents, and energy were filled in by each other, leaving no room for weakness. The two of them together could exert an effect far greater than the sum of their parts. But now, in the face of the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand, none of these are problems anymore.

Diwen slid along the ground like a venomous snake, striking Si Ming's lower abdomen with both palms from bottom to top, carrying a sinister aura of death. This move was extremely insidious; once hit, even if the injury healed in the future, one would never be able to perform sexual acts again.

Si Ming Mingyang kicked Diwen away, then seized a wisp of death energy. He then pretended to pursue, luring Fuzang to come out and defend. In the instant their palms clashed, he secretly channeled death energy into the Buddhist School holy art.

"How could this be!"

Fuzang sensed something was wrong, but before he could warn his companion, Si Ming intercepted his Buddhist School True Qi and incorporated it into the "Blazing Sun Heavenly Saber." With a wave of his hand, he unleashed a scorching blade of energy towards Diwen.

Diwen his palm to disperse the blade's energy, but was immediately invaded by the holy energy of Buddhist School. His Nether Darkness True Art surged, as if a few drops of water had been poured into boiling oil.

Si Ming alternated blows with the two, always intercepting the power of one to attack the other, essentially using the opponent's spear to pierce their shield, thus disrupting the balance.

The two were originally connected by their energy, their Buddhist and demonic True Qi forming a yin-yang cycle, perfectly smooth and flawless, like one entity, difficult for outsiders to invade. Even if they used techniques like Taiji Fist to borrow force from others, they could easily absorb it, like rivers flowing into the sea, inseparable. Unfortunately, all of this was meaningless in the face of the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand.

Cultivation Method based on concepts such as the Yin-Yang cycle, the mutual generation of Yin and Yang, and the mutual balance of water and fire will be forcibly separated into two isolated entities when they encounter the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand.

After thirty rounds of fighting, the energy circulation between Fuzang and Diwen was almost completely destroyed, barely maintaining its balance. Their coordination was also in complete disarray, and their internal Qi and Blood were fluctuating, causing their faces to show unusual colors.

The Seal Talisman Master sensed something was wrong and wanted to buy time for the two of them. He took out a black and gold divine talisman, forced a drop of Essence Blood from between his fingers, smeared it on the talisman, and activated it with his power. Instantly, a pitch-black demonic dragon appeared and swirled down towards Si Ming.

"Get out of here!"

Si Ming frowned. He only needed ten more moves to make Fuzang Diwen and the other two, who were both Buddhist and demonic, mutually restrain each other, and their yin and yang clashed, causing them to lose without a fight. The interruption of his rhythm made him quite unhappy. He immediately turned his hands, leaving many afterimages, and transformed them into hundreds of arms and thousands of hands. The boundless palm power absorbed the wind and clouds, forming columns of energy that shot out into the sky.

Under the exorcising effect of the Blazing Sun True Qi, the black qi trembled incessantly, and the eerie demonic aura vanished without a trace. When the momentum was at its weakest, the Evil-Slaying Sword Qi pierced through the air and directly cut the demonic dragon in half.

The backlash from the energy caused the Seal Talisman Master's face to turn ashen, and he staggered back several steps. But because of his intervention, Fuzang and Diwen finally had a chance to catch their breath. The two quickly calmed the churning energy in their bodies, exchanged a glance, and both knew that they could not fight for long, or they would surely be defeated. They immediately activated their Cultivation Body and used their ultimate moves, and the world instantly showed a split between light and darkness.

"If you want to unleash your ultimate move, you'll have to see if I agree."

Although I'm not afraid to use my ultimate moves, there's really no need for it. Besides, my opponent has entered a state of Buddha-Demon alliance, which has greatly increased their strength. Si Ming is currently in control, and there's a clear difference in strength between us. I can easily interrupt my opponent's charge-up move without having to yield to them.

However, upon seeing this, the Seal Talisman Master knew that this was his only chance to win and that he had to stop Si Ming. He immediately threw out six black gold talismans that floated in front of him and spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood, staining them red.

"One Qi Encompasses Heaven and Earth, and the Mi Luo swallows the Jade Emperor!"