Breaking Free of the Cage
With a loud shout, Si Ming strode towards Bing Ju's location, disregarding any techniques or routines, and unleashed a flurry of wild punches. Supported by his divine power, even the chaotic punches unleashed astonishing destructive force.
The deafening "bang bang bang" sounds were like a pile driver at work, each punch generating an explosive impact. Various ice shards and fragments of rock flew everywhere. Si Ming was completely engulfed in the impact, and the crater on the mountain wall continued to expand, mixed with splattered blood and muffled groans of pain.
"This is outrageous!"
A furious roar, filled with unbearable frustration, erupted from the crater. A massive pillar of Yao Qi condensed and shot into the sky, blasting Si Ming out of the pit.
With a deafening roar, the mountain wall cracked open, rocks tumbled, and a disheveled figure darted out. It had a human body, an eagle's head, claw-like feet, and its entire body was covered in black feathers, each feather resembling an arrow. It had revealed its true demonic form, but it had also lost its wings.
After Demon Beast advances to the Divine Rank and transforms into a human form, it can possess two forms. The human form is skilled in technique and can cultivate martial arts created by humans, while the demon form leans towards strength, because most Demon Beast beasts are extremely robust and strong, even surpassing Human Race body-refining martial artists, and their fighting style is often crude and simple.
However, the Divine Rank demon in front of us is clearly an exception. Its physical form is not particularly strong, but its Yao Qi is significantly more abundant than when it is in human form.
"Since you're so determined to die, then so be it!"
The opponent leaped into the air, opened its beak, and spat out a demon core. As the strange light flashed, the Yao Qi became even more intense, obscuring half of the starry sky and plunging the world into the deepest darkness, making it truly pitch black.
"At this rate, they've even spat out their demon cores. It seems they're really going to fight to the death." Si Ming looked up at the sky and sighed, "Are all Spirit Transformation experts this difficult to deal with? They keep playing their trump cards one after another. Even with all the advantages, it's impossible to kill them."
Xiao Xuan's voice came again. "Don't panic. Use the move from the 'Supreme Plain Decay True Scripture'. I will assist you in completing it. For now, I will form your hands."
Si Ming knew which move the other party was referring to, and he had already learned it. However, he hadn't had enough cultivation to use it before. In a normal person's mind, it's naturally not conceivable that he could learn an extreme move beyond his own cultivation level in advance.
This is also why the opponent dares to risk their life. Cultivation level can be improved through forbidden techniques, but skills, moves, experience, etc., cannot be improved in a short period of time.
"Then let's go! I've been wanting to experience what it's like to be a human nuclear bomb for ages!"
Si Ming showed no fear of facing the clash of ultimate moves for the first time; instead, he was filled with excitement. He shook his arms, gathering all the True Essence transmitted through the earth into his palms, which transformed into chaotic and violent particle rays.
At the same time, a gigantic monster phantom appeared in the night sky, with a dragon's head, a human body, bird claws, and feathers growing on its arms. Its height was over Qianzhang, and when its wings were spread, it covered the sky and the earth, shrouding the four mountains in its shadow.
Amidst the rumbling thunder, blood-red clouds blanketed the sky, turning the earth a terrifying dark red, exuding an indescribable sense of oppression, as if the heavens were about to collapse.
"The Azure Demon God Mirror's Firmament Seal, Ji Meng Weeps Blood!"
The monstrous phantom looked up and shrieked, its demon core flying out and transforming into an ancient mystic seal. Suddenly, a bright red crack appeared in the dark clouds, a breathtaking sight, like a wound in the heavens. An endless stream of blood energy rushed down, flowing into the ancient mystic seal and staining it a bright red bloodstain.
With a thunderous roar, the demon core and blood seal swooped down from the sky, causing the earth within a radius of dozens of miles to tremble, ice peaks to shake, snow to surge, and avalanches to occur everywhere.
"That's it! This is the battle I've been waiting for!"
Si Ming, standing directly below, had a gleam in his eyes and grinned. Between his palms appeared a fantastical construct resembling a meteorite from outer space. Although it was only the size of a basketball, it contained an exceptionally terrifying power. Various rays darted around, but were firmly suppressed within the sphere by his True Essence. It exuded an apocalyptic frenzy, as if it couldn't wait to explode.
"The Star Core Decay Blazing Sun Descent!"
Si Ming pushed his palms forward, and the nuclear-shaped fantasy construct rushed into the sky, colliding head-on with the descending demon core blood seal.
The next moment, only two colors remained in the sky and earth.
The top is red, the bottom is white, as if the world has been divided in two.
A hurricane carrying a large amount of radiation swept across the sky and destroyed everything tangible. The ice and snow that had covered the land for thousands of years melted rapidly under the high temperature and scorching wind, revealing the black soil that had been buried for a long time. The black iron chains connecting the four mountain peaks were also violently pulled, and protective runes lit up on their surface to resist the erosion of the radiation.
Ling Huanxi quickly thrust her silver spear into the ground, unleashing a burst of icy energy that bloomed into an ice chrysanthemum, protecting both her and Murong Qing within it and shielding them from the aftershocks.
In mid-air, the two energies engulfed each other's domains. One was filled with a tragic and sorrowful will, as if the heavens were weeping blood, while the other was pure destruction, without Martial Dao Will, pursuing the most complete annihilation.
Gradually, the will to lament to the heavens was pierced by the rays, riddled with holes. Despite its intense resentment, it could not withstand the merciless destruction and was quickly swallowed up by the white light.
After the white light enveloped the bloodstain, it first contracted sharply inward until it became the size of a fist, and then expanded outward at an even faster speed.
In mid-air, an egg-shaped explosion wave appeared, and the aftershocks of the energy spread out in a ring. The drastic changes in air pressure caused the earth to tremble continuously.
The anticipated mushroom cloud did not appear, possibly because the star's core exploded in the sky rather than falling to the ground. Instead, a black cloud resembling a hat appeared.
After a long while, the blinding light gradually dissipated.
Si Ming looked up and saw that the human-shaped eagle-beast Divine Rank demon was still in mid-air. However, his essence and energy had been annihilated, leaving only a Spirit Essence that barely maintained the outline of his body before his death. It looked like a dotted line drawn with a black pen, with nothing inside his body.
He opened his mouth, trying to say something, but a gust of wind blew by, and the dotted line disappeared as if erased by an eraser.
"... Thinking about picking up a demon core or something? Looks like that's wishful thinking. This move truly leaves no trace of the body."
Si Ming let out a long breath and shook his limbs. He didn't feel particularly tired, after all, he was using someone else's Primal Qi. But he also got a glimpse of how powerful Xiao Xuan's cultivation was.
The ultimate moves of Super Martial Dao are inherently more energy-consuming than ordinary ultimate moves, but Xiao Xuan was able to continuously supply True Qi from the earth, showing no sign of conserving it, as if he was afraid that he wouldn't have enough.
The "Supreme Plain Decay True Scripture" cultivates the physical body and strengthens the Jing Essence, which has little to do with Internal Cultivation. In other words, Xiao Xuan's profound cultivation comes from his own attainments and has nothing to do with Super Martial Dao.
To become the Grand Master of the Mohist School Grandmaster, he is indeed no ordinary person.
As Si Ming was reflecting on this, he saw a black whip shadow several thousand meters long swing down from mid-air, striking the mountain wall with a loud bang.
His pupils contracted instantly upon recognizing the whip's shadow!
Chapter 124 Breaking Free from the Cage
"Hmph, hmph hmph, hmph ha ha ha..."
Inside the mountain, Xiao Xuan, bound in mid-air by black iron chains, lowered his head and emitted a deep nasal sound that sounded like laughter, yet also like crying.
If this is laughter, it must be the laughter of a wronged soul who has been trapped in the Avīci Hell, climbing out of hell for the first time and seeing the light.
His disheveled hair obscured his face, making it impossible to see his expression, but it was clear that tears were sliding down his chin and dripping onto the altar below.
"Ten years, a full ten years! This is the first time I've known that tears can be so sweet."
With a throbbing of his arm muscles, a terrifying force capable of uprooting mountains and overturning rivers and seas erupted from his body. Accompanied by the clanging sound of metal breaking, the three black iron chains that had pierced through the mountain and wrapped around Xiao Xuan's body snapped in response.