The Tide Turns

Gansong City, it's not that simple.

The Dragon Vein within the city unleashed a terrifying power!

Li Qi's main body, Dharma form, and the Inner Gods were all thrown back. He barely managed to stabilize himself after being a long distance away. Some cracks appeared in the Inner Gods, and Li Qi was also injured by the force of the explosion.

However, this only made Li Qi burst into laughter.

Because, at the very moment the power erupted, power went out on many of the outer battlefields, particularly on the periphery of the War Fortress.

After the power outage, the suppression of the War Fortress disappeared, and the Shaman Path was able to seize the opportunity to counterattack. In just those few seconds, the Human Path lost tens of thousands of lives.

That's why Li Qi smiled.

That's right, that's exactly it!

By destroying the pine needles, and even damaging the base stations of the Dragon Vein and the Nexus of All Realms, victory will be within easy reach!

However, spikenard is indeed ridiculously hard.

It doesn't matter.

Just throw a couple more punches!

Li Qi charged forward again, still using martial arts techniques!

On the other side, Liu Junyi's expression was not very pleasant.

For cultivators, Technique Method is indeed wondrous, like a machine that allows a level of cultivation of ten to exert the power of a thousand. This is the wonder of Technique Method and Divine Ability as 'coefficients'.

Moreover, it is highly functional and can perform many amazing operations. You can never pray for rain or perform divination by relying on brute force or cultivation.

However, with so many mysteries, there are also many intricate details.

When martial arts, a Dao Lineage specifically designed for close combat, become ineffective in close-quarters battles, these fancy techniques become somewhat useless.

Who would have thought that, despite both coming from powerful backgrounds, the other party had actually learned this kind of Horse King art, yet he was completely helpless against it.

Liu Junyi also became ruthless, because he realized that now that Li Qi was close enough, he had no way to create distance.

The only way to deal with martial arts is to kite them to death before they get close.

However, Li Qi had already gotten close, so the path of flying the kite was no longer an option.

Then let's get back to the essence of fighting!

But then, the nature of the energy around Liu Junyi began to change—

The world around him, the air surrounding his Dharma image, was blasted apart by a single punch!

Liu Junyi used an ability unlike any other Divine Ability Technique Method, and the surrounding pressure suddenly increased!

This is the Legalist School 'rule'. Liu Junyi used the rule to forcibly command the surrounding qi to change its nature.

The matter around him underwent a strange change. If I had to describe it... it would be that the properties of molecular chemical bonds changed, hydrogen molecules fused, and directly lit up spheres of light around him, like the sun.

This move is Human Path to dismantle the World Barrier, modifying some fundamental constants, thereby causing abnormalities in the properties of gas and creating entirely new substances.

I just don't know what it's for.

But it didn't matter. Li Qi didn't care about any of that. He had already pounced on Liu Junyi, ready to give him another beating.

Stop with all that nonsense, just wait and see if I slap you in the face!

After being hit by a gust of wind for two seconds, Liu Junyi was struck again by the Dragon Vein, and Li Qi was blasted away once more.

Li Qi laughed even louder, which meant that Liu Junyi was completely out of options.

The Dragon Vein erupted twice, the front-line battlefield lost power twice, and the Human Path pressure has increased by at least 20%, with the death toll reaching hundreds of thousands.

In a battle that lasted only a dozen seconds, Liu Junyi was forced to use the Dragon Vein twice, indicating that he was out of options.

I'd better bite the lighter, or Li Qi will beat me to death.

However, it's understandable. After all, Liu Junyi has only just reached the fifth rank and hasn't had time to familiarize himself with his power. He may have mastered some useful fifth-rank Technique Method Divine Ability, but since he has just entered the fifth rank, it's normal for his aura to be unstable and for him not to be able to control his cultivation. He needs a certain amount of time to stabilize his cultivation.

But Li Qi won't give him that time.

Since the other party has this disadvantage, Li Qi naturally cannot be polite.

Keep going! Keep fighting!

However, as Li Qi manipulated the Inner Gods to lunge forward again, a huge phantom with eight arms suddenly appeared behind Liu Junyi.

The eight phantom hands, four of which blocked Li Qi Star Official's hands, while the other four slammed into Li Qi's side!

This completely deceived Li Qi.

Because this phantom is also a 'Star Official'.

On what grounds?

Why are there Star Official?

Star Official are products of the awakening of the Heavenly Dao Will, and are the destiny of the world itself. Li Qi's inner world transformed from the illusory to the real, becoming the Real World. In addition, he had an extremely good understanding of the structure of Star Official and had studied in the Divine Path, so he could drive the world to grow into Star Official.

Although this is not comparable to a real fifth-rank Star Official, it is still quite impressive.

But what gives Liu Junyi the right to do so?

Liu Junyi has neither a real inner world nor has he studied the divine way, so how could he form a structure similar to Star Official?

Li Qi, still puzzled, stepped forward again and threw out both fists.

He wanted to find out the enemy's strength through battle.

Upon touching it, he actually discovered the reason.

The reason is those sun-like things that were created earlier.

These sun-like substances form the 'veins'.

That is the human body's meridian network.

In just a few seconds, Liu Junyi imitated Li Qi's structure of the Star Official and combined it with his own understanding of the human body to create a 'pseudo- Star Official '. He then temporarily built a Gundam-like figure and exchanged blows with Li Qi!

He learned it in just over ten seconds!

A virtuous person learns from all sources without a fixed teacher; when he sees someone virtuous, he thinks of emulating them; when he sees someone not virtuous, he reflects on his own conduct.

Liu Junyi is very good at learning and reflecting. The saying "a gentleman may not have a teacher" does not mean he does not learn, but rather that "when three people walk together, there must be one who can teach them."

In just one meeting, Liu Junyi fully demonstrated his learning ability, mastering the structure of the Star Official simply by 'looking' at them.

Clearly, this learning is incomplete; for example, there are eight hands.

Having eight arms doesn't mean it's powerful; it's just a structural error. Liu Junyi didn't know what to do with this part, so he improvised and made something that was barely usable.

But what if it's not done properly?

They can already hold their own against Li Qi's Star Official, with Li Qi at seven or three out of ten chances.

If Li Qi possessed five-tenths of the true essence of Star Official, then Liu Junyi had learned six-tenths of Li Qi's True Intention.

That's enough. With a 70/30 split, we won't fall quickly. Surviving for one day becomes a realistic and achievable goal.

It's a 50/50 match; it wouldn't be unusual for them to fight for ten days or half a month.

A 70/30 split, sticking to it for one day isn't unreasonable, right?

Unlike Li Qi, Liu Junyi did not use his inner world to form a world, and then use the world to compose Star Official.

He used a different method.

Li Qi only realized now that the 'rules' Liu Junyi had changed had altered the definition of the 'world'.

The world is no longer a strange existence with world barriers and separate internal spaces, but has become a 'star'.

Stars illuminated by the gas he gathered, and then dusty planets surrounding those stars—that was the new 'world'.

So, without any barriers to the world, a 'constellation' is already surrounding him at this moment.

That's right, what else would you call an array of stars if not a 'constellation'?

Therefore, taking advantage of the power generated by the two Dragon Vein eruptions, Liu Junyi did not let these powers go to waste. Instead, after knocking Li Qi away, he used these powers as resources and his own constellation as a foundation, and learned Li Qi's method of constructing Star Official by visual observation.

Then, the constellations were formed, their Law Power were complete, and their structure was reasonable.

Then, another Star Official rose up behind Liu Junyi and used the Carp Flowing Intent to knock Li Qi unconscious with two punches.

That's right, even though Carp Flowing Intent Liu Junyi had never practiced martial arts before, he quickly learned martial arts after being beaten.

Now, Li Qi isn't the only one who knows martial arts.

Liu Junyi decisively abandoned his preferred magical combat phase and began a hand-to-hand fight with Li Qi!

A pure fistfight.

The two giants, with every move they make, can affect the operation of many suns.

One by one, the star systems surged with the bodies of the two giants, swaying constantly under the influence of the Daoist principles within them, like little yellow ducks in the water.

Although it sounds cute, even the sun looks like a little yellow duck in front of these two giants.

An eight-armed giant of a star system.

A transparent giant of the moon and sun.

The two stood proudly in the void, abandoning all the trivialities of Divine Ability Technique Method and spells, returning to the essence of battle, which was how the Human Race originally fought in the Great Wilderness.

They used their fists, legs, elbows, and even their teeth.

Despite the extremely grand setting, the most primitive combat methods were used.

All the fancy stuff is meaningless; the contest of skills can no longer determine a winner.

If a fifth-rank martial artist were to observe, they would find the fight between the two to be so crude, with only very basic techniques in their fists and feet. Yet, this was already the essence of the Carp Flowing Intent.

Without divine inspiration and skill, they can't even fight properly; their fighting is extremely ugly, wasting such a grand spectacle.

But for Liu Junyi, this was the first, and possibly the only, time in his life that he had ever raised his fists and fought with someone.

Li Qi was better off, after all, Li Qi used to roll around in the mud every day and was the one who charged ahead in group fights among the Boatman Gang.

Xiao Yong acted on Blood Qi.

Great courage arises from righteousness and reason.

Those who emerge from righteousness possess a righteous spirit, boundless courage, and unwavering resolve even in the face of death.

What comes from the flesh and blood is courage of Blood Qi. This courage, if too strong, is brutal; if too weak, it is cowardly.

Making decisions requires courage to lead by example, and Liu Junyi is better at this than Li Qi.

But when it comes to fighting each other, all that's needed is Blood Qi bravado.

Therefore, Li Qi had the upper hand in both strength and courage, and once again pinned Liu Junyi to the ground and beat him mercilessly!

He broke through these days earlier than Liu Junyi, which gave him an advantage in consolidating his cultivation. Now, he also possessed the courage of Blood Qi and qi, the Star Official structure, and the initiative.

With so many advantages combined, they are bound to seize the opportunity and crush Liu Junyi!

However, even when Liu Junyi was being brutally beaten, he remained calm and composed, trying to resist while stalling for time.

He doesn't need to win; he just needs to stall Li Qi for one day.

In the current situation, holding out for another day is not difficult...

Just as the word 'matter' popped into his head, Liu Junyi's Star Official was smashed to pieces!

Liu Junyi's physical body directly withstood Li Qi's punch head-on!

This instantly left him severely injured!

Liu Junyi's eyes widened. What was this?! Li Qi had found a weakness in the Star Official's body that even he himself was unaware of?!

He knew that Li Qi True Knowledge Dao Charm, that he could see weaknesses, find flaws, and record information, but he never imagined that True Knowledge Dao Charm could do this to such an extent.

But Li Qi wouldn't give him a chance to breathe.

He used the True Knowledge Dao Charm to find weaknesses and constantly bombarded the gravitational connection between constellations, eventually shaking the gravitational balance point. The Star Official could not maintain his balance and his body shattered.

This directly resulted in Liu Junyi being seriously injured. Li Qi Higher Vehicle, his Star Official shrinking and transforming into a world, pressing down on Liu Junyi's shoulder.

With the weight of the world, suppress Liu Junyi!

Immediately, Li Qi's true form appeared, and the causal threads on his Dharma form wrapped around Liu Junyi's body and pulled hard!

Liu Junyi's body suddenly became illusory.

Li Qi is using his own karma to pull on the other party's karma, trying to erase Liu Junyi's existence!

Of course, this is impossible.

With Li Qi's current level, it would be difficult for him to eliminate a few unimportant, low-ranking mortals, and he couldn't even do it for famous mortals.

Ordinary people only have a dozen or twenty friends in their social circle. Their causal relationships are weak, and they haven't caused anything earth-shattering to affect others. Therefore, Li Qi can barely make them disappear.

But when it comes to celebrities among ordinary people, such as leaders of civilizations or superstars, too many people know them and there are too many karmic entanglements, so Li Qi cannot be swayed.

Similarly, there are even multiple third-rank officials related to Liu Junyi. With such a strong causal connection, even if Li Qi risked his life, he could not possibly affect Liu Junyi's existence.

However, it was more than enough to disrupt his actions.

Liu Junyi suddenly felt lightheaded, and memories began to flash through his mind.

Because Li Qi has touched upon many points where causal relationships are weak, these events will fall into a state between 'having happened' and 'not having happened'.

Since whether it actually happened is in doubt, then the memory itself naturally begins to be questionable and unstable.

Disruptions in memory can cause a shift in one's entire personality and even one's way of thinking, which in turn affects Liu Junyi's thought process and interferes with his decision-making.

As long as Liu Junyi remains in this dazed state, Li Qi's inner world can complete the 'suppression' within a Chen, sealing Liu Junyi away.

But at that moment, Li Qi noticed that Liu Junyi's thinking had suddenly changed.

His thoughts shifted from his soul and brain to the jade pendant on his body.

This brought to Li Qi's mind a saying from a sage, "A gentleman is not born different, but he is good at making use of things."

What people are best at is using tools.

Unlike the Shaman Path is not good at using Law Treasure, the Human Path is very fond of using them.

Indeed, they were good at making use of resources.

He transferred his thinking organs to the Law Treasure, thus escaping the causal chain.

Li Qi frowned.

Liu Junyi's tenacity far exceeded expectations. Should we continue to drag this out?

No, it's not about dragging it out!

True Knowledge Dao Charm immediately witnessed the scene that Li Qi least wanted to see.

Liu Junyi abandoned his physical body and transferred his consciousness to Gan Song.

From this moment on, he also began to utilize the power of the Dragon Vein!

Oh no! It's not a question of whether we can take it down in a day anymore... Li Qi could clearly feel the power of the Dragon Vein surging out, but Liu Junyi was able to control it perfectly.

If Li Qi fights the opponent in this state, Li Qi will lose!

Despite having the upper hand, launching a surprise attack, and even forcing his opponent to be unable to advance in their strongest form, Li Qi still couldn't defeat Liu Junyi!

But at that moment, Li Qi blinked, as if he thought he was seeing things.

How did he... see Li Shiwei?

Li Shiwei is in Gansong City!

Isn't she in the Buddhist Kingdom?