Zhang Zhenren Is Going to Fight Ten Today

Fire Dragon Island is an unknown volcanic island deep in the East Sea.

The island is rugged with strange rocks and barren of any vegetation. Thick smoke constantly billows from the central crater, and the air is filled with a pungent smell of sulfur.

Spiritual energy is thin here, and the environment is harsh, so ordinary creatures would never venture close.

Zhao Gongming landed near the crater, riding his black tiger.

He felt the scorching power of the earth fire beneath his feet and nodded in satisfaction.

"As expected, this is a good place."

Without any doubt, he sat down cross-legged, took out the mountain-like Sky-Turning Seal, and prepared to begin refining it with his cultivation.

The moment he closed his eyes and sent his divine sense into the Sky-Turning Seal.

A fierce shout erupted from behind him.

"Zhao Gongming! Your life is forfeit!"

A sharp sword light, carrying a chilling killing intent, aimed straight for his vital back!

The attacker was none other than Chijingzi, who had followed him!

He had observed for a long time and saw that Zhao Gongming had begun refining his magical artifact, his mind distracted. Chijingzi saw this as the perfect opportunity for a sneak attack.

However, he had underestimated Zhao Gongming.

As the foremost disciple of Jiejiao's outer sect, Zhao Gongming was battle-hardened and possessed immense combat experience. Although he was refining his artifact, his divine sense remained outward, vigilant of his surroundings.

The instant Chijingzi attacked, he had already reacted.

"Sect of Explanation rat! You're truly a persistent shadow!"

Without turning his head, the twenty-four Sea Calming Divine Beads behind his head instantly flew out, forming a barrier of light behind him.

Clang!

Chijingzi's flying sword struck the light barrier of the Sea Calming Divine Beads, emitting a loud clang of metal on metal, only to be easily repelled.

"What?"

Chijingzi was greatly shocked. He hadn't expected Zhao Gongming to react so quickly while distracted by refining his artifact.

Failing to strike, he immediately retreated, facing Zhao Gongming from a distance.

Zhao Gongming slowly stood up, turned his head, and looked at Chijingzi, his eyes flashing with cold light.

"I wondered who it was, but it's fellow Daoist Chijingzi. What, you didn't see what happened to Guangchengzi? And you dare to come here alone to die?"

"Zhao Gongming! Don't be so arrogant!" Chijingzi was both shocked and enraged. "You killed my senior brother; this is an irreconcilable hatred! Today, I will use your blood to pay respects to my senior brother's spirit in heaven!"

"Boastful words!" Zhao Gongming sneered. "Just you? Your Sect of Explanation's Twelve Golden Immortals are all hypocrites who only know how to spout pretty words! If you have the guts, come at me. Let's see if I don't send you to that Investiture of the Gods today!"

"Seeking death!"

Chijingzi was completely enraged and stopped wasting words, directly unleashing his signature magical artifact.

He held a sword in one hand and a simple, ancient treasure mirror in the other. The mirror had black and white sides, emitting an esoteric aura of life and death.

It was his treasure of enlightenment – the Yin Yang Mirror!

This mirror possessed infinite power. Its white side could bestow life upon those it shone upon, while its black side brought instant death. Unless one possessed special protective magical artifacts or had a cultivation far exceeding his, even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal would struggle to escape death.

"Zhao Gongming, it is your honor to die by my Yin Yang Mirror!"

Chijingzi held the black side of the Yin Yang Mirror facing Zhao Gongming and shone it upon him!

A dark light shot out from the mirror, silent, formless, and intangible, piercing through space and striking directly at Zhao Gongming's Nascent Soul.

Facing this fatal blow, an ordinary opponent would likely have no time to react before perishing on the spot.

But Zhao Gongming merely sneered.

The twenty-four Sea Calming Divine Beads above his head suddenly blazed with light, five-colored radiance flowing and forming a perfect cycle, enveloping his entire being.

The dark light struck the light barrier of the divine beads and vanished without a trace, like a mudfish entering the sea.

"What?!"

Chijingzi's eyeballs nearly popped out.

His Yin Yang Mirror had failed?

How was this possible!

He didn't know that Zhao Gongming's twenty-four Sea Calming Divine Beads were formed from fragments of the Chaos Bead, creating a world of their own. When the twenty-four beads united, they bestowed the power of twenty-four minor worlds upon him, making him immune to all magic and repelling all evil.

Although the life and death laws of the Yin Yang Mirror were powerful, they were not enough to penetrate the barriers of twenty-four worlds.

"Have you exhausted your tricks?" Zhao Gongming taunted. "Then it's my turn!"

He pointed his finger, and the twenty-four Sea Calming Divine Beads transformed into twenty-four streams of light, like twenty-four meteors falling from the sky, smashing down upon Chijingzi from all directions.

Each bead was as heavy as a mountain, containing the might of a world.

With all twenty-four unleashed, their power was several times more terrifying than Guangchengzi's Sky-Turning Seal from before!

Chijingzi was utterly terrified, his soul scattered.

He finally understood why his senior brother Guangchengzi had lost.

These Sea Calming Divine Beads were too powerful!

He dared not be the slightest bit negligent, quickly retracted the Yin Yang Mirror, and summoned another magical treasure.

It was a scroll. When unfurled, it manifested the Yin and Yang energies, forming a golden bridge that spanned the void, firmly protecting him.

This was the protective treasure that Venerable Yuanshi had forged for him, modeled after Grand Supreme Elder Laozi's Taiji Diagram.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One Sea Calming Divine Bead after another fiercely struck the golden bridge.

The golden bridge shook violently. The Yin and Yang energies flowed across it, constantly being shattered by the impacts and constantly regenerating.

Chijingzi stood on the golden bridge, his face deathly pale, channeling all his magic power to desperately hold on.

He could feel that with every blow, a portion of his magic power was depleted. If this continued, in just a moment, he would run out of magic power and be smashed to death.

"No! I have to find a way to escape!"

Chijingzi was extremely anxious.

While desperately holding on, he searched for an opportunity to flee.

Inside the Investiture of the Gods space.

Shen Zhaochi looked at Chijingzi, who was being suppressed and beaten, and revealed a "kind" smile.

"Want to run? Not a chance."

"It's time for me to add some spice."

His consciousness locked onto Chijingzi once more.

"Bad luck, come!"

Chijingzi, who was desperately supporting the golden bridge, suddenly felt his feet slip.

He looked down, but there was nothing there.

However, this sudden slip caused a fatal pause in the flow of magic power within him.

The golden bridge that had been protecting him instantly dimmed by a fraction.

In a battle between masters, victory or defeat is decided by the narrowest of margins!

Zhao Gongming, a man of his caliber, immediately seized this fleeting opportunity!

"Break for me!"

He roared, pouring all his magic power into the Sea Calming Divine Beads.

The remaining dozen or so Sea Calming Divine Beads seemed to merge into one at this moment, transforming into an extremely brilliant five-colored divine light that fiercely struck the weakest point of the golden bridge.

Crack!

A crisp sound.

The golden bridge, formed from Yin and Yang energies, could no longer hold on and shattered with a roar.

"Pfft!"

Chijingzi felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and his entire body was sent crashing down from mid-air by the violent force, landing heavily on the volcanic rock below.

He struggled to get up, only to find that his internal organs had been shattered, his immortal body was covered in cracks, and he didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

He looked up at Zhao Gongming in mid-air, who held the divine beads like a god or demon, his eyes filled with terror and despair.

"No..."

He finally realized that he had fallen into a trap from the very beginning.

A trap that would surely kill him.