Ao Guang and the dragons and aquatic clans watched with racing hearts and shaken souls, exclaiming in amazement again and again.
Between sea and sky, treasure light and baleful aura collided and intertwined, thunderous booms rolling forth!
Dao Xuan sat steadily atop the qilin's back. Beneath his Blue Gauze Headband, his face was like Mutton Fat Jade, his eyes bright and brows refined.
Pure Qi curled around his pale yellow cloud-patterned Daoist robe, making his graceful bearing appear even more elegant.
Above his head, the divine light of the Twelve-petal Pure World White Lotus flowed endlessly, Invulnerable to All Laws!
In his left hand, the Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal shone with boundless treasure light. Nine dragons coiled around it, their roars shaking heaven and earth as they firmly suppressed Kuafu's mountain-splitting strength!
In his right hand, the Four Symbols Banana Fan swept out four-colored divine light, disrupting the origins of Earth Water Fire Wind and dissolving Chi You's baleful flames that could Burn Heaven and Boil Sea into nothingness!
The Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler hung at his side. Mysterious Yellow Qi interwove with Merit Golden Light, forming a barrier that easily blocked Hou Yi's vicious and elusive life-taking divine arrows!
The three Great Shamans attacked like a raging storm, their ferocity unparalleled!
Kuafu's giant staff tore through the air with black light. The Law of Strength was driven to its limit, every blow seeming capable of smashing apart stars!
Baleful flames from Chi You's twin axes scorched the heavens. The Law of Fire ran rampant, while two fire dragons that could Burn Heaven roared and snapped their jaws!
Hou Yi's bowstring rang out repeatedly, black light tearing through the air. Every arrow chased souls and seized spirits, vicious and tricky!
Yet Dao Xuan's magical treasures were wondrous and profound, moving as naturally as his will.
At first, although Dao Xuan possessed immense mana and formidable treasures, he was ultimately somewhat inferior to these peak Great Shamans in combat experience.
There were occasional moments of stiffness between attack and defense, and he could not fully unleash the power of his late Great Luo mana and magical treasures.
He could only rely on the advantage of his treasures, holding firm and counterattacking to remain undefeated.
But what kind of person was Dao Xuan?
The Nine Revolutions Profound Origin Technique circulated without pause. His primordial spirit was clear, and his comprehension was extraordinary!
Under the pressure of this life-and-death battle, he was like a sponge absorbing water, rapidly taking in combat experience!
Every use of a magical treasure, every circulation of mana, every clash of laws became nourishment for his growth!
Gradually.
That trace of stiffness vanished.
The suppressive force of the Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal grew increasingly fluid and complete. Drawing upon the power of heaven and earth, it crushed Kuafu until he roared repeatedly, while more cracks spread through the void beneath his feet!
As the Four Symbols Banana Fan moved, the Four Symbols' origins no longer served merely as defense. They transformed into invisible shackles that wrapped around Chi You's twin axes, causing his heaven-burning baleful flames to flicker erratically and greatly diminish in power!
The barrier formed by the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler was no longer merely passive defense. At times, it became a long Mysterious Yellow whip, lashing at Hou Yi's incoming bone arrows, knocking them off course or even sending them flying back!
Dao Xuan grew fiercer with every battle!
The phantom of the Top Three Flowers above his head became increasingly solid, while the Five Qi in the Chest surged like dragons!
His late Great Luo mana rapidly condensed and sublimated amid battle!
His control over his own power and magical treasures improved at a visible rate!
The balance between attack and defense quietly reversed!
Dao Xuan began turning defense into offense!
The Four Symbols Banana Fan no longer focused solely on defending against Chi You. With a sweep of divine light, the powers of Earth Water Fire Wind became four roaring giant dragons that surged back toward Kuafu!
While suppressing Kuafu, the nine dragon phantoms on the Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal roared and flew forth from the seal, spewing treasure light toward Hou Yi!
The Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler transformed into a stream of Mysterious Yellow radiance, darting across the battlefield. At times it measured heaven and fixed earth, stabilizing space; at others, its Merit Golden Light surged and purified baleful aura!
The three Great Shamans immediately felt the pressure multiply!
Their proud battle instincts and savage offensive force were gradually suppressed by their opponent's endlessly emerging, unfathomable magical treasures and rapidly improving combat techniques!
"Roar! This ox-nosed Daoist... why is he getting stronger the more we fight?!" Chi You hacked apart a water dragon with all his might, only for the fire dragon following behind to scorch his beard and hair into curls. He was both shocked and enraged.
"Damn it! His use of magical treasures... is becoming more and more exquisite!" Hou Yi fired several arrows in succession, but each was either blocked or deflected by the Mysterious Yellow Ruler. None achieved anything, and his face darkened.
Kuafu was pressed down by the Nine Dragon Seal and the Four Symbols divine light until he roared without end. He swung his giant staff, yet it was as though he had fallen into a swamp and could not break free!
Dao Xuan had begun suppressing all three peak Great Shamans!
Elsewhere.
The thousands of Wut tribe warriors standing in formation watched their three leaders get pressed down by a seemingly frail ox-nosed Daoist, gradually falling into disadvantage. Every one of them paled in horror!
"Lord Kuafu and the others... are being suppressed?!"
"That ox-nose's magical treasures are too powerful!"
"No! We can't just watch our leaders suffer!"
"Brothers! Attack together! Kill that ox-nose and save our leaders!"
The Wut tribe was savage by nature. Seeing their leaders restrained, how could they care about fighting one-on-one?
Thousands of Wut tribe warriors roared in unison, their baleful aura linking into a blood-red cloud!
Like a breached flood, they brandished huge axes and bone clubs, treading over the waves as they charged toward the center of the battlefield to besiege Dao Xuan!
"Halt!"
A fierce shout rang out!
It was Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea!
Seeing the Wut tribe warriors preparing to swarm their opponent, he was both alarmed and furious, with a trace of wild delight in his heart!
His chance to perform had arrived!
He suddenly stepped forward. His silver-moon face was filled with "righteous indignation" as he pointed at the surging Wut tribe warriors and sternly rebuked them:
"What a shameless band of barbaric Wut! Your three leaders ganged up on our Xuanmen orthodox immortal, Dao Xuan, already winning without honor by bullying the few with the many!"
"And now that you see you cannot win, you dare to send your underlings to attack him together?!"
"You are shameless beyond measure! You have utterly disgraced Pangu Father God!"
"Do you truly think that the East Sea Dragon Palace, an affiliate of Xuanmen, has no one left?!"
Ao Guang's voice was loud and resonant, echoing across sea and sky as he emphasized the words "affiliate of Xuanmen" with particular force!
He fiercely swept his dragon-robe sleeve.
"Dragon Palace warriors, heed my command! Form ranks! Meet the enemy!"
"We must never allow these barbaric Wut to bully the few with the many, profane Xuanmen's prestige, and disturb the immortal as he exterminates demons and protects the Dao!"
"Follow this king—kill!"
Before his words had even faded, Ao Guang charged ahead, transforming into a silver dragon hundreds of zhang long. With a heaven-shaking dragon roar, he was the first to rush toward the Wut tribe formation!
"Kill! Protect the immortal! Defend Xuanmen's prestige!"
"Kill all these barbaric Wut!"
Tens of thousands of elite Dragon Palace aquatic warriors were roused by the Dragon King's "righteous" rebuke and his example of charging first, their morale instantly soaring!
Shrimp soldiers raised their halberds, crab generals waved their claws, whale strongmen beat war drums, and merfolk sounded their horns!
Their battle cries shook heaven and earth!
Like a blue tide, they crashed fiercely into the blood-red Wut tribe flood!
Boom—!
The two tides collided in an instant!
Baleful aura and Demonic Aura—the demonic aura of the aquatic clans—clashed. Weapons struck together, while roars and screams thundered through the air!
The sea surface instantly became an Asura battlefield!
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, severed limbs and broken arms scattering about!
Ao Guang's silver dragon form charged left and right through the battle formation. His dragon claws tore, his dragon tail swept, and he did not forget to shout:
"Xuanmen above! May the Dao Ancestor bless us! Slay the barbaric Wut!"
"For Xuanmen! For the immortal! For the Dao Ancestor! Kill!"
His desire to flatter Xuanmen was obvious for all to see!
At the center of the battlefield.
Dao Xuan caught sight of Ao Guang's "loyal protector" performance from the corner of his eye and secretly laughed.
This old dragon is getting better at licking boots.
Still, the timing was perfect!
Just as Chi You was distracted by the chaotic battle below, a nearly imperceptible moment of sluggishness appeared in the baleful flames around his twin axes!
A sharp gleam burst from Dao Xuan's eyes!
"Now!"
He formed a hand seal with his left hand. The treasure light of the Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal suddenly withdrew, no longer suppressing Kuafu with all its strength as the nine dragon phantoms instantly returned to the seal!
Kuafu had been exerting all his strength against the Suppression Power. When the pressure abruptly lightened, his body involuntarily staggered forward!
But Dao Xuan suddenly turned the Four Symbols Banana Fan in his right hand!
No longer targeting Kuafu, he instead aimed it at Chi You, whose distraction had exposed a weakness, and swung with all his strength!
Whoosh—!!!
This time, it was no longer invisible force!
Blue, red, white, and black divine light burst from the fan's surface!
The heaviness of earth became invisible mountains!
The violence of fire became heaven-burning flames!
The endless flow of water became towering waves!
The swiftness of wind became void-rending gales!
The origins of the Four Symbols manifested, weaving together into a storm of destruction!
In an instant, Chi You and the Fire-Eyed Golden Beast beneath him were completely swallowed!
"Chi You! Watch out!" Kuafu and Hou Yi cried out in terror!
Rumble—!!!
A world-shaking explosion erupted!
The baleful flames collapsed!
The Fire-Eyed Golden Beast let out a miserable shriek as its massive body was blasted away, its scales and armor shattered, blood spraying wildly!
Chi You himself seemed to have been struck by lightning!
His chainmail shattered inch by inch, and his crimson battle robe turned to ash!
His purple-bronze face instantly went pale. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs!
Like a kite with its string cut, he was violently swept away by the terrifying storm of destruction, smashing into the distant sea and raising waves a thousand zhang high!
"Chi You!" Kuafu's eyes nearly split apart!
"Thieving Daoist! Die!" Hou Yi was both shocked and enraged. He instantly drew his bowstring to its limit, three pitch-black bone arrows carrying all his fury and killing intent as they ripped through the void toward Dao Xuan's vital points!
However.
Without Chi You's support, the combined assault of Kuafu and Hou Yi was now utterly meaningless before Dao Xuan!
The divine light of the white lotus above Dao Xuan's head steadily blocked the three life-taking arrows!
The Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal flew forth from his left hand once more, its treasure light even brighter as it carried greater Suppression Power and smashed down upon Kuafu, whose mind had been violently shaken by Chi You's grave injury!
"Be suppressed!"
Boom!
Kuafu roared and raised his giant staff with all his might!
But having lost the initiative and with his mind unsteady, how could he possibly withstand it?
The giant staff was struck from his grasp by the treasure seal!
The seal's remaining force did not diminish, slamming viciously into Kuafu's chest!
Crack!
The sound of bones shattering was clearly audible!
Kuafu's mountain-like body was like one struck by a Primordial Divine Mountain. Blood sprayed from his mouth as his huge body flew backward, collapsing a distant underwater mountain peak!
"Your turn!"
Dao Xuan's gaze was icy as it instantly locked onto Hou Yi!
The Four Symbols Banana Fan rose again. Four-colored divine light flowed across it as a storm of destruction brewed!
Hou Yi's expression changed drastically. He held the Sun-Shooting Bow across his body and activated all his baleful aura to defend himself!
At that critical moment!
Dao Xuan caught sight of the battlefield below from the corner of his eye.
Although the Dragon Palace aquatic clans led by Ao Guang had great numbers, their individual strength was far inferior to that of the savage Wut tribe.
Under the frenzied counterattack of thousands of Wut tribe warriors, they had already suffered heavy casualties, and their formation had fallen into chaos!
Ao Guang's silver dragon form was also being besieged by three savage Wut generals. His dragon scales had shattered, and he was in grave danger!
"Hmph! Reckless fools!"
Dao Xuan snorted coldly.
He temporarily abandoned his attack on Hou Yi, and with a thought!
The Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler became a streak of Mysterious Yellow light and instantly descended upon the battlefield below!
"Measure heaven and fix earth! Merit slays evil!"
Dao Xuan shouted sharply!
The Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler expanded with the wind, becoming a colossal ruler a thousand zhang long!
Mysterious Yellow Qi filled its body, while Merit Golden Light shone everywhere!
It slashed fiercely toward the thousands of Wut tribe warriors who were madly slaughtering the aquatic clans!
Riiip—!
It was as though heaven and earth had been cut apart!
A Mysterious Yellow merit barrier spanning sea and sky suddenly appeared!
Upon the barrier, Merit Golden Light blazed like molten gold beneath a scorching sun!
The baleful aura around the Wut tribe warriors caught within the golden light melted away like ice and snow!
Their powerful bodies hissed as thick black smoke rose from them!
"Aah—!"
Miserable screams rang out in unison!
Thousands of ferocious Wu clansmen, like wax figures cast into a furnace, had their bodies rapidly collapse and disintegrate beneath the purification of the Merit Golden Light!
Their souls and true spirits were also thoroughly purified and erased by that blazing power of merit!
In the blink of an eye!
Several thousand elite Wu clansmen had all turned to ash!
Only faint remnants of baleful aura and broken weapons floating on the sea remained!
The battlefield was instantly cleared!
Ao Guang and the surviving aquatic clansmen had narrowly escaped death. Looking at the enormous Mysterious Yellow ruler hanging between sea and sky, radiating overwhelming divine might, they were filled with reverence and shouted once more:
"Immortal's divine might! Boundless Mystery Sect!"
Dao Xuan recalled the Merit Ruler, his cold gaze sweeping over Chi You, badly wounded and fallen into the sea; Kuafu, who had smashed through a mountain; and Hou Yi, pale-faced and holding his halberd in wary defense.
Killing intent surged!
"You barbaric Wu, savage by nature, slaughtering living beings and repeatedly provoking my wrath!"
"Today, I will send you to meet Pangu!"
Before his words had even faded!
A cold light burst from Dao Xuan's eyes!
The divine radiance of the Twelve-petal Pure World White Lotus above his head swelled dramatically!
The Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal, Four Symbols Banana Fan, and Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler shone brilliantly at the same time!
He intended to finish this in one strike and completely slay these three top-tier Great Witches here!
"Die!"
Dao Xuan gave a cold shout!
The three supreme treasures carried heaven-destroying, earth-shattering might as they tore through space and blasted toward the heavily wounded Chi You, Kuafu, and the horrified Hou Yi!
This blow contained all of Dao Xuan's late Da Luo cultivation and killing intent!
He was determined to annihilate their bodies and souls alike!
Chi You and Kuafu were too badly injured to move, and despair filled their eyes!
Hou Yi struggled to raise his painted-shaft halberd, but he knew he could never withstand it!
Just as the three Great Witches were about to perish at this critical moment!
Rumble—!!!
The entire East Sea suddenly trembled!
It was not from surging waves, but as though the whole of space had been fiercely clenched by an invisible hand!
An indescribably heavy, vast, all-bearing aura suddenly descended!
This aura was ancient and desolate, carrying the pulse of the earth as it instantly filled heaven and earth!
Buzz—!
Dao Xuan's three lethal attacks, with only an inch left before reaching their targets, seemed to crash into an invisible, intangible, yet indestructible barrier between heaven and earth!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three incomparably muffled explosions rang out!
The treasure light of the Myriad Treasures Nine Dragon Seal dimmed as it flew back!
The divine radiance of the Four Symbols Banana Fan scattered, returning without effect!
The Mysterious Yellow Qi around the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Merit Ruler churned violently, and the ruler itself hummed!
Dao Xuan's killing blow, condensed from all his mana and killing intent, had actually been forcibly blocked by that sudden vast aura!
It dissipated into nothingness!
"Hm?!"
Dao Xuan's pupils abruptly contracted!
He suddenly raised his head and looked toward the source of that aura!
At the shore of the East Sea, an additional figure had appeared at some unknown time.
It was a woman.
She wore a simple earth-yellow hemp dress and went barefoot.
Her long hair hung loosely behind her, tied only with a withered vine.
Her face was not peerlessly beautiful, yet it was as gentle as jade. Her eyes were deep and tranquil, as though they contained the vicissitudes and weight of the entire Great Desolation.
She stood there quietly.
There was no earth-shaking baleful aura, nor any dazzling treasure light.
There was only an indescribable sense of peace and vastness.
It was as though she herself was the earth, bearing all things and embracing everything.
She merely raised her hand slightly.
And she had neutralized Dao Xuan's fatal strike, one powerful enough to slay a top-tier Great Witch!
"Ancestral Witch Houtu!"
The heavily wounded Chi You, Kuafu, and Hou Yi, along with every surviving Wu warrior, were overwhelmed with excitement upon seeing her. As though they had found their backbone, they shouted in unison, their voices filled with the wild joy of surviving disaster and reverence!
Dao Xuan's heart shook violently!
One of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Houtu!
She had actually come in person!
Dao Xuan's gaze sharpened. Not only did he feel no fear, his fighting spirit instead surged!
Ancestral Witch or not, so what?
You dare stop me, Dao Xuan, from killing?
My grandmaster is Hongjun! My teacher is Taiching! Who am I supposed to fear?!
He steadied the qilin beneath him. White lotus radiance flowed above his head, while the three supreme treasures circled around him, their light flickering unpredictably.
His gaze was like lightning as he fearlessly stared straight at the suddenly appeared Ancestral Witch Houtu.
He declared loudly:
"Ancestral Witch Houtu? Are you here to stop me as well?"
"Your clansmen slaughtered the dependents of my Mystery Sect without restraint and even besieged me. They deserve to die!"
"Today, even if an Ancestral Witch has come in person, do not dream of stopping me from killing them!"
His tone was resolute, arrogant, and domineering!
It fully displayed the confidence of the "Number One Connected Person in the Great Desolation"!
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