The Ten Tribulations of the Evil King had easily shattered Sword Separating the World, which surprised Wang Xuan.
Had he recognized this blade, he would have known that even in the high-martial world of Wind and Cloud, the Ten Tribulations of the Evil King was among the most supreme god-and-demon-grade blade arts. There were other ultimate arts that stood beside it, but Sword Separating the World was nowhere near that level.
He had understood this from the moment he received the first strike. Though the opponent's blade technique was incomparably evil, its power was genuinely formidable.
Facing the gray-black blade radiance sweeping toward him once more, Wang Xuan did not dare relax his Six Styles of Proud Cold in the slightest.
The Snow-Drinking Mad Blade in his hand suddenly erupted with an icy blade light hundreds of zhang long. The amplifying force of the True Martial Seven-Section Formation poured into the blade like a tide. As Wang Xuan unleashed the Six Styles of Proud Cold, its power soared, surpassing Yin Mingchen's by an unknown number of times.
The two blade lights collided explosively. A thunderous boom echoed through the heavens as violent force blasted in every direction. Above the entire city, it was as though a world-destroying hurricane had risen. Buildings shook, smoke and dust filled the air, and broken stones and roof tiles were swept into the sky before being shredded into powder by the shockwaves.
This guy definitely isn't cultivating some ordinary martial art, but he's still not quite strong enough to take me down! Wang Xuan's gaze swept across the city below, which was on the verge of collapse beneath the battle's aftershocks. With a thought, the True Qi around him surged, and his entire body transformed into a silver-white divine dragon hundreds of zhang long.
Its dragon horns were imposing, its whiskers fluttered, and its scales gleamed. Every detail was lifelike, radiating a dragon's might that looked down upon heaven and earth.
This god-and-demon-grade Dragon God Art, which originated from Water Moon Cave Heaven, completely unleashed its terrifying power under the enhancement of the True Martial Seven-Section Formation.
The silver-white divine dragon circled through the air, its tail sweeping across the clouds. Wherever it passed, dark clouds were churned apart, revealing fissures in the sky.
Then it became a dazzling silver-white phantom. Its dragon jaws opened slightly, sharp teeth flashing with cold light. Accompanied by a dragon roar that shook heaven and earth, it charged fiercely toward the Great Evil King, which was tightly wrapped in gray-black resentment in the distance.
The dragon roar pierced the clouds and shook heaven and earth.
All living creatures fell silent beneath this dragon might. Even the howling wind and dark clouds seemed to freeze.
In the city below, the commoners hiding in their homes were so frightened by the roar that they fell to the ground, believing a True Dragon had descended into the world.
Ten Tribulations of the Evil King—Fourth Tribulation: Six Paths of Reincarnation!
The Great Evil King's evil intent suddenly surged. Gray-black resentment turned into clusters of raging evil flames, while the vertical evil eye on the blade lit up with a glaring crimson glow, locking firmly onto the silver divine dragon.
The yin fiendish death Qi accumulated within it burst forth like a flood. A terrifying blade intent that controlled life and death and condemned all things to eternal reincarnation spread outward, instantly covering half the sky. Even the dark clouds and thunder fell silent.
The blade light suddenly split apart, becoming six heaven-shaking evil rays that screeched as they tore through space and twisted toward the silver divine dragon.
Each of the six evil rays contained a different reincarnation intent: the Heavenly Path, Human Path, Asura Path, Hell Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Animal Path. With all six paths unleashed at once, they seemed intent on casting their opponent into an endless abyss of reincarnation, never to be reborn.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The six evil rays struck the silver divine dragon's scales viciously, erupting in dazzling sparks. The shrill clash of metal was deafening.
Yet the divine dragon's silver-white scales did not move in the slightest and remained completely unharmed. Faint spiritual light flowed across every scale, evenly dispersing the damage from the evil rays throughout its body. The supremely yin evil force collided with the Dragon God True Qi of supreme hardness and yang, producing sharp sizzling sounds.
The divine dragon moved as fast as lightning and reached the Great Evil King in the blink of an eye. Its sharp teeth bit down viciously on the blade, while its hard dragon horns rammed into Hoshino Taki's chest. Boundless dragon force surged forth, driving Hoshino Taki and the Great Evil King together toward the distant sea.
Hoshino Taki spat out a mouthful of black blood. His ribs cracked, though it was impossible to tell how many had broken. But controlled by the Great Evil King, he felt no pain at all. He still gripped the hilt tightly and refused to let go.
The moment they neared the sea's surface, the silver divine dragon twisted sharply. As its massive body churned, towering seawater was swept into the sky. Fierce winds rose and gradually gathered into a colossal tornado that covered the heavens and earth, trapping the Great Evil King and Hoshino Taki within.
Inside the tornado, seawater was like blades and violent winds were like knives, endlessly scouring their bodies.
The seawater was spun into countless sharp water blades that sliced across Hoshino Taki's body, leaving wounds so deep that bone could be seen.
Ten Tribulations of the Evil King—Demonic Brahma Prajna!
Ten Tribulations of the Evil King—Mad Evil Overturning Heaven!
Demonic Brahma Prajna was a mental killing technique. Invisible demonic sounds and evil thoughts quietly spread, attempting to invade Wang Xuan's sea of consciousness and lure him into illusions, making him take up a weapon and kill himself. This move ignored physical defenses and specialized in dealing with those of firm will.
Those demonic sounds were like tens of thousands of voices whispering simultaneously in his mind, tempting, threatening, and seducing him by every possible means.
Even with Wang Xuan's concentrated mind, his heart could not help but tremble slightly, and a faint ripple appeared in his sea of consciousness.
Mad Evil Overturning Heaven followed immediately after, instantly spreading a domain in which heaven and earth were reversed within a hundred zhang. Forward became backward, left became right, and every attack would rebound upon its user. It sought to make Wang Xuan lose control and destroy his own defenses.
Within this domain, all sense of direction was distorted. Even light bent in strange ways.
Facing the invisible spiritual evil thoughts unleashed by Demonic Brahma Prajna, Wang Xuan focused his mind and calmed his Qi, stabilizing his spiritual sea of consciousness.
The Mind-Absorbing Origin Return attribute of the Arhat Demon-Subduing Divine Skill operated at full force. His thoughts became clear as a mirror, and every stray thought vanished.
With a thought, countless ideas gathered into a wisdom sword and a precept blade. The sword intent was piercing, the blade force heavy and steady. Within the invisible spiritual domain, he unleashed fierce sword arts and blade techniques, crushing and suppressing the Great Evil King's evil thoughts and demonic sounds layer by layer.
The demonic sounds that invaded his sea of consciousness were torn apart like thin paper beneath the wisdom sword. The evil thoughts that beguiled the heart were chopped to pieces beneath the precept blade. He
remained clear-minded throughout, untouched by the illusions in the slightest.
As for the law-reversing domain spread by Mad Evil Overturning Heaven, Wang Xuan endured it using the Dragon God Art alone.
Whether it was the strange evil blade rays slashed out by the Great Evil King or the icy blade light and sharp sword light that rebounded from his own attacks, all of them struck the silver-white divine dragon's scales.
The piercing clang of metal never ceased. Scorching sparks fell into the sea like rain, hissing as they struck the water and sending up vast clouds of white steam that blanketed the entire surface.
The seawater evaporated into thick mist, reducing visibility to almost nothing for several miles around. Only the silver-white divine dragon's figure flickered in and out of sight within the fog, like a deity.
After battling fiercely for half an hour, Wang Xuan's cultivation remained unfathomable.
The Dragon God Art's dragon-might suppression, Xiantian Qi's unmatched defense, Free and Unfettered Wind's nimble evasions, the Emperor's Qi-Gazing Technique's precise foresight, the Black Heaven Book's Calamity Power cycle, and the True Martial Seven-Section Formation's continuous enhancement—multiple Divine Arts worked together, their power complementing one another. He fought as smoothly as flowing clouds and running water, showing no sign of fatigue.
True Qi circulated through his body again and again like a river that would never run dry. Every strike carried the force to shatter mountains and split seas.
The Great Evil King, meanwhile, continuously communed with the endless resentment between heaven and earth, transforming it into replenishment for its own evil power. Its endurance was likewise inexhaustible.
That resentment came from the Royal Clan's slaughter across this world over the past year. At this moment, it had all become nourishment for the Great Evil King.
The power of the Ten Tribulations of the Evil King never weakened. Each slash was more ruthless than the last, each move more vicious than the previous one.
However, even as the Great Evil King continuously drew upon the resentment of heaven and earth and frantically amplified the power of the Ten Tribulations of the Evil King, Hoshino Taki's body, which it controlled, could hardly withstand the burden of such a god-and-demon-grade clash.
During the battle, the invisible Qi armor condensed around Hoshino Taki's body by the Nirvana of Fatal Demise technique was repeatedly battered by Wang Xuan's blade and sword Qi. Cracks covered its surface before it finally shattered with a boom, turning into black Qi that dispersed through the air.
The yin evil death Qi within his body was rapidly consumed in the continuous collisions, dwindling like sand running through an hourglass.
Cracks covered his flesh, and blood streamed down his body. Some wounds were so deep that bone could be seen, and even the internal organs within, blackened by evil Qi, were visible.
But the Great Evil King had already lost control. It ignored the damage to Hoshino Taki's body completely and continued driving the Ten Tribulations of the Evil King to clash head-on with Wang Xuan.
Blade light and sword shadows intertwined as explosive force boomed without end. Every strike made Hoshino Taki cough blood, yet that evil blade refused to stop, as though this body did not belong to its master and was merely a tool to be discarded once used.
Wang Xuan seized this opening and closed in instantly. He switched the Snow-Drinking Mad Blade in his left hand for the pitch-black God-Splitting Spike. True Qi poured through his fingertips, and with the swift technique of the Little Li Flying Dagger, he suddenly fired it.
The Little Li Flying Dagger never missed a target.
The God-Splitting Spike shot forth like lightning, carrying a bone-piercing chill, like a divine dragon exhaling the breath of death.
It drew a straight black line through the air, piercing layers of dense resentment mist and accurately passing through Hoshino Taki's brow.
Hoshino Taki's entire body stiffened. Before he could even scream, his pupils went dull, life left his body, and he fell straight down.
Even though the Great Evil King desperately drove its evil power and attempted to forcibly control the already dead body, it was useless.
A dead body was like a bucket with its bottom missing. No matter how much evil power was poured into it, it leaked right back out, making it impossible to sustain.
Having lost the foundation of a physical body, the Great Evil King could no longer act. Its evil power rapidly dissipated, and the blood-red glow on its blade dimmed at a visible rate.
The Great Evil King fell into the sea alongside Hoshino Taki's corpse. The blade let out an unwilling hum in midair, as though howling and roaring.
Wang Xuan snorted coldly and pressed down through the air with one hand, activating the Energy Absorption Technique at full power.
An invisible pulling force surged from his palm, stopping the corpse from falling.
The Great Evil King, however, trembled violently under the sudden suction. Ancient evil runes along its blade ridge flickered with blood-red light, like an evil dragon making its final struggle.
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