A Clever Trick!
"The Inverted Cosmos Five Elements Sword Art?" Zhou Hao looked at where he was.
It seemed that as the five pure yang immortal swords rose up, they instantly entered another dimension.
A hazy, multicolored halo, sword energy everywhere, and the invisible killing intent alone startled Zhou Hao.
"If I'm not mistaken, you've cultivated for at most a hundred years." Lu Shang stood high in the sky, his voice booming throughout the world.
"I comprehended and mastered several Great Daos in ancient times, and I won't bully you now. If you can break this sword technique, then I'll consider it a loss!"
"Of course. If you can defeat me, then you win too." Lu Shang looked down and pointed at Zhou Hao.
"Cut!"
Boom~~~
Instantly, more than half of the multicolored halos in this world converged and transformed into a giant multicolored sword light.
As soon as the enormous five-colored sword light formed, it seemed to teleport directly towards Zhou Hao, and the profound mysteries of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao contained within it were even more powerful than the Heaven Escape Needle Art he used.
"Break!" Zhou Hao swung his right arm, and the fastest move in his self-created ' Taiji Four Forms ', ' Thunder God Mace ', was lashed out as if the Thunder God were truly cracking his whip.
"Bang!"
The five-colored sword light and an arm suddenly collided, and Zhou Hao was slammed into the ground, tumbling downwards.
"So strong." Zhou Hao felt that most of his right side was numb and he seemed to have lost all feeling.
Since he mastered the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, he had never suffered such a terrifying attack.
He even had a feeling that if he were struck a few more times, even if his divine body was as hard as a pure yang magic weapon, he would be crushed into pieces.
"I underestimated you. To cultivate your divine body to such an extent at the Void Return Realm, it seems you have other supernatural abilities besides the Eight-Nine Arcane Art." Lu Shang was somewhat surprised to see that Zhou Hao had blocked his attack with his arm and that his arm was completely intact without any wound.
He was well aware of the power of his attack; even a celestial-grade magic weapon would shatter instantly, and even some pure yang magic weapons would develop cracks and would not emerge unscathed.
"Fortunately, after I practiced the Great Chaos Hole Palm, my hands surpassed my divine body and reached the level of a pure Yang grade magic weapon, comparable to a mid-grade innate spiritual treasure. Otherwise, I would have been injured by this attack." Zhou Hao flipped his hand and took the Purple Gold Hammer in his hand.
He had only just mastered the first level of his "Great Chaos Hole Palm," and the hardness of his palm was not even as good as that of Purple Gold Hammer, a high-grade innate spiritual treasure.
It would be one thing to bully opponents whose attacks are not enough to threaten one's own position.
Against Lu Shang, using weapons is the safest option.
Whoosh!
Zhou Hao took out the Purple Gold Hammer and immediately used his movement technique to rush towards Lu Shang.
He had seen the <Inverted Cosmos Five Elements Sword Art> on the screen in front of the palace on the mountainside. He knew that when it was practiced to the most perfect state, the resulting world was like a real miniature world, complete with the five elements, endlessly regenerating and very difficult to break.
Unless there is an attack several levels stronger than the spellcaster, there is no hope of breaking the spell by force.
With Lu Shang watching him like a hawk, how could he possibly have a chance?
"You take my move too!" Zhou Hao raised the Purple Gold Hammer in both hands and unleashed a 'Yin -Yin-Yang Wheel ' attack.
In an instant, a black and white Taiji Diagram diagram appeared in the world, like a giant millstone about to crush the entire world, rolling towards Lu Shang.
As the earliest move created in the four forms of ' Taiji Fist Art,' and also the one that Zhou Hao has been most deeply immersed in, he unleashed it with all his might after his current level of strength soared, containing the two fundamental powers of Wuji Begets Taiji. Even Lu Shang was taken aback by this move.
"Take this!" With a thought, Lu Shang gently spread his sleeves forward, and with a 'whoosh' the sleeves extended nearly a thousand feet, brushing them away from Zhou Hao's incoming Purple Gold Hammer.
"Instead of using your sword to block, you're using your sleeve?" Zhou Hao thought to himself, "Just wait and see how I tear your sleeves apart and blast you off the ground."
Since Lu Shang claimed to be a Dao soldier, Zhou Hao was not afraid to kill him.
Besides, in battles at their level, victory or defeat can be decided in an instant. Unless the difference in skill level is extremely large, no one dares to hold back.
But when the Purple Gold Hammer in his hand clashed with the unfolded robe sleeve, there was a loud 'bang,' which shook back the two enormous forces, causing his body to tremble and freeze in mid-air.
A terrifying suction force emanated from the open sleeve of the robe. If Zhou Hao hadn't sensed something was wrong, let out a low roar, grabbed the Purple Gold Hammer, and used his escape technique to dodge, he would have been sucked away along with the hammer by the robe sleeve.
"Universe in the Sleeve!!" Zhou Hao exclaimed in surprise, his gaze falling on the cuffs of Lu Shang's robes, where a bright, shining light seemed to contain an entire world.
"No wonder you dared to block my double hammers with your sleeve; it turns out it was this secret technique."
This "Universe in the Sleeve is one of the most advanced secret arts in the Three Realms. It is one of the few secret arts among those that Qi Refining Path that can rival the most powerful supernatural abilities in the Three Realms.
At least according to the books that Zhou Hao had read that introduced secret techniques, the Universe in the Sleeve " was a magical technique on the same level as the " Buddha Kingdom in the Palm."
Even the Great Chaos Hole Palm, taught by my master, the Three Pure Ones, contains many profound mysteries, being the essence of this top-tier secret technique.
"It is said that to master this secret technique, one must not only be proficient in the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, but also take the Great Dao of the Five Elements as the foundation and reside a great world within the sleeves of one's robe! With a flick of the sleeve, the power of a great world is unleashed." Zhou Hao had just stopped when he saw Lu Shang's sleeve sweep down from above like a bolt of lightning.
The surrounding multicolored halo once again coalesced into five sword lights, which attacked from all directions and beneath their feet.
"Not good."
Whether it was the five sword lights or the Universe in the Sleeve, they posed too great a threat to him.
If struck by the sword light, one's divine body will be injured.
If it were trapped Universe in the Sleeve compartment, it would be even more troublesome.
If I give myself some time to gather my strength, I'm confident I can break through the world formed by the Five Elements Sword Technique. But I'm not so confident about the vast world formed by the most advanced secret technique, the Universe in the Sleeve.
"I'll risk it!" With a thought, Zhou Hao activated a Blue Flower Water Pearl in his Purple Mansion Origin Sea.
The mysterious power of Blue Flower and white porcelain flowed through Zhou Hao's body, and he then unleashed his Three Heads and Six Arms. His four hands used the "Great Chaos Hole Palm" to meet the sword light coming from all directions, while his two arms blasted out Purple Gold Hammer to smash the sword light below.
At the same time, his divine weapon, the 'Bodhi Tree,' rose from the void above his head, its countless branches reaching out towards the approaching robe sleeves.
In a short time, Zhou Hao used almost every means at his disposal.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
The multicolored sword light that had previously numbed half of Zhou Hao's body was easily shattered after he activated the power of the Blue Flower and his own strength crossed another level, causing Lu Shang to raise an eyebrow.
"You have another trump card to enhance your strength? This tree seems to be the Sacred Tree of the Patriarch Styx. It seems you have quite a few secrets." Lu Shang smiled, his left sleeve also unfolding, once again using the Universe in the Sleeve.
"We'll take this tree from you first."
Lu Shang wasn't particularly concerned about Zhou Hao's renewed burst of strength.
As he said before, he had already comprehended and mastered many great paths in ancient times. Later, he was rescued by the Lady Nuwa and became a Dao soldier. He then studied the secret treasures left by the Lady Nuwa in Mountain of Ten Thousand Longevities to help those with affinity to comprehend the Dao, and his realm had long surpassed that of his time.
Although Zhou Hao's level of cultivation was an incredible genius even among celestial immortals, he was still too inexperienced for an old guy like him.
"If I hadn't perished back then, I would have become a Dao Ancestor by now, perhaps even comparable to the Ancestor..." Lu Shang sighed inwardly. His outstretched sleeve had already enveloped Zhou Hao's swaying precious tree, and another sleeve opened its cuff to cover Zhou Hao's entire body, ready to be drawn into his own sleeve world.
But just then--
A dark shadow suddenly burst forth from the void, transforming into a bolt of lightning that struck.
Startled, Lu Shang immediately activated his sword technique, once again condensing five-colored sword light to slash at the dark figure.
Unexpectedly, the dark figure disregarded the sword light completely, as if it wanted to perish together with the sword, risking its body to take the blow, determined to strike Lu Shang with its Blood Blade.
Boom!
The multicolored sword light struck the dark figure, leaving a deep, bone-revealing wound on his back.
At the same time, the shadowy figure had already adjusted the direction of the force, using the sword light to increase its speed exponentially.
Puff!
The Blood Blade pierced Lu Shang's chest, with the longest of the three tips protruding through his body.
"The Blood-Transforming Divine Blade?" Lu Shang felt the deadly poison from the Blood Blade within his body and couldn't help but sigh, "Fortunately, I have a Dao Weapon body. If I were in my physical body, even detoxifying would be a troublesome matter."
"I'm not fighting anymore, I've lost." Lu Shang released the Saha Treasure Tree that he had put into his sleeve, and then pulled the sleeve that had been covering Zhou Hao back in.
"Actually, I took a shortcut. If it were just me, I would have been crushed by Brother Lu Shang this time." Zhou Hao in black robes also put away the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.
"How long have you been cultivating? You haven't even passed the Heavenly God Tribulation yet, and you already have this kind of strength, which has already shocked me. Besides, your clone is also part of your strength. My attention was drawn to your main body, and I didn't guard against your clone's sneak attack. It's not unjust that you lost." Lu Shang shook his head with a smile.
Ultimately, it was because I had been too comfortable on Mountain of Ten Thousand Longevities for too long and had become careless.
Wow~~~
The independent world formed by the Five Elements Sword Technique dissipated, and Zhou Hao reappeared in the square in front of Five Village Temple.
In front of the Daoist temple, besides Lu Shang, there was also a man, a woman, and two Daoist boys, making a total of four figures.
"Who are they?" Zhou Hao asked, looking at Lu Shang.
He could sense that the aura emanating from these four people was the same as Lu Shang's; they must all be Dao Soldiers.
"They are all my junior brothers and sisters. Of the forty-eight disciples under our ancestor, only the five of us are still alive and have left behind our souls." Lu Shang shook his head and sighed, his eyes filled with sadness.
I should be able to finish another chapter tonight, but it will probably be quite late. I can read it tomorrow.
Don't waste this beautiful spring weather...