True Lord!

Chen Lingxi narrowed his eyes, and the golden light of the Great Sage Treasure Form around him blazed brightly once more, as he was about to make another move!

Yu Jiangwei no longer hesitated.

She stretched out her fair, jade-like hands, and a wisp of Mysterious Qi suddenly lit up at her fingertips.

The Mysterious Qi was a pale purple color, seemingly only a wisp, yet it exuded a vast and awe-inspiring Daoist charm that made one's heart tremble.

"Hmm? It's a projection of spiritual energy?" Chen Lingxi was surprised!

Just as Chen Lingxi her doubts, a Divine Sense of Daoist Shurong quietly flowed over.

"Fellow Daoist, be careful. This Spirit Artifact is called [Profound Qi-Splitting Mother], and it is an extremely precious Spirit Artifact from the Candleflame Star."

This treasure has no direct killing power, but it has an extremely strange and wonderful use: it can split a cultivator's Divine Ability into thousands, from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and each of the split divine Divine Ability possesses seventy to eighty percent of the original Divine Ability ability's power.

Chen Lingxi raised an eyebrow slightly.

Then, the Daoist Shurong continued, "For ordinary Divine Ability powers, such differentiation is not very meaningful. After all, it is better to concentrate the power into a single strike than to disperse it."

However, for certain specific Divine Ability powers, this Profound Qi-Splitting Mother is an absolute weapon of mass destruction.

Just like now.

Yu Jiangwei poured her Dao Origin into the Profound Qi-Splitting Mother without reservation, and the pale purple Mysterious Qi suddenly surged at that moment, splitting into two, then four, then eight... In an instant, thirty-two identical Mysterious Qi condensed around her.

The thirty-two streams of Mysterious Qi hovered around her, like thirty-two purple stars, exhaling and exhaling Daoist rhymes.

At the same time, her two Dao Substitute Body also each condensed a wisp of Mysterious Qi.

Thirty-two plus two, a total of thirty-four streams of Mysterious Qi suspended in the air, then transformed into blurry figures!

Those bodies simultaneously opened their eyes.

Thirty-four pairs of eyes, burning with dark purple light, simultaneously fell upon Chen Lingxi.

An indescribable, terrifying murderous intent intent spread out at that moment.

The murderous intent was so intense and violent that it was as if thirty-four invisible swords were simultaneously hanging over Chen Lingxi's head!

It made the hairs on his body stand on end, and the Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform within his body trembled violently. The Weiji Thunderlight on the Thunder-Prison Profound Root was even dimmed by the murderous intent!

"[The Primordial Severing Killing Art]." Yu Jiangwei spoke slowly, and thirty-four figures spoke at the same time.

The sounds merged into one, creating an eerie harmony that echoed through the Void.

The moment she finished speaking, the thirty-four figures simultaneously formed an extremely complex hand seal.

As the hand seal took shape, all thirty-four streams of Mysterious Qi simultaneously shone at their brightest.

It contains a profound and mysterious truth, like thirty-four invisible scissors slowly unfolding in the Void, trying to cut something in this world.

Chen Lingxi's pupils suddenly contracted.

"The target locked by these thirty-four streams of Mysterious Qi is my Dao Platform!"

More accurately, it is the Dao Origin within his Dao Platform.

The feeling was extremely strange, as if an invisible pair of scissors was hanging in his Qi Sea, above his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform, waiting for the scissors to close and forcibly cut and shred the Dao Origin he had painstakingly cultivated!

He immediately understood.

"The terrifying aspect of this Dao -Primordial Severing Killing Art Divine Ability lies in its ability to directly attack a cultivator's Dao Foundation Realm source."

Once the Dao Origin is severed and the Dao Platform is seriously damaged, at best one's cultivation level will drop, and at worst one's Dao Foundation Realm will collapse, destroying hundreds of years of painstaking cultivation in an instant.

As Chen Lingxi pondered this, a strong sense of unease arose in his heart.

A fierce murderous intent burned in Yu Jiangwei's eyes.

The reason she hesitated to use this Divine Ability was not because she was stingy, but because although this Divine Ability was powerful, it had a major drawback.

Once unleashed, most of one's own Dao Origin will be drained by that Profound Qi-Splitting Mother, resulting in a significant loss of combat power in a short period of time.

If Chen Lingxi's Great Sage Treasure Form hadn't been so domineering, shattering her Blazing Twin-Confluence Burning Flame Grand Formation, she would never have used such a destructive move at this crucial moment in the struggle for the Cauldron Vessel.

But now, she couldn't care less about all that. Chen Lingxi had to die.

If this person doesn't die, Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree's absolutely no way she'll fall into her hands.

The Divine Ability Mystic Light of the thirty-four Primordial Severing Killing Art intertwined in the Void, enveloping Chen Lingxi from above.

Chen Lingxi immediately felt his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform tremble violently, and the Dao Origin within the Dao Platform began to surge and churn uncontrollably, causing the Thunder-Prison Profound Root to tremble wildly!

The Weiji Thunderlight wanted to retaliate, but as soon as they touched the aura of that Divine Ability power, they were silently "shorn" into fragments by a strange force and dissipated into the Qi Sea.

Chen Lingxi a deep breath, and the two bolts of lightning in her eyes shone brightest at that moment.

"Ordinary methods are no longer sufficient to withstand this Divine Ability."

He suddenly raised his head, and a thin crack appeared between his brows.

Within that narrow crevice, an extremely dazzling and domineering bolt of lightning was rapidly gathering.

In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a vertical eye!

Those eyes were entirely constructed from the purest Unfinished Thunder, with countless fine lightning patterns reflected deep within the pupils—the second profound Mystery Mechanism that had formed on his Thunder-Prison Profound Root!

[Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye]

Chen Lingxi his Profound Root and planted it in the Dao Platform, obtaining the Mystery Mechanism [Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool]!

Later, Chen Lingxi the Profound Root Transformation, thus obtaining the Mystery Mechanism [Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye]!

This was the first time he had activated this brand-new, Divine Ability Mystery Mechanism.

The moment the immortal eyes opened, a dazzling silver-white light shot out from them, shining directly towards the overwhelming Xuan Mysterious Qi Divine Ability.

Where that gaze passed, the profound Daoist aura of the Primordial Severing Killing Art was forcibly frozen!

At the same time, within Chen Lingxi's body, the immense Dao Origin within the Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform poured out like water bursting its banks, surging wildly into the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye to maintain the power of that pupil's light.

This Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye consumes a great deal of Dao Origin; even with his current foundation of Profound Root Transformation, he can only sustain it for a few breaths at most.

"A few breaths will suffice."

At the very instant that Yu Jiangwei's Primordial Severing Killing Art Divine Ability temporarily pinned down by the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye, the Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool beneath Chen Lingxi suddenly surged!

Within that Thunder Pool, countless Unfinished Thunder condensed into a sword light at Thunder Pool deepest point!

The sword light was only an inch long, as thin as a silkworm thread, but the thunderous Killing Power contained within it had been condensed to an extremely terrifying level.

As the sword light appeared, a sharp sword intent capable of destroying the heavens and the earth soared into the sky, cleaving a rift across the sky in the sea of clouds surrounding the Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool.

"The Thunder-Hiding Sword Light the Mystic Realm!"

Yu Jiangwei's pupils suddenly contracted.

She recognized the origin of the sword light at a glance.

[Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light]!

This sword light was the most powerful Killing Power technique of the Thunder Pool Jade Tiger Marquis in his youth. Legend has it that the Jade Tiger Marquis used this sword to kill countless powerful enemies of the same realm in the Nine Que Great Domain. Wherever the sword light passed, everything was destroyed.

"This Chen Lingxi has actually comprehended the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light!"

At that moment, the sword light leaped out from the Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool, initially just a single beam!

However, the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword hovered in front of the sword light on its own, and the remaining patterns of the hundred restrictions on the sword body lit up at the same time. An extremely pure sword True Intention surged out from the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword and merged with the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light.

At that moment, the sword light suddenly split, dividing into two, then four, then eight... and in an instant, it transformed into nineteen sword lights.

The nineteen sword lights roared out like nineteen thunder dragons breaking free of their shackles, sweeping towards the thirty-two Mysterious Qi in the Void.

Where the sword light passed, those Xuanqi Mysterious Qi Profound Qi-Splitting Mother, couldn't even last a breath before being shredded into dust by the domineering and unparalleled thunderous sword intent.

At that very moment, two dazzling silver-white beams of light shone once again from the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye between Chen Lingxi's brows!

The light in his eyes did not strike the remaining dark purple giant net, but split into two paths, one aimed at Yu Jiangwei's true form, and the other at the Dao Substitute Body on her right.

The light in his pupils was incredibly fast; almost at the same instant it shot out, it pierced through the distance of the Void and went straight into the space between the brows of the two Yu Jiangwei.

Yu Jiangwei.

She felt an extremely domineering and pure thunderous power surge wildly into her Consciousness Sea and into her Dao Platform along with that pupil light.

Then the Dao Origin within her Dao Platform solidified!

Yu Jiangwei Dao Origin stagnant!

In that brief pause, the Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool beneath Chen Lingxi surged to its limit.

Within that Thunder Pool, the Unfinished Thunder gathered wildly, condensing once again into a Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light.

He took a step forward, and the sword light moved with him as if it were his own arm, carrying a devastating thunderous Killing Power, and slashed fiercely at the two Yu Jiangwei.

Yu Jiangwei her teeth and forcefully broke free from the restraints of the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye. She and her Dao Substitute Body simultaneously raised their palms and made a virtual clasp together in front of them.

A thick, heavy barrier of mist suddenly appeared in front of her, attempting to block the sword strike.

But the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light was too domineering.

The sword light struck the mist barrier, and with a crisp cracking sound, the barrier crumbled inch by inch, turning into countless fragments of mist.

The sword light, its momentum undiminished, pierced through the barrier and the remaining protective Mystic Light surrounding Yu Jiangwei's true form, striking her fiercely.

Yu Jiangwei out a muffled groan as his true form was sent flying backward by the sword strike, and the powerful and vast Dao Origin fluctuations around him completely dissipated at that moment.

Her Dao Substitute Body also became blurry and transparent, eventually turning into a very faint mist that silently dissipated into the Void.

She lost!

Candleflame Star, a prodigy who was renowned even in the Nine-Towers Land, was defeated by Chen Lingxi!

Chen Lingxi his sword and stood amidst the lingering lightning, panting heavily.

His Dao Origin was almost completely exhausted. The Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye and the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light were activated one after another, almost draining his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform.

Yu Jiangwei's illusory true form did not immediately disappear.

She stood amidst the swirling mist, her outline blurred, yet her deep, abyss-like eyes still pierced through the fog, landing on Chen Lingxi. There was no resentment in her eyes, but rather a complex and poignant emotion.

She was silent for a moment, then slowly shook her head.

"To have cultivated to such a level in a place devoid of Qi, to be able to defeat my Yu Jiangwei..."

She spoke softly, her voice already extremely weak. "Fellow Daoist Chen, you are indeed extraordinary."

She paused, her eyes filled with even more emotion. "It's just a pity that you are a person from this Weiji Grotto-Heaven."

If you were born in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm and became a disciple of my Candleflame Star, given time, you might very well attain the Golden Grotto Dao.

But now... the Cave Heaven is about to perish. Even if you defeat me, what then?

She shook her head slightly, and the illusory image began to dissipate.

In the Void! Purple light flowed on the Immortal Ranking, and Chen Lingxi's name leaped from sixth to third place.

A more powerful and refined Immortal Ranking energy descended from the sky.

It transformed into a dazzling golden pillar of light, piercing straight into his crown chakra, flowing into his limbs and bones, and merging into the almost completely drained Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform.

The spiritual energy was so profound that it surged wildly within his Dao Platform.

"This Immortal Ranking is truly a timely help."

Chen Lingxi activated the Dragon-Stripping True-Transformation One-Qi True Art, refining some of the spiritual energy from the Immortal Ranking.

He immediately felt that the Dao Origin in Dao Platform platform had recovered by more than half.

At that moment, Chen Lingxi raised her head and looked towards the distant sky Heaven Gate Sea.

The Void there had long been turned into chaos, with spiritual light and Dao Origin colliding wildly, stirring up terrifying ripples that blotted out the sky.

Zhao Duanxuan stood with his hands behind his back under the blazing sun, his body radiating a profound and vast Dao Origin as deep and boundless as the ocean.

The great sun behind him spun, and a terrifying Dao Origin that could scorch everything suddenly erupted, evaporating the surrounding sea of clouds into nothingness and scalding the waters of the Heaven Gate Sea below into boiling turbulence.

Above his head hung a majestic mountain-shaped Spirit Artifact, its entire body a dark gold, covered with countless ancient runes, exuding a vast aura that suppressed all things.

The mountains crashed down with terrifying force, slamming fiercely towards Emperor Ying Xian of the Daye Emperor Daye.

Emperor Daye Ying Xian of the Daye Dynasty still stood with his hands behind his back on the golden chariot.

The grayish-white mist of Heavenly Decline Method surrounding him was churning wildly, eroding and consuming each other with the scorching light emanating from the great sun behind Zhao Duanxuan.

The mist from the Heavenly Decline Method touched the sunlight, and with a hissing sound, most of it was burned away. However, the mist continued to pour out of Emperor Daye's body, like a gluttonous beast that never knew when to stop, grinding away the power of the sun layer by layer.

At the same time, the Profound Root image of the Sundial Reversal divine Divine Ability behind him was slowly rotating, and a strange Daoist charm that could reverse time and flow backwards emanated from his Profound Root.

This made Emperor Daye even more powerful and his Dao Origin more abundant.

The two then engaged in a fierce battle in the air Heaven Gate Sea.

The great sun clashed with the Heavenly Decline Method, and the mountains and the Sundial Reversal stalemate. Each collision unleashed terrifying light capable of tearing the sky apart, and each clash shook the entire Heaven Gate Sea, causing it to surge and recoil.

That level of confrontation far exceeded the comprehension of ordinary Dao Foundation Early Stage Establishment cultivators.

"These two can be considered evenly matched."

Chen Lingxi withdrew her gaze, no longer looking at the earth-shattering battle.

He turned around, his gaze piercing through the surging seawater, looking towards the depths of the Heaven Gate Sea.

The Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree still stands quietly in that dark seabed, its pale golden radiance growing ever more dazzling. On its gnarled, dragon-like branches, bronze leaves tremble gently, and an extremely pure, ancient Daoist aura permeates the air.

"The Void Turbulence around the ancient tree has completely dissipated; the Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree has been fully revealed."

Chen Lingxi a deep breath, his body surrounded by lightning. The lightning-infused azure clouds beneath his feet silently propelled him towards the depths of the Heaven Gate Sea.

The seawater parted around him on its own.

He sank down, passing through the turbulent seawater stirred up by the battle between Zhao Duanxuan and Emperor Daye, through the dark and lightless deep sea, and finally landed in front of the ancient Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree.

"The Cauldron Vessel... is right before my eyes."

Chen Lingxi with turbulent emotions.

He reached out his hand, about to touch the complete Cauldron Vessel.

Just then!

The world is changing!

In the Void, a terrifying, overwhelming pressure manifested and enveloped Heaven Gate Sea.

Chen Lingxi couldn't help but look up, using the Qi Observation Technique to traverse the deep sea and gaze into the Void.

But then, out of nowhere, a human face appeared in the Void!

Chen Lingxi's eyes flickered...

"True Lord!"