The Immortal Clan's Dao Foundation Late Stage

Smoke and dust settled at the foot of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds.

Bai Qieyun plummeted from a height of a hundred feet, crashing into a cluster of rocks in the forest, shattering a boulder into pieces. A thin layer of night dew covered the rocks, which was then lifted up by a gust of air that swept down from mid-air, turning into countless tiny water droplets that rustled in the night wind.

The sword intent had already followed the thin mark on his chest and entered his meridians, stirring up a ball of thunderous intent within his Dao Platform, causing his Dao Origin to stagnate!

He lay on his back among the pile of rubble, staring at the night sky above him, which was being churned up by the shockwaves sweeping in from the east, his eyes still filled with disbelief!

Both are at the Dao Foundation Middle Stage!

Bai Qieyun cultivated two great Divine Ability: Thousand Clouds Converge and Jade Boat Suppresses the Pass. He was one of the most outstanding figures in the Yutai Bai Family in this generation. He had traveled through the Nine Palaces for decades and had fought countless battles with cultivators of the same realm.

Few defeats!

But today, that mysterious man defeated him with a single sword strike!

And in the darkness of night, those Divine Sense all fell silent.

In the far distance, Lin Suri in the same spot.

Ever since Chen Lingxi set off, he had been gazing at the western sky using the method of Qi Observation.

Even though he had seen Chen Lingxi perform his deeds in the Weiji Grotto-Heaven and witnessed him using his Ninth Floor of Qi Circulation Qi Circulation Tenth Floor cultivator, the way he used this Sword-Ray today was completely different from back then.

Back then, Chen Lingxi's swordplay was as powerful as a flowing river, sweeping across thousands of miles.

But today, that single Sword-Ray absorbed all the thousand sword rainbows into one, confining that Killing Power, which was enough to span the entire sky, within a mere three feet.

It can be said that he controlled it with ease.

Brother Chen Dao...

"It has become so powerful."

He couldn't help but marvel inwardly.

When the two first met in the Weiji Grotto-Heaven, Chen Lingxi needed to unleash all her inner strength before she could make a pact with him.

Later, the two fought side by side in the Ancestral Mountain. In that battle, Chen Lingxi used the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon, the Purple True Treasure Aura, Twelve Heavenly Drum Peals. At that time, he felt that this boy was exceptionally talented and would achieve great things in the future.

But that phrase from back then, "He will achieve great things in the future," remains just that—a phrase for the future.

More than ten years is not a long time.

For cultivators in this Great Xuanzhuo Realm who often go into seclusion for a hundred years, a decade or so is nothing more than a blink of an eye.

However, Chen Lingxi actually grew to the point of being able to kill a Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivator with a single sword strike in just over ten years.

How could he not be amazed?

"Such formidable strength, could it be that Brother Chen has truly managed to probe even a fraction of it?"

He thought to himself, still looking at Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds in the distance.

On Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds!

Chen Lingxi ascended on the clouds and landed on a cliff about a thousand feet above the stone platform at the summit.

Below the cliff face lies a mountain ridge covered with layers of reddish-brown rocks!

On the cliff face, a stone platform stands at the highest point, and a person sits in the center of the platform.

The man sat cross-legged, dressed in white robes with few decorations, except for a wisp of cloud pattern embroidered on the cuffs.

He appeared to be about thirty years old, with a fair complexion and no beard. His eyebrows were very light, and his eyes were slightly long at the corners. At this moment, his eyes were slightly closed, and not a trace of his aura was leaking out. He was like a jade statue enshrined on a stone platform.

Then, the person on the stone platform opened their eyes.

In an instant, the entire Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds seemed to tremble!

From the stone platform, bolts of lightning exploded around the white-robed man's body, then the lightning intensified, growing to tens of feet in size, instantly illuminating the entire night sky of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds as if it were daytime.

A thunderous sound followed, shaking the heavens and the earth!

Where the thunder resounded, the Divine Sense the Dao Foundation Realm cultivators, which had been faintly circulating in the night sky, dissipated like dust blown away by the wind.

Chen Lingxi stood on the cliff face.

The thunderous aura pressed down on him, exuding murderous intent intent!

"Dao Foundation Late Stage, indeed powerful!"

Chen Lingxi stood still, looking up at the powerful figure in the distance.

On the stone platform, the man in white had stood up. Bright golden lightning slowly flowed around him, making his white clothes appear translucent.

Then...

This Dao Foundation Late Stage Establishment cultivator remained silent, simply raising his hand!

The hand was raised into the air, and a bright golden lightning flashed on the fingertip, within which it seemed to reflect thousands of mountains and peaks.

Chen Lingxi stood in place, but his Divine Sense had already communicated with the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade.

The Lingbi Stone shone brightly, and all directions were agitated!

Chen Lingxi concentrated his Dao Origin throughout his body, as if someone had thrown a celestial river down from his Dao Platform, pouring it into his limbs, meridians, acupoints, skin, flesh, and fascia from the depths of the Dao Platform!

What was originally just a dense and solid Dao Origin has now transformed into an overwhelming and majestic force, elevating all the energy around him!

At this moment, Chen Lingxi no longer held back.

He unleashed all his hidden potential.

The illusory image of a Azure-Gold True Dragon within the Inner Divine Palace suddenly opened its dragon eyes, and a powerful energy emanated from the depths of the palace, flowing through the meridians to the skin, fascia, and bones of his entire body.

A faint, dragon-spine-like bone line rose from his shoulders and back, his muscles bulging, stretching his Dark Daoist Robe from the inside out;

As he opened his mouth, a low rumble emanated from his chest and abdomen, as if a giant creature was slowly turning over underground.

The True Edict of Audience with the Dao, Palace-Building Realm to reveal the Mystery Mechanism of the Dragon Transformation.

At the same time, the branches and leaves of the Thunder-Prison Profound Root deep within his Dao Platform surged, and the Great Prison Furnace rose from the deepest part of the Thunder Prison. The furnace mouth opened wide, and ten thousand feet of lightning surged out from the furnace, dyeing the night on this crimson cliff wall entirely gold.

A crack appeared between his brows, and a vertical pupil slowly opened from that crack, its pupil filled with a solid, crystalline Weiji Thunderlight.

Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye!

The moment it opened its eyes, the air within a radius of several hundred feet suddenly froze, as if an eye was watching over this world from the heavens above, determined to fix everything within it.

Beneath his feet, the Thunder-Prison Heaven unfolded, forming a pale golden sea of thunder within a radius of several hundred feet Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool rose from the deepest part of the sea of thunder, with the Immortal-Calamity Tribulation-Grinding Aura surging endlessly within the pool, sparking countless bolts of lightning with each friction!

He stood amidst this sea of lightning, beneath the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye.

Three hundred feet away, Bai Huan amidst a burst of bright golden lightning, with a deserted crimson rock face separating the two.

The spiritual lightning and the Weiji Thunderlight reflected each other from afar, turning that rock face half bright gold and half pale gold, converging precisely in the center.

Bai Huan's eyes flickered slightly, and he finally spoke.

"You also repair lightning."

"Alright!"

Bai Huan took a step forward after finishing his sentence.

With one step, the crimson rock beneath his feet split open like a spiderweb, while golden lightning surged from his body, rising layer upon layer, and in an instant, it condensed into a phantom of a thunder mountain over a hundred feet tall, pressing straight down on Chen Lingxi from the sky.

Great Divine Ability, Spirit Thunder Ray Mountain.

There was no physical form on Thunder Mountain; it was entirely composed of countless strands of bright golden spiritual lightning that intertwined, linked, and compressed each other. Once they connected, it was as if a hundred-foot-tall mountain had fallen from the sky, crushing everything in its path.

Chen Lingxi stood amidst that sea of lightning, looking up.

When the thunderous mountain crashed down, the spiritual thunder and the sea of thunder collided, and the two bolts of lightning merged into one. The light that was generated in that instant was almost blinding, and the entire night of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds was completely engulfed by that light.

Chen Lingxi's mind stirred.

The Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool beneath his feet rose from the sea of thunder, and all the Immortal-Calamity Tribulation-Grinding Aura in the pool flowed into the Void-Return Sword Tower behind him.

A six-story glazed sword tower appeared beside him, its six eaves lighting up simultaneously. The immortal lightning energy that had been completely absorbed by the Thunder Pool poured out from the sword tower, like hundreds of pale golden lightning threads falling from the sky, all converging into the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword in front of him.

He unleashed a slash with his sword.

Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light!

Sword rainbows burst forth from the sword's edge, multiplying from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, with countless cyan-gold sword rainbows traversing the sky, directly confronting the Spirit Thunder Ray Mountain that descended from the heavens.

Sword Rainbow and Thunder Mountain collided violently in mid-air.

Then, both the sword rainbow and the thunder mountain shattered.

The moment the light faded, Bai Huan had already taken his second step.

He looked up.

Beneath his brows, his pupils suddenly lit up, and two beams of blazing white light emerged from them. Wherever the light passed, the Void twisted and the energy became chaotic. The Thunder Prison Shield that originally surrounded Chen Lingxi was actually cleaved open by the two beams of light.

Great Divine Ability, Great Radiant Eye!

Under this eye, all techniques, formations, and the trajectory of all qi are revealed. If one cultivates to a high level, one can even directly penetrate the barriers of an opponent's Divine Ability abilities!

Chen Lingxi a slight chill run down her spine when Bai Huan glanced at her.

The Void-Return Sword Tower behind him sank, and then he flipped his hand, Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light on the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword spewed out again, condensing into a three-foot-long azure-gold Sword-Ray.

The Sword-Ray pierced through, striking directly into Bai Huan's golden lightning.

Bai Huan did not dodge, but instead tossed it out.

This is a thin needle about three inches long, with a bluish-white color throughout. A very thin layer of spiritual light flows over it. It is his famous Law Treasure, which he refined in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, and is called the Radiant Qi Needle.

The fine needle left his hand, neither dispersing nor expanding, but shooting out from its original position, directly meeting Chen Lingxi's three-foot-long Sword-Ray.

The needle touched the Sword-Ray's edge.

Just a "ding"!

Then the Sword-Ray disintegrated from the center, turning into a shower of azure-gold fragments that scattered into the sea of lightning.

Chen Lingxi's pupils constricted slightly.

"The Dao Origin of this Dao Foundation Late Stage Establishment cultivator has actually reached such a level?"

The Killing Power of his sword strike had already been condensed to its limit, but the weight of the Dao Origin on the Radiant Qi Needle was like a deep and wide river blocking the way before that sword strike. No matter how sharp it was, it was shattered in one blow!

At this moment, Bai Huan did not hesitate in the slightest!

The golden lightning around him suddenly vanished, turning his entire body into a blazing white light. Then, he raised his hands high and gestured towards the sky.

The thunderclouds that had originally only covered Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds now surged out from the sky.

The clouds swirled and rolled, instantly turning the entire sky above the secret realm a crimson gold.

Deep within the crimson-gold clouds, a ray of light emerged, then dissipated, transforming into a massive magic array a thousand feet in diameter, slowly grinding down from the heavens.

Great Divine Ability, Heaven of Refining All!

Beneath that vast array of Divine Ability powers, the vital energy was extinguished inch by inch. All techniques, all formations, and all the workings of vital energy were "refined" beneath that array!

It's as if someone has transformed the entire sky into a giant furnace, intending to press down the lid from above and refine everything inside.

Chen Lingxi tilted her head back.

He gazed at the enormous magic array that slowly descended from a height of a thousand feet, and once again felt the terrifying power of this Dao Foundation Late Stage.

He hurriedly circulated his Dao Origin, with his index finger pointing to the Heavenward Realm, and a wisp of pattern flowing from the depths of his Dao Platform at the fingertip.

Great Divine Ability Heavenly-Law Edict!

"The energy here is not suitable for the furnace."

"This place Void; it cannot be crushed or overturned."

The mysterious light of the decree emanated from his fingertips, bypassed the edge of the thousand-foot-long magic array, and landed precisely in the Void within a hundred feet of him.

The thousand-foot-long magic array continued to slowly press down from the sky.

However, starting from a point a hundred feet above Chen Lingxi's head, a slit opened up in the Void that had been crushed by the magic array.

Within that line, the Void seemed to have been cleaved apart; the crushing force of the magic array remained, but the Void no longer accepted it.

Bai Huan gazed at that sliver of light, his brows twitching slightly before he flicked his sleeve!

A flag flies out!

The flag is only about two feet long and is entirely white. It is embroidered with an extremely intricate pattern using fine five-colored threads. The five colors—red, blue, yellow, white, and black—flow layer upon layer across the flag surface, and with each inch of rotation, five different rays of light shine through the flag surface.

Law Treasure, the Five-Light Great Banner.

Bai Huan tossed the flag into the air.

The flag swelled in the wind, growing to a height of about ten feet in an instant, and was planted on the summit of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds!

Five beams of light burst forth from the flag, like five rainbows descending from the sky, enveloping the entire world of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds from all directions.

Where the red light shines, fire arises; where the blue light shines, wind and wood surge; where the yellow light shines, earth energy sinks; where the white light shines, metal energy becomes sharp; where the black light shines, water vapor permeates.

The five elements pressed in from all directions, and the Thunder-Prison Heaven surrounding Chen Lingxi suddenly sank under this pressure.

Bai Huan snapped his fingers again!

Another jade seal flew out!

It was only about the size of a fist, and its entire body was amber in color. Engraved on it was an ancient beast with its mouth wide open. The beast's mouth was empty, yet a faint suction force emanated from it.

Law Treasure, the Amber Seal!

Bai Huan tossed the seal into the Void. As soon as the seal left his hand, it expanded, instantly transforming into a size of several zhang in diameter. It hung in the sky with the beast's mouth facing down, and a suction force emanating from it fell entirely onto Chen Lingxi's Dao Origin on the Washing Dao Platform.

Chen Lingxi was startled.

He clearly felt that the Dao Origin within his Dao Platform was being pulled outwards by that suction force, as if a very long bamboo pipe was inserted into the Dao Platform, drawing it out little by little from within the Dao Platform!

Meanwhile, Bai Huan did not stop.

With a flick of the wrist, a Divine Ability erupted!

Bai Family's Divine Ability, Jade Platform Seal!

The Void trembled, and from it a heavy, mountain-like force pressed down directly onto the Void where Chen Lingxi stood.

Chen Lingxi was startled.

Bai Huan raised his hand again, and separated a wisp of bluish-white spiritual light from the bright golden lightning around him. After leaving his body, the spiritual light transformed into a beam of light and shot straight toward Chen Lingxi's brow.

Bai Family's Divine Ability, Upper Spirit Mystic Light!

Bai Huan's murderous intent intent was endless. He took out a small array plate from his sleeve and threw it into the Void.

Bai Family's Divine Ability, the Origin-Expelling Formation!

As soon as the array disc left his hand, it transformed into an array several tens of feet in diameter. From within that array, an invisible force field emerged, suppressing the circulation of all Dao Origin within it.

Chen Lingxi's Dao Origin was delayed!

"This Dao Foundation Late Stage Establishment cultivator from the Immortal Clan is indeed different from ordinary cultivators!"

He took a deep breath, and reversed the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword in his hand. A Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light surged forth once more, cleaving a three-foot-long Void rift, shattering all the Law Treasure, Divine Ability murderous intent, and killing intent within!

Using the essence drawn from his Inner Divine Palace, Chen Lingxi lifted himself up and instantly left the Void that was covered by layers of the five elements and the three Law Treasure.

Then he vanished, moving at an incredible speed.

Bai Huan frowned.

This person is strange; he came with such a fierce aura, but before they've even properly exchanged blows, he's already leaving?

"Even in this secret realm, I'm not afraid you'll run away."

He sneered, "I'll kill you after I've fully consolidated my cultivation and am no longer afraid of being surrounded!"

He didn't chase after them; the bright golden lightning around him slowly subsided.

After fleeing for a long time, Chen Lingxi finally landed in a mountain hollow.

The immense Dao Origin surrounding him, which originated from the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, was slowly receding, its energy returning entirely to the Dao Platform. The Thunder-Prison Heaven dissipated from his body, and the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye slowly closed from between his brows.

Then he slowly raised his head, looked in the direction of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

"This Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator isn't as strong as I imagined."

"Whether it's the three great Divine Ability, the Bai Family's Divine Ability, or the three Law Treasure... none of them are indestructible."

He raised his hand, and the Dao-Seizing Fruit slowly emerged from his palm.

The Killing Power surging on that body resonated remotely with the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation in his Consciousness Sea.

"Once I have truly perfected this Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation..."

"And then there's this one Dao-Seizing Fruit."

"Enough to kill him."