As the saying went, when words did not meet the ear, half a sentence was too much. The moment Mu Jizi said this, the atmosphere turned taut as drawn bows!
Within the chaotic currents, torrents of every major elemental force surged up. Mu Jizi, Zhun Ti, and Jieyin stood motionless amid Chaos, utterly unconcerned by the wildly rushing currents!
No one knew how long passed. Only when Xihe, King Father of the East, and the others began fighting did Mu Jizi finally move. His body flashed, like the incarnation of the supreme principles of the Heavenly Dao, elusive and unpredictable. In less than a ten-thousandth of an instant, he thrust a finger at Zhun Ti!
That finger carried boundless momentum, like an aurora gathered in full splendor, as though it could pierce heaven and earth. Its tyrannical force stabbed into Chaos like a shark swimming through the sea; wherever it passed, the chaotic currents were split apart!
With this finger, Mu Jizi unleashed the power of his entire life. Waves of vast mana spread outward, mingled with a trace of indescribable force. It was like when Mu Jizi had crossed the Transformation Tribulation, when his true body had pointed straight at the starry sky and stabbed forth—the unstoppable momentum was truly terrifying beyond measure!
The finger locked onto Zhun Ti. He immediately felt an intense threat descend upon his heart, and his expression changed at once. Then he roared, "Senior Brother, help me quickly! This fellow is exceedingly difficult to deal with!"
Even as he shouted, he moved. The Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree in his hand swept fiercely toward Mu Jizi's incoming finger. The Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree instantly expanded without limit, like a prison vault blocking Mu Jizi's strike!
Seeing this, Mu Jizi did not care in the slightest. Although Zhun Ti's true-body Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree had already been refined by him, it was still far inferior to the later Dharma artifact of enlightenment that had been infused with endless merit!
Mu Jizi's finger contained a hint of his true body's essence. Both of them were Innate spirits of grass and wood, and Mu Jizi's cultivation at present was a full minor realm above Zhun Ti's. Though such a minor realm might not seem like much, when truly brought into play, there was an unbridgeable chasm between them!
As the finger stabbed out, it truly crushed everything in its path. Faced with this strike, the enlarged true body of the Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree could not hold it back for even an instant. Its branches met Mu Jizi's finger and shattered inch by inch, turning into wood chips before the chaotic currents churned them into ash!
"You scoundrel!" Zhun Ti flew into a rage at once. He hurriedly recalled the damaged Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree, then saw the finger continuing toward him. Without time to curse further, he leaped aside and dodged!
But Mu Jizi's finger had already locked onto him with its momentum. The moment he dodged, his aura weakened, and Mu Jizi instantly seized the opening, just as he was about to beat a dog that had fallen into the water!
A streak of golden light shot out from behind Zhun Ti!
The golden light was swift as lightning. Looking closely, a faintly trembling little golden banner flashed within it! Was this not the First-rate Innate Spirit Treasure that had been born alongside Jieyin—the Jieyin Divine Banner?
Faced with such a spirit treasure, a trace of gravity appeared on Mu Jizi's face. If breaking Zhun Ti's Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree just now had relied on the advantage of both being Innate spirits of grass and wood, as well as the difference in their cultivation, then using his true body to resist a genuine spirit treasure now left him at a clear disadvantage!
At this moment, Mu Jizi's momentum surged onward without retreat. With the sudden golden light upon him, he had no way to fall back and could not evade even if he wanted to! He could only grit his teeth and point out with a strike!
"Boom!"
An explosion erupted within Chaos, as though heaven and earth had been split apart. Time and space themselves seemed to freeze at this instant! The violent blast sent the chaotic currents scattering in all directions!
The four elemental forces of earth, wind, water, and fire; the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; the chaotic currents—everything vanished completely within that explosion!
After the thunderous blast, waves of mana surged through Chaos like ripples, sweeping outward. The two battles in the distance no longer dared continue in the face of such ripples. Each of them hastily unleashed great magic to protect themselves, lest a moment of carelessness allow the aftershocks of the clash to break through their defenses!
After the ripples passed, all matter within ten thousand miles had been wiped away, as though the area had become a vacuum!
At this moment, within that vacuum, the Jieyin Divine Banner had already returned to Jieyin's hand, leaving Mu Jizi alone suspended in the air!
His Daoist robe was somewhat damaged, his hair slightly disheveled, and the intense pain made his right hand tremble faintly!
Looking at Jieyin in the distance, his face remained as bitter and sorrowful as ever, yet threads of blood actually flowed from the corner of his mouth. It seemed that the collision just now had injured the trace of True Spirit Jieyin had left within the Jieyin Divine Banner!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~~~"
Chaotic currents and the elemental forces of the Four Elements and Five Elements swarmed toward the vacuum. In merely an instant, the vacuum formed by the collision between the two was filled with endless currents!
Jieyin looked toward Mu Jizi, who stood in the distance like a god. Bitterness filled his heart. Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, he sincerely praised, "Fellow Daoist, what immense magical power! With a strike of your true body, you not only destroyed Junior Brother Zhun Ti's Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree, but also repelled my Jieyin Divine Banner and scattered the trace of True Spirit I had left within it!"
"Hmph!" Mu Jizi snorted coldly. "Fellow Daoist, you are not bad either. The depth of your schemes is something I have rarely seen in my life. It would have been one thing for you martial brothers to fight me together, but you even stood to one side and launched a sneak attack. You truly have no shame!"
Mu Jizi's face darkened, fury blazing within him. From the beginning, he had not used his innate divine ability. Though he had long known that these two from the Western Realm were shameless to the extreme, he had never expected that even with such an advantage, they would still commit such a disgraceful act!
At this moment, he could still feel a searing pain coming from his hand! Caught off guard, he had suffered no small injury, and this made his anger burn all the fiercer!
"Then do not blame me for showing no mercy!" With a thought, Mu Jizi spoke coldly!
At these words, Jieyin's already bitter face became even more bitter. In the scene just now, Zhun Ti had leaped away while he had attacked from behind with a treasure. There was no need to mention the suspicion of a sneak attack!
He had originally only intended to teach Mu Jizi a lesson, to make him retreat in the face of difficulty. He had never intended to fight to the death. After all, he and Zhun Ti had merely promised Red Cloud that they would restrain Mu Jizi and prevent him from having any chance to assist Kunpeng and the others!
Who could have expected Mu Jizi's strength to be so formidable? Their combined move had not only failed to grievously injure Mu Jizi, but had instead stirred up his ferocity. The bitterness and helplessness within could not be put into words for outsiders!
The atmosphere grew tense once more. As Mu Jizi used mana to nourish his somewhat numb right arm, his divine sense swept the surroundings. Yet he discovered that, during that moment of inattention, he had lost sight of Kunpeng, Xihe, Yuehua, and the others!
But he did not care much. Yuehua and Fairy Xihe had his own Eastern Realm—Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Flag—protecting them, so presumably they had nothing to fear from King Father of the East and Queen Mother of the West! As for Kunpeng, Mu Jizi had even less reason to worry. In terms of strength, fighting Zhen Yuanzi and Red Cloud, two great divinities, might be somewhat difficult, but preserving his life under their hands would be simplicity itself! The most urgent matter now was still his own side!
Zhunti and Jieyin would become Saints in later ages. Their magical power naturally needed no questioning, and he had also given his supreme defensive treasure to someone else. Even if he used his innate divine ability, he had no confidence that he could defeat the two of them!
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