Acquired

Even the surging Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, along with the chaotic thunderbolts formed by the explosions when the clear and turbid energies collided, all came to an eerie standstill at this moment.

At this moment, even Dao Xuan's movements slowed, as though waves of terrifying pressure were bearing down on him from every direction, pinning him in place.

"Buzz!!"

The next moment, Dao Xuan saw countless shadows emerge from every direction throughout the Dream World.

These shadows were projections cast by countless stalks of bamboo.

Seeing these shadows, Dao Xuan's heart skipped a beat, but he understood many things at once.

So Jieyin was also transformed from one of the Ten Spiritual Roots—the Bitter Bamboo. He had even used his own true body, countless Bitter Bamboos, to construct this Dream World and planted his true body within the dream?

Countless thoughts flashed through Dao Xuan's mind in an instant. He knew that Jieyin was now truly going all out.

After all, he had even exposed his true body.

The legends had always been vague about Jieyin's true body, and it had been hidden extremely deeply.

Perhaps no one besides the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa, who were also Saints, knew of it.

But now, in order to deal with Dao Xuan, Jieyin had exposed even this deepest secret.

Countless bamboo stalks towered into the sky, their branches and leaves seemingly swaying in the wind with rustling sounds.

Countless roots also formed the foundation of the Dream World. At this moment, Jieyin gave it his all, using these countless Bitter Bamboos to stabilize everything within the Dream World.

Then another Bitter Bamboo appeared, or rather, it was the ancestral root of all the countless Bitter Bamboos.

It was Jieyin's true body, the original Bitter Bamboo. As for the other Bitter Bamboos, they had all propagated from it and were akin to his avatars.

This Bitter Bamboo was his true body, and he had refined it into a magical treasure: a bamboo branch.

This bamboo branch was also immensely famous—the Six-Root Pure Bamboo.

"Buzz!"

The Six-Root Pure Bamboo appeared, blooming with boundless brilliant radiance as it swept down at Dao Xuan below.

With matters having reached this point, neither Jieyin nor Zhunti held anything back.

Jieyin in particular had unleashed a full-force strike. Combined with the suppression of the Dream World, even a Quasi-Saint expert one realm above him, at the middle stage of Quasi-Saint, would likely be suppressed and subdued, converted by billions of Bitter Bamboos into a puppet.

Yet Dao Xuan was the exception. At this moment, even though he knew that once he unleashed his full strength, the one in Zixiao Palace might very well notice something amiss—

With life and death at stake, Dao Xuan could no longer worry about that.

With a single thought, he drew upon the power of his Inner World and added it all to himself. At this moment, Dao Xuan's mana seemed to expand without limit.

His mana was so immense that his body could scarcely bear it. Cracks emerged all over him.

The Daoist robe on his body exploded apart in an instant!

Dao Xuan stood completely naked, revealing a body of powerful muscles. His frame abruptly grew much taller, making him resemble a small giant.

The Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus beneath his feet had remained completely unharmed despite the combined attacks of Jieyin and Zhunti.

Yet at this moment, Dao Xuan himself forced it downward beneath his feet! It could no longer support him.

"Roar!"

Dao Xuan suddenly let out a thunderous roar, its unimaginable might erupting in an instant.

The countless Bitter Bamboos exploded one after another. The entire Dream World shook violently once more.

The boundless chaos resembled a vast shattered mirror, splitting open with countless chasms.

Within those chasms, chaotic energy shattered apart, dividing into clear and turbid energies that transformed into Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, wreaking havoc everywhere.

Dao Xuan threw a punch that struck the Six-Root Pure Bamboo sweeping down from above. With a sharp crack, he sent the Six-Root Pure Bamboo flying far away.

Only then did Zhunti's Bodhi Golden Body finally react.

Of course, all of this had happened in no more than a flash of lightning. Only a few breaths had passed.

Things had already developed into a situation Zhunti had never anticipated.

His senior brother Jieyin had suddenly started fighting desperately. And Dao Xuan, as though he had swallowed some miraculous tonic, had suddenly become so terrifying!

Without a second thought, Zhunti immediately controlled his Bodhi Golden Body to retreat.

He wanted to flee.

But—

It was too late!

After Dao Xuan punched away the Six-Root Pure Bamboo, his huge hand continued forward and grabbed toward Zhunti's Bodhi Golden Body.

Zhunti roared furiously and desperately accelerated, but strangely, the faster he fled, the closer he came to Dao Xuan's hand. It was as though he were actively flying into Dao Xuan's palm.

Zhunti had long known from Jieyin that Dao Xuan was proficient in the Dao of space-time. That was not surprising, but the Bodhi Golden Body was incomparably important to him and absolutely could not fall into Dao Xuan's hands.

Thus, Zhunti desperately activated his Bodhi Golden Body. Its eighteen arms swung so quickly that they became streaks of light, launching an unknown number of attacks in an instant.

Yet all those countless attacks fell upon Dao Xuan's huge hand like clay oxen entering the sea, vanishing without even a sound.

The sight was incomparably eerie and terrifying.

They were both Quasi-Saints, so why was Dao Xuan so powerful?

"Explode!"

Just as Zhunti was falling into despair, Jieyin suddenly shouted and actually took the initiative to detonate the Dream World.

"Rumble!!"

The chaos, already on the verge of collapse, now exploded violently.

"Boom!"

Dao Xuan bore the brunt of the chaotic explosion's force. His body was blasted backward, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

At the same time, Jieyin and Zhunti both cried out miserably.

In order to deal with Dao Xuan, the two had both used the Dream-Proving Dao divine ability, layering their dreams together. Only then had they achieved such terrifying results, trapping Dao Xuan within the Dream World and making it difficult for him to escape.

Now that Jieyin had detonated the Dream World, the two naturally suffered backlash as well. Their injuries were even more severe than Dao Xuan's, and both repeatedly vomited blood.

Among them, Zhunti's cries were the most miserable. Though Dao Xuan had been injured by Jieyin's detonation of the Dream World—

At the final moment, he had still torn off a huge chunk from Zhunti's Bodhi Golden Body.

The reason Zhunti valued this Bodhi Golden Body so greatly was because it was Zhunti's true body.

It had to be said that these two martial brothers were truly cunning! Jieyin had turned his true body into billions of avatars and planted them within the dream, thereby supporting an entire world and greatly increasing the power of his Dream World.

Furthermore, the Six-Root Pure Bamboo had also been refined from his true body! It was a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

As for Zhunti, he openly possessed the Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree, his treasure for proving Dao, refined from a portion of his true body.

But who could have imagined that he had refined another portion of his true body as well?

He had refined it into the Bodhi Golden Body.

One in the open, one in the shadows! He had truly pushed the use of his true body to the utmost.

"Hahaha!"

Dao Xuan laughed loudly as he looked at the huge piece of Bodhi Golden Body he had torn off. Though he had suffered some injuries, the purpose of this trip had already been achieved.

Dao Xuan directly stored this piece of the Bodhi Golden Body within his Inner World.