After saying, "Forgive the offense," the bearded man decisively unleashed his powerful weapon. In an instant, the Treasure Wheel swept across the sky, wreathed in golden Buddhist light, and bore down on Li Wangxian.
As it moved, a terrifying fluctuation radiated from the Treasure Wheel. Wherever it passed, the void trembled and the heavens shook without end. It seemed less like a weapon than a miniature world descending to crush him.
The Treasure Wheel was undeniably terrifying beyond compare. No wonder the bearded man had dared to strike so decisively after witnessing Li Wangxian's frightening combat prowess. Clearly, he had great confidence in the Treasure Wheel in his hands.
Sure enough, even Li Wangxian's expression changed. He had sensed that this weapon was extraordinary, but he had never expected it to be this powerful. Could this truly be a King's Divine Weapon?
Even as these thoughts passed through his mind, Li Wangxian's hands did not slow. With sweeping motions of both hands, he manifested an astonishing mystical technique to meet the attack.
"Four Extremes Seal!"
This was an incomplete technique of astonishing origin that Father Li had obtained during his travels years ago. After years of deduction and refinement, its power rivaled some world-shaking sacred techniques. During their father-and-son duel two days earlier, Li Wangxian had exhausted every means at his disposal and pushed the supreme Sun Emperor Fist to its utmost limit before breaking free of its seal.
The mystical technique shook the heavens. The moment it appeared, trajectories of Dao laws linked the four extremes of heaven and earth, forming "domains" that surrounded the Treasure Wheel.
Then the Dao laws shifted again, linking the domains together and likewise forming a miniature world. Li Wangxian actually intended to turn the tables and seal this astonishingly powerful Treasure Wheel.
The bearded man's eyebrows twitched repeatedly. This Holy Son was far too terrifying. His comprehension of the Great Dao had to be extraordinarily profound for him to manifest a miniature world against an enemy at this cultivation realm. Even with a secret technique to aid him, how could he have performed it without grasping its mysteries himself?
Moreover, anyone possessing such an unparalleled sacred technique surely had an astonishing background.
While the bearded man's thoughts churned, the Treasure Wheel in his hands grew even more terrifying. As it rotated, layer upon layer of Buddhist light wound around it. After six turns, its power reached its peak and its supreme mystery erupted. In an instant, Buddhist light illuminated three thousand worlds. Heaven and earth could not bar its way, and the void became an open road. The Treasure Wheel effortlessly broke through the miniature world formed by the Four Extremes Seal and bore down on him with supreme divine power.
"Holy Son, we truly never intended to offend you. The compensation we offered earlier still stands, but this Treasure Wheel is vitally important to us. Please show us mercy."
Though the bearded man now felt victory was in his grasp, he did not dare court trouble in the slightest. He was now utterly certain that Li Wangxian had a powerful background. The guardian hidden in the shadows might simply be treating them as whetstones for the Holy Son by not intervening. But he believed that if he harbored any malicious intentions, his blood would likely splatter across the void immediately.
Even taking ten thousand steps back, he would not dare kill him even if no guardian were nearby. After all, this battle would be no secret. Many people had seen them give chase, and killing him would bring a heaven-shaking calamity upon them.
Thus, all the bearded man wanted now was to pay for peace. He had no other restless ambitions whatsoever.
Yet despite his apparent sincerity, Li Wangxian did not think he was "being sensible." Did he think he had already won?
"It is indeed a King's Divine Weapon, but something is wrong with its power. It must have been sealed." Watching the Treasure Wheel bear down on him with supreme divine power, Li Wangxian reached this conclusion.
Then Li Wangxian made a decision that seemed utterly foolish to the bearded man and his companions: he intended to confront a King's Divine Weapon with his bare hands.
Indeed, Li Wangxian had guessed correctly. This Treasure Wheel was a sealed King's Divine Weapon. "Dao" and "principle" had long since woven together within it, granting it boundless divine power. Even in its sealed state, it was far more terrifying than an ordinary Saint Lord Weapon.
But Li Wangxian wanted to test it. Nourished by the Yin and Yang Immortal Seed for years, his body had already undergone several transformations and was immensely powerful.
A year earlier, after his Emperor Blood underwent an ancestral reversion, his body had undergone another transformation, as though his bones had been remade and his flesh reborn. By now, it was peerlessly powerful. When he looked within himself, he could see golden light surging through his bones and internal organs. When he tried activating it, he felt that his body was indestructible, harder than divine iron, with endless strength churning within him. He suspected that he had cultivated the legendary Indestructible Golden Body.
A golden body was a description of a physical body brought to its utmost perfection, not something that referred exclusively to the Sacred Body. If he had to make a comparison, he felt that his current physique could rival a Sacred Body at the Four Extremes realm.
That was why he dared attempt to withstand this terrifying Treasure Wheel. Its power had been sealed, after all; it was not a true King Weapon.
Of course, even so, Li Wangxian did not dare underestimate the Treasure Wheel in the slightest. Besides activating his golden body, he also held supreme Sun Divine Laws within his palms and fingers, concealing the mysteries of the Sun Emperor Fist within his fists. With overwhelming force, he punched toward the descending Treasure Wheel.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The sound was nothing like that of a man swinging his fists against a treasured weapon. Instead, it resembled two peerless divine weapons clashing, sending out peal after peal of metallic resonance.
"He's catching a King Weapon with his bare hands...!" The somewhat dark-skinned young male cultivator who had earlier shouted at Li Wangxian for his arrogance now spoke in a trembling voice.
"That shouldn't be possible! Even if the King Weapon's laws have been sealed, the rare material of this Treasure Wheel alone should have shattered his flesh long ago! Could his body be harder than divine iron?"
The bearded man and his companions paled, trembling all over. They could clearly see golden light surging within Li Wangxian's body, giving it an indescribable metallic quality that made it seem utterly indestructible.
"What is that? Has he cultivated the legendary golden body?" The only female cultivator among the four spoke with something like a groan in her voice. She was badly frightened.
The bearded man's expression was grim as well. He sensed that things had gone wrong. If even his invincible treasured weapon was nearly useless against this man, what could he possibly fight him with?
He desperately wanted to flee, but he could not bear to abandon the Treasure Wheel. He still felt there was a thread of hope, for he saw that the repeated collisions had left Li Wangxian's arms bleeding, with thin trails of blood also flowing from the corners of his mouth. Clearly, the Treasure Wheel was not so easy to withstand.
Even though Li Wangxian's physique now nearly rivaled that of a mighty Saint Lord-level expert, and even though the Treasure Wheel could not fully unleash its supreme kingly laws, his current cultivation still made it difficult to withstand its attacks unscathed.
Rumble!
The Treasure Wheel spun, radiating boundless Buddhist light. Its attacks were like a sun crashing down, its power truly horrifying. Li Wangxian moved both palms together and changed his strategy. Rather than meeting it head-on, he used deft force to divert most of its power before knocking the Treasure Wheel away.
Then, in an instant, he swept his hands once more and unleashed the Four Extremes Seal, manifesting a miniature world that sealed the Treasure Wheel within.
"You can't hold it." The bearded man now sensed that something was wrong. The seal had failed earlier, and this Holy Son could not possibly be unaware of that, yet he had used it again. Suspicion and uncertainty filled his heart. This Holy Son could not be a fool who would waste his efforts on something useless.
Sure enough, his foreboding proved true a moment later. Li Wangxian unleashed a streak of divine light from his Bitter Sea, sending it onto the miniature world formed by the Four Extremes Seal.
It was a pagoda blazing with golden light. As the pagoda merged with the miniature world, the latter, which had been teetering on the verge of collapse under the Treasure Wheel's assault, instantly became as impregnable as a fortress of metal and boiling water. At the very least, the Treasure Wheel would not be breaking out anytime soon.
Then Li Wangxian looked at the bearded man and smiled.
"Oh no." The bearded man's heart pounded. He understood that, unable to permanently seal the Treasure Wheel, his opponent had turned his sights on him, its master.
He immediately tried to retreat at full speed, but activating the Treasure Wheel had consumed too much of his divine power. Now that he wanted to escape, he found himself hollowed out, and his expression changed drastically.
"It's over."
"It certainly is." Li Wangxian activated the Rainbow Transformation Technique he had grasped through his comprehension of the Sun Divine Laws. In an instant, he crossed the distance and appeared beside the bearded man. Then he raised a hand and subdued him, his combat strength greatly diminished by his excessive expenditure of divine power.
Immediately afterward, Li Wangxian sealed the Treasure Wheel, which had quieted without its master supplying divine power, to prevent any mishap that might cost him this King Weapon.
With the King Weapon in hand, Li Wangxian turned to the bearded man. "Now, then, it's time for a robbery."
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