It had to be said that Li Wangxian truly seemed born to cultivate. Not only was he naturally close to the Dao, his body in harmony with it, but his understanding of the Great Dao was beyond words. Any technique placed in his hands could be learned at once and mastered just as quickly.
After learning the Four Extremes Seal from Father Li, he had practiced it for only a day or two before wielding it with consummate skill. Now, he had even refined and elevated the technique, evolving heaven and earth within a mere handspan, then creating and destroying a world with a single thought.
Granted, the miniature world he manifested possessed only the semblance of one. He had merely used the profound mysteries of the Four Extremes to support a stretch of void and link it into a domain. But the profundity of creating and destroying a world within a handspan was already terrifying beyond compare, rivaling the methods of a Great Ability.
Since ancient times, who had ever accomplished such a feat in the Four Extremes Realm?
Among the Great Emperors in their youth, aside from Wushi, Ruthless, and a handful of others, he could think of no one as heaven-defying as himself.
For such a method to appear at this realm was simply too shocking. Thus, when a venerable expert from a great sect glimpsed something of its workings, he was so stunned that he lost control and roared aloud.
After that expert's words rang out, everyone present was likewise stunned into silence.
Outside the Ninefold Thunder Domain, it was now all but quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
"Aaaah! I'll kill you!"
But suddenly, Mo Tianxing let out a howl like a wounded celestial wolf. He had actually survived that peerless strike. His eyes were now bloodshot as he fixed Li Wangxian with a demonic stare and unleashed a heaven-shaking roar.
"You used a Forbidden Artifact to slaughter so many disciples of my Star Sect! Even ten thousand deaths couldn't quench my hatred! I'll rip out your soul and refine it for a thousand years! Aaaah!"
In his fury, Mo Tianxing no longer cared what was happening around him. All he wanted was to kill Li Wangxian, wash away the humiliation he had suffered, and avenge his fellow disciples.
Of course, fury did not mean he had completely lost his reason. To prevent Li Wangxian from overpowering him with a Forbidden Artifact, he brought out the Star Sect Treasure to attack.
It was an exquisite little jade disk. As it rose into the air, it resembled a full moon on the horizon, scattering hundreds of millions of strands of pure radiance. Moonlight suffused heaven and earth, making the scene dazzling and beautiful.
But when Li Wangxian tried sending out a Spirit Treasure to meet a swath of moonlight, something horrifying happened. In an instant, that Spiritually Attuned Treasure was silently crushed into dust.
"A King Weapon. An intact King Weapon."
Li Wangxian recognized it as a terrifying King Weapon that he could not meet head-on. Otherwise, even his Golden Body would be crushed into dust. There would be no exception.
After all, his cultivation was still too low for him to withstand the power of a King Weapon's laws. But he did not need to withstand it himself.
Whoosh!
Without a sound, a Treasure Wheel rose from his Bitter Sea. Golden Buddhist light blossomed across its surface as it ascended like a miniature sun, shooting ten thousand golden rays toward the moonlight shed by the jade disk. The wheel itself also rushed high into the sky and collided fiercely with the disk.
For a time, the extraordinary sight of sun and moon appearing together took shape. Silver moonlight and golden Buddhist light contended silently, their radiance continually vanishing and springing anew, dazzling and beautiful to the extreme.
But everyone knew that deadly killing intent lay beneath that beauty. Never mind Four Extremes cultivators-even Dragon Transformation or Immortal Platform cultivators without a powerful treasure to protect them would shed blood, or even die with bitter regret.
"A sealed King Weapon thinks it can contend with my sect's mighty treasure?" Mo Tianxing shouted, once again pouring divine power into the jade disk. In an instant, its radiance blazed. It briefly knocked the Treasure Wheel aside and bore down on Li Wangxian like a silver moon falling from beyond the nine heavens.
"This is bad. The Treasure Wheel is a sealed King Weapon, and its power falls short. This young man is going to lose."
Everyone was startled. Would this rare young prodigy meet his end before his peerless brilliance could truly bloom, simply because his treasure was inferior?
If so, it would truly be an enormous pity.
"Weapons still depend on the people wielding them."
Li Wangxian showed no fear. With another flick of his right sleeve, he shattered a stretch of void, briefly blocking the jade disk. Then he secretly used the Sun Divine Laws to drive his Rainbow Transformation Speed, crossing more than ten li in an instant. By the time the jade disk bore down again, the displaced Treasure Wheel had returned to entangle it in fierce combat.
This time, watching closely, everyone finally saw clearly the peerless method Li Wangxian had used.
"What astonishing brilliance! What peerless talent! He actually evolved heaven and earth within the handspan of his sleeve, then shattered the heavens and destroyed the earth to unleash a world-ending strike."
"Judging by his divine power, he has only just entered the Four Extremes Realm, hasn't he? Yet he's already this terrifying. Here is another peerless prodigy with a chance to tread the Emperor Road!"
Everyone on the battlefield was shaken to the core. To display such a method at this realm left no room to doubt the young man's talent and brilliance. Many even felt, dimly, as though they were witnessing a young Great Emperor rise.
That thought left many of those who recovered their senses utterly horrified.
"Are we truly going to witness the rise of a young Great Emperor today?"
They trembled. But if they had known that Li Wangxian's actual cultivation was only at the Dao Palace Fifth Heaven, they would likely have been shocked into incoherence, unable to utter a word. His origin had merely become incomparably robust after undergoing ancestral reversion through Emperor Blood, granting him astonishing divine power on par with the Four Extremes Realm. His innate harmony with the Dao also allowed him to wield the Great Dao like a Four Extremes cultivator, leading them to mistake him for one.
Whoosh!
On the battlefield, sun and moon appeared together. Under their respective owners' control, the clash between the two supreme treasures grew ever fiercer. Flecks of golden Buddhist light and silver moonlight splashed out from time to time, creating terrifying scenes. Mountains collapsed one after another, and great fissures tore through the land.
"A sealed King Weapon dares challenge my sect's supreme treasure again and again? I'll shatter you first!"
After several attempts to kill Li Wangxian were blocked by the Treasure Wheel, Mo Tianxing flew into a rage. He poured out boundless divine power, making the jade disk release hundreds of millions of strands of moonlight that transformed into crescent-shaped blades and shot outward. The disk itself spun once, then slashed down at the Treasure Wheel like a curved saber.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The Treasure Wheel and jade disk collided repeatedly in the sky. The crescents and golden Buddhist light they scattered plowed the earth over and over, battering the land until it sank more than a dozen zhang.
Throughout this exchange, Li Wangxian repeatedly used Rainbow Transformation Speed to evade the crescents slashing down from the jade disk. After all, the Treasure Wheel remained sealed and was clearly at a disadvantage. It could still resist without shattering only because its opponent's cultivation was not high, and because the wheel was made of a rare purple gold that was difficult to destroy.
But if the battle continued, the outcome would be uncertain. Li Wangxian could clearly see that the Treasure Wheel's radiance had already dimmed considerably. If this dragged on, this precious treasure might truly be ruined.
That should do. At this distance, I can take him down before the jade disk returns to defend him.
Having deliberately drawn closer, Li Wangxian was now not far from Mo Tianxing. He activated Rainbow Transformation Speed, covering more than ten li in an instant and appearing before him. Raising his hand, he unleashed the astounding sacred art of the Four Extremes Seal, birthing a miniature world between his palm and fingers and pressing it down.
"No."
Mo Tianxing was horrified. Though his fury towered to the heavens, their earlier exchanges had already taught him how powerful his opponent was. He could not contend with him; only by relying on the King Weapon did he have any chance of victory. But now his opponent was right before him, and there was nowhere to escape. He could only fight with all his might.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Mo Tianxing struggled desperately, unleashing all manner of the Star Sect's supreme arts. A Star River Divine Sword shone with dazzling brilliance, countless great stars revolved into formations, and stellar power surged like a sea...
Yet the result left everyone horrified. Those great hands descended as though blotting out the heavens, annihilating every divine ability and sealing him slowly but inexorably.
"That young man sealed Mo Tianxing with a single raised hand!" Outside the battlefield, everyone cried out in astonishment.
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