"Prefatory note": As usual, to keep the fight flowing smoothly, there will be consecutive updates tonight. This is the first installment; I am still writing the second and expect to post it around midnight. I suggest waiting to read both together. Even so, I probably will not finish the entire fight. Whether there is another update tomorrow will depend on my health; I will let everyone know in advance. The main text follows.
The sword qi was like mountain haze, like mist, so light it seemed a breath of wind would scatter it. Yet this thin layer had woven a small world, imprisoning the blood sea within.
In essence, this was the Innate Five Elements Sword Formation. However, during his immortal ascension tribulation, the Daoist had gained fresh insights into the creative workings of the five elements. Only by incorporating them into this sword formation could he make the five elements evolve into a world of acquired existence within such a short time, sealing off a stretch of space completely.
During their first battle in Western Kunlun, the Daoist truly had not expected Blood God Child, an Earthly Immortal, to drain his own mountain-and-sea domain of union with the Dao into a netherworld blood sea and take it away with him. The Daoist had neither seen nor imagined such a marvel, so he had made no preparations against it. Nor did he know whether this was Blood Demon's own ingenuity and divine ability or a secret art recorded in the Blood God Scripture. Later, when Li Jingxu intercepted them in Hehuang, both the Daoist and Li Jingxu had secretly tried to seal the surrounding space and imprison the blood sea. But the blood sea was too vast, and Blood God Child activated his shifting formation too quickly to give them