Gold Melts
Mujian's body stiffened abruptly, as if he had been frozen in place.
A crack spread from between his brows, followed by a second, then a third...
Her entire Purple Mansion Dharma Body cracked inch by inch, like porcelain.
From within the crack, the summer heat and the glow of dawn surged forth simultaneously, completely evaporating the remaining spiritual energy of the Kan Water within her body.
Before she could even scream, her physical body shattered.
Countless fragments scattered and flew, but before they could fly too far, they were engulfed by the summer heat Sword Intent emanating from Vermilion Brightness Sword and burned to ashes.
Amidst the fragments, a tiny glimmer of light shot out hastily, as thin as a firefly, and fled swiftly into the depths of the Great Void. It was the wisp of Rising Yang that Mujian had desperately tried to protect!
However, Su Yao was prepared.
Before he could retract his sword technique with his left hand, the long strand of rainbow light that had not yet dissipated suddenly straightened, transforming into an extremely thin rainbow line that instantly pursued upwards, piercing through the Rising Yang in mid-air.
The fireflies suddenly went out.
Mujian was utterly destroyed, both in body and spirit.
At that very moment, the remaining spiritual energy of the Kan Water in this place lost its restraint and erupted into chaos.
The waters of the Heavenly River lost their control, surging and crashing wildly in the Great Void, causing the spiritual energy within a radius of hundreds of miles to churn violently, like boiling water being poured into scalding oil.
Su Yao stood in the center of the turbulent current, his Rosy Glow Feather Robe shimmering with light, pushing aside the raging Kan Water.
Then he looked at Zheng Qingci:
"You won't die that easily."
First, he used another Golden Palace Morning Clouds to trap Zheng Qingci, and then with Golden Light Across the Land, Su Yao appeared in the far distance, where Li Chaoxue and Xuanping were.
Looking at Li Chaoxue:
"Give this man to me. Keep an eye on Zheng Qingci and don't let him escape!"
Upon hearing this, Li Chaoxue nodded, shifted her position, and headed towards Zheng Qingci.
Xuanping, who remained there, looked at Su Yao with a face full of anxiety:
"I have offended you greatly in the past, but now that Mujian is dead, and the mountain god previously said that two out of three could be saved, I am willing to offer all my possessions in vain, begging the abbot to show mercy."
Su Yao remained silent upon hearing this, but unleashed his Sword Intent once more, sweeping towards Xuanping.
Xuanping was shocked to see this, but his hands did not stop. A white light appeared in front of him, and then the white light faded away layer by layer, turning into streaks of Geng Metal energy that went towards the Sword Intent.
The two collided with a deafening roar, exploding into a shower of white light.
Immediately afterwards, Xuanping left quickly.
A moment later, the white light dissipated, and two white lotuses beneath Su Yao's feet emitted protective Gang Qi, isolating him from all external fluctuations.
It was more than twenty years ago, when Su Yao went to the ancestral temple on Mount Zhongnan, that the True Lord bestowed upon him the Jade Void Secret Technique, Foot Treading White Lotus.
Then, Su Yao looked at Xuanping, who was fleeing rapidly, and shouted:
Why is my fellow Daoist in such a hurry?
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure transformed into golden light once more, and in a short while he arrived in front of Xuanping, who had fled thousands of miles away in the Great Void.
After forcing Xuanping to stop, he said:
"The Divine Ability arts of the Geng Metal path, specifically its Its Mandate Remains, are originally top-tier killing Divine Ability, yet you've used them for such a desperate escape method; it's utterly laughable."
As soon as he finished speaking, a glint flashed between his brows, and a pillar of light shot towards Xuanping.
Seeing this, Xuanping bit his tongue and spat a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the white light in front of him.
In an instant, the white light exploded, transforming into hundreds of Geng Metal energy beams that rained down on the pillar of light. Simultaneously, using the recoil, the figure retreated rapidly, shouting fiercely:
"Su Yao, do you really intend to kill us all?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he formed a hand Hand Seals, and a golden vertical line suddenly lit up between his brows.
The vertical line suddenly opened, revealing itself to be a vertical pupil. Within the pupil, the Geng Metal energy gathered wildly, and in the next moment, a streak of white light shot out fiercely from the vertical pupil!
The white light was as thin as a spider's thread, yet it was condensed to the extreme. Wherever it passed, fine cracks were cut into the Great Void.
However, Su Yao's expression remained unchanged.
Two white lotuses suddenly bloomed beneath his feet, and layers of Gang Qi rippled outwards, completely dispelling the sharp qi of the Geng Metal that had attacked first.
At the same time, a flash of Li Fire appeared between his brows, and a Fire Sparrow flapped its wings and flew out to meet the vertical white light.
The moment the two collided, the Fire Sparrow exploded with a roar, turning into a sky Li Fire that engulfed the white light and burned it wildly.
Although the energy of Geng Metal is sharp and unparalleled, it gradually melts away in the presence of Li Fire.
Xuanping was terrified upon seeing this. He disregarded everything else and turned to flee again.
But the instant he turned around, a strange forest silently appeared before him.
On the trunk of every tree in that forest floated a human face, some sad, some happy, some angry, some resentful—a myriad of expressions. This was the "Forest of All Beings," Divine Ability of the He Wood Supernatural Beings.
Xuanping ignored it, his figure bursting forth with white light like a tide, quickly bypassing this eerie forest.
However, just as he rounded the last tree with human faces, an extremely hot sword light was already waiting in front of him.
Nine bright, dazzling patterns of summer heat adorned the Vermilion Brightness Sword. The blade, imbued with a unique, intense aura carried by the Balmy Wind, pierced his chest without any resistance.
That sword strike was too fast and too precise, as if it had been predicted that he would escape from that direction.
Xuanping froze abruptly, looking down at the sword in his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He couldn't understand it.
Why specifically the Balmy Wind breeze?
Balmy Wind possesses a Divine Ability called "Scorch Metal and Stone".
This Divine Ability is most effective against the elements of metal and earth.
This sword possessed such wondrous power. Then, the summer heat flowed into his body through the sword's blade. The Geng Metal energy melted upon contact, and his Purple Mansion Dharma Body disintegrated completely, like snow being poured over boiling water.
Immediately afterwards, the glowing light between Su Yao's eyebrows reappeared, and the "Heavenly Radiance Resonance Technique" was activated in response to his invocation. A beam of light, like a cone, pierced straight into Xuanping's brow.
Without pausing, Su Yao unleashed his Sword Intent once more, following the pillar of light as it pierced straight into the space between Su Yao's brows!
The glow of dawn serves as the guide, Sword Intent forms the blade.
Within Xuanping Purple Mansion, Sword Intent and summer heat erupted simultaneously.
At this moment, Xuanping had only one thought in his mind:
"Regret!"
If he hadn't run away and had gone to help Mujian instead, would things have been better?
If he hadn't been so afraid of death and had fought a fair and Daozheng battle, using the killing principles of Geng Metal to fight head-on, he probably wouldn't have died so easily, right?
He always remembered the mountain god's words, "Two out of three will survive," thinking that one death would be enough.
But he never expected Su Yao to be so ruthless, wanting to capture all three of them in one fell swoop.
So all he wanted to do was escape, to get as far away as possible.
But now, there's no going back.
As he pondered, his physical body began to disintegrate.
Unlike Mujian, Geng Metal's physical body did not exhibit porcelain-like cracks when it disintegrated.
Starting from the sword wound in his chest, his entire body turned crimson red, as if it had been smelted by high temperatures, and then the surface began to melt and flow.
Streams of Geng Metal energy surged out of his body uncontrollably, transforming into countless golden streaks of light that shot wildly in all directions.
Immediately afterwards, his Rising Yang began to dissipate.
He turned his head with difficulty to look at Su Yao, his lips barely moving:
"If only I had known..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
His physical body collapsed with a roar, his entire being transforming into a shower of golden liquid and sharp energy, scattering in all directions.
Freed from its restraints, the Geng Metal spirit raged wildly in the Great Void, like countless invisible flying swords, slashing wildly in all directions, carving white marks in the air, echoing the still-unsettled Kan Water turbulence in the distance.
That Rising Yang, having lost its anchor, was about to drift away into the distance.
With a flick of his left hand, Su Yao unleashed a sword technique, sending the rainbow-colored threads of light piercing through the air once more.
The golden light vanished abruptly.
Xuanping was utterly destroyed, both in body and spirit.
Su Yao sheathed his sword, his expression calm.
He no longer looked at the chaotic flow of Geng Metal, and with a flicker of his body, he transformed into a streak of light and fled towards the direction where Heyin was in the distance.