Lamplight Illuminated a Shadowed Face, Meteor Against Meteor!

The Meteor Gods and Devils remained silent for a moment before descending from the sky.

He had just looked into the distance and could already see the woods on the outskirts of the city.

However, the place where he landed at this moment was actually still within the northern part of Hang Prefectural City, which was a famous red-light district with brothels and dance halls, brightly lit.

The Meteor Gods and Devils landed on the long rope holding the lantern, using that brief moment to calm his anger and regulate his power.

He would be furious if he were tricked once, because he hadn't experienced anything like this in a long time.

Being tricked twice proved his opponent's strength and made him realize he needed to stay calm.

He is indeed too old.

Even after achieving Celestial Person Resonance, and cultivating internal energy to the point of perfect Leakless, one's lifespan would still be within the range of 150 years. Later, a major Transformation allowed him to extend his lifespan by another 100 years.

To be precise, it means that he can still maintain a youthful appearance when he is 250 years old.

Even if Meteor Gods and Devils tried everything to conserve energy and take medication to maintain their health, they wouldn't die suddenly after the age of 250.

However, one's appearance begins to age, skin begins to sag, and bones and muscles become fragile.

He needs to use more internal energy to strengthen his old bones and restore his blurred vision.

He even gradually forgot his age, his mind became confused, and his actions became incoherent.

That time, knowing his days were numbered, he became lustful and wanted to have one last time of pleasure. He sought out an outstanding woman in the martial arts world and offered to give her his Chuangong in exchange for her sexual favor.

As a result, he actually planned to Chuangong first, and then go to bed with her.

Leaving aside whether he'll still be able to maintain his erection after the transfer of power—just consider the woman opposite him; having received such divine skill, wouldn't she regret it?

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Yan Tiemu'er stopped him and extended his life.

This Grand Tutor was quite a remarkable man. He married over forty women from the royal family, not counting his concubines and slaves, yet he remained full of energy and steadfast in his resolve.

The two hit it off immediately.

Meteor Gods and Devils learned many sophisticated techniques from the other party.

When he wants to calm down now, even if he were in a brothel or even if the Sixteen Heavenly Devil Maidens brought by Merit and Virtue Sage danced in front of him again, they wouldn't be able to shake his heart.

Long ropes, like snakes, meandered across the sky above Flower Street.

Meteor Gods and Devils suddenly took a deep breath.

A pale white aura emanated from the rope beneath his feet, extending into all the lanterns along the entire street.

The lantern crackled, and the candle flame, which had been a bright yellow-red, transformed into a pure, milky white.

"Hey, you surnamed Chu, here I come!!"

The Meteor Gods and Devils spread his arms wide, his sleeves like wings, and took flight.

All the lanterns rose upwards, and the ropes were taut.

In the blink of an eye, dozens or even hundreds of flagpoles used to support the ropes were torn apart and snapped, with the sounds of them breaking echoing everywhere.

Some of the ropes were tied to the pillars of the brothel.

The lantern pulled on the rope, causing it to snap. Although the pillar did not break, it was pulled and shifted due to the tremors.

Countless women and their lovers inside the building screamed in terror. Some scrambled out of their windows, thinking it was an earthquake, and wrapped themselves in blankets.

The screams from the streets were far more intense than those from the terrified patrons in the brothels.

People discussed it in surprise, pointing to the night sky.

Thousands of lanterns rose into the sky, forming a lantern array with perfectly stable spacing between them.

Upon reaching a certain altitude, the lights suddenly accelerated and moved south.

Within the ruins of the garden.

The martial arts masters from various sects in the south stared at the pavilion with chills down their spines.

They were astonished by the power of Chu Tianshu's first move, and even after the Meteor Gods and Devils revealed the secret, they still couldn't fully believe it.

When Chu Tianshu reappeared, everyone naturally hesitated a little.

With just that moment of hesitation, Merit and Virtue Sage was already dead, his body torn to pieces.

This hesitation turned into fear, and many wanted to escape, but dared not be the first to flee.

They were afraid that Chu Tianshu would make them the target of criticism.

Bring me a sword!

Chu Tianshu's figure seemed to disappear into thin air, leaving the pavilion and appearing beside Granny Putuo.

The old woman with the scarred face had a strange glint in her eyes when she stared at the pavilion. In her hand, she held a four-foot-long, unsheathed sword with a sandalwood hilt, a lotus-shaped guard, and a blade with a thousand-times-forged fish-scale pattern.

Chu Tianshu suddenly appeared beside her, and she released her grip on the sword hilt without hesitation.

Looking back, realizing that this action was tantamount to aiding the enemy, her fingers trembled as she tried to take it back.

The sword was already in Chu Tianshu's hand, and the hilt struck her left shoulder, instantly sealing more than a dozen of her acupoints.

"Oh?"

Chu Tianshu had originally planned to severely injure her while he was at it, but he didn't expect her to hand over her sword on her own initiative. After a slight change of heart, he decided to seal her sword Busha.

The sword feels great to use.

It's a feeling that comes from being handled and carefully practiced by someone over many years.

The longsword pointed diagonally at the ground, automatically emitting a soft hum.

The gleam on the sword seemed to reflect in the eyes of everyone else at the same time.

Abbot Wolf Mountain roared, "What are you all waiting for? It's a fight to the death!"

Another sound came rolling down from high above.

"Hey, you surnamed Chu, here I come!"

The sound echoed repeatedly; even such a flat and vast site could produce such a strong echo.

The profound and extensive skill honed over sixty years was fully revealed in this voice.

The experts present felt their connection to the surrounding energy suddenly decrease significantly, and their sensory acuity also plummeted.

Although it is still far higher than that of ordinary people, it is enough to create a dizzying and chest-suffocating illusion for them.

Chu Tianshu's eyes shone brightly as he gazed at the sky and smiled, "That's exactly what I've been waiting for!"

He wanted to see what the true fighting style of the top local fighters was all about.

The Meteor Gods and Devils Light's latest move was already quite impressive.

This is not about using mental pressure to make it harder for other experts to move their vital energy.

Instead, the Meteor Gods and Devils and Demon elevated the affinity of primordial energy to its peak, causing almost all the primordial energy between the Garden Ruins to voluntarily submit to the Meteor Gods and Devils and Demon.

When outsiders try to transfer personnel, they naturally encounter resistance and difficulties.

Such methods cannot be achieved simply by consuming a Marrow Jade to obtain the bloodline of a strange beast. Rather, it requires developing one's own understanding of the bloodline of strange beasts during the process of martial arts cultivation.

However, to seal Chu Tianshu's connection to Yuan Qi—

That's not enough!

Chu Tianshu held his sword horizontally in front of him, his left hand slowly tracing the blade with his sword fingers.

The first thing to emerge was a bluish-green energy, which, like wisps of fine mist, rapidly flowed towards his fingers and seeped into the sword.

As his fingers moved, the vital energy transformed into a crimson like ashes being rekindled, a pale blue like wind and rain, a light yellow like drifting smoke, and so on, in countless ways.

The longsword, infused with so many different kinds of energy, remained a silvery-white color, yet it became increasingly lustrous.

What was once cold, hard steel has now become like a piece of silvery crystal.

Here we come!!!

The echoing sound in the air reached another peak.

Thousands of lanterns descended with the sound of music.

The lanterns were originally spaced at a fixed interval, but the moment they descended, they began to move and change rapidly.

For a moment, everyone in the room could not see the people around them; they could only see the moving, swaying lights.

It seemed as if lanterns were rushing by everywhere—in all directions.

Even with Chu Tianshu's excellent eyesight, when the lantern array descended, he could only see the lights and couldn't make out where the Meteor Gods and Devils were.

Then!

The moment the lantern array descended, he began destroying the lanterns.

The silvery-white sword light was like a thousand long needles blooming from his palm.

Three or four lanterns ahead were destroyed at the same time.

The needle-like Sword Qi energies surged forward relentlessly, meant to destroy the lanterns and advance towards a more distant target.

But after the four lanterns were destroyed, a white flame the size of a palm appeared in each of them and remained suspended in mid-air.

These white flames flickered and changed, expanding rapidly and emitting a burst of intense light, like a four-pointed star.

An extremely intense flash of light, gone in an instant.

Chu Tianshu's wave of needle-like Sword Qi was completely neutralized.

In an instant, four more lanterns filled the gaps, and the surrounding formation seemed completely intact.

"Snort!"

Chu Tianshu flicked his right arm and thrust forward again.

Suddenly, a lantern appeared on his right, striking his forearm. The sword light instantly swirled in his palm as he gripped it and thrust it forward.

He pierced the lampshade on the right, and the white flame inside was first split in two before it had time to expand and explode, greatly reducing its power.

The moment the lantern went out, a sudden light appeared above Chu Tianshu's head.

There were six red lights, which appeared above his head without him even realizing it, weighing a ton, and crashing down like meteorites.

The afterimage on Chu Tianshu's body swelled and shattered, and his true form seemed to burst out from the old shadow, like a dragon or a snake, twisting and dodging the six lanterns.

The six lanterns fell to the ground one after another.

Inside the garden ruins, the soil was pounded and trembled like waves.

Chu Tianshu encountered another lantern blocking his path and thrust it forward with his sword.

The lantern shattered, and a white flame flared up. Behind this flame, however, was an old, weathered hand.

The Meteor Gods and Devils stood behind the white flame, pressing down on the flame with his palm, which collided with the tip of the sword.

His face was ethereal, illuminated by the firelight and the glint of the sword.

This direct attack, like Ghost God appearing in the blink of an eye, striking a sword with fire, was far more unpredictable and difficult to defend against than a surprise attack from elsewhere.

Chu Tianshu felt an immense, unbreakable force covering his sword.

A longsword, surprisingly, could not be bent or twitched to change direction for a thrusting attack; it was as rigid as if it were cast from diamond.

The combined power of the two masters clashed through the incredibly hard sword.

The Meteor Gods and Devils trembled slightly, but Chu Tianshu staggered back half a step.

As soon as he took half a step back, the Meteor Gods and Devils's face immediately radiated light, and all the wrinkles on his face smoothed out.

Outside, amidst the array of lanterns, countless white flames pierced through the lanterns and rapidly converged on this half-step empty space.

In Chu Tianshu's perception, it was as if white flames were surging ahead.

A hundred or so white, four-pointed star-shaped rays, stacked together and controlled by the Meteor Gods and Devils, formed a rough, pointed cone shape.

"Meteor Palm Strike!!"

The earth-shattering palm force was unleashed towards Chu Tianshu.

As the Meteor Gods and Devils grew older, they discovered that their bodies were no longer able to withstand the burden of circulating their inner power to its limit.

Therefore, he created a method to condense his internal energy into white starlight and release it outside his body.

These white flames and starlight themselves change rapidly. Even after leaving the body, they still retain an affinity for primordial energy, absorbing large amounts of primordial energy and changing more and more frequently until their power reaches its limit.

The name "Meteor Gods and Devils" actually originated from this.

In those years, when people fought with him, they never saw him make a move.

All that could be seen were dozens of stars of varying sizes swirling around him, and suddenly one or two would shoot out, severely injuring the enemy.

However, against Chu Tianshu, the Meteor Divine Art alone would probably be too crude and straightforward.

Meteor Gods and Devils, and now this lantern array has been added.

This is the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, the most frequently used formation by military strategists since ancient times. It is the most common, yet also the most refined and perfected.

During the Northern Song, Zhao Guangyi suffered a defeat in battle and fled in panic. He became obsessed with the methods of battle formations. However, when Fayong to strategy, he lacked flexibility and tended to be defensive, making it difficult to achieve great success.

However, the martial arts practitioners of that era were fortunate. Whenever a major battle occurred, they would find a place to observe, copy down the actual evolution of the battlefield, and apply it to their martial arts.

The Liao and Jin dynasties, influenced by the spirit of that era, also followed this path.

If a military formation shows signs of defeat, a master often enters the camp to offer advice and verify their ideas. Generals who are desperate will often take some of these advice as a last resort.

This custom persisted until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the operation of the Meteor Gods and Devils Formation can be described as extremely skillful and fluid, requiring only a divine touch.

With the support of the formation, a frontal blitzkrieg is launched.

A single, devastating strike, a meteor shower!

Knowing that Chu Tianshu's methods were unpredictable and that the longer the battle dragged on, the more variables would arise, the Meteor Gods and Devils Formation was clearly not planning a protracted war of attrition; a fleeting opportunity was enough.

The goal is to use a single move to decide life or death, a single move to confront success or failure head-on!

"I've come! Now that I'm here, you can go to the Yellow Springs!"

The Meteor Gods and Devils's white hair stood on end, his face was red and his eyes were black. His pupils were constricted due to the exertion of force, but the deepest part of his pupils was white.

It reflected the intense palm strike before him.

Chu Tianshu's face was also deathly pale, his eyes were extremely focused, and a dark crack appeared between his brows.

With his Heavenly Eye open, as if sending a signal, every acupoint on his body emitted extremely rapid, subtle, and colorless ripples.

Suddenly, the longsword in his hand also showed some bright spots arranged like stars, each of which radiated microwaves outward.

Just like this sword, it has meridians and acupoints.

Chu Tianshu had not yet cultivated to the level of "Returning Light," so his internal energy was naturally insufficient to awaken the "meridians" within the inanimate object.

However, using the "Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation, he found all the weaknesses on the sword and calculated the depth of each weakness.

When he opened his Heavenly Eye, his Grand Void Inner Force filled all his weaknesses with the most decisive and precise movements.

Not a single point less, but absolutely not a single point more; fill in every weakness.

The swordsmanship of "Sever Mountains and Extinguish Waters" not only aims to cut through mountains and rivers, but should also be able to move mountains and fill seas, creating a flat plain.

"Go!!"

Chu Tianshu's eyes bulged with veins, he exhaled and released a sword, which flew out of his hand like a shooting star.

It wasn't the force of a meteorite, but rather it carried a sense of perfection and flawlessness, much like a person's wish.

The white palm force gathered by the Meteor Gods and Devils was instantly shattered when this silver meteor fell into it.

Those pure white palm strikes were unable to penetrate the sword's blade, failing to create any resistance.

The crack was perfectly smooth, and the sword blade pierced through the right palm.

Meteor Gods and Devils's expression changed; the tip of the sword was already protruding from behind his right shoulder.

Chu Tianshu arrived suddenly, grasping the sword hilt; the outcome was already decided.

You've lost, you old devil!