A Fierce Battle with the Human Ancestor
The Human Ancestor looked at Yuan Zhexian and said, "For the sake of fairness, I'll suppress my cultivation to the same level as yours." He flashed aside, golden light flickering across his body, and his cultivation was suppressed to the Peak of the Grotto-Heaven Realm. Then he said, "Come, junior. Show me the true strength of a heaven-defying monster like you."
With that, he remained unhurried and flew into the void. His presence poured out, and waves of terrifying currents spread in every direction as it grew stronger. Sand and stones flew, and fierce winds rose on all sides. The Human Ancestor thrust one palm forward and said, "Human King Seal!" A gigantic golden handprint appeared in the void. Its presence was majestic, its pressure terrifying. Even the space in the void trembled. Before the golden handprint, everything seemed utterly insignificant.
Faced with the terrifying handprint, Yuan Zhexian smiled faintly. His eyes focused, and he too stretched one hand forward and said softly, "Samsara Turning Wheel." A faint purple light suddenly separated the giant handprint from the void. The handprint then hung motionless, as if the purple light had frozen it in place.
"Condense!"
Yuan Zhexian gave a soft shout.
The giant handprint was repelled in an instant, flying back toward the Human Ancestor. "Hmm? Interesting." The Human Ancestor waved his hand, and the giant golden handprint dissolved into specks of starlight and vanished from the sky. The instant it disappeared, Yuan Zhexian flashed in front of him and punched forward with his right fist.
Before the Human Ancestor's eyes could react, his body moved on reflex, crossing his arms in front of his chest. He was sent flying backward through the void. After several hundred meters, he steadied himself and looked to the side, where a pitch-black hole had appeared. Yuan Zhexian's punch had been so terrifying that its immense force had pierced straight through heaven, earth, and space. Even the inner world's space could not withstand it and had been punched through.
The seven figures above the river were also stunned by the punch. "Well, well. Chaos, when you were that boy's age, could your punch have had that kind of power?" The Chaos Great Emperor was equally shaken as he replied, "Even with my Chaos Physique, there's no way a punch of mine could have been that powerful at his age. But why do I feel something so familiar from this boy?"
"Could he be your illegitimate son?" Great Emperor Ziwei said with a laugh.
"Impossible. I, the Chaos Great Emperor, have always walked alone, living a solitary life. I've never entangled myself in romance. Women would only weaken my attacks."
The Samsara Great Emperor then said, "I could faintly sense a trace of the Law of Samsara in that punch. But only a little..."
The Human Ancestor looked stunned. The young man's strength really was formidable. He said to Yuan Zhexian, "A contest of physical strength? Very well. I am the first Innate Saintly Physique Dao Embryo in heaven and earth. My physical body is unrivaled. These days, few people can fight me in close combat."
With that, he teleported in front of Yuan Zhexian and struck him with a heavy punch. Yuan Zhexian quickly threw a punch to meet it. The terrifying currents tore space apart, and the two became streaks of light and shadow, their fists continually clashing in the void.
Bang! Bang! Bang! No figures could be seen, only the light left in the void by their clashes. The space in the void was already in tatters, shattered spatial cracks everywhere.
The power of the inner world constantly mended the cracks, while the two kept breaking space apart. The repairs could not keep up with the speed of their destruction.
Before long, the two stopped in the void. One radiated golden light, the other purple. Their presences grew ever stronger and exceptionally terrifying.
The golden light around the Human Ancestor grew even brighter. He flashed in front of Yuan Zhexian at astonishing speed, his entire right hand covered in golden light, and said, "Junior, this is seventy percent of my physical strength. Can you withstand it?" He turned sideways and unleashed a punch.
It was too fast, even faster than Yuan Zhexian's earlier movement. Before Yuan Zhexian could react, he took the full force of the punch. The Human Ancestor's strength was even more terrifying than Yuan Zhexian's earlier blow.
The punch knocked Yuan Zhexian out of the void. As his body fell, explosions erupted around him. Bang! Bang! Bang!
Boom! Yuan Zhexian slammed heavily into the earth, and a bottomless crater appeared.
The seven people in the River of Time watched in silence. Then Heavenly Emperor Ye said, "It's over. No one can defeat the Human Ancestor. He's too strong." But the Chaos Great Emperor stared fixedly at the crater, his eyes flashing as he said, "No. It isn't over yet. I don't think the boy has used his full strength."
Yuan Zhexian slowly flew out of the crater. Ow... that really hurt. But it only hurt. I wanted to see whether the Human Ancestor's punch could injure me. Looks like I expected too much. It only hurt.
"Pain?" The seven in the River of Time watched in astonishment. "An ordinary Dao Body Realm expert would probably be dead beyond dead after taking that terrifying punch, but this boy only felt pain??? Besides his Double Pupils, what other physique does he have?"
The Human Ancestor was also astonished by Yuan Zhexian's physical body. That punch had merely hurt him, without causing any substantial injury.
Yuan Zhexian slowly rose into the void. Purple light flashed in his eyes, and a sacred radiance erupted from his forehead, chest, and limbs. Profound runes instantly spread all around his body, shining with golden light.
The seven in the River of Time were shocked once again. Supreme Bones? Six of them?? A single Supreme Bone already ranked among the top ten of the three thousand physiques, and he had six?? What was going on?
From ancient times to the present, aside from a Great Emperor with two bones in a certain era, there had been no other. Although one of that emperor's bones had been attached later in life, the Great Emperor with two bones had still been unparalleled and invincible under heaven. What kind of existence would someone with six Supreme Bones be?
Before their shock had passed, Chaos Qi spread all around Yuan Zhexian. A terrifying presence of Chaos swept out from him, and waves of air made the space tremble.
Chaos Physique?? By now, the seven in the River of Time no longer wanted to say anything. Yuan Zhexian's three great physiques had shocked them completely speechless.
The presence of Chaos also poured from the Chaos Great Emperor's entire body, making towering waves surge up in the River of Time.
"Chaos, calm down! Your strength is immense. Releasing your presence over the River of Time like this will affect the past and the future. If you reverse spacetime, the Heavenly Dao will mercilessly erase you. Settle down," the Samsara Great Emperor said.
"I... I... I'm just too excited. I never thought I'd get to see a second person with a Chaos Physique besides myself. No wonder his presence felt so familiar just now.
"So the boy has a Chaos Physique too. And he also has six Supreme Bones and Double Pupils. No, I have to take this boy as my successor." The Chaos Great Emperor was so excited that his whole body trembled.
Even the Human Ancestor was speechless. One person possessed Double Pupils, Supreme Bones, and a Chaos Physique. What kind of monster was he? Then he saw Yuan Zhexian combine the power of his Chaos Physique, six Supreme Bones, and Double Pupils into one.
An incomparably terrifying power gathered in Yuan Zhexian's right hand. He raised it slightly, clenched his five fingers, and punched forward with all his might. A terrifying beam of seven-colored light shot straight toward the Human Ancestor.
The Human Ancestor's gaze grew grave. He unleashed one hundred percent of his Innate Saintly Physique Dao Embryo's physical strength, then added the Power of All Living Beings to it. He too clenched his right hand and punched forward. An incomparably powerful beam of golden light shot toward Yuan Zhexian's seven-colored light.
Bang! The two beams collided, meeting head-on. Yuan Zhexian gave a soft shout, putting more force into his attack and pushing forward. The seven-colored light gradually swallowed the golden light and crashed toward the Human Ancestor.
Boom! Another enormous, bottomless crater appeared. Inside it, traces of blood lined the corners of the Human Ancestor's mouth. He looked at Yuan Zhexian and said, "You actually managed to injure me. You truly are a heaven-defying monster, a heaven-defying person from that Lineage. You really are powerful to the extreme. Now, how will you receive this final move of mine?"