Before the palace, Xia Daosheng's slender physique shimmered with a radiant light, entwined with noble purple energy. He raised his hand, clenched his fist, and unleashed a sudden blow towards Chen Jiuyang's blade!
"Bang—"
It was a power that surpassed a mushroom cloud, directly vibrating through space itself. The entire expanse of heaven and earth rippled and shook in layers.
The clashing forces contained within were beyond the limits of human hearing.
"Buzz!!!"
Many people's ears and noses began to bleed, their bodies violently shaken. They trembled, and some simply fainted.
The clash of Martial Dao Great Sages was such that ordinary cultivators and warriors could not even withstand the residual shockwaves.
"Dong!"
"Dong!"
"Dong!"
Xia Daosheng took a step forward, his expression indifferent. "I regret not having the Holy Lord eliminate you ten thousand years ago, which has led to you causing me trouble today, ten thousand years later."
"But, that is all."
"After such a long passage of time, Qianyang, if your progress is only this much, you will disappoint me."
"You do not even have the chance to become a chess piece and transcend."
As his words fell, he raised both hands, and boundless spiritual energy and immortal light erupted forth, vast and overwhelming like continuous clouds, causing hearts to palpitate.
Innumerable streams of light burst out, directly striking towards Chen Jiuyang.
Immediately, accompanied by his indifferent voice, they became terrifying killing moves: "Divine Ability—Seven Nails Slaying Immortals!"
In an instant, the water vapor of heaven and earth steamed, thunder boomed, turning into a desolate realm. The countless streams of light condensed into seven nails, seemingly encompassing everything in the world, instilling a great sense of crisis.
This divine ability, condensed from the void into reality, contained divine abilities, laws, and origins. How terrifying was it? It was no less than Chen Jiuyang's previously mastered Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow.
Xia Daosheng was not an ordinary prodigy; he was also a top-tier prodigy with exceptional talent. In terms of combat power, he was confident!
Heaven and earth lost their color, and the deep winter snow instantly melted, leaving only the light of the seven nails, as if everything had been swallowed within.
"Some familiar moves..."
Chen Jiuyang's eyes flickered.
These Seven Nails Slaying Immortals were very similar to his Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow and Heavenly Will as a Blade...
Extremely overbearing.
"This divine ability is indeed not bad..."
"It can be considered a first-class forbidden divine ability below Emperor Arts..."
"Boom!"
As if a single sound, yet as if thousands of collisions layered together, the resulting power completely exploded.
Streams of light, like a severed celestial river, poured down, directly striking towards Chen Jiuyang. The terrifying streams of light concealed Chen Jiuyang's figure, swallowing even the martial intent that Chen Jiuyang had risen.
It seemed to tear Chen Jiuyang apart.
"But..."
"You still underestimated me after all."
Under the onslaught of endless streams of light, Chen Jiuyang's calm voice sounded.
This caused Xia Daosheng's expression to change slightly, and his eyes to darken.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong with Chen Jiuyang.
He believed that after his long years of cultivation, his own combat power was among the top-tier in the Great Sage realm of Martial Dao.
"Whoosh!!!"
"Clang!!!"
Amidst the endless streams of light that covered heaven and earth, a colossal hand, obscuring the sky and eclipsing the sun, suddenly emerged. With a mere flip and press, it swept away all seven nails within the endless streams of light.
"Your divine ability is quite good..."
"But, alas, those are moves I no longer use."
"Origin Dao—Myriad Phenomena Annihilation!"
In an instant, heaven and earth seemed to freeze. The streams of light, like a celestial river breaking its banks, seemed to be flowing backward, but in reality, they were disintegrating.
"Dong!"
Like an elephant stamping the ground, like a star falling, heaven and earth trembled. Xia Daosheng's eyelids twitched violently: "This is... the sound of a heartbeat..."
Then, golden light rippled through heaven and earth as Chen Jiuyang activated his Martial Dao Furnace.
In just an instant, the hundred-mile-wide purple energy clouds dispersed. The endless streams of light were all annihilated, and Xia Daosheng's great dao, laws, and divine abilities all collapsed.
However...
This was not the Origin Dao move that Chen Jiuyang had shouted, but merely the prelude of the opening move.
The next moment, the golden light rapidly contracted, transforming into a fist as radiant as the sun, striking towards Xia Daosheng.
At this moment, Xia Daosheng was certain that this was a punch that surpassed the power of heaven and earth. His pupils rapidly contracted: "This is impossible..."
"You are still relying on external objects to reach this stage, which is why I say you will find it difficult to achieve great things..."
"The further you go, the more you must discard external moves and return to the ultimate simplicity. All moves and divine abilities should only become amplifiers of your own power."
"Otherwise, everything will be accomplished. Xia Daosheng, you can rest in peace."
This punch, formless yet superior to form, unleashed instantly, capable of shattering heaven and earth, pulverizing a small planet. The immense power within was indescribable.
One's own dao, one's own power, breaking heaven and earth, breaking all laws!
Chen Jiuyang had seen through it, but Xia Daosheng had not.
With this punch, Xia Daosheng was certain to die.
However, just as this punch approached Xia Daosheng...
A white-haired, frail old man suddenly appeared.
"Enough."
The old man raised his hand and grasped it, catching this terrifying, unparalleled punch that surpassed divine abilities. Then, in an instant.
"Rumble!"
A trace of pressure leaked out.
All things trembled!
It was as if it were the supreme being of the nine heavens and ten earths, the ultimate end of the dao, the power of the extreme realm, impossible to surpass!
And this was a pressure far exceeding that of a Saint King!
This was!!!
Imperial might!
The might of a human quasi-emperor!
"Quasi-Emperor..."
Countless powerful beings swallowed their saliva, their eyes filled with shock.
"Master..." Only Chen Fengge, who had lost an arm, looked at the old man's appearance with a look of horror.
The next moment, Chen Jiuyang's punch dissipated.
Heaven and earth returned to peace, and all things became silent. m..oΓg
Xia Daosheng frowned and cupped his fists: "Grand Ancestor 'Jinghe'!"
"It's you!" Chen Jiuyang saw the old man and became angry instead of retreating.
This was because this old man was the Great Sage of Martial Dao who had blocked and killed him outside the Crippled Old Village ten thousand years ago. After a long passage of time, the other party had already stepped into the cultivation of a human quasi-emperor, only a step away from an alternative path to enlightenment.
Not belonging to this world, he was a top-tier combatant even in the universe!
This was the first human quasi-emperor to appear in this era.
This was the foundation of the forbidden land, the Wuming Palace.
After the old man appeared, he looked at Chen Jiuyang calmly. "Qianyang, you are from the Crippled Old Village, and Daosheng is from the Wuming Palace. You are both sparks and seeds for transcendence from the major forbidden lands."
"Why must you kill each other at this time?"
"Now, as various Dao Fruits emerge, you all have the opportunity to step into the realm of Martial Dao Red Dust Immortal. What about grudges, what about enmities, can they not be resolved with a smile?"
These were the words of a human quasi-emperor, like the sound of the dao hammering heaven and earth, directly entering people's minds, like brilliant sounds of the dao.
"Very good, very good!"
"So you are actually from the Wuming Palace."
"It's convenient for me to kill you all at once today!"