"Sixty-five years ago, after you advanced to the Venerable realm, you deliberately concealed your combat power and cultivation, rarely appearing before the world.
Seven years ago, you advanced to the Imperial Dao, but it did not cause the True Name Imprint to vibrate. Five years ago, you exposed the Warden system, which revealed your wolfish ambitions.
However, relying on the Wardens to advance to the Imperial Dao, your martial path is likely severed, preventing further strength increases.
Since your cultivation cannot be improved, but you are also a contemporary hero, how could you not have prepared some Imperial Dao divine abilities in these five years?"
Daoist Fang Lie remained calm when he saw Emperor Yan unleash divine abilities other than the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear, not finding it surprising.
If Yan Fengyun were that easy to deal with, he would have died long ago, and there would be no need to drag things out until now, allowing him to suppress the five great sacred lands with his Warden system.
Daoist Qiu Ling also had a calm expression.
Only Ning Shang looked solemn, "After being severely injured for five years, to still possess such combat power, this Yan Fengyun is indeed worthy of delaying our clan's emergence for five years."
Emperor Yan's expression was also exceptionally indifferent. Ignoring the crimson all over his body, he looked at them, "Since you already know about my preparations, it was precisely to wait for you.
Do you think you can kill me with just you?"
"After five years of probing, the Warden system is indeed remarkable, but it shares a common point with the King-sealing Sword-wielder system: relying on ancestral artifacts to condense the power of destiny. The one in your hand is at most an imperfect ancestral artifact. We have observed that the Wardens scattered across the country have limited power.
Yan Fengyun, how much Warden power can you still use now?" Daoist Qiu Ling raised his sword, pointing its tip at Emperor Yan.
Emperor Yan held the spear in one hand and slowly gripped the golden phantom sword in the other, looking at them. "Enough to kill you."
Daoist Fang Lie's expression turned grave, and he shouted, "Lotus Birth Old Mother, how long are you going to hide?"
"Granny, I was just waiting to see you play a bit longer," Lotus Birth Old Mother, with a ferocious smile, appeared in the snow, leaning on her staff. She looked at Emperor Yan:
"With granny added, can I kill you this time?"
This time, Emperor Yan's expression suddenly shifted, "Good!"
"Then let's try!"
The next instant.
"Rumble!!!"
The heavy snow was blown away, and the world was filled with flowing light, as if stars were falling.
Originally, Lotus Birth Old Mother alone could heavily injure Emperor Yan. Now, Daoist Fang Lie, Daoist Qiu Ling, both peerless great powers, and the demon Ning Shang, the Great Demon, had to be added.
"Swish swish swish!"
Suddenly, a vast sea of azure true qi appeared in the sky, obscuring the sun and moon, pressing down on Emperor Yan.
Such immense true qi, as vast as the ocean, was something even Chen Jiuyang could not achieve.
"With this old demoness's strength, it's no wonder she could cross realms and heavily injure Yan Fengyun." Seeing this vast expanse of azure true qi, Daoist Fang Lie and Daoist Qiu Ling couldn't help but feel a jolt in their hearts.
Emperor Yan, under heavy injuries, was attacked from three sides and suppressed head-on by Lotus Birth Old Mother.
"Ultimately, time was too short..."
Emperor Yan frowned slightly, his eyes icy, "Those old undying ones are wary of the Warden's power and fear mutual destruction, so they dare not show themselves. It seems they have only sent these four."
Emperor Yan could feel that arrays were set up in the surrounding distant areas of the world, preventing his divine soul from perceiving further.
"There's no other way. If those old undying ones appear, I cannot draw too much of the Warden's destiny power and expose my final trump card. Thus, there is only..."
Facing the sky-obscuring, vast azure true qi, Emperor Yan struck the golden phantom sword in his hand against the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear. The phantom sword immediately merged into the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear.
Immediately, golden light surged.
Then, he slowly looked up at the four of them and slowly said, "When did I ever say that after advancing to the Imperial Dao, I did not forge a martial furnace?"
"Dragon Spear - Soaring Heavens!!!"
In an instant, the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear erupted with dragon shadows, sweeping across all directions.
"Hmph!" Lotus Birth Old Mother sneered, "You merely borrowed external objects to achieve enlightenment. It seems that no matter how astonishingly talented you, Yan Fengyun, are, you can never accommodate two powers within yourself.
I, this old woman, want to see how long your furnace, which achieves enlightenment by borrowing from all things, will last before I shatter it!"
"Cannot be underestimated." Daoist Fang Lie and Daoist Qiu Ling's eyes were filled with solemnity. They were not monsters like Lotus Birth Old Mother.
Even if Emperor Yan achieved enlightenment by borrowing external objects, Yan Fengyun was still the most talented in martial arts in millennia.
Dragon shadows burst forth from the spear tip, and wisps of golden energy enveloped Emperor Yan's body.
With the old monster Lotus Birth Old Mother in front, any divine ability or move would be weakened, and even exploited.
Only by engaging in close-quarters combat could a sliver of opportunity be sought.
"First, kill this man-eating old monster..." Emperor Yan flicked his spear, then thrust it forward with the dragon following, directly attacking Lotus Birth Old Mother.
Among these four opponents, only Lotus Birth Old Mother could give him a tangible sense of life-threatening danger.
He brandished his spear, and in an instant, dozens of spear shadows were thrust out, seemingly aiming to pierce and kill Lotus Birth Old Mother.
The sky-obscuring azure true qi curtain of Lotus Birth Old Mother was immediately torn open by this spear. Then, she formed hand seals, and the azure true qi receded like a tide, converging into streaks of lotuses, intending to block Emperor Yan's spear.
"Clang!!!"
Lotus Birth Old Mother's true qi was as hard as gold. Without using her physical body, she managed to withstand Emperor Yan's spear.
"Hong Ming!"
The dragon shadow roared, forcefully tearing apart Lotus Birth Old Mother's lotus divine ability.
And then!!
Chh—
The lotus divine ability was torn apart, blood splattered, and Emperor Yan's spear pierced through Lotus Birth Old Mother's divine ability and her physical body.
However, Lotus Birth Old Mother's face revealed a chilling smile, "To exchange my severe injuries for your, Yan Fengyun's, life is not bad at all!
I never expected you to fall into the trap so easily."
She then grabbed the spear inserted into her chest with both hands.
At this moment, Daoist Fang Lie, Daoist Qiu Ling, and Ning Shang simultaneously unleashed three attacks, striking towards Emperor Yan's back.
Emperor Yan's eyes immediately turned cold. He decisively released the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear with both hands, drew out the golden phantom divine sword, and defended himself against the attack from behind.
"Rumble!!!"
An explosion suddenly sounded.
Immediately—
"Chh—"
Emperor Yan's chest was pierced through, and the tip of the Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear emerged.
Emperor Yan turned his head and saw Lotus Birth Old Mother pull out the spear and ambush him at this moment. There was not much surprise in his eyes.
Lotus Birth Old Mother grinned sinisterly, "Yan Fengyun, after all your calculations, you are still one step behind. Daring to achieve enlightenment by borrowing external objects means your own Dao artifact can backlash against you, and you cannot sense it."
Emperor Yan had long anticipated such a situation from her words. The Heaven Dragon Breaking City Spear, which had followed him through over sixty years of battles, would backlash against him because he had borrowed external objects to achieve enlightenment, betraying his martial Dao artifact.
Just as she was about to deliver a fatal blow to Emperor Yan.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Not far away, there seemed to be heavenly thunder, or the earth trembling, or the sound of footsteps.
"Emperor Yan's borrowed enlightenment is for the nation and the people. Compared to these insignificant individuals who cannot achieve enlightenment without a furnace, he is better by ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times."
"Ten thousand times!"
A young man's voice echoed from afar.