The gale surged like a tide, the sea of clouds like a curtain.
Chen Jiuyang’s hand blazed with golden light, and a phantom great bow inscribed with ancient runes materialized. He abruptly drew it to a full moon.
"Boom!"
An arrow burst forth from the bow, piercing the sky. In an instant, it was as if a wind dragon roared across the heavens, scattering layers of space, as fire and gold erupted in a brilliant, unparalleled radiance!
Wherever it passed, wind, air, vital energy, spiritual energy, clouds—everything was pierced!
Beyond description, it was as if an arrow force, pushing away all things in heaven and earth, struck towards Lotus Mother.
Across the vast expanse of void, sensing the immense and sharp arrow force, Lotus Mother’s expression turned grim, her eyelids twitching violently:
"The Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow of the Feng family!! Well done, brat. How old are you, to have cultivated it to the Great Accomplishment realm!"
This arrow forced Lotus Mother to halt her escape.
She had already heard news of Chen Jiuyang’s ascension. This Great Accomplishment Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow, combined with the state of Heaven-Man Unity, and this brat not yet thirty years old, not even a fraction of her age, truly forced her to face him head-on!
Facing this arrow, she had no retreat!
In a flash, she made her decision, her frail, withered body suddenly twisting.
"Rumble!!!"
In an instant, a terrifying true qi, vast as an ocean, poured out. If Chen Jiuyang's arrow was the Heavenly Will Four Symbols, pushing away all things towards the old crone, then this old monster's counter-attack was like a sky-covering sea curtain pressing down upon the arrow.
Facing this scene, Chen Jiuyang stopped, his brow furrowing sharply: "Such profound and terrifying true qi, even my Qianyang Dao Body cannot compare…"
Chen Jiuyang was filled with immense dread. This old monster had nearly ten thousand years of martial arts accumulation; her martial foundation was too profound.
Even in her current state, heavily injured by the Yan Emperor, she possessed such strength!
Chen Jiuyang's heart pounded violently, his killing intent towards the old crone growing even stronger!
"Rumble!!!"
The two moves collided, immediately unleashing a world-shattering explosion. In the sky, one side was a vast azure true qi like a sea curtain, while the other was a fiery curtain erupting with fire and gold!
Like water and fire clashing, within this confrontation of moves, lay the martial will of two individuals.
One side radiated heatwaves like a tide, with torrential rain descending.
The other side saw tiny snowflakes drifting down.
"This old crone intends not to withdraw her move, wanting to test the depth of my martial foundation!"
"Since that is the case, it suits my intentions perfectly. Let her test to her heart's content!"
If not for the old crone being heavily injured, Chen Jiuyang would not have had the qualification to contend with Lotus Mother.
A man-eating old monster who had lived for ten thousand years, her martial foundation was terrifyingly profound!
Without even stepping into the Emperor realm, she could heavily injure the Yan Emperor, who had three thousand years of destiny. How terrifying was that?
The two individuals, one grounded, the other suspended, were thus clashing!
Within Chen Jiuyang, the two Dao Treasury Divine Palaces were chanting scriptures, pouring inexhaustible power into his body. The origin and laws in his sea of consciousness were also connected to the Dao Treasury Divine Palaces!
Half a day later.
People arrived from all directions.
The scene before them shocked and horrified many.
One side was a downpour, the other a heavy snowfall.
From the Five Great Sacred Lands came:
Jia Fuben, Qi Changsheng, Xia Daosheng, Jin Wuhen, Shui Dongliu, and others ranked high on the Mountain River List.
From the Forbidden Families came some unfamiliar new faces:
Chen Jiuyang recognized Ming Chengdao.
Hundreds of people were present.
From the Demonic Path came some elite masters.
"This is the Heavenly Will Four Symbols of the Great Accomplishment of the Soldier Dao arrow technique. Seeing it today, it truly lives up to its reputation. The inheritance of the Soldier Dao has not been broken…"
A young woman in a moon-white ornate robe from the Forbidden Families spoke.
"Such archery, Great Accomplishment Heavenly Will Four Symbols, it's truly hard to imagine he's not yet thirty…"
Some also had their eyes gleaming, sizing up Chen Jiuyang.
"How can this brat's foundation be so profound…"
Lotus Mother's wrinkled face trembled slightly, her pupils contracting.
Know that she had lived in this mortal world for nearly ten thousand years, witnessing beings like Sage Kong, Sage Meng, Sage Wang, and Patriarch Peng.
Even the favored children of heaven, the Confucian Sages, could not do anything to her.
She had seen too many astonishingly talented prodigies.
But…
Someone like Chen Jiuyang, under thirty, with abundant destiny, reaching the sixth level of the Supreme realm, and possessing such terrifying combat foundation, she had never encountered before!
It was as if her senior brother had discovered her unique qualities, causing shock.
But she could never have imagined that Chen Jiuyang had gone to the Lesser Immortal Realm, undergone the tempering of the Human King's Path, to possess his current combat foundation, and that his Pure Yang Body had evolved into the Qianyang Dao Body!
"If this brat wants to kill this old woman, he must see if he has the strength!!!"
Lotus Mother let out a roar mixed with pain: "Lian Hua!"
The sea-like true qi immediately vanished. Then, her body began to burn with azure true qi. Eighty-one points of light suddenly lit up within her body. Each point of light was an acupoint. Each point of light surged with true blood, true fluid, and true qi, falling in wisps and transforming into a lotus, enveloping her. m..oΓg
"Such vast true qi like an ocean…"
The expressions of the others watching tightened:
"Her martial foundation is extraordinary. Even we, in the Profound realm, open twelve acupoints. This old crone has opened eighty-one acupoints to contain true qi…"
Seeing this, Chen Jiuyang couldn't help but be a little shaken: "Eighty-one acupoints, it can still be like this?"
The lotus gradually condensed, with a full eighty-one petals.
Lotus Mother coughed up blood, and in her terrifying eyes looking at Chen Jiuyang, there seemed to be a sense of relief. Her chilling voice sounded:
"This old woman has lived for nearly ten thousand years. You are the second person, besides Yan Fengyun, to force this old woman to use her full strength."
"If this old woman were not heavily injured, this brat would certainly not have been able to force me to this point."
"But now, you shall be eaten by this old woman and become my Great Human Elixir. Only then can it be worthy of your current arrogant actions!"
Lotus Mother raised a hand, and the lotus petals, laced with blood threads, moved towards Chen Jiuyang.
A chilling sensation surged into Chen Jiuyang's heart, and it surged into the hearts of everyone watching the scene.
"Is this the bizarre man-eating divine ability of the Eight Lives Immortal Cultivation method…"
"This kind of evil method of alternative ascension…"
"Go all out…" At this moment, Chen Jiuyang's eyes suddenly burst with brilliance: "Finally found a flaw in this old crone!"
This old crone was heavily injured. As she said, if not for this state, Chen Jiuyang would not have had the qualification to attack her. Even maintaining the Heaven-Man Unity state, he had not found her flaw.
Until this moment, when this old crone, disregarding her severe injuries, unleashed her full power, finally!
The next instant, the heavens and earth lost their color, and a saber that divided the sky and earth suddenly appeared!
Only Chen Jiuyang's calm, killing-intent-filled voice echoed through the heavens and earth:
"Divine Ability—"
"Heavenly Will is like a Saber!"