Chapter 15 Opening the Gate

The Fire God Flag was a trophy Ji Xiang had snatched from the Scarlet Banner Child. He hadn't found an opportunity to use it until now, since the fire it released couldn't be extinguished except by human effort.

But now that he was at the Great Gao Xuan Hall, he had no such concerns!

Wherever the Fire God Flag passed, a sea of fire erupted. Ji Xiang reached the Great Gao Xuan Gate. Behind the gate, the two remaining special paper figures acted, slamming the massive gate of the Daoist palace shut, activating the divine incantations and prohibitions!

Ji Xiang's eyes fixed on the gate, then scanned the surrounding walls, as the text of the Inner Vision Divine Tablet manifested!

[Great Gao Xuan Gate (Divine Gate): Gate of myriad transformations, accumulating clouds into the heavens, held by the power of rigidity!]

[The White Day Heavenly Office can enter, the Night Yin Office can pass through. Hidden within the gate is the seventh heaven's Azure Sky Astral Wind. Those who trespass will have their forms torn and their souls extinguished by the astral wind!]

The gate slammed shut, unleashing a roaring gale that disturbed the mind and tore at the flesh!

According to the legends of the Divine Firmament Sect, there were nine heavens, with the Divine Firmament being the highest. Below the seventh heaven, Azure Sky, were the heavens of the mortal realm, the formless true earth of the world. Few knew of the existence of the upper three heavens.

Thus, the Great Gao Xuan Hall, built by Tao Zhongwen of the Divine Firmament Sect, naturally had the sect's protective spells. However, he probably hadn't foreseen that the two individuals arriving tonight had forcibly seized positions in the Yin Office, bypassing his gate restrictions entirely!

Ji Xiang's expression was cold and unwavering. Without pausing, he opened his hand, releasing the many divine positions he had seized with the Tongtian Bright Smoke, now was the time to use them!

"What, do I still have to pass five checkpoints?"

"Should I slay six generals while I'm at it?"

The Night Wanderer's divine position was driven into service. Ji Xiang borrowed the Night Wanderer's power, raising his leg, a gigantic boot appearing in the darkness. Following Ji Xiang's movement, it unleashed the force of the Chaotic Heaven, kicking towards the Great Gao Xuan Gate!

Boom!

The gate shook violently, then flew backward, splintering apart from the force of the kick! The two gate panels crashed heavily against the screen wall behind the gate, landing with a thunderous boom, now warped and broken!

"The previous Glazed Gate counts as one checkpoint, this is the second!"

The howling astral wind, driven away by Ji Xiang using the Yin Office divine position to clear the path, had already subsided. In front of the screen wall, the two massive paper figures brandished their weapons at Ji Xiang!

[Fang Bi, Fang Xiang (Paper Figure Law Shadows): Gate God Law Shadows! Giants made of paper shells, wearing black scarves and golden armor, guarding the divine and ghost gates, attached to the screen wall...]

Without even finishing reading the strategy, Ji Xiang acted directly, waving the red flag in his hand. The raging fire burned the paper figures' shells directly to ashes! Then, two law shadows manifested, attaching themselves to the screen wall, revealing a terrifying presence. But before they could attack Ji Xiang, he had already slammed his palm onto the screen wall!

"Shattering Void!"

The void trembled violently, and the two law shadows were instantly shattered into dust!

Crushing the dead and destroying the rotten, those who block me die!

"Third checkpoint!"

The screen wall, moved here by the Jiajing Emperor, was pushed to the ground by Ji Xiang, shattering into rubble and broken pillars. Ji Xiang leaped over it, seeing Tian Fengyu sitting on the ground in the distance, in front of the Supreme Pavilion!

Tian Fengyu also saw Ji Xiang, who had forced his way in, his face filled with astonishment.

How could a mere fourth realm cultivator...? Eh? Fifth realm now?

That's still wrong! How could someone in the fifth realm destroy my paper figure generals so quickly?

Ji Xiang walked in, and without a word, swept a divine light across Tian Fengyu's face!

The vermilion horsetail whisk swept out a divine light, striking Tian Fengyu's body from afar. At this moment, an invisible wave appeared on Tian Fengyu's body, helping him block the divine light, dissolving it into nothingness.

Useless?

Ji Xiang's gaze was intense. He realized that Tian Fengyu's strength must be very high: "Occupying someone else's body, what kind of skill is that? Why not reveal your true form and come out to meet me?"

Seeing black blood flowing from Tian Fengyu's seven orifices, a huge wound on his neck, and him holding a blood-stained blade, Ji Xiang frowned: "What changes have you made to my Senior Brother's body?"

Tian Fengyu did not answer. At this moment, his face was full of suspicion as he examined Ji Xiang, gnashing his teeth, and then sighing:

"You, are you really that little Daoist?"

"Good, good, you didn't show your true colors, you were hiding your cultivation... eh, no, no! Your body is still at the Manifest Spirit stage, no matter how I look at it, it's the fifth realm, but how can the aura on your body be equivalent to a Golden Core Earth Immortal?"

"Body and mana mismatched? Haha! So that's how it is!"

Tian Fengyu's suspicious expression turned to one of sudden understanding: "You are either a wandering demon from the outer realms, or a Nascent Soul level expert who has lost his body!"

"If you are an outer realm demon, then you have possessed this little Daoist; if you are a Nascent Soul expert who has lost his body, then you have used the divine power of borrowing a corpse to revive the soul, because by borrowing someone else's body, the Nascent Soul is damaged, so only the cultivation of a Golden Core remains."

Ji Xiang's eyes flickered slightly, but he did not stop his steps, nor did he reply! The Tongtian Bright Smoke floated around him, and he drew the Beidi Tianpeng Ruler from his hand, pointing it at Tian Fengyu!

An invisible wave spread, and Tian Fengyu immediately felt as if something was watching him. That gloomy power made him extremely uncomfortable, and a faint black mist floated out of the black blood.

Immediately afterward, the white smoke grabbed Tian Fengyu's body, and Tian Fengyu immediately felt a force pulling at his divine position, but the Tongtian Bright Smoke wrapped around Tian Fengyu this time, but it was all for naught!

Ji Xiang's eyes shook slightly.

Before, when the Tongtian Bright Smoke touched those gods, it could immediately grab their divine positions and pull them over directly. Even a position in the Heavenly Department could be controlled for a period of time, but this small Earthly Spirit in front of him made the Tongtian Bright Smoke return empty-handed!

Tian Fengyu also just came back to his senses at this moment, surprised and said: "What are these smokes?"

"This is... a great divine power to capture gods?"

Tian Fengyu breathed out a sigh of relief, and more black blood spurted out from the almost severed wound on his neck: "You scared me! Good, good, your divine power to capture gods seems to only work on the gods conferred by the Ming court."

"My divine position has not yet been determined by the Ming court, so your smoke that captures gods doesn't seem to work."

Ji Xiang had never encountered this situation before, holding the Beidi Tianpeng Ruler and pointing it at Tian Fengyu. The Inner Vision Divine Tablet reflected the other party's situation, still the same as last time, without any change, covered in heavy black code.

The Beidi Tianpeng Ruler did not point out the other party's complete prototype. Ji Xiang knew that this was because the guy in front of him had too much ability, and his divine position had to be taken away, but his divine position could not be stripped off, and now there was a stalemate.

Fortunately, the other party's state had a problem. The Inner Vision Divine Tablet gave a corresponding explanation for this:

[Tian Fengyu (Body Dissolving): Using the art of illusion, dissolving form and entrusting appearance, like a snake shedding its skin or a cicada escaping its shell. Transferring the power of the physical body to the Nascent Soul, choosing to be reborn or find a physical body to be reborn in.]

[True Realm - Nascent Soul (Incomplete): Easy to be aligned with heaven and earth, so it touches the way of the universe, the heavens of the world, and what is seen is the same.]

[The Nascent Soul realm has two great divine abilities: First, when the Nascent Soul leaves the body, it will feel the mountains and rivers shattering, the earth sinking, people without self, and the law without self, and can connect to a certain void Dharma realm. The image of the Dharma realm reflected in the heart will bring part of the power of this Dharma realm to the human world.]

[Second, operating the four images, yin and yang, rigidity and softness, covering and escaping the void, nothing is not implemented! "Yin Qi Method", such as the Soul Summoning Method and the Filth Breaking Method; "Yang Qi Method", such as the Five Thunder Method and the Evil Slaying Method; "Rigid Form Method", such as Qi and Blood rushing to the Gods, manipulating the universe; "Soft Form Method", such as calling wind and rain, driving starlight... All spells belonging to these four categories will reduce the damage caused to the Nascent Soul realm by one-third. At the same time, the Nascent Soul realm's operation of these four types of spells will ignore the opponent's protective attributes, thus causing penetrating damage to opponents below the Nascent Soul.]

This made Ji Xiang understand!

Lord Fire was half an Earth Immortal, but this guy in front of him was the highest grade among Earth Immortals!

A Nascent Soul level expert above the Golden Core Earth Immortal!

The Holy Embryo Golden Body has sufficient firepower and can rush out from the heavenly gate in front of the forehead, releasing a Yang God, which is the Nascent Soul Realm!

Ji Xiang thought that even a Nascent Soul expert above the Golden Core might not be able to be lured to the Floating Dawn Heavenly Gate for a battle, and this guy was dissolving, his Nascent Soul was trapped in this body, and it was still incomplete.

Therefore, by analyzing the surface strength and hidden strength of both the enemy and ourselves at this time, we have a general grasp.

Ji Xiang sneered: "You want to dissolve and change a physical body? Where is such a good thing! After killing the thousands of people in this Shuntian City, you still want to dissolve and return to the Yang world!"

Tian Fengyu smiled and said: "Zhuangzi said, those who kill do not die, and those who give life live long!"

"You can't take the lives of these mortals too seriously! Nascent Soul level experts entrust their spirits to the void Dharma realm, have seen cranes, fire dragons, or golden lotus heavenly children, and see all kinds of magical illusions, and when they look at this world again, it is truly devoid of color!"