Chapter 141: The Azure Python Transforming into a Dragon Art, A Storm is Brewing!
Chapter 141: The Azure Python Transforming into a Dragon Art, A Storm is Brewing!
Chapter 141: Like Fire in the Sky, Ninth on the Heavenly Rankings!
Bai Xuan stood high in the sky, looking down.
All of this had taken merely the space of a single breath. For cultivators of their caliber, everything felt extremely sluggish, almost like slow motion. A fleeting moment felt as long as a quarter of an hour!
"A Grandmaster whose vital blood is like an ocean should have corresponding trump cards... Do not disappoint me."
Bai Xuan gazed downward.
His terrifying dragon-tiger vital blood manifestation was condensing in the forest below, in hot pursuit of those two individuals.
Imbued with Daoist principles, that dragon-tiger manifestation possessed terrifying might. With every movement, it conjured nine wisps of vital blood true water, each head wielding a force exceeding a million catties.
Even the Fourth Day You's scaled marine beast avatar struggled to grapple with the fierce tiger; a single blow was enough to send it into defeat!
The next moment.
"I'll risk it all!"
A platinum humanoid figure violently burst through the air to counterattack. Driven nearly to madness, Chu Li swallowed a medicinal pill, burning his vital blood in a sudden burst of power!
"Primordial Purple-Gold Beast True Blood! Soul-Swallowing True Technique!"
The combat prowess of this purple-gold beast had soared to an astonishing degree. If someone like Kui Jinglue, a newly advanced Grandmaster, were to fight it, he would meet his doom in an instant.
High in the sky.
"This power has multiplied at least severalfold."
In the blink of an eye, the giant purple-gold beast retreated. With a flash, Chu Li's figure transformed into a sword shadow, darting away toward the distance in rapid flight.
This terrifying Grandmaster, capable of going toe-to-toe with Bai Xuan, had seized this very opportunity to break away and flee without the slightest hesitation!
The Fourth Day You watched in anticipation, a look of waiting in his eyes.
Up in the sky, that figure made a grabbing motion, and the Sea-Subduing Spear fell into his hand. With a booming sound, the ocean-like vital blood surged upward, and the forms of the horned dragon and the mountain monarch both retreated, fusing back into his physical body!
"If we don't run now, when will we?"
Rumble!
Holding the Sea-Subduing Spear, accompanied by the horned dragon and mountain monarch, Bai Xuan radiated a terrifying brilliance. The might of his ocean-like vital blood erupted, drastically amplifying both his strength and speed.
With a dark gaze, Chu Li transformed into a sword shadow, flying away as swiftly as lightning.
"Is he dead?"
In the palm of his hand, Bai Xuan clutched that fragment.
In an instant, Chu Li's vital blood surged upward before collapsing with a boom. His ocean-like vital blood condensed entirely, forming a massive purple-gold beast from whose entire body razor-sharp purple-gold sword blades erupted!
The next moment, that terrifying spear intent manifested.
Just a moment ago, his azure dragon claws had been cracking, his bronze skin vibrating, and his iron bones ringing out, nearly having his defense pierced by this fragment.
Drenched in blood, this astonishing beast embodied a bloodthirsty nature. The next instant, endless platinum sword Qi spewed forth from its blades, merging it into a single sword shadow that shot straight into the sky, slashing toward Bai Xuan!
"Three breaths. Within one breath, I can escape two thousand meters, dive into the water, and get away!"
The Fourth Day You made his move. If he didn't run now, when would he?
The fragment vibrated slightly, emitting a vast ocean of azure light as it slowly rose into the air. With a deafening roar, a terrifying divine might—awakening and incomparably dreadful—could be felt across the entire island!
"Die!"
Right at that moment.
Next, the fragment collided with Bai Xuan's dual fists, triggering a massive explosion. Shockwaves rippled across the sky, throwing everything into utter chaos where nothing could be seen!
"Let's go!"
"Otherwise, we'll have to rely on true old monsters of the Dao-Entering and Divine-Aspect realms!"
Boom!
Amidst what sounded like a heaven-shaking explosion, a terrifying monstrous figure burst out of the ground. Wielding a massive hammer, it smashed toward Bai Xuan.
The instant that sound rang out.
Boom!
His vital blood was incomparably viscous, surging outward like fresh blood before instantly taking on a dazzling, brilliant purple-gold hue!
"This transformation resembles... the Azure Python Transforming into a Dragon Art!"
The Fourth Day You had completely transformed into a monster, standing over ten meters tall. His lower body resembled a snake's tail, while his spine sprouted tree-like tendrils—manifestations of Dao talismans erupting with dreadful power!
Although Chu Li saw that the terrifying fragment possessed immense power, he harbored no confidence whatsoever, fleeing frantically without the slightest intention of fighting back.
He possessed a trump card, one that could subvert everything if used at the critical moment—this very fragment!
His own fatal strike had only left a faint white mark between Bai Xuan's eyebrows. Such a physical body was simply beyond human capability to harm, and even true blood arts were useless. At this level, probably no method could injure Bai Xuan!
"If one possessed sword intent, balancing both bone and blood, perhaps they could wound him. Perhaps only a peak powerhouse on the verge of entering the Divine Aspect realm—with Daoist principles, sword intent, and true blood all gathered—could trade blows with a monster whose flesh is like that of a god or demon."
Boom, boom, boom!
Daoist principles manifested around Bai Xuan as he threw a punch that shook the giant hammer. A chilling gray light bloomed on his fist, clashing with a metallic clang. Instead of retreating a single step, it was the monster that stumbled backward, letting out a roar!
"Dormant divine artifact fragment, open for me!"
The Fourth Day You's eyes burned with madness.
He had acquired this fragment from an undersea secret realm. Although merely a fragment, its power was terrifying to the extreme. Once awakened, it could suppress peers of the same realm. He suspected it might well be a top-tier divine artifact; even reduced to this state, it still retained a trace of the power to overturn continents!
"Not bad. You lot actually have moves capable of injuring me. Truly not bad..."
Boom!
The fragment struck horizontally, instantly transforming into a long rainbow carrying endless azure light to suppress its surroundings. Before it even arrived, it locked down everything, as if collapsing space itself!
Bai Xuan could perceive this change.
However...
This was already powerful enough, meaning the fragment's intrinsic nature far surpassed his own; it had failed to inflict heavy damage on him solely due to insufficient activation.
Rumble!
The monster transformed by the Fourth Day You channeled its ocean-like vital blood into a triangular metal fragment.
Intrigued, Bai Xuan took a step forward and threw a punch. With a deafening roar, the sword shadow trembled, and the primordial purple-gold beast retreated. Yet it did not shatter; instead, it roared, its vital blood condensing and burning as it blocked Bai Xuan's strike!
Boom, boom, boom!
This purple-gold beast locked in combat with Bai Xuan exchanged dozens of blows within the span of a breath!
Boom!
A figure materialized, flashing forward to send the Fourth Day You flying back with a single punch. He was hurled back a full several hundred meters, the very air shattering in his wake!
"However, this is the third breath. You should all die here."
Bai Xuan could sense it...
"This is spear intent? How is this possible! This is actually spear intent. Fleeing is the only option!"
Down below, Chu Li sensed that terrifying, fiercely sharp spear intent and fled for his life.
Boom!
Surrounded by currents of air, Bai Xuan's figure lunged forward in an instant. The spear intent crossed the void, spanning a thousand meters in a flash with no time or spatial interval, piercing straight through Chu Li.
Under this single blow, the platinum sword Qi surrounding Chu Li collapsed, and his vital blood abruptly scattered. The next instant, the figure flashed and the long spear swept out.
Imbued with spear intent, the long spear carried the dragon and tiger in its wake!
Bang!
Chu Li's towering physique was blasted apart without the slightest suspense. His bones managed to resist for a fraction of a second before his expression of lingering resentment and terror dissolved into a bloody mist with a boom!
...
On the Heavenly Rankings.
The very instant the name of Daoist Profound Fire faded away, people across the entire sea witnessed the scene, their hearts filled with shock.
One breath later.
The name of Chu Li, twenty-fifth on the Heavenly Rankings, also began to fade, being erased until it vanished completely!
On the island, the second terrifying aura weakened and was thoroughly wiped from the island, the ocean-like vital blood disappearing along with it!
"A single breath!"
Luo Yun had already stood up, his entire body trembling violently. "A single breath to cross swords with a peerless Grandmaster and execute him on the spot!"
At this moment, ripples stirred across the entire East Sea, on the verge of erupting into towering billows!
Deep within Azure Python Island.
"Fighting powerful enemies amidst fierce battle, suppressing everything in an instant... Not bad, truly not bad."
The spirit of the azure python stared with boundless anticipation at the figure suspended in the air.
It was filled with anticipation and enjoyment; this was precisely how its inheritor should behave.
Its body had nearly transformed into that of a horned dragon, complete with claws and fingers, glowing with a terrifying spiritual light as it pressed down on a middle-aged man, keeping him suppressed and immobile.
That middle-aged man was none other than Liu Yuan. His entire body had morphed to feature snake scales, his eyes turned blood-green with deep vertical pupils. The aura of his presence far surpassed that of vital blood like an ocean!
Yet at this moment, he was suppressed, completely unable to move, reduced to roaring in fury.
"Azure Python! Your inheritance is nothing more than an empty dream. Trapped here for a thousand years, you leave behind only regret!"
He struggled with all his might, but compared to the peak state of the azure python spirit, the gap in power was too vast to break free!
"I sensed you the moment you appeared in these waters."
The azure python spirit lowered its head, gazing at "Liu Yuan." "You thought you could disrupt my inheritance? How laughable."
This azure python thoroughly relished the moment; its old rival was beside itself with rage yet utterly powerless to counter it!
"How I look forward to it..."
Feeling life was exceptionally joyful, the azure python spirit wore a ferocious smile.
The inheritor it favored was currently on a killing spree, displaying peerless talent. It was a talent capable of giving meaning to a thousand years of waiting!
...
"Oh no!"
The Fourth Day You witnessed this scene, his scalp tingling to the extreme.
Chu Li was dead?
He leaped backward abruptly, a Dao talisman materializing in his palm, ready to transform into a rainbow and flee!
The activation of that fragment had been his ultimate strike. In the past, it had ambushed the undisputed number one expert of the East Sea in that era, severing his arm before being slain by others in cooperation.
Now that he used it, it couldn't even break through the man's skin?
"I fear this layer of skin couldn't be refined even with furnace flames for three years. This body is already a divine artifact... No, it's close to a mid-grade divine artifact!"
Retreating at top speed, the Fourth Day You prepared to transform into a rainbow and fly away with a loud boom.
Chu Li was already dead; he had no choice but to escape!
"Is that all you've got?"
Stepping forward with a cold shout, Bai Xuan unleashed a sweep of spear intent that shattered the white rainbow, forcing the Fourth Day You's figure back into view.
Unlike Chu Li, the Fourth Day You's speed was not exceptionally fast, even slightly inferior. Once that talisman shattered, he had zero possibility of escape!
"I surrender! I surrender! I won't fight anymore!"
The Fourth Day You roared frantically.
He suddenly spun around and took a deep, sharp breath.
Instead of inhaling the ambient energy, he sucked in all of his own vital essence, as though some bizarre marine beast's maw was drinking away his very blood.
In an instant, the Fourth Day You's vital blood plummeted. With a spit, a bloody arrow shot out from his mouth!
Within that arrow of blood, countless dense Dao talismans squirmed like living creatures—myriad microscopic bugs, each possessing boundless vitality as if immortal and indestructible!
With this bloody arrow shot, the conferred talisman on the Fourth Day You's back grew faint, and his entire body shrank back into mortal form.
"Sea-Serpent Life-Extinguishing Arrow! This single arrow contains all my vital essence, capable of mutually neutralizing, corrupting, and transforming the target's life force and blood!"
"This fellow also cultivates the Abyss-Crossing Body-Refining Art. If this bloody arrow hits him, I can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and pollute him into an uncontrollable, terrifying marine beast!"
"By then, my conferred talisman can control him... It must hit!"
In his moment of mortal peril, the Fourth Day You unleashed his final resort, a spark of hope finally appearing in his eyes.
However...
Rumble!
Just as the blood-stained arrow shot toward him, a flash of light crossed Bai Xuan's palm as the Desolate Blood Cauldron appeared. Water and fire surged forth, forming a vortex that swallowed the blood arrow. With a single vibration in mid-air, the arrow was ground down, refined, and purified!
Swept by the Daoist principle of water, the countless microscopic talismans within it were reduced to nothingness and thoroughly cleansed. With a booming roar, they were all refined into pure vital blood, condensing into pills within the cauldron.
With his clear perception of spiritual light and vital blood circulation, how could Bai Xuan possibly fall for a sneak attack?
"Centuries of bitter toil, ruined in a single moment... Haha, so this is the fate of roaming the seas and hunting powerful enemies. I wonder if, a hundred years from now, a shred of my true spirit will be reborn through reincarnation?"
Eyes wide, the Fourth Day You let out a wild laugh. His body expanded once more as he charged toward Bai Xuan, though his strength had decayed to the absolute limit. In the span of a single breath, all four of his arms were severed. With a thunderous explosion, Bai Xuan thrust his spear straight through the Fourth Day You's chest, hoisting him into the air.
"The third breath..."
Bai Xuan said calmly, "Begone."
The Sea-Subduing Spear vibrated violently, wiping the smile from the Fourth Day You's face. A trace of distant regret surfaced in his expression before his physical body shattered with a loud bang, transforming into a downpour of bloody rain!
...
Up in the sky, upon the Heavenly Rankings.
The name of the sixteenth-ranked Fourth Day You was erased stroke by stroke until it finally turned completely blank and vanished entirely.
On Azure Python Island, the final terrifying pressure of ocean-like vital blood also dissipated.
At this moment.
The roaring vital blood pressure of the dragon and tiger surged into the sky like a deity illuminating the waters surrounding Azure Python Island.
Terrifying!
Powerful!
The pressure of that vital blood represented an invincible Grandmaster who slaughtered enemies with effortless ease, like taking something from his own pocket, unstoppable by anyone!
Across the sea.
"Terrifying... Good thing I didn't make a move, or I would have needlessly added myself to the dead."
"Whaling Bai Xuan—this man is likely enough to contend for the number one expert in the East Sea. He truly possesses an invincible bearing."
Someone murmured in a low voice.
Endowed with formidable strength, he had watched the outcome from afar. In an instant, those individuals had fallen, completely slaughtered with neither soul nor body left intact.
Fortunately, he had exercised caution and declined the Fourth Day You's invitation, otherwise his name would have been among the fallen!
On the island.
"Dead! They're all dead!"
Luo Yun trembled all over, unable to control himself.
Four powerful presences had clashed; after merely three breaths, three had fallen and only one remained standing!
"He won! Two Grandmasters joining forces, and Bai Xuan swept them away and slaughtered them all within a few breaths!"
The White-Browed Marquis shifted from shock to joy, finally bursting into hearty laughter!
Barely a quarter of an hour, gone and back, slaying three top-tier experts on the Heavenly Rankings...
So what if they were Grandmasters?
Defeated in an instant, utterly annihilated!
Right at that moment.
"Look... Look! The rankings are moving!"
Someone cried out in astonishment.
Everyone turned their gaze toward the name "Bai Xuan" on the Heavenly Rankings!
At that moment, the name soared upward like a shooting star, frantically leaping from ninety-fifth place all the way to forty-sixth, and it was still climbing!
...
"Truly a pleasant experience. This battle... a total suppression, a complete sweep. Now, here in the East Sea, I am finally nearly invincible."
Bai Xuan felt quite relaxed.
Withdrawing his vital blood pressure, he landed on the ground. The mountain forest was fractured everywhere, small hills collapsed as if experiencing the apocalypse, leaving behind a scene of utter devastation with the earth split wide open.
Grandmasters whose vital blood was like an ocean were terrifying indeed, capable of leveling everything when unleashing their full strength.
Yet before Bai Xuan, what did that amount to?
Within three breaths, he had executed them all, slaying them one by one. Once the Sea-Subduing Spear came out, no one could match him!
"Let's check the spoils."
With a grab from Bai Xuan, three rings flew toward him.
These ancient experts, top-tier powerhouses who had survived from the previous era, did not use ordinary storage pouches. Instead, they used ancient storage treasures obtained from inheritances—whether rings or belts—all containing vast spaces within mustard seeds.
He casually picked up a wooden talisman, seeing a faint wisp of smoke rise from it and instantly merge with his own wooden talisman.
The front of his wooden talisman changed to "Fifty-nine," and the back to "Forty-six"!
"I really have killed quite a a few."
Bai Xuan understood inwardly.
Anyone holding this wooden talisman inevitably possessed an extraordinary background and formidable strength; otherwise, they wouldn't have had the chance to acquire one. Even so, dozens of such people had been killed, which adequately reflected the terrifying might of these two Grandmasters.
Inside Chu Li's storage ring was the mid-grade treasured artifact, the Sealing-Origin Tent. Although Bai Xuan had shattered its rune-formed space, its core body remained intact. There were also various ordinary Dharma artifacts and numerous talismans, the most conspicuous of which was a massive piece of ore gleaming with purple-gold, seemingly obtained from some inheritance.
"However, the most precious item is this."
Flipping his palm, Bai Xuan produced a jade slip.
A cruel, indifferent platinum light emanated from the jade slip; even a casual sweep of consciousness caused a needle-like pain, fierce and terrifying.
As Bai Xuan's consciousness swept across it, he saw countless minuscule characters etched like inscriptions, representing an ancient inheritance.
The Platinum Killing Art!
Once fully inherited, this lineage was sufficient to rank in the top ten and become one of the fiercest experts on the Heavenly Rankings. Even possessing only a portion of its offensive swordsmanship was already terrifyingly formidable; ordinary Grandmasters who fought it would have their vital blood foundations severed, utterly unable to withstand a fraction of it.
Bai Xuan retrieved the other two wooden talismans and fused them completely. Following a roaring vibration and endless flashing light, the wisps of azure smoke merged into one.
The front of the wooden talisman read "One Hundred Twenty," and the back "Nine"!
At this moment.
The Heavenly Rankings shifted, and that name rose like a shooting star, instantly surging into the very top tier and resting firmly at "Nine."
Suspended high in the sky, that name drew the gaze of countless people across the entire East Sea—whether they were peerless experts of terrifying strength or ordinary fishermen casting their nets...
All could see it.
The name shone like fire in the sky, hovering proudly in the first tier.
Ninth on the Heavenly Rankings, Bai Xuan!
(End of this chapter)