noveltune Chapter 161 Suppression, Layering
Chapter 161 Suppression, Layering
Chapter 161 Suppression, Layering
The cyan sword light was imprisoned in the cage of sword energy, gradually finding itself with nowhere to retreat. The next moment, it stopped inside the cage, and an ominous scarlet hue spread from the inside out, quickly staining the entire beam of light.
A burst of crimson light erupted, and amidst the clanging of swords, the scarlet radiance filled the vision of all the elders.
In an instant, a series of shattering sounds rang out, and the elders, who had just recovered from the crimson glow, realized that the divine weapon had broken free.
The sword energy cage they jointly constructed did indeed trap the other party, but only for a short while.
Now, they are about to face the other side's furious...retaliation?
Bai Zhanfeng opened his eyes, and cold sweat immediately dripped down his forehead.
An ancient longsword hung in front of him, its blade pointing directly at his brow. The sword was crimson, so red it seemed to drip blood.
He could vaguely smell a bloody scent on the sword, as if it had been through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and was entirely stained red with blood.
Bai Zhanfeng's Adam's apple bobbed, but he dared not make any other movements.
The other elders also dared not rush to the rescue, lest they anger the master of the divine weapon.
Time passed second by second, and the ancient longsword paused in front of Bai Zhanfeng for a while, the distance between the sword tip and his brow continuously decreasing.
Just as the sword was about to pierce his brow, his vision blurred, and he saw a streak of blood-red light fly back, heading straight for the blood mist.
"Finally, I've lured you out."
Before he could recover, a sentence came from the blood mist, and a moment later, the sound of fighting broke out.
Although they didn't know where the third party came from or what their identity was, Bai Zhanfeng and the others realized that this was an opportunity.
They could take advantage of the battles between the Styx people to search for an exit.
However, they had only taken two steps when a slender silhouette emerged from the blood mist, blocking their path.
"Only one side can pass through this road."
Su Youli, who had not appeared for a long time, blocked the road. A sword light as cold as frost surrounded her, with nine ice-blue rings on it that were unusually obvious.
"Another ninth level of Divine Qi!"
Bai Zhanfeng felt extremely unbalanced. He couldn't understand how a young girl in her early thirties could make such rapid progress in the realm of divine will.
Divine will is not the same as the physical body. Physical cultivation can be achieved through elixirs, but divine will can only be achieved through daily perseverance.
There has never been a grandmaster in the world who was over thirty years old; the youngest was 120.
Desperately concealing his jealousy, he said coldly, "Elder Su, what do you mean by this? Do you think you can stop us all by yourself?"
"Otherwise what?" Su Youli raised an eyebrow, and the cold sword light fell into her hand, transforming into a heavy sword as big as a door panel.
Her small, fair hand gripped the sword hilt tightly, the tip pointing downwards and diagonally towards the ground.
This strange weapon was something the elders had never seen before.
"Can such a huge sword really be used?" Wan Canghai, now only a head, murmured.
"It might not work for you, but it's perfect for me."
The moment she gripped the greatsword, Su Youli recalled her past experiences, and a slight smile appeared on her lips. "Compared to anything else, I prefer the feeling of wielding a sword to snatch someone away."
Pure violence, the best way to relieve stress. As soon as he finished speaking, the white figure rushed in front of Bai Zhanfeng, raised the greatsword high, and smashed it down.
"They're after me again?!"
Bai Zhanfeng instinctively turned to his right, and the black iron longsword and the giant sword clashed, sparking a series of sparks.
"What incredible strength!"
Feeling the power emanating from the sword, Bai Zhanfeng dared not hesitate. Relying on his rich combat experience, he stomped heavily with his foot and dodged in time.
The black iron longsword slid down the blade of the giant sword, making a screeching sound. He didn't care about the wear and tear on the divine weapon and could only continue downwards.
Su Youli guessed his intentions; he simply wanted to take advantage of the fact that the giant sword had no guard and use an unorthodox method to cut her in half at the waist.
"Who says I only know swordsmanship?"
She was expressionless, speaking in dragon language.
After each simulation, her original body gains a talent that can be used in the original world and carried over to the next simulation.
Her simulation on the continent of Itniti gave her the talent of "Dragon Shout Mastery".
[Dragon Shout Specialization: The way of dragon shouts is engraved in your consciousness. Even without a dragon soul, and without decades of meditation, you can still utter various dragon shouts in the language of dragons.]
Even in a different world, she relied on this talent to adjust the dragon roar to suit this world and enable it to exert its proper effect.
Strange, exotic languages converged into a powerful force, mobilizing the vital energy of heaven and earth, and spreading in all directions in the form of roars.
Whether it was Bai Zhanfeng facing the dragon's roar head-on or the other elders who charged forward, they were all swept by the spreading sound waves for a moment, and they felt what it meant to experience excruciating pain that penetrated deep into their souls.
"Hmph hmph hmph hmph!"
Bai Zhanfeng felt his mind suddenly explode, his legs went weak, and he lost his grip on the sword, which fell to the ground.
Su Youli suddenly changed the direction of her attack, sweeping the greatsword horizontally, and the broad blade sent him flying.
Before her lay only a group of old men, their faces contorted in pain, lying scattered on the ground.
"Even if you have honed your divine will for decades or even centuries, you are still too weak in terms of spirit. This is to limit the dragon roar that Su Youli just released, which is specifically aimed at the soul and can directly kill people below the Divine Gang Realm."
As for those at the Divine罡 Realm, although they cannot be killed by roars, they can still experience pain that penetrates deep into their souls, rendering them unable to use their divine will for a short period of time.
Earlier, the commotion deep within the blood mist had weakened and then disappeared completely.
Footsteps sounded, and a figure in red robes slowly appeared, almost blending into the blood mist, making it difficult to distinguish between the two.
Modi casually tossed out five people and piled them together, not caring whether they would be injured a second time.
"These five are the spies that Zhenwu Guard planted in Tianyong City. They also wanted to plot against me, but unfortunately, I can read the script."
His spiritual intuition was triggered the moment he was targeted.
Just as the cicadas sense the autumn wind before it blows, his spiritual intuition can achieve a similar level of sensitivity.
Those whose spiritual cultivation is not as strong as his often create disturbances in the etheric layer when they plot against him, which then interact with him and are noticed by him.
In this world, cultivators often have low spiritual cultivation, which is why Zhenwu Guard was able to detect his schemes so quickly.
"Five people, five Zhenwu Guard agents, but one is missing. Based on what I saw in the ethereal layer, the missing one should be a eunuch."
"A eunuch? He must be from the Western Depot, and to be able to mobilize these five undercover agents, his official rank can't be too low; at least a commander of a thousand punishments."
"That's strange. I haven't offended the court, so why are they arresting me? That eunuch wouldn't have traveled all the way to Tianyong City just for me, would he? There must be something fishy going on..."
During the conversation, the elders who had been lying on the ground gradually recovered from their spiritual torment and regained consciousness.
The first thing they did after opening their eyes was to use their divine will, but as soon as the thought arose, a sharp pain shot through their minds.
Some of those with weaker mental fortitude fainted on the spot, while those who didn't faint turned pale.
"Awake?" Mo Di looked at Bai Zhanfeng, whose eyes were glazed over, with an indifferent expression.
"You..." Bai Zhanfeng opened his mouth, then became dejected. "You've won. Now, make your move."
The other elders were similar; some were numb, others were indignant, but none of them were willing to stand up and fight him to the last moment.
Mo Di frowned and looked at Su Youli. "These people can become elders? They can break through to the Divine罡 Realm? They can be called sword cultivators?"
Based on his impression of sword cultivators, even if such a person wasn't stubborn, they wouldn't lack the courage to even draw their sword.
Moreover, those who can break through to the Divine罡 Realm are all exceptional individuals, one in ten thousand. They all possess sufficient courage and determination.
But these elders didn't; they didn't even dare to draw their swords in front of him.
Su Youli shook her head, indicating that she knew nothing, and then casually offered a guess:
"Perhaps the dragon's roar just now damaged their divine will, and their divine will, in turn, interfered with their personality, causing them to become decadent."
Modi didn't speak. He scanned the area with his spiritual sense and found that the elders' divine weapons were at most at the seventh level of divine energy, and there wasn't even one at the eighth level.
"The eighth level of Divine Qi, is that a watershed moment?" He looked at Su Youli.
The latter nodded and said, "That's right. There's a saying in the world that anyone who can condense eight layers of divine energy can basically break through to the Grandmaster realm."
Mo Di understood, then glanced at the elders and said, "The older one gets, the more stagnant one becomes, the less hopeful one is of breaking through, and the more one's temperament is tempered, making it even more hopeless to break through."
Thinking about it this way, the Seed of the Mind created from the body parts of the God of Light is really a good thing.
Having an emotional outburst once can give you the opportunity to confront your inner self.
Whether you survive or not, you gain strength and become a fanatic who is determined to stick to your own beliefs; the only difference is whether you are rational enough.
If any twister or awakened being were brought into this world, they would basically be able to condense divine will, or even go further.
On the ground, Bai Zhanfeng felt ashamed to hear himself being evaluated in such a way by a junior, wishing he could disappear into the ground.
He thought that after the red-robed Taoist finished speaking, he would kill him, but he was wrong again.
Mo Di simply walked up to the two Qingming Palace elders, looked at the head of Wan Canghai that one of them was carrying, and asked:
"You should know about many of the court's plans, such as the matter concerning the Western Depot's chief executioner."
Unlike the other elders, Wan Canghai glanced at him and sneered, "You think I'd tell you? I'd rather die than tell you."
Compared to the other elders, he was more courageous. Perhaps given more time, he could condense eight layers of divine energy and eventually break through to the Grandmaster level.
But now, he's just fish on Modi's chopping board.
"You'd better not be so confident. You should know that death itself may not be scary, but the process of dying can be terrifying."
Modi grabbed the bow in his hair, lifted his head up, and said in a chilling tone:
"Did you know that the brain itself does not have pain receptors? What really causes headaches are the structures that surround the brain, such as the meninges, blood vessels, and nerves?"
"Would you like to try feeling your brain tissue being cut off while you're fully awake?"