True Person Biyue clearly felt the terrifying power locking her ankle; it was as heavy as a mountain.
At the same time, a vast wave of dharma power crashed down to suppress her.
Her escape art, which had already begun burning her essence blood, was forcefully interrupted. The backlash hit her instantly, draining all color from her face.
Whoosh!
Dark dharma power surged around True Person Biyue's captive right foot. The surrounding space faintly distorted, and in an entirely unnatural twist, she broke free from your grip and shot backward.
"A spatial secret art? Or a secret treasure?"
You withdrew your right hand, feeling a pang of regret.
You had hidden in the shadows, letting the Tier 3 puppet, Xiao Hei, and True Person Blood Sea launch the first wave of attacks. You followed up by slamming her sea of consciousness with a divine soul strike, all to set up this ambush.
Yet you hadn't expected True Person Biyue to slip away at the last possible second.
"Mountain and Sea dharma power? You're True Person Qingyuan?"
True Person Biyue's chest he heave violently. She stared at you, her voice thick with disbelief.
She hadn't recognized True Person Blood Sea's attack; after all, his transition to ghost cultivation had completely altered his dharma power aura.
But you were different. When you struck, the sheer, rolling vastness of your dharma power washed over the area. True Person Biyue could not fail to recognize it.
And in the Taiyuan Region and the surrounding territories, you were the only Gold Core stage true person wielding the Shanhai Inheritance who had any connection to her.
"You only broke through to the Core Formation Stage a few decades ago. Even with a Flawless Gold Core, how could you possess this kind of strength..."
True Person Biyue could hardly believe it. The instant you attacked, she knew with absolute certainty that your strength had reached the Late Core Formation Stage.
Such terrifying cultivation speed was nearly impossible to achieve even with a demonic art, let alone the notoriously slow Shanhai Inheritance.
Countless thoughts raced through True Person Biyue's mind as she questioned your strength and how you had even found this place...
You offered no explanation. Taking a step forward, you closed in on her.
Your figure seemed to grow denser. The primal suppression radiating from your surging blood vitality left True Person Biyue feeling suffocated.
"Since you are a great true person of the demonic path, I wonder how many of my strikes you can take?"
You closed in instantly. A black-gold iron rod had materialized in your grip, radiating the terrifying aura of a high-grade dharma treasure as you smashed it down toward her.
With your mid-stage Flawless Gold Core cultivation, you already rivaled an ordinary Late-Stage Great True Person. Paired with the suppression of your Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent, the sheer might of this strike appeared to True Person Biyue to faintly surpass the full-powered blow of someone at the peak of Core Formation.
Seeing this, True Person Biyue brought her moon-wheel dharma treasure spinning to the front to shield herself.
In an instant, your black-gold iron rod slammed into the moon-wheel.
Crack!
The moon-wheel dharma treasure let out a faint screech as several cracks fractured along its edge.
A wave of spiritual pressure, reaching the limits of the Core Formation Stage, swept out in all directions.
If you hadn't already cast a Tier 3 array across a radius of dozens of miles to isolate the area before striking...
...the sheer shockwave of this clash alone would have drawn the attention of true persons a thousand miles away.
Rustle, rustle!
Xiao Hei cowered in the distance, shivering uncontrollably.
As a mere early Tier 3 great demon, he was useless in a struggle at the peak of the Core Formation Stage.
Even when he had taken advantage of True Person Biyue fending off the Tier 3 puppet to launch a sneak attack earlier, he had only managed to distract her, failing to inflict a single wound.
"How terrifying!"
True Person Blood Sea stared at the center of the battlefield, his scalp going numb.
Even when he had pushed himself to the limit moments ago, burning his ghost cultivation origin essence, he had only managed to hinder True Person Biyue slightly.
True Person Blood Sea had known then just how terrifying she was. Even among Late-Stage Great True Persons, she was undoubtedly top-tier.
Yet now, you were suppressing her completely. Even her natal moon-wheel dharma treasure was cracking, unable to withstand your onslaught.
"Daoist Qingyuan's strength... has actually reached such heights..."
True Person Blood Sea was deeply shaken. This was the first time he had faced your true power head-on.
Before this, you had never once made a move in front of him.
His thoughts churned. In terms of status and seniority, you were merely the inheritor of the Shanhai Inheritance left behind by the Mountain Sea Sect Leader; you were technically his junior.
But the strength you displayed now proved that even if the past sect leader and True Person Blood Sea joined forces, they would fall far short of matching you.
"Senior Brother, your spirit in heaven..."
True Person Blood Sea felt a complicated swirl of emotions. Continuing the Shanhai Inheritance had always been his senior brother's wish—otherwise, he wouldn't have paid such a massive price to establish the Mountain and Sea Sect.
Sadly, because of Demoness Biyue, he and his senior brother had turned against each other, and the Mountain and Sea Sect had perished.
True Person Blood Sea had originally thought his hopes of revenge were slim—until he left the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, and until he encountered you again.
At first, he hadn't known how you planned to exact vengeance. He assumed you would borrow the power of Taiyuan Palace, a method you had firmly rejected.
Until now...
True Person Blood Sea's mind trembled with excitement. Not only did he see the hope of revenge, he saw the possibility of the Mountain and Sea lineage continuing.
The fracturing of her natal moon-wheel threw True Person Biyue's internal dharma power into chaos, forcing her to vomit a mouthful of blood.
You had already rattled her sea of consciousness with a divine soul strike and forcefully interrupted her escape art, causing a backlash. Now, with her natal dharma treasure heavily damaged, the backlash worsened, and her injuries began to affect her state.
"Suppress!"
True Person Biyue suppressed her injuries and spat out a moon-white precious ruler from her pink lips.
The precious ruler rapidly expanded in the wind, growing to over ten zhang in the blink of an eye. Gathering terrifying spiritual pressure, it swept horizontally toward you.
This moon-white ruler was True Person Biyue's second natal dharma treasure, specializing in offensive suppression. Even a Late-Stage Great True Person would be forced to retreat before its sweep, not daring to block it head-on.
And forcing you to retreat was exactly what True Person Biyue wanted.
At this moment, True Person Biyue was fully aware that if this dragged on any longer, even if she didn't die by your hand, she would be slain by the other Core Formation true persons rushing to the scene.
She had just exchanged a city full of cultivators for a single Heavenly Infant Fruit. Every great true person in the surrounding regions was secretly tracking her down. Even demonic path great true persons were thinking of striking her to snatch the Heavenly Infant Fruit.
Not to mention the killing intent of True Monarch Zixu.
Once her tracks were exposed, True Person Biyue's death was absolutely certain.
As for True Lord Seven Fiends' protection? Demonic cultivators preyed on the weak. Why would True Lord Seven Fiends ever protect her?
The only reason True Person Biyue had managed a normal trade with True Lord Seven Fiends was by relying on the legacy of the previous master of the Jiuyou Cult, coupled with the fact that True Lord Seven Fiends had just entered the Nascent Soul Stage and desperately needed massive amounts of cultivator essence blood and divine souls to stabilize his realm.
Only then was this wildly unequal transaction reached.
If she dared to show her face in front of True Lord Seven Fiends again, she would most likely be snatched up and instantly refined.
Therefore, in True Person Biyue's plan, the moment you stepped back even slightly, she would have the chance to slip away. At worst, she would pay the price to forcefully use a blood escape—anything was better than being trapped here.
As the moon-white precious ruler swept toward you, you instantly saw through True Person Biyue's intentions.
Even though the surroundings were already covered by the Tier 3 array you had set up, you were unwilling to give True Person Biyue any chance to distance herself. Standing entirely motionless, you raised your right hand in a posture to block the moon-white precious ruler.
Boom—
Heavy mountain and sea dharma power formed layers of barriers over your skin. Combined with your defensive dharma treasure robes, your Tier 3 physical physique, and finally, the immunity to demonic cultivator attacks granted by your Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent...
...you forcefully withstood the sweeping blow of the moon-white precious ruler.
"How is that possible!"
A chill ran down True Person Biyue's spine, her mind filled with disbelief. 'A Third-Tier Body Cultivator? At least mid-grade Tier 3 body refinement?'
Unaware of the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent, True Person Biyue could only attribute this to your physical physique reaching the mid-grade of Tier 3.
This made True Person Biyue feel it was utterly absurd. In just a few short decades, not only did you possess dharma cultivation at the late-stage to peak of Core Formation, but your body refinement had also reached mid-grade Tier 3?
Many dharma cultivation true persons concurrently practiced body refinement.
But the path of body cultivation, even excluding the threat of heavenly tribulations, was extremely time-consuming.
A normal dharma cultivation true person needed to spend a massive amount of time just advancing their own cultivation. How could they possibly have the effort to bother with body refinement?
The absolute lifespan limit of a dharma cultivation true person was nominally five hundred years, but in reality, the time left for a true person to cultivate in the Core Formation Stage was only slightly over three hundred years.
The Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages would take around a century even for someone with an earth spiritual root.
Those with a heavenly spiritual root could step into Core Formation around age seventy, but across the million li of the Taiyuan Region, just how many heavenly spiritual root cultivators were there?
"Is your counterattack just scratching an itch?"
You continued to stride forward. Your blood vitality surged over several li, lightly suppressing True Person Biyue.
It had to be said—the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent gave you far too massive an advantage when facing a demonic cultivator.
Without the amplification of this talent, it would have been very difficult to force True Person Biyue to this point.
After all, your true cultivation was only at the mid-stage of the Gold Core realm.
And your physical physique was merely at early Tier 3.
The latter was only achieved by relying on the accumulation of your previous several simulations.
Boom!
Boom!!
Boom!!!
Wielding the black-gold iron rod, you stayed close to True Person Biyue, continuously smashing it down.
Like a savage beast rampaging across the world, you battered her from above.
At the same time, your divine sense attacks did not stop.
You deduced that True Person Biyue must have a rare divine soul secret treasure suppressing her sea of consciousness; otherwise, she could not have held out through your multiple divine sense attacks.
But even with the protection of a rare and precious divine soul secret treasure, blocking your divine sense attacks still required her to split her mental focus.
Once her mental focus was split, True Person Biyue found it difficult to manage everything else. She would only end up being worn to death by you.
As a Third-Tier Body Cultivator, your recovery was terrifying. Paired with your Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent granting you immunity to a portion of True Person Biyue's attacks, the longer the slaughter dragged on, the worse it got for her.
"I can't drag this out any longer..."
True Person Biyue was firmly pinned down by you, completely unable to break free.
Catching sight of a grayish fog blanketing the distance from the corner of her eye, she immediately realized the area had been enveloped by a great array.
Facing the great array, True Person Biyue wasn't worried. She was a Tier 3 array master herself and held many restriction-breaking talismans. But right now, the most important thing was escaping your entanglement.
True Person Biyue's expression flickered. She possessed a demonic forbidden art; once activated, it would massively boost all of her attributes. However, it carried tremendous aftereffects.
It would cause an irreversible impact on her attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage.
"So be it..."
True Person Biyue cast a final glance at a nearby house. Suddenly, the aura around her began to violently transform.
Her previously dark dharma power rapidly turned volatile, like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
Boom!
The moon-white precious ruler swept out, forcing you back.
True Person Biyue's figure rapidly shot upward. A formless, blood-red flame ignited across her body.
"I will never forget what Daoist Qingyuan has done today..."
Shooting you a final look of resentment, True Person Biyue's figure blurred. Moving at an inconceivable speed, she began to make large-distance leaps.
"Demoness, stay right here!"
Right at that moment, the ghost qi around True Person Blood Sea boiled and began burning frantically.
At this moment, to delay True Person Biyue and create an opportunity for you, True Person Blood Sea was prepared to burn his final origin essence. Even if he died on the spot, he would not regret it.
However, in the next moment—
Under True Person Blood Sea's bewildered gaze, your aura—despite having just been knocked back by the moon-white precious ruler—suddenly skyrocketed completely. Your surging blood vitality expanded outward like an ocean.
Body cultivation divine ability—Eruption.
You had held this method back for one specific reason: to guard against any trump card True Person Biyue might possess that could render her temporarily invincible.
Such as a mid-grade Tier 4 defensive talisman.
Once activated, only a true lord's strike could break it.
The body cultivation divine ability Eruption could only be maintained for a hundred breaths. You needed to save it for the critical moment.
Now that True Person Biyue was desperately fleeing, even resorting to a forbidden art that would leave immense hidden dangers to herself, her trump cards were clearly exhausted. You could finally trigger the Eruption divine ability to settle everything.
Buzz—
Under the Eruption divine ability, your flesh, your physique, your blood vitality, and your divine soul all surged drastically.
Especially your divine soul, which determined the strength of your divine sense attacks. Stacking it with the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent, you directly launched a divine soul attack.
In the distance, True Person Biyue felt her sea of consciousness roar. The heavily fractured jade token finally shattered completely.
"No—!"
True Person Biyue's expression filled with despair. She forced herself to look back.
She found you had already strode up, reaching out your right hand to press down toward the crown of her head.
...
True Person Biyue's head exploded. A dark gold core shot out, trying to flee.
But you casually flipped your hand, slapping a sealing talisman onto it to suppress it, then stored it away.
You immediately looted a storage ring from True Person Biyue's corpse. Sending your divine sense into it, you rapidly began refining it.
Since you were still in the Eruption state, your divine sense was at its peak, making the refinement process extremely smooth.
In no time, your divine sense entered the interior of True Person Biyue's storage ring.
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