Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 519: Chapter 519: Turbulent Currents

Meanwhile, the Power of Breaking Army and Slaughter that Xu Yunfan cultivated sought to find a weak point in the Sword Intent and launch a targeted strike.

Of course, he didn’t know where the sword light’s weakness lay, but the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi was layered densely, providing complete coverage. Given enough time, it was bound to find it.

Seeing that the single sword strike had failed to completely penetrate the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The surprise in his eyes was unmistakable.

He truly hadn’t expected this Artifact Refining True Technique to be so wondrous when it came to combat.

The profound mysteries of the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi, condensed from the True Skill known as the *Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture*, far surpassed his expectations.

This True Skill was truly worthy of being one of the top True Techniques of the Primordial Sect’s Profound Capital lineage.

The Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi was no uniform, pure energy. Its core mystery was the vast and mighty power contained within the eight fundamental phases of heaven and earth: Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui.

Within each wisp of Cloud Qi, it was as if a small cosmos flowed.

It could be the very essence of the earth, bearing the virtue of the Thick Earth that supports all creation. It could be the highest good, like water, nurturing the birth of Spiritual Mechanisms. It could be the incomparably fierce Nine Heavens Thunderbolt, annihilating all that is evil. It could be the Pure Yang True Flame, warming all things and nourishing their spiritual essence. And beyond all that, it possessed the supreme, wondrous ability to separate filth from purity and stabilize space itself.

The Sword Dao philosophy of the Wansheng Sword Sect, "One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws," was all about refining countless Sword Intents into a single point of sharpness—one of ultimate simplicity, purity, and acuity. It used this incomparably pure, ultimate intent to sever all obstacles and strike directly at the Origin of the Great Dao.

This resplendent sword light was the perfect embodiment of that philosophy. Its will to annihilate everything was enough to tear through most conventional defenses.

Yet now, facing this peerless Sword Gang that could sever causality and shatter the Ten Thousand Laws, the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi under Xu Yunfan’s control revealed a completely different approach.

The wondrous uses of his Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, which was on the verge of reaching the Perfection stage on his Skill Level panel, flowed through Xu Yunfan’s mind.

Even the original creator of the technique wouldn’t have dared to claim they could wield it better than Xu Yunfan.

The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi didn’t meet the attack head-on with ultimate rigidity. Instead, it used its all-encompassing attribute of "ultimate complexity" to manifest endless transformations.

He guided it with his Divine Thought, his Magical Power surged, and he executed a Seal Technique.

He transformed the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi into a colossal palm of Cloud Qi that seemed to cover the sky.

The moment the colossal palm took shape, the space it covered seemed to solidify, layer by layer, becoming stagnant and sluggish. This was the wondrous fusion of the Kan and Gen phases, creating an intangible "quagmire."

Simultaneously, the Innate Pure and Muddy Qi he had drawn in circulated within the palm, transforming into Innate Muddy Evil Origin and becoming the Filthy Yin Power of the Kun Phase. Like maggots clinging to bone, it relentlessly eroded and corrupted the pure, sharp edge of the Sword Intent, causing its power to quietly dissipate.

Even more brilliantly, Xu Yunfan simultaneously channeled the Magical Power of the *Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture*, infusing the Power of Breaking Army and Slaughter it contained into the true essence of the Li and Zhen phases of the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi.

This power didn’t directly clash with the strongest point of the Sword Gang. Instead, like a thread of thrice-refined gold, it weaved through the enveloping layers of Cloud Qi, constantly probing and searching for the weakest gaps in the sword light’s flowing intent, then launching targeted strikes with the fury of a thunderbolt.

This tactic was a near-perfect fusion of the sharp, offensive power of the Divine Sky Nine Heavens technique and the Ten Thousand Transformations Skill of the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi.

If not for his Attribute Panel, Xu Yunfan truly would not have been able to achieve such a feat.

’Then again,’ he mused, ’after all those days of painstaking cultivation in seclusion, like some Ascetic Monk, this is what I’ve earned through sheer hard work.’

’My talent is just that good.’

In an instant, the pure Sword Intent—which should have been unstoppable, capable of shattering all in its path—was trapped in a "Transformation Mud Pool" woven from multiple Heaven and Earth Origin Attributes.

The Sword Qi continuously tore through layer after layer of the cloud curtain, but the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi, with its aspect of Endless Life, kept regenerating as its attributes shifted and cycled.

For every layer of spatial stagnation that was broken, another would form. For every trace of Muddy Fiend contamination that was repelled, another wisp would seep in. For every thunderous, killing blow that was blocked, a new opening would be sought.

Under his exquisite control, the powers of the eight phases evolved and combined, forming an incredibly complex and infinitely resilient Luo Net.

This ultimate "complexity" and "transformation" was the perfect Supreme Method to counter the ultimate "simplicity" and "sharpness" of the Wansheng Sword Sect.

It made Xu Yunfan wonder if this Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi technique had been created specifically to counter the Sword Dao of the Wansheng Sword Sect.

However, the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi was notoriously difficult to learn. For most people, controlling the eight types of Cloud Qi with such microscopic precision was an all but impossible task.

As one side waxed and the other waned, the resplendent sword light, though still incomparably sharp, seemed to have fallen into a boundless swamp. It was ground down layer by layer, its speed plummeting as its glow dimmed at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The sword light pulsed, breaking through layer after layer of Cloud Qi, but its speed was clearly impeded, and its brilliance began to fade.

He had no idea which Great Daoist Master of the Wansheng Sword Sect at Foundation Establishment Perfection had launched the attack, but a single strike had forced him to use nearly everything he had just to stall.

’If another sword strike comes...’

Xu Yunfan reckoned he’d have no choice but to flee.

Just as Xu Yunfan was using the Eight Sceneries Cloud Hand to grind down the resplendent sword light layer by layer...

...deep in the heart of the Eastern Wilderness Battlefield, an aura that was pure, flawless, lofty, and profound suddenly rose. It emerged from a stretch of sky that was painted in magnificent yet destructive colors by a collision of boundless Buddha Light and Primordial Immortal Essence.

"Hmph!"

A soft snort, imbued with the might of the Dao, seemed to descend from the Nine Heavens above, carrying with it a supreme will that governed all and set the order of the cosmos.

It was none other than the Pure Source, Wondrous Way, and the Mandate of the Mysterious Vault True Monarch.

Though he was physically on a distant battlefield, the sudden appearance of the rich Puchen aura from the Guiding Finger of Nirvana in the direction of Cold Crow Pass had already put him on high alert.

Chu Chengnan’s attempt to attain the Golden Dao was of great use to him, so he would naturally not allow anyone to disrupt the process. A considerable portion of his Heart and Spirit was already focused on it.

In the very instant that the Great Awakening Bodhisattva’s Withered Silence Buddha Hand Seal—which contained the Power of Dao Fruit Origin from the Nirvana Red Lotus—was about to invisibly strike the foundation of Chu Chengnan’s Divine Soul across an unreachable expanse of space...

VMMMM!

...a hazy Immortal Light, purer than pure and clearer than clear, arrived first despite being launched second.

This hazy Immortal Light was pristine and sharp. It lacked a vast, imposing presence, but it was refined and condensed to the absolute extreme, carrying with it an indescribable Innate Daoist profundity.

The Immortal Light seemed to possess a will of its own. It spread silently through the void like a blooming watercolor, and wherever it passed, all filth, impurities, and foreign energies were forcibly washed away and purified, returned to the most fundamental state of "purity" and "stillness."

This was precisely True Monarch Qing Yuan’s life-bound Daoist Technique, the *Qiankun Pure Qi Mysterious Dao True Skill*.

The essence of that Immortal Light was, in fact, the Origin Manifestation of the "Immortal Palace Pure Qi" that he had condensed from his Golden Core Magical Power.

The Red Lotus Karmic Fire on the Withered Silence Buddha Hand Seal, which could ignite the Dao Heart and bring Nirvana to the Divine Soul, and its accompanying Assimilation Thought, had only just made contact with the hazy Immortal Light when they reacted like lingering snow meeting the scorching sun, or like a drop of ink in a crystal-clear spring.

Silently and without a trace, the power of that Bodhisattva’s Finger—a power sufficient to gravely injure or even bring Nirvana to a Great Daoist Master at Foundation Establishment Perfection—was instantly enveloped, neutralized, and dissipated by the seemingly gentle Immortal Palace Pure Qi. Its innate Nirvana Buddha Power and its causal tether were simply erased.

There was no earth-shattering collision, no violent torrent of energy.

There was only the purification and Returning Essence characteristic of a supreme Daoist technique.

Under True Monarch Qing Yuan’s precise, remote intervention, the intangible shackle of Buddha Power aimed at Chu Chengnan was simply "wiped away." It dissipated into nothingness, as if it had never existed at all.

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