Chapter 568: Chapter 566: The Great Battle with the Transcendent God (Last two days of the month, seeking votes) _1
Fang Xi had turned deadly at the first encounter with the six Nascent Soul cultivators, naturally because time was of the essence.
The self-destruction of the three advanced-stage Puppets might not hold Ancestor Huo back for long.
He was certainly not the type to place his own safety on the fleeting thoughts of others. Once he tore off all pretenses and made his move, he would naturally strike to kill!
Secondly, there were too many cultivators present!
If they had time to react and all attacked Fang Xi together, even if he were made of iron he wouldn’t be able to withstand many blows.
Not to mention anything else, with just a mere ten thousand years of lifespan, if he eradicated twenty Nascent Souls he would more or less perish with them...
That’s why he had to wipe out the six Nascent Soul cultivators as easily as cutting vegetables, then take the opportunity to execute the "Sky Demon Chant" secret skill of Divine Consciousness attack, triggering the cultivators’ inner fears and creating a terrifying effect of facing a thousand enemies alone.
This momentum was actually a balloon, puncture it and it bursts!
Therefore, Fang Xi came to the edge of the Array, Array Flags flying out, ready to break through the Array!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Between heaven and earth, endless Fire Formation Divine Light exploded forth, dispersing the all-encompassing Demon Fire, Yin Thunder, and Monster Wind.
Ancestor Huo’s clothes were a bit disheveled, and there was a hint of blood at the corner of his mouth. He huffed coldly, "Kuyong Mysterious Light?! So you’re a remnant of the Green Emperor Mountain... Try to leave?"
In his hands, a number of crimson small flags surfaced, rapidly fluttering about.
Rustling!
Countless jade platforms roared as columns of pure white light soared into the sky, a multitude of iron chains dancing wildly like serpents, fully activating the fifth-tier Array of the Sacred Fire Sect!
When Fang Xi took action, Ancestor Huo was immediately shocked.
Although this cultivator’s aura was only at the full completion of the Nascent Soul, his magic power and divine skills were almost no less than his own.
Nevertheless, he found himself in a situation where he couldn’t back down and could only suppress with all his might.
Even so, Ancestor Huo did not have much confidence and could only rely on the Array’s power.
Inside this Great Array, with the aid of many other cultivators’ magic powers... even if he faced a middle or late stage Transcendent God cultivator, Ancestor Huo dared to fight!
Fang Xi naturally knew the serious threat he faced and had no desire to battle a Transcendent God master within the Array; he only wanted to make an escape...
As for using the "Kuyong Mysterious Light" to deal with Ancestor Huo?
After using the "Life-Death Seal," he had already sensed the opponent’s remaining lifespan, which was about five or six hundred years left!
And after all, Kuyong Mysterious Light wasn’t the Supreme Northern Dipper Life-controlling Divine Skills, killing enemies across a vast realm would lead to severe backlash.
Even if he had cultivated the Kuyong Mysterious Light to the Mahayana Realm, the backlash would not be any less.
Based on a rough sense, trying to wipe out Ancestor Huo would likely require tens of thousands of years of lifespan—it simply wasn’t possible!
If Ancestor Huo only had a year or two of life remaining, Fang Xi could have risked the backlash and made his move; but obviously that wasn’t feasible now.
Humm! Humm!
The terrifying power of the fifth-tier Array felt like it was covering the sky and overwhelming the Void.
Columns of light fell from above the sky, within which were chains of silver-white covered in tricolored flames.
Even more frightening was that at the top of Bright Peak, the Three Yang Holy Fire also rose up with intense hostility during a breath’s time.
’This fifth-tier Great Array actually uses a clump of fifth-tier Spirit Fire as the Array Eye... Has the Sacred Fire Sect’s ultimate goal been to refine the Three Yang Holy Fire into a special kind of Array Spirit? They really dare to dream and act on it...’
Taking a deep breath, Fang Xi suddenly clenched his hands into a seal, "Hurry!"
The ground suddenly rumbled and cracked open.
It was the Qinghe Needles previously released by Fang Xi, which were now disrupting the underground Prohibitions and Earth Flames under the control of the ’Taiyi Sutra.’
Swish!
From thousands of feet below, countless Cyan Light Needles converged into a massive Qinghe Sword, which slashed upon the Prohibitions resembling a black dragon!
Grrr! Grrr!
The black dragon roared and struggled as it fell.
The Earth Flames completely lost their Prohibitions and began to furiously strike the layers of earth.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Sacred Fire Peak started to shake violently, the ground cracked open further, fire dragons, fire birds, and fire beasts rushed out in a frenzy as if they wanted to incinerate everything!
The Earth Flames were out of control!
The clump of Three Yang Holy Fire suddenly trembled, becoming somewhat unstable.
With this disturbance, the originally smoothly running Array paused for a moment, numerous jade platforms cried out, surfaces starting to crack, and a multitude of chains snapped...
Fang Xi suddenly felt the Array’s suffocating pressure on him ease significantly.
Of course, executing such a tactic also required a fifth-tier Array Master, coordinating with the ’Taiyi Sutra’s horrific computational power for prior arrangements, to accomplish this feat.
Moreover, it wouldn’t stall the Great Array for too long.
Humm! Humm!
The Void vibrated as countless underground Prohibitions were rapidly being repaired by the Array’s might.
Ancestor Huo’s expression changed, and with a sudden roar, he conjured a gigantic fire Qi Lin from the Fire Formation Divine Light, suppressing the various fire beasts and stabilizing the Array Eye of Bright Peak.
Seizing this opportunity, Fang Xi reached out, gesturing with his hand.
Countless Cyan Light Needles gathered, transforming into a ’Green Barley Sword’ landing in his palm.
Slash!
A streak of Sword Light arose, slashing heavily on the Array’s weak point.
The Void quaked with turbulence, the Dense Fog dispersed, revealing a layer of Five-Color Prohibitions, but it ultimately could not be broken through.
Fang Xi’s expression remained neutral, flicking a Breaking Array Bead he’d obtained from Lord Sihuang.
Wham!
A burst of silver light exploded, vanquishing that layer of Five-Color Prohibition.
The Void was disturbed, creating a narrow path just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Fang Xi immediately turned into a streak of cyan rainbow and zoomed through, disappearing after a few flashes...
"Stop!"
Behind him, a fiery divine light chased relentlessly, also vanishing into the horizon at an incredible pace.
Atop a jade platform, Jue Yanzi watched the scene unfold with an expressionless face.
The sect’s gate was breached!
The Great Array was damaged!
The jade platform had fallen!
Many of our Cultivators were either dead or grievously injured, even a Nascent Soul late-stage Law Enforcement Elder had perished!
’This must be a delusion caused by deviating in my practice... How could a mere Nascent Soul achieve all this?’
As the leading force of the Western Desert Cultivation World, the Cultivators of the Sacred Fire Sect had always harbored a sense of pride deep within their hearts.
But now, their hearts felt hollow as if they had lost something of grave importance.
...
Whoosh!
Fang Xi operated a secret skill, and his magic power was depleted by more than half in an instant, transforming into a terrifying escape light that, in the blink of an eye, carried him more than a hundred miles away.
After fleeing a thousand miles, he stuffed another Returning Profound Pill into his mouth and cast the secret skill once more.
After several iterations, he was already tens of thousands of miles away.
But behind him, a streak of firelight was still in relentless pursuit!
"Ancestor Huo, why must you be so aggressively persistent?"
Fang Xi swept his Divine Consciousness over the area and could not help but snort coldly, "Aren’t you afraid I’ll deal with the disciples of the Sacred Fire Sect in the future?"
The escape speed of this Ancestor Huo was astonishingly fast.
Beneath him, there was a Wind Fire Wheel, borrowing the power of the wind to enhance the escape speed.
’A fifth-order Spirit Communicating Treasure? No... just an Exotic Treasure, but the enhanced escape speed it offers is so remarkable...’
Fang Xi was rendered somewhat speechless.
All the way through this pursuit, he had used up almost half of his Returning Profound Pills.
The depletion of magic power was secondary; the real concern was that frequent use of secret skills could damage his essence blood and primordial energy.
Ancestor Huo did not bother to respond but his escape light subtly increased in speed yet again.
Fang Xi sighed inwardly, knowing that today’s troubles could not be easily resolved, and he couldn’t just vanish under his opponent’s watchful eye, which would only raise suspicion and even stirred within him a desire to test his mettle against a Transcendent God.
He found an open area, swallowed another ’Returning Profound Pill’, and at the same time, his hands flashed with the five-color radiance of the ’Five Elements Ring’, which spun rapidly, casting down a five-color Xia light.
The Star Luo Chessboard and the Devil-locking Tower flew out, the chessboard positioned beneath his feet, and the small tower hovering above his head, each radiating its light.
With the ring in one hand and his sword in the other, he prepared himself.
"Humph!"
Ancestor Huo let out a cold harrumph as the fiery divine light surged, transforming into a blazing Kylin, surrounded by red runes, and suddenly it opened its mouth, spitting out a crimson Fireglow Inner Pill!
"Go!"
Fang Xi infused the Five Elements Ring with his magic power, and the ring rotated, transforming into a pitch-black Mysterious Water Lotus. Petals fell one by one, colliding with the Fireglow Inner Pill.
Thud!
Numerous sparks of fire rained down, leaving behind an array of scorched pits on the ground.
"Roar!"
The Fire Qi Lin let out a roar and suddenly opened its mouth wide, swallowing the ’Five Elements Ring’ whole.
In just an instant, Fang Xi felt the connection between himself and the ’Five Elements Ring’ weakening rapidly.
After all, the ring was only a fourth-order Lingbao; being refined by the endless fire divine light, it was about to be reduced to a piece of scrap metal!
"Explode!"
Fang Xi’s face turned fierce, and he abruptly formed a hand seal.
Streaks of five-color radiance suddenly burst forth from within the Fire Qi Lin, like myriad five-color light swords piercing through the Kylin’s belly and back!
Bang!
The sky full of fire divine light dissipated, turning into countless five-colored spots of light that sprinkled across the firmament.
"Worthy of being a Transcendent God..."
Fang Xi silently assessed that, although he was exceptionally wealthy among those of the Nascent Soul stage, he did not possess many fifth-order items.
Battling a Transcendent God was truly perilous at this moment.
’But without fighting fiercely, he would not retreat willingly.’
He looked at Ancestor Huo, and his hands rapidly formed a complex series of seals, as if he was spinning a windmill.
Above Fang Xi’s head, a silver-white worm appeared, resembling an eight-clawed spider, which was a fifth-order ’Fortune Worm’!
He had long contemplated using this ’Fortune Worm’ as a foundation to devise several powerful secret skills.
This skill was developed in The Nine States but not yet perfected.
Yet Fang Xi was quite satisfied with it and ready to employ it in combat.
"Deplete Luck Skill!"
With the final seal changed, the silver-white ’Fortune Worm’ transformed into a sharp light, brushing over Ancestor Huo!
Ancestor Huo was surrounded by a Wind Fire Wheel, and although he did not feel anything amiss, his Spirit Sense was already alerting him as if something terrifying had just happened!
’This stroke of Deplete Luck Divine Light, treats the ’Fortune Worm’ like a magical treasure... directly depleting the opponent’s fortune... but each time it is used, the Fortune Worm must fall into a deep sleep...’
Fang Xi pointed towards the small tower above his head.
This ’Devil-locking Tower’ had an already remarkable foundation and, after being blessed with the Blood Sacrifice of innumerable monsters, became even more extraordinary.
Among all the Lingbao Fang Xi had seen, it was only slightly inferior to the fifth-order Devil-locking Tower in Ice Xuanzi’s hands, ranking higher than the Five Elements Ring!
Buzz buzz!
The gray-white tower roared, and streaks of silver light began to emerge.
The ’Green Barley Sword’ had already transformed into countless Qinghe Invisible Needles, spread throughout the void.
Suddenly, streams of silver light flickered, accompanied by Invisible Needles, surged towards Ancestor Huo’s protective divine light...