Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable-Chapter 158: Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Dragon Slaying Swordsmanship
This was the first time Ye Tianling had used his Sword Soul to fight a Sword Spirit.
And a peerless Sword Spirit of the Void Realm, no less.
But he felt no fear.
HISS—
The Samadhi True Fire Celestial Dragon Sword Soul and the Blood Killing Dragon Soul smashed into each other, sparking the most violent of collisions.
The battle between a Sword Soul and a Sword Spirit was direct, savage, brutal, and vicious.
BOOM!
It was as if the void itself were collapsing, as if his very soul were being torn asunder.
In that instant, a crimson halo flowed across every inch of Ye Tianling’s skin.
His soul felt as if it had been struck by endless thunderbolts, and a piercing, tearing pain began to bloom.
The Dragon Blood in his body circulated unceasingly. A sanguine glow suffused him, shimmering with an unparalleled, divine radiance.
CRACK CRACK CRACK—
Fissures appeared on every inch of his skin, and blood began to flow out. He could feel his incomparably powerful physical body starting to break apart.
Although his soul wasn’t severely damaged, the extreme, stabbing pain was becoming almost too much for him to bear.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE—
The Celestial Dragon Sword Soul and the Blood Killing Dragon Spirit fought like Fierce Beasts driven into a frenzy.
The frenzied collisions and attacks made Ye Tianling’s expression increasingly grave and pale, and Xia Xinyan’s face grew just as somber and wan.
PFFT—
After another collision, the aura of the Samadhi True Fire Celestial Dragon Sword Soul suddenly weakened. Immediately after, Ye Tianling spat out a mouthful of blood and retracted his Dragon Soul. His own soul trembled violently, and his mind went completely blank.
BOOM—
At that same moment, Xia Xinyan’s Blood Killing Dragon Spirit Sword Spirit was also blasted back. Every wisp of the Samadhi True Fire Aura clinging to it was like a peerless poison, inflicting fatal damage upon her Dragon Spirit Sword Spirit.
PFFT—
Xia Xinyan coughed up a large mouthful of blood.
In the rippling void, the vibrant blood was as striking as plum blossoms in the snow.
"Die!"
At that moment, Xia Xinyan unleashed a Blood Kill sword strike. The strike seemed to pierce through the void, aimed at Ye Tianling just as his mind went blank and his soul reeled.
CLANG!
On Ye Tianling’s body, his Spiritual Armor, the Ice Spirit Armor, once again manifested a cyan light. It shot out like a halo, blocking Xia Xinyan’s terrifying attack.
HISS—
The halo was pierced and dented nearly half a meter deep, yet its defense didn’t break in the slightest. It had completely blocked the blow!
’A Spiritual Artifact, a dedicated Defensive Spiritual Artifact! This azure light... Is this the Ice Spirit Armor?’
Xia Xinyan’s pupils contracted, and a look of shock finally appeared on her face.
"Take this!"
Ye Tianling’s hand shot out, and the Extreme Cold Mysterious Sword fell into his grasp.
The blood of his Emperor’s Qi Sword Body erupted. Using the Blood Sacrifice Technique, Ye Tianling drove the Dragon Blood from the Ninth Layer Dragon Blood Region of the Dragon Soul Treasure Tower Celestial Ladder into his Spiritual Artifact, the Extreme Cold Mysterious Sword. Then, channeling his Tree Cutting Technique, he slashed at Xia Xinyan.
BOOM!
The space between Heaven and Earth suddenly became a field of blinding radiance.
HISS—
Under that single sword strike, the Dao Marks and Sword Spirit Power manifested by Xia Xinyan instantly disintegrated.
A single slash seemed to annihilate all obstacles, manifesting a blood-red, ancient killing intent that erased all abnormalities.
The world was a blinding glare.
A blinding glare of blood.
And a blinding glare of the light of slaughter.
HISS—
Beneath the sword, a gentle breeze swept by.
"Ancient as blood, life and death are but an illusion’s destruction!"
Xia Xinyan spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood.
She, a cultivator at the Void Realm First Transformation, had been forced to reveal her trump card—her killing move—to counter this attack.
At this moment, she had begun to respect Ye Tianling, to respect this peerless, genius opponent.
Regardless of who won or lost this battle, as long as Ye Tianling didn’t die, he would have firmly established himself.
From now on, he could go anywhere he pleased in this world.
Xia Xinyan manifested another Slaughter Technique—it was her strongest one: the Ancient Illusion Destruction Sword Dao.
This Sword Dao possessed the profound mystery of seizing the very fortune of Heaven and Earth. Before the Ancient Illusion Destruction Sword Dao, any esoteric Sword Skill Killing Dao would be reduced to mere dust.
"Fortune favors the divine and wondrous, while decay transforms into the mysteriously strange."
Xia Xinyan murmured softly.
Her voice contained a supreme Dao Sound.
And within that supreme Dao Sound was also the sound of a simple, ordinary Sword Dao.
Ancient.
Mysterious.
Decaying.
Mundane.
As this killing intent manifested, Ye Tianling felt a terrifyingly abnormal pressure.
Ye Tianling’s heart went cold. He sensed a dreadful Supreme Dao of Destruction and felt immense pressure!
Her attack seemed to strip his own attacks of their Battle Power, robbing his Dao Marks of their spiritual nature and causing them to wither and decay.
His Battle Power plummeted from a peerless, heaven-shaking level all the way down to that of the Sword Soul Third Heaven Realm.
His previous ferocious strike was thus rendered useless without even a fight.
’Even the Tree Cutting Technique is ineffective?!’
On Ye Tianling’s body, the protective halo of his Spiritual Armor once again blocked a blow. On that layer of protective cyan light, web-like cracks began to appear.
The cracks gradually multiplied.
The defensive Energy began to weaken.
Under her Killing Dao, even the defensive Ability of a Spiritual Artifact was rapidly deteriorating.
’It seems my only option is to use the Dragon Suppressing... to counter her.’
Ye Tianling thought to himself.
He had one technique, the most difficult one he had ever cultivated, and it was also extremely specialized.
That was the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
A Dragon Suppressing Technique.
Xia Xinyan was a Blood Dragon—though her bloodline wasn’t pure, she was still a dragon.
And since she was a dragon, the Dragon Suppressing Technique would have an extremely targeted effect on her.
Ye Tianling quieted his bloodline and used various bloodline abilities to cultivate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique to its peak.
At the same time, he fused the Samadhi True Fire into his meridians, using the Flame to incinerate his bloodline and force its power to erupt to its absolute limit.
Under these circumstances, Ye Tianling unleashed the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
This technique was no longer on the level of mere Martial Arts.
It had already stepped into the realms of bloodline, Talent, and the Supreme Dao.
"Flying Dragon in the Heavens! Dragon Seen in the Field!"
Ye Tianling executed this palm technique, infusing it with Samadhi True Fire.
BOOM—
Suddenly, the entire canyon region began to tremble violently.
At the same time, Xia Xinyan’s Slaughter Technique manifested, gathering the Energy between Heaven and Earth into the Blood Sword in her hand.
Feeling a hint of pressure, Xia Xinyan had her summoned Blood Sword begin to ravage the surrounding energy. At the same time, it created an environmental suppression against Ye Tianling to resist this ’pressure’.
The pale-golden, dragon-slaying power, carrying the fiery momentum of the Samadhi True Fire, clashed fiercely with the Slaughter Technique manifested by Xia Xinyan.
This was a head-on collision.
Unwittingly, Ye Tianling now possessed the power to fight on par with Xia Xinyan of the Sword Void First Transformation.
As for Xia Xinyan, she was now taking Ye Tianling’s abilities with the utmost seriousness, and thus unleashed her own powerful hidden strengths to clash fiercely with him.
The two fought like madmen, their great battle continuing without pause. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
BOOM—
Another strike—he unleashed his Dragon Subduing Swordsmanship, the full potential of his Emperor’s Qi Sword Body erupting forth.
Ye Tianling’s Battle Power continued to climb as if he had broken the shackles of Heaven and Earth. He felt his entire Battle Intent ignite, as if he were standing on the peerless level of Harmonization Dao.
