Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable-Chapter 162: Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao
Ye Tianling possessed such inheritances, yet Long Tianyu had judged his battle power as only capable of "Breaking Three."
Long Tianyu wasn’t wrong.
Because before, even when Ye Tianling was at the Sword Soul Second Heaven Realm, or even the Third Heaven Realm, he couldn’t even defeat Wan Xuegui, a Half-step Void Realm expert.
Setting aside the shackles of Great Realms, this was the definition of having a battle power of "Breaking Three."
And yet now, with the same level of strength, he could fight a Candidate Saintess at the Sword Void First Transformation Realm to such a stalemate. This was enough to prove that he actually had immense potential yet to be unearthed.
It wasn’t that he was incapable, but that he was far too reliant on his trump cards and finishing moves.
’It seems that in the future, I must seek out true geniuses as my opponents! If I keep fighting a bunch of nobodies, I’ll be stuck at a ’low-end’ level forever, completely unable to advance! Only by crossing blades with true masters will I realize my own numerous shortcomings!’
The realization struck Ye Tianling profoundly.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As Ye Tianling fell into deep thought, his mind grew even calmer.
As Xia Xinyan fought herself into a frenzy, and just as Ye Tianling’s own killing intent arose, she too manifested an unparalleled murderous aura!
Ye Tianling was so formidable; she had to kill him!
If she could slay such a monstrous talent, all of Ye Tianling’s Qi Fortune, opportunities, and karmic destiny would fall to her.
She would transform from a Candidate Saintess into a true Saintess!
This battle was a trial by fire for Ye Tianling, and was it not the same for Xia Xinyan?
Xia Xinyan burned even more of her Essence Blood. With boundless battle power, she manifested a Blood Killing Dragon Soul, as if summoning an Ancient Dragon Soul from between Heaven and Earth to sing in harmony with a Fire Phoenix. She was simply unstoppable.
All the Dragon Blood in Ye Tianling’s body was mobilized, and a thunderous sound rumbled ceaselessly from within him.
He too was fighting with wild abandon. All his Attack and Kill Techniques flowed from him effortlessly, no longer bound by any single style.
BOOM!
After Burning her Essence Blood, Xia Xinyan’s battle power grew even more berserk. She unleashed the unparalleled talent befitting a Candidate Saintess.
In that moment, with her robes fluttering and black hair flying, she seemed to have emerged from an ancient battlefield of slaughter—peerless, matchless, and utterly invincible.
Every casual strike she made carried immense force, as if it could collapse a section of the void. It was both berserk and terrifying.
Ye Tianling was forced back again and again. He had fully unleashed his Kunpeng Carefree Travel Body Technique, and his Soul Talent was operating at such a high level that his very soul seemed to roar, as if it were about to explode.
’She’s too strong! If I didn’t have unparalleled weapons like the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword and the Extreme Cold Mysterious Sword, I’d have no way of facing her head-on!’
’Purely in terms of realm disparity, I’m at the Half-step Sword Spirit Realm, while she’s at the Sword Void First Transformation Realm. The gap is only three Small Realms! I can’t even overcome a three-Small-Realm gap! It seems what Tianyu said about my battle power being ’Breaking Three’ was spot-on.’
While shocked, Ye Tianling also gained a profound understanding of just how terrifying the Saint Son and Saintess truly were.
It was for this reason that he suddenly felt his previous slaying of Long Tianxiao with the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword had been an incredible stroke of luck.
And Granny Qinglian’s utter shock and astonishment back then now made perfect sense.
Now, Ye Tianling could completely empathize.
The Saint Son and Saintess were simply monstrous.
Within Ye Tianling’s body, the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique grew increasingly pure and smooth.
After gradually acclimating to the decaying influence of the ’Ancient Killing Dao’, Ye Tianling began to integrate his Immortal Sword Technique with his Soul Talent.
His Immortal Sword Technique and the various unparalleled martial arts of Huaxia also began to fuse together on a deeper level. The feeling of having complete control over Heaven and Earth rose within Ye Tianling once more.
This time, it was even more intense, even more frenzied.
It was as if Ye Tianling had transcended the level of the Dao itself. His Soul Talent began to evolve further, and under these conditions, his Samadhi True Fire Celestial Dragon Sword Spirit also continued its transformation.
Originally, his Celestial Dragon Sword Soul had only transformed by one-tenth. Now, amidst this battle, its transformation had reached two-tenths.
This was practically a twofold increase in its transformation.
As the weaker combatant fighting the stronger, Ye Tianling had seized control of the battle’s rhythm, attaining a certain divine charm, a state of Natural Daoist Skill.
In that instant, Ye Tianling’s mind suddenly became a blank slate, a state of Void Spirit, as if he had been blessed by divinity itself.
Within his mind, the Space-Time Soul-locking Tower seemed to turn transparent, then gradually became suffused with a blood-red color.
In this blood-red environment, a blurry silhouette seemed to appear. The silhouette suddenly brandished a giant axe and began to chop.
This was the Tree Cutting Technique, re-enacting the inheritance of the Supreme Dao!
VMMMM—
The moment that axe chopped down, Ye Tianling’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit felt as if they were struck by a thunderbolt, and his entire being ascended to the level of the Extreme Dao!
It was as if he had suddenly been elevated to an entirely different plane of perception.
It was like a Soul Emergence, as if he were standing behind himself, watching his own body fight.
"Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao—"
In that moment, a sliver of the Tree Cutting Technique’s inheritance information was faintly revealed.
Ye Tianling seized this sliver of insight, comprehended the foundation of this inheritance, and finally grasped a crucial aspect of this absolute-kill Supreme Dao.
’The Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao! What a terrifying Cultivation Technique!’
Ye Tianling’s heart trembled, but he quickly regained his clarity, as he was still in that state of Void Spirit.
Xia Xinyan was still attacking with frenzied abandon, each strike carrying the world-altering power to move mountains and fill seas. Yet, Ye Tianling was now able to dodge with relative ease.
VMMMM—
Wielding the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword, Ye Tianling finally made his move.
He unleashed the strike he had just grasped from the Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao, sending it out in a distorted, curving arc.
It was like the curved arc within a Taiji Diagram.
Like the ray of Immortal Light that sundered Heaven and Earth.
Like the first sliver of the blazing sun at the break of dawn.
PFFT—
This sword strike carried an utterly terrifying aura.
Xia Xinyan was unable to block it. The sword pierced straight through her chest, running her through the center of her proud peaks.
PUH—
Xia Xinyan spat out a large mouthful of blood as her body was sent flying backward.
Simultaneously, another flash of bloody light erupted from her body, instantly blasting away the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword that had pierced her.
Standing in the distant void, Xia Xinyan waved a delicate hand. Three more brilliantly colored elixirs appeared, and she swallowed them in a single gulp.
When Ye Tianling saw this, he nearly coughed up blood in exasperation.
’Are you fucking kidding me?!’
’How am I supposed to fight this?’
He finally understood the exasperation Jin Zhifu and Ye Tianfan must have felt back when he was killing them.
After swallowing the three elixirs and using a technique like Withered Wood Welcoming Spring, Xia Xinyan’s aura became even more terrifying.
Ye Tianling once again unleashed the assassination technique of the Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao. This time, however, Xia Xinyan no longer met him head-on. Instead, she used the terrifying concealment methods and Body Technique of the Blood Killing Heaven to maneuver around him, evading the sharp edge of his attack.
After they clashed for over a hundred more rounds, Xia Xinyan wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, suddenly produced a Flaming Talisman, and slapped it onto her own body.
VMMMM—
With a grasping motion of her hand, the entire canyon seemed to shatter, its essence drawn into her palm.
She clapped her hands together, and all the surrounding void seemed to be crushed and compressed, forming a longsword of pure slaughter.
BANG—
She struck out directly, unleashing the absolute killing might of Heaven and Earth as she brought it down on Ye Tianling in a frenzied attempt to suppress him.
This was a power that carried the very essence of nature, a divine might that seized the power of Heaven and Earth for itself. It was truly horrifying, enough to make one’s heart pound and flesh crawl in terror.
