Remould the Glory of Sword Art-Chapter 1278 - 184: Divine Spirit Above
The towering giant ape body, as massive as a mountain, was cleaved into two by the divine ax.
Blood poured forth like torrential rain.
The Eagle Falcon Demon was drenched and chilled to the bone. It stared numbly at this scene, wanting to flee, but unable to even move its body.
"The National Master truly did not speak falsely..."
Marquis Yuanping did not lift the Dao Domain.
He stood with one hand behind his back, calmly watching the blood rain scattered across the sky, muttering as if in a trance, "The legendary ’Undying Spring’ indeed exists."
A blow infused with massive amounts of Primordial Energy had directly sliced the Great Ape in half.
Had it been a normal confrontation...
This strike would have been sufficient to instantly kill a Great Demon newly entered into the Yin God Realm.
Even if the opponent’s physique was exceptionally powerful, survival was impossible.
Yet now, the enormous demon body, severed and lying on the ground in two parts, was still twitching.
To be exact.
It was performing a rapid "recombination"!
Heaven and earth were shrouded in blood, as the Great Ape crashed down, its severed waist faintly emitting a snow-white luminescence...
In mere breaths.
The gaping break in its waist displayed signs of "a seamless reattachment"!
Marquis Yuanping knew that certain powerful bloodlines within the Demon Country had inherited ancient Undying Divine Powers, and merely cutting in half was insufficient for a kill... But this Great Ape here was definitely not one of the fabled undying bloodlines!
This creature was likely merely a Mountain Wanderer, though possessing the body of an ape, it had not obtained the inheritance of "Great Ape Mountain," and its comprehension of Taoist Intent was nothing more than mediocre, second-rate intent.
Considering all this.
The Great Ape’s undying nature... there was only one explanation.
It harbored powerful vitality within!
The ground trembled.
The Great Ape, whose demon body was severed by the divine ax, rapidly completed self-healing under the treatment of this overwhelming vitality. Pain flickered in its eyes, hands braced against the ground, wanting to rise once more.
But Marquis Yuanping did not grant it this opportunity.
Boom!
Another divine skill descended.
From the high sky, the Cloud Axe swung down again.
This time, the Great Ape reacted, roaring as it threw a punch, infusing it with all its Taoist Intent and Divine Embryo Barbaric Power!
A mighty gust spread; at the collision point, a hundred feet in radius, trees were uprooted and flew into the clouds, smoke and dust spiraled above!
"Oh?"
Marquis Yuanping narrowed his eyes.
He watched this scene with a bit of surprise.
His second ax did not manifest the anticipated overwhelming advantage; the Great Ape that had ascended to the Yin God Realm with difficulty withstood the pressure of the Taoist Intent, though its knees heavily crashed upon the ground, it was not cleaved in half once more!
"Is it not the Undying Spring?"
Marquis Yuanping intently observed, faintly discerning an anomaly.
In the battle’s raging center, the Great Ape fought as though its blood was on fire, sacrificing its very life to desperately resist his Taoist Intent.
Simply relying on the might of a newly promoted Demon Venerable was certainly insufficient to challenge him.
At the location of the Great Ape’s fist.
Numerous glowing golden talismans adhered and merged into the flesh.
"Talisman Path..."
"And the Life Dao..."
Marquis Yuanping’s gaze grew solemn. He shifted his eyes from the Great Ape to the deeper recesses of this Secret Realm Cave Heaven; if his guess was correct, within this cave heaven were two powerful cultivators of the Yin God Realm. One had comprehended the "Talisman Path," and the other the "Life Dao Intent." These two Great Practitioners had not shown themselves, but helped the Great Ape silently through talismans.
Because of the Life Dao’s support, the Great Ape had not died on the spot.
At this blood-boiling battle moment, the Great Ape aimed to "exhaust life" against him—
And with the defense of burning demon blood supplemented by the Talisman Path, its power surged, abruptly rising several realms!
This was the reason the second ax was intercepted.
However.
This battle still bore no suspense.
Facing a Great Cultivator of the Twenty Yin God Realms, whatever means the Initial Realm Cultivator deployed appeared overly clumsy.
In the face of absolute power.
All strategizing lost its significance.
"Slap!"
With a serious expression, Marquis Yuanping raised his hands, clasping them together to form a massive seal.
Amid a crisp explosion.
Within the hundred-foot Dao Domain, the clouds at the Heavenly Peak swiftly converged, and the giant white ax suspended high above was now drenched in numerous dark clouds, surging with inky tones; the jade-like ax blade abruptly exuded a penetrating Killing Intent. At the Heavenly Peak, layers of Yin clouds rolled, surprisingly condensing into a towering "Divine Spirit."
Marquis Yuanping revealed his dharma aspect.
This dharma aspect was even larger than the demon body of the Great Ape.
"Fatian Xiangdi," a foundational divine skill that virtually every practitioner of the Twenty Yin God Realms could comprehend. The higher the realm, the thicker the Divine Thought, the more bountiful the Primordial Energy within, the more spectacular the full exertion of the dharma body’s abnormality... Most times, Great Practitioners would not exert this divine skill to its fullest.
The reason was simple.
If engaging in a duel of equal realms, competing dharma aspects, comparing height would have no effect on the battle.
If attacking a lesser realm, the dharma manifestation divine power was nearly unused.
At this moment.
The Divine Embryo Dharma Aspect displayed by Marquis Yuanping was a transcendent Divine Spirit clad in pristine divine armor; seemingly human, yet entirely composed of cloud and mist. This Cloud God Spirit gazed down at the kneeling ape demon, silent for a moment, then slowly extended its palm.
"Creaking..."
The giant ax became lodged in the Great Ape’s fist’s bloodbones.
The burning golden demon blood spawned rolling flames, the Great Ape intended to constrain the massive ax this way.
But the Divine Spirit above the cloud extended its palm, crossing heaven and earth, grasping the monumental ax.
The thunderous sound boomed like a great bell!
The enormous ax was lifted by the Cloud God incrementally, separating its sharp blade from the bloodbones, generating a screech as piercing as metal grinding against iron.
Both heaven and earth were draped in darkness.
"!!"
The Great Ape raised its head, its expression pallid.
It instinctively met the gaze of the God atop, then suddenly realized the entire domain had darkened because the dharma body of Marquis Yuanping was too immense, layers of Yin clouds filling the hundred-foot Dao Domain completely.
The giant ax, once nearly flattening the Dao Domain, appeared "exquisitely petite" in the palm of the God Spirit.
The God Spirit hoisted the Cloud Axe, lifting its arm high.
This was an exceedingly "slow" charging process.
But...
Only true experiencers could feel the terrifying nature of this divine skill.
At this moment, shrouded by the gigantic shadow, the Great Ape sensed an unprecedented wave of intense death looming in its heart.
It had a premonition.
This ax descending.
However it fled, it could not outrun.
No escape above or below; only one path leading to death.
"Booming! Boom!"
The towering Divine Spirit forged from the clouds above dispassionately stared at the ape demon, raising the ax above its head, but Marquis Yuanping did not rush to release it.
He afforded the Great Ape a chance to dodge...
Yet the Great Ape did not dodge.
In truth, dodging was indeed futile, for this divine skill only appeared slow.
The actual release, needing just a moment.
Soundless, without warning, without any reaction space—
In mere seconds.
The arm wielding the giant ax, like a thunderous serpent, swung down from the high heavens!
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(This Chapter is very short, so there will be an update tomorrow morning.)
