Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1224 - 18: Imperial Princess Ba, Slaughter Sword (Part 2)
If the Drought Demon Ba had left descendants, both of them would have had to guess whether they carried the blood of the Emperor's daughter.
However, at this moment, the Drought Demon Ba's attention was not on Tianxuan and Master of Rain. After forcing the two to retreat, she traversed the air and appeared before the gigantic Sword Peak, reaching out to touch the stone sword body.
Not knowing why the Emperor Jiang had yet to take action, but at this moment, she couldn't care less. Everything revolved around the Xuanyuan Sword.
Moreover, even if Emperor Jiang were to make a move, someone else would take the hit for her.
In a flash of thought, her fingers touched the stone sword body, almost instinctively extracting Essence Blood, transforming it into Primordial Qi, and sending it into the Xuanyuan Sword.
A scarlet glow seeped into the surface stone skin, and the blood energy simply merged into the Xuanyuan Sword.
However...
An invisible repulsive force pushed the Drought Demon's hand away.
"Impossible!"
The Drought Demon's brows furrowed, Evil Qi rising.
The Xuanyuan Sword had rejected her, the Emperor's daughter!
"I do not believe it!"
Her hand, carrying blood energy, forcefully touched the sword again, as Essence Blood belonging to the Drought Demon tried to merge into the sword.
Although her body was of the Ji Family's East Sun Princess, through eight hundred years of sacrificial cultivation, it had long become the body of the Drought Demon. Moreover, for true great divine powers, the bloodline connection is not just established through physical bodily kinship but lies in the True Spirit.
Refining a corresponding physical body with special Essence Blood is not difficult for those skilled in creation. If kinship were determined solely by bloodline, the Yellow Emperor wouldn't know how many times he'd unknowingly become a father through the ages.
The True Spirit Blood of the Drought Demon undoubtedly transmitted her identity to the Xuanyuan Sword, even capable of triggering the Emperor Huang Dao Fruit.
Even if the Yellow Emperor's True Spirit had not awakened, she should not have been rejected.
But ultimately, she was rejected.
Even infusing more Essence Blood did not elicit a response from the Xuanyuan Sword to the Emperor's blood.
With disbelief, unwillingness, and discontent flashing across the Drought Demon's face, her actions did not cease, yet to no avail.
"Even the Yellow Emperor's daughter cannot gain recognition from the Xuanyuan Sword?"
A voice suddenly rang out, deepening the Drought Demon's Evil Qi.
"It seems the Xuanyuan Sword is not deliberately targeting Us."
Upon these words, a scene as if traversing the river of time flashed before her eyes.
She saw a figure standing above the Xuanyuan Sword, ordering the gigantic Sword Peak, and issuing a Heavenly Decree.
"To sense the Emperor Huang Dao Fruit, one must first see Us through Divine Intent."
Consciousness suddenly fluctuated, as if an Invisible Power was trying to forcibly extract the Drought Demon's Divine Intent from her body.
In later legends, the Drought Demon is the ancestor of zombies, but these legends arose due to changes over time and are misinterpretations. The true Drought Demon is not a low-level corpse monster like a zombie.
However, the Drought Demon's category is similar to zombies, as both are classified as Monster Clan.
The Drought Demon Dao Fruit simultaneously possesses both Divine and Monster attributes, transcending humans as Divinity and being unfathomable as Monster. Its form of existence is entirely different from normal life, with Divine Soul and Physical Body completely fused, with the body firmly holding and protecting the Divine Soul.
At this moment, Jiang Li's divine skill took effect. Although the Drought Demon was caught off guard, she immediately steadied her mind, resisting that mysterious power.
Her Divine Intent forcibly remained in her body, simultaneously sensing...
The adversary!
From an infinitely high place, from the Divine Capital, from the Void, the Drought Demon simultaneously sensed a pull from three places.
At the same time, three gazes from vastly differing directions came, and in a trance, she seemed to see three identical faces and three large hands reaching out to grab her, to pull her Divine Intent in three directions.
Space lost its meaning at this moment, and the disparity in power was quite immense.
This Emperor Jiang... this Jiang Li... his power surpassed the previous encounter, far surpassing the full strength of the Drought Demon.
Even the legendary Heavenly Maiden Ba could not match Emperor Jiang in this era.
Compared to the Jiuli Clan of the past, the current Emperor Jiang certainly isn't on par, but this era is not ancient. For the Drought Demon to return to her past prime, she might need the Primordial Qi of Emperor Jiang.
"Slash!"
The Drought Demon wielded the sword again, Flame Light enveloping countless wailing figures, slashing into the Void with a sword style for conquest, aiming to cut the Invisible Power with an extreme killing force.
The gaze seemed to split, the spatial distance pierced through, and within the perception of Divine Intent, no longer three faces but a single figure.
Three merged into one, Jiang Li's figure appeared in the mysterious void, slowly raising his right hand...
The intent of this Slaughter Sword halted before Jiang Li's neck.
The sword tip materialized from the Slaughter Sword Intent was gently held between Jiang Li's fingers, abruptly stopping before his neck.
"What a move of Slaughter Sword."
Blood oozing from his finger and burnt marks stained between his fingers, Emperor Jiang praised, "Emperor's daughter, you have wounded Us."
The manifested blood signified a wound of the Divine Intent, and this intent of the Slaughter Sword had indeed affected Jiang Li's Divine Intent.
But it only reached this point.
When Jiang Li's voice reached Drought Demon's ears from a distance, annihilation descended from the Void itself.
Space split open with a ferocious rend, like a sharp blade, seeking to slay the Drought Demon, while the aura of All Heaven Divine Sha swept through the mind, infinite destruction exploding like thunder within her heart.
The Drought Demon retreated!
She transformed into a Flame Light and retreated hastily across the sky.
Jiang Li had long prepared, only holding back to see if the Drought Demon could awaken the Xuanyuan Sword. Now seeing the result, he naturally no longer watched, moving directly to attempt to retain the Emperor's daughter.
The Drought Demon certainly knew Jiang Li's intention, thus decisively withdrew, but annihilation remained inseparable, catching up with her in an instant.
The sky suddenly turned dark, and Divine Evil surged across the sky.
But just then, the sky dome underwent a startling change, with Primordial Qi descending from the sky, covering the Drought Demon, a Great Sun suddenly manifesting, suspended in the sky, clashing with the All Heaven Divine Sha.
"Boom!"
Fiery light like flames, carrying the furious intensity of the blazing sun melting gold, yet also borne with the vitality nurturing all things, like Innate Qi, violently collided with the All Heaven Divine Sha.
A radiant light swept across the sky, immediately followed by a sweep of darkness, the Great Sun Light and Divine Sha obliterating the impending sonic boom, even causing the Primordial Qi to be annihilated in the collision.
The Sun Wheel dissipated, revealing a majestic figure standing in the sky, blocking the Divine Sha for the Drought Demon.
"Great Heavenly Venerate."
Stepping out from the rift in the empty sky, Jiang Li's gaze fell upon the other, showing a tinge of amazement, "Is this the Dao Fruit of the Deity of the Sun?"
This Great Sun was indeed from the Dao Fruit of the Deity of the Sun.
This Dao Fruit was not contained by the Great Heavenly Venerate but carried by the Investiture of the Gods, manifesting with power rivaling the All Heaven Divine Sha in the hands of the Great Heavenly Venerate.
Through this insight, if the Deity of the Sun's Dao Fruit can exert such power with the support of the Great Heavenly Venerate, what about the rest of the Dao Fruits within the Investiture of the Gods?
This Investiture of the Gods is not only capable of converging the powers of the Dao Fruits for suppression and defense but also of bringing out the characteristics of each Dao Fruit.
Speaking solely of effect diversity, it might be the foremost Divine Taoist Tool.
Jiang Li was astonished, and actually, the Great Heavenly Venerate was too.
He gazed at Jiang Li, but his pupils reflected three figures simultaneously, "I see. No wonder you were able to gain [I am the State] divine skill support in Heaven, so you have practiced the 'One Qi to Three Pure Ones'."
One self in the Divine Capital, one in Heaven, Jiang Li was still within the borders of the Great Zhou Country, naturally obtaining divine skill support.
One must admit, this is a miraculous technique to resolve the limitations of [I am the State].
Although actually, it was far from Jiang Li's method of dealing with it...
It was this single discovery upon their meeting that led to a delicate misunderstanding of Jiang Li by the Great Heavenly Venerate.
And hearing the words of the Great Heavenly Venerate, Jiang Li naturally wouldn't clarify for him, as this was precisely leading the Great Heavenly Venerate to a particular conjecture.
'The existence of the Karma Collection cannot yet be exposed.'
