The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS-Chapter 1251 - 276: Emperor Qi Tian

Four sides are boundless, whether above or below, it's an endless space.

Floating islands hover in the sky, drifting everywhere, forming an eternal yet monotonous scenery.

This is the Six Heavenly Realms, the place where the True God resides. In other words, only the Tao Realm can exist in this domain.

And the target Qing Yu wants to challenge is on the floating island at the end of his gaze where an open-air palace stands tall.

"Emperor Qi Tian, we'll meet again." Qing Yu said softly.

Six-star Character Cards are extremely precious, each one is treated as a BOSS by the system. This means that no matter how many times you fail to challenge, the Six-star Character Card will not disappear.

This past year, Qing Yu has challenged Emperor Qi Tian multiple times, and the result is clear, it always ends in defeat.

Emperor Qi Tian, residing in the Six Heavenly Realms, possesses an overwhelming power that makes his strength frighteningly high. After each challenge, Qing Yu improves significantly, yet he still ends up defeated in every subsequent attempt.

The Character Card of Emperor Qi Tian is as follows:

Name: Emperor Qi Tian

Realm: Tao Realm

Item: None

Martial Arts: "Divine's Move", "Reverse Demon Origin"

Evaluation: The human world, tainted once more.

The Character Card information is very simple, and Qing Yu knows both listed martial arts. Yet, Qing Yu simply cannot defeat the opponent.

The root of Emperor Qi Tian's strength doesn't lie in martial arts but in his own Dao of Destruction and Rebirth, which is called the "Law Standard" in the Thunder World's cosmology, where Emperor Qi Tian has nearly reached the pinnacle, far surpassing his fellow Daoist Qing Yu.

This is the main reason for Qing Yu's repeated defeats.

However, over the past year, Qing Yu has gained a lot from dueling Emperor Qi Tian, making astonishing progress himself.

He's been silently accumulating wealth, otherwise surely it would have shocked the Buddha and the Dao Ancestor.

"Then, let's begin the sixth duel."

Qing Yu shook his head and sighed, stepping out directly appearing in the magnificent palace at the end of his gaze.

Then, he was greeted with —

"You've come again, my child."

This was the reason for Qing Yu's sigh, as some eccentric insists on taking him as their son.

"I've told you countless times, I'm not your son," Qing Yu sighed, "You had only one son, who committed suicide after sending you to the heavens."

Yinhuang Zhuwu, the filial son of Thunder, slew his old father and felt immense guilt, choosing to die by Cang's hand. (laughs)

(Actually, it was to prevent the old father from rising from the coffin, by committing suicide he ended Emperor Qi Tian's possibility of descending again.)

"You're a ghost father that harms his son, it's too much for me to bear," Qing Yu stated.

God knows what kind of mentality Emperor Qi Tian has, insisting on acknowledging him as a son, regardless of how many times he's corrected him. Who wants such a ghost father that could use their son's body as a vessel at any moment?

Honestly, every time Qing Yu hears Emperor Qi Tian say "my child," he feels that this guy wants to descend into his world using his body.

"Zhu Wu is overly obsessed with meaningless emotions, which is why I would personally descend to the Bitter Realm. If he had fulfilled the duty I gave him, I wouldn't need to descend."

Clad in a luxurious white divine robe, with three thousand strands of white hair, the heavenly battle god stood before the divine throne, gazing down at Qing Yu, "Compared to your brother Zhu Wu, my son, you are indeed quite like me. From you, I see destruction and creation, I see the Origin of Demon, I am very satisfied."

"I've said many times I'm not your son," Qing Yu reiterated with helplessness, "The Saint and Demon Embryo I possess was obtained by Body Seizing. Even if I am something, the original owner of this Saint and Demon Embryo was your son······"

"No, the original owner of this body should be your grandson."

The Saint and Demon Embryo does not easily appear, and even the offspring of a Saint and Demon Embryo would not be one.

The body of Qing Yu's Saint and Demon Embryo was formed by Yinhuang Zhuwu's wife, Jiu Huo, using herself and the souls of her two sons, nurturing them within her. By relation, it should be reckoned as Emperor Qi Tian's grandson.

Regardless, Qing Yu firmly refuses to have another father appear out of nowhere above him.

"All Saint and Demon Embryos are my creations, if I say you are my child, what's the harm?" Emperor Qi Tian said, "What matters more than the soul's belonging is the consistency of ideals. If our Dao differs, even my son Zhu Wu, I would not hesitate to kill."

Ultimately, Emperor Qi Tian is an emotionless, heartless God exalted high above, for whom the so-called father-son bond is virtually null.

In the original work, the reason why he spared Yinhuang Zhuwu was actually that he intended to use the opponent's body as a backup vessel. Unfortunately, he never expected that Yinhuang Zhuwu foresaw this tactic, used reverse psychology to deceive Emperor Qi Tian, sending the old father to his grave.

"No more idle chatter, I came today not to exchange words with you."

Gold-black eyes met gold-blue ones, as dragon patterns emerged in Qing Yu's eyes, Saint and Demon Dual Forms overlapped, "I came to kill you or be killed by you."

The Emperor Qi Tian before him is the true body residing in the Six Heavenly Realms, with immeasurable strength, and without the weaknesses of the Saint and Demon Embryo, he is in a truly perfect form.

While the Saint and Demon Embryo is a vessel modeled after Emperor Qi Tian's cultivation body, compared to his true body, it's still far inferior.

Had Qing Yu not completely refined the Saint and Demon Embryo, merged with the Candle Dragon Essence Blood and transformed it into his own body, he might have already lost without fighting when facing Emperor Qi Tian's true body.

"It seems you're still not giving up, my child."

The heavy divine might made the floating island tremble, as Emperor Qi Tian released his True Yuan, overwhelming momentum spread, an unfeeling destruction obliterating everything.

Having battled this cheap son several times, Emperor Qi Tian understood the opponent's relentless determination in battle, so today, he plans to grant Qing Yu another defeat.

"Divine Hand."

The massive divine hand crushed downwards, directly covering the standing figure before the divine throne of Emperor Qi Tian, raging Qi Force pushed forward with the divine hand, toppling all the gigantic pillars in its mighty trajectory.

"Using my move to confront me, my child, you are too naive."

Emperor Qi Tian flipped his palm to press down, another move of "Divine Hand" was unleashed, the two colossal gold-red hands collided, and Qing Yu's "Divine Hand" was instantly crushed.

As Emperor Qi Tian said, using his technique against him was naive indeed.

"Therefore, this was just a decoy."

The shadow of the Candle Dragon embraced Qing Yu as he soared into the air, golden-black eyes deepened with dragon patterns, light and darkness both appeared within this world.

Half the sky darkened, Eternal Light Land Six Heavens presented darkness covering half of it, at the intersection of dark and light were two similarly auraed figures.

"Yin Yang Cutting Dawn."

Using the boundary between light and darkness as a dividing line, all phenomena were split, each regaining its place within light and shadow.

This is the first time Qing Yu showcases this move in front of Emperor Qi Tian, previously, aware that he couldn't defeat Emperor Qi Tian, Qing Yu always held a learning attitude in their beatings.

The fiercer the beating, the more Qing Yu learned, which is why his progress over the past year far exceeded that of the previous nine years.

As for why he's using hidden techniques today?

Because Qing Yu intends to validate all he's learned.