The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS-Chapter 1261 - 286: Aftermath of the Decisive Battle

"Tok Tok Tok——"

Outside the Divine Capital, the sound of horse hooves resounded as wave after wave of troops marched toward various directions.

While Qing Yu was fiercely battling Dao Ancestor, his avatar, Ren Piaomiao, was not sitting still. Under Qing Yu's name, Ren Piaomiao mobilized nearly seventy percent of the Great Zhou's army, rallying the power of the nation to eliminate Dao Ancestor's supporters.

As for anyone from the Taoist sect, kill without mercy.

For anyone assisting the Taoist sect, kill without mercy.

As for any resisters, kill without mercy.

The latter referred to those who refused to seal their powers and sever the resonance.

Dao Ancestor resonated with all the martial artists in the world, making those he resonated with his supporters. Therefore, Ren Piaomiao aimed to wipe out Dao Ancestor's supporters using the power of the Great Zhou.

Forbidden Element Formations were set up in various states and prefectures to weaken the resonance of Qi Mechanism, slaughtering those Taoist sect members acting as signal stations, sealing the martial artists' powers, and prohibiting resonance.

Any who prevented these actions were all to be killed.

The soldiers involved in the slaughter were martial artists of the Divine Demon Body Refining stream trained by the Great Zhou over the last ten years. By integrating Human Immortal Martial Arts, these warriors possessed the ability to suppress True Qi with their vital energies.

Once organized, these martial artists' immense masculine vitality combined with the Soldier Evil formation could suppress anyone below the True Pill Realm, and once their numbers exceeded fifty thousand, they could engage in battle with Divinity Realm opponents.

With these martial artists as generals and soldiers, even those rogue martial artists who advanced significantly due to Qi Mechanism Resonance could hardly overturn the tide under the iron hooves of the army.

In just one day, over ten thousand martial artists were beheaded under the army's knife. The brutal reality served as a grim warning to innumerable fence-sitters, making them willingly surrender and have their powers sealed.

However, this was only the beginning, for Dao Ancestor's signal stations, the over fifty Divinity Realm martial artists, had not yet been eradicated, with only one captured and one killed. The rest continued to roam the land.

Remarkably, these mass-produced Divinity Realm figures might be less powerful than a normal Divinity Realm, but their escape capabilities were all top-tier.

Perhaps they had undergone special training. Each of them was proficient in a peculiar movement technique, transforming into a golden light when activated, and escaping swiftly.

These Divinity Realm individuals never engaged in direct combat, fleeing upon sight of others, and with their speed, even those like Lan Cang could not stop them.

After a half-day pursuit, the results were scant. Ren Piaomiao temporarily abandoned the slippery Taoist Divinity Realm figures, focusing instead on other martial artists.

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"Buzz——"

Bai Yu City crashed into the Door of All Wonders, causing the massive portal to tremble incessantly, shattering into a flurry of True Qi.

In a direct collision, the Dao Ancestor, the founder of True Qi Martial Way, undoubtedly held the upper hand. This point was unchangeable even if Qing Yu's True Qi was unrestrained by the Dao Ancestor.

However, after the collision, the Dao Ancestor's Qi Mechanism suddenly stalled, unable to immediately shatter the Door of All Wonders.

"Do you realize now?"

Qing Yu rose into the air, wings spreading, saying, "Besides having a better option, there was another significant reason for me abandoning Qi Mechanism Resonance: it requires a large number of martial artists.

By targeting these martial artists, even someone as strong as you, Dao Ancestor, would be powerless."

Qing Yu has always believed that the greatest advantage of Martial Arts is its strength lies within oneself, not in being controlled by others or external factors. The crucial thing for a martial artist is self-reliance.

Though Qi Mechanism Resonance is powerful, allowing one to represent all by resonating with every martial artist in the world—one becomes all—it surpasses the past Human Dao Dragon Vein in representation.

Yet, the biggest flaw of this method is that resonating martial artists cannot possess the unparalleled force like Dao Ancestor.

One is all, but all is not one.

Weakening and eliminating the martial artists is a strategy of attacking the root concerning Dao Ancestor.

"Taiyi True Body."

Qing Yu raised an arm, the massive Door of All Wonders shattered once more into countless streams of Primordial Energy, engulfing his acupoints. Simultaneously, a peculiar image that had been nurtured within his acupoints was fully formed.

"Boom boom boom······"

Deafening sounds erupted from his acupoints, causing the surrounding filled Xuan Yuan One Qi to start trembling.

What is being birthed? What finally emerges?

Qing Yu provided the answer.

"The cosmos rests in the hand, ten thousand transformations arise in the body." Qing Yu sang out in Qingyue's Dao sound, his form suddenly manifesting like the grand cosmos; though of regular human size, he exhibited an infinite magnitude.

'The cosmos rests in the hand, ten thousand transformations arise,' this line from the Yin Runes Scripture perfectly elucidated Qing Yu's essence at this moment.

In those luminous acupoints appeared fleeting Doors of All Wonders, their thresholds slightly ajar, revealing the boundless cosmos beyond.

Each acupoint was a miniature cosmos; combined, they constituted Qing Yu.

"Heavenly Extreme Holy Light."

Qing Yu raised his palm, his left hand exhibiting the Aurora Style; the Infinite Holy Light, named "Heaven Creation Technique," developed heavens and earth.

"God's Destruction."

His right hand wielded Emperor Qi Tian's extreme move, nurturing infinite destruction, accumulating the power to obliterate all manifestations, God's Destruction, ruination of the heavens and earth.

The initial creation and the final destruction, Qing Yu combined both moves within his grasp, his dual golden-black pupils fixed on Dao Ancestor, "The Buddha is but an empty name, so too is the Dao a false establishment. Dao Ancestor, allow me to send you to meet the Buddha."

"For slaying me, this isn't enough."

The gigantic divine figure suddenly transformed into a vast world, comprising mountains and rivers, flora and fauna, even human phantasms within that realm.

Dao Ancestor used Xuan Yuan Qi to create a world, this realm represented his ideal form, also what he fashioned once he became the world's ruler, the Daoist Country.

At this moment, all life phantoms within that realm, even the entire heaven and earth, simultaneously emanated waves, booming Dao sounds reverberating throughout the world.

"Born of no beginning, arising without cause, preceding all paths, the ancestor of Primordial Qi."

The world formed by Xuan Yuan One Qi, radiating deafening Dao sounds, surged towards Qing Yu.

One Qi forming the heavens and earth, confronting the extremity of creation and destruction, a collision without precedent happening on the East Province's land, ensuing therefrom, an aftermath that even involved the entire Central Plains.

"Rumble Rumble Rumble——"

The Earth Veins became restless, the East Province's land completely transforming into waste territory, fissures extended from East Province, even enveloping Central Province, Ji Province, and Xuanzhou.

In the sky, thunder and lightning raged, web-like black cracks covered the heavens, resembling a sky about to shatter.

At this moment, the entire world, especially the East Province, seemed as if doomsday had arrived, ominous auras billowed unchecked, the destructive currents spread wave after wave, radiating from the East Province towards all directions.

Compared to the aftermath of this moment, even the mutually inflicted natural disasters in the Western Regions seemed mere child's play, incomparable.

The great battle between Qing Yu and Dao Ancestor genuinely affected the entire world. If it continued thus, the entire world turning into wasteland was not beyond possibility.