Chapter 200: CH. 200 | Heaven Sword Slaying Immortal
Lin Tian and Mo Zhangzhou were sent flying back, hurled far apart. Their swords tore into the sky floor, ripping straight through the sky and leaving behind a clear dimensional gash.
Mo Zhangzhou looked genuinely impressed. He studied Lin Tian carefully, sensing something oddly familiar about his power.
The golden qi aura radiating from Lin Tian’s body felt like something out of the past, something written about in the Yuanmo Sect’s ancient manuscripts.
"That golden qi aura you’re using. Am I seeing this correctly?" Mo Zhangzhou asked.
Lin Tian swung his golden sword sideways, unleashing a powerful surge of qi pressure and a dominant burst of spiritual energy.
"Glad you recognize my power. That means you’ll realize your own death is coming that much sooner!" Lin Tian declared.
He ran his finger along the blade of his golden sword, as if painting something onto it. In an instant, the blade blazed brighter, glowing gold, radiating powerful, dominant fluctuations of spiritual energy.
Lin Tian raised his hand and swung the sword downward from above, launching a slashing attack straight at Mo Zhangzhou.
The white haired man let out a short laugh, then formed a hand seal, summoning demonic hands from two black rune arrays behind his back.
Both demonic hands rose into the sky, lifting up to meet and grapple with Lin Tian’s slashing blade attack.
The collision between the two attacks released such a powerful surge of spiritual energy that it caught the attention of every other cultivator fighting elsewhere in the area.
They paused their own battles for a moment, turning to watch the clash unfold between Lin Tian of the Lingxian Sect and Mo Zhangzhou of the Yuanmo Sect.
Since their strength was evenly matched, neither attack managed to break through the other.
Both attacks detonated on their own, sending Lin Tian and Mo Zhangzhou flying backward from the force.
Lin Tian noticed something important. He activated both of his cultivator’s eyes and watched the flow of spiritual qi pouring steadily into Mo Zhangzhou’s body.
Even though the man had already used a Heaven Grade Technique, the amount of spiritual energy in his body remained perfectly stable, fed continuously by the two demon towers still standing.
The only real option here is destroying those towers.
He realized his current strength wasn’t enough to split his focus between two separate targets, especially with the towers being so heavily guarded by senior and grand elders of the Yuanmo Sect.
His best option was to let the Nascent Soul masters take responsibility for the towers while he focused entirely on the old demon standing in front of him.
"Wu Yue! Cao Ying!"
"Focus on destroying their demon towers!" Lin Tian ordered.
Both of them nodded, understanding exactly what needed to be done.
Cao Ying broke off from her fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator of the Yuanmo Sect and moved fast, targeting one of the three demon towers surrounding the Lingxian Sect.
But before she could actually destroy it, her attack was cut short when a grand elder arrived to block her, his cultivation base matching Soul Formation.
"Damn it!"
"Get out of my way, old man!" Cao Ying snapped.
"I won’t let you lay a single finger on my demon tower!"
Cao Ying and the grand elder clashed fiercely. Every time she tried to get close to the tower, he showed up and blocked her instantly.
He kept doing it over and over, until Cao Ying was thoroughly fed up. She also realized his strength wasn’t going to drain away, not as long as the tower kept standing.
Elsewhere, Yun Zhan and his Yuntian Sect disciples tried to take down another one of the towers.
Once again, a different grand elder showed up to stop them, refusing to let Yun Zhan get anywhere near it.
Lin Tian watched them struggle, seeing exactly how hard it was for them to break through the grand elders’ defenses and bring the towers down.
Meanwhile, the cultivators of the Lingxian Sect Alliance were growing exhausted. They fought on, but it felt pointless, the enemy wasn’t dying, and they weren’t tiring out either.
They gathered outside the Lingxian Sect’s protective dome, watching as the Yuanmo Sect’s members surrounded them with no way out.
"This is bad. We can’t break through and destroy that tower!" Han Xin said.
"Give it everything you’ve got! We need to bring it down and back Lin Tian up," Li Qingxue replied.
Lin Tian was feeling the strain too. He was sent flying back, dropping to his knees on the sky floor, occasionally coughing up blood.
Mo Zhangzhou laughed loudly, satisfied and pleased that his power was holding up against Lin Tian’s.
Even though their cultivation bases weren’t drastically different, the endless supply of spiritual energy backing Mo Zhangzhou gave him a clear edge over Lin Tian.
"No matter how hard you try, you’re not going to win."
"In the end, the land of Qin will belong entirely to the Yuanmo Sect!" Mo Zhangzhou declared.
Lin Tian stayed quiet for a moment, then let out a slow breath. He rose to his feet, standing tall on the sky floor, and lifted his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"You’re right. You’re genuinely strong, and my chances of winning are slim."
"But slim doesn’t mean impossible!"
"What do you mean by that?"
The man standing before Mo Zhangzhou fell silent for a moment, closing his eyes briefly, focusing his mind and steadying himself.
From his forehead, an orb of golden light emerged, rising into the sky, drawing the attention of everyone below.
Wu Yue and the others turned to look at the golden orb, as did the Yuanmo Sect elders.
Mo Zhangzhou narrowed his eyes, sensing something strange about the power radiating from it.
Lin Tian’s body rose into the air, wrapped in dominant, overflowing golden spiritual energy, the unmistakable power of primordial qi.
For some reason, Mo Zhangzhou felt a jolt of disturbance ripple through his own dantian sea the moment he laid eyes on that golden orb.
Even so, he couldn’t quite place what it was, or what connection it had to him.
The golden qi orb floating in the sky exploded, revealing the form of a massive floating island with a golden palace resting atop it.
The primordial qi energy contained within it was so dense, so overwhelmingly dominant, that it seemed to command both heaven and earth.
"The power of heaven and earth... primordial qi energy!"
"A golden palace, saturated entirely with primordial qi!"
"Don’t tell me—"
Lin Tian opened his eyes, and a brilliant flash of golden qi light blazed out, stunning everyone who saw it.
An Yue watched the scene unfold, unable to do anything but stare in slack jawed disbelief.
"Y-You... this can’t be!" Mo Zhangzhou declared.
"Yun Feng should be dead! He died, he failed to defeat His Majesty Emperor Youdu!"
"How could you possibly—"
Lin Tian raised his golden sword toward the sky, triggering a thunderous roar of golden lightning that filled the entire horizon, slamming every cultivator below with its crushing pressure.
"He existed to pass down his resolve..."
"...And I exist to carry it forward!"
Lin Tian swept his hand out to the side, poised to bring it down in one final strike. "Heaven Sword Slaying Immortal!"