Chapter 194: CH. 194 | Battle of Dao Intent!
From that forbidden technique, five black stone gates appeared around Lin Tian, big in size but not as big as the death gate from before.
At the top of each gate sat a red crystal, glowing in sync with the others. From those crystals, crimson lasers shot up into the sky, forming a wall of crimson light that caged the area in.
Lin Tian didn’t react. He just stood in the middle of the five gates, watching the lasers and the crimson wall.
"This is a Heaven Grade Technique. A cultivator like you clearly can’t destroy it!" Mo Shu said.
Mo Shu raised his hand, forming a qi orb at his fingertip that gave off a strong crimson glow. Using that as a signal, he opened all five gates surrounding Lin Tian.
Five massive snakes burst out, each with a different head shape, scale pattern, and color. Lin Tian’s attention shifted toward them.
"Attack!" Mo Shu shouted.
The five snakes opened their mouths and fired dark green laser blasts at Lin Tian, while the giant snake in the sky launched a similar attack at him.
Lin Tian moved fast. He formed a hand seal and activated the Ocean Mirror Barrier technique.
Waves of water rose up with Lin Tian at the center, a huge mirror spinning around him, packed full of powerful qi energy.
The attacks from all six snakes were blocked, slamming hard into Lin Tian’s defensive barrier.
The shockwave of spiritual energy spread out across the whole area, strong enough to be felt even outside the walls of the cage.
Hun Ya and the other young elders felt the wave of energy. None of them were hit by it, but the sight alone was more than enough to make them feel optimistic.
Even though Lin Tian’s power had spiked dramatically thanks to some mysterious force, it wouldn’t hold up for long before he’d be completely overwhelmed.
"Looks like... Grand Elder Mo Shu is going to win this," Hun Ya said.
He turned and told the young elders and the other disciples to go back to their posts and continue the ritual of offering life essence. Hun Ya would stay behind and keep watching the fight.
They nodded and followed the order. One by one they flew off, getting back to the work they’d left unfinished.
Hun Ya was different. He stayed put, watching the battle, ready to step in if Grand Elder Mo Shu got overwhelmed.
But given how things looked right now, he doubted Mo Shu would lose.
Somewhere else, a cultivator from the Lingxian Sect arrived near the Black Ink Lake Hall. He was a disciple of the Lingxian Sect and had reached the Core Formation stage.
He didn’t get too close, but he could see the fight happening and hear the loud booms of qi colliding near the hall. He realized the mysterious man Li Qingxue had mentioned had to be the one fighting.
But since that man was trapped inside a thick red wall, he had no way of knowing what he looked like.
I should head back and tell Sect Leader Li right away.
Inside the red wall, Lin Tian realized the Ocean Mirror Barrier wasn’t enough to hold off the combined power of the six snakes, especially now that Mo Shu had absorbed a huge amount of demonic qi from the tower.
Knowing the situation had gotten serious, Lin Tian couldn’t afford to hold back anymore.
Mo Shu had already pulled out his strongest technique, which meant he probably didn’t want to drag this fight out any longer than he had to.
"You might have a powerful technique, but what makes a Soul Formation cultivator strong isn’t how powerful your technique is."
"What are you talking about?!" Mo Shu snapped, narrowing his eyes.
Lin Tian stretched his hand forward, forming a black orb that looked like a miniature black hole, then crushed it with his palm.
A powerful boom of qi rang out, the white qi from Lin Tian mixing with the primordial energy passed down from Yun Feng.
The Ocean Mirror Barrier shattered under the shockwave, and all six snakes were hit too, stopping their laser attacks cold.
Lin Tian’s clenched fist swung out to the side, and as it opened, tiny fragments of the black hole scattered across the area, tearing open the dimension and pulling in the qi energy from all five snake gates.
Mo Shu froze in shock. He realized what Lin Tian had just used wasn’t some cultivation attack technique, it was Dao intent.
Only someone who truly understood their own heart’s Dao, and had given form to their Dao concept, could pull off something like that.
"Dao Intent?!"
"You want to fight with Dao concepts? Then fine, I’ll give you that!" Mo Shu barked.
Mo Shu stomped his foot on the ground, turning the whole area into a Dao dimension conjured by the old man.
He looked around, watching closely as the world around him twisted into something dark and bleak, with a volcano looming at the far edge of the dimension.
The five snake gates were still standing, and all six snakes immediately fired off another round of attacks at Lin Tian.
But this time their attacks did nothing, because the torn dimension swallowed the laser blasts into the void.
"What?! What’s happening?!" Mo Shu said, startled.
"I erased their existence using the void."
"And with the void," Mo Shu answered, "I’ll bring a new existence into being."
Lin Tian swung his hand to the side, tearing through the dimensional boundary, then thrust his hand forward.
Out of that tear in the dimension, the snake lasers that were supposed to hit Lin Tian instead turned back and struck the very person who’d summoned them.
"That’s impossible!"
Mo Shu quickly activated a protective barrier to withstand the force of his own technique.
He got knocked far back, struggling to shut the technique down while he was too busy holding off the laser attack.
His body was slammed and sent flying, badly hurt. His Dao dimension collapsed, and his forbidden technique was destroyed along with it.
Hun Ya flinched in shock, watching Mo Shu get thrown clear across the battlefield.
"Grand Elder Mo Shu?!" Hun Ya shouted.
Lin Tian turned and looked toward the hall ahead of him. He raised his hand, activating one of his techniques.
A golden rune appeared behind Lin Tian. With a sharp motion of his hand pointed forward, he unleashed a golden palm strike aimed straight at the dome’s wall.
Hun Ya reacted fast, channeling his spiritual energy to reinforce the dome’s wall. He even called out to the other young elders to come help.
But the power behind Lin Tian’s golden palm strike was far too strong, and the dome wall cracked and shattered fast, followed by an explosion that shook the sky.
BLAST!
The surface of the lake shook violently, a wave of rough water sweeping across the whole area.
Hun Ya and the other young elders were thrown back hard, hurt and knocked to the ground, many of them coughing up blood.
"I already told you..."
"...your sect is going to fall by my hand!"