Chapter 747 - 531: Elder Mirror (Part 2)
Within the Dao Domain, frost and snow wildly danced in the sky, towering ice lances rose from the ground, the cold penetrated directly to the Divine Soul, and all was annihilated wherever it passed.
Qin Changkong stood in the void, seeing Du Han daring to turn and resist, a cold gleam flashed in his eyes:
"A mere mid-stage Void Refining, yet dares to contend with me, indeed has some courage!"
"But alas, no matter how great the courage, in the end, it’s just an ant trying to shake a tree, overestimating its abilities."
He cultivated the most orthodox Path of Oblivion passed down by Ancestor Yu. At this moment, with a hand raised neither in fist nor palm, the Dao Domain was fully activated:
"Oblivion Cycle Seal!"
Whoosh~~~
Dao Rhyme twisted and knotted, the vast power of the Illusion Heart shot up to the sky.
In a flash, Chongli Heaven suddenly darkened, the boundless rays of dawn faded away, leaving only illusions that were difficult to distinguish covering the sky and earth.
In Du Han’s sensing, a massive Illusion Heaven Wheel Seal suddenly rose between heaven and earth.
On the wheel seal, forty-nine ancestral shadows of the Qin Clan circled, with the might of a Dharma Master descending upon the world, with the demeanor of a heavenly prodigy fighting... amidst hissing and shouting, the wheel seal slowly rotated, bearing the power to suppress heaven and earth, crashing down fiercely.
At the moment this wheel seal turned, a terrifying illusion surged in Du Han’s heart, that life and death were no longer in his control, even his Divine Soul trembled.
It was as if Qin Changkong, with this strike, wielded the unimaginable horror of an immortal god governing all heavens and earth!
This strike was precisely Qin Changkong’s proud secret technique, cultivated after delving into the Path of Illusion Heart for tens of thousands of years.
Relying on this seal, his battle power directly matched the Void Refining Ten Tribulation!
"This seal! This seal!"
Du Han’s Divine Soul was seized by this Illusion Heart Reincarnation Seal.
In a daze, the Cold Nether Dao Power within him suddenly quivered, the bronze Ancient Mirror in his Dantian and sea of Qi slightly heated up, jolting him awake.
"Break for me!"
Du Han roared, the cold air around him surged, infinite ice lances erupted from the ground, the Cold Nether Power soared into the sky, transforming into a gigantic ice soul long spear, directly pointing at the descending Illusion Heaven Wheel Seal.
His ice soul long spear trembled, all kinds of Cold Nether Dao Intent condensed into a single thread.
In the sky, the cold air roared, amidst the widespread frost and snow, the Cold Nether Power slowly condensed into an oddly bizarre chill of mixed caverns.
Rumble~~~
Under this strike, the air within millions of miles instantly exploded, space violently trembled.
Snake-like black fissures roamed uncertainly around them, chaotic air streams faintly seeped out, only to be instantly crushed by the ripples of their confrontation.
The ice soul long spear instantly disintegrated, turning into countless ice flakes, vanishing without a trace.
Yet the wheel seal remained unstoppable, crashing fiercely into Du Han’s Cold Nether Dao Domain.
The Cold Nether Dao Domain violently trembled, cracks spread, instantly breaking apart more than half.
Rumble~~~
In the four directions of space, it was as if countless wind dragons roared.
The void of Chongli Heaven was utterly torn apart, rolling, the mountains below were affected by the air waves, dirt and stones splattered, as if earth dragons flipped over, turning everything into ruins.
"Pfft—!"
Du Han was struck as if by a heavy blow, his body flew backward, spurting a large mouthful of golden Dao blood, his aura weakened to the extreme.
Yet his eyes remained cold and resolute, frantically chanting in his heart:
"Hold on for just a moment, just a moment..."
Qin Changkong naturally sensed Du Han’s dire situation, the killing intent in his eyes surged, and he punched out again, carrying the force to destroy the heavens and earth, striking toward the opponent’s head.
There was no way to evade, no way to block.
"It’s over!"
Du Han’s pupils contracted suddenly, he had already exhausted all means and no longer had the ability to resist this fatal blow.
At this very instant—a quarter of an hour, the hour just happened!
With a laugh overlooking all heavens, suddenly exploded within Du Han’s sea of consciousness, instantly dispelling all fatigue and despair.
"Du boy, the old man is here!"
This voice is none other than Mirror Elder!
A sharp divine light erupted in Du Han’s eyes, unleashing all the pent-up frustration and determination:
"Mirror Elder, take action!"
Buzz—
A deep and ancient roar echoed out, not from the outside but from the depths of Du Han’s sea of consciousness.
In the sea of consciousness, the ancient bronze Ancient Mirror suddenly radiated boundless brilliance, with all chaotic patterns awakening... The golden light surged like waves, instantly filling his entire sea of consciousness, and vast power poured forth along with the brilliance.
Rumble~~~
In the fierce wind, Du Han’s robe billowed wildly, and his originally withered aura suddenly transformed dramatically, the cold Nether energy around him completely receding, replaced by an awe-inspiring ancient oppression surpassing the limits of the Void Refining Realm.
He seemed like a great sun descending from ancient times, his entire being blazing with golden light, illuminating heaven and earth.
The Illusionary Destruction Dao Domain that Qin Changkong had poured all his life’s efforts into instantly dissolved and vanished before this golden light...
Those illusions, indistinct between real and unreal, ancestral phantoms, were all obliterated as the golden light shone upon them.
Qin Changkong suddenly changed, his Yang Spirit inside him throbbed violently, and a chill that pierced to the bone instantly swept through his body, he could even clearly feel the breath of death.
"What is this?! What kind of power?!"
His Dharma Body began to annihilate and dissolve in the golden light, his skin, flesh, and bones... all turning into strands of flying ashes, dissipating into the void.
At this moment, a faint jade-colored light suddenly burst forth from within Qin Changkong’s Yang Spirit, a Life-Saving Talisman hidden deep within his Yang Spirit automatically activated at the moment of his life and death.
The jade-colored light was gentle yet tough, firmly safeguarding Qin Changkong’s Yang Spirit, resisting the remaining might of the golden light, and opening a slight crack, fleeing madly into the depths of the sky.
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In the Qin Clan Ancestral Land, clouds entwined the mountains, ancient trees towering, and millions of Spirit Veins steamed and surged.
In a quiet chamber, on a stone couch, Qin Cangwu sat with his eyes closed, his features still as handsome as in his youth, with a jade-like face and hair like cut by a knife, showing no sign of old age.
Yet when the aura around him flowed, it faintly revealed a bit of the aged and waning air of a dying ancient deity, as if the ancient divine tree was withering, the Spiritual Rhyme gradually dispersing, and his lifespan nearing its limit.
He had cultivated arduously for a hundred thousand years, long since comprehended the true essence of the Dao Domain and cultivated into a perfect and flawless Dao Domain, transforming the Illusory Heaven, each step in tune with heaven and earth, moving as he willed.
He further merged with the Dao, forging two Loose Immortal Divine Techniques completely integrating his own Dao path, his Realm advancing triumphantly, reaching the Void Refining Fourteenth Tribulation.
But from then on, it was like a mud ox entering the sea, no matter how hard he pursued, how many thousands of years he refined, he could never grasp even the edge of the embryonic form of the Law.
Qin Cangwu slowly opened his eyes, a divine light flashed and then was covered by a deep weariness.
He raised his hand for a light wave, and myriad phenomena unfolded in the quiet chamber—
With his left hand, he drew upon the Five Elements’ origin, the clang of metal, the sprouting of green wood, the circling of blue water, the burning of intense fire, the bearing of thick earth, the wheel of the Five Elements spinning with mutual generation and mutual destruction, consolidating without dispersion, birthing wondrous principles of their own.
This was the first Divine Technique he comprehended in his life—the Five Elements Primal Mirror.
Based on the Dao Domain and bone of the Five Elements, it could attack or defend, create small worlds, trap and kill strong enemies. It seemed a transformation of the Five Elements, yet indeed concealed the Heaven and Earth Mirror Image, able to reveal flaws in opponents’ Cultivation Techniques, able to transform all world’s laws into the invisible.
His right hand then manifested, a Glazed Illusion Mirror floated in the void, casting a faint glow, reflecting the ancient and the present, it could turn illusion into reality, transform reality to nothingness, in a single thought, the seas turned to mulberry fields, myriad illusion realms arose as he wished.
This was the second Divine Technique—Illusionary Mirror Reflects the Mysterious.
What the mirror reflected was neither false nor real, it was what the Dao Heart felt, what the Dao path manifested, able to bewilder Divine Thought, distort the Dao Heart, and even within illusion seek truth, within void attain Enlightenment.
And the perfect Dao Domain stretched out like a celestial canopy, the two Divine Techniques flowing through his palms, profound beyond measure, their might intimidating.
But Qin Cangwu looked at these Supreme Divine Techniques his lifetime forged, merely shook his head lightly, and a long sigh echoed through the quiet chamber.
"The Law is hard to seek, the Great Dao hard to find..."
"Two thousand years of comprehending Divine Techniques’ transformations, yet not even able to touch a hint of the embryonic form of the Law."
"No wonder my Qin Clan, passed down for over two million years, full of geniuses, heroes unending, yet ultimately, only Yuzu alone could prove the Dao of Dharma Master, ascend the absolute pinnacle!"
He tapped his fingertips lightly, the Dao Domain contracted, Divine Techniques returned to silence, and his eyes were filled with helplessness and melancholy.
"The path of the Law, as if separated by myriad layers of clouds and mountains, like watching the moon in the water of the mirror, only seen but never reached."
"If there is no further breakthrough, this life can only end here, five thousand years later, becoming a mound of yellow earth..."
As Qin Cangwu pondered in his heart, suddenly, his brow furrowed sharply:
"Chang Kong’s Life-Saving Talisman has been broken!"
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