Chapter 1432 - 39: Karmic Fire
Before the words had even fallen, the sound of Flying Swords suddenly rang out!
This time it was Xie Xuanyi who struck first. He raised his hand and hurled Chen Ke without the slightest hesitation, directly expanding the Life and Death Dao Domain.
This Fire Domain was instantly paved over and filled flat with Sword Qi!
The three-foot Black and White sword domain howled as it expanded, tens of thousands of strands of Sword Qi swarming forth, stabbing straight for the Great Palace Master’s face together with the Lifebound Flying Sword.
"Petty tricks."
Seeing this, the Great Palace Master only smiled faintly.
He flicked his sleeve and patted lightly.
Chen Ke was smacked into a sway, veering off and flying away... This was the first time since Harmonization that Xie Xuanyi had summoned his Lifebound Flying Sword, and he didn’t gain the slightest advantage.
If it were a Primordial Saint instead.
Facing this strike, even if they didn’t die, they’d have to shed a layer of skin.
A Strongest at Yang God Perfection truly could not be underestimated. With just one exchange, Xie Xuanyi already felt immense pressure.
"Gather!"
Xie Xuanyi raised two fingers and placed them upright before him.
His expression was indifferent.
He directly unleashed the second stage of the Dao Shengyi Divine Skill!
Countless Flying Swords swept out, forcibly condensing into a Great Domain, caging the Great Palace Master within it. The Lifebound Flying Sword that had been slapped flying by that sleeve just now returned once more, countless Fire Domains forming a great circle over the Heavenly Peak, while the Sword Qi all across the sky formed smaller circles beneath the Fire Domain... What Xie Xuanyi wanted to do was very simple.
He wanted to use the Life and Death Dao Domain to forcibly slay the Great Palace Master!
"You do have a bit of blood and guts..."
Gazing at the Sword Qi filling the sky.
The Great Palace Master stood with hands clasped behind his back, unable to help but voice a sigh.
He had originally thought that this young Human Race Sword Cultivator, faced with him, would look for a chance to flee... He had never expected that this arrogant brat surnamed Xie actually wanted to kill him.
Countless strands of Sword Qi pierced the void, sketching out a pitch-black, square Great Domain.
"So this is the Divine Skill that trapped the Saint Prince?"
The Great Palace Master arched a brow.
In that battle at Falcon Wind Gorge, he had arrived a moment too late.
By the time he reached the battlefield, Xie Xuanyi and Cui Zhen had already escaped... The battlefield of that fight had been filled with residual Annihilation Sword Qi; Xie Xuanyi’s Gathering Divine Skill had suppressed the Saint Prince.
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, the Great Palace Master wouldn’t have believed that there existed a Cultivator in this world who could suppress the Saint Prince at the same realm.
And now.
He had not only seen it with his own eyes, he was personally experiencing it.
The void shattered, and vast Sword Qi surged like a tidal sea. These strands of Sword Qi carried boundless Killing Intent, sealing the void, as though intending to drown and smother him.
"Interesting."
The Great Palace Master scrutinized it for a moment, then extended his palm.
He did nothing more.
He simply gave a single slap.
So-called... using sheer force to crush ten thousand arts.
Having cultivated to the very peak of the Yang God, the Great Dao on his body had long since reached the extreme of Perfection. The Great Palace Master had faintly touched the power of the Origin of the Great Dao. With this slap, the void shattered, and countless strands of Sword Qi shattered along with it.
Rumble, rumble.
A casual, offhand palm was sent out.
The sword domain formed by over ten thousand strands of Sword Qi was instantly blasted open, a gaping hole torn through it!
"Broken just like that?"
Xie Xuanyi furrowed his brows deeply.
He truly hadn’t expected that the sword domain he took pride in would be this fragile before the Great Palace Master!
Back when he’d faced Sun Erosion, this Gathering Divine Skill had forced out its Three Heads and Six Arms, even driving Sun Erosion into a rather wretched dilemma.
But before the Great Palace Master.
This Divine Skill... was like paper.
"The gap between a Strongest and an ordinary Yang God is simply too vast!"
Xie Xuanyi was secretly shocked.
You don’t know until you fight; once you fight, you’re terrified.
At his so-called "Fourth Heaven" peak, he truly had no qualifications to challenge the Great Palace Master.
He finally understood why, in that battle at the Lotus Forbidden Land, Lu Yuzhen had been so nervous when she saw her Master...
The Paper Taoist’s strength was already quite great.
But before the Pure Yang Sect Leader, he was still far too lacking.
The situation in that battle back then was actually quite similar to today.
"Try using the Primordial Swallowing Divine Power again."
Xie Xuanyi took a deep breath, once more urging his sword thought to recall Chen Ke.
This time.
He directly launched an assault using Da Sui Sword Palace’s Secret Sword Technique, fanning out ten thousand Flying Swords like a screen, turning them into a sea of swords, and pouring it towards the Great Palace Master.
Every single Flying Sword carried the intent of Swallowing Yuan and Swallowing Dao.
But something terrifying happened once more.
"Heh."
Looking at the sword rain filling the sky, the Great Palace Master only let out a contemptuous chuckle, and once again swept his sleeve with that same leisurely air.
The sleeve infused with Phoenix Fire swung out.
This strike contained the robust Power of the Origin of the Great Dao.
Tens of thousands of Flying Swords, their sword thought shattered, were crushed to pieces in the void...
The Primordial Swallowing Divine Power hadn’t even had time to activate before its carriers, those Flying Swords, were completely shredded!
The gap was far too great!
Seeing this scene, Xie Xuanyi’s Heart Lake went half cold.
With a swish.
The Great Palace Master had already teleported, arriving before him.
"Young man, where is that earlier arrogance of yours now?"
This Great Demon at the very peak of the Yang God, whose body carried the Pure Phoenix Bloodline, now towered high above, looking down upon Xie Xuanyi.
Though his words were filled with coldness.
At this moment, the Great Palace Master had also unleashed a number of Divine Skills.
A golden Phoenix Fire burned between his brows. This Phoenix Fire was quite unique, completely different from any "Phoenix Fire" Xie Xuanyi had seen before. If he wasn’t mistaken, this should be the Great Palace Master’s "Origin of the Great Dao." Under the reflection of this golden Phoenix Fire, the old man’s previously slightly hunched figure suddenly became incomparably tall.
This "human body" actually neared a height of one zhang, similar in stature to the Primordial Saint after he manifested the Great Ape Golden Body.
That decrepit, twilight air of old age was swept away.
With a booming crack, an explosion sounded!
The Great Palace Master threw a punch at Xie Xuanyi, utterly devoid of ornamentation!
Xie Xuanyi crossed his hands to block, palms overlapping, and with great difficulty withstood the blow. This punch was packed with ferocious power; his entire body was sent flying backward, his back smashing through the clouds overhead, and he was forcibly blasted from the entrance of the Ruins back into the Ruins themselves, tumbling in reverse for more than ten li.