Chapter 1304 - 659: Power of Clarity
His approach was swift and light, like a cool breeze brushing over a hill on a summer night or gentle waves lapping at a beach. It felt so natural, so right, that it left no room for resistance, leaving one’s heart completely docile.
His character had always been domineering and overbearing, but after traveling through three thousand small worlds, his understanding of the essence of power had reached new heights. Although this world had no Buddha and he had never studied the Buddha Path, his movements were filled with Zen, embodying the essence of endless vitality and perfect radiance.
Next, he swung his sword, seemingly slashing directly from the void into the present world, turning illusion into reality. Yin Jiu You barely managed to turn half of his body before his right shoulder was sliced clean off!
Fighting him with a sword? His old foe was baffled. The soul body feared no weapon’s injury, not even the Nanming Lihuo Sword. He had long ago, tens of thousands of years back, developed a divine skill that was immune to True Sun Fire, and although the Vermilion Bird Leaving Fire attached to this sword was fiercer and could extinguish his avatar, it couldn’t harm his true self.
A cold smile had just appeared on Yin Jiu You’s lips, but the next second, his expression changed.
A familiar pain surged through him, a scorching heat like his right arm had truly been severed at the shoulder!
He was shocked. As he turned his head slightly, he saw that his right shoulder was indeed completely severed, and the detached arm fell to the ground, quickly turning into nothingness. It was then that he noticed streaks of electric snakes hidden on the flaming red blade of the Nanming Lihuo Sword, occasionally bursting in blue and white flashes of lightning, their brilliance too subtle, masked by the flames.
What new trick did Changtian use to injure him?
In his mind, thoughts raced, and then Changtian’s icy Divine Thought relayed over: "This is what she named ’Daytime Flames,’ what do you think?" As the longsword spun, the second strike was already upon him, aiming straight for his head!
In ancient times, Changtian collected Universe Divine Fire extensively to refine his Innate True Fire, each having its use over the years. Only after breaking free from Bai Yujing did his comprehension of the Dao advance rapidly over these last three years, finally merging all the divine fire he carried into a transparent, colorless flame with Mysterious Netherworld True Fire as its foundation, supremely cold and hot, burning the evil and purging the filth, truly combusting everything and melting any toughness!
As for severing Yin Jiu You’s arm, it was after consuming Dao Fruit and performing Divine Travel, carefully observing the Origin Power of all worlds, that he gained insight into a new divine skill. He was already adept in the mental method of "Seeing the micro and knowing the macro," surpassing Ning Xiaoxian by several realms. This time, he refined an ability that advanced further, turning the insight from ’seeing the beginning through the end’ into a power that could defeat enemies, all thanks to the "Power of Clarity," which is the power of perceiving the nature of things to devise response strategies.
To put it plainly, as long as he injures the enemy’s body, the attack will convert into targeted damage. If the opponent is like the Chi Wen outside, adept at Water Manipulation, then this sword strike would carry Extreme Fire Power; if it injures a demon like Langya possessing Thick Earth Power, then the attack’s attribute would be Spirit Wood Power. Now, having struck Yin Jiu You, whose essence as a demon cultivator also lies in soul, the attribute attached to the Nanming Lihuo Sword is Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Power!
From this, it becomes clear that Gongshu Zhao’s effort to collect God Slaying Thunder from Tribulation Crossing great power to counter Yin Jiu You was misguided. Although he was a major avatar of Yin Jiu You, he knew nothing about his true self’s cultivation progress over these millennia. From the moment Yin Jiu You turned illusion into reality, offering hot tea with a soul body, Changtian realized that his adversary’s power was recovering rapidly, able to at least use Telekinesis again.
In fact, it wasn’t an earth-shattering feat. Even in Huaxia, if someone firmly believes they’re terminally ill and beyond cure, they would indeed die swiftly, exhibiting symptoms almost exactly as they imagined. In this world, there’s the so-called Cold Poison Witchcraft where patients cursed by an alchemist with a cold poison curse experience hallucinations, believing they’re trapped in an ice cellar unable to escape, even while it’s the scorching midsummer days outside. In the sweltering heat that makes one sweat with just bare skin, they could wrap themselves in four or five layers of cotton quilts and die, with frozen bruises all over their body at death, and icicles forming around their mouth and nose.