Chapter 675 - 357: The Strongest Spear vs. the Strongest Shield
At this moment, thunder fell from above the sky like a waterfall, resembling countless stars, with countless thunder arcs and electric snakes climbing atop, pouring down and engulfing all.
Feeling the earth-shattering power, Zheng Yi’s gaze became even more solemn; such might made one’s heart race.
He knew that the most dangerous time had arrived.
In the current situation, if he couldn’t seize control, he would face becoming charcoal under celestial punishment, his life extinguished and his Dao vanishing.
"Since it’s like this, let it come!"
"I also want to weigh the appearance of Heavenly Dao in this world!"
Zheng Yi’s eyes widened as he formed a hand seal in front of his chest, with vigorous power beginning to converge within him, perfectly rounded, carrying a trace of brilliant golden light, flowing across his skin, penetrating into his marrow, condensing in his blood, ultimately gathering in his organs.
King Aryaacalan Root Seal.
Facing the surging thunder power, for the first time, Zheng Yi utilized the top-tier secret technique divine technique from the Great Snow Mountain Lineage, although previously when he had used such a technique, he relied on the God Sacrifice Technique, leveraging the profound and mysterious power preserved through generations of priests in the Great Snow Mountain.
But now, under celestial tribulation, he couldn’t use external forces, otherwise, it would invoke even more terrifying celestial punishment.
Zheng Yi leveraged the relics of high monks who reached nirvana generations ago in the Great Snow Mountain, totaling three hundred and sixty-five, initially completing the construction of the Eighteen Foot Golden Body Technique.
This technique is a culmination he reached upon awakening innate wisdom, in both spiritual cultivation and body refining aspects, borrowing from the Taiyue Divine Venerable’s Nirvana Technique in the Doomsday World, perfecting his original body.
During the Golden Core Stage, Zheng Yi had heard of the strongest defense technique in the East Origin Sea Region’s history, known as the long-lost Vajra Indestructible Body.
He had never seen it personally, but prided himself on his Eighteen Foot Golden Body Technique being no less formidable.
After all, the Snow Mountain Lineage cultivated the Immovable Aryaacalan Body, already the top defensive cultivation technique; however, it heavily relied on Buddhist spiritual cultivation, which ironically was his weak point.
So Zheng Yi went the other way, refining the golden body using external objects, relying on three hundred and sixty-five top-tier relics, perfecting his Immovable Golden Body.
Of course, this method utilized external forces, far lacking the refined secret skill of Venerable’s lifelong cultivation, but Zheng Yi being an innate primordial divine body, adept in both Heaven Repairing and Heaven-Cutting Dao, his own body capable of accommodating traits, ultimately integrating, transforming to personal use, thus no intrinsic issues existed.
Moreover, Zheng Yi’s real purpose in perfecting the Eighteen Foot Golden Body Technique was to face the impending Nascent Soul Celestial Tribulation.
Now it was just the right moment.
The strongest spear meets the strongest shield.
Zheng Yi was curious if his Immovable Golden Body’s defense could hold.
He formed the Immovable Golden Body hand seal, with his whole skin beginning to emit substantial golden light, with three hundred and sixty-five relics in his body cavities slowly rotating around like heavenly stars.
An extremely mysterious fluctuation rapidly spread outward.
At that moment, he seemed to transform into a Sumeru Mountain, while the world changed and he remained steadfast.
Many people’s eyes blurred for a moment, as if seeing a colossal reclining Buddha in the void smilingly watching the world, gazing at the thunder tribulation in the sky.
Under the watchful gaze of countless Great Snow Mountain disciples and several Venerables, with no fear, he openly embraced the thunderous energy pouring down like a tide.
Rumble!
In an instant, this realm seemed to violently shake, the entire snow realm of the Great Snow Mountain collapsing, directly engulfed by the terrifying thunder, the explosive sound echoing across the entire sky.
Many Great Snow Mountain disciples with shallow cultivation cried out in low anguish, with many bleeding from ears, noses, and eyes, unable to withstand such fearsome thunder power.
Falling from mid-air, only to be caught by others.
"Unskilled in art, why venture out? Disgraceful..."
Floating in mid-air, intently watching the thunder tribulation’s changes, Venerable Red Sun coldly snorted at this scene.
With a wave of his robe sleeve, he swept up the falling Great Snow Mountain disciples, instantly sending them to safety.
Yet, in the blink of an eye, he refocused on Zheng Yi, facing the tribulation.
At this moment, this rare Divine Heir High Priest of the Great Snow Mountain was welcoming and bathing in the continuous torrent of thunder plasma.
The terrifying thunder sound continued to echo, shaking the void to tremble intensely, transmitting to the ear, causing damage to the eardrum.
Unable to hear other sounds for a long time.
Brilliant lightning turned into glaring plasma, the explosive energy almost condensing into liquid, and if touching any place, it would cause immense destruction.
Even the hardest iron and stone would melt in this.
What was alarming was that this plasma washed over Zheng Yi’s body time and time again, seemingly the only way to cleanse away the filth angering the Heavenly Dao of this world, purifying all sources of contamination.
In the thunder, Zheng Yi, the culprit, began to twist, seemingly not far from complete destruction.
However, at this time, the thunder’s power was nearly thirty percent less formidable than before, or even more.
After all, Zheng Yi used the Nine Bends of the Yellow Springs Array Map as a carrier, and the Seven Treasures Skill as a foundation, to set up the Immortal Slaying Sword Array at the peak of this Snow Mountain.
Although this Immortal Slaying Sword Array is just a counterfeit and inferior version.
Its power, compared to the genuine Immortal Slaying Sword Array laid by the Tongtian Sect Leader from the legend of the Investiture of the Gods, is not even one-billionth, and the difference in level is as vast as the difference between a glowing ember and the sun and moon.
However, using this inferior version of the Immortal Slaying Sword Array Map, Zheng Yi was able to fully unleash the power of his life-bound Spirit Treasure, the Immortal Slaying Sword.
This set of sword arrays is his greatest achievement in Array Dao over the years and represents his undefeated Dao Heart in the world.
With one strike, it is as if the world shatters.
As the saying goes, "Immortal Slaying" means sharpness, "Slaying Immortal" means death, "Entrapping Immortal" triggers red gleams everywhere.
The Immortal Slaying Sword is the source of the path of killing, specializing in Immortal Slaying and Soul Destruction, perfectly countering the Nascent Soul Marks gathered in the fearsome Thunder City.
So even when the Nine Great Nascent Soul Brands manifest, reconstructing their true form under the influx of Thunder Essence Qi, they cannot withstand the effortless might of the Immortal Slaying Sword.
All things, all creatures, nature has its principles of mutual generation and mutual overcoming, this is the correct principle of the universe.
The Nine Great Nascent Soul Brands met with misfortune, failing to unleash their horrific power, which could suppress the rebellious forces of Great Snow Mountain’s top-tier lineup, but were instantly slain by the three swords of the Immortal Slaying Sword, even their Spiritual Imprints being forcibly obliterated, making it impossible for the Heavenly Dao to resurrect them.
With the greatest foundation broken, the fully formed Thunder City also became incomplete, each subsequent appearance leading to further diminishing of Thunder Origin Power, reducing in might until the entire city’s power drastically wanes.
Thus, Zheng Yi dared to measure the might of thunder with the Eighteen Foot Golden Body Technique.
Otherwise, faced with such terrifying Celestial Punishment that could obliterate his entire Daoist Practice, he would have hurriedly avoided it, so how could he dare to face it head-on deliberately.
At this moment, Zheng Yi’s figure completely vanished.
In the void, only a dazzling waterfall of thunder remained.
The piercing white light shattered the ground, flying stones were flung and immediately destroyed by the continuous thunder power, turning to dust and rubble, becoming mist and quickly dispersing.
This terrifying power astonished all onlookers.
Even the several Venerables of Great Snow Mountain, upon seeing this, couldn’t help but furrow their brows deeply, their hearts sinking.
Fearful that Zheng Yi, the newly appointed Divine Heir, will perish under this thunder tribulation.
After all, the Lord of Snow Mountain High Priest and other cultivators are altogether different.
Their noble status is precisely because they can specialize in the God Sacrifice Technique, utilizing the body of a mere mortal to leverage the terrifying foundation accumulated over millennia at Great Snow Mountain.
In the Snowfield Grassland, no matter who takes action in the entire Profound Celestial Cultivation Realm, the High Priest here stands unbeaten.
Regardless of external turmoil, calmly overlooking from the Fishing Platform.
This is the foundation of the Snow Mountain Lineage.
Even if all these old guys were to die out entirely, as long as Divine Heirs continuously reincarnate, constantly arising, the inheritance of the Snow Realm Lineage will never perish.
However, this is also why the High Priest lineage paid a heavy price, suffering from the resentment of heaven.
Why, despite possessing supreme divine authority, do successive High Priests need to reincarnate?
Because their connection with the snowfield is too tight, their fortunes are fused together, inseparable.
Although they can wield the mighty forces and Power of Belief from the Snow Mountain, the power they own is essentially illusory, unlike other Snow Mountain cultivators whose power comes from themselves, while the High Priest is a representative of divine authority, is the Divine Heir residing in the Great Spirit Heaven.
Therefore, every Divine Heir from birth to the time of nirvana and rebirth, has never undergone this tradition of Crossing the Tribulation.
Because the origin of their power is not self-owned but derived from external forces, the God Sacrifice Technique they specialize in is more like a key opening the foundation entrusted over generations of the Snowfield Plateau.
How could this invoke a Celestial Tribulation?
Thus, the sudden emergence of Zheng Yi’s unprecedented Nascent Soul Celestial Tribulation truly stunned everyone.
But now, with the great calamity at hand, no one wishes to ponder deeply.
At this moment, within the Great Snow Mountain, belief is unprecedentedly cohesive.
And the focus of all eyes is Zheng Yi, the Divine Heir High Priest who constantly alters the current rules of Snow Mountain.
Space was draped in a layer of black gauze, the destructive power of thunder too strong, each wave higher than the last, rendering this space akin to chaos.
Growing irreparably desolate.
Thunder clears the land, sweeping away decay!
From above the heavens, the most fearsome power of thunder directly leveled the entire mountain peak of Snow Mountain by two zhang heights.