Chapter 61: The Supreme Blood Battle (2)
Boom, boom, boom!
Even this decayed space-time was blasted into towering waves by that single blow.
Space-time tremors, featuring a massive drop in elevation and capable of shredding almost all matter like a saw, raged wildly.
Yet, this was merely the most insignificant aftermath.
Accompanied by a silent roar, Taiyin was repelled.
While forcing Taiyin back, the Light-and-Dark Supreme instantly retreated one million light-years. His torn body and primordial spirit instantly reassembled, and the collapse power of Darkness and Nether obliterated the Taiyin Dao runes lingering on his wounds.
The Light-and-Dark Supreme stroked the wound at his waist, sensing the residual Dao marks. His eyes flickered in a daze for a moment before returning to calm.
"Compared to that battle hundreds of thousands of years ago, Taiyin, you have grown stronger."
He nodded in admission, a trace of exhilaration even appearing at the corners of his mouth. "Compared to you, having self-slashed, I have truly made no progress."
"Then..." The light scepter and dark shield were raised high once again. His essence, Qi, and spirit were driven to their absolute peak in an instant, and the five secret realms erupted with boundless light. The ultimate Dao laws had reached their maximum activity!
"Come again!"
The Light-and-Dark Supreme let out a loud shout, once again unleashing his ultimate secret technique, "Cosmic Collapse." He released it continuously, over and over again, yet did not press the attack forward.
The ultimate energy was utilized to wrinkle space-time, and within those wrinkles, an ocean of light continuously accumulated.
Just like the waves on the sea, layer upon layer, accumulating upon one another, it would ultimately erupt.
Since the ultimate secret technique had been broken head-on, then he would do it again!
Ten consecutive strikes! A hundred consecutive strikes! A thousand consecutive strikes! Ten thousand consecutive strikes!
Destructive death rays and gravitational collapse forces absolutely possessed no limits!
The only restriction on the limit of his power was the limit of the Light-and-Dark Supreme himself.
The limit of his physical body and primordial spirit.
So what if it was?
Ridiculous!
Fighting to this day, which supreme being hadn't broken through limits as easily as drinking water?
Since they were already facing a battle of life and death, where was the need to care about so-called limits!
Then come!
Go beyond the limit!
Stack it! Stack it! Stack it!
Exhaust everything of one's own!
Erupt with the most formidable power!
Fully stimulate essence, Qi, and spirit, burning blood Qi and burning the primordial spirit.
No longer pursuing the washing away of humiliation, nor begging for some supreme treasure of fortune.
Instead, harboring pure battle intent and absolute murderous intent, using everything of one's own to defeat the man before him!
At this moment, having already attained longevity, the invincible heart that was once lost for the sake of mere survival had finally returned.
Facing such a formidable opponent, as long as he could defeat him, even paying with his life for it was worth it!
Meanwhile, sensing the formidable power of Taiyin, the other four supreme beings no longer stood by as mere spectators.
With a tacit understanding, they exchanged glances, similarly raising their respective weapons and charging toward Taiyin together!
Longevity Heavenly Venerate held the Longevity Sword with a smile on his face, the purest vitality lingering upon it.
Wherever the Sword of Longevity passed, the decayed space-time actually began to writhe, and the overflowing aura of ultimate Dao laws even began to wail.
The sword Qi swept across tens of millions of light-years, surrounded by endless light rain, making the other four supreme beings feel a wave of comfort. Their blood Qi, primordial spirits, and ultimate Dao laws were catalyzed, becoming even more intense!
Yet, unlike their comfort, that pure yet eerie vitality actually caused the space-time within these tens of millions of light-years to come entirely to life, temporarily transforming into a bizarre life form.
That patch of space-time wailed, burning everything of its own, squeezing every drop of its own strength, allowing power to be continuously injected into that streak of sword Qi, causing it to soar endlessly like a divine tree rooted in the earth.
Consequently, it caused a chain reaction of infecting more space-time, continuing to squeeze out even more power!
"Fellow Daoist Taiyin, please receive a strike of mine—the 'Plague Sword Art of the Longevity Sword Technique'!" Free and Easy Heavenly Venerate wore a smile and shouted.
Bang!
The two imperial weapons collided, bursting forth with destructive radiance.
The vitality-filled blade was intercepted by the pitch-black crescent moon.
The abnormal vitality transformed into sword Qi, injecting into the blade.
In that instant, meridians actually grew on the Taiyin Moon Blade, growing sharp teeth, and emitting the wail of a newborn, attempting to devour its master.
Yet at the same precise moment, the deity within the weapon erupted with boundless divine might.
The icy, supreme Yin power tolerated not a speck of vitality, annihilating everything, destroying everything.
The blade of extinction of vitality hacked terrifying wounds upon that Longevity Sword and upon the imperial body of the Longevity Heavenly Venerate.
The power of extinction permeated, seeking to extinguish all vitality.
However, the "Word" secret circulated, and the purity of vitality to the extreme caused even that force of extinction to begin wailing.
Consequently, the power that ought to have extinguished vitality transformed into supreme divine medicine, making the flesh and blood heal as if time were flowing backward.
The Longevity Heavenly Venerate still wore a calm smile, continuing to allow an increasingly pure vitality to wildly gestate and grow stronger.
"The Southern Dipper confers life, the Northern Dipper confers death!"
The Corpse Emperor held his bow, yet did not point it at Taiyin. Instead, he continuously bowed toward an unknown place in the void, firing off arrows of the Northern Dipper decreeing death, each one destined to take a life!
Along the trajectory of cause and effect, those arrows of destiny caused strange black hair to gradually grow deep within Taiyin's primordial spirit and within the divine spring of his Wheel of Life.
The utterly decayed space-time was shattered time and time again, transforming into chaotic energy flows, out of which countless small worlds were cleaved open.
The Six Paths rotated. The Lord of Reincarnation from the Reincarnation Sea, a forbidden zone, employed a secret technique, transforming the countless cleaved small worlds into the Six Paths of Samsara.
Amidst the rotation of the Six Paths, the primordial spirit and physical body were worn down, causing energy levels to continuously drop, turning the extraordinary into the ordinary.
At the same time, those small worlds transformed into the Six Paths of Samsara were injected with vitality as vast as boundless starlight. The phantoms of countless plants, fish, insects, Asuras, and evil ghosts within them underwent a brief vivification.
Wailing, they transformed into an army and charged out. When slaughtered, amidst their lamentations, they were burned to ashes entirely, and in the blink of an eye, they rotated once more within the Six Paths of Samsara, thereby squeezing out everything to become assistance for the five supreme beings.
The array sealing this space-time bubble, ten billion light-years in diameter, was continuously pierced through.
The boundaries of the realm were struck into bizarre undulations because of this, allowing the Universe Myriad Daos of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths—which were still wailing and trembling—to capture this chunk of flesh that had been carved out.
Heavenly punishment thunder tribulations across the sky followed the connection, madly hacking down rays of divine heavenly punishment. Massive amounts of humanoid lightning rushed out of the tribulation clouds, attempting to annihilate these few monsters that had brought severe harm to the universe of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Yet, they were helplessly watched as the rays of heavenly punishment and those superficial humanoid lightnings were shattered with a mere wave of their hands, sucked into their mouths and noses to become nourishment to replenish their consumption.
All six powerhouses exercised extreme tacit understanding as they burst forth with power, probing each other while searching for a method to break the deadlock.
Suddenly, fragments of time fluttered, and a faint, illusory figure surrounded by time-space fragments flashed past.
It was the Free and Easy Heavenly Venerate, executing the "Word of Speed" secret.
He held his weapon of enlightenment—the Bottle of Immortal Tears Green Gold—and shot out a beam of light gestating within it.
The power originating from time coiled around Taiyin's body.
Time fragments reflecting light and shadow like mirror shards sealed him, and with a crack, the mirror shards shattered.
Immediately, a bloody scar surfaced across the center of Taiyin's body.
Clearly having suffered no slashing blow at all, his body suddenly split in half.
Then came the snapping of limbs and the shattering of his physical body.
Amidst the shattering of endless time-space fragments, Taiyin had already been reduced to a sky full of fragmented corpses.
Except for the block-shaped human he clutched in his left hand, which suffered no damage whatsoever, even his weapon of enlightenment, the Taiyin Moon Blade, seemed to possess no power of resistance, shattering together into endless fragments.
Every single fragment of his corpse was wrapped by a time-space fragment, continuing to shatter endlessly until they transformed into a mist of blood permeating the decayed space-time.
The Free and Easy Heavenly Venerate, who had developed the number one supreme speed in the universe—the "Word of Speed" secret—excelled in the Dao of time and space.
As the saying goes: Years are like blades that slash supreme talents!
The past cannot be retroactively pursued, and the future cannot be approached.
Time is the sharpest blade!
Time is the strongest defense!
Space and time are one; spatial rifts will lead to the tearing of matter, and temporal rifts are no exception.
Although the time fragments contained within the Immortal Tears Green Gold Bottle by the Free and Easy Heavenly Venerate were stripped from the current time, every single fragment possessed a minute time difference.
Consequently, when covered by such fragments, as long as one could not pierce through time, no matter how formidable the physical body, it would be torn apart by the mighty force of time.
Yet, although he had exploded into a mist of blood and the Taiyin Moon Blade had shattered into countless dust particles, they were still continuously hacking out endless blade light while simultaneously resisting the encirclement of the five supreme beings.
The Free and Easy Heavenly Venerate executed temporal division, turning time fragments into a cage to dismember and suppress him within fragments of the past and future.
The Corpse Emperor's bow followed the trajectory of invisible cause and effect, guiding curses deep into his primordial spirit.
The Lord of Reincarnation stimulated the phantom of the Six Paths of Samsara, seeking to dissolve and tear apart the resistance of his shattered primordial spirit.
His physical body fragments, blasted into a mist of blood, writhed beneath the Plague Sword Art of the Longevity Heavenly Venerate, as if trying to grow sentience and transform into independent living beings.
At the same time, the Cosmic Collapse secret technique executed by the Light-and-Dark Supreme continued to stack! Stack! Stack!
When accumulated to its peak, the destructive light stimulated by the Light Scepter surged along that sole pathway.
The continuously accumulating collapse power of the Dark Shield guided all the blood mist within the time-space fragments toward the sole destructive future.
The five supreme beings joined forces, erupting with a fatal dead-end powerful enough to slay immortals and annihilate Buddhas, fracture a universe, and extinguish all living beings!
However, just as destruction was about to descend, a sneer echoed from within the endless time-space fragments, causing the five supreme beings to startle in horror.
"Are you all done? My turn!"