Chapter 576: The Son of Heaven Sword

Li Yi looked at the Lady Baishui on the small boat, who looked like a fisher girl but was filled with murderous intent. His expression also became serious. As a practitioner who had crossed dimensions many times, he would not take any expert in any world lightly. Although he had reached the third level of the Five Qi Realm, he was still not a top expert and had a lot of room for improvement.

Therefore, caution and care were very necessary.

So, when facing this Lady Baishui, he was still sensing the aura of heaven and earth around him.

He discovered that no other powerful Incense Gods had appeared around.

Clearly, this Lady Baishui had been unable to hold back after Li Yi arrived at Taihu City and destroyed her temple, so she had taken the initiative to come forward at this time, without waiting for other experts to gather. Perhaps in her view, her thousand years of cultivation and accumulation were no problem for dealing with a Daoist.

This was the arrogance produced after being high above and worshipped by others for countless years; it had nothing to do with personality.

So, after a simple bow, Qiu Baishui's eyes flashed with divine light. Then, she just reached out and pointed, and the water of Taihu Lake behind her suddenly stirred up waves.

In an instant, the lake water splashed up, turning into streaks of water spears that tore through the sky. These water spears crisscrossed, yet gathered at one point, heading straight for Tai Yi.

This strike was just a probe.

But although it was just a probe, the power was not weak, because this strike carried the power of incense belief. Although it looked simple, it had the power to pierce through mountains and was extraordinary.

Boom!

Yet the next moment, Li Yi suddenly raised a fist, a fist mark reflected in mid-air, dragon and tiger power roared, and one strike shattered the incoming water spears, turning them into countless water mists that permeated everywhere. In just the blink of an eye, the city and the lake surface were filled with a thick fog.

"This Daoist..."

Qiu Baishui's gaze flickered slightly. From the strike just now, one could see that this Daoist had an astonishing physique and world-shaking divine power. One strike had the power to shake mountains; it was simply inhuman.

"So that's how it is. You are indeed different from other Incense Gods. Other Incense Gods simply rely on the strength of incense to condense their divine bodies; their methods are still shallow. But you have already understood the Dao of cultivation and understood spells. And the spells unleashed through the power of incense have extraordinary power."

Li Yi laughed suddenly, having understood why this Lady Baishui had become a top expert in this world.

The reason was very simple: she had realized cultivation and spells within these thousand years of time and combined them with incense. That was why the name of Lady Baishui had remained enduring, and no one dared to destroy her temple.

The Guardian Gods were just ordinary martial generals during their lifetimes and were trapped in the capital, so they never had the opportunity to come into contact with cultivation. Therefore, even if they had accumulated incense for twelve dynasties, they were just empty shells—good-looking but useless.

The power of incense could only explode with astonishing potential when it fell into the hands of a true practitioner.

"You actually saw it at a glance." Qiu Baishui then grew suspicious.

She had indeed mastered the method of cultivating the heart. This was something she had realized after living in seclusion in Taihu Lake for so many years, watching the spirits in the water become spirits and take human form, and she had made it her own. Moreover, she had long since cultivated a body and was no longer a soul body. Furthermore, she had mastered many spells. With the geographical advantage of Taihu Lake, she had almost no rivals.

Even the Yin Son of Heaven did not dare to come to Taihu Lake to provoke her.

"I am more proficient in the Dao of cultivation than you. However, the more this is the case, the more you are worth a fight with me." After Li Yi finished speaking, a golden auspicious cloud rose beneath his feet, then his figure flickered and disappeared from the spot instantly.

Then, a streak of golden light appeared in mid-air, and he had already killed his way to Qiu Baishui's front.

Qiu Baishui's pupils suddenly constricted.

This speed was simply too absurd. Not even a blink of an eye had passed before the person had come from the city wall of Taihu City to right before her eyes.

"Not good."

Qiu Baishui then sensed the crisis, but she hadn't reacted yet when a palm had already pinched her neck. Then, dragon and tiger divine power exploded, and the sound of dragon roars and tiger howls echoed in her ears instantly.

"Pity, you understand cultivation, but you don't understand how to duel. At this distance, you are too close to me." Li Yi's cold voice echoed, then his palm suddenly exerted force.

Boom!

A huge booming sound echoed, the air was blown apart at this moment, and at the same time, the neck of this Qiu Baishui was also blown apart.

Fresh blood sprayed, staining the lake surface red.

A delicate body hung down softly.

Li Yi waved his hand casually, tossing the corpse into the lake water, letting the lake water on the side swallow it.

And the lake surface stained red with blood was very calm at first, but before long, dark winds roared on the lake surface, giant waves rolled, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, as if a god had been angered. At this moment, it changed the weather, shook the water of Taihu Lake, and had a tendency to flood Huguang City.

"Just destroyed one of your bodies, no need to be so angry. After all, you are still alive now, aren't you?" Li Yi stood on the auspicious cloud, steady and unmoved, letting the giant waves beat and the fierce winds howl.

"True Person Tai Yi." An angry voice came from above Taihu Lake.

Giant waves rolled, continuous and undulating, like ten thousand horses galloping. The strike of the giant waves had the power of ten million jin, sufficient to smash mountains and level the earth. Moreover, the giant waves grew larger and larger, until finally, they had risen a thousand meters high, covering the sky and the sun, so that even Huguang City appeared incomparably small before them.

The common people in the city were completely panicked by this situation, and even the Embroidered Uniform Guards in the city were suddenly stunned.

This kind of power of heaven and earth was not something humans could contend with.

"Quick, run! Lady Baishui is angry."

"The imperial court destroyed Lady Baishui's temple, and Lady Baishui is going to use the water of Taihu Lake to flood the entire city."

"My god, are those still water waves? I've never seen water waves that can cover the sun."

Exclamations and sounds of fear came continuously.

Li Yi heard the sounds coming from the city and looked at the thousand-meter giant waves, unable to help but speak: "Earlier you accused me of excessive killing and being harmful to heaven. Now that you are angry, you don't even blink when flooding a city. Incense Gods are Incense Gods. After a long time, you really think of yourselves as gods high above." "Fine, let you experience a spell I recently learned."

Saying this, he operated the Daoist art, magic power surged, and he pointed a finger at the giant waves covering the sky: "Small."

What Li Yi unleashed was precisely the "Size as Desired" technique.

This spell was infinitely mysterious. If it hadn't been for Xiang Xiang Xiangzi helping him realize it with the help of incense power, he likely wouldn't have learned it even after twenty years.

As soon as the "Size as Desired" technique was unleashed, the giant waves that covered the sky and were sufficient to flood a city acted contrary to their nature, strangely beginning to shrink. At first, they were indeed a thousand meters high, but when the giant waves surged before his eyes, they were only a hundred meters high. By the time they reached Li Yi's front, they were only ten meters high.

By the time they hit the city wall, only one meter remained.

It was just an ordinary splash of water, and even the power had shrunk a lot, causing no damage at all.

"Impossible."

Such a scene made the Lady Baishui hidden in Taihu Lake, Qiu Baishui, full of disbelief.

She couldn't imagine that there was such a spell in this world that could directly make the giant waves she had stirred up smaller.

"Divide the River!" Li Yi sensed her position at this moment, raised his hand, and waved. A divine light condensed to the extreme was suddenly slashed out.

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In an instant, the water of Taihu Lake was forcibly split open, tearing open a hideous crack that went straight to the bottom of the river, unable to heal. At the same time, the power of this force also landed precisely on Qiu Baishui.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Qiu Baishui's incense body was torn apart, sliced directly into two sections.

But the torn body merged into the Taihu Lake water, and she also rapidly stirred up a giant wave, scattering everywhere, as if she hadn't been injured at all.

However, a large amount of incense aura remained where she had been struck.

Clearly, she had also paid a not-so-small price.

"Tai Yi."

Yet Qiu Baishui was not afraid or retreating because of this. She suddenly shouted, and the water flow nearby surged. Then, her figure suddenly killed her way out. This time, Qiu Baishui held an ancient precious sword, on which were the four characters "Permanently Suppress Mountains and Rivers," and it gathered the incense power of the world, with dragon and tiger energy intertwined, which was extraordinary.

One sword slashed over, like mountains and rivers overturning, a strike of the common people, intending to end Li Yi's life.

Li Yi also roared with dragon and tiger sounds, smashing out a fist. The fist light was brilliant, with three-colored magic power intertwined.

The power of this strike erupted, once again whipping up monstrous waves upon the surface of the lake.

"This sword... so heavy." Li Yi's expression flickered slightly at this moment.

This fist of his was sufficient to shake mountains, but it couldn't destroy this precious sword. On this sword, he felt the common people of the world, the masses, the unification of mountains and rivers. This great power suppressed his fist edge, suppressed his magic power, and gave him a feeling of defeat.

"This is the Son of Heaven Sword, of course it's heavy. How could you, a Daoist, be a match for the belief of the world?" Qiu Baishui glared at Li Yi. She herself hadn't thought this Daoist was so powerful, actually forcing her to draw the Son of Heaven Sword.

This sword was not the sword of the current Divine Martial Emperor, but the sword of a former Emperor, which he had lost to her in a bet while boating on Taihu Lake.

Boom!

The sword light dissipated.

Li Yi's fist edge retreated.

In this clash, the two seemed to have fought to a draw.

"Let's see how many swords you can block." Qiu Baishui killed her way over again, swinging her sword.

"Truly naive."

Li Yi stared at her coldly. As the sword slashed over, his figure suddenly dissipated, turning into clouds and mist that filled the sky and covered all directions.

Hmm?

Qiu Baishui held her sword and looked around.

But the next moment, the clouds and mist condensed, Li Yi's figure killed his way out again, a streak of fist light flashed, and Qiu Baishui hadn't even reacted to what was happening before her body exploded again. Lake water accompanied the incense filling the sky, and that Son of Heaven Sword flew out of her hand, then was grabbed by Li Yi.

It was not a magic treasure that had been refined; that was why it was so easily snatched away.

"Return my Son of Heaven Sword."

Qiu Baishui was shocked and lost her color. Her figure condensed again, stirring up a water tornado, attempting to trap Li Yi and snatch back the Son of Heaven Sword.

Because this sword was too harmful to Incense Gods.

However, Li Yi's figure dissipated again, turning into clouds and mist, vanishing between heaven and earth. By the time he condensed again, he was already beside Qiu Baishui, and at the same time, the Son of Heaven Sword in his hand had already been raised.

Qiu Baishui looked back, only to reveal a hint of terror.

The Son of Heaven Sword slashed down.

Along with a head flying up.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 577 =====