Chapter 1077

At this moment, the Celestial Aurora Immortal Flood still suppressed, forming a stalemate with Xu Qing's Five Elements circulation.

But Xu Qing knew this stalemate was only temporary.

At most, a few dozen breaths!

To completely break this Aurora Immortal Flood, there was only one way: kill Li Mengtu.

Once the opponent died, the technique would disperse on its own.

So, at the moment Li Mengtu retreated...

Xu Qing's entire body became an afterimage, moving with astonishing speed, howling forward, stirring sharp sonic booms.

His speed was so great it seemed time itself slowed down.

Cold intent flared in his eyes as his left hand formed a seal and pressed down.

Instantly, spatial power surged forth.

Heaven and earth changed color, winds rose and clouds surged, the void churned, and one grid after another appeared.

These grids formed independent spaces, manifesting around Li Mengtu, sealing his retreat, blocking his movement, and suppressing his counterattack.

Li Mengtu's mind trembled.

He knew this Xu Qing before him was extraordinary; the binding order on the Main Dao Cliff earlier had already shown him the opponent's ferocity, and he had prepared, yet he still found it troublesome.

Fighting Xu Qing required full concentration; no relaxation was allowed, for a single carelessness would let the opponent seize an opportunity, and what awaited would be an overwhelming eruption like what was before him.

Moreover, the opponent excelled at finding opportunities.

Thus, the intensity of his spirit surpassed even his famed battle from years past.

These thoughts flashed through Li Mengtu's mind in an instant, without affecting his counter at this moment; even with the surrounding space sealed, Li Mengtu directly bit his tongue tip, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Using his own blood to cast a spell, he formed bloody runes that suddenly erupted forward.

At the same time, the Mirror-Flower surrounded his body, each flashing brightly, seeking to oppose the coming storm.

But... the same method, here with Xu Qing, unless perfect without flaw, would hardly succeed a second time.

Obviously, this Mirror-Flower was not so perfect.

The first use could catch by surprise, but upon reuse, Xu Qing had already discerned the clue.

It was not a technique of causality, but a divine ability containing spatial power.

Its principle was to use refraction to form overlapping spaces, thus allowing

=silent and soundless, unnoticed, to guide harm.

Thus, though the flaw was deeply hidden, it still existed.

This flaw was the refraction and that invisible overlapping space.

The latter, Xu Qing likewise used spatial power to form grids, isolating it.

The former... Xiao Ying was summoned by Xu Qing precisely for this point.

Xiao Ying's body turned utterly dark, instantly expanding, forming a shield.

Thus, what the Mirror-Flower refracted was a sheet of darkness, and the overlapping space it emitted was also isolated, unable to overflow, unable to truly form.

Though this all sounds lengthy, in reality it happened in a flash of lightning and stone.

In that instant, the Mirror-Flower was restrained, and Xu Qing's immortal technique was erupting.

First came the Six Thieves' Wild Birth.

This immortal technique transformed into the Seven Emotions and Six Desires, like a demonic head, exploding in Li Mengshi's mind and spirit, stirring his emotions, devouring his will, polluting his Dao-heart.

Then came the Five Dogs Release Immortal.

The Greedy Dog entered the dwelling, mixed into memory.

Forming an open door, making the Greedy Dog roar, directly charging in.

Binding its soul.

Next, the Foolish Dog formed, desiring to fall into life and death, the Wicked Dog came, desiring to fall into hell.

Finally, the Cliff Dog appeared, forever losing human form!

A mournful sound issued from Li Mengtu's mouth.

At this moment his face twisted, his body violently shook; in his life of battling others, he had never encountered such a technique; accurately speaking, this was no longer a technique.

This was more like a strange curse!

Causing his seven orifices to bleed, his three souls and seven spirits wailing within, his memory falling into chaos.

And Xu Qing's killing move had not ended; it had only just begun now.

Restraining the mirror-flower, then immortal technique disturbing the soul, followed by world-shocking sword qi.

The three sword qi given to Xu Qing by Old Nine now erupted, the last one.

This sword qi flashed across the heavens, forming the might to destroy the rotten, scattering the force that nothing could resist, transforming into a fierce sword shadow, breaking through everything, directly slashing onto Li Mengtu's body.

Li Mengtu's body trembled, a wound appeared on his chest, blood surged forth.

Immediately, the Golden Crow stirred up heavenly black fire, forming a black long spear, seized by Xu Qing, who shot out from within the black fire in an instant.

All his cultivation erupted, time and space rose together.

Gathering himself, merging into the long spear.

One spear thrust forward!

The roar echoed back; this spear pierced exactly where Old Nine's sword qi had broken open.

It sank into flesh and blood, touched the heart, and pierced straight through!

The aurora dispersed, the Five Elements returned.

But on Xu Qing's face, there was no sign of relaxation; instead, his pupils contracted, he unhesitatingly abandoned the idea of destroying the corpse, his body violently retreated.

His speed was so great, in an instant he was far away.

But just as his body retreated for an instant, a terrifying burst erupted, suddenly spreading across Li Mengtu's corpse.

It covered a thousand li.

It caused all things within a thousand li to be directly annihilated!

Xu Qing's expression grew heavy; even standing a thousand li away, he could feel the terrifying explosive force ahead.

Had he been even a little slower just now, he would not be dead, but he would surely be severely wounded.

At the same time, a hoarse voice slowly emerged from the place of annihilation ahead of Xu Qing.

"To force me to use the Third Authority once—you are indeed extraordinary!"

As the voice echoed, Li Mengtu's figure was seen stepping out, step by step, from within the place of annihilation.

His clothes were torn, but the wounds on his body... had all vanished.

His entire being—whether aura, condition, or cultivation—remained exactly as it had been at its original peak.

This is the power of his Third Authority, a heaven-defying authority named Rebirth!

As he stepped forward, Li Mengtu gazed at Xu Qing, his eyes showing heaviness at the same time as a hint of complexity.

"Before meeting you, I thought my talent already belonged to the absolute pinnacle; even if someone surpassed me, it could not be by much."

"Until today... my cultivation is Sovereign Initial, yours is God-Seal Late, yet our combat power is roughly equal. So in terms of talent, I am inferior to you, but this world only has relative fairness, not absolute."

"No need for so much nonsense." Xu Qing spoke calmly.

Having experienced that Sovereign who once turned words into a forbidden formation, Xu Qing was highly wary of this method, so while interrupting the other's speech, the Erasure Authority also flashed in his eyes.

Erasing all traces around him.

Hearing this, Li Mengtu's eyes deepened; his right hand suddenly rose and he swung forward.

Instantly, floral fragrance spread; centered on Li Mengtu, in the darkened heavens and earth, at this very moment... countless flowers appeared out of nowhere, spreading across hundreds of thousands, even millions of li.

Turning this boundless expanse into a sea of flowers.

And within these flowers... some were beautiful, some ugly, some resembled rot, some were extremely ferocious.

And they were all... poisonous flowers and poisonous grasses!

As for the fragrance, it was the exhalation of countless poisonous grasses, mixed together to form poison!

This poison was astonishing—it erupted instantly, enveloping Xu Qing within.

Had it been anyone else, they would surely have fallen into a life-or-death crisis now, but Xu Qing's mastery of the Grass and Wood Dao was superb; though he currently had no medicinal herbs on him, he possessed a large quantity of pills.

These pills were all refined from plants and trees, containing the substances he needed.

Thus, raising his hand, Xu Qing took out a handful of pills; each was a specific choice, and upon appearing, he immediately crushed them, extracting their needed substances, enveloping the surroundings, blending and adjusting them according to his understanding.

In this way, he resolved the poison in this place.

Though limited by time, he could not fully neutralize it, but maintaining combat power within this flower sea was still possible.

But just as Xu Qing's pills dissolved the surrounding poison, Li Mengtu's body stepped forward, kicked up a sonic boom, crossed a thousand li, and directly arrived before Xu Qing.

A fist descended.

Xu Qing looked up and suddenly counterattacked.

The booming sound rang out immediately; amid the deafening noise, Li Mengtu's strike came like a storm, without the slightest pause, sometimes physical, sometimes technique, and yet

completely without any defense.

This approach was completely different from before.

Facing this violent storm-like fierce battle, Xu Qing also gave his all; the black long spear in his hand flashed, the Five Elements Authorities intertwined and erupted, and the power of time and space fluctuated.

For a moment, within this heaven and earth, the two exchanged blows—you came, I went—extremely perilous.

The booming sound did not cease for even half a breath.

And the injuries, naturally, continuously appeared in this mutual slaughter—on Xu Qing's body, within his body, and even on his soul, appearing in sync.

Causing his entire body to be covered in glistening blood, with blood continuously gushing from his mouth.

Yet strangely... Li Mengtu remained completely unharmed!

To be precise, his injuries, each time they appeared, would instantly recover like rebirth!

It was as if, now, he was within the Rebirth Authority, capable of infinite recovery.

This sight caused Xu Qing's heart to sink.

The Rebirth Authority was already heaven-defying, yet now the opponent's authority power could still be maintained...

Such ability could no longer be described as merely heaven-defying.

Xu Qing had never seen anything like it.

Nor did it conform to his understanding.

But he had a similar ability—time reversal—so for this kind of technique, he had his own understanding.

"My time reversal is also heaven-defying, so I cannot deploy a second time in a short span; then this Li Mengshi..."

"His authority must also have a cost."

"This sustained duration will absolutely not be long, and once it fails, the cost will inevitably appear!"

Thinking this, Xu Qing gritted his teeth, shifted from offense to defense, and under the opponent's storm-like onslaught, continuously retreated.

Though he delayed the time, Li Mengtu's strikes became ever sharper, causing Xu Qing's injuries to increase ever more, continuously worsening, until he finally became completely a blood-man.

Seeing this, Li Mengtu's eyes flashed.

He knew his Rebirth Authority was truly extraordinary, and its state could persist for a time, but it carried a great cost—once the state vanished, he would suffer backlash.

And he could not deploy a second time in a short span.

While Xu Qing's prior time reversal seemed not to have concerned him much, his heart was highly wary of it, so at this moment, his strike had two purposes.

One: although his opening words wasted his own time, they also delayed Xu Qing's time.

And according to his judgment, this time reversal must have a reversal limit—at most the burning of one incense stick, impossible to last too long, and likely only dozens of breaths at most.

Two, based on his judgment of the time limit for time reversal, he did not unleash a devastating killing move, but instead used this uninterrupted assault to stack the opponent's injuries.

In this way, even if Xu Qing could indeed still reverse time, but as long as he felt his injuries were not fatal and thus hesitated, he would miss the window, unable to reverse to his peak state, only reversing to the time period when injuries existed.

This is a vicious cycle.

"Then next, we can truly verify whether he has that ability!"

"If he does, then I have no choice but to use that method......"

"If he does not, this battle ends!"

Thinking of this, Li Mengtu estimated the remaining time he had under the authority of regeneration, then suddenly raised his hand and grabbed, taking out a wooden carving.

This wooden carving was pitch black, emanating an evil aura, and its carving depicted an old man.

Lifelike.

The old man's features were twisted, his face showing utter agony, his body irregularly contorted, as if on the verge of death.

And at the moment he took out this wooden carving, Li Mengtu, there, made a motion that caused Xu Qing's mind and spirit to suddenly sink into gloom.

Only saw Li Mengtu holding the wooden carving in one hand, while the other hand directly plunged into his own chest, grabbed his heart, and violently pulled it out, then squeezed it hard!