Chapter 1596: Zhang Taixuan: Proved Hunyuan, But Doesn

"It's Taixuan brother!"

"Brother?" Xiao Moceng Xuecai's eyes sparkled with gossiping light. "Does Master know that deity?"

Touma Kazusa nodded: "I know him. That pry bar technique? Taixuan brother taught it to me."

"Huh?" Xiao Moceng Xuecai frowned. "He's so powerful—he could've taught you sword or knife arts. Why use a pry bar? Is it because the pry bar contrasts cutely with a girl?"

"It's not like that!" Touma Kazusa was speechless; she never expected Xuecai to even know about contrast. "Swords and knives are complicated—mastering them takes years. Pry bar is faster."

"But Master's knife skills are clearly excellent!" Xiao Moceng Xuecai didn't believe it.

He just showed me how to swing the blade, and my combat power changed completely. "Three-two-zero."

Saying knife skills are hard to master? Hard to believe.

Touma Kazusa shook her head: "That was just power application technique—not real knife art. Besides, I use the pry bar to win through endurance; that's still called unlocking potential. If my knife skills suddenly improved, enemies would notice."

"Enemies?" Xiao Moceng Xuecai's expression shifted. "Is it the master of the Nightmare Realm?"

"Mm." Touma Kazusa nodded. "So I absolutely can't reveal anything too refined ahead of time."

Xiao Moceng Xuecai: "But Master's techniques are clearly refined."

"They only seem refined to you," Touma Kazusa shook her head.

After seven days of fierce battle, she gained new insight into all the martial arts in Shangcheng.

Those martial arts—even if you only mastered a few layers of Body Refinement techniques—were far superior to my Four Pry Bar Forms.

In the end, they were merely combat techniques built on basic human physiology; they couldn't strengthen one fundamentally.

They were trivial skills.

In the chaos, battle raged fiercely.

Light feathers coalesced into a sword, then suddenly slashed down.

The Nightmare Lord's body was instantly cut in half.

It wasn't that he couldn't dodge—it was that the light feathers were too powerful.

At that moment, time, space, and temporal forces sealed the chaos; he had not even a sliver of chance to evade.

"Ah…"

A roar rang out, and the Nightmare Lord's form reformed again.

"I am the Hunyuan Daluo Jin Xian—immortal and indestructible. Taixuan, the Dao Ancestor, you're nothing special!"

Zhang Taixuan smiled lightly: "Is that so?"

After several trial attacks, he had already gauged the opponent's true strength.

He had formidable spiritual powers, but his Dao cultivation was mediocre.

The Nightmare Lord, like Su Xiao, had attained boundless spiritual techniques—but never turned them into his own.

He had accumulation, but no true achievement.

It was like stacking bricks without steel reinforcement or concrete—the higher the pile, the more dangerous it became.

Just as he thought this, a figure appeared beside him.

It was the Nightmare Lord.

"Taixuan, the Dao Ancestor—you've fallen into my trap!"

A long knife brimming with malice slashed down—and instantly, the River of Time and Space snapped.

"I've severed your Daluo essence. What do you have left to fight me with? Your past self certainly wasn't as strong as you are now!"

With a thought, a shadowy figure slipped into the past.

It was the Nightmare Lord's avatar.

Chat group.

Su Xiao: "Oh no! How could Taixuan brother be so careless? Now even the Daluo concept of time-space looping has been severed—this is dangerous! Yunxiao sister, what do we do?!"

Yunxiao: "Should I go rescue him?"

Ye Hei: "Probably no need. Look at the Dao Jun—he still looks completely relaxed."

Xiao Mai: "Something's off. Why? Once the time-space loop is severed, the past self becomes incredibly weak—extremely dangerous! Hunyuan experts are truly remarkable—they can sever even a Semi-Sage's concept of time-space."

Su Xiao: "But why didn't the Nightmare Lord sever it from the start?"

Han Paopao: "Maybe because force-to-Dao cultivators have an extremely strong time-space loop? If he'd been prepared, he couldn't have severed it. So he fought the Dao Jun to find an opening for a surprise strike."

Xiao Yan: "So stressful!"

Xiao Yan: "What's happening in the battle now? Why can't I understand? Taixuan brother didn't explain—it's driving me crazy!"

"My husband will be fine."

Biyou: "Of course he will. Don't worry."

Touma Kazusa, streaming live, nearly fainted…

She didn't know what the Daluo time-space loop concept meant.

But just from listening to the chat group, she knew it was something vital—her heart clenched.

If the Dao Jun died because of her, how could she live with herself?

Wait—if the Dao Jun died, wouldn't his defenses vanish?

Then she and Xiao Moceng Xuecai would fall straight into chaos—essentially dying with him.

Thinking of this, Touma Kazusa wasn't afraid anymore; her eyes gleamed with strange light.

"Master, is something wrong?"

"Is Taixuan brother going to be in trouble?"

Xiao Moceng Xuecai was frightened.