Chapter 164: Mysteriously Grown Stronger

"Domain-dwelling evil god, you dare to run amok in the vital lands of Haojing!"

As Jingming Daoist chanted, he had already stirred the vast Dragon-Tiger Qi of Haojing's vital lands.

He directly employed his killing move.

He noticed that the many poisonous insects driven away by the Gu God below still carried intense plague poison; once they began to rot, the number of living beings killed would be countless.

Roar!

Only to see him instantly leap into the air, a long sword appearing in his hand, and in an instant, the sound of countless thunderclaps shook the heavens.

Countless Dragon-Tiger Qi surged forth, transforming into heavenly thunderous roars, and under Jingming Daoist's urging, they bombarded the face that covered the sky.

Roar roar roar!

Moreover, in the depths of the void, boundless Dragon-Tiger Qi roared, forming countless golden dragons that charged toward the face.

Yet in the depths of the void appeared a majestic divine shadow, its entire body covered in boundless golden light, within which dense golden runes coalesced, and in its other hand it held a golden halberd; yet it showed no fear of the sweeping Dragon-Tiger Qi, and with a stroke of the halberd, it completely ignored the Dragon-Tiger Qi, the halberd cleaving the sea of thunder and striking straight toward Jingming Daoist.

Seeing this, Jingming Daoist's expression changed.

Behind him flew a scroll of resplendent rosy light, a divine chart, within which could be seen the scene of myriad immortals and gods worshipping.

"Chart of the Cavern God Bestowing the Dao?"

The majestic golden body, its entire body flashing with golden light in the void, upon seeing this scene, instantly had a hint of surprise appear on its face.

"The Cavern God old monster actually left this treasure to you!"

The ancestor of the Xuandu Sect felt somewhat troubled, for the Chart of the Cavern God Bestowing the Dao is the supreme treasure of the Cavern God Observatory, a spirit treasure surpassing mere magic treasures, belonging to the category of Profound Heaven Spirit Treasures.

It is extremely fierce.

Within the Chart of the Cavern God Bestowing the Dao manifested a grand spiritual mechanism, as if it could sweep through the void and take in all things; that fierce aura, as if it could destroy cities, the terrifying golden halberd qi fell into it, like a mud ox entering the sea.

Jingming Daoist also felt the pressure.

He and the Xuandu Sect ancestor were not without prior clashes; the Xuandu Nine Treasures' Xuandu Golden Body is wondrous and unfathomable, heard to be left by an ancient primordial god-demon who proved the primordial spirit in the primordial ages, its god-demon golden body being extremely hard, and refined by the Xuandu old ancestor into an incarnation, said to possess primordial spirit power.

Such mighty power, even if he borrowed the Dragon-Tiger Qi of the Great Qian court, might not necessarily suppress the opponent.

But he is not yet the State Preceptor Cavern God Daoist; as State Preceptor, he could mobilize the Dragon-Tiger Qi to the greatest extent.

He knows he is only temporarily holding this title, at most able to mobilize one or two tenths of the Dragon-Tiger Qi around Haojing!

But at this moment, his master, the Cavern God old ancestor, is not in Haojing City, but has gone to the barbaric wild lands to seek a relic.

The Xuandu Sect ancestor, this fierce person, must have sensed this point, hence his manifestation!

"Jingming Daoist, your cultivation still falls short; the Great Qian court's tripod power cannot be fully exerted by him, you cannot stop this sect ancestor!"

From the depths of the god-demon golden body came the cold laughter of the Xuandu Sect ancestor, who swept his wide sleeve and struck toward Jingming Daoist and several other Daoists of the Cavern God Observatory on the ground.

Golden divine light suppressed the void, purely crushing with god-demon sinew and bone strength, also able to crush everything!

Jingming Daoist's expression remained cold, his entire body flowing with vast Yin Spirit power; the Chart of the Cavern God Bestowing the Dao suddenly transformed into a Daoist robe that fell upon his body, and then boundless qi transformed into a vast, magnificent divine thunder that struck toward the god-demon golden body.

Simultaneously appearing in his hand was a long sword covered in Purple Xiao Qi, manifesting countless thunderclouds, condensing the Cavern God Thunder Method.

He also had the several Daoists nearby go forward first to block the Gu God, and a portion of the black-clad death warriors of the Xuandu Sect that had rushed out.

"Several junior martial brothers, first temporarily block the Gu God; after a few breaths, all your martial uncles will arrive!"

"Yes, senior martial brother!"

The remaining Daoists also knew the gravity of the situation; they knew several Yin Spirit-level elders of the Cavern God Observatory were stationed not far away, and as long as they held on for a few more moments, they would arrive to encircle and trap.

At that moment, their expressions turned solemn, and they all leapt into the air; five Daoists stood, each condensing behind them a vast, magnificent Thunder God Dharma Aspect, manifesting a mysterious Thunder God Dao Chart to protect the prison carts holding the Ming King Changli and others.

While the Gu God, seeing this, merely gave a cold smile and did not directly seize the prison cart, but instead sent the heavenly swarm of Gu insects, like countless rivers, directly rushing toward the several commanders ahead.

Within those four rivers appeared four special Gu insect forms.

Those four Gu insects are the four he cultivated over hundreds of pains, each equivalent to Golden Core level, and now he has refined them into Golden Core incarnations, very capable.

Only, due to the limitation of the secret method, he cannot condense them into Yin Spirit level; otherwise, with the vastness of the world, he could also go there.

In his view, using them to take the lives of a few ordinary commanders is completely overkill.

"The old monster deserves death!"

"Do not harm Old General Yang!"

Seeing this, several Daoists' expressions changed, they glanced at each other, merely hesitated slightly, and had to fly out to block.

Compared to several death row inmates, Yang Gonghu and others are more important to the court.

Moreover, these death row inmates may not necessarily escape!

On a nearby street, Zhang Jian frowned as he watched this scene.

Haojing City is filled with Dragon-Tiger Qi; although it does restrict these Xuandu Sect cultivators to some extent, the opponent is ultimately a Yin Spirit-level powerhouse, this terrifying insect swarm swooping down, and Qi Yi and others would have no chance.

Other commanders' lives or deaths he does not care about, but Qi Yi and Qi Yuanwu are quite good to him, and moreover blood relatives; he naturally cannot stand by and watch them harmed by evil demons and heretics.

His expression and gaze moved slightly as he activated the imitation jade pendant on his body, his fate transforming into a special fate.

Sword Immortal fate.

At this moment he seemed to have sword qi raging all around, intense starlight enveloping his body, concealing his features, and in an instant a chilling starlight sword light shot from the void, when a golden silkworm Gu king flashed like lightning toward Qi Yi's body, the sword qi like a cold blade, precisely striking that golden silkworm Gu king, the sword light transforming into a blade and slaying it with one sword.

At this moment Qi Yi watched the incoming golden electric light be struck down by a sword, his forehead already beaded with fine sweat.

Although he is a master martial artist, facing those terrifying strange insects, he has no power to resist.

At this moment he again saw a familiar-looking figure appear before him, his gaze moved.

But then he heard this figure speak with a calm face:

"Old General Qi, please first retreat and organize the militia for self-defense!"

"Just leave this to me!"

Qi Yi's expression moved; he guessed the identity of the figure before him, seeing Zhang Jian seemingly unwilling to actively reveal his identity, he simply nodded.

"All soldiers, follow me to exterminate these poison people!"

At this moment Qi Yi swept his gaze around, his face filled with anger; on the long street, most of the many commoners had been gnawed into white bones, and those not yet dead were rolling on the ground.

Faced with such strange methods, even the court's Dragon-Tiger Qi would be of no use.

Dragon-Tiger Qi can only suppress evil arts, yet it cannot systematically defend against physical-type esoteric arts; even these generals facing such a situation would be hard-pressed.

"My Gold Silkworm Gu King!"

At this moment, the Gu God was untying the Bright King Chang Li, and upon sensing the fall of an incarnation, he immediately turned his blood-red eyes toward Zhang Jian, his expression suddenly flaring with rage.

Amidst his piercing cry, the two other Gu Kings nearby suddenly swelled with countless black vapors, transforming into a massive iron-backed centipede several zhang long that surged toward Zhang Jian.

Meanwhile, in another direction, a point of red light flickered like a ghost, abandoning the siege on Yang Gonghu and likewise rushing toward Zhang Jian.

Only one Gu King remained charging toward Yang Gonghu.

The Gu God, however, bears grudges to the death.

Having inexplicably lost a Gold Core Gu King on Zhang Jian's body, he was filled with killing intent.

Zhang Jian merely narrowed his eyes slightly and lifted his head, able to sense the vast spiritual pressure emanating from those two Gu Kings—both were of Gold Core level.

One exuded vast demonic qi and had a hardened fleshly body.

The other possessed astonishing speed, its divine sense nearly impossible to grasp.

Yet for some unknown reason, those two Gu Kings could not give him a sudden flash of inspiration.

Normally, at this time he would surely be on high alert.

Now, seeing the sky filled with red threads tearing through the void, he merely trembled his Dragon Chant Sword slightly in his hand, and behind him appeared a faint starlight, as if a swimming dragon precisely capturing that red line moving at extreme speed.

To him, the speed of that red-thread insect king seemed impossibly slow.

With a wave of his hand, he destroyed it.

Effortlessly so.

He then turned his gaze to the enormous iron-backed gold-thread centipede; though its demonic qi was rich and its body immense, in his spiritual eyes, it appeared utterly riddled with flaws.

Every junction of its demonic qi was a weak point.

"How could this be?"

At this moment, Zhang Jian also felt some confusion—he clearly had not broken through the Gold Core realm, yet he seemed truly stronger by more than just a little.

After gaining insight into some heavenly truths, he felt he had become somewhat different!