Chapter 184: A Dragon and a Turtle Block the Dapeng, Living Toward the Sun and Finally Escaping [Post-Revision 6k]

Not enough!

Cannot escape! Before the Dapeng Bird's attack had even descended, just by seeing the shadow of his sharp claws, Fang Longye's entire soul felt as if it had been covered in dust.

Shadows upon shadows~

His whole body appeared to be trembling.

A sense of being unable to avoid the unavoidable surged into his heart.

As if it were destiny!

Fang Longye attempted to use an escape technique to flee, only to find it completely impossible; the surroundings were already bound by an inexplicable Aura.

No matter how he maneuvered or flew, he was just like Sun Wukong facing Tathagata Buddha in the original *Journey to the West* from his past life—unable to escape the palm of his enemy.

This was also normal.

This was, after all, a full-force strike from the Taiyi Realm. And it was from such a peerless Demon as the Dapeng Bird~ It was only normal that Fang Longye could not withstand it.

A casual comparison was enough to show just how vast the gap in their strength was!

Currently, Fang Longye was one step away from the Golden Immortal realm. With various methods combined, his combat power was superb, and killing ordinary Golden Immortals was like child's play.

But he still could not defeat that Wang Lingguan he had seen before.

And if everything developed according to the memory threads of his past life, during the upcoming Havoc in Heaven, even with the encirclement of countless Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, Wang Lingguan would still be unable to capture Sun Wukong.

Yet, after being suppressed for five hundred years, Sun Wukong, who was already a Taiyi Immortal, was still no match for the Dapeng Bird.

Not to mention cultivation realms, just comparing the combat power gap between them, Fang Longye and him were worlds apart.

However, even knowing that the odds of victory were near zero, surrendering without a fight was not Fang Longye's style.

Looking closely, the sharp claws extended by the Dapeng Bird from billions of miles away had already descended.

Under its coverage, because the power was too astonishing, the surrounding space that Fang Longye could scan had all become like water ripples.

With a gust of wind, ripples rose in chaos, even causing distortion.

Like shimmering waves, wind blowing and water swaying; within his sight, it was full of golden brilliance, dazzling to an unbelievable degree.

Beautiful and magnificent, yet full of killing intent.

Fang Longye looked at the scenery constantly shrinking around him, as well as the collapsing and gathering, flowing-light-like distorted space-time.

He instantly realized that the Dapeng Bird intended to grasp everything in this sea area—up to the mysterious space-time, down to the visible seawater, and even a single grain of dust—in his hand! With one palm, he would grasp the sea into a pearl.

The might of Taiyi could be seen from this.

Previously, the Dapeng Bird had not truly attacked, so Fang Longye had not witnessed his might.

Now it seemed, he truly lived up to his reputation.

He could sense that where the sharp claws were, the entire space-time around him had solidified.

Neither he nor Peng Mowang could move, as if they were insects in amber.

It was truly impossible to extricate themselves~ Their very thoughts had become sluggish, and it was difficult to summon any treasure.

Just as Fang Longye was in despair, he felt the sharp claws above him, which seemed like the firmament, suddenly stall.

The might emitted by the sharp claws instantly diminished.

A good opportunity! Fang Longye had no time to ponder what had happened in between; he simply held his sword in one hand and his spear in the other.

He urged the Cai Xian Sword and the Panlong Spear with all his might! At the same time, Peng Mowang also re-activated the Kunpeng feather that had previously returned to his body.

Brilliant light poured forth!

Then, Fang Longye shook his body, unleashed the Law of Heaven and Earth, and transformed into a million-foot-tall Dragon-Headed Human Form.

Raising his head with a dragon roar, he pulled his body up, merging with the various Spirit Treasures within him.

His true body's power and the various Spirit Treasures merged into one, unleashing Great Strength.

Crack, crack—

Fang Longye exerted force suddenly, and the space that had been constantly collapsing under the influence of the Dapeng Bird's sharp claws emitted crack-crack-crack sounds.

Like gears turning or ice beginning to thaw, visible cracks appeared and expanded to the surroundings.

When Fang Longye was previously on Penglai Island, he had undergone many transformations; it would be no exaggeration to say he was reborn.

First, his Companion Spiritual Root grew, then his Grotto-Heaven transformed, and finally, he refined the Wu Clan Essence Blood.

With all these factors, not to mention anything else, his achievements in terms of his physical body alone had skyrocketed! Coupled with the enhancement of the Spirit Treasures and Peng Mowang's assistance on the side, he was truly able to shake this space confinement that had been reduced in power.

Fang Longye broke free from the space confinement before Peng Mowang, then exerted force again, without hesitation, attacking with all his might.

He strove to break free from the space confinement under the Dapeng Bird's sharp claw.

Only by breaking the space confinement first would he have the qualifications to face the subsequent upheaval.

Otherwise, if he could not even move, how could he talk about resisting? The two forces collided in the extreme sky.

Immediately, thunder roared like drums all around, dragons roared, and the Dapeng shrieked; various colors of light flourished, and the space was distorted to the extreme, showing signs of collapse.

Finally.

At last~

The space that confined them shattered like glass, flying in all directions.

"Hmph!"

Just as Fang Longye and Peng Mowang broke free from the Dapeng Bird's claw capture, they heard a voice come from across billions of miles of space-time.

With chilling killing intent, it said: "A little reptile and a little sparrow, you actually have some tricks!"

Boom—

As soon as the voice fell, the void exploded.

Before their eyes, above the extreme sky, spiderweb-like cracks appeared and then spread in all directions.

The cracks instantly turned into fissures, expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Along with this, the surrounding space emitted creaking sounds of being unable to bear the burden.

The sound was very deep, making one's teeth ache to hear it.

It was as if it were a weight impossible to bear, difficult to sustain.

Spatial rifts appeared and vanished in an instant.

Fang Longye raised his eyes to look; through the rifts, he could see a vast expanse of water—that was the sea area where they had previously encountered the Dapeng Bird, billions of miles away from this place.

There, it was now unexpectedly chaotic.

The firmament above the sea area had long since collapsed to the extreme, causing the surrounding space to layer upon layer, rippling like folds.

In the overlapping space, which was like vast smoke and clouds, the sounds of dragon roars and turtle hisses reverberated back, accompanied by the loud sounds of Golden Bells and fishing drums, echoing through time and space.

All around were golden rays soaring into the sky, flowing fire scattering in all directions, and the clanging sounds of slaughter, incessant to the ear.

Amidst the endless collision of rules, one could see a golden divine dragon and a giant turtle, as if it were a mountain, both radiating an Aura of Taiyi similar to that of the Dapeng Bird.

Both sides fought side by side, locked in a struggle with the Dapeng Bird.

The collision under the struggle of the three Taiyi beings was truly too intense; just taking a single glance caused his primordial spirit to be wounded.

His sea of consciousness felt a burst of stinging pain.

Fang Longye hurriedly shifted his gaze; the Creation Purifying World Bead hovered above his sea of consciousness, shedding endless radiance, illuminating everything, and restoring it as it was before.

"Haha!"

"You mongrel bastards of the Dragon Clan! You think that by entangling me here, I have no way to deal with those two juniors of yours?"

The Golden-Winged Great Peng also transformed into his original form, revealing his true Dapeng body, fighting the dragon and the turtle with great gusto.

Screeches were constant, and he laughed heartily, his voice splitting metal and stone, overpowering everything.

The Dapeng Bird was indeed a figure in a class of his own among the Taiyi, a creature born long ago; whether it was his cultivation strength or his combat techniques, he was by no means ordinary.

There was an indescribable power to him.

Compared to him, the dragon and the turtle were somewhat inferior.

Even joining forces, they were still no match for him, merely struggling to hold on.

Their entire bodies were covered in wounds, dripping with blood, which kept sprinkling into the unknown time and space.

They appeared very miserable.

Accompanied by the laughter of the Golden-Winged Great Peng, from the top of his head, thousands of brilliant rays suddenly burst forth, a sheet of glaze, beautiful and crystalline.

Jade colors unfolded, as if lotus flowers were blooming, sparse and delicate, with colorful halos clustered together.

Two golden rays shot out, directly piercing through everything and vanishing into the void.

The dragon and the turtle had no time to react, let alone intercept.

And in the very next moment, one of the golden rays flowed, and in an instant, it passed through the spatial rift and arrived above the sea area where Fang Longye and the others were located.

The golden light dispersed, shimmering over the sea of clouds.

The entire world became a grinding of gold and white, with cold, gloomy clouds.

Afterwards, the golden light converged, shrinking rapidly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The figure of the Dapeng Bird appeared above the sea of clouds.

Clearly, the two golden rays he had cast into the void just now were his two incarnations.

He saw that this incarnation of his maintained a human form, with clothing and appearance identical to his true body, standing in the void.

The Aura of the entire person began to surge, rising layer by layer, rushing into the clouds, covering the sky and blocking the sun.

The Dapeng Bird looked at Fang Longye and Peng Mowang, his gaze cold and clear, deep as the sea, unfathomable; his face was ferocious, his murderous intent undisguised, and he said, "I want to see how you two can escape now!"

His voice was cold and sharp, like peals of thunder.

A heavy pressure fell upon their hearts, as if it were tangible.

Fang Longye braced himself against the pressure, looking at this incarnation of his, sensing his Aura.

It was not as powerful as the main body, but it still permeated with the Aura of Taiyi~

He secretly groaned in his heart~

Now there was nothing left but a fight to the death!

Previously, after he broke free from the spatial confinement, it was not that he had lost his mind and insisted on staying in place.

It was truly that there was simply no time to react.

It seemed that from the moment he broke free from the spatial confinement to the moment the Dapeng Bird split his incarnation, it felt like a long time.

In reality, it was but a fleeting moment.

How could there be time for him to escape?

As for hoping for some great power to rescue them, to be honest, Fang Longye was no longer too superstitious about that aspect.

It was not that having a deep background meant one could always be safe and sound.

There is always someone higher than the highest mountain.

Just like, not everyone would give face to the great Hongyun.

For example, those under the Hunyuan Saints, or like the one before them, the younger brother of Kong Xuan—the Dapeng Bird.

In terms of background, he was much deeper than him.

In this world, no one is an eternal protagonist; anyone could die.

Could fail.

There are no exceptions.

Of course, this is not to say that he had no chance of survival.

That fleeting glance just now gave him more or less some guesses.

Perhaps, whether it was Long Xuan or himself, there were people secretly protecting them.

As long as he could drag out that one dragon and one turtle, who were clearly members of the Dragon Clan, they would also have incarnations to come and rescue him.

Perhaps he could turn danger into safety! At the very worst, he could just flee from there.

Thinking this, he was about to open his mouth to use the art of verbal delay to stall for time. "Senior, I..."

Who would have expected the Dapeng Bird to change his previous stance, becoming a person of few words and ruthless actions.

He launched an attack directly toward Fang Longye and Peng Mowang!

A vast Aura shifted, and a golden light extinguished everything, heading straight for the two of them; the light shone brilliantly, with hanging colors radiating splendor.

At the beginning, it was just a point of golden radiance.

A moment later, it continuously extended, filling the sky and covering the earth.

The entire world, from top to bottom, could not remain calm.

The golden light entered the eyes, and chilling killing intent came from all directions, transforming into sharp energy that sliced across everything.

……

"Oh?"

The Dapeng Bird truly did not intend to kill the two of them in one blow.

In his view, that would be far too easy on them~

His plan was to tease them for a while, and then capture them alive.

Once in hand, he would find a quiet place to properly process them.

He had to make them taste what it meant to wish for death.

Especially Peng Mowang.

In the eyes of the Dapeng Bird, he was someone who needed to be especially 'entertained'.

Therefore, this attack of his was not that powerful.

After all, he hadn't finished playing yet! As a result, Fang Longye was directly blasted into powder by this attack of his! The Dapeng Bird's eyes flickered, and he released his divine light to illuminate the surroundings, understanding everything in an instant.

He sneered coldly: "Do you think this kind of behavior can deceive me?"

Then, he pointed a finger toward a grain of sand in the seawater.

Seeing his disguise was seen through, Fang Longye had no choice but to revert to his true form and float to the surface of the sea.

Blood Rebirth + Size Manipulation; this method of concealing his tracks still ended in failure.

The Dapeng Bird just sneered coldly: "Do you really take me for a fool? Or do you think my eyesight is so poor that I can't even see the effort you've put into tempering your physical body?"

This incarnation of his, looking only at the Aura, was undoubtedly Taiyi, but when it came to actual strength, it was only at the peak of the Golden Immortal level. But it was definitely not to the point where he couldn't see through such tricks used by Fang Longye.

Seeing that this person was finally willing to speak, Fang Longye immediately replied: "Senior, I won't hide it from you, we are family!"

After speaking, his mind stirred, and a Five-Colored Divine Light appeared above his head, shooting straight into the clouds.

Although it was very shallow, it had both form and spirit, which could at least serve as proof that he had practiced the Five-Colored Divine Light.

"Who is family with you!"

Seeing the Five-Colored Divine Light emerging from above Fang Longye's head, the Dapeng Bird sneered coldly.

However, he was startled inwardly, thinking: "What fast speed!"

He clearly knew the time when Fang Longye had obtained the cultivation method for the Five-Colored Divine Light.

Not much time had passed in between. To have such insight and bring the divine ability of the Five-Colored Divine Light to the introductory level.

It was truly rare.

He then grew angry: "It must be that thief bird Kong Xuan who gave him private lessons!"

Otherwise, as an outsider, how could he have mastered the proud divine ability of that motley peacock so quickly? Looking at Fang Longye again, he found him more and more displeasing.

Thus, an even more violent storm of attacks headed toward Fang Longye and his companion.

Increasing the pressure bit by bit to tease them for amusement.

……

A Red Jade Divine Gourd floated in the void, continuously spraying out mysterious substances and energy, in clusters and bunches.

In the surroundings, it intersected into patterns that were either slender, circular, or shaped like birds, beasts, fish, and insects, of all kinds, presented against a black and white background.

In the surrounding void, they formed mysterious objects, being born, expanding, then contracting, and vanishing.

The Aura permeated in all directions, deriving different spaces.

The spaces varied in size; some were very small, like dust, some were very large, continuously expanding and extending, and some were motionless, calm and composed.

These spaces of various postures collided according to some mysterious trajectory, emitting sounds like mountain torrents and tsunamis.

Everything, with the Red Jade Gourd as the core, constituted a phenomenon of a Taiji Yin-Yang Fish, slowly rotating.

It wrapped Fang Longye and Peng Mowang inside, protecting them.

It was precisely the Two Instruments Weichen Array that Fang Longye had deployed with the help of his own treasure gourd.

Surrounding the Two Instruments Weichen Array was a long river, only in this long river, there was no dark green water light.

Instead, it was blood-red, with no visible bottom, and ten thousand thousand sharp energies evolved into ten thousand weapons: blades, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks...

These weapons wandered in the blood-colored long river, colliding and clashing, with the aura of slaughter flourishing and ripples shimmering coldly.

Besides this, there were other unimaginable Auras, such as baleful energy, blood energy, cold energy, freezing energy,... and so on.

In clusters, in strings, in layers, they shot back and forth, merging with the blood-colored sharp energy, and incessantly slashed at the Two Instruments Weichen Array.

They happened to strike into the Taiji Yin-Yang eyes, then entered inch by inch, forcibly stabbing into them.

The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish phenomenon formed by the Two Instruments Weichen Array continuously swallowed, spat, changed, and collided.

Dust and the universe transformed into each other, trying their best to dissolve these forces, but they really couldn't bear it, and before long, it exploded all over the sky.

Under the support of Fang Longye's power, it formed the array again.

Fang Longye felt anxious and uneasy, not because of the backlash damage he received during this process.

This is unavoidable.

It is because after delaying for so long, there is still no sign of anyone coming to the rescue.

Although he also sees that the Dapeng Bird is being playful, toying with the two of them incessantly.

With no intention of capturing them immediately.

Yet he truly does not want to entrust his own Life and Death to the moods of others.

"Forget it! Let me just try out my hypothesis!" Fang Longye makes up his mind.

He then sends a sound transmission to Peng Mowang beside him, giving instructions.

After brewing for so long, it suddenly erupts! "Kill!"

Peng Mowang unleashes all his treasures, along with that Kunpeng feather, launching a rule-based storm toward the Dapeng Bird.

"Good!"

"Another round of counterattacks!"

The Dapeng Bird is not alarmed but delighted.

What he likes most is destroying other people's hope, bit by bit.

That look of despair, where the grief of a dead heart is the greatest, pleases him the most! He reaches a claw forward, intending to suppress Peng Mowang's counterattack.

It is also at this moment that the void collapses, the Aura cracks, and vast swathes of space-time scatter, sweeping over and enveloping the Dapeng Bird within.

Without surprise, the Dapeng Bird understands that it is impossible for only Peng Mowang to be counterattacking him.

One sees that within a universe, thunder travels upon the water, and Fang Longye transforms into a ten-thousand-foot giant dragon, baring fangs and brandishing claws, circling between the thunder and water.

His figure reflects against the ripples, casting billions of cold glimmers, sharp as sword energy, whistling clear and resonant.

Immediately following a thunderclap, wind, rain, and thunder erupt together, as if it were the end of the world.

"Mastering Five Thunders and Summoning Wind and Rain?"

The Dapeng Bird sneers.

What use do these two divine abilities have against him?

They don't even count as a tickle.

With a shake of his body, he transforms into a Dapeng with wings hanging like clouds, stirring up clouds and water that empty the sky around him, vast and mighty, in layered circles, turbulent and surging.

While contending with the rule-based storm launched by Peng Mowang, he opens his blood-red maw, swallowing the wind, rain, and thunder surrounding Fang Longye clean.

In an instant, the clouds vanish and the rain clears.

Yet, the next moment, the sky suddenly darkens, and disasters sprout.

Layer upon layer of Calamities evolve.

Constant cold, snow and frost, hail, Fish Calamity, Locust Calamity, Swine Calamity, Epidemic, meteorites, floods, water changes, Black Calamity, Black Omen,... and so on, continuous and unending.

Calamities descend upon the world, in their millions, clustered and gathered, circling all around Fang Longye's dragon body.

Piercing through everything, the root cause lies in reversing the Five Elements.

Fang Longye's dragon eyes are bright, his thoughts turning a hundred times.

The *Book of Han* says: Water is said to moisten downward, fire to flame upward, wood to bend and straighten, metal to follow and change, and earth to sow and reap.

And as for the signs of disaster and blame, water does not moisten downward, fire does not flame upward, wood does not bend and straighten, metal does not follow and change, and sowing and reaping do not succeed.

With these Five Elements reversed, disasters and Calamities naturally derive.

The power of disaster! Fang Longye reverts to his human form, says nothing more, directly picks up the Panlong Spear, and swings it at the Dapeng Bird.

At the same time, the 'Instant Radiance' divine ability is activated, burning ninety percent of his lifespan, transforming it into a strange power that reinforces the 'Inverting Yin and Yang' divine ability.

In an instant, his entire perspective changes.

Without hesitation.

Afterward, everything, absolutely everything, is blasted out with that one strike! A scene of heaven and earth turning upside down emerges with the spear's radiance.

Stars fall, mountains and rivers are stained with blood, space collapses; everywhere it covers, it presents a scene of great destruction, great annihilation, and a great apocalypse.

Heaven and earth overturn, Yin and Yang invert, and Calamity energy naturally breeds.

At the same time, Fang Longye only feels his whole body lighten, as if all chronic illnesses have vanished, an indescribable comfort.

Success! Fang Longye is overjoyed.

He raises his eyes to look at the void above his head, where a pillar of destiny reaches straight into the darkness.

Most crucially, it is clear and bright, with no Calamity at all! His hypothesis was indeed correct!

'Inverting Yin and Yang' can make heaven and earth lose their order, and the sun and moon lose their regularity; it is like saying to invert right and wrong, and confuse black and white. It is called the Divine Prison Heavenly Calamity, the traveler of all things, reversing the universe.

Through his plotting, Fang Longye, with the help of the 'Inverting Yin and Yang' divine ability, successfully transfers the Calamity above his head through that strike just now, blasting it all onto the Dapeng Bird~

Free of Calamity, the body is light!

"Heh, the radiance of a grain of rice dares to shine~"

The Dapeng Bird sneers, making no move, just a thought, and space ripples, layer upon layer, brilliant divine light, full but not overflowing, yet fragmented.

Space folds, and barriers form on their own.

But the next instant, his expression changes drastically.

Ordinary attacks naturally cannot get near his body.

But Calamity is impossible to defend against.

Fang Longye, utilizing the connection that the Dapeng Bird is the target of his own Outer Tribulation, operates the 'Inverting Yin and Yang' reinforced by the burning of his lifespan, completely transferring his remaining Calamity onto him.

"Go!"

After blasting out the spear, Fang Longye, sensing that his own Calamity is cleared, says nothing more, calls Peng Mowang via sound transmission, and uses a divine ability to fly away and escape.

This avatar of the Dapeng Bird, burning with rage, originally intended to intercept.

As it turns out, it seems something went wrong with his true body, so the avatar immediately dissipates, and the matter ends there.

I kept changing things, constantly brainstorming how the protagonist should escape; should he rely on a powerful expert to save him? Or something else? In the end, it turned out like this.

Although I am still not very satisfied, let it be~ after all, at only 4000 words a day, it seems sluggish.

In the next few chapters, the protagonist is going to become a Golden Immortal.

(End of this chapter)