Chapter 86: Fight

Outside Fenghuai City, the mountains were scarred and the earth was wounded.

Yue Muzhou also felt incomparably heavy pressure in this battle. For one thing, this was the only combat experience of his life—as if fighting another version of himself; for another, the strange and miraculous abilities of the enemy in front of him were indeed unexpected.

In the previous exchanges, Yue Muzhou had almost fully experienced this divine strangeness: the incomparably tough body, the terrifying combat instinct, the frost that would injure upon touch, the fire that appeared and disappeared, and the most difficult thing to deal with was the ability to manipulate flesh and blood.

And this was only the strength He had reached less than a day after awakening. If He were given another day, five days, what kind of authority would He possess then?

This thing... was indeed very strong.

And it had no vital points. Even at the Heavenly Tower realm, one would die if their head was cut off, but to kill this thing, one had to either grind it into pieces inch by inch with sword Qi or extinguish its mind.

But there seemed to be another method, which was to "eat" it—every time he touched the other's body, his abdomen would sprout, but this enemy was clearly not as obedient as the one in the County Magistrate's Office. That kind of softening never appeared again.

So there was still no shortcut to take.

And every time he caused damage to it, it would definitely return the same injury to him.

He didn't have such a strange body.

He could only find a way... to use the small to defeat the big.

Feeling a sharp pain like a thorn in his chest and abdomen, Yue Muzhou pressed his Qi over. Sure enough, the next instant, terrifying high temperatures exploded inside.

In a fight where every fraction of a second mattered, dealing with this kind of thing was truly annoying. In fact, this kind of interference was also a method he used to use when facing enemies. Unfortunately, that pupil was no longer there.

When the image of the "pupil" crossed his mind, the golden pupils in front of him suddenly seemed to become incomparably bright and huge.

A pair of high and indifferent pupils appeared in Yue Muzhou's mind-spirit realm.

【Quail Head】, this power acting upon the mind finally found a gap in the old man's spirit through a connection, and like a venomous snake, it struggled to squeeze inside.

Yue Muzhou had heard Seeing Pei Ye describe this ability, and at the time, he thought it was somewhat of a case of the youth being inexperienced.

Means of controlling the mind were indeed terrifying throughout the Jianghu, often combined with the four words "strange and difficult to deal with." But when one's own level was high enough, one would find that while this thing was rare, it was just that.

The lower-level ones often relied on drugs or hypnosis, while the higher-level ones were some kind of technique using Mystic Qi. In short, it was mostly a means of the superior against the inferior, such as a cultivator against an ordinary person, or a high-level realm against a low-level realm.

If one wanted to deal with someone of the same level or even a higher level, it often required very meticulous planning, waiting in the darkness like a fly for the target's emotions to lose control or their mind to shake.

Let alone now, even during his most young and vigorous period, with Yue Muzhou's will, he had never been tricked by this kind of thing.

And now, even if this thing was stronger, it shouldn't be able to knock open his solid mind-spirit realm.

The previous battle situation was also as he expected. Although those golden pupils had been somewhat ethereal since the start of the battle, circling the periphery of his mind-spirit realm, they had never found an opportunity.

Who would have thought that just as a thought crossed his mind, it was actually caught by its tail.

How could there be a mind-spirit method in the world that could be implemented with a single thought as a medium?

For the means against the mind to be so high-level... perhaps only the famous sword Zhanxin Liuli could be comparable.

If the mind was invaded, it was impossible to become a puppet immediately, but under the entanglement, the dangerous fight at hand would inevitably lead to mistakes. But if one fought with all one's heart, the mind would be eroded.

In a moment of carelessness, a dilemma sufficient to determine the outcome had already appeared.

Yue Muzhou decisively withdrew his sword, suddenly gave up supporting his body, closed his eyes, and fell from the air, his entire body becoming as soft as if he had given up all resistance.

Seeing Pei Ye, watching nervously from the city tower, didn't know what had happened, his fingers pinching the bricks of the city wall tightly.

The Immortal Lord lunged at the falling body like a fierce tiger. He would certainly never give up such an opportunity.

However, from that loose, falling body, a sword light suddenly flowed out.

The moment that sword light appeared in his field of vision, Seeing Pei Ye felt his heart being pressed by something cold and heavy, his breathing stopped, and his whole person froze in place, only gasping for breath after a good while.

So strong, so strange, and... so familiar, this sword strike. This is... 【Cloud Sky Obscuring the Feather Loss】!

This is actually 【Cloud Sky Obscuring the Feather Loss】?

This is the true 【Cloud Sky Obscuring the Feather Loss】!

Seeing Pei Ye felt for the first time how immature and crude he was in the sword path—after all, Ming Qitian hadn't used the same sword technique as him that day.

The gap between him and them was fundamentally not that he hadn't learned enough mysterious sword techniques.

And unlike Seeing Pei Ye, who was watching from afar, the Immortal Lord, who was lunging fiercely, faced this sword strike head-on.

The extended fingers and claws were cut open by the sharp sword blade. For the first time, He didn't choose to continue pressing forward and exchange injuries with the old man, but stopped His momentum to avoid this sword strike.

Although this sword strike brought Seeing Pei Ye a deep, cold sense of pressure, it didn't have such an effect on the Immortal Lord.

Just as Ming Qitian said, the sharpest part of this sword was "asking the heart with blood," but this was aimed at humans. For a high and indifferent life like the Immortal Lord, "asking the heart" was just a joke.

What forced the Immortal Lord to retreat was the sword move and sword intent, and the sharpest part of this sword, Yue Muzhou aimed at himself!

The effect of 【Cloud Sky Obscuring the Feather Loss】 in obscuring the five senses was not to cover all the enemy's senses, but to act directly on the heart, making their body, although everything was normal, have its heart disconnected from the body, falling into a state of ignorance.

And no one understood this power better than Yue Muzhou, who created it. He kneaded it slightly and then miraculously used it on his own mind-spirit realm, sealing everything in an instant, including those golden pupils.

Facing such a predicament, the best response would have been to endure a strike from the Immortal Lord and solve the mind-spirit hidden danger as quickly as possible. But in front of the old man, with one sword strike, the external sword forced the enemy, and the internal sword punished the heart, solving both sides.

And in a place unknown to others, Yue Muzhou knew that this sword strike had a third effect.

That was to test out that the damage this sword strike could bring to the Immortal Lord was indeed greater than the damage one normal claw strike could bring to himself.

Otherwise, He wouldn't have retreated.

He knew what to use as a lever to use the small to defeat the big.

Of course, because there was only one opportunity, the "big" had to be big enough. 【Cloud Sky Obscuring the Feather Loss】 was not enough.

He looked back at the Immortal Lord. The Immortal Lord's golden pupils were still emotionless, but His movements were pressing over with incomparable violence. Yue Muzhou blocked horizontally with his sword, the sword style blocking the attack like an iron wall, and then cut a huge gash across the Immortal Lord's chest.

But he himself was also blown to the ground by the exploding fire.

With the same injuries, it was naturally the physically weakened Yue Muzhou who suffered more.

The "momentum" was suppressed a bit without him noticing. ===== CHAPTER 87 =====