Chapter 551: True Spirit Bloodline

Ever since Zhang Nuo's "Ten Thousand Swords Flow Formation" was perfected, he had never encountered such a situation; he saw Niu Xiukong's figure charging left and right within the torrent, while the giant refined steel spear in his hand transformed into ten thousand spear shadows, striking and scattering the numerous Flying Swords one by one!

Watching the old man's head-on, aggressive approach, Zhang Nuo's heart tightened. He was worthy of being an Integration Stage cultivator; such a bold and unconstrained fighting style must have been forged through long-term warfare. Every strike was bound to shatter Sword Qi, far stronger than those low-class, flashy displays!

Zhang Nuo moved his Divine Sense again, and within the Ten Thousand Swords Flow Formation, two more torrents converged and, in a flash, rushed toward the old man!

"No matter how many times you use this kind of attack, it is useless against this old man! Prepare to die!"

Niu Xiukong held the spear in one hand and suddenly raised the small white flowing-light shield in his other hand! The surface of the small shield flashed with light, and under the illumination of the sunlight, it looked just like a mirror!

At the same time, from the mouth of the Green Gourd suspended high in the sky, a pillar of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi as thick as an arm sprayed out, landing exactly on Niu Xiukong's small shield!

The moment the two made contact, the small white flowing-light shield radiated light in all directions, and the power stimulated by the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi was immense, enveloping the surrounding area!

With a series of rumbling explosions, the torrent gathered by Zhang Nuo's "Ten Thousand Swords Flow Formation" was instantly scattered by the light, the sky-filling sword shadows shattered one after another, and in the end, only the eighty-one Flying Sword bodies remained, swaying precariously in mid-air!

Gasping for air, this was the first time Zhang Nuo's sword formation had been forcibly broken by brute force! With a movement of his Divine Sense, he hurriedly recalled all the Flying Swords into the Sword Box, and then, with a suction force from his mouth, he drew the Nine Dragon Sword Case back into his body!

Just as Zhang Nuo wanted to make his next move, he saw that Niu Xiukong did not give him the chance at all; he shook the giant refined steel spear in his hand, the spear tip pointing directly at the mouth of the Green Gourd in the sky! Another pillar of light gathered from Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi sprayed down, acting directly upon the giant spear!

In an instant, a mass of white silver light bloomed on the surface of the giant spear, and the entire spear looked like a flickering giant energy composite!

Whoosh! A sound of breaking through the air rang out, and Niu Xiukong threw the giant spear in his hand directly, with Zhang Nuo as the target! A white streak of light tore through the void, causing the surrounding space to twist and deform; at the tip of the giant refined steel spear, the void shattered layer by layer, and before the spear even arrived, that mountain-splitting and earth-shattering pressure had already acted upon Zhang Nuo's body!

He secretly cursed "not good!" in his heart! Even if he moved all four wings on his back at this moment, he was afraid he could not dodge this strike completely, not to mention that the space around his body felt as if it had been imprisoned, making it extremely difficult to even move a finger!

With a movement of his Divine Sense, the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image above his head flashed and blocked in front of Zhang Nuo. After a long roar, the four Magic Meridians within its body erupted with blinding black light. At the same time, the Dharma Image raised both hands and grabbed hard at the void above its head; immediately, the void shattered, and Yin Qi swirled out, rapidly forming a black vortex from which ten thousand rays of black light poured down!

After quickly finishing all this, the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image's entire body flowed with Golden Light, and it suddenly opened its mouth, shooting a pillar of gold and black light as thick as an arm out of its body! It rushed to meet the giant refined steel spear, which was wrapped in endless Heaven and Earth Origin Qi!

Boom!

A loud explosion shook the earth and mountains, causing the dozens of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators watching from afar to feel dazed, nearly falling to the ground!

Just as the gold and black light pillar made contact with the giant spear, the giant spear acted like a sharp long blade, splitting the light pillar in two; a cold glint flashed at the spear tip, and in the blink of an eye, it reached the front of the Dharma Image!

Facing such a powerful attack, Zhang Nuo felt very uncertain in his heart. If the "Falling Profound Light" could not further diminish the power of the giant spear, then even the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image under full activation would not be able to withstand this strike at all!

When the giant spear broke into the body of the Dharma Image by more than ten feet, the black light suddenly swirled and wrapped the giant spear within it! Then, a bizarre scene appeared!

He saw the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi on the giant refined steel spear weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye; in some places, one could almost see the original color of the spear body!

Zhang Nuo's body instantly felt much lighter, and he suddenly raised a hand toward the giant spear, Yin Qi flashing in his palm, as he whispered:

"Small Underworld Arts, 106th Form: Prison of Underworld Silkworm Threads!"

As soon as his voice fell, he saw that black energy on his palm shoot out, transforming into strands of fine black silk in mid-air, wrapping toward the giant refined steel spear!

With a few sharp, piercing sounds, the giant spear, which had been flashing with spiritual light, was entangled by countless black threads in the span of a single breath! Its movement stalled, and it stopped in front of the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image!

At this moment, the spear tip was no more than a foot away from the Dharma Image, and one could even feel the waves of pressure coming from the spear tip. Zhang Nuo let out a long breath; Niu Xiukong's earth-shattering strike had finally been blocked, and the technique he had just used was the Small Underworld Arts deciphered by the Hell Butterfly from the Underworld Ancient Book!

Who would have thought that this technique, passed down from the ancient Underworld, would still have such great utility! The giant spear, trapped by the Small Underworld Arts, tried to forcibly break free as soon as its body moved, but would Zhang Nuo give him that chance? He urged the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image with his Divine Sense, and he saw the Dharma Image's hands covered in Golden Light, exerting all its strength to strike fiercely at the giant spear wrapped in black silk!

Boom! Another loud noise came, and Niu Xiukong's giant refined steel spear was broken into two pieces by the Dharma Image in one blow, losing its spiritual energy and falling to the ground!

"Underworld cultivation technique! Who exactly are you?"

At this moment, the old man's complexion was no better than a pig's liver. The previous strike was the result of his entire cultivation base pushed to the limit; he had almost never missed, but at this moment, it had been caught by a Spirit Severing Stage cultivator, which was simply inconceivable to him!

When he saw the Small Underworld Arts that Zhang Nuo had displayed, Niu Xiukong was even more convinced that Zhang Nuo was not a Human Realm cultivator! It was very likely that he was a great power from the Underworld, playing a game of "playing the pig to eat the tiger" here with him!

Zhang Nuo smiled faintly, looking at the old man in the distance, but he did not speak. The more he acted like this, the less confident Niu Xiukong felt. His previous strike, let alone a Spirit Severing Stage cultivator, even an existence of the same rank as him might not necessarily have been able to catch it!

The crowd of Human Emperor Palace cultivators around them were even more dumbfounded. They were all at the Spirit Severing Stage like Zhang Nuo, and some were even in the late Spirit Severing Stage, but they asked themselves, even if their bones were ground into dust, they were afraid they could not catch a full-strength strike from an Integration Stage cultivator!

Chen Shuang'er, who had been standing below watching the battle, had a look of surprise flash in her eyes at this moment! She also discovered that the move Zhang Nuo had just displayed did not belong to the cultivation techniques of human cultivators! Hearing Niu Xiukong mention the Underworld, the young girl's heart suddenly turned over; could it be that the cultivator she had found was truly not a human cultivator?

Just as everyone was shocked in their hearts, Zhang Nuo slightly raised his head and glanced at the huge Green Gourd high in the sky!

"Senior Niu, was that previous strike your full strength? If it was, then it is the junior's turn to make a move!"

Zhang Nuo's voice was not loud, but it was filled with killing intent! When Niu Xiukong heard this, he could not help but shiver; could it be that this kid, who was only at the Spirit Severing Stage, still had some trump card left?

Seeing that the old man remained silent, Zhang Nuo spoke slowly once again!

"Since Senior will not answer! Then please receive my move!"

After speaking, Zhang Nuo clenched both fists, his muscles tense, and a white aura emanated from his body surface, followed by a tiger's roar that resounded through the sky!

Facing a guy like Niu Xiukong at the Integration Stage, Zhang Nuo would not be naive enough to think that he could kill the opponent with his current strength alone. If he did not activate the White Tiger True Spirit Bloodline, he was afraid that the slight momentum of superiority he had just established in the battle would instantly vanish!

Accompanied by that tiger's roar, a phantom of a fierce tiger with a white forehead and hanging eyes appeared above Zhang Nuo's body! At the same time, his entire body's spiritual power fluctuations intensified, and in just an instant, his cultivation base rose to the Integration Early Stage!

This sudden change made Niu Xiukong gasp! He secretly guessed in his heart that the young man opposite was very likely also a cultivator from the Chen Family; otherwise, how could he activate the power of the True Spirit White Tiger? But recalling before, Zhang Nuo had clearly also used the transformation of the True Spirit Phoenix, which made him unable to fathom it at all!

Before his thoughts could settle, Zhang Nuo, whose cultivation base had skyrocketed, moved all four wings on his back, and his entire person disappeared from where he stood. Afterward, the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image also flashed with Golden Light and pounced toward the old man!

He secretly cursed "not good!" in his heart! Niu Xiukong only felt a massive pressure coming from both in front and behind him. He scanned behind him with his Divine Sense and saw the space ripple; Zhang Nuo's true body appeared, but he had an extra folding fan in his hand!

With a soft sound of "snap," after the folding fan was unfolded, a violent wind raged on the fan surface, and ten thousand Wind Blades swept out. As Zhang Nuo flicked his wrist, the wind roared within a radius of several miles! These violent winds wrapped toward Niu Xiukong as if they had physical form!

Now that Zhang Nuo's cultivation base had instantly risen to the Integration Stage, the power of displaying "Autumn Water Home" was naturally incomparable to when he was at the Spirit Severing Stage!

The violent wind roared and surged, causing the surrounding space to twist. On the other hand, the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image's power also skyrocketed; a sharp glint flashed in its blood-red eyes, and it swung both hands left and right simultaneously, the palms growing rapidly until they were several feet in size!

The palms flashing with Golden Light closed together, pincer-attacking Niu Xiukong!

At this moment, the old man felt as if he were trapped and being beaten; violent winds raged all around, making it impossible to escape, and coupled with the Dharma Image's powerful attack, he could not get away for a time! In his anxiety, he moved his Divine Sense, and the Green Gourd high in the sky immediately let out a hum, and a pillar of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi poured down from the gourd mouth!