Chapter 114: Ice Soul Divine Thunder

When the few of them walked into the blood pool, they were completely stunned by the scene before their eyes!

They saw that within the magma blood pool, the original dark red blood-eye had been split open by a blade mark. Endless demonic qi and blood light surged from the rift. The magma pool had already been frozen; the flowing dark red lava was shockingly solidified within the ice layer, forming a strange spectacle where ice and fire coexisted.

That unfathomable, towering demonic flame aura of the Blood Demon was actually hidden deep within the blood-eye rift, not daring to show its head at all.

"Ice Soul Cold Light Ray!" Yan Shu said, word by word.

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"True Word Great Handprint!" Brother Qian Chen manifested the appearance of a Vajra. From a righteous young man in fluttering white robes, he suddenly transformed into a mighty and strong Vajra. His body, seemingly cast from diamond and filled with a sense of power, was incomparably tyrannical. It was as if every move he made could strike out with thunderous sounds. The physical thunderous sound that the delicate monk could only produce with a single punch was, in Brother Qian Chen's case, present in every punch and kick, every gesture—all emitting those rolling thunderous sounds like the Buddha preaching the Dharma.

To be able to force Brother Qian Chen to the point of disregarding his image, one could see how wretched he was now.

"……Severing Purity!"

Once worried that deep affection would damage the Brahma conduct, entering the mountains again for fear of parting from a beauty!

After decades of arduous cultivation, his Zen heart was stable and his wisdom roots were deeply planted. He was the disciple most valued by his master and the senior brother most admired by his junior brother. He had thought this heart had already broken through many external demons, firm and unbreakable. Yet, because of stirring emotions, he suffered an avalanche, his composure completely lost. Decades of hard cultivation were all lost, falling into the web of love, purity no more!

Xiang You revealed a slight smile, as if it were that sour yet astringent expression, carrying a trace of sweetness, when a man and woman first stir with affection.

His expression was slightly dazed, as if he were reminiscing about his beloved. A smile played on the corners of his mouth, and he seemed immersed in some reverie, exuding the sour stench of being in love.

But the Treasure Vase Seal swung by Brother Qian Chen's Vajra body should have symbolized perfection, flawless and indestructible, immune to all evil. At this moment, however, the treasure vase was shattered, and the hands forming the seal could not be stabilized no matter what.

The Vajra body shattered with a boom. Purity was gone; how could it be firm and unbreakable?

"Your aptitude for cultivating Buddhism seems much worse than that for the demonic path!" Xiang You said calmly, swinging his blade.

The Great Liberation Demon Blade seemed to rise from the bottom of Brother Qian Chen's heart, unavoidable, slashing toward him. Because the external appearance of this blade was compassionate liberation, while its internal aspect was infinite obsessive entanglement. First, there were countless vexations, and only then could there be the liberation of the Demon Blade. And vexations arose from the original heart; once the heart stirred, ignorance and vexation followed. Brother Qian Chen was dazed and confused, as if once his heart stirred and love arose, countless vexations followed. Clearly, there were infinite entanglements that kept him from freedom, yet he was unwilling to sever them.

The chasm between human and demon, the high hopes placed by his master, the piety of many years of studying Buddhism, and even the admiration of his junior brother, the heavy burden of the future Qingyuan Temple… these infinite vexations all came with that touch of love, turning into strands of entanglement that severed his purity.

Clearly, these were vexations that damaged cultivation and would trigger unexpected disasters, yet he could not sever them, and the more he tried to sort them out, the more tangled they became.

The calamity followed these vexations he refused to sever, like the subsequent Great Liberation Demon Blade, unavoidable…

Unless Brother Qian Chen once again triggered that demonic thought of Supreme Forgetting of Emotions, heartless and desireless, like the will of Heaven hanging high. Only then would he naturally not be entangled by the vexations of a mere love calamity. Otherwise, with vexations entangled, the following blade would be unavoidable, 'liberating' Brother Qian Chen from his vexations.

When two people in love are together, it is inevitably accompanied by many vexations: conflicts in concepts, differences in living habits, and even the rift of material conditions. These infinite vexations arise from love, leaving one unable to be at ease. But who could bear to sever them?

Brother Qian Chen seemed to recall his first love!

At this moment, his eyes revealed a faint sadness, facing this unavoidable blade…

Brother Qian Chen stepped back lightly and placed himself outside the reach of the Great Liberation Demon Blade.

Xiang You was instantly stunned, somewhat uncomprehending: "You seem not to have triggered that heartless demonic thought? How then did you escape this blade of mine?"

Brother Qian Chen said sadly: "The postgraduate entrance exam was too busy, the supervisor was too much of a pit. The study was intense, the tasks were heavy! One crossing, turned into a bead. A thought of sixty years, ten thousand years of loneliness!"

"So… I simply didn't have any first love at all!"

A strike of grief and indignation… thunderous sounds and cold light moved in unison.

There was no time to play the zither and act cool anymore! The Ice Soul Cold Light Pill at Brother Qian Chen's fingertips emitted a crystalline cold light. Xiang You only swung his Demon Blade lightly, and that Liberation Demon Light was about to refract the Ice Soul Divine Light. Brother Qian Chen had used this divine ability a few times, and he already had a way to deal with it. Now, Brother Qian Chen's righteous means, because his magic power was empty, could only be unleashed with the help of the external pill. Besides the Ice Soul Divine Light, there was no other divine ability worth mentioning.

Just when it seemed Brother Qian Chen's moves were exhausted, his fingertips twitched slightly, and he saw the Ice Soul Divine Light suddenly turn into crystalline thunder light, exploding with a boom in front of the Corpse King Xiang You.

The endless cold qi sought to crush everything; wherever it passed, the indestructible mountain rocks of Heavenly Tian Shafeng turned into jade dust one after another.

This method of mixing extreme cold qi and divine thunder was a step further than the Ice Soul Divine Light. The original Ice Soul Divine Light could only freeze all things, but this time it added the violence of the Soundless Divine Thunder, capable of turning all things into ice dust. It was Brother Qian Chen fusing the two great divine abilities of Ice Soul Divine Light and Soundless Divine Thunder.

It could be called his strongest divine ability when he was not possessed by demons.

An ordinary supreme-grade Core Formation pill would find it hard to survive a single strike, and protective magic treasures with quality slightly inferior to the Heavenly Luo Umbrella would all be shattered under the divine thunder.

This Ice Soul Divine Thunder already had the prototype of a great divine ability.

Once Brother Qian Chen could re-cultivate the Soundless Divine Thunder without the help of the White Bone Sarira, and then re-incorporate the Ice Soul Cold Light Gang and the Taiyin True Malevolent Qi into the thunder method, he would truly be able to master this great divine ability of Ice Soul Divine Thunder, comparable to the Innate One Qi Great Capture. Moreover, its lethality would be even greater. At that time, the potential of this divine ability would likely not be inferior to the Taiyin Extinction Divine Light Ray, one of the nine great divine lights in the universe.

It would become the number one protective means in Brother Qian Chen's hands.

Seeing the thunder light of the Ice Soul Divine Thunder envelop Xiang You, Brother Qian Chen did not dare to be the slightest bit careless. Having fought all the way here, this person had truly given him too many surprises!

Sure enough, Xiang You walked slowly out of the thunder light, which was as crystalline as ice glaze. Except for some damage to the monk's robe on his body, he appeared completely unscathed.

Brother Qian Chen stared at him tightly. Xiang You shook his head slightly, and only then spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood mixed with ice dust.

The blood of the Corpse King's body should have been dark red, flowing extremely slowly, carrying a thick aura of red flame. But the fresh blood Xiang You spat out now was dark gold. That gold seemed like Buddha blood, carrying a strange aura of stillness and harmony between life and death.

Only then did Brother Qian Chen understand why Xiang You could be unscathed!

This Corpse King body was about to be refined by him into a flesh-body Buddha…

"This is not the Undying Divine Demon of the demonic path; this is the fusion of the demonic path's Undying Divine Demon and the Buddhist path's Indestructible Golden Body! The undying and inextinguishable nature of the Undying Divine Demon, paired with the indestructible and inextinguishable nature of the Indestructible Golden Body… is there still justice in this world? Can anyone still kill him? I'm afraid it would take a Primordial Spirit expert… Even Primordial Spirit True Persons of the side sects would be lacking; it would have to be a Primordial Spirit expert of the orthodox Daoist lineage to have any possibility of completely obliterating him!"

"With this armor, this health pool, and this recovery speed, the Blood Demon is nothing!" Brother Qian Chen was extremely indignant!

He had exhausted all his means… and still hadn't found a single opportunity to defeat this person.

And regarding the demonic path means he hadn't used, Brother Qian Chen also had a very strong warning in his heart.

Facing Xiang You, who had sunk into demonic calamity like this, obsessed with a love calamity for hundreds of years, and had always maintained his original heart without falling, I'm afraid no demonic path means could be used against him. Both the Buddhist and demonic paths worked on the mind; as long as the heart was without fear or dread, it would not be invaded by demons. Those various demonic path means would have lost half the battle already.

Yet, facing the Corpse King Xiang You, who had no more attachments! Even facing Brother Qian Chen, the enemy who killed his wife, he had no hatred or killing intent… This was a true 'Holy Mother' who had attained the true meaning of Buddhism, possessed the Arhat Dharma Body Dao Fruit in compassion, forgiveness, and benevolence, and even when facing the mutual slaughter and mutual harm of the people he valued most, attributed everything to himself, and had not fallen into the demonic path because of pain, grief, and anger!

On the other hand, he viewed Righteous Enlightenment and Righteous Fruit as nothing, only holding onto what he held onto, polishing his obsession until it was like a diamond, attaining the True Demon!

This could be called a freak of the fusion of Buddha and Demon…

Brother Qian Chen truly had no way at all, completely unable to think of how to shake his mind and cause a flaw in his realm… The only thing he vaguely felt was that Xiang You perhaps had no desire to live.

But if the other party wanted to hack him to death before leaving without any killing intent, Brother Qian Chen had no way either.

If he were to act tough and force it, Xiang You could subdue the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao in a single thought, turning it into the Great Liberation Demon Blade to liberate himself. It could be seen that having been immersed in the sea of blood for hundreds of years, he had learned who knows how many true meanings of the demonic path from the Blood Demon Primordial Spirit. Xiang You's attainment in the demonic path now likely had the level of an Undying Divine Demon.

Brother Qian Chen wanted to use demons to control demons, but facing this freak who had completely subdued his own demons and turned into a True Demon, going up would just be a free gift.

He truly had a headache to the point of having no way at all… How could there be such a character in this world with no flaws in his state of mind? The demonic path's common means of inducing flaws in the enemy's mind from their past… logically speaking, for someone like Xiang You who had suffered such tragedy, it should have been quite easy to utilize. But alas, although he hadn't let go of the past and achieved Great Enlightenment.

He had picked up his true heart, without resentment or regret.

Brother Qian Chen finally understood why the Blood Demon, when Xiang You—a plaything and tool in his hands in the past—stepped on his face and rubbed him into the ground, didn't even make a sound.

It turned out that the other party had already experienced what was called an Indestructible Golden Body in hundreds of years of mental confrontation.

Once Xiang You's last trace of attachment and flaw was gone, he wisely shrank back, waiting for this freak to end it himself.

Brother Qian Chen racked his brains, considering various trump cards, but still couldn't think of a way to kill this great enemy… He could only sigh helplessly, preparing to turn and flee for his life! At this moment, Yan Shu and the others suddenly broke into the belly of Heavenly Tian Shafeng, arriving at the place where Brother Qian Chen and Xiang You were fighting. As soon as they entered, they faced the aftermath of the Ice Soul Divine Thunder explosion, and even the blade intent of Xiang You's Great Liberation Demon Blade.

Although it was only the aftermath of the duel, those crystalline, glass-like shattered thunder lights scattered down.

Yan Shu and Ning Ning Qingchen felt endless warnings in their hearts.

A pill of spiritual light popped out of the sword box behind Yan Shu, swiftly bypassing the three people and one chicken. The sword light split into sixteen rays, sticking to those specks of thunder light. The aftermath of the Ice Soul Divine Thunder was triggered, slightly exploding with a coldness that froze all things, causing Yan Shu's sword light to stagnate. If it weren't for the fact that Yan Shu's natal flying sword had improved after obtaining the Demon-Subduing Sword Box, the sword pill would have almost been broken by the Ice Soul Divine Thunder.

Ning Ning Qingchen and the others bypassed this cold thunder light in fear. Si Si Qingguo was even more terrified, saying: "What kind of divine ability is this? Even the Ice Soul Cold Light Ray secretly transmitted by those Cold Whales of the Arctic Great Bright Palace! It shouldn't be this terrifying, right!"

Yan Shu only raised his eyes to see the Great Liberation Demon Blade, which had severed infinite vexations and was infinitely perfect, striking with its blade intent. He intended to draw his sword to resist, but found that no matter what, he could not unleash that sword. Yan Shu's sword intent was drawn but not unleashed, contained but not revealed. He could only make a sword finger gesture to draw his sword, but he was covered in sweat, finding it difficult to force out the sword pill.

Brother Qian Chen sighed slightly. Compared to Xiang You, although Yan Shu's sword intent was pure, he lacked hundreds of years of tempering.

Being able to not be completely helpless under the Great Liberation Demon Blade, and even actively seeking liberation, was already due to his firm will.

As for Ning Ning Qingchen and Si Si Qingguo, facing the aftermath of this blade, they had almost no power to fight back.

It was that big yellow chicken that surprised Brother Qian Chen somewhat; it spread its wings and stretched its neck, putting on a posture of a death struggle.

At this moment, Xiang You made a move Brother Qian Chen never expected. He swung his Demon Blade lightly, appearing abruptly in front of the few people. Where the long blade pointed, everything was liberated.

"That's not right. With Xiang You's temperament, it's impossible for him to harm the innocent!"

"He has a reason to kill me? How could he strike at Yan Yan Shixiong Yan and the others? This must be to force me to make a move!"

"But he is already a True Demon; all his actions are fundamentally unpredictable. If he no longer has a distinction between life and death in his heart, killing for him is truly just sending people to liberation, carrying a sense of compassion. This is the true demonic nature. I cannot guarantee that he doesn't have such a terrifying demonic nature in his heart… With his obsession, as long as he is slightly paranoid, he can ignore life and death. If even life and death are seen through, his master, junior brother, lover, and even himself—dead or alive—make no difference in his heart. He can still achieve a perfect obsession!"

"This is also the most terrifying True Demon… All rules and concepts, they can see through them. Even if their souls are scattered, they can recover them!"

Countless thoughts flashed through Brother Qian Chen's mind in an instant.

Was Xiang You testing his state of mind?

Was Xiang You's obsession already twisted?

Was Xiang You just using this to lure him into making a move?

But his blade was already a step faster. The Cold Moon Ice Soul Core in his hand transformed into a crystalline rainbow, reversing the supernatural power of the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao. Using the icy cold light as the blade's body and the Dao heart budding in his heart as the blade's intent, he struck out. The blade light was like an autumn swan, unstained by a speck of snow or mud, carefree and unrestrained, free and at ease!

Brother Qian Chen had many means, but at this moment, when meeting Xiang You's Great Liberation Demon Blade.

He subconsciously imitated the scene where Xiang You turned the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blade into his own Demon Blade, using his weak, newly sprouted Dao heart to meet Xiang You's Demon Blade, which had been polished for hundreds of years. ===== CHAPTER 115 =====