Chapter 320

But when the spear tip stabbed toward Xu Daofu's throat, the mysterious light rolled back. At this moment, Xu Daofu's physical body disintegrated into five-element mysterious light, turning from tangible to intangible. The mysterious light flashed and disappeared, and Xu Daofu's figure appeared on the river surface below in an instant.

Five Elements Great Escape!

The previous power of the five-element mysterious light was only the five elements; now... it was the Escape!

Xu Daofu raised his hand to touch his throat and looked down to see a trace of blood on his hand. Although his escape speed was fast, he was still pierced by the divine intent in Liu Yu's spear, which penetrated the spear tip and broke his skin.

Martial arts divine intent and military baleful qi are all imprinted in one's own will and true qi, integrated into every move and style. Therefore, they can break ten thousand laws and restrain all kinds of spells. When ordinary people encounter ghosts, they often shout loudly, using their courage and blood, and with a fearless spirit, condense their own will onto their swords and blades to slay ghosts and kill gods.

Because the human soul and nature are a kind of spiritual qi and magic power, called spiritual emotion.

The reason why many ghosts and gods in the world need people to worship them is to borrow human spiritual emotion for cultivation.

Martial arts begin from the acquired, refining the human body's essence and qi to achieve internal strength. Internal strength polishes the body, cleanses the meridians, and cuts the marrow; this is martial arts foundation establishment. Afterwards, opening the heaven and earth mysterious pass, like the Immortal Dao's sensory pass, after achieving the innate, one can refine heaven and earth essence qi like a cultivator. Then, taking the strange essence qi from heaven and earth and tempering it together with true qi, one can achieve martial arts gang qi, which can break spells and contend with cultivators.

Hong Sihai, the Dragon Head who was killed by Qian Chen in the past, was a martial arts powerhouse who had refined his gang qi to the supreme realm.

The path afterwards is to closely associate human spiritual emotion with the physical body, gathering spiritual emotion for the body, dominating the five internal organs and six entrails, and refining the seven souls that operate blood and essence qi one by one, thoroughly controlling the physical body and condensing the life soul.

With the life soul as the foundation, one can hold the pill, condensing the whole body's blood and qi into one point, making the physical body ageless and indestructible, achieving the martial arts great pill, similar to the Immortal Dao's Core Formation realm.

Further on, it is nothing more than refining the three souls to achieve the martial arts divine image.

The physical body integrates the martial arts divine image, cultivating into a martial arts body-spirit powerhouse who is nearly a god or demon.

At the final pass, shattering the vacuum, the body transforms, the physical body becomes holy, achieving the martial arts realm's Primordial Spirit powerhouse—Martial Saint Human Immortal. If one says that the early, ignorant Immortal Dao imitated the innate gods and demons formed by the laws of heaven and earth, which can gather and disperse without form...

... then martial arts is the path created by the human and demon races, imitating the innate gods and demons with naturally strong physical bodies.

Military cultivators are nothing more than those who, after recognizing the existence of human spiritual qi—spiritual emotion—created a method to condense military souls and soldiers, gathering the spiritual emotion of the masses to transform into divine law images with the help of formations and the united strength of soldiers.

It is a cultivation method that gathers the strength of the masses to create gods and demons.

Therefore, military cultivators are mostly demonic cultivators who cultivate their own life-bound gods and demons, or martial arts cultivators who condense martial arts divine images. Both the Buddhist and Daoist sects pursue self-liberation, and their paths are inconsistent with the military family.

But there are also those in the Buddhist sect who have converted long-lived demon races, making them Buddhist protectors who provide blessings for their own golden bodies.

The Daoist sect also established a Heavenly Court, raising heavenly soldiers with divine methods, borrowing the method of scattering beans to become soldiers, cutting paper to become soldiers, and summoning heavenly soldiers and generals to become Dao soldiers. Or overseas cultivators raise demon races, making them cultivate lower-level techniques derived from their own techniques, and then practicing with formations to become Dao soldiers who are tools for fighting.

Five Elements Great Escape is the highest achievement of five-element techniques, one of the thirty-six great supernatural powers of the Heavenly Gang. Because it is formed by five-element techniques, it is restrained by martial arts cultivators who have the ability to break laws.

The five elements are the origin of the world. If the true qi cultivated by martial arts cultivators cannot escape the five-element category, it can still be restrained by the Five Elements Great Escape.

But what Liu Yu cultivates is the purest military true qi, the Dragon Strategy true qi from the "Six Secret Teachings," the Taigong military strategy taught to Zhang Liang of the Former Han. Therefore, the path Liu Yu walks can be called the one that most restrains Xu Daofu.

"When I achieved the Five Elements Heavenly Escape Pill, I had already refined my physical body into five-element mysterious light, gathering and dispersing as I wish, with infinite escape methods. All five-element things in the world can no longer hurt me. Unless it is a supernatural power that has been refined, beyond the five elements, such as divine thunder, life-bound gods and demons... or your martial arts divine image!"

Xu Daofu wiped away the bloodstains on his hands and looked up: "Legend has it that martial arts is the path created by the ancient Son of Heaven and Human Emperor to restrain us cultivators. Previously, I was a bit skeptical. After being defeated by you once, I felt uneasy and cultivated the Five Elements Escape Technique to the point of gathering and dispersing as I wish, able to escape a thousand miles in a single thought. But I was still hurt by your hand."

"Now it seems that the restraint of martial arts on spells is indeed unusual."

"If it weren't for a cultivator who has cultivated supernatural powers, I'm afraid that with one thrust of your spear, you could pierce them to death!"

Liu Yu laughed: "But how many great Yin Spirit cultivators have not cultivated supernatural powers? And I can defeat you, but I cannot kill you. If you want to escape, you can go a thousand miles in an instant. How long would I have to run on horseback? How could I stop you?"

"Unless! You lead thousands of troops, suppressing the four directions with military baleful qi, and set up a formation to surround and kill me before I retreat. In that case, even if I possess the Five Elements Escape Technique, I might not be able to escape!"

Xu Daofu sighed: "My Five Elements Escape Technique is the culmination of the spells of cultivators in the world. And you, Liu Yu, are also the culmination of martial arts and military strategy. Our confrontation seems to have a hint of mysterious destiny!"

"Perhaps it symbolizes the future changes and conflicts of humanity!"

"Xu Daofu, now with these three thousand Dao soldiers and the help of this little demon friend, you cannot defeat me. But I cannot keep you either!" Liu Yu held his spear horizontally, with the Ear Dao Shen, who was baring its fangs and claws and acting fierce, on his shoulder, and said: "You can no longer touch Zhang Huaien! Why not retreat?"

Xu Daofu glanced at the river-spanning formation, where stars were falling like rain above, and more than a hundred moves had already been played.

The formation set up by Qian Chen and Xie Daoyun hid murderous intent, with infinite restrictions derived from it, making the formation as dangerous as a dragon's pool or a tiger's den. Xu Daofu glanced at it, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

Liu Yu also turned his head slightly. At this moment, the aftermath of the formation leaked out, floating ice drifted on the Dajiang, and both banks were covered in white snow.

He looked up at the river-spanning formation, which had been completely frozen.

That cold qi was condensed and not released, but once released, I'm afraid that the surrounding counties, the Jin capital Jiankang, and even the Wei State across the Dajiang would have snow flying in July. The power of this formation was enough to change the weather.

Especially the river-spanning formation, which actually had a hint of ancient atmosphere.

Cold sweat also appeared on Liu Yu's forehead, and he said nervously: "This formation is no longer a competition; I'm afraid it has a hint of the power of the ancient Ice Absolute Formation. If the two of them continue to deduce it, once the formation changes and neither of them can control it, they won't even need to consider whether they can survive."

"And the counties on the left and right of the river are even more likely to suffer a great snow disaster!"

The surface of the Dajiang had frozen into an ice and snow plain stretching for a thousand miles. That small boat was also frozen on the ice plain. Wang Ningzhi, wearing thin clothes, trembled inside the canopy, holding sixteen ink dragons that were about to freeze into ice blocks.

Xie Daoyun wore a single layer of clothing, and white snow piled up on her hair and clothes, forming a pure white cloak, but she was completely unaware, still staring at the star chessboard above her head.

Wang Ningzhi wanted to go over and rub her hands several times to see if she was frozen stiff.

But every time he got close, he felt a chill that seemed to be able to freeze everything.

The ice-cold light condensed into a mirror-like wall in front of him. Wang Ningzhi hesitated several times and very sensibly retreated.

Qian Chen was deducing the Ice Soul Divine Thunder into a formation. Once successful, with the help of this Ice Absolute Formation, he could summon the Ice Soul cold light from the ancient era from the stars above, and could freeze ten thousand miles into a prison.

Then, as the formation changed, it would trigger this ice power, transforming it into divine thunder, and with one shock, it would surely turn these ten thousand miles into jade dust.

Within a diameter of ten thousand miles, the largest substance that could still exist would not exceed the size of a grain of sand.

Such a grand formation could be called an absolute formation.

Qian Chen had completely forgotten that he was in a competition, only feeling that the various mysteries of formation strategy were opening up to him. The wonder of the Great Dao was right before his eyes. The demonic nature originating from his heart was revealed unintentionally, and merging with this wonder of the Great Dao, he instinctively wanted to destroy this heaven and earth.

At this moment, the demonic nature suppressed in Qian Chen's original heart was only slightly revealed, a true essence beneath the cover of the ruthless Supreme Dao.

That was great destruction, great terror, great despair, carrying a terrifying obsession to destroy everything. Xie Daoyun was completely forced by Qian Chen's actions to continue. She felt that the person opposite her was not a human, but a side of the destruction of the Great Dao.

He displayed the self-destructive side of formation strategy to the fullest.

The people outside the formation guessed the two's act of deducing the formation, or that it had already gone out of control, while others were still ignorant, not knowing what kind of terrifying power was gestating in the formation beside them.

Others instinctively felt uneasy!

Zhixia looked up nervously at the direction of the formation, wanting to catch a glimpse of Qian Chen on the frozen Dajiang.

On the other side of the formation, nearly a hundred Beifu cavalrymen kept rubbing their hands, also nervously looking at the formation separating them from General Liu. Someone said with a trembling voice: "In this July weather, the heat has just dissipated, why is it so cold now?"

"It might be due to the operation of the formation!" A military Sima with some knowledge said: "But this cold current might spread for thousands of miles. What kind of formation has this kind of power?"

"Sigh! The general broke through the formation himself. Without our help, I don't know if he can beat those rebels!"

"Shh! If the Wang and Xie families rebel, it's hard to say who is the emperor and who is the rebel!" someone whispered.

"Is there someone on the river?"

While the soldiers were discussing, they saw a white dot appear in front of the Zhenjiang Island sandbar in the distance. They stood up and looked, using their magic power, only to see that the white dot was a white deer. It leaped between the floating ice on the river, occasionally stepping on the waves, and then jumping to another piece of floating ice.

On the back of the white deer, someone was wearing a red cloak, riding the deer and coming over.

Judging by the figure, it seemed to be a woman!

The white deer that left Qian Chen's side carried the woman on its back, traveled across the Dajiang, and the woman looked up at the gradually falling snow. The white deer she sat on had already trekked across the river and arrived before the formation that spanned the Dajiang.

The woman on the deer's back lowered her head slightly, looking at the formation that spanned the thousand-mile river, and said solemnly: "Why did Qian Yan Shixiong create such a grand momentum!"

"Once this formation erupts, I'm afraid the river surface for thousands of miles up and down will be frozen, which will cause a monstrous disaster!"

She took off her cloak, and it was none other than Si Princess Qingcheng, whom Qian Chen was going to visit on this trip to the capital.

Junior Sister Si took off her cloak, shook it off casually, and turned around in it.

Countless yellow talismans flew out from the cloak like butterflies, endless, and soon gathered into a cloud that blocked out the sun. The Beifu cavalrymen looked at the things flying in the sky like withered leaves and butterflies, and only when they saw clearly were they shocked and speechless.

"Talismans... those are all talismans!"

There were already over a million flying talismans. Those talismans flew into the formation, and the ice-cold light shrouded the sky above the ice plain. Some of those talismans were frozen and shattered as soon as they entered, and the broken talismans fell down like yellow snowflakes.

Si Princess Qingcheng had already found Qian Chen with the help of those countless talismans.

Looking at Qian Chen, who had his eyes closed slightly and was buried in the heavy snow, she frowned slightly and whispered: "Yan Yan Shixiong's situation seems a bit strange, as if he has fallen into a Dao state."

"Not good! Yan Yan Shixiong's demonic nature is too heavy. If he enters the Dao state too deeply, I'm afraid there will be a danger of Dao-transformation. Yan Yan Shixiong Yan instructed that Qian Yan Shixiong's original self is too weak and his demonic obstacles are heavy. He told me to pay attention at any time!"

Si Princess Qingcheng's thoughts raced: "Before Father let me cultivate the life-bound true talisman, he told me to use fewer divine talismans, but at this time, I can't care about that much!"

She triggered the divine talisman and manifested her divine Dao dharma body.

On the frozen Dajiang, a woman bathed in divine light rode a white deer from downstream and walked straight into the formation. Wherever she went, countless talismans fluttered. Zhixia did not find Qian Chen in the formation, but caught a glimpse of Si Princess Qingcheng riding the deer.

His eyes lit up and he said: "This is... that white deer of Daoist Yu Chen!"