Chapter 746

E Lai swung his halberds. The two rusted bronze ancient halberds emitted divine light from beneath the verdigris, looking like junk, but their power upon revival was astonishing.

These bronze halberds were not magic treasures, but a type of divine weapon. There were no seals inside, but they had sacrificed a deity using witch methods. When unleashed, they were more formidable than any of the magic treasures Qian Chen had seen.

Although they did not have as many variations as magic treasures, in E Lai's hands, they were terrifying.

A single halberd strike severed the Star-Annihilating Cannon fired by nearly a hundred Penglai elders working together to drive the starship!

The Star-Annihilating Cannon, which Qian Chen had to painstakingly deal with using great divine abilities, could be shattered by E Lai with a mere swing of a halberd using martial arts...

The residual power of the Star-Annihilating Cannon bombarded his body, but the ghost-god body was knotted and solid, withstanding the strike without the slightest damage.

Seeing this, Qian Chen couldn't help but feel his heart sink: "Rumor has it that martial arts originated from the ancient witch path; looking at it now, it is indeed true! The terror of E Lai's body is such that I fear ordinary magic treasures wouldn't even leave a white mark on it; only magic treasures could inflict some wounds!"

"To refine the body to this extent simply transcends the Undying Body of the Demon Path and the Indestructible Golden Body of the Buddhist Path! Observing his body, it is somewhat similar to the Mysterious Yellow Precious Jade; I fear it was refined by collecting infinite malevolent qi!"

Later generations of cultivators want to obtain a bit of malevolent qi to refine their true essence but cannot, yet E Lai can wash his body with malevolent qi, spending infinite malevolent qi to hammer and refine his body.

Moreover, his malevolent qi is formed from the inside out. His soul's ferocity is incomparable, and his whole body is filled with malevolent qi. For ordinary people, the blood qi flowing in their bodies is replaced by blood malevolence in his blood vessels!

If Qian Chen wanted to refine a new type of divine malevolence, I fear killing E Lai would be enough to gestate a ferocious divine malevolence.

He noticed that E Lai relied on his own strength to confront the starship left behind by the Immortal Qin. His moves were wide and open, fierce and boundless. The two bronze halberds danced, shattering the full-power attacks of the starship, and he even had the spare energy to protect the bone long bridge, attacking without defending, easily bearing the scattered divine abilities with his body.

And with a single twist of the double halberds, he shattered the great divine ability unleashed by Xu Fu...

Qian Chen's eyelids twitched slightly. The great divine ability Xu Fu unleashed casually was extremely terrifying; it seemed to be the prototype of a self-realized divine ability after mastering the inversion of yin and yang, appearing on the outside like a strange light similar to a mirage!

It could invert truth and illusion, transforming certain qi changes from reality into illusions!

If Qian Chen were to face such a divine ability, it would certainly be extremely troublesome...

Because the level of this light of truth and illusion was extremely high. Except for the Doutian Divine Thunder, the Two Forms Extinction Divine Light, and the Lotus Dharma Body, all other kinds of spells and divine abilities would turn into illusion when illuminated by this mirage light.

On the contrary, the sword technique performed by his natal flying sword and the two blade techniques, Demon Transformation Blood and Great Liberation, relied on divine weapons and grasped reality, fearing no such great divine abilities!

But on the heads of E Lai's double halberds, two witch characters flowed with divine light. The halberd blades intersected like scissors, cutting through the mirage light and twisting toward Xu Fu's head!

Xu Fu's body suddenly turned into an illusion and dissipated, but the double halberds ignored everything else and continued to twist, one halberd shattering the golden mask on Xu Fu's face!

Xu Fu is worthy of being the ancestor of Penglai and one of the great Fangshi of the Immortal Qin. What he is unleashing now is merely a great divine ability of the inversion of yin and yang cultivated to the Great Completion.

Qian Chen could naturally see that what Xu Fu specialized in was the path of void and reality, truth and illusion within the principles of yin and yang, which is why he could turn void into reality, reality into void, and invert truth and illusion!

And E Lai's strength was even more formidable. His entire body of magic power and divine abilities had not the slightest bit of flashiness, contained within the wide and open swings of the double halberds. His body, magic power, divine abilities, and Primordial Spirit were all condensed to the extreme, without any redundant changes, but every strike was terrifying. Having grasped everything about himself, he happened to restrain Xu Fu's truth-illusion changes...

Because all illusions were like air in front of E Lai's double halberds.

E Lai relied even more on his terrifying combat instinct to see through Xu Fu's little tricks. Most of the power of this halberd strike was aimed at the golden mask, seemingly knowing that this mask was where a part of Xu Fu's origin resided, while that body was merely a disguise.

Hum!

Xu Fu, with his broken golden mask, was finally forced to reveal his true divine ability. He reached out, and the starship's cave heaven manifested, swallowing the Penglai crowd in one gulp. Then he raised the starship, and with a wave of his right hand, unleashed a great divine ability that made Qian Chen's heart jump...

"Whirling Creation!"

The seals of the various components of the starship resonated instantly. Under the coordination of the mysterious divine ability, they trembled together, sublimated to the extreme, and merged into one. At this instant, the starship was no longer a war artifact pieced together after the various components were refined, but had suddenly transformed into a whole.

Ancient Star Explosion!

The starship, refined entirely from fragments of ancient stars, sublimated the brilliance fired by the Star-Annihilating Cannon to the extreme, recreating the terrifying divine ability of ancient gods and demons using stars as weapons to fight each other.

A beam of incomparably condensed white light, like nothingness, annihilated the void in front of Xu Fu and bombarded E Lai.

Xu Fu was extremely vicious. This divine ability of his was not only aimed at E Lai but also at the bone long bridge behind E Lai...

If E Lai retreated, this strike would hit the long bridge. With his terrifying divine ability at this moment, I fear he could shatter the long bridge, destroying the path for the Merchant Ancestor's demon soul to return, thus forcing E Lai not to dodge.

E Lai indeed did not dodge or evade, holding his halberds to meet it...

The condensed white brilliance collided with the short halberds. One saw that within the brilliance, even the structure of space collapsed. Except for the brilliance itself, everything was annihilated. Even Qian Chen had no confidence in resisting it. If his lotus incarnation faced this strike, I fear there would be no chance of resurrection, because the essence qi would be annihilated. Except for the Karmic Fire Red Lotus which could support him for a while, the other four incarnations would die instantly!

But the bronze short halberds that broke into it withstood this destruction. On the bronze halberds, rust peeled off continuously, and bit by bit, it was annihilated in that brilliance. Every thread of rust was towering malevolent qi, the demonic malevolence accumulated in the Nine Heavens for who knows how many years!

Qian Chen felt a sense of awe in his heart, not only because of Xu Fu's strike recreating the power of ancient gods and demons, but also because...

Those two bronze short halberds continuously shed rust in the white light. Not only did they not weaken, but on the contrary, all the mottling was worn away, revealing a trace of red copper color, as if the mottled rust accumulated in the Nine Heavens had been polished away, recreating a glimmer of the sharpness of the past.

And the momentum on E Lai also became increasingly magnificent. The characteristics of the ghost and god on his body faded, his blood malevolence gradually revived, and he had a trace of vitality.

"Satisfying!"

E Lai roared at the sky, and the double halberds in his hands pressed down, shattering the white light. He swung the halberds, and the copper blades, having polished away the rust, decapitated Xu Fu. The Primordial Spirit of Xin Hengping let out a scream and was killed under the halberds.

And Xu Fu's golden mask carried his head into the starship.

At this time, the other short halberd swung again, breaking the seal that condensed the starship into one. But a copper-colored arm suddenly stretched out from the starship, clashing with E Lai and knocking him back!

"Terrifying... I didn't expect that after so many years in the Nine Heavens, E Lai's strength hasn't been progressing, but regressing. He hasn't submitted to the laws of the Nine Heavens. Therefore, the copper halberds would be stained with rust, sealing their sharpness."

"But the most terrifying thing is that the sharpness of the short halberds hasn't been extinguished by the rust, and E Lai's martial arts malevolent qi hasn't been crushed by the Nine Heavens, but is constantly being honed. Combat allows his dormant sharpness to gradually emerge, and his past strength is recovering one by one. If he fights until he is mad, fights until he wants to die, I fear he can polish away the brand of the Nine Heavens, and even completely sever the shackles of the Nine Heavens!"

"The E Lai of old is worthy of being the God of War!"

Only then did Qian Chen touch upon the terror of the martial arts path when truly walked to the depths. In comparison, Liu Yu was just a child who had just started learning martial arts!

As long as the martial arts will is not extinguished, even if the body rots into withered bones, the blood qi dries up like barren soil, the true essence is empty, the origin is worn away, and the spiritual sense is weak, one can still fight to the very last bit. Everything before this is just tempering!

E Lai's hair and beard stood on end, his eyes wide open, and towering malevolent qi surged in his eyes. He stepped onto the starship and broke into it...

Before entering, he swept a glance at the crowd who were retreating. An old man from an aristocratic family on the Clan Records had his liver and gallbladder burst and fell to his death.

There were also aristocratic disciples whose legs were trembling, and they said tremblingly: "Martial artist, how can a martial artist be so cruel!"

Yu Changsheng stood on the broken Jade Mountain, his expression as solemn as death. He held the Mountain-Driving Whip in his hand, his palms somewhat slippery, and he was sweating nervously; even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal was afraid to this extent...

An existence with some skin and flesh not yet rotted, clearly a battalion commander or leader among the Heavenly Merchant witch soldiers, made a rattling sound in its throat, staring fixedly at the immortal mountain where Jade Jing Shan was located, with heavy malevolent qi rising from its body.

Suddenly, dozens of witch soldiers surrounded it, forming a formation.

Ancient witch curses rose, and dozens of ghosts and gods pounced, shattering a part of Jade Jing Shan. An ancient Witch God even suddenly appeared from the void, clashing with Yu Changsheng's Mountain-Driving Whip and knocking him back, vomiting blood.

For a time, I don't know how many Jade Jing Shan disciples were dragged into the darkness by the ghosts and gods, dying miserably by decapitation with sacrificial blades.

At this moment, the demon soul of Merchant Ancestor Qi finally stepped onto the bone long bridge. He was guarded by countless Heavenly Merchant Imperial Guards, the number being more than a hundred times that led by E Lai. Many cultivators revealed expressions of despair and horror, fleeing even faster.

Soon, they could only look back and see that the front of the bone long bridge had been submerged by the ghost and god army, escorting the demon soul and slowly walking toward the divine statue stepping on the red dragon...

The Merchant Ancestor walked into the bronze divine statue. One saw that the hundred-zhang-tall bronze statue suddenly came to life. It opened its eyes, releasing infinite rolling firelight from its body. The ghosts and gods who were close were instantly burned away by the fire. But the ghosts and gods who saw their colleagues die not only didn't show horror, but instead revealed a trace of fanaticism...

A Witch God also broke into the starship, but was met with a roar from the fiercely fighting E Lai: "I want to fight these people alone, don't bother me!"

After that Witch God retreated, it tore open the starship's cave heaven. For a time, I don't know how many ghosts and gods poured in, dragging out tens of thousands of Xu descendants, along with the cultivators dragged down from Jade Jing Shan, and took them all to the front of the bronze divine statue to be decapitated and sacrificed.

Countless essence blood was sprinkled on the bronze divine statue, and the merchants chanted the "Xuan Bird" loudly.

"My ancestor Yan Bo!"