Chapter 2003: Battle Against a Fourth Grade Yaoguai

A Purple-Skin Plum tree!

Yellow, gleaming fruits hung on the tree.

The fruits weren't large, only the size of eggs, yet they contained extraordinary divine power.

If one could use the Treasure-Gathering Bowl to strengthen them to the supreme grade, a single grain could instantly fill the divinity of a Divine Spirit Realm cultivator.

This thing, used alternately with the 【Greedy Spring】 later on, would have unexpected effects.

It's just a pity that coiled beside this Purple-Skin Plum tree was a python.

A guardian divine beast!

The key point was, this python was also of the Fourth Grade!

He Pingsheng took a glance: Divine Lord Realm ninth layer, twelve Divine Apertures opened.

"I'll go..." Bai Yi stepped forward!

But He Pingsheng reached out and blocked him, saying: "You fall back, this one I'll handle!"

"Just right, let me test this old man's combat power too!"

Ever since He Pingsheng entered the Divine Spirit Realm, he truly hadn't fought against a cultivator of the Divine Lord Realm cultivation.

He had indeed killed some before, but those all relied on the power of divine talismans.

It wasn't his own true combat power.

Now he'd run into one with cultivation neither too high nor too low, just right to test it out.

Anyway, with the divine ability Void Swift Movement, and the Life-and-Death Dao Tablet fused into his body, there was no need to worry about danger to his life.

"You fall back..."

He ordered Bai Yi again.

Bai Yi thought for a moment, then said: "Yes!"

After all, he had personally seen his master take out that many Fourth Grade divine talismans.

"You want the Heavenly Yellow Plums here?" Before He Pingsheng could seize them, the giant snake coiled under the tree spoke: "This seat is cultivating again, I cannot do without the divine power provided by the Heavenly Yellow Plums!"

"But since you've come, and your cultivation is higher than mine!"

"How about we negotiate?"

"There are nine hundred Heavenly Yellow Plums on this tree in total, you take half, leave half for me, how about that?"

The python stared at He Pingsheng.

It compromised.

Of course, this compromise wasn't directed at He Pingsheng, but at Bai Yi behind He Pingsheng.

"No need!" He Pingsheng waved his hand indifferently, saying: "You fight me one round!"

"If you win, we'll turn around and leave, absolutely won't take your Heavenly Yellow Plums!"

"If you lose, then sorry, the Heavenly Yellow Plums here, I'm taking them, but I'll leave you a hundred grains!"

"You?" The python's pupils shrank, looking at He Pingsheng: "Are you sure it's you, not him?"

"Sure!" He Pingsheng said: "Come on... if you don't come, then we'll just openly rob you!"

Boom—

Finished speaking, He Pingsheng's body suddenly shot out, directly rushing into the void.

"Fine... since you're courting death, don't blame me..."

The python also flew up.

Its massive body suddenly shrank, actually condensing into a burly man barely one zhang tall, holding a long spear in hand.

"Huh..." He Pingsheng said: "You even transformed?"

The snake yaoguai ignored He Pingsheng's words, the black long spear in its hand spun its tip toward He Pingsheng and stabbed straight over.

This spear, the movement looked not fast, but in reality the speed was absurdly fast.

One spear thrust out, carrying Dao law rules of its own.

Locking down the void around He Pingsheng.

That originally one-zhang-long black great spear instantly transformed into a hundred zhang, like a divine weapon, carrying boundless pressure as it smashed toward He Pingsheng.

The power of this strike was enough to instantly kill any Divine Spirit Realm cultivator.

Yet He Pingsheng actually didn't dodge.

He violently raised his left hand.

Light flashed on the purple-gold glove.

A massive hand seal then detached from the glove, smashing toward the black divine spear.

Bang—

The next moment, the hundred-zhang divine spear and the hundred-zhang earth-yellow giant palm slammed together.

The spear was a degree sharper, it pierced through the palm, continuing to smash toward He Pingsheng.

But the power on it was already not much left.

He Pingsheng merely took out the Hongmeng Purple Jin Gun, an utterly ordinary block, and smashed the divine spear phantom to pieces.

"This..." Seeing He Pingsheng actually blocked his full-power strike, the snake yaoguai was shocked in its heart, saying: "You... you actually comprehended the power of laws?"

He Pingsheng didn't respond, instead gripping the Hongmeng Purple Jin Gun and chopping down with one staff strike.

Divine Ability: Heaven-Opening Divine Lotus!

This strike carried fire-attribute Dao law rules.

Although He Pingsheng hadn't comprehended fire-attribute rule power, the Hongmeng Purple Jin Gun had long since automatically adsorbed fire-attribute Dao laws.

One strike fell, infinite divine power mixed with rule power exploding, like a trembling crimson lotus flower.

But within this lotus, a thousand-zhang giant staff suddenly flew out, crashing down upon the serpent demon's head.

"Kai..." the serpent demon still thrust forward with a spear.

Two vast energies collided, violent force sweeping in all directions, shaking the void for myriad zhang.

Next, He Pingsheng attacked while the opponent defended, without using divine talismans, He Pingsheng and this ninth-layer Divine Lord realm serpent demon fought to a standstill.

Of course, He Pingsheng also did not use the Void Swift Movement divine ability.

After fighting all day with no victor, He Pingsheng flashed forward with a Void Swift Movement divine ability, appearing before the opponent and raising his hand in a 【Great Heaven Wave Heavy Palm】.

This time the opponent had no way to dodge, nor time to use an attack to dispel it.

He stubbornly relied on his formidable physique to withstand it.

As a result, he was naturally severely wounded and fell to the ground; when He Pingsheng again closed the distance, this serpent demon finally opened its mouth to surrender.

"Surrender... I surrender!"

"I can't win!"

Seeing this, the white-winged creature below was so shocked its eyes nearly popped out.

Is this real?

A ninth-layer Divine Lord realm being, defeated by a mere third-layer Divine Spirit realm fellow?

This...

This...

What a good companion—just what kind of freak is my master?

At this moment, White Wing felt a surge of relief in his heart; he thought serving such a master might be his fortune.

"Why are you just standing there?" He Pingsheng, standing in the void, glanced at White Wing and said: "Pick the fruits..."

"Eh eh eh eh eh eh..." White Wing hurried over to pick the fruits.

He Pingsheng then said: "Leave him a hundred, pick the rest!"

After gathering the fruits, He Pingsheng sat again upon White Wing's back.

"Young Master, where to now?" White Wing asked.

He Pingsheng said: "White Wing, have you heard of the divine artifact fragments of the Collapsed Dao Fallen Yellow forbidden land?"

He glanced at the map.

The specific locations of heavenly treasures and earthly riches shown on the map are not all, but only a part—only treasures within a certain range around He Pingsheng's body.

This range moves synchronously with He Pingsheng's bodily movement.

And so far, within this range, no 【fragment】 is marked!

"Divine artifact fragments?" White Wing shook his head: "What is that?"

He Pingsheng directly produced a fragment, saying: "You see... this is exactly such a thing!"

"Ah?" White Wing gasped, eyes wide: "I've seen it before... I even have another piece..."

"You have?" He Pingsheng said: "Then... why haven't I seen it?"

Having said that, he realized his slip, quickly adding: "I mean, take it out and let me see!"

So White Wing produced a fragment and placed it before He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng's eyes widened: Correct, this is it.

Moreover, this fragment contains primordial purple qi.