Chapter 596: God King?

Boom!

The spoken word was like a thunderclap, exploding across the scorched earth.

How could that voice be described as merely loud?

Li Yuan even saw concentric rings of shockwave expanding outward in layers; the air, like a tide, was churned by the voice of that rain-cloaked angler, a commotion as if rivers and seas were being overturned!

In an instant, the surging distractions in his heart were swept clean. He had no time to ponder the meaning behind the angler's words; every hair on his body stood on end.

Those eyes, burning like Wu Gong, crossed a hundred li in a single instant, bearing the momentum of Shenshan shifting sideways, roaring as they came!

"This old fellow…"

Li Yuan's expression tightened, and without a second thought he switched the weapon he was commanding.

Relying on the augmentation of Dun Tian Zhou and his many spirit-boots, he retreated several hundred li in one bound, like a sky-blue divine sword slicing through the void.

His reaction could not be called slow; the speed, he asked himself, surpassed any Heyida Sect master he had ever seen.

Yet those flame-like gazes were not only not shaken off by him, but came shooting toward him at an even swifter speed.

What the hell!

"This is entering the Dao too?!"

True-gang erupted. Li Yuan's figure shifted and turned in the void; Cloud Dragon Nine Appearances had been driven to its utmost, and behind him even dragon-shadows like mist and cloud appeared.

While dodging, he focused his gaze into the distance.

Several hundred li away, that rain-cloaked angler had not even shifted his feet; merely the gaze he cast across the void made Li Yuan feel a pressure beyond description.

This had already surpassed the pressure he had felt that year when he first drew his saber and faced Wan Wan Zhuliu head-on — and surpassed it by far!

Boom!

Like two meteors slicing through the void, the flames burned like Rushan in their weight, their speed swift as flying swords, and they shifted position without cease following Li Yuan's dodges and shifts, clinging to him like a shadow.

……

"Grand-Uncle!"

Within Zang Guan Mi Jing, Five Dragon Immortal's gaze hardened, shock mingled with unease:

"How could Grand-Uncle…"

"This is the 'Dao Mark' the lord left within Mi Jing."

The bronze coffin spirit's wooden voice rose: "His lordship's Dao Mark has always been…"

"Then before…"

Five Dragon Immortal's heart trembled; he already knew the reason.

'Did Grand-Uncle's lordship already foresee it long ago?'

The bronze coffin was silent for a beat before saying: "Before the lord buried you, he must have already calculated every possibility. You… you need not take it too much to heart."

Five Dragon Immortal was silent, recalling the gaze that had glanced over moments ago, his heart dim with sorrow.

"You…"

The bronze coffin spirit looked toward Mi Jing:

"Unfortunately, this person likely cannot pass the lord's examination… Your choosing this person may have been somewhat rash."

Five Dragon Immortal raised his head somewhat blankly, looking at the Daoist in the light-shadow dodging in disarray, seeming as if he would be melted by Grand-Uncle's gaze the next instant, and fell even more silent.

……

"It's not a gaze, and it's not Wu Gong!"

Dodging and shifting dozens of times in an instant, Li Yuan's true-gang swirled about him. For a moment he felt sweat streaming down his back, yet he also perceived something with extraordinary sharpness.

What came streaking across the sky like something solid was not a gaze, but an embryonic spirit-image driven by an extremely exquisite technique.

"The legendary 'spell' — Dao art?!"

Across several hundred li of empty sky, killing with a glance!

While barely dodging the clustered shooting of that gaze, steam rose from Li Yuan's body, yet his eyes could not help but light up.

The so-called spells and Dao arts, at their root, are methods of employing spirit-images and divine realms; only compared to Wu Gong, they are more complex and profound.

Although the various secret manuals within this Zang Guan Mi Jing were like flowers in a mirror and the moon in water — unseen, untouchable — the records concerning Dao arts and spells were not few.

"This spell clings like a shadow; ordinary means cannot evade it at all!" Li Yuan's gaze was dark and deep; he had already calmed down.

His experience in martial combat could be called rich; the instant he realized this was not Wu Gong, he had already thought of a way to respond.

"If I can't dodge…"

His gaze pierced through layer upon layer of shockwave to look at the rain-cloaked angler standing with arms at his sides. Li Yuan drew a deep breath, and the true-gang he had released suddenly burst forth:

"Then I won't dodge!"

"Roar!"

Sky-blue true-gang rolled outward like water; amid interwoven lightning, a giant beast resembling a dragon or a kun surged up from the abyss, and across several hundred li it let out a roar that shook the long sky.

"Sea-Suppressing Mystic Tortoise Shell!"

The instant true-gang erupted, Li Yuan switched his commanded armament once more. Sea-Suppressing Mystic Tortoise Shell, Crimson-Blood Patterned Dragon Armor, together with all manner of inner armor, were layered onto his body at once, to meet those two gazes burning like Wu Gong.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The next instant, several hundred li of scorched earth were already filled with blinding divine light; a tremendous roar accompanied countless clods of earth and sand shooting skyward.

"……"

The tremendous roar seemed to explode in his heart at the same time; Li Yuan's mind went blank for an instant, and then he felt his true qi ebbing away like a tide.

The augmentation of the Sea-Suppressing Mystic Tortoise Shell, together with the invisible barrier formed by his released true qi, was trembling violently, as if it would shatter the next instant.

"Too ferocious!"

Nearly eighty percent of the force was blocked outside, yet when the remaining twenty percent transmitted through his whole body, Li Yuan could not stop his teeth from chattering.

"Are masters of the God-Demon level all this fierce?!"

With blood raging through his veins, Li Yuan's vision went dark.

Only at this moment did he truly understand the weight of a god-and-demon-grade talent—it was equivalent to stacking every Martial Control enhancement on his body!

"He blocked it!"

Inside the God Burial Coffin, the Five Dragon Immortal's spirit jolted, and he focused his gaze.

A beast's deafening roar rang out, and amid rolling gusts of Qi, a human figure tore through Feng Feng Mantian's dust cloud, hurtling at extreme speed toward the straw-cloaked angler standing with arms at his sides on the far side of the scorched earth.

"He actually… dares to strike at our Ancestor first?!"

The Five Dragon Immortal's expression shifted, a flash of disbelief crossing his eyes.

Who was his uncle?

One of the nine Divine Kings of the Origin Divine Dynasty, a supreme being who had once awed myriad races across countless realms—how could this man dare…

Boom!

Striding, he left the dust behind!

Li Yuan, who had burst from the dust cloud, had already poured out every ounce of his strength; in less than a brief instant, the Martial Control combinations on his body had shifted several times.

He had used a combination of armors to withstand that strike, and as he advanced, he naturally switched to a combination of Dun Tian Zhou layered with various spirit boots.

In the blink of an eye, he had covered several hundred li, his speed swift enough to astonish even a Grandmaster.

Yet, seeing the straw-cloaked angler still standing with arms at his sides, a great unease welled up within him—spells and Dao arts were far too unfamiliar to him.

Moreover…

"This old fellow is very likely a Dao scar left by a Divine King…"

Even as he raced forward at top speed, Li Yuan's heart was still uneasy; if he didn't have ten thousand lives to spend in this Mi Jing, he would never have charged headlong at an opponent of this caliber, not even if you beat him to death.

But now…

"Trading one life to glimpse a Divine King's methods—that's worth it!"

A single instant, several hundred li!

The instant he focused his gaze on the straw-cloaked angler, Li Yuan's mind was utterly free of distractions; his right arm rose, and the heavy hammer Suo Hua De Zhong radiated dazzling divine light.

In his eyes, the Martial Soldier Register gleamed brilliantly, having already switched to his currently strongest killing combination, which included the Rending Sea Dark Whale Hammer and the Dragon Tiger Nurturing Furnace.

(End of this chapter)