Chapter 736: Smashing the Dao Heart, First Glimpse of a Strange Realm (Combined Chapter)

Amid the starry sky, Qin Qian walked at a leisurely pace.

In that instant, his emotions surged.

He was one who had walked out of the Samsara Pool, bearing the great fortune of Bei Chen Fa Jie, a being manifested by Heaven's Heart, one who had received the Dao Lord's transmission of the Law from birth, surging forward all the way, pressing down upon an entire generation of prodigies in Bei Chen.

Every cultivator in a realm believed he was certain to become a Dao Lord, with hope of contending against the beings born to respond to fortune in the myriad realms of Opening Gui Xu, vying for that supreme Great Dao.

He himself believed so as well.

Even though that Jue Shen Ji, Zhu Xian Wang Tu and others had cultivated several hundred years longer than himself, he still believed he would surely surpass them as the latecomer.

But everything changed suddenly after he entered Mount Mount Dongxuan…

"This man is my Dao-enemy!"

Looking at the Daoist seated before the One-Heart Monastery with a heavy hammer resting across his knees, enlightenment rose in Qin Qian's heart.

If at first he had only wished to ascend to the peak of the Sword Realm, now he only wished to defeat this man.

"He's fallen into a demonic fixation!"

In Bei Chen Fa Jie, the Niro Monk, who was watching the Sword Realm, could not help but sigh in regret.

Manifested by Heaven's Heart, receiving the Dao Lord's transmission of the Law, born with a Mu Mu Xiantian Body, before leaving Bei Chen Fa Jie, Qin Qian had almost never encountered an opponent, so that when he suddenly met a great enemy, an obsession arose in his heart.

"We can only let him handle it himself."

The Niro Monk knew well he could not intervene, and could only silently observe the battle.

He opened the "Gods" interface; many great cultivators from other realms were also watching this place, though the vast majority did not know Qin Qian's origins.

Some were commenting, some were divining, and some believed Qin Qian also had the qualifications to ascend the "Execution Ranking."

Not only in the myriad realms of Opening Gui Xu, but in the present world's myriad realm domains, countless cultivators were also watching this battle.

As the second person after Li Yuan to break into the twelfth layer of the Sword Realm, countless people were divining Qin Qian's information, but in the end it stopped at Mount Mount Dongxuan.

"Another disciple of Mount Mount Dongxuan!"

"Qin Qian comes from Mount Mount Dongxuan, he is that Li Yuan's junior brother…"

"Mount Mount Dongxuan's generation has produced so many outstanding talents. I had thought that Yu Yu Wangxian was already a world-shocking genius, but I never expected his two junior brothers to surpass him even more…"

Outside the Sword Realm, streams of divine sense flew about, carrying shock, doubt, and astonishment alike.

"A disciple of Mount Mount Dongxuan!"

Hearing the discussions from all sides, cultivators such as Xu Xu Xunyi and Ding Ding Yunjie, who had successively broken into the eleventh layer of the Sword Realm, were all filled with shock and suspicion.

……

"This junior brother's talent is truly astonishing."

In the bamboo tower, Li Yuan was also focusing intently to sense.

Separated by the light screen, he could not sense Qin Qian's qi, but he could see that this junior brother was skilled in both Law and martial arts; though at the Third Realm, he possessed quite the bearing of a great cultivator.

One could see his extraordinary innate gifts, and his foundation was also extremely solid.

Among all the Third Realm cultivators he had seen in his life, only himself and the White-Robed Five-Dragon Immortal were slightly better.

"However, he's a bit too hasty."

Li Yuan opened the Visit Friends interface; not only the inner disciples of this generation, but the true-successor senior brothers and sisters of previous generations were also watching this battle, and some had even opened betting pools.

"Senior Brother Daoist Zhiqing…"

Li Yuan recognized the senior brother who had opened the betting pool; he had previously asked him about the key to Yang generating Yin, and immediately placed a bet of ten thousand Xiao Gong on his own victory.

"Junior Brother Li, you…"

Daoist Daoist Zhiqing was stunned for a moment, then seeing that most people had all bet on Li Yuan, he hurriedly adjusted the odds.

"Junior Brother Qin Qian, one to ten!"

"No, one to thirteen!"

Seeing that still hardly anyone bet on Qin Qian, Daoist Daoist Zhiqing decisively suspended betting.

"Senior Brother Daoist Zhiqing, surely you can afford to pay out?"

"Enough, the victory is too obvious; this betting pool has no meaning."

"Let us watch the battle."

The crowd joked for a few lines, none taking it seriously, and all turned to look at the twelfth layer of the Sword Realm.

"Hoo~"

In the starry sky, there was movement without wind.

Behind Qin Qian, immortal light interwove, transforming into a stretch of deep starry sky; within the starry sky, nine dragons and serpents could be seen, each holding its tail in its mouth, like concentric circles, one layer encasing another.

It was unmistakably the true forms of nine coiling dragons!

"Boom!"

The next instant, a beam of divine light shot forth, tearing apart the starry sky, slashing straight toward the One-Heart Monastery.

The divine light was like sword light; the instant it shot forth, the meteor bearing the One-Heart Monastery had already trembled violently, as if about to disintegrate and shatter.

"Whoosh!"

Almost simultaneously, the Daoist seated before the monastery opened his eyes.

With one strike fired off, Qin Qian had already retreated explosively for ten thousand li; the nine great coiling dragons stood arrayed across the void, and using the nine true forms as anchors, he could shift and change his position.

Over twenty years, he had crossed hands with Li Yuan too many times, and knew well he could not let him get close.

But what startled him was that the Daoist did not rise; only behind him did various colors surge up—first five colors, then seven colors; the seven colors rose like seven peerless divine swords, their qi extremely fierce.

"This is?"

The thought had just arisen in Qin Qian's mind when he saw a streak of Bai Guang roaring forth; in only an instant, it had already annihilated the sword light he had unleashed.

"It wasn't annihilation!"

Qin Qian's pupils contracted slightly.

The sword-lights collided — regardless of victory or defeat, they would inevitably cancel and weaken each other — yet that Bai Guang had slashed through his sword-light, its aura undiminished in the slightest, even faintly strengthened.

As if it had 'devoured' his sword-light!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~"

As his thoughts turned, Qin Qian urged on his divine realm; nearly a thousand spells, almost without precedence, wove through one another, bombarding that Daoist from every direction.

Yet he saw that Daoist sit still and unmoving, the seven colors swaying behind him, rising and falling in turn, brushing away every spell he had sent in probing — all of them!

"Five Extremes Divine Light!"

Outside the Sword Realm, a great cultivator cried out in shock.

"No, this is a spell — it merely already bears some of the characteristics of divine light…"

"It looks like the Five Elements, Yin and Yang?"

The gathered great cultivators had sharp eyes; as their divine senses rose and fell, they had already deduced the essence of Li Yuan's seven divine lights.

But even so, they still felt considerable amazement.

These seven divine lights were all unmistakably top-grade spells, and resonating with one another, they were no less than a single Gu Gu Shentong.

"Boom!"

In the starry sky, Qin Qian once more urged on his myriad arts — only to see divine light pour down like a waterfall, the void trembling, those ten thousand spells' ripples rising and falling, yet seeming able to slip directly into the void.

As if teleporting, they arrived directly before the One Mind Monastery.

He had unmistakably already activated the Time-Space Sacred Body!

The Time-Space Sacred Body possessed an instinct-transcending talent in the way of void-dodging and shifting; its spells and Gu Gu Shentong could even ignore the distance of the void and act directly upon the cultivator's body!

If the Sacred Body reached great completion, it could even ignore a cultivator's spirit treasures, body-protecting spells, and Gu Gu Shentong, reaching straight to the cultivator's Xiu Shi De Fa, Dharma Heaven, and Dao Arena!

"Hum~"

He saw Qin Qian's killing move — the Daoist before the One Mind Monastery sat immovable as a mountain, yet behind him all colors bloomed at once, the seven divine lights interweaving crisscross, covering all eight directions.

Those streams of divine light were sharply distinct yet mutually dependent, brilliant in hue yet deep with dharma-principle.

He only heard a 'sizzle sizzle' — the ten thousand spells Qin Qian had urged forth were utterly obliterated within the void, while those seven divine lights were undamaged in the slightest, growing ever stronger instead.

"Composite spell!"

Qin Qian's gaze sharpened — he had already seen through the essence of these seven divine lights.

Each of these seven divine lights was a top-grade spell that combined killing, Dun Fa, body-fixing, sealing, and capturing, and moreover they could combine with one another.

Especially those five-colored divine lights, resonating with each other, were unmistakably a spell-prohibition of the highest order — a Gu Gu Shentong art!

But what made Qin Qian's heart tremble was not the divine lights themselves, but rather that in the martial arts stage, he had never once seen Li Yuan urge forth this spell.

Was it cultivated later?

Or had he been hiding his strength?

As his thoughts flashed like lightning, Qin Qian decisively swallowed a 'Spirit-Burning Pill'.

This was a forbidden pill even more ferocious than the Spirit-Splitting Pill; upon swallowing it, a cultivator's three primordial essences would all burn, and his spirit and will would be elevated by more than a single tier.

The circulation, urging, and arrangement of spells would all surge by more than a measure.

And the burning of the three primordial essences would also allow him, within a short time, to forcefully urge on the Sacred Body and unleash power far exceeding his own grade.

"Boom!"

The Spirit-Burning Pill entered his belly, and Qin Qian's aura surged violently.

Only then was it seen that in the starry sky divine light churned, those nine great coiling-dragon true forms all trembled together, circulating like nine dharma-rings spinning at extreme speed, urging forth a flood of spells that blotted out the sky!

In just this single instant, Qin Qian had consumed over a thousand units of Great Void magic power!

At the same time, his figure vanished into the void — even the many great cultivators watching outside the Sword Realm could not glimpse his form or aura.

"Worthy of the Time-Space Sacred Body."

In the bamboo tower, Li Yuan, who had been watching with rapt attention, also could not see Qin Qian, and could not help but inwardly praise him.

The Time-Space Sacred Body ranked among the nine great Sacred Bodies, and was a top-grade Sacred Body that combined law-refining with combat.

He had gathered quite a bit of related intelligence.

It was said that even if the Time-Space Sacred Body had only reached minor completion, it could roam and shift, dodge through the void and break through realms; if it could reach great completion, it could even wander within the river of time.

Legend had it that in the eighteenth epoch, at the origin, a Mu Mu Xiantian Time-Space Sacred Body who was near great completion had even attempted to trace back through time and slay the Divine King before he had attained his Dao!

Naturally, Qin Qian, who was only at the Third Realm, possessed no ability to reverse the river of time, but slipping into the void — let alone observers outside, even those on the battlefield itself, ordinary great cultivators could not find his trace.

"Cannot be underestimated."

Watching the divine lights that kept exploding within the Sword Realm, Li Yuan sighed inwardly, yet was not worried.

Even if the Time-Space Sacred Body possessed heaven-shaking abilities, it was absolutely impossible for it to kill him five times in a single instant — and a single instant was enough for him to turn and slay Qin Qian.

"He had already refined top-grade magic power twenty years ago?"

Wandering through the void like a ghost, watching the seven colors circulate and obliterate all spells, Qin Qian's heart was filled with shock and uncertainty.

The reason he had been able to fight Li Yuan to a draw many times in the martial arts stage was, apart from the Time-Space Sacred Body's shifting being traceless, also because he had refined top-grade magic power — the latter simply could not outlast him.

This was his foundation.

Yet now that Dao-shadow of Li Yuan showed no sign of magic power being exhausted — instead, it was he who could not maintain it…

"He has achieved success in cultivating the Green Emperor Longevity Scripture; with the Mysterious Vine Tree upon him, even a cultivator at the peak of the Fifth Realm cannot slay him in a single strike — at the very least, one must kill him twice in an instant…"

Qin Qian's thoughts flashed like lightning.

Having fought Li Yuan many times, he could not claim to know him down to every last detail, but he had seen all of his various methods.

In his view, what Li Yuan had cultivated most deeply was the Green Emperor Longevity Scripture; relying on the Mysterious Vine Tree, it was almost equivalent to two lives — this was also the reason he had fought to many draws and could not win.

A Ti Si Fa could break it, but a life-originating spirit-plant Ti Si Fa — apart from slaying the person themselves, there was no other method.

Because the life-originating spirit-plant grew within the divine realm, and the divine realm was where a cultivator's three primordial essences converged — in other words, the spirit-plant was his divine soul.

"Boom!"

With but a single thought from Qin Qian, the seven-colored divine light that roamed freely across the starry sky had already sliced through myriad spell-waves, and three true forms of coiling dragons had been cut down.

"There's no chance…"

Qin Qian drifted through the void; at his closest, he was only about a li from Li Yuan's Dao-shadow, yet he could not break through it.

That divine light, flowing in the hues of the five elements, circulated in perfect harmony without flaw; the remaining two, though unable to merge into it, could still fight and kill from the outside.

"I have to meet force with force!"

Feeling the magic power within his body, Qin Qian hardened his heart, cast translocation once more, and at the moment the five colors flowed, forced his way into the space about a li outside the One-Heart Pavilion.

Yu Yu Xuanji then transformed into a coiling dragon, tail in mouth, and at extreme speed spun, blasting forth an extremely dazzling divine light.

This was a top-tier spell he had assembled by combining various spells — the Light of Void-Breaking.

What it emulated was the natal Gu Gu Shentong, 'Divine Light of Void-Breaking,' which could be condensed after cultivating the Great Void Coiling Dragon Dao and forging a first-grade Longhu Longhu Dadan.

As the name implies, it could shatter the void and directly slash at a cultivator's soul origin!