Chapter 863: Unknown Heights

The summit of Mount Tiansha.

Twenty-one-year-old Li Fei, the youngest Grandmaster in the world today.

Two-hundred-and-ten-year-old Ying Jie, the oldest Grandmaster in the world today.

Two people with a tenfold age difference are about to clash.

Two-hundred-and-ten-year-old Ying Jie is the one issuing the challenge!

"Hahahahahaha—"

Ying Jie suddenly laughs heroically, his internal energy erupting.

In an instant, layers upon layers of force flow across the summit, surging and roaring like a ten-thousand-mile angry sea.

This is Ying Jie's Martial Dao Domain.

"It is indeed this old man who was blind and underestimated the greatest in history!"

Ying Jie cups his fists to Li Fei:

"Ying Jie of Mount Tiansha, please enlighten me!"

As the words fall, he suddenly launches himself from the ground, leaping high into the sky.

In this upcoming battle, if the two were to fight on Mount Tiansha, the entire main peak would likely be leveled!

Thus, Ying Jie chooses to engage Li Fei in an aerial battle.

As he ascends into the high sky, the ten-thousand-mile angry sea domain rapidly condenses around him.

At the same time, a phantom of a giant fish several thousand meters long appears in the firmament!

The giant fish is majestic, swallowing the sky and blocking the sun; every scale ripples with collapsing angry waves, and as its tail flaps, the space itself distorts!

"In the Northern Darkness there is a fish, its name is Kun. The Kun is so large, I do not know how many thousands of miles it spans."

This is the highest secret manual of Mount Tiansha—the "Kunpeng Canon."

Ying Jie has clearly compressed and condensed his Martial Dao Domain onto his body surface, pushing his power to the peak, yet there is still a manifestation of phenomena, and the range far exceeds the limits of a Martial Dao Domain!

"Condensing the Dao Domain within the body, manifesting phenomena without; every movement draws the power of heaven and earth like a surging torrent."

Li Fei looks up at the sky, this sentence surfacing in his mind.

This is what Master Cai Ming told him, describing the peak state of a Grandmaster in the Dao Establishment Realm!

At this very moment, Ying Jie is exactly like that.

Li Fei leaps up, streaking toward Ying Jie in the sky.

The closer he gets, the more he can feel the essence of heaven and earth pulling wildly like ocean tides, with turbulent undercurrents.

Ying Jie, looking down from above, presses his fists downward, launching the first attack.

He knows Li Fei possesses the 【Dragon-Elephant】 divine ability, and that the power of the dragon and elephant is constantly stacking; as the challenger, he naturally will not give Li Fei the chance to push his power to 'Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants.'

The giant fish opens its blood-red maw, carrying the force of a raging ocean, and bites toward Li Fei.

Li Fei backhands the Ghost-Slaying Blade, his thumb gently pushing the hilt.

Clang—

The long blade leaves its sheath once more; between heaven and earth, the white rainbow appears again!

This strike is even stronger than the one that just sent Huyan Hetai flying.

Ying Jie is fully focused, tens of thousands of strands of force flowing rapidly to form a chaotic vortex within the giant fish's mouth.

A terrifying suction capable of swallowing the sky and earth emanates from it, continuously devouring the essence of heaven and earth as well as the power on Li Fei's blade aura, causing the nearby space to rupture.

Divine Ability—【Qi Control】!

Divine Ability—【Sea Swallowing】!

Divine Ability—【Space Rending】!

The power of these three divine abilities blends perfectly within the Martial Dao Domain, transforming into this chaotic vortex that devours all things.

Having witnessed Li Fei's previous strike, Ying Jie already had a strategy in mind.

Huyan Hetai excelled at frontal brute force, so naturally, he was left helpless against a high-burst fighter like Li Fei who possessed even greater strength.

But Ying Jie is different; his methods are more varied, excelling in control and defensive counterattacks.

Therefore, he does not believe he has no chance of winning.

Devouring, neutralizing, rebounding—various methods stacked together.

Li Fei feels as if he is caught in the eye of a storm at the deepest part of the ocean; his blade aura is constantly worn down, and countless undercurrents tear and pull at him from all sides!

He decisively activates 【Sword Sacrifice】 again, consuming another 500 blood souls to strengthen the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

The golden armor on his body blooms with light, and even more majestic power surges from the battle armor!

Under the dual reinforcement of the Martial Dao Domain and the 【Jing'an】 divine ability, the effect of 【Sword Sacrifice】 has at least doubled, making Li Fei much more affluent when using this 'self-harming' divine ability.

The white rainbow slashes through the chaotic vortex, and a golden light flashes by.

Breaking through the spatial constraints, Li Fei activates 【No Distance】 to appear behind Ying Jie, slashing horizontally.

The blade cuts through Ying Jie's waist, and his entire body shatters into countless azure crystals.

Immediately after, a new Ying Jie appears several hundred meters away.

Divine Ability—【Shadow Replacement】!

This divine ability, combined with the others and the variations derived from them, allows Ying Jie to use substitutes almost infinitely within his own Martial Dao Domain and complete teleportation!

This means that until his power is exhausted or his Martial Dao Domain is completely shattered, he is almost invincible.

This is also one of the reasons Ying Jie is confident he can beat Li Fei.

The giant Kun turns, opening its mouth to swallow Li Fei again.

The chaotic vortex reappears.

Li Fei simply strikes with his blade to shatter the vortex again.

After a few such exchanges, Ying Jie takes the initiative to change tactics.

Although Li Fei cannot do anything to him for the moment, the Dragon-Elephant power is constantly growing, seemingly without end!

This makes Ying Jie afraid to wait any longer.

The phantom of the giant Kun leaps up, transforming into a Golden-Winged Peng!

This is the second stage of the "Kunpeng Canon"—

Transforming into a Peng, soaring ninety thousand miles straight up!

Wherever each tail feather of the Golden-Winged Peng sweeps, the clouds are shredded into cotton-like fissures, and the gale stirred up by its wings, wrapped in shattered thunder, forms an inverted ocean of lightning in the firmament!

Ying Jie's hair and beard bristle with rage as he hammers his fists.

Boom, boom, boom, boom—

Bolts of thunder strike down like a torrential rain!

Li Fei does not use 【No Distance】 to dodge, allowing these lightning bolts to strike his golden armor.

A phantom of ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers flashes, and the cries of billions of people converge.

It is as if protected by the national destiny, with the power of the entire nation shielding his body!

The 【Jing'an】 divine ability can reinforce attacks, and it can equally reinforce defense.

In fact, compared to offense, the defense reinforced by the 【Jing'an】 divine ability is even stronger!

"Is this the divine ability the late Emperor helped him condense using the national destiny?"

Ying Jie's eyes shift, and he decisively charges straight at Li Fei, carrying the phantom of the Golden-Winged Peng!

Thousands of thunderbolts converge on the wings of the Golden-Winged Peng, making Ying Jie's speed almost like teleportation.

Li Fei does not dodge or evade, holding his blade as he charges to collide!

In the air, thousands of thunderbolts roar.

Li Fei flashes continuously within the phantom of the Golden-Winged Peng, tearing and slashing its body apart.

Ying Jie's fist momentum is like ocean waves, layered and stacked; it is also like thunderous explosions, bursting with masculine strength.

He swallows Li Fei's power time and again, neutralizing it, then stacking it onto his own fist force to counterattack.

The stronger Li Fei's power, the more explosive his counterattack!

Ying Jie has also practiced both styles of fist techniques to the Creation Realm, and they are perfectly combined—one yin and one yang, one hard and one soft!

In terms of the application of force and martial arts attainment, he is above Li Fei.

But the situation of the battle is that he is shattered into a sky full of crystals time and again, only to reassemble.

The battle armor on Li Fei's body also shows multiple damages, but it is repairing at an extremely fast speed!

The 【Material Refining】 divine ability can repair the damage to the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

Besides that, the power reinforced by the 【Jing'an】 divine ability, in addition to being used for offense and defense, can also be used to repair the sword realm!

Unless Ying Jie can instantly destroy a large area of Li Fei's armor, it is almost impossible to hurt Li Fei.

Since physical attacks are ineffective, Ying Jie also attempts to combine his Creation Realm fist force and divine abilities to launch a mental attack.

The Kunpeng state shakes heaven and earth, suddenly intruding into Li Fei's consciousness to wreak havoc!

But with a bright moon hanging high, under the shroud of moonlight, Li Fei has more than enough to protect himself.

Li Fei's seven divine abilities seem to have no coordination, unlike others whose multiple divine abilities stack layer upon layer to combine and grow stronger.

But after he broke through his realm, the seven divine abilities blended together, forming a style unique to him:

【Sword Sacrifice】 and 【Dragon-Elephant】 are used to strengthen offense and defense.

【Eternal Stability】 strengthens mental defense.

【Material Refining】 is mainly used to repair the sword realm.

【Mixed Heaven Golden Palace】 is mainly used to strengthen endurance and recovery.

【No Distance】 enhances movement.

【Pacify Peace】 provides comprehensive strengthening!

This is the path of Li Fei, possessing almost no weaknesses, a comprehensive power.

In a word—it is filled with the beauty of numerical values!

Fighting until now, Ying Jie has not even managed to injure Li Fei once; the blood soul Li Fei consumed was all consumed voluntarily.

And what makes Ying Jie feel even more chilled is—Li Fei's power is still increasing!

Ying Jie also possesses a divine ability that can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to enhance his endurance in a protracted battle, so he would not show signs of fatigue if the fight continued.

But he is very clear that he has already pushed his power to near its limit.

Yet as for Li Fei's limit, he still cannot see where it lies.

Ying Jie's state of mind has not wavered.

Before the battle began, he was very clear that this life-and-death battle of his required breaking through his own limits!

Without breaking the limit, how can one break through the realm?

*Whoosh*—

After his body was shattered by Li Fei's blade once again, Ying Jie's body re-condensed a thousand meters away.

Without waiting for Li Fei to pursue with 【No Distance】, he ignited all the essence blood within his body!

*Hum*—

The phantom of the Golden-Winged Great Peng almost turned into substance, and a screech that shook the heavens and earth rang out.

Thunder flashed, wings spread wide, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng soared upward!

His spirit, blood, force, divine abilities, and even his Martial Dao Domain were all burning in the most extreme way!

The accumulation Ying Jie had polished for over thirty years was all turned into firewood at this moment.

He does not intend to continue dragging this out with Li Fei.

Taking advantage of his state of mind still being at its peak and the immense pressure brought by Li Fei, he launched his final "leap" without hesitation!

The limit of power was broken right then and there.

Ying Jie primarily cultivates the "Kunpeng Canon," and at this moment, spreading his wings to fly high in the form of a Peng, he carries the mindset of "wishing to compete with the heavens in height," aiming to break the limit of the firmament to complete his final ascension and break through the realm to become a Saint!

Li Fei, standing before him, is that "Wall of Heaven," that "Cover of the Firmament"!

The Martial Dao of a common man that Ying Jie has honed through life and death actually has two methods:

The first is that during a life-and-death battle, he experiences hardships and defeats a strong enemy, thereby breaking through the limit with the most perfect, peak state of mind to take that final step.

The second is that during a life-and-death battle, he finds it difficult to defeat a strong enemy, so he is forced to break through the limit first between life and death, thereby completing the breakthrough.

The risk of the latter is certainly greater, but if it succeeds, the probability of a successful breakthrough is also greater!

Li Fei's strength far exceeds Ying Jie's imagination; he can only use the second method to break through the realm.

And at the moment Ying Jie erupted without reservation, with their energy and fortune resonating, Li Fei could not hold back at all.

The greatest help he can give Ying Jie is to go all out!

Once he holds back, all previous efforts will be wasted.

To prove the Dao through force and break through to become a Saint, one can only rely on oneself to push through.

As long as Ying Jie can hold on, what Li Fei brings him will be an even greater chance of breaking through!

The two have been fighting for less than three minutes, and the Dragon-Elephant strength has already reached the level of "Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants."

Li Fei holds his blade with both hands and slashes down toward the Golden-Winged Great Peng flying with wings spread before him.

His limit power is 4400 units of Blood Rage force; after a tenfold increase, his explosive power approaches 180, 00 tons!

This explosive power of the physical body alone has already exceeded the limit of the Establishing Dao Realm!

And Li Fei still has the 【Primordial Sword Realm】 and various divine abilities as support.

As he slashes down with this blade, thousands of thunderbolts above the firmament are annihilated!

The Sun and Moon Wheels, the array of a thousand mountains, and the pouring of the Heavenly River.

Ten thousand zhang of golden light, ink-splashing arrays, and collapsing clouds of snow waves.

The layers of imagery that appeared when the 【Primordial Sword Realm】 was fully deployed previously now reappear above the firmament.

This time, these thousands of images are no longer "fighting on their own," but are harmoniously combined to form the true—

Great Thousand World, Ten Thousand Phenomena Changing!

Based on the Hook-Sinking Sword Sect's Creation Sword Art "Great Thousand," Li Fei used the 【Ten Thousand Phenomena】 ability derived from his divine ability and combined the profound foundations of the 【Primordial Sword Realm】 with the unique skills of over a dozen Grandmasters to create a new Dao Force.

Originally, this style of Dao Force was only a semi-finished product, but after being polished through the battle with Ying Jie, and now under the traction of their resonating fortune, Li Fei successfully completed this style of Dao Force by borrowing the momentum of the opponent's breakthrough.

This is the first style of Dao Force he has achieved at the Creation Realm level!

It is also the first style of Dao Force truly created by himself!

This style is both a sword move and a blade move. It contains fist intent and spear intent, encompassing all phenomena.

At this very moment, facing the move of creation pressing down from above, Ying Jie's most intuitive feeling is—

The sky is collapsing!

A terrifying power far exceeding his imagination crushes down, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng, which was soaring with wings spread, has its form distorted, no longer possessing its soaring posture.

Pitch-black cracks spread in the air, covering the surface of the Golden-Winged Great Peng.

"Break for me—"

Ying Jie's eyes are splitting, his whole body bathed in blood, as he crazily drives his power!

The Great Peng spreads its wings, soaring up ninety thousand miles.

But what if ninety thousand miles is still not the limit of the firmament?

Ying Jie, harboring a determination to die, wishes to compete with the heavens in height.

Yet he does not know the height of the sky!

The figure of the Golden-Winged Great Peng soon becomes ethereal again, and his power is forced to fall from its peak.

"What a pity."

At the peak of Mount Tiansha, a group of Grandmasters has been staring fixedly at the battlefield in the air, unwilling to miss a single detail.

Seeing this, they all understand that Ying Jie still failed to hold on under Li Fei's immense power, and his breakthrough failed.

To prove the Dao through force, the probability of success is already very low.

Ying Jie has used his own failure to prove this point once again.

Seeing this scene, the Grandmasters cannot help but feel a sense of "the fox dying and the rabbit grieving."

Although Ying Jie cannot yet be considered the strongest Grandmaster in the world, he is already the strongest Grandmaster among the "Three Mountains, Four Sects, and Seven Great Families."

If even he failed his breakthrough, how many of the Grandmasters present could have a chance to become a Saint?

In the air, Ying Jie's momentum begins to recede, and blood flows continuously from his seven orifices.

If the opponent had been Huyan Hetai, would I have succeeded today?

Such a thought existed for only an instant before being dismissed by Ying Jie.

If the opponent had been Huyan Hetai, he might have been able to win this life-and-death battle, but it certainly would not have had the same oppressive feeling as the battle with Li Fei, nor could it have pushed his limits so intensely.

In that case, the success rate of the breakthrough would be even lower, and he likely would not have succeeded either.

In the end, he is simply not strong enough.

Ying Jie sighs heavily and looks at Li Fei:

"It is a pity that I could not let the Marquis of Jing'an enjoy himself."

Under the resonance of fortune, he knows that Li Fei has not yet reached his limit!

"What was the name of that move just now?"

Ying Jie asks.

Li Fei recalls the realization he just had and the process of Ying Jie's failed breakthrough; feeling something in his heart, he almost blurts out:

"【Not Knowing the Height of the Sky】."

Ying Jie is stunned, then laughs loudly:

"Hahahaha! A good 'Not Knowing the Height of the Sky'! Today, this old man—"

Before he can finish his sentence, a cluster of black flames suddenly blooms in his dantian.

"Hmm?"

Ying Jie is shocked; the momentum and power that had clearly fallen are actually beginning to climb again!

"Huyan Hetai?"

Under the traction of their energy, Ying Jie looks toward the distance:

"No! You are not..."

"What a piece of trash!"

A deep, resonant voice comes from afar:

"Ying Jie, this seat has come to help you break through the realm—"

(End of chapter)