Chapter 864: Devouring Heaven and Earth

Black flames ignited all over Ying Jie's body, and his falling momentum surged back crazily!

A figure flew in from afar, carrying a monstrous aura.

"Huyan Hetai?"

Li Fei recognized the person arriving as none other than Huyan Hetai, whom he had previously sent flying with a single slash.

At this moment, not only had Huyan Hetai's injuries fully healed, but his aura was far beyond what it had been before!

A powerful sense of oppression descended, covering the sky and earth, causing Li Fei to pause in surprise.

He sensed a strong danger from the other party, a feeling that even Ying Jie had never brought him!

"How is this possible?"

Ying Jie was more astonished than anyone else.

The black flames rising from his body were clearly the power of Huyan Hetai's Martial Dao Domain, yet before this black flame erupted, he had absolutely no awareness that such a power was hidden within his own body.

As a peak Dao-Establishing realm expert, a Grandmaster about to break through to the Martial Saint realm, how could he have had power hidden inside him by someone else without knowing it?

This made Ying Jie feel terrified!

Ying Jie tried to shake off the black flames on his body, but his battle with Li Fei had already consumed much of his strength, and the backlash from his failed breakthrough had left him severely wounded and near death.

In this state, he had no way to break free from the control of the black flames.

These black flames devoured the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy at a terrifying speed, while simultaneously reigniting Ying Jie's "essence, Qi, and spirit."

Rumble—

A sound like mountains rushing past echoed through the world, and a vortex with a diameter of over a hundred meters formed around Ying Jie, with wild winds raging!

Li Fei felt a chill in his heart.

The speed at which the other party was absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy was several times faster than when he pushed the 【Heaven-Mixing Golden Palace】 to its limit!

If Ying Jie fought Li Fei again in this state, the 【Heaven-Mixing Golden Palace】 would never be able to "compete" for energy, and he would surely be the first to exhaust his strength.

At this time, Huyan Hetai had already flown to the vicinity of the two.

His expression and temperament were like a different person compared to before.

The previous Huyan Hetai was solemn as a mountain, masculine and violent, but now he wore a smile on his face, yet his eyes were very cold.

Half was an iceberg, half was a flame.

"You are not Huyan Hetai! Who are you?"

Ying Jie looked at the approaching Huyan Hetai and asked sternly.

Huyan Hetai ignored him and looked at Li Fei with great interest:

"Number one in history? Interesting, you almost ruined my plans."

Li Fei turned to face this person, secretly on guard, ready to continue pouring more blood souls into 【Sword Sacrifice】.

The Grandmasters atop Mount Mount Tiansha also realized something was wrong, but none had any intention of rashly intervening.

Standing beside Zhu Fenghua, the Grandmaster-level guest of the Heavenly Tower, Zhao Xin, stared fixedly at the figure in the air, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and his face changed drastically:

"You are Li Ming?!"

A cold sensation welled up from the bottom of his heart, and memories spanning a hundred years surfaced in Zhao Xin's mind once more:

That was the second year of Jiawen; he had not yet entered the Imperial Guard and was serving as a helmsman in the Stop-War Department of Donghe Province.

That year, a major event occurred in Donghe Province—

The top martial arts sect, the Red Flame Sect, was wiped out!

If the strength of the Red Flame Sect were placed in today's world, it would definitely rank among the "Three Mountains," and its Sect Master, like Ying Jie, was a Grandmaster at the peak of the Dao-Establishing realm.

At first, unusual activity was detected within the city, and then Zhao Xin was ordered to lead men to the Red Flame Sect to investigate.

By the time he arrived with his men, the sect's headquarters had already turned into ruins!

A figure stood atop the ruins, surrounded by blood and corpses.

He turned his head to look at Zhao Xin and the others who had arrived.

Zhao Xin would never forget that person's gaze for the rest of his life!

Both crazy and indifferent, two extreme emotions existed simultaneously in the other party's eyes.

Then that person gave Zhao Xin a smile, and in front of everyone, his aura surged, breaking through to become a Saint!

After that day, there was one more demon in the world!

In the air, Huyan Hetai turned his head to look at Zhao Xin on the mountain terrace:

"Oh? You have seen me before?"

He admitted his identity.

"Li Ming?!"

At the summit of Mount Mount Tiansha, the crowd erupted.

All the Grandmasters changed color!

One of the Three Demons, the peerless demon who broke through to become a Martial Saint as a demonic martial artist—Li Ming!

A chill rose in Zhao Xin's heart; back then, after Li Ming broke through, he didn't go on a killing spree and simply left.

That was why he and his colleagues had managed to save their lives.

It was normal for the other party not to remember him; after all, a hundred years ago, he was merely a martial artist at the Dao-Foundation stage.

Zhao Xin recalled more details.

It was rumored that the Sect Master of the Red Flame Sect back then also had the opportunity to break through to become a Saint.

Today, the Master of Mount Mount Tiansha, Ying Jie, was also seeking to break through to become a Saint.

Was it because it had to do with breaking through that Li Ming was drawn here?

"Since you recognize me, while I am still in a good mood, all of you, get lost."

Huyan Hetai, or rather Li Ming, said with disdain.

On the mountain terrace, the Grandmasters looked at each other, already harboring thoughts of retreat.

Among the Three Demons, compared to the other two who killed like cutting hemp and were steeped in evil, Li Ming was considered the relatively "gentle" one.

The other party was not that bloodthirsty; his most shocking achievement was wiping out the entire Red Flame Sect a hundred years ago.

In the hundred years since, after breaking through, he had rarely made a move.

But no matter what, this was still a demon!

He wiped out a top sect a hundred years ago, and now it seemed he had set his sights on Mount Mount Tiansha.

How could anyone dare to interfere in such a matter?

Some had already left without a word, taking their own people down the mountain quickly.

The several Peak Masters of Mount Mount Tiansha and the disciples all showed expressions of despair.

With a demon targeting their sect, what could they use to resist?

In the air, Ying Jie was equally desperate.

The first warrior of the Sakaze Temple was actually disguised by the demon Li Ming!

When did it start?

In that battle fifteen years ago, was he really fighting Huyan Hetai?

A demon had plotted for so long; today, were he and Mount Mount Tiansha going to follow in the footsteps of the Red Flame Sect?

"Everyone!"

On the mountain terrace, the Peak Master of Cangyu Peak, Kuang Chen, suddenly shouted sternly:

"When the lips are gone, the teeth are cold! If my Mount Mount Tiansha falls to the demon today, are you not afraid that your own sects and families will suffer the same fate in the future?!"

These words caused many Grandmasters who had intended to withdraw to pause their actions.

Although Kuang Chen was so terrified that his body was trembling slightly, he still summoned his courage and shouted loudly:

"With so many Grandmasters of the Central Plains martial arts world gathered here today, if we work together, we can surely repel the demon! In the future..."

"Noisy!"

In the air, Li Ming waved his hand, and a black flame tore through the sky, crashing toward the summit of Mount Mount Tiansha.

As this black flame flew, it devoured the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy at an astonishing speed like a black hole, its momentum becoming increasingly terrifying!

When the black flame approached the main peak of Mount Mount Tiansha, it was already like a mountain crashing down!

The Grandmasters leaped into the high sky one after another, moving away from the main peak.

The people on the mountain terrace also scattered and fled.

Kuang Chen stood where he was, tears streaming down his eyes.

Just as he prepared to close his eyes and wait for death, a streak of white rainbow pierced through the black flame!

Boom—

The explosive roar was deafening, the black flames burst open, whipping up gusts of hurricane winds.

A golden figure stood before the main peak of Mount Mount Tiansha, holding a blade.

Looking at this back, hope ignited in the eyes of Kuang Chen and many Mount Mount Tiansha disciples.

The one who made the move was none other than Li Fei!

Since he had already made his move, there was no longer any point in considering whether to regret it.

Li Fei decisively consumed 2, 00 blood souls to invest in the 【Sword Sacrifice】 divine ability!

【Sword Sacrifice】 could significantly enhance sword Qi, sword intent, and sword momentum; for Li Fei, it enhanced the 【Primordial Sword Realm】, which was the battle armor he wore.

Not only were both offense and defense enhanced, but the other divine abilities within the 【Primordial Sword Realm】 could also receive a certain degree of enhancement.

The golden battle armor erupted with dazzling light once more; Li Fei looked like a small sun, his momentum vigorous and powerful!

Li Ming looked toward this young man who dared to intervene and intercept his attack:

"Do you truly think this seat dares not kill you?"

Li Fei looked calmly into Li Ming's eyes:

"I have crossed hands with more peak experts than you; what are you putting on an act for in front of me?"

Since Li Ming broke through his realm, there had been no news of him crossing hands with any peak experts for a hundred years.

Yet looking at Li Fei, young as he was, he had first fought Qiming, then fought the King of Li, and finally even helped fight the Buddha of the current age.

He truly had the qualifications to say these words!

A murderous intent emerged in Li Ming's eyes as he stepped forward.

Boom—

The heavens and earth roared!

Streams of heaven and earth spiritual energy transformed into a torrent, crazily converging toward this place and pressing down in the direction where Li Fei was located.

Li Fei had intended to use the 【No Distance】 divine ability to dodge, but was surprised to find that all the spatial layers around him had actually been filled by the highly condensed heaven and earth spiritual energy!

Previously, when Li Fei's 【No Distance】 divine ability was restricted, it was either suppressed by a martial arts domain when his cultivation base was low, or restrained by spatial-locking type divine abilities.

This was the first time he had encountered someone who could restrict his 【No Distance】 with such simple and crude means!

Li Fei held his blade with both hands and slashed forward.

The Sun and Moon Twin Wheels, the array of a thousand mountains, and the pouring of the Heavenly River—various images emerged and fused into one.

The creation-level ultimate technique he had just mastered—【Ignorance of the Heavens' Height】!

With the power exchanged from accumulating 3, 00 Blood Souls to perform 【Sword Sacrifice】, plus the blessing of the 'Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants', this was Li Fei's strongest strike to date.

The firmament seemed to be collapsing downward, then was suddenly shattered by an iron fist!

The limits and heights that were difficult for Ying Jie to reach were things Li Ming had already broken through a hundred years ago.

Peak experts were all existences who had broken the limits of the world; how could they not know the height of the heavens?

Li Fei's ultimate move was broken, and a fist burning with black flames appeared before his eyes, occupying his entire field of vision.

It was as if all the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the world had been concentrated and compressed onto this fist!

The extremely heavy power caused space to collapse inward, thereby generating a powerful suction force.

Bang!!!

Li Fei actively met this fist like a moth to a flame; one after another, the phantom images of mountains and rivers were shattered, and finally, he was struck in the chest by the fist.

Previously, Ying Jie had exhausted all his strength and means, yet could only leave cracks on Li Fei's armor; at this moment, Li Ming's punch completely pulverized the breastplate!

The golden figure tore through the air and was blasted backward.

"Hmm?"

Li Ming was somewhat surprised.

Although he hadn't intended to kill with this punch, it should have at least broken Li Fei's martial arts domain and caused him to temporarily lose his combat effectiveness.

He hadn't expected that it would only shatter a piece of the breastplate.

And Li Fei actually looked completely unscathed?

Li Fei, who had been blasted back over a thousand meters, activated 【No Distance】, and after a flicker, he steadied his figure.

He lowered his head to glance at the broken breastplate and fully channeled the two great divine abilities, 【Peace-Settling】 and 【Refining Objects】, to repair it.

In his heart, he also had a rough estimation of the strength of this demon, Li Ming.

Back at the Baifeng Plains, he, along with six Grandmasters and the top-tier True Person Mi Han, had joined forces to besiege the 'King of Li', Qin Mingli.

The result was that the opponent had shattered seven martial arts domains and the sword qi of top-tier True Persons with a single strike.

In the end, Li Fei had lost over 500 Blood Souls.

It was easy to imagine that if it had been him alone facing Qin Mingli, he would have lost half his life in a single strike!

At that time, facing a peak expert, Li Fei had been completely unable to fight.

But now, compared to back at the Baifeng Plains, his offense and defense had both increased several times over!

Just now, Li Ming had first broken his 【Ignorance of the Heavens' Height】, then broken the national power protection brought by the 【Peace-Settling】 divine ability and the armor condensed by the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】, finally causing him over 600 Blood Souls' worth of damage.

Although the gap was still very large, at least he could put up a fight!

"Actually... blocked it?"

The group of Grandmasters looked on with astonishment.

If any one of them had gone to block that punch from Li Ming just now, they would already be dead!

Yet Li Fei looked like nothing had happened?

Even the armor transformed from his martial arts domain was still there!

Even if Li Ming hadn't used his full strength, this was still incredibly inconceivable!

"Everyone—"

Li Fei shouted aloud, "If you let this person flatten Mount Tiansha today, are you truly not afraid that your own sects will be annihilated in the future?"

The effect of the same words spoken by Kuang Chen versus spoken by Li Fei was completely different.

Especially after Li Fei had blocked a strike from Li Ming head-on.

"Well said! How can we allow this demon to run rampant today?!"

A figure flew toward Li Fei's side.

It was none other than Zhao Xin!

This former deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, now the chief guest advisor of the Tianyi Tower, chose to step in and help!

After he stood out, another person flew to Li Fei's side.

This person wore a Daoist robe and carried a long blade on his back, looking like an immortal with the bones of a crane.

He was the Grandmaster of the Shangqing Sect, Xuan Feng!

Currently, the Shangqing Sect and the imperial court were in a 'honeymoon period'; naturally, Xuan Feng could not watch the imperial court's trusted minister, the world-renowned Marquis of Peace-Settling, die before his eyes.

Zhao Xin represented the Tianyi Tower.

Xuan Feng represented the Shangqing Sect.

Both of these men had peak experts backing them; as soon as they stood out, it immediately gave the others more courage!

Consequently, the remaining Grandmasters also flew behind them.

More than a dozen Grandmasters of the Central Plains looked together at the demon Li Ming!

If more than a dozen Grandmasters could work together and dare to risk their lives, they were indeed qualified to contend with a peak expert.

Li Ming looked at these people and gave a cold, sharp smile:

"Seeking death!"

As his voice fell, the deafening roar sounded once again.

The heavens and earth resonated; a spiritual energy storm!

The monstrous spiritual energy converged toward Mount Tiansha at a terrifying speed, forming ribbons of light that looked like solid matter.

However, in such a violent environment of heaven and earth spiritual energy, the martial arts masters and Grandmasters present, regardless of whether they had divine abilities to quickly absorb heaven and earth spiritual energy, found it difficult to absorb even a shred of spiritual energy from the outside.

Because all the heaven and earth spiritual energy was under Li Ming's control!

His Dao principle was named—【Heaven-Swallowing】.

Swallowing the heavens and earth, monopolizing all spiritual energy!

Li Ming 'walked' through the air toward the dozen-plus Grandmasters as if taking a leisurely stroll.

"Go help Ying Jie!"

Li Fei shouted loudly, once again actively meeting Li Ming.

He had already seen that Li Ming's move this time had its key scheme centered on Ying Jie.

Therefore, they didn't need to truly defeat this demon; they only needed to disrupt the opponent's scheme.

As long as the opponent's scheme fell through, there was a high probability he wouldn't kill the Grandmasters present just to vent his anger.

If he were truly that unscrupulous, the opponent wouldn't have told everyone to get lost at the beginning, but would have simply started killing to establish his authority.

Many thoughts flashed through Li Fei's mind, and then he focused his spirit and slashed out with another 【Ignorance of the Heavens' Height】.

This time, it was no longer the firmament collapsing to crush the world, but the heavens being high and the earth being vast; the distance between him and Li Ming seemed to be pulled infinitely far away, with ten thousand phenomena separating them.

【Ignorance of the Heavens' Height】 could be used to suppress people with force and subdue them with momentum; it could also be used for defense to consume the opponent's strength.

But the infinitely distant distance was quickly filled by the boundless heaven and earth spiritual energy!

The next second, an iron fist shattered the firmament and struck the Ghost-Slaying Blade first.

Snap!

This level-six exotic weapon that had followed Li Fei into battle for a long time was broken in two!

The tyrannical and vigorous fist force continued to strike Li Fei's head.

The dragon-shaped battle helmet on his head dented inward, shattered, and his head jerked violently backward.

"Do you truly think you can always fight across realms?"

Li Ming's voice exploded above Li Fei's spirit!

Not waiting for Li Fei to borrow force to retreat and repair his armor, a second punch arrived, slamming into the breastplate that Li Fei hadn't fully repaired yet.

The punch was heavy and silent.

Li Fei, who should have been blasted backward, was instead sucked tight and squeezed against the opponent's fist.

The entire world seemed to have been shattered by this punch, collapsing toward this fist, about to be completely swallowed!

"Are you even worthy of crossing hands with a peak expert?!"

Li Ming's voice continued to ring out.

Clearly, the words Li Fei had just spoken had provoked him.

Li Fei's heart was as still as stagnant water.

These two punches from Li Ming had knocked away over 1, 00 of his blood souls!

At this moment, the blood souls within the Myriad Blood Bead were completely exhausted, and there were still over 2, 00 blood souls left in the blood spring.

But the next instant, the blood souls within the Myriad Blood Bead were full again!

The Myriad Blood Bead leveled up!

Previously on the Bai Feng Plains, Li Fei had intended to use his fight with Qin Mingli to level up the Myriad Blood Bead, but he was later sent to a different battlefield by Wenren Zheng.

After this period of accumulation, the Myriad Blood Bead was not far from leveling up; now, having taken three punches from a peak expert in a row, he had finally gathered enough energy for the upgrade.

The Myriad Blood Bead rose from level 46 to level 47, increasing the blood soul capacity by 92, and the number of blood souls within the Myriad Blood Bead became 6, 70.

Based on the energy value gained from Li Ming's three punches just now, Li Fei estimated that before all his blood souls were exhausted, the Myriad Blood Bead should be able to level up once more!

This was the confidence he had to dare to strike at Li Ming!

After the Myriad Blood Bead leveled up, Li Fei immediately consumed 3, 00 blood souls to invest into the 【Sword Sacrifice】 divine ability.

Up to this point, he had already consumed a total of 6, 00 blood souls to unleash 【Sword Sacrifice】!

On his golden battle armor, streaks of phantoms appeared—

Sun and moon wheels, golden dragons circling, a long river of sword Qi, an altar, and the two characters "Jing'an" flickering!

Li Ming's eyes shifted; he was shocked by Li Fei for the second time!

Another punch slammed toward Li Fei's head, but this time, standing before the iron fist were images of mountains, rivers, and cities that seemed as solid as reality.

The cries of hundreds of millions of living beings resounded through heaven and earth!

【Sword Sacrifice】 enhanced the 【Primordial Sword Realm】, and the 【Primordial Sword Realm】 in turn enhanced the 【Jing'an】 divine ability.

Thus, the national power protection Li Fei received became even stronger!

He let Li Ming throw his punches, dragging his broken blade with one hand, and slashed toward Li Ming's neck.

This strike felt as if it had slashed into an ocean condensed from the primordial energy of heaven and earth; an unprecedented resistance came from the blade's edge!

Boom—

A streak of white rainbow flashed across Li Ming's front, carrying dazzling sparks.

【Heaven and Earth Single Blade】, breaking through heaven and earth!

The two figures separated.

Li Ming stood in the air with an expressionless face, reaching out to touch his own neck.

His hand was covered in blood!

(End of chapter)