Chapter 1192: The Dao Fruit of Si Ming

Hah, calling people useless! Though I don't know why the Central Heaven Emperor vanished with a single step, Jiu Chong Immortal doesn't care about that, taking advantage of Si Ming's daze to strike first and talk later.

Originally Si Ming was still wondering why the Emperor didn't come over, when he was met face-on with a scorching punch, immediately followed by an icy punch, the scorching and icy alternating, striking Si Ming so he kept retreating, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

Although Si Ming was dripping blood, in fact he hadn't suffered multiple wounds, his bone armor withstood the vast majority of the attacks.

Si Ming was a civil official in the Great Qian Dynasty, but he didn't become Si Ming by relying on eloquence; he simply didn't want to bother with state affairs, otherwise the Central Heaven Emperor couldn't have so easily become emperor.

Si Ming's fist intent is peerless, his immortal blood boiling, he shook both arms and struck sideways at Jiu Chong Immortal.

On Jiu Chong Immortal's body, the utmost yin and yang forces alternated; upon touching a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator, one would either be scorched to charcoal or frozen into ice crystals, but Si Ming wore bone gauntlets, unafraid to clash with Jiu Chong Immortal.

Even the bone gauntlets grew bone spurs; Si Ming was like wearing brass knuckles, striking Jiu Chong Immortal with every blow causing injury.

Both had absolute confidence in their strength, both exuded an aura of sole supremacy, simultaneously roaring, wanting to suppress the other, terrifying aura spreading across heaven and earth, the insides of their bodies crackling, the sound of bones shattering, immediately followed by bones knitting together, continuing the fight, unaware of pain and fatigue.

Those unaware thought the two were cultivating immortal Dao fruits.

Jiu Chong Immortal found a loophole in Si Ming's technique, and that spot was also a weak point in the armor, he gripped the yin-yang fruit and struck decisively.

However, what he hadn't expected was that at the moment he threw his punch aiming at that spot, the armor shifted bone from elsewhere to block it, rendering this punch utterly ineffective.

"Somewhat interesting."

Boom—

The two combatants separated, panting, both staring fixedly at each other, enduring pain while observing the other's pained expression.

Nothing gained.

Jiu Chong Immortal snapped his fingers, clusters of immortal fire appeared, any one cluster being a great fortune for fire spiritual root cultivators, but here it was merely a thought.

Immediately followed by clusters of dark ice, quality comparable to tens of millions of years of dark ice.

The cultivators of Great Qian and Great Yu who have slept until now, no matter what secret method they used to sleep, their lifespans have diminished, some by hundreds of years, others by over a thousand years, but if they were frozen in these dark ices, they could achieve near-eternal slumber, their lifespans unchanged even after awakening a million years later.

A cluster of dark ice flew toward him, Si Ming raised his hand and struck it away, but following behind were endless immortal fires and dark ices, even if Si Ming had three heads and six arms he couldn't block them all.

A cluster of immortal fire broke through Si Ming's defense, but immediately afterward this cluster of immortal fire actually reversed direction and collided with the dark ice, mutually annihilating.

Jiu Chong Immortal's expression tightened, that cluster of immortal fire had actually broken free from his control.

Immortal arts cannot contend with Dao fruits; is this Si Ming's Dao fruit ability?

"Immortal maiden, is Si Ming's Dao fruit the type that controls objects?" Lu Yang asked, he now had some understanding of Dao fruits and could analyze some things.

In the entire Mu Xue City, only Lu Yang could perceive some clues; others could barely keep up with the battle rhythm, let alone divert their thoughts to analyze the situation.

"Nope." The Immortal Maiden chuckled, pointing out what Lu Yang had missed.

"Look, when the two fought in close combat, Jiu Chong Immortal found an opening and punched Si Ming, then was blocked by the bone armor, right?"

"If it were a control-type Dao fruit, Si Ming wouldn't have reacted in time, and the armor logically shouldn't have reacted either, but reality is not so."

"If this immortal's guess is correct, Si Ming masters the type of Dao fruit that awakens and imbues spirits, able to grant life to objects, making them obey him, while the objects also possess thinking ability, automatically fighting."

"Ah, so that's it."

"Control-type Dao fruit?" Jiu Chong Immortal's analysis result matched Lu Yang's.

Upon hearing Jiu Chong Immortal's analysis, Si Ming smiled faintly, began openly using his Dao fruit ability; in an instant, all the immortal fire and dark ice flying toward him were awakened by him and turned to attack Jiu Chong Immortal.

"Using my own techniques to attack me?"

Jiu Chong Immortal had a thought flash, conjuring the same amount of immortal fire and dark ice, colliding with those controlled by Si Ming, causing the earth to shake and mountains to tremble within a radius of ten thousand li.

"Withstood it? Not bad." Si Ming said with ease, he now held the upper hand.

Jiu Chong Immortal could control immortal fire, even conjure a sun, no doubt, but immortal fire or sun alike are tangible objects; as long as they are tangible, they fall within his control range, so how could Jiu Chong Immortal launch an attack?

Suddenly Jiu Chong Immortal was struck by an attack from nowhere, its force immense, directly blasting him away, he collided with over ten mountain peaks before stopping.

Where did this attack come from?!

Jiu Chong Immortal quickly realized, spiritual energy was also within Si Ming's control range; this was an attack from spiritual energy!

Thinking this, Jiu Chong Immortal took a deep breath, directly drawing the spiritual energy within a thousand-li radius into his belly to refine it.

Jiu Chong Immortal guessed Si Ming could control non-living things; if he could control living things, he would have long controlled his own body, so he wouldn't also be controlling immortal fire and spiritual energy.

Therefore he absorbed and refined all spiritual energy, making it part of his body, so Si Ming could no longer control spiritual energy!

Si Ming raised an eyebrow, hadn't expected that although Jiu Chong Immortal hadn't analyzed the correct Dao fruit, he had made the correct choice.

"Then what about you like this!"

Si Ming's divine thought stirred, awakening the continuous mountains surrounding Mu Xue City, the mountains like a giant sleeping on the ground, now awakened at this moment.

The snow mountain giant rose, standing ten thousand zhang tall.

Immediately the earth rose up, forming layer upon layer of prisons that trapped Jiu Chong Immortal.

The earth was also awakened by Si Ming, for his use!

Heaven and earth, all things, are within Si Ming's control range!

The battlefield shifted outside the city; those cultivators in the city who were bold and skilled all left Mu Xue City, following to watch the battle.

They saw snow mountain after snow mountain summoned by Si Ming, standing like humans upon the earth, eyes wide open.

Yun Zhi lowered her head to look at the constantly trembling, awakening snow mountains beneath her feet, helplessly shook her head, put away the emperor's chair, leapt down from the mountain peak, and changed to a place unaffected to watch the battle.

"Earth snow mountain? Just mundane objects, dare to trap an immortal!" Jiu Chong Immortal shouted fiercely, his body trembled, like a dragon entangled in chains breaking free, shattering the earth's bonds, he punched and toppled a snow mountain giant.

The snow mountain giant lost its head and fell to the ground, the earth trembled.

"Mundane objects? Then look at these!"

The snow mountain giant's head was shattered by Jiu Chong Immortal, a humanoid object with metallic luster flew out from within, directly smashing Jiu Chong Immortal into the ground!

Boom—

Heaven collapsed and earth split, underground a great explosion occurred, the humanoid object was blasted away by Jiu Chong Immortal's punch, Jiu Chong Immortal also broke through the earth.

However the humanoid object took Jiu Chong Immortal's heavy punch, yet did not disintegrate, only leaving a fist imprint on its body.

"Immortal gold?" Jiu Chong Immortal frowned.

This is not a treasure refined from immortal gold; Si Ming doesn't have the skill of Ying Tian Xian? This is merely a raw piece of immortal gold, but this piece of immortal gold, after being awakened by Si Ming, can be called immortal gold life, terrifyingly hard.

"It's just that you can always come up with something unexpected." Immortal Jiu Chong sneered.

"But you wouldn't think my Yin-Yang Dao Fruit can only control immortal fire and profound ice, would you?"