Chapter 118: Peeking at the Innate Dao Body

The Mountain and River Map trembled, and a peerlessly beautiful woman's silhouette stepped out from within the painting, her aura cold and aloof, her jade body graceful and slender, like the most perfect creation of heaven.

Clearly right before one's eyes, yet seemingly forever out of reach.

"This is?"

Jiang Xuan's expression shifted slightly; the Zi Fu Saintess had always been in a state of Dao merging with truth, a state that was very strange but extremely beneficial to cultivation.

"Is it her nature, or is she affected by the Dao Body?"

Great Dao appearances accompanied the Zi Fu Saintess all around her, her purple robes full of rhyme flavor, standing quietly in the void like a fairy.

"Greetings, Dao Brother."

"I wish to discuss the Dao with Zixia Fairy for a while; I wonder if you would grant me instruction?"

Jiang Xuan laughed; this Zi Fu Saintess was merged with the Dao and true, and for any technique, she only needed to learn a little to quickly comprehend it.

Even with the appearance of the Zi Fu Saintess, Jiang Xuan felt his mind became much clearer, and some principles he had not understood before also became clear.

This was a top-tier constitution on the same tier as the Holy Body, second only to the Innate Holy Body Dao Body and the Chaos Body.

The Zi Fu Saintess shook her head slightly and said, "Dao Brother can fight the demon race's great power, the Golden-Winged Great Peng King; why must you humble yourself before me!"

"I have long heard that the Innate Dao Body is extremely profound; I wish to glimpse the power of the Innate Dao Body, please grant me instruction!"

The tone was flat, but it revealed an undeniable domineering air.

As Jiang Xuan finished speaking, the Zi Fu Saintess formed hand seals with both hands; the Mountain and River Map unfolded, covering the sky and blocking the sun, calm and gentle yet swift as lightning in its suppression.

Yao Xi exclaimed; the peerlessly beautiful Zi Fu Saintess was simply like a female immortal; even with divine radiance like a rainbow, shattering the void, she still appeared incomparably beautiful at this moment.

Just this one move, and Yao Xi admitted she was not half as good as the Zi Fu Saintess; among the saintesses of the great holy lands of Donghuang, though they had not fought directly, she had stood out from among the candidate holy maidens in the Yaoguang Holy Land, confident that her beauty, talent, and strength were not inferior to the saintesses of the other great holy lands, but now seeing the Zi Fu Saintess act, she realized how powerful she was.

But this Zi Fu Saintess, who rarely fought with others, upon acting, she knew she was still somewhat inferior to her, secretly thinking the Innate Dao Body lived up to its name.

Man and map as one, momentum like the sky collapsing; brilliant rainbow light became the only thing in heaven and earth, leaving only that one Dao Map covering heaven and earth.

By this point, Yao Xi no longer doubted the Zi Fu Saintess's cultivation level; this saintess who walked out of the Zi Fu Holy Land displayed power transcending her generation; this state of Heaven-Man Unity did not seem like a realm of the mortal world.

Facing this terrifying strike, a look of admiration flashed in Jiang Xuan's eyes; he sat cross-legged quietly in place, seemingly forgetting to dodge.

Yao Xi showed not a trace of worry; in the Northern Domain battle, she had seen Jiang Xuan catch the Great Wilderness Halberd with one hand, and it was personally wielded by the Old Peng King; although this Mountain and River Map was powerful, it absolutely could not surpass the Great Wilderness Halberd.

The Mountain and River Map, like a world-destroying picture record, finally crashed down with a boom; hundreds or thousands of ten-thousand-zhang divine mountains smashed toward Jiang Xuan's head top; heavy like a world's Mountain and River Map covering the sky and blocking the sun, momentum like heavenly punishment crashing down.

Just as the Mountain and River Map was less than half a finger's length from Jiang Xuan's head top, he still sat cross-legged steadily in place, merely lifting his left arm; his left palm bloomed with a dark, gloomy light; the crashing Mountain and River Dao Map dissipated immediately, the manifested divine mountains strangely shrank, vanished into Jiang Xuan's palm and disappeared, while the peerless Dao rhyme emitted by the Mountain and River Dao Map was frozen one foot in front of Jiang Xuan, unable to advance an inch.

The Zi Fu Saintess's beautiful eyes showed not a trace of surprise, as if she had long predicted this result; however, she showed no discouragement, knowing Jiang Xuan likely wanted to use this to glimpse the special nature of her constitution, just as before when observing Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

She exerted her full power to activate the Mountain and River Dao Map, smashing toward Jiang Xuan's front; merely a Xuanhuang light forcibly froze her Mountain and River Map, and even the countless divine peaks within the Mountain and River Map were collected by Jiang Xuan through some unknown means, greatly reducing the map's power.

Clang!

Jiang Xuan lightly flicked the Mountain and River Map; a crimson sword light appeared, and a sound resounding through heaven and earth, like the impact of a Great Bell and Great Lü, shook the Fire Domain; the Mountain and River Dao Map trembled violently, Dao rhyme dissipated, and the Zi Fu Saintess was shocked beyond measure; she knew that under Jiang Xuan's great fame there were no empty reputations, and that she and he were no longer cultivators of the same realm, but only when truly exchanging blows did she realize how enormous the gap between them was, like a heavenly chasm, impossible to cross.

A mighty yet gentle power surged toward the Zi Fu Saintess; the Zi Fu Saintess, along with the Mountain and River Dao Map, was pushed back by an irresistible immense force to above the high sky.

Above the high sky, the Zi Fu Saintess, having stabilized her silhouette, could no longer keep her mind calm as an ancient well; a trace of agitation appeared; the combat power Jiang Xuan displayed was truly enough to make one unable to remain calm; his strength could only be deeply felt through personal experience; he merely sat cross-legged, not even rising, and with a flick of his finger, a peerless sword qi of terrifying unmatched power broke through the void, turning her attack of pressing down like a great world into nothing; this was simply too unbelievable.

Jiang Xuan had no killing intent; he was not a person who loved killing, but wanted to observe and absorb the Zi Fu Saintess's Dao.

If he wanted to successfully break through the barrier and realm, he must break his own imprisonment and transcend the innate; his idea was to borrow the Innate Dao Diagram tribulation punishment sent down by heaven when Ye Fan broke the Four Extremes, letting his own magic treasures enter the innate.

The Great Dao Tribulation was terrifying beyond measure; Jiang Xuan was unsure what changes would occur at that time; he did not cultivate the secret realm system, and he did not know whether a creation-method tribulation would descend; the Innate Dao Diagram was a tribulation aimed at Ye Fan, and he did not know if his interference would cause other changes.

Everything was unknown; he had no confidence in safely passing through the tribulation, so Jiang Xuan needed to make two-handed preparations, and this should be done on the Zi Fu Saintess.

He needed to carefully comprehend the Zi Fu Saintess's Dao.

Jiang Xuan clenched his fist and gently shook it forward; at this moment, the sky of ten thousand li of green waves was densely covered with countless space cracks, and the void shook violently, as if an endless long river flowed backward, tearing and shaking the entire heaven and earth.

The Mountain and River Dao Map was originally spread out covering the great earth, with countless divine peaks crashing toward it, but between Jiang Xuan's arm movements, this Saint Lord Level Dao Map was shaken apart alive; the Dao Map trembled madly, and immediately after, a violent, unshakable immense force like a vast ocean struck it flying a hundred li away.

The Zi Fu Saintess's heart and mind were turbulent; her beautiful eyes were filled with shock and disbelief; the Mountain and River Dao Map was heavy as countless mountain peaks and connected to her life, but between Jiang Xuan's hand waves, she actually could no longer sense her connection with the Mountain and River Map; her originally unsettled mood was now even more ruffled like spring water, rippling with waves; at this moment, she once again perceived that the man before her, though of the same young generation as her, was already an existence standing on equal footing with the holy lords of the great holy lands.

The Zi Fu Saintess's peerless face was tinged with a faint blush; this was the surging qi blood fluctuation under the violent surge of divine power; her connection with the Mountain and River Map was extremely close, but now it was actually severed alive by someone; this was unimaginable; she formed hand seals to recall the Mountain and River Map.

"Continue!"

(Chapter End)