Chapter 161: Chapter 143: Leaving Realm Clarity Seal, Slaying the Snake Demon!
The young man with a human body and snake tail let out a loud challenge, inviting Gu Yuan to duel.
But before Gu Yuan could respond, he took the initiative to attack.
"Swish!"
A mass of cyan-colored water, resembling clouds and mist, surged up, sweeping towards Gu Yuan.
This technique, known as "Cyan Yin Profound Water," is his talent technique with extraordinary corrosive power. Even a spiritual artifact forged from heavenly materials and earthly treasures will turn into a puddle of waste water soon after being enveloped in this water, and if a person gets caught, their divine form would vanish instantly.
In an instant, the cyan stream rolled forth, obscuring the sky.
Gu Yuan remained unfazed by the scene, as he summoned a seemingly transparent, crystal-clear jade-like seal from his Dantian.
Leaving Realm Clarity Seal!
This seal is not part of the Cyan Peak Daoist School’s inheritance but was learned from the Three Dharma Daoist in the Cloud Mist Valley.
Besides leaving a Three-Heart Gold Seal, the Three Dharma Daoist had left seven secret techniques in the valley, four related to Qi Refining and three related to Foundation Establishment.
At that time, Gu Yuan had already cultivated to the perfected ninth layer of Qi Refining, just one step away from Foundation Establishment, so he abandoned the Qi Refining methodologies, keeping only the three Foundation Establishment secret techniques.
These three techniques are "Leaving Realm Clarity Seal," "Divine Sense Heartless Seal," and "Red Phoenix Sun-Breaking Sword Seal."
These three secret techniques were the cherished possessions of the Three Dharma Daoist, their profound mysteries marking his undefeated streak against Tribulation Cultivators over the years.
Among them is a sword seal of considerable power.
However, in terms of potential and killing power, it still pales compared to the "Boundless Sword Seal" bestowed by the Sword Fox Immortal.
The inheritance of the Cyan Peak Daoist School is not weaker than that of the Three Dharma Daoist, perhaps even superior. For a disciple of a Major Sect like Gu Yuan, acquiring these three secret techniques was merely adding another method to his repertoire.
Thus, over more than a year, Gu Yuan focused on cultivating the "Boundless Sword Seal" and "Dragon-Binding Truth-Sealing Seal," only sparing time to forge the "Leaving Realm Clarity Seal" from the Three Dharma Daoist’s secrets.
This seal is refined from the Dao Patterns of the "Void Clarity Jade" at Xishan, and once successfully forged, it can open a domain of clarity to isolate external techniques, a domain that remains impenetrable as long as the cultivator’s Mana persists. However, it cannot withstand the vast power of the Supreme Yang Technique.
For supernatural techniques with insidious and treacherous powers but lacking in vast might, it’s an exceptional Defensive Seal.
As for the "Divine Sense Heartless Seal," it’s a miraculous seal that can sense others’ murderous intent within a hundred feet. If a cultivator harbors killing intent towards oneself, the seal immediately perceives it, providing premonitions of danger. The Three Dharma Daoist repeatedly escaped peril thanks to this seal.
However, crafting this seal is quite challenging, requiring the head bone of a "Bright Heart Beast" born no more than seven days. This beast is innately an Earth Demon, growing to become a formidable Late Stage Earth Demon beast with elusive movements, nearly impossible to track. Though Gu Yuan wished to cultivate it, he had to temporarily set it aside due to its difficulty.
"Pop!"
At this moment, as the Leaving Realm Clarity Seal lit up, a peculiar domain resembling a bubble emerged before Gu Yuan, shielding him firmly.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle!"
The cyan stream surged forward, but seemingly lost its target, unable to permeate, merely brushing against the void repeatedly.
"Zheng!"
Within the clarity domain, eighteen bright sword lights appeared instantly, possessing an indescribable sharpness, akin to eighteen golden lightning bolts, striking toward the young man with the human body and snake tail.
The young man pointed his finger, and the cyan stream surged up, transforming into a solid shield, blocking the sword lights ahead.
"Buzz!"
However, the sharpness of the sword lights exceeded his expectations, and only upon contact, the solid shield was severed.
The golden sword shadows flickered like thunderbolts, suddenly striking at his neck, forehead, and heart, the fierce aura making his scales rise with icy terror growing in his heart.
"Splash!"
He struggled to dodge, his snake tail maneuvering, as a massive water flow exploded before him, intending to intercept the sword lights.
But within the sword lights lay not only the rapid and profound mysteries of the Sword Technique but also the resplendent sharpness of the Golden Bamboo Sword.
The might of a Sword Cultivator lies not just in technique but also in their artifact.
Wherever the sword lights aim, nothing remains uncut, impervious to ordinary seals and spiritual artifacts.
"Buzz!"
Although the young man tried his best to evade, he still couldn’t match the swiftness of the sword lights, and in an instant, his body suffered eighteen deep wounds, revealing bones and bleeding profusely—a tragic sight.
If not for being protected by a transparent ice-like water curtain, he would have been decapitated by that strike.
"A middle-grade Spiritual Sword with eighteen sword lights, actually possesses such formidable power?"
His face turned slightly pale, but his eyes revealed delight.
Though he had heard from the Old Turtle about the formidable power of the eighteen sword light differentiations, he had never witnessed it firsthand, unable to fathom such swiftness and sharpness.
Once a sword is summoned, it cuts through everything, threatening to claim a head in one fell swoop, leaving no room for thought or maneuver.
If not for his remarkable skills, he would have been beheaded already.
"Good, good, this sense of enlightenment and root bone is indeed unparalleled. I want it!"
Upon seeing this, the young man with a human body and snake tail appeared excited, eyeing Gu Yuan like he was assessing cattle or sheep.
Gu Yuan’s expression remained unchanged, merely activating the Sword Seal while the young man babbled, and the eighteen sword lights wheeled again, striking towards him.
"Lock!"
But at this moment, the young man coldly smiled, directly summoning a small peculiar seal with writhing snake shadows, throwing it towards Gu Yuan.
"Whoosh!"
This small seal, forged from unknown material, spun in midair, transforming into a strange snake shadow that drilled into Gu Yuan’s Dantian, surpassing the restriction of space, moving faster than his sword lights.
"Hiss hiss!"
The snake shadow hissed, and a jade python-like phantom resembling the Seven-Phase Exquisite Tower appeared in Gu Yuan’s Dantian. Then, the snake tail coiled, directly wrapping around Gu Yuan’s "Golden Rainbow Dao Foundation."
In that instant, a peculiar scene unfolded within Gu Yuan’s Dantian.
A great sun composed of numerous Gold Qi had a green snake shadow entwined around it, shrouding the sword lights, covering the great sun.
Not only that, but a third of the Mana within Gu Yuan’s Dantian was instantly anchored.
"Buzz buzz!"
The eighteen sword lights currently striking towards the young man dimmed considerably, wobbling, seemingly about to dissipate any moment.
The Dao Foundation is the essence of a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s entire cultivation.
It grants the cultivator unique Divine Powers to control water and fire, command winds and thunder, and is the source of a cultivator’s Mana.
If the Dao Foundation is destroyed, a cultivator with several centuries of lifespan would instantly lose all Mana, reduced to a mere mortal.
This eerie "Green Snake Seal," whatever it may be, can lock a cultivator’s Dao Foundation, restraining their Mana—a veritable Mysterious Seal!
Meanwhile, the demonic aura around the young man with a human body and snake tail diminished abruptly, as if all his Demonic Power had vanished, leaving only his physical body capable of movement.
"Haha, human boy, what of your unparalleled sword seal?"
"Without Mana, you’re just meat on a chopping board, for me to slaughter!"
"How can mere flesh withstand my nearly two-hundred-year honed demonic body?"
The young man with a human body and snake tail waggled his tail, stirring countless waves, unable to contain his laughter.
"Buzz!"
But at this moment, eighteen dazzling sword lights suddenly radiated brilliantly, piercing through the void, swiftly turning and severing the young man’s head.
The young man’s face stiffened, instantly devoid of life, with only residual astonishment lingering in his gaze.
