Chapter 949: Chapter 192: Dragon Battle in the Field, Blood of Primal Chaos; Jiang Li Appears, Complications Arise
And now, as the Emperor is sealed for ever longer, even with the convergence of nine great earth veins, the Imperial City can hardly withstand the impact of a third grade confrontation.
The strike gathering wind, rain, thunder, and lightning was warded off by the Three Cauldrons, and King Shu immediately sensed the opponent’s aura weakening.
Such desperate forbidden techniques, though overwhelmingly powerful, are not sustainable; if one can withstand the strongest wave of attack, it can easily lead to their defeat.
King Shu’s face was hard and cold, like millennia-old stone, his palms horizontal, revealing an imposing and domineering aura.
However, at the same time, the Yinglong breathed deeply, drawing streams of Essence Qi from afar.
"This is..."
The Princess, always focused on the battle, was the first to discern the source of these streams of Essence Qi.
They did not appear from the heavens and earth—this was not something the Primordial Lord Rain Master had secretly learned from the Daoist Lord’s Nine Heavens Demon Clearing True Technique—instead, she directly extracted others’ Power.
"This is Innate Qi."
The Princess immediately swept her Divine Sense, and discovered that those Jiang Clan members attempting to assault the Imperial City were already dead, their Innate Qi forcefully extracted. Other Innate Qi came from the Jiang family’s ancestral lands.
By examining these streams of Innate Qi, they seemed identical, as if refined by the same person.
Intuition told the Princess that there must be something amiss, but now was not the time for analysis, as Meng Jun had already maneuvered towards the North Gate.
The Eldest Prince was supposed to have lifted the seal, freeing the Emperor from the paused time and then ascending to heaven, but given the current situation, it seems something unexpected occurred.
Due to the Dharma Platform’s formation concealing it, old Grand Commandant Meng Jun still did not know what kind of existence blocked his path before the Eldest Prince.
Moreover, the Princess wouldn’t give Meng Jun a chance to understand the situation.
Divine Fire sliced through the air, intercepting Meng Jun, while the Yinglong absorbed Innate Qi, its Qi Mechanism surging like flames touching oil, its momentum unstoppable, and the broken scales on its body flowed with fresh blood in a profound yellow hue.
Dragon battles in the field, its blood profound yellow.
The Master of Rain’s physique manifested some of Yinglong’s traits; her Yinglong Transformation, nearing completion, once again approached a breakthrough, no longer merely transforming her Yinglong Dharma Body, but metamorphosing into a true Yinglong.
Crucially, her Yinglong Dao Fruit resonated with her.
Just observing the Yinglong Dao Fruit’s Promotion Ceremony reveals the nature of this Dao Fruit; the Primordial Lord Rain Master’s ferocity in battle aligns perfectly with Yinglong’s battle-oriented essence.
Currently, she is within the Promotion Ceremony, and due to possessing an advantage and the Three-Phases Transformation Secret Technique, she can already harness a trace of the Dao Fruit’s strength.
"Roar—"
The Yinglong roared, descending from the sky, launching another strike—but not as wildly as before; from rigid force, it transitioned to gentleness, heavenly phenomena shifted from wind, rain, thunder, and lightning to clear and bright heaven and earth, and potent qi surged like tides against the three Great Cauldrons.
"Clang!"
The Great Cauldron shifted position!
The Three Cauldrons, formed from King Shu’s Divine Skills and True Qi, symbolize his foundation; the Great Cauldron’s shift also shook King Shu’s form.
The Yinglong seized this opportunity to emit a brilliant ray of light, a blazing white luminance with unrivaled auras, resembling a blazing sun in the sky, shrouding all things in fiery cover.
The Yinglong is the Heavenly Phenomenon God, and heavenly phenomena include not only wind, rain, thunder, and lightning but also the clear and bright heaven and earth.
The Master of Rain and Jiang Li’s True Qi Dual Cultivation had absorbed its utmost yang aspect and also comprehended another transformation of the Yinglong Transformation. Now as she emitted the Essence Qi, the utmost yang light directly shot at King Shu, causing his complexion to change drastically.
"Yu King opens mountains."
King Shu’s palms like axe and halberd slashed down, his form seemingly becoming immensely grand in an instant, with strength capable of moving mountains and overturning peaks, an unrivaled force crashing into the brilliant light.
"Boom!"
Out of thin air, a massive groove appeared on the earth; the fierce shining light abruptly shattered yet its residual force had not dissipated, impacting King Shu, leaving him covered in scorching flames, bearing marks of burns throughout his body, with his vital energy and blood violently churning.
"Fix!"
His feet planted on the ground, the pure force of the earth clashing with the utmost yang, King Shu’s palms separated, forcibly breaking apart the encroaching Essence Qi.
Meanwhile, the Yinglong coiled, its colossal dragon body encircling King Shu like forming a snake array, with profound yellow blood flowing between scales, as if flames burned within, steaming into a blood mist, and intricate and mysterious runes emerged on each dragon scale.
An enormous array formation instantly formed.
The essence of the Yinglong Transformation lies in the talisman, with talismanic seeds fused into the acupoints of the whole body, forming the foundation of the dharma body. And when a cultivator wishes to risk everything, these talismanic seeds can also serve as the last trump card.
At the cost of the dharma body’s foundation, the array operates, and the four elements of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning emerge together, forming a magnificent heavenly phenomenon.
The face of King Shu turned completely pale, deeply sensing a deadly crisis.
This array might kill him.
It was at this moment that King Shu rallied for resistance, burning essence blood alike, clashing with forbidden moves, and an exotic scene suddenly appeared in the vast sky—yellow clouds surging, and a boat-shaped vertical eye slowly opening.
Yellow Heaven also projected power at this time to provide support.
But before the vertical eye could lower its gaze, a grand qi mechanism soared into the sky.
On the dharma platform near the North Gate, a great radiance shone, the array unraveled, allowing that magnificent qi to rush to the heavens. And within the encirclement of the dharma platform stood the towering Ghost Gate; in front, a Big Dog pressed a bloody body with its claw, its body bowing to the ground.
"Woof woof woof woof woof woof—"
It barked loudly, making a perfect greeting stance.
"I suddenly regret allowing you to not speak human words."
A resigned sigh came from within the Ghost Gate, and then a silver-white war boot stepped out, followed by a body clad in armor and a fluttering dark cloak.
Jiang Li, appeared here through the Ghost Gate.
Originally, the Ghost Gate was meant only for the passage of the Primordial Spirit, but today, an exception occurred as Jiang Li’s figure, while passing through the Ghost Gate, still held a sense of ethereality, yet upon exiting, became a real and tangible physical body.
Others using the Ghost Gate for traversal could only have their Primordial Spirit emerge, temporarily setting aside the physical body, but Jiang Li did not need this.
His Three Elements interchanged, Primordial Spirit, physical body, and Primordial Qi transforming at will, simply turning his body into a part of the Primordial Spirit allows for complete passage through the Ghost Gate, then re-manifesting the body on the other side.
This was Jiang Li’s final trump card in response to the changes in the Divine Capital.
He could return to the Divine Capital at any time.
And at the moment Jiang Li stepped out of the Ghost Gate, a vertical eye within the grand qi that pierced the sky also opened, the Heavenly Eye manifested, staring at the Yellow Heaven’s Eye, divine light flashed, the vast sky was immediately turbulent.
The Yellow Heaven’s Eye trembled, yellow clouds scattered suddenly, pupils faintly fractured, unable to act in time.
Below, the complete evolution of the heavenly phenomenon occurred, thunder roared, lightning shattered, wind blew, rain fell, and under the convergence of celestial phenomena, the large cauldron shattered, King Shu immediately vomited blood, further struck by wind, rain, thunder, and lightning combined.
"Boom!"
Flesh shattered, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning entered his body, thunder shattered flesh, lightning destroyed meridians, wind eroded essence qi, rain exhausted essence blood.
King Shu was instantly plunged into a life-and-death crisis.
Yet just then, a bright light from the Yellow Heaven’s Eye shone, an ethereal heavenly realm suddenly appeared, descending from the sky, enclosing King Shu within.
Simultaneously, a splendid spectacle appeared outside the city, illuminating the sky in bright yellow.
In that sky, a figure waved their hand to move the star river, tearing through the realm of the Yellow Heaven, eyes suddenly bursting with the brilliance of the sun and moon.
A dragon shadow stretched like mountain ranges appeared within the Yellow Heaven’s realm, the dragon’s body quaked, causing the heavenly realm to shatter.
However, whether due to accident or intentionality, the process of that figure transforming into a dragon body was clearly revealed, with a vast will spreading, imprinting this scene into the minds of hundreds of thousands inside and outside the Divine Capital.
"Manlou······"
The Princess, who was oppressing Meng Jun, suddenly stopped, looking into the distance. Her always cold and stern face showed astonishment, along with uncontrollable anger.
Jiang Li also saw this scene, his gaze slightly sinking, whispering, "An unexpected development."
Previously, the matter of Feng Manlou and the Great Venerable being of the same clan had already spread in the court, but the specific relationship between the Great Venerable and Feng Manlou was known only to a few. Jiang Li and the Gongsun Family who relied on him, as well as the Princess — counting them would only amount to roughly five.
As for the enemy, perhaps only the Heavenly Monarch guessed it.
Even the Earth Uncle did not know that Feng Manlou and the Great Venerable were the same person.
And now, hundreds of thousands saw the true form of the Great Venerable.
