Chapter 170: Chapter 163: Then, What Will You Do About the Second One?
"GLUG—GLUG—"
The bottle trembled violently. The Profound Nether Erosive Qi, which had been escaping in mere wisps, now gushed out like the floodwaters of a bursting Nether River.
The filthy, heavy Erosive Qi, the color of lead and mercury, instantly grew several times thicker.
It was no longer a mist, but a viscous black fluid that surged toward Chang Qing!
In the blink of an eye, a hundred-meter radius around Chang Qing was completely enveloped by the Profound Nether Erosive Qi, which was as thick as a swamp.
Submerged within it, Chang Qing felt his whole body sink, as if he had plunged into a deep quagmire.
Every movement became exceptionally difficult and sluggish.
Even more frightening, the Erosive Qi seeped in through every crack, madly corroding his Protective Asura Killing Gang.
The dark red Killing Gang, once condensed to the point of being tangible, dimmed and grew murky at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It even made a sizzling sound as it dissolved!
The circulation of True Essence within his body was also severely impeded.
"What potent Poisonous Fiend!" Chang Qing narrowed his eyes. The corrosive power was far beyond his estimations. ’If this goes on, I’ll be worn down and killed here!’
Spurred by the intense sense of danger, not only was there no fear in his eyes, but an even wilder battle intent and ferocity erupted from him!
He took a deep breath, his chest heaving like a set of bellows.
His hands rapidly formed an ancient and wicked Dharma Seal as he chanted a deep, abstruse spell.
The next instant, he opened his mouth and spewed forth!
"WHOOSH—!!!"
It was not flame, nor was it Evil Qi, but a boundless expanse of gray ash that seemed capable of annihilating all life.
It surged out like a sandstorm, instantly blanketing a thousand-meter radius!
[Great Destruction Wind Disaster]!
This wind of ash was all-pervasive. Wherever it passed, even the air seemed to whimper in agony.
The rubble on the ground weathered and decayed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
When this gray wind blew over the Protective Array Qi Yun had set up, its Dharma Light rapidly dimmed, and cracks began to appear on its surface!
He had no choice but to circulate his Protective True Essence to resist the annihilating power trying to seep through.
[Great Destruction Wind Disaster].
A Demonic Technique extremely difficult to cultivate in the Qi Refining Late Stage, it placed immense demands on both one’s Cultivation and physical body.
One had to cultivate a mouthful of "Great Destruction Wind" within the body to be spewed at enemies.
It specialized in destroying the flesh of living beings and corroding the Spiritual Mechanism of all things.
Its wickedness was different, yet achieved the same malevolent result as his own Profound Nether Erosive Qi!
"He cultivates the physical body of the Asura Dao, making him peerless in close combat, yet he also practices such insidious and tyrannical Demonic Techniques. And his achievements in both are so high... No wonder Li Hanyan wants to pay any price to kill you before you reach Foundation Establishment."
Qi Yun pursed his lips slightly, beginning to understand why Li Hanyan wanted to move against this Chang Qing ahead of schedule.
Although he didn’t know the aptitude or Cultivation of her young disciple, encountering a ruthless character like this one meant their future would most likely be grim.
Knowing that Chang Qing had a deep foundation and that a prolonged battle could lead to unforeseen complications, Qi Yun held back no longer. His right hand, which had been resting on his knee, shot up. His five fingers danced, forming a profound and ancient spell.
[Wood Element Command Skill - Tiger-Walking Sandalwood]!
As the spell took form, the aura around Qi Yun faltered for a moment, and nearly fifty percent of the surging True Essence in his body was instantly drained.
This was a brand-new technique he had comprehended after his physical body was tempered by the Merit Buddha Light of Little Monk Ming Xin, giving him a deeper understanding of the "Wood Element Command Skill." Its power was immense, but the cost was equally staggering.
"VMMMM—!"
Qi Yun spread his five fingers and slapped them down hard on the ground before him!
Instantly, four dazzling golden sigils lit up on the ground. They flowed like the Buddhist swastika, emitting a peaceful yet majestic Evil-Breaking Golden Light.
"ROAR!" "ROAR!" "ROAR!" "ROAR!"
Four earth-shattering tiger roars exploded, the sound waves so tangible they temporarily forced back the spreading wind of ash.
From within the four golden sigils, four behemoths stepped forth!
They stood over ten feet tall, with incredibly powerful and robust physiques, appearing as tiger-headed, human-bodied figures!
The tiger heads had wide, furious eyes and exposed fangs, exuding the dreadful might of the king of beasts. The human bodies were a mass of knotted muscles and hard lines, covered in a simple, heavy wood grain texture, yet they gleamed with the metallic luster of something Vajra Indestructible.
They carried heavy Precepts Sabers on their backs, the blades dark and matte, with faint Sanskrit characters flowing across their surface.
These were the Tiger-Walking Sandalwood!
Seemingly both Buddhist and demonic, both wood and metal.
Dharma Guardian Dao Soldiers formed from the life force of the Wood Element, mixed with the concept of a Buddhist Vajra!
SWOOSH—
The moment the four Tiger-Walking Sandalwood appeared, they didn’t pause for an instant. They transformed into four golden afterimages, tearing through the air with a terrifying gale, and lunged like four cannonballs toward Chang Qing, who was trapped in the Profound Nether Qi-Eroding Mud Pool!
THUD THUD THUD THUD!
The ground shattered under their steps, exploding into a series of deep craters.
At the same time, the Precepts Sabers were drawn with brutal force!
"VMMMM—!"
Four immense, incomparably sharp saber glints—fusing the Evil-Breaking power of Buddha Light with the demon-slaying intent of a Vajra—tore through space. Though launched later, they arrived first, viciously slashing down at Chang Qing!
Before the saber glints even arrived, their terrifyingly sharp aura had already ripped apart the ground below, blasting open four deep ravines each over ten meters long!
Chang Qing’s pupils contracted. He felt a deathly threat unlike any he had ever experienced before!
He roared furiously, pushing his [Great Destruction Wind Disaster] to its limit. The wind of ash coiled back to protect him as the Asura Killing Gang on his fists condensed to its peak, and he fearlessly smashed them toward the first saber glint to arrive!
"BOOM!!!"
Fist met blade, erupting in a deafening explosion!
The terrifying power exploded outward, momentarily clearing away the surrounding Profound Nether Erosive Qi.
Chang Qing grunted, his body flying backward. A gash so deep the bone was visible had appeared on his fist, and his Asura Evil Qi roiled violently.
Yet before he could even catch his breath, the other three Tiger-Walking Sandalwood had already closed in. Their Precepts Sabers chopped, hacked, and swept in an offensive torrent like a violent storm, sealing off all his escape routes!
At the same time, Qi Yun flicked his fingers repeatedly from a distance.
Dozens of the strongest Main Souls separated from the Soul Refining Banner to specifically interfere with Chang Qing’s Divine Sense; the Nether Spring Bone Technique controlled the White Bone Skeletons to spew Corpse Poisoning Yin Fire; and the Profound Nether Erosive Qi clung to him like a gangrenous sore, continuously weakening his power.
In an instant, Chang Qing was plunged into a desperate battle, the likes of which he had never faced!
His eyes were blood-red, his state like that of a mad demon, as he pushed the combat prowess of the Asura Dao to its absolute limit.
His [Military Killing Arsenal] transformed into a sky full of weapons made of baleful qi to clash with the Precepts Sabers!
The explosive power kicked up waves of earth that swept out in all directions.
He actually managed to fight the four Tiger-Walking Sandalwood and Qi Yun’s many techniques to a standstill, all by himself.
Above the ruins, blades flashed and shadows danced amid the roars of tigers and howls of demons. The scene was intense to the extreme.
Chang Qing was bathed in blood. His Asura Battle Body was covered in blade wounds, corrosion marks, and burns from the Soul Fire.
But his crimson eyes only grew brighter, his battle intent erupting like a volcano!
The Asura Technique’s characteristic of growing stronger with battle was constantly being triggered.
The dark red Asura Evil Qi around him surged toward the sky like tangible flames!
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
His fists became afterimages, each blow containing the power to shatter mountains and split the earth. With his strength alone, he actually forced the four Vajra Indestructible Tiger-Walking Sandalwood to retreat again and again.
The Precepts Sabers hacked against his Asura Killing Gang, creating a deafening screech of metal on metal as sparks flew everywhere!
At the same time, the acupoints all over his body spewed out baleful qi, forming countless tiny weapons that shredded the endlessly tangling Resentful Souls. He scorched the surging skeletons with a raging baleful fire, and by stomping his feet on the ground, he shattered the approaching Profound Nether Erosive Qi.
"Hahaha! Exhilarating! Exhilarating!
If you have any other tricks, then bring them on!
Today, I, Chang Qing, will walk over your corpse...
to prove the invincible Dao of my Asura!"
Chang Qing’s wild laughter shook the heavens, his momentum rising instead of falling.
He had actually seized the initiative amidst the heavy siege, his ferocious might soaring to the sky!
Qi Yun, who had remained hidden behind the scenes with his eyes half-closed, now finally opened them a sliver.
Watching Chang Qing erupt with even greater power in this desperate situation, a calm smile, one that showed everything was within his grasp, appeared on his face.
"Oh?" he uttered a single word, his tone slightly playful. "You asked for this."
Before his voice had even faded—
VMMMMMM!!!!!
An indescribable, deep hum, as if originating from the depths of the Nine Netherworld, came from high up in the Celestial Vault!
The sound was low at first, but it quickly grew immense, finally becoming a terrifying screech that threatened to tear one’s eardrums.
The next moment, Chang Qing abruptly looked up. Reflected in his suddenly contracting pupils, the dark, heavy clouds—which had been colored by the Ghost Qi of the Soul Refining Banner and the power of the Array—were violently smashed through by an irresistible brute force, tearing a giant hole in the sky!
A... shape, so colossal it was suffocating, pierced through the cloud layer and plummeted straight down!
It wasn’t a real star, but a... meteor! Formed from countless grains of [Abyssal Iron Sand] that had been condensed and compressed.
This meteor was over several hundred meters in diameter.
Its entire body was an absolute darkness that seemed to devour light.
Its surface glowed dark red from the intense friction with the air, and it trailed a blazing tail several miles long. Carrying a world-destroying pressure that could crush anything, it came crashing down toward Chang Qing’s position!
Before the meteor even struck, the terrifying wind pressure it generated on a purely physical level had already descended.
The ground, like a fragile cookie, shattered and sank inch by inch.
Countless fragments of rock were directly pulverized into dust by the immense pressure.
The massive bodies of the four Tiger-Walking Sandalwood were pushed back slightly by this pressure, the golden light around them flickering violently.
The black gas from the Soul Refining Banner, the boneyard of the Nether Spring Bone Technique, the Profound Nether Qi-Eroding Mud Pool...
In the face of this absolute weight and speed, they all seemed insignificant and fragile!
The wild laughter on Chang Qing’s face instantly froze, replaced by an expression of ultimate gravity in the face of nature’s might... and a touch of madness!
He wanted to dodge, but the Precepts Sabers of the Tiger-Walking Sandalwood had sealed his escape routes in all directions. Countless Resentful Souls fearlessly threw themselves at him, self-destructing to hinder his movements, and the Profound Nether Erosive Qi made his body sluggish!
There was no escape!
"ROAR—!!!"
At this critical moment, Chang Qing threw his head back and let out an inhuman roar filled with unyielding battle intent and the resolve to destroy everything.
The dark red Asura Demon Patterns all over his body flashed with unprecedented brightness, as if they were about to burst into flame!
"CRACK! CRACK!"
A sickening sound of cracking bones came from his back!
Then, amid the sky-filling wails of ghosts and howls of gods and the roar of the falling meteor,
four beams of condensed, tangible, dark red divine light, like demonic wings tearing out of a chrysalis, burst forth from his shoulder blades.
The divine light swiftly condensed and solidified.
It transformed into four muscular, knotted arms covered in Demon Patterns, identical to his original two—[Asura Arms]!
[Six-armed Asura]
This was a battle form that could only be displayed by cultivating the "Asura’s Hidden Technique" to an extremely profound level and awakening the potential within one’s bloodline!
Each use required a one-year cooldown before it could be used again.
"COME—!!!"
Chang Qing let out a long howl, the sound wave pushing aside all surrounding interference like a tsunami.
He stomped his feet violently. The ground beneath him, like glass struck by a sledgehammer, exploded into a giant crater dozens of meters in diameter, with spiderweb cracks spreading crazily to the horizon!
He no longer dodged. Instead, the muscles on his six arms bulged, veins popping like writhing dragons. With an unparalleled momentum that could shake mountains and defy the heavens, he raised all six arms upward simultaneously!
"DOOOOM!!!!!!"
In the next instant, the several-hundred-meter-wide meteor formed from Abyssal Iron Sand, carrying the immeasurable weight of a falling star, smashed down hard and solid onto Chang Qing’s six upraised arms!
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
There was no instant pulverization into paste as one might imagine.
Only a terrifying, visible shockwave, a mixture of dark red baleful qi and pitch-black Iron Sand, spread madly outward in a sphere.
Wherever it passed, everything was annihilated!
The giant crater beneath Chang Qing’s feet suddenly collapsed several more meters downward!
The muscles in his six arms trembled wildly, his bones letting out an overburdened, creaking groan. The dark red Asura Evil Qi ground against the bottom of the meteor, creating temperatures high enough to melt metal and a blinding light.
But his magnificent body, like a pillar holding up the sky, managed to, inch by painful inch, forcefully hold back the world-destroying descent.
He had actually stopped it!
Dust and smoke shot to the sky; turbulent energies roared.
At the center of this destructive scene, Chang Qing held up the meteor with his six arms, howling at the sky like an ancient Demon Deity from mythology, challenging the might of the heavens!
However, just then, Qi Yun, who had been standing quietly in the distance, had at some point already raised his right hand, the corners of his mouth turned up in a slight smile.
"Well then, what are you going to do about the second one?"
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