Volume 1, Chapter 346 – Blessed by the Heavenly Dao

The reason the young man had been able to come here was simply because the clash between supreme overlords had shattered the river of spacetime and stirred up spacetime tides. Amid the interweaving of time and space, he had relied on a trace of the Linglong Ancient Jade’s aura linking past and present, abandoned the fleshly body he had cultivated for many years, and crossed into this epoch with only a sliver of true spirit. It had been an exceedingly dangerous gamble.

The battle before his eyes quietly began to change his thoughts somewhat. That so-called Ancient God King was most likely one of those terrifying beings blessed by heaven and earth. In the world outside, he could rampage without restraint. If he were allowed to break free, it would likely create many more variables.

With that thought, the youth bit his fingertip and used his blood to inscribe spirit patterns across his brow. Strands of energy were drawn out of the void, gradually condensing into a blood-red spirit talisman. Then a thread of precious soul-blood seeped from his forehead and fused into the talisman.

As soon as that thread of precious soul-blood left his body, the youth’s face turned deathly pale. He was only a sliver of true spirit to begin with. For him in his current state, that thread of precious soul-blood was incomparably precious.

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Chaos currents spread throughout heaven and earth. The Ancient God King’s divine body had already swelled to more than ten thousand zhang, and the bloodline divine radiance wrapped around him displayed the might of an ancient god or devil. With every movement of hand and foot, he shattered tens of thousands of miles of blue sky.

Linglong was enveloped by several thousand formidable Yang Spirits, which likewise condensed into a towering Yang Spirit dharma aspect that reached from heaven to earth. Great Dao laws intertwined around it like streams of qi wrapping its entire body, making it resemble a divine statue imbued with spirit, possessed of inconceivable might.

The clash between the crimson war spear and the bronze battle halberd continued. The halberd had already shattered for the most part, with only half its blade remaining. The being within it was still frantically burning its origin, but now it was no more than a dying lamp-flame, unable to stir the heavens again.

It had already endured too many campaigns. Now it was merely a spent arrow at the end of its flight, burning brilliantly one last time at the end of its life.

The crimson war spear in the God King’s hand was also covered in mottled marks, its tip full of chips. It too had suffered heavy damage.

Crack!

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In the end, the battle halberd gave out first. It shattered inch by inch, shaft included, turning into drifting fragments of ash that were buried in the turbulent void.

The war spear swept down again and instantly smashed apart one arm of the Yang Spirit dharma aspect. Several hundred Yang Spirits turned to ash, their souls scattered, forever erased from the world.

“Great Emperor…”

“Master…”

“Senior Sister…”

“Little Linglong…”

One murmured call after another entered Linglong’s heart and stirred boundless waves within it. Her senses became incomparably clear, as though she had just awakened from a great dream.

A trace of guilt flashed through her eyes, but in the next moment, divine radiance erupted skyward. Her battle intent swept through the heavens like a raging tide, and her aura began to swell rapidly, as though she had returned from death to life and stepped into the ultimate peak domain, towering supreme beneath the heavens.

Her gaze shone with incomparable brilliance, her long hair streaming down behind her. With a single step, she rushed forward and engaged the God King in close combat.

A cold smile spilled from the God King’s lips. He put away the war spear. Blood and qi roared like clouds and shot straight into the nine heavens. In close combat, the Ancient God race feared neither god, human, devil, nor demon.

Boom!

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The God King’s fist punched through Linglong’s lower abdomen, tearing away a large mass of flesh. The instant it left her body, that flesh turned into a rain of light and scattered into the air.

Linglong paid it no heed. Her pale hand struck like a sharp sword, thrusting in beneath his ribs and into the God King’s chest and abdomen, shattering several ribs and tearing out a great mass of mangled organs.

“Linglong! I will have the human race erased from Lingyang! Your race will perish and be exterminated!”

Under the agonizing pain, the God King let out a long howl, his killing intent savage to the extreme. His essence blood began to burn, releasing terrifying divine might enough to shake the universe.

Linglong said nothing. Inside her body, the Linglong Ancient Jade burst forth with ten thousand streams of rosy light, pouring endless vital essence into her and mending the wound in her lower abdomen.

Boom, boom, boom!

The Great Dao thundered. The two peerless figures abandoned their weapons and launched into a brutal close-quarters slaughter. They completely gave up defense, trading wound for wound, life for life, frantically wearing away each other’s life force.

Heaven and earth were dim. The God King’s blood poured down like waterfalls of star-rivers, washing over the land. The baleful blood aura covered the entire firmament.

His aura was no longer as overwhelmingly terrifying as before. In the end, he had been trapped for too long and was no longer as powerful as he had been in the ancient age.

Linglong’s body had dimmed to near darkness. Of the thousands of Yang Spirits, eighty or ninety percent had already been destroyed. This was complete soul-dispersion, with no possibility of reincarnation remaining.

Sorrow filled her eyes, yet the battle intent on her body did not weaken in the slightest. Nearly crazed, she fought on, intent on tearing the God King apart completely!

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Slash!

Two blood-red spirit talismans shot out from the void. One pierced through the God King’s flesh and struck straight at his spiritual platform and sea of consciousness, while the other fused into the dharma body Linglong had condensed.

Countless spirit patterns suddenly erupted from the God King’s forehead, like chains of shackles completely sealing his spiritual platform and sea of consciousness.

“Vermin, do you have a death wish?!”

The God King’s eyes were filled with blood-red light, cold to the bone, as he swept his gaze toward the youth at one side. Whether it was he or Linglong, they had both noticed the youth’s presence long ago. It was only because a great enemy stood before them that neither had the mind to spare him any attention.

Now that the youth had suddenly interfered, it was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire and had thoroughly ignited his violent nerves.

The youth’s expression shifted slightly. The sensation returning from the talisman made his heart sink. The spiritual platform and sea of consciousness within this God King before him were utterly empty.

This thing in front of him actually had no divine soul…

No, not just no divine soul. It did not even have a soul at all…

The crimson war spear was drawn out of the void once more. Like lightning tearing through the sky, it was about to kill the youth in midair in the blink of an eye.

Boom!

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An ancient jade wrapped in rosy light blocked the youth’s front, and the crimson war spear could not advance a single inch. Profound spirit patterns appeared across Linglong’s dharma body.

Strands of blood and qi visible to the naked eye were drawn out from the God King’s body and merged into Linglong’s dharma body.

These spirit patterns did not belong to the present age. They were a power no one in this epoch had ever touched.

The two talismans the youth had offered up, one yin and one yang, established a chain between Linglong and the God King. Originally, that chain could only bind divine souls, but now, evidently due to some special circumstance, the spirit talismans had undergone a mutation and begun to seize the God King’s blood and qi.

The talent of a Great Emperor outshone all ages and was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Linglong had almost instantly understood how the talismans worked, and had further altered and strengthened them.

The blood and qi inside the God King was like a river, surging along that invisible chain and pouring into Linglong’s body. As the blood and qi entered her, a blood-red hue appeared on Linglong’s ethereal dharma body, as though she truly possessed flesh once more.

A wave of emptiness spread through the God King’s body, followed by bursts of weakness. He had only just escaped his confinement, and after continuous fierce fighting up to this point, he was already utterly exhausted. Now, with his blood and qi being drained again and again, he no longer had the strength to continue.

“Break!”

His eyes flew wide open in fury. His forehead split apart, and a blood-red spirit talisman was forced out of his body. The sight made the youth’s heart tighten. A being that could blow apart its own spiritual platform and yet not die was almost unheard of to him.

So this was what it meant to be a being blessed to the utmost by the Heavenly Dao…