Chapter 699: The Blades’ Tale
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The shiny golden silhouette of an elaborate pagoda materialized over the figure of Xi. Streaks of bright rays of black and white colors zipped around the silhouette that glowed with the purple aura of the Virtue of Nobility. Like a Deity from legends and folklores, Xi closed the distance between him and ng Qi. He smote furiously at him as if he was dispensing the judgnt of Heaven, his fist striking with the terrifying force that even the air around them trembled at the destructive power he unleashed.
Feeling no need for talk and banter, Xi chose to eliminate ng Qi to keep everything under wraps. The thick mists began to break apart and fade, and the aura of the energies of the Five Elents swirling around them was unstable and weak. This impeded anyone present to harness the forces of Nature where most practitioners of the Exterior Realms would lose more than half or even most of their powers!
But ng Qi was unfazed despite facing such a powerful foe like Xi who wielded the strength of a Grandmaster. Even without the Heavenly Golden Scripture discipline which was the greatest of martial disciplines since the Mont of Creation, ng Qi has the Eight Nine Mysteries disciplines which should be sufficiently helpful in such difficulties. He was not the All-terrain Combat Machine for nothing!
Through transformation and acclimatization to his surroundings, the greatest strength of the Exterior volu of the Eight Nine Mysteries discipline allowed its wielder to overlook certain restrictions that impeded a warrior’s attunent to the Dharma and Logos of Nature. To ng Qi, the domain advantage of others would hardly matter to him!
However, ng Qi still has reservations on his chances of winning. He knew he might even lose his life, for Xi was a Grandmaster who practiced potent martial disciplines that relied on the elents of Five Tais and Five Virtues.
With the Elent of Virtues imbued unto himself. The powers of the Elents accorded Xi unrivaled protection and invincibility! Enchantnts or curses inflicted by enemies would never harm him and including the Judgnt of Heavens; not even demons and evil spirits could possess and hurt him!
Any one of the Elents of Virtues alone would have bestowed him mighty defensive powers, more so since Xi trained and assimilated all Five Elents of Virtues. This made him one of the greatest with defensive capabilities even amongst the ranks of Grandmasters. By his comprehension of the Elents of Virtues by the Fist Art of Five Beginnings and Five Morals he practiced, ng Qi’s defensive capabilities put him above that of a Grandmaster, which was also the Realm of the Second Celestial Ladder. This ant that the defensive capabilities of the Eight Nine Mysteries discipline were comparable with the embodint of the Elents of Five Virtues; and with Xi having the strength of the Realm above his, his defensive capabilities would be insanely powerful!
Even with the Law Phenonon enchantnt, it would hardly be simple to shatter the defenses of Xi. More so, with the limited duration of the Law Phenonon!
More importantly, the Elents of Virtue and rit protected one’s Vital Spirit from being affected by any psychological attacks. This would render ng Qi’s unorthodox thods futile.
On the other hand, Xi has offensive capabilities comparable to the prowess of his defensive powers. His blows could shatter anything into dust that an ordinary warrior would have instantly died if struck by his attacks. Not even the Law Phenonon-enchanted ng Qi with his Eight Nine Mysteries could take more than a few blows from him without the risk of being mortally injured. It was due to the presence of Gu Xiaosang to help that he dared to fight against Xi earlier.
And now, with him alone against a foe of such power; having a Divine Weapon material ore would hardly help when he could not ensure it hits its target!
In the flash of an instant, the thoughts about the Elents of Five Tais and Five Virtues spun through ng Qi mind. He scoured desperately for any solutions; whether to flee or fight. Should he use the Ancient Space-breaching Talisman one last ti or should he fight with the Fruits of Karma technique?
But Xi left not much ti for him to think. His fist ca nearer and nearer, splitting the dense and thick fog as it ca close to hitting ng Qi’s face.
With a sidestep, ng Qi evaded the blow that ca from afar. His body grew in size, turning ng Qi into a towering giant with two heads and four arms. His aura amplified and his Dharmic Form seed to have rged with his physical body.
His eyes gazed down at Xi. The Heaven Inflicted Pain laid still in his grasp like a silence before a storm. Suddenly, in a blinding flash, the saber tore into the air like a dragon freed from its restraints before it ca down hard at Xi, splitting the Elents of Yin and Yang, as well as the Elents of the Five Tais.
The cold eyes of Xi burned with fury from behind his mask. His body leaned forward and rushed at ng Qi with a blitz, with no regard for ng Qi’s attack!
“Clang!”
The flash of ng Qi’s saber was stopped short by the golden silhouette of the pagoda. Ignoring the blow, Xi rushed furiously forward!
“Crack!” The silhouette broke asunder with the circling rays of black and white light dispersed. But ng Qi’s blade did not slash at Xi, moving away from his vital parts and rely grazed his shoulder!
With the protection of the Elents of Virtues, XI endured the blow and seized his mont. His right fist smote once more with his imnse wrath to lay waste to everything, eager not to leave any chances for ng Qi to recover and defend himself.
Fortunately, ng Qi employed his skills, conjuring additional heads and limbs. He raised into the air the Sword of the Mystic Turtle which shone brightly and conjured an auric wall shaped like the shell of the tortoise, blocking against the incoming blow of Xi’s fist.
“Crack! Crack! Crack!” The wall of aura exploded and broke at the massive force of Xi’s blow. If the Sword of the Mystic Turtle had not been a Precious Weapon of the Exquisite level, damage by force alone might have rendered it useless.
Bounced backward by the force of the explosion, ng Qi reached out to his enemy via telepathy,
“I have no interest in the chrysalis of the Sun God and His impartation of skills. Shall we make a truce for now?”
ng Qi had practically admitted defeat.
But the fury in Xi’s cruel gaze did not wither. Instead, he rushed forth without a response and struck at ng Qi with his palm, only for it to ball into a fist, and then he extended a finger. He concentrated all his power and malice into the point of his finger, a technique similar to the skill of the Normalizing Finger.
ng Qi brandished the Flowing Fire. The aura from the sword of flas ford multitudes of fiery strands which weaved into layers of nets that wore out the force of Xi’s blow.
At the sa ti, the Heaven Inflicted Pain hewed from atop. The aura of his blow split into fragnts of energy that shot straight at Xi’s neck to retaliate!
A sword stroke cast by using his saber!
Xi showed no signs of faltering. The strands of purple aura shaped like wings behind him as he rose into the air. Like a relentless chariot of war, he raced straight at ng Qi with the aura of the Elents of Virtue swirled and churned, morphing into the form of a phoenix.
“Clang! Clang! Clang!”
One by one, the slivers of auric blades strike continuously upon the sa spot at Xi’s neck. The golden silhouette of the baroque pagoda shattered and returned to form, only to be broken again at each successive strike! The shimring protection imbuent of the Elents of Virtue glowed and dimd with defiance as the form of the Phoenix resisted the attacks that ca one after another!
“Pfft!”
Xi’s Finger of Fading Spirit pierced through the webs protecting ng Qi and stabbed into his shoulder with a massive explosion that blew away bits of his flesh. Blood trickled slowly from the wound he suffered on his neck.
ng Qi staggered backward at the force of the Finger of Fading Spirit, his Vital Spirit recovering from the shock of the attack. He swiftly reached out once more to his enemy with telepathy,
“I can swear an oath if you are afraid I might reveal anything about this!”
A plea for rcy that ca again and again!
With a heart of stone, Xi ca again like a phoenix spreading his wings, his fists hamring with terrible destructiveness; unleashing his full powers as the perfect embodint of the complete defense and offense!
Colors left from ng Qi’s face. The Flowing Fire, the Heaven Inflicted Pain, the Sword of the Mystic Turtle, and the Purple Lightning Blade struck forth as one. The steel of the blades glead brightly like the sun as the auras of the advancing irons – summoned by the attunent of ng Qi’s Inner Sphere and Exterior Scenery – hurled forward and converged upon a single point with trendous force and weight!
The four weapons suddenly clashed together. The grinding steel emitted a large and terrifying flash that erupted and engulfed everything in a wave of heat that spread in a brilliance of pure white!
With his swords and sabers, ng Qi unleashed the Destruction of Stars technique!
With what seed to be his best effort, ng Qi had created a brief opening for him to use the Ancient Space-breaching Talisman to escape.
“Boom!”
A glimr of many hues stood out from the midst of the massive eruption of light. Shining with bright purple auras as well as black and white circling rays of light, the five-colored phoenix took flight with the majesty that humbled even the air around it!
Xi could hear pellets raining upon his flesh, causing several minor wounds all around him. He had forced his way through two layers of the ‘Destruction of Stars’ technique. With a twist of his body, he struck at ng Qi’s legs.
“Bang!”
ng Qi felt thrown backward, falling back into his normal size as he could no longer maintain the conjuration of his extra limbs and the Law Phenonon enchantnt. Glowing in a shroud of gold, he vomited a mouthful of blood. His current physical state... severely injured!
With a few adaptions, Xi ca again with his thirst for ng Qi’s blood!
Just then, ng Qi turned severe. Despite the ordeal having shaken his Vital Spirit, he admonished,
“Many tis I have pleaded for rcy and many tis I have avoided combat. But still, you would not cease your aggression! Is this your observation of virtue?”
“Despite my transgressions, I have shown my desire to atone. But still, you struck at with intense fury and bloodlust. Is this your observation of rit?”
ng Qi’s voice thundered deep into Xi’s ears. His body shook suddenly, the form of the ornate pagoda and the protection of the Elents of Virtue faltering.
With a renew and dignified expression, ng Qi calmly swung the Heavenly Inflicted Pain!
But bracing himself for the incoming attack, Xi’s silhouette of the ornate golden pagoda and the protection of the Elents of Virtue faded instantly!
With malice in his heart, he had lost the protection of the Elents of Virtue which has deed him unfit to uphold the qualities of Virtues and embody its bestownts. From the beginning, ng Qi had never thought of fleeing from battle nor had he thought of actually pleading for rcy. It was a deception to turn the tables against his foe with a “tale” using his blades!
Being intertwined to the Sun God of old, either as the beneficiary of His legacies or as his reincarnation, Xi suffered various corresponding Karmic burden which would leave wounds in his mind and Vital Spirit. With the protection of the Elents of Virtues and rit upon Xi’s Vital Spirit, ng Qi could not employ any psychological techniques, leaving him with only the Fruits of Karma technique. But with the protection of the Elents of Virtue that also defended Xi against techniques affecting one’s Karma, ng Qi could not be sure if the Fruits of Karma technique would work.
Under typical circumstances, it would be acceptable for one who practiced the Elents of Virtues to experience wrath and fury in battle, for the slaying of evil itself was a way of garnering rit and Virtue. ng Qi would hardly be able to penetrate the defenses of both in a typical fight. But his plea for rcy and evasion of combat was a ruse to bait Xi into a trap built of the tenets that governed Xi’s powers, crippling his skills from within himself!
Even though this might not entirely demolish Xi’s powers, but it was sufficient in lowering his defenses, allowing ng Qi to seize the mont and execute The Buddha’s Palm technique!
“Who am I... who am I...”
Xi fell into a montary stupor at being thrown into a sudden confusion.
Without losing his opening, ng QI had sheathed the Flowing Fire, holding in his hand the Frost-eye Crystal that glowed blue with extre chillness, with strands of frozen vapor swirling around it. He bead with delight at Xi and slowly uttered,
“Farewell.”
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