Amidst the rustling sounds,
Fei E Sword pierced through the Stone Buddha Unbreakable Divine Power.
The beam of sword light seemed to turn into myriad moths, burning itself as it enveloped the Stone Buddha in fire, both perished together.
What followed was a blade light filled with Zen.
Butterfly Transformation Saber!
This Grandmaster was said to have died from obsession, though the saber technique was already preserved by the Imperial Family, falling into the hands of Emperor Tongtian.
With one slash, Zhong Shenxiu suddenly had thoughts of Zhuangzi dreaming of the butterfly, pondering philosophically who the butterfly was and who he was.
The dream-like blade light instantly dismantled all his thoughts, causing Zhong Shenxiu a moment of disorientation.
At that moment, the remaining unique and absolute skills struck Zhong Shenxiu.
His body instantly shattered into pieces, dying a horrific death.
Death... what kind of experience is it?
Zhong Shenxiu felt it was just like sleeping, darkness enveloped him, losing consciousness.
Waking up meant resurrection, failing to wake meant true death!
When he opened his eyes again, he saw majestic palaces and Emperor Tongtian with hands clasped behind his back.
"The Undying Evil Emperor truly was a genius, I greatly admire the Nine Lives Evil Technique he invented, it’s a pity I couldn’t see the scripture..."
Emperor Tongtian exclaimed.
Some Divine Skill scriptures are creative works of later generations, their mysteries unknown to him.
However, within Emperor Tongtian’s own martial arts, though there was no resurrection skill, there was a cultivation technique capable of bringing him back from the brink of death, as long as he was still breathing, he could recover rapidly from any injury.
Otherwise, the body of the Martial Emperor, from which he had removed the brain, wouldn’t have recovered so quickly, and would probably have died on the spot.
However, the next moment, Emperor Tongtian’s expression suddenly changed.
As Zhong Shenxiu’s shattered body turned to ash, a mysterious toxin rapidly spread throughout the vicinity.
This was Zhong Shenxiu’s ultimate weapon—Void Poison!
Emperor Tongtian’s face darkened; this was a real darkening, indicating he had been severely poisoned.
He excelled in an array of martial arts and possessed a technique capable of neutralizing poisons, which he activated immediately, reducing the blackness on his face slightly.
But it only faded halfway and then no further, causing his face to become one of darkness and light.
He roared furiously, and an image of a dragon-shaped energy appeared around him.
Great Wu Dynasty was founded on martial prowess, and the Great Wu Ancestor specialized in various techniques, but his foundational skill was always—Emperor’s Dragon Fist!
This majestic set of fist techniques was incredibly heavy like mountains and rivers, holding a peak technique from the Heavenly Stele!
Moreover, practicing this technique had very special requirements, seemingly only achievable by the Emperor of Great Wu.
Thus, many thought this exceptional art was lost.
But undeniably, this martial art, only in the hands of Emperor Tongtian, could be executed with unimaginable finesse.
In the void, a dragon’s roar seemed to echo.
Zhong Shenxiu’s spirit dispersed, envisioning a powerful black dragon with majestic scales and a swaying tail!
It was almost equivalent to the fate of the Great Wu Dynasty!
Although the black dragon appeared aged, its claws remained sharp, and it seemed to even trend towards a new form.
Along with Emperor Tongtian’s punch, the huge dragon claw emerged.
A punch was thrown as if it carried the entire mountains and rivers of the Great Wu Dynasty!
Zhong Shenxiu even thought he saw a scroll of mountains and rivers, hearing the calls of peddlers, scholars reading, martial artists training, and soldiers drilling... every sound entered his ears, indeed carrying the entire court’s power with that single move.
Before such a massive force, even at the peak of his recovered state, Zhong Shenxiu could not withstand using the Stone Buddha Unbreakable Divine Power; he could only keep retreating.
As he retreated, Zhong Shenxiu brought his hands together in prayer and, through the Stone Buddha Scripture Divine Power, he fused the Invisible Qi Soldiers together, causing intense shockwaves.
The terrifying shockwaves hit the fist shadows, causing them to fluctuate continuously.
At the same time, poison from the void permeated everywhere, seeping into the landscape scroll and seemingly spreading plague throughout the world.
Black Death, smallpox, cholera...
In an instant, the landscape scroll transformed into a plague-ridden Hell.
Emperor Tongtian’s punching momentum stalled, worn down repeatedly by Zhong Shenxiu, until it finally dissipated.
"Those in the world who can withstand a punch from me are very few; come at me again!"
Emperor Tongtian roared and launched another punch.
From this punch, Zhong Shenxiu seemed to see mountains, lands, lakes, and rivers—the entire territory and nature of the Great Wu Dynasty!
"Stone Buddha Unbreakable!"
He suddenly pushed the Stone Buddha Unbreakable Divine Power to its limits, and a colossal stone Buddha statue rose from his spiritual world.
It had a compassionate face, one hand forming a seal and the other swinging out a palm!
Tathagata Suppressing Mountains and Rivers!
The sounds of collision continued, turning the vast hall into ruins.
Time passed unknowingly, and Zhong Shenxiu crawled out from under some rubble, muttering to himself, "To have knocked out five of my lives... you can be proud!"
Opposite him was an even more disheveled Emperor Tongtian.
Although the latter had the upper hand, the poison from the void in his body was intensifying continuously, making him appear as though he was about to dissolve completely.
Emperor Tongtian’s expression became incredibly incredulous; suddenly, he clenched his fists and threw his final punch.
This punch seemed to carry the grand epic of a civilization.
Zhong Shenxiu seemed to see the scene of rebellions rising throughout the world after the death of Shang Jun during the wayward times of the Shang Dynasty, and Emperor Tongtian’s rebellion against the Shang.
After the establishment of the Great Wu Dynasty, during a secret ritual of heaven worship, Emperor Tongtian’s head split open, and his brain turned into a pale monster that escaped, while his original body, under some mysterious influence, started to petrify, turning into a stele without any inscriptions—the Heavenly Stele!
The final move of Emperor’s Dragon Fist created by Emperor Tongtian was precisely the process of the Heavenly Stele’s formation.
Of course, that was not what he intended to summon.
Following the Heavenly Stele, it seemed one could see a dark figure on it.
The harsh lines outlined the opponent’s blurry shape.
Merely seeing this made Zhong Shenxiu’s mind roar, suddenly feeling a bit dizzy.
’Is Emperor Tongtian calling upon Niu Shenjun with his millennium of spiritual accumulation?!’
Zhong Shenxiu suddenly realized this and immediately deployed the Stone Buddha Unbreakable Divine Power.
Regardless of the initial intent of the Da Mo Saint Monk, perhaps ’Da Mo’ could slightly restrain ’Niu Shenjun’...
After being enveloped in stone skin, Zhong Shenxiu indeed felt much better.
"You forced my hand... since this world will no longer belong to me, let the ultimate destruction come!"
Emperor Tongtian’s intense spiritual will transmitted over.
Zhong Shenxiu’s thoughts moved, and he suddenly thought of a way to break the situation, immediately mirroring the ascension to Great Grandmaster, praying to a higher dimension of himself.
Endless colors rendered before his eyes, forming a door that seemed to connect to infinite worlds.
The Door of Ten Thousand Doors!