Chapter 698: Chapter 695: Golden Core Self-Detonation!
But just at the moment when the ferocious fire tornado was about to devour the gaunt old man, the surrounding void seemed to freeze.
Immediately afterward, a defensive light shield, condensed from True Yuan, appeared between Li Chen and the gaunt old man, preventing the fire tornado from advancing even half an inch further.
Seeing that his opponent actually blocked his lethal strike, Li Chen’s heart suddenly filled with shock.
It seemed that even with his current level of cultivation, running the Nine Heavens Star Technique, he still couldn’t defeat a Golden Core Late Stage powerhouse.
At this moment, the gaunt old man was also extremely terrified.
Had he not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that such a horrifying attack could come from the hands of a Foundation Establishment junior.
However, he then remembered that the other party had deep connections with the Cloud Sea Sect, one of the Top Ten Super Immortal Sects, as well as with the Penglai Disciple Xu Fu. And he had even reached Master Sanchi’s cave dwelling ahead of him. It wasn’t difficult to understand that he could obtain such a heaven-defying cultivation technique.
Moreover, the gaunt old man could keenly feel that the other party’s True Yuan was simply not sufficient to support the operation of such a heaven-defying technique. This strike had essentially exhausted all of the True Yuan within his body.
In other words, Li Chen was now running on fumes!
“Junior, being able to pressure me, an old man, to such an extent with your Foundation Establishment cultivation, you can consider your life worthwhile!”
The gaunt old man laughed savagely, condensing black lightning in his palm that intertwined like ancient vines and old trees, ready to blast toward Li Chen’s top of the skull, his Life Gate.
Li Chen’s expression turned as solemn as a mountain. Just as he was about to sacrifice his Nascent Soul Talisman and fight to the death, he suddenly felt his gaze shake and clear. Out of nowhere, an ancient and mysterious pattern of light burst forth from his pupils.
Then, he suddenly felt that the world he saw in front of his eyes was completely different from before. The most intuitive feeling was that all movements around him had noticeably slowed down.
Just like a slow-motion picture!
When Li Chen looked at the gaunt old man again, he saw mottled light spots appear on his light shield defense. It was as if they were the stars in the cosmos that were about to fall from the sky at any moment.
These were the weak points of his defensive light shield!
Realizing this, Li Chen was overjoyed.
He hadn’t expected his spiritual power to advance at this critical moment of life and death and awaken the talent for Insight!
Nothing in the world is perfect; everything has its flaws!
This meant that everything in this world, whether alive or not, has its own weaknesses. The only difference lies in the size of these weaknesses.
The function of Insight was to quickly discover these weaknesses and execute the most precise and effective attack. In a life-and-death fight, it allowed the weak to overcome the strong with minimal effort.
Suppressing the wild joy in his heart, Li Chen shouted loudly to Dragon Soul, who was still engaged in a life-and-death battle with the Black Water Teng Snake.
The Seven-star Dragon Abyss responded to its master’s call, swiftly extricating itself from the entanglement with the Black Water Teng Snake, and transformed into a streak of light that flew into Li Chen’s hands.
Li Chen, holding the sword in both hands, poured all of his True Yuan into the blade. His body moved with the Sword Shadow, becoming Man and Sword as One, and he struck out a sky-shattering rainbow that cleaved towards the cluster of those mottled light spots.
At the moment of impact, an extremely faint noise suddenly erupted.
The tip of the sword pierced and bloomed from within!
The seemingly indestructible defensive light shield, carrying terrifying energy, immediately became covered with spiderweb-like mottled cracks.
“How is this possible?”
The gaunt old man’s eyes widened in shock, his face filled with disbelief.
“Meeting me, Li Chen, nothing is impossible!”
Li Chen’s deep voice suddenly rang out, and instantaneously, he was seen wielding Three Thousand Magic Swords, conjuring an exceptionally violent Sword Shadow Tornado, carrying the power to destroy heavens and earth, sweeping towards the gaunt old man.
The gaunt old man inwardly cursed, desperate to escape!
Unfortunately, he was half a beat too slow.
His withered body, in the next instant, was pierced through by the Three Thousand Magic Swords, leaving countless gaping holes. Blood gushed out, a sight too horrible to endure.
Seeing his physical body destroyed, the gaunt old man’s expression became twisted with ferocity, and he had no choice but to abandon this shell, allowing his Divine Soul to flee and escape to the heavens.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it. You brat, daring to destroy my physical form, I will crush you to ashes and disperse them to the winds. Otherwise, the hatred in my heart will not be extinguished!”
Li Chen sneered fiercely: “Hmph, old fool, do you think you still have a chance for revenge?”
Before his words even faded, Li Chen’s figure suddenly burst forth, charging towards the gaunt old man’s Divine Soul with a fierce slash.
Seeing this, the gaunt old man was greatly alarmed. Now without a physical body, having only his Divine Soul, he was unable to withstand such a sharp attack from Li Chen.
He was immensely shocked, urgently calling for the Black Water Snake to come to his defense.
However, the Black Water Snake, having developed its Spiritual Wisdom, seeing its master’s physical body destroyed, driven by the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, it simply let out a hiss and then swayed its enormous tail, fleeing towards the exit of the Underground Palace, escaping without a trace.
The Black Water Snake’s departure cut off the gaunt old man’s last hope of survival.
Now with his physical body destroyed and his Divine Soul seriously injured, and also being tightly locked within the Three Thousand Sword Formation, he was utterly unable to flee this death ground.
Realizing his desperate situation, the gaunt old man looked around, his eyes filled with despair.
Then suddenly, he threw his head back and let out a savage and bitter laugh.
“Thinking back on my life as Yuj Longzi, dominant and unrestrained, and yet to perish at the hands of a junior, how pathetic and laughable!”
After roaring out these sorrowful and mournful words, his dark and chilling eyes stared fixedly at Li Chen.
“Junior, if you will not let me live, I will not let you survive either. On the Netherworld Road, having you accompany me, this old man will not feel lonely. Haha, hahaha…”
After a burst of crazy laughter, from his Dantian, a golden light emerged, quickly spinning around to form a Death Vortex, devouring everything in the surrounding area.
This was his Golden Core!
And also the foundation of his thousand years of cultivation, once it exploded, its power would rival that of a heavy nuclear weapon!
Seeing this, Li Chen was greatly shocked. Without any hesitation, he immediately increased his speed to the extreme, almost twenty times the speed of sound, dashing towards the defensive barrier left by Master Sanchi.
That was the only shelter available; only by hiding there was there a glimmer of survival.
Otherwise, with a Golden Core self-detonation unleashing such a terrifying energy, enough to destroy the entire Underground Palace, staying here meant certain death.
Just as Li Chen’s figure passed through the defensive barrier, a resounding explosion that shook the heavens and the earth erupted. This update is available on novｅlfire.net
The entire magma Fire Sea was annihilated in an instant. The vast mountain, unable to withstand such a terrifying bombardment, collapsed on the spot.
Flames and boulders shot out, and the flora, birds, beasts, and even the mountains and rivers within tens of kilometers were utterly destroyed in a moment.
As if the Death God had passed, a scene of purgatory!