Chapter 420: Chapter 138: The Appearance of Chi You
The strong wind howled, sweeping across hundreds of miles.
A shadow plummeted from midair with wind pressure and, just before landing, suddenly transformed into a black water mysterious snake dozens of yards long, sweeping across the trees and gliding hundreds of meters before finally coming to a stop.
You Mountain Lord lifted his battered body, his wounds closing and stopping the blood, while also suppressing the injuries.
But before he could fully press down his injuries, another figure descended obliquely with a powerful wind, shaking the earth and raising dust that was then whisked away by the wind force.
You Mountain Lord instantly became alert, his forked tongue flickering in and out.
On the other side, Jiang Li stood up from a large pit, the Five Vile Evil Qi surrounding his body was dimmer than before, revealing his form that seemed to be shrouded in a shadowy outline, especially atop his head where two horn-like shadows fit together tightly, making it look as though he truly had grown horns.
His hair was like drawn swords, exuding sharpness, and he stood with a towering presence, like a mountain peak, resembling the vast sky.
Buffeted by the strong wind and crashing into the ground, Jiang Li seemed uninjured, his body radiating a non-human aura perfectly blocking the external forces, appearing indestructible.
This was the bodily change Jiang Li had experienced after his previous encounter with Ashuren.
The combination of Innate Qi and his physical body solidified his Innate True Body, and with the integration of the Divine Farmer’s appearance, his bloodline developed further, vaguely reverting to an ancestral form, yet this ancestor didn’t seem to be Emperor Yan Shennong, but rather more akin to Chi You.
The Divine Farmer’s appearance now seemed more like the embodiment of Chi You.
Unharmed, Jiang Li immediately scanned his surroundings upon landing, his sweeping gaze quickly landing on the enormous entity in the distance.
The surrounding trees lay broken and heaped around, easily allowing You Mountain Lord and Jiang Li to see each other, even though Jiang Li promptly covered his form with the Five Vile Evil Qi, he was still caught in a fleeting glimpse by You Mountain Lord.
This Devil Cultivator, despite being imbued with the power of the Snake Dao Fruit, possessed surprisingly good vision, possibly due to the black water mysterious snake lacking visual weaknesses.
With Jiang Li’s eye power, he could even see the lantern-sized eyes trembling violently, reflecting his own figure within.
’Rashamon uses the Palm Leaf Fan to divide the battlefield...’ Jiang Li thought to himself.
’This can’t be Li Qinglian, that aura doesn’t resemble a Sword Cultivator, but more like a God Demon, purer than cultivators of Divine Attribute or Demon Attribute, those crimson horn shadows...’ You Mountain Lord’s heart surged with emotions.
Their minds raced, and in an instant, the two figures hundreds of yards apart both made their move.
The black water mysterious snake suddenly lunged, shooting out like an arrow, not to attack Jiang Li, but to tactically retreat and escape.
Electric light suddenly appeared around Jiang Li, forming an invisible domain, and with a thunderous noise, he broke the sound barrier as a human-shaped Super Electromagnetic Cannon projectile shot straight towards the black water mysterious snake.
The distance of several hundred yards was almost instantaneous, the human projectile falling toward the body of the great snake like a meteor.
Even with its speed, the snake couldn’t outpace Jiang Li, who turned himself into an electromagnetic cannon, and the snake’s lengthy body was an all-too-obvious target.
In the blink of an eye, the black water mysterious snake rapidly contracted, and in that split second transformed from demon body back into human form, its speed so swift that it evaded Jiang Li’s attack.
"Boom!"
The human projectile passed directly over You Mountain Lord, hitting the nearby mountainside, blasting off chunks of rock.
Though the speed was extremely fast, it could only move in a straight line, and Jiang Li himself couldn’t control it.
The rocks were shredded by the Qi Force, dust flying everywhere, as You Mountain Lord flicked out his tongue, sensing the heat, deep and dark currents stirring, arcs of profound black electricity leaping and converging into a thick beam of lightning, blasting towards Jiang Li’s position.
Seemingly fleeing, but in reality hiding a transformation, You Mountain Lord had long prepared his Transformation Skill, waiting for the instant Jiang Li caught up to switch back to human form and counterattack with a powerful move.
Deserving his place as one of the Nineteen Demons of the Devil God Sect, even with support from the Taiping Sect, being acknowledged as one of the Nineteen Demons and surviving was a skill in itself. None renowned in the Blame-shifting Sect were easy to deal with.
"Xuanming One Qi Thunder."
The Mystic Sect widely considered Thunder Technique as the most formidable and grand among Magic Doors, as various wonderful methods could transform into Thunder Technique, especially the Taiping Sect, which saw the evolution of Thunder Technique as the ultimate aim of cultivation.
Clearly, You Mountain Lord had also received the True Inheritance of the Taiping Sect, his black water Xuan Qi morphing into Xuanming One Qi Thunder, exerting full force in an attempt to attack and kill Jiang Li.
But before the profound black thunder could strike, more intense electric light appeared.
The invisible domain reemerged, and upon touching the Xuanming One Qi Thunder, it seemed to absorb the Qi Mechanism, transforming into another force within the domain, a massive Array Plate phantom emerged, with both Jiang Li and You Mountain Lord enclosed within.
"Water Birth Wood?!" As a cultivator with a master’s lineage, You Mountain Lord was not as crude as other Devil Cultivators and immediately sensed that his Qi Mechanism was being drained, "Qimen Dunjia?!"
He was actually absorbing the energy of his enemy to aid in the evolution of his own skill.
As the Xuanming One Qi Thunder weakened, the Water Element Energy that was drained converged upon Jiang Li like myriad rivers flowing into the sea, causing the battlefield to stretch and then—
Heaven Cutting Sword Drawing Skill.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The fierce Sword Qi slashed onto the dark black thunder, exploding the Thunder Light, with three consecutive roars, countless electric sparks and arcs spread like a spider’s web, only to be forcefully broken through by the Sword Qi.
Its momentum unabated, it also struck You Mountain Lord’s Protective Demon Energy, unleashing a Vigorous Qi Wave.
"Bang!"
You Mountain Lord’s figure shook violently, his Protective Demon Energy almost instantly cleaved open, his clothes shattered, and dark black Snake Scales appeared only to be sliced through by the Sword Qi.
’So strong...’ he thought, not daring to believe it, mixed with extreme annoyance, ’If I had not been ambushed...’
Although he managed to block the fatal blow with a talisman, You Mountain Lord himself was also seriously injured. Coupled with being fanned away by the Palm Leaf Fan, it was adding insult to injury, covered in countless wounds.
However, to say that his strength was truly affected by the injuries might not necessarily be true. The power of a Devil Cultivator lies in his physical body, their Qi and blood at least several times more than that of a Human Species cultivator of the same realm, not to mention You Mountain Lord, who was a Black Water Mysterious Snake with a body tens of yards long.
What might be considered a fatal injury to a human, might not be the same for the Black Water Mysterious Snake.
The reason he fell into a disadvantage was because at this moment, Jiang Li had unleashed his full strength.
With dark blue blood spraying out, You Mountain Lord suffered another injury, but more crucially, it was the sudden surge of chaotic thoughts that sprang up in his heart.
Run?
Kill!
Surrender?
Begging for mercy...
These tumultuous thoughts emerged in his heart as he was struck by the sword, as if another self was always muttering inside.
Jiang Li’s sword was the Heart Demon Secret Sword, its killing power may not be as good as a sword coated in the Five Vile Qi, but in terms of restraining the enemy, it won by more than just a notch.
"Be thankful, this is my full strength which even Li Qinglian couldn’t force out."
A chilling voice entered his ears, a more terrifying sword momentum was gathering.
Overwhelming Evil Qi surged like a tide, light was obscured, life was eroded, countless streams of black Qi converged toward the front, and the ground’s Array Plate shadow had been unknowingly tainted pitch black.
Using the Wind Queen’ Strange Gate to communicate with Heaven and Earth, drawing Five Viscous Evil Qi into the body, using Magic Door inwardly and transmitting Five Vile Qi outward—
"Heaven Cutting Sword Drawing Skill."
The invisible battlefield abruptly expanded, encompassing all the Five Vile Qi, transforming into a pitch-black sword scabbard encompassing the Great Circle Sword. Instantly, the battlefield transformed, the long sword unsheathed, and decay and filth converged into Sword Light, a black line streaking across the sky, as if dividing Heaven and Earth, or swallowing all life between them.
Reality hit You Mountain Lord, who was affected by the invasive thoughts. The scales on his body all stood on end, and his sense of crisis forcefully suppressed all other notions.
"Roar!"
He let out an ear-piercing howl unlike that of any snake, as the massive form of the Black Water Mysterious Snake replaced his human form. The Xuanming One Qi Thunder erupted wildly, and his blood and Qi thundered.
Numerous black thunderbolts formed an electric web, the Black Water Mysterious Snake’s bones roared, segment against segment, Qi blood pulsated, pushing the demon body to its limits.
However, before that threadlike Sword Light, all Essence Qi was but an illusion.
The Xuanming One Qi Thunder was severed, the interwoven electric sparks and arcs split in two, following were the dark black Snake Scales; the Sword Light, imbued with a sense of decay, effortlessly embedded into the scales, without a sound, then it sliced through flesh and onward, cutting across bones.
From start to finish, flying out three hundred yards backward, leaving behind a lasting pitch-black sword mark that lingered long after.