Chapter 341: Chapter 64 Changes in the Celestial Phenomena
The sword was like a floating light, and also like a wandering dragon, slashing towards the human silhouette that suddenly appeared beside Jiang Li with the speed of thunder that doesn’t cover one’s ears.
The heavens inherently exist without form and shape; Ji Jiji, who had mastered the Heavenly Dharma, could erase all traces, merging with all phenomena, seemingly like a nonexistent person, coming and going without a shadow.
But his Heavenly Dharma ultimately couldn’t merge with the Five Vile Qi, thereby revealing his traces within the Evil Qi.
Faced with this bursting Sword Light, the human silhouette had no choice but to materialize, with the figure in a blue Dao Robe grasping firmly with five fingers, a massive fluctuation converging at the fist edge, a fist set the Sword Light in motion.
"Bang!"
The Qi Force exploded, yet did not become a Qi wave, but instead a bright expanse of white, like a radiance illuminating everything.
The surrounding trees all turned into shards within this radiance, a matchless strength shattered them into dust, a dark shadow suddenly appeared in the light, obscure and wild, and an evil dragon surged into Ji Jiji’s body.
Heart Demon Secret Sword!
Since the "Yin Talisman Scripture" represented the Power of Stealing Heaven, then the magic door effective against Heaven should also be useful against Ji Jiji. If the heavens have emotions, they too shall age; Heart Demon Secret Sword was precisely the method targeting Ji Jiji.
However, when the shadow touched his body, a massive fluctuation suddenly appeared on Ji Jiji, colliding with the Sword Intent of the Heart Demon Secret Sword, the shadow suddenly twisted.
"Consciousness." Jiang Li’s eyes slightly moved.
A fluctuation of consciousness emerged within the soul-free body, also making Ji Jiji’s grasping fist style perfect, uniting Essence, Qi, and Spirit, forcibly shattering the twisted shadow.
While the Heart Demon Secret Sword indeed worked against the "Yin Talisman Scripture," clearly, Jiang Li’s Sword Intent hadn’t matured enough to breach Ji Jiji. Effective did not mean restrictive.
Amid the wildly dancing debris, Ji Jiji tread on air to close in, and along his path, none of the Sword Qi was able to stop his approach.
He quickly reached within a three feet distance, his fist like a heavy hammer, capable of shaking mountains, solidifying space, his Three Elements Combined fist style perfect, Qi Force power without any slight leakage, not stirring up a trace of wind force, yet carrying a momentum that filled the universe.
It was as though the punch came from another dimension, coming from the vast vast heaven, the Fist Seal in Jiang Li’s eyes continually enlarged, as if filling heaven and earth, even enveloping heaven and earth within the fist.
This punch, like a giant holding up the sky, made Jiang Li seem so tiny before the Fist Seal.
This signified that Ji Jiji’s fist momentum had begun suppressing Jiang Li’s spirit, causing his perceptions to experience erroneous illusions.
Always accustomed to borrowing the force of heaven and earth to suppress others, today was the first time Jiang Li experienced the sensation of being crushed by the force of heaven and earth.
At that moment, Jiang Li blocked the punch in front of him, his right palm squarely defending in front of his chest.
Like the enormous punch that filled the universe striking his right palm, the palm force exploded, yet as if hitting empty space, it couldn’t impact Ji Jiji’s body, and the supremely concentrated fist power was forced to pour into Jiang Li’s entire body with the blockage.
It was like falling into water, the air broken open like water flow, a huge roar ensued.
"Boom!"
Jiang Li’s body produced a sonic boom, air surging like tidal waves toward the surroundings, forming a Qi cloud.
Then—
The roaring abruptly ceased.
Jiang Li’s figure merely retreated three inches, then halted in mid-air, solidly borrowing the force of the Fist Seal.
Not on solid ground, theoretically without anything to borrow force from, Jiang Li’s only possibility was to be struck and sent flying. With this breakthrough velocity of the sound barrier, even retreating for a breath’s time would span over a hundred yards.
But Jiang Li staunchly caught that punch.
Originally inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, Jiang Li indeed was injured under Ji Jiji’s offensive, at that time his capability was indeed not as good as Ji Jiji’s, even though this Ji Jiji was essentially a reanimated corpse.
However, times had changed, Jiang Li had taken Ginsengfruit and in an extremely lavish manner opened the remaining four Qi Seas, all Nine Springs were opened, together achieving the Nine Palaces Eight Trigram Image, internally mobilizing Qimen, after the Precelestial Five Elements Qi were all removed, his Innate True Body had begun showing effectiveness.
He was very strong.
Even without displaying the "Qi Tomb," using the power of heaven and earth, he was still formidable.
After all, was Cultivation Technique such an inconvenient thing?
Understanding the principles of nature, using the power of heaven and earth was indeed a path, but why not borrowing the Five Vile Qi?
The Qi cloud swept away the wood splint and dust, yet also a great amount of dark gray Qi came rolling in, encircling Jiang Li, a Sword Light emerging from his palm, the Great Circle Sword as if growing out from the palm itself, thrusting forward towards the Fist Seal.
Retreat!
Ji Jiji urgently retreated in mid-air.
The Great Circle Sword grew an inch, he retreated an inch; sword advancing, man retreating.
The reason being, as the Five Vile Qi rolled and surged toward the Sword Light, surrounding the sword blade, making it grow darker and filled with vile dirt.
Ji Jiji’s body seemed ethereal, True Qi useless, Strength likewise ineffective, all external attacks were as if hitting empty space, completely unable to harm his body, but the Five Vile Qi, this most taboo filth between heaven and earth, he dared not directly confront.
The complete sword blade swiftly grew, Jiang LiClutching the sword, the person with the sword transformed into a long rainbow, the surging Evil Qi also transforming into sword shape, turning into an Evil Sword stabbing forth.
Simultaneously, more Five Vile Qi from all directions enveloped him, rendering Ji Jiji’s ability to merge with all phenomena difficult to exert.
He could only face the attack head-on.
"Zhu Rong."
Vigorous Flame Qi suddenly surged from Ji Jiji’s body, covering him with a red scale armor, mysterious and indescribable runes flashing within the armor.
Ji Jiji’s entire appearance transformed drastically, his fingers clenched like dragon claws, and his immense Fist Power slammed into the sword formed by the Five Vile Qi, instantly causing the sword to collapse under the extreme force of the fist.
Jiang Li had only been guiding and controlling the Five Vile Qi, unable to truly condense it into a solid sword body. Against methods like Essence Qi, the Five Vile Qi was naturally invincible, but it struggled against pure physical strength.
In that moment, Ji Jiji manifested the Zhu Rong Dharma, exhibiting incredible physical strength, dispersing the Evil Qi and shifting his figure across the sky, delivering another punch upon the Sword Rainbow.
"Clang!"
The sound of metal striking metal echoed through the air, the Sword Rainbow turned to the right, separating man from sword, Jiang Li drifted like catkins, while the Great Circle Sword turned into a Sword Light, enveloping the Five Vile Qi like a murky long river, swirling through the air at high speed, and striking Ji Jiji.
The Sword Qi fiercely cut, sparking on the red scale armor; then, suddenly, Blood Light emerged.
What seemed like a simple Sword Light was actually teeming with Sword Qi inside, flowing swiftly like water, continuously slicing through the scale armor.
Simply put, an electric saw!
This Sword Light was, in essence, an electric saw.
With Zhu Rong’s Dharma clad in scale armor, Ji Jiji naturally possessed exceptional defensive capabilities, but still, he was wounded by Jiang Li’s Sword Light.
The inherently sharp Great Circle Sword, cutting in this manner, had its Power clearly imaginable.
The key was that the sword also carried the Five Vile Qi.
Almost instantly at the appearance of the wound, a faint black qi began to infest it.
"Evil Qi..."
Ji Jiji murmured softly, the flesh at the wound squirming, rejecting the injured part, while simultaneously, the Qi Mechanism on his body changed, "Yinglong."
A pair of golden Dragon Wings unfolded on his back, gently flapping, generating a fierce Wind Force.
This was undoubtedly the Yinglong’s Wings.
But Ji Jiji remained in the form of Zhu Rong.
Remarkably, he could embody two types of dharma bodies.
The practitioners of "Form Tomb" had to completely control one Dharma to perfection before attempting another, and the difficulty of cultivating a second Dharma Body was ten times greater, with few succeeding to perfection.
As for simultaneously embodying multiple Dharmas, only the Yellow Emperor had achieved this.
However, Ji Jiji had done it effortlessly.
This was undoubtedly the credit of the Heavenly Dharma.
Heaven is formless, without Dharma, thus it can transform into anything.
As the Dragon Wings fluttered, Ji Jiji moved swiftly, nearly teleporting, avoiding the slashing Sword Light, his body with the red armored dragon wings sprinted through the air, charging directly at Jiang Li.
His five fingers spread open, each one like a Sharp Sword, every finger seemed to evolve Swordsmanship, ancient and plain without a clear system, yet possessing an intimidating Sword Intent that dominated the world.
The Ji Family’s Swordsmanship?
Such Sword Intent naturally reminded one of the Ji Family’s Swordsmanship.
Meanwhile, Ji Jiji’s use of Swordsmanship also led Jiang Li to speculate about his situation.
Inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, Ji Jiji had only used the Heavenly Dharma and the Grasping Fist Seal, but today, he showcased both Zhu Rong and Yinglong transformations, and even deployed Swordsmanship.
This seemed to indicate that this ancestor of the Ji Family was rapidly reclaiming his memory of moves, at an extremely fast pace.
But Ji Jiji had already died.
His Divine Soul annihilated, even if his Physical Body still retained memories, how could it perform such exquisite Swordsmanship?
Without a doubt, there was something strange in this.
Jiang Li was multitasking, his thoughts racing, as countless Sword Qi burst forth from all over his body, transforming into Sword Silk, firm or soft, fast or slow, multiple layers of sword momentum converging to counter the attacking Ji Jiji.
With a sweep of his right claw, Ji Jiji cut through the strands of Sword Silk with his Sword Fingers, the Dragon Wings opening and closing, two Sword Gangs slashing horizontally from both sides.
However, the myriad Sword Silks wrapped around the Sword Gangs like silk around a finger, while simultaneously Jiang Li controlled the Great Circle Sword with his Divine Thought, the sword circling through the air, striking from behind Ji Jiji.
Caught in a pincer attack, this ancestor of the Ji Family was in a precarious situation, yet his eyes remained calm as ancient wells.
Both wings and scale armor disappeared, Ji Jiji reverted to his original form, transforming into a Daoist, his face only left with his eyes, the color of his pupils almost transparent.
His eyes seemed to peer through all things, his gaze making even Jiang Li uneasy to face directly, his fingers forming a sword, a point of light twinkling at the fingertips.
That tiny point of light seemed minuscule, but the brightness emitting from it compelled Jiang Li to burst into laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha."
The warning from the Divine Blessing Daoist Artifact, Jade Ruyi, made Jiang Li laugh out loud, as if to demonstrate the immense Power of that single pointer.
The reason Ji Jiji had approached Jiang Li was for this move; his previous two moves, displaying Zhu Rong and Yinglong transformations, were feints, he was actually accumulating energy, waiting to deliver a decisive blow.
He had indeed "come to life," employing various moves and strategies, this was no longer just a soulless body, but a living entity.