The turtle and snake shadows behind the opponent were almost identical to his own!

It was Zhenwu!

Impossible!

Yagyu Munenori didn't have time to shout. His twin swords had already slashed out. The Tachi and Juzumaru Tsunetsugu transformed into two beams of white light descending into the world. The second thing that came to his mind was to kill the person in front of him immediately!

Immediately! He couldn't let him live even for a moment!

He possessed the power of a pseudo-immortal, although only a portion, but combined with the power of Myoken Bosatsu, as well as his own cultivation, it shouldn't be difficult to instantly kill this true immortal before him!

"Welcoming the gods, revering the arrival of the imperial deities, the mountains and rivers follow, their mighty spirits are fully prepared...!"

The image of the white-faced Zhenwu leaped out.

The Tachi fell, and the white light separated rivers, seas, mountains, and peaks.

Ji Xiang stretched out a hand:

"Imperial Heaven's Retribution!"

An invisible force vibrated in the air. The two beams of white light that had not yet landed were abruptly stopped, and then vanished like smoke!

The sword energy disappeared abruptly without a trace. The Rai-kiri treasure sword hovered beside the white-faced Zhenwu like a flying sword!

"...!"

What happened?

Why was his attack interrupted?

The divine weapon, Tachi, and the treasure sword, Juzumaru...the power emitted by these two weapons... disappeared! It disappeared after the other party raised his hand and uttered those four words!

For the first time, Yagyu Munenori felt a heavy drum beating in his heart!

No matter how powerful the attack method, no matter how powerful the defense technique, as long as there is a battle, there will be weaknesses.

But if you cannot fight... it is not that there are no weaknesses, but that there are weaknesses everywhere!

Attack is defense, but if the attack is abruptly stopped midway, the attacking side is almost defenseless against the counterattacking side!

Absolutely not!

Yagyu Munenori's manifested Myoken Bosatsu now transformed into an angry visage. The treasured sword and divine sword were swung once again. This time, he used sword techniques!

One ray of white light transformed into two, and two transformed into four, presenting a stance of slashing and stabbing forward from different angles!

Yagyu Shinkage-ryū, Saru Gaeshi In'ei! (Monkey Return Mountain Shade)

Although Yagyu Shinkage-ryū is a style that takes disarming and unarmed combat as its essence, so-called winning not by killing but by not being killed, but...

At this time, Ji Xiang had no weapons in his hand at all. The Rai-kiri was just hovering around him like a flying sword. The art of controlling swords was a unique trick of the Central Lands. Yagyu Munenori understood that even if he knocked down that flying sword, it would be useless, because the other party's strength was not in that stolen treasure sword.

Who exactly was disarming who?

The four rays of white light intersected in an instant!

"Imperial Heaven's Retribution!"

It was the same scene again. The white light disappeared, as if it had never appeared. The sword momentum also stopped abruptly! A large gap appeared in front of Yagyu Munenori's chest. He abruptly retracted his sword and retreated hundreds of meters!

This time, the feeling was clearer than the last time. The power he emitted completely disappeared when the other party raised his hand and said those four words, as if he had taken this cool pose on his own initiative and frozen in place in an instant.

What, aren't you going to attack? In Yagyu Munenori's eyes, the "white-faced Zhenwu" on the opposite side seemed to be provoking him in this way.

Yagyu Munenori swung the Tachi fiercely!

This sword is a divine weapon, with the power to split mountains with one strike! He absolutely did not believe that it could not kill an immortal!

One sword, two swords, ten swords!

The sword energy transformed into ten rays of white light. Although the power was not as great as the previous four rays, it was overwhelming like a tide, unleashing ten moves in an instant!

Ten Great Swords!

After ten moves, he followed up with the treasure sword Juzumaru, unleashing thirty-one consecutive strikes in an instant!

Outer Thunder Sword Thirty-One Stances!

The combination of sword and blade could destroy rivers and cut off seas, but such a vast power was once again dispelled lightly by those four words!

"Imperial Heaven's Retribution."

As the four words fell, dozens of sword and blade attacks were all extinguished. Only floating dust remained in the world. Other than that, it seemed that nothing had happened.

Fear of the unknown arose in Yagyu Munenori's heart.

It was clear that the other party was full of weaknesses, but once he fought, he would turn into that state just now. Was this supernatural power?

Slashing, stabbing, thrusting, returning blows, no matter how powerful the sword and blade techniques, if they could not hit, they would be meaningless. But he was the number one swordsman in the world. Such continuous slashes and thrusts, it was impossible for anyone to completely dissolve them in an instant.

Being able to see a strike and dissolve it was because one saw the movement, but with dozens of strikes, his weapon was about to slash at this Ming Dynasty immortal in an instant, yet he did not move, but waited until the moment when dozens of strikes converged to intervene and eliminate them. Did he see through his sword and blade techniques, or did he really...

Lack skill!

"What did you do? That was definitely not blocking or deflecting. Is it a supernatural power? A spell? Or does your body also carry the effect of a divine weapon? Is this the skill of a true immortal?"

Yagyu Munenori tried to extract some information from Ji Xiang's mouth, but Ji Xiang chuckled: "How can one reveal one's own secrets to others? I'm afraid I can't answer."

"Well, your attack should also be over. I've also finished watching your moves. Now, all your power has been seen through by me."

"Seen through?"

Listening to Ji Xiang's words, Yagyu Munenori took a deep breath and sneered: "Are immortals all so arrogant?"

"You haven't even seen my full strength, yet you say you've seen through me? Truly arrogant and ignorant to the extreme!"

In Ji Xiang's eyes, the information of Myoken Bosatsu emerged. It was very long, including the spells and swordsmanship that Yagyu Munenori would use. Now, he had finally finished reading it, and it also made Ji Xiang have a little interest in this divine position.

Listening to Yagyu Munenori's loud response, Ji Xiang reached out his hand, which scared him into raising his sword to block, but Ji Xiang didn't care:

"Li Gui meets Li Kui, Myoken Bosatsu. If I eat you, there will be a huge improvement to the form and spirit of the white-faced Zhenwu in my body, but because it is an extension of the Zhenwu divine position, it cannot be easily subdued. I must use the method of your power's origin to strip it away, which is the Buddhist technique from the beginning."

"As for full strength or something, what are you? You can also display full strength in front of me?"

Ji Xiang revealed a strange smile. Yagyu Munenori held his sword vigilantly, and a sense of crisis rose inexplicably in his heart!

Bang! Ji Xiang put his hands together, and then transformed into a Buddhist mudra!

"Om, shuli mali, mama limali, shuli shuli, svaha!"

"Ucchusma, the Vajra of Filth Cleansing Mantra!"

Boom! A foul divine power arose out of thin air, carrying a transparent flame of purity! The form and spirit of Myoken Bosatsu was burning fiercely in the blink of an eye!

Yagyu Munenori felt that his internal organs were being scorched by these suddenly appearing transparent flames, and the divine power of Myoken Bosatsu was being dissolved by the foul and obscure qi, gradually receding! The operation of divine power began to stagnate, and even the divine position was about to leave him!

Damn it, what kind of spell is this?

Although Yagyu Munenori was skilled in sword and blade techniques, his proficiency in spells was not high, but after displaying the divine position, the divine mantras that could be cast could also be cast with full power. At this time, he felt danger and quickly recited the protective divine mantra of Myoken Bosatsu, hoping to fight against Ji Xiang's Ucchusma Vajra mantra.

"Gu di di du suo zha, a ruo mi zha, wu du zha, gu qi zha..."

"The Buddhas of the past forty Ganges sands have said, I have heard this great divine mantra from the Buddhas in the past, since then, I have lived in Jambudvipa for seven hundred kalpas, serving as a great national teacher leading the four continents, the king among the stars, and gaining the greatest freedom..."

As the divine mantra of Myoken Bosatsu was chanted, the pure flames on Yagyu Munenori's body gradually receded, and the power of filth was also resisted outside, but the divine power that had been dissolved before could not be regenerated. The starlight of the Big Dipper appeared outside Yagyu Munenori's body, sheltering him.

Just as Yagyu Munenori felt that the overall situation was gradually stabilizing, he decided to retreat temporarily and find a few teammates to deal with Ji Xiang again, before he had time to flash away, the mantra in Ji Xiang's mouth, along with the mudra in his hand, suddenly changed!

"Cundi holds the wheel, turning away confusion and breaking it, representing the cycle of birth and death in the twenty-five realms, which can be stopped by it!"

"Cundi Fire Offering and Perfection Confession Dharma!"

"Peel!"

As the mantra fell, a wheel of bright fire appeared out of thin air in front of Ji Xiang!

Yagyu Munenori's figure froze in an instant, and the form and spirit of Myoken Bosatsu were completely stripped out!

The divine symbol lost its form and spirit, and the boiling divine power spewed out from Yagyu Munenori's mouth, like silk threads being pulled away, and Ji Xiang at this time drew out the golden mallet from his waist and threw it with force.

"Deliverance of Gods and Men!"

Activating the golden mallet required consuming ten percent of one's own fixed vitality. Reciting different mantras could unleash different great powers. After the four words "Deliverance of Gods and Men" were recited, the next strike of the golden mallet would definitely hit the vital point and break all the magic blessings on the opponent's body!

Yagyu Munenori's body shook, and a huge sense of weakness enveloped him. Seeing the golden hammer flying over, he quickly raised the Tachi to block it.

Clang! The Rai-kiri treasure sword slashed from the sky, blocking the Tachi for an instant. The next strike of the golden mallet accurately hit Yagyu Munenori's heart.

Break!

The form and spirit of Myoken Bosatsu completely broke away from Yagyu Munenori at this moment, and then Ji Xiang opened his mouth wide. The form and spirit of Myoken Bosatsu, the turtle and snake shadows, and the starlight of the Big Dipper, all gathered into a seven-colored smoke, and were eaten into Ji Xiang's stomach in one breath!

This scene not only frightened Yagyu Munenori, but even the little Celestial Master hiding in the distance was stunned.

He...he ate the celestial god?

Ji Xiang swallowed the form and spirit of Myoken Bosatsu, and felt that the form and spirit of the white-faced Zhenwu began to solidify, as if it was about to transform into a divine position. However, this stripping battle was not over yet. What was stripped out at this time was the external "Zhenwu image" of Myoken Bosatsu. What remained in Yagyu Munenori's body was the magic power of Shinto and Buddhism.

"I serve the mighty Heaven, the rivers, the sun, the moon, the mountains, the seas, the stars are in my palm, I make it bright and it is bright, I make it dark and it is dark. The thirty-three heavens are under my law, I make it east and it is east, I make it west and it is west, I make it south and it is south, I make it north and it is north!"

Yagyu Munenori was immediately suppressed by a vast force and could not move. Thirty-three paths of killing energy were generated again in the world, cutting the flesh, destroying the bones, and killing the three souls and seven spirits, all evil qi!

"Yagyu Munenori!"

The naming of the white-faced Zhenwu!

Yagyu Munenori heard his name, and then the aura of the entire world in his eyes seemed to expand and thicken by two times at this moment, and he appeared as small as an ant in the vast ocean in this expanding world.

"You have been captured by me, and will be convicted according to the laws of my Great Ming Dynasty."

"Let's tentatively treat you as a robber."

Ji Xiang's voice sounded in Yagyu Munenori's ears, as if several mouths were speaking at the same time, causing his mind to vibrate, his spirit to be unstable, and the essence of his entire body was about to pour out and escape. The thirty-three paths of killing energy constantly rushed into his flesh and primordial spirit!

"According to the Great Ming Law,"

"Robbers who kill people, set fire to people's houses, rape people's wives and daughters, rob prisons and warehouses, and are involved in city government offices, and accumulate to more than a hundred people. If they hold bows, arrows, weapons, and ambush on the road, if the stolen goods are clearly proven, then regardless of the number of people, at the place of robbery—behead and display the head to the public!"

Bang! His flesh exploded in response to the words, leaving only a head rolling on the ground.

Ji Xiang pulled out the Tachi. At this time, under the starry night, the divine power flowed on the sword's edge, the light shone brightly, and the national power of Japan was entwined on it, praising it:

"What a good sword! This seat is in need of a handy magic sword!"

Then, he raised the sword and faced the distant Motoyama Castle... and swung it forcefully!