Free Web NovelChapter 353: Chapter 353: Fusing True Qi
With an earth-shattering BOOM, the purple qi between the elder’s brows exploded violently.
Amidst the shattering purple light, a surge of Dragon and Tiger True Qi began to rise, taking on a nascent form.
Seeing this, the two elders beside him grunted, channeling their own Dragon and Tiger True Qi to merge with it.
"ROAR!"
First, a tiger’s roar that shook the heavens echoed through the sky. The sound wave caused the hearts of all who heard it to tremble.
It was immediately followed by a long, drawn-out dragon’s cry. The world itself seemed to change color as dark clouds churned like a furious, stormy sea.
Before everyone’s astonished eyes, the True Qi behind the elder transformed, manifesting a colossal Dharma Aspect.
The Dharma Aspect was over thirty feet tall. Its left half was a White Tiger, with Geng Metal Qi flowing through its snow-white fur. Its right half was a Cyan Dragon, its cyan scales shimmering with Yi Wood Radiance.
It had the head of a tiger and the horns of a dragon, its draconic eyes filled with menace. It was wreathed in Dragon Tiger Gang Qi so dense it seemed solid, each wisp containing devastating power.
"A Martial Dao Dharma Aspect? I didn’t think you lot from the Profound Daoist Sect had also read the Profound Celestial Treasure Talisman. To think you actually managed to research and create a Dharma Aspect."
A sharp glint flashed in Xu Yunfan’s eyes. The Ten Extremes True Qi in his palm formed a vortex, which began to methodically unravel and devour the Dragon Tiger Gang Qi from the newly formed Dragon Tiger Celestial Venerable Dharma Aspect.
He was familiar with Dragon and Tiger Pill Qi.
He had also read the Profound Celestial Treasure Talisman, so of course he knew its weaknesses.
The Dharma Aspect shattered in an instant. The three elders screamed and collapsed, their Blood Qi rupturing. The backlash from the destroyed Dharma Aspect had annihilated their Blood Qi!
Xu Yunfan took a step forward. The stone tiles beneath his feet exploded as he transformed into an afterimage, tearing through the air.
Shockwaves rippled through the air. Before the Xuanzhen Elder could react, his vision suddenly went dark.
Xu Yunfan’s right palm descended like a Celestial Fall, his five fingers clamping down on the elder’s skull. His palm’s Ten Extremes True Qi enveloped the man’s head.
"Since your True Qi has already collapsed, you might as well give it to me."
Before he had even finished speaking, the elder began to tremble violently as wisps of green smoke poured from his seven orifices.
The Dragon and Tiger True Qi he had arduously cultivated for 120 years now surged from his Baihui acupoint like a bursting dam.
The Mixed Element True Seed in Xu Yunfan’s palm spun rapidly, viciously tearing apart the incoming Dragon and Tiger Qi.
The Tiger Killing Gang Qi was refined by the Ten Extremes True Qi into Crimson Flowing Fire, while the Dragon Qi was transformed into an ethereal blue water mist.
The elder’s face withered at a visible rate. His skin cracked, revealing the dried blood vessels beneath, making him look like a terracotta warrior weathering away.
Even more terrifying were the remnants of dissipated True Qi.
Whenever any Dragon and Tiger True Qi tried to escape, fine scale patterns would appear on Xu Yunfan’s skin, like millions of hungry little mouths, devouring the stray energy completely.
The Profound Turtle Shell under the elder’s Daoist robe emitted the sound of cracking under immense strain. This Lifebound Magical Treasure was also being drained of its Spiritual nature, its plates flaking off into ash.
Three breaths later, Xu Yunfan pulled back his palm and flicked his fingers, scattering a handful of bone dust.
The empty husk of a body collapsed, turning to dust the moment it hit the ground. A gust of wind swept it away without a trace. Only the scorched claw prints of a tiger and the watery outline of a dragon remained, proof that a Ninth Realm Grandmaster had fallen here.
’You have absorbed a large amount of Dragon and Tiger True Qi. The total amount of your Ten Extremes Martial Arts True Qi has increased significantly. You have reached the Hundred Years of Cultivation limit.’
He glanced at a message floating on his Attribute Panel.
With no time to examine it closely, he felt the True Qi surging within him once more. Xu Yunfan looked up at the two remaining Xuanzhen Elders and bared his teeth in a chilling grin.
The Ten Extremes True Qi in his body churned like a raging sea. He had not yet fully refined the True Qi he had just absorbed, and wisps of it were already escaping from his pores.
He raised his head to look at the two remaining elders of the Profound Daoist Sect, his stark white teeth barely visible, like a Fierce Beast choosing its prey.
The two elders had yet to recover from the shock of their comrade’s gruesome death when their vision blurred.
Xu Yunfan’s hands were already clamped onto their skulls like iron pincers.
The Ten Extremes True Qi in his palms spun rapidly, creating an Anomaly above their heads—a vortex where a dragon and tiger fought.
The Dragon and Tiger True Qi that the elders had cultivated for 60 years now fled frantically as if meeting its natural predator. Tiger Killing Gang Qi erupted from their seven orifices as Crimson Flowing Fire, and Dragon Vein Profound Qi condensed into an ethereal blue water mist, rising from their Baihui acupoints.
"Brother... save me..."
The elder on the left roared and began to form a Dragon and Tiger Seal Technique, but with a simple clench of his fingers, Xu Yunfan crushed the Secret Martial Art before it could even take shape.
The elder on the right had it worse. His Protective Profound Turtle Armor cracked with a K-K-KA sound, and his Life Essence Blood seeped from the gaps between the plates, only to be instantly drained and dried into scabs.
Three breaths later, Xu Yunfan flicked his sleeve, tossing aside the two empty husks.
Their once-immortal-like bodies now disintegrated inch by inch like weathered terracotta, making the sound of striking jade and metal as they hit the ground.
This was the final sound made by their jade-like bones, a result of their bodies having been tempered beyond the mortal coil through Nine Realms Qi Cultivation, now that all their Dragon and Tiger True Qi had been completely drained.
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The inside of the barrier had become a Chaotic Scene.
Xu Yunfan’s cold gaze swept over the only survivors: the Merak Sword Master, the three Female Cultivators from Penglai Pavilion, Mystic Scale, and the two old eunuchs.
The Sword Master suddenly tore open his robes, revealing a sword-shaped birthmark over his heart that erupted with a blinding, cold light. "Xu Yunfan! One more step, and I’ll detonate my Merak Sword Spirit!"
Before the words had left his mouth, he felt a chill on the back of his neck.
Xu Yunfan had appeared behind him at some point. The Ten Extremes True Qi coiling around his fingertip mimicked the Sword Pavilion’s unique "Sword Qi Rain" technique, instantly immobilizing the man.
"Your lives are no longer your own to control."
Witnessing such a bizarre and horrifying scene, the beautiful woman from Penglai screamed and had just begun to turn and flee when Xu Yunfan grabbed at her from a distance.
She discovered in terror that her Circulation True Qi was gushing out of her like a bursting dam, even though Xu Yunfan hadn’t even touched her skin.
The Aerial Absorption effect of the Ten Extremes Martial Arts’ Absorption ability was on full display!
On the Black Tortoise Martial Arts Arena, the moment the final wisp of True Qi pierced the old eunuch’s brow, the entire arena fell deathly silent.
Looking around, the Martial Arts Arena was completely unrecognizable.
The stone floor was covered in a spiderweb of cracks. In several deep craters, the lingering aftershocks of True Qi still pulsed, occasionally flashing with blinding arcs of electricity.
The bodies of those from the Five Great Sects lay strewn about haphazardly.
The entire arena was thick with the acrid stench of blood mixed with the smell of scorched flesh.
Shattered weapons and torn banners were scattered everywhere. A few pennants embroidered with Sect emblems were still smoldering.
The only person left standing, aside from Xu Yunfan with his hands clasped behind his back, was the Senior Steward he had intentionally spared.
The old man sat slumped beside the wreckage of the judge’s seat, the hem of his official robes soaked in blood. His aged fingers desperately clutched a torn half of the Techno-Martial Arts Yellow Scroll, his murky eyes filled with a dazed numbness.
A dusty gray Ten Extremes True Qi swirled around Xu Yunfan’s body. Inside him, a Melting Furnace was continuously refining all sorts of Exotic True Qi.
At times, a wisp of golden Buddhist Gang Qi could be seen trying to escape, only to be crushed by the Mixed Element True Seed in the next instant. At others, a few streams of ethereal blue Water Element True Qi would dart through his flesh, only to be brutally suppressed by his Ten Extremes Martial Arts.
He raised his eyes to look at the kneeling Mystic Scale. The Sea Guardian Envoy from Penglai Pavilion had lost all of his former grandeur.
The Fish Scale Armor, forged from Ten Thousand Years Profound Iron, was cracking with a K-K-KA sound. The glowing Cloud Patterns on its plates were extinguishing one by one.
