Free Web NovelChapter 451: Chapter 280: Cold Qilin Talisman, Golden Body Talisman
Wu Jingyuan raised his head, looking up in despair at the endless Sword Qi filling the Sword Array.
Having cultivated to the Perfect Golden Core Realm, his insight was naturally sharp. With a single glance, he could tell that this Sword Array embodied the turning of the four seasons, with the laws of the Five Elements’ creation and transformation hidden within.
Because his clan lacked talent in the Array Dao, he had once painstakingly studied it for some time. He considered his own Array Dao Mastery to be quite profound.
But facing this sky-spanning Sword Light directly, Wu Jingyuan felt it was a seamless whole, perfectly manifesting the grim, killing aura of celestial phenomena. He couldn’t find a single flaw.
’Just who is this person!’
Wu Jingyuan felt like he was going to lose his mind.
Such mastery of the Sword Dao and Array Dao... he had only ever seen it in the supreme geniuses of the Central Continent’s Major Sects.
With the Sword Qi about to strike, Wu Jingyuan gritted his teeth and pulled a Jade Talisman from within his robes.
For someone from a mere Foundation Establishment Clan to become a Perfect Golden Core Master who reigned over five nations, he relied not only on his own extraordinary Talent, but also on fortuitous encounters.
After achieving Core Formation, Wu Jingyuan had traveled to the Central Continent. His fortune was good; while exploring a Cave Mansion with fellow cultivators from the Central Continent, he discovered that it had belonged to a True Disciple from a Major Sect in the Upper Realm.
When his ’friends’ discovered the treasures within the Cave Mansion far exceeded their expectations, they immediately turned on one another, breaking out into a chaotic battle.
Although the Cultivation Technique Wu Jingyuan practiced was inferior, he struck first, ambushing his fellow cultivators and seizing a significant advantage. Of the seven Golden Core cultivators, he became one of only two survivors.
Since neither he nor the other survivor could gain the upper hand, they agreed to split all the spoils from the Cave Mansion.
The most valuable items were a Magical Treasure that had lost all its Spiritual Essence and degenerated into a Magical Artifact, and three Spirit Talismans that had been preserved in a Jade Box, their Spiritual Essence still intact.
The other survivor, being proficient in the Artifact Refining Skill and confident he could restore the Magical Artifact’s Spiritual Essence, chose the artifact. Wu Jingyuan, hailing from a Foundation Establishment Clan, was naturally more interested in the Spirit Talismans, which could be used immediately and possessed immense power.
These three Spirit Talismans were vastly different from those circulating in the Nine Heavens World. They were made of a gold and jade-like material and couldn’t be activated directly with Magical Power like ordinary talismans. Instead, they had to be placed within one’s Dantian and nourished with one’s own Original Magical Power for three years before they could be used.
Wu Jingyuan had already used one of the three Spirit Talismans, annihilating an enemy of equal strength in a near instant. This made him treasure the remaining two even more, resolving never to use them unless it was a matter of life and death.
But now, if he didn’t activate this Spirit Talisman, he would be diced into mincemeat by the endless Sword Light.
Wu Jingyuan dared not hesitate any longer.
’I will kill you!’
The loss of one of his ultimate trump-card Spirit Talismans made his heart ache and his body tremble.
The next moment, an astonishingly cold aura shot toward the heavens, transforming into a Cold Qilin with clearly defined scales and sharp claws. A dense barrage of Sword Light hammered down upon the Cold Qilin’s Scales, layer after layer.
Instantly, a dense cacophony of CLANGS threatened to rupture the eardrums of everyone present.
BOOM!
The Cold Qilin actually withstood the incomparably sharp Sword Curtain, charging upward against the onslaught. It lowered its horned head and rammed straight toward the corner of the Sword Array, at the Sword Light that symbolized the element of Summer.
Yang Jing raised an eyebrow. He hadn’t expected Wu Jingyuan to possess such a powerful trump card.
’This Cold Qilin’s power has reached the Tier of a Divine Prohibition. Where in the world did Wu Jingyuan get something like this?’
Although the Celestial Intent Four Extremes Sword Formation couldn’t match the power of a Divine Prohibition, the Cold Qilin was, after all, a product of a Spirit Talisman. Compared to a Divine Prohibition unleashed by a cultivator’s own hands, it was far more stiff and rigid, its movements somewhat sluggish.
Against an ordinary cultivator, this flaw would be negligible; they would be unable to capitalize on such subtle sluggishness and would be devoured by the Cold Qilin in an instant.
However, as a cultivator who had also mastered a Divine Prohibition, Yang Jing could handle it with much greater ease.
He manipulated the Sword Light, constantly shifting his position within the Sword Array to evade the Cold Qilin’s charges, while using the dense Sword Curtain generated by the array to continuously drain the Spiritual Qi from the beast.
When Wu Jingyuan realized that the Spirit Talisman that could normally decide a battle in a single blow had failed to instantly defeat Yang Jing, panic flared in his heart.
Gritting his teeth, he mobilized a massive amount of Original Magical Power from his Dantian and poured it into the Spirit Talisman.
The Cold Qilin, which had been showing signs of weakening, suddenly erupted with a massive aura. Its body swelled, and relying on its sheer size, it forcefully shattered the Celestial Intent Four Extremes Sword Formation.
Yang Jing withdrew the Celestial Waterfall Sword and noticed that Wu Jingyuan’s cultivation had suddenly dropped from the Perfect Golden Core Realm to the Ninth Layer of Golden Core, a loss of nearly twenty years of cultivation.
’He can even burn his own cultivation to increase the power of the Divine Prohibition!’
In the next instant, the Cold Qilin lunged at Yang Jing.
If not for the protection of his Celestial True Gang, the frigid wave accompanying the Cold Qilin’s attack would have been enough to freeze all the Blood Qi in Yang Jing’s body solid.
"Do you think you’re the only one with a Divine Prohibition?"
Yang Jing snorted. The next instant, the five types of True Fire within his five organs surged forth, transforming into a dazzling Five Fire Divine Thunder that roared out.
ROAR!
With a long, resonant cry, the Cold Qilin opened its massive, bloody maw and snapped at Yang Jing.
The Five Fire Divine Thunder condensed, transforming into a Red Dragon whose imposing presence was in no way inferior to the Cold Qilin’s.
The dragon’s claws spread wide, pressing against the Cold Qilin’s jaws.
The Five Fire Divine Thunder clashed with the Cold Qilin’s bone-chilling aura, instantly setting off a cataclysmic explosion.
The shockwave swept across the Wu Family’s ancestral lands. Scores of Wu Family clansmen had no time to react before the blast wave washed over them, leaving not even bones behind.
