I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 539 Initial Confrontation
"Two hundred and eighty years..."

More and more power of national destiny gathered in this library through the collection seal, and condensed on the champion marquis Xiao Yuanshan, making Xiao Yuanshan's flesh and blood continue to grow, first the palms, then the arms, followed by the torso and the head. Under those star-like eyes, his facial features were confident and proud. Each strand of black short hair was like a beaten steel wire, both tough and soft. The body condensed by the national destiny was like a flawless golden statue. The bright light burst out from every muscle, directly constructing a piece of armor that contained infinite wonderful principles and was difficult to look directly at.

"I never thought that in just three hundred years, there would be another disaster like you in the world."

Xiao Yuanshan retracted his fist that was capable of breaking mountains and splitting cliffs. After only the initial contact, he realized the "great harm" that Zhou Tieyi was capable of.

All things in the world are interdependent and mutually exclusive, so even if the military strategists have methods to destroy everything, there will naturally be things that are mutually exclusive.

The way of military strategy seems not to care about human luck, geographical luck, heaven's luck, and other principles, but this is actually a principle, that is, everything has a beginning and an end. Since it exists, there will naturally be a corresponding destruction, so no matter how sophisticated the opponent's method is.

But as long as one has not reached the realm of a saint, that realm of neither birth nor death, neither increase nor decrease, chaos superposition, transcending all things, able to simultaneously have destruction and rebirth, which cannot be directly displayed in the human world and cannot be directly understood by mortals, then it will be destroyed in the military method.

No matter whether you are a great scholar in the court, eloquent and powerful, or a bodhisattva in the temple, saving all living beings, there will be a time when you kill and fall.

Fortunately, a third-rank military strategist can only destroy human luck, a second-rank military strategist can destroy the earth's luck, and only a first-rank military strategist can "shake the country" and even influence the destiny of heaven, so he is feared by all the other schools. After Xiao Yuanshan, Emperor Gaozong of Daxia divided the position of general into left and right generals, which in itself was a move to further restrict the first-rank military strategists.

Because one has cultivated to the first level, theoretically it is difficult to kill him completely unless one has the power of a saint. Only a first-level military strategist has the ability to completely wipe out a first-level strategist.

Since everyone is of the first rank, naturally they don't want military strategists to have the power of life and death.

The emperor on Yujing Mountain also did not want there to be a second person in the world who had the power of life and death. At the beginning, Yuan Meng was seriously injured by Xiao Yuanshan, so he decided to cook the dog after the rabbit died and completely abolished his position as general.

The so-called peace is determined by the general, and the general is not allowed to see peace.

And now that the world is about to go from order to chaos again, it is natural for the general to appear again.

Xiao Yuanshan raised his head and looked at Zhou Tieyi's sword finger which had not been retracted yet. He said solemnly, "Open up a method."

Then his brows relaxed and he suddenly burst into laughter.

The divine shadow condensed by Zhou Tieyi with the Qiankun Seal also looked at his fingertips first. Although they were very small, there were still black gaps there that were entangled like lightning, but soon these black gaps were filled and repaired under the transformation of yin and yang.

He had also created this kind of black crack when he was in Yinting of Taihang Mountain. That was when he first mastered the holy power. With the help of the eight holy powers left by Tian's father, he fell from the sky and split the Wangchuan snake fish. Because he could not control the holy power, a white mark was left between heaven and earth that dissolved all things. Even time and space were difficult to repair. That was a direct manifestation of destruction.

The first time Zhou Tieyi came into full contact with the military's method of destruction, he had the most intuitive feeling. To describe it with the words of his previous life, every attack of the first-grade nation-shaking technique came with real damage.

No matter how mysterious your method is, as long as you are hit, you will be damaged. This damage is not only manifested in your body and mind, but also in the great deeds of gods, the Taoist traditions of various philosophers and other illusory things.

It is equivalent to fighting with a first-class military strategist. As long as you are hit, you will definitely be injured.

Everyone knows how difficult Dao injuries are to deal with. Unless there is a great opportunity, Dao injuries are almost impossible to recover from.

Even with the help of the holy power of Mother Earth, Zhou Tieyi, who had comprehended part of the method of opening up the Great Red Sky, still suffered losses in the battle with the military strategist. It was just that compared to others, the injuries left after the battle could be repaired through the method of opening up.

But throughout history, the number of powerful people who have mastered the true method of opening up the door can be counted on two hands.

Therefore, during the two thousand years when the various schools of thought flourished, and especially the five hundred years of chaos after the fall of the Holy Emperor, eight first-rank military strategists emerged in succession. At the most terrifying time, each of the five countries had its own first-rank military strategist in charge.

Therefore, in the troubled times, the military strategists also made it difficult for all other schools of thought to breathe, even the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which had the deepest foundations. Just imagine that not only do you have to face an enemy whose every blow brings real damage, but the enemy's body is also almost indestructible. No one wants to face such an opponent.

"What is Champion Hou laughing at?"

Zhou Tieyi retracted his sword and waved his sleeves while asking questions. A soft breeze carried Kui Shen and the other two, trying to leave this solidified battlefield of time and space, return to the library, and catch up with Ju Zidan and the other two who had already quietly left.

"I laugh at the fact that God has been kind to me, allowing me to be resurrected and sending me a good opponent like you!"

Champion Marquis Xiao Yuanshan had two major regrets in his life. The second was that he was in his prime, but had no rivals. Even Yuan Meng Khan could not match him. Therefore, the fact that Xiao Yuanshan and Yuan Meng Khan both died was terrifying to think about.

Therefore, there is also a hint of sadness in this heroic laughter.

But he is the champion marquis after all, the champion marquis of Daxia.

Why did Ju Zidan, the peerless first-class master who was sealed in the historian's library with the final word, directly choose Xiao Yuanshan?

The first reason is that Xiao Yuanshan is from the Great Xia Dynasty. If he is resurrected with the national fortune of the Great Xia Dynasty, his combat power can be close to that of its heyday.

The second reason is that this is a peerless general who was born to destroy the gods. After his resurrection, even if he has an irreconcilable grudge with the Great Xia court, he will put it aside and make killing the gods his top priority.

Because this is the champion Xiao Yuanshan, the founder of the prosperous era of Daxia, and the sword that finally slashed towards the divine way.

If Ju Zidan dared to release the butcher Jiang Taiyi directly, Jiang Taiyi would most likely join forces with Zhou Tieyi to first destroy Daxia and then divide the world to fight for supremacy.

After the laughter, at the moment when Zhou Tieyi wanted to send Kuishen and the other two away from this space and time, Xiao Yuanshan's figure disappeared from the spot. In Zhou Tieyi's sight, the man whose body was wrapped in golden national destiny directly broke through the invisible layers of space and time rules, and appeared in front of Kuishen and the other two without any error. He stretched back with his left hand, clenched his right fist again, and punched up without any fancy moves.

The fist fell in the eyes of Kuishen and the other two, like a pure black lightning, covering all their senses, and even made them feel that the time and space around them completely collapsed in an instant, let alone resisting. The divine light of the Qiankun Seal in the air became brighter and brighter, and the preaching sound in Taiyi Temple thousands of miles away suddenly stopped. Zhou Tieyi focused all his attention on the Qiankun Seal, and the magnificent divine power condensed into a perfect body of a god through the Qiankun Seal.

The military strategy is indeed powerful, but it is not without weaknesses, otherwise the military strategy would not have ended up like this.

When the military strategy is practiced to the end, while focusing on the pure way of destruction, it also means that the military strategy itself is an unstable factor, just like the historian's library at this time.

Originally, with the sealing degree of the historian's library, it is possible to reverse the time and space inside the library. Now, Zhou Tieyi, who has fallen from a semi-high-dimensional state, cannot directly enter and intervene.

However, the appearance of Xiao Yuanshan was like a sharp cone. No matter how perfect the space-time containment measures were, they would be affected from the inside or even punctured by the destructive power of the cone.

The stronger Xiao Yuanshan's strength is, the stronger the destructive force is, which naturally makes the space and time in the library more unstable. As the force point of the destructive force, Zhou Tieyi can naturally transfer the force from the outside to the inside.

Zhou Tieyi formed a palm with his five fingers, blocking the three people of Kuishen and clenching his fist towards Xiao Yuanshan to destroy him.

The five fingers falling from above evolved into the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Once the five elements were formed, they naturally reconstructed the space, completely encompassing the world-destroying darkness around them. In the eyes of Kuishen and the other two, it was just a moment. As Zhou Tieyi covered his palm to block Xiao Yuanshan's hammer fist, the new space was formed, forming a barrier, like five long mountains, blocking the three of them.

The black fist and the mountain collided violently. Black lightning spread out from Zhou Tieyi's fingertips and fell into the mountain range formed by his five fingers, forming devastating thunder.

The spreading black lightning directly swallowed up the light on Zhou Tieyi's palm. Without the light, Zhou Tieyi's palm seemed to be melting bit by bit.

"You dare to distract yourself for three ants in front of me. When did you evil gods become so kind?"

Xiao Yuanshan said sarcastically.

Even if the opposing god has comprehended the method of creation, it does not mean that he can directly collide with the method of destruction. If he were Zhou Tieyi, he would choose to move around to avoid attacks, and then use the method of creation to severely injure himself.

After all, he is not at his prime now. All the changes and methods of trapping people in military practice are concentrated in the military formation of his army. The military formation can not only enhance the strength of the generals, but also make up for the means of trapping people.

"Because the Champion Marquis is far from his prime now. I am also a vassal of Daxia and was conferred the word 'Prosperous Era'. Of course, I cannot take advantage of others' misfortune. Otherwise, when the people of Daxia talk about this battle and the competition for the first marquis, won't they say that I won unfairly?"

Zhou Tieyi said with a smile that when it comes to martial arts, he still has a certain distance from Xiao Yuanshan, but when it comes to the struggle for the tongue, he is not afraid even if there is another Xiao Yuanshan.

"Shengshi Hou?"

When Xiao Yuanshan heard these three words, many thoughts inevitably came to his mind. Having cultivated to their level, they were almost like gods who knew everything. As long as it wasn't an opponent of the same level who was intentionally concealing it, they could easily tell the truth from the falsehood when words were voluntarily revealed like this.

Obviously, Zhou Tieyi's words implied rich meanings. Xiao Yuanshan roughly constructed the cause and effect in his mind. If Zhou Tieyi was really the Marquis of Shengshi canonized by Daxia, then such a talented man would most likely face the same situation as himself.

Therefore, the facts that he converted to Shintoism and broke into the historian's library all make sense.

But Xiao Yuanshan is the Champion Marquis after all, and a practitioner of military strategy. His boxing spirit has not diminished but increased. Since he has already made a move, he will decide the outcome first. Once Zhou Tieyi is defeated, everything will be clear. There is no need for irrelevant speculation here. Moreover, they, the military strategists, have always only fought for victory or defeat, not for right or wrong!

Under the erosion of the destructive force, the mountain range formed by Zhou Tieyi's five fingers collapsed completely, and a roar of collapse came from between the bones of the five fingers.

However, Zhou Tieyi did not feel it was a pity. His [Five Finger Mountain] method was derived from the Buddhist [Buddha Kingdom in the Palm] and borrowed from the Five Emperors' methods. Now that the Five Emperors have transformed into the Five Elders of the Five Directions, the [Five Finger Mountain] should naturally evolve further.

The Five Elements Mountain Range collapsed, and rays of innate five elements ancestral qi filled Zhou Tieyi's palm. Before the five-colored light could completely disappear in the darkness, as Zhou Tieyi's innate magical power, a large cauldron descended from the air. It was the Mountain and River State Cauldron that had not yet been fully condensed, symbolizing the Five Immortals' ancestral fortune. The large cauldron burst into five-colored light, swallowing the scattered and conflicting innate five energies into the cauldron to prevent them from being completely annihilated. Xiao Yuanshan's fist collided with the embryo of the peerless magic weapon, the Mountain and River State Cauldron. It was no longer as simple as crashing into the [Five Finger Mountain].

After all, although [Five Finger Mountain] has the Five Emperors' Talismans and the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm as its legal core, it has not evolved completely. It is more than enough to suppress the third rank, but it pales in comparison to resist Xiao Yuanshan, the Champion Marquis.

Xiao Yuanshan's fist collided with the Mountain, River, and State Cauldron, making a sound like a huge bell. The pictures of immortals on the wall of the cauldron instantly came to life.

Endless luck poured from the outside world to the Mountain, River, State and Altar. Now was the time when the Five Immortals established their way, which was equivalent to a small climax period of the Five Immortals' luck. Now all the Taoist sects in the world converged on the Five Immortals' Taoist sect, and the luck tide formed was like the waves in the sea. Even if the destructive power of the military strategists could destroy it, it would take enough time.

Xiao Yuanshan felt as if his fist had sunk into a vast ocean of luck. Even though as a first-grade cultivator, he was still able to stabilize himself in the ocean of luck, this punch could not directly break through.

What is even more terrifying is that the boiling ocean of luck is endlessly entangled with the luck of Daxia.

Ghost immortals seek immortality, human immortals pass on their knowledge to thousands of families, earthly immortals nurture the mountains and rivers, divine immortals set the rules, and celestial immortals transform the universe.

There are also hundreds of schools of thought intertwined, including the Mohist school, the Gongshu school, the Eclectic school, the Agricultural school, the Merchant school, etc.

When the Mountain, River, State and Country Cauldron was weakened, it meant that the Five Immortals Avenue was weakened. At this time, the Great Xia Emperor, who relied on the Five Immortals Avenue to grow and even relied on the Thirty-three Days to build and was about to break through to the second level, was naturally weakened.

The Emperor of Great Xia represents the foundation of Great Xia's national destiny.

Xiao Yuanshan's current body is completely constructed by the destiny of the Great Xia nation. It seems to be in a perfect state, but it has many weaknesses. Zhou Tieyi happens to be the person who can seize this weakness.

The bright yellow glow on Xiao Yuanshan's luck armor weakened, and his fist power naturally weakened as well, eventually stopping in front of the tripod wall.

(End of this chapter)