Wet viviparity

Chapter 972 Touching, Capturing the True Spirit
"Let's talk!"

Ji Ming loosened his grip, releasing the two sword stars.

Li Zhu's fetal spirit immediately broke free from it and fell into his own body.

"This feeling is that my two sword lights, which I have condensed to the extreme, are completely out of my control during operation and are being used by him."

With great composure, Li Zhu suppressed his surging emotions, pulling himself out of the disbelief and inability to accept that he had been captured, so that he could correctly analyze the situation before him and the innate earth deity who had been reborn from the mud.

Whether he believes it or not, whether he likes it or not, this reborn god of perilous paths, with his enhanced supernatural powers, will surely pose a completely new challenge to Taiping Mountain.

This matter must be reported to the cabinet immediately, and even alarm the True Lord. If this god can be used by Taiping Mountain, he may become an important bargaining chip to stabilize Tiannan and even counterbalance certain forces in the Central Plains; if he is an enemy, he must be killed immediately without any leeway.

"What to talk about?"

Fu Ding could tell what Li Zhu was thinking just by observing his changing expression, so he began to cooperate and stall for time. Then, he changed the subject and asked, "But before we talk, please answer my question: are you still the same Dangerous Path God?"

"You already know the answer in your heart, so why ask a question you already know the answer to?"

On Ji Ming's six independent arms, the entwined roots fell off one by one, like strips of black and yellow meat peeling off, revealing the delicate skin on the arms and the lines on the palms.

In the void, six arms flipped and twisted, their fingers spreading out, like flowers blooming.

Ji Ming spoke in a lazy voice, "Now that I have been reborn, I am no longer the same Earth Deity. You can regard me as a completely new Earth Deity, or you can still regard me as the God of Dangerous Paths. But no matter what, I believe that the future of Yunyu Temple, Taiping Mountain, and even the entire Tiannan will be changed because of me."

Even if you are currently buying time for Zhu Gaozhen to inform the other figures at Taiping Mountain about the situation here, it won't prevent future changes.

“What a big mouth!”

Having finished sending the message, Li Zhu had no more reservations and said, "The world is vast, and there are always people more capable than you. Even the True Lord of my sect would not dare to make such a boastful statement. You are just a minor deity with no past achievements, yet you dare to say that the future change will begin with you alone."

Just then, the wind and water in the distance ceased.

You Rongzi and Da Feng landed one after the other. You Rongzi's expression was solemn, his gaze fixed on the new Danger God. The primordial heavy water in the spiritual river beneath his feet flowed and surged, its booming sound shaking the earth. Clearly, he was aware of the dramatic changes in this place and understood the threat posed by the Danger God.

The wind flapped its wings and it landed, gazing at the six arms in the void, its fierce bird eyes showing a look of relief.

"Empty hands!"

As usual, Da Feng shouted the nickname of the God of Danger, and said in a carefree tone: "You have just come back to life, but judging from the fact that the blue-skinned kid has not shown up for a long time, he probably feels the great pressure from Taiping Mountain and is unlikely to come to support you."

This brat of his, he's really wasted his title of "Divine Infant King," and he's even started to think things through and assess situations like a Taoist priest. His approach is worse than this old cripple like me taking charge.

"What did you call me?"

Ji Ming asked.

Hearing this distant voice, which inexplicably put pressure on him, Da Feng's eyes narrowed.

He raised his bird head, stared at the six-armed body, and smiled knowingly: "It seems that after Nigen was reborn, you broke through your previous shackles and have been completely transformed. Even your temperament has changed. Well then, what should I call you now?"

"right way!"

"right way?"

The Great Wind Bird let out bursts of laughter from its beak, seemingly unable to contain its amusement. Its sparse feathers trembled with the laughter as it mocked without any restraint, "I never expected that a so-called 'righteous' god or demon would emerge from our Cloud and Rain Temple." Beneath the Great Wind Bird's seemingly carefree mockery lay a long-suppressed rage, now ignited by the title of "righteous."

This anger stemmed not only from the erratic tone of the God of Danger, but also from the dejected inaction of the infant god, from the powerlessness he felt because even a newly promoted high-level immortal like You Rongzi could not defeat him quickly due to his own incompleteness, and from his disappointment with the Yunyu Temple's gradual decline and its subsequent subjugation by the Taiping Mountain Cabinet.

All the pent-up frustrations erupted at this moment.

"What nonsense about the righteous path! When has the Cloud and Rain Temple ever needed such a hypocritical name?"

Let me remove your fake account and teach you what the true path is—this power is the true path!

His massive body suddenly arched, and his tattered wings flapped with all his might. The gale blowing from the Xun direction swept over him, and in the blink of an eye, the gale transformed into a flowing membrane on his body and wings. This flowing membrane was actually a simplified Dharma realm.

Then, the wind rushed towards the six-armed figure embracing the void without regard for anything else.

Divine winds surged from beneath its wings, blowing into the membrane-like Dharma realm on its body, where they condensed and transformed into a wing-shaped azure blade thinner than paper.

The blade struck first, disappearing in a flash, slashing from the Dharma Realm toward the righteous god slowly hovering in the void. This strike was unleashed in anger, showing no intention of holding back, determined to give this "ungrateful" righteous god a lesson he would never forget.

Ji Ming raised one hand and gracefully began to flick it.

What was being manipulated in the palm was a path, extending from the Azure Blade, which was the manifestation of the attack path.

With a flick of the hand, the path of the Azure Blade's attack was reversed. After a flash, the Azure Blade disappeared silently, turning towards the wind and cleanly slicing off the bird's head.

The bird's head still retained its furious expression. Just as the head was about to fall from its neck, the horizontal wound miraculously healed. In just three or four breaths, the bloodline around the wound had faded away, demonstrating Da Feng's profound skill in body refining.

At this moment, the bird-headed figure in the wind looked horrified.

"The trajectory has been changed?!" Da Feng's eyes changed instantly, and he began to re-examine this righteous god.

The power of the Divine Path lies in twisting and lengthening the path between two points. Based on this, endless methods can be developed. As one of the four evils of the Cloud and Rain Temple, Da Feng naturally has the right to know the secrets of the temple's records of this divine power and understand one of the obvious ways to counter it—the Dharma Realm.

As long as the five elements are manipulated, a layer of Dharma Realm is wrapped around the body, and a spell is condensed within the Dharma Realm, then if the Divergent Path ability wants to change the attack path of this spell, it must first break through the Dharma Realm. Otherwise, the Divergent Path ability cannot affect the spell being cast within the Dharma Realm.

The exchange just now made Da Feng realize that the Divine Power of the Wrong Path was still the same Divine Power of the Wrong Path, but it seemed that some of its essence had been altered.

The high-ranking immortals of Taiping Mountain looked solemn. As the saying goes, an expert can see the details. This earth deity, after being reborn, indeed showed a level of cultivation befitting his boastful words.

In everyone's eyes, the hand was raised high again. In the instant it was raised, it seemed to break through the limit and suddenly became huge and hazy. It was not an expansion in the real sense, but rather the feeling it gave to everyone was amplified as its supernatural power was used.

Within the palm of his hand, an invisible and intangible path, traversing between reality and illusion, twisted and stretched like a dragon or snake.

The essence of the new detour lies in "touching".

It allows Ji Ming to directly touch and manifest the invisible connections and trajectories between all things—whether it is the route of movement of the physical body and magical artifacts, the channel of transmission of spiritual energy and true qi, or the most fundamental connection between the true spirit and the physical body.

Compared to the original supernatural power, it is closer to the essence of the path, but it has lost the wide-area control ability of the old supernatural power.

At this moment, what appeared in Ji Ming's palm was the invisible path connecting the true spirit of the great wind with his enormous demonic bird form.

As the hand grasped the invisible Dao, it rapidly shortened within the palm as the hand slowly closed. The next moment, Da Feng's demonic bird form froze in mid-air, and a blurry, terrified phantom of a divine bird detached itself from it—this was Da Feng's true spirit.

(End of this chapter)