The Primordial Law

Chapter 595 Love Arises by the River
Li Weiyi's vertical slash contained the steadfastness and domineering power of "Taiyi Opening the Sea," and also conformed to more wondrous laws of heaven and earth, causing its power to rise sharply.

Even with Qingzao's profound cultivation, he could still sense the boundless killing intent at this moment.

Forced to switch from offense to defense, he mobilized all his magical energy, stepping on flowing light, in order to temporarily avoid Li Weiyi's sharp edge.

An even greater killing intent came from behind Li Weiyi. The supreme sword intent of "Immortal Slaughtering All Beings" arrived even before the sword energy unleashed by Tang Wanzhou, directly striking Qingzao's soul consciousness.

Qingzao lost all composure, feeling as if she were facing not a vertical or horizontal line, but a crisscrossing net of swords, with no way to avoid it.

Therefore, they did not avoid it.

Offense is the best form of defense.

"The morning glow stretches for miles!"

"Wow!"

As she unleashed the powerful spell of the fifth level, her magical energy, like the morning glow, ignited as she retreated, enveloping the surrounding sky and earth.

With a powerful sword strike, her slender and supple body and the sword transformed into a red sun in the morning glow.

Li Weiyi's sword flashed, piercing through the morning glow.

Tang Wanzhou's horizontal slash fell towards the red sun.

"boom!"

Qingzao tumbled backward, looking disheveled and miserable. All the color had drained from her face, and half of her body was covered in frost, chilling her to the bone.

It's important to know that Tang Wanzhou doesn't use his "Immortal Slaughter of All Beings" lightly. Once he does, no one at the same cultivation level can defend against it. Even Wenren Tinghai, the newly crowned top scholar of the Demon Kingdom who was stronger than Qingzao back then, had his protective defenses broken through by this move.

"Zheng!"

Tang Wanzhou gave Qingzao no chance to recover. With a sharp look in his eyes, he charged forward and unleashed a second and a third sword strike, trying to crush his opponent with overwhelming force.

Li Weiyi was breathing heavily. He had been beaten so badly by Qingzao that he couldn't even breathe. His nerves felt like they were about to snap, and his heart was beating several times faster than usual, as if it were about to explode.

Holding a staff of all things, four-colored spiritual light continuously flowed into it from between his brows.

"Wow!"

The array plate containing star trail patterns and the combined attack formation of the sun, moon and stars condensed around his body, enveloping the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Kings that were taking flight.

Then, the array plate and star trail patterns, which were more than ten feet in diameter, transformed into a rapidly spinning millstone and rushed toward the battlefield between Tang Wanzhou and Qingzao.

With a loud bang, the array plate smashed into Qingzao, whose momentum was waning, and tried to pull her into the array.

Unexpectedly, Qingzao's body movement techniques had reached an unparalleled level. Even in such a dangerous situation, she could still move through the air like a fish, transforming into more than a dozen figures, escaping to a height of a hundred meters in the air like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.

Tang Wanzhou soared straight into the sky, once again catching up with Qingzao.

Don't give her a chance to escape.

Li Weiyi took out the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal, which hovered above the Sun, Moon and Stars Array Plate. Then, he gathered the magical energy of the seven Phoenix Winged Moth Kings, and activated it with a total of eight forces.

Although its magical energy level was not as high as that of the four war corpse puppets, it still brought out a considerable amount of the original power of the swastika artifact.

"Crack!"

Several streaks of purple lightning shot straight into the sky, winding like snakes.

The sky and earth are intertwined with light and shadow.

One of the bolts of purple lightning struck Qingzao, piercing through the protective scriptures released from her ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), turning the ruqun to ashes at the point of impact.

She let out a low, mournful moan as her body slumped to the ground.

If Qingzao hadn't been restrained by Tang Wanzhou, she could have easily dodged and escaped far beyond the attack range of the Purple Cloud Thunder Seal.

Tang Wanzhou pursued him again, intending to take this opportunity to kill the third-ranking figure of the younger generation of the Taiyin Sect.

Before Qingzao even landed, a cloud of magical energy surged from Zutian, neutralizing the downward force.

She looked up at the sky, watching the Divine Snow Sword fall like a meteor, and threw out three ancient, hemp-yellow corpse garments from her storage bag. The garments were stained with transcendent corpse blood, indicating their immense origin.

"Chi! Chi! Chi!"

The three light, paper-thin shrouds burst into flames from the inside out, then swelled up under the weight of the three ghostly bodies.

The three ghosts shielded the heavily injured Haruhachi in the center, each unleashing a Torino Cold Flame.

Three pillars of fire coiled around it, sending the Divine Snow Sword flying.

In the distance, Huo Tianming roared, "You dare to injure Envoy Chen? You're courting death!"

The ring-shaped magical artifact, a fifth-grade thousand-character artifact, transformed into a scripture wheel with a diameter of tens of meters. It flew out first and smashed towards Tang Wanzhou, who was rapidly approaching Qingzao.

Even faster than Huo Tianming was Marquis Xueshan.

Tang Wanzhou glanced at the enormous, mountain-like red ghostly figure that was already close at hand, knocked the Scripture Heavenly Wheel away with a palm strike, landed, sheathed the Divine Snow Sword, and rushed towards Li Weiyi: "Go!"

Knowing that he had lost the chance to kill Qingzao, Li Weiyi put away the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Kings and, together with Tang Wanzhou, used the governor's robe to teleport away.

"Wow!"

Protected by three ghostly servants, Qingzao tried to suppress her injuries and pursue them, but suddenly, her chest heaved and she spat out a mouthful of blood. Half of her body was charred black by the Purple Heaven Thunder Seal, and the other half was frozen by the Divine Snow Sword Qi. In full view of everyone, she had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of two low-level martial artists, and she was in excruciating physical and mental pain.

Huo Tianming retrieved the ring-shaped magic artifact and came to Qingzao, his eyes filled with disbelief: "Their cultivation and combat strength are actually so high?"

Qingzao circulated her magical energy to heal her injuries, giving him a cold look: "Why aren't you chasing after them?"

Huo Tianming pursued Xue Shanhou closely, heading in the direction where Li Weiyi and Tang Wanzhou had fled.

The cry, imbued with a mental attack, fell upon Li Weiyi and Tang Wanzhou.

A six-colored peacock and a black python, one in the sky and the other on the ground, chased after them even faster than Blood Mountain Marquis.

Each of them spewed out a magical artifact from its mouth.

The two magical artifacts spanned dozens of miles and attacked the two people who were fleeing ahead.

Li Weiyi and Tang Wanzhou fought and fled, advancing left and right, covering three thousand miles before finally shaking off all the powerful enemies, the demons and the spirits.

They changed direction again, fleeing thousands of miles, and then disappeared into a large river to wash away their breath and hide their footprints. Only when the two of them had exhausted all their magical energy did they help each other and, exhausted, step onto the dense reeds in the water to get ashore.

Exhausted, the two collapsed to the ground, completely disregarding their appearance.

It was pitch black all around, with only the sound of flowing water and the two of them breathing heavily.

At this moment, I no longer know any direction or location; I just want to quietly enjoy this precious tranquility and the comfort of surviving a disaster, as if I have been isolated from the outside world and all the rights and wrongs and grievances of the world.

When Li Weiyi heard Tang Wanzhou's breathing becoming increasingly shallow, he quickly sat up and patted her head: "No matter how tired we are, we must not fall asleep. It would be dangerous if the enemy caught up."

Tang Wanzhou lay on his back, his large eyes wide open in the darkness, shining like pearls in the ocean: "The world is vast, and you and I only occupy one or two squares of it. We have already used all our strength to get rid of and cover ourselves. If there are still enemies who can catch up and find us, we might as well just cut off our own heads with our swords. Because what we are facing is not a group of martial artists in the Longevity Realm, but the Emperor of Martial Arts, immortals and gods."

"you're right!"

Li Weiyi lay down again, feeling Tang Wanzhou's wet hair on her neck, and longed to sleep like this forever.

But reason told them they had to stay alert and keep their eyes open at all times.

Suddenly, Tang Wanzhou said in a relaxed tone: "Congratulations! Your ancestral field is still intact, and you have broken through to the realm of immortality. This news alone is enough to set off a heated discussion among the younger generation in the entire southern part of Yingzhou, and it is enough to make you truly famous. It will also surely excite and thrill countless people who feel sorry for you and care about you."

Li Weiyi smiled wryly: "What's there to congratulate? Didn't you see? You were beaten so badly by Qingzao that you couldn't even tell which way was which. You're still far from being a match for her."

Tang Wanzhou turned her tall and graceful body to lie on her side towards him, her captivating starry eyes gazing intently at Li Weiyi's sharply defined face. She said earnestly, "How can you be so self-deprecating? I don't know how strong Qin Zhengyang is when he's not injured, but Qingzao now is probably no less than him at his peak. Even with my current cultivation at the peak of the second realm, I'm still a step behind her."

"You've already managed to withstand several of her attacks, enough to astound the world. If you're well-prepared and make good use of the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Queens and the War Corpse Puppets, you could be completely invincible. What an amazing feat that would be!"

"You have earned my heartfelt praise, even from the proud young lord of the North. Also, you're stepping on my hair!"

Li Weiyi slightly raised his head and moved, his gaze meeting hers. He felt a tremor in his heart, as if an indescribable force was pulling him closer, wanting to grasp that exquisitely beautiful face so close to his, to hold it in his hands and kiss it.

Li Weiyi quickly cleared his mind of distractions and suppressed his impulses. In his mind, he began to review and think about the previous battle: "The key lies in the four words 'well prepared.' In a duel between top experts, it is necessary to seize the initiative and fight for every second. She knew that I raised strange insects and refined battle corpse puppets. How could she give me a good chance to prepare? Unless she hid in the dark, set a trap, waited for the enemy to tire themselves out, and attacked them unexpectedly."

Immediately afterwards, Li Weiyi told Tang Wanzhou about Qingzao's method of interfering with spatial teleportation, and told her to be careful.

Tang Wanzhou's eyes, which had been filled with tenderness, gradually sharpened as he looked back at the dark sky: "At the peak of the second realm, I am not necessarily unable to defeat her by crossing a major realm. The reason I am now slightly inferior to her is because I broke through to the Longevity Realm too quickly and used too many resources and treasures like the Dragon Soul Source Light, which resulted in my cultivation not being as solid as hers, and my application of Dao techniques being far inferior to hers."

"But all of this is not irreparable."

"After several days of fierce battles, I can clearly feel that the magical energy and longevity scriptures in my body have become more refined, and my strength has improved again. My Immortal Slaughtering Divine Snow Fourteen Swords can only be honed by constantly fighting against strong opponents and being tempered in the face of life and death, so as to capture the wonderful sword dao laws that are more in line with them and thus become more powerful."

Li Weiyi wholeheartedly agreed.

The reason he was suppressed by Qingzao from the moment he sensed her presence was that he couldn't even breathe.

The key lies in the fact that Qingzao far surpasses him in the use of magical energy, scriptures, magical artifacts, and intention. Her movement techniques and Taoist skills are even more divine, and her speed is so fast that Li Weiyi has difficulty even defending against them.

A long silence followed.

Tang Wanzhou suddenly said, "So many days have passed, why are you still lingering in the Netherworld of the Heavenly Capital River? Don't you know that it must be a dangerous place?"

Li Weiyi did not answer, but asked instead, "And you, why are you also in the Heavenly Capital River Underworld?"

"I was certain that you would hide there after you escaped. But when I blew the whistle, no one came to meet me, so I had to bury myself in the mud to heal my wounds first," Tang Wanzhou said simply.

Both of them actually understood each other's intention to take things lightly.

In the ancient kingdom of Ruins of Time, it would be extremely difficult to find a third person who could earn such trust from them.

“Look, there are stars in the sky,” Tang Wanzhou suddenly said.

Li Weiyi stared intently and indeed found one, then two, three... They were very faint, but they were real.

He was shaken: "Does this mean that the darkness inside the Ancient Kingdom of Time Ruins is receding? Just like here on the riverbank, many reeds have actually grown. Apart from the Netherworld, life is also recovering in other places."

"That's not something we should be concerned about!"

Tang Wanzhou took a deep breath, and unexpectedly flipped herself up, moved her long, straight, and rounded legs, slightly bent them, and straddled Li Weiyi's waist and abdomen.

Then she bent down, hugged his face, pressed her red lips to his, and kissed him passionately, no longer holding back, and freely venting her emotions.

Li Weiyi never expected her to come on so aggressively, but her kiss was too clumsy, just imitating without understanding, and she forced herself on him.

(End of this chapter)