Yefutidaolu

Chapter 233 Great Battle, Martial Arts Divine Intent

After completing the registration at the Imperial Academy, Canghai left.

After all, for him, this was just one part of the task assigned by his teacher. Although he had a good impression of Gao Jian, his own affairs were obviously more important.

"Speaking of which, Elder Shu has left." Gao Jian scratched his head, and the golden hamster on his head ran away.

"Hmm, he registered and left. He must have gone to the Scripture Pavilion, right? But he's already a seventh-realm demon, so he probably doesn't have to worry about anything in the capital. What about the two of us? Are you going to the Scripture Pavilion too?" Dansha asked, her hands behind her back and her tail swishing back and forth.

Gao Jian then walked towards the main entrance: "Let's not go there yet. I want to go see that Xuanbing. Isn't there some divine essence sealed inside? Aren't you curious about what's recorded in those divine essences?"

"Not being curious is useless to me..." Dansha pouted.

"I'm curious, come with me to take a look. If that thing is useful, I might be able to break through my cultivation level," Gao Jian said as they walked.

"Huh? You broke through again? No, you just broke through to the fifth realm half a month ago, didn't you?" Dan Sha exclaimed in surprise.

“It’s not that kind of breakthrough, but… something related to divine will,” Gao Jian said casually, but he didn’t know how to explain it.

The divine gate of Gaojian is just one step away from being fully opened. Then he can awaken his divine will and transform his empty divine gate into a true divine gate.

Although only the Niwan point of the three acupoints of the divine gate was opened, divine will was already present. This is the effect of the mysterious method that Gao Jian obtained from the Desire Realm.

If Gao Jian breaks through to the sixth realm and opens the essence barrier, then he will be a grandmaster of two barriers.

Although it's a bit watery, that's the gist of it.

Currently, within Gao Jian's divine gate, there are four powerful divine essences: Nightmare, Buddha Light, Demonic Thought, and Tai Sui. Among them, Nightmare is the weakest, while Buddha Light is the strongest.

If the divine essence recorded in that ancient ice is of a sufficient level, then Gao Jian might not need to go for this final step.

Thinking this, Takashi arrived at the door.
The two xiezhi were still arguing, but there was no one around, so it seemed that no one cared about it.

Takashi and Dansha passed through the door. Dansha looked bored, but she reluctantly stayed because of Takashi.

Gao Jian, on the other hand, was staring at Xuanbing at the doorway.

Logically speaking, Gao Jian believes this is fake.

But how will you know if you don't try?
At most, it would only waste an inch of the blade. At least the essence within is there. Even if it's not some ancient ice that flew from outer space, taking the essence within is still worthwhile.

Gao Jian also has a seven-inch blade.

He closed his eyes, paused for a moment, and then opened them.

The lake of the heart is clear, reflecting the spirit within.

Then--

The Milky Way overturned, and the Jade Palace collapsed. The Milky Way burst its banks, and the celestial sphere crumbled. In the moment of opening and closing, it swallowed up the eight directions, and countless stars fell together. Light fragments flew across the nine heavens, as if a thunder chariot had passed by, crushing the blue sky and the azure heavens.

But the Purple Palace Enclosure crumbled, and the handle of the Big Dipper broke. The Cowherd and Weaver Girl stars, entwined with crimson ribbons, fell to the ground, while the Orion and Sirius stars, trailing dark flames, burned away. Meteors rained down in thousands, scattering across the earth and dotting the eight directions, like an aurora curtain being drawn down.

When a star falls and is struck by a strong wind, it instantly transforms into countless streams of light, which, as they shatter, spread across the universe.

The earth trembled, and the heavens resounded. The yin and yang energies condensed into a suspended mirror, reflecting the images of many worlds. Countless armored warriors fought fiercely with spears, while fairies in crimson robes sang and wept, holding zithers.

The sun is eclipsed, stars fall like rain, locusts fall, sand deer collapse, summer brings heavy rain, winter brings heavy snow, rocks fall on Song for five or six days, egrets fly away, frost falls but does not kill grass, plums and apricots ripen, there is no rain in the first month, until the seventh month of autumn, there is an earthquake, Liangshan collapses, the river is blocked and does not flow for three days, the sky darkens, a comet appears in the east, a comet appears in the east, storks and mynas come to nest, unusual things happen in spring and autumn, these are signs of disorder.

Suddenly the mirror shattered, and silver sand and starlight rained down, plunging into the bottomless abyss below, where a giant eye flickered, its pupils gazing upon everything around it.

Is this...war?
Takashi suddenly found himself caught up in a war.

He saw the sky crack open.

At this moment, his gaze was fixed on what appeared to be the broken edge of some kind of jade staircase.

Just as he had witnessed the battle between Zuo Lang and Long Jun through the divine radiance, he now seemed to be seeing some kind of terrifying battle from the past through the divine radiance as well.

Gao Jian felt as if his soul was being pressed down by some kind of oppressive force, making it creak and groan.

This horrified him, even causing him to convulse and cough.

You must understand that Gao Jian's mind is currently in an absolutely clear state, enhanced by the rusty knife, and in this state, Gao Jian has never encountered anything that can shake his mind.

And now, he has encountered it.

The impact of Shen Yun is so strong!
It seemed to be a shadow deeper than the Nine Netherworlds, yet it was shimmering with countless golden specks of light. Each speck was indescribable, seemingly containing immense information enough to overwhelm even a high-level cultivator. All these specks of light burned in the void rifts, and as they fell, they vaporized the entire Milky Way into a scarlet mist.

When all of this landed in Gao Jian's heart lake, although his heart lake did not shatter and remained as stable as Mount Tai, it still made a cracking sound.

These divine energies... are too dangerous! What kind of battlefield is this?!

Suddenly, the sea of ​​clouds boiled, and the image of a celestial being soared into the sky. With a wave of his hand, nine chains wrapped in chaotic energy pierced through the thirty-three heavens, and the ends of the chains dragged the entire sky.

With such a massive body, capable of lifting the entire sky, this is a star official!
The heavens, where the sun and moon revolve, bear many wounds, from which gushes crimson blood rain, corroding the entire battlefield with a sizzling sound.

The sky is bleeding.

The air was thick with the chilling aura of blood, and death and bloodshed were everywhere. A black wind swept through, eclipsing the sun's light. The heavens shook and the earth trembled, ghosts and spirits vanished, and birds and beasts were terrified.

Gao Jian covered his ears. Even though he was only in a state of divine inspiration, he felt an intense pressure. Black blood seeped from his ears, and each drop tore out a vortex in the void. Within the vortex... it seemed to be reincarnation.

There were howling and wailing underground, and something seemed to be churning down there. Blood, flesh, and broken bones were even breaking through the ground, trying to crawl out.

A sword's cry came from afar, so powerful that Gao Jian's internal organs almost churned.

Then, a three-foot-long sword wrapped in purple lightning cleaved through the thunder pool. The star map that appeared on the sword echoed the shattered Milky Way above. The swordsman walked on the ripples of the sea of ​​clouds, each step causing folds in the azure sky.

And within the folds of the azure sky, countless arms crawled out, taking advantage of the folds—those were the unfinished fates of billions of living beings in the severed 'heaven and earth,' wailing in despair.

The blood moon fell from the clouds, and countless golden eyes opened within its disc, reflecting the phantom of the collapsing heavens.

Gao Jian found those golden pupils strangely familiar!

Those are... the golden vertical pupils of the Grand Duke Jupiter!

That was... a Tai Sui spirit unlike any other!

What kind of struggle is this?
This ancient ice was pulled back from beyond the heavens, which means... is this a battle between gods?

My internal organs trembled with fear, and my seven spirits trembled as if about to leave. I wanted to scream, but my throat was choked with ice and charcoal; I wanted to run, but my body was filled with lead. I saw the towering sky like a torn ribbon, and the broken bodies of gods and demons fell one after another, some turning into scorched peaks, others into poisonous swamps.

The twelve ecliptic cycles are stained with ochre sweat and divine blood.

The towering, clear steps are adorned with broken spears and tattered banners.

Another troop of cavalry appeared, seemingly celestial soldiers, riding on horseback. The white breath exhaled from their snorts mingled with the morning mist, and the scales of their iron armor gleamed with a blood-red hue in the dawn light. A black tide slowly surged, and the bronze beast faces on their horse armor appeared and disappeared in the mist.

Though they were clearly celestial soldiers and generals, at this moment, they roared like wild beasts, their red-tasseled halberds piercing the mist, and their iron cavalry transformed into a crimson torrent. Instantly, the earth shook, and rubble tumbled down the black cliffs, mingling with the sound of hooves to create a soul-stirring drumbeat.

Their target was a cloud of black mist. The stench of warhorses, whipped up by the horses, swirled sand and gravel, and the lead horse neighed in terror as it crashed into the mist. The sound of bones shattering mingled with the flying armor plates, and scalding blood gushed from the broken necks of the horses, turning the falling cavalrymen into bloodied figures.

Blood trickled down the shaft of the spear from his palm. The horse's head, along with half of its cervical vertebrae, flew off, its silver armor now stained dark red with scalding horse blood.

Before long, it had become a bloodbath. The broken spear shafts of the heavenly soldiers were stuck in the pile of corpses, with half of their bleeding intestines hanging from them. Some cavalrymen, their heads sliced ​​off, were still wielding their swords until they were trampled into a bloody pulp by the rolling black mist. A blind warhorse, dragging its entrails spilling out of its cavity, threw its dying rider into the melee, and immediately a sickening sound of bones shattering rang out.

The dull thud of a knife piercing a neck startled the surrounding wind. A surviving warhorse knelt beside its master's shattered body, incessantly licking the severed hand that exposed white bone, the congealed blood on its mane falling away with each movement.

A jet of scalding blood sprayed onto Gao Jian's face. Although he knew this was just information from the divine essence, his mouth still tasted of rust.

Gao Jian panicked and immediately tried to escape.

absurd!

weird!

The scene presented by the divine charm before his eyes left Gao Jian's mind blank.

What kind of battle is this...?

Are the gods fighting amongst themselves? Or is this not a god at all, but some kind of strange entity?
The moment the blood dripped, the entire sky began to collapse. Many flying boats and magical treasures were shattered and melted, gradually swallowed up by the black mist.

The coiled dragon struggled to break free of the stone, its scales scattering sparks. Other divine beasts were tearing at each other in the sea of ​​clouds. Molten magical artifacts, along with fragments of copper, plummeted into the abyss.

Just then, a thunderclap suddenly erupted from the silent fall—atop the sky, a man threw out his halberd.

You've got a brilliant idea.

That is, a martial artist.

It is not a god, it is nothing else, it is a warrior!
A genuine martial artist!
With a heroic spirit and imposing presence, he seemed ready to leap into the air, his martial arts intent establishing an absolute domineering aura!

Martial arts divine intent, martial arts internal energy, and that set of martial arts skills that can be described as profound!

That's a martial artist!
Warriors stand above the gods!
However, there is one insightful point that I don't understand.

How did he manage to stand in mid-air?
As we all know, martial arts internal energy only has destructive power and is extremely so, so it is very difficult for a martial artist to fly on their own.

However, martial artists are not without the ability to fly. Swimming in the 'Sea of ​​Air' and relying on high-speed air movement can also make them take off, but this is very different from 'flying' in the ordinary sense.

Like Gao Jian's ability to ride the wind, it is essentially just relying on a strong wind to blow himself up, nothing more, and it doesn't really count as flying.

But the other party... stepped on the air, and the air seemed to solidify into a physical form.

There is information within Shen Yun, so those with insight can see what it is.

That is... the divine will of martial arts.

Relying on his martial arts divine will, he 'commanded' the air.

Yes, what Shen Yun conveys...

He commanded the air to become solid, and the air 'obeyed'.

Such terrifying and domineering martial arts divine intent caused all things to submit to it, as if all living beings would be at its command at a moment's notice.

The palace complex collapsed, the sea of ​​clouds shattered, and the sky beneath his feet froze. Everything in the world seemed to bow down in submission.

Everything around him, whether living or inanimate, bowed down to him.

Is such domineering divine will something that martial artists can possess?
This martial arts divine intent pierced straight into Gao Jian's mind.

He wanted to continue watching, to continue observing...

Because... he seemed to have seen the martial artist's enemy.

Within that black mist... the enemy has already appeared.

The martial artist was fighting against a handsome man wearing a cloak and holding a bamboo staff. The martial artist was challenging his opponent, but he was actually in a lower position... and was being suffocated by the black mist.

Such a domineering and powerful martial artist, why would he need to challenge the opponent? Just how strong is the opponent?

He wanted to continue watching the battle.

The impact of the battle continued to expand, to the point that even the vast sky and sea of ​​clouds could not contain it.

But the next moment, the lake of my heart began to dissolve.

The reason is quite simple: all the blades of the rusty knife have been worn away.

A brilliant insight!

Immediately afterwards——

All sound vanished in that instant. A searing pain shot through Gao Jian's head, as if pierced by a million ice needles!
The power of the rusty knife has dissipated; now, he is relying on his own mind to face the divine essence before him!
"Ugh—!" Takami suddenly knelt down on the spot!

Upon seeing this, Dansha immediately knew that Gao Jian had reached his limit, so she quickly grabbed him and flew towards the sky.

However, when she tried to fly, she found that she couldn't take off; something was holding her back.

What's pulling her?!
Dansha looked down and saw... that it was Gao Jian who had grabbed her.

The Dragon Girl's expression turned anxious. Was he out of his mind?! Hadn't he already reached the limit of comprehending the divine essence? Continuing any further would damage his soul!

But only Gao Jian himself knows.

He was there at a crucial moment.

Damn it, I've run out of rusty knives at this crucial moment!

But... he can manage on his own!
His insightful opinion was that the rusty knife didn't render the weapon useless; he could still withstand the opponent's martial arts intent on his own!

"Three more... seconds." Gao Jian managed to utter these words with difficulty.

Dan Sha forced himself to remain calm and nodded.

one two three!

Dansha suddenly pulled Gao Jian, dragging him out of this place and directly to the suspended channel five hundred feet above.

Gao Jian's eyes were bloodshot and blood was flowing from his seven orifices, but his eyes were filled with divine light.

The soul was indeed damaged.

However, his martial arts divine will had already begun to sprout.

(End of this chapter)