Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 168 Two Against One

Whether it's the primordial energy of heaven and earth or magical treasures and spiritual roots, given enough time, Qiongqi can refine them into clones using its own soul. Even the sharp edges that Bai Ju previously unleashed while riding the White Gold Mountain Lord can be subtly influenced by Qiongqi's own soul Dao, causing them to deflect to either side of its own body.

It was precisely because of this that Qiongqi had not suffered any injury in the previous battle. However, now Bai Ju had seen through the flaw in Qiongqi's supernatural power, which was that Qiongqi needed a certain amount of time to refine other beings into its own soul clones.

Bai Ju now integrates his essence, energy, and spirit into the Myriad Heavy Axe in his hand, ensuring that every strike he makes is perfectly round and flawless. Faced with such an attack, even Qiongqi's soul path, which is extremely strange, is at a loss for what to do for the time being.

However, under the pressure of Bai Ju's axe light, Qiongqi's longsword made a crisp cracking sound. Looking at the nicks on the longsword in his palm, Qiongqi laughed loudly and flung the longsword away.

"Since you've already used your full strength, then I'll use mine too."

A deep and eerie soul light shone from Qiongqi's eyes. With one hand supporting the sky and the other pointing to the earth, Qiongqi unleashed a powerful aura that far surpassed its previous strength, causing Bai Ju's Thousand-Heavy Axe, which was about to strike, to pause slightly.

"All things are like me!"

Qiongqi roared, and the sky, the earth, the breeze, the starlight, the grass and trees—everything in the world—became distorted at that moment. The extremely condensed soul power seeped into every inch of the world like a net.

The sky reversed and collapsed, and vast swathes of celestial realm and pure energy gathered around Qiongqi, forming a constantly howling storm; the earth collapsed, and in the ravines, burgeoning lava flowed like layers of fiery clouds sweeping across the heavens and earth.

The breeze and starlight intertwined, and silvery-white dragons and snakes draped in the stars and moon slowly circled around Qiongqi; the grass, trees and forests collapsed and solidified, and countless blue-green divine lights pierced through the heavens and earth, like beaded curtains sealing off all the spiritual energy of the surrounding spacetime.

"The path of the soul is not as simple as you think. All things and phenomena have the opportunity to give birth to souls, and I am the master of souls in the primordial world. As long as I integrate my own soul into all things and phenomena, I will be able to control all the great power in the primordial world!"

Surrounded by azure divine light, the Heavenly Gang Storm transformed into a canopy, silver dragons and snakes landed at its feet, and crimson fire clouds resembled a cloak. Qiongqi, wielding the immense power of all things in nature, coldly stared at Bai Ju, whose expression had suddenly changed, his tone filled with icy killing intent.

"Then, now face me, face the master of all natural phenomena in this vast and primordial world!"

boom!!

In that instant, the sky and earth seemed to possess their own will, constantly evolving storms and bursts of flame to attack Bai Ju. The surrounding azure divine light, like venomous snakes and worms, gnawed at the life force within Bai Ju's body.

The silver-white dragon-serpent, carrying the power of the stars, forcefully shattered the axe light unleashed by Bai Ju. Qiongqi was surrounded by countless forces of heaven and earth, and he seemed to be the Heavenly Dao that controlled all things, having already gained an absolute advantage.

"Still these same old tricks. The Lord of Ferocious Beasts is just a child who hasn't grown up yet."

Bai Ju's expression was indifferent. He swung his Thousand-fold Axe down again. The perfect and flawless domineering axe light tore apart the distorted world in front of him. Qiongqi, whose natural power was constantly being destroyed, stared at the exploding world in front of him and froze.

Even though Qiongqi's soul path can control the power of all things, Bai Ju's axe light, which integrates his own essence, energy, and spirit, and is perfect and flawless, can still tear apart all the distorted phenomena.

From the scene, Bai Ju was surrounded, but Qiongqi, which controlled all things in nature, still couldn't cause Bai Ju much harm.

The power of nature is indeed immense and vast, but as a top-tier Primordial True Saint, Bai Ju is not vulnerable to ordinary natural forces.

Just as Bai Ju said, Qiongqi's soul supernatural abilities are still too immature. When facing cultivators with lower cultivation levels, Qiongqi's various supernatural abilities are enough to kill indiscriminately. However, when facing cultivators of the same level, all the supernatural abilities that Qiongqi has used so far lack effective killing power.

Qiongqi naturally realized that its supernatural power had not caused much harm to Bai Ju, so after only ten breaths, Taotie, with a wicked smile on its face, appeared behind Bai Ju and instantly slashed down with its dark gold axe.

The axe light, capable of devouring all power, landed heavily on Bai Ju's outstretched left hand. The two extreme lights, blazing white and pitch black, collided thousands of times in an instant. As endless flames exploded, Taotie took a step back, and drops of crimson blood on the double-edged axe in his hand were slowly swallowed by the axe.

With a look of enjoyment on his face, Taotie watched as blood dripped continuously from Bai Ju's left hand, and let out a low laugh.

"Two against one, what are you going to do now?"

The distorted natural phenomena once again transformed into boundless power, attacking Bai Ju. The Taotie's form merged into countless waters, fires, winds, and thunders, and the great axe in its hand, which devoured and obliterated everything, slashed out continuously, colliding with the myriad-fold halberd in Bai Ju's hand.

The combined forces of the two ferocious beast lords, Qiongqi and Taotie, completely suppressed Bai Ju. Even though Bai Ju later took out the Taixu Twelve Great Lan Banners, he still failed to turn the tide.

In terms of combat power alone, Qiongqi and Taotie are stronger than Bai Ju. Although it is almost impossible for Qiongqi and Taotie to kill Bai Ju, they can easily hold him back and prevent him from leaving.

Qiongqi and Taotie's goal was to suppress Bai Ju first. Without Bai Ju and Yuanhuang, the two top-level Primordial True Saints, the Qilin royal family's army of all races would definitely not last long against a ferocious beast army that was several times, even tens of thousands of times, greater than them.

As long as the Beast Clan gains a foothold in the far west and integrates the Great Dao of Beasts into the primordial world, then the Beast Clan will have won the first battle in this war between the Beast Clan and the Five Royal Clans.

It's easy for the Great Dao of Ferocious Beasts to merge into the Primordial World, but it's not easy to remove it again. Even if the five royal clans join forces, they won't be able to stop the army of the Ferocious Beasts from invading the Primordial World.

Once the ferocious beast race disperses into the vast prehistoric world, even the five royal clans will find it difficult to completely wipe them out.

Taotie, Qiongqi, and Hundun planned to use countless ferocious beasts to wage a war of attrition against the five royal families and buy time.

The completion of the Four Divine Beasts' destiny has a time limit. As long as the ferocious beast clan can hold out until the Four Divine Beasts' destiny is completed, then when the five royal clan leaders fall one after another, there will be nothing in the vast prehistoric world that can stop the overwhelming army of ferocious beasts.

(End of this chapter)