Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 76 The Battle Ends, the Deal Begins

Tianxu took a step forward, his crimson blood and golden divine light intertwining. The fusion of gold and red made Tianxu's aura even more violent and intense. Even though his condition had been weakened to the extreme, there was still no fear or retreat on Tianxu's face.

Just as others see Tianxu as a madman who only knows how to fight, Tianxu truly is a madman who only knows how to fight. As long as he can still hold the long sword in his hand, he will not give up fighting.

Fighting is his destiny, and being able to fight until death is the most beautiful ending in Tianxu's heart.

The soaring golden flames roared once more. Taiwei looked at Tianxu, who was attacking again, with a cold expression. Looking at his arms, which had not yet fully recovered, Taiwei simply shattered the arms that had just grown halfway back.

Amidst the swirling blood mist, Taiwei's arms transformed into two streaks of blood-red light. The brilliant blood-red light burst forth and burned continuously at this moment, and the blood-red light from Taiwei's arms turned into blood swords. At this moment, the aura on his body also erupted.

The blood sword pierced through, propelled by Taiwei's own essence and magic power, and once again pierced Tianxu's chest. A golden streak shattered the blood sword in Taiwei's left arm, and a sweeping golden longsword cut Taiwei in half at the waist.

The purple-gold Dao light burst forth with countless flames, tearing apart the golden blade light that Tianxu had been slashing down one after another. Taiwei's right arm blood sword swept out, and the Heavenly Sword Light, carrying a spiral sword light that pierced through heaven and earth, crashed into the blade that Tianxu was slashing down with a maniacal laugh, just like thousands of stars crisscrossing.

Boundless light and flames burst forth, and the purple-gold Dao light and golden spiritual energy exploded into countless streams in an instant. The violent spiritual energy swept in and crashed down, and the desert beneath Taiwei and Tianxu's feet exploded with a deafening roar.

Amidst the bursts of blood, both Taiwei and Tianxu experienced simultaneous bursts of blood mist from their bodies. Tianxu staggered a few steps, and the golden flames that had been forcibly binding his internal organs and flesh completely collapsed at this moment. He fell backward into the rolling yellow sand like a puddle of mud.

As Taiwei continued to cough up blood, a dark rainbow flew from afar, supporting Taiwei's swaying body, and he slowly and stiffly walked to Tianxu's side.

Looking at Yanxia lying in the yellow sand, covered in countless wounds, even her ancestral temple between her brows pierced by three sword lights and a yin-yang energy, Taiwei's eyes showed no cold indifference or mockery as before the battle began. Instead, a hint of silence and approval appeared in his eyes.

"You may not be the strongest person I've ever met, but you're definitely the one who made my battles the hardest. You're very good."

Taiwei looked at Tianxu and said with a hint of reminiscence in his voice that even his near-death battle with Luohou was not as fierce as this battle with Tianxu.

Taiwei had not expected that Tianxu, when unleashing his full power, possessed such fervent fighting spirit and will. To be honest, if Tianxu's cultivation had been even slightly stronger, Taiwei was not confident of final victory.

"Your tone is as condescending as ever. You're finally not going to hide it anymore." Tianxu looked at Taiwei. Although his dark eyes could no longer see Taiwei's face clearly, a smile still appeared on Tianxu's face.

"You already knew who I was?" Taiwei looked at Tianxu with some surprise. He believed that his disguise was perfect and that no one could see through it.

"Heh, the secrets of heaven can be concealed, the energy can be altered, and the foundation can be tampered with, but the sword in your hand will not lie. In the instant the swords clashed, I could feel a domineering heart that disregarded all rules. Once I have seen such a heart, I will never forget it."

Tianxu's voice was dry, and for the first time, a calm expression appeared on his fierce face. The calmness that Tianxu showed in the face of his defeat at Taiwei's hands surprised Taiwei, as this was very different from the Tianxu he knew.

"Now that you know who I am, you should understand that you are no match for me. Why do you still come here to die?"

Taiwei no longer concealed his arrogance, and even Tianxu, who was on his deathbed, frowned at the arrogance in his tone. Looking at the arrogant look on Taiwei's face, Tianxu snorted coldly, but soon the stinging pain of his body collapsing began to remind Tianxu that his time was running out.

"I know I don't have much wisdom, and my aptitude and comprehension are not as good as my elder brother's. I have worked hard to cultivate, but I am still far from those top-level beings. But this is the limit of what I can do."

"I have already sensed that it is impossible to move forward any further. Even though I have been cultivating and challenging more and more powerful people over the years, I still cannot make much progress in my cultivation. So I made a decision without telling my elder brother."

At this point, Tianxu's gray eyes suddenly flashed with a blazing light as he stared intently at Taiwei: "I want to make a deal with you."

"Given your current situation, are you qualified to make a deal with me?"

Taiwei remained indifferent. Although Tianxu's performance impressed him, it did not deter Taiwei from showing mercy. The victor gains everything, and the loser loses everything—this was something he had already said before fighting Tianxu.

"Heh, you can't fool me. The main reason you came to me is because you covet my Primordial True Saint Origin!"

"If you want to transform into a Primordial True Saint, you must perfect your foundation in alchemy. And it just so happens that your natal golden core is the Dragon-Tiger Great Core. The Heavenly Tiger is me, and the Purple Dragon is that little mudfish under Zi Xiao's command. Without the Primordial True Saint origin within me, it would be impossible for you to return to your peak at the fastest speed."

"You said you didn't have any great wisdom? Aren't you quite clever? So, you want to threaten me into self-destructing my essence?"

Taiwei stared coldly at Tianxu, his aura, which had just begun to recover, began to surge. His newly grown right hand was deathly pale, and at this moment, this hand grasped the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, which was covered with countless gaps and cracks, and pointed it at Tianxu in front of him.

"Indeed, this is the last gift I leave for the royal family. Trading me, a piece of trash who is no longer of much use, for a true peak expert, and also getting along with three equally powerful peak experts: Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yang Mei, will surely make my elder brother very happy, hahahaha..."

Tianxu looked at Taiwei and laughed loudly. At the same time, golden flames burned on his body. Tianxu looked at Taiwei without fear, and his fierce face regained the arrogance and conceit he had at the beginning of the fight!

"madness!"

Taiwei looked at Tianxu, who was laughing wildly, and a flicker of emotion flashed in his eyes. He knew that Baiju would not be happy about this at all, and Tianxu also knew that Baiju would not be happy about it, but this was the best way Tianxu could think of to protect the White Tiger royal family and Baiju.

(End of this chapter)