Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
As Zhu Hongwu’s fist struck, the dominant aura of his fist engulfed the entire Heavens and Earth. His energy was unleashed and the void space that he and Zhu Yi were in burst apart. Space also lost its significance at this moment.
Zhu Yi didn’t seem very bothered by this. He conjured spells with both his hands and a huge light projection of a spiritual turtle appeared. It was like a huge island.
Streaks and streaks of golden lights surged above the spiritual turtle. Chants started to ring out too.
A blurry light projection formed on the turtle’s shell. It sat cross-legged on the turtle shell – it was a Vajra.
Life was extremely short, thus Buddha often said that life was impermanent.
There was fear in life. To relieve people from the impermanence of life, the eternal Vajra existed.
Life was short, and things often changed, but only the Vajra remained eternal.
Zhu Yi understood the true meaning of the Vajra and he added it to the spiritual turtle created by his Return of All Appearances Spell. The originally, stable spiritual turtle started to change its appearance.
The Vajra disappeared, while the original greenish-black color of the spiritual turtle disappeared, and it turned transparent. But it also revealed a powerful strength of the Vajra, and its defense also became much stronger.
Whereas Zhu Yi’s main body entered the spiritual turtle’s body. Through the transparent figure of the spiritual turtle, Zhu Yi’s main body could be seen. But Zhu Yi seemed to be from a different world from everyone else. He was untouchable, uncontactable, and he would be unharmed even if the outside world collapsed right now.
Zhu Hongwu snorted lightly, and he didn’t stop striking his fist. When the spiritual turtle appeared, his fist had already struck the turtle shell.
The turtle shell shook tremendously, and the seemingly indestructible Vajra let out a piercing sound. It’s as if a ceramic material had been completely smashed.
The spiritual turtle started to appear with cracks on its body.
Shi Zongtang and the other cultivators watching the battle were shocked. Zhu Yi’s powers revealed the Vajra spiritual turtle, and its defensive strength was even greater than the defensive strength of the Vajra summoned by powerful Buddhist monks in the Nirvana realm.
“During the War of Buddha Annihilation, he killed a powerful Buddhist monk that had cultivated a Buddha Spell Body with his Immortal Soul First Level mastery. It wasn’t a coincidence.” Shi Zongtang was silent as he stared at Zhu Hongwu.
Seeing that the Vajra spiritual turtle wasn’t completely cracked, Zhu Hongwu appeared a little surprised, “Oh? It’s even defensively stronger than the Vajras in the Nirvana realm. A monk who cultivated the Acalantha Tathagata Mantra, supplemented it with the powers of Nirvana, and summoned the Unmovable Nagaraja Buddha Cloak was only ordinarily good too.”
“I managed to overcome him easily and his efforts were all wasted!”
The other empty hand of his struck the existing cracks on the turtle’s body and completely cracked the Vajra spiritual turtle. Zhu Yi’s body was revealed.
Whereas Zhu Hongwu’s fist didn’t stop striking. The brutal strength was unleashed repeatedly, and the Vajra spiritual turtle was battered even worst. It was turned into waste, and the frightening strength that came along was also inflicted on Zhu Yi’s body. The ferocious momentum was about to crush his Immortal Soul too.
But Zhu Yi’s expression didn’t change. He opened his hands to his sides and a crisp, phoenix whistle was heard. A bright phoenix projection flew out from his body.
At this point, Zhu Yi conjured a spell with both his hands that were opened to his sides. After that, he clasped them in front of his chest suddenly.
The bright phoenix projection changed appearance instantly and turned half-black and half-white. One half of its body was pitch-black, while the other half was pure white.
The phoenix was engulfed by the powers of life and death at this moment. But it wasn’t just the powers of life and death that flowed in the phoenix right now. Black and white flowed through its entire body without stopping too.
An immense power of life and death surged out and the phoenix flew up high. As it passed the broken body of the spiritual turtle, the spiritual turtle was restored and revealed the Vajra. It’s as if it had not been harmed before.
The black and white phoenix disappeared, whereas the Vajra spiritual turtle appeared once again. Zhu Hongwu’s attack was blocked again.
Shi Zongtang, the Thunderclouds Holy Man, Luofu Holy Man and the rest looked at one another. The Royal House Lord let out a breath, “Emperor of the Dead’s mantra!”
Xu Anda, the former leader of the Hall of the Dead, was captured alive by Lin Feng and thrown into the Heavenly Gods-Sealing Banner. Besides a few mantras, most of the Emperor of the Dead’s mantras landed in the hands of the Celestial Sect of Wonders. They were even improvised through Xu Anda’s own understanding as his cultivation improved.
Zhu Yi obtained the essence of the changes of life and death and combined it with his own Rebirth of the Phoenix Spell. This caused his powers to ascend another level.
The spiritual turtle appeared again and was blocked by Zhu Hongwu. Zhu Hongwu didn’t attack again; a warning flashed across his head and his instincts combined with his rewards from studying the way of karma allowed him to realize that Zhu Yi’s Soaring Dragon Spell had combined with the Emperor of Violence’s mantra to turn into dragon projections that attacked him.
These dragon projections’ eyes were bright like the stars. As they flashed, the stars in the sky seemed to resonate with them. Zhu Hongwu’s gaze slightly flashed as he realized this.
“Is this an inspiration from the Celestial True Spell of the Seven Planets?” Zhu Hongwu’s expression didn’t change when he saw this. He had no intention of avoiding the dragon projections.
A light projection appeared above his head and formed a huge light wheel. That light wheel spun non-stop, but it was empty in the middle.
Above the light wheel, there were many gods and Buddhas that sang together as well as emperors that spoke in low voices.
This light wheel was the revelation of Zhu Hongwu’s fist aura. The illusory aura turned real at this point and revealed an extremely immense power.
As he looked at the light wheel, Zhu Yi felt that he was facing the real Great Heavenly Wheels.
As the light wheel spun, it felt as if countless worlds were spinning too. Thousands of divine beings, Buddhas, celestial beings and emperors gathered together and controlled the Heavens and Earth in their hands.
Zhu Hongwu’s fist was filled with strength and his body lit up as it was supplemented by his fist. He endured the relentless attack of Zhu Yi’s dragon projections.
He stood in void space like a frightening, satanic god. His body didn’t even shake even as he was subjected to the light dragons’ attack. The light dragons were crushed one by one, whereas Zhu Hongwu’s body remained firm.
Shi Zongtang, the Royal House Lord and the others turned extremely serious as they saw this. They realized why Zhu Hongwu was confident enough to challenge everyone earlier.
Zhu Hongwu only revealed his true capability now.
He revealed his fist aura and didn’t hide away. As he bore Zhu Yi’s attack, he continued to attack too. He cracked the Vajra spiritual turtle in front of him again!
Zhu Yi looked at Zhu Hongwu quietly and his gaze flashed with flowing radiances. The word ‘Yi’ appeared very clearly now.
Within Zhu Yi’s field of vision, the fog around Zhu Hongwu’s body had dispersed and he became clearer.
He soon understood what Zhu Hongwu was doing, “So this is the case. Father, you’ve combined the strength of the mantras of the Great Thunderclap Temple, Heaven’s Gate and Emperor Tai together. You combined them together and enabled yourself to reach the Immortal Soul Third Level. What a move.”
“However, Emperor Tai is royalty. Liang Pan also cultivated the mantras of Emperor Tai. You two actually cultivated the mantras of a former emperor at the same time?”
Zhu Hongwu’s body flashed suddenly after he cracked the Vajra spiritual turtle. After that, his hands formed claws and grabbed the black and white phoenix that just appeared.
He said coldly, “Tai Shitian belongs to history already. Regardless whether it’s him or the Imperial Palace of Emperor Tai, they’ve become tools for the empire to use. They’re only useful in advancing our agenda. His Majesty is the only true emperor that exists today.”
“An emperor is a person, not a mantra.”
Zhu Yi smiled, and his gaze flashed, “Besides the mantras from these three lineages, you seemed to have understood some other power that enabled you to reach the Immortal Soul Third Level. What is it?”
“You’re so free to bother about that now?” Zhu Hongwu said indifferently, “You’ve learnt a lot too. The mantras of the Celestial Sect of Wonders are indeed outstanding. But you’re not too brilliant yourself. You may seem very familiar with them, but you don’t truly understand the meanings behind them.”
“The so-called combination of your powers is only just a horrible mix of mantras. Let me teach you what’s called true fusion of mantras.”
Zhu Hongwu exerted strength with both his hands and tore the black and white phoenix apart. After that, the light wheel above his head that spun continuously stopped suddenly.”
The light wheel stopped spinning and the projections of the celestial beings, divine beings, gods and Buddhas above it also disappeared. But the singing voices of the Great Dao became even louder.
The surrounding void space was engulfed by Zhu Hongwu’s fist aura. Even with Zhu Yi’s current cultivation, he still felt lonely. As he glanced around him, he felt as if the entire world had become his enemy.
The light wheel went still, but Zhu Hongwu moved. He moved at an unprecedented speed!
His fist struck towards Zhu Yi and revealed a destructive force.
It was the fist of domination!
As Zhu Hongwu’s fist struck, it was as if he wanted the entire Heavens to stop moving. The gods and Buddhas were destroyed by this fist, and it threatened the entire Heavens and Earth. It controlled the destiny of the world, fate of all lives and determined the direction of the Great Dao. Everything was decided by this fist.
“A simple combination isn’t a true fusion. But it’s also nothing to combine the mantras of three different lineages together.” Zhu Yi said indifferently. As he turned, he stripped himself of his human form and revealed the true form of his Literary Taiji Diagram.
Above the Taiji Diagram, a huge word was formed. From the looks of it, it was very simple and obvious. But it also seemed ridiculous and difficult to grasp too.
A Qilin appeared above Zhu Hongwu suddenly. It was very majestic and its dominant aura was exerted on Zhu Hongwu, causing him to be repressed. But before it could get close to Zhu Hongwu, it was struck by Zhu Hongwu’s fist. It was about to be crushed, but countless dragon projections, the Vajra spiritual turtle and black and white phoenix appeared at the same time. They encircled Zhu Hongwu.
The four spiritual animals roared at the same time, and the Qilin projection that was about to be crushed was stabilized.
Whereas Zhu Hongwu squinted his eyes.
