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Chapter 374 Learning from the Battlefield
Chapter 374 Learning from the Battlefield
"How dare you!"
Kudu roared, his voice booming like a great bell, making the air buzz.
He no longer concealed the oppressive aura emanating from a Nascent Soul cultivator. As his anger flared, his entire aura surged, making him appear like a wrathful Vajra descending from the Buddhist realm.
He then extended a palm, its broad surface shimmering with Buddhist light. With a single push forward, an indescribable, immense power surged from his palm.
The golden crystal power within his body was no longer under the control of a Nascent Soul cultivator; it was a higher-level method of application. Every strand of power was condensed to the extreme, moving at extremely high speed through his meridians, producing a sound like a rushing river.
Moreover, the power of that golden crystal was as strong as 5000 strands, which was far greater than Chen Yi's 2000 strands.
As soon as this power appeared, it stirred up the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, forming a vortex centered on it, repelling the chaotic energy that permeated the ancient battlefield and creating a pure golden domain.
A hundred miles away, Chen Yi, who was hiding his figure, suddenly narrowed his eyes.
He could clearly sense the terror of that power; it was no longer a difference in quantity, but a qualitative transformation.
Chen Yi was surprised. He had already exceeded the limit of the fourth-level body refining mid-stage Vajra Technique by controlling two thousand strands. That was an achievement he had reached after countless life-and-death battles and special opportunities.
However, the opponent, with the same cultivation level of the middle stage of the fourth-order body refinement, actually managed to control 5000 strands, which, in a sense, is close to the great success of the late stage of the fourth-order body refinement.
"A Nascent Soul Avatar is indeed beyond the comprehension of a Nascent Soul cultivator," Chen Yi thought to himself. "This Nascent Soul cultivator from the Vajra Temple has a far superior understanding and application of the Vajra Technique compared to me. These five thousand strands of golden crystal power are not simply superimposed, but have formed a kind of momentum, a kind of field, which is enough to crush any cultivator of the same level."
He secretly calculated that if he were to face this power, he probably wouldn't even last a single exchange before being completely suppressed.
The difference is just too big.
However, Chen Yi felt no discouragement; instead, an unprecedented fervor surged within him.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Chen Yi thought to himself. "I need to see clearly how he managed to cram so much golden crystal power into that body."
Taking advantage of Kudu's attack, he unleashed his full power to perceive the world and his Void-Piercing Eye. In his eyes, which glowed with a faint purple light, the world changed. Kudu's body was no longer flesh and blood, but a complex energy furnace.
The five thousand strands of golden crystal power were not piled up haphazardly, but rather operated according to a strange spiral structure, with each spiral perfectly offsetting the tearing sensation of the power on the meridians.
Chen Yi fully grasped the secret of how his opponent, with his mid-stage fourth-order body refinement cultivation, controlled such a powerful Golden Crystal Marrow, as well as the flow of the Golden Crystal Dao Essence when he later used his supernatural powers.
He saw that when the golden threads gathered in Kudu's palm, they vaguely outlined the phantom of an ancient Buddha sitting in the void, and the phantom's every move was in harmony with a certain rhythm of this world.
In the blink of an eye, countless insights and understandings appeared in his mind and soul. Those obstacles in the practice of Vajra Kung Fu suddenly became clear at this moment.
The two thousand strands of golden crystal power within his body seemed to be inspired, and began to tremble slightly, attempting to imitate that spiraling motion.
At this moment, Chen Yi truly saw the door to the advanced cultivation stage of the Vajra Skill. Behind that door lay a vast world he had never imagined.
"So, in the later stages of the Vajra Skill, what's sought isn't hardness, but this mysterious and profound resilience and harmony." Chen Yi assessed in his mind, "If I could master this arrangement, my body's maximum endurance could at least double."
Just as Chen Yi was silently observing and learning, Kudu in the center of the battlefield had already pushed his power to its peak.
"Demon-Subduing and Heaven-Imprisoning Palm!"
Kudu let out a furious shout.
He raised one hand, his palm, which held the power of five thousand strands of golden crystal, upwards to the sky.
In an instant, the sky above him changed color, turning into a pure gold color, with countless golden points of light emerging from the void and converging wildly.
In an instant, a gigantic hand formed from golden light appeared in the air. The hand was so large that it blotted out the sky and was the size of a mountain. Its five fingers were clearly visible, with palm lines and knuckles clearly discernible, as if the hand of a god or Buddha had descended to the mortal world.
Even more terrifying is that each of those five fingers contains the power of Vajra, reaching the late stage of the fourth rank. When the five fingers come together to form a palm, the power has undergone a qualitative change.
It is no longer a simple energy attack, but rather it has triggered some kind of law of heaven and earth, and its degree of imprisonment of space exceeds that of the physical attack of this palm strike itself.
Before the giant hand even landed, the earth beneath it began to crack inch by inch, and the space creaked under the strain, as if it would be crushed by this force at any moment.
Even from a hundred miles away, Chen Yi felt a chill run down his spine upon seeing the palm strike, a coldness shooting straight from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He couldn't possibly withstand that blow head-on.
He immediately realized that the essence of this palm technique lay in the two words "Imprisoning Heaven".
Once locked on, the surrounding space will be completely sealed off, leaving no way to avoid it and only the option to withstand it. And how many people can withstand a physical attack comparable to the limit of the late stage of the fourth-order body refinement?
He remembered another unique skill of the Vajra Temple.
Even with the late-stage fourth-order body refinement cultivation of Kongxin, one of the three abbots of the Vajra Temple, he could only use the Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger with two fingers at the same time.
The power of those two fingers' Imprisoning Heaven Finger was several times less than that of this palm strike!
"So that's how it is. The Imprisoning Heaven Finger is just a simplified version, or rather, a disassembled version, of this palm strike. The true divine power lies in the unity of the five fingers." Chen Yi understood. "This is the true method of the Nascent Soul Avatar."
Unfortunately, if I had been on the battlefield and directly absorbed the opponent's Vajra energy through the system, I might have been able to achieve a greater boost.
But that's too dangerous; I could easily be killed with a single blow. Forget it, let's take it slow.
Chen Yi thought to himself that, faced with this earth-shattering attack, the human-faced dragon's expression also changed slightly, and for the first time, a solemn look appeared in its long, narrow demonic eyes.
She could feel that the golden hand had sealed off all her escape routes; there was nowhere to run, neither in the sky nor on the ground.
Her gaze sharpened: "So you're not pretending anymore, are you? With a mere mid-stage fourth rank, you're using fourth-rank peak divine abilities!"
And you still say you weren't a Nascent Soul avatar who came in person!
"I'd like to see just how far your remnants of the Vajra Temple have gone."
Although she spoke forcefully, she dared not slack off in her actions.
She then snorted coldly and formed a strange hand seal in front of her: "Dragon Scale Shield of Destiny!"
Before he finished speaking, the five most essential scales on his waist and abdomen suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light.
These five scales were completely different from the other scales on her body. They were covered with naturally formed mysterious patterns, as if they were the manifestation of the Great Dao runes.
They were torn from her flesh and flew out, leaving a trail of blood droplets, clearly indicating that using this item had greatly depleted her resources.
Five scales, shimmering with azure light, flew out, spun in the air, and grew larger as they faced the wind, instantly transforming into five enormous azure shields. They were arranged according to some mysterious formation, with azure light flowing between them, condensing into a huge snake scale defensive array in the air.
The patterns and runes on it were activated by demonic power, carrying a special Daoist charm, exuding an indestructible aura, and possessing an extremely powerful protective ability.
Judging solely from the defensive fluctuations emitted by the snake scale array, it has reached the peak of the fourth rank.
This level of skill is not something an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator could pull off.
Chen Yi also observed and learned, completely absorbed.
He did not look down on the other party because they were a demon; on the contrary, he saw the amazing value in the formation.
The opponent's snake scale defensive formation was also helpful to Chen Yi.
He looked down at his arm. The lightning crystal defense array on his body hadn't been updated for decades, and its defensive capabilities were still at the late stage of the early fourth tier.
"It seems I've been thinking wrong all along," Chen Yi asked himself. "I've been blindly pursuing changes in the quality and quantity of Thunder Crystal Marrow, thinking that as long as I piled up enough and it was pure enough, I've ignored the profound mysteries of the array itself."
He discovered that the arrangement of the five scales of the human-faced dragon perfectly dispersed the pressure it received into the void.
That was an ultimate application of mechanics, far surpassing the profound defensive rune array displayed by the five snake scales of the human-faced dragon.
"I need to find a way to learn this rune array." Chen Yi planned in his mind, "If I can reorganize the Thunder Crystal Array according to this logic, my defense will increase by at least 50%."
If I could combine that with my spatial compression defense ability, my overall defensive capabilities would likely double!
Chen Yi unleashed his full power of perception of heaven and earth and his penetrating spiritual eye, frantically absorbing and learning!
The next moment, the enormous Demon-Subduing and Heaven-Imprisoning Palm locked onto the location of the human-faced dragon, carrying an aura of suppressing everything, and slowly pressed down.
The speed may not seem fast, but it gives people an irresistible sense of divine might.
The human-faced dragon felt as if the space around him had solidified, becoming as viscous as mercury, making it extremely difficult to even move a finger.
Unable to resist or dodge, she could only continuously channel her demonic power, frantically injecting the primordial demonic power accumulated within her body over the years into those five scales.
"Open the gate for me!"
She roared and forcefully expanded the defensive array of the five scales, transforming it into a blue light shield that blocked the giant Prisoner's Hand.
Rumble!
The moment the golden giant hand collided with the azure scale array, there was no earth-shattering roar. Instead, there was a teeth-grinding "sizzle" sound, the mournful cry of space being squeezed and rubbed by two extreme forces.
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying energy storm erupted.
At this moment, the world changed color. The chaotic spiritual energy in the entire ancient battlefield was like a lake with a boulder thrown into it, being stirred up wildly and boiling over. It turned into streams of gray energy turbulence, attacking the two of them indiscriminately.
The two clashed so fiercely that it reached a point where other mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators could not intervene.
The enormous golden palm clashed violently with the snake scale array composed of five dragon serpent scales. Golden light and azure light intertwined and annihilated each other, and each collision caused the earth to tremble violently.
Even the entire space trembled, and visible spatial ripples spread out in all directions from the point of battle.
The lingering shockwaves swept out like a raging torrent, greatly affecting the mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators who had not yet gone far.
Several cultivators who were closer to the scene had their protective magic treasures instantly dimmed by the shock, spitting out blood. In horror, they desperately fled to a more distant place.
"Get out of here! This is a battle we shouldn't get involved in!"
"My God, what kind of supernatural power is that? It's enough to shatter the very sky!"
In the center of the battlefield, the two immediately unleashed their true abilities, each possessing immense supernatural powers and holding nothing back.
The golden Demon-Subduing and Heaven-Imprisoning Palm pressed down relentlessly, and with each inch of its advance, the azure scale array below groaned under its unbearable strain.
In terms of defense, the Human-Faced Flood Dragon was still slightly inferior. Although his five natal scale formations had reached the peak of the fourth rank, they gradually became somewhat ineffective under the bombardment of the Nascent Soul level divine power, which was practically cheating.
The blue light flowing across the scales began to flicker, and even tiny cracks began to appear on the bodies of the five scales.
puff!
The human-faced dragon felt a sweet taste in her throat and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the scales in front of her, making her already pale face even more tragic.
Her expression changed slightly, and the next moment she gritted her teeth, her eyes revealing a fierce look.
She knew that if things continued like this, she would surely be defeated. Once these five primordial scales were destroyed, even if she escaped, the price she would pay would be too high.
"Good bald monk, you do have some skill!"
"Take this!"
With a fierce determination, a special talent fluctuation surged from her body, the power from the deepest part of her dragon bloodline.
His eyes suddenly turned ashen gray, devoid of any emotion, like two cold stones.
A terrifying petrification intent emanated from his gaze. This power was formless and intangible, ignoring spatial distance and energy barriers, shooting straight towards the monk Kudu, who was fully activating the Imprisoning Heaven Palm, several miles away.
Two beams of brownish-yellow light shot out from the eyes of the human-faced dragon, moving with incredible speed, seemingly traversing the distance of space. By the time Kudu sensed being struck by their gaze, it was already too late.
An indescribable numbing sensation came from the surface of his skin, as if countless tiny grains of sand had entered his pores and instantly solidified his flesh and blood.
His expression changed drastically. The dazzling golden light protecting his body was a manifestation of his Buddhist Vajra Indestructible Divine Power, but at this moment it was as if a thick layer of mud had been poured on it, instantly covering it with a brownish-brown color.
The golden luster quickly dimmed, and it suddenly became extremely viscous, no longer a flowing flame, but like semi-solidified amber.
Kudu's heart sank, and he immediately tried to mobilize his soul.
His divine soul power, reaching almost the fifth rank, was like an invisible giant hand, reaching out to grab the golden light on his body, attempting to peel away the layer of filthy, brownish power.
But the divine power that used to be so easy to control now felt like it had been stuck in a quagmire for millennia, and every movement was incredibly sluggish and difficult to command.
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