Chapter 433
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 433
Chapter Title: Tingyou Battles Zhengde!
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In the dim chamber, heavy and powerful footsteps echoed, as if merging with the veins of heaven and earth themselves. Every movement carried an invisible, overwhelming pressure.
There was no doubt—this was a formidable foe.
The man had lips as red as cinnabar and teeth as white as jade. He wielded a sword radiating streams of brilliant light, clad in white robes and a golden crown. A domineering air naturally emanated from his brows.
As his gaze fell, an intangible killing intent instantly locked onto Lu Yang and the Tingyou Ancestor, like two slaughter swords hacking straight into their minds!
"Clang! Clang!"
Lu Yang's expression grew solemn. He unleashed his [Sword Intent], dissolving the immense power hidden in the opponent's gaze into nothingness. This invisible killing through sight was clearly a pinnacle application of [Sword Intent]. A Foundation Establishment Perfected Being with weaker cultivation would likely be slain with a single glance from this man!
'He's stronger than Hong Ju.'
Though Hong Ju was also at peak Foundation Establishment, he lacked a golden nature and a blessed land, making him the most basic of basics—hardly impressive in combat at the same realm.
But this sword-wielding youth was different.
He possessed a strand of golden nature from the [Heaven-Receiving Orthodox Virtue True Lord], and as an avatar of the True Lord, it fused perfectly with him, greatly boosting his combat prowess.
No matter what, this was a formidable foe!
"Who are you people?"
At last, the sword-wielding youth spoke in a low voice. "What exactly happened in the outside world? How dare you intrude into the Ye family's forbidden ground—what is Ye Guangji doing?"
"You're still counting on Perfected Being Demon-Quelling?" Lu Yang sneered coldly. Though this matter had nothing to do with him, and he didn't fully endorse Perfected Being Demon-Quelling's stubbornness, it didn't stop him from scorning these Sword Pavilion folk. "Fellow Daoist, best not to delude yourself. Today, no one can save you!"
With that, Lu Yang dragged the Primal Saint Sect into it as well.
"Our Primal Saint Sect has stormed the Sword Pavilion this time to eradicate demons and defend the righteous path, upholding justice across the world. After today, there will be no Sword Pavilion in the lands south of the Yangtze!"
These words instantly turned the atmosphere grim and tense.
"You ignorant junior, courting death!" The sword-wielding youth's gaze turned icy. Without any visible motion, a flash of white light suddenly streaked across Lu Yang's vision.
Accompanying it was a biting chill wind.
"Ching!"
A crisp sword cry rang through Lu Yang's mind in an instant, halting just three inches from his throat at the moment it would have struck.
Behind Lu Yang, a ring of pure white, jade-like radiance expanded outward, splitting into countless web-like patterns that rooted into the surrounding heaven and earth, binding Lu Yang inseparably to it. It was this connection that forced the sword-wielding youth to halt at the last second.
[Unity with the World]!
'Unfortunately.'
Seeing the sword-wielding youth pull back at the critical juncture, Lu Yang sighed inwardly. As expected of one who had cultivated Sword Intent—his sword arts were executed at will, freely retracting and extending.
This one was far harder to bait than Tian Qiu.
Moreover, with the precedent of Guang Ming Buddha's Son, Lu Yang had no doubt the sword-wielding youth could break [Unity with the World]. He would just need a bit of time.
But at that moment, the Tingyou Ancestor suddenly stepped forward.
"Let me handle this."
By now, the Tingyou Ancestor's voice had returned to calm, though his tone was utterly resolute.
".Fine."
Lu Yang nodded upon seeing this and retreated a step. He slammed the Ten Thousand Spirits Banner heavily into the ground, instantly stirring a ring of golden light that expanded outward.
[Incense Fire Divine Path]!
In a flash, the entire chamber filled with the scent of sandalwood. Phantasmal figures materialized one after another, boundless incense fire empowering the Tingyou Ancestor.
"Hoo"
Though the incense fire-empowered peak Foundation Establishment was far from the Tingyou Ancestor's prime, it at least elevated him to the same stature as the sword-wielding youth.
And that alone was enough!
Back then, he hadn't even qualified to stand on the same level—his entire sect wiped out by a single sword. Only now could he truly fight this foe on equal footing!
"You are not your true body, nor am I at full strength."
"It's fair enough."
Before his words finished echoing, the Tingyou Ancestor struck! He forwent the various Dao arts he had mimicked earlier, instead pinching a simple incantation seal.
"[Nine Heavens Capital Register Secret Demon Yin Thunder]!"
Lu Yang recognized it at a glance—this was a minor divine ability of the Witch Ghost Path, specialized in countering souls. The Tingyou Ancestor had once used it against him.
The next second, lightning cracked and yin demons wailed, smashing down toward the sword-wielding youth's head. Yet even at the Tingyou Ancestor's peak execution, this thunder art was inherently a Qi Refining-level technique. How could it compare to true divine abilities?
"Boom!"
With a massive roar, the sword-wielding youth surged forward. Sword light tore through the myriad yin thunders. Even before the sword qi arrived, his Sword Intent had already sliced bloody gashes across the Tingyou Ancestor's face.
But at that instant, the Tingyou Ancestor's figure suddenly dispersed.
"[Submersion Township]!"
The scattering form turned into rolling [Zi Water], perfectly embodying the principle of "gold chilled by water's cold, Zi Water dominant while its mother wanes"—a divine ability designed to bury metal!
The sword-wielding youth plunged into it, startled but unflustered. He too unleashed a burst of divine ability radiance:
[Ji Gold Radiance]!
Under the divine ability's glow, the youth's innate [Geng Gold] killing aura transformed into [Xin Gold]. [Xin Gold] was born in [Zi Water], refined by its currents to wash away impurities and shine forth—breaking the trap with the principle of "water aiding gold's radiance."
The Tingyou Ancestor showed no surprise. He retreated a distance and spat forth from his mouth.
What he spat was a beam of divine light that seemed as light as drifting clouds but weighed heavier than mountains, revealing profound mysteries of water and fire in harmony, yin and yang united!
[Gold-Melting Vault]!
This was unmistakably a [Chou Earth] divine ability!
[Chou Earth] was yin earth, borne upon damp cold water yet bursting with dual yang qi, thus incorporating the mysteries of both water and warming fire.
Water could nourish gold, yet also trap it.
Fire could forge gold, yet also melt it.
The variations depended entirely on the practitioner's attainment. At the Tingyou Ancestor's level, it naturally became the nemesis of metal sword qi.
In an instant, the sword-wielding youth froze in place. Sword qi across the sky melted like ice and snow—first drowned by water, then refined by fire. It shattered inch by inch in moments, all killing intent dissolving into nothingness. Forced to sheathe his sword and retreat, the youth now bore wounds pulsing with water and fire energies.
"You also cultivate Wall Earth?"
Only now did the sword-wielding youth truly look at the Tingyou Ancestor. Their exchange had pitted not just divine abilities and magic power, but their respective command of the Dao.
The result was clear.
He had been forced back.
More crucially, the opponent's divine abilities were clearly configured around [Wall Earth] as well. He should be the foremost authority on [Wall Earth] in the world!
How could this be?
"What, Fellow Daoist Zhengde no longer recognizes me?"
The Tingyou Ancestor sneered, wiping away the mist concealing his face to reveal his true features. At the same time, he manifested his own karma, ceasing to hide it for the first time.
Then Lu Yang saw:
In a flash, the previously composed sword-wielding youth froze rigid. His eyes bulged wide, his shocked expression like seeing a ghost in broad daylight.
Instinctively, he even took a step back.
"Tingyou."
Of course the sword-wielding youth recognized the Tingyou Ancestor. Having inherited a strand of golden nature from the [Heaven-Receiving Orthodox Virtue True Lord], he had been infused with vast related memories.
That perpetrator who had cast a psychological shadow over his True Lord for nearly half a lifetime, even forming a heart demon that stalled his progress for ages—the culprit himself! The former [Heaven-Receiving Orthodox Virtue True Lord] had forged him precisely to transfer that heart demon onto his shoulders!
How could he not recognize him!?
(End of chapter)