Chapter 512
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 512
Chapter Title: Overpowering Empress Xiao!
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**Heavy Separation Edict of Mountains and Seas Chart**
This natal divine ability unfurled like a scroll, showing no oddity to onlookers from outside—as if it were merely a lavish pileup of radiant lights, flashy yet insubstantial.
Yet Empress Xiao, trapped within, felt as though she had plummeted into another realm entirely. Where were the Tianwu Hall or its pavilions and palaces? Only vast mountains and seas stretched before her, beneath the suspended sun and moon. And under the cascading glow where sun and moon intertwined like waterfalls stood a lone figure.
Boom!
Lu Yang pinched a hand seal, and roaring flames erupted from his sleeve, transforming into countless soldiers and steeds that charged toward Empress Xiao amid heaven-shaking clamor.
**Beacon Tower Smoldering Sun Scripture**!
Blazing fires roared, thick smoke billowed, sealing off every inch of space around Empress Xiao. In an instant, her footing turned into a hellscape of corpse mounds and blood oceans.
Empress Xiao remained utterly unflustered.
*Think I can't fight back?*
Her gaze sharpened, vermilion lips parted slightly, and a rich floral fragrance wafted through the air—like clear water washing away filth, dispelling the martial aura of slaughter.
Amid the perfume, brilliant lights bloomed one after another: peonies, lilies, cherry blossoms, red lotuses. Flowers of every variety burst forth, then scattered in all directions, whipping up a sky-filling floral sea—beautiful and dazzling. As they exploded outward now, it was truly a sight to hold anyone's eyes captive.
**Hundred Flowers Palace**!
Empress Xiao stood amid the floral sea like a celestial fairy. Her graceful form vanished in a flash, slipping effortlessly free from Lu Yang's **Beacon Tower Smoldering Sun Scripture**.
The next instant, at the floral sea's farthest edge.
With a flash of brilliant light, Empress Xiao appeared, skirt hems lifted, stepping soundlessly onto a glossy crimson petal with her delicate white toes.
"This is..."
Lu Yang's brows shot up. With his profound cultivation and the fact that her divine ability mirrored his own, he quickly discerned it.
*...An Unhallowed Earth divine ability.*
Unhallowed Earth was the storehouse of wood, like walls built by men to shield a hundred flowers... With that imagery, this **Hundred Flowers Palace** must be a divine ability crafted specifically for evading calamity and dodging tribulation.
With that thought, Lu Yang glanced at the official post hovering above Empress Xiao's head: **Benevolent Sage Spirit-Thought Empress**. Also at peak Foundation Establishment, drawn from **Roadside Soil**, of which Unhallowed Earth formed one branch. With this post, plus the divine ability from **Seven Luminaries Heaven**...
*Ten divine abilities!*
Shock rippled through Lu Yang's heart. No doubt about it—Empress Xiao in this moment wielded ten divine abilities in tandem, enough to grant her utter dominance in combat!
Just then, Empress Xiao moved again.
Her vermilion lips parted, chest rising and falling as she exhaled a puff of white mist. The mist twisted and clawed in midair, swiftly revealing its true form:
"Roar—!"
A thunderous, majestic roar exploded. Lu Yang traced the sound and saw a massive tiger perched over mountains and ridges, its body pure white, burly and imposing. Its gaping maw unleashed howling winds and churning sands as it rode the gale in a ferocious pounce straight at him!
**Sitting Mountain Lord**!
Lu Yang eyed the oncoming white tiger, a flicker of surprise in his heart.
This was a Yang Metal divine ability—the very one that Heaven Mending Peak Master Chen Taihe had cultivated back in the day. He never imagined seeing it on Empress Xiao now.
Fortunately, countering it was no trouble.
In the next breath, Lu Yang produced a jade stone riddled with seven orifices.
This was the **Union-Separation Jade Tablet**, borrowed from the Dragon Palace treasury in his previous life. It could siphon external energies, substituting for nearly all the damage meant for him.
Lu Yang cast it into the air. Since the **Union-Separation Jade Tablet** originated from the Dragon Clan—with water as its essence—and water bolstered places where metal grew chill and cold, Yang Metal prone to drowning, this treasure was a perfect match for containing the **Sitting Mountain Lord**. It could suppress the divine ability with ease.
But at that moment—
"Seal!"
Empress Xiao cried out delicately, flicking her sleeve skyward. Golden lights poured forth, locking the **Union-Separation Jade Tablet** in place midair ahead of time.
**Containing Myriad Treasures**!
Lu Yang was no stranger to this divine ability either. Having once appraised the Immortal Spirit Upper Chapter from his previous life, he knew the heavenly and earthly fiends of the Metal path intimately.
*This is a Yin Metal divine ability.*
Yin Metal governed crafted implements—as the name implied, this divine ability could contain myriad treasures and command magic tools. The **Union-Separation Jade Tablet** had its wonders sealed by it.
But Lu Yang was prepared.
Above his head, the divine lights converged into an imperial crown of beads. Then, with a seamless pinch of seal, incantation, and mystic finger—three casting steps in one:
**Edict for Mountains and Moving Mountains Orthodox Art**!
Yang Earth divine ability **Emperor Commands Fate**!
A lone **Edict for Mountains and Moving Mountains Orthodox Art** might not overpower Empress Xiao's divine ability, but bolstered by **Emperor Commands Fate**, it was another story.
After all, **Emperor Commands Fate** was itself a Yang Earth divine ability, its imagery perfectly aligned with the **Edict for Mountains and Moving Mountains Orthodox Art**, enough to double the art's might. And with all three steps complete, one finger thrust out—endless mud surged from beneath Empress Xiao's fluttering sleeve.
The once-dazzling **Containing Myriad Treasures** lost its glow in a heartbeat.
This was Yang Earth's suppression of Yin Metal: buried deep in Yang Earth, Yin Metal lost its form and mutability, unable to revive. As the saying went: Earth overwhelms, Metal is buried!
In the next instant, Lu Yang gripped the **Calamity Wave** in hand.
Clang!
Sword light flashed and vanished. Empress Xiao's figure dissolved once more into the endless floral sea, using **Hundred Flowers Palace** to shift to the distant edge and reemerge.
But it was too late.
The sword light was a feint; the true killer stroke hid within another beam of radiance, blazing like heavenly fire, brilliant as sun and moon. It merely swept once:
**Illustrious Sovereign's Rule**!
When Empress Xiao rematerialized at the floral sea's edge, she discovered her divine ability—the white tiger of **Sitting Mountain Lord**—clutched in Lu Yang's hand.
Toyed with at will.
In that instant, Empress Xiao's visage paled in shock, as if gripped by utmost panic. Yet Lu Yang, holding every advantage, did not press his assault.
With a thought, two radiant lights pinched between his fingers.
**Rise and Fall Annals**!
**Coiling Dragon Root**!
The former was one of the arcane wonders of Lu Yang's natal divine ability, sensing fortune and calamity. The latter, his Unhallowed Earth divine ability and Supreme Fortune God, dispelled a hundred baleful ills.
Together, they formed the pinnacle art of divination and causality under heaven.
Thus, when Lu Yang plucked at the great web of causality, he pierced Empress Xiao's barriers in moments, divining her true intent:
*She's luring me in.*
*Of course. We've debated the Dao for so long. She knows full well I cultivate **Heavenly Fire Above**, with cultivation far beyond the norm. How could she be so easily overwhelmed?*
*This is a trap.*
*She wants to lull me into complacency, then hit me with that divine ability when I unleash a killing blow to seal victory—making me suffer a crushing reversal.*
Seven Luminaries Heaven divine ability, **One with the World**!
In his previous life, Lu Yang had used it to slay Tian Qiu outright. Who would have thought this life it would be turned against him by Empress Xiao?
**One with the World**'s greatest strength was when no one knew of it... Pity, it might work on others, but against me? Wishful thinking. Though with **One with the World** shielding her, it's like she's armored in a turtle shell—tricky to crack.*
With that in mind, Lu Yang glanced at Empress Xiao again.
Unlike him, she lacked specialized arcane wonders for causality, her proficiency merely at peak Foundation Establishment level.
Thus, she remained oblivious to Lu Yang having uncovered her scheme.
Of course, **One with the World** gave her that confidence. Causal divination might detect danger, but not the divine ability's effects.
Too bad she faced a cheater.
Fully aware of **One with the World**'s power, Lu Yang naturally abandoned aggressive plays. Mind turning, he devised a plan.
In the next breath, Lu Yang spun his form.
Roiling black flames surged from the earth, engulfing his figure and forging a towering colossus with azure face and fangs, standing sentinel over the land.
**Dry Heaven Grasps All Phenomena**!
Empress Xiao stared in stunned surprise. Well-versed in the Daoist canon, she recognized most techniques of the world's four great powers at a glance:
*Demonic Sect technique!?*
Wasn't he a World Honored One?
Before Empress Xiao could ponder deeply, Lu Yang commanded the **Dry Heaven Grasps All Phenomena** to extend a massive hand toward her, then clenched in a gripping motion.
Boom!
In a flash, Empress Xiao's vision swam, head spinning.
**Total Grasp**'s arcane wonder!
Formless and intangible, it struck straight at the soul. Caught off guard, Empress Xiao fell victim. When she recovered, her view was filled with sword tip!
(End of chapter)