# Chapter 3254: Destroy Divine Body, Shatter Divine Source
Huang Tian burned from the inside out, his physical body transforming into a stone body.
The stone body took on a red-gold hue, as if about to melt.
"Sizzle sizzle!"
The Life-Death Dharma Aspect manifested around him, one side like a demon, the other like a Buddha.
He wanted to use the power of life and death to break through the limits of his physical body, forcibly shattering the body's stagnation.
Body stagnation was like a shackle imposed by heaven and earth upon cultivators. No matter how one cultivated or how much time one spent, the physical body could never grow stronger. Moreover, with even slight negligence, the body would regress and blood qi would decline.
Forcibly breaking body stagnation meant using one's own life-and-death power to impact the restraints of heaven and earth. If there was a wall ahead, crash through it. If there were blades ahead, step over them.
Fear neither life nor death, face everything head-on.
Even if one's head was broken and blood flowed, even if one was torn apart, even if one knew it was impossible, one must still advance courageously.
Xuan Yi's body radiated multicolored light, activating the secret techniques from the *Heaven-Penetrating Record*, his skin transforming into armor. On the armor, special refining inscriptions that only divine artifacts possessed could faintly be seen.
Using the armor to protect his body, he passed through the Phoenix Divine Flame. Endless killing path rules surged from his pupils as he shouted, "Destroy!"
The killing path rules condensed into a long spear, striking Huang Tian.
"Pfft!"
The Dark Divine Sword was knocked away by the spear. Huang Tian's chest was pierced through, leaving a large hole as he staggered backward repeatedly.
Zhang Ruochen floated in the void, staring at the armor on Xuan Yi's body, his heart filled with awe.
Had he cultivated his own skin into a divine armor?
He had never seen artifact refining inscriptions on a cultivator's physical body before.
With his skin divine armor, he could ignore the Phoenix Divine Flame. Just how terrifying was his defensive power?
When the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations were being refined, Feng Tian was still below the Infinite Realm, and the Phoenix Divine Flame was not particularly strong. But it still contained a trace of power from a Heavenly God. For Xuan Yi to block it with his physical body was utterly heaven-defying.
"Crack crack!"
The Yin Yang Eighteen Formations activated, and powerful spatial gravity descended upon Xuan Yi.
The crushing force of space surged in from all directions.
Xuan Yi paid no attention to Zhang Ruochen and the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations. Thunderous roars emanated from within his body. Every bone became incomparably brilliant, shining as brightly as a star.
His skeletal frame was like a divine artifact, erupting with absolute, terrifying power as he advanced through the spatial gravity and spatial compression.
The sickle-shaped Supreme Sacred Artifact that Liang Nan had used was drawn toward him, gradually merging into his flesh and blood. After refining this Supreme Sacred Artifact, Xuan Yi's physical body grew even stronger, and the divine artifact inscriptions on his skin became more numerous.
This was not refining the physical body into a divine artifact, but a physical cultivation method of "refining artifacts into the body," very similar to the Abyssal Ancient Sword.
In other words, Xuan Yi had seized the fortune of heaven and earth, making his body like divine creation iron.
"Break body stagnation!"
Huang Tian roared loudly. The death rule divine patterns and life rule divine patterns within his body operated in reverse, forming a blazing storm vortex. Every wisp of wind was as sharp as a divine sword.
But before Xuan Yi, it was as if they didn't exist.
Xuan Yi reached into the blazing vortex storm, pulled Huang Tian out from within, and struck down heavily with his palm.
"Boom!"
Half of Huang Tian's body cracked apart, then exploded.
His upper body shattered into pieces, like stones scattered everywhere.
Xuan Yi stepped down, crushing the stones on the ground into powder. Truth light flickered in his eyes as he searched for something. He frowned, unable to find Huang Tian's divine sea.
A god's divine sea was never a concrete existence; it was like a field.
Even if the physical body turned to powder, the divine sea could still remain undispersed.
When one's cultivation reached the Grand Void Realm, there were countless ways to hide the divine sea—condensing it between grains of sand, or concealing it in hidden spaces.
"Xuan Yi!"
Huang Tian's furious roar echoed through the void.
His divine soul roared from within the particles of powder.
The stone dust on the ground emitted divine light, its life force undying. It quickly condensed into a thick arm, holding the Bright Mirror Platform, and struck heavily at Xuan Yi.
Xuan Yi's expression was calm. He raised his hand, meeting the Buddha-light-radiating Bright Mirror Platform. Countless divine patterns and divine qi surged from his palm.
The next moment, he seized the Bright Mirror Platform and struck back at Huang Tian's other half of the stone body.
"Boom!"
Huang Tian's stone body completely turned to powder. Even that stone arm was blasted apart by the divine power.
It wasn't that his physical body was too fragile, but that his opponent was the number one physical body under heaven. There was a huge gap in physical body, speed, cultivation, and divine ability combat techniques.
Xuan Yi did not immediately refine the Bright Mirror Platform into his body. At his current cultivation level, fusing a divine artifact was like a mortal swallowing a blood pill—it couldn't be taken directly but needed to be done gradually. Otherwise, it would injure him, or even cause him to explode and die.
This was clearly not the time to fuse a divine artifact into his body.
"Found it! Hiding the sea within the universe, vanishing without form through great derivation. The Great Derivation Universe is indeed somewhat interesting. If I hadn't seized a large amount of Truth Esoterica, I'm afraid I really wouldn't have been able to kill you."
The killing intent in Xuan Yi's eyes surged. Huang Tian's threat was too great; he had to be eliminated. Otherwise, if his cultivation advanced further, who would win or lose would be uncertain.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen had returned, preventing Huang Tian from making up his mind to self-destruct his divine source. This allowed Xuan Yi to calmly break his divine sea.
Otherwise, with Huang Tian's method of "hiding the sea within the universe, vanishing without form through great derivation," today's battle would surely have ended in mutual destruction. Xuan Yi secretly felt fortunate.
He extended two fingers of his right hand, striking toward the void.
At a certain point in the void, dense rules appeared, erupting with strange and brilliant light. It was like an invisible world being gradually pierced through.
This was a divine soul duel between Xuan Yi and Huang Tian.
The former wanted to break the divine sea, the latter wanted to defend it.
On the ground, a vortex of wind appeared. Stone dust and blood mud flew up, condensing behind Xuan Yi into Huang Tian's body.
He was the Lord of Life and also the Lord of Death, with powerful spiritual will. Even if his physical body turned to ashes, he would not die.
Huang Tian held the Dark Divine Sword with both hands, drawing upon the powers of darkness and death, causing the world supported by the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations to become dim and lightless.
He struck down heavily with his sword, but it was blocked by the divine glow on Xuan Yi's body.
The divine glow formed a multicolored sphere, with various rules flowing across its surface like a nascent universe. This was a perfected Infinite defensive divine ability that Xuan Yi had executed with his unparalleled cultivation.
Zhang Ruochen knew how critical the situation was. He activated his divine qi with all his might, and the six divine swords before him formed a sword formation, descending from the sky and striking the divine glow.
"Boom!"
The Earth Cauldron struck down, causing the divine glow to tremble violently and Xuan Yi's body to shake.
The shockwave passed through the divine glow and landed on him.
This attack was not easy for Xuan Yi. All his energy was focused on breaking the divine sea, relying only on his defensive divine ability to withstand the attacks of Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian.
The Earth Cauldron, the six swords, the Dark Divine Sword, and the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations all pressed down together, forcing the divine glow to cave inward as its light was gradually extinguished.
Xuan Yi was giving his all. Thunderous roars came from his bones, and the sound of blood flowing was like a roaring river.
The narrow space within the divine glow had turned into a chaotic heaven and earth, filled with vast amounts of divine qi.
He was relying on his cultivation advantage of being several realms higher than Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian to forcibly withstand the attacks of divine artifacts and the impact of formations.
Seeing Huang Tian's divine sea being gradually broken open, Zhang Ruochen did not hesitate for a moment. All the blood in his body burned, and his body shot out like a sword, carrying the power of the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations as he merged with the sword formation formed by the six divine swords.
The Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram spun rapidly. All rule divine patterns were transformed into sword path rules, converging toward Zhang Ruochen.
The third-rank sword path erupted. Hundreds of millions of sword qi condensed, wrapping around Zhang Ruochen and the six divine swords, forming a giant sword dozens of feet long that stabbed straight down.
Zhang Ruochen had integrated the sword formation, the third-rank sword path, and the *Wordless Sword Manual*, unleashing the strongest sword strike since he began cultivating.
"Rip!"
The giant sword pierced through the divine glow, stabbing toward the back of Xuan Yi's head.
Xuan Yi turned around in time and pointed a finger.
At his fingertip, flowing light and brilliant colors flickered, shining with the luster of a divine artifact, meeting the tip of the giant sword.
It was the Heavenly Desolate Eight Techniques' Heavenly Desolate Flowing Light Finger.
The power of the Yin Yang Eighteen Formations fell from the sword hilt onto the dozens-foot-long giant sword, like eighteen worlds pressing down.
Even someone as strong as Xuan Yi was forced back eighteen steps.
"Crack!"
The giant sword emitted cracking sounds.
The sword body exploded, and hundreds of millions of sword qi scattered in all directions like ice crystal fragments. The six divine swords and a blood-soaked Zhang Ruochen flew out from among the ice crystal fragments.
"It's over!"
In Xuan Yi's hand, he held the divine source he had found from the Great Derivation Universe. His five fingers clenched.
With a crackling sound, cracks appeared on the divine source.
"Fight!"
Even though his divine source had been taken, Huang Tian was still filled with battle intent. Holding the Dark Divine Sword, he used the sword like an axe and slashed down.
Xuan Yi flew forward, as fast as light, crashing into Huang Tian and shattering his stone body. The blood inside turned into peach blossom petals scattered across the sky.
The divine source then exploded, turning into crystalline grains of sand that fell through the gaps between his fingers.
At that moment, the entire world seemed to become incomparably silent.
Zhang Ruochen, drenched in blood, stood opposite Xuan Yi. His gaze was as fierce as a lion or tiger. The six divine swords floated around him, and his surging battle intent condensed into a black cloud within the formation world.
The caution on Xuan Yi's face disappeared, replaced by calm. He clasped his hands behind his back and said, "In the end, you still lost! Actually, you were already very strong, but you chose the wrong path. Those who go against heaven are evil. Following the way of heaven is the true righteous path and the great path."
Zhang Ruochen said, "Are you saying this to get me to join the Quantity Organization?"
"I want you to turn from evil to righteousness and do what is truly right. Other cultivators, kill them if you must. They live only to consume heaven and earth. They only know how to take, not how to give back. But you are qualified to be heaven and earth's messenger in the mortal world, to do good and punish evil. Destroy these selfish, greedy, filthy, ignorant beings who only know how to take without giving, and together, open a greater new world. The Calamity of Quantities is both a cleansing of this filthy world and a baptism for us." Xuan Yi said.
Zhang Ruochen sneered, "I truly cannot understand the good and evil you speak of."
Xuan Yi said, "True great good and great evil should be: those who follow heaven are good. Those who go against heaven are evil."
"Heaven and earth nurture all things, so killing life is considered evil. But when heaven and earth want to destroy all things, killing life is considered good."
"Heaven and earth do not truly want to destroy all things. It's just that this world is full of ugliness and selfishness. Everyone wants to take a cut from heaven and earth to strengthen themselves, but they forget that the life they possess was given by heaven and earth. The power they possess was also given by heaven and earth. When the Calamity of Quantities comes, it will cleanse the world like bright light shining upon the earth. The myriad things of the new world will be even more vibrant."
At this moment, Xuan Yi was like a preacher, his voice full of seduction. "Zhang Ruochen, stop going against heaven's will. Don't choose the wrong path. Offer your divine soul, and I will lead you onto the true path of great good, to welcome the great and bright future world."
(Chapter End)