Chapter 745: Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea
Zhang Ruochen glanced at the Golden-Winged Great Peng and the Demon Heart Black Dragon lying on the ground, and said indifferently, "Pathetically weak."
Such a calm voice, once transmitted, stirred up a thousand waves.
The cultivators who had been gloating earlier, upon seeing Lin Yue severely injure two of the Demon Sect's Guardian Palace Beast Generals with just one sword strike, were all stunned, finding it hard to breathe.
"Just one sword... pierced through both the Demon Heart Black Dragon and the Golden-Winged Great Peng?"
"How powerful was that sword strike?"
The battlefield between Lin Yue and the three Guardian Palace Beasts was within a miniature world evolved from a scroll. Therefore, those outside could not directly judge the power of that sword strike.
However, the Demon Heart Black Dragon and the Golden-Winged Great Peng were both formidable savage beasts. Being able to severely wound them with a single move had already proven that Lin Yue's strength was indeed quite remarkable.
"Senior Brother Lin Yue, teach those reckless Demon Sect members a harsh lesson!"
"Senior Brother Lin Yue is invincible."
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The disciples of the Liangyi Sect, who had been worried about Lin Yue, now saw this scene and were all boiling with passion, loudly shouting the name "Lin Yue."
Some young female disciples even boldly expressed their admiration, staring at Lin Yue with adoring eyes, their hearts beating rapidly.
The various Half-Saint Patriarchs of the Liangyi Sect all breathed a slight sigh of relief, their faces showing gratified expressions.
A hot-tempered Saint of the Liangyi Sect praised, "This Lin Yue... is quite good... No wonder he was favored by Patriarch Taiyi. I like this kind of disciple."
"If Lin Yue can defeat the Demon Sect's three Guardian Palace Beast Generals single-handedly, I, this Saint, will gift him a Sacred Artifact," another Saint declared.
"I want to take him as my disciple and pass on everything I have learned to him. No one else should compete with me," yet another Saint-level Patriarch announced.
Clearly, the strength Zhang Ruochen had displayed with that sword strike had indeed made the entire Liangyi Sect feel proud and elated.
This was glory earned through strength.
"His strength has increased again."
Ouyang Huan frowned slightly, clearly sensing that Lin Yue's strength had grown by more than just a little, which was somewhat unexpected to him.
How could a person's cultivation speed be so fast?
The Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon coiled its body on the ground and roared, "Set up the combined attack formation, the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation!"
The severely wounded Demon Heart Black Dragon and Golden-Winged Great Peng were both enraged, their eyes blazing with fierce light. They shrank their bodies tenfold to minimize blood loss.
Then, they flew up again, landing to the northeast and southwest of Zhang Ruochen respectively.
The three massive savage beasts stood at three different directions, surrounding him in the center.
"Hua——"
Thick demonic Qi surged from their bodies, connecting together, enveloping the entire space in demonic Qi, turning it into a black sea of Qi like ink.
The Demon Heart Black Dragon and Golden-Winged Great Peng each spat out a stone tablet from their mouths.
As demonic Qi poured into the stone tablets, the formation inscriptions within them were activated. The formation inscriptions, like black threads, surged out and converged towards the stone tablet above the Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon's head.
Among the three beasts, only the Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon was uninjured, thus becoming the formation's core.
The power of the Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon grew stronger and stronger, its emitted aura now comparable to a First-Order Half-Saint.
"Fighting three against one is bad enough, but they're also using the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation to combine their strength completely. Even if the Demon Sect wins this battle, it won't be honorable."
"The Demon Sect only cares about the result, never the process."
"With the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation, the three beasts' strength is enough to rival a First-Order Half-Saint. Lin Yue is only at the Seventh Change of the Fish-Dragon Realm. Can he withstand an attack at the Half-Saint level?"
The stone tablets above the heads of the Demon Heart Black Dragon, Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon were called "Mountain-Settling Tablets," each as heavy as a mountain, capable of unleashing power at the Sacred Artifact level.
With the enhancement of the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation, the Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon's strength reached the level of a First-Order Half-Saint.
"Suppress!"
The Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon extended a claw, grasping at the void, controlling one of the stone tablets to descend from mid-air, striking at Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen continuously infused Sacred Qi into the Golden Snake Sacred Sword, activating all the inscriptions within the sacred sword. The sword body grew to thirteen meters long as he slashed at the stone tablet.
"Bang!"
The sword and tablet collided, sending out a ripple of energy that spread in all directions.
After this hard clash, Zhang Ruochen only retreated three steps before stabilizing himself, saying, "The power of the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation is indeed extraordinary."
Little did Zhang Ruochen know that this exchange had caused even greater shock among the onlookers than before.
A cultivator at only the Seventh Change of the Fish-Dragon Realm could go head-to-head with Half-Saint-level power?
A month ago, when Lin Yue fought Snake Two, he had also unleashed Half-Saint-level power, but at that time, Lin Yue had borrowed Shengshu Cainü's spiritual power, not his own.
Now, Lin Yue was relying on his own strength to unleash power comparable to a First-Order Half-Saint.
In just one month, he had improved this much?
"I underestimated you earlier."
The Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon mobilized all three Mountain-Settling Tablets simultaneously, launching them at Zhang Ruochen.
Facing three Mountain-Settling Tablets, even Zhang Ruochen dared not underestimate them. He once again executed the Ghost-level Upper-Class sword technique, the Nine Stars Circling the Moon Sword.
"Two Stars Attending the Moon."
"Three Stars Guarding the Moon."
"Four Stars Soaring Over the Moon."
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Zhang Ruochen executed his sword technique, continuously knocking the three Mountain-Settling Tablets away.
After nearly a hundred exchanges, Zhang Ruochen showed no signs of weakness. Instead, he became more proficient in the Nine Stars Circling the Moon Sword, making this Ghost-level Upper-Class sword technique increasingly powerful.
The longer the battle dragged on, the more severe the injuries of the Demon Heart Black Dragon and Golden-Winged Great Peng became. Their bodies were completely stained with blood, and the power they transmitted to the Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon grew weaker and weaker.
"If we continue fighting, the Demon Heart Black Dragon and Golden-Winged Great Peng won't be able to hold on. We must gather all our power and unleash the strongest strike."
The Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon sent a message to the Demon Heart Black Dragon and Golden-Winged Great Peng. Then, the three beasts simultaneously raised their heads, spitting out a pillar of Sacred Qi into the Mountain-Settling Tablets.
The three Mountain-Settling Tablets surged with purple electric light, rapidly spinning in mid-air, becoming heavier and larger.
In the end, the three Mountain-Settling Tablets transformed into three massive stone cliffs, pressing down.
Zhang Ruochen felt an immense pressure bearing down on him, his body sinking slightly, all his blood vessels bulging.
It felt as if his body was about to burst.
"Indeed powerful... this strike... is very strong."
Zhang Ruochen no longer held back. He spread his hands, his gaze fixed on the three descending giant tablets, and softly shouted, "Five Elements Dharma Appearance."
"Hua!"
Immediately, five colors of light surged from Zhang Ruochen's body—cyan, black, white, red, and yellow—dividing the miniature world evolved from the scroll into five regions.
The power of the Five Elements swirled wildly within this space, causing the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation to begin collapsing, the formation shaking violently as if about to shatter.
Although the Three Mountains Suppressing the Sea Formation was powerful, it was still within the realm of the Five Elements.
Everything within the Five Elements would be affected by the Five Elements Dharma Appearance.
"Lin Yue actually unleashed the Five Elements Dharma Appearance! Could it be... could it be that he has cultivated the Five Elements Chaos Body?"
Whether it was the cultivators at the foot of the Book Mountain or those already seated on it, they all gasped in shock, their hearts filled with extreme astonishment.
The Five Elements power radiating from the Five Elements Dharma Appearance swept up the Demon Sect's three Guardian Palace Beast Generals, along with the three Mountain-Settling Tablets.
Even Ouyang Huan was greatly surprised, his gaze fixed intently on Zhang Ruochen. After a long moment, the tension on his face eased slightly. He said, "The Five Elements Dharma Appearance Lin Yue unleashed is incomplete. Otherwise, Dragon Three, Flood Dragon Four, and Peng Six wouldn't be able to control the Mountain-Settling Tablets."
The older Half-Saints also noticed a flaw in Lin Yue's Five Elements Dharma Appearance.
From this, it was clear that Lin Yue currently possessed a Four-Spirit Treasure Body.
Although the Four-Spirit Treasure Body was also extremely powerful, far surpassing a Saintly Body, it was still within an acceptable range, not as shocking as the Five Elements Chaos Body.
"In the last three hundred years, only Lin Yue has successfully cultivated the Four-Spirit Treasure Body. This child is truly an extraordinary prodigy," praised Ao Yi, the clan leader of the Divine Dragon Half-Human Clan.
Beside him, a Half-Saint said, "As far as I know, three hundred years ago, that Heavenly Proud Daughter of the Demon Sect also cultivated the Four-Spirit Treasure Body at the Fish-Dragon Realm, becoming invincible across the world. In that era, no one of the same age could withstand a single move from her."
Ao Yi nodded, "Three hundred years ago, she was the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect and the only cultivator of that era to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm. Now, she has become the Palace Master of the Holy Maiden Palace, one of the Demon Sect's Nine Palaces. I wonder what level her strength has reached now?"
When mentioning the Four-Spirit Treasure Body, one person was inevitably brought up: the Demon Sect's Holy Maiden Supreme, Ling Feiyu.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen unleash the Five Elements Dharma Appearance, many of the older figures naturally thought of the name "Ling Feiyu," an absolute legend of the Kunlun Realm.
Once, the Four-Spirit Treasure Body Ling Feiyu made the Demon Sect shine, suppressing the young cultivators of the entire Kunlun Realm until they could barely breathe. Any genius or outstanding talent would pale in comparison before her.
Who could have imagined that three hundred years later, another Four-Spirit Treasure Body would emerge, but this time as an enemy of the Demon Sect?
"Nine Stars Circling the Moon."
Zhang Ruochen executed the strongest move of the Nine Stars Circling the Moon Sword, carrying the power of the Five Elements Dharma Appearance, and struck upward.
Countless sword Qi condensed into nine pillars of sword Qi, surging up from the ground, simultaneously blasting the Demon Heart Black Dragon, Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Six-Claw Nether Flood Dragon out of the scroll's miniature world.
As the three beasts flew out of the scroll, they were suppressed by the aura of the Book Mountain, their bodies rapidly shrinking and transforming into human forms.
"Bang! Bang!"
Dragon Three, Flood Dragon Four, and Peng Six were covered in blood and flesh, falling onto the steps of the Book Mountain, screaming in pain as they rolled down the mountain.
Among them, Dragon Three and Peng Six were the most severely injured, their bodies covered in bloody sword marks. They couldn't even get up from the ground and had already rolled to the foot of the mountain.
Only Flood Dragon Four was less injured.
He struck the ground with his palm, spinning three hundred and sixty degrees in mid-air, flipping up, and then quickly struck at Zhang Ruochen's abdomen, attempting to turn the tide.
"Why bother?"
A cold glint flashed in Zhang Ruochen's eyes. He moved with lightning speed, striking out with his palm and hitting Flood Dragon Four's abdomen.
"Snap!"
Flood Dragon Four's body caved inward, his internal organs shattered. Spitting blood, he spun seven hundred and twenty degrees in mid-air before flying down the mountain again.
Zhang Ruochen wiped the blood from his palm, looked at Huang Yanchen, and smiled slightly, "Princess, please."
(Sigh! I still haven't managed to adjust my sleep schedule. The other chapter will be posted in the afternoon! I'll try to be earlier today.)