All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 311 - 172: Three Against One Leads to Reverse Kill (3/3)

Chapter 311: Chapter 172: Three Against One Leads to Reverse Kill (3/3)

Sword Light was like rain, its sharpness like a tide, and the breath of death approached in an unprecedented manner.

But it was in this instant, faced with the countless Heart Swords slashing down toward him, that An Jing’s eyes widened. Deep within his golden-red True Spirit Eyes, faint shadows of the Armillary Sphere Shadow could be seen revolving!

Grasping Heavenly Moment turned, he took a deep breath, a breath, endlessly drawing breath until the Qi Force within his body tumbled and burned, rotating and compressing at twice the speed.

It was only a moment.

In Fu Zheng’an’s eyes, An Jing’s body underwent a baffling drastic change.

His originally pitch-black hair, smooth as a raven’s feathers, suddenly withered, and his eyes, ablaze with Flame Thunder Light, dimmed.

His Blood Qi decayed, his Essence Qi as if nonexistent, and the vigor of his body that once seemed like a charge of thousands of troops began to hunch, even his skin losing its luster and elasticity.

It was as if it was an illusion; in a moment, An Jing had changed from a young Martial Artist filled with endless vitality to an old man on his deathbed, or even bluntly, a walking corpse!

But precisely because of this, the countless Heart Swords that had been heading toward that vibrant life force paused for an instant due to Fu Zheng’an’s confusion, aimless and unable to find their target.

And this pause, this instant, let An Jing survive the most dangerous moment.

Because in that instant, An Jing had achieved his goal!

The essence of Bright Mirror Heart was manifold; An Jing hadn’t yet found his own essence, but the essence of Mingguang Dust was "Return," which he had fully comprehended.

With An Jing’s talent, he could take one step further on the shoulders of his giant mentor.

The essence of Mingguang Dust was "Return," and An Jing’s essence could be...

"Pill"!

Endlessly echoing and refracting inside the Bright Mirror Heart, originally continually refining the Spirit Qi, making it ever more pure—yet under An Jing’s initiative, the young man’s entire body’s Blood Qi and Essence Qi suddenly shrank and congealed, as if all of it rushed back to the heart through the meridians and blood vessels of his whole body.

It seemed like all rivers converging to one point, like a body of life returning to Fetal Breathing.

At this moment, An Jing’s Blood Qi was depleting, his whole person leaning forward, his body about to collapse, and he was weak in his hands and feet, blind and deaf, unable taste, without breath in his nose, his thoughts also returning to Innate, hazy and empty, his entire being’s Essence Qi, Inner Breath, and Spiritual Fiend, Divine Sense all retracting back to that one Bright Mirror Heart, even his thoughts stalling, like a corpse.

And at his chest, all the Essence Qi condensed into one, like a Golden Core, golden and round, fully integrated.

Its essence was Return, its meaning, Pill!

Pill, the color of vermilion, the essence of blood, the notion of creation, the symbol of Innate!

Those who Embraced the Pill harbored vitality and nurtured rebirth; condensing one Qi to fortify life!

Bright Mirror Heart·Embracing the Pill!

At this moment, An Jing had succeeded in Embracing the Pill with the power of Embracing the Void Martial Arts and Divine Abnormality!

But! It was at this very instant!

An Jing propelled his Soul and Spirit with Grasping Heavenly Moment, using the power of Mingguang Dust’s Bright Mirror Heart to fold back his own Essence Qi, Inner Breath, and Spiritual Power, and blow up this ’Great Essence Qi Pill’...

With a thunderous explosion!

Whole body Spirit Qi and Essence Qi detonated; if it were an ordinary person, they would have surely died with all meridians broken.

But An Jing had the Grasping Heavenly Moment and also the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban; his thoughts accelerated, regulating the trajectory and direction of the outburst of Essence Qi in his body, integrating the essence of Embracing the Pill and the Son of Heaven Method, and taking this terrifying force that should have shattered all his meridians, under his control!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Mirror Self’s five Divine Abnormalities each acted as a fuse for the explosion of the Great Essence Qi Pill, and the flesh, reinforced by the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban, echoed the force repeatedly, compressing it even purer, and causing a deeper explosion!

Even the Six Yang Formation collapsed and disintegrated, signifying the force of an entire Martial Meridian Grandmaster being compressed to the extreme, then bursting forth in an instant!

Such power, how terrifying, how unfathomable?

Merely a flash.

An Jing’s body, devoid of strength, still leaned forward, still falling, and this utterly drained body was no different from death.

But, in the split second of achieving the Embracing the Pill success, he took a step forward, before his own face could fully crash into the ground, stepping out.

Then, he leaped into the air with a surge!

Boom!

The ground trembled violently, with a pair of footprints at the center spreading countless spiderweb cracks as dust billowed into the air.

At this moment, under Fu Zheng’an’s command, a sky full of sword shadows spanned the sky, weaving through space like a net, waiting for the oncoming enemy as a spider awaits the fly caught in its web.

But a figure clutching purple gold twin maces, bristling with condensed, solid-like Taibai Fiend Qi, suddenly smashed into their midst!

This was not an insect... but a beast, a giant beast!

An Jing’s originally pale skin was now red as blood at this moment, his eyes shining bright as the great sun. Veins pulsed on his iron-cast arms, and cracks resembling those on porcelain spread from inside to out. His blood, like molten magma, flowed out, sending up plumes of steam!

Sacrificing himself, he harmed the enemy even more! An Jing fused the martial arts mysteries of his past and present lives, burning the power of the Mirror Self as if it were fuel, turning it into a violent and savage force.

At this moment, An Jing himself did not know how strong he was!

Boom, boom, boom!!!

It was like thunderbolts exploding on the ground, the violent shockwaves surging wildly in all directions, as if ignited by a fierce fire, instantaneously incinerating the web.

The Heart Sword Formation that An Jing charged into was instantly distorted and skewed, and the approaching Heart Swords simultaneously shattered.

The purple gold twin maces swept across the sky, breaking the Heart Swords at their midsections. An Jing’s Divine Skill "Coalescing Qi into Soldiers" combined with the Taibai Supernatural Ability, making these magical soldiers indestructible, shattering all the Heart Swords shooting towards him!

With a step forward, An Jing had already shattered nearly a hundred Heart Swords, closing in on Fu Zheng’an!

"How is this possible... die!"

Caught off guard for just a moment, Fu Zheng’an was completely baffled by what had transpired within An Jing, still thinking the latter had merely feigned death to deceive his Heart Sword sensing.

Although the physical strength An Jing was displaying now was beyond his comprehension, faced with the threat of death, Fu Zheng’an had no time to ponder!

He roared furiously, his will to live intensifying, the Fate Pattern light wheel behind his head spinning, and with it, a profound and wonderful Great Formation appeared, connecting with the five stars!

Shangxuan Spirit, Dantian Sea, Zhou Xingluo, Jade Marrow Bone, Dew-Receiving Pillar!

[Martial Meridian Fundamental Formation Diagram · Mysterious Spirit Heart Sword Formation]

Clang!

A thought leapt from Fu Zheng’an’s heart, merged with Qi and transformed into light, coursing through the Dantian and meridians, piercing through limbs and bones, finally ascending along the spine to the crown, where it materialized into a gleaming Sword Light that leapt out from the top of his head!

This Sword Light shone dazzlingly bright upon its appearance, spitting Sword Light, tearing through the air, slashing out in a straight line!

With an infinite edge that flashed, even as An Jing managed to dodge in time, his right arm and chest were still slashed open with a huge gash, the severed edges smooth as a mirror. Within the sliced flesh flowed fine strands of Magic Prohibition, and one could even see the heart beating inside the chest, furiously spraying out a mist of blood.

"I won?"

Fu Zheng’an’s heart leapt with joy; his Heart Sword’s edge far surpassed ordinary magical soldiers, and even seasoned martial artists would find it difficult to resist... but in the next moment, he saw an unbelievable scene.

Bloody all over, An Jing’s right arm and chest nearly split open, his bones severed, only a thin layer of flesh and blood holding together, yet without a trace of fear in his eyes; the blood-light within even intensified.

Hum! Activation of the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban, Magic Prohibition flowed through the cut flesh and blood. An Jing’s right hand magnetically snapped back into place, and the chest wound dramatically constricted into a scar.

The blood mist sprayed out, indeed deflecting much of the force, but it also gave An Jing even finer control over the remaining strength, making it more potent.

Though his injuries were yet to heal, at least for the moment, he could still tightly grip the long mace, swinging it down furiously toward Fu Zheng’an’s face.

Boom!

"How..."

Fu Zheng’an raised his arms to block, but the Zuohuan Sect was not known for their physical bodies, and facing An Jing’s explosive full-force Martial Meridian strike, his thoughts hadn’t even fully formed when he was already obliterated by the relentless mace, sent flying backwards, his skull caved in and then bursting apart, a cloud of blood mist erupting in the air.

Following that, the beheaded body collapsed onto the street, twitching twice, and then lay still.

——Boom!

At the zenith of the sky, thunder roared like serpentine dragons, and torrents of rain poured down as An Jing landed heavily on the ground, splashing mud and stones, letting the heavy rain wash over his body.

His aura faded, the side effects of forcibly invoking his Martial Meridian’s full power using the Embracing the Pill method began to surface. The power of the Mirror Self that Mingguang Dust had bestowed upon him had been squandered in a single blow, and his body had suffered grievous injuries, losing a great deal of blood.

But An Jing’s eyes remained bright, his breathing even, his face even showing a satisfied smile, bountiful gains having been made.

"What?"

Not far away, Bo Zongshan and Ghost Shadow, having just extricated themselves from the aftereffects of the thunderous explosion and covered in scars, looked at An Jing as though they had seen a ghost, as if they were looking at some monster masquerading as a man: "Fu Zheng’an... is dead?"

"The first one."

An Jing turned his head, his face pale from excessive blood loss, and looked toward the dumbfounded duo.

"There are still two more."