Black Myth: Starting from the Destined One
Chapter 168 - 153: The Monk Who Practices Both Buddha Martial Arts and the Mysterious Yin and Yang Ring!_4

Chapter 168: Chapter 153: The Monk Who Practices Both Buddha Martial Arts and the Mysterious Yin and Yang Ring!_4

"What do you mean you got it half right?"

Li Ping’an, who was watching tensely in the shop, pondered hard on this sentence. Suddenly, he recalled how Xie Wenren would weirdly touch the ring on his hand every time he was struck. Could there be a connection between the two?

"Nonsense! I’ll break through your resilient pigskin first! Overlord’s Unarmoring! Break!"

Mahaparinirvana, the Monk Who Broke Precepts, made a deadly move again. His arms circled rapidly, multiplying the hidden force countless times. Red Battle Qi suddenly surged from his body, forming a ten-meter-tall domineering general clad in red armor, who bore some resemblance to Mahaparinirvana.

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At this point, Mahaparinirvana’s hands were tightly gripping Xie Wenren’s body, while the giant arms of the Red Battle Qi-formed domineering general were tearing at the translucent thin membrane formed by a faint purple qi around Xie Wenren.

"If not now, when?"

Mahaparinirvana shouted again. As soon as his voice fell, the domineering general formed from Red Battle Qi instantly tore open the purple qi membrane on Xie Wenren’s chest. Although it was not large, it gave Mahaparinirvana a glimpse of hope for killing Xie Wenren.

"Soul Shift!"

Mahaparinirvana’s figure slightly moved, his afterimage controlling the War Qi General to continue tearing at Xie Wenren’s purple qi membrane, while he himself detached from the Red Battle Qi and soared into the air, stabbing into the torn spot on Xie Wenren’s chest with a sword finger.

"Not good!"

Cracks began to appear around the torn spot on Xie Wenren’s purple qi membrane, indicating that the membrane protecting him was about to completely shatter. Once it did, Mahaparinirvana’s upcoming blows would surely be flesh-hitting, and with his body, he couldn’t withstand them.

In desperation, Xie Wenren clenched his teeth. His right hand quickly twisted the ring, and a bizarre scene occurred once more. The torn spot on the purple membrane at his chest mysteriously shifted to his back.

Although Mahaparinirvana’s sword finger plunged into Xie Wenren’s chest, the spot was once again protected by the purple membrane, leaving Xie Wenren unharmed.

"Baldy, have you had enough fun? My turn now! Four Red Suns Formation!"

Finding himself on the defensive, Xie Wenren finally sounded the trumpet for a counterattack. With a sharp cry, a ring of fire mysteriously appeared around him, forcing Mahaparinirvana back into the War Qi General. In that instant, Xie Wenren controlled his floating body to land smoothly, then violently slapped the ground. A strange fire-emitting formation appeared within a five-meter radius beneath him.

This strange formation was peculiar because the flames surrounding him seemed to be part of his body, neither affecting his body nor his clothes!

"Playing tricks!"

Mahaparinirvana attacked again at an indistinguishable speed, but as soon as he approached the strange formation, a fire wall would appear on the spot, blocking Mahaparinirvana’s attack.

Despite Mahaparinirvana’s continuous attacks around the formation, he couldn’t advance even an inch.

"Damn it! What’s going on? What spell is this demon daoist using?"

Having halted his attacks, both Mahaparinirvana and Li Ping’an were puzzled by the inexplicable spectacle!

In theory, after Mahaparinirvana’s martial cultivation advanced to the Heroic Spirit Realm, any single move should have been able to kill Xie Wenren. Yet here he was, merely appearing in severe pain.

"Pfft!"

While Li Ping’an and Mahaparinirvana were pondering and analyzing, Xie Wenren looked down at the ring in his hand, which now had several cracks, and spat out a mouthful of blood, instantly staining his Taoist robe like a blood-red snow lotus, remarkably striking and prominent!

"Whelp, you were severely injured all along, weren’t you? Don’t push yourself!"

This spitting of blood finally gave Mahaparinirvana a slight return on his efforts.

"..."

Xie Wenren covered his chest and looked down at the Four Red Suns Formation on the ground.

Had it not been for this Four Red Suns Formation, I really would have been defeated today by a warrior from the Lower Nine Streams.

He looked again at his ring, now with several cracks, and gritted his teeth angrily:

Today, if not for this Life-bound Ring, I probably would have perished here. Although I survived, this Life-bound Magical Instrument is now damaged more than half and must be recreated at the Zong Sect, though it will only cost more time.

"Wretched monk! Your life shall compensate for my Magical Treasure! Flame Cloud Sword!"

Xie Wenren immediately drew the sword from his waist. Flames from underneath immediately flew into the blade of the sword held in his hand, making it look like a divinely formed sword of blazing fire.

"Why is he talking about compensating for his Magical Treasure? That’s not right! He hasn’t used a Magical Treasure from the beginning!"

Li Ping’an, who had been observing the fight from the shop, fearing Mahaparinirvana might be at a disadvantage, immediately urged loudly:

"Good brother, quickly use another method to deal with him! If you had used another method earlier, you would have won already!"

Thus, Li Ping’an deliberately didn’t mention Buddhist cultivation, lest the evil Xie Wenren hear it and devise a counter-strategy.

Mahaparinirvana was startled upon hearing this and turned his head to look at Li Ping’an, quite shaken by the fact that this young Taoist had seen through his dual cultivation of Buddha Martial Arts, and stubbornly said:

"Good brother, you don’t understand. He looks down on warriors. Today, I must kill this fellow using martial methods!"