Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 529 - 422: Invincible Ice and Thunder_1

Chapter 529: Chapter 422: Invincible Ice and Thunder_1

"Jiang Yunqi!" Monk Jiudeng was slightly taken aback as a spark of lightning, like a streak of electrical flash, arrived in front of them.

It was not Jiang Yunqi’s pursuit that surprised him, but his shocking speed.

Monk Jiudeng glanced back and saw no one else chasing them. They were already over two hundred miles away from Yichang City, which eased his nervousness a bit.

Master Huaibi simply moved his sleeve, a green swordlight shot up into the air, while his eyes glared coldly at the person opposite.

"Did Dr. Jiang come alone to hunt us brothers down?"

A smirk appeared on the corner of Huaibi’s mouth: "Dear brother Jiang is perhaps too courageous. Are our heavenly ranks, accumulated for at least two hundred and twenty years, so worthless in your eyes, Jiang Yunqi?"

"According to my son-in-law’s words, how would we know if we don’t try?" Jiang Yunqi nonchalantly reached out his hand, catching the silver-white Huaji that fell into his palm: "If age was useful, then there wouldn’t be people who passed the three levels at a young age, nor those who struggled to attain prestige till old age. Some people have lived in folly for many years and still ended up defeated by my son-in-law, haven’t they?"

At this moment, snowflakes began to drift in the surrounding fifty-miles of cloudless sky.

Jiang Yunqi looked coldly at Jiudeng and Huaibi: "The release of Wu Zhiqi and Xiangyue, the two cases of flooding the Yangtze River, the massacre of pregnant women and infants, for any one of these crimes, ten thousand deaths would not be too much. I, Jiang, am merciful and can give you a chance to say your last words."

Huaibi’s eyebrows slightly frowned, feeling both absurd and anger growing within him.

How could a man who had only reached the heavenly rank less than half a year ago, dare to behave so overbearingly in front of them?

Huaibi felt annoyed by Jiang Yunqi’s words.

He and Jiudeng had indeed been defeated by Li Xuan and Luo Yan, an undeniable fact.

"So, Dr. Jiang, you want to follow in the footsteps of Earl Jingan?" Monk Jiudeng put his hands together, showing his golden Dharma Phase. Behind him was a huge six-armed Buddha, holding a palace lantern in his hand.

"Words are of no use, if you think you can do it, Dr. Jiang, then just try."

The moment Jiudeng’s words fell, nine golden flames appeared simultaneously within a ten-mile radius. Suddenly, the temperature within this range rose sharply, turning into a world of flames.

But at this moment, Jiang Yunqi’s figure disappeared, leaving only a streak of thunderbolt light in their vision.

’Ding dong’ sounds continuously echoed beside Huaibi. He had wanted to use his sword to strike at Jiang Yunqi.

But at this time, he couldn’t even lock onto Jiang Yunqi’s figure or energy, and could only surround himself with his sword. At the same time, he released a five-tiered jade green pagoda.

The jade green pagoda hung overhead, emitting strands of green light to protect Huaibi within. Huaibi himself held a Taoist charm in his hands and was chanting Taoist incantations. Qi of Gengjin swirled around him, resembling a Jiao Dragon that encircled him. All these Jiao Dragons merged together forming a shape akin to a golden bell.

This was the ’Taibai Jinzhong Spell’, a defensive technique that Huaibi had cultivated for many years and had reached the peak of mastery. It was enough to suppress the Golden Body of a Wu cultivator.

But with Jiang Yunqi’s Huaji bombardment, the Qi of Gengjin that formed Jiao Dragon began to freeze one after another, and a layer of frost covered the jade green pagoda above.

"This speed -"

Master Huaibi looked disbelief. He hadn’t expected that the situation would turn so quickly.

Although severely injured, he was confident that his physical combat power far surpassed his ’Shentai Jiling’ clone. The Zhenyuan he could mobilize alone was several times that of his clone.

Whether it was his flying sword or the jade green pagoda, both had an imposing presence comparable to Immortal Artifact.

But Jiang Yunqi’s movement and halberd speed were nearly as good as those of Li Xuan and Luo Yan from yesterday. His strength was more than ten times that of the two!

He made continuous strikes. In one breath, there were at least nine hundred slashes, so fast that Huaibi’s Divine Consciousness could not keep up with and was caught off guard.

Yesterday, Li Xuan and Luo Yan, in their peak state without using Phantom Electric Slash, Flash Sword techniques, could only make twelve hundred slashes in one breath.

With each halberd strike from Jiang Yunqi, Huaibi could only use his flying sword to block half of them. For the remaining half, he had to painfully withstand it using his magical instrument and defensive spells.

"Jiang Yunqi!" Jiudeng’s eyes also showed a hint of impatience. He noticed that his junior brother was already close to death. He tried to suppress his growing impatience and chanted: "In the past as Monona Xianren, I served and nurtured the lamp of Randeng Buddha. Because of this diligent cause and effect, I transcended the sea of life and death in eight kalpas!"

From the nine golden flames spat out nine golden fire dragons. They couldn’t lock onto Jiang Yunqi’s figure, so instead they surrounded Huaibi to help him dispel the Cold Power.

But as soon as the nine fire dragons appeared, Jiudeng heard the cold voice from Jiang Yunqi: "Kill!"

A burst of red thunderbolt flashed. A silver-white Huaji fiercely smashed Huaibi’s ’Taibai Jinzhong Spell’ and the green qi descending from the jade green pagoda.

Then, with a flash of light, the head of Master Huaibi was severed.

At this time, Master Huaibi was still alive, he had cultivated the mind of Yang, allowing him to depart from his flesh and move independently in the world.

Next, Jiang Yunqi grabbed with his large hand, not only forcefully seizing the jade pagoda and flying sword, but also completely freezing Master Huaibi’s primordial spirit and the two broken halves of his body.

However, just as he was about to store this man’s body and mind of Yang in a magical instrument, the nine golden fire dragons suddenly rolled up and, with an extreme temperature, made Master Huaibi’s primordial spirit burn like a fire, instantly radiating endless light.

"Hmm?" Jiang Yunqi couldn’t help but cast a sideways glance at Monk Jiudeng, a slight surprise appeared in his eyes: "You monk, you really are mad."

"I just wanted to spare my junior disciple a bit of suffering," Monk Jiudeng’s face was ashen. "Dr. Jiang, after you capture him, the outcome is either being sent to the Liudao Division or the Xiuyiwei. No matter what, what good can come out of this for him? Instead of being tormented and interrogated by you afterwards, it’s better to let his soul fly away and scatter now and be done with it."

After listening to this, Jiang Yunqi nodded slightly: "I am indeed curious, what is it that makes you and Master Huaibi, a master from Jiugong Mountain, and a virtuous monk who often resides at Emei Mount, Jinding, commit such crazy actions?

What is the purpose of creating this great flood in Jiangnan? You two are not practicing evil taoist techniques, so killing living beings has no benefit for you."

After hearing these words, Monk Jiudeng simply chuckled: "There’s no harm in saying it now. Dr. Jiang, have you heard of the Hiding-Holes in the chest of the Leshan Giant Buddha?"

"I have," Jiang Yunqi nodded slightly: "Located in the breast and stomach of the Leshan Giant Buddha, it is sealed by a stele made of five-color divine clay. It is said to be related to the treasure of Wang Jian and Wang Yan, the former rulers of Shu during the late Tang Dynasty."

’Five-color Divine Clay’ is renowned, it is said to be one of the ingredients used by Nvwa in the creation of the ’paving stones of heaven’.

Whilst ordinary people can’t create the true paving stones of heaven, after firing the five-color divine clay into stone, its hardness surpasses that of Xuanqing Stone by dozens of times, and even an extreme heavenly level couldn’t shake it.

"The former Shu kingdom was destroyed on the eve of Wang Yan’s surrender. To guard against Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, Li Cunxu, from deceiving him and taking his life, he ordered his loyalists to store the treasures accumulated over the years in Shu in this Buddha’s Hiding-Holes. Among them are two immortal artifacts and a divine item that our brothers have long dreamed of. The way to open this Hiding-Holes is when water passes over the Buddha’s knee."

He looked regretfully at the Leshan Giant Buddha in the distance, now that Wu Zhiqi and Xiangyue had been killed and sealed, the water level was constantly falling.

This Hiding-Holes, they can’t open it by any means.

"Is that so?" Jiang Yunqi was taken aback, then shook his head slightly: "So you’re planning to unseal Wu Zhiqi and Xiangyue, putting tens of millions of people along the Yangtze River in a deadly situation and devastate both sides of the Yangtze River. It’s simply a shameless act."

After listening to this, however, Monk Jiudeng’s face remained unchanged: "I just need to take out that divine item, then there will be a way to resolve the disaster. But since we’re already at this point, victors and losers, I have nothing else to say."

Jiang Yunqi let out a scoff of disdain, then continued to ask: "Then who is helping you? Do you have any accomplices? A flood of this scale can’t be managed by the resources of two or three heavenly levels or the forces you control."

Upon hearing this, Monk Jiudeng looked at him with a smile that was not quite a smile: "I can only say that we brothers are not the only ones who want to take out that divine item. That person has unlimited mana and is a supreme master who has lived for thousands of years, even the Jinque Palace couldn’t do anything about him.

But if you want to know who he really is, you’ll have to capture me first."

At this moment, the nine golden flames converged, causing his entire body to radiate a blinding light, as dazzling as the sun, illuminating a white expanse within a radius of ten miles, making it hard for even a strong heavenly level like Jiang Yunqi to see.

--"On the day of this Buddha’s birth, all sides were bright, and sun, moon, and fire no longer served a purpose. Because of this peculiar characteristic, it was named universal light."

Jiang Yunqi knew that this was a scripture from Buddhism praising the ’Randeng Buddha’, the path that this Master Jiudeng is cultivating is also the way of Randeng.

"You’re incorrigible!"

His figure transformed into a thunderbolt, directly piercing through the flames. Where his light and shadow flickered, even ’light’ itself was frozen within.

However, this time Jiang Yunqi used Ice Style to assist, maintaining his Superconductive Style. As he moved back and forth, in an instant, eight hundred thunder halberd slashes entered into those bright flames. In just a short moment, with infinite thunderbolts and fierce Gang Qi, it caused the flames to flicker and waver.

"Die!"

Just at the moment when Monk Jiudeng’s Golden Body was revealed in the flames, Jiang Yunqi suddenly appeared, the Ice-Thunder Halberd ruling a thousand feet of thunderbolt falling down, blasting a huge bloody hole in Monk Jiudeng’s chest and abdomen.

At this time, a hint of surprise and regret appeared in Monk Jiudeng’s eyes.

"This is the way of blending ice and thunder? I can’t complain about my defeat."

He thought he had overlooked the powerful heavenly-level strength of Li Xuan and Luo Yan working together, and he had also greatly underestimated Jiang Yunqi.

Just at this moment, Monk Jiudeng’s flesh and primordial spirit both exploded violently, forming a large fireball and mushroom cloud in the sky.