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Chapter 979 - 57: Victory Over Self [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

Chapter 979: Chapter 57: Victory Over Self [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

At the same time, Immortal Qi Jing faced his own mirror image and let out a deep sigh.

The good news was, as a being at the peak of the Eighth Realm, he had thoroughly comprehended his Dao and was not at a disadvantage.

The bad news was that his Dao had been cultivated to the extreme, and his strongest ability was duplication, which the mirror image opposite him also possessed.

Before the battle had even begun, he could already imagine how exhausting it was going to be.

The thought of summoning the Shu Mountain Divine Boat to directly ram and kill the opponent wandered through his mind a thousand times, but he finally suppressed it. Unless absolutely necessary, there was no need to rely on the might of a Divine Artifact.

The mirror image opposite him also remained still and did not initiate the first move, as if neither of them wanted to make the first strike.

After a while, it was Immortal Qi Jing himself who attacked first. His hands moved swiftly, summoning waterfalls that transformed into the shapes of Flood Dragons and suddenly pounced toward the mirror image.

But the mirror image immediately used the same move, and an equal number of Flood Dragons soared into the air, entangling with his.

With a flash, Immortal Qi Jing also appeared in front of the mirror image, swinging down a palm from above!

Bang—

Their palms met, and the force was nearly equal, sending them both flying back a hundred yards or so.

Immortal Qi Jing, feeling fierce, stood with two fingers raised before his chest, a flash of divine light in his eyes, and suddenly behind him rose a thirty-foot-tall phantom. The phantom’s hand gestures were like illusions, instantly causing wind and cloud to change!

In the blink of an eye, the dharma form behind him unleashed over a hundred Divine Skills of the Immortal Law! This frequency of communication with heaven and earth was impossible for a human physical body to achieve, which is why he needed the assistance of a dharma form. Sure enough, after he completed the spells, the massive dharma form shattered loudly.

But at the same time, the mirror image completed the same actions!

With two loud booms, both their dharma forms shattered at the same time, and two hundred Divine Skills of the Immortal Law also violently collided! Whether it was Five Elements escape techniques, cunning curse techniques, or Sword Qi Divine Skills, they all violently clashed in the air, and then shook the entire void like mad.

Immortal Qi Jing didn’t wait for everything to settle down before he flew forward again, delivering another simple palm strike.

Bang—

This palm strike collided with the mirror image’s. Immortal Qi Jing did not budge, but the mirror image’s body suddenly shook.

"Heh," Immortal Qi Jing chuckled, "You can copy my face, and you can copy my Dao... but you cannot copy all external things after all."

He grabbed a Spirit Plant with his left hand and clenched it until it turned into a stream of golden juice flowing into his mouth, instantly replenishing a great amount of Spiritual Power.

It turned out that he had deliberately spent all the mirror image’s Spiritual Power in an instant, knowing that it could release the same Divine Skills. Over the years, he had gathered quite a number of Spirit Plants, which the mirror image had ultimately not copied.

Hence, the mirror image’s power could not continue.

Boom—

With another palm strike, Immortal Qi Jing shattered the mirror image, turning it into a curtain of water falling from the sky.

After killing the mirror image, a bright light appeared in front of him, seemingly opening a gateway. Immortal Qi Jing walked out and saw a broad back waiting for something.

"Erniu?" Immortal Qi Jing was surprised.

He moved so fast, and yet the first one to come out was the Sword Emperor from the Western Sea?

The Sword Emperor from the Western Sea turned around with a heh-heh laugh, "You’re out?"

He took advantage of this task because, having once reached the peak of the Eighth Realm, his understanding was all at the Tianyuan level. The reason why the previous Daoist Masters who had fallen had strength far surpassing the Seventh Realm was largely due to their once superior Enlightenment Of The Dao, which was incomparable to the Wen Dao level.

What was an advantage to others’ mirror images became a disadvantage for him. The Sword Emperor was flabbergasted to see a weakened version of himself.

The first two tasks were so difficult, and this one was just like that?

He easily took care of the mirror image and came here to wait.

"You’re quick," Immortal Qi Jing said, thinking for a moment and then understanding the situation, he praised with a smile.

The Sword Emperor from the Western Sea, facing this rare praise, suddenly became serious, then straightened his hair, turned around, stomped his foot, and said indifferently in a proud voice: "It’s nothing."

...

Jiang Yuebai faced her own mirror image and raised her hand to unleash the Ten Thousand Swords Technique.

A myriad Sword Qi swept across like a sea.

Because the moves from both sides were nearly identical, each of her Dao Rite Jue Yun Sword Qi was able to neutralize the mirror image’s. Moreover, the mirror image used the Sword Qi to a more extreme degree, each time finding the weakest spot in her attack.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—

After several explosions of sword Qi, she no longer confined herself to using the sword, but combined it with the Five Elements escape technique, trying to find a flaw; however, the mirror image had complete mastery over her divine skills and neutralized them one by one.

Jiang Yuebai landed back at her original position, standing quietly on the water, gazing at the mirror image opposite her.

She didn’t rush to make another breakthrough, but instead observed herself from the enemy’s perspective—a rare experience indeed.

Ever since Chu Liang returned, his cultivation progress soared as if he had sprouted wings. His speed of breaking through Heaven’s Gate even surpassed that of the Earth Barrier, erasing the six-year gap in cultivation and even outstripping his peers by at least sixty years.

Although Jiang Yuebai also broke through the Seventh Realm at an early age, that was only in comparison to her peers, the prodigies of her age. In the context of this expedition to Shenxu, she even became the one lagging behind.

Always proud and haughty, she didn’t voice it, but she found it difficult to accept inwardly and had always been silently increasing her strength. But at the gateway of the Seventh Realm, unless one had a new epiphany about the Dao, it was very hard to grow stronger through diligent practice alone.

Now was a good opportunity to look inward.

Watching every move of the mirror image, she realized that she might have been relying too much on her divine skills. Because of her Immortal Spirit Body, she found it easier to comprehend the Dao and simple to practice Immortal Law, so her mastery of divine skills far surpassed her peers.

For this reason, even upon reaching the Seventh Realm, her fighting style still mixed in many divine skills.

But the strongest aspect of Heaven’s Gate lies in the mastery of the Dao.

And this most fundamental aspect was what she had overlooked.

Jiang Yuebai gently closed her eyes, starting to sense the Dao Rite Jue Yun between heaven and earth, picking up the decisive path of the Sword Dao again.

In the face of life and death, the only answer is the sword.

To wield the sword and dispel the passing clouds!

That is the true essence of Jue Yun.

The mirror image opposite her seemed to sense what she was doing. Was she attempting to make a breakthrough right there in battle?

The mirror image didn’t have that capability, so what it could do was immediately leap up and thrust a sword at Jiang Yuebai! It needed to disrupt her moment of epiphany before she could become stronger.

But Jiang Yuebai had already suddenly opened her eyes.

The path of the Sword Dao, like the journey to save her mother, only allowed her to move forward, not back—regardless of the difficulties she must face, she had to continue unflinchingly.

It was either victory or death!

A solitary battle intent flared in her eyes, and the longsword in her right hand emitted a sharp cry in midair—the Treasure Sword obtained for her by Chu Liang in the Sword Domain Heavenly Palace, a match for Xaoyun.

Two dazzling sword auras instantly collided.

Boom!

Water splashed across the sky.

...

On Chu Liang’s side.

After not gaining the upper hand in the initial exchange, Chu Liang seemed to have fallen into disadvantage, with the situation looking very passive.

The mirror image floated in the air at the center, like a Heavenly God, with sun thunder swinging around like numerous iron chains, creating a thunderous and dazzling divine light. Chu Liang was chased by these Divine Thunders, dodging here and there, appearing to be in grave danger.

And when he managed to close the distance and press forward, the mirror image would counter with a combination of martial arts and sun thunder.

Being at a disadvantage in both offense and defense, Chu Liang seemed to have no other option but to flee in a panic. However, as the fight progressed, something seemed off. He began to occasionally respond with a burst of Divine Thunder, emitting a terrifying crackle.

Soon, Chu Liang also started to float in the air, wielding Divine Thunder to contend against the mirror image’s heaven-spanning thunder chains. Thanks to the Divine Dragon Ball, his spiritual power was stronger, and he soon gained the initiative.

Only then did the mirror image realize something was amiss and pulled back, saying, "You’re learning from me?"

"That’s rather shameless of you," shrugged Chu Liang, "you’re entirely copying me, so what’s wrong with me learning a few moves from you?"

It was as he engaged with the mirror image and realized its advantages that he came up with an idea...

The Divine Lightning Path had been comprehended for him by the Big Head Baby, not through years of his own cultivation, lacking the necessary personal insight. Moreover, having recently taken control of the Dao power of the Eighth Realm, he had not fully mastered the techniques and was actually wielding the power of the Eighth Realm in the manner of the Seventh Realm.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to delve deeper into it. On one hand, there wasn’t enough time, and on the other, the last God Thunder Daoist Master had died an unknown time ago, leaving no one to teach him. Even the Yin Thunderbolt Snake, with similar attributes, couldn’t possibly know the intricacies and methods of the Sun Thunder Shenxiao.

Yet this mirror image had presented itself at just the right moment—wasn’t this a golden opportunity? Chu Liang immediately began stealthily learning, observing how the other was utilizing the Sun Thunder Path in combat.

Since you’ve been dangling in front of my eyes for so long, wouldn’t I be a fool not to shear some wool?