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Chapter 873 - 750: The Battle with Fu Youzi (Extra - , Please Subscribe)

Chapter 873: Chapter 750: The Battle with Fu Youzi (Extra Chapter, Please Subscribe)

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Roar roar!

Suddenly, from the void, the simultaneous cry of the dragon and phoenix could be heard.

Above the sky, dark clouds gathered densely.

Out of nowhere, a ferocious dragon’s head emerged!

One by one, purple runes appeared on the dragon’s body, bursting forth with dazzling spiritual light.

The Heavenly Phoenix, with its tattered wings, soared high, its spiritual pressure incredibly terrifying.

Then, in a sudden moment, dragon and phoenix fell together, heading straight for Fu Youzi!

"Dragon and Phoenix Strike Together!"

Master Dongqiuzi swiftly formed hand seals, unleashing his proudest puppetry skill.

He had refined this pair of quasi-seventh-order puppets with countless ingenious ideas, allowing the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets to connect like a pair of cultivators cultivating together, with linked minds as though they were one. When executing their joint skill, their might reached the level of Integration!

At this moment, endless silver and purple whirlwinds converged, forming a formidable storm that enveloped Fu Youzi in its swirl.

The blinding glow of spiritual light was so intense that it could blind even a cultivator who honed the Spiritual Eye Skills.

The next instant.

The crevice in the void slowly healed.

Yet, Dongqiuzi did not even look back, controlling the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets to flee frantically.

He was well aware that although his puppets claimed to be able to battle at the level of Integration with their joint skill, this was only true for cultivators in the early stages of Integration.

For cultivators like Fu Youzi, whose real realm was at least in the late stages of Integration and who also possessed fragments of Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures, they were not opponents he could contend with.

Being able to delay for a moment and then flee was already something he could boast about for a lifetime...

Reflecting on the words he had said before departure, Dongqiuzi almost wanted to slap himself.

How could a cultivator not believe in fate?

And now, see where that got him?

He maneuvered the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets, his Escape Light astonishingly fast.

But in the next moment, a clump of dark green Monster Cloud appeared behind him.

Within that cloud were all manner of Sky Demon Bugs, densely packed like beetles, making one shiver at the sight.

Even the speed of the Monster Cloud was so swift, it had caught up with the tail end of the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets.

Crack crack!

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding gnawing sound, the tail of the Bone Dragon Puppet suddenly showed countless dense holes like a honeycomb.

It was none other than the Sky Demon Bugs gnawing on the tail and wings of the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets!

When pushed to their limits, they would even split apart, turning into two Sky Demon Bugs, as though they could breed infinitely.

As one of the Monster Clan’s famed secret skills, Sky Demon Bugs were a headache even for cultivators of the human race and Demons at the Integration stage.

"Sever!"

Seeing this, a pained expression appeared on Dongqiuzi’s face as he proactively severed the tail of the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets.

Then, a Blood-colored Talisman appeared in his hand; he bit his tongue tip fiercely, preparing to use some desperate secret skill.

"Futile struggle!"

Fu Youzi commented indifferently as a knife blade, a fragment of the Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, appeared in his hand.

On that blade, tiny runes flickered.

Despite being broken, it could still stir the Power of Heaven and Earth, completely blocking off Dongqiuzi’s sensation of external Primordial Energy!

Being a treasure of the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure could tap into the rules of a realm.

This fragment’s power was just average for Fu Youzi, but it was enough to serve as a medium for utilizing the power of a realm!

Even among Mahayana Period cultivators, what was often compared was not the profoundness of Divine Skills, magical treasures, or secret skills, but rather the depth of the Power of Rules they commanded!

Now, with just a slight exertion of the Power of Rules, Fu Youzi made Dongqiuzi’s complexion turn pale, as though his secret technique had failed and he had suffered a backlash!

"Die!"

He pinched the knife’s tip between his index and middle fingers, and with a light flick!

Slash!

A white line of light flickered, swiftly sweeping past Dongqiuzi.

Dongqiuzi’s body was split in two, falling from mid-air.

But in the next instant.

A peculiar radiance flickered, and from Dongqiuzi’s severed corpse, a dwarf-like puppet emerged.

Atop it was a petite Nascent Soul, clutching a bamboo box, which zapped into the Heavenly Spirit of the puppet.

The dwarf puppet’s eyes gleamed sharply, and with a determined look, facing Fu Youzi, who was again raising his knife blade, it prepared to use its secret skill to detonate the Dragon and Phoenix Puppets.

Knowing that facing such a formidable enemy, his end was inevitable today; his only choice was not to leave too many spoils for the enemy.

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Just then, Dongqiuzi suddenly heard resonant bird cries.

A ring of seven-colored light emerged, and out flew one after another Heavenly Phoenix, Kunpeng, Azure Luan...

Countless Spirit Birds like a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, with their terrifying power of flames, broke through Fu Youzi’s Heaven and Earth Energy blockade.

Then, the seven-colored halo flickered, madly countering the white line cleaved by the knife blade.

Flames scattered in all directions, and above the sky, it seemed as if a meteor shower of fire rained down.

The void cracked and healed, revealing an aged silhouette.

He held a Seven-Colored Feather Fan, smiling at Dongqiuzi, "It’s been years since we last met, Sir. How have you been lately?"

"You are... Mr. Fu? I thought you had perished on the battlefield of the three clans back then..."

Dongqiuzi was extremely surprised.

But remembering Mr. Fu’s mystery and his command of an imitation of an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, it suddenly seemed logical.

If he could escape from that unseen Integration-level Monster cultivator, Mr. Fu certainly could as well!

"We are both of the human race, I just happened to encounter this and felt I had to intervene," said Mr. Fu, the heterodox incarnation, waving his feather fan and standing before Fu Youzi, while covertly transmitting a message to Dongqiuzi, "Hand over your puppetry inheritance to me, and I will cover your retreat!"

"This..."

Master Dongqiuzi’s face, which had just shown a touched expression, suddenly froze stiffly, but after all, as a high-level cultivator, his decision-making was quick.

"Thank you!"

With a salute of his fist, he tossed out a treasure-yellow jade slip, summoned the Dragon Phoenix Puppets, and without looking back, he ran away.

"Think you can escape?"

Fu Youzi’s face turned vicious as he formed a hand seal with one hand.

One after another, Sky Demon Bugs reemerged.

Plop!

But in the next moment, Fang Xi, with the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan in hand, vigorously waved it!

Amidst the flashing of the multicolored brilliance, the array of Sky Demon Bugs were temporarily blocked by the many Spirit Birds, obstructing their path.

Although the fierce flames could not burn them to ashes, these Sky Demon Bugs did not seem to gain much of an advantage either.

"Hmm?"

Fu Youzi’s gaze fell upon the feather fan in Fang Xi’s hand: "A replica of Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure? The Five Fires Seven Birds Fan!?"

He appeared to recognize the original item of this Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure.

"You, a mere mid-Returning to Emptiness cultivator, dare to block me with a replica of the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan in hand?"

Fu Youzi snorted coldly, chanting a spell incantation.

Upon the sharp blade in his hand, a series of talismans burst forth with dazzling radiance.

In fact, Fu Youzi did have better talisman treasures originally, but the majority of them were with his true form.

This incarnation had also spent a lot during the escape.

Compared to the rest that remained, this piece of Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure fragment possessed the greatest power!

Whoosh whoosh!

Zipping talismans flickered in the void, sketching lines intertwined with Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy, forming the shape of a multicolored long saber.

"One strike... and you shall fall!"

Fu Youzi gripped the hilt of the saber with one hand, infusing Integration-level Magic Power into it, causing a spiritual pressure far more terrifying than before to surge up, preparing to first deal with Fang Xi before pursuing Master Dongqiuzi. He still couldn’t forget the Dragon Phoenix Puppets in Master Dongqiuzi’s hands.

"Good, I have the same intention!"

Fang Xi’s hands moved continuously, casting spells that infused Magic Power into the ’Five Fires Seven Birds Fan,’ making a series of talisman imprints emerge on its surface.

The divine aura of heat radiated, spreading a majestic atmosphere to all ten directions.

Swipe!

Fang Xi suddenly waved the fan, transforming infinite fierce flames into a seven-colored radiance that abruptly soared into the sky, clashing precisely with the white essence light that Fu Youzi slashed down with one hand.

Thereafter...

The white essence light cut through the seven-colored flames, a streak of white light flashing across Fang Xi’s body momentarily...

This was to be expected!

After all, this incarnation of Fu Youzi possessed Integration-early stage Magic Power, far surpassing mid-Returning to Emptiness.

And he wielded a relatively large fragment of an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, in terms of power, even superior to the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan!

With a lower realm and inferior treasures, it was fate to be vanquished in a single blow!

Fu Youzi, seeing this scene, displayed a hint of gravity on his face.

The blood light flashes, and Fang Xi’s form emerges in another location.

"Essence Blood Substitute Evasion Technique?"

Fu Youzi murmured to himself, then a cold smile spread across his face: "I wonder how much Essence Blood you can afford to lose?"

Raising the multicolored glittering phantom Immortal Saber, he made another slash.

Fang Xi’s face was pale as he waved the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan, barely managing to defend.

Suddenly!

Just as their brilliance met again!

A silver light flashed in the void, and the true form of Fang Xi emerged.

—Summoning Skills!

He roared furiously, the Thousands Demon Armor resounded on his body, as phantoms of the Four Great Spirits appeared, his muscles glowing with a jade luster, pushing the ’True Body of Sky Demon’ to its limit.

In his true form’s hands, he also held a green broken sword.

A layer of Spirit Domain Power enveloped the broken sword, seemingly bestowing empowerment.

Atop this broken sword, its wooden texture was particularly conspicuous, and at this moment it lit up one rune after another...

It was, in fact, the Fifth Generation Green Barley Sword!

Fang Xi fully knew that facing a Mahayana opponent, treasures like the Mysterious Dark Banner, Mechanism City, or even the Taiyi Green Wood Divine Light would be useless!

At the moment, the only genuine threats to a Mahayana cultivator were the Treasures of All Heavens, the light of the Supreme Northern Dipper, ’Spirit Domain Power,’ ’True Body of Sky Demon,’ and the ’Fifth Generation Green Barley Sword’!

Thus, at the onset, he exercised his full strength.

Sizzle!

The green Sword Light flickered madly, instantly overpowering the phantom Immortal Saber, seizing control of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy.

Then, countless green threads spread throughout the void, shattering each white line, arriving in an instant before Fu Youzi!

"Impossible!"

For the first time, astonishment took over Fu Youzi’s face.

The sudden appearance of Fang Xi’s true form already had him baffled.

The techniques and Divine Skills presented by this newly emerged enemy were close to the pinnacle of Returning to Emptiness!

Most crucially, it was the Fifth Generation Green Barley Sword!

This type of broken Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure was coveted by even the Five Sons of the Human Race!

Facing such an assault, his protective spiritual radiance was pierced in an instant, and then his body began to crumble to dust.

Seeing this unfold, Fang Xi’s face did not show the slightest hint of joy.

For as Fu Youzi’s body disintegrated, what emerged were Sky Demon Bugs!

Countless Sky Demon Bugs scattered, fleeing in all directions!

After being caught off guard and severely weakened by the Fifth Generation Green Barley Sword, Fu Youzi was still able to use such a life-preserving technique.

And even for Mahayana cultivators, in the face of such an escape technique, they would likely be helpless!