Chapter 187: Chapter 161 Divine Skills vs. Divine Skills
Chapter 187: Chapter 161 Divine Skills vs. Divine Skills
Ninety-six Swords of True Qi formed an extraordinarily unique hexagonal starlight sword formation.
As the entire formation surged towards Xue Jia, it instantaneously transformed into a pentagram, then into a tetragram, and finally into a triangle!
In the end, the sword formation created by the ninety-six Swords of True Qi astonishingly condensed into a single point of brilliant starlight!
This point of brilliant starlight, like a meteor, made the entire void flicker intensely with light and thunderously plummeted down behind Xue Jia.
This was none other than the most powerful sword formation among the four major formations controlled by Ye Chen—the Star Gathering Sword Formation!
The entire Star Gathering Sword Formation, fusing together the second layer of six major sword intents and another twenty-three of the first layer, now possessed power incredibly close to that of a mid-grade Earth Rank Martial Skill—a supremely formidable sword formation Divine Skill!
Only Martial Skills that reached the Earth Rank could be considered Divine Skills, and the "Star Gathering Sword Formation" was extraordinarily formidable even among Divine Skills!
After evading Xue Jia's attack, Ye Chen launched a counterattack with this immensely powerful technique!
Watching Ye Chen vanish abruptly and reappear just as suddenly behind Xue Jia, and using the odd sword formation that completely illuminated the void to strike Xue Jia, countless spectators from the True Inheritance disciples gasped in awe.
Ye Chen's movements and techniques were too fast!
Nobody could see clearly!
At that moment, when Xue Jia, who was being bombarded by the sword formation, felt something and swiftly turned around, just as he faced the brilliant point of starlight, a blinding burst of light shot out.
This was precisely the "Star Gathering Sword Formation" unleashing powerful sword intents of "Overlapping," "Piercing Light," "Flash Kill," and myriad other formidable abilities!
The overwhelmingly bright light instantly made many of the spectators, even from a great distance, momentarily blinded, with tears streaming from the eyes of quite a few lower-realm True Inheritance disciples!
Xue Jia, who was directly facing the blinding starlight point, did not even close his eyes. Just as the piercing starlight carrying countless powerful sword intents flashed before him and entered his eyes, a thunder lightning pattern suddenly emerged on his forehead!
This thunder lightning pattern was the external spiritual rune of Xue Jia's Rotating Pill manifesting on his body!
The instant the thunder lightning pattern appeared, a strange flash of thunder lightning light swept through Xue Jia's eyes. As this flash passed, the piercing starlight that entered his eyes was directly annihilated by the thunder lightning light!
At the same time, the immense True Qi in Xue Jia's palm surged with a dual brilliance of thunder and lightning, and in an instant, a Thunder Lightning Shield several meters in diameter formed before him, directly facing the blinding starlight sword formation.
In response to Ye Chen's sudden deadly move, Xue Jia finally unleashed two of his Divine Skills developed after stepping into the Half-Step Rotating Pill Realm.
The Thunder Lightning Spirit Eye Divine Power!
The Thunder Lightning Shield Divine Power!
In an instant, the Thunder Lightning Spirit Eye annihilated the light of the sword formation, and in an instant, the Thunder Lightning Shield faced the onslaught of the sword formation.
Divine Power versus Divine Power!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
When the brilliant point of starlight struck the Thunder Lightning Shield, endless streams of sword light, thunder, and lightning erupted from the point of contact between the shield and the sword formation!
The entire True Inheritance Battle Platform turned into a sea of eye-piercing light!
In the midst of rapidly flickering light, the concentrated power of the sword formation and the Thunder Lightning Shield collided and exploded, creating a wave of tangible cyan-silver explosive energy that swept over Ye Chen and Xue Jia, across the True Inheritance Battle Platform, and into the vast void!
The scope of the explosion's shockwave reached tens of thousands of meters!
The massive trees atop the distant Inner Peaks thundered crazily as they were swept up in the blast.
The True Inheritance disciples watching nearby, upon seeing the shockwave surging towards them, screamed in horror. They horrifically found their Protective True Qi shattering, indicating that many of them simply couldn't withstand the residual might from the collision of the two great Divine Skills of Ye Chen and Xue Jia!
Boom!
Amid the screams of countless individuals, a pale blue curtain of water suddenly enveloped the void above, wrapping all the True Inheritance disciples within it.
Only then did the True Inheritance disciples feel the terrifying shockwave disappear around them.
Looking up into the void above, it was clear that a Rotating Pill Realm expert had intervened! All this time, they were unaware of the presence of a Rotating Pill Realm expert observing the True Inheritance martial battle above them!
The intervening Rotating Pill Realm expert was none other than Fairy Jia Luo!
After protecting the onlookers with a single move, she directed her gaze straight to Ye Chen and Xue Jia in the midst of the platform.
If the residual force of the shockwave outside the battlefield was so terrifying, what about Ye Chen and Xue Jia in the middle of the fight?!
Boom! Boom!
In the midst of the formidable sweeping shockwave, Ye Chen and Xue Jia were both sent flying up into the sky above the True Inheritance Battle Platform!
At this moment, the robes of both Ye Chen and Xue Jia fluttered wildly, their black hair billowing.
Xue Jia, with an incredulous look in his eyes, recognized Ye Chen's sword formation techniques, but he couldn't discern how Ye Chen had instantly flashed behind him.
Clearly, Ye Chen also possessed an unfathomable Body Method Divine Power!
"Body Method Divine Power?"
"Then let's see whether your Body Method Divine Power is faster, or if my Rotating Pill True Qi attacks quicker!"
Whoosh!
As the thought flashed through Xue Jia's mind, he, who stood in the void, had the thunder lightning spirit patterns on his forehead flashing wildly. In the midst of this frenzied flashing, Xue Jia vanished like a bolt of lightning, and in the next instant, he appeared abruptly right in front of Ye Chen.
Xue Jia was astonished by Ye Chen's body movement techniques, while Ye Chen was even more shocked by Xue Jia's strength!
Half-Step Rotating Pill, truly worthy of the Half-Step Rotating Pill!
If he hadn't used "Void Instantaneous Change" Divine Skill to dodge, he feared he would have been defeated by Xue Jia in just two moves. Moreover, even though Ye Chen unleashed the most powerful Sword Formation Divine Skill, it was still blocked head-on by Xue Jia under the instantaneous kill.
Clearly, Xue Jia, whose cultivation had reached the Half-Step Rotating Pill level, had internal True Qi that was much stronger than Ye Chen's, and his external Martial Skills were not the slightest bit weaker than Ye Chen's!
The thunder lightning spirit patterns on Xue Jia's forehead were neither an artistic conception nor a law, but most likely a unique Divine Power exclusive to those at the Half-Step Rotating Pill level!
Half-Step Rotating Pill, indeed as Fairy Jia Luo had said, was much stronger than the late-stage cultivators of the Spirit Sea Realm!
To deal with this Xue Jia, Ye Chen could only resort to using the "Void Instantaneous Change" Divine Skill.
When Xue Jia came to kill once again, Ye Chen, whose divine consciousness enveloped the entire area of a thousand zhang radius of the True Inheritance Battle Platform, had his mind move instantly, and he disappeared from his original spot; in the next moment, he appeared in another part of the void.
Boom!
This time, everyone clearly saw the spot to which Ye Chen instantly moved.
The ordinary true inheritance disciples didn't think much of it, but those strong cultivators of the Spirit Sea Realm were completely shocked.
"Instantaneous Movement!"
"That's the technique of Instantaneous Movement!"
"How could Ye Chen possess such a formidable Divine Skill! This is a Divine Skill that, according to legend, one can only have by fusing the Five Great Principles of the Void Heaven and sensing The Five Elements of Heaven and Earth!"
Not only were the Spirit Sea Realm powerhouses astonished, but even Fairy Jia Luo and other Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses high in the void were shaken.
"Instantaneous Movement?"
"No, it doesn't seem to rely on The Five Elements of Heaven and Earth to perform the Instantaneous Movement."
"Ye Chen hasn't fused with any of the Five Great Void Heaven Principles, so it's impossible for him to have such Divine Skill. It's said that within the Ancient Clan, there is a secret technique of spatial displacement. Could it be that Ye Chen has cultivated some kind of secret technique heritage?"
Fairy Jia Luo and the other Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses could not sense any fluctuations of the Five Elements in the void, so they could only speculate.
The Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses speculated, while Ye Chen's opponent, Xue Jia, was left utterly dumbfounded!
Having stepped into the Half-Step Rotating Pill Realm, although his body hadn't fused with the Five Great Principles of the Void Heaven and he hadn't become a true Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse, his body movement techniques allowed him to kill any high-level Spirit Sea master in a second.
But even so, his body movement techniques still fell short of Ye Chen's!
Ye Chen was even able to dodge instantly after he launched his attack!
Although Xue Jia could definitely overpower Ye Chen in head-on confrontation, if Ye Chen's body movement was superior to his, he couldn't hit Ye Chen at all, and his strength advantage in a frontal clash would be completely useless!
Could it be that this was going to be an anxious battle?
Xue Jia was somewhat unwilling, unwilling to be in such an anxious situation just by challenging a disciple who had entered the gate for only a few months!
"Instantaneous Movement can't take you out of the True Inheritance Battle Platform area!"
"Since that's the case, let's see if you can block my truly powerful Earth Rank mid-level Martial Skill, 'Thunder Lightning Prison Suppressing Technique'!"
Xue Jia looked towards Ye Chen, the shock in his eyes slowly dissipating and becoming calm again.
In those calm eyes, the thunder lightning spirit patterns on his forehead flashed wildly, and amidst this frenzy, a walnut-sized rotating pill suddenly emerged at the spot of the spirit patterns!
This rotating pill kept spinning, engraved with endless mysterious patterns!
This was none other than the marvelous entity transformed from True Qi that could only be possessed by a Half-Step Rotating Pill strong cultivator or a Rotating Pill Realm strong cultivator, the Rotating Pill!
Xue Jia had actually stimulated his Rotating Pill!
Although this Rotating Pill had not fused with the Five Great Void Heaven Principles and could not be compared with the "Law-Merged Rotating Pill" of the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses, its power had already reached an inconceivable level!
Having stimulated the Rotating Pill, Xue Jia was obviously going to use an incredible technique!
In the very instant that the Rotating Pill appeared, a strange aura instantly swept across the entire True Inheritance Battle Platform.
In the void, Ye Chen suddenly found that the entire space of the True Inheritance Battle Platform, including above, below, in front, and behind, was completely covered by Xue Jia's True Qi!
After the entire space was covered with True Qi, layers of black thunderclouds began to flash across it all.
In the end, all the black thunderclouds broke apart, and terrifying bolts of lightning burst forth from within.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless huge bolts of lightning, hundreds of zhang long, completely submerged the entire space of the True Inheritance Battle Platform, which had now become an ocean of lightning!
This was the formidable Thunder Lightning Divine Power, the Earth Rank mid-level Martial Skill, the Thunder Lightning Prison Suppressing Technique!
Even if Ye Chen could perform Instantaneous Movement, this sky filled with lightning was everywhere; no matter where Ye Chen moved to, he would end up within the Killing Formation of the Thunder Lightning Prison Suppressing Technique!
Above and below, Ye Chen had nowhere to escape!