Above the Great Dao

Chapter 1051 473: This Time, No Need for a Tie

Yan Hanqing chuckled, "Indeed in the past, I was not your equal. But that was before. After returning to the Yan Family, I shed my arrogance, reflected on my failures, and cultivated a hundred times harder, finally breaking through to attain the Mahayana Realm. And during these twenty years, you have been living a life of excessive caution, overworked by trivial affairs, scheming and plotting. A cultivator too cautious will lose their bold spirit, their drive to forge ahead. Can you still fight to a draw now?"

He sneered, "Draw Chen?"

This nickname was originally a compliment, but from his mouth, it was filled with sarcasm.

Back then, Chen Tang was cautious, striving to maintain a draw with everyone, but in the eyes of Yan Hanqing and the other disciples of the Thirteen Families, this was not the tolerance of a gentleman, but the cowardice of the inferior.

Thus, in their mouths, the nickname "Draw Chen" was filled with mockery and ridicule.

They laughed at his excessive caution, laughed at his talent he dared not use, laughed at him being the top scorer yet only placing fourteenth, laughed at his diligent cultivation that only served them.

Chen Tang's face slightly changed, and he gripped the hilt of the Xuanwei Sword.

Yan Hanqing perceived his slight change of mentality and laughed heartily, instantly elevating his cultivation to the extreme!

He cultivated the most supreme technique of the Lingshan Hall Collection, known as the Luotian Twelve Demons. The Twelve Meridian Demon God Technique is a branch cultivation technique within the Luotian Twelve Demons.

This technique requires first depriving other cultivators of their Golden Cores, cultivating these Twelve Golden Cores to refine Twelve Nascent Souls, and achieving Twelve Primordial Spirits.

Before the Divinity Transformation Realm, cultivating this technique progresses extremely slowly; if others can break through a realm in a year, the Luotian Twelve Demons would need twelve years, making it the most difficult cultivation technique to master among the Ten Books of Cultivation.

But Yan Hanqing, at the age of thirty-seven, cultivated this technique to the Divinity Transformation Realm. In the history of the Yan Family, only three people have achieved this by the age of thirty-seven. He was the third.

He was thus filled with confidence, heading to the Western Capital to test his cultivation strength in the imperial examination, but unexpectedly encountered Chen Tang there and was nearly thwarted beyond recovery.

After reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm with the Luotian Twelve Demons, it equates to twelve people cultivating together, drastically increasing the cultivation speed over ten times!

After the imperial examination, Yan Hanqing returned home to intensively cultivate, and in just over a decade, progressed from the Divinity Transformation Realm to the Mahayana Realm.

At this moment, he split into twelve, each thousand feet tall Primordial Spirit, whether with three heads and six arms, one eye, snake head and human body, thousand arms, covered in eyes, or palm eyes, resembled twelve gods and demons forming an array, known as the Twelve Demon God Formation.

As the array activated, the sound of cracking was continuous, instantly resulting in twelve layers of Void Great Realm suppression, causing the surrounding earth to rumble and sink, while the nearby terrain rapidly rose, forming small hills!

Twelve layers of Void Great Realm overlapped, stars filling the sky, forming a brilliant star river, with the sky stuffed to the brim, leaving no gaps.

Under the star river, countless suns and moons filled the sky, radiating boundless fiery power.

Yan Hanqing channeled the mana of the twelve Primordial Spirits, as if breaching the mana limits of the Mahayana Realm, faintly touching another realm!

He vaguely touched the edge of the new Harmonization and Ascension Realm!

Within the Ten Books of Cultivation, ranking the cultivation techniques is difficult, but the Luotian Twelve Demons is recognized as the strongest, closest to Immortal Techniques!

"Chen Tang, today can you still fight me to a draw?" The twelve Yan Hanqing spoke with a voice like thunder.

"We can try!"

Chen Tang unsheathed his sword, and the Xuanwei Sword, in an instant, reflected across the heavens, illuminating the twelve layers of Void Great Realm.

The sun, moon, and stars could not hide the dazzling sword light.

Chen Tang melded with his sword, man and sword became one, he vanished, the Xuanwei Sword also vanished, leaving no trace of the Void Great Realm or the sun, moon, and stars, only a thousand feet of sword light slicing through the Luotian Twelve Demon God Formation, soaring skyward.

At this moment, he finally uplifted his cultivation to the Mahayana Realm.

The sword light moved.

Stars fell.

The star river danced like a dragon.

Starlight descended from the heavens, like a skyful of fire rain, magnificently brilliant.

The sky filled with the sun and moon were pierced through.

Together fell that incomparable sword light, splitting into two, then four, and then eight, in the next moment, a thousand feet of sword light multiplied beyond count, attacking from every direction.

"Man and sword as one?! Chen Tang, let's see how much you've been hiding?"

Yan Hanqing roared, his twelve bodies, each refining their Primordial Spirits to the utmost, twelve demon gods facing outward, spinning like a whirlwind, exerting every effort, instantly striking out thousands of moves, blocking and shattering each sword light!

Suddenly, countless shattered sword lights surged into Yan Hanqing's true body through his ears, eyes, mouth, and nose.

Yan Hanqing was stunned.

A massive sword energy congealed inside him, bursting outward from within!

Chii!

His physical body was sliced into two halves.

The sword light flew forth, stood between heaven and earth, transforming from planar to three-dimensional, revealing the form of Chen Tang.

He held the Xuanwei Sword, its tip pointing to the ground.

"Brother Yan, this time, I need not fight to a draw with you. Thank you for conceding."

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