Chapter 479 The Great Battle of the Five Impermanent Ones
According to the information obtained from the Great Perfection level Wuchang, the main base of Taoyuan Township is located in a desolate, lawless area outside the border. There, there is neither the jurisdiction of any official force nor the presence of any informants from the Luoshan forces.
After confirming the exact location, Liu Shuying used her magic to send me a mental message. I received it and shared the specific scene within. In a lush canyon, some jarring gray-white concrete buildings stood out abruptly, filled with all sorts of things that looked like feng shui ornaments, and many thick, dark cables were laid on the ground.
Personnel in camouflage uniforms were moving in and out, maintaining the thick, black cables and the numerous pieces of equipment connected to them. What flowed through the cables wasn't electricity, but magical energy. I felt as if I could see through them, observing the almost tangible flow of energy. To ordinary people, they were merely thick, black cables, but to me, they seemed to radiate a blinding blue light.
Following the flow of magical energy, my perspective reached the depths of the complex. In a spacious yet empty room, a silver-white metal chair sat in the center. Beneath the chair were thick, black cables, and a man sat upon it.
It was a man dressed in cyan robes with long, ink-black hair. All the cyan magical power flowed from him. His eyes were closed, as if he had fallen into a light sleep. Magical power permeated his entire body, even the ends of his ink-black hair were tinged with a faintly glowing cyan, and occasionally tiny arcs of cyan electricity crackled and shot out from his hair and other parts of his body, disappearing without a trace after briefly drifting in the air.
This man is the Lord of Peach Blossom Village.
I had seen what the Lord of Peach Blossom Village looked like before when I was researching materials at the Luoshan headquarters, but this was the first time I had seen him in person with my own eyes.
Suddenly, it was as if my gaze and Liu Shuying's gaze were pricking his cheek, and his eyelids twitched slightly, as if he was about to open his eyes.
"Now's the time! Let's go!"
Liu Shuying suddenly let out a low shout, and the dust clone disappeared from my side. At the same time, his main body seemed to have stopped fighting with the unknown Xu Gou and suddenly appeared at the Taoyuan Township headquarters outside the border, standing in front of the Taoyuan Township Lord.
Almost simultaneously, I also took a step forward, traversing mountains and rivers, and moved to the same location. Before the Peach Blossom Village Lord had even fully opened his eyes, I took out the Slag Straight Sword and unleashed the flames within, unleashing the strongest attack I could currently deliver without hesitation.
It was as if the material that makes up the sun had fallen onto the earth, and flames with a density so high that they were like solids bombarded the place where the Lord of Peach Blossom Village was sitting.
In the blink of an eye, the willow tree shadow also unleashed a magical power that could swallow mountains and rivers.
This seemed to be the first time Liu Shuying had revealed the true nature of his magic power to me, and his move immediately diverted some of my attention. I saw magic power, like gray mist, surge wildly from the space around his body, transforming into a shockwave like an asteroid impacting the ground, crashing down towards the Lord of Peach Blossom Village.
The form of this magic power reminded me of the gray mist in the Void Realm. Although the latter doesn't exhibit any magical fluctuations, my first impression of Willow Shadow's magic power made it impossible for me to consider it completely unrelated to the gray mist in the Void Realm.
Willow shadows indeed have an unknown connection with the Void Realm and the Divine Seal.
As two incredibly powerful ultimate attacks struck the Lord of Peach Blossom Village, the main stronghold of Peach Blossom Village and the canyon it was situated in were instantly and utterly destroyed. A towering cloud of dust rose into the sky, the canyon's structure was completely overturned, leaving behind a vast, meteorite-like crater large enough to redraw the map.
The shockwaves and intense heat raging in all directions have turned this area into a no-man's land. If an astronaut in outer space were to look down at Earth at this moment, they would probably be able to clearly witness the terrifying changes taking place on the planet's surface.
Not only was the natural ecological environment of this land completely destroyed, but even the believers of Taoyuan Township who were active in this stronghold were all evaporated.
Even though those were members of opposing forces, if Chang'an saw me doing this, he'd probably look disapproving. That thought flashed through my mind reflexively. This wasn't a battle anymore; it was a one-sided massacre. Perhaps there were those who managed to turn back, those who were involuntarily drawn in, or those with various untold hardships…
However, I'm not someone who always has to cater to my friends' opinions. I have my own principles and won't compromise at every turn. To radiate humanitarianism on the battlefield might be a manifestation of kindness, and as long as it stems from a resilient spirit that faces no setbacks without complaint, I will genuinely admire it. It's just that I'm not suited to that kind of approach.
Right now, I just want to focus my attention on the most pressing issues. Just now, Liu Shuying and I did land a direct hit on the Peach Blossom Village Master, but the feel was off. It wasn't that our attacks were blocked, or that we lacked that solid feedback; on the contrary, it felt like I hit a light, fluffy ball of cotton.
Liu Shuying seemed to realize something was wrong even faster than I did. His attack looked just as powerful as mine, with similar strength. However, in my perception, he seemed to have some confusion at the moment of attack and did not unleash his true full power.
This illustrates two things: First, Liu Shuying is clearly much stronger than me, and even when she is holding back, she can still match my current destructive power; second, since we have probably developed similar feelings towards the Peach Blossom Village Lord, it is enough to prove that the battle is far from over.
At that moment, both Liu Shuying and I were suspended high in the sky when a somewhat familiar yet enormous surge of magical power suddenly rose up from behind me. I immediately turned around and saw a stream of yellow and black interwoven magical power, resembling a rolling river, break through the dust and smoke, transforming into a long dragon as wide as a train tunnel, which was swallowing me up.
Without hesitation, I swung my slag-straight sword. The sword energy, as powerful as the sun's flames, collided head-on with it, creating a deafening explosion that further ravaged the already cratered ground. Such an explosion, of course, posed no threat to me, nor did it impair my senses. I saw who had suddenly launched the attack: a man dressed in a black Chinese-style suit, his eyes lifeless.
The other party was none other than the Great Impermanence of Doomsday, Huang Quan, from the Gospel House.
Since the last time we stood facing each other across the river of time, in the past and the future respectively, we have finally met in the present and had our most intense conflict.
But he came too fast.
Liu Shuying and I both knew he had a potential cooperative relationship with the Peach Blossom Village Lord, and we also knew he might rush to the scene after our surprise attack on the Peach Blossom Village Lord. However, he arrived much faster than we expected, and his attack came almost without warning. It was as if he had been lying in ambush here from the very beginning.
While I defended against Huang Quan's attack, Liu Shuying didn't just stand by and watch. He clearly wanted to cooperate with me to take down Huang Quan.
Unsurprisingly, another unexpected event occurred—a blue light suddenly rose from another direction, transforming into a massive bolt of lightning, like a divine spear, that slammed into the willow tree shadow.
Willow Shadow immediately changed its attack direction, the gray mist transforming into a sharp slash that forcefully cleaved the massive blue lightning bolt vertically. The Peach Blossom Village Lord appeared unharmed in the direction from which the attack had begun, his body radiating even more intense lightning. What we just hit might have merely been a pre-placed avatar, resembling the true form.
An overwhelming surge of magical power spread from the Peach Blossom Village Lord, sweeping away the dust clouds that shrouded the sky and earth. Even the air seemed to flee, instantly transforming this forbidden zone of life into a vacuum zone resembling outer space.
Compared to the avatar I clashed with some time ago, the true form of the Peach Blossom Village Lord is far more powerful, perhaps as vastly different as the difference between me when I first became the Great Impermanence and Ming Zhuo. While I had the Xuanming Fire as a weak point in my battle with Ming Zhuo, the Peach Blossom Village Lord is flawless, far beyond my ability to compare with.
(End of this chapter)
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