Chapter 286 Three Fires
Within the Wind and Thunder Earth Qi Array, the Five Elements cease to exist; even the Five Elements Light Cores cease to function, making it impossible to circulate Qi and use the Nine Streams Technique. When Mei Liangyu appeared, Ou Rushuang was somewhat wary, but she never imagined he possessed such a method.
When even the naked eye could perceive the instantaneous filling and bursting of energy within the formation, Ou Rushuang's expression turned extremely grim.
Heaven and earth are in harmony.
He was wary of Mei Liangyu's cunning mind, but he never expected that this kid had a hidden trick up his sleeve!
The Harmony of Heaven and Earth can forcibly disperse and extract the already formed Qi, and then reassemble it into the shape the master desires according to his wishes and methods. All methods of restraining the Qi of the Five Elements are useless in the Harmony of Heaven and Earth.
The mirage, designed to block the flow of qi, could defend against Chang Gen Sheng Zhe's sound-seeking incantation, but it could not defend against Mei Liangyu's Zixu Double Ring Jade, which was modified using divine techniques.
Although Ou Rushuang did not know the function of the Purple Void Double Ring Jade, after recognizing the Heaven and Earth Harmony used by Mei Liangyu, she understood to some extent why he was here.
The lightning snakes mixed with life-giving symbols surged towards Ou Rushuang from all directions. Even the lightning lines flashing on the lightning pillar that trapped Yu Sui transformed into lightning snakes and attacked Ou Rushuang at this moment.
Ou Rushuang was forced to retreat, withdrawing from the crumbling Wind and Thunder Earth Qi Array, and watched helplessly as Mei Liangyu swiftly picked up the immobilized Yu Sui amidst the thunderstorm.
Mei Liangyu picked up Yu Sui and immediately channeled the five elements of Qi into her to stabilize her injuries.
He immediately noticed Yu Sui's abdomen, which was bleeding profusely. The wound was caused by the golden butterfly bursting out of her body, conspicuous and glaring, inexplicably igniting a destructive urge deep within him.
Mei Liangyu never concealed his desire to destroy everything, but he would subconsciously suppress his anger and murderous intent. At this moment, the strong smell of blood in the air and the large patches of blood in his eyes were stimulating him.
Ou Rushuang, still holding her injured shoulder, called out in a deep voice, "Mei Liangyu! Why are you getting involved! This is between Nangong Sui and me..."
Mei Liangyu said coldly, "It was my master who sent me. You want to kill the disciple of the Ghost Dao Saint. Do you think my master would just stand by and do nothing?"
"Elder Chang is indeed formidable, but within this Taiyi realm," Ou Rushuang said with a sinister and arrogant expression, "who can possibly do anything to me?!"
Yu Sui leaned against Mei Liangyu's chest, and upon hearing this, she gently closed her eyes, concealing the surging murderous intent within them.
Mei Liangyu's appearance was unexpected for Ou Rushuang. If Mei Liangyu died here, the Mechanists would definitely cause him trouble. In addition, considering Mei Liangyu's background, Ou Rushuang's gaze darkened, and she finally advised, "Mei Liangyu, I'm giving you one last chance. Let go of Nangong Sui, otherwise, you will die here with her today!"
"You're threatening me with death?" Mei Liangyu's words were full of disdain.
"Aren't you afraid of dying?" Ou Rushuang retorted.
Mei Liangyu: "I have never been afraid of this kind of thing."
Ou Rushuang laughed angrily: "Fine, you're not afraid of death, but what if I told you that I know your true background, and how your parents, brothers, and sisters died?"
Mei Liangyu tightened his grip on Yu Sui. Yu Sui looked up at him slightly, only to see him shift his grip on her wrist, change his posture, and carry Yu Sui on his back.
“Dean Ou, you’re not the only one in the world who knows these secrets. If you don’t tell me, someone else will.”
Mei Liangyu's cold and calm voice made Ou Rushuang give up completely.
He had watched Mei Liangyu grow up in Taiyi, and knew the young man's temperament to some extent. He was not a kind and affectionate person, and had even broken into Taiyi's forbidden area several times, almost destroying Taiyi and causing many people to perish.
Therefore, he would never be the kind of person to give up his long-sought goals and secrets for a junior sister he had only known for a short time.
But Mei Liangyu refused him at that moment.
It wasn't just because Nangong Sui rejected him; the contempt hidden in her eyes seemed to say: You're not worthy of threatening me.
Ou Rushuang was already feeling humiliated by Yu Sui's scheme and was furious. Now, provoked by Mei Liangyu's attitude, her murderous intent was uncontrollable.
"Since that's the case, then you two, brother and sister, will both die here!"
After Ou Rushuang roared angrily, despite the chaotic state of the Five Elements, the veins on his neck bulged and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. He released his pressure to resist the energy of heaven and earth that Mei Liangyu was waving his hand over. Even though his flesh began to bleed, he was still unwilling to admit defeat in front of the two juniors.
As Mei Liangyu and Ou Rushuang were exchanging the five elements, Mei Liangyu frowned slightly and whispered to Yu Sui on his back, "Can you hold on?"
“He won’t die for now.” Yu Sui tightened her grip on his neck, but her breath was very light. He was only holding on by Tianmu’s gaze and hadn’t fainted. “His Azure Blood Golden Butterfly is no longer usable.”
Mei Liangyu didn't speak, but his aura grew much colder.
What methods could be used to disable Ou Rushuang's Jade Blood Golden Butterfly? Mei Liangyu admitted that he couldn't do it either.
“Senior brother,” Yu Sui said softly, “he must die here, but he is protected by the power of the Earth’s core.”
“I know what you want to do.” Mei Liangyu looked ahead. “When the other saints learned that Ou Rushuang was missing, they all went to Mirage Red Island. The thick fog in the Misty Sea does not dissipate. Although Master is in the Misty Sea, he has not been able to find the specific location of the mirage.”
In other words, very few people know that Yu Sui is in the Fog Sea.
There were only Chang Gen Sheng and Mei Liangyu.
Even if there's no one in the fog sea now
“But I don’t know if I can control myself. If I bet wrong…” Yu Sui paused, looking down at the man’s broad and sturdy shoulders, “then you will die, Senior Brother.”
“The power of the Earth’s core has existed longer than the strange fire, so I’m not sure if the strange fire can actually burn him to death.”
If she makes the wrong bet, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The strange fire was a last resort for her, but even with its immense power, Yu Sui faced two challenges: could she control it? And could the strange fire defeat the power of the earth's core?
Yu Sui believes the latter's answer is that they can win.
But no one had ever done this before, so there was no accurate answer. It was all about her imagination and determination. Even if there was only a 10% chance of failure, it would still affect her.
“You won’t lose,” Mei Liangyu said.
Yu Sui gently raised her eyes to look at him, but could only see the man's cold profile. He was still staring straight ahead, his eyes surging with hostility.
As Mei Liangyu said this, he was thinking about the scene he had seen in the divine tree seed in the Dragon-Slaying Cave.
She will live until then.
Not now.
So she can control herself.
Mei Liangyu had previously refused to believe the prophecy of the divine tree seed, but now he was willing to believe that the prophecy was true and that Yu Sui and he would not die in Taiyi.
"Junior Sister, I believe you." Mei Liangyu's voice softened. His tone was already cold, and now, every word seemed to strike Yu Sui's heart. "I already answered Ou Rushuang; I've never been afraid of death."
"But I will beg you to save me."
Yu Sui was stunned, and her fingertips twitched unconsciously.
Mei Liangyu raised an eyebrow slightly, her expression arrogant and unrestrained: "Save me when the flames burn everything."
Will you choose to do everything in your power to destroy everything, or will you do everything in your power to save me?
Yu Sui felt a pang of sadness, and unfamiliar emotions filled her body. She felt as if those words were a curse, trapping her firmly.
Mei Liangyu was not afraid of death. When he realized that Yu Sui was going to use the strange fire, he even went a little crazy. He knew that Yu Sui did not want to die, and when she used the strange fire, she was gambling with everything.
He was more than happy to join the bet.
Floating above the water, Ou Rushuang could no longer hold on. He roared, formed hand seals, and mobilized the power of the earth's core to strengthen himself: "Heavenly Beast God!"
Ou Rushuang repelled the shockwave belonging to Mei Liangyu, and a high wall of water rose up behind her, freezing into ice. The scene of Ou Rushuang's body changing was reflected on the snow-white ice surface.
The flesh, torn apart by the shockwave and the backlash from the reversal of the five elements, transformed into golden scales. Ou Rushuang's head struggled left and right, desperately stretching upwards, revealing frost-covered horns on its head, exuding a chilling aura, and its eyes transformed into golden vertical pupils like those of a wild beast.
As Ou Rushuang's body evolved, it grew hard scales, icy horns, and its limbs transformed into sharp claws, allowing it to soar into the sky in an instant.
Climbing atop the high ice wall was a giant golden dragon exuding supreme power and chilling aura.
Yu Sui watched this scene in surprise, and Mei Liangyu frowned again: "The supreme technique of the Farmer School, comparable to the transformation of ghosts into gods, is the transformation of beasts into dragons."
Unlike the Taoist practice of abandoning the physical body, or the Taoist practice of summoning gods and generals, this practice allows the physical body of the deceased to evolve while the soul and the beast body become one, giving the individual the abilities of both humans and beasts.
Ou Rushuang's physical body could not withstand the pain of the Five Elements being reversed, but her body, after transforming into a dragon from a beast, was no longer afraid.
Outside of Taiyi, Ou Rushuang was unable to use the Heavenly Beast God technique, but within Taiyi, the power of the Earth's core comprehensively enhanced his strength, allowing him to master this supreme agricultural technique as he wished.
Last time on Red Island, there were too many Saints, and everyone's attacks were deadly, so Ou Rushuang had no chance to use the Heavenly Beast God. Even the Guardian Cicada was interrupted at the last stage.
But these two people in front of him weren't even thirteenth-level masters, yet they managed to push him to this point!
Ou Rushuang could no longer bear it, her crimson-gold vertical pupils fixed on the two people standing in the calamus bushes.
Those who betray and disobey him should die!
Ou Rushuang roared at the two of them.
Even from such a great distance, and with Mei Liangyu blocking the way with his Five Elements Qi, Yu Sui could still feel that the dragon's breath seemed to pierce through his very soul.
Like Mei Liangyu, she would have no chance of winning against Ou Rushuang at this moment.
Mei Liangyu freed one hand to form a hand seal and draw a spell to block the way. Deep within his dantian, a lustrous, jade-white light shimmered, like a second beating heart.
The voices of men and women, intertwined in my memory, rang out again: "The universe gives birth to water, and water gives birth to all things."
"There is vapor in the water, but the vapor is formless."
"Water is contained within the air, yet it has no form."
Mei Liangyu, once again recalling the man who went to the water boat to study the strange fire, asked him with a sigh:
Do you know what lies hidden in the deepest part of the ocean?
Mei Liangyu now understood. He infinitely expanded the scope of the harmony between heaven and earth, connecting it with the swamp water below. The power hidden deep within his Qi Sea responded at this moment.
Those wisps of air drifted over the swamp water, connected with the seawater, and submerged into the deep sea.
The seawater in the foggy sea began to boil, forming a huge whirlpool underwater, with bubbles rising from the deep seabed.
Beneath the unlit depths of the sea lies an unknown land.
Yu Sui took a deep breath, leaned close to Mei Liangyu's ear and whispered, "Senior brother, let me tell you another name."
She stretched out her slender fingers and touched Mei Liangyu's shoulder and back, writing her name stroke by stroke.
It was a name that no one in the Xuan Gu Continent knew except her.
With an angry roar, the dragon opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and howled: "Nangong Sui!"
A ball of raging fire appeared in its mouth—the Crimson Dragon Flame of the Celestial Beast God!
Amidst the raging flames and the furious, earth-shattering roar of dragons, Yu Sui heard Mei Liangyu call out her name.
In that instant, she formed a new connection with the world.
Yu Sui slowly reached out and covered Mei Liangyu's eyes, preventing her senior brother from seeing the filthy flames.
Yu Sui raised her head from the man's back, her dark and cold pupils staring directly at the giant dragon standing on the ice wall in front of her. Just as the dazzling crimson flames were about to engulf the two of them, black flames that broke through the void suddenly surged upwards!
The strange fire engulfed the Crimson Dragon Flame with an unstoppable and domineering force. When Ou Ru's eyes reflected the black flames, his vertical pupils were filled with shock. Fear had already appeared in his pupils before he could even realize it. The trembling scream was still stuck in his throat when the dragon's body was twisted and shattered in the black flames.
Ou Rushuang turned to ashes in her Heavenly Beast God state, but the power of the Earth's core showed no sign of change.
The seemingly impenetrable mirage in Ou Rushuang's plan, enveloped in black flames, burst like a bubble at the slightest touch.
Without the support of the mirage, the two fell downwards without any foothold. Mei Liangyu did not know Yu Sui's condition. He could only try his best to maintain harmony between heaven and earth, drawing out a huge amount of the five elements' energy to lure the strange fire to burn the five elements' energy first.
This was the first time Mei Liangyu had used the Divine Mechanism Technique to draw such a massive amount of Five Elements Qi. When he fell into the sea, it was as if there was endless blood flowing from his body, almost dyeing the entire whirlpool of seawater red.
The two fell into the center of the ocean eye with its incredibly strong suction and were separated in the blink of an eye.
Crimson flames erupted from the sea eye, bursting forth from the depths of the ocean and igniting the seawater, which in turn dispelled the thick fog of the foggy sea.
The saints who felt the tremors in the fog sea flew out of the mirage of Red Island one after another, using the Wind Riding Technique to fly to the sky above the fog sea, looking in disbelief at the sea eyes that covered the fog sea and the raging fire that erupted from the sea eyes.
Before Kuang Chu could even ask where the fire came from, Wu Huaiwei interjected, "Was it another sea fire caused by Shui Zhou and his gang?"
Wu Huaiwei and Leng Rouyin had both been to the Mechanical Island before and had seen the sea eye and the sea fire. They had the same question now.
However, among these vast sea eyes, all the saints noticed a sea eye in the distance that was stained red with blood. Without saying a word, they tacitly rushed towards the sky above that sea eye.
Mei Liangyu's vision was blurred, and all he could see in his peripheral vision was blood. When he looked up with difficulty, the shimmering light and shadow in the water seemed to be the shape of flames.
What lies hidden in the deepest part of the ocean?
fire.
Unfortunately, at that time, he was unable to answer his father's question.
At this moment, Mei Liangyu only wanted to know whether the reflection and light of the flames in the water were sea fire or strange fire.
Only when a familiar figure approached him and grabbed him did Mei Liangyu finally feel relieved to see the girl's clear eyes through his blood-blurred vision.
The prophecy about the sacred tree seed is true.
Before losing consciousness, Mei Liangyu thought that his junior sister had chosen to save him, and at that moment, he was the happiest person in the world.
The seawater was icy cold, but in the bright daylight, Yu Sui's hand holding Mei Liangyu's was burning hot.
If the flesh and blood were removed from her pale fingertips, one could see the black flames flickering on her white bones, spreading from her fingertips to half of her body.
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