20demayo Chapter 2200 The World Changes
Chapter 2200 The World Changes
This almost provocative response caused a flicker of surprise in Cheng Yingjue's eyes, which quickly turned into displeasure.
He had thought that by exposing the other party's true nature, he would see the other party's mind waver, but he did not expect the other party to respond in this way.
"Interesting." Cheng Yingjue murmured, the gentle smile on his face finally disappearing completely, replaced by a calm and dignified air of complete control.
"In that case, I will let you experience firsthand what the true power of the Great Dao is."
"The competition begins!"
The moment the grand and solemn pronouncement fell, Cheng Yingjue moved.
He didn't take out any divine weapon, nor did he form any hand seals or cast any spells. He simply took a step forward.
One step forward, and the world changes color.
"boom!"
A vast and mighty force erupted from Cheng Yingjue's center; it was the power of the origin of heaven and earth that he, as a half-step Heavenly Lord, could draw upon and control.
The space around him twisted and expanded violently, with light and shadow folding, as if some enormous creature was breaking free from its restraints and descending upon the world.
Endless starlight was drawn from the void, converging and swirling behind him to form a miniature, dazzling phantom of the starry sky. Within this starry expanse, the faint traces of the sun, moon, and stars revealed the mysterious and unpredictable rhythms of celestial secrets.
The laws of heaven and earth, and the constellations throughout the celestial sphere!
The miniature starry sky phantom suddenly collapsed inward, merging with his body. The next moment, his figure expanded wildly at a visible speed.
One hundred li! Three hundred li! Five hundred li!
In the blink of an eye, a giant five hundred miles tall, enveloped in hazy starlight and exuding the vast majesty of an ancient star god, stood in the center of the training ground.
The giant was surrounded by starlight, every inch of his skin was made of the essence of stars. With every move he made, the surrounding void trembled slightly, and the vast power of stars and the Daoist rhyme of heaven spread out, enveloping most of the martial arts arena.
This is the method of a half-step Heavenly Monarch, an outward manifestation formed from his own understanding of the Great Dao. Cheng Yingjue's Zhou Tian Xing Su Dharma Image not only contains terrifying power, but is also faintly connected to the rules of the stars in the dark, possessing boundless power.
"Suppressing through realm?"
Chen Fei looked up at the giant starlight that almost blocked out the sky.
The opponent did not use any sophisticated supernatural powers; he simply wanted to use the purest and most direct Law of Heaven and Earth, combined with the instinctive control of the rules by a half-step Heavenly Monarch, to form an absolute suppression of realm.
One force can overcome ten techniques; we will crush him and his opportunistic Dao Domain together.
This is blatant contempt, and also the most effective tactic. Faced with true rule-based suppression, any skill seems pale and powerless.
In Chen Fei's eyes, the chaotic spiritual light and the silver-gray array patterns simultaneously shone to their fullest brightness.
Within his body, the three cultivation techniques—Dao Xu Gui Zhen Ti, Bu Mi Zhen Ru Ling Guang Jian, and Wan Gu Kong Shi Zhen—operated with unprecedented intensity, resonating and frantically fusing together.
Chen Fei also took a step forward, and the power of his Dao Domain no longer radiated outwards, but suddenly contracted and condensed inwards. The chaotic light, the silver-gray spacetime array patterns, and the clear, undying spiritual light intertwined and merged, transforming into a pillar of light that shot into the sky.
Within the pillar of light, Chen Fei's figure also began to expand rapidly. However, unlike Cheng Yingjue's radiant and naturally imbued Dharma form, the Dharma form condensed by Chen Fei presented a strange, chaotic hue.
It was about four hundred miles high, not as large as Cheng Yingjue. Its body was composed of flowing chaotic mist and constantly emerging and disappearing tiny spacetime rifts. Its face was blurry, with only a pair of eyes. The left eye was chaotic and void, and the right eye was silvery spacetime. A point of undying spiritual light shone brightly between its brows.
It exudes a strange Daoist charm that devours all things, returns to nothingness, and exists independently of time and space.
This is the Dharma of Heaven and Earth that Chen Fei forcibly fused together using three cultivation techniques. Although it is not as perfect in its Daoist charm as the true half-step Heavenly Monarch Dharma Form, it has built up enough capital to rival it in terms of scale by relying on the powerful support of the Dao Ruins Returning to Truth Body, the spacetime blessing of the Eternal Void Time Array Classic, and the precise control of the Undying True Suchness Spiritual Light Mirror.
Just as Chen Fei's Dharma Image took shape, Cheng Yingjue's five-hundred-mile-tall starlight giant raised a giant foot formed from stars and mercilessly stomped down on the newly formed chaotic Dharma Image below.
"town!"
A single, simple word, yet it contained Cheng Yingjue's will and the suppression of the rules of this region. Before the giant foot even arrived, the terrifying pressure of the stars and the power of spatial confinement had already descended, intending to suppress and crush Chen Fei along with his Dharma form.
Facing the giant starlight foot that stomped down with the force of a falling star, Chen Fei raised his head in his Chaos Dharma form, clenched his right fist, and the chaotic mist and silver-gray spacetime power frantically gathered and compressed at the tip of his fist, faintly forming a constantly rotating vortex of returning to nothingness.
The Chaos Dharma Form neither dodged nor evaded; its right fist, imbued with the power of annihilation and spacetime tremors, surged upwards against the descending giant foot, striking fiercely.
Wherever the fist passed, the space was torn apart with fine black marks, emitting a low and chilling groan.
This is a clash between pure power and rules.
"Boom!"
Fist and foot collided with a thunderous crash.
Instead of the expected earth-shattering explosion, at the center of the collision between the two forces, a dark singularity appeared that completely devoured all light and sound, even blasting a hole in space itself.
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying energy shockwave erupted from that singularity.
"Boom!"
The blindingly bright chaotic light mixed with the dazzling starlight to form a huge halo of gray, silver and gold, which spread wildly in all directions.
Wherever it passed, a thick layer of the incredibly solid golden ground of the training ground was scraped away, and before the rubble could even fly up, it was crushed into dust by the shockwave.
The entire massive training ground trembled, and the protective light screens at the edges erupted with unprecedentedly dazzling light.
Even through the powerful protective barrier, countless cultivators watching from the sidelines were shaken by the terrifying collision, their blood churning. Those with weaker cultivation turned pale, their eyes filled with horror.
"He blocked it? Chen Fei actually blocked Cheng Yingjue's Heaven and Earth Formation Kick?"
"It's not just blocking it, look at the impact."
"Such terrifying power! Is this really something that someone in the Tai Cang Realm can unleash?"
As the smoke and light slowly dissipated, the two figures remained locked in a fist-and-foot-clashing stance.
Cheng Yingjue's giant starlight foot firmly landed on Chen Fei's chaotic dharma form's fist, the starlight flowing, as stable as a mountain.
Chen Fei's Chaotic Dharma Form, with its right arm composed of chaotic mist, clearly blurred and disintegrated for a moment before reforming. However, the entire massive body of the Dharma Form involuntarily staggered back three large steps.
Each step left a tremendous footprint on the hard, golden ground, causing the ground to rumble.
Chen Fei's Dharma form was forced back three steps by Cheng Yingjue's kick in a pure clash of strength.
Although it was blocked, the result was obvious: in terms of absolute power and control over the rules, Chen Fei's Guixu Dharma Form was ultimately inferior to Cheng Yingjue's Zhou Tian Xing Su Dharma Form.
"As expected... there is still a gap between a half-step Heavenly Monarch and the peak of the Tai Cang Realm." One of the spectators sighed.
"It is astonishing that Chen Fei was able to withstand that kick without collapsing. If it were any other peak Tai Cang Realm cultivator, their Dharma Body would probably have been crushed by a single kick."
"But in the end, they were at a disadvantage; prolonged defense inevitably leads to defeat."
In the Dan Chen Sect disciples' area, everyone's hearts, which had just been raised, sank again. Cao Feiyu clenched her fists tightly.
Cheng Yingjue's starlight avatar lowered its head slightly, its eyes, formed from starlight, looking down at the chaotic avatar below, which had stabilized its form. Its calm voice resounded throughout the entire arena:
"The power is not bad. With your Tai Cang Realm cultivation, you withstood a kick from seventy percent of my Zhou Tian Xing Su's power without collapsing. Your foundation is more solid than I imagined."
His tone remained calm as he stated a fact: "But, in the end, the power is still lacking. The essence of the Dao Domain lies in control. No matter how strong your power is, if you can't control it as you wish, you'll always be one step behind. Next, I will make you understand what the real difference is."
Before the words were finished, the other giant starlight hand of the Dharma Image had already been raised, its five fingers spread wide, covering the sky and the sun, carrying a terrifying power that could stir up stars and suppress the heavens, and pressed down on the Chaos Dharma Image that had just stabilized its body.
Zhou Tian Fu Xing Hand!
Before the giant hand arrived, the immense pressure of the stars and the binding power that could seal space had already descended, firmly locking Chen Fei's Chaos Dharma Form.
Cheng Yingjue's palm strike was clearly more serious than his previous kick, containing a richer array of stellar rules and celestial Daoist principles. He aimed to secure victory in one fell swoop and completely suppress Chen Fei.
However, faced with this even more terrifying palm strike, the strange eyes on the blurred face of the Chaos Dharma Image suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented brilliance.
The left eye was in a state of chaotic decay, its rotation accelerating, with boundless annihilation power brewing within it.
The silver light in the right eye shone through spacetime, with array patterns flowing and performing billions of calculations and deductions in an instant.
The undying spiritual light between his brows shone even more brilliantly, like a monarch ruling over all in the darkness.
During those three steps back and the immense pressure he endured, the cultivation path of the Undying True Light Mirror within Chen Fei's body had transformed into the Myriad Transformations Return to Truth Mirror, which is nearly the strongest Tai Cang Realm divine soul cultivation technique.
Chen Fei felt his soul split into thousands of independent thoughts in an instant, each thought frantically calculating and analyzing the power composition and flow of rules of Cheng Yingjue's palm strike.
The complex flow of information, enhanced by Tai Shang Zhen Ru's extreme calmness and deductive abilities, was instantly integrated and optimized, forming an extremely clear battle path.
Immediately afterward, under the optimized control of the Myriad Transformations Return to Truth Spirit Mirror, Chen Fei's control over his soul, the efficiency of his Yuan Power output, and even the speed of his physical reaction were instantly elevated to a level that surpassed the conventional limits of his current realm.
All these changes happened in the blink of an eye.
To outsiders, Chen Fei's Dharma form only paused slightly when Cheng Yingjue's giant palm pressed down.
However, it was after this meal...
"Buzz!"
On the surface of the Chaos Dharma Body, the silver-gray spacetime array patterns that had previously only vaguely appeared suddenly shone brightly.
Countless more complex and profound array patterns emerged and intertwined out of thin air, instantly covering the entire body of the Dharma Image.
The power of the Eternal Spacetime Array, amplified by the precise manipulation of the Myriad Transformations Spiritual Light, was pushed to the limit of what Chen Fei could currently achieve. It not only constructed the framework of the Dharma Image, but also deeply integrated the power of spacetime into every inch of the Dharma Image's body, greatly enhancing its stability.
Fa Xiang's left fist shot out like lightning, meeting the descending giant palm of starlight.
"boom!"
The spacetime distortion power of the left fist precisely pried open the power node of the giant starlight palm, causing that immense power to loosen and become disordered for an extremely brief period of time.
For the first time, a clear look of astonishment appeared in Cheng Yingjue's starlight avatar's eyes.
Chen Fei's fist, imbued with a strange force of annihilation and reversal, broke through the obstruction of his power and slammed into the side of his Starlight Dharma Image.
"Boom!"
Amidst a dull, resounding crash like the striking of an ancient bell, Cheng Yingjue's dazzling celestial constellation image was struck by Chen Fei's punch, causing his starlight to tremble violently and his body to uncontrollably stagger back four or five steps.
Every step caused the ground to shake, leaving deep dents in the golden floor.
quiet!
A deathly silence instantly enveloped the entire No. 5 training ground and the surrounding viewing platforms.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at the unbelievable scene unfolding before them.
Chen Fei not only caught Cheng Yingjue's serious Star-Covering Hand, but also knocked Cheng Yingjue's Dharma Form back with a punch.
After a brief period of deathly silence, there was a boiling uproar, like a volcanic eruption.
"I...I didn't see wrong, did I? Chen Fei fought off Cheng Yingjue?"
"What just happened? Wasn't Chen Fei still at a disadvantage? How did he suddenly..."
"That punch... didn't seem to be a head-on collision, but rather a use of the opponent's force against them, and it also incorporated some kind of power that could erode starlight."
"Did you see that? The silver light array patterns on Chen Fei's Dharma body suddenly became much brighter. His aura also seemed to have surged."
"Could it be that he was hiding his strength beforehand? Or did he break through his limits in the heat of battle?"
"Peak of the Tai Cang Realm, one punch repelled the Dharma Heaven and Earth Formation Realm, a half-step Heavenly Monarch..."
"This is the first time today."
The sound swept out like a tsunami, and countless eyes were fixed on the chaotic Dharma image in the arena.
The fact that someone in the Tai Cang Realm could defy a half-step Heavenly Monarch is unprecedented. Anyone who could achieve this would be a true prodigy with the potential to reach even higher rankings.
Meanwhile, Cheng Yingjue steadied his retreating figure. His Starlight Dharma Image lowered its head and looked at the spot beside him that was being eroded by the power of Chaos Returning to Nothingness. Then it looked up at the Chaos Dharma Image in front of it, whose momentum was rising instead of falling. The calm and indifference that had been on his face all along finally disappeared completely.
Instead, there was a gloomy expression and... a hint of offended anger.
He, a true disciple of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and a half-step Heavenly Monarch, was actually knocked back by a single punch from a peak Tai Cang Realm cultivator in full view of everyone?
"good very good!"
Cheng Yingjue's voice, transmitted through the starlight image, was no longer gentle.
"I underestimated you. The Danchen Sect has indeed produced a remarkable figure."
He abruptly changed the subject, his voice filled with murderous intent: "But, this is the end!"
Before he finished speaking, a point of extremely bright starlight suddenly lit up at the center of the brow of Cheng Yingjue's starlight dharma image, rapidly expanded, and transformed into a stream of light that flew into his hand.
It was not a sword or blade, but a short-handled axe hammer forged entirely from some kind of dark silver star metal.
The axe blade is crescent-shaped, with a chilling starlight flowing along its edges, while the hammerhead is covered with fine star patterns, faintly emanating a heavy gravitational field.
The moment the weapon appeared, it resonated with Cheng Yingjue's Starlight Dharma Image. Countless starlight automatically converged on the axe and hammer, causing its brilliance to surge and emanate a terrifying and ferocious power capable of splitting the heavens and shattering stars. (End of Chapter)