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Chapter 1179: Chapter 1178: The Arrival of Nine Ghosts Academy, Yang Demon Technique
The dozen tails relentlessly pulled and tore.
"Crack-crack!" The sound of twisting and snapping bones echoed around Xu Zimei’s body.
Xu Zimei’s eyes burned with focus. He grabbed two of the tails with both hands, let out a furious roar, and yanked the long tails upward.
Inside his body, the Heaven-Shaking Cyclone spun ceaselessly.
This cyclone radiated a tremendous power, coursing through his limbs and every inch of his body.
The faint shadow of a Heaven-Shaking Giant flickered in and out of view, like a mirage.
With a roar, Xu Zimei flipped and hurled Evil Thought Kui into the air.
The two figures grappled and hurled each other, tumbling through the void.
A powerful aura crashed downward, exploding in the void with devastating force.
Behind Xu Zimei, Tyrant Shadow unsheathed itself of its own accord, unleashing a ferocious storm of Blade Intent as it streaked through dozens of tails, cutting through everything.
The two figures suddenly parted.
Behind Evil Thought Kui, her long hair billowed. She lightly tapped her ten fingers in midair as if playing a piano.
Instantly, the void was filled with countless dense, shimmering dots of light radiating outward from her as the center.
In a heartbeat, all the light points transformed into several rounds of light cannons.
A Torrent of light beams descended from above.
The space surrounding Xu Zimei became entirely enveloped.
The void shattered in an instant, collapsing into annihilation and destruction.
Xu Zimei clasped his palms together, and a black radiance reflected outward.
"Demonic Ten Skills – Illusory Demon Technique.
Witness divinity in boundless illusionary realms."
A similar dense cluster of light points manifested around Xu Zimei.
The void simulated everything, erupting forth in identical fashion.
Countless points of light collided, and another round of deafening explosions reverberated through the air.
The aftermath of the explosions enveloped the entire Heaven Holy Mountain.
Azure Dragon Town swayed incessantly as the mountain body fractured halfway down its slopes.
It appeared as though a tree had bent over with the weight of its burden.
When the light-point explosions finally dissipated, only ruins remained of the Heavenly Saint Academy.
Atop the mountain, nothing but barrenness stretched before the eye – devastation everywhere.
Evil Thought Kui’s eyes gleamed like the moon, her pupils narrowing vertically. She prepared for another attack.
But suddenly, as if sensing something, she glanced downward toward a room.
That room was precisely where the Array Barrier was located.
With a furious howl, she charged toward the Array Barrier in rage.
Xu Zimei stepped into the void, blocking her path with a smile. "Why the rush? Finish fighting me first."
Evil Thought Kui locked her gaze onto Xu Zimei. With an enraged roar, she lunged at him.
It seemed she’d been pushed to her breaking point.
Her tails whipped behind her, her floating long hair unleashed, loose and disheveled, while her gray robe flapped wildly.
As Mountain Ghost Kui charged, her figure astonishingly split into two distinct forms.
One figure radiated holy light, standing above the Firmament and shouting grandly, the sound tinged with a mesmerizing allure.
It seemed as if she was preparing to sing a hymn of praise.
The other figure brimmed with sin, like the embodiment of all darkness. The Yellow Spring River surged around her, laden with the stench of death, as she began her merciless assault toward Xu Zimei.
"Careful! That’s Kui’s ultimate technique," shouted Jiang Mozi below in warning.
"One is Heaven’s Dirge, the Death God’s Mourning Song.
The other is Death’s Traverse, Reaper’s Unyielding Path."
At Jiang Mozi’s words, Xu Zimei turned slightly more serious.
The holy figure continued to chant aloud, a voice tinged with tears that seemed to plunge heaven and earth into sorrow, all life into despair.
This was an attack directed at the Divine Soul.
Black rain began to fall from the sky. The raindrops landed on Xu Zimei, transforming into tangible strikes aimed at his Divine Soul.
The sinful figure, however, acted as if a true death god, relentlessly pouncing on Xu Zimei, aiming to fuse with him and consume him entirely.
"Get word to Nine Ghosts Academy quickly. Don’t overthink it!" Xu Zimei barked out.
"He set up barriers before the Array Barrier; it takes the combined forces of the world to shatter it," Xie Changliu shouted in response.
"But we’re almost there! Hold on a bit more!"
Surrounded by piercing Sword Intent, Xie Changliu focused the power of his Heavenly Sword onto the barrier.
Visible cracks had already begun to form on its surface.
.........
As the two figures launched simultaneous attacks, Xu Zimei activated the Nine Regions Grand Body technique.
This was the ultimate physique for defending against Divine Soul attacks.
No matter how formidable the assaults, nothing had ever breached those nine layers.
He then infused his blade with Demonic Qi, engaging in combat against the hellish figure.
This figure proved exceptionally troublesome.
It couldn’t be killed—for even if cut into countless pieces, it regenerated effortlessly.
Much like flowing water, no matter how many strikes fell, you could never truly sever the stream.
"Fire, come forth," Xu Zimei commanded lightly.
The flame-attribute Profound Meaning condensed into his right palm, then hovered over the blade, igniting the entire figure completely.
Yet still, it was useless.
The figure continued its maddened assault, desperately attempting to consume Xu Zimei and assimilate him.
"Emerald Forest Rising," Xu Zimei uttered softly once more.
The wood-attribute Profound Meaning surged forth, and under its green light, Heaven-reaching Trees erupted from the ground.
Forming a prison-like cage, the trees trapped the hellish figure within.
"Crunch, crunch!" The sound began to resonate.
The hellish figure opened its massive maw and eagerly chewed through the Heaven-reaching Trees one bite at a time.
With dark energy flourishing malevolently, it charged forward again.
Xu Zimei frowned slightly as his gaze shifted toward Xie Changliu and the others who were still working on the barrier below.
A hint of irritation crossed his face.
"Go assist them." He tossed Tyrant Shadow from his hand.
Already imbued with sentience, Tyrant Shadow transformed into boundless Blade Qi and slashed viciously toward the barrier.
Meanwhile, Xu Zimei raised his arms high and softly spoke.
"Demonic Ten Skills – Eighth Form: Yang Demon Technique.
Relative Road Obstructor."
From his palms, a genuine blazing sun took shape and descended.
It was as if the sun and moon themselves had been plucked from the heavens—a radiance that illuminated everything, enveloping him entirely.
The searing sunlight scorched the void.
The towering sun fell from the skies, crushing everything in its path, reducing all to ashes, as the heavens turned red under its glare.
Though the hellish figure raged in resistance, it could not stand against absolute power and was ultimately annihilated.
"It’s open!" Xie Changliu shouted loudly from the front of the grand hall.
Behind the barrier lay an invisible wall of air.
On this intangible wall, densely packed characters shimmered as if floating in midair.
Jiang Mozi sliced his right palm open and pressed his blood-soaked hand against the air wall.
"What now?" From nowhere, an overpowering aura surged upward.
A phantom figure appeared, as though projecting onto this realm from another world.
An aged voice spoke, asking deeply.
"She’s escaped!" Jiang Mozi shouted furiously.
As his voice fell, the void in front of them erupted, the figure vanishing instantly.
At the same time, the Array Barrier began to operate.
An immense and overwhelming power engulfed the area.
When this power emerged, the entire radius of a hundred miles surrounding Heaven Holy Mountain was sealed shut. 𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Spectral shadows descended forcefully from the skies.
From within those shadows, countless figures emerged, breaking through mountains and rivers as they crossed boundaries from their otherworldly realm into this one.
"Boom-boom-boom!" Deafening blasts echoed across the Firmament.
Faced with this scene, Evil Thought Kui roared furiously.
She raged wildly, repeatedly howling.
Her furious gaze fixated on Xu Zimei, as the storm of dark malevolence around her grew ever stronger.
