boyutpedia Chapter 178 Starfall
Chapter 178 Starfall
Under Ning Qingxue's protection, Ning Hanchuan led his men to retreat into the flying boat.
While the scattered battles on the ground briefly paused, the epic battle suspended in the sky showed no signs of slowing down.
The Primordial Heavenly Spirit Tablet and the Azure Netherworld Treasure Mirror counterbalance each other, the two sacred artifacts vying for supremacy.
The Primordial Heavenly Spirit Stele stands silently in the northwest sky, radiating a vast and divine light.
The Azure Mirror floated in the southeastern sky, its ethereal light swirling.
High above, the sky was filled with wildly surging and chaotic primordial energy, and within a hundred miles, howling winds swept through, each gust carrying the residual power of the Daoist aura dissipated by the two Holy Lords.
The Holy Lord Ling Tian, who was in charge of the Azure Netherworld Mirror, had previously been joined by Elder Bi Xiao, and the situation of two supporting one had briefly forced Luo Tianming to retreat step by step.
Now that Shuangye has entered the fray, the battlefield situation has instantly reversed. Lingtian's only hope of breaking the deadlock is to hold out and delay while waiting for reinforcements from the Dao Academy.
In contrast, Luo Tianming was extremely anxious. The cross-state teleportation array at the back of Fuyao Mountain was less than half a day away from completion. Once the array was completed, Tianling's all-out attack would be in vain.
Therefore, he made increasingly fierce moves, with each attack building upon the last, determined to quickly break through the Azure Mirror's defenses and destroy the teleportation array's base.
"Ling Tian, your wishful thinking is to remain trapped and wait for reinforcements. Today, I will break through your thousand-year-old barrier!" Luo Tianming's voice pierced through the fierce winds and echoed throughout the sky.
As soon as he finished speaking, his soul merged with the Primordial Heavenly Spirit Tablet. The vast power of heaven and earth was drawn invisibly and continuously gathered around him. He then took complete control of the rhythm of heaven and earth in the entire northwest airspace.
Luo Tianming formed hand seals and unleashed his divine power: "Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Guidance!"
The massive amount of primordial energy of heaven and earth was gathered by the Primordial Heavenly Spirit Tablet, and a vast spiritual sea appeared in the sky, sometimes unfolding like a long scroll, sometimes surging like a great tide, sweeping mightily towards the light screen of the Azure Netherworld Mirror.
Wherever the spiritual sea passed, all the wandering profound energy along the way was absorbed, and the rhythm of the entire sky and earth was forcibly changed by this move.
The previously chaotic gale in the sky surged along the spiritual sea, causing the towering mountains below to tremble. The branches and leaves of the vegetation on the mountains bent toward the azure sky, and the earth itself was being pulled by this powerful force.
Ling Tian remained calm and also unleashed his divine power, the blue light on the mirror surface rippling outwards like waves: "Nine Tribulations of Soaring - Cloud Annihilation".
The power of heaven and earth, drawn by the Azure Mirror, transformed into boundless tribulation clouds, containing the aura of a heavenly tribulation capable of annihilating everything.
The moment the Myriad Manifestations Spirit Sea collided with the tribulation clouds, the originally unstoppable and magnificent waves began to slowly dissipate. Luo Tianming's all-out effort to activate the Myriad Manifestations Return to Origin was almost completely devoured by layers of clouds.
Elder Bixiao stood beside Lingtian, his palms continuously striking out Dao seals, and spiritual power flowed into the Azure Netherworld Mirror in an endless stream.
Seeing that his first attack had failed, Ling Tian unleashed his divine power once more: "Nine Tribulations of Soaring Clouds - Lunar Eclipse".
A crescent moon appeared in the center of the mirror, its light falling from the void and splitting into countless fine, cold blades. The remaining Myriad Manifestations Spirit Sea was cut apart by the moonlight and instantly shattered into pieces.
Luo Tianming's first move missed, his brows furrowed, and his anxiety increased.
The longer the teleportation array remained, the more variables there were. He was unwilling to give Ling Tian any breathing room, so he changed his techniques in an instant, causing the power of the surrounding world to change drastically once again.
"The world is turned upside down."
The boundless power of heaven and earth spread out in mid-air to form a vast and desolate wilderness, stretching across the front of Qingming and slowly pressing inward layer by layer.
The precious light surrounding the Azure Mirror was constantly being forced inward, and the mirror's spiritual light gradually dimmed.
Seeing an opening in the attack and defense, Shuangye shattered the three white jade talismans in mid-air, turning them into three chains.
The three chains avoided the powerful frontal collision, circled around to the three blind spots of the Azure Mirror, and attempted to entangle the mirror body and block the flow of spiritual energy.
Ling Tian's eyes narrowed slightly: "Soaring Nine Tribulations - Thunder Burning".
Streams of divine lightning, accompanied by flames, descended from the heavens, while the Azure Nether Mirror continuously reflected the lightning.
Wherever the lightning struck, the chains shattered, the strange phenomena of the universe dissipated, and the remaining lightning power reversed the attack and struck Frostleaf.
Shuangye hurriedly waved her sleeves, and layers of light covered with Dao patterns appeared in front of her. The light shield runes dimmed one after another under the scorching lightning, and her figure was forced to float backward for several miles.
After being thwarted in two consecutive moves, Luo Tianming was extremely anxious.
His gaze frequently swept towards the back of Fuyao Mountain. Although the number of disciples of the Protectorate Alliance exceeded that of the Fuyao Holy Land, the battlefield below was still advancing slowly in Fuyao's home ground.
Only by defeating Ling Tian can the teleportation array be destroyed.
Luo Tianming cast his spell again, drawing upon the power of heaven and earth within a radius of thousands of miles: "Primordial Chaos Suppresses the World".
The Primordial Heavenly Spirit Stele rapidly expanded, reaching a size of ten thousand feet, stretching across the sky. The stele shimmered with world-suppressing divine might, pressing down on the Azure Nether Realm!
The surrounding天地玄气 (heaven and earth energy) of the Azure Netherworld Mirror was instantly imprisoned, and the air pressure above the entire Fuyou Land rose wildly.
All the cultivators fighting on the ground felt a tightness in their chests, and those with weaker cultivation collapsed to the ground.
The deafening sounds of battle were abruptly suppressed by the oppressive power of the sacred stele. Everyone stopped fighting and looked up at the colossal stele that blotted out the sky, filled with awe.
Ling Tian's face darkened: "Today, you will pay the price!"
Ling Tian forced out a drop of essence blood from between his brows, which landed on the mirror surface, causing the Azure Mirror to rise into the air and grow larger.
At the same time, the entire Fuyou Sacred Land mountain range was shaking violently, and all thirty-six main peaks simultaneously erupted with pillars of light that shot into the sky, all of which flowed into the Azure Mirror.
"Nine Tribulations of Soaring Flight - Starfall!"
Qingming communicated with the power of the stars beyond the heavens, and countless starlight points fell from space. Each point of starlight condensed into billions of star-patterned light swords, and the star swords in the sky gathered into an inverted river, which crashed hard into the Hunyuan Heavenly Spirit Stele.
The Star Sword relentlessly attacked the massive holy monument, causing its suppressive power to diminish sharply, and the monument itself to shrink continuously.
Luo Tianming's energy was connected to the Holy Stele, and his body swayed for a moment.
But instead of stopping, he mobilized even more powerful forces of heaven and earth to continuously fill the sacred stele and suppress it downwards.
Seeing this, Shuangye circled around and pounced on Lingtian and Bixiao. Bixiao immediately went to meet her, and the two fought fiercely amidst the boundless river of swords.
Despite his physical discomfort, Luo Tianming rapidly changed his hand seals, drawing upon the power of the surrounding world once again.
A massive net of light slowly took shape between heaven and earth, layer upon layer, closing inwards. The torrent of falling stars was enveloped by the net, and the star swords were continuously melted away.
Ling Tian made a firm decision, sacrificing several drops of his essence blood to maintain the Azure Nether Realm, but this only prevented the Holy Stele from pressing down and could not break Luo Tianming's divine power.
Seeing Ling Tian trapped, Luo Tianming finally showed joy. The teleportation array was right in front of him. With just one more round of fierce attack, they could break through the defense line.
Ignoring his own spiritual energy depletion, he frantically drew upon the primordial energy of the universe from all directions.
An endless curtain appeared in the sky, slowly enveloping everything from top to bottom. Wherever it passed, space froze. The Azure Nether Mirror was trapped in the center of the curtain and slowly sank.
Ling Tian's face was pale, but he didn't slow down his movements.
He combined the power of the four tribulations—cloud annihilation, lunar eclipse, lightning burning, and starfall—into one, fusing the four tribulations into one. The Azure Mirror then shot out a rainbow of light that pierced through the heavens and earth, crashing head-on into the center of the giant screen.
With a deafening boom, the calamity pierced the center of the giant screen. Luo Tianming was backfired by the technique and was forced back a thousand feet. His holy robe was torn in many places, and the spiritual light of the Primordial Heavenly Spirit Tablet flickered wildly.
After stabilizing his breathing, Luo Tianming's gaze once again locked onto the direction of Fuyao Back Mountain, his eyes gradually turning crazed.