From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 640 The Art of Zhurong

Eastern Azure Qi Wood Thunder, Southern Crimson Qi Fire Thunder, Western White Qi Metal Thunder, Central Yellow Qi Earth Thunder! The four great thunder energies burst forth together, and the four-colored lightning wrapped around Li Yang, making him appear like a god.

This is the first time Li Yang has stacked four divine thunder avatars, and his every move can overturn rivers and seas, possessing boundless power.

Amidst the flashing arcs of electricity, Zhang Hengming dared not engage in close combat again. He was swept aside by Li Yang's sword, and the domineering and raging divine lightning charred Zhang Hengming's body, giving off the aroma of roasted meat.

The continuous stacking of four divine lightning energies was extremely taxing on Li Yang's body. Most importantly, the four types of lightning energy were constantly tearing at his flesh. In just a short while, Li Yang's body was bleeding profusely and cracked open.

"Unfortunately, I'm still missing one Northern Water Thunder. My Five Thunder Dharma Body is not yet complete. The Five Elements are missing one, so it cannot generate life continuously. Instead, they will conflict with each other. With my current physical condition, I can't even hold on for long!"

Li Yang spat out a mouthful of blood, his heart hardening as he resolved to finish the battle quickly.

With the four divine thunder bodies stacked together, Li Yang's speed, endurance, and explosive power increased exponentially. With a roar, before Zhang Hengming, who had just shot out, could react, Li Yang had already rushed up like a meteor. The Southern Sea Sword was blazing with fire and crackling with lightning, and he slashed down again.

Zhang Hengming's expression changed drastically. He couldn't believe that a human immortal would dare to take the initiative to attack. His face hardened, and he quickly raised his golden shield to block in front of him. Then, his large palm slammed down on Li Yang like a mountain.

Another white sword mark appeared on the golden shield, this time deeper than before.
Although the shield blocked the edge of the Nanming Sword, it could not stop the leaping arcs of lightning. The dense and violent arcs of lightning instantly engulfed Zhang Hengming, and a scream like that of a pig being slaughtered came out.

Li Yang was also struck by Zhang Hengming's powerful palm strike, spitting out blood as his body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.

Stopping his movements, Li Yang felt a metallic taste in his throat. He didn't know how many ribs he had broken, only that his body was in excruciating pain, as if it were about to fall apart. His right hand, which was holding the Nanming Sword, was trembling, and the web between his thumb and forefinger was cracked and bleeding profusely.

Zhang Hengming's shield is truly extraordinary, no wonder he has been able to rely on it for thousands of years. If it weren't for the shield blocking the way, that sword strike just now would have definitely seriously injured Zhang Hengming.

However, what he didn't know was that Zhang Hengming was even more shocked than the others at this moment.

His miserable state was no less than Li Yang's. The thunderous energy of the four thunders combined had already begun to show signs of destruction, carrying the great terror of destroying everything and holding the power of life and death.

Even though he desperately circulated his cultivation technique, the terrifying lightning energy still seeped into his limbs and bones through his skin, destroying everything in its path. This made Zhang Hengming look extremely miserable, his whole body aching and numb, and his strength almost decreased by 10%.

In this battle of wits, he was actually being subtly suppressed by Li Yang!

If he knew that Li Yang hadn't used his strongest trump cards for various reasons, he would be even more shocked.

"You little bastard, I underestimated you. A human immortal fighting against an earth immortal? Even the Nine Sects have never heard of such a monster!"

"I can now believe that the secrets you possess are far more astonishing than the Fire Ancestral Law!"

A human immortal is one who obtains a method within the Dao, and a technique within that method. The five elements circulate and regenerate, their physical form is solidified, and the eight evil plagues cannot harm them. They are able to live a long life in the world and not die among mortals; such a person is called a human immortal.

Earthly Immortals possess half the essence of Heaven and Earth, and the talents of divine immortals. Their sole purpose is to live forever in the mortal world, never to die among mortals.

The difference between a human immortal and an earth immortal is like heaven and earth. An ordinary earth immortal can kill a human immortal with a flick of his finger. He has never encountered a freak like Li Yang since he began his cultivation.

Are you kidding me?! If you're a celestial being, you should just obediently die!
Zhang Hengming's face was grim, and he even felt a hint of regret. For a rogue cultivator to live long, the most important things were caution, the ability to assess situations, and avoiding making enemies easily. He should have agreed to the promise in the first place and then retreated to cultivate far away after obtaining the fire-elemental ancestral technique.

"You little bastard, you think you can challenge me just because you've mastered a few powerful supernatural abilities? Now I'll show you what the power of an Earth Immortal truly is!"

Zhang Hengming hardened his resolve, knowing that seeking peace and a ceasefire was no longer possible, and prepared his most powerful killing move.
His body swelled rapidly, like an inflating balloon. His already obese frame expanded instantly, his skin tearing as it couldn't keep up with the speed of his growth. What flowed out wasn't blood, but a red, magma-like substance.

At the same time, a huge wheel gradually appeared behind his head. He sat cross-legged, like a Taoist master in the world, and in an instant he had transformed into a molten lava giant a hundred meters tall.

The entire Jianruo City, shrouded in dark clouds, was instantly illuminated as if it were daytime. Upon seeing this, the members of the Dali royal family, protected by the fragments of the Sun Essence Wheel, collapsed to the ground, their legs giving way, filled with despair and despair. The joy they had just felt at seeing Li Yang force Zhang Hengming to retreat vanished in an instant.

"Trust your brother, trust your crown prince! He can win, he definitely can win!"

Bai Yingluo wanted to encourage the officials, but after speaking, she felt bitter.

In the sky at this moment, Zhang Hengming transformed into a hundred-meter-tall god, his ferocious power overwhelming, while Li Yang's four-colored lightning flickered and disappeared continuously, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.
A battle between a human immortal and an earth immortal is an utterly unfair fight. They both yearn for a miracle, yet they are also keenly aware of its impossibility.

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, Li Yang's expression was extremely solemn.

He knew that Zhang Hengming on the other side was about to resort to desperate measures and was currently activating the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit!
This magma giant was the manifestation of Zhang Hengming's Dao, and his combat power surged dramatically, already suppressing him in his Four Thunders Combined state.

He wielded the Nanming Sword and tested it several times, but the sword light was completely blocked by the golden shield. Occasionally, a sword light would fall, but the damage it caused could not seriously injure this hundred-meter giant.

The Four Thunder God Qi was still raging and rampant, like a sea of ​​thunder crackling as it covered the hundred-meter-tall giant statue. However, Zhang Hengming's lava-like skin seemed to have greatly increased its defensive power, and the thunder Qi that had just severely injured him could no longer break through his defenses.

On the contrary, Zhang Hengming struck down with a palm like a volcanic eruption. The mountain-like giant palm, accompanied by raging lava, approached Li Yang in an instant. Li Yang hurriedly used the Nanming Sword to block, but the enormous force instantly caused the Nanming Sword to bounce back, sending Li Yang flying hundreds of meters away, leaving his body charred black.

The power of this palm strike was not limited to that. Lava rained down from the sky like a meteor shower, but its power was enough to destroy the world. The entire palace was instantly engulfed in flames. If it weren't for the fragments of the Sun Essence Wheel blocking the way, Bai Yingluo and the royal family of Dali would have been reduced to ashes in one blow.

"You little bastard, this is the true power of an Earth Immortal! Every word and action is the will of Heaven and Earth!"

"When I am angry, the sky will collapse and the earth will crumble! When I am sad, the sun and moon will be obscured! All things in the world are like firewood to me! All living beings are like ants to me! What right do you have to fight me?!"

Zhang Hengming laughed wildly and swatted at Li Yang like he was swatting a fly, causing Li Yang to vomit blood and be in grave danger, with several bones in his body broken.

"You old bastard! If I weren't so restrained, I would slaughter you like a dog!"

Li Yang also became completely ruthless, and at one point wanted to activate the Law of Heaven and Earth and the Clarity of Primordial Spirit, but he was suppressed by reason.

"What can you do if you're unwilling? What can you do if you cry out in grievance? I'll kill you today, and see who can come to your rescue no matter how much you scream!"

Zhang Hengming thought Li Yang was a cornered beast fighting desperately. He grinned maliciously, clasped his hands together and chanted a spell. Then, he actually sliced ​​open Li Yang's left arm with one finger. With a casual wave of his hand, the spurting blood turned into a sky full of magma with blazing heat, completely engulfing Li Yang like a meteor shower.

"boom!"

"boom!"

A series of explosions rang out in the air. The magma, formed from the blood of the earth immortals, was extremely hot. When it fell to the ground, it melted bricks, rocks, and soil, leaving the entire palace uneven and riddled with holes.

Li Yang couldn't dodge in time, and covered in blood, he was slammed to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Zhang Hengming was extremely cautious, not approaching the area, and continued to pour lava meteors towards the spot where Li Yang had fallen, the terrifying explosions echoing endlessly. "That old bastard has gone too far!"

"Man and sword unite!"

Li Yang roared, and amidst Bai Yingluo's exclamation, a dazzling sword light shot into the sky, piercing through the magma and shooting towards Zhang Hengming.

"You little bastard, you really did have a backup plan. That day I sensed that you seemed to have mastered this great sword immortal technique. If I had approached you rashly just now, you might have succeeded."

Zhang Hengming smiled cruelly, but at the same time, he felt a chill of fear. Was this really someone who had cultivated for ten years? Not only had he attained the level of a Human Immortal, but he also possessed one incredible Daoist technique after another. Compared to him, the few supernatural abilities he himself had mastered were simply insignificant.

The Southern Sea Sword shot forth, accompanied by blazing flames, almost cleaving the entire sky. Its blade flashed with four-colored lightning and sword light; even Zhang Hengming felt a tremor in his heart.

"From this day forward, this sword belongs to me!!"

Zhang Hengming roared, then clasped his hands together, raising a golden shield in front of him to take the blow head-on.
If he didn't accept, he worried that Li Yang, who had merged with the immortal sword, would escape and leave, and it would all be for nothing.

"Qiang!"

A piercing, unpleasant metallic clang rang out in the air, and the sparks from the clash between the Southern Sea Sword and the golden shield illuminated the entire sky like fireworks.

air!
Under this terrifying sword strike, a small hole was finally pierced in the golden shield. Zhang Hengming suffered a backlash from this, and blood immediately spilled from his mouth from his hundred-meter-tall body.

But that was it. Breaking through the golden shield exhausted all of the Southern Sea Sword's kinetic energy, and the Southern Sea Sword was stuck in the shield, unable to advance any further.

"You little bastard, this immortal lord has won!!!"

Zhang Hengming burst into laughter, unable to contain himself any longer. He slammed his palm against the shield, intending to force Li Yang out of his sword-and-man-one-state state and then seize the sword.

He had already begun to envision the glorious moment when he would establish the tenth sect and be hailed as an ancestor, relying on this sword and the ancestral fire law.

Below, Bai Yingluo and the ministers of the Great Li Kingdom were in utter despair, lying on the barrier of the Sun Essence Wheel fragments, watching Zhang Hengming about to take the sword.

They could tell that this was Li Yang's last resort, and there was no chance of a comeback.

"Luo'er!!"

Emperor Bai Yan of Dali, with tears in his eyes, slammed his fist into the ground, his tiger-like eyes filled with tears.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!!"

The ministers wept bitterly, their grief overwhelming.

Only Bai Yingluo looked at the hundred-meter-tall giant above, praying incessantly.

A palm struck the Nanming Sword solidly, causing the sword to tremble and vibrate, making everyone inside the barrier cover their ears and look pained.

"You little bastard, get out here! This sword is a complete waste in your hands!!"

Zhang Hengming sneered, and his mountain-like giant hand slammed down again, the trembling sound of the Nanming Sword resounding throughout the heavens and earth.

"Aren't you coming out yet?"

Zhang Hengming frowned, sensing that something was amiss.

"Zhu Rong Technique!!"

boom!
A cold voice suddenly rang out from behind him. He turned around abruptly, and a fiery red meteor carrying a terrifying heat wave that could melt anything hurtled toward him.

"Oops!"

Zhang Hengming's expression changed drastically. He subconsciously tried to use his shield to defend, but the Nanming Sword suddenly emitted divine light and became firmly fixed in the shield, preventing the golden shield from spinning.

In that brief pause, the red meteor had already hurtled right up to Zhang Hengming.
Ode!
Zhang Hengming was originally a fire cultivator, and the intense heat under the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit almost boiled the heavens and earth. However, the temperature of this red meteor was even more terrifying, like a sharp sword suddenly piercing through Zhang Hengming's chest.

Or rather, it melted through like a red-hot iron ball melting ice.

As the flames faded, Zhang Hengming's face remained filled with disbelief. He coughed up blood as his once-hundred-meter-tall body shrank, his severely injured form unable to maintain its original form.
A large hole had appeared in his heart, from which bright red blood flowed continuously; his entire heart had been completely destroyed.

Opposite him, a red meteor appeared, its red hair flamboyant, its eyes disdainful, coldly staring at him.

"Grand Preceptor, you have lost."

The Zhu Rong Technique is a powerful killing technique that Li Yang obtained together with the Southern Crimson Emperor Divine Thunder! It is a fire-based divine power left to the Bai family by their ancestors.

Using this supernatural power is like having the fire god Zhurong in the world, able to command all the fires in the world, and every move can burn mountains and boil seas!

This technique was originally intended to be performed based on the fire-based root method, but Li Yang possessed the even more powerful Yang-based root method, making it even more potent!
This is almost the only supernatural power that Li Yang has mastered, only slightly inferior to the Soaring Technique and the Law of Heaven and Earth!
However, the Soaring Technique is extremely dangerous and disruptive, and in Li Yang's plan, it is precisely what he relies on to fight against Zhang Hengming.

He had just unleashed all his power with the Nanming Sword, making Zhang Hengming mistakenly believe that he had become one with the sword. In reality, he used the smoke to use the Earthly Fiend Divine Power to burrow underground behind Zhang Hengming and unleash the Zhu Rong Technique, killing him with a single blow.

Li Yang was certain that Zhang Hengming, a rogue cultivator, had never seen true unity of man and sword, and given his greed for the Nanming Sword, he would definitely reveal a flaw!

"Fine, fine, fine!" Zhang Hengming looked at Li Yang, whose red hair was fluttering, with a pale face. Without further hesitation, he flew away.

"I want to run, it's too late!"

Li Yang roared, the Nanming Sword appeared in his hand, and he enhanced it with the Zhu Rong Technique and the Four Thunder Dharma Body, then flew down and slashed.

All the stars in the sky were drawn to it, and the shimmering light of the Southern Sea Sword flowed across the heavens like the rising sun, with large wisps of mist rising from its body in an instant.

By the dim light of the flame, Li Yang could clearly see the fear on Zhang Hengming's face.

With a single sword strike, Zhang Hengming, the Grand Preceptor of the Great Li Kingdom and an Earth Immortal Lord, was beheaded!
(End of this chapter)