Crossing the Cultivation Realm: Two Souls Coexist

The sky was deathly silent.

The gale stops here, the clouds break off here, and only the eternally cold starlight and the unfathomable blue sky form the curtain for this decisive battle.

Two figures, a hundred miles apart, hovered in the void. Under the pull of their auras, the space groaned under their unbearable weight.

Looking at the effeminate young man before him, the old tortoise felt a pang of sorrow. The strength of this alien demon race was indeed greater than he had imagined.

I originally thought I would be able to fight against the demons, but I didn't expect that just a subordinate would have such strength.

Seeing that the old tortoise did not move, Chi Kui took out a jade fan burning with a faint purple flame from his sleeve, a sinister smile playing on his lips.

"Old tortoise, it is your honor to be my mount. Don't be ungrateful."

Chi Kui gently waved his jade fan, his voice carrying a hint of amusement.

"You're not worthy," the old tortoise said succinctly, its front legs barely touching the ground.

Seeing this, Chi Kui launched the first attack, his jade fan suddenly lashing out! "Screech—!"

With a sharp shriek, the purple flames on the fan surged, transforming into three hundred-foot-long poisonous fire dragons with ferocious scales and claws, spewing purple smoke from their mouths, tearing through the sky as they lunged at the old tortoise!

Before the poisonous fire even arrived, the bone-chilling heat and pungent sweetness had already spread, even scorching the void and causing it to distort slightly.

The old tortoise neither dodged nor evaded, a golden light flashing in its eyes. "Rise!"

With a low shout, a massive, dark golden rock wall, thousands of feet thick, rose from nowhere beneath its feet!

The rock face is not a dead object; its surface reflects the illusory images of mountains and rivers, flowing endlessly, carrying the weighty Daoist charm that has remained unchanged for eternity.

"Boom boom boom——!"

The three venomous fire dragons crashed violently into the rock wall, exploding into a rain of purplish-black venomous flames!

The rock wall shook violently, and deep pits were eroded on its surface, making a "sizzling" sound. But in an instant, more earth elements gathered, and the pits healed as before.

However, a few barely perceptible wisps of purple poisonous gas had already seeped into the old turtle through the cracks in the impact.

The old tortoise seemed oblivious, its front claws clenching.

"Condense!" Among the scattered poisonous fire and rock fragments, countless dark golden earth element particles, finer than dust, were found.

Using the shockwave of the explosion, it silently blended into the scattered energy flow and spread in the opposite direction towards Chi Kui.

Meanwhile, the old tortoise has launched its counterattack!

When it opened its mouth, it didn't emit a sound, but rather a beam of extremely refined yellow light.

The yellow light instantly transformed upon leaving his mouth, expanding into a phantom of an ancient divine mountain that blotted out the sky. Thick, earthen-yellow chains wrapped around the mountain, carrying a terrifying aura of suppressing all heavens and imprisoning time and space, crashing down upon Chi Kui!

Before the sacred mountain even arrived, the surrounding space had already solidified, and gravity increased a hundredfold!

A red glint flashed in Chi Kui's eyes: "You old turtle, you've got some skills."

His figure flickered, transforming into nine indistinguishable crimson afterimages, narrowly escaping the edge of the gravity field locked by the sacred mountain.

With a few taps of his jade fan, nine palm-sized, crow-like, but snake-tailed firebirds flew out from the fan.

It let out a shrill cry, like nine tracking missiles, bypassing the sacred mountain and pecking at the old turtle's vital points from tricky angles, with speed as fast as lightning.

The old tortoise's crystal-clear shell shone brightly, withstanding the strange attack head-on.

Sparks flew everywhere with a clanging sound. Tiny white spots appeared on the carapace where the strange bird pecked, and wisps of fiery poison tried to penetrate it.

The old tortoise groaned, circulating its internal energy to temporarily force the invading fire poison to a certain part of its shell, and its face turned slightly paler.

Some of the dark gold particles that had quietly approached Chi Kui also adhered to his protective aura, like the finest dust, silently trying to penetrate.

"Domain - Time Rock!" Knowing that conventional methods would not lead to a quick victory, the old tortoise finally stopped holding back.

Centered on it, a burst of dark golden light erupted and expanded rapidly!

Wherever the light passed, the void seemed to be coated with a layer of dark golden glass, becoming heavy and sluggish.

Countless tiny grains of sand are suspended within it, each seemingly carrying a brief moment of time that has been sealed away.

Within the domain, the earth elementals rejoiced, as if they had returned to their mother nest.

"Domain - Burning Flames!" Chi Kui shouted almost simultaneously, and a blazing, blood-red flame domain exploded from his center!

The flames were no ordinary fire; they contained a deep purple hue and, as they surged, formed countless phantom images of poisonous fire beasts, roaring and howling.

The temperature within the area soared dramatically, the air was completely evaporated, creating a fiery vacuum where even light was distorted.

"boom--!!!"

These two fields, like two planets of vastly different colors, collided with a deafening roar high in the sky!

On one side is dark gold glass, heavy and stagnant, as if time has been stretched out.

On one side, blood flames surged to the heavens, violently scorching, threatening to incinerate everything.

The magnificent scene was breathtaking; half the sky was dyed dark gold, and countless illusory rock peaks floated and disappeared within it.

The other half was a boiling sea of ​​blood-red fire, with phantom images of demonic beasts galloping and roaring.

At the edge of contact, the golden and red energies clashed and annihilated each other, unleashing a silent yet terrifying ripple that tore through space!

However, the difference in their levels of understanding became apparent at this moment.

Chi Kui's Flame Domain is ultimately superior to the Old Turtle's Time Rock Domain!

The blood flames slowly but steadily eroded the dark golden territory, eventually dividing it into roughly 70% Crimson King and 30% Old Turtle.

The old turtle's Time Rock domain was compressed, but remained as solid as a rock in its core area.

While the two were locked in a battle of domains, their true forms had already unleashed their deadly attacks!

Chi Kui, positioned in his advantageous zone, wildly brandished his bone fan: "Ten thousand beasts gallop, poisonous fire rages!"

In an instant, dozens of fiery demonic beast spirits were summoned—Crimson Flame Tiger, Poisonous Fire Locust, Lava Python…

Although their individual strength was mostly at the Dust-Severing or Mahayana stage, their numbers were numerous, and with the support of the Flame Domain, their ferocity was overwhelming. They formed a formation and rushed towards the old tortoise from all directions!

Furthermore, three venomous fire centipedes, whose auras had reached the late Mahayana stage, spewed pillars of venomous fire that corroded the space, providing long-range suppression.

He was secretly gathering power, and the purple flames on the fan were condensing, slowly forming the phantom of a peak Mahayana fire dragon. That would take time!

The old tortoise is trapped in enemy territory, and the pressure is increasing sharply.

The burning effect of the Flame Domain exacerbated its consumption of spiritual energy.

"Heavy Armor of Rock, Time-Space Swamp!" it roared, and endless earth elements surged wildly within its domain, forming a set of thick, dark gold rock armor covered with spikes on its body.

At the same time, it suddenly concentrated its domain power around Chi Kui and his summoned beasts.

"Om-!"

Centered on Chi Kui, the dark golden light within a radius of a thousand feet suddenly intensified!

Gravity increases a thousandfold instantly!

Even more frightening is that the flow of time seems to have slowed down!

The fire-breathing monsters that rushed towards them visibly slowed down and became sluggish, as if they were stuck in a viscous quagmire of time and space.

The fire pillars spewed by the several venomous fire centipedes slowed to a snail's pace.

"Now! Hidden Jade, Slash!" The old tortoise seized the opportunity, forming a hand seal with its claws.

Within the realm, countless enormous, sharp stalagmites, rotating rock gears, and heavy, square seals...

It appeared out of thin air, as if it had a life of its own, and launched a massive, overwhelming attack on the slow-moving horde of fire beasts!

Each strike contains immense power capable of shattering mountains and splitting the earth, and also carries the effect of disrupting spacetime and increasing burdens.

“Bang bang bang bang—!”

A large number of low-level fire spirits shattered under the attack of the spacetime swamp and saturated earth elemental attacks, turning into flowing fire.

However, the purple flames around Chi Kui rose, and he managed to withstand the thousand times gravity and the slowing of time, though his movements were slightly sluggish.

He sneered, "A mere trick! Poisonous fire clings to the bone, ignites the spirit!"

The shattered flame spirits did not completely dissipate; instead, they transformed into finer, more toxic purple sparks, which, like a persistent affliction, clung to the earth elemental creations that attacked them.

And following the energy connection, it erodes the old turtle's domain and body in reverse!

The old tortoise's rocky armor sizzled as it was burned by the poisonous fire, and its color began to darken.

Fortunately, amidst the intense clashes and battles, those dark golden earth element particles that had already permeated the area...

Finally, more successfully penetrated Chi Kui's protective aura and domain flames, silently invading his meridians.

Chi Kui didn't pay attention at first, but soon he felt a very slight stagnation in the flow of spiritual energy. When he mobilized the power of his domain, he actually had to spend half a bit more mental energy than usual!

His aura, almost imperceptibly, slipped down from the peak of the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm.

"Ok?"

Chi Kui finally realized something was wrong. His dark red pupils contracted, and his gaze towards the old tortoise held a hint of shock and anger. "You old tortoise, how could you have such insidious methods?!"

He immediately activated his cultivation technique, causing the poisonous fire within his body to blaze fiercely, attempting to refine or force out those particles.

However, those earth element particles are extremely stubborn and have become subtly integrated with the meridians, making them quite troublesome to remove. The trend of the realm being slowly and continuously weakened is difficult to reverse in the short term!

The old tortoise was also suffering, enduring numerous attacks, especially the continuous erosion from the poisonous fire and the burning spiritual energy from the Flame Domain, which greatly depleted its resources.

The accumulated fire toxins in the body have gathered into several small clusters, lurking in the meridians, although they have not yet reached the critical point of detonation.

But like several poisonous thorns, they constantly interfered with the flow of spiritual energy, bringing waves of dull pain and weakness, and making her face increasingly pale.

Seeing that his cultivation level had been strangely weakened, Chi Kui was enraged. Ignoring that the Mahayana fire dragon phantom was not yet fully solidified, he forcibly activated the bone fan:

"Poison Dragon Flame Kill!"

The fire dragon phantom on the fan, which was already 80% solidified, let out a deafening roar and suddenly broke free from the fan, transforming into a thousand-foot-long fire dragon with scales, a single horn on its head, and a body engulfed in terrifying poisonous flames of deep purple and pitch black!

Although it was slightly weaker than the fully formed form due to being forcibly activated, the pressure emanating from it still made the space tremble!

The fire dragon opened its massive maw, and a purplish-black pillar of flame, condensed to its extreme and containing destruction and poison, tore through the boundary of the domain and shot straight at the old tortoise!

Wherever it went, even the Time Rock domain was melted and channels were created, greatly reducing the time slowing effect!

This is a fatal blow that could severely injure or even kill an ordinary peak Mahayana cultivator!

The old tortoise's pupils constricted; it dared not take the blow head-on. "Liujia Returns to Hidden Formation!"

In an instant, it retracted its head, tail, and limbs into its seemingly ancient, but actually tempered, life-bound tortoise shell!

On the surface of the tortoise shell, countless ancient and mysterious runes lit up layer by layer, their light flowing and forming an absolute defense.

At the same time, the surrounding earth elements gathered wildly, forming a total of 999 layers of dense rock armor on the outside of the tortoise shell!

“Boom——!!!!!”

The purplish-black poisonous fire dragon breath slammed fiercely into the layers of defense!

The outer layer of rock armor vaporized layer by layer like paper, and the poisonous fire raged, finally crashing hard into the glass tortoise shell itself!

The blinding purplish-black light clashed violently with the dark gold rune light, bursting out with a sun-like intensity and an invisible shockwave, churning the surrounding area for dozens of miles into chaos!

The light gradually faded.

The old tortoise's shell was violently blasted thousands of miles away, the runes on its surface dimmed considerably, and even a few fine, charred cracks appeared, with the outer layer of rock armor completely annihilated.

It stretched out its head and feet again, a trickle of dark golden blood spilling from the corner of its mouth, and its breath faltered.

He had clearly suffered a significant shock and erosion from the poisonous fire, and some toxins had accumulated in his body, leaving him as pale as paper.

But it held on!

Meanwhile, Chi Kui, having forcibly activated his unfinished killing move, also had to focus on suppressing the earth element particles wreaking havoc within his body.

His aura fluctuated violently, and his realm, which had already slipped a little, dropped again, completely breaking through the threshold of the mid-stage Golden Immortal and stabilizing at the level of the early-stage Golden Immortal!

Although he still completely overwhelmed those in the Mahayana stage, this inexplicable weakening filled him with shock and anger, his face so dark it looked like it was about to drip water.