Boom!

The residual force of thousands of Qi Forces didn't cease, and Ji Jiji's palms were penetrated, exploding into a mass of formless Qi.

Yet he himself seemed as if nothing happened, his Qi Mechanism abruptly transformed, turning a killing intent into a profound heaviness.

"The Earth emits killing intent, the Dragon and Snake rise from the land."

The Faceless God finally transformed its form, circulating the dense Earth Qi throughout its whole body, changing from an invisible being to a weighty Stone Statue.

The Earth Qi surged, the thickness turned into an incredibly explosive force, like a volcanic eruption, the Earth Dragon turned over, causing the ground to tremble. Ji Jiji's body shook, emitting the booming sound of the earth splitting open, and with one finger, he aimed a terrifyingly concentrated power to strike down Jiang Li.

From intangible to tangible, the Qi Mechanism rampaged through his body, Ji Jiji was like an epicenter of an earthquake, its emanations causing the Stone Chamber to sway.

'The Suppressing ability of the Golden Dam is getting weaker.'

Jiang Li sharply perceived the anomaly in the stone chamber, realizing that it was due to the Suppressing ability of Yu King Dao Fruit leaving the Golden Dam. Soon this unprecedented Dao Artifact would become an ordinary dam.

"One Qi Transforms Three Thousand."

He simply lifted his palm, Divine Essence burst forth above his Heavenly Spirit, cycling around his body perpetually with a thousand streams of Innate Qi.

Activating the Dragon and Snake Body, accelerating the efficiency of his body, allowed Jiang Li to use thirty percent of his True Qi thousands of times in an instant. Each time involved an extremely slight, almost non-existent, time difference which was just enough for him to restore his True Qi with "One-foot Hammer."

For Jiang Li, thirty percent of his True Qi, when compared to a regular Cultivator, was nearly ten times greater. He possessed Nine Great Qi Seas within him, each pushed to the ultimate limit, unparalleled by ordinary cultivators.

A full thousand streams of Innate Qi were released, attacking like thousands of swords launched simultaneously, indestructible; defensively like an impregnable Heaven moat, unbreakable.

Theoretically, the limit of "One Qi Transforms Three Thousand" is limitless and can reach infinity, but Jiang Li himself had a limit. Even when fully utilizing the wisdom from Dao Fruit, he could only split a thousand streams of Innate Qi for offense and defense, any more would cause loss of control over his True Qi and his brain to overheat.

Jiang Li's expectation for this technique was to reach three thousand, but he was still far from the peak.

Even so, Jiang Li's offensive and defensive methods already exceeded the boundary of fifth-rank.

Innate Qi formed an iron wall before him. The trembling force of the ground focused at one point and burst into it. The two forces clashed in one spot, making time seem to stop at that instant. Anomalies manifested behind both Jiang Li and Ji Jiji.

Behind Ji Jiji, indistinct figures shielded him, barely visible, a mysterious sound resonating like heavenly music, immensely holy and grand.

Behind Jiang Li appeared a figure, simultaneously tangible and intangible, clad in flowing robes, walking with the Dao, his face obscured by a mist-like Qi; but through the haze, the face was revealed to be exactly like Jiang Li.

This was the manifestation of Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, unlike other Dao Fruits, when Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit showed its apparition, its face was exactly like Jiang Li as if it had merged entirely with Jiang Li's Dao Fruit, becoming one with him.

Ji Jiji's "Dragon and Snake Rising" reached its peak after countless shadows appeared, and Jiang Li's "One Qi Transforms Three Thousand" became even more harmonious.

Like time frozen in an anomaly, seeming endlessly long yet merely a moment, a droplet, like fresh blood, seeped from Ji Jiji's fingertip, bringing the stalled anomaly back on track.

At this moment, Jiang Li's eyes saw the annihilation of stars, the transformation of celestial stems, and the intersection of Eight Trigrams, sharply sensing an instant abnormality in Ji Jiji's Heavenly Dharma.

A flaw!

Jiang Li swiftly turned his right palm, lightly lifting his left, with Yin Yang Qi ascending.

"Five evils reside in the heart, enacted upon heaven."

Ji Jiji once again intoned, the fluid seeping from his fingertip, almost as if sentient, dispersed within the Qi wall, permeating and creating intricate lines of runes interlacing like a web, causing the Qi wall to tremble.

Realizing his vulnerability, Ji Jiji promptly changed his moves, turning the flaw into an attack; using the blood-like fluid, rich in Essence, he executed his Magic.

"The Sun at Noon, sunshine in the sky."

"Taiyin Ju Zi, Water Clearing Gui E."

Jiang Li simultaneously executed his Mystic Technique, Sun Wheel and Moon Phase condensed in his palms, eyes gleaming with a strange light, his Divine Sense materialized into reality, boldly using "Outer Object Transformation" to Transform Illusion into Reality.

Divine Skills, Mystic Techniques, when the two merged, the Sun and Moon shone together, overshadowing all directions.

"Not good!"

A woman on the other side of Star River cried out in shock, witnessing the scene, only to feel a searing, phantom pain coursing through her body.

Facing the technique of the Sun and Moon, Ji Jiji also underwent a change in his Qi Mechanism.

Swish!

The Star River suspended in mid-air suddenly turned, flowing downwards, transforming into brilliant starlight to block the light of the sun and moon.

When the Yin Yang Qi and the elemental force of the starlight clashed, it was visible how the stars vanished, and the mystic light surged, creating a magnificent and unusual scene with ripples appearing.

The stone chamber shook violently, and dust and pebbles fell; suddenly—

"Open the way for me!"

A fiery spear struck across from mid-air, bright as a shooting star, severing the Star River in one strike!

Yin Tulong found the opportune moment to counterattack with the Nine Fire Divine Dragon, and struck with his spear while attacking together with Jiang Li, finally breaking the technique of the Star River Crossing the Sky.

The starlight vanished, and mixed with Yin Yang Qi, it created a violent surge, blasting in all directions.

One of Yin Tulong's six arms immediately pulled out a strip of red silk, spinning it swiftly like a dragon dance, slicing through the waves of Qi, while the three fourth-rank opponents also defended themselves with thunder and fog, each shifting from attack to defense.

Ji Jiji's figure transformed, as if entering the void, he receded invisibly towards the back.

Meanwhile, Jiang Li, without hesitation, flashed and positioned the large cauldron in front of him to block the wild surge.

Boom!

When the wild surge met the cauldron, it caused the large cauldron to shake violently, creating several cracks on the ground connected to the cauldron's legs; the water inside the cauldron oscillated, creating a large wave hitting the corpse of King Shu into mid-air.

"Yu King Dao Fruit!"

On the Wind and Fire Wheel, Yin Tulong, spinning the Chaos Sky Ribbon swiftly, exclaimed as he looked straight at the corpse of King Shu from behind.

Previously there had been no anomaly, but now, as the corpse of King Shu had left the cauldron, the abnormality became apparent.

The aura of the Yu King Dao Fruit was no longer in the cauldron, but had transferred into the body of King Shu's corpse. It was only because the corpse had been in the cauldron initially that the illusion was created.

'No, it's not just that King Shu's corpse was in the cauldron, but also because the corpse connected with the cauldron!' Jiang Li suddenly realized the key point, his forehead steaming with epiphanic intelligence.

Just as King Shu had connected with the Golden Dam earlier, receiving the enhancement of the Dao Fruit's essence, now the corpse of King Shu connected with the Golden Dam, sharing the Dao Fruit's essence into the cauldron, thus achieving the illusion of their unity before the transfer.

King Shu, he was still alive...

No, he was dead.

The abnormality was not in the corpse itself, but inside the corpse.

A ripple of light flashed across Jiang Li's forehead as he noticed unusual movements within the abdomen of King Shu's corpse.

It seemed as if something was struggling inside, trying to break out of the corpse.

"Gun!" Jiang Li exclaimed softly, "The Fourth Grade Dao Fruit of King Shu is Gun!"

Yu's father, Gun, was ordered to control the waters and secretly stole the Nine Heavens Breath Soil to build a dike, but ultimately he failed and was banished to Yushan where he died. According to another legend, the Heavenly Emperor sentenced Gun for stealing the Nine Heavens Breath Soil and sent the Fire God Zhu Rong to kill Gun at Yushan.

After Gun's death, his corpse did not decay for three years, and upon observing this, the Fire God Zhu Rong, with a Wu Knife, opened Gun's abdomen, and Yu was born.

And Gun's corpse transformed into a Yellow Dragon and flew away.

King Shu had the ability to transform into a Yellow Dragon, but everyone thought this was because of his cultivation of the Yellow Dragon Transformation. However, if combined with the current situation, King Shu's transformation ability might not merely be due to his cultivation technique, but also possibly the workings of Dao Fruit Divine Power.

If King Shu's Dao Fruit was indeed Gun, everything made sense.

The one trying to acquire the Yu King Dao Fruit to advance was King Shu.

"Do not damage King Shu's corpse!" Jiang Li immediately shouted loudly, "He is just one step away from advancing."

It was the Fire God Zhu Rong who, with a Wu Knife, opened Gun's belly, allowing Yu to emerge; King Shu this old goods was not pretending, he indeed had died, and the Yu King Dao Fruit was also just one step away from merging completely.

'Furthermore, I belong to the Fire Element, and Yin Tulong likely has ties with the Fire Element too; if we damage King Shu's corpse, we'd completely fulfill the legend.'

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