Even if he is already old and gray, the Emperor is still the master of the Ji Family who cultivates the "Form Tomb". This dharma body, created by successive emperors combining their Dao Fruits, is like the embodiment of the Nine Provinces, incorporating the world into one entity.

The "Form Tomb" is a method of the law cultivation body. At the Emperor's strongest, this body carried the power of the Nine Provinces, making it the premier dharma body in the world, one that even the perfected "Buddha's Scripture of the Strongman Moving Mountains" of the Buddha Country cannot match.

Even now, the strongest aspect of the Emperor is still his physical body.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Jiang Li also manifests anomalies of mountains and rivers on his body. Through his crystalline skin, you can see tendons, bones, muscles, and blood forming mountains, rivers, and peaks, and the nine great Qi Seas transforming into the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces, seemingly containing a small universe within.

No, it is indeed a small universe.

Jiang Li merged the visions with his body using the Eight-Nine Profound Skill, transforming his body into anomalies such as mountains and rivers, and used the "Qi Tomb" to govern the Qi Sea and the "Mountain Tomb" to control mountains and rivers, resulting in real transformations.

Heaven and earth coexist with me, and all things unite with me.

All transformations become reality.

As both of their forms change, they simultaneously ascend, clearly transforming from a physical body into a dharma body. Their swords collide, the Emperor strikes with a palm, and Jiang Li raises his hand to meet it.

The two palms collide, powers of mountains and rivers grinding against each other, causing a commotion greater than mountains crashing together could compare to this moment of palm exchange.

"Boom!"

The Treasure Extreme Cave Heaven trembles violently. Even though it is suppressed by the Divine Farmer's Cauldron, it still cannot maintain stability.

Primordial Lord Rain Master immediately unfolds his form, his draconic body agile and swift, flying above the Divine Farmer's Cauldron and spiraling, causing the cauldron to shine with golden light once more.

A sunlight-like radiance rises from the cauldron, the cauldron's legs like sky-piercing pillars, stabilizing the Cave Heaven.

At the same time——

"Boom!"

Jiang Li and the Emperor violently retreat, their feet landing, forcibly stabilizing the trembling ground and leaving deep footprints.

Anomalies rise and sink within the Emperor's dharma body, the mountains and sacrificial altars all trembling, vaguely unstable.

Meanwhile, Jiang Li finds rivers reversing, mountains crashing and disintegrating, as his small universe collapses and is destroyed.

In the clash of power, Jiang Li's dharma body is evidently a bit inferior.

But after the mountains and rivers collapse, all things gather and transform into Taiji, stabilizing the body, as a Taiji Formation slowly revolves behind Jiang Li, dissipating the palm power attacking his body. Jiang Li then deploys the Great Circle Sword, his eyes gleaming with an unusual light.

"Sealing and Sacrificial Swordsmanship·Unification of the World."

The Emperor's step sinks, steadying himself, in his palm appearing the shadow of mountains, rivers, earth, sun, moon, and stars, as if it were another Xuanyuan Sword altogether, surprisingly taking action a step ahead of Jiang Li.

A sword divides the light, and the sword light transforms in form, weaving the landscape of the Nine Provinces, pushing across heavens and earth, rushing towards Jiang Li.

"Dukes' Sword."

A sudden brilliance erupts within Jiang Li, the Ochre Whip reinforcing the Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, employing the rarely-used Dukes' Sword.

The Dukes' Sword uses man as the form, facing forward without obstruction, raising it without limit, pressing it with no inferior, wielding it without a path, the upper law circles heaven, conforming to three lights, the lower law fixes the earth, conforming to the four seasons, harmonizing public opinion, stabilizing the four townships.

As Taiji revolves, outer objects transform, the Heavenly Eye opens, and the unusual light in Jiang Li's gaze condenses into substance, dividing from the sword into one after another phantom, farmers, hunters, merchants, peddlers, literati, scribes, officials, employees, brokers, women... men, women, young, old, rich, and poor, all within the sword.

An endless number of phantoms evolve into a map of the vast populace, confronting the Emperor's Nine Provinces Sword.

The Jiangshan, Sacrificial Altar unify as one, the Emperor's Sword incorporates the Nine Provinces, placed above the Dukes' Sword, as the myriad figures are crushed, revealing the reality within, transforming into sword light shapes.

The ever-changing sword lights intersect and multiply, when the illusions are shattered and reality manifests, the sword lights surge like a chaotic torrent, ferociously crashing into the scenery of the Nine Provinces.

An incalculable surge of sword light strikes and slashes, shaking the land, myriad sword lights all shattering before the Nine Provinces, but the scenery of the Nine Provinces is also shattered in two corners.

"Emperor's Ultimate World, Yuanjing Conference."

Jiang Li shouts deeply, a surge of primordial qi emerging from all over his body, the Eight Sceneries transforming, the incomplete sword map being dissolved by the Eight Sceneries, finally blown apart by the domain.

At the same time, the Emperor, seemingly struck by thunder, trembles violently, bloodstains appearing out of nowhere on his body, causing him to stumble backward two steps.

Clearly Jiang Li's Dukes' Sword was blocked, but the Emperor was even more injured, with flaws even appearing in his Emperor's dharma body.

And this flaw, precisely represents the pieces of Liangzhou and Yongzhou outside, even among the remaining seven provinces, there is an appearance of illusion.

"My... my empire!" The Emperor coughs up blood, under the perception of divine thought, knowing instantly where the problem lies.

It's the Great Zhou that's problematic, causing the Emperor's dharma body, crafted through Dao Fruit's divine power, to exhibit flaws.

Within the Emperor Dao Fruit is the divine power [The State is Me], combining the Emperor's body with the nation's body, capable of drawing endless power from the Nine Provinces. As long as the Emperor is within the Nine Provinces, he is the number one power of the era, standing undefeated.

Even back when Yongzhou suffered a great drought, the Emperor could sense the disaster even without receiving any news from the Divine Travel Grand Protector.

Yet the power of this divine power relies on the stability of the Great Zhou's territory and Jiangshan, Sheji; if the nation is unstable and disasters multiply, the power that [The State is Me] can draw also is greatly reduced.

The Emperor's dharma body, cultivated in conjunction with this divine power, naturally also develops flaws.

"All past emperors could foresee the nation's disasters in advance and provide solutions, except for you. You ignored the great drought in Yongzhou and watched as the Taiping Sect expanded, leading to the instability of the Great Zhou's Jiangshan."

Jiang Li steps forward with his sword, his words cutting like a blade, "The Yong Province lands have been occupied by the Buddha Country, suffering from Buddhist law infiltration, Liangzhou faced a water disaster, and the southern lands face the secret assimilation by the Heavenly Monarch. Your Majesty, your empire is already in disarray, a scene of the end times."

Previously, when Primordial Lord Rain Master and King Shu clashed, there were faint appearances of not just one, but two provinces outside Liangzhou in King Shu's divine power, hinting that his influence had already taken a foothold in two provinces.

Additionally, in Yongzhou, Tan Wuwei converting inspectors and prefectural governors, spreading Buddhist law to all, similarly carves out territory within the Great Zhou.

In the symbiotic effect of these events, the power the Emperor Dao Fruit can draw naturally greatly reduces. Furthermore, the Emperor already suffers from betrayal and desertion, significantly reducing his control over the Great Zhou. Now, with the divine power's effect weakening, it's nothing short of adding insult to injury.

As Jiang Li's words fall, the Emperor's heart trembles, the Emperor's dharma body also leaks Qi Mechanism, cracks even appearing.

Injured by the Great Circle Sword carrying Han Zhuo Dao Fruit, the leakage extends to Qi Shu too, breaking the Emperor's dignity and revealing his inherently aging nature.

"A scene of end times... ha, how truly ironic."

The Emperor tightly grips the sword in his hand, vivid red blood flowing down his palm, staining the blade, his aged face showing disdain rather than remorse.

"The sixty-year peace of this Great Zhou is thanks to my governance. Since it was brought by me, then if it is lost due to me, that's only fair. Jiang Family Master, do you think you can unsettle my resolve with the loss of a dynasty? How could I be such a person who frets over trivialities!"

For indeed, after his death, he cares not if the floodwaters submerge the heavens. He had this realization right at the moment he chose pursuit of longevity.

Jiang Li wants to bind him with morality; he picked the wrong person to bind.

'Even with Qi Shu leaking, still so resolute, he was indeed once supreme, even if that Emperor was not this Emperor of today...'

Jiang Li silently muses, raising his sword before him, the Han Zhuo Dao Fruit transforming into a flowing light.

The Great Circle Sword is infused with the Qi of Destruction, the Military God's Four Weapons manifesting around.

For ordinary Dao Artifacts needing to extract Dao Fruit, either elevate directly to incorporate it, or refine and cultivate the Magic Artifact slowly to discharge the Dao Fruit.

The Great Circle Sword is different, Dao Fruit is plug-and-play, capable of perfectly unleashing power and combining with other Dao Artifacts for mutual use.

Just like this moment——

The sword transforms into a bronze soldier, All Heaven Divine Sha envelopes it, combining with the other four weapons, transforming into a great banner flying in Jiang Li's hand.

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