Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1084 - 167: Golden Core Slays Mahayana (Part 2)

"Do you feel that your mana is becoming increasingly heavy, harder to sense, and your thoughts more and more blurred?"

Wang Qi's words penetrated into the consciousness of the Holy Emperor Venerable like a demon's voice piercing through the brain.

A chill ran through the Holy Emperor Venerable's heart. In panic, he rushed towards Wang Qi, intending to grab him by the throat and force him to reveal everything. Wang Qi dodged swiftly, employing the Unpredictable Body Technique, entering a state where his position and speed couldn't be determined simultaneously. The Holy Emperor Venerable caught nothing but air.

He missed a Core Formation Cultivator!

In the perception of the Holy Emperor Venerable, Wang Qi's speed at this moment was clearly at the Mahayana Realm standard, yet he didn't display any overwhelming strength, still just a Core Formation!

Just a Core Formation!

This intense contradiction finally surfaced in the consciousness of the Holy Emperor Venerable. His chest tightened, and he was almost overwhelmed with discomfort to the point of spitting blood.

Wang Qi looked down at the Holy Emperor Venerable and said, "Emperor Venerable, you absorbed the Library Pavilion of the Heavenly Book Tower, right?"

The Holy Emperor Venerable was taken aback, "I didn't touch the problematic Library Tower..."

Halfway through his words, he automatically shut up. Judging from Wang Qi's calculations earlier, those problematic Library Towers must have been deliberately exposed by him to lower the Holy Emperor Venerable's guard.

Furthermore, in the Heavenly Book Tower's Law, the portion related to the path of the Innate Five Virtues was counteracted by the part of the Innate Five Elements from the Hongyuan God, leaving behind only the portions that Wang Qi had tampered with.

Subsequent series of attacks were actually unnecessary because, by that time, Wang Qi had already implanted the most lethal thing into the Holy Emperor Venerable's body.

A purely destructive Divine Plague Curse Technique with most of its limitations removed!

"Actually, at the start, I didn't expect the arrangements in the Heavenly Book Tower to play a decisive role, because, according to my calculations, the ordinary Divine Plague Curse Technique and the Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture were already enough to trap you. As it turned out, the Divine Plague Curse Technique you implanted when refining the Son of Terror Torture was incomplete, and you didn't practice the Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture at all. That was indeed my oversight. Who knew, in the end, you actually fused with the Heavenly Book Tower—Just goes to show that having a backup plan amidst busyness is quite necessary!"

"I have, in fact, been estimating the degree of your power's decline all along, then using that estimate to apply suicidal tactics, letting you kill divine spirits of specific strength at specific times to prevent you from realizing you're weakening." While dodging the attacks from the Holy Emperor Venerable, Wang Qi said calmly, "Precisely because you think you can still win, you won't prioritize escaping first."

"To be honest, all you Banished Immortals are quite fond of life. If you ran, then my subsequent data collection would be impossible."

"That's why, just now, apart from attacking, I was also deliberately provoking you. After planning for ten thousand years and facing sudden failure, you must be quite furious, right? Do you feel like this battle is tough but still think you hold a great advantage? Is this kid quite annoying, so under the circumstance where your life isn't threatened, would you choose to squash this bothersome insect first?"

Wang Qi's current tone was calm, no longer showing the mania from earlier, as if simply narrating something unrelated to himself. However, this "matter-of-factly" objective tone was even more infuriating than the malicious taunts earlier.

His objective tone seemed to express—Emperor Venerable, from a realistic standpoint, you're simply a fool.

"You scoundrel!" The Holy Emperor Venerable erupted with all his might once again, the gray Chaos True Light surged mightily. A halo composed of starlight flashed, and Wang Qi's figure appeared in a place untouched by the Chaos True Light—the "Key of the Gate" avatar hadn't even joined the fight and was still alive!

Wang Qi continued to elaborate on his plan: "In fact, it was unexpected you could cultivate Martial Arts. However, when you used the Two-Injuring Technique to destroy your foundation eliminating Longevity Heaven and the Great Wilderness God, it aggravated your original injuries; even without factoring in the Divine Plague, you aren't as strong as you were hours ago."

"Ughhhhhhhhh!" The Holy Emperor Venerable finally chose to escape. He transformed into an Escape Light, trying to flee afar. However, as soon as he flew to the other side of Spirit Phoenix Island, a "gate" formed of numerous light points appeared in front of him. A humanoid figure was thrown out from within.

"Is that... Lord Xutian?" The Holy Emperor Venerable's spirit tightened, thinking a scene akin to Qiushui Daoist's was about to replay. But unexpectedly, Lord Xutian's body crashed straight over and then boldly self-detonated!

The intense spiritual power pressed down. The Holy Emperor Venerable's body was thrown again. Having anticipated all this and used the Cave Heaven Ruler in advance, Wang Qi dodged the attack. He then continued, "Next, let me formally introduce the means I'm using. Divine Plague Curse Technique. We of the Modern Immortal Path believe that human consciousness can be solely expressed through changes in Yin and Yang, such as 'Yin Yang Yang Yin Yin Yang Yang Yin Yang Yang Yang' as a straightforward Yin Yang Yao Text. And by inserting some additional changes into these Yin Yang, that's the principle of the Divine Plague Curse Technique."

"Of course, our level is quite limited, still unable to rewrite a person's mind at will. However, we're not aiming to rewrite, but rather to utterly destroy the balance of 'Yin Yang Transformation' within consciousness, causing your consciousness to collapse from the deepest level."

The Holy Emperor Venerable clutched his head. His intellect hadn't been eroded yet—the current Divine Plague Curse Technique of Wang Qi targeted the subconscious first. He understood Wang Qi's words and realized that this spell might indeed be able to kill him.

Wang Qi took out a notebook and flipped through it: "Comparing the records left before, a Divine Separation Stage cultivator starts to lose the ability to use skillful martial skills and spells at the sixteenth minute; loses balance at the twenty-first minute and basically loses combat power; can't get up at the thirty-third minute; loses consciousness at the forty-second minute—this is very close to the average level of the Divine Separation Stage, and basically can't last beyond fifty minutes..."

"Shut up..." Holy Emperor Venerable's fingers began to dig into his head without any doubt. The scalp under his fingers was overwhelmed, bloody.

Wang Qi said: "Then, this Divine Plague Curse Technique has another characteristic, that is the development speed increases towards the later stage. Additionally, the curse you are under and what those other 'Little White Mice' in the Divine Separation Stage are under are not the same—they can still be saved, while for you it's lethal, so yours is more severe. Just now, the Immortal Ascension Tribulation consumed a total of three hours and eleven minutes, while killing those gods took you forty-seven minutes. Counting the three minutes we just wasted talking, along with the few dozen seconds absorbing the cultivation methods of Heavenly Book Tower, you have exceeded four hours—still retaining self-awareness, and even some combat power, it's truly impressive!"

"Shut up ah ah ah ah ah!" Holy Emperor Venerable's last thread of sanity finally snapped. Roaring as he charged towards Wang Qi, now he forgot all about power, longevity—he only wanted to burn the last of his life to kill this evil demon that plagued the world!

"According to my estimation, you have about twenty minutes of activity time left." Wang Qi put away the notebook and then pointed the Heavenly Sword at Holy Emperor Venerable: "Next, I won't use this last avatar, nor any other means."

—Though watching you die isn't bad, without personally slashing you a few times, I won't be at ease.

The Heavenly Sword lit up, emanating overwhelming sword qi. Wang Qi stared directly at Holy Emperor Venerable, charging forward.

"Little thief!"

"Die!"

The figures of the two flashed and disappeared.

At this time, the Divine Plague Curse Technique already affected Holy Emperor Venerable's thinking and computational efficiency. His claw attack missed, empty. And behind him, Wang Qi bore the Heavenly Sword. Rolling his eyes: "This is really embarrassing."

In his normal state, a strike with the Heavenly Sword was the highest level of power he could exert.,

Yet this strike didn't break through the defense. Holy Emperor Venerable's lower abdomen was slightly cut, but not deep, not even much blood flowed.

The Divine Plague Curse Technique could not physically eliminate Holy Emperor Venerable's power. Holy Emperor Venerable merely lost the ability to sense this power. Wang Qi only turned this power into masterless, uncontrolled power. Yet this power still resided inside Holy Emperor Venerable. Especially the immortal's immortal power, which is spiritually sufficient, even if tampered by Wang Qi and rendered uncontrollable, could instinctively resist external forces.

Holy Emperor Venerable's defense at this time was indeed not at the immortal level, but still far from being easily broken by Wang Qi.

The Holy Land Group also realized this point. He laughed aloud: "Little thief, you are cunning to the extreme, yet you missed a move at the last! Still a quarter of an hour left, right? Now, I must kill you within this quarter of an hour!"

His escape light speed continued to decrease, yet he could still doggedly pursue Wang Qi. While dodging, Wang Qi maneuvered the entire computing power of Spirit Phoenix Island's Human Dao, then he once again raised the Heavenly Sword.

"That last strike was just testing the strength. This time is the real deal!"

The Heavenly Sword wailed. It was forced by Wang Qi to emit its formidable evasion power. This is a method that harms the magic artifact's origin. However, the origin of the Heavenly Sword is equal to part of a constant star, surprisingly strong, so it won't be destroyed in one go. And Wang Qi hasn't completely refined this sword; to unleash its strongest power, he can only use this approach.

Sword light turned into golden waves, expanding in all directions. Microscopic and macroscopic, rules of different scales began to merge.

Wang Qi displayed divine skills once during Core Formation. But now, Wang Qi leveraged the entire computing power of Spirit Phoenix Island's Human Dao to deduce them to a higher level.

Golden waves began to collapse, transforming into several parallel rectangles. Each rectangle signifies several unstable vectors. They are independently manifested by Wang Qi's mana. These matrices overlap, intertwine, constantly change, constantly redefine parameters. Meanwhile, the space covered by the matrices began to change, topology rules shifted towards higher dimensions.

Holy Emperor Venerable was already mad. He charged head-first into the matrix sword array transformed by the Heavenly Sword. His remaining life was now only twenty minutes, and his thinking ability had significantly diminished—he could only choose this headlong battle approach.

No one knew exactly what happened inside. In that sword array, time and space differed greatly from the outside world, motion laws manifested in entirely different forms, light propagation paths were bizarre, normal language could hardly describe the battle inside.

However, the final spectators knew one thing.

A Great Grandmaster blinked, and softly asked: "This...is the Primordial Spirit's Magical Domain, right?"