Out of fear of death, Invest Everything into Health-Chapter 270 - 143: Final Blow! Out With the Old, In With the New!

He no longer had a relaxed and effortless expression, becoming serious, "Li Ming, since you've reached this point, I have no burdens left."

After speaking, this avatar began to move. His steps appeared erratic, yet his form remained exceptionally strong and steady. Each step he took brewed an elusive Dao mechanism, with various Dao mechanisms being forged within his steps, then rotating around him.

The phenomena of the stars! Chengming's pupils shrank at the sight, "You've comprehended the Circulation Dao?"

Ye Chuxuan smiled, "Observing the stars for three hundred years should yield some results, right?" He extended a finger and lightly pointed in the air.

A surge of energy came rushing from a certain star in the sky, ignoring all distance and obstacles, hitting Chengming's body instantly.

Chengming's aura shattered overwhelmingly, and cracks appeared all over his physical body.

"How can mere cultivation and physical body triumph over the Power of Circulation?" Ye Chuxuan asked.

He continuously summoned several strands of the Power of Circulation to bombard Chengming.

Chengming could neither evade nor withstand it; not only was it hard to gather his aura, but the cracks on his body also multiplied, his entire being stained with blood.

Ye Chuxuan said with reluctance, "Li Ming, give up."

Chengming panted heavily, clutching his chest, with eyes extraordinarily clear, "Come on, come on!"

Since it can't be resisted, then abandon it!

He made no defense, forcefully raising the large hammer, while igniting all his cultivation, regardless of whether his physical body could bear it, forcibly striking out the tenth sound of the Dragon-Soothing Sound against Ye Chuxuan's obstruction.

Throughout Great Li, the Mountain God, Lake God, River God, and all Earth Gods had the dust on their golden bodies swept clean.

Ye Chuxuan made no attempt to stop it, because he knew clearly, what good would forcing out this hammer do? Without completing the twelve strikes of the Dragon-Soothing Sound, it's useless.

"Li Ming, do you really want your millennia of hard-earned cultivation and physical body to shatter completely?"

"Otherwise?"

A simple "Otherwise?" carried an extremely detestable power that pierced Ye Chuxuan's heart. He detested this attitude of disregarding everything, regardless of any consequences. The well-maintained kingly demeanor vanished without a trace, his expression somewhat twisted, "Li Ming! Even if you pour all your cultivation into shattering this body and bones, you can only strike out the eleventh sound; you're doing a futile act!"

Chengming focused his gaze, "So, are you going to stop me?"

Ye Chuxuan suddenly regained his kingly demeanor, "And what if you strike?"

Chengming chuckled lowly, "Worthy of a king indeed."

He raised the hammer, striking out the eleventh sound of the Dragon-Soothing Sound.

All the citizens throughout Great Li felt their souls shaken, their minds becoming clear, realizing that this mysterious sound tonight was to guide them to a brand new path.

Chengming's cultivation was exhausted, and the Martial God's physique he had painstakingly molded over a thousand years was completely shattered, reverting to a mortal body.

He could no longer muster the strength to lift the large hammer.

The ink-black hammer plummeted into Shilong Lane from midair.

Ye Chuxuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Chengming lay collapsed in the air, mockingly saying, "You just sighed in relief, didn't you? You were tense; you were afraid I could indeed strike out the twelfth sound. Ye Chuxuan, you lost your confidence."

Ye Chuxuan smiled and said, "Think as you will, the outcome is determined."

Indeed, the outcome was determined.

Chengming had failed. He had long thought that tonight, even if his cultivation was exhausted and his body shattered, he would complete the twelfth sound. He knew Ye Chuxuan would come to stop him, but he hadn't anticipated that Ye Chuxuan would successfully comprehend the Path of Heaven.

The Path of Heaven! The fundamental great Dao governing everything, one of the nine supreme Innate Daos.

He actually comprehended it.

Ye Chuxuan approached him with a trace of reluctance in his eyes. "Li Ming, how great it would be if we could return to the past, when we had no secrets between us, sharing life and death together. Alas, we can't go back. I am true to my word; I will not involve others, but you must die to express your resolution."

Chengming knew that Ye Chuxuan referred to Fan Wubing, who sounded the "Rain Dragon's Echo of the Heavenly River" for him, as the "others."

"Die to express my resolution..."

It meant exchanging his own life for Fan Wubing's.

Chengming closed his eyes, silently reciting in his heart, "Wubing, this is a trial."

...

Dong!

The ink-black large hammer plummeted into Shilong Lane, producing a loud noise and creating a deep pit.

Fan Wubing suddenly snapped back to reality, the exhilarating melody fading away.

The entire Shilong Lane fell into a deathly silence.

He glanced back, seeing the deep pit and the black hammer within it. It was Chengming's hammer used to sound the Dragon-Soothing Sound.

Why did it fall from the sky?

He looked up. The clouds, once dispersed, now gathered back, the snow falling again even heavier than before. It seemed the night had grown colder.

Ye Yixian, Ji Wenrui, and the Dragon Guard Li Jin were also drawn by the sound.

They immediately saw the hammer in the pit.

Ji Wenrui's brows twitched, "That's Chengming's Heavy Profound Forging Immortal Hammer; why did it fall from the sky?"

Li Jin, by himself, excitedly said, "Need you ask? Surely the Holy Emperor himself descended! No matter how formidable Chengming is, with his great Dao sealed, how could he contend with the Holy Emperor?"

Ye Yixian asked tremulously, "But didn't the Father Holy Emperor say he couldn't leave Celestial Balance Upper City?"

Li Jin squinted and said, "Crown Prince, never underestimate your Father Holy Emperor. Even if it's just an avatar, Chengming cannot withstand it." This statement was both an explanation and a reminder.

Ji Wenrui solemnly said, "So... it's over. It stopped at the eleventh sound." His heart was a mix of emotions, unsure if it was a pity or a relief.