Chapter 1093 - 379: Consecutive Slashes Through the Ninth Heavenly Layer (12,000 Words, Triple-Length - )

Chapter 1093: Chapter 379: Consecutive Slashes Through the Ninth Heavenly Layer (12,000 Words, Triple-Length Chapter)

The Ninth Heaven Thunder Ancestor Dharma, resembling a Thunder Dragon, immediately descended before King Zhang Teng.

Under the suppression of this Dharma, the Myriad Miles Sword Intent, the direct transmission from the Great Tang imperial clan, gradually became hard to sustain.

Injured, King Zhang Teng experienced a decline in attack, defense, and speed to varying degrees.

His Myriad Miles Sword Intent significantly waned.

Opposite him, Lei Jun manifested the Yin Fire Tiger Dharma, intertwined with Verdant Green True Fire, along with the Yang Thunder Dragon.

King Zhao’s gaze held a profound serenity.

A formidable sword intent erupted from the Zhenshi Blade.

It appeared as ancient and desolate as those foreign cultivators once did, trampling culture and sweeping the four corners.

With the flow of sword intent, even the void seemed to be shattered north of the river.

It was the same power and secret that Zhang Teng had researched in the Greater and Little Guan Mountains in the northwest during his early years, and ultimately helped him cross the Heavenly Moat Tribulation between the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Layers.

Great Wilderness Sword Intent.

However, before this sword intent could manifest.

The purple Yang Thunder Dragon and the verdant Yin Fire Tiger had already converged into the Purple-Green Yin Yang Taiji Diagram, which upon rotation emitted a strong light.

King Zhao did not retreat, but rather charged forward with full force.

Yet in the cosmos, the Profound Darkness Dust quietly revolved, from which flared the Life-and-death Youming Qi.

King Zhang Teng’s sword intent changed accordingly.

Suddenly, it became another mysterious but icy cold sword intent.

Luo Yuan Sword Intent.

The national destiny dragon qi on the old prince had already dissipated.

Without the suppression of the national destiny dragon qi, and being injured, many of his past hidden dangers were no longer repressed.

Lei Jun observed him; despite Zhang Teng’s still vigorous spirit, signs of shortened life were revealed.

"The Solitary Eagle Khanate and Luo Yuan, indeed relate to you." Lei Jun confirmed.

He first confronted King Zhang Teng as he was relatively isolated, making it easiest for him to flee.

As a martial taoist, Zhang Teng, even while injury affected him, still possessed the fastest teleportation escape, making it indeed easiest for him to flee from LoYang City.

Having struck today, Lei Jun would not allow him to leave Luoyang City.

King Zhang Teng moved to evade Lei Jun’s Dragon-Tiger Strike, daring not to confront it directly.

He gazed deeply at Lei Jun: "To the victor goes the spoils. Should I ascend, I would muster troops to repel external insults, ensuring national prosperity and civic peace."

Lei Jun shook his head slightly: "Calamity."

His tone remained calm.

But King Zhang Teng’s figure momentarily froze in midair.

In the depths of his mind, it was as if a thunderstorm had erupted, rendering his mind blank.

This was precisely Lei Jun’s Nine Heavens Heart Thunder.

For this thunder was formless and without shape; in essence, it was akin to Lei Jun having finally refined a unique spell aimed at spiritual soul attacks.

A martial artist’s spiritual soul is entirely contained within the body, generally not utilized to attack an enemy, and in turn, they can largely ignore all attacks on the spiritual soul by cultivators of the same realm.

But there’s a prerequisite.

The martial artist’s physical state must be intact.

Currently, King Zhang Teng was gravely injured and mentally unstable.

Thus, with the Nine Heavens Heart Thunder emanating from within, King Zhang Teng was momentarily stunned as if struck by lighting.

Although he quickly regained consciousness, Lei Jun’s Dragon-Tiger Strike still knocked him to the ground.

The Zhenshi Blade flew from his hands and halted mid-air, neither returning nor falling, surrounded by intersecting primordial magnetic star tracks. Vast primordial magnet force pinned the treasured blade in mid-air, humming emptily.

The Purple-Green Taiji Diagram disintegrated, and the verdant Yin Fire Tiger leaped forward, pinning King Zhao to the ground.

The purple Yang Thunder Dragon returned to Lei Jun’s side.

Lei Jun then incarnated into a larger Doumu Star God Dharma Image.

Beside him, a black Yin Thunder Dragon coiled.

The purple Yang Thunder Dragon merged with it, the Yin Yang Twin Dragons emerged, further bolstering Lei Jun’s already formidable physique, having reached the Ninth Heavenly Layer and becoming even more fierce.

King Zhang Teng drew another long blade, barely fending off the Verdant Green Fire Tiger, only for his vision to blur as countless punches struck his chest and abdomen!

The Taoist Talisman Sect cultivator’s strikes were unexpectedly even fiercer than his own as a martial taoist!

Lei Jun knocked Zhang Teng’s other long blade flying aside, then gripped his throat with one hand, the other unleashing continual punches, fiercely dominating the opponent in both offense and defense, obliterating this Martial Saint in the cosmos.

......

Within the Illusory Imperial Capital, a massive opaque black sphere hovered above the palace.

Ye Yan, Chu Xiuyuan, and Fang Jingsheng watched as the Celestial Master Mansion’s Great Vehicle Taoist Scene devoured King Zhang Teng and his followers, feeling an extremely ominous premonition.

Chu Xiuyuan and Fang Jingsheng began contacting Fang Shihan, Chu Fengyuan, and others in Zhijin Ridge, Shangzhou.

Their attempts were like stones sinking into the sea, without any outcome.

The hearts of Elder Chu and Chief Fang sank to the bottom of the valley.

"Lei Chongyun has returned, the others?"

Fang Jingsheng was not the only one to harbor suspicion.

Could Tang Xiaotang, Xu Yuanzhen, or even Empress Zhang Wantong have returned?

Ye Yan then gazed at his grandson.

The Great Tang Regent Crown Prince, Zhang Hui.

"Inside and outside the Imperial Capital are under your control. Even if Lei Chongyun reaches the Ninth Heavenly Layer, as long as he does not enter Luoyang, it’s fine. Once he does, you’ll sense it. Even if you don’t, the Sheji Cauldron will react. Earlier, the Sheji Cauldron showed no movement because someone suppressed it..." Ye Yan exhaled deeply, releasing turbid breath.

Momentarily, his appearance, with a resemblance to a middle-aged man, seemed to age markedly.

Though his words appeared disjointed, they stirred the Illusory Imperial Capital into an uproar.

In the distance, cultivators of the Ye Clan from Qingzhou—Ye Min, Ye Wei, Ye Ningfang, Ye Haizhou, and others—stared in stunned silence, their gaze collectively falling on the current Crown Prince.

Zhang Hui remained composed.

Not only Ye Yan, but Fang Jingsheng and Chu Xiuyuan also turned their gaze toward him.

Chu Xiuyuan: "Your Highness... You didn’t change course just because Xuanxiao Zi appeared from Dragon Tiger Mountain; you were?"