plumnovel Chapter 485 The Cycle of Life and Death! A Crushing Strike!
Chapter 485 The Cycle of Life and Death! A Crushing Strike!
This is the Vajra Subduing Demon Fist, the supreme divine power of the Vajra Sect, which is extremely powerful and yang, and is specifically designed to destroy evil spirits.
Chen Fan neither dodged nor evaded, nor even raised his hand to block.
He simply watched as the golden fist imprint slammed into his chest, and then his chest slightly contracted inward.
The fist landed squarely on his chest.
"clang!!!"
A deafening roar, like the sound of a great bell, reverberated throughout the side hall, sending shockwaves surging and scattering rubble from the ground.
The old ancestor had just shown a hint of joy on his face, but the joy froze the next second.
Because he saw that Chen Fan had taken his full-force punch without flinching. Not even his robes were torn; only the spot on his chest where the fist had struck had turned a strange grayish-white!
Then, Chen Fan opened his mouth and gently spat out.
A stream of gray and white energy flowed upwards from the point where the fist imprint met the chest, instantly entering the fist of the Mountain-Opening Ancestor, and rushing along the meridians of the arm straight to the dantian and nascent soul!
"Ugh!!!"
The founding ancestor let out a mournful scream, and his entire right arm withered and decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into ashes.
The grayish-white energy flow invaded his dantian, and his proud Supreme Yang Vajra Nascent Soul was as if it had encountered its nemesis. It was quickly eroded by the death energy, and cracks appeared on its surface!
"No... my nascent soul..." The founding ancestor was terrified and tried to expel the death energy by circulating his energy, but the death energy was intertwined with the life energy, like a malignant tumor that was stuck to the bone, and he could not dispel it at all.
Chen Fan raised his hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.
"Life and death...the cycle of reincarnation."
The Founding Ancestor's body stiffened abruptly, and then the Vajra Nascent Soul within him exploded!
It wasn't a self-destruction, but rather its attributes were forcibly reversed by the two energies of life and death, transforming from extreme yang to extreme yin. The conflict between yin and yang caused it to collapse on its own!
The violent spiritual power from the exploding Nascent Soul raged within his body, instantly destroying his internal organs, meridians, and bones.
The founding ancestor's eyes widened, blood flowed from his seven orifices, his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground, his breath gone.
The third Nascent Soul cultivator perished.
From the moment Chen Fan broke the seal and made his move to the moment he killed three Nascent Soul elders, only ten breaths had passed.
Inside the side hall, there were still eleven Nascent Soul cultivators remaining.
But at this moment, these eleven Nascent Soul cultivators, who were usually high and mighty and influential, were all pale-faced, their eyes filled with fear, and they kept retreating. Some of them even had the idea of retreating, and their eyes flickered as they looked towards the exit of the side hall.
Young Master Wang was terrified and hid behind Daoist Qinglian and Zhou Shan, his voice trembling, "Stop him...stop him quickly! All of you attack together! Kill him!"
Qinglian Daoist and Zhou Shan exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock and solemnity in each other's eyes.
They understood Chen Fan's current state better than anyone else!
That strength wasn't enhanced by spiritual power or secret techniques, but rather by a breakthrough in one's state of mind!
Such an enemy cannot be defeated by sheer numbers.
"Young master, this place is not safe to stay any longer," Qinglian Daoist said in a low voice. "Let's leave first and discuss this further."
"Retreat? Retreat where?" Young Master Wang shrieked. "The seal on the entrance can only last for half an hour! If we retreat now, all our efforts will be wasted!"
"That's better than dying here!" Zhou Shan said in a deep voice. He stared intently at Chen Fan, who was walking slowly towards him. The bronze seal in his hand trembled, but he hesitated to smash it.
Chen Fan's steps were slow and steady.
With each step he took, a faint gray-white ripple would spread across the ground beneath his feet. Wherever the ripples passed, life would flourish on the left and death would spread on the right, as if the place where he walked was the boundary between life and death.
His gaze swept calmly over the remaining people, finally settling on Young Master Wang's face.
"It's your turn," he said softly.
Young Master Wang trembled violently, his legs buckling in fear, nearly causing him to collapse to the ground. He roared, his voice laced with bravado, "Old eunuch! Don't come any closer! The main force of my Wang family's experts are just outside the seal! If you dare touch me, they will surely extract your soul and refine it, ensuring you are never reincarnated!"
Chen Fan seemed not to hear and continued forward.
The Azure Lotus Daoist gritted his teeth, waved his whisk, and the Azure Lotus Sword Dragon condensed once more. But this time, the sword dragon was clearly lacking in power, hovering in front of him, and dared not take the initiative to attack.
Zhou Shan also activated the bronze seal, which hung above his head, casting rays of yellow light to protect himself.
Seeing this, the other Nascent Soul cultivators also summoned their magical treasures and formed a battle formation, but none of them dared to make the first move.
Chen Fan stopped ten zhang away from them.
He raised his right hand, palm up, and a gray-white "life wheel" slowly emerged; his left hand, palm down, and a pitch-black "death wheel" quietly condensed.
The two wheels slowly rotated and merged with each other, eventually transforming into a holographic Tai Chi diagram, about ten feet in diameter, half black and half white, in front of him.
But unlike before, the Tai Chi diagram was now incredibly solid, and the eyes of the yin and yang fish in the diagram were slowly rotating, as if it truly contained the profound truth of the cycle of life and death.
The Wheel of Life and Death!
As the Green Lotus Daoist gazed at the slowly rotating Wheel of Life and Death, a resolute look flashed in his eyes.
"Gentlemen, this fiend is no longer a threat that one person can defeat! If we don't join forces now, we will all perish here!" he shouted sternly, his voice carrying the authority of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. "Form the Eight Extremes Spirit Locking Array!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Shan was the first to respond. The bronze seal shook in the air and scattered eight yellow beams of light in all directions!
The other Nascent Soul cultivators seemed to awaken from a dream.
Although they were shocked by Chen Fan's ability to kill three people in a row, he was still an old monster who had cultivated for hundreds of years. At the critical moment of life and death, his instinct for survival overcame his fear.
"Form ranks!"
"Trap him!"
The Taoist Shangqing of the Xuanqing Sect formed hand seals, and the Xuan Yin Chains no longer attacked Chen Fan, but instead transformed into eight long black snakes that roamed the void and intertwined with the yellow light of Zhou Shan!
Although the Lingxi Sect's Lingshui Patriarch died, another Nascent Soul stage patriarch from the sect gritted his teeth and stepped forward, sending a light blue array flag flying from his sleeve and planting it in the ground!
The Heavenly Fiend Ancestor of the Fu Sect, the Red Cloud Fairy of Zixia Mountain, and the remaining six Nascent Soul Ancestors of the eight major families all unleashed their natal magic treasures or array flags, each occupying a side!
The eleven Nascent Soul cultivators, except for Young Master Wang, instantly reached a tacit understanding and set up a temporary but powerful trapping and killing formation!
The Eight Extremes Spirit Locking Array is a simplified version of an ancient array passed down by the eight great families, specifically created to surround and kill high-level cultivators. Even with eleven Nascent Soul cultivators working together to activate it, while not as perfect as with fourteen, its power is still terrifying!
Eight beams of light shot into the sky, weaving together in the air to form a giant net of light that slowly pressed down!
Wherever the light net passed, the void stagnated, spiritual power was sealed, and even the gray-white ripples of life and death intent under Chen Fan's feet were compressed and shrank back to within three feet!
"Old eunuch, no matter how strong your artistic conception is, you're still only at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm!" The Azure Lotus Daoist stood to the east of the array's core, brandishing his whisk. The Azure Lotus Sword Dragon merged into the light net, transforming into countless azure sword energies that rained down. "Today, I'll show you what true power and prestige really mean!"
Zhou Shan resided in the west, and the bronze seal transformed into a phantom mountain, pressing down with the injunction: "The killing of my fellow cultivators is an irreconcilable hatred!"
The eleven Nascent Soul auras merged into one, like a vast ocean, trapping Chen Fan firmly in the center!