175: Law of Heaven and Earth

"Wood Prison Cage!" "Profound Light Shield!" "—Merge!" Zhang Sheng's low shout exploded, his movements as fast as lightning.

In an instant, layers of tough spirit wood sprouted from the void like living creatures, wrapping around his entire body without leaving a single gap.

Immediately after, a layer of Profound Light Shield with a mercury-like luster instantly covered it.

But that wasn't all! Outside the Profound Light Shield, even thicker Wood Prison Cages surged forth, stacking layer upon layer!

Under Zhang Sheng's exquisite control, the two Spells completed over a hundred cross-stackings in an instant!

A massive composite defensive sphere constructed from spiritual power, with a diameter of five or six meters, took shape.

Almost the same second the shield formed, Zhang Sheng's figure turned into a stream of light, tearing through the air and shooting wildly toward the desolate eastern lands.

Zhang Sheng's injuries recovered at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye.

"Senior Lian Qiu! Beautiful Lian Qiu! Please, show mercy! That brat Feng Shaoqin is dead, but I'm still alive! Look, I'll go back to the Eight Gods Sect with you right now, I'll join! I'll be absolutely loyal!"

While flying at his limit, Zhang Sheng shouted his "sincere" pleas, his voice distorted by the high-speed airflow.

"Heh, too late!" Lian Qiu's cold sneer clung to him like a maggot on a bone, pursuing relentlessly, clearly piercing through the wind pressure into Zhang Sheng's ears.

"Death is at your doorstep, and you can't even scrape together a bit of backbone? Didn't you want to join the Qinglan Guards so badly? Now you want to join my Eight Gods Sect? Hmph, if the Sect is in trouble one day, won't you be the first to turn traitor?"

Boom—!!! A deafening explosion tore through the firmament!

Another thick, purple Startling Thunder precisely bombarded Zhang Sheng's composite defensive sphere!

However, this time, the strange combination of the Profound Light Shield and the Wood Prison Cage erupted with unimaginable defensive power!

The thunder exploded, and blinding electric snakes slithered wildly across the surface of the sphere. The outermost layers of the Wood Prison Cage instantly carbonized and caught fire, billowing black smoke. The entire defensive sphere trembled violently, its surface pitted and scarred, looking utterly battered.

But the core was unbroken!

That terrifying Startling Thunder Divine Ability had only torn through fifty or so layers of defense before running out of steam!

Zhang Sheng seized this fleeting moment of respite, his thoughts as fast as lightning!

The dissipating spiritual light instantly surged back, and the broken wood fragments and dim profound light rapidly reorganized. The massive defensive sphere recovered to its original state in the blink of an eye, with halos of light flowing once more!

"What?!" Lian Qiu's pupils contracted sharply. The composure of a cat playing with a mouse vanished from her face, replaced by incredulous shock and rage. "How can your turtle shell... be so tough?! Break for me!"

She was thoroughly enraged. Lightning light gathered frantically in her palms as two even more condensed and violent thunderballs instantly took shape, emitting heart-palpitating waves of destruction!

Only Zhang Sheng understood the trick behind it.

After passing the "Wood Element Spiritual Qi Tribulation" of the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex, his perception and control of wood spiritual power had reached a brand new Realm.

The "Wood Prison Cage" he was currently deploying was far more powerful than before!

Lian Qiu's anger had almost materialized. Two Startling Thunders containing her Divine Ability power couldn't even take down a brat in the Divine Breath Realm? This was simply a great humiliation!

Seeing the two deadly thunderballs tearing through the sky and approaching rapidly, Zhang Sheng slapped his storage ring. Over a hundred blood essence pills, crimson as blood and emitting a rich essence aura, were poured into his mouth all at once!

The Medicinal Pills melted upon contact, and the massive blood-qi power erupted within his body like a volcano!

Hum—!

A layer of scarlet Protective Aura barrier, condensed to the point of being substantial and emitting a scorching high temperature, suddenly appeared on his body surface like burning blood flames!

Boom! Boom—!!! The two thunderballs hit the defensive sphere almost simultaneously!

The earth-shattering explosion pushed away all the air within a radius of several miles, creating a brief vacuum zone!

However, the anticipated destruction did not occur. The impact of the explosion couldn't even shake that layer of scarlet Protective Aura, and even the few innermost Profound Light Shields only flickered violently a few times before stubbornly holding on!

Feeling the increasingly chaotic, violent, and nearly boiling turbulent Spiritual Qi in the surrounding world, a thought so bold it was nearly insane instantly took shape in Zhang Sheng's mind.

He turned his head sharply, a mockery-filled grin on his face. Infusing his voice with spiritual power, he stabbed his words clearly at Lian Qiu:

"Lian Qiu! You shrew! You'd rather kill me than recruit a peerless Genius for the Eight Gods Sect? Could it be... that pretty boy Feng Shaoqin is your lover? Tsk tsk, does your good Senior Brother know about this?"

"Zhang Sheng—!!!"

Lian Qiu's shriek was like a demon from the Nine Hells!

The string of her reason snapped instantly!

Purple light surged in her hand, and a long sword with an extremely narrow body, an extremely fine edge, and purple lightning rays appeared out of thin air!

The next moment, her speed soared several times over!

The air was compressed to the extreme, emitting a piercing explosion. Her entire being turned into a streak of purple lightning tearing through space!

"Well done!" Zhang Sheng curled his lips; his plan had succeeded!

The surging blood-qi power in his body was unleashed without reservation!

At the same time, his massive Mental Energy was poured into his flight technique without reserve. With a "chi-la" sound on his back, eight pairs of glowing spirit wings made of pure spiritual power instantly unfolded and flapped violently!

Xiu—!

His speed also soared, and under the pursuit of Lian Qiu's terrifying Divine Power Realm, he managed to forcefully open up a distance!

Lian Qiu's heart shook violently!

She had never seen any Divine Breath Realm Cultivator capable of exploding with such shocking speed! This completely overturned her understanding!

Two figures, one chasing and one fleeing, like two falling meteors, streaked across the sky above the desolate eastern lands, leaving the prosperous Tiangu City far behind.

As the distance from the spirit suppressing pillar increased, the manic Spiritual Qi in the environment, which had originally been suppressed, became like wild horses, becoming increasingly violent and chaotic!

During the pursuit, Lian Qiu kept waving her hand to release waves of astonishingly powerful Startling Thunder, attempting to tear through Zhang Sheng's defense.

Unfortunately, that composite "turtle shell" coupled with the explosive blood-qi Protective Aura forced her to return empty-handed time and again.

Zhang Sheng's mockery sounded again, precisely poking at her most sensitive nerve:

"Lian Qiu! Why not forget about your dead pretty boy? My looks aren't bad either, and I'm younger and stronger! How about... you lick my toes? I'll reluctantly accept you, you old hag pretending to be young?"

"Zhang Sheng! You're merely in the Divine Breath Realm; your spiritual power will eventually run dry! When you're at the end of your rope, let's see how you can still run your mouth!" Lian Qiu's voice trembled and twisted with extreme rage.

"I will personally cripple your Dantian and throw you to a group of rutting Divine Power Realm wild bulls! By then, I hope your mouth can still blabber on like it does now!"

They had been racing for nearly five hundred thousand kilometers!

Another five hundred thousand miles ahead lay the sphere of influence of another Guard City!

Zhang Sheng's figure suddenly stopped!

This place was the core area, far from all Guard Cities, where the Spiritual Qi was chaotic and violent to the extreme!

"What? Have the spirit crystals in your storage ring run out? Can't run anymore?" Lian Qiu's figure stopped almost simultaneously, hovering not far away, a cold, cruelly gleeful smile on her face.

However, when Zhang Sheng slowly turned around, what Lian Qiu saw was a terrifyingly calm face.

His deep eyes were like an ancient cold pool, his gaze steady and sharp; where was there any trace of the disarray of fleeing in panic? There was only the calmness of someone in control of everything.

"Is that so?" Zhang Sheng's voice was flat and waveless. "Throughout this flight, have you ever seen me... use even half a spirit crystal?"

"Wha... ?!" The smile on Lian Qiu's face instantly froze. Her mind was shaken, and she exclaimed in shock: "Your Qi Refining technique... has reached the Perfected State?!"

Merely being in the "Transformation Stage" would make it impossible to safely absorb spiritual power in such a violent Spiritual Qi environment!

The only explanation was that his Qi Refining technique had reached the pinnacle of the Transformation Stage—the Perfected stage!

At this moment, Lian Qiu truly realized the terrifying potential of the young man before her.

Given time, he would definitely have a place in the top thousand of the fledgling tiger ranking!

Her killing intent was unprecedentedly firm! This child must not be allowed to live!

"You wouldn't be naive enough to think that this... is enough to qualify you to challenge the Divine Power Realm, would you?" Lian Qiu's voice was bone-chillingly cold.

"A frog in a well who just ascended to the Upper Realm! Today, I will let you witness what the true—Divine! Power! Might!—is!"

Boom—!!! An indescribable, terrifying Spiritual Pressure descended with a boom!

"Dharma! Body! Manifestation!"

Lian Qiu enunciated each word, her voice like thunder!

Her petite body, barely over 1.5 meters, seemed to break through the shackles of space, expanding and rising wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In the blink of an eye, a terrifying giant hundreds of meters tall, standing between heaven and earth, towered over the desolate land!

Her Dharma Body was shockingly a giant projection of her own self, solid as reality, with skin texture clearly visible, emitting a majestic pressure that suppressed the heavens and earth!

This was the natal Divine Ability evolved after breaking through the "Original Form True Fetus"!

"Zhang Sheng! For a mere Divine Breath Realm Cultivator, dying under my Dharma Body Manifestation is the greatest honor of your life!" The giant spoke, its voice like rolling thunder grinding across the earth.

Boom! Boom! Two giant palms covering the sky, like two collapsing mountains, one from the south and one from the north, carrying the terrifying power to crush everything, slammed together toward Zhang Sheng, who was as small as an ant in the center!

Before the palm wind even arrived, the violent air pressure had already pressed a huge palm-shaped deep pit into the ground!

If he were hit directly, Zhang Sheng would instantly turn into a puddle of meat paste!

"Bigger?" Facing this scene of world-destroying catastrophe, Zhang Sheng showed no fear in his eyes; instead, a trace of crazy Battle Intent flashed through them. "—Kun Yuan Dragon Capturing Hand!"

Hum! Hum! Hum! Several giant hands made of pure, thick, and extremely condensed earthy-yellow spiritual power appeared out of thin air around Zhang Sheng!

Each one's volume was actually several times larger than the giant palms of Lian Qiu's Dharma Body!

"Instant Spell casting again?! Zhang Sheng! I still underestimated you!" Lian Qiu's Dharma Body let out a heaven-shaking roar with a hint of imperceptible surprise, but she had absolute confidence in her Divine Ability.

"But you dare to challenge Dharma Body Manifestation with such petty tricks? Break for me!"

The giant palms slammed together fiercely, carrying the power to collapse mountains and split the earth!

Those few massive earthy-yellow spiritual power giant hands, under the absolute crushing power, were instantly squeezed until their spiritual light exploded and dissipated, turning into earthy-yellow light spots filling the sky!

"Is that so?" The arc on Zhang Sheng's lips deepened. After the previous probing, he already had an idea of the power level of this Dharma Body Manifestation.

"My Dragon Capturing Hand... never said it had a limit on quantity!"

"Let's see... how many hands you can block?!"

His thoughts surged out like a tidal wave!

One! Two! Three! Ten! A hundred!!!

In the giant eyes of Lian Qiu's massive Dharma Body, a look of horror appeared for the first time!

Around Zhang Sheng, earthy-yellow spiritual power surged wildly like boiling magma. One after another, Kun Yuan Dragon Capturing giant hands, no less in volume than the previous ones, endlessly condensed and took shape!

They seemed to be connected to the endless Origin of the earth!

"Go!" Zhang Sheng pointed his fingers like a sword, gesturing forward!

Xiu xiu xiu xiu—!!! The sound of breaking through the air merged into one!

Countless earthy-yellow spiritual power giant hands, like a flood breaking a dam, rushed toward the hundreds-of-meters-tall towering Dharma Body with a sky-covering momentum!

Wrists! Ankles! Knees! Thighs! Waist and abdomen! Chest! Underarms! Back! Neck! Head...

Every joint, every vital point, every possible leverage point of Lian Qiu's Dharma Body was instantly clamped, locked, and fiercely kneaded by one or even several huge spiritual power palms!

Lian Qiu's Dharma Body let out a roar of rage, its immense strength exploding. Every struggle could shatter several spiritual power giant hands!

But before the broken earthy-yellow spiritual light had completely dissipated, more and more condensed giant hands swarmed in from behind, fearlessly filling the gaps!

"Enjoy it slowly, shrew!" Zhang Sheng's cold voice, like the whisper of the Grim Reaper, rang out clearly outside the cage formed by countless giant hands.