349: Let's see who can outlast whom!

"Explode!"

Decisively, Li Daoxuan directly detonated this Phantom Divine Peak!

"Rumble!!!"

The next moment, an earth-shattering explosion resounded!

The entire Phantom Divine Mountain exploded, and countless fragments of rock containing the residual Power of the Law of Thick Earth, like a meteor shower, carried destructive shockwaves and indiscriminately splattered in all directions!

The Xuan Ming Death Domain, being closest to the explosion, directly faced the violent impact and suffered particularly severe repercussions.

The pervasive gray and dead Qi filling the sky was forcefully dispersed, and even the range of the Domain visibly collapsed inward by several zhang!

"Hmph!"

Lu Ming let out a muffled groan, his face slightly pale. The arm holding the human emperor banner trembled uncontrollably, his internal Qi and blood surged violently, and a sharp pain shot through his internal organs.

Forcibly wielding the Law with a Mid-stage Golden Core cultivation, even with the human emperor banner actively cooperating to share the pressure, the burden it brought was unimaginable.

At this moment, Li Daoxuan's audacious self-detonation of his Law creation produced an explosive aftermath that interrupted the continuous erosion of the Xuan Ming Law.

This also caused the backlash to directly affect Lu Ming.

If his main body were present, with the golden book's ability to transfer backlash, such a small matter would be insignificant.

But unfortunately, at this moment, he was merely a dharma body, and the golden book could not be used on it. All the pressure and damage could only be endured by this dharma body.

However, Lu Ming felt no despondency in his heart; instead, his eyes shone brightly.

Although the previous confrontation was brief, it gave him a more intuitive understanding of the Xuan Ming Law!

If the Dao of Life and Death was about cyclical Reincarnation, and the Dao of Yin and Yang was about the evolution of myriad things.

Then the Dao of Xuan Ming seemed to have taken a more extreme path.

It was the end, the return to stillness, the regression of all things to their most primitive Void Realm.

And this, Lu Ming preferred to call — “Degradation”!

Especially against Li Daoxuan's Thick Earth Law, which leaned towards “bearing” and “supporting,” it had astonishing restraint and suppressive effects!

This couldn't help but spark some conjectures in Lu Ming's mind.

These two seemingly unrelated Powers of the Law appeared to secretly contain astonishing dao rhyme compatibility.

As the saying goes, 'things turn when they reach an extreme,' and 'Yin gives rise to Yang at its extreme'.

Is it possible to combine the mutually reinforcing and restraining characteristics of the Xuan Ming and Thick Earth Laws?

If successful, what would it ultimately evolve into?

This somewhat bold, even crazy, idea quietly sprouted in Lu Ming's mind.

"I just don't know if the human emperor banner can strip Li Daoxuan of his Law..."

After all, for tangible yet formless things like flesh and blood, and Divine Soul, he had secret methods to extract and refine them.

Even a Golden Core could be stripped away with a secret method.

But for something as profound and abstruse as Law, Lu Ming truly had no confidence.

"But it's too early to think about these things; first, I need to take him down!"

Lu Ming suppressed his distracting thoughts, his Battle Intent surging like boiling water in his eyes.

Since he had probed the opponent's true strength and generally understood the power of Xuan Ming, it was time to get serious!

He no longer gave Li Daoxuan a chance to breathe and actively launched the second round of offense.

He fiercely waved the human emperor banner. This time, it was no longer that gray light, but rather, using the soul banner as a guide, he began to stir the power of the entire Xuan Ming Death Domain!

"Whoosh la la—"

In an instant, the banner surface fluttered, and the deep vortex in its center began to spin rapidly. A terrifying suction force, capable of devouring the heavens and earth, instantly permeated every corner of the Death Domain.

The gray and dead Qi within it was drawn and gathered by this suction!

It transformed into a turbid, murky yellow, eerie torrent emanating endless decay and death, forming out of thin air in mid-air!

This torrent was viscous like paste. Wherever it slowly flowed, even the sky was dyed a gloomy, twilight yellow, like the legendary Nine Nether Yellow Springs, sweeping and engulfing the other two Phantom Divine Mountains that were suppressing it!

"Chichichi..."

The moment the two made contact, piercing sounds of erosion rang out densely.

The thick, earthy yellow immortal light on the surface of the divine mountains visibly dimmed and became turbid at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if covered by an inseparable layer of rust.

The hard rock rapidly became mottled, revealing countless holes and cracks, as if it had undergone millions of years of erosion in an instant.

Even more critically, Li Daoxuan felt that the Thick Earth Law structure maintaining these two divine mountains was being rapidly infiltrated and polluted by the strange dao rhyme contained within the Yellow Springs water.

Even the elemental earth power of heaven and earth, which had been extremely friendly to him, began to become sluggish.

Li Daoxuan's face was now ashen, devoid of any color.

The backlash from the previous self-detonation of the Phantom Divine Mountain had not yet subsided, and now it further worsened his already weakened state due to Dao Injuries, causing sharp, needle-like pains in his Divine Soul.

"This child's Law... actually restrains me so much! It's simply the natural enemy of my Thick Earth Dao!"

A chill suddenly rose in Li Daoxuan's heart.

His proud Power of the Law was everywhere suppressed in the face of this unpredictable and strange Law!

"I cannot be led by the nose by him!"

A fierce glint flashed in Li Daoxuan's eyes; he knew he had to change his strategy.

Only by drawing this person into his Domain, using his most proficient methods, would he have a chance to win!

He gritted his teeth fiercely, a hint of ruthlessness and determination flashing in his eyes. He actually voluntarily abandoned the two already tottering divine mountains, allowing them to accelerate their disintegration under the erosion of the Yellow Springs.

Instead, Li Daoxuan poured all his remaining Thick Earth Law into the earth beneath his feet.

"Thick Earth Burial!"

Li Daoxuan roared, stomping his feet heavily in the Void Realm.

In an instant, an anomaly suddenly occurred in the field!

"Crack! Crack!!!"

At this moment, the earth was wailing!

Centered around Li Daoxuan, countless terrifying, bottomless cracks frantically spread in all directions.

These cracks were not chaotic but subtly formed a massive fissure covering hundreds of miles, like the ferocious maw of an awakened ancient beast.

The Thick Earth Law can bear all things, and it can also bury all things!

Li Daoxuan voluntarily gave up attacking and instead maximized the Thick Earth Law. He wanted to turn this place into his most suitable Domain home ground.

Not seeking an instant victory, but rather preparing to drag Lu Ming and his Xuan Ming Death Domain completely into this abyss!

To bury Lu Ming with its endless power of the earth veins!

This was an open scheme!

You can make all things return to stillness? I'll use the entire earth to play with you!

In the face of endless Earth Vein Power, let's see who can outlast whom!

And once Lu Ming dies, this troublesome Xuan Ming Death Domain will lose its sustaining power and will no longer be a threat!