418: Chapter 422 Battle of Wits!

He raised his left hand, his five fingers closing loosely as if grasping at the air.

That sky-covering, multicolored giant hand suddenly froze solid three zhang away from him!

Immediately after, black and white qi, like the sharpest blades, instantly sliced that giant hand into countless fragments!

"Overestimating your own strength."

Yun Chenzi said lightly.

Jiang Wunian's face turned ashen, yet a frantic light flickered in his eyes.

He knew Yun Chenzi's strength was formidable and that he likely was no match.

But he knew even more that if he retreated now, that "desire fruit" would be forever beyond his reach!

"Yun Chenzi! Your Qingming Immortal Sect has some nerve! Do you wish to offend my Six Desires Demonic Sect?!"

He shouted harshly, attempting to intimidate the other with the name of his Sect.

Yun Chenzi merely gave him a cold glance, his gaze like one looking down upon an ant.

"Offend?"

The corner of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing a trace of an icy smile.

"Are you worthy of representing the Six Desires Demonic Sect?"

Did he think Yun Chenzi didn't know? The Six Desires Demonic Sect had always believed in the Law of the jungle. Its Disciples were like insects in a jar, left to fend for themselves. Even if someone perished outside, no one would pay special attention, not even a Golden Core Perfected Lord.

Therefore, Jiang Wunian's attempt to threaten him with the Six Desires Demonic Sect was a miscalculation.

Thinking this, Yun Chenzi did not hesitate in the slightest. He saw him flip his right hand, and that long-condensed vortex of Yin and Yang descended with a thunderous roar towards the "Murong Jingyang" below!

And at the same moment, Jiang Wunian once again spurred his entire cultivation base, lunging towards Yun Chenzi!

Two full-powered strikes from Golden Core Perfection clashed instantly in the air above this battlefield!

BOOM!!!

Like two meteors shattering the firmament, the heavens and earth changed color in that instant!

Yun Chenzi pressed down with a single hand; the vortex formed from Yin and Yang qi had already left his grasp.

The vortex expanded with the wind, transforming in an instant into a hundred-zhang-wide circle, hanging in the Ninth Heaven like a giant eye devouring all things!

At the vortex's center, the black and white qi entangled and rotated, evolving the profound Dao charm of the initial separation of the Supreme Ultimate—the clear, white qi ascended, the turbid, black qi descended; Yin and Yang pushed against each other, and creation arose spontaneously!

This was precisely the supreme Law Yun Chenzi had comprehended after passing the Five Calamities and stepping into the Dao Realm.

[Primordial Yin-Yang Dao]!

Wherever the vortex passed, the void itself warped violently.

Chaotic spiritual energy was combed into order, impure Laws were purified, and even the bloody, baleful resentment permeating the battlefield below was forcibly decomposed, returned to origin, and reduced to nothingness the instant it touched the vortex's edge!

"Hmph, well met!"

Seeing Yun Chenzi unleash such power with his opening move, a flicker of wariness flashed in Jiang Wunian's eyes, but it was overshadowed by madness!

Since he dared to intervene, he naturally had his own confidence!

He saw Jiang Wunian suddenly form hand seals with both hands, and the multicolored radiance surrounding his body abruptly surged!

That radiance was not ordinary spiritual light but was woven from countless visible strands of "desire."

Each thread represented a different emotion.

Crimson as blood was the desire to kill, deep blue as the abyss was greed, dark and bewitching purple was lust, ashen-white and deathly still was despair...

Seven colors, seven desires, interwoven into a bizarre yet bewitching tapestry!

This was the Law upon which Jiang Wunian had built his fame.

[Seven Emotions and Ultimate Desires Dao]!

This Dao did not cultivate heaven and earth's spiritual energy, nor did it comprehend the interplay of the Five Elements. It was founded entirely on the "Seven Emotions and Six Desires," using the emotions of all living beings as its nourishment!

Now, with Jiang Wunian unleashing this Dao at full power, the very atmosphere of the entire battlefield changed!

The surviving Cultivators instantly lost control!

Some clutched their heads and screamed, others laughed maniacally, some wept bitterly, and others bristled with rage!

Even the corpses of those long dead seemed awakened by some bizarre force, their eyes flickering with an eerie light!

"Sovereign of Myriad Spirits—Seize!"

Jiang Wunian roared, pushing the [Six Desires Demon Sovereign's Myriad Spirits True Scripture] to its absolute limit.

The seven emotions and six desires combined, and the sky-filling radiance suddenly condensed, transforming into a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth!

Within the pillar, one could vaguely see countless twisted human figures struggling, wailing, and roaring.

These were the souls of the dead he had enslaved with his Law of the Seven Emotions, the "nourishment" accumulated over centuries of slaughter!

The pillar of light shot skyward, actually ramming headlong into Yun Chenzi's yin-yang vortex!

RUMBLE—!!!

Amidst earth-shaking roars, two diametrically opposed Laws engaged in the most primal collision within the void!

The yin-yang vortex spun wildly, seeking to decompose, return to origin, and devour that multicolored pillar.

The multicolored pillar, like countless venomous snakes, desperately burrowed into the depths of the vortex, attempting to pollute and erode that pure yin-yang Dao charm with the seven emotions and six desires!

The void trembled, spiritual energy ran amok, and Laws wailed!

"Hmph!"

Yun Chenzi snorted coldly, his hand seals changing.

The yin-yang vortex abruptly accelerated its rotation.

At its center, a black-and-white, distinct figure slowly emerged, resembling a Taiji Diagram!

Once the Taiji Diagram appeared, the erosion from the multicolored pillar was instantly checked.

Those desire threads desperately burrowing inward, upon touching the Taiji Diagram, were reduced to nothingness by the purest yin-yang Dao charm, like moths to a flame!

"The Dao of Yin and Yang is the Foundation of heaven and earth! Do mere seven emotions and six desires think they can shake it?"

Yun Chenzi's gaze was like lightning, his tone calm yet filled with oppressive force.

Jiang Wunian's expression shifted slightly, but the madness in his eyes grew even more intense!

"Foundation? What a joke!"

He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of vital essence blood onto the multicolored pillar!

As the essence blood entered the pillar, it abruptly turned a sinister dark red. The desire threads previously suppressed by the yin-yang vortex began to swell frantically!

"Six Desires Heavenly Demon, Sovereign of Myriad Spirits—Plunder!"

Jiang Wunian roared harshly, his hand seals abruptly changing!

In that instant, the dark-red pillar began to expand and extend. Seen from afar, it resembled a "syringe" piercing through heaven and earth!

And its target was not Yun Chenzi, but this very piece of heaven and earth!

The "syringe" plunged deep into the earth veins. The Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth elemental Laws contained within the earth veins were instantly, forcibly stripped away in part and absorbed into the pillar!

The other end probed into the void. The Space Laws within the void trembled violently, and the Wind and Thunder Laws were even drawn and twisted by that bizarre force!

This sudden change immediately provoked flashes of lightning in the Ninth Heaven, as if the Laws of heaven and earth had been startled!

This was precisely the core essence of the cave heaven inheritance, the [The True Scripture of the Six Desires Heavenly Demon Governing All Spirits]!

The essence of this Dao lay not in how strong the practitioner was themselves, but in "control" and "plunder"!

Control heaven and earth, plunder its Laws, turning everything to one's own use!

"What... what kind of monstrosity is this!"

"My cultivation! My cultivation is draining away!"

"Help!!!"

At this moment, wretched screams rose one after another, but they were quickly swallowed by the dark-red pillar.

Clearly, even though Jiang Wunian wasn't specifically targeting anyone, the Cultivators from various factions caught in the eye of the storm, affected by this profound power, had no means to resist. They could only watch helplessly as they became insignificant fuel for the pillar.

This process did not last long. All the Laws the "syringe" had extracted ultimately converged entirely upon Jiang Wunian's body.

Immediately, his aura began to climb at a terrifying speed.

In the blink of an eye, it had already approached, even surpassed, Yun Chenzi's own!

"Yun Chenzi, today I will definitely make a frog at the bottom of a well like you witness the power of my Cave Heaven Law!"