22: Undying Battle Body

"May I ask, Clan Chief, how can the Undying Battle Body be fully awakened?"

Di Lingxiao asked humbly.

Di Shenglong suddenly released a powerful Aura.

Di Lingxiao subconsciously took half a step back, but his figure was held in place. Di Shenglong pressed his palm against his crown, and the power of the Eternal God-Demon Body poured in like a tide.

"Do you know what the Undying Battle Body is?"

Di Lingxiao shook his head and suddenly felt the blood throughout his body boiling. Suddenly, the clothes on his right arm completely burst, revealing an arm covered in eerie black markings—those lines were devouring the starlight!

"In ancient times, the War God Xing Tian relied on this body to fight three emperors alone." Di Shenglong ignited a gold-red flame at his fingertip, burning along the black markings. "A severed head does not mean death, and one can achieve Rebirth from a single drop of blood. Every near-death experience is a Nirvana Rebirth."

"Ah—!" Di Lingxiao let out a painful roar. The black markings twisted in the flames, gradually transforming into dark gold war markings.

Di Shenglong bit his fingertip and wrote ancient sacrificial texts in the Void Realm with god-demon blood. With every word he wrote, the booming of war drums echoed from within Lingxiao's body:

"First sacrifice to the Heavens, the Battle Intent is indestructible!"

"Second sacrifice to the Earth, the Physical Body is immortal!"

"Third sacrifice to the Self, the True Spirit lasts forever!"

When the final stroke fell, a phantom of Xing Tian appeared behind Lingxiao. The headless war god used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, his battle axe splitting the starry river. The moment the phantom merged into the youth's body, the war markings on his right arm erupted with a blinding golden light, condensing into the mark of a dragon-patterned war spear.

It was done!

The Undying Battle Body was fully awakened, and the Di Clan had gained another peerless Prodigy.

Di Shenglong turned his palm and took out two items: a blood-colored Jade Slip and a spear wrapped in chains. The spear was nine feet five inches long, dark gold throughout, with dried, unknown blood remaining on the tip.

"This spear is named 'Dragon Fall'; it once pierced the reverse scale of a Saint Domain Realm flood dragon." Di Shenglong shattered the chains, and a dragon's roar resounded through the clouds. "Combined with the Saint-Grade High Grade Army Breaking God Slaying Spear Art, it can exert ten-tenths of the Undying Battle Body's power."

"I now bestow these two items upon you."

Just as Di Lingxiao was about to touch the spear's body, the dragon fall spear suddenly lunged. The spear tip transformed into a blood-colored dragon head, biting toward the youth's throat!

"Roar!"

At the critical moment, the spear mark on Di Lingxiao's right arm glowed, and he actually caught the dragon head with his bare hand. The war markings resonated with the spear's body, and the dark gold shaft revealed the same markings as those on the youth's arm.

"Good!" A brilliant light burst from Di Shenglong's eyes. "Subduing a Saint weapon with war markings truly shows the character of the Undying Battle Body!"

Di Lingxiao had a moment of Epiphany and thrust the spear toward the starry sky. The spear went out like a dragon, actually tearing a hundred-mile rift in the Milky Way! When he withdrew the spear, the tip carried a falling star, which exploded into a magnificent rain of light in the night sky.

Just then, the Thousand Tribulations Sword shone with a dazzling light, and Di Qianjie fell into a peculiar state.

Di Shenglong stepped back three paces, allowing the two young men to immerse themselves in their Epiphany. The Thousand Tribulations Sword Sword Intent soared to the heavens, while Lingxiao's spear light split the sky. The two Auras intertwined in the starry sky, actually evolving into the image of Yin and Yang Taiji.

"It's still not enough." Di Shenglong suddenly sliced his wrist with his fingers, and god-demon blood splashed into the starry sky. "Let me see your limits."

The moment the blood droplets merged into the stars, the Milky Way rolled back down. The Thousand Tribulations Sword formed a ten-thousand-foot phantom, and the dragon fall spear summoned the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. The two youths simultaneously attacked the sky full of stars.

"Qiang!"

Where the sword and spear collided, space collapsed into a black hole. Di Qianjie's black hair danced wildly, each sword strike carrying the power to annihilate stars; Di Lingxiao's war markings shone, his spear striking like a dragon devouring all things. When the last star was extinguished, the two fell to the ground exhausted, but their eyes burned with an unprecedented Battle Intent.

Di Qianjie and Di Lingxiao knelt on one knee.

"Thank you for your help, Clan Chief. We two hereby swear that we will surely use the sword (spear) in our hands to sweep away all enemies for the Family!"

The three were completely unaware.

A sudden thunderclap exploded in the Void Realm, and the entire firmament seemed to be torn open by an invisible giant hand. A purple-gold sea of clouds surged into a vortex, and countless star phantoms hung upside down in the sky, reflecting a vast starry river even in broad daylight.

"Is this... the birth of a peerless Prodigy?" In the Great Thunder Sound Temple of the West Region, an old monk who was chanting sutras suddenly crushed the prayer beads in his hand. The gilded tiles of the Buddha hall vibrated, and eighteen golden Arhat statues simultaneously bled crimson tears.

Almost at the same time, at the bottom of the Extreme Cold Abyss in the North Region, the profound ice that had been frozen for ten thousand years suddenly shattered. The white-haired Lunar Palace Master sat up from her ice coffin, her frost-colored pupils reflecting the star trajectories in the Void Realm: "Ziwei moves east, Tanlang offends the Sha..."

In the mysterious Central Region, within a bronze ancient palace floating above the sea of clouds, nine soul lamps suddenly went out at the same time. A white-haired old man who was calculating heavenly secrets trembled violently, and the zhou tian star chart floating before him cracked with spiderweb-like lines.

"Pavilion Master!" The Disciples on both sides hurriedly tried to support him, but they were stopped by the old man raising his hand. He stared at the faint blood-colored trail in the star chart, a metallic sweetness rising in his throat: "Why is it a complete void?"

East Region, the capital of the Great Qi Dynasty.

The gilded flying eaves glinted with a piercing light under the sun.

Inside the room, Di Qingfeng and the Prince Qi Strategist sat opposite each other. On the black jade table between them, a pure white jade zither was automatically playing the "Pure Heart and Universal Peace Incantation," with a Phoenix phantom faintly circulating between the vibrating strings.

"Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Zither, Heaven-Grade Medium Grade." The Strategist's withered fingers pressed on the strings. "This zither uses Kunlun Cold Jade as its frame and East Sea Mermaid sinew as its strings. When played, it can trigger the clear sounds of the Nine Heavens. Prince Qi specifically brought this item, firstly to congratulate Clan Leader Di on eradicating that cancer, the Black Fiend Alliance."

"Secondly, regarding the matter of Zhang Tianyou offending Clan Leader Di previously, we hope Clan Leader Di can be magnanimous and not hold it against him."

"I need to report this matter to the Clan Chief and let him decide."

"Thank you, Di Qingfeng Qingfeng."

Although the Prince Qi Strategist was in the Heaven-Reaching Realm, he did not dare to be presumptuous before Di Qingfeng, who was only in the Divine Mansion Realm. If he were to anger Di Shenglong, he might end up with the same fate as the Black Fiend Alliance.

"That is what the Prince Qi envoy said."

Di Qingfeng reported the process in detail to Di Shenglong.

"That Prince Qi is quite generous; a Heaven-Grade Medium Grade Magic Treasure is the top-tier Magic Treasure in the Great Qi Dynasty."

"Since Prince Qi has shown such sincerity, you can tell the envoy that I will not hold a grudge over the previous matter. If it happens again, he should not blame me, Di, for being heartless."

"Yes, Clan Leader!"

Seeing Elder return, the Prince Qi Strategist nervously went to meet him. "Elder Qingfeng, I wonder what Clan Leader Di—"

"The Clan Leader said that he will not hold a grudge over the previous matter, but if it happens again, then—"

"Rest assured, Elder Qingfeng, Your Highness Prince Qi will not do such a foolish thing again."

After the Prince Qi Strategist left, before Elder could even rest.

"Report—!" A guard in silver-scaled armor knelt on one knee. "Zhou Xuantong, an Di Qingfeng of the Alchemy Cauldron Sect, has come to offer congratulations and is already at the gate!"

Before he could finish, another guard came to report, taking out a Jade Slip from which a clear sword ring resonated: "The Imperial Forest Sword Sect has sent a Thousand-Year Sword Soul to congratulate Clan Leader Di on eradicating the Black Fiend Alliance!"

"Report, an Elder from the Green Lotus Sword Sect has come to offer congratulations—"

The Alchemy Cauldron Sect, Alchemy Gate, Myriad Alchemy Alliance, Imperial Forest Sword Sect, Red Flame Sect, Myriad Poison Villa, Green Lotus Sword Sect of the Great Qi Dynasty, as well as the top-tier Zhou Family, sent people to the Di Family one after another to offer congratulations. As for whether they were sincere or had other intentions, that remained to be seen.