Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather Chapter 1682 - 1029: Reversal (Part 2)

With a bang, the pair of hands, as large as millstones, clapped together fiercely, trapping the opponent between them.

This is the Devouring Spirit Body.

Attract the Qi into the body, like a whale drinking the river, absorbing the essence of all directions; refine the spirit into essence, like fire smelting gold, merging the soul of all spirits.

Devour without stagnation, transform without stagnation, this is the righteous path of devouring spirits. When Qi is full, it overflows; when spirit is sufficient, it transforms; the body naturally appears.

The body possesses the aspect of myriad spirits, containing the power of a thousand strengths; with eyes it can pierce gold and stone, with ears it discerns the language of the wind; when moving, the wind and clouds follow, when still, all things are at peace.

The Devouring Spirit Body is the body refinement method for immortal cultivators, and Yang Zhenshan obtained this cultivation technique from Mo Xuanyu’s hands.

After the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill had no further cultivation method, Yang Zhenshan switched to cultivating this Devouring Spirit Body.

At that time, Yang Zhenshan’s purpose for cultivating the Devouring Spirit Body was merely to enhance his physique, but in fact, the Devouring Spirit Body was quite useful for Yang Zhenshan.

During the crossing of the tribulation, the strengthening from the Devouring Spirit Body allowed Yang Zhenshan’s body to withstand the ravaging of the Heavenly Tribulation.

However, after condensing the Golden Core, Yang Zhenshan paused the cultivation of the Devouring Spirit Body, not because it was useless, but because Yang Zhenshan focused his energy on comprehending the Withered and Flourishing Dao Intent and the Path of Void, thus not having much energy left for cultivating the Devouring Spirit Body.

Actually, the Devouring Spirit Body is still very useful, Golden Core cultivators can also comprehend divine dao intents from it.

Of course, Yang Zhenshan did not comprehend the divine skills of the body.

At this moment, he uses his body to control divine lightning, combining the two, though not as profound as divine dao intent, but still quite powerful.

With both palms clapped together, the opponent’s Qi mechanism suddenly weakened, clearly suffering significant injuries.

However, soon Yang Zhenshan felt a sharp pain from his palm.

The opponent had already broken free from the control of the Soul Returning Array and launched a counterattack.

A trident appeared in the opponent’s hand, directly piercing through Yang Zhenshan’s palm.

Yang Zhenshan quickly withdrew his palm, glanced at the golden blood flowing from the wound, and with a casual flick, the pierced wound began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Such an injury for a Golden Core cultivator is akin to a mosquito bite, and for Yang Zhenshan, it’s even less concerning.

With his powerful vitality and recovery ability, he can restore himself to prime condition in minutes.

In contrast, the opponent who endured Yang Zhenshan’s clapped palms is more seriously injured, the daoist body bearing immense force, cracks appearing on the daoist body, dense spiritual power and mana seeping out from the cracks.

The daoist body of a Golden Core cultivator does not fear ordinary harm, even if the heart is pierced, it would not have a significant impact.

But if cracks appear, it is a significant injury, as it means the internal balance of the daoist body has been disrupted.

"Good technique!"

At this moment, the opponent finally spoke, his voice now much sharper and harsher than during the trade meeting.

And as he spoke, the opponent suddenly charged at Yang Zhenshan, raising the golden trident, carrying the power of Wan Jun to suppress them.

Yang Zhenshan glanced at the trident, his figure suddenly vanished without a trace.

The trident belongs to close combat weapons.

Under normal circumstances, Golden Core cultivators rarely use such close combat weapons, whereas Demon Cultivators prefer close combat weapons.

One reason is that the daoist body of Demon Cultivators is more robust; another reason is that the original form of Demon Cultivators can transform into close combat weapons, like claws, wings, teeth, etc.

Many Demon Cultivators, during transformation, will cultivate a part of their body as their Lifebound Spiritual Artifact.

The opponent using the trident further proves that the opponent is from the Demon Clan.

Body Transformation, Yang Zhenshan merged into the Void.

The surging seawater could no longer exert any pressure on him, and the sharp trident also returned fruitlessly.

The man wielded the trident, stirring the surrounding seawater, attempting to force Yang Zhenshan out.

But at this moment, Yang Zhenshan is not using the Green Mist Hidden Dust, but the Body Transformation.

The Green Mist Hidden Dust in the jade calabash only hides Yang Zhenshan’s aura, in reality, Yang Zhenshan is still in place; strong energy fluctuations or Qi mechanism fluctuations would affect the Green Mist Hidden Dust, preventing it from perfectly enveloping Yang Zhenshan, thus causing Yang Zhenshan to break the ’invisibility state’.

The Body Transformation is allowing Yang Zhenshan to merge into the Void, at this moment Yang Zhenshan is part of the Void, though not perfectly merged with the Void, yet indistinguishable from the Void.

General energy fluctuations cannot force him out, only strong Qi mechanism fluctuations can reveal traces of him, like the last time Chi Yuan created a strong Qi mechanism environment in the real world, that way he could show traces of Yang Zhenshan.

Additionally, understanding of the Path of Void far surpassing Yang Zhenshan’s can also detect Yang Zhenshan’s presence.

And since the current opponent hasn’t comprehended the Path of Void, nor can he create strong Qi mechanism fluctuations, perhaps he hasn’t thought of this point, after all, he doesn’t understand Yang Zhenshan’s current state.

To know oneself and know the enemy is essential to win hundreds of battles.

In battles between Golden Core cultivators, intelligence is also a crucial aspect.

The Three Thousand Great Paths, divine dao intents surpass three thousand!

Every kind of divine dao intent possesses different abilities, and each person’s divine dao intent varies.

Some abnormal divine dao intents can even kill invisibly.

For example, the Withered and Flourishing Divine Power.

The blue-gray Tai Chi Diagram appeared in the vast seawater, Yang Zhenshan’s figure emerged a hundred zhang away, distancing himself from the opponent.

This is also an application of Body Transformation, achieving instant movement within the Void.

From disappearing to appearing, Yang Zhenshan is not staying in place, but within his range transformed into the Void.

This range is not large; currently, Yang Zhenshan can only transform into a hundred zhang Void, meaning he can only achieve instant movement within a hundred zhang range.

Of course, Yang Zhenshan could use the Life Realm Immortal Palace for instant movement too, but such actions would easily expose the existence of the Life Realm Immortal Palace.

Thus, Yang Zhenshan seldom uses the Life Realm Immortal Palace for instant movement nowadays, and even rarely directly retrieves items from the Life Realm space.

As soon as the Tai Chi Diagram appeared, the opponent noticed something wrong, but he didn’t seem to understand what this Tai Chi Diagram represented, he just instinctively wanted to flee out of the range of the Tai Chi Diagram.

"I speak of life and death, peel away!"

In the next instant, Yang Zhenshan’s lifespan quickly drained, and so did the opponent’s lifespan.

The loss of lifespan caused the opponent to panic, fleeing with even greater speed.

In the blink of an eye, he escaped from the coverage of the Tai Chi Diagram.

Yang Zhenshan was not surprised by this; the Withered and Flourishing Divine Power, though overbearing, has its flaws; peeling away lifespan requires time, and the coverage of divine skills isn’t very large.

If the opponent wanted to evade, it would be difficult for Yang Zhenshan to instantly annihilate the opponent.

That person seemed to be frightened by the Withered and Flourishing Divine Power, after escaping the coverage of the Tai Chi Diagram, he did not linger but accelerated to flee.

Yang Zhenshan couldn’t let him escape; he wasn’t clear about the opponent’s identity, in case the opponent was from the Beihai Demon Court and the South Sea Demon Court, if the opponent escaped, it would bring him great trouble.

And it wouldn’t be hard for the opponent to determine his identity, because the Withered and Flourishing Divine Power was already not a secret, if someone took the trouble to inquire, it would still be possible to use this information to trace him.

Offering the Flowing Shadow Shuttle, Yang Zhenshan pursued.

With the assistance of the Flowing Shadow Shuttle, Yang Zhenshan’s speed traversing the Void far exceeds before.

Whereas the opponent’s speed traversing the Void is far inferior to Chi Yuan.

In just a few breaths, Yang Zhenshan was about to catch up with the opponent.

The situation now is similar to when Yang Zhenshan faced Chi Yuan, only that Yang Zhenshan was fleeing then, but now he is the pursuer.

"My lord, today is a misunderstanding!"

"I am Shui Ji of Minghai Palace, I beg my lord to spare me for the sake of the Beihai Demon Court, afterward I will personally visit you to apologize!"

Water Ji, previously so formidable, is now begging for mercy.

"Shui Ji!"

With a turn of mind, Yang Zhenshan knew the opponent’s identity.

Minghai Palace is dominated by the Jue Xiao clan, and the Jue Xiao clan has two demon kings, Shui Ji and Shui Ling.

In the council of True Yang Immortal City, there is a demon king from the Jue Xiao clan, Shui Ling.

In this case, the two parties can be considered allies; at least in the matter of True Yang Immortal City, they belong to a community of interests.