Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World Chapter 1161 604: Giant Black Hole (Part 2)

Kunpeng Taoist gave a faint nod and whispered in response, "Understood."

Judging from Qiankun Venerate King's expression, Kunpeng Taoist discerned the king's resolve to battle desperately. Kunpeng Taoist eagerly desired this exact scenario, yearning for Qiankun Venerate King and Gu Sheng to drain each other's strength completely.

Then, he could swoop in and claim the spoils without effort. After all, his role was limited to soul power assaults, sparing him a direct, life-or-death clash with Gu Sheng.

Upon hearing Kunpeng Taoist's affirmation, Qiankun Venerate King gripped the Life and Death Sword and blurred into a shadow, hurtling directly at Gu Sheng.

As he rushed forward, the Demonic Qi billowing from his Divine Sword grew increasingly ferocious, swallowing the area around him. Simultaneously, dark runes emerged from his Void Ring and fused onto the Life and Death Sword's edge.

Qiankun Venerate King slammed his palm against his chest, ejecting a gush of essence blood. He swiftly coated the entire Life and Death Sword with it. The blade shuddered wildly, a mighty power roiling inside.

Witnessing Qiankun Venerate King's sequence of moves, Gu Sheng grew vigilant deep within.

He examined the sword clutched by Qiankun Venerate King closely, and shockingly, eerie, tormented infant visages materialized along the Life and Death Sword's surface. These faces bore expressions of utter torment, as though enduring torments beyond death.

Gu Sheng pondered inwardly, "What technique is this?" He failed to grasp Qiankun Venerate King's scheme. Yet his instincts warned that the impending blow from Qiankun Venerate King would pack devastating force.

Tianxuan Divine Girl at his side transmitted to Gu Sheng, "I can't decipher his scheme either, but it's surely his ultimate trump card."

The arts Qiankun Venerate King deployed clearly surpassed the standard secret arts of the Supreme Immortal Sect, stemming instead from his own exclusive ancient forbidden technique.

These obscure ancient secret techniques typically concealed immense might, since their full dread remained unknown to all.

Qiankun Venerate King positioned himself boldly at the battleground's heart. This blade embodied his ace, brimming with boundless fiendish energy—once fully released, it could upheave the heavens and earth.

Qiankun Venerate King hoisted the sword overhead and cleaved it furiously toward the remote Gu Sheng. The strike bore cataclysmic power, ripping black fissures through every inch of its trajectory.

Gu Sheng held his ground against this nightmarish assault. He observed the Life and Death Sword descending in rage, his arm quivering faintly. Potent Sword Qi burst from his fingertips. Though his Dragon Slayer Sword lay shattered, he wielded his hand like a blade, and the Sword Qi he unleashed stayed razor-sharp.

This Sword Qi carried an unseen might, twisting the nearby air and exerting crushing pressure on everyone nearby.

From her vantage nearby, Gongsun Yue watched and instinctively clutched her mouth, letting out a startled gasp.

As a disciple of Tianlan Sacred Land, Gongsun Yue possessed insight into numerous martial arts. She instantly identified Gu Sheng's display as Tianlan Sacred Land's supreme sword art—the Saint-level Martial Technique Infinite Sword Qi.

She had trained for years, delving deeply into this technique, yet hovered merely at the beginner stage. The Sword Qi she produced was feeble, paling vastly against the mighty Sword Qi Gu Sheng had forged.

Gongsun Yue was awestruck; the initial stage of a Saint-level Martial Technique proved as arduous as scaling the heavens. In Tianlan Sacred Land, countless core disciples failed to conquer even the first stage, let alone the second, which eluded even Earth Palace Realm disciples.

Yet Gu Sheng, merely at Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, if he had truly grasped Infinite Sword Qi's second stage, his talent would eclipse mere genius—utterly demonic, surpassing mortal limits.

This realization made Gongsun Yue hesitant to dwell further, her eyes brimming with reverence.

At first, Qiankun Venerate King dismissed the Saint-level Martial Technique Gu Sheng revealed. He believed his own cultivation method's rank dwarfed Gu Sheng's. Though Saint-level Martial Techniques held great power, Gu Sheng's realm limited how much he could wield.

Quickly, he sensed trouble. The potency of Gu Sheng's Sword Qi neared his own in intensity.

For a powerhouse like Qiankun Venerate King, wielding overly potent techniques at a lower realm could prove counterproductive at times.

The loftier a martial technique's tier, the tougher its mastery, demanding exorbitant spiritual power reserves.

Conversely, elevating lesser martial techniques to pinnacle could rival superior ones.

But upon attaining lofty realms, inferior techniques lost their edge, allowing high-tier arts to shine truly.

Qiankun Venerate King grasped that if Gu Sheng's prowess in Saint-level Martial Techniques proved freakish, even Supreme Immortal Sect's most tyrannical art might fail against him.

Gu Sheng concentrated utterly, treating his hand as a sword, readying a tyrannical, earth-shattering blow. His body's spiritual power surged toward his limb.

With a fierce yell, the Sword Qi rent the firmament, shattering the Void in its wake catastrophically.

Within the crumbling Void, a fragment of the Immortal Temple glimmered into view. Legends spoke of this ancient Immortal Temple harboring boundless treasures, now unveiled partially by the clash.

Beholding Gu Sheng's extraordinarily fierce Sword Qi, Qiankun Venerate King seethed with rage. Without a Spiritual Artifact, how could Gu Sheng counter the Life and Death Sword using mere Sword Qi?

A profound bell chime echoed. Gu Sheng invoked the Ancient Reincarnation Bell. This supreme magical treasure excelled in defense primarily, yet its unbreakable form could also blunt the Life and Death Sword's fury.

A colossal Ancient Bronze Bell materialized abruptly, floating protectively before Gu Sheng.

The Ancient Reincarnation Bell collided once more with the Life and Death Sword, erupting in a thunderous boom that seemed to freeze the ambient air.

Instantly after, the overbearing Sword Qi from Gu Sheng's hand-sword descended.

Having loosed this attack, Gu Sheng's presence dimmed sharply.

Infinite Sword Qi's might was terrifyingly vast, but its spiritual power drain was equally colossal. At his present cultivation, firing one blast of Infinite Sword Qi stretched him to exhaustion.

Seizing the moment, Gu Sheng activated the Nine Dragon Heaven and Earth Technique fully, devouring ambient spiritual energy to restore himself while eyeing the Sword Qi hurtling at the Life and Death Sword.

Gu Sheng's mind wandered to his trials in the Reincarnation World. There, he endured multiple lives; though his awareness remained his own, his journey and power hinged on another figure within that realm.

He long suspected that entity was the Holy Road Master—or rather, the Holy Road Master's lived experiences. He reenacted the Holy Road Master's life through his consciousness, with his feats determining the trial's outcome.

Though Reincarnation World gains in cultivation wouldn't transfer to reality, the realm's ordeals forged his spirit and insights to a higher plane.

This elevation infused his practiced arts, sparking his meteoric rise. His mental arts and martial skills advanced leaps and bounds.

And this formed his bold assurance against Qiankun Venerate King, aware of his own hidden aces.

The clash zone between Gu Sheng and Qiankun Venerate King swiftly drowned in ceaseless blasts of shockwaves. The ferocious fallout morphed into a dark pillar lancing skyward, breaching the firmament and exposing a colossal, horrifying void.

From the blast's epicenter, relentless thudding impacts rang out, flinging both the Ancient Reincarnation Bell and Life and Death Sword aside.

Qiankun Venerate King hurtled back hundreds of meters. His visage flushed crimson as he vomited fresh blood, his aura plummeting wildly.

Likewise, Gu Sheng suffered wounds from the blast's horrific ripples, stumbling rearward clumsily, garments soaked in blood, frame shaking violently.

Ignoring his body's excruciating agony through clenched teeth, Gu Sheng clung to a single resolve: vanquish Qiankun Venerate King.

He lunged at Qiankun Venerate King. In sheer determination, he outstripped Qiankun Venerate King vastly.

Drained of immense spiritual power, he switched to Three Realms Thunder Fist. Bolstering spiritual power with raw bodily might, he hammered Qiankun Venerate King relentlessly. Each fist whistled piercingly, shredding the air.

Qiankun Venerate King scrambled to parry in desperation. Drawing on his Sacred Body's resilience, he endured multiple of Gu Sheng's blows head-on. He backpedaled while defending, blood repeatedly gushing from his lips.

Once, his invincible Sacred Body stood as his greatest pride. Innumerable foes of superior realms fell to his unyielding physique's dominance.