Chapter Nine: The Wrath of Qingxu

The Dual Principles Sword Dao of Yin and Yang was developed based on the Qingxu Sword Dao, harmonizing with the force of Taiji. It is wielded with a pair of male and female swords, and its power is more than doubled!

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Suddenly, lightning and fire flashed; Zhao Gongming swung his golden whip with all his might to resist the sword techniques of Guang Chengzi. Sweat poured from his brow, and the postnatal spiritual treasure in his hand suffered heavy damage. The situation was overwhelmingly one-sided.

"How hateful! If only I had refined the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl, would I allow Guang Chengzi to behave so arrogantly?" Zhao Gongming was frustrated and helpless. Over a hundred years ago, the Master Tongtian had bestowed upon him the innate spiritual treasure, the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl. Unfortunately, he had neglected his cultivation, and the innate restriction within the pearl was powerful. To this day, he had only managed to refine three or four layers; even controlling a single pearl was difficult, let alone using it for attack.

Seeing Zhao Gongming about to lose in a matter of moments, Jin Guang Immortal, who was watching, grew increasingly anxious.

It was entirely because he had helped Jin Guang Immortal that Zhao Gongming was now facing such peril!

After pondering for a while, Jin Guang Immortal steeled himself, suppressed his injuries, and wielded the Golden Sword to join the fray.

"Hmph! What a fine disciple taught by my junior brother!" The Primordial Lord of Heaven was already furious over Taiyi's earlier defeat; now seeing Jin Guang Immortal disregard the rules, he could no longer restrain his anger and sneered coldly.

Though no formal rules had been established for the competition between the second-generation disciples of the Three Sects, it was generally one-on-one. Now, the followers of the Sect of the Cutted had clearly chosen to outnumber their foe.

With the cold rebuke from the Primordial Lord, Master Tongtian was at a loss for words.

"Jin Guang, how dare you!"

"Bold scoundrel, cease your attacks at once!"

"Insolence!"

...

Seeing Jin Guang Immortal's shameless actions, the disciples of the teachings of Enlightenment were furious and scolded him, ready to charge forward. At the same time, dozens of disciples from the Sect of the Cutted prepared for a group battle.

"Brothers, calm your anger for now. If their sect is shameless, what is there to fear?" Guang Chengzi, full of heroic spirit, stopped his brothers from joining the fight.

With Jin Guang Immortal's intervention, the situation changed drastically. It was now two against one, putting Guang Chengzi at a disadvantage. Yet his expression showed no concern.

"How can your crooked paths rival the orthodox lineage of Pangu?"

"Guang Chengzi, stop boasting! You belong to Jade Purity, but we are Upper Purity, both of Pangu's lineage. How dare you insult us so greatly!" Jin Guang Immortal, enraged by Guang Chengzi's words, felt his three corpses gods leaping with fury, flames spewing from his seven orifices, and the golden sword in his hand roared with the energy of Geng Metal.

"Let our skills decide!" Zhao Gongming had not intended to gang up on Guang Chengzi, but now, provoked by his words, he threw caution to the wind.

At the dawn of the prehistoric era, when the Witch and Demon races dominated the heavens and earth, all beings were ignorant, unbound by moral constraints or ethics, vastly different from later generations. Outnumbering an opponent was not considered shameful.

Earlier, after battling Taiyi Immortal, Jin Guang Immortal was heavily injured, able to exert only half his strength. Even teaming up with Zhao Gongming, victory was still uncertain.

Minor Heavenly Whip Technique!

Golden Light Sword Technique!

With Zhao Gongming and Jin Guang Immortal attacking from both sides, Guang Chengzi held his ground, neither gaining much advantage nor falling behind. The three fought fiercely in a chaotic melee, with no clear victor.

"If this continues, it will not benefit me. It seems I must use my trump card." Though the battle appeared evenly matched, Zhao Gongming and Jin Guang Immortal's combined efforts depleted their Upper Purity true essence much faster than Guang Chengzi's. Over time, they would surely lose.

"Mysterious Yin Sword Division—Release!"

Suddenly, Guang Chengzi shouted. The female sword in his right hand flew out and hovered in midair, releasing waves of icy Mysterious Yin energy that swept across the Jade Void Palace.

"Unexpected! Guang Chengzi has already mastered the Dao of Mysterious Yin. Truly remarkable!" Qingxu sighed inwardly. He had assisted in perfecting the embryonic form of the Dual Principles Sword Dao; he knew well the sharpness of the Mysterious Yin Dao.

Guang Chengzi's Sword Dao differed from Qingxu's—it divided the principles of Yin and Yang. It was now refined to three levels: the first being the Dao of Mysterious Yin and Mysterious Yang; the second, the Dao of Greater Yin and Greater Yang; the third, the Dao of Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang.

Under Guang Chengzi's sword technique, the female sword split into nine, scattering in the air and shooting in all directions.

Sword light poured down, the sword energy arched like a rainbow, forming a net that enveloped Zhao Gongming and Jin Guang Immortal. The terrifying sword aura, accompanied by Mysterious Yin chill, surged forth.

Surrounded on all sides, there was nowhere to escape—only resistance!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Under the chaotic barrage of innate sword aura, Zhao Gongming and Jin Guang Immortal's robes were shredded, their bodies covered in wounds as if cut by a thousand blades. Blood spurted from them, and in the blink of an eye, the chilling Mysterious Yin turned it into blocks of blood ice that shattered upon hitting the ground.

"Big brother!" Bixiao and Qiongxiao were alarmed by Zhao Gongming's tragic state. They drew the Golden Flood Dragon Shears and the Shadow Sword, both innate spiritual treasures, and leapt to attack Guang Chengzi.

Seeing this, Yunxiao's expression changed dramatically and tried to stop them. Jin Guang Immortal's earlier interference had already been improper; now her two sisters recklessly ambushed Guang Chengzi. Should he be harmed, the grudge would grow, and even the Primordial Lord of Heaven might be enraged.

"Second brother, be careful!"

"Wretched maidens, how dare you!"

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The disciples of the teachings of Enlightenment roared in anger, drawing their spiritual treasures and charging at the Three Sisters of the Heavens, regardless of Yunxiao's lack of involvement.

A great battle between the teachings of Enlightenment and the Sect of the Cutted was about to erupt, but the Primordial Lord of Heaven could no longer hold back. He snorted coldly and waved his hand to restrain his disciples, while the disciples of the Sect of the Cutted were swept back several steps by a gust of wind.

Boom!

Bixiao and Qiongxiao launched their surprise attack. Guang Chengzi, vigilant and alert, was startled. He was focused on dealing with Zhao Gongming and Jin Guang Immortal and could not withstand the Two Sisters. Just as their attacks were about to reach him, a dazzling feather fan appeared to shield him.

"Senior brother!" Guang Chengzi cried out in surprise, immediately recognizing the feather fan as Qingxu's treasure—the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan.

Though the Golden Flood Dragon Shears and Shadow Sword were both innate spiritual treasures, their power was only comparable to the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan.

After a single exchange, Bixiao and Qiongxiao were shaken, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths, and forced back over ten steps.

They were only late-stage transformation cultivators, while Qingxu had reached the peak of the early Earth Immortal stage—a difference as vast as heaven and earth, incomparable. Moreover, Qingxu had refined twelve layers of postnatal restrictions on the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan, unleashing considerable power.

"Insolence! You repeatedly bully our teaching of Enlightenment, not only outnumbering us but now resorting to ambushes. Do you truly think we are easy to intimidate?" Qingxu, furious, stepped forward, wielding the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan, his body radiating Jade Purity immortal light. Most astonishingly, as he stepped, green lotuses blossomed beneath his feet—each step birthed a lotus, each step extinguished one.

Walking upon green lotuses, surrounded by immortal light!

"An Earth Immortal?"

The disciples of the Sect of the Cutted and Xuandu widened their eyes in shock.

Xuandu and Duobao had only recently attained the Dao of Immortality, and now Qingxu had done so as well—his cultivation clearly surpassed theirs.

With Qingxu's intervention, Guang Chengzi and the others ceased fighting.

"I am Qingxu of the teaching of Enlightenment. Whether you attack singly or in groups, I shall face you all alone!"

Arrogant!

Extremely arrogant!

At this moment, all the disciples of the Sect of the Cutted thought so. Qingxu dared to challenge dozens of their disciples alone, knowing that all those present were close disciples of Master Tongtian, possessing great supernatural powers, spiritual treasures, and secretly practiced unorthodox arts.

"Is his cultivation truly so high?" Duobao pondered.

"Qingxu's cultivation is beyond me!" Xuandu admitted, unable to match Qingxu's boldness or skill. The gap between them was considerable.

The disciples of the teaching of Enlightenment regarded Qingxu with reverence.

"Fellow Daoist, your cultivation is profound, but you are far too arrogant. I am unworthy, but I wish to seek your guidance!"

The speaker was unexpectedly Yunxiao. Qingxu's attack had injured Bixiao and Qiongxiao, stirring her hidden anger. Now, his outrageous words directly challenged the Sect of the Cutted, implying they were no match. Though she was usually gentle by nature, even she was ignited by the fire of ignorance.

"Yunxiao?" Qingxu's heart stirred, memories of his past life’s mythology flooding his mind.

In the war of the Investiture of the Gods, the Three Sisters of the Heavens were renowned, especially Yunxiao, who wielded the heaven-defying innate spiritual treasure, the Great Golden Cauldron, and defeated all the immortals of the teaching of Enlightenment.

In memory, Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, armed with the Great Golden Cauldron, captured all twelve golden immortals under the Primordial Lord in the Jade Void Palace, sealing them in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array. There, they lost their immortal gods, their spirits, their forms, their vital energies, their original divine natures, and their limbs—pitiful, for the twelve golden immortals, having failed to sever their three corpses and swallow six energies, had cultivated for thousands upon thousands of years, only to have their three flowers above their heads cut off, their five energies in their chest dissipated, and their Dao fruit lost in an instant.

It was precisely because of the calamity of the Nine-Bend Yellow River that Cihang, Puxian, Wenshu, and Julusun betrayed the Dao and joined Buddhism.

Recalling these events, Qingxu felt a sudden anger and decided he must teach the Three Sisters a lesson, for now he was Qingxu himself.

The Investiture System scanned!

As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will always win!