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Chapter 650 I'll Spare Your Life

The finest ingredients often require only the simplest cooking methods.

Similarly, when martial arts cultivation reaches its highest level, it returns to simplicity and authenticity. When two people spar, no fancy moves can be seen at all.

This is the principle behind the saying "one force can overcome a hundred techniques".

The blue water gun collided heavily with the white snow column.

With a loud bang, the snow column exploded, and snowflakes flew everywhere. What remained in Xiang Ying's hand was a crystal-clear popsicle, the tip of which was pressed against the tip of the blue water gun.

The two men leaned forward, standing motionless like two bulls locked in a struggle.

A moment later, the blue sparks, like wriggling grease, slowly crawled forward.

Slow but determined.

Where the blue flames covered, water droplets began to fall from beneath the popsicles.

A soft, almost inaudible snap.

But to Xiang Ying, it sounded like a resounding bell, and to him, it was almost unbelievable.

What does this mean?
This means that in the direct contest of their true energy, the one who gained the upper hand was not Xiang Ying, who had been in the Innate Realm for twenty years, but Li Dachui, who had just entered the Innate Realm a year ago.

Looking up at Li Dachui across from him, Xiang Ying simply couldn't understand the reason behind this.

Even if he started practicing from the womb, Li Dachui has only been practicing for a little over twenty years.

The Innate Realm is a sudden enlightenment that comes after reaching the pinnacle of the Ninth Grade of Profound Origin.
What we understand is the technique of using power to its fullest potential.

At the ninth rank of the Profound Origin realm, being able to utilize six or seven tenths of one's own power is already considered the peak.

The Innate Realm means being able to use one's own power to the fullest extent, even up to 100% or 120%.

However, the container itself still has a limited capacity.

The more you store, the more you can use.

To truly communicate with heaven and earth and be free from the constraints of the body, one must at least reach the realm of divine travel. However, over hundreds and thousands of years, while many have reached the innate level, only He Qingqiu has been able to enter the realm of divine travel.

However, He Qingqiu passed away more than twenty years ago.

Why is Li Dachui's true qi cultivation more profound than his own?
Li Dachui absorbed Jiang Qian's entire cultivation, and so far, only the two of them know this. This matter is too bizarre, and even if it were told, it would be difficult to convince people.

As the blue sparks climbed all the way to the middle of the popsicle, Xiang Ying grunted, and the remaining half of the popsicle in his hand exploded with a crack, turning into countless sharp ice shards, each like an arrow, piercing towards Li Dachui who was right in front of him.

Li Dachui laughed heartily, and the sparks suddenly dispersed. A large shield formed from true energy stood in front of him, blocking all the ice shards. Then the sparks dispersed again, flying everywhere and covering Xiang Ying.

Xiang Ying opened and closed his hands, and the countless sparks in the sky flickered a few times like fireflies before finally going out.

Xiang Ying, who appeared relaxed, took a deep breath, but his heart was filled with doubt and uncertainty.

He had seen the Phoenix Departing from Fire before.
Li Dachui also used Phoenix Flame.

But this fire is not that fire; they are vastly different. "So you're also a demonic cultist. No wonder you've colluded with that vixen Jiang Qian," Xiang Ying said grimly.

“My mother is He Qingqiu!” Li Dachui said, looking at Xiang Ying.

"Bah! Climbing the social ladder is nothing but a way to deceive the world. Do you think such a trick can fool me?" Xiang Ying scoffed. He never believed that Li Dachui was the son of Li Zemin and He Qingqiu. "I also participated in the Battle of Chang'an."

"So you were involved in killing my parents too?" Li Dachui was pleased rather than angry. "But back then, you probably weren't even qualified to fight my mother, were you?"

"Kou Zhun and the others will handle the encirclement and suppression of that fiend He Qingqiu. I only need to hold off Li Zemin and He Qingqiu's henchmen!" Xiang Ying said, "Haha, Li Dachui, after impersonating someone for so long, you don't actually think you're He Qingqiu's son, do you?"

Without another word, Li Dachui leaped up and punched Xiang Ying.

Unlike his previous attacks, which were surrounded by blue sparks and were quite a sight to behold, this punch was silent and without any external power, more like a fight between scoundrels in the street.

Xiang Ying let out a "heh" and threw a punch as well.

Before their fists even clashed, a sickeningly loud squeaking sound filled the air.

The two fists collided, and Xiang Ying let out a sharp roar. Li Dachui's extremely powerful true energy actually forced the Mountain-Shaking True Energy back. Unlike the Phoenix Fire from before, this time the true energy that entered was as if it came from the deepest cold of the Nine Netherworlds. It was so cold that Xiang Ying could even see wisps of white energy dissipating through his skin.

"Moonlight Weak Water!" Xiang Ying's face finally changed color, and he looked at Li Dachui as if he had seen a ghost.

Because in their previous encounter, Li Dachui had consistently displayed the Phoenix Flame technique.

Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water are incompatible, one being extremely Yang and the other extremely Yin. The Xiang clan, of course, understood this perfectly well.

It should be noted that in the century before the founding of the Great Chu Kingdom, the rulers of Chu and the Demonic Sect were so close that they were practically inseparable.

Before he could fully process what was happening, the chilling aura of the Nine Netherworlds suddenly changed, transforming into an extremely hot aura. The clothes on Xiang Ying's arms even burst into flames in that instant.

The rapid transformation between extreme yin and extreme yang destroyed Xiang Ying's arm.

If Xiang Ying's cultivation level were higher than Li Dachui's, Li Dachui's internal force would not have been able to penetrate through him at all, and naturally, the current situation would not have occurred.

Xiang Ying was at a great disadvantage because his cultivation level was not as high as his opponent's and he had not expected that his opponent had actually practiced the Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water techniques.

With a sharp cry, he retreated dozens of feet at lightning speed, and his right hand suddenly snapped off his body.

Xiang Ying didn't care at all about losing an arm. He just looked at Li Dachui and roared, "Qiankun Yiqi! Qiankun Yiqi! You're practicing Qiankun Yiqi!"

Li Dachui laughed heartily: "You do have some knowledge!"

The sound rang out, and another punch landed on Xiang Ying. With a loud thud, Xiang Ying was sent flying into the distance like a stone. He landed but bounced up like a bullet, without stopping, and continued to fly away into the distance.

The Demonic Sect's supreme martial art has only been successfully cultivated by its founder, Qingfeng, over the past few hundred years. During the process of overthrowing the Dayong Dynasty, the Xiang clan's ancestors fought alongside Qingfeng. Later, Qingfeng turned against Li Qing and came to the Chu region, where he helped the Xiang and Xiong clans establish the Chu Kingdom. Naturally, their family memories contain detailed records of the Qiankun Qi.

Upon seeing the Qiankun Qi, Xiang Ying no longer had the courage to fight Li Dachui.

Li Dachui did not chase after him, but just sneered as he watched Xiang Ying's departing figure.

(End of this chapter)