Honghuang Xuanyang Dao

Chapter 193 The Spirit Wood Daoist and the Chaos Spiritual Treasure (Please Subscribe)
Upon seeing the Taoist priest before him, Li Xuanyang's eyes narrowed. He knew without asking that the man was up to no good and was waiting for him.

Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance, leaving the Innate Five Directions Flag, the Innate Five Elements Array Diagram, and the Chaos Pearl on Xuan Du's body. With the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Array and the Five Elements Dharma Body in place, he should be able to protect himself even if unexpected events occur.

However, Li Xuanyang felt a slight sense of apprehension towards the Taoist priest in front of him.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Lingmu!"

"I wonder why you are stopping me, my friend?" Looking at the Spirit Wood Daoist in front of him, Li Xuanyang did not stand on ceremony and asked him directly in an unfriendly tone, even faintly activating the Chaos Undying Body Technique within his body.

"Hehe, fellow Daoist, there's no need to overthink it." Facing Li Xuanyang's tone, Daoist Lingmu wasn't offended, only chuckled lightly, and said directly, "Originally, I was entrusted by a friend to block you here for a while, but..."

At this point, for some reason, Daoist Lingmu suddenly stopped talking.

"However!" Li Xuanyang asked him with a cold laugh.

"Out of respect for the Queen Mother of the West, as long as you and I discuss the Dao here for a while, so that I can give you an explanation, I will naturally stop obstructing you."

"Otherwise?" Lingmu Daoist's tone suddenly changed, and his gaze turned cold as he said, "Today, this humble Daoist will have no choice but to experience your Chaos Undying Body firsthand, and see if it is truly as domineering as the legends of the primordial era have described!"

Upon hearing Lingmu Daoren's words, Li Xuanyang's face immediately darkened. A hazy, chaotic divine light flashed around him, and a murderous intent soared into the sky. He asked, "Fellow Daoist, were you entrusted by Shen Ni and Ji Du to come and stop this humble Daoist?"

As he spoke, the chaotic divine light surrounding Li Xuanyang suddenly soared into the sky, spreading out in the air and transforming into a vast gray light curtain that swept towards the Spirit Wood Daoist.

"If you really want to know about this, why don't you go and ask Shen Ni and Ji Du yourself!" Lingmu Daoist didn't expect Li Xuanyang to unleash the Chaos Divine Light towards him without a word. He snorted coldly, and his body shone brightly. He also manifested a divine light, which went towards Li Xuanyang and the sweeping Chaos Divine Light.

The next moment, the two divine lights collided and annihilated each other, revealing their overwhelming divine might. They tore apart the void for hundreds of millions of miles, shattering the space and turning it into a black spatial storm. The storm carried spatial fragments and earth, wind, water, and fire in all directions, creating an extremely terrifying scene.

The two of them, with just a single divine light, shattered billions of miles of primordial void, as if reenacting the cycle of earth, wind, water, and fire. They were truly powerful and their cultivation was astonishing, far exceeding the scope of ordinary quasi-saints and great supernatural beings.

"Peak Quasi-Saint, no wonder you dared to stop me!" Li Xuanyang's eyes narrowed, sensing that Lingmu Daoist's cultivation and supernatural powers seemed to be above Jidu.

The next moment, Li Xuanyang directly revealed his three primordial spirit flowers. Above a cloud of auspicious clouds the size of an acre, the Moon-Devouring Soul-Eating Sword hung high, and he uttered a soft shout, "Tai Xuan Sword Scripture!"

Before the words were finished, the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword shone brightly, and a layer of hazy gray light appeared on the sword body, which suddenly transformed into countless sword threads, drawing out boundless killing intent.

The spatial storm and the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire that had been spreading around vanished, replaced by the sound of swords ringing out, enveloping the Spirit Wood Daoist.

"Well done!" Lingmu Daoist shouted, revealing his three primordial spirit flowers. Above the auspicious cloud, which was about an acre in size, countless divine lights emerged, transforming into a crystal-clear, jade-like spirit wood staff, which swept towards the countless sword threads formed by the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword.

All that could be seen was the chaotic divine light from before, the spatial storm and the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire, and even the boundless malevolent energy and killing intent drawn out by the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword.

Anything touched by the radiant aura emanating from the spiritwood staff would immediately dissipate, as if nothing had ever happened.

Wherever it passed, the space was restored and full of life.

The sword threads formed by the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword collided with the Spirit Wood Staff. As they intertwined and coiled, a piercing sizzling sound rang out, followed by a deafening boom that shattered the void for billions of miles once again.

"Chaotic Spiritual Treasure!" Li Xuanyang felt a jolt throughout his body. The Moon Devouring Soul Sword let out a mournful cry, causing his blood and qi to surge and his primordial spirit to tremble.

Now that the Chaos Pearl, the Five Primordial Banners, and the three Primordial Twelve-Petal Lotuses are not on his person, the Xuanhuang Realm cannot use them lightly.

Even with his profound cultivation and supernatural powers, he felt a chill run down his spine when faced with the Spirit Wood Staff, a Chaos Treasure.

"Fellow Daoist, you have insight!" Daoist Lingmu was slightly surprised, not expecting that Li Xuanyang could recognize the Chaos Treasure.

"Since you can recognize that my spiritwood staff is a Chaos Treasure, why don't we stop here and discuss the Dao together?"

"The Chaos Spiritual Treasure, the Spirit Wood Staff!" Upon hearing the words of the Spirit Wood Daoist, Li Xuanyang showed no intention of giving up. Instead, he had a vague idea about the origins of the Spirit Wood Daoist, which was nothing more than related to the Chaos Gods and Demons.

"It's not difficult to make this humble Daoist stop. Just let me pass, and I will stop!" As he spoke, Li Xuanyang pointed to the Three Flowers of the Primordial Spirit and summoned the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram, which transformed into a sky full of black and white divine light, fully displaying the profound power of the Innate Yin-Yang Dao, and enveloped the Spirit Wood Staff and the Spirit Wood Daoist.

Upon seeing the black and white divine light, Daoist Lingmu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but look it up and down. "The innate Yin and Yang Qi!"

"This diagram must be your Dao-attaining artifact, the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram. It is said that this diagram was forged from the innate Yin-Yang energies of one Yin and one Yang, and it is extremely profound. Its power is even greater than some high-grade innate spiritual treasures."

"Now it seems that this diagram has already reached the level of the innate, and its power is even greater than the rumors suggest."

"But if you, fellow Daoist, intend to use this diagram to trap my Spirit Wood Staff, you are making a fool of yourself!" The Spirit Wood Daoist pointed at the Spirit Wood Staff, and countless rays of light immediately emanated from the staff, shattering the countless sword threads and revealing the Moon Devouring Soul Sword. It let out a mournful cry and flew back towards Li Xuanyang.

Immediately afterwards, the spirit wooden staff collided with the black and white divine light, causing the innate Yin-Yang duality array to suddenly shine brightly, instantly sweeping across billions of miles of void.

"Something's not right!" Lingmu Daoren was startled. Before he could react, the world went dark, and he found himself inside a formation space.

At this moment, it is clear that Li Xuanyang's use of the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram was not to trap the Spirit Wood Staff, but rather to trap himself with an array.

"This is your Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Grand Array!" Daoist Lingmu waved his hand and put away his spiritwood staff. Looking at the array space in front of him, he couldn't help but chuckle and said, "If it were your Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Array, I might have had to put in some effort. But you think you can trap me with just a mere Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Grand Array?"

When Lingmu Daoist immediately named the Primordial Yin-Yang Two Elements Divine Diagram and the Primordial Yin-Yang Two Elements Grand Array, Li Xuanyang remained calm and showed no change in expression. He simply smiled faintly at him and said, "Fellow Daoist, you'll know once you try it!"

Li Xuanyang waved his hand and stored the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword into the Three Flowers of the Primordial Spirit. He then activated the Innate Profound Yang True Scripture, which in turn activated the Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Great Array, generating a divine light in black and white, which was the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light.

Since Li Xuanyang collected all five innate flags, he has rarely revealed the power of the innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Grand Array. Today is the perfect opportunity for Daoist Lingmu to experience it.

"The innate Yin and Yang, the beginning of chaos!" Li Xuanyang shouted softly, and thirty-six worlds faintly appeared around him. Countless chaotic primordial energies rushed out from them and fell into the formation, merging with the innate Yin and Yang energies.

In an instant, the formation transformed into two arrays, one inner and one outer. The inner array became a chaotic mass, from which primordial energy and the laws of the Great Dao of Chaos were derived, while the outer array consisted of a divine light of black and white, permeating the void.

The two complemented each other, transforming into beams of chaotic divine light that headed towards the Spirit Wood Daoist.

Originally trapped in the Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Formation, Daoist Lingmu showed no sign of worry. Instead, he kept observing the various changes in the formation.

With his cultivation level, supernatural powers, and his innate treasure, the Spirit Wood Staff, let alone falling into the Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Formation, even the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Formation would not be able to trap him.

However, a moment later, countless beams of chaotic divine light descended, forming a dense, innumerable mass.

"Spirit Wood Staff, rise!" The Spirit Wood Daoist's eyes narrowed as he raised the Spirit Wood Staff above his head, causing countless divine lights to descend. The laws of the Great Dao of Life manifested, completely protecting his body.

Even so, facing the endless chaotic divine light descending, Daoist Lingmu still felt waves of chaotic primordial energy invading his physical body, causing him extreme discomfort and dimming his primordial spirit.

"Primordial Chaos Energy!"

"Fellow Daoist, could you tell me where you obtained it from?" Lingmu Daoist asked Li Xuanyang anxiously.

"If you really want to know, why don't you go and ask Shen Ni and Ji Du yourself!" Li Xuanyang sneered, returning the words that Lingmu Daoren had just said to him. As for the origin of the Chaos Primordial Qi, he naturally wouldn't mention Huang Zhongli.

After speaking, Li Xuanyang ignored Lingmu Daoren's words and pushed the Chaos Undying Body Technique to its limit, manifesting the Chaos Undying Body. His body grew to a size of a million feet, and he summoned the Kongtong Seal, which fell into his hand and turned into a sky full of golden divine light, smashing towards Lingmu Daoren and Lingmu Staff who were trapped in the formation.

A whooshing sound rang out within the formation. Li Xuanyang's heart was filled with killing intent, and he had no intention of holding back. No matter how powerful Lingmu Daoist was, how extraordinary his background was, or how protective he was by a Chaos Spiritual Treasure, he could still break through it with force.

"Not good!" Daoist Lingmu exclaimed in surprise. Ignoring the descending chaotic divine light, he tried to transform his Lingmu Staff into a beam of divine light to meet the Kongtong Seal.

However, the golden divine light transformed from the Kongtong Seal crashed down, slamming into the spirit wood staff with a deafening roar. The entire formation trembled violently, causing the heavens and earth to shake.

Lingmu Daoist's face turned pale, and he felt an unbearable pain in his chest. A golden bloodstain had somehow spilled from the corner of his mouth. The force of Li Xuanyang's Kongtong Seal had caused his magical power to dissipate. However, the Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Formation could form its own cycle, and streams of chaotic divine light continued to fall. Lingmu Daoist could not care about his injuries and could only recall his Lingmu Staff and once again raise it above his head to resist the chaotic divine light.

"Again!" Li Xuanyang shouted softly, summoning the Kongtong Seal back. He once again exerted all his strength, transforming the Kongtong Seal into a golden light and smashing it towards the Spirit Wood Daoist.

At the same time, the power of the Innate Yin-Yang Two Elements Array was activated, and streams of chaotic divine light were integrated into the Kongtong Seal, where chaotic primordial energy and chaotic Dao laws were manifested.

The Spirit Wood Daoist, who was resisting the Chaos Divine Light, was startled when he suddenly felt the endless Chaos Divine Light disappear.

Then, Daoist Lingmu suddenly felt a tremor in his mind, and his three flowers of primordial spirit dimmed. He had a feeling that a great disaster was about to befall him, and his face turned even paler. He did not expect that the Chaos Undying Body would be so powerful and domineering. He was trapped in the great formation and could not dodge. For a moment, he had no power to fight back.

At this moment, another golden divine light descended from the void, about to strike the Spirit Wood Daoist on the head.

"Manifestation of Chaos!" Upon seeing this, the Spirit Wood Daoist uttered a low shout, and divine light surged around his body, manifesting a huge spirit wood. Its entire body was surrounded by the laws of the Great Dao of Life, merging with the spirit wood staff above his head, manifesting the chaotic aura, turning it into a hazy gray expanse, from which countless chaotic energies were generated, merging with the laws of the Great Dao of Life, giving rise to a vast and boundless aura, extremely majestic.

The next moment, the golden light transformed from the Kongtong Seal fell onto the spirit wood, unleashing a deafening roar. The golden light and chaotic energy overflowed, causing the space within the formation to shatter into countless miles, with earth, wind, water, and fire gushing out.

The Primordial Yin-Yang Array was severely damaged by the impact of the energy released from the collision.

The innate Yin-Yang duality divine diagram let out a mournful cry, transforming into a dim black and white diagram, which flew into Li Xuanyang's primordial spirit three flowers.

The spirit tree manifested by the Spirit Tree Daoist was severely injured by Li Xuanyang's Kongtong Seal, leaving a huge wound. The wound was covered with gray chaotic laws colliding and spreading into the trunk. Golden blood and chaotic aura gushed out continuously, and broken branches and leaves were scattered all around.

"What a wonderful method, what a wonderful treasure!" Daoist Lingmu felt as if his internal organs were being burned, his physical foundation was damaged, his primordial spirit was dimmed, and even his companion treasure, the Lingmu Staff, was smashed away, showing some signs of dimming.

"I will surely repay your kindness today in the future!" As he spoke, a fierce glint flashed in Lingmu Daoren's eyes. He summoned back the Lingmu Staff, spat out a mouthful of golden essence blood, and merged it into the staff, which then became a beam of light that flew into the shattered void.

"Spirit Wood!"

"The Great Law of Life!"

"Could it be that Daoist Lingmu is the Life Demon God among the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods!" Looking at Daoist Lingmu flying into the shattered void, Li Xuanyang's face was extremely pale. He felt that his magic power was almost completely exhausted. Moreover, without the Chaos Pearl to suppress him, the Xuanhuang Realm was unstable and he could not manifest himself. Otherwise, he would have to kill Daoist Lingmu here.

This Taoist Lingmu was at a similar level of cultivation to Li Xuanyang, and he also possessed the Chaos Spiritual Treasure, the Spiritual Wood Staff, for protection.

If not for carelessness that led to falling into the Primordial Yin-Yang Formation, and the use of the Chaos Undying Body and the Kongtong Seal to overwhelm the enemy, victory would have been no easy task.

Even so, Li Xuanyang still felt it was a very difficult situation. "It seems that I need to nurture the Heaven-Opening Divine Artifact to perfection as soon as possible and get through the Heavenly Tribulation."

"Otherwise, we'll have to be timid and hesitant every time we encounter a Chaos Treasure or even a Chaos Supreme Treasure." Li Xuanyang put the Kongtong Seal into his Yuan Shen Three Flowers. He felt the damage to the Kongtong Seal, the Devouring Moon Soul-Devouring Sword, and the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram. He couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache and knew he had to take good care of it for a while.

"For someone to send the Spirit Wood Daoist to stop me, it must be no ordinary great supernatural being. It seems the cultivators and forces besieging the Youxiong tribe are quite formidable." A strange light flashed in Li Xuanyang's eyes. To be able to summon a great supernatural being like the Spirit Wood Daoist was definitely not something an ordinary cultivator could do. He just didn't know if it was related to Shen Ni and Ji Du, or if it was the work of several saints or other quasi-saint great supernatural beings.

"And what about the relationship between the Spirit Wood Daoist and the Queen Mother of the West?" Li Xuanyang couldn't think of anything for the moment, so he simply flashed a chaotic divine light around him, calmed down the billions of miles of void, and collected the scattered broken branches and leaves around him. With a flash of golden cloud light beneath his feet, he headed back towards the Youxiong tribe.

This time, we didn't encounter any other unexpected events along the way.

However, this delayed Li Xuanyang for several days. When he arrived at the Youxiong tribe, hundreds of thousands of miles away, he could see the divine light soaring into the sky and spreading throughout the entire void.

Above the void, there were cultivators with expressions of astonishment looking down at the formation below. They felt the astonishing divine power, the primordial energy soaring into the sky, and the booming sounds echoing endlessly.

Even through the array, the earth still trembled, as if the mountains were shaking and the earth was trembling, a truly terrifying sight.

At this time, most of these cultivators had arrived later, including disciples of the Chan, Jie, and Western sects. However, faced with the Innate Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array, none of them dared to take a single step.

Those cultivators who recognized the Innate Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array were filled with shock, wondering which powerful being could have made True Person Xuan Yang set up this array.

Before he even got close, Li Xuanyang noticed that the Innate Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array was like a unified whole, and he immediately thought of the Chaos Pearl.

"Use the Chaos Pearl to suppress the great formation!" Li Xuanyang's expression changed slightly, and he immediately transformed into a golden light, rushing directly into the formation.

The group of cultivators who were observing the formation in the void only saw a flash of golden light before their eyes, and then it disappeared.

"Primordial Profound Yang Divine Light!"

Clearly, someone recognized that Li Xuanyang's golden cloud light was the transformation of the innate Xuanyang divine light.

These words caused many cultivators to look at each other with puzzled expressions.

The Primordial Profound Yang Divine Light is Li Xuanyang's innate divine light. Throughout the entire prehistoric world, even his three direct disciples, Yun Zhongzi, Kong Xuan, and Chang Xi, have never mastered it.

But if it was Li Xuanyang who personally entered the formation just now, then who set up the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation?

Upon entering the formation, Li Xuanyang was momentarily stunned by the chanting of Buddhist hymns and the golden light of merit. Then, a boundless killing intent surged from his body. "Zhunti!"

"I haven't even gone to cause you any trouble yet, and now you dare to come here to bully the weak and seize the Emperor's Sword!"

Li Xuanyang never expected that the person inside the formation was not Shen Ni and Ji Du, but Zhunti Daoist, one of the two Western Saints.

In an instant, they arrived at the depths of the formation, where a huge golden Bodhi statue appeared on a golden lotus with seven treasures and a thousand petals. It stood in the formation, radiating golden light of merit, and chanting incantations, displaying the supreme Taoist power and supernatural abilities of the Western Sect.

Surrounded by the Five Elements Dharma Bodies, each with a deathly pale face, with the Five Primordial Banners of the Primordial Heaven hanging high above their heads, manifesting countless chaotic laws of the Great Dao, not only blocking all the golden light of merit, but also trapping the Bodhi Golden Body manifested by the Daoist Zhunti within the formation.

Seeing the expressions on the faces of the five Daoists, Daoist Zhunti chuckled and said to them, "Now that your five fellow Daoists' Innate Five Elements and Five Directions Formation is about to break, if you do not wish for damage to your Innate Five Directions Flags, why not hand over the Human Emperor Sword and come with me to the Western Eight Treasures Spirit Mountain to cultivate?"

Despite the casual tone of Zhunti Daoist's words, he dared not underestimate the five Daoists before him and the Primordial Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array.

He was even quite puzzled by the mysterious power of this formation.

When the Dao Ancestor Hongjun preached in Zixiao Palace in the past, he mentioned this formation. It is one of the four great killing formations in the prehistoric world, comparable to the Zhuxian Sword Formation, the Zhou Tian Star Formation, and the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation.

However, the innate Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array before them was completely different from what the Dao Ancestor Hongjun had described. Not only could the innate Five Directions Flags that set up the array transform into five Daoists, as if they were five good and evil self-corpses.

However, unlike the three corpses of good and evil, each of them wields a kind of innate five elements law. They not only communicate with each other and complement each other, but can also connect with the great formation.

In addition, there was the supreme treasure of primordial unity in the center of the suppression array. Even the slightest wisp of its aura was enough to startle Daoist Zhunti, reminding him of Li Xuanyang's supreme treasure of chaos.

Thinking of this, Zhunti Daoist stared at the five Daoists, the Five Elements Banner of the Primordial Chaos, and the center of the great formation, his eyes flashing with a burning desire. "As long as I kill these five Daoists, I can not only obtain the Human Emperor Sword and help Bodhi Daoist attain the Holy Emperor's position, but the Five Elements Banner of the Primordial Chaos and the treasure that suppresses the great formation will also be in my grasp."

As soon as Li Xuanyang entered the formation, he was sensed by the Five Elements Dharma Body. They exchanged glances and smiled at each other. Li Xuanyang sneered at Zhunti Daoist, "Hmph, the power of the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation has not yet been fully revealed. Let's see how you break the formation."

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of chaotic divine light flashed around Li Xuanyang, revealing the Three Flowers of his Primordial Spirit, which merged into the great formation, combining with the Innate Five Elements Array Diagram and the Chaos Pearl.

Suddenly, a thick fog rose within the formation, enveloping each of the five elemental bodies and giving rise to a hazy, gray radiance, concealing a heavy killing intent. Five portals materialized out of thin air and stood around Daoist Zhunti.

Above the great formation, endless chaotic divine light appeared out of thin air and fell towards Daoist Zhunti, constantly eroding the merit golden light of the Bodhi Golden Body.

At this moment, the several quasi-saints and great supernatural beings, including the Azure Sea Daoist who had long been trapped in the great formation, faced a dilemma: either enter the five portals or be struck by the descending chaotic divine light.

Both are difficult to choose. The Five Elements and Five Directions Grand Array has no concept of a life gate. No matter which gate you enter, you will face the power of the rotation and mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements.

(End of this chapter)