Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 43 Clash of Twin Guns, Strange Qi

The moment Taiwei finished speaking, a bolt of lightning and a line of fire collided instantly. Amidst the explosion of brilliant light, the spears in Taiwei and Beiqing's hands pierced through the sky, shooting towards each other.

Long streaks of light tore countless cracks in the sky as Taiwei and Beiqing's auras collided repeatedly. The heavy primordial energy and spiritual energy, stirred by the spears in their hands, transformed into a massive vortex around them.

However, just as the vortex took shape, countless bolts of lightning and countless lines of fire tore the surging vortex into countless pieces.

The spear tips clashed, producing a clear and melodious metallic sound. Taiwei and Beiqing took a slight step back, but in the next instant, an even more violent aura burst forth from their bodies.

Amidst countless staggered spear shadows, Taiwei's face gleamed with brilliance. He hadn't used his spear skills for a long time, and gradually picked them up again. His originally somewhat rough spear skills had reached perfection in just a few breaths.

Even Bei Qing, who had been immersed in spear techniques for millions of years, was shocked by Tai Wei's progress in spear techniques. Bei Qing seemed to be wondering if Tai Wei had deliberately concealed his skills at the beginning. However, as Tai Wei's spear techniques became more and more shrewd and unpredictable, Bei Qing no longer had the mind to think about these things.

Bei Qing's spear thrust out continuously, the swift and fierce spear technique perfectly combined with the explosive and scorching flames, aggressive as fire and fast as light.

Taiwei maintained his combat power at the early stage of the Golden Immortal realm, and even without using his profound cultivation, he was somewhat unable to defeat Beiqing.

This made Taiwei increasingly curious about who was behind Beiqing. For someone like Beiqing to submit, the other party must also be a powerful figure at the Taiyi realm.

The pure white spear thrust out 36 million times in an instant. Bei Qing's eyes narrowed sharply. Even with his skill in spear fighting, he was still shocked when he saw the sky-covering spear shadows.

With his aura exploding, Bei Qing let out a low roar, and his spear technique exploded beyond its limit. Flames erupted from his red-tasseled spear, and millions of blazing fire lines met the endless pure white lightning in an instant.

In an instant, the deafening roar drowned out all other noises in the world, and the heavy sea of ​​clouds in the sky was swept away by the sudden surge of violent spiritual energy.

The upper halves of several mountains below were shattered in the terrifying flames, and even the Tian'e Lake, which was formed by tens of thousands of cultivators, was stirred up with huge waves at this moment.

Under Taiwei's deliberate guidance, the spiritual energy in the great lake momentarily shifted, and in that instant of chaos, Taiwei's expression hardened as he sensed an extremely peculiar, or rather, eerie, aura.

"The Dao of Alchemy, the Dao of Weapons, Yin and Yang, Time and Space, Life, Soul, Death, and the Five Elements—the Qi of so many Daos can be perfectly integrated. Just as I thought, only a being at the Taiyi Realm could accomplish such a massive project."

Taiwei looked at Tian'e Lake beneath him. Without the pure white spear in his hand spinning, the terrifying power far surpassing that before sent Bei Qing, covered in blood, flying away as he charged towards Taiwei again.

"This design seems to be an attempt to bring the simple spiritual treasure to life, or to transform the spiritual treasure into a living being. It's a very interesting concept."

"If this structure can really succeed, it seems that the essence of the spiritual treasure itself can be greatly enhanced by the soul and life fire ignited in that instant. In this way, it seems that the upgrade of the spiritual treasure's grade will become much easier."

"However, it seems that refining this life-type spiritual treasure requires extremely high cultivation. The person who refined this spiritual treasure seems to have considerable cultivation, and has even dabbled in so many great Daos. I wonder if they are someone I know."

Taiwei looked at Beiqing who was attacking again, a cold look flashed across his face, and he instantly swung out his pure white spear. Heavy flames erupted in front of Beiqing, trying to block Taiwei's attack.

But suddenly, a white bolt of lightning tore through the thick flames. Bei Qing stared blankly at the pure white spear that had pierced his chest. His pupils began to contract rapidly, and the violent aura around his body began to collapse and disintegrate.

"I was just playing around with you a little. You don't think my strength is only what I showed just now, do you?"

Taiwei looked at Beiqing, whose face was pale and who was vomiting blood. With a cold expression, she walked up to Beiqing, grabbed his neck with her left hand, lifted him up, and placed her right index finger on Beiqing's forehead to search his soul and memories.

However, the moment Taiwei's divine sense probed into Beiqing's primordial spirit, an extremely terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Beiqing's body, whose life force was almost extinguished. A magnificent and solemn Dao palace, carved from ice and snow and decorated with countless swimming fish patterns, appeared behind Beiqing.

The terrifying aura caused Taiwei's expression to change, and he instantly loosened his grip on Beiqing. In the next instant, a streak of cold light, interwoven with frost white and ink black, transformed into a bolt of lightning and slashed down from in front of Taiwei's nose.

The earth shook violently, and a bottomless ravine was carved into the ground below. Taiwei looked at the strands of hair that had been severed in front of him, his expression solemn. Before Taiwei, the Dao Palace that had appeared earlier, and Bei Qing who was almost dead, had all disappeared.

"So, they used a treasure of heaven and earth to directly disrupt spacetime and take Bei Qing away? It seems I've made an enemy of a Taiyi-level expert."

Taiwei's face showed a troubled expression. This suddenly solemn Dao Palace must be the Taiyi Great Power behind Bei Qing, which was not beyond Taiwei's expectations.

However, misaligning time and space requires a huge amount of magical power and can even cause great damage to one's own treasures. Unless the other party has a supreme treasure of the void, one can avoid the damage caused by invoking the great power of time and space and shifting the void.

However, judging from the aura of that solemn Dao Palace just now, although it was very grand, it was far from reaching the level of a supreme treasure of the Void.

The fact that the other party was willing to suffer great damage to a treasure acquired through the acquired means that Bei Qing was extremely important to them.

This kind of relationship usually only exists between direct descendants or direct disciples. Regardless of the type, since Taiwei killed the other party's closest person, this powerful being at the Taiyi realm would certainly not let Taiwei off the hook.

"I hope my efforts will be rewarded accordingly, otherwise I will have suffered a huge loss."

Taiwei descended, looked at the now empty Tian'e Lake, and let out a soft laugh.

As his body sank into the clear lake water, Taiwei followed the energy he had sensed earlier and traversed the water palace of Tian'e Lake. However, after searching the entire bottom of Tian'e Lake, Taiwei still could not find the strange energy he had sensed earlier.

(End of this chapter)