Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The cyan blade light had barely touched the edge of the vortex when it was pulled by a terrifying force, turning into countless tiny cyan spirit dots that completely disappeared into the vortex.

The vortex spun at high speed, frantically plundering all the spiritual energy within the domain.

Wei Yuan Zhenren was also trapped near the vortex. Feng Yuan Banner forcibly protected him, and his body was wrapped in a layer of cyan energy to resist the devouring power.

Ultimately, Wei Yuan was violently thrown out by the shockwave created by the disappearance of the vortex, crashing into a sand dune and creating a crater tens of meters deep.

He lay at the bottom of the pit, covered in blood, his fate unknown.

A hint of surprise flashed through Lin Zhao's mind.

Wei Yuan's strength wasn't that great, but his defense was quite strong. He had taken a direct hit from one of the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Rings, and now he had also taken a hit from the Returning Void Devouring Heaven Technique, yet he was still alive.

The title of "Peerless Prodigy" of Jin Yuzong does reflect his abilities; at least his ability to protect himself is not bad.

As for Yang Si in front of him, although he managed to barely withstand the attack of the Five Prisons Suppressing World Dragon with the help of the Heavenly Treasure Dragon, he was still far from being able to defeat it.

Especially in terms of endurance, the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon is a combat form that Lin Zhao has repeatedly deduced and refined. Its spiritual energy circulation is self-consistent, and the five prisons rotate endlessly, creating an inexhaustible cycle.

With Lin Zhao's current strength, fighting for ten days or half a month wouldn't be a problem.

Yang Si's Heavenly Treasure Dragon was entirely sustained by his peak Core Formation cultivation, and he was frantically burning his mana every breath.

If he can hold out for an hour, he wins.

Sweat was already beading on Yang Si's forehead.

The Heavenly Treasure Dragon is indeed powerful, able to withstand the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon head-on without being defeated, but its mana consumption is too great, and its mana is being consumed at a visible rate.

Lin Zhao was about to add fuel to the fire.

You like simulation, right? Then take a look at the various forms I've created and see if you can simulate them all.

Within the Five Prisons Domain, the immense spiritual power of the Five Elements began to differentiate, with four streams of spiritual power emerging respectively—the Metal element transforming into the White Tiger, the Wood element into the Azure Dragon, the Fire element into the Vermilion Bird, and the Water element into the Black Tortoise.

Four figures, each wielding different spiritual powers, hovered around Lin Zhao, each occupying a specific position.

The Azure Dragon meanders and coils, the White Tiger crouches and pounces, the Vermilion Bird spreads its wings and cries out, and the Black Tortoise lies coiled like a mountain.

Then the Five Hells rotated again, and the power of the Five Elements began to transform into other attributes.

Countless sword energies emerged within the domain, condensing into a sword dragon. The dragon's body, hundreds of feet long, had every scale formed from sword energy.

Earth, water, fire, and wind surged, and a pair of four-colored wings appeared out of thin air. Yinglong materialized and emerged, and each flap of the wings brought forth the flow of spiritual energy of the four attributes.

Not finished yet.

Lin Zhao borrowed the power of the Five Prisons Reincarnation, merging metal and water to forcibly condense the power of thunder. The lightning intertwined, forming the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Dragon. The dragon's body was semi-transparent, and lightning could be seen flashing inside.

Then he rotated the five elements again, with wood and fire rising to become wind spiritual power, and water and earth condensing to form ice spiritual power.

He forcefully condensed these wind and ice spiritual energies into the Xun Wind Spirit Dragon and the Qian Ice Spirit Dragon, one of which was wrapped in a blue hurricane, and the other was covered in an extreme cold ice storm.

The Five Prisons Guardian Dragon resides in the center, the Four Spirits guard the four directions, the Sword Dragon and the Ying Dragon stand guard on both sides, the Nine Luminaries Dragon coils in front, and the Wind Dragon and the Ice Dragon roam the edges.

Ten hundred-foot-long dragons completely obscured the sky.

The ten spirits roared in unison—the dragon's cry, the tiger's howl, the phoenix's cry, and the tortoise's roar, along with the hiss of two spirit dragons and the roar of three strange dragons, all blending into a deafening sound wave.

Yang Siren was stunned.

Who releases magical powers like that?

These spirit dragons, apart from the strongest one, the Five Prisons World-Suppressing Heavenly Dragon, each possessed strength at the mid-stage of Core Formation on its own, but with the blessing of the Five Prisons Domain, each one was comparable to the late-stage of Core Formation.

Surrounded by ten dragons, which Core Formation cultivator could possibly stand against them?

Above the clouds, Zhou Yichu and Li Peilan were also stunned.

Zhou Yichu stared blankly for a long time before finally managing to utter, "Master... this..."

Li Peilan didn't speak, but simply gripped Zhou Yichu's hand tightly.

Qingwu Zhenjun sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

He brought two disciples with him today for two reasons.

Firstly, it was to let them witness Yang Si's final fate, thus bringing this bond between fellow disciples to a close.

Secondly, we should encourage them to avoid being narrow-minded and to see what true geniuses are like by looking out into the world.

But isn't this kind of spectacle a bit too exaggerated?

The methods Lin Zhao displayed could no longer be described as those of a "prodigy".

Qingwu Zhenjun asked himself, what if Lin Zhao reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage?

No, the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm isn't necessary; the early stage is enough. With these methods, it's sufficient to fight him and even destroy the entire Qingwu Prefecture.

Even with the blessing of his dojo, he couldn't withstand the attack of those ten spirit dragons.

Sure enough, the battle ended as soon as the ten spirit dragons appeared.

A combined attack—Azure Dragon's Wood Divine Thunder, White Tiger's Metal Killing Qi, Vermilion Bird's Fire Heavenly Flame, Black Tortoise's Water Mysterious Ice, Sword Dragon's Ten Thousand Swords Unleashed, Ying Dragon's Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, Nine Luminaries Heavenly Dragon's Thunderstorm, Xun Wind Spirit Dragon's Endless Wind Blades, and Qian Ice Spirit Dragon's Extreme Cold Spiritual Light—nine completely different powers were simultaneously unleashed upon Yang Si's rune domain.

Within the domain, billions of runes spun wildly, attempting to deflect the attacks, but their speed simply couldn't keep up with the frequency of the attacks.

One rune after another shattered, and the Heavenly Treasure Dragon's scales exploded under the combined fire of the Nine Spirits, its body torn open with countless cracks.

Ultimately, the runic domain, along with the Heavenly Treasure Rune Dragon, was forcibly shattered by the nine spirit dragons.

The Heavenly Treasure Jade Talisman reformed into a physical form, sprang from the shattered magic domain, and landed beside Yang Si.

Yang Si spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on one knee, and slammed his knee into the dry riverbed, creating a shallow crater.

He looked up at the sky.

There was nothing above the clouds—or rather, nothing that they intended for him to see.

He gave a bitter laugh and took out a jade talisman from his pocket.

The surface of this jade talisman is covered with intricate runes, and deep within the runes lies an extremely terrifying power.

That was a life-saving technique given by True Monarch Qingwu, comparable to a strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator; the jade talisman was crushed.

A gigantic tree phantom, nearly a thousand feet tall, rose from the jade talisman fragments. Its trunk was as thick as a mountain, its canopy blocked out the sky, and each branch was a whip condensed with spiritual energy.

Countless tree branches attacked Lin Zhao simultaneously.

With all five prisons open, the Five Prisons, the Heavenly Dragon of the Five Prisons, maintain the Dharma Domain and provide energy support.

Nine Spirits bravely met the attack head-on, directly clashing with the Nascent Soul's strike.

For hundreds of miles around, countless huge explosions and roars resounded.

The tree branch collided with the spirit dragon, sending fragments of spiritual energy flying everywhere.

The shockwave spread outwards from the center of the battlefield, flattening sand dunes and crushing rocks.

The nine spirit dragons crashed head-on into the thousand-foot-tall tree. The wind spirit dragon was pierced by dozens of branches and dissipated.

The Ice Spirit Dragon froze hundreds of tree branches, but it was crushed by the subsequent surge of branches.

The Stegosaurus severed thousands of branches before finally being struck head-on by a tree trunk, its scales shattering.

Yinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, Xuanwu, and Jiuyao Tianlong shattered one after another under the bombardment of the giant tree.

Each time the spirit dragon dissipated, Lin Zhao's body trembled slightly, but he did not retreat.

When all nine spirits dissipated, only the last trunk remained of the giant tree phantom.

The Five Prisons Suppressing World Dragon met the attack head-on, its five-colored body spinning and directly twisting the giant tree trunk into a sky full of spiritual light.