A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 598 Arriving Late, the Real Rival

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When the Pangu Axe, which created the world, struck the body of the Cosmic Taipan Serpent, it produced a strange sound like the clash of divine weapons.

After shrinking, the Cosmic Taipan Serpent's body was no different from a peerless flying sword. It was not only agile but also incredibly strong. As several of its scales burst and flew off, it managed to create a burst of sparks on the blade of the Pangu Axe.

After a flash of fire, the entire snake shadow was smashed out of the void by this axe, like a black lightning bolt, piercing through the surrounding mountains and going to an unknown distance.

"What a hard snake!"

Guan Luoyang stepped out of the void rift and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

He had clearly seen that his axe blow had only shattered a few scales and had not actually injured the snake's body.

Before he finished speaking, a very thin, extremely fine scale-like trace reappeared beside Guan Luoyang in the depths of the void.

The Cosmic Taipan Serpent, without warning, returned to Guan Luoyang's side and launched a fierce counterattack.

Even from a higher-dimensional perspective, this area of ​​the Primordial Abyss appears to have a part of the River of Time that has become hazy and eerie.

The methods by which an eight-star powerhouse observes spacetime and causality are severely disrupted in this area, much like a patient with severe astigmatism wearing sunglasses.

Even if you try your best to observe and see that faint black shadow that flashes beneath the surface of the river of time, when you actually try to defend against it, you will find that it is just a trace deliberately created by the cosmic taipan, not the trajectory of a real attack.

This snake not only has much stronger basic attributes than Ghost King Shell, but its combat awareness is also much more cunning.

However, Guan Luoyang tilted his axe slightly, and the blade just grazed the very fine scale mark.

The taipan snake's true form was almost revealed again by the shockwave from this axe blow.

As a Vacuum Demon, Guan Luoyang had briefly broken through the causal timeline and stepped into the cracks of logic long ago when he had cultivated this Great Dao Essence to perfection.

His sense of crisis was subtle, yet it transcended the realm of cause and effect and time.

When he was meticulously recounting the causes and effects, he initially ignored the causes and effects of Fuxi drawing shadows and Ksitigarbha's golden alms bowl, because this sense of crisis that transcends cause and effect was at work.

The painting of Fuxi's shadow may have originally been just a simple act of goodwill, but the golden bowl of Ksitigarbha may not have been.

Moreover, these causes and effects are interconnected. When combined with the causes and effects of developing the Taiqing Chiming Realm, Guan Luoyang felt that if he explored further, he might trigger something, be locked in reverse, and fall into an unpredictable and enormous crisis.

His unwillingness to linger in the Rainbow Sea and his active involvement in the conflicts of the Supreme Warband were partly due to this factor.

To repay the favors that came with these past opportunities, and to fight against the crisis that could destroy him and his family and friends, Guan Luoyang needs to cultivate more connections and relationships.

He needs to be more proactive and aggressive in seeking opportunities to truly break through that barrier and increase his own strength.

The White-Browed Taoist is a valuable resource, and so is this snake before us!

The traces of the cosmic taipan snake crisscrossed the ten directions of the void, constantly attempting to strangle and pierce Guan Luoyang.

The more frequently those scale marks moved back and forth, the more concentrated the suppressive effect of the Primordial Abyss became on Guan Luoyang.

But after Guan Luoyang appeared, a blue halo appeared behind him in an instant.

The Sun and Moon Seal began to rotate.

His magical power is indeed affected by this domain, constantly transforming into unfamiliar and uncontrollable primordial matter. However, while transforming into the past, it is also constantly reincarnated back, becoming dark matter, vacuum divine power, true spirit magical power, and other familiar compositions.

Even the cosmic taipan's domain couldn't completely suppress him into a state where only physical matter remained.

Moreover, under this constant cycle of change, Guan Luoyang quickly adapted to the state of having a small portion of primordial matter in his body. The Vacuum Heart Realm, following the trend, is conducting decomposition research on the primordial matter with extremely high efficiency.

In his eyes, the incredibly powerful body of the Cosmic Taipan Serpent was no longer a mysterious entity that was impossible to approach, but rather something that began to be traceable.

The scales in the void rolled back toward Guan Luoyang's neck.

The Pangu Axe, which was being swung with great force, suddenly deflected slightly, and its scales were cleanly sliced ​​open. The Taipan snake's body, which was originally invincible, was cut with a clear wound by this axe.

The entire body of the Cosmic Taipan emerged, complete with head and tail. It roared proudly, its body trembling and growing larger like a wave. The wounds on its body healed rapidly, and its figure soared into the sky, swirling in the clouds and stirring up an increasingly intense dark cloud to protect itself and conceal its form.

Guan Luoyang looked up and knew that the Taipan Serpent was preparing a new attack, but he was not in a hurry. He just thought to himself that it was a pity.

If it weren't for the 10% attack power limitation, that axe strike should have had a chance to leave some wounds on the Cosmic Taipan Serpent that weren't so easily erased.

But from the very beginning, when a full-force axe strike could barely shatter a few scales, to now, when the axe blade is slightly off-center, it can cut a clear wound. This change in performance is already quite astonishing.

Moreover, for Ryuji Sanzang, the comparison between these two battle records was only a matter of a snap of the fingers.

"This person... this person actually found a way to deal with the cosmic taipan so quickly?!"

Liuzhi Sanzang looked solemn. He asked himself if he would be at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight with the Cosmic Taipan Serpent.

Now that even the taipan snake has been found to have a countermeasure so quickly, if this person turns around and targets me, they can probably break through my techniques and supernatural abilities even more easily.

If I'm forced to use my ultimate move and trigger the rule that breaking a move means certain death, wouldn't I just die on the spot?

Upon realizing this, Liuzhi Sanzang's desire to temporarily avoid the limelight intensified.

At that very moment, Guan Luoyang, who was looking up at the sky, suddenly turned around and swung his axe at Liuzhi Sanzang's face.

The blade of Pangu's axe embedded itself directly into Liuzhi Sanzang's face, tearing through the flesh of his features and striking his skull.

Liuzhi Sanzang was filled with shock and rage. He roared, slammed his hands together, clamped the axe, and pulled his face off the axe.

A slanted wound was visible, almost slicing open the entire face of Liuzhi Sanzang. Blue smoke rose from the left edge of the wound, while black blood dripped from the right edge, making it a hideous and terrifying sight.

The Pangu Axe was surrounded by the power of the void, appearing and disappearing in an instant.

The axe vanished into thin air, freed from the grip of Ryuji Sanzang's hands. When it reappeared, it swung horizontally, severing both of Ryuji Sanzang's hands.

Liuzhi Sanzang then realized that his body was now filled with primordial matter, and he had no magical power. He could not use most of his usual supernatural abilities. Trying to restrain the other party's axe was simply courting death.

We must not think about fighting back, nor about touching that axe; the only right thing to do is to run away immediately.

He turned around, sprinted forward, and opened his mouth, taking a deep breath to suck the inheritors of the seven divine armors and the dilapidated corpse into his mouth.

Although he had no magical powers, he had figured out a way to influence spacetime with his physical body. With one bite, he compressed space, shrinking the Eight Legions to the size of soybeans, and took them with him.

Although Liuzhi Sanzang ran fast, behind him was the Pangu Axe that cut through space and time, its sharpness boundless, continuously attacking through the air and catching up with his figure.

He didn't turn his head, only a few strands of hair fell from the back of his head, revealing a bald patch of scalp with a large, darting eye growing out from it.

With only the eye on the back of his head, Liuzhi Sanzang trod through the void, leaping and bounding between the crisscrossing axe lights. Although he sustained several more wounds, he ran further and further away.

A dark shadow swirling in the high-altitude clouds emitted a high-pitched, resonant roar.

Beyond the heavens of the Gourmet Continent, even the sparse stars trembled.

The taipan's hissing sound expanded outward at superluminal speed, sending out even more chaotic ripples upon encountering any obstacle, regardless of size.

In this way, it modulates the frequency of vibration of all kinds of matter in the vast starry sky and on the vast earth, converging them into an unparalleled shock wave, which envelops it and falls from the clouds, crashing towards Guan Luoyang.

Time and space, in an instant, seemed to transform into bubbles that were squeezing against each other.

As the cosmic taipan sank, the number of bubbles became so great that they formed mountains and oceans, covering the area surrounding Guanluoyang.

The surface of the bubble was constantly vibrating almost imperceptibly, indicating that the spacetime arc that the universe inherently possessed had also been subtly adjusted, leaving Guan Luoyang with no way to avoid it.

This method is undeniably ingenious. The Cosmic Taipan Serpent's research on material entities is even more profound than Guan Luoyang's Refining Aperture Martial Arts.

But in Guan Luoyang's eyes, this move was only worth studying.

Previously, he deliberately used the Pangu Axe to attack the Taipan Serpent instead of using the Other Shore Seal for defense, precisely to borrow the sharpness of the Pangu Axe to facilitate the analysis of the characteristics of the primordial substance.

However, in terms of sheer offensive power, neither the Taipan Serpent's previous void devouring attack nor the impact of this wide-area matter superstring shockwave can compare to the domineering power of the White-Browed Taoist's ability to swallow the cosmic torrent and unify the characteristics of all powerful beings.

Guan Luoyang raised his left palm to the sky, unleashing the ancient and transcendent power of the Other Shore Palm, steadily receiving the attack from the Cosmic Taipan Serpent.

His gaze swept across numerous mountains and plains, still fixed on the back of Ryuji Sanzang, his eyes slightly narrowed.

"Actually, the chance to kill you is far rarer than the chance to kill the taipan."

Pangu's axe swung, leaving two trajectories, one forward and one backward.

Liuzhi Sanzang's previous ideas were flawed.

The Cosmic Taipan is ultimately a native mythical beast. Its expertise in a certain area is so great that it can even draw people like Liuzhi Sanzang, Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit into its area of ​​expertise to fight against each other, thus gaining a huge advantage.

However, in other aspects, this snake is not as well-rounded as an eight-star reincarnator, which is why it is easy for Guan Luoyang to target it.

If he were truly a fully healthy, high-level eight-star expert, his abilities would be infinitely varied and his resilience would be unparalleled.

With only one-tenth of Guan Luoyang's attack power, it's really unlikely that they can take it down.

That's why Guan Luoyang couldn't possibly let go of this golden opportunity.

He had just figured out a trick to deal with the primordial matter, and he wanted to take advantage of the fact that Liuzhi Sanzang's body was full of primordial matter and had no magic power, so as to severely injure him!

"You cannot keep me here!!"

When Liuzhi Sanzang saw that Guan Luoyang had easily withstood the impact of the Taipan serpent and still had the strength to swing his axe, he knew something was wrong.

However, he is not far from the boundary of the Ancestral Realm. As long as he escapes this area and recovers his magic power, no matter how many injuries he has, Guan Luoyang will not be able to catch up with an eight-star high-level expert who is determined to escape at this distance.

His wrists were broken, but his arms were outstretched, his sleeves were swung, and his feet had already exerted all their strength as he took a big leap forward.

The axe flashed and swirled towards him, but he dodged it to the side, only to glide past his ankles, causing him to pause slightly.

The second axe strike seemed to have been timed perfectly, and as it spun, it sliced ​​towards the back of his neck.

Ding!

A finger suddenly appeared and struck the axe flash.

With its slightly yellow skin, rosy nails, and slender knuckles, this finger is nothing special. The only striking feature is the bright and beautiful flame brewing at its tip.

With a slight flash of fire, sword-shaped qi, like flawless red jade, erupted from the fingertips, piercing and shattering the axe light.

Liuzhi Sanzang landed and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Dongfang Wuyou, why did you only arrive now?!"

"Don't rush, it's not too late."

Dongfang Wuyou raised his arms, spread his palms, and flicked his ten fingers in turn.

The broad crimson sword energy swept across the sky, leaving behind thick, dazzling crimson trails that stirred up the clouds and caused mist to swirl over the mountains.

Two of the sword energies followed slightly lower trajectories, their lower edges crushing numerous mountains and carving out straight ravines millions of miles long.

Guan Luoyang's Pangu Axe merged into his body, and he pressed down with his right palm, unleashing the Zhen Qian Kun Seal, but it was purely a defensive stance.

Instantly, five planets of five different colors coalesced and took shape, each slowly rotating.

The trajectory of the five celestial bodies, seemingly slow but actually rapid, perfectly blocked the path of those sword energies.

Amidst the earth-shattering roar of the explosion, the sword energy and the starlight were shattered almost simultaneously.

But Guan Luoyang gave a low hum and stepped back slightly.

"With this snake in your hands, how can you withstand my attack?"

Dongfang Wuyou suddenly appeared in front of Guan Luoyang and pushed out with both palms.

He had nine fireballs in each of his palms, one large and eight small, with the large one in the center and the smaller ones rotating around it.

At the same time as the palm strikes, the Nine Yangs unite as one!

Guan Luoyang's pupils contracted slightly, and he had no choice but to defend with all his might. He tried to meet the attack with both arms, but due to the hasty response, he was knocked back a distance by the impact.

"Heaven operates in a forward direction, while demons manipulate it in reverse. I've long heard that those who possess the Dao essence of the Heavenly Demon type are most adept at learning from others' strengths to compensate for their own weaknesses, borrowing from other things to mend their past shortcomings—they can learn anything they see..."

Dongfang Wuyou's words essentially revealed the true essence of the Heavenly Demon Path: its ability to learn from others' strengths and compensate for its own weaknesses.

When an ordinary person's foundation is cultivated to the level of eight stars, it inevitably becomes too solid. Even if they gain new insights, they will mostly only expand outwards from the original foundation. It is naturally extremely difficult to make any changes to the past after learning from others.

However, the essence of the Heavenly Demon Path is half reverse alteration. Once one realizes which parts of one's past foundation have gone astray, one can naturally transform and reduce them without any obstacles.

In the Path of the Heavenly Demon, the other half, which develops positively, can allow the pruned part to redevelop and quickly fill in the gaps according to new insights.

Therefore, all celestial demons possess the characteristic of being adept at imitation and transformation.

"Tonight, I must ask for your guidance: what are the strengths of the version of me that you have created using the Heavenly Demon Path?"

As Dongfang Wuyou spoke, a red sun mark appeared on his forehead, signaling his renewed attack.

(End of this chapter)