Covering the Sky: A Guide to Proving the Dao Without Cheats

The elder from the Ji family looked at Elder Liu with a deep gaze and spoke in a solemn voice: "I am Ji Changkong, the Supreme Elder of the Ji family. May I ask which fellow Daoist from the Yao Guang Sect is opposite me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful pressure belonging to the first level of Sendai was released, crashing down on the three of them like a mountain!

In an instant, Ye Fan and Weiwei felt the air around them freeze, as if the world itself had turned into a cage and was squeezing them in, making it hard to breathe.

However, in the next instant, an even more vast and condensed terrifying aura rose up from Elder Liu's body!

That aura was not a brute force, but rather like a blazing sun suddenly descending, bright and righteous, majestic and boundless, actually forcing Ji Changkong's pressure back inch by inch, causing it to roll back!

Ji Changkong's expression changed drastically. He groaned and staggered back a step before regaining his balance. When he looked at Elder Liu again, his eyes were filled with surprise and solemnity.

At this moment, a voice came from the other side: "I am Liu Yuan, the Supreme Elder of the Yao Guang Holy Land."

"Good! Good! Good!" Ji Changkong said "good" three times in a row, but his face was as gloomy as water. "As expected of the Yao Guang Holy Land, it really has a profound foundation."

But this lad has stolen my Ji family's Great Void Technique, a crime deserving of death! Are you, Yao Guang, going to openly protect him?

His tone suddenly turned stern, his voice booming through the sky: "Or is it that... this boy's theft of secret techniques was instigated by you, Yao Guang?!"

Upon hearing this, Elder Liu glanced at Ye Fan with a slightly surprised expression.

Ye Fan's expression changed, and he was about to explain when Elder Liu raised his hand to stop him.

Elder Liu turned back and looked calmly at Ji Changkong, his tone still unhurried: "What grudges this boy has with the Ji family is none of my concern."

"I am here solely on the orders of the Holy Son to escort him back to the Yao Guang Holy Land. If the Ji family has any objections—"

He paused, his voice slightly cold: "You may come to my sacred land of Yao Guang in person to reason with them."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan felt a subtle unease. Elder Liu Yuan's style of doing things was indeed tough, even domineering.

Such a person would be a formidable opponent, but once they become an ally, they exude a reassuring reliability.

"Reasoning?" Ji Changkong laughed angrily and said in a cold voice, "Since that's the case, then I, Ji, will first ask Fellow Daoist Liu for a few moves to see if Yao Guang's 'reason' is weighty enough!"

"Heaven-Slaying Finger!"

With a shout, he spread his five fingers wide like a dragon's claw, aiming straight for Elder Liu!

The Heaven-Severing Finger is a supreme technique recorded in the Ji family's "Void Scripture," possessing immense power and boundless mysteries. At its peak, it can even seize the imprint of heaven and awaken the very source of the Great Dao.

Ji Changkong was clearly close to this level. With a series of tremors of his five fingers, he actually conjured five phantom dragons. Their bodies were intertwined, their scales were menacing, and they instantly coiled around and sealed off all the space around Elder Liu, as if even that void was about to be cut off and sealed.

"snort."

Elder Liu responded with a cold sneer. Without any apparent movement, his body suddenly burst forth with dazzling holy light, his skin as clear as glass, as if a raging holy fire was burning from within. A powerful aura surged up, actually holding up the five illusory dragon figures, preventing them from advancing an inch.

"This is... the Primordial Holy Light Technique, known as invulnerable to all magic, and one of the most advanced defensive secret techniques in the Eastern Wilderness," a Ji family elder who was watching the battle said calmly.

Upon hearing this, another elder from the Ji family scoffed, "The strongest in the Eastern Wilderness?" His tone was disdainful, clearly showing that he did not take this statement seriously.

In the distance, Ye Fan, still a novice in cultivation, stared in disbelief at the scene before him.

The scene was truly astonishing—five phantom-like dragons were entwined around a dazzling sphere of light, their bodies coiled and their scales shimmering menacingly, as if they were about to shatter the sphere of light completely at any moment.

However, the Primordial Holy Light Technique of the Yao Guang Holy Land was truly extraordinary. The holy light was not crushed by the five dragons; instead, it slowly expanded outward, like a blazing sun awakening, gradually pushing open the dragon bodies wrapped around it.

The holy light rubbed fiercely against the dragon scales, splashing out a dazzling rain of light. A sharp screech pierced the air. Even though he was just watching from a distance, Ye Fan felt a sharp pain in his eardrums, dizziness, and almost couldn't stand up.

It wasn't until Weiwei promptly summoned a five-story crystal pagoda, casting its gentle light to protect him, that Ye Fan felt slightly better.

"Clang!"

Just then, a holy sword light, even more dazzling than the blazing sun, suddenly erupted!

Everyone involuntarily closed their eyes and avoided looking directly at each other.

The sword light descended like divine punishment, instantly obliterating the five illusory dragons. Its momentum remained undiminished, cleaving straight towards Ji Changkong!

Ji Changkong snorted coldly, and a palm-sized ancient bronze mirror flew out from the Bitter Sea. It grew taller in the wind, transforming into a person's height. The mirror's surface was deep and dark, as if it contained the void.

The awe-inspiring sword light disappeared into the mirror, like a mud ox entering the sea, without stirring up even the slightest ripple.

"A powerful artifact forged from a replica of the Void Mirror?" Elder Liu frowned almost imperceptibly upon seeing this.

Although he had gained a slight advantage in the previous attack, he knew in his heart that this battle would probably not be so simple.

A glint flashed in Ji Changkong's eyes, and he was certain in his heart: "As expected! Although Yao Guang's 'Hun Yuan Sheng Guang Technique' is extraordinary, it is ultimately an ancient scripture of the Great Sage."

"When it comes to profound and subtle mysteries, how can it compare to my Ji family's imperial scripture, the 'Void Scripture'? Even if he is a level higher than me, defeating me won't be so easy!"

With this in mind, he held nothing back and exerted all his strength.

In an instant, he unleashed the supreme secret technique passed down from the Void Emperor. Ji Changkong's figure seemed to vanish into thin air, as if he had completely merged into the surrounding void.

Immediately afterwards, ripples of void suddenly appeared, rapidly condensing and twisting in the air, transforming into countless pitch-black, sky-covering hands, carrying the terrifying power to shatter space, reaching straight for Elder Liu—

It is the great offensive technique recorded in the Void Sutra: the Great Void Handprint.

Elder Liu's expression was calm, and with every gesture he made, holy light soared into the sky, transforming the surroundings into a blazing white kingdom of light.

Wherever the holy light reaches, it purifies all things and continuously dissolves the incoming void attacks.

However, when faced with this supreme secret technique originating from the Imperial Scripture, he consumed a great deal of divine power to counter it, and every time he was about to completely defeat his opponent, Ji Changkong would skillfully evade it with his exquisite spatial teleportation or illusion-real transformation techniques.

In the battle, Elder Liu held a clear advantage, his holy light overwhelming Ji Changkong, forcing him to fight erratically. However, it was difficult for him to defeat Elder Liu completely in a short period of time.

Elder Liu frowned slightly upon seeing this. It wasn't that he lacked stronger methods; both the Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the offensive techniques within the Undying Heaven Art could break the deadlock.

But with everyone watching, those methods cannot be revealed lightly, unless one goes all the way and kills all the witnesses. Otherwise, even if one wins, there will be endless troubles in the future.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.