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Chapter 268 - 223: Magic Duel (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 268: Chapter 223: Magic Duel (Please Subscribe)

"Do you think I believe you?"

Fang Xing’s face revealed a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.

In fact, the situation just now had been somewhat dangerous for him.

That old wooden Taoist naturally wasn’t worth mentioning, but the woman surnamed Nie was clearly an Array Master. Had she been given the chance to calmly set up an array, he would have been the one in a difficult position.

Of course, after his true self made a move, everything changed drastically.

He launched a surprise attack by taking advantage of the suddenness of the Gate of All Heavens, and with one punch he wiped out the most troublesome Array Master of the enemy.

As for what "Moon Body"? As an enemy, he naturally wouldn’t show the slightest bit of pity or mercy.

He, a Grandmaster of the Heavenly Spirit Root Cultivators, wouldn’t have to stoop to dual cultivation to increase his Cultivation even if he faced a bottleneck after Core Formation!

At this point, when the situation turned to one against two, even if this Stone Taoist proved difficult to deal with, it wouldn’t take much effort.

"Hmm?"

Fang Xing suddenly shifted his expression. The Rotten Iron Sword transformed into a beam of sword light and in an instant slashed across the Stone Taoist’s arm.

Rip!

The Third Rank magic robe tore open a large hole, revealing the Stone Taoist’s gray-white skin.

That slash of sword light, when it landed on him, only managed to leave a white mark.

"Fossil Demon Body... truly lives up to its reputation."

Fang Xing remarked.

Meanwhile, the Stone Taoist had completed his small maneuver.

He opened a Corpse Storage Bag strap around his waist, from which surged an ominous and fierce aura.

A Golden Armored Corpse flickered in and out of sight within it.

This Golden Armored Corpse was clad in dark golden armor, with greenish-black features, bare fangs, and its nails were as sharp as terrifying claws, akin to two monstrous talons. Its aura reached the Third Rank, clearly not easy to deal with.

"Go!"

The Stone Taoist pointed, and a droplet of fresh blood flew out, landing on the Golden Armored Corpse’s forehead, materializing into a blood-colored Talisman.

Immediately, the Golden Armored Corpse’s eyes flashed with a fierce light, and with a ghastly roar, it pounced toward the Cultivation Avatar.

Swoosh!

Fang Xing made a slashing motion with his sword, invoking the Sword Intent Heavenly Heart, which fell on the Golden Armored Corpse and sparked off flecks of fire.

"Third Rank Top Grade Magical Treasure Spirit Armor?"

As he looked at the armor on the Golden Armored Corpse, Fang Xing’s eyes moved slightly. This was even better than his Ten Thousand Beasts Armor.

Yet after the great battle, to peel off the dead creature’s armor and wear it himself was obviously something he would not do.

’And the Blood Talisman before... the Demon Path indeed cuts off all emotions and sentiments, refining their own kin into Demon Corpses?’

The Cultivation Avatar’s sword light transformed, turning into myriad Sword Gangs that enveloped the sky, overwhelming the Golden Armored Corpse like the mighty Yangtze River, seeking its weaknesses and defects.

On the other side.

The Stone Taoist watched Fang Xing with interest, "Who are you, that you could directly teleport through the Void..."

"Why should a dead man know so much?"

Fang Xing snorted coldly and took a step forward.

Boom!

His figure shot forward like a phantom, while a cloud behind him seemed to be impacted by a recoil force, exploding into tatters with a booming shock.

Rumble!

As Fang Xing approached with the Dancing Sky Steps, his Martial Arts Will had already descended mightily, attacking the Stone Taoist’s Divine Sense.

The Stone Taoist’s expression changed. Within his Sea of Consciousness, a primitive Stone Seal emerged—surprisingly, it was an extremely rare Magical Treasure for protecting the Divine Sense!

Such treasures were said to have many benefits, especially in defending against Divine Sense Attacks, dealing with the heart demons of Cultivators, and even in crossing the Heart Demon Tribulation during Core Formation.

However, due to the scarcity of materials and the difficulty in crafting them, they were rare to come by in the Cultivation World.

But the Stone Taoist, as a Core Formation true person of the Nine Infant Sect, had stumbled upon many strange encounters. This "Heart Guard Seal" was inherited from an ancient predecessor’s Cave Mansion.

He kept it as a trump card, never revealing it.

Little did he expect that on their first encounter today, Fang Xing would discover it.

"Such a strong Divine Sense Attack, nearly reaching the Quasi Fourth Rank?"

The Stone Taoist was shaken to his core. Watching Fang Xing approach, his body seemed to be covered in Stone Skin, transforming into a stone figure with fists flying out.

Boom!

Fang Xing made no attempt to dodge and countered with his own punch.

The fists collided mid-air with a thunderous crash.

Bang bang bang!

Like myriad flowers blooming, Fang Xing unleashed a hundred punches in a blink, even finding a gap in the Stone Taoist’s technique, dealing a direct punch to the Stone Taoist’s chest.

Spurt!

With that punch, the Stone Taoist staggered backward, his robe on his chest bursting open, revealing his gray-white torso.

At that moment, a layer of Stone Powder rustled off.

"Thrilling!"

Fang Xing laughed heartily, "You are the first one who can exchange punches with me in this place!"

"Is it possible..."

The Stone Taoist hung his head low, glancing at the fist mark on his chest, seemingly in disbelief.

He trod the path of dual cultivation of body and technique, his physique long since rivaling a third-rank body refining master, and especially to complement his body refining cultivation, he had even specifically learned some body cultivation combat methods and even mortal martial arts; he considered himself to be someone of grandmaster caliber.

Yet he had not anticipated that in the very field of martial arts where he was so confident, he would be utterly crushed by Fang Xing!

Fang Xing merely smiled without a word.

This realm’s mere postnatal and innate ways, how could they compare with the Blue Star Martial Arts?

The opponent’s martial approach was somewhat interesting, but the moves were still too crude, naturally no match for the thoroughly tempered Martial Arts Will of his own.

If not to avoid being too arrogant, Fang Xing even wanted to say, "Don’t challenge my profession with your hobby!"

Suddenly, a dull yellow light burst forth from the eyes of the opposing Stone Daoist, who swiped his hand across his chest.

A layer of stone powder drifted down, covering and fusing with the original Fist Mark... no longer showing any sign of injury.

"Oh? Using a secret technique to forcefully suppress injuries, that’s indeed interesting..."

Fang Xing stood with his hands behind his back, quietly watching the Stone Daoist show off.

The Stone Daoist released three defense talismans with a wave of his hand, transforming into a golden shield, earth wall, and water wall among other defenses, securely protecting himself, then with a pat on his dantian, a hint of grey-white light emerged from his mouth, materializing into a stone bowl.

This was his lifebound magical treasure, having reached the top-grade third rank.

At this moment, the Stone Daoist held the stone bowl, continuously chanting under his breath, as demonic Qi spilled from the bowl in streams.

Then, one by one, strange stone statues flew out.

These statues resembled bats but bore human heads, each with a different appearance. The one common trait was they were all exceptionally ferocious, as if frozen in their final expression in life.

And now, as the Stone Daoist’s chanting continued, these stone statues seemed to come to life, ’animating’ before his eyes.

They transformed into demon beasts, faintly forming a battle formation—a rare one-man array technique!

"The Fossil Demon Skill is indeed extraordinary... Have you converted the souls you’ve reaped and refined from the cultivators you’ve killed into these stone demon beasts?"

Fang Xing nodded calmly as he observed the scene, "But have you ever considered that one day, if your demon skill backfires, these stone demons will rebel within your body, ensuring your life is worse than death?"

"This is the way of the Demon Path, like reaching for the summit; if one day it comes to such an end, it is merely Stone’s poor fortune... If given another chance, Stone would still choose this path!"

The Stone Daoist retorted with a cold laugh.

Cultivating the Righteous Path requires inner strength, but cultivating the Demon Path demands even greater fortitude, especially a heart as unyielding as iron!

For the Stone Daoist, his state of mind was like solid rock, impossible to be swayed by Fang Xing’s mere words.

Now, controlling his magical treasure stone bowl, he manipulated the many stone demon beasts, while in the void, demonic Qi converged, faintly forming a four-legged behemoth.

This creature was colossal like a mountain, its body sheathed in stone skin, with three horns atop its head—a thing seemingly not of the mortal world.

The Stone Daoist formed seal techniques with his hands; the stone-skin demon beast opened its gaping jaws and a beam of grey-white light appeared, sweeping towards Fang Xing at the speed of lightning, astonishingly swift!

Whoosh!

But Fang Xing’s movement technique was even faster.

He twisted his body, contorting into an odd arc, narrowly dodging the beam of grey-white light.

Still, it was the same principle: he couldn’t avoid the beam, but the beast’s pre-casting action was too obvious, as long as he dodged the creature’s opening move he would be fine.

Crackle!

The grey-white light beam hit the ground, instantly transforming a forest into a field of rugged stones.

A layer of grey-white spread over the trees in an instant, and even the birds and squirrels in the treetops... turned into lifelike stone statues in a moment.

"What a strange demon skill."

Fang Xing added mentally, ’If those research fanatics from the science academy saw this, they’d definitely want to capture you for research...’

The direct conversion of flesh and flora into stone indeed challenges common sense.

Especially since this isn’t assisted by any star-interstellar equipment but done by a Sixth Realm professional all alone.

This is quite outrageous.

His figure moved, already within the battle formation, his three fingers came together: "Star Martial Four Extremes!"

Where his fingertips passed, one stone demon beast after another exploded into a shower of fragments.

The Stone Daoist controlled the stone bowl, constantly manipulating the changing battle formation, a slight smile seemingly contained at the corner of his mouth.

But that hint of a smile quickly disappeared when he looked over to another battlefield.

"I see, this ’Golden Armored Corpse’ is fake... The key is not in the corpse refining, but in this set of magical treasure armor..."

The cultivation avatar laughed heartily.

After a brief probe, he had found the weakness of this ’Golden Armored Corpse.’ With a long howl, he merged man and sword into one, invoking the force of Sword Intent Heavenly Heart, and a streak of sword light pierced a specific spot in the golden armor.

Like a key entering a lock, it triggered a switch.

The ancient golden armor instantly fell apart into parts like the Heart Guard Mirror, the tiger-head pauldron, helmet, arm guards, and scattered.

All that was left was a corpse refining with a Blood Talisman on its forehead, encircled by Fang Xing’s Sword Gang at its neck.

A hideous head fell to the ground.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this scene, the Stone Daoist glanced back at Fang Xing, who was prevailing in the battle formation, and changed the seal technique in his hands.

The original battle formation burst apart, transforming into a different array.

Countless purple-black runes spilled out from the insides of the deceased stone demon beasts, fluttering like black butterflies.

A tide of rune butterflies gathered, as if opening a gateway to some unknown space, and a glimpse of a huge object’s divine sense descended!

The Stone Daoist saw this and couldn’t help but laugh heartily.

His Fossil Demon Skill could constrain spirits for his use, refining a great number of stone demon beasts, which was a feat in itself.

But this battle formation actually harbored a secondary transformation: when the stone demon beasts suffered heavy casualties, it could morph into a sacrificial array, inviting a connection with an ancient stone demon beast from the Nine Infant Sect’s discovery, seeking its power to descend.

The Stone Daoist had used this trick to trap and kill countless strong enemies before.

Now, he watched excitedly as that wisp of divine sense turned into a small grey-white beast that rushed into Fang Xing’s sea of consciousness.