Chapter 123: The Great Battle Against the Origin Core Realm

“Fifth Uncle, you’re here!”

The young lord of Gulan City was overjoyed. Just moments ago, Yi Tian and the others had shot several of his guest elders, all of them at the Origin Arts realm, dead on the spot. The horrifying scene had left him terrified and chilled to the bone.

The man who appeared beside Lan Chen was a middle-aged man in his forties, his face expressionless.

He glanced at Yi Tian and the others, a trace of killing intent flashing through his eyes.

These young men were extraordinarily powerful. Even he was astonished by their potential. Yet whether for the Blood Bodhi Fruits or to eliminate a potential threat, killing intent had arisen in him the instant he appeared.

“Chen’er, stand back!”

Fifth Uncle ordered his nephew to retreat, lest he be caught in the aftermath.

Lan Chen immediately withdrew dozens of miles and watched from afar as the battle erupted.

Yi Tian, Yi Li, and the others all turned solemn.

The man had appeared far too quickly. Even the aura he had unconsciously released made them feel an overwhelming sense of danger. He was unquestionably a top-tier Earth-rank expert who had condensed an Origin Core.

“Die!”

With a low shout, Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle took a step forward and instantly appeared a thousand yards away, as if he had teleported.

After several more steps, he had crossed several miles and arrived within a hundred yards of Yi Tian and the others. His speed was astonishing, no slower than the ghostlike swiftness of Yi Feng and the others when they employed their Divine Shift Technique.

So this was the speed of a top-tier expert who had condensed an Origin Core?

Yi Tian’s pupils contracted.

He discovered that the man was traversing the air through the sheer force of his profound cultivation. His speed had reached an extreme, almost enough to make him fly, yet he was not using any battle technique.

Not good!

Yi Tian watched as Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle charged toward them like a specter.

With the archery of Yi Tian, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the others, they could not lock onto him at all. Only after reaching the realm where bow and body became one, where every thought sent an arrow to its destination, could they hope to strike him.

That realm allowed one to touch the profound mysteries of heaven and earth. Yi Tian and the others had not even found the threshold of bow and body becoming one.

Yi Tian knew that experts at the Origin Core realm were far too fast. It would be extremely difficult to hit such an opponent with the Sun-Shooting Divine Art. Thus, he teleported in an instant, appearing before Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle and blocking his path, then struck out with a fist empowered by the Great Sun Divine Art.

Boom!

The fist seemed capable of shattering heaven and earth, as the great sun erupted in brilliance.

“Die!”

A ferocious glint flashed across Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle’s indifferent face. He, too, threw a punch, unleashing the Demon-Breaking Divine Art. Two dazzling beams of light collided with a thunderous crash, releasing boundless destruction.

The earth-shaking devastation swept across a radius of ten miles.

In an instant, a figure was blasted out of the terrifying destructive force, spitting a mouthful of hot blood.

Yi Tian was deeply shocked.

His full-powered punch had just now been unable to withstand his opponent’s attack. That single blow had injured his internal organs.

This was the strength of a top-tier Earth-rank expert at the Origin Core realm. With a casual strike, he had wounded Yi Tian.

However, Yi Tian also discovered that the man’s true essence was merely one level stronger than his own in terms of intensity. The difference was not an overwhelming one. Even so, he could clearly sense the formidable nature of his opponent’s true essence. The man had cultivated at least a Heaven Art.

His Heaven Art was slightly inferior in rank to Yi Tian’s Great Sun Divine Art, in which two suns shone together. It was on the same level as Yi Shan and the others’ Wilds Divine Art—a first-grade Heaven Art.

After Yi Tian’s repeated deductions, however, the Great Sun Divine Art he cultivated had already advanced to a second-grade Heaven Art.

As for the ancient Heaven Art known as the Sun-Shooting Divine Art, it had astonishingly reached the seventh grade, making it an ancient Heaven Art of legend.

Yi Tian had learned many basic facts about the cultivation world from A General History of the Tianlong Continent, a book he had exchanged for with points in Desolate Qin City. The classification of Heaven Arts was one of them.

Even a first-grade Heaven Art was exceedingly precious and could serve as the foundation of a great power’s inheritance.

Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle was astonished that Yi Tian had actually withstood his punch.

Although he had used only seventy percent of his strength, a single punch from a top-tier Origin Core expert could suppress even a cultivator at the Origin Arts realm. Yi Tian was merely an Earth-rank expert at the Origin Astral realm, yet he had actually blocked the blow.

Swish! Swish!

The two figures clashed again.

They unleashed their Heaven Arts. The Great Sun Divine Art and the Demon-Breaking Divine Art collided repeatedly, and destructive power raged in every direction.

In every exchange, Yi Tian was suppressed.

Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle possessed an inexhaustible supply of true essence. His attacks gradually rose to eighty percent, ninety percent, and then full power. In the end, Yi Tian was completely overwhelmed.

Terrifying attacks struck his body again and again, making him feel as if he were being torn apart.

If he had not refined two Blood Bodhi Fruits, bringing the strength of his physical body close to that of a low-grade magical treasure, he would likely have been blasted apart by the terrifying power of Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle.

Roar!

Finally, when faced with a punch delivered at full strength, Yi Tian unleashed the Sun-Shooting Divine Art. Terrifying sun-shooting true essence gathered in his fist, resembling a divine arrow streaking across the sky.

“Break!”

The collision sent a terrifying shockwave sweeping through the surroundings.

After unleashing the Sun-Shooting Divine Art, Yi Tian finally managed to withstand the attack of an Origin Core expert.

Both sides were forced backward by the enormous force.

This exchange had ended in a draw. Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle’s vast and boundless true essence had nearly been shattered. Fortunately, his Origin Core replenished a massive amount of true essence in time. Otherwise, he would have been injured and lost face.

Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle was shaken.

He could not understand why Yi Tian’s attack had suddenly grown several times stronger, to the point where it could faintly contend with him.

He was a top-tier Origin Core expert who had completely suppressed his opponent by two minor realms. Yet their previous clash had ended evenly. It was simply unbelievable.

“Hmph. Let’s see how long you can struggle!”

Although Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle was shocked, he was fully confident that he could kill Yi Tian.

He attacked Yi Tian once more.

Every one of his punches possessed the force to shake mountains and rivers, stirring the celestial phenomena. The Demon-Breaking Divine Art annihilated heaven and earth, while successive Origin Techniques erupted, transforming into blades, swords, halberds, forks, and other Origin Weapons. Even a cultivator at the Origin Arts realm would likely be blasted to death beneath such attacks.

Yi Tian unleashed the Sun-Shooting Divine Art with all his strength. His twenty-seven thousand spiritual acupoints resonated without pause, and terrifying true essence surged from his body.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides exchanged more than a dozen blows.

In the distance, the members of the Samsara Battle Team watched their captain fight the Origin Core expert. They all knew that Yi Tian had unleashed the Sun-Shooting Divine Art, and that he could not maintain this state for long. Every activation of the Sun-Shooting Divine Art consumed an enormous amount of true essence.

“Kill!”

Yi Feng, Yi Li, and the others all charged over and joined the battle.

The moment they attacked, they unleashed their strongest combat power, using the Sun-Shooting Divine Art to its fullest.

Only through the Sun-Shooting Divine Art could they contend with and battle Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle, who had condensed an Origin Core.

What?

Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle immediately felt immense pressure.

Six Earth-rank experts who had cultivated ancient Heaven Arts had joined forces. Even he found it difficult to withstand them for long. Powerful attacks struck his body one after another, shaking his Origin Astral Energy until cracks appeared and spread across it.

Yet his Origin Core continuously swallowed and released vast quantities of true essence, constantly repairing his Origin Astral Energy and keeping him from defeat.

Dozens of miles away, the young lord of Gulan City stared in shock at the distant battle.

He had never imagined that even Fifth Uncle would be unable to defeat them quickly. Yi Tian and the others were far more powerful than he had expected.

However, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the others, who were fighting Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle, were growing anxious.

They had unleashed the Sun-Shooting Divine Art with all their strength, and their attacks were terrifyingly powerful, but the technique consumed true essence at an astonishing rate. After thirty or forty attacks, the true essence within their spiritual acupoints would be completely exhausted. Even with the true essence stored in their dantian spaces, they could last only another dozen attacks or so.

Once their true essence was depleted, they would have no choice but to surrender.

After all, the true essence within their bodies was to that of an Origin Core expert as a pool was to an entire lake.

Even Yi Tian, whose true essence was far more abundant, could not hold out for long.

An Earth-rank expert at the Origin Core realm could simply exhaust Yi Tian and the others to death with his endless true essence.

At that moment, Yi Tian charged toward Lan Chen’s Fifth Uncle once more. His opponent was currently entangled by Yi Shan, Yi Li, and the others.

Whoosh!

At this critical juncture, Yi Tian finally unleashed the Azure Heavens Sword Qi. It condensed into tangible form, its sword intent vast and boundless, as majestic as the heavens themselves, capable of cleaving through all things.

The sword streaked across the void and, in an instant, struck the opponent’s Origin Astral Energy.