A Nascent Soul's wrath could turn the sky and earth upside down and scorch a thousand miles of land.

This was because the control over mana by a Nascent Soul greatly enhanced, making the mana more solidified, able to establish the Great Cycle outside the body temporarily, altering the intrinsic form of nature's spiritual energy in the area, changing its nature to closely resemble their own cultivation technique. This ability is known as "Nascent Soul Divine Domain" or "Domain," considered a precursor to the Modern Primordial Spirit's Magical Domain. However, the Ancient Method's understanding of Heaven and Earth was too flawed, containing many errors, therefore, these changes were easily nullified by the natural circulation of nature's spiritual energy, failing to reach the realm of the Primordial Spirit's Magical Domain where "Heaven and Earth share the same force."

Feeling the unabashedly domineering spiritual sense of the other party, Wang Qi abandoned his idea of executing Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword again. This sword technique must be used when no one is observing. For if performed in front of an enemy, the Quantum Cloud Sword Qi would collapse into ordinary Sword Qi before it could fully unfold, leaving the power of the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword at barely one-tenth of its potential.

Feeling the surrounding nature's spiritual energy gradually transforming into the Yanyue Sect's Moon Attribute mana, Wang Qi sighed softly. The beautiful times of an unguarded mind had ended. Now, a head-on confrontation was inevitable.

Modern Golden Core could easily vanquish a Nascent Soul. Among the elites in the Modern Foundation Establishment, some could also defeat a Modern Golden Core.

In the face of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, there was no need for fear!

The roar of the Nascent Soul Old Monster soon ceased. Next, an ancient figure appeared atop the main hall's roof of the Du Family.

Du Family Ancestor, Du Baiwu, was a 3000-year-old Nascent Soul Cultivator who had ascended during the glory days of the Holy Infant Sect. He had gradually cultivated to the Perfection of Nascent Soul in repeated battles against the Holy Infant Sect and was a rare existence across the Nascent Soul Level. Furthermore, he was also wise. With the rise of Modern Immortal Path, as the great trend was already formed, he immediately switched allegiances and during the upheaval of the Demon Emperor, he wasn't beguiled by the Banished Immortal Demon Emperor but chose the right side.

In combat power and tricks, he was considered a master of his generation.

Yet, in his thousands of years of life, this master for the first time showed a look of surprise.

His painstakingly built family was slaughtered to the brink of extinction, his thousands of years of accumulated wealth swept away.

And the cause of all this was merely a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator—a Foundation Establishment that could be achieved in just a few years!

This nearly drove him to hysteria!

On the other side, Wang Qi also examined the old man.

The entropy representing death in his body was already very high. This Nascent Soul Cultivator was rapidly approaching death.

"Du Bin once said that he had an ancestor preparing for Transcend Tribulation, already registered in the Immortal Alliance and even found a willing couple. It seems this old fellow is him?" Wang Qi muttered to himself, "I originally planned to manipulate the Heart Demon Curse when he reincarnates to study the secrets of reincarnation, maybe revealing the origin of the Banished Immortal. But now, it seems this plan must be shelved."

Even if Wang Qi was a Banished Immortal who had difficult trials in Heavenly Barrier, it would be a matter for more than a decade later. And if the issue of Heart Demon Curse was not resolved, Divine Capital might not even make it through this year.

So, the valuable research material had to be abandoned, now the most crucial was the Anti-Demon Spell.

"No matter who you are, you are doomed."

Du Baiwu stated expressionlessly. He would not be foolish enough to inquire the origin or purpose of the opponent. Even if he truly wanted to know, it would be—

Fighting until he himself revealed it!

Du Baiwu flicked his hand, and a silver light, much like a Spirit Snake, struck towards Wang Qi from the trickiest angle. This was undoubtedly his Flying Sword, his Sword Light!

This was Du Baiwu's Lifebound Magical Treasure, which had accompanied him through nearly three thousand years of turmoil; he had tempered and nurtured it for a full three thousand years!

As the Sword Light advanced, the surrounding nature's spiritual energy, now transformed into the law force of the Yanyue Sect, clung to it. When it had just left Du Baiwu's palm, the Sword Light was only two fingers wide. But by the time it reached beside Wang Qi, it had already turned into a massive tidal wave like that of a giant python. "Snake's Kiss" was as sharp as a spear yet held the might of a siege hammer. Facing this, Wang Qi did not dodge or evade, his body enveloped in Purple Light.

The Yang-Mills equation was substituted, the standard field model established, computation accelerated. Heavenly Song Power infused into his body's Dragon Scale Spirit Prohibition; Strong Electric Unification completed in an instant. Unique forces within the atom released, a roaring dragon carrying the Dao of the microscopic world, the laws of the microscopic realm, forcefully breaking into macroscopic scales.

This was—the fiercest power!

Graphite and diamond are both forms of carbon. The immense difference in hardness between these two materials is due to different electromagnetic forces connecting carbon atoms. And now, the force sustaining Wang Qi's fist was from strong interaction, fundamentally different from electromagnetic force. This meant the difference in hardness between Wang Qi's fist and the Flying Sword exceeded the disparity between diamond and graphite.

This wasn't even something that a hundredfold mana enhancement could make up for.

Like an egg against stone, Du Baiwu's Flying Sword crispily cracked, instantly displaying a fracture. But at that moment, an arm followed the raging wind through. Du Baiwu, the battle-hardened Old Monk, wasn't as his outward appearance suggested—releasing an attack then just standing to cast spells. The Sword Immortal Artifact's raging force slightly hid his spiritual sense, and merging with his Spirit Moon Divine Power Domain, he managed to sneak up noiselessly in front of Wang Qi, extending a hand.

"Roar!" Wang Qi roared out life_strerror, using this method to quickly expel the air from his lungs, causing his chest cavity to concave a few inches, attempting to dodge the most poignant second of the best edge. Then, accompanied by Heavenly Song Power, a light of blue and white emerged, links between electromagnetic force and strong interaction force briefly established, his defense power instantly soared to the strongest level.

Bang!

Wang Qi felt as though a firecracker had been stuffed into his chest, sending his entire thoracic cavity into searing pain. However, Du Baiwu was even more horrified. He felt as if his hand had struck a defensive magic tool that had its own rebounding force, causing half of his arm to go numb!

He could not concern himself with the pain of his lifebound magical treasure as he let his flying sword lift again, bringing up endless brilliance. The ground was covered with thick hoarfrost, and tiny particles of condensed carbon dioxide floated in the dry air. Then, all of it became a part of the moonlight.

The white frost seemed like the light of the bright moon!

Amidst the swirling dust, it was impossible to distinguish which was the moonlight transformed by mana and which was the frost snow carrying mana. Du Baiwu himself hid within this beautiful luminescence, and between heaven and earth, the only clear existence was a flying sword.

A flying sword with cracks.

"With your vision and spiritual sense deprived, let's see how you die!" Du Baiwu sneered. That junior's mana was limited, unable to maintain such a level of defense constantly. Just a mad clanging around his turtle shell would naturally kill that bastard!

Wang Qi had already vomited a mouthful of blood. His total mana was only about one percent of Du Baiwu's, and though strong interaction could neutralize this discrepancy, Wang Qi could not constantly maintain the strong electric unification. The previous two fierce confrontations had already depleted most of the power pre-stored in his Demi-Immortal "Mathematics," and even maintaining Dragon Guard was difficult.

Therefore, he didn't confront him head-on but instead stepped forward.

"Step forward to dodge? Ridiculous!" Du Baiwu continued his barrage with his flying sword, thrusting both hands towards the opponent.

For mortals, such a step might be deemed an appropriate advance or retreat, but for a cultivator, this slow step was predictable to anyone... Huh?

For some reason, Wang Qi seemed to "blur" in Du Baiwu's eyes.

"How fast was that step just now? Why didn't I see it clearly?"

The flying sword missed, the hands missed. The remnants were completely ineffective against the Dragon Guard.

Du Baiwu quickly retrieved his flying sword and changed his sword technique. The long sword tore through the air, bringing up currents of air vortices. But what Du Bain didn't expect was that hundreds of fully developed Gu worms followed the longsword, and exploiting the moment it broke through the wind, rushed towards him!

"Ridiculous!" Du Baiwu recognized these were spell spirits transformed from spell power, not flesh and blood. Moon-white cold light swept through, Nascent Soul's pure mana surged, destroying the unstable Total Plague Curse spell spirits. The spell spirits vanished as quickly as they had appeared, seizing this hard-earned "gap" and madly lunged at Du Baiwu.

They were indeed easy to eradicate when not invading a body, but among a thousand Xia Gai demon worms, there was always one that could attack the Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.

A cold, desperate heart intent immediately burrowed into Du Baiwu's heart. He immediately sacrificed a part of the sand spirit leftovers, and then frantically waved his sword. Moonlight transformed into cold wind, the cold wind condensed into ice blades, several cutting edges hidden in the moonlight, lunged at Wang Qi.

In response, Wang Qi simply — took a step.

A simple step, this time Du Baiwu noticed the opponent's speed. Such a speed, too slow, too insignificant for a cultivator, this time it must hit...

"Wait, where is he standing now?"

Confusion flashed again in Du Baiwu's mind.

Unpredictable movement technique, Heavenly mechanism unpredictable. No one could see both the position and speed of the user at the same time, unless they attacked all possible positions of the opponent in one breath, otherwise even a Heavenly Immortal wouldn't hit.

The laws of Mysterious Palace I control are not limited to just Indeterminate Cloud Sword!

Wang Qi held his forehead, his spirit galloping in the newly established Total Plague Curse network. This network carried his intent and took on most of the calculations, thereby successfully deploying this peerless step technique at the Foundation Establishment Stage!

A fierce attack revealed a slight flaw in Du Baiwu's defense. In an instant, tens of thousands more Xia Gai demon worms were bred, rushing towards Du Baiwu through this slight flaw.

Among a thousand, perhaps only a few could breach the defenses, but the Total Plague Curse needed only one breakthrough...

After repeating three times, Du Baiwu finally realized that ordinary displays could not pose a threat to Wang Qi. He temporarily slowed his offensive. By this time, his meridians had inevitably mixed with a trace of azure hue. If it wasn't for the resisting Nascent Soul, his fate would be the same as his descendants.

However, this slight influence of the Total Plague Curse did indeed cause an unexpected flaw in the attacks and defenses of Du Baiwu!

Again, a large group of Xia Gai demon worms.

But this time, along with the Xia Gai demon worms charging in, there was Wang Qi himself, and a ghost soldier "New Moon"! (To be continued. If you like this story, please visit Qidian to vote for and purchase monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)