Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 693 - 40: Deep Space Destruction of the World, A Cosmic Catastrophe
Ever since he digitized his cultivation data, Wang Qi had been able to run his Mana on any CPU. His mental method could truly control technological creations, rather than merely direct electromagnetic forces to interfere with the operation of such creations. And in this universe, the Cosmic Spirit Qi would automatically move toward orderly systems. Once the Life Flame was ignited, nature's spiritual energy would naturally converge.
He had actually been capable of powering up robots with his own Mana, then proclaiming himself a member of the Spiral Clan.
"If there's a wall in the way, smash it with your fists! If there's no path, carve one with these hands!" Wang Qi roared, steering the Spirit Boat towards the giant dragon pinned to the ground.
The massive drill roared sharply, as if nothing could stop the Spirit Boat. Gods and Buddhas were scattered, demons fled in panic, and the Spirit Boat burst forth with unbelievable speed, crossing a hundred meters in the blink of an eye. Heaven and Earth thundered, and murky waves churned. The silt accumulated near Volcano Island was lifted directly by the sheer force of the attack!
Everyone's spirits were stretched tight. They had to seize the right moment to abandon ship for an emergency escape. A second too late could spell tragedy, but too early and they would lose the protection of the drill, having to face the giant dragon's attacks directly. They felt as though "Heaven Creation" had pulled them into a strange time-space, where everything around them was in slow motion.
Fifty meters... thirty meters... ten meters...
The final ten meters! A massive collision was imminent. Everyone tensed their muscles.
But at that moment, it was as if space itself had truly frozen.
Wang Qi took half a beat too long to realize. They hadn't actually broken through to a faster realm, reaching a state where their consciousness could act at a thousand times its usual speed. They had truly stopped.
It was merely a ten-meter distance, but it seemed as though they were crossing the Galaxy. The space in front expanded as if stretching, while the space behind them contracted. They felt almost subdued by Gravity, moving quickly yet incapable of reaching escape velocity.
Wang Qi heard an annoyed roar from behind. Turning around, he saw that the first giant dragon they encountered was dancing ferociously in the sky, using its body as a brush to depict the wonders of the Galaxy. Space folded upon itself, and it seemed they truly saw the Endless Star Sea. Its body was the galaxy, discrete Essence the nebula, and the glittering Dragon Scales the stars.
Deep Space Dao, Star Abyss Cold!
The grandeur of space unfolded suddenly. Wang Qi felt an extreme coldness.
In the universe, many regions are very hot, but that heat does not necessarily equate to warmth. Temperature is a physical quantity that indicates the speed of molecular motion, not the amount of Thermal Energy present. A basin of warm water carries more Thermal Energy than a single spark, even though that spark is hundreds of times hotter than the water. In Deep Space, one could glean heat from sparse matters, but the rate of this was far slower than the rate at which objects lose heat.
The Martial Arts of the Dragon Clan, modeled after cosmic principles, displayed a terrifying aspect. Coldness descended indiscriminately within the range of the Star Abyss Cold. Light and Heat were stripped away, everyone felt a bone-chilling cold. Air contracted abruptly, and colorless dry ice formed on the surface of the Spirit Boat.
Ai Changguang originally sensed the anomaly here and worried that his cousin and the others had encountered trouble, so he came without regard for suppressing the giant dragon. However, upon arrival, he saw those children struggling to strike, while the dragon that had followed him obstructed them. He now regretted not trusting those youngsters a bit more.
With the full unfolding of the Deep Space Dao, Ai Changguang was reduced to a defensive stance. At this moment, he was no longer considering safety.
"Just... to bring them out intact..."
Wang Qi felt his blood run cold. He suddenly sensed a crisis. Another dragon had broken free from the bindings of the Redemption Path Clearer and was spewing Black Flames. As soon as the Star Abyss Cold's effect wore off, it would follow its instincts to pounce on them!
The giant dragon continued its dance. But Wang Qi, who had received the Dragon Clan's inheritance, knew that this dance of the Galaxy was about to stop.
"All or nothing!"
He finally made a decision, turned the bow of the boat, and using the twisted space of the Star Abyss Cold and the altered curvature, charged forward.
"Prepare for the cold!"
Wang Qi shouted, elevating his Mana to its peak. Jarvis activated the Heavenly Song Thunder Gang, manipulating electric heat conversion, turning electricity into Thermal Energy.
The other four also used various methods, their five layers of Protective Gang Qi overlapping to fend off the indiscriminate cold.
Then, a tremor.
Mao Zimiao, proficient in Body Cultivation and even quicker to react than Wang Qi, grabbed the other four and leaped out of the Spirit Boat.
The oppressed force poured entirely into the first giant dragon's body. The abnormal space-time created by Deep Space Dao and Star Abyss Cold meant the force took seconds to erupt. The Spirit Boat burst with myriad radiant lights, and the mountain-sized body writhed like an eel, the dragon's spine bending at a minimal angle—Wang Qi even saw broken vertebrae sticking out!
Alas, the strike did not hit the vital five or nine inches but instead broke the tail of the Dragon Clan. The powerless tail holding the giant sword loosened, and the sword wrapped in the tail fin fell into the sea, stirring up huge waves.
Rings of blue and white intertwined impact waves rapidly spread out in all directions. They were the aftereffects of the collision between the Spirit Boat and the Giant Dragon. Heaven Creation appeared just in time behind Wang Qi, enveloping the five of them within a Gravity Field. With the reference frame shifted, the impact waves became meaningless. They watched the slow residual waves of the clash brush past them without causing any harm.
The Cave Heaven Ruler, the Shape Comparison Ruler. This protection from the reference frame was as solid as if it were sealed away in a Grotto Heaven.
If it's not an attack at Light Speed, no matter how strong, it won't have an effect!
Wang Qi put away the Immortal Dao Burning Book List he had been holding and took out a Sword Box. Numerous top-grade Talismanic Level Flying Swords sprayed out, forming a Sword Array. Sword Qi forged a domain, locking down within a radius of thirty feet. Yang Qi flowed, Yin Qi amassed, yin and yang alternated, creating a portal of the circle and the square. This was precisely the Yin Yang Alternation Portal Sword Array.
As the grand formation operated, it accumulated strength. Wang Qi looked at a blue bar in the bottom-left corner of his field of vision, slowly depleting, and sighed softly. This blue bar displayed the available Mana of the Ghost Soldier Heaven Creation. Wrapping five people in a Gravity Field was indeed taxing, and the power of Heaven Creation could only last for a quarter of an hour.
"We still need time to escape, so let's not waste words on trivial matters," Wang Qi transferred his own Mana to the others. Just now, to ensure they wouldn't freeze to death, everyone had exhausted their Mana. Only he had rapidly replenished it thanks to the Life Flame.
"Let me make it clear beforehand; the martial arts of the Dragon Clan is practically my nemesis. The one in the back just mindlessly hits the ground, launching area attacks from the get-go, and it's impossible to predict its behavior pattern with Unpredictable Body Technique. As for the one in front, you've seen it—it utilizes time and space itself. And the greatest characteristic of the Unpredictable Body Technique is that it can't be aimed at, while the biggest flaw is that the user can't even grasp their own whereabouts."
If I were to use the Unpredictable Body Technique against a madman in combat, it would basically be a gamble that depended entirely on luck.
Even Wang Qi's strongest attack method, the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword, could not affect those of the Dragon Clan. The greatest advantage of the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword was that "it would definitely hit a vital point." But these dragons had been transformed into peculiar beings by some kind of Evil Demon, supposedly dead yet able to move, their life's order thoroughly in disorder, though they retained instinct. They had no vital points; they wouldn't flinch from taking a direct hit of Sword Qi at the Golden Core Level.
It was pure restraint.
If it had been Wang Qi from three months ago, or if there was only one person beside Wang Qi at this moment, he might have no choice but to beg Feng Luoyi for help. But now...
There was still a glimmer of hope!
"Next, I and the ladies will be responsible for defense and evasion, Old Ai, you will focus on the offense!" Wang Qi glanced at the Mana bar: "There are ten minutes left; I will deactivate the Cave Heaven Ruler. During this time, you give it your all to unleash the strongest attack. The weaknesses of the Dragon Clan..."
"The Dragon Clan has many weaknesses, meow," Mao Zimiao spoke: "The most apparent ones are five inches and nine inches. The former targets the heart's orifice, the midpoint of the Dantian, and the spine's vital areas. The latter is the lower Dantian."
"That won't work; even if I hit them, I won't be able to inflict damage," Ai Changyuan frantically plundered the surrounding Gravity, condensing it in his palm: "These two places are their vital points but also where the Protective Gang Qi is strongest."
"The base of the Dragon Horn, easily broken," Mao Zimiao swiftly said: "The Dragon Horn is an organ that enhances the Dragon Clan's sensitivity to Spiritual Power, and it's also their 'Casting Device.' Without their horns, their strength drops by ten percent."
"Is there anything else?"
"Three inches below the throat, the Reversed Scale," Mao Zimiao stated: "It's a sensitive zone for the Dragon Clan, also where sexual pleasure is most acute. Dragons start their mating by brushing against each other's necks."
This comment made Ai Changyuan take another look at Mao Zimiao. The Reversed Scale was the most acute pleasure point for the Dragon Clan; otherwise, there would be no reason for this species to have such an evident weakness. Dragons in heat would flay their Reversed Scales and rub against each other.
Touching the Reversed Scale of a dragon was an even more serious matter than touching the ancestral part of a Half-demon. The latter at most counts as teasing, while the former equates to openly touching an indescribable area.
As the saying goes, "Dragons have Reversed Scales, touch them and they will rage," roughly equivalent to a Human Clan member getting hit with a below-the-belt blow, infuriating them to the extreme.
After some thought, Ai Changyuan decided to relinquish this tempting idea: "Let's go for the Dragon Horn then. The Reversed Scale would only enrage the Dragon Clan, making it even more violent. That's not a good thing."
"Get ready; I'm going to deactivate the Cave Heaven Ruler!" Wang Qi raised one hand: "Three, two, one... release!"
The invisible Gravity Wave Blade pierced through layers of time-space dimensions. As the Giant Dragon was about to dance anew, a sudden excruciating pain erupted from the base of its left horn. It seemed like an implosion from within.
The Gravity Wave Blade from Ai Changyuan caused the horn to deform ever so slightly due to tidal forces and even triggered the release of built-up stress within the rigid horn. After unleashing this move, Ai Changyuan announced his withdrawal. Mao Zimiao pulled him back, transferring Mana to him. Wang Qi devoted himself to sustaining the Sword Array, warning: "Here it comes! Brace for impact!"
In the throes of severe pain, the Giant Dragon resorted to the most familiar technique. The ferocious and savage onslaught burst forth like the torrent of destruction produced by the collapse of stars, malevolently spreading throughout. A crimson wave surged from one end of the galaxy to the other.
Deep Space Dao. Galaxy Battlefront.
The mournful wail of Heaven and Earth's demise, the sinking of countless worlds...
Wang Qi didn't know why Dragon Clan martial arts would display such a vision of Doomsday. But he knew they could withstand this strike. This dragon seemed less severe than the second one, but it was also insane.
It chose an area attack! (To be continued. If you enjoy this book, please vote for it or give it a monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)