Chapter 568
On Dong Mountain .
In order to ensure the integrated ruthlessness of this strike, Sigu Jian had to pour all of his spirit into it . If he wanted to deal with the Flowing Cloud Ye Liuyun sent in his direction, he had to scatter his sword . If he didn't do so, he could only attack an enemy that had to be saved . However, he could only diverge a sliver of spirit . The only person of the five people present that could be killed with a sliver of his spirit was the Qing Emperor, who had nothing but grandeur .
It had to be said that from the beginning of Sigu Jian's strike, he had suppressed Ye Liuyun in manner and wisdom . At this moment, he gave Ye Liuyun a difficult problem and a surprise .
What surprised and angered Sigu Jian, and had made him uneasy and helpless, was that Ye Liuyun didn't acknowledge the empty sword in Sigu Jian's illusory grasp . That ball of Flowing Cloud continued to surge toward his face .
After the empty sword in his illusory grasp gave a weak splutter, it pierced through the wet stone pavements on the mountaintop and landed in the air .
That smudge of bright yellow, the dim eyes on the dragon robes, disappeared abruptly and strangely in front of the empty sword .
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On top of Dong Mountain, there were four Great Grandmasters and one monarch . Everything appeared very slow . In reality, it all happened within a second . Within this second, Sigu Jian had used the sword in his hand to tease Ye Liuyun's cloud . He used his empty sword to stab toward the Qing Emperor .
On the other side of this second, another even more astonishing story was happening .
This story happened at the beginning of the second .
When Sigu Jian's sword flew to within inches of the Emperor's back, the Emperor had already sighed darkly . He then let go of Eunuch Hong's old hand, which he had been holding this entire time as if not wishing to prevent this old man from getting the most enjoyment he could out of the last battle of his life .
At the same time, Northern Qi Imperial Advisor Ku He placed his hand with unflagging effort against old Eunuch Hong's chest . This touch and press caused his thumb and index finger to spread apart slightly . Like a cool breeze brushing against a mountain, it was extremely soft and natural . Compared to the storm and lightning around them, it was completely different . After the breeze passed by, chaos sprung up from nowhere in the mountain .
Eunuch Hong calmly watched Ku He's face . His hands were like a pair of dragon whips, twisting and changing . They climbed onto Ku He's right arm but did not stop his touch .
With a splutter, Eunuch Hong's chest completely split open . As Ku He knew the way of heaven, his touch contained the power of heaven and earth . His breastbone was like a piece of delicate tofu, neatly crushed and collapsed down .
Fresh blood sprayed out quickly from Eunuch Hong's organs . With the collapse of his breastbone, the crazy spraying of his blood and leaking of his zhenqi, his life force flowed away quickly . There was still a faint smile and mockery in his old eyes, as well as a killing intent .
A sense of emptiness like an abyss came from the palm of his hand . Imperial Advisor Ku He's pupils quickly constricted .
The oldest Great Grandmaster present, the uncle of Northern Qi's first Emperor, once an astonishing Ascetic Monk of the Wei Kingdom, had gone through countless events . He had visited temples to pray for guidance and discussed martial arts with the world . His temperament was steady and natural . No one was comparable to him . However, with the four Great Grandmasters meeting at Dong Mountain, he had to newly evaluate his gains and losses and take his victory and defeats back into his hands .
The Tyrannical zhenqi that emanated earlier from the eunuch, who had hidden for a number of years in Qing Kingdom, had mixed up the dry wind around them . At the same time, the realm he secretly demonstrated was, without question, that of a proper Grandmaster . Thus, Imperial Advisor did not hold back . This second touch already contained the deep and unfathomable ultimate Tianyi Dao zhenqi that flowed through his body .
In a battle between Great Grandmasters, an astonishing change could happen at any moment or anywhere . When Ku He's touch was imprinted onto Eunuch Hong's chest, he didn't show a glimmer of joy .
His first touch had already been forcefully bounced back by the Tyrannical zhenqi in Eunuch Hong's body . Although this technique of circulation was overly dominating and could not last for long, Ku He believed that Eunuch Hong must have had a way to deal with his second touch .
Eunuch Hong did not block this touch, and his chest split open . The Tyrannical aura on the old eunuch's body immediately disappeared without a trace to somewhere unknown .
Perhaps Ku He wouldn't even be surprised if Eunuch Hong's chest suddenly turned into a metal board or sprouted a second head .
It was this sight that Ku He found unbelievable . Where had the powerfully defensive Tyrannical zhenqi gone? The Great Grandmasters were still people and not gods . Even given his and Sigu Jian's miraculous cultivation, it was still impossible to completely dissipate in an aura that had already reached the peak of humankind .
Just like a sphere filled with energy, how could it completely discharge in an instant?
Any transfer of power needed time . The shorter the time, the more terrifying the vibration during this process .
Regardless of whether it was Ku He, Sigu Jian, or Ye Liuyun, if they completely discharged the vital energies in their bodies in such a short time like Eunuch Hong, in the next moment, they would be unable to avoid the consequence of dying through bodily dissipation .
How? How could Eunuch Hong achieve this? Why did do this?
Ku He's pupils constricted . A drop of rain stopped half an inch from his eyes and refracted the faint black light .
Unconsciously, he felt an unfamiliar sense of danger, the sense that death had arrived . In his long and slow journey through life, the last time Imperial Advisor Ku He sank into such a state of mind had been in the fifth year of the Qing calendar when he had reunited with that blind man . The danger he sensed presently was more so than before .
When these thoughts brushed through Ku He's mind like a sky full of raindrops, his right hand had already shattered Hong Siyang's breastbone . Like a hot knife through butter, he broke through that thin and old body, extending his hand through his back . The heart that had been shattered into five pieces shot out an arrow of blood in a terrifying way under the quiet curtain of rain .
Hong Siyang was already dead . No one could survive after their heart was shattered . His body bent forward . Unlike Sigu Jian's god-like and dominating look when he ascended the mountain, he was like a pitiful dwarf hanging off of Ku He's right hand .
Hong Siyang was not yet dead . Although his heart was shattered and breath was gone, the meridians in his body maintained the state they were in a moment before his death . All of his vital energy was struggling desperately to be released from the ends of his meridians into the surrounding nature . Although there was a deathly stillness like a black hole, he relied on some mysterious order with his body as a bridge for his meridians . Emptily it emanated, absorbed, and dimmed, including the arm in his body .
Imperial Advisor Ku He put all of his power into this touch . The copious zhenqi in his body seeped out of every pore in his body and from every inch of skin . Following Hong Ziyang, it moved against the tide and endlessly drained out with the price of his life as the secret technique .
Ku He's eyes lit up, it was not understanding but a response . The drop of rain that was less than an inch from his eye continued to hover . He understood now that he had fallen into a trap . Dong Mountain itself was a setup .
Hong Siyang was not a Great Grandmaster . The Tyrannical qi he had emitted earlier on the summit had been borrowed . His realm had also been borrowed . Because it wasn't his, that was why he was able to dissipate it without regard to his bodily spirit and at a level that mankind shouldn't have . That was why he had appeared particularly ruthless .
Hong Siyang had long known he would die .
Someone wanted to use his death to absorb some of his zhenqi . However, his final touch, which depended on the mountain and water, had already sent out his vital energy . Gaps had already appeared in the protection around his body .
That person wanted to use this gap .
That person was the one who had raised their cultivation to a remarkable realm and demonstrated it through Hong Siyang .
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Sensing too late the change between the sword-obsessed idiot and Flowing Cloud, Imperial Advisor Ku He's eyes became a little brighter, like the autumn moon, and appeared without any foreshadowing in the pond of clear water .
His favorite female disciple, Haitang, had the cleanest and most beautiful pair of eyes in the world . If they were compared to Ku He's eyes right now, it would be like comparing the light of a firefly to the moon .
Ku He had the most sensitive response to the environment around him in the world . He was someone with the gentlest yet strongest personality . One could sense something of this during his journey between temples many years ago .
When he realized Eunuch Hong was a trap, his reaction happened . The situation changed quickly . If he didn't act, there was no one else .
Perhaps it was only one-hundredths of a moment that he was slightly faster than the person who set this up had expected, but it was the difference between life and death .
Ku He's eyes were as bright as the moon and as clean as an isolated star . He took a deep breath, which seemed about to suck in all the air on the mountaintop . The old man's chest suddenly expanded upward . It appeared to grow two inches .
Following this breath, ultimate Tianyi Dao zhenqi in his body began to flow near his right arm . Following the natural breathing between heaven and earth, gently it left the draw of the aura emanating from Hong Siyang's body . It began to use the quickest speed to return to its own meridians . Such a quick turnaround could only be demonstrated so naturally by Tianyi Dao's calm techniques .
There was no difference between time and stillness . It was too late to do any movement controlled by muscles . However, the zhenqi that flowed through the body like mercury or light could faintly break through the control of time and complete their task .
The zhenqi flowed back . Eunuch Hong's weak body dissolved into a blood fog, but it did not dissipate .
No one noticed that a finger had risen naturally on Ku He's left hand, which hung by his side, and drawn a half circle in the air . It was a hand gesture that had never before appeared in this land . Following this gesture, the sky full of converged rain drops paused once more . The light aura mixed in with the wind and rain atop Dong Mountain . It sunk into gaps between the walls of the ancient temples and poured into his body at a remarkable speed .
The aura summoned by this strange hand gesture was weak but at a critical juncture . A stick of firewood and a drop of water were al precious existences in a battle between Grandmasters .
What exactly was this hand gesture that could absorb zhenqi from the empty air and between the temple's eaves?
Magic practiced by the wizards far away across the ocean, yet it appeared in Imperial Advisor Ku He's hands .
Ku He had finally used the biggest trick up his sleeve . He used a trick that was usually of no help . At this moment, it could help him quickly recover his vital energy .
He had not even used this magical weapon when he fought with Wu Zhu . At this moment, he demonstrated it without hesitation .
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