Chapter 256: Energy Extension
Under the Black Dragon City, all the soldiers of Li Yuan's army were looking up at the two figures facing each other silently on the city tower. Perhaps, the outcome of such a duel will also herald the final outcome of the two legions?
Above the city tower, because the enemy's offensive had retreated and stopped, all the soldiers defending the city were also watching the confrontation between Li Yuan and Shi Ziling with concern.
Like the Li Yuan army under the city, everyone in the Special Attack Division and the Xiahou family also understood the importance of this battle, no matter who these two supreme masters won or lost, it would have a crucial impact on the battle in the northwest and even the pattern of the entire Bright Moon Continent.
Bai Wuya stood quietly fifty steps away, with Wei Hu, Yu Wei, Yin Qi and others behind him, everyone held their breath and waited for the start of this big battle, even the seriously injured Xiahou Yuan father and son insisted on letting their subordinates help the two of them to sit down in the open space beside Bai Wuya.
For martial artists like them, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have the opportunity to observe the duel of such a level of masters, which will definitely be of great benefit to their future martial arts cultivation.
As their spirits continued to rise, there was a strange strong wind around Li Yuan and Shi Ziling, blowing the tips of their clothes and hair fluttering.
Bai Wuya and Xiahou Yuan, who were watching the battle from the sidelines, both knew that this was caused by the continuous agitation and collision of Shi Li's respective powerful aura, and it seemed that their clothes were fluttering and quite chic, but in fact, the two had already started a life-and-death battle with the supreme True Yuan cultivation, if one party's momentum was slightly flawed, it would immediately attract the other party's stormy attack.
Bai Wuya knew that Shi Ziling and Li Yuan had fought several times, and almost every time Li Yuan had a slight upper hand, but today Bai Wuya was full of confidence in Shi Ziling. Because although he teamed up with Xiahou Yuan just now and ended in a fiasco, he still forced Li Yuan's unique peerless Wuji Zimu True Yuan Ball out.
In Bai Wuya's opinion, although Li Yuan seems to win easily, his true yuan consumption must be quite huge, and although Shi Ziling has been running back and forth between Black Dragon City and Longma Dao for a long time, his true yuan consumption is still relatively small. Even if Shi Ziling's original True Yuan cultivation was slightly inferior to Li Yuan, he would never be at a disadvantage at this time.
Li Yuan, who Bai Wuya thought of, naturally also thought of it, after all, Bai Wuya and Xiahou Yuan are both top ten masters in the top ten today, and the power of these two people joining forces is not trivial, Li Yuan seemed to win easily just now, but in fact, he had done his best. His Wuji True Yuan Ball consumed the most True Yuan, so he immediately activated the Li family's Exotic Treasure Seal, which had been sealed for many years, after Shi Ziling appeared.
After several previous battles, Li Yuan already knew that Shi Ziling's strength was almost no longer below him, and he had recently obtained Caiyun Xuan's Xuanyuan Divine Sword, if he didn't need to turn the sky seal, with his True Yuan Reserve at this time, he was not Shi Ziling's opponent at all.
If it were in another place at another time, Li Yuan, who had just experienced a big battle, would inevitably float away and would not choose to fight hard with Shiziling, but now is the most critical moment of the Northwest Campaign, facing the unfavorable situation of the army being attacked by the enemy, Li Yuan knows that he must use a beautiful victory to arouse the morale of his two major armies.
Although Li Yuan consumed a lot of true yuan, he was very confident in the heaven-turning seal in his palm. He has been practicing the Heaven Turning Seal for many years, and he has been able to maximize the spiritual power advantage of the Heaven Turning Seal, which was originally intended to be used to compete with Yuan Shi Tianzun for the throne of the first master of martial arts, but now he is forced by the situation to use it to deal with Shi Ziling.
Although the Xuanyuan Sword is also one of the three major artifacts like the Heaven Turning Seal, the time that Shi Ziling has possessed the Xuanyuan Sword is still short, Li Yuan expected that Shi Ziling has not been able to fully exert the spiritual power of the Xuanyuan Sword, and it should be enough to make up for the loss of the true yuan of the previous war against Bai Wuya and Xiahou Yuan.
At this time, Li Yuan was full of confidence, and constantly entered his true yuan into the Heaven Turning Seal, with the gradual expansion of the spiritual power of the Divine Seal, his momentum was also getting higher and higher, and bursts of red light first flashed from his palm, and soon spread, drowning his whole person in a strange red light and shadow.
The soldiers of Li Yuan's army under the city tower looked from a distance, only to feel that Li Yuan's entire figure seemed to be more tall and powerful after being submerged in a red light, standing on the city tower as if a god descended from heaven.
Facing the bursts of strange red light on Li Yuan's body, Shi Ziling did not move. The Xuanyuan Divine Sword was still behind him, although there would be a sound from time to time, showing the induction of the Heaven Turning Seal, but Shi Ziling was still unmoved, and he had no intention of drawing the sword at all.
After the last decisive battle with Gongsun Auntie, Shi Ziling had retreated to cultivate the method of the sword, although he had not yet fully seen the door, but he had already realized the truth that everything in the world contained different physical properties. The so-called physical properties, in Shi Ziling's view, are also a kind of force, although it cannot be compared with the spiritual power in the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, but no matter how big or small, it is a real amount of power.
For Shi Ziling, how to blend with the power of various different attributes that really exist in heaven and earth is the realm he has always wanted to achieve after defeating Gongsun Auntie. If he can do it, then he can absorb the invisible and intangible mysterious power between heaven and earth for his own use, and then he will truly cross the threshold of the unity of heaven and man.
At this moment, Li Yuan borrowed the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal to emit bursts of red light just touched Shi Ziling's spiritual power, these red lights are another powerful force attribute in addition to the spiritual power of the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, after resisting Li Yuan's continuous persecuted aura with an incomparably strong momentum, Shi Ziling unconsciously extended the synthetic energy that mixed his spiritual power, true yuan, magic power and divine sword spiritual power, and tried to integrate into that red light.
Unlike when he usually comes into contact with various physical objects, he will use his own synthetic energy to explore, and the energy attributes contained in the various physical objects he usually touches are usually extremely small, and most of them are not enough to interact with the synthetic energy emitted by Shi Ziling, but the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal is extremely powerful, not inferior to the spiritual power of Xuanyuan Divine Sword, and once contacted, he immediately gave Shi Ziling countless feedback.
Shi Ziling was engrossed in this kind of energy interaction that extended from his body, carefully distinguishing which of them were the true yuan energy of Li Yuan's Wuji Divine Skill and which were the divine energy of the Heaven Turning Seal, silently perceiving how these different energies would react when they were lightly touched and collided.
Different from the direct and fierce True Yuan confrontation of martial arts masters, the energy extension emitted by Shi Ziling was extremely small, and the synthetic energy flow that combined his own four different attributes was like a breeze without a trace of the red light emitted by the Heaven Turning Seal, and after being violently repelled by the Heaven Turning Seal's divine power, it swayed and rotated, and then it was involved in the red light again, was bounced off again, and attached to it again. This is repeated several times until these subtle streams of energy are gradually accepted by the red light.
And in this repeated cycle of repulsion, involvement, bounce away, and attachment, Shi Ziling closed his eyes and carefully observed the subtle changes of these different energies, thinking about whether he could find a way to draw energy from outside his body.
After Li Yuan continued to unleash the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal, he saw that Shi Ziling was completely unresponsive, not only did he not pull out the Xuanyuan Divine Sword to fight with spiritual power, but gradually closed his eyes, and seemed to have entered a state of fugue, which couldn't help but be very strange.
He was about to further induce the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal to force Shi Ziling's qi to shake, when suddenly the red light of the Heaven Turning Seal shook slightly, suddenly became extremely bright, and then quickly returned to its original state.
Li Yuan's heart jumped, for a long time, his control of the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal had reached the point of doing whatever he wanted, but the slight change just now was greatly unexpected by him, looking at the situation, it was obvious that the divine power of the Heaven Turning Seal sensed the invasion of other energies and automatically reacted, but Li Yuan himself did not notice the obvious energy change.
After that, the Heaven Turning Seal made several similar reactions in a row, and then slowly calmed down, and Li Yuan, who was almost in touch with the Heaven Turning Seal, had an extremely strange thought in his heart, as if suddenly his heart for Shi Ziling's battle intent was greatly reduced, and he actually had the idea of giving up this duel in a trance. And what passed on this thought to him seemed to be the Celestial Seal itself.
Li Yuan was extremely surprised, this duel at this moment was very important, not only the life and death of the main generals of the enemy and us, but also the ownership of the entire Northwest Campaign and even the Mingyue Continent.
Li Yuan's eyes lit up and stared at Shi Ziling opposite, seeing that Shi Ziling had already closed his eyes, with a leisurely expression on his face, there was no trace of tension in the duel between life and death.
Everyone watching the battle up and down the city tower was confused, Shi Ziling and Li Yuan had already gathered their momentum, but neither of them started, and they always stood motionless like this, making the audience really confused.
Only top masters like Bai Wuya and Xiahou Yuan understood that although Shi and Li had not launched, they were actually relying on the powerful aura forced by Zhenyuan to engage in a silent contest, and once their qi weakened, it could attract an earth-shattering blow at any time.
However, after that, Shi Ziling gradually closed his eyes, and his face showed a leisurely expression, which Bai Wuya and Xiahou Yuan couldn't understand. In their opinion, in such an important duel, how could they close their eyes and recuperate? The two really couldn't understand what Shi Ziling was doing.
Although it is not certain whether the strange appearance of the Heaven-Turning Seal is a ghost caused by Shi Ziling, Li Yuan never wants to give up at this time, even if the Heaven-Turning Seal conveys such an inexplicable message. Although the Heaven Turning Seal is an ancient artifact, Li Yuan firmly believes that he is the true master of this divine object, and he must not let the Heaven Turning Seal control his thoughts.
After his mind was certain, Li Yuan once again urged his own Wuji Divine Skill to inject into the Heaven Turning Seal, and as the battle intent in his heart continued to rise, the Heaven Turning Seal in his hand suddenly became red, and finally rose to the sky.