Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 720 - 309: Commanding Yin and Yang (Part 3)
Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
Having caught sight of Ning Qi showing up with wounds, he scanned around for where the young man might be hiding.
On one side, this left him fretting over Ning Qi's wounds, but on the other, he desperately wished for Ning Qi to tackle the mess they were in.
At the same time, the forces from the Profound Truth Realm stood powerless before Earth Star.
Their sole shot at triumph rested on the Alliance Hierarch stepping in to fight!
Right as the Sword Ancestor sliced through the purple glow once more, a figure in white robes finally showed up. He materialized close to the purple barrier, cocking his head a bit.
"Old Sword, watch out, don’t cut me!"
The moment the Alliance Hierarch arrived, a wave of relief washed over the onlookers.
Sword Shocking halted his blade mid-swing, his form flashing across the emptiness, trailing ghostly images.
In the end, he drew within twenty meters of the starlight, his advance slowing to a torturous crawl.
With no choice, the Sword Ancestor came to a halt. He fixed his eyes on Ning Qi and warned:
"Kid, if you don’t stop the Vast Realm Will right now, it’ll be too late!"
At the same time, his eyes landed on Ning Qi’s left hand, letting the Sword Ancestor exhale in relief.
The wound Ning Qi had suffered before was on his left hand, yet it had mended fully by now.
A light smile crossed Ning Qi's face, "Don’t worry, now that I’ve appeared, it won’t have any more influence."
As if sensing their words, the Vast Realm Will reacted to Ning Qi's arrival, its mighty presence flaring with anger.
From atop the starlight, those writhing starlight tendrils all lunged straight for Ning Qi at once.
This time, it refused to let Ning Qi slip away!
The Sword Ancestor lashed out with his sword anew; though shattering the starlight band proved impossible, fending off the starlight tendrils remained within reach.
Escape held no appeal for Ning Qi.
In his right palm, a sword materialized from nowhere, gripped tight.
"One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques!"
Ning Qi unleashed the identical Sword Dao technique as the Sword Ancestor.
His single slash unleashed a beam of sword light, pure white like the sun's blaze, severing the incoming tendrils and piercing the purple veil woven by the Vast Realm Will over Earth Star.
At last, Ning Qi's blade avoided the crystal spirit jade itself, instead aiming at the link tying the Vast Realm Will’s starlight band to the crystal spirit jade!
Crack!
To the shock of all, Ning Qi's strike cleanly sliced apart the laser-like starlight band!
Eyes bulged wide among the crowd, hearts pounding with awe, as a spark of hope ignited brighter within them.
The Vast Realm Will itself hadn't foreseen this turn.
The broken laser starlight band thrashed wildly through the void, twisting like luminous cords.
Inside the crystal spirit jade, the energy conversion halted abruptly, mere moments from finishing the Yin and Yang fish pattern.
Ning Qi advanced a step, reaching out to claim the crystal spirit jade.
Naturally, the laser starlight band wouldn't yield so easily, splitting off multiple thick tendrils like hemp ropes, resembling divine claws from the skies, all clawing toward Ning Qi.
On this occasion, Ning Qi chose not to dodge.
He raised his left hand skyward instead, as if the memory of its earlier piercing by the Vast Realm Will had faded.
The starlight-formed tendrils closed in, nearly touching his frame.
In a flash, a fearsome power—familiar to the Profound Truth Realm's cultivators—burst forth from Ning Qi’s left hand.
Though unseen and unfelt, it gave off a soft shimmer akin to the starlight band.
Looking nearer, it revealed itself as a handful of light beams, each just a meter in length.
Yet these slim beams matched the starlight tendrils in might within an instant.
It felt like something on par with the starlight band!
"Is the Alliance Hierarch wielding the Power of Will from the Mountain and Sea Realm?"
Among the Profound Truth Realm's ranks, numerous voices murmured in wonder.
To them, nothing short of the Mountain and Sea Realm's Will could stand against the Vast Realm Will.
True enough, Ning Qi drew on the Realm Power bestowed by the Mountain and Sea Realm; beyond the medium rule fragments and more as rewards for seizing a medium node,
It had secretly bestowed upon Ning Qi, its Domain Master, ten threads of Realm Power as an extra gift.
Hidden from the other cultivators, the Mountain and Sea Realm's Will masked this effortlessly from all eyes.
This allowed Ning Qi to face off against the Vast Realm Will head-on.
Naturally, revealing his full might would let him clash with the Vast Realm Will's starlight without issue.
The earlier mending of his left hand's wound came courtesy of the Mountain and Sea Realm's Realm Power too.
The Vast Realm Will's starlight band never anticipated Ning Qi countering with the Mountain and Sea Realm's Realm Power, quickly realizing he had to be a Domain Master there.
None but a Domain Master could wield such Spirit Realm Power.
After all, realms at war summon their Realm Power into the battlefield.
While the essences of rival realms remain mysterious, they manifest ultimately as Realm Power.
Hence, the Vast Realm's starlight band boiled down to Realm Power at its core.
Ning Qi’s scant threads of Realm Power clashed with the Vast Realm Will's starlight band, sparking a brutal skirmish that held back the Vast Realm Will's assault for the moment.
Still, this standoff couldn't last; the Heavenly Star gleamed on, endlessly drawing in the Vast Realm Will.
As long as the Heavenly Star stayed intact, the Realm Power it built up knew no end.
Ning Qi pressed onward, snatching the crystal spirit jade into his grasp.
Staring at the head-sized crystal spirit jade, none could imagine it held the full essence of this area's Mountain and Sea Realm and Sea of Realms.
Ning Qi looked upward, watching the Vast Realm Will's starlight band on the verge of overwhelming the Mountain and Sea Realm's Realm Power.
He wasted no time; from his right hand clutching the crystal spirit jade, fresh threads of Realm Power flowed out, pouring into it.
Inside the crystal spirit jade, the nearly finished Yin and Yang fish stirred restlessly from the Realm Power Ning Qi infused.