Chapter 531
Dramatic Change
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man below narrowed his eyes slightly.
At the same time, the enormous, towering silver tiger skeleton suddenly became enraged, and the air between heaven and earth in the entire canyon boiled at that moment.
In an instant, the white pebbles on the ground were crushed into dust by an invisible pressure, which rose up with the boiling air and turned into billowing dust that blotted out the sky.
The unconscious white cat on the ground was thrown away, and the middle-aged man raised his hand and grabbed it. An invisible aura enveloped and protected the cat, and the billowing dust could not get within three feet of it.
Throughout this time, the middle-aged man's gaze never left the young figure above him.
The silver tiger, whose head had been crushed by Li Musheng's foot, unleashed an even more powerful and ferocious aura of rage, its body swirling with an indestructible killing force that seemed poised to obliterate everything.
In the middle-aged man's view, after Li Musheng took that step, he simply stood quietly in the air until the white tiger phantom's tail whip lashed out, piercing through the dark sky and tearing a crack in the sky above the canyon, allowing a sliver of light to pass through.
Li Musheng, who was completely enveloped by the whip, seemed to have just begun to make a move. However, he did not show any intention of dodging or retreating. He simply slowly raised his hand with his fingers together.
At this moment, the middle-aged man's gaze gradually focused, and deep within his eyes seemed to swirl with layers of nebulae, radiating a wise brilliance that seemed to see through everything.
However, Li Musheng's raised finger still looked ordinary, with neither the true energy of heaven and earth gathering and trembling, nor the martial arts aura showing.
Yet this seemingly powerless strike, meeting the tail whip of the white tiger's phantom, pierced directly through a line of sunlight, and pointed a finger at the flawless white jade spine of the silver tiger below, which resembled a winding dragon.
In an instant, the entire massive canyon fell silent. Under the dark sky, only the tiny human figure on the horizon stood facing off against the world-destroying beast as large as a mountain. White smoke drifted through the canyon, and the scene seemed as if time had stood still.
The middle-aged man stood in the dust-free area, his gaze fixed on the two figures, one large and one small, in the sky above. Then, his pupils visibly contracted slowly.
At the same time, the sky-covering white tiger phantom began to tremble slightly, and then the amplitude increased, almost to the point of collapse.
The enormous silver tiger slowly raised its head, which was as big as a house, and the blazing light in its eyes, as bright as the sun, shone down on Li Musheng's body in front of it.
The next moment, the sky above the entire canyon seemed to explode, bursting out with an incomparably dazzling and blinding brilliance. The high temperature of the fire, far surpassing that of molten lava, spread from point to surface and instantly filled the entire world, as if it wanted to burn everything in the canyon.
The middle-aged man reached out and grabbed the unconscious white cat, then instantly retreated to the edge of the canyon, away from the center of the fire above.
At this moment, in the middle-aged man's view, although the silver tiger released ferocious flames that seemed capable of destroying the world, its spine, which supported the entire massive skeletal body, was breaking inch by inch amidst the raging flames.
The entire silver tiger's spine, towering into the sky, resembled a broken dragon, twisted and crooked, while a large amount of silver material used to mend the cracks fell off, evaporating into a silver mist that vanished in the blazing fire in the blink of an eye.
The heavens and earth were silent, yet it seemed as if the painful roars of the white tiger's skeleton echoed from all directions.
The massive canyon was collapsing at an accelerated rate, causing the ground beneath the middle-aged man's feet to continuously sink, creating a scene of utter apocalypse.
At that moment, Li Musheng's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and when he reappeared, he was already between the necks of the silver tiger.
Li Musheng stomped his foot and kicked away the entire enormous, pavilion-sized skeleton of the silver tiger.
Then, he reached out and grasped in mid-air, an invisible aura descended, and then casually pulled the mountain-like spine out of the silver tiger's body.
That wasn't all. Li Musheng's figure disappeared again, and when he reappeared, he was already holding the silver white tiger's tail, which was as long as a steel dragon, with one hand.
Then, he swung the silver tiger, which was many times larger than himself, into the air and then slammed it heavily into the canyon.
The canyon floor was already constantly collapsing, and as the massive skeleton of the silver tiger crashed down, the terrifying force triggered a landslide and tsunami-like collapse, causing the entire canyon to sink, seemingly about to sink into a bottomless abyss.
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man's expression changed visibly, and he turned around to look in the direction from which he had come from the canyon.
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At the same time, both the White Emperor Tower in the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and the underground White Emperor City outside the secret realm were experiencing unimaginable tremors.
An earthquake struck the underground city of Baidi. Pillars of light that pierced the sky from all directions began to flicker, and the palaces, houses, and streets within the city collapsed and were destroyed.
All the martial arts masters who were searching for treasures in the city and suppressing the incantations in seclusion were alarmed and rushed out of the underground White Emperor City, standing in the air above the city.
The group looked around, trying to find out the reason for the sudden change in the underground White Emperor City. Looking down, they saw blinding white light shooting out from the countless cracks in the ground that opened up in the city streets below.
Those white lights were like the sharpest blades, and the collapsed buildings and brick walls were shredded into dust with just a slight touch.
What terrified the martial arts masters even more was the murderous aura contained within those white lights, which made them extremely wary.
The city below transformed into a perilous place that threatened their lives the instant countless beams of white light appeared, making them hesitant to enter it again.
The situation inside the White Emperor Tower was even more perilous. The three elders of the Jingjue Ancient City Clan, who were breaking through the array restrictions on the seventh floor, and the Lord of the Green Mountain Tower, all opened their eyes abruptly the moment the White Emperor Tower experienced a change, and their expressions all changed drastically.
"What exactly happened? Why are the bottom six floors of the White Emperor Tower crumbling and disappearing?"
A look of shock appeared on the aged face of the Seventh Ancestor, and the other three also frowned, but clearly none of them knew the reason why all this had happened.
Soon, the four of them suddenly froze, and their expressions turned extremely ugly.
Because, after the six lower floors of the White Emperor Tower collapsed one after another, it was finally the seventh floor where they were located.
Inside the main hall, the array of nine crimson pillars adorned with coiled dragons seemed to be under immense pressure. The nine dragons, which were originally shrouded in shimmering clouds and light and were incredibly lifelike, became lifeless, and the densely packed talismans and incantations engraved on the pillars gradually faded.
The four people who were breaking the formation were also crushed by some powerful force. In an instant, their true energy and blood surged, and they all coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The bodies of the boy in blue and the girl in red, who were guarding outside the array, were rapidly cracking open. Strands of blood seeped from their chapped skin, and in the blink of an eye, they became two blood-soaked figures. Even though the two of them used all their martial arts true energy to protect themselves, it was to no avail.
Fortunately, both of them possessed life-saving techniques bestowed upon them by the Fifth and Seventh Ancestors, which were activated at the critical moment, barely protecting them from exploding and dying.
"The restrictions of the coiled dragon formation here seem to be collapsing." The Sixth Patriarch, whose mouth was oozing blood, suddenly suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and then showed an unusual calmness.
His cloudy eyes scanned the changes throughout the hall, and he said in a deep voice:
"Although we don't know what's going on with the White Emperor Tower now, it might not be a bad thing for us."
Upon hearing this, the other two elders of the Jingjue Ancient City clan and the master of Qingshan Tower seemed to have realized the same thing.
The four of them were the ones who broke the formation. Their original goal was to break the dragon formation and its restrictions. Now that the formation and restrictions here were collapsing on their own, it was naturally in their favor.
"What I'm most worried about right now is whether the collapse of the array and restrictions will damage the things stored inside?"
The Sixth Patriarch was the first to withdraw the combined formation technique, instead using his own martial energy to resist the oppressive forces coming from all directions. At the same time, his brow furrowed even more deeply. He then glanced at the other three and said:
"There is something even more important: can we survive this crisis?"
Upon hearing this, the Fifth Ancestor, the Seventh Ancestor, and the Master of Green Mountain Tower all fell silent. However, at this moment, the Fifth Ancestor turned to look at the young man in blue and the young woman in red outside the array, and said in a deep voice:
"No matter what, we cannot give up easily. Whether we can hold on or not, we must give it our all."
After saying that, he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the two young men in blue outside, pulling them into the array and protecting them between the four of them.
Seeing this, both the Seventh and Sixth Ancestors nodded slightly, then looked at the Master of Green Mountain Tower and said:
"Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to go all in."
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Meanwhile, the middle-aged man, who seemed to have already seen the underground White Emperor City and White Emperor Tower, remained silent until he withdrew his gaze and looked down at the completely collapsed canyon below.
At this moment, the unburnt flames fell like streams of fire, billowing smoke and dust, and spreading silver mist, reflecting the broken sky and earth of the canyon as if the world had collapsed.
The next instant, Li Musheng's figure flew out from the dark, deep pit, still holding the end of the silver tiger's tail whip in his hand.
Li Musheng slowly lifted the entire skeleton of the white tiger, except for the head, from the ground.
The previously appearing white tiger phantom has been dispersed, and the silver mist that repaired the cracks in the white tiger's skeleton is almost gone.
At this moment, the entire skeleton, as large as a mountain, was loose and swayed back and forth in the falling fire and dust around it, making a series of crisp, clanging sounds like metal clashing.
"This thing is nothing special."
Li Musheng, holding the white tiger skeleton, hovered in the air in front of the middle-aged man and spoke with a calm and collected expression.
The middle-aged man seemed surprised that it would end so quickly. He gave Li Musheng a deep look before turning his gaze to the skeleton of the ferocious white tiger beneath him.
Nebula-like vortexes appeared in the middle-aged man's eyes. At this moment, he could see that at various joints of the white tiger's skeleton, there were faint and uncertain wisps of energy.
These energies are interconnected, as if weaving a net that seals off and isolates the remaining power in the white tiger's skeleton from the surrounding world.
It should be known that the ancient ferocious beast, the White Tiger, was in charge of killing and slaughter, and its remains contained extremely powerful destructive and killing power.
This power can break through any obstacle between heaven and earth, and is difficult to restrain. Even he has no corresponding means to seal it completely.
However, Li Musheng accomplished all of this, and in a very short time, he suppressed and sealed all the power within the entire white tiger skeleton. This terrifying martial arts technique was something the middle-aged man had never seen before.
Just as the middle-aged man was examining the white tiger skeleton in Li Musheng's hand, Li Musheng grabbed the huge white tiger head that he had kicked away earlier and brought it close to him.
The eyes of the white tiger's head still burned with a blazing fire that seemed never to be extinguished, and a fierce and tyrannical aura of destruction and slaughter lingered between the broken skull bones.
Even top martial arts masters like the Earthly Ancestor would never dare to easily touch such an aura, otherwise, even with their profound martial arts cultivation, they would not escape the consequence of death.
But Li Musheng completely disregarded it, casually striking out with a few palms, the invisible martial arts palm imprints all falling into the white tiger's skull.
The next instant, the flames burning in the eyes of the white tiger's head went out in the blink of an eye, and the destructive and murderous aura surrounding the flawless white jade-like skeleton also dissipated completely.
The once extremely dangerous white tiger head, in the blink of an eye, became a completely sealed remnant, just like the massive skeleton in Li Musheng's hands.
The middle-aged man looked up and naturally saw the whole scene.
Having witnessed Li Musheng seal the White Tiger skull with his own eyes, he finally discerned some clues with his keen eyesight.
To the middle-aged man, Li Musheng was using an extremely profound and mysterious martial arts technique, a technique capable of sealing the heavens and earth.
Even though he had read all the martial arts manuals and secret techniques of the Great Qi Dynasty in his life, he had never seen this divine skill before. It must have been created by later generations a thousand years later.
Furthermore, judging from Li Musheng's fighting style, he has already reached the realm of returning to simplicity in martial arts.
Such a level of skill is not difficult for a martial god, but Li Musheng's move was somewhat strange.
Although the middle-aged man could not fully understand Li Musheng based on just a few simple moves, he still keenly sensed that although Li Musheng's martial arts aura was extremely pure, it was also mixed with a variety of forces completely different from martial arts.
This includes divine power that only divine beings can wield.
However, the middle-aged man knew very well that Li Musheng was by no means a person who cultivated both divine and martial arts.
At the same time, after sealing the white tiger's head, Li Musheng casually waved his hand and reattached the head to the massive white tiger skeleton.
At this point, the white tiger's skeleton was restored to its complete form. Although it was more broken and damaged than before, the aura it exuded still revealed the majesty of an ancient ferocious beast.
Li Musheng stood atop the white tiger's skull, causing the entire massive skeleton to levitate in mid-air, and shook his head, muttering to himself:
"After all, it's just the remains of a ferocious beast, the White Tiger. There's no pressure at all. If it were a real, living ancient ferocious beast like the White Tiger, it would probably make me get serious." (End of Chapter)