Chapter 1038
The Art of Qimen Dunjia
The inner and outer eight trigrams rotate, and previously they were all using the same type of attack.
This is the first time that two different types of Bagua have been used to correspond to different hexagrams.
Zhao Yingkong, who was fighting a blue dragon that was tens of feet long, suddenly stopped.
If you look closely, you'll see.
Zhao Yingkong's eyes turned pitch black, and there was an extra layer around her ears.
Upon witnessing this scene, Saito exclaimed in surprise, "Is this an ear-blocking spell? No, it's an enhanced version!"
Cheng Xiao nodded.
The two of them also noticed.
This 2.0 version of Hao Yi should be their ancestor.
Although this person appeared only after being manipulated by the dark-skinned saint, aside from attacking Li Xiao and the others...
They didn't even acknowledge either of them.
Moreover, this person kept talking to Chu Xuan as if he were an impatient teacher.
Or rather, the kind that doesn't have long to live.
Besides, they're not deaf; they all heard the conversation between the middle-aged man, who seemed to be Hao Yi, and Chu Xuan.
And then there were those two sentences that Li Xiao inexplicably shouted out.
Although they didn't know what Li Xiao was talking about, the two of them had a feeling of being impressed but not quite.
Upon realizing this, Saito Kazumi inexplicably swallowed and muttered to himself:
“I know that there is a method of cultivation in Buddhism and Taoism that requires making a great vow, then entering the cycle of reincarnation. After all ten reincarnations are completed, one returns to the Western Paradise with the power of the cultivation from those ten reincarnations. In this way, one can become a Buddha or advance to the next level in an instant.”
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiao instinctively covered his mouth: "You mean Li Xiao?"
Saito shook his head: "It's not necessarily Li Xiao. It could be Chu Xuan, the captain, or even Chen Zilong."
"Didn't you hear what I just said? There is no true resurrection in the Main God Space. Do you know what that means?"
Cheng Xiao looked over with a serious expression: "What?"
Saito shook his head: "I don't know either."
Compared to these two chatting idly outside the Bagua formation.
The formation diagram appears much more dangerous.
The middle-aged man looked surprised.
Because he "saw" that the girl, whose sight and hearing were blocked, only paused for a moment.
Then the battle continued.
Despite being unable to see or hear, it was able to dodge and even launch the most effective counterattacks against every attack from the Azure Dragon.
It's worth noting that if an ordinary person suddenly loses their sight and hearing, it's already quite an achievement if they can still stand.
It would take years of training and consistent practice to return to normal.
Not to mention in a life-threatening battle like this.
Zhao Yingkong swayed slightly, but did not stop.
With his left hand, he drew a half-arc in mid-air with his Soul-Slaying Blade, precisely piercing the Azure Dragon's Reverse Scale.
With his right fingertips gripping the ground, he used the momentum to flip and leap into the air. In a desperate situation where he could neither see nor hear, he used the tactile feedback from the blade's shockwave to pinpoint the location of the Azure Dragon's heart.
The moment the blade pierced the scales, dragon blood gushed out like a waterfall.
"What a brilliant 'combat intuition'!" the middle-aged man exclaimed, clapping his hands in admiration, while the Bagua diagram beneath his feet spun even faster.
"Looks like another qualified teammate. So, next up, the Qian hexagram, seizing the god!"
Li Xiao, standing at the edge of the array, suddenly looked up.
Blood was still seeping from the hole in his neck, but suddenly a golden light shone deep in his pupils.
Almost at the same moment the middle-aged man spoke, Li Xiao stomped his right foot on the ground and his figure crashed into the center of the formation like a cannonball.
This time, the Bagua diagram beneath my feet failed to react in time.
It wasn't that he was too slow, but rather that a distorted, transparent force field emanated from Li Xiao's body, which briefly disrupted the trajectory of the array!
"Hmm?" The middle-aged man frowned for the first time. "This is... the prototype of the Light of the Soul..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Xiao had already broken through the three layers of trigrams, his golden spear piercing straight for the middle-aged man's brow. But it stopped at the last inch, not because it was blocked, but because a miniature rotating Tai Chi diagram appeared where the spear tip hovered.
The middle-aged man praised it, his face beaming with joy.
Even so, the other side's methods did not stop in the slightest.
"The Xun hexagram signifies evil winds."
"The Li trigram represents the red yang."
"The wind fuels the fire, let's unite!"
A ball of ever-expanding purplish-red flame shot out from in front of the Vermilion Bird.
It suddenly appeared above Li Xiao and then exploded.
A flash of golden light appeared.
"destroy!"
Li Xiao swallowed another mouthful of blood.
When Li Xiao broke free of the Bagua restraints, he unleashed a powerful kick.
The hundred-meter vacuum slash transformed into a thread, cutting the Vermilion Bird in the air in two.
Then stomp on the ground once more.
The figure suddenly appeared in front of the girl, and a golden spear flew out.
The Azure Dragon disintegrated into countless points of light across the sky.
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up as he watched Li Xiao break through the Bagua formation.
"Extreme physical strength, bursting forth in an instant, has not been recorded before, so it is a new self-created skill!"
"With these two added, they're truly qualified teammates!"
"But not yet, the Kan hexagram represents water shaking waves!"
One second the sky was empty, the next a towering wave crashed onto the shore.
Even Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong had to temporarily avoid the limelight.
Upon witnessing this, Zhang Jie suddenly waved his hand.
Most of the waves turned and swirled towards the white tiger in front of him and the middle-aged man who had unleashed the earth-shattering wave.
“The Dui hexagram signifies divine intervention,” the middle-aged man murmured.
Li Xiao opened his mouth as if to speak, but no sound came out.
Even more bizarrely, his spear-wielding motion also froze, as if he had been stripped of the very concept of "attack".
Outside the formation, Saito saw this scene and suddenly grabbed Cheng Xiao's shoulder:
"This move is based on the law of cause and effect! He used the Dui trigram to seal the possibility of 'Li Xiao's attack succeeding'!"
At this moment, Chu Xuan was standing at the center of the double Gen trigram.
He took off his glasses and slowly wiped them with the corner of his shirt.
The ground beneath his feet cracked, a testament to his attempt to break free from the suppression of "Heaven and Earth Opposition" with pure physical strength—though futile, it caused a barely perceptible delay in the array.
"Reversing cause and effect..."
Chu Xuan put his glasses back on, his gaze piercing through the array behind the lenses, looking at the illusory figure of the middle-aged man.
"So you are not 'fighting,' but replaying a history that is destined to happen. Every change in the hexagram is a 'result' that has already been fixed; and all our reactions are the 'cause' that brings about these 'results.'"
The middle-aged man's smile deepened: "Continue."
"The highest level of Qimen Dunjia is not to control all things, but to weave cause and effect."
Chu Xuan spoke at a steady pace, yet every word was sharp and clear.
"The more we struggle, the more we are filling in a script that was written a thousand years ago. Even..."
"The Gen hexagram, representing the disharmony between Heaven and Earth."
Chu Xuan ultimately didn't say those words, and as the divination results shifted, everything vanished.
The double Gen trigram covered the entire area.
Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong exchanged a gesture with their clasped hands.
Because the current situation is exactly the same as when we faced the Scorpion King.
All enhancements and the bloodline energy within the body disappeared.
All that remained was the most basic physical strength.
And because the Gen trigram rotates.
At this moment, the place where Chu Xuan was finally returned to normal.
The middle-aged man looked at the others and kept gesturing.
"The Dui trigram signifies silence."
“The Zhen hexagram signifies rest and sustenance.”
Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong immediately felt a sudden choking, and then their legs went numb.
The two reacted quickly, raising their hands at the same time to stab the side of their necks.
As the blood hole appeared, a stream of air began to breathe from within. Then, Li Xiao grabbed Zhao Yingkong with one hand and threw her out.
He grabbed a flying sword with his own hand and pulled him to the other side.
The array beneath their feet rapidly expanded, but ultimately could not be maintained and shifted towards the direction where Li Xiao was.
The blood hole on Zhao Yingkong's neck instantly healed as the white spiritual point condensed.
Then his figure turned and rushed towards Zhang Jie's direction.
At this moment, Zhang Jie is fighting alone against the two sacred beasts, the White Tiger and the Black Tortoise.
Despite being called sacred beasts, Zhang Jie saw them as just a giant tortoise and a giant tiger.
With its gold and silver wheels, complementing each other in offense and defense, plus Zhang Jie's mental skills, it should have been an easy victory.
However, the formation beneath their feet kept changing.
Just as the middle-aged man was attacking others, each time a certain restriction was applied to Zhang Jie's feet, it would cause him to become flustered.
It's either the sudden loss of two of the five senses, or a magic-suppressing domain, or a space-suppressing domain.
There was even a time when Zhang Jie was frozen in place, as if time had stopped except for his eyes.
If it weren't for the Golden Wheel's defense, Zhang Jie probably wouldn't have been able to hold on.
Three seconds later, Zhao Yingkong and Zhang Jie worked together to kill a tiger and a turtle.
The middle-aged man landed on the ground and walked forward, saying a sentence with each step.
"The Zhen hexagram signifies the reversal of heavenly order."
“Gen hexagram: Earth covering.”
"The Li hexagram: Empty in the middle."
"Kan hexagram: fullness in the middle."
"The Dui trigram: missing at the top."
"Xun Gua: Xiadu."
The three layers of white Bagua diagrams, inside and out, were so fast that they became slightly blurred.
However, this did not prevent Li Xiao and his team from facing constantly evolving attacks.
Only then did they realize that this person might truly possess a celestial-level soul.
It is much stronger than that physical body that could only defend itself with telekinesis.
They used every means at this moment to neutralize the various inexplicable attacks.
In an instant.
With a single kick, Li Xiao shattered the head of the earth dragon, shut down the destruction, and landed, panting heavily.
At this moment, the golden light emanating from his body began to show traces of cracks.
Not only Li Xiao, but Chen Zilong and Zhao Yingkong are also in bad shape right now.
Because of his strong mental fortitude, Zhang Jie was unable to launch a counterattack but was more than capable of defending.
In contrast to them, Chu Xuan faced equally "dangerous" attacks every time from beginning to end.
This danger was enough to kill Chu Xuan.
Fortunately, this person has all sorts of defensive items.
At this moment, in addition to the dim crystal ball, several palm-sized metal cubes have appeared under Chu Xuan's feet.
These metal cubes were all cracked open, exposing the source of their inner spark.
When the ground ripples, layers of spikes appear.
The electromagnetic shield enveloping Chu Xuan held for several breaths before successfully neutralizing it.
At the same time, another metal Rubik's Cube appeared on the ground.
It's easy to see that, with the resources from the previous horror movie, Chu Xuan's energy shield has been improved once again.
Not only can the spark source be used directly as the energy core, but it also has a huge basic quantity.
At least it allows him to squander it at will right now.
At this moment, the middle-aged man was only ten steps away from Chu Xuan.
The array plates on the ground rotated again, layer by layer.
He looked at Chu Xuan and said:
"Among the eight trigrams, Qian and Kun are the most important."
"Descendants, watch closely, this is my peak."
"The Qian hexagram: Three consecutive Yang lines."
"Kun hexagram: Six broken Yin."
Black and white instantly filled the entire world.
The area covered by the array diagram.
Three suns appeared in the white world, while six moons appeared in the black world.
"The ultimate number of heaven and earth begins with one and ends with nine."
"Nine is the limit of numbers."
As the middle-aged man spoke, the nine luminous objects in the sky began to rise.
"Throughout my life, I have only reached the Eight Trigrams and Four Symbols, without ever comprehending the realm of Yin and Yang, let alone the later state of Chaos Returning to One."
"That's why the sage looks at me like an ant..."
"But with the help of the Four Symbols and the Eight Trigrams, I can still reveal the scene of Yin and Yang."
"Would you all like to come in and take a look?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the nine orbs of light in his field of vision exploded instantly.
Black and white filled the world.
When Li Xiao and the others opened their eyes and saw clearly...
Everyone was momentarily stunned.
It wasn't because the scene before them was too bizarre.
On the contrary.
Aside from being divided into black and white, nothing else changed.
The nine enormous orbs of light that exuded a sense of danger just a second ago have now vanished.
It's as if I've become a part of this black and white world.
Moreover, they found that they couldn't move at all.
Not only the body, but also the internal energy and even the debris that was ejected from the air stopped.
Zhang Jie understood that compared to the time-stopping effect that had previously imprisoned the mind, this one seemed to be a bit more perfect.
Li Xiao also recalled the time he faced Adam.
The same black and white space, the same stillness of time.
But this time, the bronze sword in his hand did not react.
This indicates that the power the opponent is currently using must have surpassed that of the Heavenly God Team captain at the time.
But thinking about it, it's inevitable.
How could someone whose strength is so great that even a sage would use them as a backup plan be weak?
Although the four people in the black and white space were unable to move at the moment, none of them felt anxious.
Firstly, their intuition told them that they would not die.
The second point is...
Compared to the Bagua formation on the ground that shimmered with white light.
Now, however, a black Bagua diagram has appeared, except that the black one is smaller and the white one is larger.
And the central position of this black Bagua diagram is none other than the one in the center.
It was Chu Xuan, who stood firmly in the central palace.
The middle-aged man looked at the person facing him from a distance and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration:
"That's all I know. Now you can let him fire."
"Are you wondering how I knew that person wasn't in my Bagua formation?"
"It's actually very simple. Compared to the extremely unfamiliar combat, divination is what I'm good at."
"Before I pushed open this door, I impulsively cast a divination for myself, and it was an extremely unlucky omen!"
"So I'm very satisfied."
"The last sentence must be carefully considered: their enemy is not their enemy, and our enemy is not the end game."
Standing in the black Bagua diagram, Chu Xuan nodded.
next moment.
Beyond the black and white world, a gunshot rings out.
A black bullet, engraved with countless runes, arrived at the edge of the black and white world. (End of Chapter)