Is he a Quasi-Saint?
The Zero character Taoist Boy did not know how to answer, and Chen Xia had not given an answer either. He just held a sword in one hand, his Celestial Dragon True Body revealed its complete head behind him, occupying half of the small heaven and earth of Yin and Yang.
He tidied up his somewhat messy blue shirt sleeves and shook his head.
"Although I don't know what you want to do, cutting you down is always the right thing to do. Out of humanitarian care, I still have to ask you one more time..."
Chen Xia raised his sword, the dragon head behind him tilted slightly, and asked again.
"Are you ready to die?"
Sword qi crisscrossed.
The Zero character Taoist Boy's eyes widened, the flying swords around his body trembled, trying to go to block the sword Chen Xia wielded, but he couldn't see the trajectory of the sword light at all, let alone figure out where it came from. He could only control the many flying swords to protect himself, using them to barely block.
Clang.
There was indeed the sound of flying swords clashing, but it was very soft, like iron blocks lightly colliding without any vibration.
The Taoist boy looked puzzled, but soon froze.
Because blood had begun to flow from the corners of his mouth, spilling out incessantly, while the flying swords still surrounded him without the slightest movement.
The immortal sword had somehow pierced through his body abruptly, and the faint sound that came was the half immortal sword hitting the hilt of another flying sword.
"You who claims to be only one step away from being a Quasi-Saint, it seems that there is quite a big gap in that one step." Chen Xia asked with his head tilted, then reached out with one hand.
The half immortal sword that had just pierced the Taoist boy's chest was somehow already hovering beside him, with hot blood still flowing on its tip.
"You are not a Quasi-Saint!" The Taoist boy gritted his teeth to stop the spurting blood and said in a deep voice.
"Whether I am a Quasi-Saint or not is unimportant. You are certainly about to die." Chen Xia answered flatly.
He was indeed not a Quasi-Saint.
The reason was that he and his inner demon had fallen out and were now ignoring each other, like water and fire.
Chen Xia told the inner demon to get out of his body, while the inner demon told Chen Xia that if he had the ability, to kick him out himself, insisting that he would not leave anyway.
And with the inner demon unwilling to leave, Chen Xia could only be stuck at the Sea Inversing Realm. Although the spiritual energy stored in his body had reached an extremely terrifying level, he still could not get the approval of the Heavenly Dao, unable to break through the bottleneck.
He was now very close, extremely close to the threshold of transcending the ordinary and entering sainthood, so close that he could almost touch that level of power, yet he still wasn't there.
But what could be done? With the inner demon unwilling to leave, Chen Xia also could not do anything to it, so he could only drag things out like this for now.
His left eye was still crimson, only much dimmer than usual, barely noticeable.
The Taoist boy tapped a few times on his chest, stopping the blood, and healed his injuries.
If Chen Xia was not a Quasi-Saint, perhaps he would still have a chance. As long as he could seize this glimmer of opportunity, he could turn the tables!
"Boring." Chen Xia suddenly said. His eyes were no longer looking at the Zero Character Taoist, but raised his head looking at the small heaven and earth, and then said,
"If this is all the information you know, then I don't want to waste time with you either. I'll just cut you down with a few swords."
He suddenly turned his head. There was a grayish white light shining in his eyes.
The flying swords began to cry.
Time slowed down, then suddenly sped up again, as if it was the present, yet also the future.
Incomprehensible.
The Taoist boy was somewhat stunned.
Blood was already splashing continuously on him.
Masters who control time can match sword cultivators in combat, and some even say time masters are more terrifying than sword cultivators.
A definitive winner has not yet emerged between the two.
Chen Xia did not need to worry about this problem.
Because he was a sword cultivator who had grasped the Great Dao of time.
He was simply unmatched in combat.
In the Great Death Realm, the battle between Sovereign Cang Mang and Dao Ancestor would decide the life and death of the cultivators there.
It has to be said that Big Yellow Dog is indeed very fierce. Although he has only just entered the Great Emperor Realm, his combat power is already not inferior to that of Dao Ancestor.
Of course, it is also possible that Dao Ancestor is too weak. For some unknown reason, he is indeed not very good at combat, which is somewhat abnormal. As a Great Emperor who has lived for 400,000 years, he should at least have some killer moves right?
But Dao Ancestor has not shown anything so far and is still fighting Big Yellow Dog closely with no clear advantage.
The three Quasi-Emperors below were besieging the remnants of Ash Emperor, with many Great Saints also helping out, so it wasn’t too difficult for them.
Xu Zhen was anxiously looking around, frequently shouting,
“Brother Xia, Brother Xia!”
Just a while ago, Chen Xia had disappeared without a trace right before her eyes, vanishing without a sound.
Xu Zhen was stunned on the spot, unable to figure out how a person could just disappear without a trace.
Her face paled as she frantically searched along the star river but could not find the slightest trace of Chen Xia no matter what. At this moment she was anxious like an ant on a hot pan.
Ever since the Great Sage Chen Xi disappeared, now Brother Xia is missing too!
These were the people ranked first to tenth in her heart that had disappeared!
Don't ask how she could rank them from first to tenth.
Because Chen Xia occupied the spots from first to ninth.
Ma Xiaohong followed Xu Zhen, seeing how anxious she was, she comforted her despite feeling very anxious herself, “Don’t worry, maybe Chen Xia was just hungry and went home to eat.”
It has to be said, Ma Xiaohong's skills at comforting people really resembled Chen Xia's very much.
At the same time the entire Great Death Realm was “coming alive".
The cultivators were dying constantly, their blood and souls fusing into the Great Death Realm, aiding in its revival.
In between, the figure of the Twelve Taoist Boys flashed by continuously, as they started killing off these Heaven Mending Realm prodigies. In almost an hour, they were able to massacre large swathes of Heaven Mending Realm prodigies.
The Great Saints of each realm didn't have many good solutions either. They could only try their best to guard the top prodigies of their own realms, while assisting the three Quasi-Emperors in besieging Ash Emperor's remnants.
Blood flowed, streaming into the starry river, like a thick river of blood.
But the stars in the Great Death Realm shone brighter and brighter, hanging at the highest point, looking truly magnificent.
It was coming alive.
Using the deaths of tens of thousands of cultivators.
Beneath them, the Great Saints gritted their teeth. They could clearly feel the Great Death Realm exerting more pressure on them. The realms probably wanted to devour the Great Saints!
Boom!
A loud sound exploded in the sky.
Big Yellow Dog and Dao Ancestor landed powerful blows on each other, then retreated from each other, still for the moment as both sides caught their breath.
Ripples appeared on the little star.
Blood stained flying swords leaped out, inserting into the ground. They were greyish white Dao swords, now broken in half.
Then a figure in blue shirt walked out slowly, with faint blood on his hands that he casually flicked onto the ground.
The remnants of the Taoist boy's body came out last, covered in blood and already completely dead, his scattered spirit devoured by Chen Xia.
Looking at the battle between the two Great Emperors in the distance, Chen Xia couldn’t help but think of something.
Previously, the Taoist boy had said the only uncertainty for Dao Ancestor was his Past and Future method. That meant Dao Ancestor had already calculated Big Yellow Dog’s entry into the Great Emperor Realm into his plans.
And that this had not affected Dao Ancestor’s odds of winning.
So was he going to win for sure?
Chen Xia wasn’t completely certain. He frowned. If it was really a sure win then that meant Dao Ancestor was holding back now and in no hurry to decide the winner against Big Yellow Dog, but instead wanted to slowly drag out the time.
What would be the result of dragging out time?
The Great Death Realm would gain more vitality, and Big Yellow Dog’s Great Emperor realm would become more consolidated over time.
Was this what Dao Ancestor wanted - to kill Big Yellow Dog after his Great Emperor realm became stable once the Great Death Realm was filled with more vitality?
Chen Xia was uncertain, but felt it should be something like that. Otherwise Dao Ancestor would not be so wary of his Past and Future method, even sending a Zero Character Taoist Boy specially to obstruct him.
What a pity. That Zero Character Taoist Boy was useless himself.
Chen Xia kept the half immortal sword. Since Dao Ancestor was afraid of his Past and Future method, he might as well just use it directly. The backlash from heavenly dao was still bearable - it was a steady profit business.
Just at this moment, Chen Xia's mind shuddered, feeling as if something had been staring at him all this while.
He abruptly raised his head to look upwards.
In the highest heavens,
Dao Ancestor opened another pair of pale eyes above his own, gazing straight at Chen Xia, and had also seen the corpse of the Zero Character Taoist Boy beside him.
Dao Ancestor fell silent, closed both his eyes, leaving only the vertical grey pupil on his forehead open. He stretched out a hand and said softly,
“Suppress.”
This voice sounded like a murmur from the Heavenly Dao.
The Past and Future method Chen Xia was just about to chant abruptly stopped. His entire body crashed down, smashing through the stars before plunging straight down like a meteor, violently crashing towards the lowest point of the Great Death Realm.
Big Yellow Dog's expression changed in an instant as he wanted to save Chen Xia.
"Return," Dao Ancestor said plainly again, reaching out his hand to gently pull. At the same time, a touch of blood color appeared in his pale eyes, as if a little bug was flowing in his eyes.
Big Yellow Dog's disappearing body reappeared in its original place, and no matter how he dodged, his body would always return to its original place.
Boom!
As if mountains pressed down, the interface hammered down.
Chen Xia collided with the entire Great Death Realm, spitting blood from his mouth instantly, and all the bones in his body creaked, with many already broken.
In front of the Great Emperor, he had no way to fight back.
Dao Ancestor raised his hand and tapped lightly again, continuing to speak.
"Press down."
Chen Xia's body was already close to the Great Death Realm, but he was still falling, constantly colliding with the entire interface, like a huge interface smashing down on his body, making a loud rumbling noise.
His bones broke inch by inch, blood kept gushing out, without a trace of breathing room.
Behind him came the faint mournful dragon roar, and the Celestial Dragon True Body could not withstand this pressure either.
Big Yellow Dog wanted to come over and save his life, but was always blocked. The golden eyes had already taken on a bloody color because of anger. It turned its head and stared at Dao Ancestor, directly hitting its chest with its hand, and began to burn imperial blood to forcibly break through the heavens and the earth to kill Dao Ancestor.
This gave Chen Xia a chance to catch his breath.
But it was really just catching his breath.
Dao Ancestor's expressionless face was like the heavenly way sitting high above. With one hand, he used the supreme single word technique to block Big Yellow Dog's attack, and with the other, he said:
"I originally wanted to wait until your Great Emperor realm was more stable, although it might be more difficult to kill at that time, but the great sun condensed by your divine soul would be more dazzling."
"It's a pity that some changes happened along the way, I blame myself for being incapable, but there is nothing I can do now, I can only speed up the process."
"It’s a pity that the sun we’re getting this time is not the most perfect and shining one. Alas, so be it."
Dao Ancestor said softly to himself, then lightly pressed his palm down.
At this moment, the entire sky of the Great Death Realm lowered by a layer.
This represented that Dao Ancestor had entered the unity of heaven and man. He was about to merge with the entire Great Death Realm, using the revived Great Death Realm to impact the supreme position.
"In the past 400,000 years, 700,000 cultivators have died in the Great Death Realm, among them 200,000 people in the Sea Inversing Realm, 490,000 people in the Heaven Mending Realm, and 10,000 people in the Quasi-Saint Realm and above combined."
"This is the foundation of the entire Great Death Realm, the basis for the rebirth of tens of thousands of stars, the place for the resurrection of numerous stars, only lacking a great sun that can lead the stars. Then the entire Great Death Realm will truly come alive."
Dao Ancestor said softly, then looked at Big Yellow Dog with his pale eyes, and said:
"So please be that great sun."
His pale eyes were suddenly filled with blood, like strips of blood-colored worms squeezing inside, creepy to the extreme. He said hoarsely:
"Die."
A transparent sword emerged from above the sky of the Great Death Realm.
A sword made entirely by the will of the entire Great Death Realm, not controlled by any cultivator, but now hanging next to Dao Ancestor.
Dao Ancestor was no longer a cultivator, but the will of this entire Great Death Realm.
The Great Death Realm’s flying sword also stabbed out, its trajectory calm, without any embellishments.
But Big Yellow Dog froze in place, motionless.
The entire Great Death Realm had it locked on, it was the interface’s execution, ordinary Great Emperors had no means of defense.
"Brother Xia, Brother Xia!" Feeling the remaining aura of Chen Xia, Xu Zhen rushed over quickly, looking at his mangled appearance with tears streaming down unstoppably.
Ma Xiaohong followed closely behind her. Seeing Chen Xia's miserable body, she froze at first, then her face turned pale. She ran up very quickly, knelt in front of Chen Xia, put her hands on him, and kept anxiously chanting:
"Combine, perfect, combine, perfect!"
Her already mottled white hair lost its luster extremely quickly at this moment, and the faint wrinkles between her brows also became deeper.
In contrast, the wounds on Chen Xia's body disappeared extremely quickly.
But he did not wake up.
In the heart lake.
Wearing the clothes of a patrolman, Chen Xia looked curiously at the scarlet-eyed demon in front of him and asked curiously:
"Who are you?"
"I am Chen Xia," the inner demon replied.
"Who is Chen Xia?" The patrolman frowned, seemingly unable to come up with the answer, but felt very familiar with it. He crossed his arms and kept thinking.
"Chen Xia is you," the inner demon answered for him.
"Is that so?" The patrolman was not too sure. Standing on the heart lake, he suddenly lowered his head to see his appearance from the reflection in the heart lake.
He felt very familiar with it, yet unfamiliar.
He raised his head and asked the inner demon again: "I don't remember who I am. Am I about to die?"
The heart lake was calm.
There was no answer for a long time.
"No!" The inner demon gritted his teeth and said categorically, with affirmation and anger on his face.
Left eye.
The scarlet color in it became more and more intense, as if there were raging flames burning, rising vigorously.
Ma Xiaohong retreated and fell to the side, her body extremely weak, having lost her youthful appearance.
Xu Zhen stared blankly.
Chen Xia only opened his scarlet left eye, stretched out his left hand towards the sky, gritted his teeth and said heavily:
"Past and Future Method!"
Boom!
The light of heaven stopped for a moment.
The actions of all cultivators stopped,
Including Dao Ancestor and the Vast Great Emperor.
However, no portal opened between heaven and earth, nor did any future Chen Xia come out.
Only the left-eyed scarlet Chen Xia was alone.
The inner demon used the Past and Future Method.
But he didn't invite the future from other times, but invited the future of himself at this time.
That was, the future of present Chen Xia.
The Half-Step Immortal Sword roared out, the occupying Celestial Dragon True Body that the entire sky emerged.
Thunder filled the sky, like the biggest sea of thunder in the world.
Majestic and amazing.