Chapter 474 - 447: The Black Tortoise Rips Out the Pill, a World-Shocking Act

Thunder Strike Ridge, before the Spirit Realm Secret Realm Light Gate.

A thousand miles of ice and snow covered the land in an instant. As boundless Celestial Thunder crashed down, the ice blanketing the ground was shattered, sending countless shards flying.

The ice shards, like jade pearls, glinted with a cold, blade-like light, hurtling toward Song Ciwan in a flash.

With a thought, Song Ciwan unleashed the Xuanwu Mountain Observation Seal.

The defensive power of a mountain immediately enveloped her. At the same time, with a slight movement of her feet, she activated Inch Heart, End of the World. In the blink of an eye, she passed straight through the blizzard of ice shards and appeared before Ye Sheng!

Yes, in a single instant, Song Ciwan was face-to-face with Ye Sheng.

What happens when a Cultivator is closed in on by a Martial Artist?

Normally, a Cultivator would do everything in their power to avoid such close quarters.

But the reality of the moment was this: seeing his opponent close in, Ye Sheng, the Cultivator, instead revealed a smug smile, as if he had expected it all along.

He didn’t move a muscle, but his mouth seemed to silently form the word "Reflect."

What did "Reflect" mean?

Song Ciwan raised a hand, pointing a finger, originally intending to use the Life-taking Finger on Ye Sheng.

The Life-taking Finger possessed the ultimate killing power, a condensation of terrifying murderous intent. For those who practiced this Dharma Gate, the more they killed, and the stronger the beings who died by their hand, the more powerful the Life-taking Finger would become.

In other words, the Life-taking Finger was a pure technique of slaughter.

And since Song Ciwan began her Cultivation, the powerful beings who had died by her hand could be piled up to form a small mountain.

In her hands, the Life-taking Finger had long since reached the level of Mastery.

Ye Sheng should not have been able to survive this finger strike.

But miraculously, as Ye Sheng mouthed the word "Reflect," the Life-taking Finger, which had been aimed straight at his brow, suddenly reversed its direction.

The immense and extremely condensed power of death shot directly back toward Song Ciwan herself.

So the word "Reflect" was meant to mirror an opponent’s power, to invert heaven and earth, to reverse an Attack, and make them kill themselves!

Behind them, a group of Cultivators in the first pursuing echelon, led by Lian Jia’s Puppet Carriage, weaved through the thunder and arrived. From afar, they reached the foot of the mountain where the Spirit Realm Secret Realm Light Gate stood, just in time to witness Ye Sheng use the "Reflect" Character Technique to invert heaven and earth.

A roar of approval instantly erupted from the crowd.

"Excellent!"

"Brother Ye is truly worthy of his reputation! With such a technique to invert heaven and earth, I ask you, who in this world can stand against him?"

Those who could call Ye Sheng "Brother Ye" were naturally the geniuses from Yu State who had been discussing the Dao with him at Fenghua Building recently.

Geniuses are also divided into Levels, but those who can truly reach the Celestial Pride Level are few and far between.

After all, across the Nine Provinces’s Eighty-One Counties, plus the countless tribes of the Nine Celestial Demon Countries, and even including the Evil Spirit Demon Race, there were only a hundred Celestial Prides in total.

Unless one reached the Level of a Celestial Pride, it was difficult to comprehend just how powerful a true Celestial Pride was.

At least, in the eyes of these Yu State geniuses around Ye Sheng, the strength of his "Reflect" Character Technique had reached an unsolvable level.

Even if you had a thousand different techniques, if every single one was reversed by "Reflect," how could you possibly break it?

Recently, these geniuses who had been won over by Ye Sheng even had a faint feeling that his true strength should be far above his rank of seventy-five!

Today, Ye Sheng was set to battle Lu Bell, currently ranked fifty-first. On their way here, everyone had been discussing it, saying, "After today, Brother Ye will certainly replace Lu Bell and ascend to the fifty-first spot on the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List!"

As they spoke, they grew more excited. "We must hurry! To witness a battle between Celestial Prides today might be an event recorded in the annals of history. This is the crucial battle for Brother Ye’s rise!"

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And now, to have arrived just in time to witness Ye Sheng unleash his "Reflect" Character Technique was, one could say, catching the highlight of the show.

Amidst the roar of approval from below, Song Ciwan, on the mountain peak, was forced to withstand the reflected blow of her own Life-taking Finger!

This was her own Attack. It was the very definition of being struck by one’s own spear while holding one’s own shield.

In that instant, the people at the foot of the mountain held their breath, preparing to witness the death of a Celestial Pride. But they watched as the murderous streak of light from the finger strike shattered three phantom mountain images around Song Ciwan in succession.

That was the Xuanwu Mountain Observation Seal, which Song Ciwan had cultivated for a long time, reaching an extremely high level of mastery.

After the three phantoms shattered, a solid tortoise shell suddenly appeared on Song Ciwan’s back!

No, it was more than just a tortoise shell.

It was the solid figure of a Black Tortoise. The Black Tortoise was enormous, with the head of a snake and the body of a tortoise. A sharp horn grew from the forehead of the snake’s head.

The Black Tortoise, dark as the deep sea, raised its head. At first glance, it seemed to appear behind Song Ciwan, but in truth, it had completely merged with her.

A terrifying, primeval, and savage aura, as if it had snatched a fragment of myth from a bygone era, instantly traveled through time to arrive in the present.

At the foot of the mountain, a series of THUDS echoed as people fell to their knees.

It was too terrifying. An infinite pressure filled the heavens and the earth. The Divine Beast, the Black Tortoise, whose presence seemed to connect heaven and earth, opened its massive maw and let out a primeval, boundless, and leisurely dragon’s cry.

OOM—

Amidst the long cry, the power of the Life-taking Finger was completely exhausted, failing to harm Song Ciwan in the slightest.

But the Black Tortoise’s dragon cry was like a colossal wave from the deep sea, weaving together the long-distant past and the fleeting present into an unstoppable, despairing tide.

Caught in the tide, Ye Sheng’s face filled with terror. He mobilized the Golden Core in his Dantian and repeatedly screamed, "Reflect! Reflect! Reflect—"

He believed he should be screaming himself hoarse, giving it his all, his entire body’s True Qi and Spiritual Power boiling and burning furiously.

And in fact, Ye Sheng’s True Qi and Spiritual Power were indeed surging. Even the perfectly round Golden Core in his Dantian was continuously emitting a strange power that communicated with the heavens and the earth.

This power forced Ye Sheng’s pores to nearly burst open, and dense beads of blood seeped out from all over his body.

The mountain they stood on, including the ice that covered it and the endless Celestial Thunder in the sky, also began to tremble violently at this moment.

But it was no use.

Against the Black Tortoise’s dragon cry, all of it was useless.

The "Reflect" Character Technique could mirror an Attack and invert heaven and earth. It was indeed powerful and bizarre, seemingly unsolvable. But from ancient times to the present, across all heaven and earth, every power has its limit.

"Reflect" seemed unsolvable, but Ye Sheng’s power had its limits.

He could reflect Song Ciwan’s Life-taking Finger, but he could not reflect the Black Tortoise’s long cry.

Amidst the endless tide, the black-robed youth seemed to let out a soft sigh.

The figure in black stepped forward once more and kicked the blood-soaked Ye Sheng to the ground.

BOOM!

The great earth trembled. On the mountain peak beneath the Light Gate, layers of ice rustled and fell.

The audience kneeling below, shivering from the cold, strained to look up. They could only watch as Ye Sheng fell to the ground, and the black-robed youth formed a claw with their hand. With a SQUELCH, their fingers plunged into Ye Sheng’s Dantian and pulled out a glittering Golden Core!