Chapter 334 - 141: Divine Thought Form, Fire Monkey Tramples the Heavens, Staff Annihilates Gui Chen

He had been unable to avoid their previous collision.

He could only endure the blow head-on.

The overflowing aftershock had destroyed the West Mountain Incense Altar, but compared to the power he had endured, that shockwave was nothing.

At this moment, he seemed to be standing perfectly still.

In truth, countless cells, invisible to the naked eye, were trembling throughout his body.

He used his immense Power of Divine Thought to forcefully suppress them.

Otherwise, the resulting aftershock would have been far more intense. Not just West Mountain, but perhaps an area of ten thousand miles in every direction would have faced imminent destruction in that instant.

But thankfully, he had withstood it.

"PFFT!"

The moment Su Bai looked up, the Leader of Gui Chen Sect, high in the sky, spat out a mouthful of blood. He could no longer suppress his internal injuries and began coughing uncontrollably.

His entire body was like a punctured waterskin, blooming with spurts of blood!

The world fell silent, save for the soft rustling of blood spraying through the air.

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect staggered a few steps in mid-air, his robes soaked with blood. He snapped his head up, his eyes blackish-red voids—his eyeballs were gone.

His wretched state was a horrifying sight.

"Sect Leader!"

The surrounding Gui Chen Sect Daoists’ expressions changed drastically, their Heart Spirits gripped with terror.

Xiao Yu’s face instantly turned deathly pale. He glanced to the side and saw an old, expressionless monk staring intently at him.

It wasn’t just him; all the Gui Chen Sect Daoists were being watched.

STEP. STEP.

Su Bai slowly took a step, ascending into the heavens to arrive in mid-air. He stood opposite the Leader of Gui Chen Sect, the two facing each other from a distance.

Violent changes were still occurring within his body, but his demeanor had already calmed completely.

"Haha, to think... to think..."

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect let out a wretched laugh, his hollow, dark eye sockets fixed tightly on Su Bai.

"What Divine Technique was that!?"

To onlookers, their battle seemed to be just a few short clashes.

In reality, it was far more than that.

For beings like them, tens of millions of methods could be condensed into a single Divine Technique.

Their clash of Divine Thoughts, that single exchange, was a battle fought with the culmination of their life’s learning.

"Merely Divine Thought Form."

Su Bai said faintly, a golden ripple seeming to spread from the depths of his eyes.

"Have you... broken through to Ascension to Immortality?"

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect stared intently at Su Bai. The vital essence constantly dissipating from his body seemed less important than the answer to this question.

’He refused to believe it!’

After so many years, how many hardships had he endured, how many fortuitous encounters had he obtained, how many life-and-death situations had he survived to reach his current level of achievement?

And yet, this youth in white robes...

Days ago, he was merely equivalent to a newly promoted Feathered True Master. If he himself had been willing to sacrifice a Feathered Body, he might have been able to suppress and kill him.

’How could he believe that in just ten-odd days, this youth had ascended to the heavens in a single step!?’

’Even if this person were the reincarnation of one of those old monsters from antiquity, he absolutely couldn’t possess such a terrifying cultivation speed!’

"Ascension to Immortality..."

Su Bai’s eyes flickered.

To him, Divine Techniques and Cultivation Techniques were the highest priority. The Immortal Ascension Realm required too many Experience Points to break through in a short time.

A thought crossed his mind, and Su Bai slowly spoke:

"Whether I have or not, what difference does it make?"

"Yes, it makes no difference now."

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect sighed long and deep, his voice as ethereal as clouds and mist.

"Though I was defeated this time, you have shown me many of my shortcomings. For that, I suppose I should thank you."

"A flaw wouldn’t be a flaw if it could be easily fixed."

Su Bai responded with an indifferent expression.

His understanding of the Ten Forms Inquiry Scripture was second only to the Leader of Gui Chen Sect’s, so he naturally knew the man’s weakness.

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect had split himself into ten avatars.

These ten were all avatars, but they were also all his true self. As long as they weren’t all destroyed, he had a chance to be reborn.

The power of this technique went without saying.

However, if the Divine Spirit is spread too thin, it creates a flaw.

If the avatars die too many times, the Divine Spirit will weaken step by step, until it eventually perishes.

"They all say that the Celestial Secret Elder’s Divination and Deduction is the best in the world, but in my view, you are even more mysterious than him..."

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect sighed from the bottom of his heart.

He had a gut feeling that this young man in white robes seemed to understand him completely, from his Cultivation Techniques and Divine Techniques down to his flaws.

Su Bai smiled but said nothing.

The Leader of Gui Chen Sect spoke no more.

He no longer had the strength to speak.

He just let out a long sigh.

"Perhaps it was my fate to suffer this defeat...."

"But the next time we meet, you will have no such chance!"

As his voice fell, the body of the Leader of Gui Chen Sect trembled violently, then disintegrated into fine dust, which was carried away by the wind.

He vanished without a trace!