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Chapter 1120: Chapter 84: Strategy to Counter the Heavenly Dao

Chen Guanshui was still ascending.

When ordinary cultivators ascend to immortality, the speed of their ascension becomes faster and faster, until finally, they pierce through the heavenly barrier in a blink and disappear.

But Chen Guanshui’s ascension was truly perilous; for every inch he ascended, he had to face various Flying Swords crashing down, lethal wide-ranging Daoist magic attacks, and countless formations, talisman scripts, and magical treasures that constrained and entangled him, making each step excruciatingly difficult.

The will of the Heavenly Dao was unemotional, merely continuing to guide his physical form, performing a series of countermeasures.

It must be said, this man’s Daoist Foundation is astonishingly solid, with a vast array of methods, even including many Immortal Rank secret techniques, enabling him to handle the pursuit and interception of so many Nascent Soul Cultivators, calmly continuing his ascension.

According to the calculations of the Heavenly Dao, given the current capacity of his True Yuan, he should be able to ascend smoothly in the end.

If it had emotions, there would be no need to panic at this moment, but it is essentially a consciousness materialized from rules, without any pride or arrogance, mechanically continuing to guide Chen Guanshui’s ascension.

Amid the tide-like onslaught, An Zhisu did not make a move.

She was holding the Sun True Obscure Sword, discussing the issue of borrowing power with it.

Unfortunately, this stubborn sword insisted, “Providing power is not impossible, but only the Sun Sword Master can fight alongside it,” much to An Zhisu’s dissatisfaction.

After all, to completely defeat her junior brother, merely relying on “borrowing power” is certainly not enough; it requires one person and one sword working in perfect harmony to have a chance.

While she was still persuading the Sun True Obscure Sword, Xu Yinglian had already unleashed True Fire, constantly using the Fire Escape Nine Methods to leap and relocate around, rapidly mobilizing the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire to madly slash at Chen Guanshui from all directions with intensely blazing golden lines.

To deal with such attacks coming from all directions, Chen Guanshui had to use the Five Elements Divine Light to protect his entire body, not daring to show any flaw, or he would surely be instantly cut down.

The other elders, seeing this, were greatly invigorated, and hurriedly used various means beyond the Five Elements to randomly strike at the mass of Five Elements Divine Light.

For example, the Peak Masters of Shushan continually used Flying Swords to forcefully penetrate the Five Elements Divine Light, attempting to stab and slay—most Flying Swords are made of materials within the Five Elements, so even physically passing through would cause extreme damage to the spiritual nature of the Flying Swords.

But the Peak Masters were all battle-crazed at this time, and unless it was the Life-bound Sword Artifact, they attacked recklessly regardless of consequences.

Over on the Kunlun side, all were from the Xu Family of Southern Heaven, wealthy and lavish, throwing various Flying Swords, Daoist magic, and magical treasures into the Five Elements Divine Light like a bath.

Flying Swords aside, Daoist magic is basically within the Five Elements, used to intensify the consumption of Chen Guanshui’s True Yuan. Several elders excelled in sound wave techniques, achieving great success in their attacks, with their magic passing through the Five Elements Divine Light as if through nothing, without any loss.

The Five Elements Divine Light is a large filter; although the True Yuan consumption was substantial, it blocked the majority of the attacks for Chen Guanshui.

As for the numerous attacks that leaked through, such as the physical impacts of Flying Swords or magical treasures, he used the Tianyuan Yiqi Sword or the Myriad Avatar Absolute Immortal Sword to block and repel them.

If it was Daoist magic, it needed to be resolved one by one, which was relatively much more troublesome.

Especially with sound wave techniques, silent and formless, yet they were large-scale Daoist magic, unable to be specifically broken using Thunder Methods, leaving only the options of using transverse flutes or Taiqing misty mist for defense.

The Heavenly Dao quickly calculated that if this passive defense continued, True Yuan consumption would fall below a dangerous threshold.

Thus, Chen Guanshui suddenly raised his hand, a Purple Mansion Thunder shot out from his palm, breaking through the Five Elements Divine Light, aimed directly at several elders of the Xu Family proficient in sound wave Daoist magic.

“Be careful!” With Shi Liuli’s swift warning, the Penglai cultivators who had yet to act quickly cast their various magical treasures and talisman scripts.

Though Purple Mansion Thunder is a mighty Daoist magic of harming cultivation level, being focused on by everyone, it couldn’t withstand the bombardment and was directly exploded mid-course.

“Good!” The elders were greatly invigorated, deeming this tactic effective, and couldn’t resist cheering.

Xu Yinglian watched coldly, thinking to herself that everyone working together could only block her senior brother’s single Thunder Method, what’s there to celebrate?

Back then, during my duel with senior brother, this Thunder Method had been broken countless times!

“Regardless, it at least proves that your husband is not invincible.” Shi Liuli quietly transmitted in a secret voice to her, “It just gives everyone a boost in morale.”

“Yes.” Xu Yinglian nodded, shouting loudly, “Exactly! Everyone, please continue to press the attack!”

Without needing more words from her, the elders from Kunlun, Shushan, and Penglai sects, infused with vigor like shot with adrenaline, launched even fiercer assaults on Chen Guanshui.

The will of the Heavenly Dao indeed felt the pressure; it realized if it merely used normal attack methods, these people would intercept it together.

However, if it ignored them and focused solely on defense, the True Yuan would inevitably deplete early.

This meant a decisive blow was necessary.

Though killing them would alter the entire Cultivation Realm’s destiny, resulting in more bound karmic retributions, compared to the immense hidden danger of letting this man remain in the world, the will of the Heavenly Dao quickly reached a decision.

Kill!

Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill!

Chen Guanshui suddenly opened both hands, sweeping the Five Elements Divine Light around.

“He’s shifting to offense!” Shi Liuli loudly warned; everyone swiftly executed their prepared escape techniques, instantly widening the distance.

In a normal magical competition, their retreat would immediately be exploited to bring down the opponent, unable to turn the disadvantage around ultimately.

But since Chen Guanshui was being manipulated by the will of the Heavenly Dao, whose goal was ascension, there was no way he’d engage in a chase game with them.

Therefore, as everyone retreated out of the attack range, Chen Guanshui also retracted his hands with an indifferent expression.

“Fellow Daoist Qiong Ying?” Shi Liuli said in a deep voice.

“Yes.” Xu Yinglian waved her hand, leading the elders of the Xu Family to approach again.

Chen Guanshui was still ascending, seemingly oblivious to the approaching crowd.

Suddenly, he slashed out a Thunder Method, shooting towards the Xu Family elders, which was intercepted and dispelled by the Penglai cultivators behind.

“Retreat.” Xu Yinglian immediately commanded.

Everyone rapidly retreated once more, as Chen Guanshui withdrew his hands again, as if nothing had happened.

“Indeed.” Shi Liuli’s eyes brightened, “This is the maximum distance calculated by the Heavenly Dao.”

“As long as it exceeds this distance, it exceeds the conditions for the Heavenly Dao’s counterattack, so it will stop pursuing.”

“You mean…” Xu Yinglian pondered, “If the Heavenly Dao attacks, let everyone resist together, and if they can’t resist…”

“Let whoever was targeted retreat beyond this distance,” Shi Liuli smiled and said, “The Heavenly Dao will not chase them further.”

Thus, the strategy to counter Chen Guanshui finally took shape:

Cultivators proficient in sound wave and Flying Sword attacks took charge of the main offensive, while the others provided restraint, all aiming to force Chen Guanshui into defense and intensify his True Yuan depletion.

If Chen Guanshui attacked, everyone would jointly intercept and dispel it. If they couldn’t stop it, they would retreat beyond the range, causing the Heavenly Dao to “lose” its target.

In this way, it became foolproof!

Just as the Three Pure Ones cultivators’ morale soared, the two Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demons coming from the Divine Land finally entered the surrounding domain of the Southeast Heaven Pillar.

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