Chapter 150: Supreme Yin Wuji True Scripture!

"How can you be so sure that your Dao is superior to mine?"

Qi Xiu's calm gaze made the handsome Taoist priest's heart skip a beat.

An indescribable sense of detachment made him feel like a frog at the bottom of a well, being looked down upon from above.

"Then let's find out!"

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, the handsome Taoist wore a cold expression. With his hands behind his back, he took a single step forward, seemingly completely ordinary.

Yet with every step he took, his figure grew a fraction more illusory and hazy, becoming increasingly elusive.

In the wake of his footsteps, ripples of dark and profound aura spread throughout the entire world within the mirror.

Chill, vast, and annihilating!

Endless Qi of Greater Yin spread horizontally and vertically.

This place seemed to have transformed into a realm of Yin.

Surveying his surroundings, Qi Xiu's eyes burned with a purple glow. Having comprehended the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*, the handsome Taoist had completely merged into this boundless, misty darkness.

Impossible to spy upon.

Impossible to capture.

Impossible to detect.

He could only rely on the Art of Qi Observation to sense the fluctuations of the surrounding aura and roughly judge the other's position.

"This concealment technique is even more profound and sophisticated than the Water Patrol Movement Method. Is this the evolved miraculous power of the Ink Wyrm's Void Travel?"

Seeing the handsome Taoist completely vanish, Qi Xiu recalled the three miraculous powers possessed by the Ink Wyrm.

Void Travel allowed one to stand between the corporeal and the incorporeal, just like an ink wyrm.

However, this miraculous power alone could not make someone disappear into thin air.

Presumably, after the Ink Wyrm swallowed a tiger and transformed into a dragon, its original miraculous powers had also been enhanced.

Suddenly!

The dark mist churned, and the mist that had long remained dormant and dormant seemed to begin reviving, stirring restlessly as it swept toward Qi Xiu.

Like a towering black wave, it slowly rolled forward.

"Supreme Yin Annihilation!"

The cold and grim shout of the handsome Taoist echoed from within the mist.

In an instant!

The churning black mist surged violently. An extreme thirst for vital essence and blood transformed this mass of dark fog into the most terrifying evil in heaven and earth.

"Oh?"

Feeling as though the vital essence and blood within his body were about to be pulled out through his skin, Qi Xiu uttered a soft exclamation and instantly activated his movement technique, teleporting out of the encirclement of the black mist.

This Taoist had discarded the *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture* and converted his entire cultivation into the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*.

Consequently, he could no longer use the Star-Absorbing Grand Technique.

Yet the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture* was originally derived from the *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture*.

Coupled with the insights of the handsome Taoist, it indeed possessed remarkable brilliance.

He had actually integrated the concept of Greater Yin, creating this ultimate move: [Supreme Yin Annihilation].

"Although this Supreme Yin Annihilation lacks the formidable might of my Star-Absorbing Grand Technique, which can drain a person's entire cultivation in a short time, it specializes in devouring the vital essence and blood of living beings. The volume of the black mist is immense, surging like a tide. Once touched, one is immediately ensnared and unable to break free. If this were allowed to spread and expand, I'm afraid an entire city could be annihilated within a single day! Compared to my Star-Absorbing Grand Technique, this is truly a demonic art in the truest sense!"

Keenly perceiving the bizarre and sinister nature of the Supreme Yin Annihilation technique, Qi Xiu continuously shifted his position, dodging the clingy, leech-like black mist of Greater Yin that wound around him.

His genuine Qi was now exhausted, leaving him with only a single Primordial Pearl.

If he were to be cornered by this Greater Yin black mist, his prospects would be perilous indeed.

"Qi Xiu, I told you, you are bound to lose. However, the suggestion I made earlier is still valid. As long as you agree to lend me your body for one hour every day, I will help you subdue the Two-Heart Mirror. Think about it: with the two of us joining forces, who in this world could possibly stop us? I can guarantee you this: within a year at most, as long as I can get out, I can help you forge all three hundred and sixty-five Primordial Pearls. Within five years, I will let you ascend to claim the crimson. Within a century at most, you will be a supreme Dao-form Almighty!"

The seductive and enticing voice continued to emanate from the dark mist. The face of the handsome Taoist materialized, earnestly and persuasively advising his original body.

"Alright, I agree."

With a gentle smile, Qi Xiu raised a hand forward: "To show my sincerity, let's shake on it."

"Unappreciative of favors!"

Glancing at Qi Xiu's dark and grim hand, the handsome man let out a cold snort and poured more power into driving the Greater Yin black mist forward!

Chasing and intercepting, you run and I pursue.

Within this world of the mirror, a high-stakes game of chase was unfolding.

The handsome Taoist drove the Greater Yin black mist in a frantic pursuit of Qi Xiu, attempting to drown him within this Supreme Yin Annihilation.

Yet Qi Xiu remained unhurried and untroubled, calm and collected. He merely focused on evading the encirclement of the black mist, playing a guerrilla war with the handsome Taoist.

This fellow!

He had seen through it from the very beginning!

As time went on, the churning speed of the black mist grew slower and slower, and its area shrank steadily until, finally, it all retreated back into the body of the handsome Taoist.

"You saw through it right from the start, didn't you?"

Gazing intently at his original body, the handsome Taoist shook his head with a mocking chuckle.

Stopping in his tracks, Qi Xiu folded his hands in his sleeves with a faint smile, lifting a finger to tap his own head:

"The *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture* was created by me. You may have comprehended something new, but the root still lies with me. Although your Supreme Yin Annihilation is fierce and overbearing, it lacks depth and solidity. Right now, our genuine Qi is nearly exhausted. Driving this power must be quite exhausting, isn't it?"

Qi Xiu's words caused the handsome Taoist to laugh in exasperation and massage his brow.

"Truly worthy of being my original body. I wanted to bluff you with a reckless advance. You're right; without sufficient cultivation, driving the Supreme Yin Annihilation is indeed grueling. What's more, I no longer have any Primordial Pearls..."

At this point, a helpless look inevitably surfaced on the handsome Taoist's sinister and eerie face.

He had discarded the *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture* to cultivate the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*.

While he had pushed his insights to the absolute limit and mastered a power truly suited to himself, he had gained one thing at the expense of another.

Fish and bear's paws could not be had at the same time.

Abandoning the *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture* meant losing the bug-like, unprecedented and unrepeated terrifying reserves of genuine Qi represented by the Primordial Pearls.

This boundless, infinitely surging black mist of Supreme Yin Annihilation had been generated by converting the Primordial Pearls.

Without the solid backing of the Primordial Pearls, he—having only just comprehended the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*—simply lacked sufficient cultivation to wield this extreme Yin force capable of scorching a thousand miles of earth barren.

The endless black mist retreated back into his body, and the ink wyrm that had been on the verge of transforming into a dragon reappeared on the shoulder of the handsome Taoist.

"If you have no other methods left, Qi will claim this round."

Standing with his hands behind his back, Qi Xiu was composed and poised.

This clone of his possessed a natural talent and comprehension in no way inferior to his own, yet his temperament differed vastly.

Radical, extreme, fierce, and insidious.

When it came to combat and killing, Qi Xiu himself fell far short of him.

Had the opponent not been his own clone, and had he not known every single trick and trump card the other possessed, he likely would have been ambushed and slain by the formless Qi-breaking sword qi at the very first encounter.

If this person were released into the outside world, he would undoubtedly grow into a demonic titan who stirred up bloody storms and left mountains of corpses and seas of blood in his wake.

Yet it was precisely this temperament that led him to greedily press forward, eager to completely defeat Qi Xiu, his original body.

Though he used great wisdom to comprehend the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*, he had lost his solid foundation.

Facing Qi Xiu, who grew stronger with every battle and stood immovable as a mountain, his defeat was already apparent.

"That simply won't do. I must put up a dying struggle no matter what, wouldn't you agree?"

With the corners of his mouth curving upward, the handsome Taoist suddenly raised his head, and the ink wyrm slithering beside him abruptly melted into his body.

The next instant.

The Taoist's pair of scarlet, demonic pupils suddenly turned pitch black, like a bottomless abyss swallowing his eyes.

This is...

A lingering chill suddenly manifested around his body. Qi Xiu frowned slightly, a faint sense of anomaly rising in his heart.

[Supreme Yin Infinite Dao—Obliteration!]

With his eyes snapping wide open and veins bulging around his eye sockets, the handsome Taoist locked his gaze onto Qi Xiu. His complexion instantly turned as pale as paper, as if the consumption of energy had been immense.

Noticing the change in the handsome Taoist's expression, the anomaly in Qi Xiu's heart suddenly erupted.

Not good!

A strong warning echoed through his state of mind, and a flash of golden light crossed the back of his head. A premonition welling up from the nether realms caused Qi Xiu to instinctively leap half a foot into the air.

The next instant!

He saw that right at his chest, a distorted phantom resembling a vortex was constantly expanding, gradually dissolving his body into nothingness.

His expression changed drastically. Having never experienced such a bizarre power before, Qi Xiu forcibly mustered all the genuine Qi remaining in his last Primordial Pearl, drove his thunder escape technique, and violently broke free from the bind.

Flashing several hundred meters away, Qi Xiu touched his chest with lingering fear.

The sensation of his body being expelled and decomposed was even more agonizing than being sliced by a thousand cuts or having his skin peeled and tendons drawn.

It felt as though that portion of his body was being forcibly ripped away from his very being.

Fortunately, the warning of humanistic merit had caused him to leap half a foot up, shifting the target of this power from his head to his chest.

Otherwise, he would have been utterly incapable of breaking free from the obliteration of this power!

"Is this... the power of Void Travel?"

Gazing intently at the crumbling handsome Taoist across from him, Qi Xiu wore a solemn expression.

Perhaps earlier he had harbored a trace of contempt for the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture* created by this Taoist, feeling it could not compare to his own *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture*.

Yet having experienced that power just now, he acknowledged the truth.

In pure combat and killing power, this *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture* was indeed superior to the *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture*!

"Indeed..."

With a face as pale as paper, the handsome Taoist chuckled weakly, his body fluttering like a candle in the wind, as if about to dissipate.

"Void Travel is concealing oneself between the corporeal and incorporeal to evade attacks and hide one's aura. But after I created the *Supreme Yin Infinite True Scripture*, this power was sublimated. This power can now be applied to any target. As long as it is manipulated properly, it can obliterate any existence. You have felt it, haven't you?"

"Yes." Nodding firmly, Qi Xiu said without hesitation, "This power is truly terrifying enough to make one tremble. Obliteration—the name is well chosen. The feeling this power gives one is as if one were being forcibly erased from this world entirely. On this point alone, my *Secret Meanings of the Primordial Dragon and Tiger True Scripture* is inferior to yours."

"Hahaha, is that true?"

Hearing Qi Xiu admit inferiority, the handsome Taoist laughed heartily, bending over at the waist and leaning on his knees as he looked at Qi Xiu: "Is that true?"

"As true as gold."

"Very well. To hear those words from you, I am content. However, Qi Xiu, do not think that by defeating me this time, everything between us is over."

Straightening his back slowly, the handsome Taoist regained his sinister and crafty air, pointing a finger at Qi Xiu: "We shall meet again!"

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