Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 523: Chapter 341: Invincible Below the Golden Core

Hum!

Accompanied by a clear sword cry, the luxurious cabin atop the Flying Immortal Boat was instantly obliterated by the overwhelming Sword Qi. A golden sword rainbow shot into the sky, piercing through layers of fog and slashing straight at the head of the Dragon Serpent.

“Hmph, mere child’s play, how dare you show off in front of an expert. Water, roar!”

The Dragon Serpent Lake Deity, who had listened to many stories by the lake in its early years before becoming a deity, actually let out a line of theatrical dialogue when facing the sword rainbow flying toward it.

However… although the words were mocking, the Divine Skill that followed was genuinely powerful.

As the roar began, a large swath of fog instantly solidified, and countless water drops condensed out of the fog, enveloping the hundred-zhang sword rainbow, while the surface of the lake suddenly revealed large areas of pale and translucent pearlescent light…

Zhao Sheng’s hands formed a sword formula, and he could only feel his spirit shaken violently. The flying sword on the other side suddenly became incredibly sluggish, as if it had fallen into an abnormally thick glue. With each inch of forward movement, the sword light weakened by that much, while the pressure surging from all sides increased threefold.

“This… this is a Divine Domain?! It’s clearly a fledgling version of a Nascent Soul Domain!”

Zhao Sheng suddenly had an epiphany, his spirit flickered, and his Divine Sense suddenly split into dozens of parts.

In the next instant, he raised both hands, and dozens of Second Order True Talismans flew out like Heavenly Girls scattering flowers, turning instantly into rays of spell radiance.

In the blink of an eye, within a hundred zhang radius centered on the painted boat, hundreds of fist-sized blazing fireballs shot out like flying fire meteors in all directions.

Above the sizable lake, the scorching light was incredibly dazzling, the temperature of the air soared, and the thick water vapor around was forcibly broken for the most part.

Not only that, with another flick of Zhao Sheng’s hands, series of red streaks of light shot out continuously, turning abruptly into small crimson arrows, lightning-fast, piercing into the lake, and stabbing the stealthily attacking Black Fish God full of bloody holes.

At the site of the wounds, a layer of crimson karmic fire instantly ignited, then spread across its entire body, causing it to scream in agony, thrashing and rolling in the lake, stirring up waves of giant waves.

On the other hand, under Zhao Sheng’s Divine Sense control, although the attacks were chaotic and numerous, they weren’t disorderly at all. The flying sword, carrying its sharp Sword Qi, inch by inch closed in on the true body of the Dragon Serpent Lake Deity, while those blazing fireballs nimbly intercepted the madly incoming water arrows, water pythons, water balls, and other water-based spells.

“Roar, it really deserves to die! The intelligence was wrong; how is this person merely at Qi Refinement? He’s clearly a Foundation Establishment Cultivator of profound cultivation, nearing the realm of Golden Core.”

The Dragon Serpent Lake Deity was shocked and furious, roaring continuously. Its giant serpent-like head suddenly opened to nearly a 180-degree angle, the depth of its maw a pitch black, with faint bluish light fiercely flickering.

What a colossal gaping maw capable of swallowing heaven and earth!

In the next instant, the massive serpent’s head retracted and then with all its might spewed forth a three-zhang thick, crystal-clear water column emitting a ghostly blue light.

A water roar resounded, like a Dragon Serpent’s roar!

The water column shot out, transforming into a lifelike Dragon Serpent as it surged forward, its jaws wide open, containing the Divine Power of the lake deity, and viciously biting towards Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng’s gaze was sharp as lightning, his feet stomped the cabin violently, and his figure instantly shot up into the sky, leaving a huge hole in the boat below.

Boom!

The next second, the boat was hit by the water column and exploded with a thunderous bang, blasted into dust on the spot.

Everyone on the boat, including Leng Sha, who was at the Qi Refining Middle Stage, did not react before they were reduced to shattered bones by the water column and sank to the bottom of the lake with the vessel in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Sheng soared a hundred zhang high, the thick fog still not dissipating. Knowing he had fallen into the enemy’s trap, he didn’t want to entangle with the opponent, intending to first break free from the Divine Domain.

Engaging the enemy within the Divine Domain, one’s own strength is initially suppressed by the domain’s laws while the enemy gains additional combat power with the aid of the laws.

With neither the time, the location, nor the people to his advantage, only a fool would engage the enemy in a toe-to-toe fight!

But just at this moment, a terrifying tiger roar that shook his soul suddenly rang in his ears.

This roar contained a strange deterrent force, causing Zhao Sheng’s spirit to become slower for a split second.

In that split second, a transparent tiger head suddenly condensed out of the fog, its mouth wide open, and it bit Zhao Sheng’s torso in one bite.

Rip!

Fresh blood fell all around the thick fog, staining the fog with a blood-red hue.

Pieces of flesh and blood dropped onto the lake’s surface while the gigantic Water Tiger God, smeared with fresh blood in its mouth, paws treading on the fog, excitedly swam around a ball of firelight at great speed.

Above the lake, the Dragon Serpent Lake Deity slowly stretched out its enormous demon body, its serpent head cunning and triumphant, staring dead at the ball of firelight above.

In the midst of the firelight, Zhao Sheng’s face was somber, one hand pressing the huge gash at his waist, and the spirit light trickled like water over the jagged wound. In a moment, layers of flesh rapidly grew back, the gash visibly healing before our eyes.

“Hmph!”

Zhao Sheng’s gaze was icy cold as he glanced over the two covetous Demon Gods and muttered coldly, “Explode!”

Boom! Boom!

Before his words fell, the lake surface suddenly burst into columns of blood-tinted water, each water column wrapped in a layer of crimson flame.

As a six-petal Red Lotus about a dozen feet across gradually surfaced, so too did the mutilated carcass of a massive black fish, devoid of life, float up.

Among the three gods, the Dragon, the Tiger, and the Fish, the Black Fish God was the weakest in strength. It was originally a black fish spirit that had lived for about three hundred years in Yueshen Lake and later, by a serendipitous chance, was “enlightened” by an influential figure of the Heavenly Dao Sect, gaining a bit of Law Fragment, and thus a hint of Divinity.

According to the records in the Sealing God Jade Scroll of the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Black Fish God was the rightful lake deity of Yueshen Lake.

However, since Yueshen Lake was adjacent to Chu State City, with the Black Fish God’s modest strength and the city teeming with mightier and much more powerful individuals…