Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Everyone felt the ground shake once.

Then, the field blurred momentarily. When they looked again at the two combatants, their positions had switched. Ai Changyuan stood behind Wang Qi, at the edge of the arena, smiling contentedly, while Wang Qi took a few awkward steps back. Unbeknownst to anyone, his sleeve had been shattered, and a tear had appeared under his ear.

What had just happened?

Everyone felt a sense of awkwardness.

How exactly did Ai Changyuan attack? When did he attack? Why did no one notice? What exactly happened just now?

A chill slowly spread, and all the new disciples couldn't help but shiver.

This was...an absolute disparity in strength!

That move just now could have claimed the lives of dozens of Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators in one go!

"This is..." "Impossible, right..."

It wasn't just the surrounding new disciples who felt fear. Zhen Chan, a Mahayana Cultivator arisen from ten thousand years ago, felt fear once again.

It was the terrifying sensation known as the passage of years.

These days, he had been discreetly observing the clashes among these Qi Cultivation Stage disciples with his Spiritual Sense, hoping to gather insights to transform his Ancient Method Practition into the Modern Law after reconstructing his physical body. The surrounding high-rank cultivators affiliated with the Immortal Alliance also allowed this.

His Spiritual Sense was not something Qi Cultivation Stage disciples could compare with; it covered an extensive range. Just now, he perceived a distortion in part of his Spiritual Sense.

This feeling of awkwardness was not unfamiliar to him.

Cosmic Light Power.

It was the even more mysterious Cosmic Light Power than the "Void of the Great Cosmos"! The Cosmic Light Power that existed only in the highest levels of cultivation! The Cosmic Light Power that only cultivators above Unification could touch!

Although the anomaly caused by Ai Changyuan's Cosmic Light only affected the area around him for a mere instant, merely slightly unsettling the time sense of others for a moment, it was indeed the Cosmic Light Power!

Had the Immortal Dao become...this terrifying now?

A method proclaimed divine ten thousand years ago could now be wielded by a Qi Cultivation Stage cultivator?

Really...too terrifying...

"It really is...terrifying..." Wang Qi also felt a wave of horror.

He had nearly lost just now. By a hair's breadth.

Yet, his eyes lit up, like a child seeing a toy or treat, a hint of joy subtly laced in his tone, "Good move!"

Ai Changyuan's casual smile twisted slightly. Proud by nature and trusting only in himself, he was particularly sensitive to being seen as a Second Generation of Immortals thriving on his ancestor's legacy. Wang Qi's outright praise "Good move" was like a slap in his face!

Unaware of having touched a sore spot, Wang Qi continued to praise, "Converging the power of gravity, focusing it entirely on striking the surrounding space, making the space warp to form a Taiyu Space Bubble... Oh no, your strength isn't enough to fully close that curved space. Moreover, since all the power was concentrated on the space, the parts of the gravitated layer that interacted with me were completely shattered, yet it didn't trigger tidal phenomena," he said, pointing to a wound he had just staunched. "If it were just an ordinary Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction, I would have been out of the competition with a cerebral hemorrhage by now. But then again, an ordinary Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction wouldn't have managed to directly reach me—using significant gravity to cause minor Cosmic Light Expansion as a way to interfere with time perception, a genius design indeed!"

Ai Changyuan was slightly startled inside, "To be able to see through the essence of this move is impressive. If given enough time, you could create a technique comparable to this one. Unfortunately, you are destined to lose. 'Cosmic Light Expansion' is not an illusion technique, but a deception using time itself. You will never find the right rhythm through time sense."

Wang Qi set up his long sword again, repositioning his stance, "I never planned to rely on my own feelings."

"Why?"

Wang Qi smiled slightly, "I've long understood that your eyes will deceive you, your ears will deceive you, your imagination will deceive you—and now, time sense will also deceive you—but mathematics won't."

"Good one, 'but mathematics won't'!" Ai Changyuan exclaimed lightly, swinging his arms and spinning in place once again.

Just then, Wang Qi flicked his left hand, throwing three beams of white light from his sleeve toward Ai Changyuan.

What? Does he have some unused secret treasure?

Those who had seen Wang Qi the combat monk fight, especially those who knew him, gasped in surprise. So the youngster hadn't been going all out before?

The three beams of white light entered the region where the light twisted. Then, Ai Changyuan stopped spinning, staring in astonishment at three torn pieces of white paper.

Wang Qi looked equally astonished. But he was quick with his hands, and seizing the opportunity before his opponent was fully utilizing his gravity power, he lunged forward with his blade. Ai Changyuan quickly discarded his incredulous look, recreated complex gravity fields, and redirected the blade force to the side.

This scene left everyone in the audience puzzled. Why would Wang Qi use a hidden weapon technique to throw three pieces of paper? And why did those papers stop?

Bao Xiaoya reacted the fastest, "He's reenacting the tactic from six months ago—ha, as if Ai Changyuan is that easy to deal with. Wang Qi, Wang Qi, I didn't expect you to be this foolish!"

By observing the trajectory of the paper and calculating the gravity field conditions, this was the method Wang Qi had used to defeat Ai Changyuan in the December Martial Examination six months ago.

However, Ai Changyuan now utilizing Newton's apple, casually exerting planetary powers close to the Foundation Establishment stage. more advanced hand techniques also made the gravity field more complex and harder to calculate.

Yet, Wang Qi was not at all disheartened. He rapidly retreated, maintaining his distance from the distorted light sphere. At the same time, he flicked a bamboo tube from his sleeve and, repeating his earlier technique, threw three pieces of paper. With the protection of True Qi, the papers, drenched in the bamboo tube, flew toward Ai Changyuan's spherical incarnation.

Wu Shiqin curiously asked, "What is this?"

Mao Zimiao's eyes lit up, "The bamboo tube contains saturated saltwater—this is a control experiment, meow!"

The papers soaked in dense saltwater and the dry papers had distinctly different masses. Wang Qi had previously determined the average mass of these two types of paper. Using the differing trajectories of the two types of paper, he could more conveniently calculate the true nature of the gravity field.

Unexpectedly, Ai Changyuan once again halted his movements. Although it was just for a moment, that humorous expression when breaking the three saltwater-soaked papers was caught by Wang Qi's eyes.

"Ah? Why did he stop twice?" Wang Qi misstepped, dodging Ai Changyuan's second strike in the nick of time. After a blur in front of him, Ai Changyuan appeared behind him again.

Seeing Ai Changyuan reveal himself once more, Wang Qi suddenly had an epiphany, saying, "I bet you couldn't see me in that state, right?"

Ai Changyuan laughed, "Oh, caught me?"

Oh, damn it! I initially thought it was like a defensive skill 'Heavenly Return' combined with a 'Barbaric Charge' from some comic... but no... it's a Space System without visibility, like the 'Subspace Miasma' from another comic!

It's a stand-in attack!