Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Elegant sword light spun and danced, twisting around Chi Lianxue's hands. The Gang Qi, which used to incinerate any opposing force in the past, was now useless. Everything happened too swiftly; Chi Lianxue had not yet reacted when he felt an intense pain in his wrist as a fountain of blood spurted out, vaporized by his own mana in mid-air.

Then, he saw Wang Qi's soul-stirring gaze.

It was an utterly focused yet incredibly excited look. Wang Qi seemed not to be in a fight to the death but rather engaged in something he was meant to do, calmly lifting his sword and bringing it down.

"Ah!" Chi Lianxue screamed, retreating hastily. Wang Qi kept pace, seemingly determined to keep the fight close and deny Chi Lianxue any opportunity to use the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm.

However...

"Brat... you're just a brat after all!" Chi Lianxue was either mocking or consoling himself, sneering as he launched three blood-red rockets with a wave of his hand, then followed the Chi Yan, abandoning the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm to engage in close combat, dragging his injured hand along.

With just a glance, Wang Qi deduced the trajectory of the spell's assault. With a sweeping sword strike, he extinguished the flames. Seizing the moment, Chi Lianxue almost collided into his chest with a heavy shoulder hit. With the sword unable to defend, Wang Qi, hand off the hilt, made a split-second decision. He swung a fist and struck Chi Lianxue's back.

"Pop pop," two sounds resonated, and they both paused for a moment, then Wang Qi was sent flying backward. It was a pure contest of strength; Wang Qi's mana in the Qi Cultivation Stage, no matter how refined, couldn't surpass Chi Lianxue's at the Foundation Establishment Stage. But Chi Lianxue didn't pursue his advantage; instead, he leaped into the air with a jump.

Despite the pain in his back, and despite the mana flowing through him, opposite to his own mental method, boiling his mana, Chi Lianxue breathed a sigh of relief.

The greatest advantage of the Foundation Establishment Stage over the Qi Cultivation Stage is the ability to fly!

Which meant, this battle, for Chi Lianxue, was assuredly won.

Wang Qi was struck by Chi Lianxue and felt as though a burning coal was lodged in his chest, the pain unbearable. The Heavenly Entropy Technique's mana automatically protected its master, dissipating the heat, while the Heavenly Calculation Power flowed through his chest, replenishing his physical body. Wang Qi repositioned himself and saw Chi Lianxue suspended ten zhang in the sky, muttering, "This is bad..."

Wang Qi's circumstances were more than just bad, they were hanging by a thread. Chi Lianxue quickly suppressed the alien magic power within him and hollered, "Kid! I've won! I've won!"

His response was a Sword Qi: "Not necessarily!"

Ordinary Qi Cultivation Stages could only extend their Sword Qi three zhang away, which was quite impressive, and extending it five zhang would be considered elite. But somehow, Wang Qi's Sword Qi managed to reach ten zhang, right in front of Chi Lianxue! Chi Lianxue was secretly alarmed, but he didn't dodge or flinch. He casually slapped away the depleted Sword Qi and laughed, "Kid, you're truly remarkable amongst those in the Qi Cultivation Stage! Too bad, though, that your splendid Immortal Path ends here today, at my hands."

"Damn..." Wang Qi ignored Chi Lianxue's taunt and started calculating the trajectory and the decay rate of the Sword Qi, frustratedly, "Indeed, the Power of Negative Entropy can be used to increase the range of spells... Since 'Order' has been strengthened, spells like Sword Qi can better maintain their form. But this is something I've just grasped, without enough time to familiarize myself with..."

There was no time to familiarize because Chi Lianxue wouldn't give him the chance.

The dark red Entropy Flow roared toward him, intending to engulf Wang Qi entirely, a force of destruction and a law of ruin where it passed, all turned to Chaos, extinguishing all Life Beings!

Wang Qi chanted lowly, raised his long sword and charged against the deadly torrent. If it were any ordinary Qi Cultivation Stage, they would certainly perish under this move. This was a force of Chaos, a force of disorder; no matter the resistance, the strength one used to counter would disintegrate, would dissipate. But to Chi Lianxue's great shock, Wang Qi actually managed to break the invincible Entropy Flow with a single sword strike!

The power fused from the Heavenly Calculation Atlas and the Heavenly Entropy Technique, attached to the long sword, erupted in a faint white glow. The locality of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm calmed upon contact. The power on the sword showed no sign of diminishing; instead, the white glow grew even brighter.

This was the Sword of Life Beings, the Sword of Life, the Sword of Order, the Sword of Negative Entropy. The power of this sword was precisely the bane of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm!

Cosmic entropy increases, irreversible, but...life is the miracle of negative entropy in this world of positive entropy!

Sword Qi split the palm power, and the full force of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm could only manage to affect Wang Qi with its residual waves. Despite the burning pain all over his body, Wang Qi's expression did not change in the slightest, forcefully circulating his mental method to protect himself.

But this time, Chi Lianxue was going all out. Before the momentum of the previous move had subsided, he had already struck with the next! Wang Qi's brows and eyes remained still, still a single sword strike, cut!

Continuous entropy flows washed over the earth. Wang Qi's ancestral home completely collapsed. Tie Zhu, who had avoided the battlefield from afar, lay on the ground, watching the scene in inexplicable horror. Merely swept by a strand of Hand Wind, the mana inside his body had already gone out of control. At this moment, his insides burned as if aflame, rendering him incapable of moving. Yet the shock in his heart far exceeded the pain on his body.

What...what is happening? Where exactly is master wrong? And...Wang Qi is already so strong?

In his eyes, Wang Qi, who could confront a Foundation Establishment Stage master with Qi Cultivation Stage cultivation, was already akin to a Heavenly Person!

But Wang Qi knew, his condition was far from as good as it appeared on the surface. Indeed, with each familiarization of strength, every sword he wielded evolved more than the previous one, but what he held in his hands was not a drill after all, and this accumulation of experience was not enough to induce a qualitative change and turn the tables. He had now fallen into the awkward situation of being forced to compete in mana with Chi Lianxue.

And clearly, his mana was not as profound as Chi Lianxue's.

"Really...only a desperate fight left!" Feeling the clear decrease of mana within his body, Wang Qi finally lost his composure. His feet suddenly exerted force, running towards the outside of the village.

Chi Lianxue scoffed loudly, "What? Thinking of running away?" While he spoke, the strength in his hands did not seem to decrease in the slightest. Wang Qi swung his sword with his backhand to fend off the palm power while looking for the terrain he needed.

"Damn it...this is a plain, no steep slopes, last year's deadly fight also blew down all the tall trees, not even a place to borrow strength from, just relying on leg power to jump up..."

Could it work...

Wang Qi grit his teeth and began to search through his childhood memories.

The terrain of this village...the nearby terrain...a gentle slope...I just need one gentle slope!

"Don't get distracted!" Chi Lianxue laughed wildly, launching a palm strike that boomed right in front of Wang Qi.

It won't work, any gentle slope would be leveled by him first! This man has extremely rich combat experience!

Damn it!

If that's the case, then there's no choice but to face it head-on!

Wang Qi grit his teeth, began to mentally compute a new equation.