Exploring Immortality Cultivation

I'll scream in agony?

This was Chi Lianxue's first reaction. He'd waged war for over a decade; what wound hadn't he suffered? How could he possibly scream in agony? He was about to scoff in derision, with words on the tip of his tongue, but instead, a shrill cry of anguish burst forth, "Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah!"

This was an irrefutable instinct of life, this was... the scream of a dying man! He only felt as if ten jin of boiling oil had been injected into his body, or as if his body had been a canister of oil into which Wang Qi had thrown a spark!

Pain! Excruciating pain! His entire body felt ablaze; there was not a single spot that did not hurt!

The most terrifying aspect was that Chi Lianxue felt his Life Fire surge momentarily before it was suddenly extinguished!

Impossible!

"Hehe..." Chi Lianxue managed to squeeze out a sound from his throat but couldn't form any words. His physiological functions had been completely destroyed; he couldn't even freely control his own physical body.

"Want to know why?" Wang Qi released Chi Lianxue's wrist, smiling as he said, "Did you think I really ran out of strength at the critical moment of delivering a killing blow?"

Wang Qi's previous sword strike wasn't really a killer move. "Ten zhang off the ground" was an almost insurmountable barrier for Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators. Even with all his might, if Wang Qi landed a hit on the lower half of the opponent's body, he could at most only destroy the opponent's lower half.

But what if the intent from the start was to "give him a fright" in combat?

This might sound ludicrous, but that was indeed Wang Qi's plan.

Whether Chi Lianxue had succumbed to Deviation or sustained a covert injury, the entropy levels in his body were frighteningly high, and his body's negative entropy functions could hardly counteract such abnormal entropy increase—The direct consequence was that Chi Lianxue's Innate Life Span was rapidly depleting.

Moreover, when he exerted himself fully or experienced huge emotional swings, the entropy levels in his body would further increase. If at a life-or-death moment, his emotions fluctuated, compounded by the full operation of his mental method, the entropy levels inside his body might reach their peak.

And what good would that do? Do you recall the Bifang from the South Ming realm that Fentian Prefecture's Carefree had burned alive a thousand years ago? Just as a fire attribute Demon Beast will be burned by its own demonic power if the temperature exceeds their endurance limit, similarly, if the entropy levels exceeded a certain threshold, Chi Lianxue would die instantly.

The only problem was the different operating modes of the Entropy Reduction Technique and the Entropy Increase Technique of the Heavenly Entropy Technique; it was impossible for him to withdraw the power of negative entropy while bearing the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm; doing so would be suicide. Thus, the only way was to wait for Chi Lianxue to come to him.

Therefore, Wang Qi pretended to be exhausted on purpose.

And in the end, along Chi Lianxue's wrist pulse, Wang Qi injected the entropy-increasing power into Chi Lianxue's body. After his internal entropy level crossed that threshold, it triggered a natural cascading reaction; his mana went into disarray, went berserk, and in an instant, his physical body was utterly destroyed.

Feeling the astonishing heat emanating from Chi Lianxue's body, Wang Qi kicked him away and casually swung his sword, chopping off his belt. He conveniently hooked Chi Lianxue's storage bag and the belt together.

Chi Lianxue, kicked away by Wang Qi, rolled several times on the ground, and then his entire body began to tremble violently. Subsequently, with a 'pop' sound, his physical body spontaneously combusted!

The red sunfire corroded the ground, and Chi Lianxue let out his final scream. It wasn't until the flames reflected in Wang Qi's eyes that he relaxed.

At that moment, countless beads of cold sweat erupted all over his body.

Seeing Wang Qi's heavy breathing, Zhen Chan commented with a smile, "Quite calm, aren't you? Your first kill, your first life-or-death battle..."

Wang Qi shook his head, "Strictly speaking, it's not my first time."

Half a year ago, when the Nascent Soul of Emperor's Extreme Heaven Splitting Dao captured him, he had already experienced life and death. He wasn't a stranger to seeing dead people either.

More importantly, having lived two lifetimes, his spirit had shattered and been reformed after transmigration, and his determination was solid. An experience like this could not shake his spirit.

Zhen Chan asked, "What are your feelings on your first life-and-death battle?"

"Very lucky," Wang Qi replied truthfully. He opened Chi Lianxue's storage bag and started rummaging through it. Then he pulled out a thick secret manual, "The first three forms of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm... Lucky that the guy burning up couldn't understand the core formulas and couldn't unleash the essence of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm. Had he been slightly more capable..."

The first two forms of the Sky Collapsing Palm mastered by Ai Changyuan grasped a sliver of the true meaning of gravity, hence it could produce various strange effects—such as minor spacetime expansion. As a peerless hand technique derived from the thermal death of the cosmos, the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm could also meddle with the fabric of time, for instance by turning surrounding energy entirely into thermal energy, resulting in a lack of kinetic energy on the microscopic level and causing a localized slowdown in time, and so on.

Had Chi Lianxue possessed Ai Changyuan's abilities, even a side-by-side Wang Qi would not have been a match for him.

During the brief time Wang Qi casually browsed through the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm secret manual, Chi Lianxue's horn sounds had gradually died down. Wang Qi guessed that the other party must have run out of strength and drew his longsword, planning to deliver the final blow.

Watching Wang Qi gradually approaching, the last emotion in Chi Lianxue's heart was actually reluctance—not the reluctance to die, but the indignation of failure.

He had finally found such a place full of corpses... he had finally set things on the right track...

I haven't yet welcomed the God...

How can I die...

I can't die like this!

A frenzied obsession acted as the last "order" within Chi Lianxue's soul, barely maintaining a bit of strength.

Really, it was just a bit, because the avalanche of entropy increase was soon to burn away even his last bit of consciousness.

Chi Lianxue recalled a sentence once said by the man behind him—Your strength is the best nourishment for "that."

I can't die here... If I have to die, I must die on the altar... I must sacrifice myself to the God!

With that will, Chi Lianxue finally unleashed his last bit of strength! He leaped up from the ground and charged forward abruptly. Wang Qi was taken aback and braced his longsword. Unexpectedly, Chi Lianxue didn't even look at Wang Qi and headed straight for the village.

"What is he trying to do?" A bad feeling arose in Wang Qi's heart. He quickly followed suit. However, after a fierce battle, he was also exhausted, while Chi Lianxue had, in effect, performed a secret technique that burnt life span, turning his remaining vitality into strength. For the moment, Wang Qi couldn't catch up!

Very soon, Chi Lianxue ran back into the village and directly into the small building he had constructed. Half a second later, Wang Qi also entered the building. At that moment, Chi Lianxue was using his last ounce of energy to smash the floor. The hidden door to the basement was broken open, and Chi Lianxue jumped into the basement.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Xiangkou City, a young man in a red and white robe opened his eyes and exclaimed in anger, "Chi Lianxue, that trash was killed by someone?"