Chapter 443: Innate Divine Power, Devour! Fists and Kicks! A Terrifying Melee Battle! You and I Cannot Coexist!

The mysterious young man had not spent all his years cultivating in Great Xiangguo Temple. Among those of the same realm, even Jie Kong, the monk who had consumed a Vermilion Fruit, was no match for him.

As for Mount Mao’s Danyangzi, the Suspended Sword Sect’s Chen Tianyuan, or the grasslands prodigy Murong Longcheng of the imperial court, in his eyes, they were all nothing but weaklings.

Yet today... he had been defeated. Both the Taotie phantom and his Arhat Dharma form had been suppressed by this young Daoist!

He rose to his feet, fury blazing in his eyes, killing intent seething. Golden Buddhist light and black demonic qi intermingled across his body, producing a sight that was at once majestic and sinister.

The Taotie phantom’s cry was like that of a newborn baby, piercing and eerie, its sound carried a force that could tear at one’s very soul. In his desperation, he burned his heart’s blood essence, determined to unleash his innate divine ability to consume Li Yanchu’s very spirit!

The Taotie phantom’s body suddenly swelled, its goat-like form expanding to several dozen zhang in height.

Its monstrous maw opened wide, and a strange pulling force surged forth, threatening to swallow Li Yanchu whole in the blink of an eye.

“Trying to devour me?” Li Yanchu let out a cold laugh.

With a single thought, he activated his divine ability, Heaven-Earth Titan Form. Then, a hundred-zhang-tall golden-armored divine general slowly rose behind him, radiating a majestic and awe-inspiring aura.

With his current primordial spirit cultivation, and the power of the Spirit Officer Summoning Talisman borrowing the might of the Spirit Officer Wang, he could now truly unleash the full force of this divine art.

The pure yang divine power covering his body was dense and oppressive, golden light radiating across heaven and earth.

Gasp!

The onlookers once again drew in a sharp breath.

A golden-armored general a hundred zhang tall!?

The massive divine figure gazed down upon the Taotie phantom, eyes indifferent and cold.

“Such a paltry trick, yet you dare to flaunt it before me!?”

Boom!!!

The golden mace in his hand came crashing down, like a heavenly pillar collapsing from the sky.

With that, the Taotie phantom was struck to its knees, utterly disheveled and humiliated. The strange devouring force shattered instantly, and the weight of divine power pressed the earth itself into deep depressions.

The mysterious youth’s face turned pale with shock, yet even as his soul trembled, he once again burned his heart’s blood, willing to wound his own spirit just to devour this golden-armored god in return.

That strange, twisted pulling force reappeared once more; this time, the Taotie phantom’s gaping maw had become dark and unfathomable like a bottomless abyss.

This was the innate divine ability of an ancient ferocious beast. Even the most hardened cultivators could only utter one thing, “It’s terrifying beyond measure!”

The devouring force didn’t just target the golden-armored divine general, it sought to consume everything around him. Grass, trees, boulders, cultivators, even the very spiritual qi of heaven and earth were drawn toward that horrific mouth.

“Holy shit! That bastard!”

The gathered cultivators were caught completely off guard. Their flesh and souls alike felt the pull of that monstrous suction; their internal mana slipped out of control as they struggled desperately to resist. A raw, primal terror rose in every heart, as this Taotie phantom was far more dreadful than they had imagined.

Moments ago, they’d watched the golden-armored god beat it down, thinking this ancient beast wasn’t so frightening after all. Only now did they realize that this was beyond the level of the Yin Spirit realm, and only a Yang Spirit powerhouse could possibly withstand such force!

Even Xiao Ran felt her own primordial spirit being torn from her body by that eerie suction and dragged violently toward the void. Her hands and feet went ice-cold, and her heart was seized by sheer terror. This was no mere spell or technique anymore.

Suddenly...

BOOM!!!

A thunderous crash echoed in her ears. The strange devouring force vanished in an instant, and Xiao Ran’s tense body finally relaxed.

The massive Taotie phantom had been smashed to the ground by a single punch from the golden-armored god. That gaping maw that had nearly devoured the world was now shut tight, its bones seemingly shattered, blood pouring in streams.

At this time, the Taotie phantom was utterly dumbfounded.

What the hell just happened!?

Only now did the cultivators recover from their shock, their hearts still pounding. Their faces were pale with lingering fear as they hastily retreated.

“Damn it, that wretch, how vicious can he be!?”

“He really tried to swallow everyone here alive just now!”

“That bastard! Daoist Master, finish him off!”

Having narrowly escaped death, the crowd’s emotions erupted into fury.

The ancient Taotie phantom’s expression grew darker still, as though it could bleed pure rage. It opened its blood-stained maw once again, and once more unleashed its divine power,

Devour

!

Just then, Li Yanchu took a single step forward, and the ground quaked and the mountains trembled. He seized the Taotie’s two horns with both hands, then drove his knee upward in a brutal strike, smashing it square in the jaw.

BOOM!!!

A deafening explosion shook heaven and earth.

Half of the Taotie phantom’s head was utterly pulverized, and his flesh and bone alike shattered into ruin.

At that moment, the Arhat Dharma form charged in while radiating fury, only to be kicked away by Li Yanchu with a single strike! Compared to the hundred-zhang-tall giant that Li Yanchu had become, the Arhat seemed laughably small, like an insect before a mountain.

In the blink of an eye, he was sent hurtling away, crashing into a distant mountain peak.

BOOM!!!

The entire peak exploded, rocks and dust flying sky-high. The Arhat’s chest was crushed, his limbs twisted at impossible angles, and his body lay mangled in the center of a deep crater.

Watching this, the onlookers were all stunned speechless. They could hardly believe what they had just witnessed.

A punch to an ancient Taotie beast, and a kick to a Buddhist Arhat!?

In that instant, their blood boiled with excitement. This... this was too exhilarating!

Li Yanchu’s aura was ferocious beyond words, and his back muscles coiled like living dragons beneath his skin as he brought down another heavy punch right into the Taotie’s maw.

The Taotie’s massive body convulsed violently, struggling to break free, but to its despair, it realized something terrifying: In sheer, brute strength... it couldn’t compete with this golden-armored god!

A flicker of regret passed through its savage eyes; it should never have shown off, never have enlarged itself into a giant beast tens of zhang tall! Now it had provoked this golden-armored divine general to grow into a hundred-zhang giant, whose power had multiplied severalfold.

The divine art Heaven-Earth Titan Form was far more than simple size, this secret technique of Mount Longhu granted tremendous boosts to strength, speed, and defense, a kind of short-term explosive augmentation.

Only after mastering it completely had Li Yanchu come to grasp the true essence of this sacred ability. Each of his punches crashed down like mountains collapsing, and the earth quaked and the heavens roared.

The Taotie phantom was beaten into a grotesque mess; its flesh was mangled, bones shattered, and both horns were snapped clean off! It was a miserable sight to behold.

Meanwhile, the mysterious youth’s physical body bled from all seven orifices, his life force fading rapidly. He couldn’t understand why, even after burning his very heart’s blood, was he still no match for this young Daoist!? Humiliated, he felt like he was just utterly slapped in the face!

As the mysterious youth’s aura weakened, the Taotie phantom could no longer hold its form, shrinking rapidly back to its original size. Taking advantage of that moment, it slipped free from the golden-armored general’s grip, turning into a streak of light that shot straight into the body of the half-dead Arhat Dharma form and vanished.

Then, something bizarre occurred.

The Arhat’s broken body began to heal at once. The severed arm regrew in the blink of an eye, and the shattered flesh mended itself completely. He pressed his palms together, the flaming halo behind his head bursting into dazzling radiance, and glared furiously at Li Yanchu.

“Bastard! You’ve humiliated this Buddha again and again, I will never rest until one of us is dead!” He thrust both palms forward as golden Buddhist light poured forth, filling heaven and earth with a sacred, awe-inspiring aura.

A moment later, two enormous palm imprints roared through the air, bearing down upon Li Yanchu with crushing force. It was clear that he meant to fight to the death!

Li Yanchu’s body surged with pure yang divine power before pouring it into his golden mace. He brought it down with devastating force and...

BOOM!!!

A blinding beam of divine light, tens of zhang wide, obliterated the Arhat’s figure in an instant. But the very next moment, the Arhat’s form reappeared on the distant horizon.

The one just struck... had been an illusion! The Arhat had used a Buddhist divine art and vanished in the blink of an eye, his aura completely hidden by some mysterious power.

He had... escaped!?

The gathered cultivators stood frozen, their faces blank with disbelief. What happened to that vow of “irreconcilable enmity”?

Who could have imagined that this arrogant, overbearing Arhat Dharma form would simply run away like that!?