Chapter 1578: 5th Spirit Calming Vessel

"Among everyone who infiltrated the Essence Ping World to seek an advancement... You’re the stupidest of them all!” The Star Origin Lord's clone's aura suddenly surged to the Martial Emptiness Realm, and his gaze at Shang Xia flickered with an indescribable hue, his words bordering on mockery.

Shang Xia remained expressionless, yet his divine soul, enhanced by the Crimson Soul Tablet, was rapidly tracing and pinpointing the exact entry point to the World Origin Source.

"You're not running away?!"

Seeing that the young man opposite him standing strong despite being put under the pressure of his aura, the Star Origin Lord's clone expressed surprise. "You really are the most foolish!"

After speaking, the clone’s figure flickered abruptly before reappearing 30 feet from Shang Xia. It was too quick for his domain to react and it was breached instantly.

Within a range of 30 feet... For True Immortals or those stronger than that, it was basically close combat!

The Star Origin Lord's clone raised his hand and pointed casually, his body still 30 feet away. However, his finger appeared between Shang Xia’s eyebrows.

Shang Xia grunted and he was too slow to dodge. He only managed to pull his head back slightly while pressing forward with his thumb that contained all the energy he could gather.

He unleashed the first move of his Six Harmony Rod Technique, Harmonizing Continent!

Both fingers met inches away from his forehead, their inner qi clashing violently in the void. Along with a piercing screech, the space between them started to shatter with cracks spreading out like spiderwebs.

Shang Xia didn’t hesitate to retreat and he seemed to be at a disadvantage during the exchange.

𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

However, he showed no panic and looked unusually calm.

"You seem reluctant to take action here...” Shang Xia mumbled. Even though it sounded like a question, he seemed certain of his deduction.

"Heh..." The Star Origin Lord's clone smirked disdainfully, but his movements were swift. He stepped forward casually, his fingers jabbing towards Shang Xia's eyes again.

Before the fingers even reached him, 2 sharp rays of light emerged from the void and caused blood to leak from Shang Xia’s eyes.

Shang Xia looked passive when dealing with the clone’s tricks, but he became absolutely certain of his judgment.

The clone is bluffing...

Of course, the clone wasn’t actually weak. Instead, he was holding back because he was afraid he would cause catastrophic damage in the Essence Ping World.

Shang Xia had experienced the same in the Essence Xing World. Even though the Chen Dynasty Emperor hated him to the bone, he didn’t dare to go all out in the world. If grand completion stage True Immortals like them didn’t hold back, the world would be severely damaged. In the end, the Chen Dynasty Emperor didn’t unleash his martial intent.

Watching the fingers racing for his eyes, Shang Xia chopped the edge of his palm between them. This time, the void on both sides of his palm shattered.

This time, he used Breaking World, the fifth move of his Six Harmony Rod Technique.

"Preposterous!" Rage filled the eyes of the clone. He didn’t even care that an arm was shattered by Shang Xia’s technique as he drew on the world origin with the other hand. His figure seemed to fuse with the heavens and earth and Shang Xia felt as though the world came alive around him. His technique was suppressed in order to minimize the damage it would cause.

“Haha! You really don’t dare to fight here!” Shang Xia laughed. There was no doubt in his tone as he continued, "The True Immortals who came seeking advancement were probably scared off by you, right? After all... Their cultivation would be suppressed in the Essence Ping World and your intention would still be to confront them outside the heavenly screen.”

The Star Origin Lord's clone did not answer, but since his cultivation reached the Martial Emptiness Realm, he had fully fused into the world. While weakening Shang Xia’s damage to the world, the suppression grew stronger. Shang Xia needed great effort to even lift his arm. The use of his Spirit Abundance Banner also started to quickly weaken.

Rather than panicking, Shang Xia knew that his guess had been confirmed.

Gathering his Six Direction Qi, Shang Xia didn’t summon his Crimson Soul Tablet. Instead, he started to gather energy to unleash his martial intent.

"Enough! Brat, are you really planning to provoke me here? Do you want to die without a complete corpse? The Star Origin Lord's clone felt a profound threat the moment Shang Xia began to gather his strength.

Although he found it hard to believe that the man before him who was only at the grand completion stage could pose a threat to him, he didn’t dare to gamble. Even if Shang Xia couldn’t ultimately harm his Martial Emptiness Realm Clone, he wouldn’t be able to suppress the damage to the world.

He couldn’t allow the Essence Ping World to be seriously damaged. That was the instruction the Star Origin Lord left for the clone, especially since it was a critical moment in the Star Origin Lord’s takeover of the World’s Will.

Despite the increasing pressure Shang Xia was under, even if he had to use twice the effort to unleash his martial intent, he didn’t get rid of the energy he gathered.

The standoff between both sides became a clash of inner qi, but this time, the Star Origin Lord’s clone miscalculated.

Shang Xia’s Six Harmony Supporting the Heavens was used to shatter the constraints of the world around him and support a separate space of his own.

The more the Star Origin Lord's clone tried to suppress Shang Xia's martial intent and the more he tried to restrict the world’s response to Shang Xia’s martial intent, the more it forced out its true potential.

Under the shocked gaze of the clone, the world around them started to shatter. The next moment, 5,000 miles around them seemed to flip around and detach from the Essence Ping World.

That was even under the full suppression by the Star Origin Lord's clone. Otherwise, the damage would only have been greater!

There was no doubt about it. The clone’s attempt to stop Shang Xia had completely failed.

"Brat, you seem to have gotten something wrong here.” The limit set for the clone by his true body had been completely breached and the next instant, the clone’s voice returned to its original calm. "I just prefer not to act within the world. It’s not that I can’t! You have successfully angered me!”

As he spoke, the Star Origin Lord's clone disappeared only to reappear outside the separate space Shang Xia created.

Even though the region 5,000 miles around Shang Xia had been separated from the Essence Ping World, the Star Origin Lord’s clone no longer cared. He wanted nothing more than to kill the presumptuous young man before him.

However, for Shang Xia, who had faced Sages more than once and had rich experience, was not afraid. When he released his martial intent, he had already gathered as much Six Direction Qi as possible. The projection of the Crimson Soul Tablet emerged the next second and the world origin he had stolen from the Essence Xing World was completely used up.

"This..." Looking at the projection, the Star Origin Lord’s clone showed surprise for the first time.

However, the hint of emotion was forever frozen in his eyes as the projection fell. The clone was destroyed instantly, turning into a stream of world origin. At the same time, the strand of soul the Star Origin Lord sealed in his clone was also destroyed.

After destroying the clone, Shang Xia stabbed the projection into the void where the clone disappeared. Following the tracks he had discovered before, the projection was stabbed directly into the World Origin Source.

The World Origin Source that was fluctuating violently due to the death of the clone, was quickly drained by the projection. Shang Xia also didn’t forget to place the Talisman Seal he had been nurturing with his soul into the depths of the World Origin Source, successfully planting his fifth Spirit Calming Vessel.