Chapter 542: Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void

“Who the hell are you?!”?

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Cen Yu scattered the snowstorm but failed to find the culprit. He roared with rage as he vented his feeling son Yan Su’er who just freed herself from Wang Guan’s Spirit Binding Rope. “Hmph, whatever the case, you can go to hell!”

In his eyes, no matter what the situation was, the person who killed Wang Guan definitely had something to do with Yan Su’er.

He refused to believe that the person wouldn’t appear if he forced Yan Su’er into desperate straits.

Earlier, Liu Yu had a chance to carry out a devastating attack on Yan Su’er. However, due to her shock at how Wang Guan died, she failed to act. Instead of fighting Yan Su’er, she quickly retreated to Cen Yu’s side for protection.

Lin Yu was clear. Even if Wang Guan was completely unprepared for a sneak attack and she was the one carrying it out, she would never have been able to kill him so easily.

The newcomer was clearly stronger than her. Perhaps, only Cen Ye was able to fight evenly against him!

Cen Yu might be enraged by how Lin Yu retreated at such a critical time, but the situation had already blown out of proportion. He could only swing his Phoenix Wing Halberd down ferociously at Yan Su’er.

Finally given a chance to catch her breath, Yan Su’er regained her composure. No matter how sorry she looked from their previous assault, she was an expert at the large completion stage of the Martial Extermination Realm at the end of the day. She was a force to be reckoned with and none of her opponents would look down on her.

Raising her staff in the air, a four colored extermination light gathered around her again. At the same time, a huge amount of heaven and earth qi was swept up as it blocked the falling Phoenix Wing Halberd.

Before Yan Su’er could heave a sigh of relief, a sharp snap came from her staff, and under her surprised gaze, the weapon she had been using for tens of years cracked.

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Since her weapon broke, she had to take on a portion of the energy contained in the blow and she spat out a mouthful of blood. She was sent flying and she barely managed to stabilize herself in mid air.

Naturally, Cen Yu couldn’t give up a chance like that to follow up. Now that he caused Yan Su’er to lose her combat strength, he was ready to rush up to carry on the fight. He didn’t expect Lin Yu who finally regrouped with him to stare wide-eyed in another direction while stuttering, “Senior… Senior Cen, look over there!”

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Noticing her reaction, Cen Yu didn’t need to hear her reminder to turn in the other direction.

Several miles behind him, the majestic pillar of light had shrunk by a third! A figure could be seen not too far away from the pillar and he seemed to be absorbing world origin at a terrifying rate. He didn’t seem to be controlling the world origin with any special methods but they were pouring into him endlessly.

“It’s him!” Cen Yu’s expression sank and he couldn’t be bothered with Yan Su’er. Lightly tapping the space before him with his Phoenix Wing Halberd, a freakish flame bloomed in mid air. It expanded to form an entrance and he entered the void through the entrance he made. Lin Yu couldn’t even react to stop him.

Passing through the void with his physical body!

That was something Shang Xia did in the past with the assistance of his Abyssal Void Shattering Talisman. Now, he finally saw someone who wasn’t a Martial Dipper Realm ancestor doing the same!

Stopping the Crimson Soul Tablet from devouring world origin anymore, Shang Xia waved his Abyssal Blade and messed up the space around him. He also made use of the geography around him to summon a stronger snowstorm. This time, snow fell everywhere. Frosty qi pervaded the lands and the feeling of death entered the hearts of everyone present and it started to climb steadily. It was as though energy was being stored up somewhere.

Shang Xia retreated slightly and he quickly suppressed the resonance his Crimson Soul Tablet had with the pillar of light.

The next instant, Cen Yu’s figure emerged from the void. Even though he looked a little haggard, he managed to lock on to Shang Xia the moment he appeared.

Cen Yu might be taken aback at how Shang Xia anticipated his moves, but the small distance Shang Xia retreated wasn’t enough to escape from him.

A shrill whistle tore through the air and his Phoenix Wing Halberd trembled violently. A strand of extermination origin that was created after a cultivator fused all 4 extermination origins entered the halberd and Shang Xia saw a semi-illusory flame covering his weapon.

Drawing a horizontal line through the air with his halberd, the illusory flame remained burning even after his halberd was withdrawn. It resembled a massive wing made from fire in mid air.

Cen Yu drew another line in the other direction and in the next instant, the pair of wings appeared.

As soon as the fiery wings were formed, they seemed to resonate with the space around him. With a light flap, they tore apart the void and left behind a strange streak of light in mid air before rushing at Shang Xia.

“Martial intent?! That’s the martial intent of a Martial Extermination Realm expert!” Yan Su’er’s scream came from behind Shang Xia and the terror in her voice couldn’t be hidden.

Shang Xia also felt a sense of danger approaching.

Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void!

That was the name of the martial intent Cen Yu coined after he comprehended it to step into the grand completion stage of the Martial Extermination Realm.

The power in a martial intent was immense, and it was extremely difficult for experts in the Martial Extermination Realm to comprehend one. Even if they did, it would be difficult to unleash their martial intent to its full potential. They would require the assistance of a weapon that was extremely compatible with their cultivation in order to do so.

That might be the case, but unless Cen Yu was using a divine weapon to unleash his martial intent, he would greatly damage whatever weapon he was using. Even his Phoenix Wing Halberd, which could be considered a peak-tier high-grade weapon, could only release 5 Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void before it would be destroyed. Moreover, every time Cen Yu used his martial intent, it would grow weaker due to the declined durability of his halberd.

That was why Cen Yu didn’t dare to use his martial intent however he wished when he was in the fight before.

He chose to release his Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void at that moment not because he was afraid of Shang Xia’s strength. Instead, he wanted to end the battle as quickly as he could so that he could return to deal with the pillar of light.

Liu Yu, who was watching how Cen Yu released his martial intent, gasped in fright.

“Since Senior Cen has used his martial intent, that person is dead! Haha! No… Both of them are dead!” Liu Yu stared at Yan Su’er as though she was looking at a dead person.

She knew that there was no need for her to do anything useless at that point as Cen Yu’s Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void would destroy their opponents.

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Even without Yan Su’er’s reminder, Shang Xia knew that he was in deep shit.

In the past, Shang Xia once heard Shang Bo mention how a cultivator’s strength would take a huge leap forward when they went from the second layer to the third layer of the Martial Extermination Realm. However, that was merely a small increase when compared to when they improved from the large completion stage to the grand completion stage! It could even be said that ascending to the grand completion stage would mean that the cultivator in question had experienced a fundamental transformation in their cultivation.

The transformation was possibly related to breaking through to the Martial Dipper Realm and from a certain perspective, one could call those in the grand completion stage of the Martial Extermination Realm ‘Half-Step Martial Dipper Realm’ experts.

Shang Xia never doubted his grandfather. That was because Shang Bo had also comprehended his martial intent and became a Half-Step Martial Dipper Realm expert. After experiencing the increase in strength, he was more than qualified to make those judgments.

Staring at the flaming wings headed his way, Shang Xia felt a sense of danger like never before. The wings looked utterly magnificent, but no amount of beauty could cover up the threat it posed.

When Shang Xia was planning to go all out to defend himself, the world seemed to stop. With a frosty expression on his face, Shang Xia slowly pushed his palm out before him.

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Shang Xia renamed the strike to the Four Constellation Palm from the Four Seasons Palm and the moment he sent it out, the space before him distorted violently. It didn’t stop there as the space started to fracture before eventually crumbling altogether.

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Shang Xia witnessed everything that happened clearly and the next moment, his Four Constellation Palm which contained the might of his Four Seasons Extermination Origins clashed with the fiery wings in the shattered void.

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The earth shattering explosion that everyone expected to happen didn’t. Instead, both attacks slowly ate each other up. The void suffered yet another blow and it was a mind-numbing scene to watch it collapse on itself again.

Unfortunately, Shang Xia’s Four Constellation Palm wasn’t enough to stop Cen Yu’s attack and the pair of wings continued to fly at him. Although after their exchange, the wings no longer looked as lively as before.

Despite not being able to stop the attack, not a trace of despair could be seen on Shang Xia’s face. Instead, a trace of hope appeared.

That was because in the short second the collision between both attacks happened earlier, Shang Xia saw that his Four Constellation Palm definitely stopped the fiery wings for a split second.

What did that mean?!

That meant that even though Shang Xia’s Four Constellation Palm was suppressed, it wasn’t destroyed immediately.

Even though the effects of the two weren’t really different as his Four Constellation Palm disappeared without stopping the fiery wings, they actually represented very different things.

If his palm was destroyed in an instant without hindering the fiery wings, that would only mean that the principles behind his Four Constellation Palm were far worse than Cen Yu’s Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void. However, because it was able to stall for a split second, Shang Xia knew that the difference between them lay in their cultivation realm and the power they unleashed.

Like how Yun Jing and Youshang were both surprised when they saw his Four Constellation Palm back then, they felt that it had the capability of turning into Shang Xia’s martial intent.

In other words, Shang Xia’s Four Constellation Palm was comparable to Cen Yu’s Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void. The only difference lay in their difference in their cultivation realm.

Because Shang Xia understood the principles behind cycling his extermination origins and the true meaning of the four seasons, he quickly released a second and third palm in succession.

Unfortunately for Cen Yu, it was impossible for him to release so many Heavenly Flame Tearing the Void at once.

At the same time, he actually wasn’t too bothered by Shang Xia releasing multiple palm strikes. Instead, he knew that the old lady would do something as she was also trapped within the range of his attack.

A loud chirp filled the skies all of a sudden and Shang Xia felt a familiar blood extermination soaring into the skies. The phantom of a giant rain swallow appeared several feet behind Yan Su’er and it flew past Shang Xia and slammed heavily into the fiery wings that had been weakened by Shang Xia’s Four Constellation Palm earlier.