"It’s just you who talks too much!"

Lu Yang, enraged, thought what was wrong with having more steps, even additional steps were part of the Law of Heaven and Earth!

After he transformed into a several-hundred-foot-tall giant, his voice also changed, booming like thunder, echoing in the mountain ravine.

Lu Yang drew out the Green Peak Sword, an Immortal Sword, which could change size along with Lu Yang.

Meng Jingzhou didn’t hesitate either, his Dharma Aspect’s shields and spears collided, creating ripples through space, while the Green Peak Sword emitted a sharp, resonating hum.

The two starkly different sounds collided in the middle of the battlefield, causing a massive explosion, shaking the entire space!

The Dharma Aspect’s eyes shot out foot-thick beams of red light, akin to magma; even before approaching Lu Yang, he could feel the raging power within the beams.

"Open!"

With a swing of the Green Peak Sword, he split the red beams in two, which skimmed past on either side of him, instantly reducing the white sandalwood forest next to Meng Jingzhou’s abode to ashes, carving two deep trenches in the ground that glowed with molten glass.

The Dharma Aspect strode forward, each step leaving a ball of flame on the ground. With a forceful stomp, the earth cracked, and its massive form leaped into the air.

With the sky above its head and the earth beneath its feet, the Pure Yang Flames swept across the sky, staining it crimson as if the heavens were bleeding.

The spear tore through the sky, carrying a torrent of fire as it collided with the Green Peak Sword, the sound of metal clashing like sudden thunder, followed by another shield whistling towards Lu Yang’s ribs.

Lu Yang flicked his left hand, and the pitch-black Inheriting Shadow Sword appeared, blocking the fierce blow.

With a flick of his wrist, he sent out a barrage of sword shadows, each strong enough to level mountains, forcing Meng Jingzhou to pay close attention.

"Cease War Skill!"

Meng Jingzhou’s method of using the shield and spear was no longer chaotic as before; it had become rhythmic.

The Cease War Skill was a combat technique created for Meng Jingzhou by Meng Junzi.

Meng Junzi emerged as a renowned fighter at the end of the Great Yu Late Period, with countless battles both large and small, his combat experience immensely rich. He developed the Cease War Skill for Meng Jingzhou’s Dharma Aspect, a technique to stop fighting with fighting, to cease bloodshed with bloodshed!

A raging storm of spiritual essence swept through, and the actions of the two giants at the center of the battlefield could reshape the terrain. The entrance to Meng Jingzhou’s abode had been disfigured beyond recognition; no one coming here would be able to tell it was Meng Jingzhou’s abode!

"One Sword Becomes Ten Thousand!"

Countless blades suddenly sprouted beneath Lu Yang’s feet, sticking out from the ground haphazardly like small hills, restricting Meng Jingzhou’s movements.

"Big Sun Magma Arrow!"

The massive form of the Dharma Aspect oozed boiling magma that bubbled, steamed the land, scorched the space, and was so hot in temperature that cultivators of the same level dare not refine such heated spiritual essence for fear of burning their meridians.

This magma hovered in the air, spinning, transforming into a barrage of arrows, shooting out violently!

"Let them come!" Lu Yang’s eyes lit up, knowing Old Meng still had interesting moves up his sleeve.

Blades gathered in front of Lu Yang, forming a shield that sliced through the molten arrow feathers as they made contact, shattering them with the released Sword Qi.

Meng Jingzhou seized the opportunity to charge with his shield raised; the two shields collided and both were shattered by the impact.

Both were flung backward by the other’s force; Meng Jingzhou steadied himself first, taking advantage of Lu Yang’s unsteady stance to rush towards him once again!

The Dharma Aspect leaned in, pushing past Lu Yang’s guards; the two were so close that Lu Yang was forced to abandon using his sword and engage in a physical duel.

Lu Yang’s punch landed on Meng Jingzhou’s Dharma Aspect, finding it much harder than his own flesh and unable to break its defense. When the Dharma Aspect hit Lu Yang, it caused him acute pain.

Lu Yang used Law of Heaven and Earth to simply enlarge his body, whereas Meng Jingzhou’s Dharma Aspect was based on his own flesh, further enhanced. Meng Jingzhou’s physical body was already slightly stronger than Lu Yang’s, and now, augmented by the Dharma Aspect, this led to Lu Yang being at a disadvantage when it came purely to strength and defense.

"How about that, Old Lu? You’re better than me with weapons, but in close combat, you’re no match for me," Meng Jingzhou laughed heartily, knowing that Old Lu had yet to use the devious Extinguishing Immortal Sword Array, signifying that Lu Yang was testing for flaws in the Law of Heaven and Earth.

The flaw had been exposed, and it was time to finish this!

"Earth-Shaking Eight Styles!"

The Dharma Aspect exhibited the Earth-Shaking Eight Styles that could be described as capable of destroying heaven and earth, causing Lu Yang to retreat step by step. Even if Lu Yang could block it, his physical strength was insufficient, so blocking was futile.

"Lacking defensive techniques..."

Lu Yang recalled the techniques he had learned, most of which were offensive, and very few were defensive.

"Seems like there really is one!"

"Old Meng, don’t think you’re amazing just because your Dharma Aspect is tough. I also know defensive techniques, Sixteen-Foot Golden Body!"

A sixteen-foot golden body suddenly materialized, bringing a sudden silence to the fierce battle between the two.

"Hahaha—" Meng Jingzhou couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing until he was wheezing for breath, barely able to maintain his Dharma Aspect.

Lu Yang’s eye twitched. He had transformed to several hundred feet tall using the Law of Heaven and Earth, and the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body was not even the size of his palm, making its high defensive power seemingly useless.

"I’ve got an idea!" A flash of brilliance struck Lu Yang.

"Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, Sixteen-Foot Golden Body..."

In one go, Lu Yang created a multitude of Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies, sticking them onto his body as armor, covering him from head to toe, securely guarded.

Lu Yang had grown large by swallowing the earth and Spiritual Energy. The enormous size of his Spiritual Energy Pool had increased several times over, allowing him to repeatedly cast the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body.

"How’s that?" Lu Yang flaunted his suit of armor. This time, his defense was definitely strong enough.

Meng Jingzhou’s eye twitched. Old Lu was covered in little figures, looking stranger by the minute. Even he felt it was excessively weird, to the point where calling Old Lu a giant figure of the Demon Path wouldn’t seem out of place.

"Earth-Shaking Eight Styles!"

Despite the ridiculous appearance, the defense was genuinely solid. As Meng Jingzhou struck Lu Yang with the Earth-Shaking Eight Styles, the Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies absorbed most of the force, and Lu Yang himself was unharmed.

"Hiss, it really does seem to work." Meng Jingzhou hadn’t expected the defense provided by the Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies used as armor to be so strong; it was almost outrageous.

"With this, the Law of Heaven and Earth is now the complete version," Lu Yang he-he’d with a smile, finding that testing out techniques with Old Meng was indeed a way to identify and address shortcomings.

"My White Sandalwood Forest! What are you two brats doing, is this a place for you to duel?"

The Third Elder noticed the commotion and flew into a rage. The power of the two young cultivators’ clash was comparable to a Body Integration Realm duel, leaving the land and forest completely devastated!

The ground, scorched by intense heat, had even turned into glass, not to mention the trees, which had long become charcoal ash.

Our Sect has so many open spaces, and you two just had to duel here, didn’t you?

Especially this forest; it was his favorite White Sandalwood Forest, which he had carefully tended for many years, and now it was all destroyed in a blaze!

True, this was Meng Jingzhou’s Abode, but this mountain also belonged to the Third Elder.

In his furious state, the Third Elder didn’t hold back and sent one punch each their way, hammering giant Lu Yang and the Dharma Aspect Meng Jingzhou into the ground, leaving only their heads exposed.

The Third Elder glared menacingly at Meng Jingzhou: "I need to teach you a lesson, or are you trying to rebel against the heavens? You go do volunteer work at the Mountain Moving and Sea Filling Sect for two months before coming back!"

The Mountain Moving and Sea Filling Sect in Great Xia was specifically responsible for dealing with the aftermath of cultivators’ duels and restoring the landscape.

Meng Jingzhou nodded repeatedly.

Lu Yang was a disciple of Daoist Buyu, so the Third Elder couldn’t do much about him.

After the Third Elder left, the two crawled out of the dirt, looking disheveled and dusty.

"It’s all your fault for coming over and challenging me for no reason."

"It’s not such a big deal, it’s just two months of learning at the Mountain Moving and Sea Filling Sect. I’ll go with you."