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Run! They had to run now or it would be too late!
Just when the yellow-faced youth and the middle-aged scholar thought this, Yang Kai turned his head and coldly glared at them.
Both of them suddenly gasped. Under Yang Kai’s cold and frigid gaze, their limbs went limp and they couldn’t summon the slightest bit of their strength.
“Are you going to kill yourselves or do I need to come over and do it myself?” Yang Kai stood holding his sword in a nonchalant and relaxed manner. His clothes were neat and tidy still, as if the previous battle hadn’t cost him anything.
This gave the impression that Feng Xi was the Dao Source Realm, whereas he was in the high and mighty Emperor Realm. This contrasting scene was completely out of their imagination and they couldn’t accept it.
Monster! The yellow-faced youth and the middle-aged scholar grit their teeth hard as they continued to rattle, unable to speak a word in horror.
“I guess you are choosing the latter,” Yang Kai coldly snorted as he moved towards the pair.
The yellow-faced youth and the middle-aged scholar suddenly stopped breathing. They wanted to escape but their bodies weren’t listening to them. A sense of despair instantly drowned them.
However, the next moment, Yang Kai frowned as he looked towards a certain direction.
The next thing that entered his sight caused his eyes to bulge in shock.
Because Feng Xi, who was supposed to be floating there limply, waiting for his death, slowly stood up at this moment. However, his state seemed extremely strange, as if he did not have his own consciousness, his eyes shut tight and his movements stiff, like a puppet.
Also, the Emperor Qi in his body was circulating madly while an aura that left Yang Kai shivering seemed to slowly be awakening from Feng Xi.
Very soon, Feng Xi stood up straight again and his eyes flashed open.
Those eyes were filled with frigid-cold chill, but also shone brightly like stars.
Yang Kai was taken aback!
The moment Feng Xi opened his eyes, that strange aura coming from his body soared and a powerful Emperor Pressure suddenly broke out from him, causing Yang Kai’s breath to stagnate for a moment and his blood to stop flowing smoothly.
“What happened?” Yang Kai frowned as he muttered. At this moment, Feng Xi gave him an extremely dangerous feeling, and when they met eyes, Yang Kai actually had the illusion of being stared at by an ominous beast. It was very uncomfortable.
Feng Xi had undergone an earth-shaking change. His previous Young Sect Master’s bearing was nowhere to be found, rather a graceful and noble temperament had replaced it. Also, his eyes were filled with disdain for everyone, as if he was the ruler of the world.
Yang Kai’s heart pounded crazily as he found this feeling a little familiar. He had felt something similar from Third-Order Emperor Realm Masters like Yao Chang Jun, Chi Ri, and Bing Yun.
However, Feng Xi had just advanced to the Emperor Realm, so how could he stand shoulder to shoulder with such peak level Masters?
[Is this one of Seeking Passion Sect’s Forbidden Techniques?] Yang Kai was filled with doubt as he fiercely swung his hands, releasing two Moon Blades that formed a cross-shaped cut that flew towards Feng Xi. This cross reached Feng Xi in the blink of an eye, leaving no time for him to dodge.
Looking at the cross-shaped Moon Blade, Feng Xi’s eyes glimmered with surprise, as if he was seeing Yang Kai using his Space Divine Ability for the first time, but the calm and composed look on his face never changed, nor did he show any intention of dodging. Rather he just slowly pointed his finger.
This finger poke struck right at the centre of the cross, without the slightest bit of deviation.
Immediately, the two Moon Blades collapsed under the might of this finger while Feng Xi hadn’t suffered the slightest bit of damage.
“What!?” Yang Kai was shocked. He was naturally clearer than anyone else about the weakness of the Secret Technique he had just displayed. Although this was the first time he had used this cross-shaped Moon Blade, he had simulated it countless times in his mind, so the effect it displayed should have been extraordinary nonetheless.
As for the weakness of this Secret Technique, it was exactly where Feng Xi had poked.
How did he see through it though? Yang Kai’s face was filled with uncertainty.
If Feng Xi had such insight and ability, why had he been beaten so badly just now? Some earth-shattering change must have happened to him in that short period when he was unconscious and woke up.
“Who is Your Excellency?” Yang Kai suddenly recalled a certain Secret Technique and his heart skipped a beat as he asked with a shout.
‘Feng Xi’ coldly gazed at Yang Kai and replied lightly, “Junior, you are really something. This Old Master thought that you were simply extraordinary, but now it seems that this Old Master’s vision still fell somewhat short.”
“Sii…” Yang Kai gasped in horror as he involuntarily retreated a few steps.
Feng Xi’s sudden way of taking pride in his seniority confirmed Yang Kai’s guess even more so.
He nervously gulped before muttering, “Soul Descent! You’re Feng Xuan!”
Yang Kai had long heard some top Masters would leave a wisp of their Spiritual Energy on their heirs or Disciples in order to protect them should they encounter life-threatening danger. Normally this technique wouldn’t be triggered, but in the moment of a life or death crisis, this wisp of Spiritual Energy could be used to create a Soul connection and possession, allowing the Master to confront the danger in their descendant’s stead.
However, the price for using this Secret Technique was very high. Once it was used, the damage to their heir or Disciple wouldn’t be small, so few Masters were willing to do this. Even for those who did use this technique, it was a measure of absolute last resort only.
But now, this technique had appeared in Feng Xi, which meant that Feng Xi was at the edge of death.
“Little brat, you’re pretty knowledgeable. It is this King indeed!” Feng Xi shouted.
“What!?”
“Sect Master!?”
The yellow-faced man and the middle-aged scholar were also taken aback, but soon, the two became ecstatic and immediately rushed to Feng Xi’s side and knelt down, tremblingly greeting, “Disciple greets Sect Master!”
Feng Xuan indifferently glanced at the two before reprimanding them with a cold snort, “Two wastes who can’t even protect their Young Sect Master, forcing this King to appear in person. What use are you!”
The expressions of the two drastically changed, but they didn’t dare to give any excuses.
In their minds, however, they were thinking, [Young Sect Master is already an Emperor Realm Master, far stronger than us, yet he was still so severely injured and fell unconscious after just two to three moves from this Yang Kai, what were we supposed to have done? Wouldn’t we have been killed with just one finger flick?]
Although they were cursing to themselves, the two of them didn’t dare to really say what they were thinking, simply lowering their heads as cold sweat dripped down their faces.
Feng Xi ordered with a snort, “Take your Young Sect Master to a safe place to heal once this is over. If you can’t even bring your Young Sect Master back to the Sect safe and sound, don’t bother returning at all.”
Since the two could enter the Shattered Star Sea, they were undoubtedly elite disciples of the Seeking Passion Sect, but in Feng Xuan’s eyes, they weren’t worth even a single strand of his son’s hair.
And judging by Feng Xuan’s tone, it was obvious that Yang Kai would very soon be dealt with.
The two disciples quickly nodded, as if they were given amnesty, “Yes, Sect Master!”
Feng Xi turned his head to look at Yang Kai again, letting out a cold snort and asking, “Junior, are Xi’er injuries your handiwork?”
Yang Kai replied with a dull face, “If I said no, would you believe me?”
Feng Xi countered, “What do you think?”
Yang Kai angrily rebuked, “Then why bother asking?”
Feng Xi’s face sank as he stated, “Junior, you’re quite bold to even dare to yell at this King! I wanted to give you a quick and painless death, but since you are so arrogant, don’t blame this King for being impolite!”
Yang Kai flashed a mocking smile as he quipped, “Feng Xi also said this before, but he was beaten black and blue by this Young Master. Sect Master Feng, be careful, or you might follow your son’s footsteps!”
Feng Xi frowned, “You dare to look down on this King?”
Yang Kai lazily stated, “If Sect Master Feng was here in person, Junior would naturally not be your opponent and would immediately flee as far as possible, but… Sect Master Feng, you have borrowed your son’s body to manifest your Soul, so just how much of your strength can you display?”
“Enough to take your life!”
Yang Kai broke into laughter, “How willful! Sect Master Feng, be careful not to lose all your face today!”
“Silence!” Feng Xi angrily shouted, “This King will take your dog life, Seeking Passion Finger!”
While shouting, he pointed towards Yang Kai’s location.
An unimaginable force suddenly shot out. This force was completely traceless and invisible, but it still seemed capable of tearing space apart wherever it passed, a terrifying display of power.
This finger thrust wasn’t as powerful as the Emperor Authority Bead that Feng Xi had used before, but it wasn’t significantly weaker either.
The reason why it wasn’t comparable wasn’t because Feng Xuan’s strength had declined over the years. When he had refined that Emperor Authority Bead, Feng Xuan had just broken through to the Third-Order Emperor Realm. After so many years, his cultivation had definitely made great progress.
If he really performed this Secret Technique in person, its might would be far greater.
But at this moment, he had used a Soul Descent, so the strength he could exert depended entirely on what Feng Xi’s body could withstand.
Therefore, the might of this Seeking Passion Finger had greatly reduced.
Nevertheless, it was still not something Yang Kai wanted to take head-on.
He hurriedly tried to teleport, but the might of this finger had actually disrupted the local space, causing Yang Kai to stagger and get hit.
Yang Kai felt like he had been struck by a mountain and he groaned as he spurted a mouthful of blood and flew out. All of his bones creaked while many of them broke. His body was torn and battered, bleeding all over.
Yang Kai was injured with just one move, proving just how amazing Feng Xuan’s strength was.
Before he could regain his footing, Feng Xuan swung the sword in his hand, shouting, “Seeking Passion Sword!”
The fan-shaped peerless Sword Wave crossed a distance of over a thousand meters in the blink of an eye, reaching Yang Kai.
Yang Kai couldn’t dodge again.
The yellow-faced young man and the middle-aged scholar couldn’t help but rejoice at the sight of this. They were excited about their Sect Master’s strength. No matter how strong Yang Kai was, he was still completely vulnerable before their Sect Master’s Soul Descent.
After the last attack, Feng Xi’s body’s aura declined greatly. It seemed Feng Xuan had paid a great price to unleash these two moves and was now slightly panting for breath.
But this was sufficient. Feng Xuan was confident that Yang Kai couldn’t handle these moves with only a Third-Order Dao Source Realm’s strength and would soon be split asunder.
Feng Xuan put away his sword and stood straight, coldly looking ahead, waiting for the moment when Yang Kai died.
This young hero will now take your garden’s juices – Seeking Passion Fingers!!
Uh, he has a lot of trump cards and still deliberately gets hit casually, wtf?
IKR? HAIYA… Also YK grew thanks to 1.5yrs refining the exotic artifact…and now his enemy is a newly promoted emperor borrowing his father’s skill….yet YK gets beaten to a pulp that way ?
This is one of the more bullshit plot devices used in the novel. The technique damages the body of the heir/disciple it is used on so most don’t use it? This is literally a life saving technique that would only come to be used if the cultivator would otherwise certainly die. Who wouldn’t use such a technique if it could save ones life? Let alone the fact that this is a cheat that allows even Third-Order-Empereros to enter the Shattered Star Sea. Just put it on a bunch of random Dao Source Cultivator, wait until one of them would get killed and take over his body, snatch Great Emperor stuff. Can’t tell me that a lot of Emperors wouldn’t try to abuse that technique to get into the Shattered Star Sea.
It would be fucking epic if he used the Lotus Bud Soul Tech on Feng Xuan and affect his real soul
Maybe I played too much call of duty but why does everyone in this novel stop shooting before the +100xp per kill pops up? CONFIRM YOUR KILLS
Right? The only time it’s acceptable to just stand around and wait for them to die is when you’re bringing in the nuke and there’s no point to hunting them down. You’ve gotta think, if ANY of Yang Kai’s major opponents had been willing to be ruthless, we wouldn’t have gotten this far.
He has many options
Time dao atk
Dragon transformation
Five sword qi
Both eye techniques.. especially lotus as he will directly atk feng xuan soul with this
Mountain bell
That fire he captured
Demonification
Or simply kill the two deciples and run😂😂… Feng xi’s condition is nowhere food and is barely holding with soul decent… He will definately die when this is over.😂😂😂 Free kill… Chicken dinner🍗 achieved😭😂
Using the Blossoming Lotus wouldn’t do anything to Feng Xuan—it would be like when Yang Kai met Gui Zu on the Floating Continent (that became Embodiment’s body) and Yang Kai sent his Soul Clone through Gui Zu’s “teleportation gate” that caused the Soul Clone to die. Feng Xuan might suffer a little bit of backlash from the destruction of his Soul Descent, but nothing that wouldn’t heal by the time Yang Kai would leave the Shattered Star Sea.
Also the Soul splittibg sabre to sever the connexion, the soul eating insects to do the same, releasing the embodiment, takibg Feng Xi into the sealed world bead… YK has so many aces up his sleeves that its a wonder he can raise his arms at all
Wowies, such bs, soul descent my butt! More like Quality of Storytelling Descent! Suddenly a unstable 1st emperor level can withstand peak 3rd emperor level attack just like that? So soul descent can transform the weak emperor qi into strong 3rd emperor pure qi? No. Just no.
Wait, wait. So this soul descent can transmit 3rd emperor power to a place locked in the void, where no emperor can go? Double no! The amount of bs this author has pulled over several dozen chapters is out of any league.
I guess it is entertaining to some extent… but it would be so much more if one would spend just a little time to check the integrity of the worldbuilding. Bs was always present in Martial Peak, but not to this extent.
I’m just venting though.
My understanding is that it’s essentially a temporary body-snatching technique; Feng Xuan is attacking using Feng Xi’s body and qi, but the presence of his Soul is what creates the Emperor Pressure that prevents Yang Kai from dodging effectively, as he is an established Emperor 3 while Feng Xi is an unstable Emperor 1. This is why the strength of the attack is limited and Yang Kai, while still injured by it, survives with relative ease.
Wuxia novels like Martial Peak sometimes like to play a little fast and loose with Divine Souls and the abilities/transient powers that accompany them, such as the Insect Emperor still possessing all of his artifacts (which coincidentally suffered no degradation after 10,000 years of neglect) when Yang Kai finally killed him for good.
They clearly said that the move feng xi used after using soul descent was weaker than the move from the emperor’s authority bead. Since the bead was formed when feng xuan just broke through to 3rd order emperor, the current attack would be 2nd order emperor level at best. And that makes sense. Feng xi is a first order emperor and secret techniques that let you use the strength of a minor realm above yourself aren’t uncommon, af course they wohld have a major backlash, just like the secret technique of the blood warriors of the yang family. If the soul descent didn’t make him at least a little stronger, what would even be the point of using it, how would it save his life in a dangerous situation.
Besides there is also the fact that even if his strength didn’t go up much after using soul descent his father would have a much better understanding of how to use his strength and would be able to fight way better. Whats weird about a 3rd order emperor in a 1st order emperor’s body being able to fight above his realm. It would be weirder if he couldn’t. Feng xi couldn’t use his emperor qi and his strength properly because he just broke through, how would feng xuan jave the same limitation. There is also the fact that feng xuan would be way better at using principle strength than feng xi, since principle strength has to do alot with comprehension. So even if the strength of the body didn’t go up, he can still use way more strength by relying on the external principles.
Not only that when cultivators fight they normally don’t use every ounce of strength in their body because if that attack fails, they are bound to die. Even when someone says they used a full power strike, its not like that strike will exhaust them to the point that they won’t be able to fight anymore afterwards. But here this guy just used 2 or 3 moves and his energy is almost completely used up. What’s so weird about attacks using that much energy being stronger than usual.
I don’t think soul descent has suddenly given feng xi the power of a 3rd order emperor, at best it just made him slightly stronger. The reason why Yang Kai is having more trouble after feng xuan took over feng xi’s body is because feng xuan knows how to use his power better than his son.
many thanks for the chap
Don’t know and he can get this over with if he brought out the embodiment
He doesn’t need embodiment he’s got another thing far more effective in this scenario
Take a guess…
Toll the bell
pay the private eye
All’s well
20th century dies
Why would YK be willing to take some serious damage than use his dragon transformation to at least lessen it..
First
Thx for Chapter!