After Zhang Yan slashed out the sword light, he did not stop. Instead, he followed up with another punch.
Kong Yin held the initiative after all. He could change his roots and fruits at any time. Liu Ming had to take advantage of the opportunity to launch an attack before Kong Yin could do so.
The sword ray was extremely fast. Even though it was separated by a vast expanse of space, it still arrived in a flash.
Kong Yin's body was protected by a protective treasure, but it was unable to block the killing sword. Wherever the sword ray passed, his avatar would be sliced into pieces. In an instant, the left half of his body was reduced to specks of light.
Despite suffering such a heavy injury, his expression was still as calm as ever. Spiritual light could be seen gathering outside, and the places that had been destroyed were recovering. However, the sword ray continued to slash at them.
Ever since he reached the third stage of the mortal metamorphosis realm, it had been a long time since he had considered how to defend himself. This was because no matter what kind of attack he received, his past and future avatars would receive it. However, he did not expect that his roots and fruits would be so easily found by his enemies.
Fortunately, before he reached this stage, he had also forged protective treasures.
Just when the sword light was about to cut his right shoulder and half of his head, there were wisps of white mist floating around his body, blocking the rest of the sword light. Soon, the scattered spiritual light gathered in one place, and the Dharma Body recovered at an extremely fast speed. However, before it could completely merge, an extremely powerful force violently smashed over with a rumble. The white fog was unable to block it and was immediately blasted apart. Moreover, the limbs and body that had clearly been formed earlier had once again collapsed under this impact.
Seeing this, Zhang Yan increased the intensity of his attacks. At this point, there was no longer any need for him to hide his divine arts. With the circulation of his magic power, "Qingxuan High Sky Thunder Shock" directly exploded around Kong Yin.
At the same time, the avatars of his Origin Fetus appeared in the air. Clearly, in consideration of his backup plan, he did not summon all twelve avatars at once. Instead, he only summoned nine.
Even so, it was already shocking enough. This meant that before he shed his mortal body, he had at least broken through the Nine Barriers.
After he became a mortal, each of his clones also became a real mortal.
This kind of method was only suitable for this kind of situation. Not to mention those people who had severed their past or future, even if they met a second stage realm cultivator, if they couldn't find the root of the problem, no matter how many doppelgangers they had, it would be useless.
After the nine avatars appeared in the air, they immediately spread out and used their own techniques to attack Kong Ying. For a time, lightning and sword light filled the void like countless stars exploding in the sky.
However, he also knew that as a third stage cultivator, Kong Ying's Root Fruit had already evolved. Unlike a first stage cultivator, who could break the Root Fruit once he found it, Kong Ying could wander between the past and the future. Currently, he was only dealing with one part of it. However, it was impossible for him to kill Kong Ying in this manner.
Fortunately, every time he hit this person, he would lose a bit of his origin energy, so it wasn't like he didn't gain anything.
Kong Ying only managed to defend himself a few times before he realized that he couldn't defend against the storm of attacks. In the end, he simply gave up and allowed his avatars to be destroyed, but he didn't stop trying to deduce Fan and Dong's Root Fruit.
Losing one's origin energy was undoubtedly a great loss, but in the long run, this was undoubtedly the right move.
Zhang Yan felt that it was a pity. If not for the fact that his Divine Will was obstructed and he couldn't communicate with the Zhu Zhen, with the two of them working together, he might have been able to force Kong Ying to use all his strength to defend himself, causing him to give up on his original goal.
Fortunately, it wasn't that he didn't have any other tricks up his sleeves. He took a step back and circulated his magic power. Flames soared behind him and gradually condensed into a tall demonic image. As time passed, it became clearer and clearer, as if it was about to come to life.
Kong Ying's heart couldn't help but palpitate. Once again, he felt the same sense of danger as before.
At this moment, the body of the past and the future that he used to fight against Zhang Yan was already in tatters. All that was left was a ball of scattered spiritual light. It couldn't stop his opponent, so he only had two choices left. One was to immediately change the location of his Root Fruit and avoid the attack. However, to do so, he would need to use a large amount of Divine Will from elsewhere, and he wouldn't have any spare energy to deduce Fan and Dong's Root Fruit. Right now, he was so close to success. If he pulled back now, all his previous efforts would be wasted. Not only that, if the two of them escaped, not only would all his previous efforts be in vain, but they would also pose a greater threat to him.
The other way was to endure this attack and deal with Fan Xian and Dong Xuebing before dealing with them.
He was very decisive. After thinking about it, he immediately chose the second option. Although the demonic image made him feel that something was wrong, he didn't think that it could kill him in a short amount of time.
Because there was no external obstruction, Zhang Yan circulated his magic power to the maximum, and the demonic image behind him quickly solidified. With a thought, the demonic image slowly raised its body and deeply inhaled the scattered spiritual light of the Dharma Body.
At this moment, Kong Ying felt that his spirit was floating and shaking, as if it was about to be sucked out. Not only that, even his Divine Will was being consumed at a faster rate. He couldn't help but frown. If this continued, not only would he not be able to deduce the Root Fruit, he might not even be able to maintain his body of the past and the future.
However, he didn't panic because of this. In an instant, he stimulated more Spiritual Qi and Spiritual Opportunity. At the cost of consuming his Origin Qi, he instantly strengthened his Divine Will. Although it wasn't enough to change the Root Fruit, it was enough to deal with the current situation.
Zhang Yan didn't expect to be able to pull out Kong Ying's spirit this time. After all, Kong Ying's Dao Foundation was deep, and he wouldn't be easy to deal with. If he had enough time, he might be able to do it, but by then, Kong Ying would have already dealt with the rest of his troubles.
Fortunately, after his Strength Body was almost complete, the demonic image wasn't as strong as before. It stopped sucking and slowly blew out a breath of air. The moment the air came out, it instantly entered the spiritual light of Kong Ying's Dharma Body. Although Kong Ying was aware of all this, his Dharma Body had already collapsed, so he couldn't stop it. He could only let Kong Ying do what he wanted for the time being.
After about a hundred breaths, Kong Ying's eyes moved. He had already deduced the location of Daoist Fan's Root Fruit, so he immediately waved his sleeve and shot out a ray of white light.
Caught off guard, Daoist Fan's Dharma Body was instantly destroyed. Although it happened suddenly, under the condition of severing his Mortal Heart, he was still unusually calm. It wasn't hard to guess that his Root Fruit had already been found, or else the attack wouldn't have landed on him.
At this point, he knew that he couldn't escape, so he stretched out his remaining hand and pointed at his Ancestral Aperture.
In that instant, all of his Essence Qi Origin Qi was rapidly consumed, but his Divine Will rapidly expanded. It spread outwards and collided with Kong Ying's Divine Will.
Even if he died, he wanted to exhaust his opponent as much as possible. Not only would this give Daoist Dong a chance to escape, but it would also give the Nine Provinces a greater chance of defeating this person.
Although he used all of his strength, due to the difference in their cultivation, his attack didn't even shake Kong Ying.
Under the attack of the rainbow light from the outside and the exhaustion of his own Quintessence, it only took ten breaths of time before his entire body turned into blazing Spiritual Flames and dispersed. After another short moment, a Profound Void Nether Hole appeared at the place where he died, and it swallowed everything in its surroundings.
Seeing that Daoist Fan was dead, Kong Ying's Past and Future Body immediately dissipated, and the Divine Will that had been placed there was also freed. The situation that could only be maintained by a hair's breadth was instantly stabilized, and then he turned his attention to Daoist Dong.
At this point, there was no one who could stop him. After a short while, he deduced the location of Daoist Dong's Root Fruit. Not long after, Daoist Dong also followed in Daoist Fan's footsteps.
After dealing with these two people, he finally turned around and prepared to focus all of his strength on dealing with Zhang Yan.
He first used his Divine Will, and not long after, he changed the location of his Root Fruit. But at this moment, he suddenly discovered that his Spirit seemed to have been tainted by something, and this thing was continuously spreading towards the past and the future. The parts that it had invaded seemed to no longer belong to him.
He could not help but narrow his eyes. He understood that this was a trick that Zhang Yan had set up Just Now. After a brief examination, he discovered that if he could meditate in seclusion, he might be able to expel this thing, but this was only a possibility.
He was also very decisive. When he realized that he was unable to do this, he immediately took out a hand seal, and an illusory figure walked out from his body. He then extended a finger and pointed at it. The illusory figure swayed and instantly disappeared. As he did this, his own aura clearly weakened a little.
This was a remarkable technique that he used to cut off a certain part of his tainted past. What was cut off was not only his Essence Qi and his lifespan, but also all the experiences and memories that should have existed in this part. Even if he had refined any treasures or derived any remarkable techniques during this period of time, it would be wiped clean along with this part of the past, and it would no longer belong to him.
Although he had paid a great price, he had completely cut off the hidden danger. At this time, as the root of the fruit fell, his Dharma body once again reformed, and the sword light, thunder, and fire that came from afar only passed through his body, and could not hurt him in the slightest.
Zhang Yan saw all of this, but his expression did not change, and he continued to divide his attention to deduce the location of the root of the fruit.
In his heart, he knew that following the deaths of Fan and Dong, only his side was still trapped in the changes of the future and the past. As long as Kong Ying forced out the root of the fruit and killed him, then the chances of victory for the side of the Nine Continents would become extremely slim.
From the looks of it, it was only a battle between two people, but in reality, it was the key to deciding the outcome of this battle. If he could withstand it, then there was hope for this battle. If he was defeated, then with this corner destroyed, the whole situation might also collapse.
However, it was not that he did not know how to fight back. As long as a cultivator could calculate the root of the opponent once, then it would be easier to find the second time, even if the opponent was a third stage cultivator. Moreover, he had the remnant of the jade in his hand, so the calculation would only be faster. Based on this, it was not impossible for him to fight the opponent.
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