Taiyi Dao Fruit

"I have come out."

The Giant Snake Baqi, with its eight heads, let out a long howl, sending evil currents rushing skyward, with a ferocity that even surprised both Asura Kings.

In these chaotic times, it was perfect for the Dao Fruits to demonstrate their powers. The flood had empowered Wuzhiqi, nearly promoting him to third grade, and as the Disaster God, the Giant Snake Baqi's utilization of the disaster exceeded Wuzhiqi's. With this aid, its strength naturally soared like the rising tide.

Fortunately, the Asuras could also utilize these chaotic times.

Under the influence of the Giant Snake Baqi, the evil Demonic Qi on both Lou Shuangying and the black figure intensified, their Qi Mechanism surged, and behind them, a towering phantom took form.

Elsewhere, the Giant Snake Baqi continuously swallowed the Disaster Qi congregating from the surroundings. The evil currents swelled and were about to overturn the Five Finger Mountain.

However, at that moment, divination signs suddenly appeared in the sky, and a figure descended from the utmost reaches of heaven, landing on the central peak of the Middle Finger Peak, causing Five Finger Mountain to suddenly sink heavy.

"Boom!"

The earth shook violently, splitting open like the turning of an earth dragon, and the Giant Snake Baqi was again forcefully suppressed underground, all eight snake heads emitting roars and screams of pain.

"Yaoguang Breaking Army!"

The evil currents were forcibly pressed into the fissure. Only the eight snake heads of the Giant Snake Baqi were left outside, while the rest of its body was suppressed by the mountain, sinking deeper and deeper, causing further fissures to crack open and the ground to shake, disturbing hundreds of miles around.

Unlike the oppression by the Five Elements Cycle and the Great Brightness Mantra of Five Finger Mountain, what suppressed the Giant Snake Baqi was not any special magical technique but the simplest and most brutal force.

The sudden arrival was none other than Jiang Li, who had been at Yuxu Temple less than half an hour ago.

He had actually made it, and at the same time the Giant Snake Baqi had broken free, he had suppressed it again.

"Ah! Such fury!"

The eight massive snake heads writhed violently, their evil Qi took shape, forming countless black snake shadows, frantically entwining around the peaks, climbing upward, but before they could reach the summit, they were pressed down by an overwhelming force and began shattering continuously.

"What a pity."

Atop Middle Finger Peak, Jiang Li held up his right hand and showed a small distance between his fingers, "Just a little bit more, just a bit, and you could have escaped, what a pity."

His leisurely voice floated down, making the Giant Snake Baqi feel as if it was shifting from a cold-blooded creature to a hot-blooded one. At this moment, its blood was boiling, and it desperately wanted to devour Jiang Li alive.

Even with its profound composure, being stomped back down just as it was about to escape the suppression infuriated it.

The chaotic evil Qi surged upward, like an inverted Milky Way, threatening to completely submerge the Five Finger Mountain, but on the central peak, there always remained a blank space.

Jiang Li firmly suppressed the Giant Snake Baqi, maintaining a complete advantage.

Even though the Giant Snake Baqi was currently devouring Disaster Qi, it still couldn't shake the Five Finger Mountain pressing down on it.

However, at the same time, two Qi Mechanisms broke into the area of Middle Finger Peak.

"Fire House Buddha Hell."

Jiang Li stood still, his head not turning, but he had already spotted the two figures in his sight, "Asura King."

One was Lou Shuangying, who had exchanged blows with him on his last visit to Five Finger Mountain, carrying the Dao Fruit of Asura King Shang Kaqiu. The other...

"Jidou."

Dressed in an Evil Cloak Robe, this Asura King spoke with a turbid voice that carried a strange and mysterious aura. The pitch-black mask covering his face bore no pupils, and the eye portion of the mask had no openings, only slightly metallic protrusions that resembled the shape of eyes.

"With such rampant momentum, it appears the news wasn't false; your strength is indeed unparalleled upon entering fourth rank, truly an eye-opening experience." Jidou seemed both impressed and affirming, his eyes not visible, yet giving Jiang Li the sensation of being watched.

"Heavenly Vision?" Jiang Li revealed an interested expression.

Being an enemy of the Buddha Country, yet possessing one of the six powers of the Buddhist realm, was hard to believe, but when combined with the identity of the opponent, it became a different story.

The four Asura Kings were once people within the Buddha Country, among them undoubtedly were individuals of high status and power. In the Buddha Country, a high status implied great strength, not only because a corresponding grade of Dao Fruit was necessary for one to have a status, but also because the higher the status, the more incense fire telekinesis one could absorb, and thus the stronger one became.

With such strength and status, mastering the six Buddhist powers naturally was not difficult.

"Indeed."

Jidou nodded while slowly extending his palms from his robe sleeves, with the black Curse Seals flickering dim light.

Seeing this, Jiang Li understood the opponent's intention. "You want to fight me?"

"Turning the insubstantial to substantial, different from the techniques of the Moluo Sword Manual or divine skills, the people of the Buddha Prison naturally are interested. Furthermore, your excellency seems to be able to resonate with the Great Brightness Mantra."

Jidou spoke evenly, even courteously, but quietly, an invisible darkness began to stir Jiang Li's Qi Shu.

Jidou, the disaster star, now the world is in chaos, people suffer greatly. He is also the ominous star, a symbol of misfortune and chaos in people's hearts.

On the other hand, Jidou is also an Asura, and he is the most well-known one among them—the typical antagonist in major works—the half-body of the Asura King Luo Hou.

In Brahman legends, the Heavenly Deities once made an agreement with the Asuras to churn the ocean of milk together, which produced the Immortal Nectar. By drinking it, one could become immortal or even indestructible.

According to the agreement, the Immortal Nectar was to be shared, but Vishnu, as one of the three prime gods and the Sixth Brother, in order to prevent the Asuras from drinking it, transformed into a beautiful woman to seduce them.

The Asuras were weak-willed, all attracted by the beauty, barely focused on what was being produced. Only Luo Hou, commendable for not being tempted by beauty, also transformed into a Heavenly Deity and drank the Immortal Nectar.

However, before the Immortal Nectar could fully take effect, Luo Hou was exposed by the gods of the Sun and Moon and was disastrously cut in half by Vishnu. Since the Immortal Nectar had not yet fully taken effect, Luo Hou could not recover after being bisected; because it later did take effect, he did not die despite the bisection.

The separated halves transformed into different stars; the upper half became Luo Hou, and the lower half became Jidou, which is the origin of the name Jidou.

With such an origin, Jidou's Dao Fruit Divine Power must also be extraordinary, sparking Jiang Li's interest in experiencing it.

However, this did not mean his divine skills could influence Jiang Li.

The moment the invisible darkness approached Jiang Li, it disbanded, clearly Jiang Li's Qi Shu was not visible above his head, yet a timeless milieu directly shattered the invasion of the Yin Force. Simultaneously, as if being watched from somewhere, Jidou suddenly felt a great sense of crisis.

"Formless Wheel."

At that moment, Jidou's figure was as if drawn into a wheel, countless black Wan Character Seals appeared, disrupting above and below, and the black seals surged chaotically towards him.

Jidou suddenly made his move.

Jiang Li felt momentarily weightless, the air around seemingly vanished, turning into a vacuum, rendering his surroundings entirely without leverage, and the black Wan Character Seals were almost upon him.

"Interesting."

Caught in the sudden environmental change, Jiang Li remained calm, not even altering his posture, the powerful adaptability of his Eight-Nine Profound Skill coming into play, capable of exhibiting full power in any environment, keeping Jiang Li always in his strongest state.

With a slight flutter of his sleeve, subtly lifting his arm, he pointed a finger; the void-like environment could not stop this finger, aimed precisely at one of the black Wan Character Seals, meeting a palm covered with the Curse Seal.

Unconfused, undisturbed, the Heavenly Eye observing all directions, strength poured out from his fingertip, Supreme Yang's true fire concentrated at one point, piercing through that palm.

The formidable physical body of the Asura King evidently could not execute any effect, or rather did execute, but still could not stop this finger.

A golden hole appeared in Jidou's palm, pierced from front to back, the point of true fire that passed through the palm suddenly shot towards the abruptly appearing figure's face, the Supreme Yang's true fire violently exploded.

"Boom!"