Chapter 1440: Who is He?

Verdant waves, black hair, a long spear.With a sharpness that brooks no turning back, it intrudes upon the sight.The spear trails behind the man, leaning askew, its tip barely touching the water.But the man himself is the spearhead.A single cold star, a crescent moon.In the long darkness, a brilliant gleam that the eye cannot possibly miss.

At this moment, setting up arrays is too late.Tai Yin’s left hand flips out a round array disk, pressing it before him. Immediately, flowing winds wrap around, like willow-leaf blades, encircling him and Xiang Bei.His right hand, however, forms a Daoist mudra, his expression grave: “Who are you?”Towards this unfamiliar presence, he adopts the utmost caution.But the arrival speaks not, merely walking faster and faster. Faster and faster. His boots tread upon the water, leaving footmarks that linger long. The spearhead still cleaves the water, leaving a long wake behind it.That wake stretches from where this person now comes, all the way to the edge of the sight.As if his spear tip has bisected the sea of this Mountain Sea Realm!

He answers not, stops not.As if he regards Tai Yin as nothing, disdaining even a half-explanation.He merely invites battle.His demeanor is also the demeanor of the giant high above.At this time, the giant, still hurtling down from a great height, is already rubbing off sparks of fire all over his body.The closer he gets to the sea surface, the more one can hear the sound of his blood flowing like rivers within him, surging and crashing against the sound of the waves by the reefs beneath his feet.Within a human body, there seems to be a sea.This is a Martial Artist!

Bang bang! Bang bang!His heartbeat is like thunder, echoing through heaven and earth.Closer, closer.Like a meteor striking the ground, his body is now entirely engulfed in flames.That is no divine ability, but pure, high-speed friction with the air creating flowing fire.Falling at such terrifying speed, the first thing seen by the observer is a fist.An exceptionally hard, iron-bowl-sized fist.Like a rock, like a mountain! It presses down with such brute force, and pushing this mountain’s fall from behind are rivers, lakes, and seas.The air explodes with sound.Xiang Bei has already shot up, his muscles continuously swelling as he ascends, like mountains, like peaks, his blood vessels protruding like dragons and snakes, black smoke emanating from his body. In an instant, he manifests the more than ten-foot-tall Devouring Rogue Tyrant Body.At this moment, he stands between heaven and earth, surpassing myriad men.The Peerless Halberd is raised high, a single halberd overturning the sky!Even if the sky collapses, he will overturn it with you, let alone mountains, let alone lakes and seas.Crack!After Xiang Bei has shot up several zhang, the massive reef beneath their feet finally develops cracks due to the rebound force.A series of explosive sounds erupt from the air.Xiang Bei rushes faster and faster, higher and higher.Two tall figures in the high sky, one unstoppable, one forging ahead without retreat.They collide with such resolve.They did not exchange a single word with each other, not even a glance.The halberd steaming with black smoke and the fist surrounded by crimson flowing fire are like two stars colliding in the vast universe!

All the roaring sounds, all the explosions in the air, were instantly annihilated.Sound was completely extinguished, nothing could be heard.And in the sight, at the point of collision between fist and halberd, a few twisted black lines faintly appeared, flashing by in an instant.Those are spatial rifts!This scene in the visual sense becomes very slow, and its recovery is not smooth.As if heaven and earth had already collapsed once, and then reopened.Huge ripples spread high into the sky.The burly giant raises his fist, and his whole person flies upwards.And Xiang Bei falls straight down, falling and falling… until his battle boots land on the reef, and he finally stops.Crack, crack, crack.This enormous reef, more than ten zhang in circumference, instantly shatters into countless fragments, collapsing and sinking into the seabed.

Just as Xiang Bei shot high into the sky and the reef had just begun to crack, Tai Yin had already moved forward.Since words received no response, he would seek proof through battle.He refused to believe that some unknown person who appeared out of nowhere could truly crush him, a direct descendant of the Tai clan, in this Mountain Sea Realm where Divine Descendants could not enter!Did not that renowned Jiang Qingyang fail to drag him into the water, and was instead blocked by his array, falling straight into a desperate situation!

He takes a step forward, stepping off the reef. He walks directly through the air, the soles of his boots maintaining a distance of about three inches from the water surface.He walks faster and faster, faster and faster.The array disk suspended before him moves with his movement.The wind flowing around his body immediately turns into willow-leaf-like green blades, slicing through space with ear-piercing shrieks, following mysterious trajectories, one after another, rushing ahead to kill the man striding through the waves.These wind blades all move according to the texture of space.They are not fast in the visual sense, which would lead opponents to misjudge.In reality, they are not only swift but also vicious.This is the strongest attack array disk in Tai Yin's hand, named Flowing Wind Green Blade. He initiated it for defense first, also to mislead his opponent and catch them off guard.At this moment, man advances, array advances, killer intent is chilling.At this moment of rapid approach to his opponent, Tai Yin sees only a single cold star.In his entire field of vision, everything else seems to have disappeared, only that single cold star shines in his eyes.Then, the green blades simulated by wind elemental energy shatter piece by piece.His vision opens up.He finally sees the man and the spear again.The array disk before him is shattered!

The exploding fragments of the array disk fly through the sky. In the gaps between the array disk fragments and the scattered wind blades, Tai Yin finally sees the true appearance of that long spear.It seems to have only just bounced from behind the man to in front of him, held in his hand.This spear is utterly ordinary in appearance, one cannot even call it mediocre, it could be described as ugly.It is simply a piece of burnt wood, rescued by who knows whom, haphazardly whittled, and casually grafted with a spearhead as an afterthought.Only after being used for a long time, the spear shaft has been carefully handled, making it somewhat smooth.And when it advances with a posture that pierces through everything, forcing you to look at it more than a few times, you suddenly feel within it a power that pierces through time.Too sharp, yet too strong.The torch is passed, civilization endures.What can block this one spear?Above, it can pierce clouds and break the moon, below, it can shatter seas and sink ships.Who in the world can withstand it?It is the keen edge of this one spear!

Tai Yin slightly narrows his eyes, his expression still maintaining its composure. His right hand, which has already completed the mudra, lifts upwards, his fingers slightly bent, like five peaks reaching for the sky.Huala la!From the great sea, a water-blue dragon leaps forth, stirring winds and waves.Hoo hoo!From high in the sky, a sky-blue dragon swoops down, its body encircled by hurricanes.Silent yet with flames flickering.After the unbearable high temperature arrives first, a fiery red dragon emerges from the flames, baring its fangs and claws.Amidst the sharp shrieks, a bone-white dragon exhales phantom images of weapons, bringing forth latent killing intent.Boom boom boom!A sudden flash of lightning streaks across, pulling out a deep purple lightning dragon from within the thunderclap, coldly looking down upon the human world.Water, Wind, Fire, Metal, Thunder.With these five elements, suppress all directions.This is the Tai clan's inherited super-grade Daoist technique, Five Dragons Seal the Heavens!

When he contended for supremacy on the River Viewing Platform, he had not yet mastered this technique. After the Yellow River Meeting ended, he knew shame and then bravely pushed forward, instead solving the difficulty and successfully mastering this super-grade Daoist technique at the Outer Building level.As soon as the five angry dragons of different forms and colors appeared, they immediately took over this part of heaven and earth, controlling the distance between Tai Yin and this mysterious opponent.That single cold star pauses in the air.The arrival and his long spear stop in their path of advance.

But…Tai Yin feels a vague unease.Clearly, there is still such a distance, clearly this spear has been blocked.His glabella still has a faint feeling of being pierced!He clearly has not been struck by the spear, yet it feels as if his skull has already been pierced through!

Roar! Roar! Roar!Tai Yin banishes that uneasy feeling, driving the five dragons to roar in the air. Five completely different types of elemental energy intertwine into chains that are difficult to perceive with the naked eye, densely covering the space enveloped by the Daoist technique.This is the invisible bond.The tails of the five elemental dragons of Water, Wind, Fire, Metal, and Thunder are entangled together, spiraling upwards like a spearhead divided equally into five colors. The bodies of the five dragons then extend outwards, covering a vast area, with only their heads lowered, imposing their might upon the opponent.

The sky accordingly presents five colors: blue, green, red, white, and purple.It looks as though the entire sky has been stained, and then the sky collapses, overturning everything.Being within the embrace of this technique, one feels the heavens and earth are chaotic, the five colors dazzling the eyes.And looking from outside the range of this Daoist technique, the brilliant light and shadow created by the Five Dragons Seal the Heavens look like a colorful giant umbrella.It has opened.The bodies of the five dragons are the ribs of the umbrella.The intertwined dragon tails are the tip of the umbrella.The five intensely manifested elemental energies perfectly fill the huge gaps between the five dragon bodies, forming the surface of the umbrella.And the five hanging dragon heads each roar, releasing divine techniques.Thus, water cones spin at high speed, wind blades drift unpredictably, fireballs roar and fall, golden arrows fill the air like rain, and lightning spears pierce through space. The simplest Daoist methods possess the power of divine techniques, becoming as dense as a waterfall in an instant.It is as if the heavens are pouring down heavy rain, suddenly descending upon the single figure holding the spear.Every "raindrop" is a divine technique of a dragon.Every "raindrop" is a weapon of slaughter.The sky is collapsing, the rain is falling.

Tai Yin had originally intended to use this technique to deal with Jiang Wang, but he refrained due to the pursuit of the Huo Dou.Now using it against the arrival is not a humiliation.He then sees—Under the cover of Five Dragons Seal the Heavens, the black-haired man merely flicks his right wrist and has already raised his long spear vertically. The spear tail hangs in the sea, the spear tip points upwards, and he thus raises the spear to the sky.With a light tap of his foot, he steps upon the waves and rises.His hands hold the spear shaft, which perfectly divides his face in two.And Tai Yin notices very clearly that this person's cold, star-like eyes are calmly looking at him.He has clearly raised his spear and is charging into the sky, clearly fighting against the super-grade Daoist technique named Five Dragons Seal the Heavens.Yet it is as if he is merely poking the fire in a stove with a poker, so nonchalant.He is still gazing at you, as if wanting to converse about trivial matters of life.Yet his jaw is lifted, so sharp, almost undisguised in its contempt!

This nonchalance makes Tai Yin extraordinarily angry. His five Inner Mansions tremble in unison, causing the purple dragon to become more agitated, the white dragon more vicious, and the wind to fan the flames…Between heaven and earth, dragon roars resound in an unbroken chain.Beneath the Five Dragons Seal the Heavens, divine techniques are too numerous to count, every inch of space is trembling, almost reaching the terror of heaven and earth returning to chaos.But ultimately, it is only "almost".

The black-haired man has stepped upon the waves and leaped up.His posture in starting is so light, yet after leaping, an unimaginable power suddenly erupts, centered on him.Beep!Like a piece of firewood cracking in a stove, the sound of a few sparks exploding.That long spear, which looked utterly ordinary at first glance, is stabbing directly towards the sky, and suddenly, a wisp of flame erupts from its tip.A wisp of brilliant golden flame.This wisp of flame instantly explodes, transforming into a golden sea of fire, like a giant golden flame dragon, leaping up.

This is a glorious, dazzling flame, the light that illuminates all things in heaven and earth.What water-blue dragon, sky-blue dragon, fiery red dragon, bone-white dragon, deep purple lightning dragon.What entangled tails forming a giant umbrella supporting the sky.What Five Dragons Seal the Heavens.After this brilliant sea of golden flames unfolds, everything is burned to ashes in the sky.Heaven and earth are enveloped in golden gauze, everything becomes brilliant and resplendent.This is a divine ability, True Solar Fire!It truly is as if a sun has exploded.All things in heaven and earth should witness this splendor.

But the trouble Tai Yin faces is more than this.When the black-haired man steps on the water and rises, raising his spear to the sky.When all your attention is gathered on that brilliant golden flame,That single footstep, light as a dragonfly skimming the water, completely ignites the terrifying spear momentum he has accumulated throughout his journey across the sea.That terrifying spear energy that lingers in the wake for a long time actually leaps out of the sea surface, forming a translucent long spear that is invisible at a glance, as if held in the hands of an invisible divine being, stabbing from the edge of the vision!

Tai Yin flips his hand, and a dark blue array disk stands before him.Upon the array disk, the patterns are chilling.In the dark blue cold light, first a pair of gaunt, bloodless hands emerge. The two hands separate, the body presses in, and a terrifying ghost with crimson eyebrows and a drooping scarlet long tongue leaps out.Its appearance is ferocious, its aura chilling.This is the array disk, Crimson-Eyebrowed Hanging Ghost.As soon as this ghost appears, its scarlet long tongue extends rapidly, like a spiritual snake, advancing around this leaping sea long spear.Like a red tassel attached to a long spear, and like a red rope binding a flood dragon.But before it can exert force, the scarlet long tongue is already broken inch by inch, exploding throughout the sky, like blood-colored butterflies dancing.The array disk in Tai Yin’s hand also shatters instantly.The translucent long spear is still advancing.Tai Yin's left hand passes through the shattered fragments of the array disk, continuing to reach forward, his five fingers clenched into a fist, shaking the starlight of the four levels, confronting this spear head-on with the extremely hard Inverse Four Elements Chaos Force.Crack.This spear, which cannot be seen at a glance, emits a porcelain-like cracking sound, and finally shatters into countless pieces, dissipating into nothingness.However, Tai Yin is also pushed back several zhang by that powerful momentum, landing precisely on the reef.And precisely at this moment, after Xiang Bei collided with that giant, he was blasted down, and the residual force shattered the reef!

Xiang Bei stands on the sea waves, enveloped in ghost energy, his expression extremely grave.Tai Yin has retreated behind him, standing on the water waves after the reef has sunk.Just now in the high sky, he and the giant had the purest collision of force and force.And he undoubtedly fell into a disadvantage.The physique of a martial artist is so strong!This giant who suddenly attacked is a martial artist who is almost touching the threshold of Divine Descent. Although not as strong as Zhong Li Yan, he is not far off.Where did these two people come from?He and Tai Yin attacked at the same time, but both fell into a disadvantage.He had witnessed the prodigies of the various states at the Yellow River Meeting, and he had a general idea of the outstanding disciples of the major sects in the Southern Domain. However, none of them matched the two people before him.Are they from some hidden sect?

“'Ailing'? Or 'Sorrowful Returning Wind'?”Xiang Bei looks at the man holding the spear and asks.Although the giant martial artist seems to have a stronger presence, he subconsciously feels that among these two people, the one holding the spear should be the leader.“That does not seem to be a problem you should consider.” The giant in the high sky says in a loud voice: “Either hand over the Huai Sha Jade Bi, or die!”Xiang Bei is so angry he laughs instead: “It seems I have given you too much confidence!”He raises his Peerless Halberd and takes a step forward instead: “Xiang would like to see how you will make me die!”This rude martial artist, if he truly believes that having the upper hand in physical strength can kill him, Xiang Bei, is simply too ridiculous!

But at this time, the black-haired man speaks.He bends his finger and points behind Xiang Bei, saying nonchalantly: “I think your friend should have a different opinion than you.”Xiang Bei looks back with vigilance.He only sees that a slit has suddenly opened on the glabella of Tai Yin behind him, a flash of fresh blood shoots out, and his entire body tilts backward and falls!