Taiyi Dao Fruit

Chapter 861 141: Cause and Effect Converge to Block Heaven's Punishment, Jiang Li Transforms Again into a Three-Legged Crow

"The Immortal Queen still harbors a grudge against this palace, I see."

Tianxuan, clad in the light of a thousand stars, showed no trace of sadness for her deceased husband.

This made the Immortal Queen immediately shift her divine thought to the other side of the towering tree.

And then, she saw it.

Dust gathered, countless particles were about to take form, clearly already scattered in soul and spirit, yet still a vast consciousness could be felt.

The way to escape disaster and avoid tribulation with the Eight-Nine Profound Skill is not just to hide one's cause-and-effect Qi Mechanism; this skill encompasses the transformation of Yin and Yang and explores the extremes of change. To defeat someone practicing the Eight-Nine Profound Skill may be easy, but to kill them is as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

Surviving Heaven's Punishment, sufficient to injure or even kill a third-grade Heaven's Punishment, yet was avoided by Jiang Li in this manner.

The Immortal Queen had already sensed Jiang Li was still alive, but her "Heavenly Severity" had just been unleashed, and at this moment Tianxuan was orchestrating her magic domain, as countless stars converged endlessly, making it impossible for the Immortal Queen to halt her.

However, on the other side, Wuzhiqi also sensed that Jiang Li was not dead and immediately attempted to seal Jiang's coffin tightly.

"Wang!"

A red shadow shot out diagonally, opening its mouth to bite at Wuzhiqi's calf.

The pain from the previous bite appeared like an illusion, and Wuzhiqi was about to dodge immediately, but didn't anticipate that this bite seemed destined, as Xiao Tian bit into Wuzhiqi's leg.

The big dog squinted its eyes in delight, pulling a satisfied grin as it tightened its sharp teeth.

This monkey would never have thought that although it was just a dog, the body it drove bore its master's astounding wisdom.

As a dog-shaped magic treasure, all it had to do was bite; the thinking could be left to Jiang Li, its master. With Jiang Li's astounding wisdom and profound Yi Dao, he understood timing far better than Xiao Tian, the dog.

Rather than pondering how to bite, it was better to think about how to navigate between the master and mistress; this was the way of survival for a dog.

The sharp teeth clenched tight, disaster and Evil Qi about to be injected, yet—

The surface of Wuzhiqi's leg armor rippled like water waves, and even with Xiao Tian's sharp teeth, it was difficult to penetrate.

The Howling Celestial Dog Dao Fruit that Xiao Tian possessed was only an auxiliary to Yang Jian's Dao Fruit, but with Jiang Li's support, Xiao Tian's combat power was not inferior to fourth-rank; truly a case of a dog being stronger than humans.

Its sharp teeth could even make a wound on Wuzhiqi's Vajra Unbreakable Body, yet now it was blocked by the armor.

Xiao Tian's eyes moved slightly, seeing a faint image on the armor's surface, a tiger-bodied figure with ten tails, suggesting the manifestation of a certain Dao Fruit.

'Dao Artifact?'

This thought had just appeared in Xiao Tian's mind when Wuzhiqi struck it with a fierce blow, sending it flying.

Immediately, Wuzhiqi transformed into a creature with the body of a dog and a human face, with large double wings, precisely the fierce beast Da Feng.

The transformed Da Feng flapped its wings, unleashing Gang Wind, sweeping towards the gathered dust.

The Da Feng that Wuzhiqi transformed into was far stronger than the real thing; the Dao Fruit of Da Feng was only fifth-rank, its bearer directly overtaken by the sixth-ranked Jiang Li, and this Gang Wind stirred by Da Feng was enough to directly scatter the real one's soul.

Gang Wind lifted the dust, seemingly about to scatter "Jiang Li" everywhere, but unexpectedly a spark suddenly emerged, creating a gap in the Gang Wind.

The dazzling golden flames were initially inconspicuous, but in an instant had become a raging fire, where the Flame Light reached, nothing remained unburned. Both the dust Jiang Li dissolved into and the Gang Wind were melted by the golden flames, becoming part of the fire, the light and fire growing ever more intense.

In the center of those golden flames, golden wings slowly unfolded, golden light shooting out from the feathers.

"Ah——"

Da Feng, transformed by Wuzhiqi, suddenly let out a shriek, set ablaze with dazzling golden flame.

Where the golden light reached was the place burned by the True Sun Fire, and Wuzhiqi was fully illuminated, turning the transformed Da Feng into a firebird.

"Transform!"

Wuzhiqi abruptly folded its wings, its form transforming, directly escaping from the True Sun Fire, retreating backward. Meanwhile, the True Sun Fire devoured the afterimage.

At the same time, a golden divine bird rose from the fire, its wings motionless, with a natural radiance circulating around its body, forming a sun wheel.

The golden double wings, vermilion sharp eyes, and those three sharp claws all demonstrated the divine bird's identity— the Three-legged Golden Crow.

After the last time Jiang Li's Primordial Spirit transformed into a Golden Crow, this time he finally fully manifested the form of the Golden Crow, taking his Eight-Nine Profound Skill to another level. He had already endured Heaven's Punishment, dispersing both form and spirit as the price to atone for Tianxuan's oath-breaking punishment...

Or simply put, the oath-breaking "Tianxuan" was already dead, Heaven certainly couldn't let a person die twice.

Using this method to avoid Heaven's Punishment, transforming into a Golden Crow, truly appeared as if the Great Sun had descended, its brilliance intensifying, following the motion of the wings to once again shine towards Wuzhiqi.

"Transform!"

Wuzhiqi shouted sharply once more, its body soared, transforming again from the monkey form, Ren Water and Gui Water surged upwards, amidst the swirling currents, a roar arose, a sharp claw tore through the water flow, and a tiger-bodied, multi-colored divine form leaped out.

Eight heads with human faces, a tiger body with ten tails, it was precisely the Water Lord Tian Wu.

Wuzhiqi initially sought to advance to the third-grade Tian Wu, but Jiang Li and others interrupted, resulting in a near success failure, ultimately having no choice but to destroy its great demon body within the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, escaping with the Six-Eared Macaque Dao Fruit.

Everything belonging to the original form Wuzhiqi left within the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, except for the Tian Wu Dao Fruit that remained. After being bitten by the dog last time, Wuzhiqi integrated the Tian Wu Dao Fruit into its close-fitting armor, which was the reason for the previous armor defense against the dog's teeth.

But now, Wuzhiqi used seventy-two transformations to manifest the form of Tian Wu, though not reaching the true Tian Wu, yet with the aid of the Dao Fruit, it achieved seven-tenths of the divine essence.

"Roar!"

Tian Wu roared, water waves surged to the sky.

Wuzhiqi once again revealed its foundational magic, Ren Water and Gui Water interweaving, the essence energy of water transforming into massive waves, rising to a height of hundreds of feet, blocking before the golden light.

"Boom!"

True Sun Fire collided with the essence energy of water, the clash of water and fire, Golden Crow and Tian Wu simultaneously moved.

In the sky, golden and blue lights collided, the fierce collision of water and fire, Yin and Yang, nurturing thunderclaps, amidst the earth-shattering roar, water waves and blazing light explosively expanded outward.

"Emperor's Ultimate World, with Yuanjing Conference."

The rolling Primordial Qi transformed into golden flames, in an instant, golden light collided, as if the sun had fallen to earth, scorching all things.

"Yiyuan Jinghui" this move is derived from the One Element to evolve the Innate Eight Sceneries, at this moment Jiang Li transformed all his Primordial Qi into Yang Fire, besides transforming into a Golden Crow, he also wielded "Yang-shaped Sun", almost indistinguishable from the heavenly sun.

Both were transformations born of divine skills, not truly containing Dao Fruit, but there were differences in transformations.

Just seen, True Fire burning the sky, the Golden Crow stretching its claw, like a sharp sword swiping across, water and fire raging to the peak in an instant.

"Boom!"

The water waves flowed horizontally, steaming up vast clouds of water vapor, the tiger-bodied, ten-tailed divine form shot back in mid-air, its form disintegrating halfway, a shadow of an ape flipped over, landing in the air a hundred feet away.

Wuzhiqi stood atop self-born auspicious clouds, grasping a Golden Hoop in one hand, pressing its chest with the other.

On the armor of its upper body, claw marks deeply imprinted, as if cut by sharp blades, with melted edges. Even a third-grade Daoist Artifact was damaged under the claw of the Three-legged Golden Crow, Wuzhiqi himself further invaded by True Fire, his face flushed red like fire.

On the other side, the Three-legged Golden Crow also flew backward, falling at an even pace onto the top of a towering tree, the True Sun Fire igniting the branches, the Jia Wood Essence Qi blending with the flames, making the great tree give off radiance.

At this moment, the greenwood tree resembled the legendary Fusang Tree, and Jiang Li was that sun perched atop the Fusang Tree, the two synergistically blending, belonging to the Kunxu Immortal Palace, the Daoist Artifact was rapidly refined.

From the descent of Heaven's Punishment to the Golden Crow falling onto the treetop, all this sounds lengthy but actually occurred in just a few breaths of time.

The numerous transformations of the situation were somewhat overwhelming, while the communion between Jiang Li and the greenwood tree made the opposing side's face fall.

Clearly able to evade Heaven's Punishment from the start, waiting until now, it's difficult not to suspect whether Jiang Li did it on purpose or was careless.