Between Heavy Xuan Zun and Jiang Wang, the very space seemed to solidify into a tangible entity, fragile as delicate porcelain. Where the Sun Wheel moved, cracks spread. And the Sun Wheel itself shone with blazing divine light, scorching the four seas, burning the eight wastes, forcing all evils to retreat and avoid.

At this moment, this Sun Wheel bore no apparent difference from the one wielded by Guan Hetai. Yet, only by truly facing it could one comprehend its boundless majesty, its infinite scorching heat, akin to the Great Sun itself.

He, the Heaven-born Dao pulse, whose ‘Cut Delusion’ allowed him to grasp the heart of matters, who at a tender age could declare to the Tai Xu Sect emissaries, “Our Paths diverge.” At that time, to possess such profound understanding of his own Dao was truly astonishing, little wonder Yu Bei Dou was so shocked upon seeing him.

Were it not for the need to build the Zhou Tian Realm through experience, were it not for the necessity of diligently grinding and solidifying the Heaven and Earth Gate to seek the vast, isolated islands of a greater cosmos, were it not for the pursuit of the Tian Fu’s limit… were it not for his insistence on reaching the most perfect state with every step he took, then for him, surpassing the so-called “heaven-man barrier,” a goal many genius cultivators strove for their entire lives without achieving, was merely a matter of dawn or dusk!

He intended to forge his own path, one distinct from the ancestors of the Tai Xu Sect and also different from the Blood River True Monarch’s. Even those, were already peak powerhouses of the current era.

A cultivation seed who knew their path from a young age, whose every step pointed directly to the fundamental core… How terrifying was this cultivation, coupled with the forging of the body through Heavy Xuan divine power, month after month, year after year?

At this very moment, Jiang Wang felt it… overwhelmingly terrifying. The sheer, unadulterated oppression of “force” was the answer! All substantial existence would be crushed, space cracking open as a declaration of power. And he, Jiang Wang, would also become a part of those cracks.

Terrifying air pressure exploded into chaotic flow, space shattered first, then the Sun Wheel smashed down. Its momentum was unstoppable!

In such a situation, Jiang Wang’s left hand formed the Po Dou Seal, pressing out a faint ball of light. That dim light was almost instantly crushed! It was fundamentally incapable of containing such power. The Sun Wheel continued its advance. Jiang Wang’s hand seal shifted, transforming Po Dou into Bi Fang.

A pinpoint of red firelight, centered around him, caused the entire ground to explode open. Boundless waves of flame surged like a tide. Behind that fluttering green shirt, a single-footed divine bird flapped its wings and soared.

The seven stars along the sky’s edge moved like a dragon, the four layers connecting and shining with a hidden divinity. All the starlight in the sky fell like rain, and the power of his True Self Dao awakened Bi Fang’s spirituality. Its eyes flashed, and it suddenly probed forward—

This single peck carried the forward momentum of Jiang Wang’s vertical sword. It precisely pecked at that roaring, fierce Sun Wheel.

Heavy Xuan Zun’s terrifying physical power, coupled with the Heavy Xuan power he wielded, was infused into this Sun Wheel. At the instant of contact, it almost extinguished the Bi Fang spirit image. But under Jiang Wang’s tireless urging, with the Qian Yang Pupil augmenting the Bi Fang Seal, the Samadhi True Fire seemed endless, providing never-ending support to the Bi Fang spirit image.

In the eyes of onlookers, Heavy Xuan Zun held the Sun Wheel in his hand, like a heavenly god descending punishment. Jiang Wang’s Qian Yang red pupils released a great red light. With his hand pinching a seal, the colossal Bi Fang spirit image behind him bent down and probed with its beak.

The fierce flames on the Bi Fang spirit image dimmed, then reignited; that was divine power being fiercely consumed in counter-attack. After repeating this five times, it suddenly lunged forward! It had already seized the Sun Wheel in its beak. Simultaneously, the boundless sea of fire reversed and surged, instantly swallowing that figure in white!

Was it over?

People looked at the scene with doubt and uncertainty, only to see—

After the violent firelight receded, within the still burning Samadhi True Fire sea, there was a single-footed divine bird adorned with resplendent flame feathers, its beak holding a red sun. Within that expanded, enormous red sun, Heavy Xuan Zun remained unstained by dust, not even a single strand of hair out of place, quietly facing Jiang Wang.

This scene was like a scroll painting, a myth descending upon the world. It was…

Bi Fang Holds the Sun!

Those watching the fire from the other shore felt its magnificence and cheered. Those within the scene could feel that terror, that oppression.

The Samadhi True Fire, which burned everything, even incinerated the air, decomposing everything in this square of heaven and earth. However, during the sweep of the Samadhi True Fire, Heavy Xuan Zun had actually retreated into the Sun Wheel.

The power of divine abilities in the world depends on how the wielder utilizes them. Just as he was the first to use the Sun Wheel as a divine ability to smash people, he was also the first to develop the Sun Wheel divine ability’s impenetrable defense.

And Bi Fang held it! How could Jiang Wang give Heavy Xuan Zun an opportunity?

This beautiful single-footed divine bird held the Sun Wheel in its beak, flowing with fire all over its body. Urging its power to the fullest, the Samadhi True Fire burned with the fire. It was like boiling a jar of wine, roasting a pot of meat. It was continuously dissolving the Sun Wheel.

But the Sun Wheel’s transformation was not finished. Heavy Xuan Zun’s development of the Sun Wheel was far from limited to this. This Sun Wheel sharply expanded, like being inflated with gas. While being continuously dissolved, it also swelled at a terrifying speed, swelling to the point of rawly prying open Bi Fang’s giant beak!

Although augmented by the Bi Fang Seal, this Samadhi True Fire manifestation, the Bi Fang spirit image, was already unable to hold this gigantic Sun Wheel. And as Bi Fang opened its mouth, simultaneously getting free, this Sun Wheel suddenly, between breaths, manifested a splendid form!

Originally a ball of light, it suddenly flowed with light and shadow. That brilliant light interwoven, spirit images illusory, but one could see glazed tiles, golden bricks, bright pearls hanging and shining, white jade carved railings. It actually became a magnificent palace.

The Sun Wheel, the Sun God Palace!

This time, the Sun Wheel shone, suppressing all directions. The person within it was noble beyond words. One must know that Heavy Xuan Zun’s “Zun” originally meant “I alone am the venerated one”! Bo Wang Hou, fearing his excessive sharpness, concealed his edge for him, then changed it to “obeying the emperor’s command,” the “Zun.”

But look at him at this moment: Tian Fu light around his body, eyes containing eternal night’s darkness, white clothes whiter than snow, his demeanor graceful and unmatched in the world. He was like the master of this square of heaven and earth, like the king of this world, and the Sun Wheel was his palace. That ancient chanting voice was a hymn praising the god-king. God might was like a prison, god might was like a sea.

Driving this Sun God Palace, patrolling within the sea of fire, he howled and crashed towards Jiang Wang. The Samadhi True Fire was not a divine ability that could instantly decide victory or defeat; it was not like Bu Zhou Feng, where all killing power was gathered into one, success or failure decided in a single clash. Jiang Wang had already developed this divine ability to be extremely powerful, but the essence of Samadhi True Fire’s operation required a process of “understanding its three mysteries.” Its might lay in its continuously deepening “insight” through burning, becoming increasingly powerful. This continuously growing power was aimed at the existence corresponding to its “insight.”

Heavy Xuan Zun, at this moment, urged the Sun Wheel to become the Sun God Palace, resisting the power of the Samadhi True Fire, and forcibly crashed through. Would the Samadhi True Fire first burn through the Sun Wheel, or would he first drive away Jiang Wang and scatter this divine ability’s sea of fire?

Heavy Xuan Zun himself, of course, had a firm answer. The fierce sun patrolled the sky, all things submitted!

But to Jiang Wang, Heavy Xuan Zun sitting in the Sun God Palace meant—that person’s unpredictable movement technique was already at its limit. Wasn’t that Sun God Palace the best static target?

Thus, the entirety of Lin Zi’s Western Suburbs heard a sword cry! The Tian Fu body of Jiang Qing Yang, wearing frost wind, bathing in red fire, shining through red-gold pupils. What a magnificent sword immortal figure, without hesitation, he unleashed the peak technique of ‘Tilt Fall Sword’, crashing like a heavenly pillar falling to the human world. Using this supporting heavenly pillar held upside down, he crashed upon the Sun God Palace!

A magnificent collision occurred. The sky was filled with flying shadows, everywhere was flowing light. Visual perception was destroyed; without powerful eyesight, one could not see. The sword immortal figure exiled to the human world crashed upon the Sun God Palace that patrolled various heavens.

Jiang Wang absolutely did not retreat, absolutely did not waver. During a standoff, he could, with great willpower, consume his essence, energy, and spirit against the opponent, standing off until the heavens wasted and the earth grew old, absolutely refusing to show a single flaw before his opponent. When the time came to decide, he also possessed a decisiveness that would not lose to anyone. For a sliver of a chance at victory, he would fight with life and death!

This one sword strike—

A cracking sound seemed to emanate. Was the sound of cracking from the famous sword Long Xiang Si, or from Heavy Xuan Zun’s Sun God Palace? The army of tens of thousands of people was silent, all holding their breath and waiting.

That dazzling Sun God Palace disappeared! It transformed back into a fierce Sun Wheel, held in Heavy Xuan Zun’s hand. And Jiang Wang’s peak technique, the ‘Tilt Fall Sword’, still advanced.

In the army, Heavy Xuan Sheng let out a breath. In the observation of the people, it seemed that at this moment Jiang Wang had the upper hand. However, Jiang Wang himself was very clear that his sword immortal figure’s single sword, integrating various divine abilities, indeed suppressed Heavy Xuan Zun’s Sun God Palace, but it did not reach the level of breaking it. It was Heavy Xuan Zun who actively withdrew the Sun God Palace.

The price was—around his person, a beautiful, dazzling, gem-like object suddenly lit up, then shattered.

A Star Wheel!

A huge warning sign rose in Jiang Wang’s heart. His peak technique, the single sword, still advanced, seemingly still capable of twisting and killing this Star Wheel once. But he suddenly withdrew his sword. Frost wind, red fire, sword momentum. That ultimate dazzling everything instantly became faint like clouds and smoke. And his body, like a green bird, drew a wonderful arc in the air, flying out of the sea of fire in an instant—

But how could he fly out? A slender hand grasped Jiang Wang’s ankle!

This was probably the most magnificent battle many people in the field had ever witnessed in their lives. It began by entering a climax, then waves upon waves, each peak higher than the last, without a single moment of pause. And all these magnificent offensive and defensive exchanges, for the two people fighting, were still only in the stage of seizing the initiative. Thunder Sound Flame Sparrow, Cut Delusion Dao Path, Tian Fu body, Bi Fang spirit image, Sun God Palace, Tilt Fall Sword, not to mention the Star Wheel! This rose and that fell.

It was only at this moment that this struggle for the first move was finally settled. Heavy Xuan Zun’s forceful withdrawal of the Sun God Palace, not hesitating to consume a Star Wheel’s power, was of course to seize the initiative, and he did indeed seize the initiative! For an absolute prodigy like him, seizing the initiative basically meant seizing victory!

Underneath the snow-white clothes, terrifying power surged within his muscles. Heavy Xuan Zun grasped Jiang Wang with one hand, like grasping a flying bird, pulling down! Bringing the person with him, he fell with extreme speed. Swinging this person around, directly using his body as a handle, and his head as a hammer, he smashed it into the ground with a boom!

Jiang Wang’s body smashed a concave pit into the ground! This city suburb training field had once been the place where the Qi army swore oaths before departing for expeditions, its foundation was incredibly solid. But at this moment, it was rawly smashed into a pit by this “meat hammer.”

Behind this simple, rough smash was the instant pulling and attacking and defending of several thousand hundred times the Heavy Xuan power on Jiang Wang’s body, finally achieving this under Heavy Xuan Zun’s tremendous force. He had to admit that in a head-on clash, although he did not lose even half a step to Jiang Wang, he also struggled greatly to gain even half a step. After another fierce exchange of attacks and defenses, he had to exchange the effect of a Star Wheel’s resistance for the initiative.

The “Thirteen Chapters of the Chess Classic” says: “Better to lose several pieces, do not lose one initiative.” Heavy Xuan Zun’s chess pieces had already been shed, and the initiative had been seized. Whether this price was worth it still needed to be verified in the subsequent battle. But at least at this moment, he firmly held the advantage, and of course he wanted to resolve Jiang Wang directly!

His back foot moved, his feet shifted, twisting his waist like a string, his feet leading his waist, his waist leading his back, his back leading his arm. His whole person was like a bow! The elegant noble young master of the mortal world became a ruthless iron smith beside a furnace fire. You could almost see the sweat droplets flying from his muscles. At this moment, combining strength and beauty, he swung Jiang Wang around and reversed his body to smash him again!

On the scene, Jiang Wang had already fallen into an absolute disadvantage. The Star Wheel was a too-terrifying divine ability. Using a Star Wheel to seize the initiative, and in the hands of a character like Heavy Xuan Zun, whose fighting talent was absolutely top-notch, no one could defend against it.

But even at the moment when he seemed to have no power to resist, Jiang Wang still protected his body with divine power light and gathered star power on his body, preventing essential harm. He instantly resisted Heavy Xuan Zun’s invasion with thousands of times Heavy Xuan power, fighting at every moment. His body became a hammer in someone else’s hand, being swung back and forth and smashed into the ground, seemingly disgraced, seemingly losing face, yet it was the choice with the least harm in an unfavorable situation.

But if this were to happen again, he could not promise!

The person was swung into an arc in the air, but within the person’s arc, a sword arc was divided out. Left flick and right press, the character ‘人’ (person) was already divided into two. The ‘Person’ character sword!

The person in the air was still a person. When the body was not his own, he still existed as a person. This captured body was not his own, but this sword was his own, not someone else’s! This was such an unyielding sword. Since ancient times, why has humanity stood between heaven and earth?

But halfway through the formation of the sword momentum, the hand that grasped his ankle, Heavy Xuan Zun’s hand, suddenly surged with roaring power, causing his body to shake! And Heavy Xuan Zun, with one hand grasping him and bringing him closer, with the other hand swinging the Sun Wheel, skillfully and cleverly smashed it onto Long Xiang Si—before the ‘Person’ character sword could fully form, he smashed it apart!

This was the first time Jiang Wang’s ‘Person’ character sword was struck down before it could fully form. Of course, part of the reason was that he was grasped by Heavy Xuan Zun, unable to fully unleash his sword momentum, but Heavy Xuan Zun’s ability to grasp fighting opportunities and see through flaws was truly terrifying!

But how could Jiang Wang be easy to deal with? He never hoped for the opponent to make a mistake. In such a greatly inferior situation, he especially did not hope that he could save himself in one step. Although the sword momentum was scattered, the sword frame was already opened, welcoming Heavy Xuan Zun, but it was not an empty door.

A wisp of frost wind already faced him, and six Life-Ending Long Nails were arranged in a single line, aimed at Heavy Xuan Zun from head to toe, absolutely killing in six directions! The most ultimate sharpness, the most ultimate killing power. That terrifying feeling in an instant forced the already charging Heavy Xuan Zun to release his hand and spin his body to avoid.

But as the Qing Yun Seal mark appeared and scattered, Jiang Wang was already horizontally cutting in front of him. He flipped his palm and pressed down, the Fire Boundary fell, and at the same time, the Falling Flame Flower Burning City smashed down! After the fight and the supplementation of insight, the Samadhi True Fire this time was far more threatening to Heavy Xuan Zun than before. Not to mention the combination of the Fire Boundary and the Falling Flame Flower Burning City.

Dazzling fierce flames covered all directions of heaven and earth. The terrifying technique instantly reversed the battle situation. The Fire Boundary covered the world, and the Life-Ending Nails chased after. Heavy Xuan Zun’s white clothes fluttered. He grasped a Moon Wheel with his backhand. The Tian Fu light shone, augmenting his ‘Cut Delusion,’ instantly seeing through the fundamental. Thus, with one knife, he sliced open the Fire Boundary!

The combined technique of the Fire Boundary and Falling Flame Flower Burning City had not yet reached its peak, yet it was already shattered by Heavy Xuan Zun’s Dao Path power in the first step. In an extremely brilliant shatter, the two people again rushed to kill each other. With the sky full of flowing fire as a backdrop. Heavy Xuan Zun held the Moon Wheel in his left hand and the Sun Wheel in his right. Jiang Wang also put away his long sword, moving the Samadhi True Fire with the Bi Fang Seal in his left hand, and unleashing the Bu Zhou Feng with the Life-Ending Nails in his right hand.

Killing to excitement, he even manifested a red-gold colored ball of light that shone with immortal light. The Red Heart divine ability! Using the Red Heart to smash the Sun Wheel!

People watched, dazzled and captivated—Sun Wheel, Moon Wheel, Heavy Xuan, Cut Delusion! Samadhi True Fire, Bu Zhou Feng, Sword Immortal Person, Red Heart! The two people fought to this point, bombarding each other with divine abilities!

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If I’m not mistaken, this is my third birthday celebration in the Red Heart. The first thing I did upon waking up in the morning was to pick up the notebook beside my bed and start revising the new chapter update. For a single sentence, even a single word, I slowly wrestled with it. It’s also like my life, slowly walking to this point. Forget it, no sighing, I’ll code for a while. There are a lot of miscellaneous things during the New Year, hope I can continue to update.