Dayan Tianji Chart!

Yet at the very instant he slashed off his own arm, three flashes of silver spiritual light abruptly materialized beside Li Guanqi. All three Gu Yongs bore identical appearances and auras, and each of the three figures radiated the aura of an early Mahayana realm cultivator. The three Gu Yongs thrust their swords together, pressing forward relentlessly! For a time, Li Guanqi could only evade the brunt of their assault, desperately parrying with his sword in his left hand! *Swish, swish!* *Clang, clang! Clang, clang, clang!!* In no time at all, Li Guanqi was completely forced onto the back foot. His entire upper body was left covered in wounds, gruesome gashes peeling back mangled flesh. Yet Li Guanqi was no pushover. Since he had dared to come today, he had made thorough preparations. With a flick of his wrist, Li Guanqi pinched an inscribed talisman between his fingers. The azure talisman instantly shattered, transforming into an arm of spiritual light. Meridians stood out clearly within the arm, followed by the emergence of dragon scales. Li Guanqi exhaled a breath of turbid air. The duration of the talisman's burn was sufficient for his arm to regenerate. Turning around, he slightly furrowed his brow as he looked at the old man floating in midair, who appeared almost unscathed. The moment he got a clear look at the gold-thread soft armor on the old man, a flicker of realization crossed his eyes. Li Guanqi opened his palm, and the shattered spirit sword re-condensed, a four-foot azure blade resting in his grip. In a calm voice, Li Guanqi said, "Is there still any need for us to test each other like this?" Gu Yong did not reply. Raising his hand, he slapped several extremely ancient inscribed talismans onto himself. Li Guanqi's brow furrowed tightly. He clearly sensed that the power contained within these talismans was extraordinary. Sure enough... *Boom!!* Gu Yong's previously flagging aura abruptly erupted at this moment—where was even half a trace of his earlier decline? The old man's aura was now terrifyingly formidable; Li Guanqi felt that his presence was even several degrees stronger than before. The old man's figure stood before him like an immovable mountain. As that dreadful pressure rippled outward, the lightning armor covering Li Guanqi gave an overburdened creak in midair, fine spiderweb-like cracks spreading across it in the blink of an eye. From the old man, Li Guanqi felt an unprecedented sense of oppression. Cultivators of the Mahayana realm truly lived up to their reputation. People always said that below the Mahayana realm, all were ants; looking at it now, there was indeed some truth to that. Li Guanqi took a deep breath. As primal energy surged wildly within him, the fractures in the lightning armor were repaired in an instant. Gu Yong narrowed his eyes slightly, murmuring inwardly, *The reserves of his primal energy are terrifying...* Li Guanqi's gaze grew cold. In the blink of an eye, both men vanished from their spots. Terrifying force vented outward as the spirit sword in Li Guanqi's hand danced! The afterimages cast by the sword in his left hand were blurred beyond recognition. Gu Yong refused to be outdone. His sword swept with wide, sweeping strokes that carried the momentum to cleave the heavens, bearing down on Li Guanqi so heavily that he could barely breathe. This was a situation Li Guanqi had rarely encountered, and it was also his first time clashing head-on with a genuine Mahayana realm cultivator. The primal energy inside Li Guanqi circulated in a near-savage manner, unleashing power at a speed even faster than Gu Yong's. Had his meridians not been exceptionally tough, he would likely have been unable to withstand such brutal circulation. Gu Yong swung his sword relentlessly blow after blow, secret astonishment stirring in his heart! He could not comprehend what kind of monster Li Guanqi was to be able to hold out against him for so long. Gu Yong's gaze grew increasingly grim. His sword slashed faster and faster, striking with heavier and heavier force. Neither man yielded an inch, furiously exchanging blows as they stood in midair. Raging sword light crisscrossed for thousands of feet across the sky, shattering all the surrounding space. The pitch-black void was like a man-eating beast opening its maw, eager to swallow both of them whole. Roiling dark clouds veiled the sky, and thick bolts of lightning crashed down unceasingly toward the pair. A closer look revealed that this was no ordinary thundercloud—the falling lightning bolts were clearly thunder lances forged entirely from terrifying, purplish-black lightning. Several spirit lightning serpents, each as thick as a man's thigh, slithered continuously through the sky. Their figures flickered. The old man constantly dodged the incoming lightning serpents, shattering them with a wave of his hand. Yet these spirit serpents seemed endless; even when their bodies were shattered, they reconstituted in an instant. The spirit sword in Li Guanqi's hand shattered once more, unable to bear the opponent's power. Li Guanqi opened his palm, and lightning instantly coalesced into a primal energy longsword that was dark purple throughout. Suddenly!! A chilling sword edge arced from an extraordinarily tricky angle, striking straight for Li Guanqi's head! Li Guanqi's heart seized. With no time to think, he instinctively threw his upper body backward!! The frigid blade swept right past his forehead!! A palm-sized patch of scalp along with his hair was shaved clean off. Cold sweat broke out across Li Guanqi's back as he fell back violently. At the same time, he kicked the old man in the chest and shot backward. Blood streamed down Li Guanqi's forehead and into his eyes, but he did not blink once. His eyes stared fixedly at the old man, a gleam flickering in his gaze. Gu Yong was also covered in wounds. Li Guanqi's strikes were simply too heavy. He could hardly imagine whether he could have held his ground if Li Guanqi still possessed his true sword. Desolation gripped heaven and earth. The entire domain's Tianji Pavilion had been completely destroyed, left with nothing but crumbling ruins, deep craters, and ravines. Dust and smoke filled the air, trees lay toppled, and thunder rumbled without pause. Li Guanqi's aura had not diminished much, whereas the aura around Gu Yong faintly fluctuated. Gu Yong knew he could drag this out no longer. He drew a deep breath, his chest rising and falling slightly. With a wave of his hand, he actually produced two scrolls from his storage ring!! One was Li Guanqi's Tianji Chart, while the other was a scroll that was completely jet-black. Gu Yong spoke in a calm voice. "You guessed correctly. There are two charts. "The full name of the Tianji Chart is the Dayan Tianji Chart!" The old man gazed at Li Guanqi with mixed emotions and said softly, "This thing can truly divine the secrets of heaven... "I will ask you one last time. Will you undo the seal on the Tianji Chart? I will leave and go into seclusion, never to cause you trouble again, and I will surrender Tianji Pavilion to you with both hands!" Li Guanqi shook his head. His eyes gradually grew cold and sharp, and his voice sounded bone-chilling as he spoke slowly. "I will not leave any existence that can threaten me unchecked." With words having reached this point, both Gu Yong and Li Guanqi understood clearly that each possessed something they refused to yield. Neither of them could possibly give up at a time like this. There was only one outcome: kill, or be killed!! Gales howled. Sparks seemed to fly as their gazes collided in the air, and in an instant, two muffled thuds resounded. Their figures vanished from where they stood as Li Guanqi pushed his Divine Punishment technique to its absolute limit!! The second layer of the Divine Punishment technique—the Momentum Gathering Realm! The second layer of Divine Punishment could amplify Li Guanqi's strength by a full fifty percent!! The tremendous commotion back at Guanyun Pavilion had not been him breaking through to the fifth tier of Spirit Comprehension at all; it was his cultivation technique formally breaking through into its second layer!