Sealing Markings

Tianye's words were a pack of lies. The demonic woman had not even bothered to put on an act. Almost the instant the words left Xu Yuan's mouth, she had already completed the partial sealing of Mu Nuo. It was nowhere near complicated enough to require consuming Tianyan's life force. Gazing at the ominous, burn-like markings on the back of his hand, Xu Yuan had no intention of exposing her lie. Feeling the boundless might within the markings, which felt almost like his own origin source, he could not help muttering a quiet complaint: "This thing is the seal?" "What else did you expect?" Tianye curved her eyes in a natural smile. "Did you really think it would be sealed inside your body? While that is indeed an option, your cultivation is far too weak. It can only be done temporarily in the form of an engraved art. How does it feel?" Xu Yuan fell silent for a moment. Suddenly noticing that the boundless power within the markings was pulsing like a beating heart, he said rather hesitantly, "Wait, why do I feel it moving?" "How could a living thing not move?" "Huh? Living?" Xu Yuan's eye twitched, a chill creeping up his spine. This was Saint Tier power. If it was alive and happened to go berserk, as a mere Body Integration expert, he... "Don't worry." Tianye snickered, reaching out to pat Xu Yuan's shoulder and cutting off his train of thought. With a radiant smile, she said, "It may be alive, but it has no consciousness." With that, Tianye raised a slender finger and pointed toward Mu Nuo, who had reverted to the form of a child but remained frozen stiff. "When I sealed it, I deliberately purged the little brat's consciousness. In short, there is no danger for now." As she spoke, Tianye directly dispersed the surrounding Dao charm. She cast her eyes down at Tianyan's body, a flash of indifference flickering through her azure-gold eyes, and murmured in a voice inaudible to anyone else, "Using this body is a bit more troublesome than I anticipated. Although there were some discrepancies, the objective has basically been achieved..." With those words, the spiraling orb of light formed by Tianye's Dao domain began unraveling at a visible rate. When it dissipated entirely, two figures appeared in Tianye's field of view almost simultaneously. Seeing this, a hint of surprise surfaced in Tianye's eyes before her familiar frivolous air crept back onto her exquisite face. Raising her hand slightly toward the direction the pair had come from, she said with a chuckle, "If I were you two, I would be thinking about how to run away right now, instead of rushing over for revenge driven by an encumbrance like rage." Mu Xingyi ignored Tianye's provocation. In the midst of repairing his body, he had witnessed everything that had just occurred, seeing the sordid tacit understanding between the Overseeing Heaven Pavilion Master and the woman devouring Nuonuo. His hoarse voice seethed with irrepressible fury: "Overseeing Heaven Pavilion Master! If you still intend to fulfill our deal, then strike now and help me kill this woman!!" His voice echoed over the entire provincial capital, but Tianyuan quietly continued her work of disrupting the formation lines, showing no intention of paying Mu Xingyi any mind. Her estimation of Mu Xingyi was actually very high. However, that estimation was reserved for the future. As the only ancient beast in the world endowed with spiritual intelligence, Mu Xingyi possessed both the ancient beasts' saint origin—so vast it seemed boundless—and cultivation meridians unique to the human race. Given enough time, he would grow into an indescribably terrifying monster. But that was only after given enough time. At this present juncture, weakness was the original sin of Mu Xingyi's family. Even if she ignored their demands, they would not dare move against her. Just then, a deep, resonant voice rang out from within the wild surge of sword qi inside the city: "Pavilion Master, your schemes with that Saintess make Bai wonder if you have betrayed Bai as well. If you still refuse to act, Bai shall depart this instant." After the White Emperor's voice resonated, the hunchbacked elder, while brutally thrashing Linlang, chuckled in a teasing tone, "Pavilion Master, though this old man would like to speak up on your behalf, you truly do need to prove your stance—prove whether your words yesterday, that the Saintess's life or death mattered not, were true." Trouble. They could not fake the fight anymore. When these unmasked voices reached Xu Yuan's ears, he immediately realized the situation was taking a sharp turn for the worse. Though Tianye was powerful, she had just expended Dao charm to seal Mu Nuo. Most of the ten breaths she had initially spoken of had already elapsed. If Tianyuan entered the fray, it would inevitably force Tianyan to burn her life force. His thoughts raced as Xu Yuan looked toward Tianyuan. Would this woman yield to the pressure and strike at them? Yet before long, Xu Yuan realized his concern was unfounded. Because upon hearing the ultimatum from the White Emperor and the hunchbacked elder, Tianyuan struck without the slightest hesitation. Before her gracefully undulating chest, Tianyuan formed a profound seal with her fair, slender fingers. Her crimson lips parted softly: "Space Seal." The moment the words fell, Tianye instantly felt the spatial Dao around her locked down—in other words, the Instant True Word of both sides was rendered useless simultaneously. At the same time, a surge of clear blue water rapidly expanded around Tianyuan. Yet another brand-new Dao domain. The waves around Tianyuan surged and roiled for a moment before rising into a sky-shattering deluge, forming a colossal waterfall suspended upside down across the heavens above the Zhenxi Prefectural Yamen! Under Tianyuan's manipulation, the torrent transformed into several water dragons, roaring toward Tianye from all directions with inexhaustible, turbulent fury! The splashing droplets of water pierced through the roofs below like arrows through stone, and those that sprayed onto the aristocratic house troops and the massive insect swarm instantly dissolved flesh and bone! Sensing this, Tianye curled her lip unconsciously. She could see that Tianyuan was no longer acting; she had gone all out right from the start. An enemy who knows you inside and out is truly troublesome... An Aeon Art Dao domain possessed very high priority, but its consumption was immense, multiplying exponentially when facing wide-area arts. The current Pavilion Master's tidal Dao domain was clearly replicated specifically to counter her. Sighing softly in her heart, Tianye likewise pressed her palms together to form a seal. A bewitching gleam flickered in her azure-gold eyes as she chuckled, "Just as well. Let me see if the Pavilion Master ten thousand years later has made any progress in strength." With those words, the deluge surging from all directions came to an abrupt halt. The frothing white waves and the rushing trails of water were all frozen in place. The moment the two qi dynamics collided, the violent surge erupting between them even overshadowed the battlefield of Feng Jiuxuan and the White Emperor. The battle left unfinished the previous night had finally erupted after all. And Tianye's counterattack came even faster than Tianyuan had anticipated. Even as the boundless waves were frozen in time, the Aeon Art Dao charm had already locked onto her. Before she could react in any way, Tianyuan felt her body slipping out of her control. Her hands, which had formed the seal before her chest, came undone, tracing the exact path they had just taken to rest flat at her sides. It was as if someone had pressed rewind. Tianyuan felt no surprise at this. As the Overseeing Heaven Pavilion Master, she knew very well the types and effects of Tianyan's Dao charms, and her opponent naturally knew just as much. With the art concluded, Tianye smiled at her with curved eyes and transmitted her voice: "The Space-Sealing True Word is a continuous secret art, so undoing your seal breaks it. Little Sister Tianyan is still useful for now. Unless absolutely necessary, I cannot just indulge my temper and burn her away, so I was only joking earlier~" As her words fell, Tianye suddenly realized that Xu Yuan had vanished from her side. That teleportation art of his? A slight search revealed that while the two of them were clashing, Xu Yuan had quietly slipped over in front of Mu Nuo. Under the gaze of Tianye and the others, Xu Yuan suddenly reached out and seized Mu Nuo's little head. Applying slight force, the eerie and boundless power radiating from the markings on the back of his hand instantly drove his fingertips into Mu Nuo's scalp, looking as if he were about to crush the child's head into pieces! "Xu Changtian, what are you trying to do?!! Let go of Nuonuo!!" "Brother Xu, let us talk this through calmly. Put Nuonuo down first." A shrill female voice and a hoarse male voice rang out simultaneously. Xu Yuan pretentiously covered one ear with a hand and smiled at the husband and wife outside the tidal Dao domain: "It seems the Saintess and the Pavilion Master are no longer planning to fight, so could I trouble you two for a favor? "After all, "neither of you wants your child to die just like this, do you?"