Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 729

Chapter 727: Fight Again

. Tang Yi swallowed hard. This arrogant man in the imperial robe had actually been under the spiritual energy’s gaze beneath his bed. How lucky was he to have survived until now?

The First Emperor’s appearance overturned everyone’s understanding of cultivation. In this era, the Spiritual Transformation Stage was supposed to be the most powerful, but what about that man in the imperial robe?

The immense power he displayed was unmatched even in myth and legend.

Even this man of boundless power acted as if he were facing a formidable enemy, his gaze fixed intently, not daring to let his guard down.

Even though the newcomer looked like a mortal, lacking the aura of ordinary cultivators, even those in the Qi Condensation Stage,

the two men, with identical appearances but vastly different demeanors, stared at each other in silence. After he uttered, “I am the Human Emperor, Jiang Li,” neither spoke.

The First Emperor eyed Jiang Li warily. He had never been defeated in his life, unrivaled among his peers, unrivaled among his peers, and ultimately unrivaled.

He had unified the Nine Provinces, conquered the heavens, and grown in strength with each battle, achieving an unprecedented feat—the immortal realm was forced to flee in panic!

The First Emperor’s only defeat was the dream-like battle with Jiang Li.

He was defeated with conviction. He couldn’t win, truly couldn’t. Even with all his might, he saw no chance of a comeback.

The gap was too great.

The First Emperor wasn’t one to give up easily. After a defeat, he quickly rallied, focusing on increasing his training time to make up for the gap.

He had always wanted to fight Jiang Li, frequently entering his dreams.

Unfortunately, the only person he encountered in his dreams was the idle Jiang Li, who possessed no other strengths besides his resilience.

Were it not for his shared affinity with Jiang Li, the First Emperor wouldn’t even bother to acknowledge him.

For the past year, the First Emperor had been focused on finding the escaped immortal realm and hadn’t entered his dreams again.

He had come to the Orange Heart World to search for fragments of the Immortal Stairway.

The system tasked him with killing a Divine Transformation cultivator, but upon checking, the First Emperor discovered that the cultivator had died of old age.

The system was rubbish, with excessive latency.

Just as the First Emperor was about to give up hope, he stumbled upon fragments of the Immortal Stairway in his spiritual eye, presumably a reward from the system.

The First Emperor infiltrated the Spirit Eye, secluded himself, releasing his spiritual energy. After months of searching, he finally located the fragment within a spatial interlayer.

Upon retrieving it, he miscontrolled the spiritual energy, causing a surge that shattered the Eye’s seal.

Who could have imagined that upon emerging from the Spirit Eye, he would encounter the very opponent he had so long pursued in his dreams?

The First Emperor had no doubt it was Jiang Li from this new parallel world. He was stronger than himself, yet possessed a demeanor that could easily be mistaken for an ordinary person—only the Human Emperor, Jiang Li!

“Ha, ha ha ha, you’ve finally appeared!” The First Emperor let out a reflexive laugh, then his laughter escalated, swaying with laughter, shaking the entire world.

“I’ve been looking for you for so long, and you never showed up!”

Jiang Li gently soothed the shaking, a faint smile playing on his lips as he teased, “So you can speak normally? I thought you only called yourself ‘I.'”

“Come and fight!” The First Emperor, full of fighting spirit and ambition, determined to avenge his previous defeat.

Jiang Li soared through the barrier between worlds and into the void, with the First Emperor following closely behind.

Even the aftermath of their clash could easily destroy the world.

Boom—

the battle between the Mahayana cultivators began, even more ferocious than the battle between the First Emperor and the Heavenly Dao, a battle worthy of being recorded in history!

Fewer than ten people were qualified to witness this clash.

The First Emperor struck first, unleashing a powerful punch that shook the past and present, resonating from the earliest times to the present, suppressing all discordant sounds and rippling even the very air.

Any cultivator, past or present, who witnessed this punch would bow in worship, reverberating as a god.

Then Jiang Li simply extended his palm to his chest, blocking the blow.

“Too light.”

Jiang Li closed his palm, grasping the First Emperor’s fist, and threw him forward, ready to follow up with a kick.

The First Emperor, anticipating the blow, responded with a kick.

The two kicks collided, and the First Emperor, overwhelmed, was sent flying.

“Uniting Qi with Spirit, uniting the Five Elements, the Creation Thunder Curse!” The First Emperor, using his own true blood as a guide, sketched out an obscure rune, merging his own might with that of Heaven and Earth, becoming the supreme master of thunder magic, surpassing all other thunder magic.

Jiang Li raised an eyebrow. The rune used by the First Emperor was unheard of, immensely powerful, and perfectly suited to the First Emperor, practically born for battle.

“Is this a rune you created?” Jiang Li quickly guessed.

“This is a rune I gained enlightenment from my battle with the Heavenly Dao, creating a rune uniquely mine. I named it the Emperor’s Rune!”

Thunder roared, like the vast Brahma Ocean, vast and lightless. Everywhere he looked was a dazzling thunderbolt, blindingly bright.

The void became a sea of thunder, the sixteenth Immortal Tribulation incomparable.

Of all the existing thunder tribulations, the most powerful occurred when attaining the status of Hunyuan Wuji Immortal. The First Emperor’s Creation Thunder Curse far surpassed that.

What the First Emperor unleashed couldn’t be called a thunder tribulation at all, but a death tribulation.

No living creature in the world could survive the Creation Thunder Curse.

At this moment, all the cultivators who practiced thunder magic felt something.

“Puff–” The cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage who had just performed the thunder magic “Divine Shadow Thunder” in the Orange Heart World vomited blood.

“Senior, what’s wrong with you?”

The man’s real name was Li Xingyun. He vomited blood with an expression of disbelief: “It’s a mountain. Thunder magic has created an insurmountable mountain! It can’t be surpassed!”

Li Xingyun’s performance happened in all the heavens and worlds.

“Combine!” The First Emperor shouted, and the sea of thunder quickly shrank, concentrating all its power on Jiang Li. The power was so terrifying that it was unimaginable!

Jiang Li was calm and composed, put two fingers together, and poked the thunder.

“Turning thunder into gold.”

The lightning struck by Jiang Li instantly turned to gold, triggering a chain reaction where all other lightning bolts turned to gold, losing their power.

Jiang Li extended his large hand, kneaded the gold together, and formed it into a lightning bolt. He threw it at the First Emperor, whispering, “Restore.”

The gold transformed back into lightning, its power undiminished. However, this time, the target was no longer Jiang Li, but the First Emperor!

The First Emperor’s face was blasted with his own attack, leaving him disheveled and severely injured.

A drop of blood flew towards Jiang Li, but Jiang Li caught it with his fingertips and cast a small spell, returning it to the First Emperor.

After the injury, the First Emperor’s body quickly recovered, as if time had flown back, returning to its original state.

The blood trapped by Jiang Li’s spell also returned to the First Emperor’s body, and all blood was assimilated by that drop of blood.

“Explode!”

The First Emperor’s blood exploded into a bloody mist. The First Emperor lost all blood, his face pale as a mummy.

The First Emperor used the Way of Creation to create Imperial Blood, his face rosy, his energy and blood surging. He charged straight into the Bull Fighting Arena, returning to his peak form.

(End of this chapter)