Chapter 490: The devil prince's footsteps

Li Qi was actually going to use his own mind to forcefully simulate the body of a True Dragon!

In the past, Li Qi's personality would never have done such a risky thing. To simulate the body of a True Dragon, the first thing he had to do was take a beating, so he would know if his simulation was correct.

The True Dragon's instinctive adaptation was not fundamentally complex; it was simply instinctively remembering the opponent's cultivation method and then rapidly assembling corresponding countermeasures with its body, much like the immune System producing antibodies against a virus.

The truly remarkable aspect of the True Dragon was that this process was purely instinctive. Humans wouldn't consciously control and direct their immune System to kill viruses, but the immune System would act on its own.

And now, Li Qi was going to direct the immune System himself, to achieve the exact same effect as a genuine immune System.

To deduce the Heavenly Dao with human intellect!

“Futile,” the Demonic Prince said softly.

In such a battle, how could Li Qi's mind compare to the True Dragon's body, which had been passed down for countless years?

With just a little pressure, Li Qi would naturally collapse; his mind couldn't calculate fast enough.

Thinking this, the Demonic Prince's Dharma Idol suddenly pointed to the sky, then threw out the bamboo staff!

Like a hegemon on a journey, his Aura was unleashed, and the bamboo staff in the Dharma Idol's hand was like a towering pillar, crashing down with a roar, its Qi tearing through the sky and rushing forth!

Li Qi felt a suffocating sensation.

It was just a thrown bamboo staff, yet it felt like the heavens were collapsing, as if the entire world was falling apart, and he only felt the sky above covering the earth!

But no matter the Aura, everyone was at the Seventh Rank; there could be no crushing defeat.

Yet, when the bamboo staff struck Li Qi's Dharma Idol, with such terrifying might, Li Qi's body merely trembled slightly.

“Oh?” the Demonic Prince exclaimed in surprise.

This was a new move; why was he able to resist it directly? A True Dragon's body should only adapt after taking the hit, shouldn't it?

Only Li Qi himself knew why.

This was the advantage of human intellect's deduction: there was no need to endure it once before resisting; instead, he could analyze it in advance and prepare!

True Knowledge Dao Resonance and Information Stream Vision were already operating at overload, clearly and thoroughly analyzing every attack and every cultivation method of the Demonic Prince, then using the Fourth Rank True Dragon Physical Body he had just observed as a reference to weaken the Demonic Prince's attacks!

The battle continued, with both sides exchanging blows. The Demonic Prince's cultivation methods carried a chilling malevolence; after all, it was the Demonic Dao, domineering yet also full of sinister evil, as if the battlefield was shrouded in a pitch-black shadow, constantly extending tentacles.

Slowly, gradually, yet seemingly unstoppable, crushing all obstacles bit by bit.

And Li Qi, like a white flash struggling in the darkness, under the Demonic Prince's endless onslaught, either dodged or directly resisted, using the intelligence advantage brought by True Knowledge Dao Resonance and the swiftness of his Martial Dao cultivation method, barely maintaining an undefeated front.

Sometimes, a bright light would suddenly flash, as swift as a thunderstorm, white light spilling forth, temporarily turning the dark curtain into day, repelling the Demonic Prince in an instant! It was as if everything around him was illuminated in perfect detail by his dazzling light!

But after the flash, it would quickly be covered by the Demonic Prince's shadow.

The battle continued for over a minute. The Demonic Prince steadily advanced. In a little more time, Li Qi's Spiritual Artifact body would collapse. After all, it was just made of a pile of lanterns and broken dishes; although it was of the Seventh Rank, it was not very durable.

Li Qi also knew this. Therefore, after enduring over a thousand attacks, he suddenly accelerated, turned around, and even retracted his Dharma Idol, directly charging towards the Demonic Prince with lightning speed!

The Demonic Prince frowned slightly.

Charging like that, seeking death?

Did he think he couldn't react? Or was it a cornered beast's struggle?

Never mind, it didn't matter. Just crush him.

The Demonic Prince extended a hand and slowly pressed downwards.

In an instant, only a black shadow, as if swallowing the heavens and devouring the earth, descended!

Infinite pressure! Vast and majestic, it reached his eyes in a flash.

Li Qi only felt like Mount Tai was pressing down!

He dared not relax in the slightest, but he still crashed into it!

Upon contacting the demonic shadow, Li Qi felt an intense pain in his eyes. Demonic flames floated all around, thousands of strands, all-pervasive, piercing into his nostrils, ear canals, corners of his mouth, and even under his fingernails, attacking every vulnerable part of his body!

Like a raging fire burning his body, the pain was immeasurable! It felt like molten iron pouring down, and Li Qi was standing beneath it, drenched from head to toe, his body cast into an iron man.

Directly burned by Demonic flames, these were Demonic flames nurtured within the Demonic Prince's Yang-extreme body, utterly Yang and rigid, without a trace of Yin Qi, because the Demonic Prince's Inner World simply had no such thing.

At the same time, it also carried the invasion of Demonic Dao demonic thoughtss, burning both his Physical Body and Spirit Soul, and even his consciousness could not escape the power of the Demonic flames.

Heart-wrenching pain, burning to ashes!

However, something was wrong.

The Demonic Prince suddenly realized something, abruptly withdrew his Demonic flames, and his body flickered backward repeatedly, trying to distance himself from Li Qi!

Unfortunately, it was too late!

Li Qi burst directly out of the descending Demonic flames, and! He was completely unharmed!

Just as True Dragon Ao Guangxiao was unharmed under the giant spirit god puppet's attack, Li Qi also achieved being completely unharmed!

The Demonic Prince retreated precisely because he noticed this.

In his previous estimation, it would be extremely difficult for Li Qi to deduce the Heavenly Dao with human intellect; it was simply impossible. Therefore, he wasn't worried that Li Qi could免疫 his attacks.

But now, things were going wrong.

Because! Wrapped around Li Qi's body was a True Dragon's Dragon Soul! And fueled by demon dragon essence blood, that Dragon Soul had been activated.

At this moment, Li Qi truly possessed the True Dragon's instinct. The so-called deduction of the Heavenly Dao with human intellect was a complete ruse. He directly used the method he had seen the Shen Yijun use to embed the True Dragon's Inner World into its Physical Body, and applied the same operation to the True Dragon Dragon Soul on his body!

All these methods, in the past, Li Qi would absolutely not have used them, because he was a cautious and conservative person. Before many things could be perfectly adapted, he would generally only use them as reserve methods, not daring to use them indiscriminately, fearing that they might lead to some dire consequences.

However, the current Li Qi had completely discarded all these restrictions. Anything he had seen, learned, or scanned with True Knowledge Dao Resonance, he threw out and used all at once!

Perhaps many people have forgotten that when True Knowledge Dao Resonance was suppressed by the Heavenly Dao of the world, only appearing as a progress bar, Li Qi could directly learn something as soon as the progress bar was full.

To this day, this ability still exists, and Li Qi still uses True Knowledge to scan everywhere every day, curiously analyzing anything he finds.

Most of these things, Li Qi dared not use. The more he understood, the more he feared, because many things belonged to other Daos, which could easily cause his already cracked Inner World to tear further, or even completely shatter his entire Dao.

But at this moment, there was no need to care so much.

Li Qi had the Demonic Prince in front of him, and Shen Shuibi might even have others coveting her behind her back. The Demonic Prince was only here out of interest; the true schemer was someone else.

He must escape from here as soon as possible!

With the aid of the True Dragon's body and the Dragon Soul's instinct rooted deep within his Spirit Soul, Li Qi's Spiritual Artifact body completely immunized the power of the Demonic flames. Seizing this opportunity, he rushed to the Demonic Prince's side.

Then, he grabbed the bamboo staff!

All sensory methods, fully activated!

He felt it!

All details, fully displayed before his eyes!

Li Qi had never, at any time, activated True Knowledge Dao Resonance with such effort. He poured all his attention, and even all his senses, into it!

For this, he even gave up all perception of the outside world. At this moment, Li Qi's eyes could not see, his ears could not hear; all five senses were lost, and he completely lost the ability to react to the outside world.

Even all his thinking abilities were drawn into True Knowledge Dao Resonance! At this moment, Li Qi forgot that he was still in a death match, and even forgot about himself and Shen Shuibi.

All his consciousness had been fully invested in the information analyzed by True Knowledge Dao Resonance.

He was immersed in an ocean of information. Here, everything in the outside world seemed no longer important. In this world composed purely of information, purely of spirit... matter did not exist, and was not important.

But as Li Qi was immersed in this information—

The Demonic Prince was still awake.

“Spirit Dao method?” The Demonic Prince's heart grew wary.

It was well known that the Spirit Dao was extremely skilled at exploring the essence of things, so he dared not let Li Qi continue to hold his palm. Instead, he immediately exerted immense force, gathering countless Demonic Qi in his palm, and slammed it towards Li Qi's crown!

However, with the tremors of Li Qi's Spiritual Artifact body, his cultivation methods and those purely physical forces were perfectly deflected.

With a genuine True Dragon Dragon Soul as the source of instinct, Li Qi's Spiritual Artifact body almost perfectly replicated the True Dragon's physical form!

And the Demonic Prince couldn't help but praise him.

The minute-plus struggle before, Li Qi wasn't wasting time.

That minute was Li Qi using the True Dragon Dragon Soul to memorize his own methods, to be used at this moment!

A True Dragon had to be harmed to memorize, so that minute of rapid exchange was to memorize the Demonic Prince's methods, and after memorizing, it was now—

At this moment, with the aid of the Dragon Soul, Li Qi was already able to resist the Demonic Prince purely with his body, gaining a few seconds to avoid being knocked flying by him, buying Li Qi time to analyze the entire staff!

The Demonic Prince launched dozens of attacks in a short time, but Li Qi held onto the staff tightly, refusing to let go. The Dragon body shrouding him was gradually shattering; the Demonic Prince's force had already exceeded Li Qi's endurance limit.

The Dragon body could indeed resist all damage, but it also had a limit, which was the cultivation itself.

The Demonic Prince's cultivation foundation was much stronger than Li Qi's.

Therefore, he simply stopped using those cultivation methods and purely struck with immense force, forcefully smashing Li Qi away!

However, Li Qi held onto the staff for a full five seconds.

Five seconds of absolute focus, five seconds of complete mental immersion, caused blood to spill from Li Qi's mouth.

Focusing on one thing is extremely taxing on the mind. Many artisans and scholars have exhausted their mental energy and died from spitting blood due to intense concentration on an item or a piece of writing.

Li Qi hadn't reached the point of death, but he had started spitting blood.

But… the harvest was immense.

It was his first time delving so deeply into the world of information.

Previously, he always maintained a connection with the real material world, then observed that information from the perspective of an observer.

This time, to extract as much information as possible, he truly detached from the material world and immersed himself in the information…

This was the feeling of those on the Spirit Dao? If only he could…

No, he couldn't have an Epiphany now; he was in a fight.

Li Qi slapped himself, and after regaining consciousness, he looked at his injuries.

Not bad, he hadn't lost combat effectiveness, but… that Dragon Soul was extremely weak, clearly on its last legs.

However, it was enough.

Li Qi stretched out his hand and violently hammered his liver and gallbladder. Accompanied by a muffled thunder, he suddenly spewed out a burst of thunderous Qi!

The Qi of the liver and gallbladder generates thunder. Thunder is the sound of Yang Qi. Li Qi angrily hammered his liver and gallbladder, combined with the mixed Qi of heaven and earth, giving rise to Heavenly Thunder!

Seeing Li Qi spew out Heavenly Thunder, the Demonic Prince finally showed a serious expression, facing Li Qi with full concentration, adopting the expression of facing an ‘enemy’.

Just by looking at this Heavenly Thunder, one could tell that Li Qi had indeed grasped the essence of his bamboo staff!

His bamboo staff was ‘She’.

She sacrifices to the earth, and governs Yin Qi. Earth refers to the Five Earths: mountains and forests, rivers and lakes, hills and mounds, tombs and plains, which are sacrificed to in due season. Therefore, earth is said to be the master of Yin Qi, which is why there is the Yin Qi of Kun. When Yin Qi is at work, all things move and form, inherently possessing the power to nurture all things, just like the earth.

Therefore, organs related to reproduction are also called ‘Yin’, and fertile females capable of giving birth to the next generation are also considered representatives of ‘Yin’, and can also be represented by Yin, and it is believed that Yin softness is a characteristic of women.

Hou Tu is the She God, which is the ‘She’ in Sheji (altars of land and grain), meaning land. She also has the title of ‘Earth Mother Goddess’.

Therefore, that staff should be in the shape of a plant; the bamboo staff is just an ideogram, symbolizing life, Yin Qi, and the earth itself.

This was something formed by the Fusion of Kun's Earth Qi and the Earth Mother Dao Resonance! The bamboo shape should simply be the Demonic Prince's preference.

Combined with the origin of this staff, Li Qi had sufficient reason to believe that the Dao Resonance within it came from Hou Tu Huang Di Qi!

This was his specialty!

Then, Li Qi would use Heavenly Thunder to restrain the Earth Mother Dao Resonance!

And it wasn't a Daoist thunder spell, but true Heavenly Thunder.

Daoist thunder spells are the commands of heaven, with Yin thunder and Yang thunder, and even Five Elements thunder, with various attributes.

What Li Qi unleashed was pure Heavenly Thunder, the sound of thunder produced when the sky breathes. It couldn't compare to Daoist thunder spells, but it just happened to be the bane of the Earth Mother!

However, the Demonic Prince did not dodge or evade, directly meeting his bane!

A strong person would not back down.

Bane?

Water can extinguish fire, but how can one know that my True Fire cannot burn the sea!?

The two sides clashed!

However, at this moment, a person who looked exactly like Li Qi appeared silently at the very edge of the battlefield.

His expression seemed to speak.

It said: “I have waited for this opportunity for too long.”