Boom!
The earth trembled, the light was blazing, and the mysterious energy of destiny swept across the void, containing extremely terrifying power fluctuations, as if it was going to turn everything into dust.
This is the power of the art of defying fate!
After Ling Xiao broke through to the divine realm, the power of the anti-fate technique driven by divine force reached an extremely terrifying level.
Ling Xiao had never used the Book of Time and the Art of Reversing Fate before, but he already had a guess in his mind that the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Image might also be able to use the Book of Time and the Art of Reversing Fate. However, Ling Xiao wanted to verify his guess through the Art of Reversing Fate.
For this, he was willing to take risks and fight for it!
The third move of the art of defying fate, defying destiny, is to use the power of fate to communicate with the vast river of destiny, attack the opponent's fate, and directly wipe it out without leaving even a trace.
Everyone's destiny is unique. Although the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Image can imitate all of Ling Xiao's martial arts skills, he is not a real living being and has no destiny!
Without destiny, there is naturally no way for the Heavenly Emperor to perform true fate-defying techniques, or even communicate with the power of the long river of fate!
So this is Ling Xiao’s trump card.
He could see that although the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Image had performed the art of defying fate, it was only for show. It only looked powerful on the surface, but in reality it had no power.
However, the long river of destiny that Ling Xiao brought about is a real power!
puff!
Even though Ling Xiao had already reached the late stage of the Divine Realm, under the backlash of the River of Fate, he still couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and his breath instantly became extremely weak.
The image of the Heavenly Emperor standing opposite him was swept away by the long river of fate, as if it was shattered in an instant by some mysterious power fluctuation.
The body of the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma image also began to become illusory, but his expression was extremely calm!
"That's right! You can think of using the Fate-Defying Technique to attack me. Although it's a bit tricky, it's the only way to defeat me! But..."
The body of the Heavenly Emperor gradually dissipated, but he still said to Ling Xiao seriously: "You didn't defeat me, but yourself. There is no trick to defeat yourself, you can only conquer your heart. I hope you can understand this in the next test!"
As soon as the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Image finished speaking, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and the whole person instantly exploded into a rain of light and disappeared between heaven and earth.
"Subdue his heart?"
These four words were like the sound of a huge bell, buzzing in Ling Xiao's heart, causing his eyes to instantly emit an unimaginable mysterious light.
As the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma image dissipated, the void in all directions began to tremble, as if the world was about to end. The heaven and earth were shattered, the mountains and rivers were in chaos, and flames burned the sky. The world before Ling Xiao's eyes was like a dream bubble and soon disappeared.
“Like a dream, illusion, bubble, or shadow, one should view it in this way…”
There was a gleam in Ling Xiao's eyes, and he suddenly remembered a sentence from the Buddhist scripture. At this moment, when he savored it carefully, it seemed to have a different charm.
Conquer yourself and conquer your heart.
These eight words made Ling Xiao seem to see some kind of path.
"Or rather, the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Image is my inner demon, the product of my thoughts, so he can understand all my martial arts and know all my thoughts! Although Emperor Taixu has great magical powers, he has disappeared for so many years, and the power he left behind cannot see through all my secrets, or even block the perception of the Wordless Heavenly Book! So he is the one who triggered my thoughts? The power of the heart, interesting..."
Ling Xiao sighed softly in his heart, but his eyes became brighter.
Although he still didn't understand Emperor Taixu's intention, he had already gained some understanding of this assessment.
And now, he still could not feel the existence of the Wordless Heavenly Book, which meant that he was still under test.
"I have passed the first level, but I wonder what the second level assessment will be like?"
There was a hint of strangeness in Ling Xiao's eyes.
Boom!
Ling Xiao took a step forward, and a vast sea of fire seemed to appear before his eyes. Big suns rose up from it, containing incomparable hot power.
Even with his extremely strong divine body, he could still feel the horror of the sun god fire, which could burn him completely.
One after another, three-legged golden crows flew out from the sun. They were all supreme divine beasts from ancient times. They possessed the power to control the sun's divine fire and were extremely terrifying.
"A test from an illusion?"
Ling Xiao's eyes flickered, and he threw a punch. The terrifying fist mark blasted towards the three-legged golden crow, but it was directly annihilated by a ray of solar divine fire.
Endless flames rushed towards him, directly enveloped him and began to burn him.
Pain, extreme pain!
Ling Xiao could feel that his flesh and blood had begun to burn, and it gave off a burning smell. Even the Sun God Fire had entered into his soul and began to burn it. The extreme pain seemed to be able to drive a person crazy.
Ling Xiao's face was extremely pale, but his eyes became brighter.
Just like that, he walked forward step by step, extremely determined, without stopping for the slightest, allowing the sun god fire to burn his body.
In the end, all that was left of him was a golden skeleton, which, although extremely strong, began to melt.
The immense terror of life and death enveloped him, threatening to plunge him into eternal darkness.
"This is an illusion! You can refine my flesh, burn my energy, and incinerate my spirit, but you cannot conquer my heart!"
Ling Xiao said seriously, stepping forward, walking towards the depths of the sea of fire.
His skeleton was finally shattered with a loud bang, and endless darkness enveloped him, but his faith was still moving forward.
Boom!
The flaming world before his eyes instantly shattered, and in front of him appeared an extremely cold world covered with ice and snow, with a pale color everywhere.
Ling Xiao's body appeared here intact, as if he had never experienced anything.
But endless extreme cold air was already rushing towards him, as if to completely freeze his life.
Ling Xiao knew that this was indeed an illusion test, but it was extremely real, so real that Ling Xiao believed that the scene of his body being burned by flames just now was real, and he even thought that he had died once.
If he had not restrained himself just now, he would have been forever drowned in the endless sea of fire and would never be able to get out.
"Or are these still the result of my thoughts? Buddhism says that there are five desires, six dusts, and eight sufferings in life. The five desires are wealth, sex, fame, food, and sleep; the six dusts are color, sound, smell, taste, touch, and dharma; the eight sufferings are the suffering of birth, the suffering of aging, the suffering of illness, the suffering of death, the suffering of separation from loved ones, the suffering of meeting with those we hate, the suffering of not getting what we want, and the suffering of the burning of the five aggregates. All of these are the result of my thoughts..."
Ling Xiao seemed to have some kind of enlightenment flowing in his mind. He once read the Buddhist scriptures of the Great Leiyin Temple in the War God Realm, which contained various records about mental strength.
(End of this chapter)