Chapter 873: Chapter 892: Failure at the Brink of Success
“One step, just one step, why is it that I can’t take this step to beco a Saint?” Houtu whispered bitterly, clearly having failed at the final step of sanctification.
One step might as well be the difference between Heaven and Earth!
“Why?”
Suddenly, a cold voice echoed in Houtu’s ears, causing her eyes to freeze. She swiftly turned towards the source of the voice, only to see Ye Xuan smiling disdainfully at her.
“Ye Xuan?” Houtu growled coldly.
Ye Xuan paid no mind to Houtu’s hostile gaze, his smile remaining serene as he sauntered towards her.
“Let tell you why. The reason is quite simple: although you have the rit to beco a Saint, sanctification through rit requires the Hongng Purple Qi, which is why you can’t beco a Saint.”
Ye Xuan spoke softly, his eyes full of oddities as a mysterious glint flashed across them while he gazed at Houtu.
“Hongng Purple Qi?”
Hearing Ye Xuan’s words, Houtu was stunned into silence, her body trembling slightly as she suddenly understood.
“Could it be that becoming a Saint truly requires the Hongng Purple Qi?” Houtu whispered, her words filled with profound unwillingness.
Being one of the Ancient Twelve Ancestor Witches, Houtu was not ignorant of the Hongng Purple Qi. The Purple Qi was nowhere to be found, and she always believed that even without it, her great rit would suffice to make her the seventh Saint.
She had established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, providing a final resting place for all spirits, and her great rit surpassed even that of Nuwa. This should have allowed her to beco a Saint.
Unfortunately, at the last mont, Houtu realized that despite her infinite rit, the absence of Hongng Purple Qi ant she could not enter the Saint Realm.
“I’m unwilling, how could the Heavenly Dao be so unjust!”
Suddenly, Houtu lantingly howled at the sky, as if censuring the Heavenly Dao. She had spent endless years, becoming ng Po stationed at Naihe Bridge, paying countless prices, all for this day to beco a Saint. Yet, in the end, it was all for naught, leaving her utterly heartbroken.
“Haha!”
Just as Houtu was imrsed in her sorrow, Ye Xuan laughed loudly, as if he had witnessed sothing very amusing.
Buzz!
The void rippled, waves of purple light quietly appeared in Ye Xuan’s hand, causing the heavens and the earth to pause, even disturbing the pervasive rit Golden Light.
“Hongng Purple Qi? You actually have the Hongng Purple Qi?”
A voice cried out in shock as Huangquan Ancestor trembled and looked at Ye Xuan, frozen, unable to believe what he was witnessing.
“Ye Xuan, have you gone mad?”
As Ye Xuan brought out the Hongng Purple Qi, Minghe Ancestor’s expression changed dramatically, his gaze towards Ye Xuan like he was seeing a lunatic, shouting angrily at him.
At this mont, Houtu’s failure to sanctify was due to the lack of Hongng Purple Qi, yet Ye Xuan chose this mont to reveal it. Wasn’t this courting madness, provoking Houtu into seizing the Hongng Purple Qi?
Minghe Ancestor couldn’t comprehend it. Houtu was their enemy, not ally. Why would Ye Xuan do this? Didn’t he understand that as long as Houtu failed, he had a chance to beco the seventh Saint?
“Hongng Purple Qi?”
“You actually hold the Hongng Purple Qi?”
Rumble!
The heavens roared, a booming sound from all directions, as Houtu rose slowly, her eyes fixated on the Hongng Purple Qi in Ye Xuan’s hand, filled with uncontrollable desire. A frightening aura burst forth, Ye Xuan’s action provoking her completely.
Like soone drowning, on the verge of sinking, when one grabs a piece of driftwood floating in the water, they will never let go, clinging tightly, only thus can one survive.
Houtu was in such a state. Having lost hope of sanctification, Ye Xuan’s revelation of the Hongng Purple Qi dispelled her despair, her eyes solely focused on the Purple Qi in Ye Xuan’s hand.
“Give the Hongng Purple Qi.”
Rumble!
Heaven and Earth shattered, all things were buried, as Houtu flew into a frenzied rage. Though she was a woman, she was more like a berserk beast, her eyes a blood-red as she charged at Ye Xuan.
“Six Paths of Heaven and Earth, all things fall into ruin!”
The heavens exploded, the Six Paths rotated, Houtu scread at the sky, the power of the Six Paths turning Heaven and Earth, nothing held back as she summoned the Six Paths Gates to annihilate Ye Xuan and seize the Hongng Purple Qi.
“You truly are naive if you think you can get the Hongng Purple Qi.”
Connecting Heaven and Earth, darkness without end, Ye Xuan, possessing Semi-Saint cultivation, unleashed a palm strike causing tens of thousands of miles of heaven and earth to collapse. Though the Six Paths of Reincarnation were fearso, they were still shattered by a single strike from him.
“Kill!”
Having been bathed in rit Golden Light, even though Houtu failed to beco a Saint, she had reached the level of a Semi-Saint. As one of the Ancient Twelve Ancestor Witches, neither her physical body nor cultivation was inferior to Ye Xuan, as she madly charged at him.
“Three Thousand Earth Cloud Technique!”
Houtu spared no effort, forming a supre killing technique with her hands, causing the earth to subrge, broken stones transforming into myriad earth dragons charging at Ye Xuan.
“Six Paths Reincarnation Fist!”
Wailing spirits, grieving heavens and earth, Houtu’s fists could destroy worlds, terrifying to the extre. Though a woman, her punches seed to shatter all creation, as she appeared before Ye Xuan, intent on slaying him on the spot.
“Heavenly Suppressing Finger!”
A finger to disrupt the universe, a finger to shatter worlds, facing Houtu’s terrifying assault, Ye Xuan pointed at her. It was a killing technique from the Forbidden Chapter of the Undying Immortal Scripture, capable of world-ending power when driven by Ye Xuan’s Semi-Saint cultivation.
Rumble!
One finger to suppress the heavens, the earth dragons were shattered completely, yet it didn’t end there. Ye Xuan’s finger was too terrifying, too unassailable, striking Houtu’s Six Paths Reincarnation Fist with a booming force.
Clang!
The heavens exploded, the earth crumbled. As they clashed, the force of annihilation erupted around them, a vacuum swallowing the surrounding heaven and earth, the vast earth sinking deeply, even the endless Wangchuan River was cast into tumultuous waves, dissipating into vapor and fading away.
“Ye Xuan!”
The world stilled, everything frozen. Both were of Semi-Saint cultivation, unable to overco each other, separating after this strike. Houtu howled shrilly, staring fixedly at the Hongng Purple Qi in Ye Xuan’s hand.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
Ye Xuan shook his head slightly, “Trying to kill and seize the Hongng Purple Qi, you’re far from it.”
“Ye Xuan, no… Heavenly Emperor Ye, as long as you give the Hongng Purple Qi, Houtu dare not forget the grace of helping beco a Saint.”
At this mont.
Houtu quivered both physically and ntally, yet she finally cald down. For through this exchange, she realized that her cultivation was evenly matched with Ye Xuan, she couldn’t do anything to him. Seizing the Hongng Purple Qi from Ye Xuan was entirely impossible.
Moreover, calming down allowed her spiritual wisdom to return, leading her to suddenly realize sothing both surprising and suspicious.
That was, Ye Xuan could have refrained from revealing the Hongng Purple Qi, yet he did, indicating he must have his reasons, prompting her to lower her stance and plead to Ye Xuan.
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