Knowing this battle was inevitable, Chen Tang turned around underwater, his legs moving rhythmically, his eyes like fire, fixed on the rapidly approaching Celestial Concealment, steadying his posture, focusing his mind.

Swoosh!

The person came closer, striking with a blade.

The edge of the blade carried Innate True Qi, causing the surrounding river water to drop in temperature, becoming piercingly cold!

In the Divine Illumination State, Chen Tang moved, dodging aside.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

The person followed closely after, three consecutive strikes, but all missed.

Seeing this scene, Chen Tang’s heart was set.

He went to great lengths to bring the Celestial Concealment to the riverbed in Xiajiang, intending to exploit the special underwater environment.

Unlike the previous battle in the East Sea, fighting across grades with the Third Grade Upper Concealment.

At that time, Chen Tang only needed to endure against the Third Grade Upper Concealment at the ocean floor.

Or exchange a few moves, when the opponent exhausted their air through vigorous movements, unable to sustain, he could easily gain an advantage.

But the Celestial Concealment was different.

When Martial Artists entered the Innate Realm, the Inner Qi in their dantian transformed into a breath of Innate True Qi.

This breath of Innate True Qi is endless, allowing Innate Martial Artists to stay longer underwater than he!

Therefore, relying on this method was simply not feasible.

But the bottom of the river was different from the surface; the deeper the river, the greater the pressure of the surrounding currents, causing increased resistance to this Celestial Concealment’s every move.

As a result, the once swift blade skills and vicious, cunning moves had their power greatly reduced.

Pairing this with the Divine State Entering, Chen Tang could evade.

This Celestial Concealment, despite repeated attacks that missed, still kept a blank expression, yet felt somewhat irritable inside.

He evidently possessed a slew of killing skills, but in this riverbed environment, he was hindered and unable to fully utilize them!

That Chen Tang was slippery underwater, like a mudfish, seemingly more agile than on land, making it hard to land a strike.

He had killed countless people in his life, often facing dangerous foes, assassinating existences even more terrifying and higher in realm than he.

But at this moment, the young man not far away surprisingly posed an unprecedented challenge!

With slight hesitation, he already had a plan in mind, regaining his composure.

Even if for the time being, he couldn’t kill Chen Tang.

As long as he maintained his offensive, Chen Tang’s continuous dodging would inevitably consume a lot.

No matter how strong his lungs or prolonged his breath, he wouldn’t hold out, forced to swim upwards, reaching the surface for air.

At that time, it’ll be his chance!

Thinking thus, he locked his gaze on Chen Tang, maintaining an unrelenting offensive, trying to keep Chen Tang entangled as much as possible.

Actually, there was no need to wait for Chen Tang to exhaust the breath in his lungs.

After a few more rounds, once the Divine Illumination time was drained, Chen Tang’s perception decreased, making it difficult to dodge the Celestial Concealment’s blade!

Therefore, he had to counterattack swiftly!

All his trump cards, every method he possessed, paled before the Innate Realm.

After all, their realms differed by two major stages.

To turn the tide against Innate Martial Artists, he perhaps had only one opportunity...

And that place was likely the only spot that could threaten an Innate Martial Artist.

The Dantian!

Seeing the Celestial Concealment strike with a blade, Chen Tang seemed unable to keep sustaining, spitting out multiple air bubbles, his face turning red from holding breath, dodging the edge, he countered with a punch, releasing Vast Sea Force towards the person’s face!

"Humph!"

A sneer flashed in the person’s eyes.

Finally couldn’t hold on after all?

In his view, Chen Tang’s punch resembled more the desperate struggle of a trapped beast, a dying strike.

He slightly tilted his head, calmly dodging Chen Tang’s punch, simultaneously countering with a palm strike towards Chen Tang’s chest!

He had exchanged blows with Chen Tang before, aware that Chen Tang’s upper body was clad in some defensive armor.

But it didn’t matter.

This palm strike contained Innate True Qi.

Even hitting the chest through armor, it could make Chen Tang’s heart rupture into pieces!

In this world, no armor could withstand the impact of Innate True Qi.

Seeing the palm strike coming, Chen Tang seemed anxious, wanting to dodge, but due to exhaust breath amidst chaos, he could only strivingly swim upward.

Yet Chen Tang’s movements clearly changed, lacking the initial agility anymore.

Though Chen Tang avoided the chest’s critical spot, he couldn’t evade this palm strike.

Bang!

The palm strike infused with Innate True Qi hit squarely on Chen Tang’s dantian.

Even underwater, a clear muffled sound echoed!

Though the palm didn’t hit a vital area, it was sufficient to cripple Chen Tang’s dantian.

He seemed to have already envisioned Chen Tang’s fate, in severe pain and injury, gulping mouthfuls of river water, without needing him to make a move, the person would sink and die in the riverbed...

These thoughts flashed through his mind, his expression abruptly changed!

Something was wrong!

His palm had indeed struck Chen Tang’s dantian solidly.

Yet the latter appeared unharmed.

The strength burst from his palm seemed to vanish without a trace like mud oxen submerged into the sea.

"Hmm?"

He furrowed his brows tightly, pondering the oddity in his heart.

Moreover, Chen Tang was evidently unfazed, the flush on his face vanished, returning to normal.

This youngster’s depleting breath earlier was feigned!

Thinking this, he instinctively wanted to retrieve his palm.

But suddenly realizing, Chen Tang’s dantian emanated a bizarre suction, incessantly dragging his Innate True Qi away!

This utterly shocked him.

Whatever Hermit’s mental state, rules of emotional stability, were all discarded.

He had never witnessed such strange phenomena.

Chen Tang absorbing his Innate True Qi, aside from his loss.

Being underwater currently, without Innate True Qi, he couldn’t sustain long, and once breath in his chest depleted, even faced life-threatening peril!

At that moment, the one sinking and dying was him, not Chen Tang!

He couldn’t care to ponder the oddity, exerting force to withdraw his left hand while his right hand swung the sword, aiming at Chen Tang’s neck.

Actually, Chen Tang wasn’t clear what was happening in his dantian.

Previously, in Beiqian Qingzhou, fleeing from Profound Celestial Sect’s pursuit, he had utilized the two sealed forces of Evil Emperor and Zen Sect in his dantian to slay Profound Celestial Sect experts during escape.

And now, aside from the Vajra Relic, his dantian contained two mysterious forces absorbed from Celestial Cauldron Continent.

Chen Tang contemplating this method, merely intended to replicate the scene in Beiqian Qingzhou.

However, there was some deviation from his expectations.

Yet the effect was still astonishing!

Seeing the person panic-stricken, intending to flee, he hurriedly stretched out, using Dragon Capturing Technique’s method, pressing fiercely onto the opponent’s palm against his dantian, while his other hand attempted to seize the person’s weapon.

Indeed, this was extremely risky.

The opponent was Celestial Concealment after all, attempting bare-handed seizure of a weapon could likely lead to having one’s hand severed.

But in a flash of an instant, Chen Tang had no time to think.

He could only rely on combat instincts for an appropriate counterattack.