Eternal Life: I Can Control My Essence Qi-Chapter 254 - 193: Showdown at the Summit!

"Buzz!"

The palm emitting a faint golden glow slowly descended toward the Realm Breaker's head, the latter still looking blankly and cluelessly at him.

The Realm Breaker's realm was evident; just the sheer strength of his physical body was likely superior to Zhang Yao. Though unaware of the Vajra Secret Mantra to actively defend, Zhang Yao nonetheless exerted himself fully, aiming to kill in one strike without causing pain.

"Snap!"

Zhang Yao's vigorous and forceful palm struck down, just touching the Realm Breaker's head, when the latter's body shattered like a soap bubble.

"What?"

Zhang Yao instinctively froze for a moment.

And just in that instant, a fair and powerful palm emanating a faint golden glow lightly imprinted itself toward Zhang Yao's back, seemingly slow but truly fast.

By the time Zhang Yao sensed something amiss, the palm was already less than three inches from his back, its speed suddenly increasing, thrusting forward like lightning.

"Not good!"

At that moment, Zhang Yao's hair stood on end, alarms blaring in his mind, but it was too late to evade.

In the nick of time, he could only fully activate the Vajra Secret Mantra to protect himself, his body surging with dazzling golden light, while slightly shifting three inches to avoid the heart's crucial point.

"Boom!"

A heavy, resonant reverberation burst forth, akin to the sound of a giant steel hammer smashing the metal base.

Zhang Yao's body was blasted away like a cannonball, accompanied by the sound of cracking muscles and bones, spewing blood from his mouth, crashing heavily against the spatial barrier several miles away.

"Go!"

His first reaction upon recovering from the intense pain was not to dodge or counterattack but to directly manipulate array power, attempting to traverse space back to the core main hall!

At this moment, pondering what had befallen the Realm Breaker, who ambushed him, or how to respond was meaningless; as long as he could return to the array core, wielding the Secret Realm Array's might, he could establish an undefeatable position!

However, Zhang Yao's plan failed.

Centering on the spatial barrier he collided with, densely web-like patterns spread out, appearing as Spirit Pattern Array Veins emitting various rays of light.

At that instant:

These incomparably complex Spirit Pattern Array Veins seemed to be strongly disturbed; though overall maintaining stability, even slight disturbances were sufficient to disable many functions.

"How could this be?"

A buzz in Zhang Yao's mind, instantly realizing something.

"Yu Wen Tai? Is it you?!"

"You duplicated your memory and seized the Realm Breaker's body?!"

Only Yu Wen Tai, so intensely familiar with the Secret Realm Array, could possibly interfere with his manipulation of the array!

This interference couldn't break his control authority, nor necessarily bypass the mark he left in the core to manipulate the entire array, but was enough to cause disorder in the array, preventing Zhang Yao from accomplishing anything!

He couldn't accomplish anything, but it was enough to ruin your plans!

"Qingxu, it really is you! You're indeed clever, but unfortunately, I won't give you a second chance."

A voice strange yet familiar came through, extremely cold:

"Last time, I was careless, leading to my defeat; but this time, it was your carelessness."

After his voice fell:

Zhang Yao realized something wrong; the injuries from that sneak attack were rapidly worsening, expanding.

"Ten Thousand Laws Illusion Body, Fierce Spring Divine Palm..."

Zhang Yao instantly grasped his tactics.

Earlier, the commotion from manipulating the array core, inducing a Natural Calamity to kill numerous Foundation Establishment masters, was too significant, equally detected by Yu Wen Tai, who deduced that he was unable to supervise all minor worlds afterward, promptly seizing the opportunity and stealthily executing the Ten Thousand Laws Illusion Body.

His true body was concealed nearby, hiding the illusion body in plain view, just waiting for Zhang Yao to come and perform the Blood Sacrifice Soul Melting, stepping into his trap.

Sure enough, after annihilating all Foundation Establishment masters, the triumphant Zhang Yao arriving to reap the victory spoils never considered the possibility of Realm Breaker being swapped, resulting in his ambush.

"Hiss..."

Zhang Yao lightly inhaled, feeling the intense pain throughout his body, as if his flesh were decaying bit by bit.

The Fierce Spring Divine Palm is an extremely insidious Evil Daoist Technique, with stringent activation requirements, needing one's own blood as material, pre-preparation, and close proximity for execution, yet its effect is exceedingly domineering—

It scorches blood and saturates the muscles and bones; once struck, it's akin to maggots in bones, almost certainly fatal. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Yu Wen Tai, you need not coax me."

Zhang Yao, appearing calm, didn't rush to exhaust Essence Qi to heal the injuries but instead focused on 'Yu Wen Tai' standing several miles away, speaking:

"You manipulated your own memory, possibly deceiving me, leaving a backup plan."

"This implies you can't possibly retain the memory of the previous battle. Attempting to use the carelessness excuse to extract details from the last battle? Better not waste your efforts."

The only regret in his heart at that moment was indeed his excessive carelessness back then.

He trusted Yu Wen Tai's memory too much, never considering this person might deceive even himself, and underestimated Yu Wen Tai's determination and cunning.

To know, the only possibility of memory replication seizing the Realm Breaker's body was directly modifying the Array of Ten Thousand Souls' Thoughts, a highly risky act;, a slight error could lead to the Realm Breaker's death, a century's plotting defeated in a day.

Yet Yu Wen Tai still did this, only illustrating his astounding courage, forcibly squeezing out a portion of vitality for himself.

At this very moment:

The injuries from the Fierce Spring Divine Palm inside Zhang Yao's body continued to worsen, his entire body teetering on the brink, his aura weakening to the extreme, while Yu Wen Tai's aura was at its peak, holding full advantage.