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Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 282 - 36 Eternal Life is Impossible
Ai Qinglan's white flame seemed familiar to Wang Qi. When he had pushed the Heavenly Entropy Technique and the Heavenly Calculation Atlas to their limits and resisted Chi Lianxue's Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, a similar white flame had appeared on his body. Moreover, his Divine Skill of Holy Light, in terms of Qi Intent, closely resembled Ai Qinglan's white flame.
"What exactly is this Divine Skill?"
Noticing Wang Qi's strange gaze, Su Junyu said, "That Divine Skill of Ai Qinglan is the Supreme Absolute Skill of Tianling Ridge, 'Life Flame.'"
"Life Flame?" Wang Qi exclaimed in astonishment, "Life Fire?"
Zhen Chan, who had returned to Wang Qi's finger, couldn't help but say, "The aura is indeed very similar to Life Fire, but… such a large mass?"
As Wang Qi looked at the several meters high white flame around Ai Qinglan, his Adam's apple bobbed.
Life Fire is not an actual fire but a manifestation of life's increase and decrease in entropy, appearing flame-like, usually imperceptible to the common eye. To someone with Wang Qi's perception of entropy, an ordinary person's Life Fire is about the size of a candle flame, even smaller for a creature like a mouse, only the size of a pinhead. A Golden Core expert's Life Fire would not be much stronger than a campfire.
But this one of Ai Qinglan… It's clearly on the level of a fire disaster!
Su Junyu patted the back of Wang Qi's head, "That, of course, is not Life Fire."
"I knew it…"
"That is the 'Life Flame,' a level higher than the Life Fire," Su Junyu looked at Ai Qinglan with a hint of fear in his eyes. "The process of metabolism is a consuming process, which increases entropy. But metabolism itself is also about merging 'person' and 'Heaven and Earth' into one system. There is an increase in entropy, but the overall entropy decreases, and this is 'Life,' or Life Fire. Usually, people absorb and consume about the same amount, with not high negative entropy. But Life Flame is different, it's the true Flame of Negative Entropy."
The Flame of Negative Entropy, Life Flame! That is the complete, pure power of life!
While the two brothers were talking, Yang Ziping had already continuously executed twenty-two Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palms. Destroying all living beings, Destroying everything, Destroying heaven and earth, Destroying ghosts and gods, Destroying cosmic light… In the face of this palm technique embodying the universe's thermal death, nothing could resist!
The second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy increase, is unchangeable.
But, in the universe, miracles exist. In a universe of overall entropy increase, life of negative entropy is a miracle!
The Life Flame around Ai Qinglan was utterly negative entropy, the true essence of life. No matter how fiercely Yang Ziping attacked with his Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, he couldn't shake the Life Flame at all!
The fight between Ai Qinglan and Yang Ziping was essentially a repeat of Wang Qi's fight against Chi Lianxue. The difference was, Ai Qinglan didn't need swordsmanship, calculations, geographical advantage, or schemes. She just needed to throw ordinary punches. The total mana of Tianling Ridge's mental method naturally exceeded that of a Modern Cultivator of the same rank by about thirty percent, and no matter how much power Ai Qinglan squandered, the Life Flame could completely refill it in an instant.
Unbeknownst to them, lush flowers and grass had already grown under Ai Qinglan's feet. Plants quickly grew, flowered, and seeded around her. After the seeds fell to the ground, they rapidly began a new cycle of reproduction. The feeling she created was as if mid-April's charm was brought into full bloom in mid-August. That too was the effect of the Life Flame. Ai Qinglan had never thought to restrain her mana, because there was simply no need to do so.
When Yang Ziping cast his thirty-seventh palm, Ai Qinglan said with a smile, "Senior Brother, hitting a woman isn't a very good hobby… I'm going to strike back now!"
Yang Ziping's expression turned icy as he angrily said, "Demoness…I may not be able to handle you, but you might not be able to kill me either! Don't forget, the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm is chaos, any spell will become self-destructive and self-annihilating before it touches me!"
"Is that so?" Ai Qinglan suddenly took a step forward, closing the distance with Yang Ziping. Yang Ziping hurriedly tried to resist with a palm strike, but Ai Qinglan completely ignored his palm power and grabbed his wrist. Then, Yang Ziping felt an irresistible force pulling him, flinging him through the air. Immediately afterward, he saw a flash of green.
Then, a loud bang shattered his consciousness. It was only after a long while that he realized he had been caught by Ai Qinglan and then hurled to the ground.
Wang Qi looked at the human body in front of Ai Qinglan, which resembled a pile of tattered cloth, and the speck of blood splattered on his senior sister's face, and he blankly pounded the ground with his fist.
Is this just ordinary muddy ground? Without creating a two hundred-meter wide crater, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator with Protective Gang Qi still intact could be smashed into such a ghostly state? And, the rules here are not from the third edition DND but the fifth edition DND, right? This sort of defeat feels like a Magic Master being drastically reduced to a Frenzy Fighter, completely frustrated...
Su Junyu timely explained, "It's plant root systems. The Life Flame emanating from Junior Sister Ai has stimulated the growth of the surrounding vegetation, and those wild grass roots have intertwined underground into a cluster. These roots have absorbed the Life Flame and their strength is no less than that of the trunk of a Qi Storage Late Stage plant spirit. With such a collision, that guy's bones must have shattered, his meridians severed into several pieces, and he won't have the ability to retaliate anymore."
At this moment, Ai Qinglan waved at Su Junyu, "Ah, Senior Brother, mission accomplished!"
"You should wipe your face first..." Su Junyu facepalmed, "Why do I suddenly feel a bit of sympathy for that lawbreaker?"
"Eh, does Wanfa Sect still get queasy at the sight of blood?" Ai Qinglan wondered. "I once drew blood from several hundred experimental animals in one day, not scary at all!"
Just then, a dark red glow appeared on Yang Ziping's body. Wang Qi exclaimed in shock, "That guy is going to self-destruct... it's over!"
Life is Negative Entropy, consciousness is Negative Entropy... If he self-destructed using the Heavenly Entropy Technique and turned his internal strength instantly into chaos, then the extreme Entropy Increase would completely annihilate everything about the self-destructed person, irreversibly.
The clue they had barely caught was about to be lost. Wang Qi was certainly not willing to let go, but there was nothing he could do. The Heavenly Entropy Technique had a wide range of applications in the field of suicide bombing and the like; Yang Ziping was doomed.
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But at that moment, a white blaze suddenly ignited on Yang Ziping. The flame was so dazzling that Wang Qi could hardly keep his eyes open. After a while, the light finally dimmed.
Yang Ziping lay within the Life Flame, his face full of shock. His self-destruction, which should have incinerated even his own corpse, had only burnt away his Magic Foundation and destroyed his meridians. Now he felt as if he were lying in hot water, his entire body about to melt, completely devoid of strength.
"This cultivation of yours is good stuff, it shouldn't be wasted!" Ai Qinglan, while wiping her face with a silk scarf, reached out her hand. After devouring all of Yang Ziping's vitality and cultivation, the nearly materialized Life Flame, as if possessing Spirit Wisdom, automatically returned to Ai Qinglan's hand. With the Life Flame leaving his body, Yang Ziping's physical body immediately became ashen and wilted, maintaining only his head alive because it still harbored a strand of Life Flame.
His self-destruction had cut off his own lifeline. However, Ai Qinglan intentionally captured him alive, so she specifically used the Life Flame to keep his life hanging by a thread.
Su Junyu walked over, bent down, and asked, "You could cultivate the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, you must be a core disciple of the Fentian Prefecture. Why would you degenerate and associate with Ancient Method Cultivators?"
Yang Ziping's expression oscillated between madness, despair, and resentful poison for a long time before finally settling into stillness. He said in an incredibly indifferent tone, "I was scared."
"Scared?" Su Junyu frowned. "Were you coerced?"
"Ha ha... hahaha…" Yang Ziping suddenly burst into laughter. "Coerced my ass, how could those ignorant fools coerce me? What I'm scared of is the Modern Method, scared of not achieving immortality!"