Chapter 1062: Checking for Omissions and Filling Flaws

"You talk too much!"

Lu Yang was furious. What was wrong with having a few extra steps? Even with extra steps, it was still the Legal Heaven and Earth!

After transforming into a giant hundreds of feet tall, his voice altered as well, muffled like crashing thunder, echoing through the mountain ravines.

Lu Yang drew the Blue Edge Sword. It was an immortal sword, capable of shifting its size along with Lu Yang’s body.

Meng Jingzhou was not one to hesitate either; the shield and halberd of his dharma idol clashed, sending ripples cascading through the layers of space, while the Blue Edge Sword let out a piercing metallic cry.

Two completely distinct sounds collided, triggering a massive explosion in the center of the battlefield that set the entirety of space trembling!

The dharma idol's eyes shot forth crimson beams of light several feet thick, resembling molten magma. Even before they neared Lu Yang, he could already feel the violent power contained within them.

"Break!"

The Blue Edge Sword swung down, cleaving the crimson beam of light in two. The two stray beams streaked past Lu Yang’s sides, instantly reducing the white sandalwood forest beside Meng Jingzhou’s cave dwelling to ashes, carving two deep ravines into the ground where the earth melted into glass from the intense heat!

The dharma idol strode forward, leaving a cluster of flames on the ground with every step. With a stomp of its foot, the earth cracked apart, and its massive form leapt high into the air.

The dharma idol stood with its head touching the blue sky and its feet treading the earth, as pure yang flames swept across the horizon, dyeing the very sky a crimson red, looking as though heaven itself were dripping blood.

The halberd tore through the sky, bringing a torrential sea of fire to clash with the Blue Edge Sword. The sound of clashing metal suddenly rang out like thunder, and from the other side, a shield whistled through the air, smashing directly toward Lu Yang’s ribs.

With a flash of Lu Yang's left hand, the jet-black Shadow-Bearing Sword appeared, blocking the fierce strike.

With a flick of his wrist, an overwhelming canopy of sword shadows materialized. Every single shadow possessed enough power to level a mountaintop, forcing Meng Jingzhou to proceed with caution.

"The Halberd-Halting Method!"

Meng Jingzhou’s handling of the shield and halberd was no longer as chaotic as before, turning instead into something highly rhythmic.

The Halberd-Halting Method was a combat technique created for Meng Jingzhou by Meng Junzi.

Meng Junzi had carved out his renown amidst slaughter at the end of the Great Yu era, surviving countless battles of all sizes. His combat experience was extraordinarily rich, and based on the characteristics of Meng Jingzhou’s dharma idol, he had created this technique—to halt halberds through war, to halt halberds through blood!

A violent tempest of spiritual energy swept outward. In the center of the battlefield, every movement of the two giants was enough to reshape the topography. The area before Meng Jingzhou’s cave dwelling had already become completely unrecognizable; no one arriving now would ever believe this was his abode!

"One Sword Transforms into Ten Thousand!"

Countless sword blades suddenly sprouted beneath Lu Yang’s feet, crisscrossing the ground like a series of small hills, restricting Meng Jingzhou’s movements.

"Great Sun Magma Arrows!"

Boiling magma began to flow across the massive form of the dharma idol. The magma bubbled, steaming the earth and scorching the air, raising the temperature of the spiritual energy to an extreme. Cultivators of the same rank would not dare to refine spiritual energy of this temperature, for it would burn through their meridians.

The magma levitated in the air, spinning continuously as it formed into individual arrows before shooting forth with violent force!

"Splendid!" Lu Yang’s eyes lit up, knowing Old Meng still had interesting moves hidden away.

The sword blades gathered in front of Lu Yang to form a shield. The moment the molten arrows touched the blade shield, they were hacked to pieces by the radiating sword qi.

Meng Jingzhou seized the opportunity to charge forward with his shields raised. The two shields collided, shattering into dust from the impact.

Both men were blown backward by the other's strength. Meng Jingzhou was the first to steady his body, and before Lu Yang could regain his balance, he rushed at him once more!

The dharma idol lunged low, forcing aside Lu Yang’s block. Because the distance between them was too close, Lu Yang was forced to abandon his swords, turning the fight into a fist-to-flesh duel.

Lu Yang slammed a fist into Meng Jingzhou’s dharma idol, only to find that the idol was far harder than his own physical body, making it impossible to break through its defense. Yet when the dharma idol struck Lu Yang, the pain made him bare his teeth.

Lu Yang’s execution of the Legal Heaven and Earth simply enlarged his body, whereas Meng Jingzhou’s dharma idol was built upon his physical body, enhancing it even further. Originally, Meng Jingzhou’s physical body was slightly stronger than Lu Yang’s, and now with the reinforcement of the dharma idol, Lu Yang fell into a disadvantage in a pure contest of strength and defense.

"How about it, Old Lu? I might not match you with weapons, but you can't beat me in close-quarters combat." Meng Jingzhou laughed heartily, knowing Old Lu had refrained from using underhanded moves like the Immortal-Destroying Sword Array, which meant Old Lu intended to test the flaws of the Legal Heaven and Earth.

Now that the flaw had been brought to light, it was time to end it!

"Eight Styles of Shaking Heaven!"

The Eight Styles of Shaking Heaven executed by the dharma idol could truly be described as world-destroying, beating Lu Yang into a steady retreat. Even if Lu Yang could block the strikes, the insufficient strength of his physical body meant blocking alone was not enough.

"I lack defensive moves..."

Lu Yang recalled the techniques he had learned; most of his moves were offensive, with very few meant for defense.

"Wait, it seems I actually have one!"

"Old Meng, don't think your dharma idol is so amazing just because it's hard. I know a defensive move too, the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body!"

A golden body sixteen feet tall materialized out of thin air. The two who had been fighting so fiercely suddenly fell quiet at the same time.

"Hahahaha—" Meng Jingzhou truly couldn't hold it in upon seeing this sight. Clutching his stomach, he laughed until he was out of breath, to the point where his dharma idol almost destabilized.

The corner of Lu Yang’s eye twitched. His Legal Heaven and Earth made him hundreds of feet tall, and the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body wasn't even as large as his palm. Even if its defensive power was high, what use could it possibly be?

"I've got it!" A flash of inspiration struck Lu Yang.

"Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, Sixteen-Foot Golden Body..."

In one breath, Lu Yang manifested a massive cluster of Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies, plastering them onto himself like a suit of armor, covering him tightly from head to toe.

Lu Yang had grown large by devouring the earth and spiritual energy; his giant form's spiritual energy pool was several times larger than before, allowing him to repeatedly manifest the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body.

"How's this?" Lu Yang flaunted his suit of armor. This time, the defensive power was definitely sufficient.

The corner of Meng Jingzhou’s eye twitched. Old Lu had little men tied all over his body, looking as bizarre as could be. Even he felt it crossed the line into sinister territory; it wouldn't feel out of place at all to call Old Lu a grandmaster of the demonic path.

"Eight Styles of Shaking Heaven!"

Though the appearance was terrible, the defensive power was the real deal. When Meng Jingzhou’s Eight Styles of Shaking Heaven struck Lu Yang, the Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies deflected most of the force, leaving Lu Yang himself completely unharmed.

"Hiss, it actually works." Meng Jingzhou never expected that using the Sixteen-Foot Golden Bodies as armor would yield such high defensive power, which could already be called ridiculous.

"With this, the Legal Heaven and Earth can be considered the complete version." Lu Yang chuckled. Finding Old Meng to test his moves had indeed helped find and fix the flaws.

"My white sandalwood forest! What are you two little brats doing? Is this a place for you to duel?!"

The Third Elder noticed the commotion over here and flew into a towering rage. The clash between these two little brats possessed a destructive force no less than a duel between Integration Stage cultivators; the soil and the forest had been completely ruined!

Under the scorching high temperature, the soil had turned to glass, and the trees went without saying, having long since turned to carbon ash.

Our sect has so many empty spaces, did you two absolutely have to duel right here?

Especially this forest; it was his favorite white sandalwood forest, meticulously tended for so many years, and a single fire had wiped it out!

It was true that this was Meng Jingzhou’s cave dwelling, but this was also the Third Elder’s mountain peak.

In his immense fury, the Third Elder did not hold back his strength. He delivered a punch to each of them, hammering the giant Lu Yang and the dharma idol Meng Jingzhou directly into the dirt, leaving only their heads exposed.

The Third Elder glared fiercely at Meng Jingzhou: "If I don't give you a lesson, you'll think you can overturn the heavens. You, boy, go to the Mountain-Moving Ocean-Filling Sect to do community service for two months before you come back!"

The Mountain-Moving Ocean-Filling Sect was a sect in the Great Xia explicitly responsible for handling the aftermath and restoring the topography after cultivators engaged in duels.

Meng Jingzhou nodded repeatedly.

Lu Yang was the disciple of the Daoist Buyu, whom the Third Elder had no authority to discipline.

Only after the Third Elder left did the two crawl out of the dirt with lingering fear, looking thoroughly disheveled.

"It's all your fault, running over here out of nowhere to test your moves on me."

"What's the big deal? Isn't it just going to the Mountain-Moving Ocean-Filling Sect to learn for two months? I'll go with you."