"May your next life be filled with happiness, Elder" Liu Xing said.

The time they spent together was probably as brief as the burning of a candle, yet, one of his achievements, an enlightenment—though it didn't feel like it—was witnessed by him. There was also the Flowing Meditation Method, a technique given by Elder Yang Zhaoyan, which proved to be a key factor in this whole event.

Liu Xing clenched both of his hands, thinking how regretful the elder's death was. He should have died with more dignity, yet, between the billowing smoke and swirling dust, he was reduced to mere ash, and before that, he was an abomination with a horrifying appearance.

For a moment, Liu Xing thought the death of Elder Yang Zhaoyan was on him. Not because he was the one who killed the abomination, but because he had suggested that they move separately, just because he wanted to kill a lot of abominations to make his cultivation advance further and faster. He regretted agreeing to the plan to separate from the elder, also regretted that he was too slow to save the elder. Perhaps, if he had been twenty minutes faster, he could have arrived at the Emperors' Tomb before Wei Yi merged himself with the elder.

Still, while his heart was burdened by the fact that Elder Yang Zhaoyan was dead, he also realized that it was just his emotion talking. There was no way to know the "what if" situations because there was no end to them. A single mistake could lead to a catastrophic failure, but this mistake could only be seen from the future, where he could see the whole picture and come up with a better solution. Unless he could go back to the past, there was no use wallowing in it, and while the past needed to be remembered as a reminder and as a lesson, the most important thing was the future.

Sending potent qi to his stone blade, Liu Xing renewed his vow.

"Wei Yi!" Liu Xing shouted, turning his body and looking up. His stone blade glowed purple.

The giant yellow eye looked down on him. Hundreds of red balls made of condensed qi hovered in front of him. The air and qi around them hinted that another big attack would come later. But there was still time, and he wanted to let out his anger and frustration.

Liu Xing pointed his stone blade upward. "Wei Yi," he repeated. "With the heavens as witness, I vow to end you! Even if you hide in the deepest layer of the earth, or hiding between the clouds far in the sky, I'll chase you and end your life! We are enemies as long as we live, and there's no end to it unless one of us dies!"

Liu Xing's fury made his body tremble, like a volcano that would soon erupt. His face was grave, his forehead scrunched, his eyes shone with the fire of determination, and a grudge began growing in his heart, becoming bigger and bigger at a rapid pace. Before, the vow to kill Wei Yi was just righteous fury. But right now, it was personal.

The multitude of red balls in front of the giant eye began to coalesce. First, two of the spheres drifted toward each other and collided, merging into a single, larger ball. This process quickly repeated itself, with more and more of the red balls coming together. They fused together, their individual numbers rapidly dwindling as the resulting mass grew exponentially. This continued until a single, colossal ball of red light, the size of a small house, hovered directly in front of the giant eye.

Wei Yi screeched, as if replying to his vow, and shot the red ball at him.

Liu Xing was actually surprised by this attack. He thought Wei Yi would shoot a giant laser at him, but it turned out to be a bomb!

The ball of red qi fell swiftly toward him. The air around it swirled, as if the ball was the center of a vortex, sucking the air around it and making it spin faster.

Upon seeing the giant attack, with the world around Liu Xing painted red, Liu Xing's brain worked hard to come up with a solution. The immediate response his brain came up with was simply to escape. With his speed, it should be possible, considering the explosion of the red ball was not too gigantic. But another part of his brain came up with a more elaborate plan.

While he wanted to jam his stone blade into that giant yellow eye, trying to fight Wei Yi was not the right choice. It went against his initial plan to enter the body of the giant. Plus, Wei Yi was now a parasite inside the body of the giant. He was sure that even if he destroyed the eye, Wei Yi would just move to another part of the giant.

Entering the stomach of the giant and wrecking its insides was the best choice. To do that, he decided to enter via the mouth, but there was no way the giant and Wei Yi would just let him enter the giant's body.

He needed a trick, and the trick was simple. He just needed to use his invisibility.

The problem was timing. If he just vanished, then Wei Yi would try to find him. But, if Wei Yi thought he had died, then Wei Yi wouldn't search for him, and Liu Xing could move freely.

Coincidentally, there was a big attack coming, so it was really good timing. The problem was how to do it.

The giant red ball was now less than twenty meters from his position. The wind swirled crazily around him, the heat from the ball of qi scorched the earth, and the red that emitted from the ball was so bright he felt like the sun was falling toward him. He knew that if he was careless, he would die right then and there.

Using his brain to conjure ideas, Liu Xing thought of using his turtle to shield the attack, but then discarded it. It wasn't flashy enough. Wei Yi would see him hunker behind the turtle statue and would ponder why Liu Xing didn't just move from the attack. No, he needed something flashy. Something that would hint to Wei Yi that Liu Xing, in a bout of arrogance, had simply made a mistake.

Nodding, he decided to flood his left gauntlet with a lot of potent qi, creating a ball of white lightning more than three meters in diameter, one that could easily swallow an elephant. The ball of lightning was so heavy that it vibrated in his hand, and it created a blinding light of white as if it didn't want to be outshone by the red balls.

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His left gauntlet, which was encapsulated by stable qi, began creaking, as if it would shatter if he held the lightning ball too long. Usually, depending on how he controlled it, this white ball of lightning would either shoot a pillar of lightning or branch into a thousand lightning strikes. This time, purely instinctual, he decided to try something different. Instead of making the ball become a root of the attack, Liu Xing decided to shoot the ball of lightning itself. With his qi control as a Core Splitting realm cultivator, this should be possible.

He sent a palm strike, and the ball of white lightning rushed toward the giant red ball. From outside, the ball of white lightning was tiny. It was like comparing a marble with a basketball, yet, the light they emitted had similar brightness, as if they were trying to paint the world with their colors.

A moment later, they collided, and a blinding white light erupted from the contact point, the qi around them moving frantically, as if they were mortals below an erupting mountain.

Liu Xing's heart beat so fast it felt like his ribs would shatter. His body sent adrenaline coursing through him, and his mind and body worked in tandem to move as swiftly as possible.

Less than a fraction of a second, right when the two balls of energy hit each other, Liu Xing did two things simultaneously. The first was to resummon his gun and order it to make itself invisible and spread the invisibility through his body. The second was to flood the stone blade with potent qi and slash it downward. The crescent of purple qi that he created this time was not too high nor too wide, but one that he made to be as thick as possible.

When a shockwave could be seen spreading from the contact point of the balls of energy, the purple qi burrowed through the ground, creating an almost triangular hole below with a size only about as big as his head. Without missing a beat, Liu Xing jumped into the air, rotated his body so his head pointed downward, summoned his shield, cycled his qi more to strengthen his Lightning Cloak Technique, gritted his teeth, and kicked his shield.

He rushed downward headfirst. His head burrowed into the ground, but his shoulders and his body were not small enough to enter the hole. Fortunately, the hole didn't need to be big. He was a cultivator, and mere dirt could not stop him.

With the amount of force of his kick, his body forcefully spread open the earth, and he dove through the ground like a worm. Using his shield, he kicked his shield again and again, trying to burrow as far as possible before the explosion happened.

A moment later, a large explosion could be heard. Even from below the ground, it sounded like the world's greatest heavenly tribulation had just struck the earth. The earth ground around Liu Xing moved chaotically, as if he were not inside the earth, but rather below a chaotic sea. He was pushed further into the ground by the explosion. His back felt scorching hot, as if fire had burned him, and he realized that he could possibly die if he was unlucky.

Using his stone blade in his right hand and his lightning blade in his left, Liu Xing began to rotate his body like a spinning top in the hope that he could fend off the earth that was trying to crush him, as well as trying to dig deeper.

In this moment of panic, Liu Xing had successfully encased his left hand as well as his gun with the Lightning Palm Technique. He had never thought of doing this. He always thought he needed to dismiss his gun to activate the technique, but evidently, since crossing into the Core Splitting realm, his qi control had become better, and he could do things that were impossible when he was still in the Lock Opening realm. This was why he needed to be creative using techniques, and always needed to think about new ways to use his techniques.

The explosion, as well as the earth around him, had stopped moving, and so, Liu Xing deactivated his Lightning Cloak Technique and his lightning blade, as well reabsorbed the qi he had sent to his stone blade. This situation reminded him of when he needed to hide from the worm that killed Elder Xia Juetian, but right now, instead of fear, it was determination that filled his heart, determination to successfully execute his plan.

While Liu Xing knew that this invisibility made him harder to perceive, there had been a lot of occasions where his opponents had countered this invisibility, and so, he tried to minimize his qi and his presence. There was a skill that could veil one's cultivation, and while Liu Xing had not learned this skill, he tried to slow the qi that cycle in his body and tightly control the qi so that it would not leak out of his body.

Wei Yi was probably looking for him and trying to determine whether he was dead or not right now.

Liu Xing didn't know Wei Yi like the back of his hand, but he knew he was careful but also full of tricks, with a strong determination to perfect the giant. If he read Wei Yi correctly, then Wei Yi would try to find his remains to verify that he was truly dead, but if he didn't find his remains, while he would be careful about his surroundings, Wei Yi would move on to his next plan, which was either to attack Yang Suyin or procure the third ingredient. So, Liu Xing needed to tread this situation carefully. He could not rush and risk being discovered by Wei Yi, but he could not be too slow and let Wei Yi move freely for a long period of time.

He decided to wait for a full thirty seconds before he resurfaced.

Thirty seconds was so short for a mortal, but in a fight between cultivators, these thirty seconds could be the deciding factor of who lived and who died.

After waiting about thirty seconds—he counted his breaths—he decided to resurface.

Using his stone blade, he carved the earth around him and began to move upward. Then, he decided to move horizontally for ten seconds before moving upward again. This was just a precaution so he could resurface away from the giant and that yellow giant eye.

A moment later, he stabbed the ground above him using his index finger. When his finger felt the breeze, Liu Xing knew with certainty that he was just mere centimeters from the surface. Deciding to peek from the hole, Liu Xing retracted his index finger and positioned himself so his right eye could see outside.

His current position right now was right behind the pale white giant. When his eye could not see the giant yellow eye, he realized that Wei Yi had probably moved to the giant's belly or chest again. This thinking was soon proven true when he could see several red lasers shooting toward the twelve-headed fire bird that flew around the sky from behind the shoulder of the giant.

Swiftly pulling himself out of the ground, Liu Xing was soon out of the ground, and without further ado began to run as fast as possible.

Since he didn't want to be discovered, he needed to refrain from using his qi. This limitation was actually quite a hindrance, since this meant he could not use his shield to climb the giant. Also, since he didn't want to let go of his stone blade, he could not use his right hand either.

His left hand was now free, as he'd clenched the gun between his teeth, but it still meant he had to climb the giant using only his feet and left hand.

"Should not be too hard," Liu Xing muttered, his words a bit incomprehensible.

He began to run toward one of the ankles of the giant and jumped. He soared through the air for a moment, his left hand extended forward, then with perfect timing, Liu Xing grabbed the pale white skin of the giant's foot and clung to it like a gecko. He tried to sink his fingers into the skin, but it was too tough. The best thing he could do was to grab the skin using his nails, one that was surprisingly easy to do, since the skin was quite rough.

"All right," Liu Xing muttered, then he began to climb up.

As he climbed, he realized that this entire fight had become too long. So he planned to end it as soon as possible.

And who knew, maybe, the heavens would side with him this time and give him a golden opportunity.

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