Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 444 Gonggong

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Boom! Qin Xiaochuan once again blocked one of Gonggong's water cannonballs, but he felt his blood churning inside him and could no longer hold back. He spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto Kaiming's head and looked particularly glaring.

"Xiao Chuan, are you alright?" Guo Shiyi asked anxiously from behind. Azure spiritual energy had already enveloped Qin Xiao Chuan's back, and Guo Shiyi began to heal him.

"It's nothing." Qin Xiaochuan gritted his teeth and shook his head, saying, "Gonggong's skills have extremely strong penetrating power, while my defensive abilities are all geared towards physical defense, which is why I suffered a loss."

Guo Shiyi said with a worried look, "Why don't we avoid his attacks for now? His continuous skill attacks must be consuming a lot of spiritual energy. We can counterattack when his spiritual energy is almost depleted, and you will also have time to heal."

Qin Xiaochuan looked up at Gonggong and, noticing no signs of spiritual energy depletion, said, "My injuries are not serious. Xuanwu said that Gonggong can absorb energy from the surrounding waters to recover. Dragging this out is not good for us; we must finish this quickly."

"But..." Guo Shiyi swallowed her words, but Qin Xiaochuan understood what she meant. Judging from the current situation, it would be good enough if Qin Xiaochuan could keep himself from getting hurt. It was simply a pipe dream to defeat the other party in a short period of time.

Qin Xiaochuan understood all this, but he had no other choice now. He had witnessed the earth-shattering war of destruction in ancient times in the illusion of the Heavenly Stele, and he knew very well what kind of catastrophe humanity would face if Gonggong were to fully recover his strength. Now was his only chance to stop this catastrophe. Sometimes in life, you have to face such choices, doing what you know is impossible, so that you won't have any regrets later.

Although it was a last resort, Qin Xiaochuan was not someone who would fight mindlessly. He believed that no matter how powerful the enemy was, they would have weaknesses. The reason he kept fighting was to find Gonggong's weakness.

"Shiyi, don't you think the skills Gonggong uses are all very special?" Qin Xiaochuan asked.

Upon hearing this, Guo Shiyi looked up at Gonggong, only to see that Gonggong unleashed a series of skills with every gesture, each skill being different, all shooting towards Qin Xiaochuan from all directions.

After those skills were released, Qin Xiaochuan predicted their trajectory in his mental space and guided Kaiming through the gaps in Gonggong's skills. However, Gonggong had too many skills, and they kept coming one after another. Although Kaiming tried his best to dodge, some skills still could not be avoided. A giant dragon with its claws bared charged towards Qin Xiaochuan.

"Eight Fire Walls Formation!" Qin Xiaochuan had no choice but to unleash a skill to defend. The fire wall formation he had created had been carefully modified. He had incorporated metal-elemental spiritual power into the fire wall technique, referencing the Xuanwu Shield, greatly enhancing its defensive capabilities. He had also combined multiple fire wall techniques with a magic array. The previous Eight Fire Walls Formation was simply a simple stacking of fire wall techniques, but now it resembled a magic array. With his current strength, he believed that releasing it would achieve the power of an S-rank skill.

Boom! The water dragon and his fire wall formation collided and turned into dust at the same time. Qin Xiaochuan's blood surged again, but fortunately, with Guo Shiyi's spiritual power protecting him this time, Qin Xiaochuan was not seriously injured.

"Gonggong seems to be able to unleash multiple different skills at the same time." Guo Shiyi finally answered Qin Xiaochuan's question, and she described what she had seen in detail.

"That's right, that's true. I can also release several skills at the same time, but they are all the same kind of skill. For example, I can release multiple Fire Wall spells at the same time to form a Fire Wall array, and I can also release multiple Fire Shot spells at the same time to form a chain Fire Shot array. But it is almost impossible to release multiple different skills at the same time," Qin Xiaochuan said seriously.

"Of course, each skill has a different way of being cast. Casting multiple different skills at the same time is like multitasking, which is difficult for most people to do," Guo Shiyi said.

"No, that's not how it works. Gonggong's skill release isn't simply about multitasking." Qin Xiaochuan watched as Gonggong simply waved his hand, and countless skills formed in front of him, which further confirmed his idea.

"What method did he use?" Guo Shiyi asked, puzzled.

Qin Xiaochuan stared into deep thought. He had a strange feeling in his heart, but he couldn't put it into words, and he couldn't answer Guo Shiyi's question for a moment.

Indeed, each skill has its own way of being released. Some are released through incantations, while others are released through different hand seals. Moreover, the flow of spiritual energy is also different. In any case, it will be shown when the caster releases the skill. However, when Gonggong releases his skills, there is no trace of casting spells at all. He just swings them out directly, as if those skills were originally part of his body.

Why is this happening? Qin Xiaochuan was very puzzled. Could it be that the rules for releasing skills by the ancient witch clan were different from those of modern people?

Thinking of this, Qin Xiaochuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and blurted out, "No, it's not that the ancient witch clan's rules for releasing skills are different, it's that there are no rules!"

"No rules?" Guo Shiyi was even more confused when she heard Qin Xiaochuan say something seemingly out of nowhere.

Qin Xiaochuan thought about it carefully again before trying to organize his thoughts and said, "That's right. Gonggong releases skills in a way that is unpredictable. We usually think that all skills must be released through fixed rules because we learned skills in this way from the beginning. Over time, this way of thinking becomes deeply ingrained, and thinking can affect our behavior. But in reality, all skills are transformed from spiritual power. If you have absolute control over spiritual power, you can break free from the constraints of the casting method and let the spiritual power transform at will to release different skills."

Qin Xiaochuan became more and more excited as he spoke. He felt that he had suddenly realized a new level of understanding, but it would not be easy to apply this understanding to actual combat in a short period of time.

Hearing Qin Xiaochuan's explanation, Guo Shiyi suddenly understood and said, "Now that you put it that way, I understand. Master often said that experience and rules can help us avoid detours, but they can also often trap us within experience and rules. To realize the Great Dao, we must first break free from the attachment to enlightenment. He also often said that all phenomena are illusory. If we see all phenomena as non-phenomena, we will see the Tathagata! That's the principle he was talking about."

"If you see all forms as non-forms, then you will see the Tathagata!" Qin Xiaochuan murmured to himself, as if he had suddenly thought of something, but it was as if there was a veil between them, and he could not see it clearly. So he immediately focused his mind and calmed his breath, and entered a state of meditation. He felt that the world around him had suddenly stopped, and the spiritual power in his body had become clearer. But this time, Qin Xiaochuan felt that the spiritual power was also illusory. Behind the spiritual power, there seemed to be something like a black hole. There was nothing in the black hole, but it could release endless energy.