The Investiture: Unlimited Blade Works Nezha-Chapter 311 - 310: Master Ball

The Qilin clan governs the earth veins, but not all Qilins possess the Earth attribute. There are Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and Thunder attributes, among others, but among them, the Earth Qilin stands as the king of the Qilin clan.

Just standing there, the Earth Qilin exuded a heavy and majestic aura unique to the earth itself.

Nezha initially thought, "Evil demon from a foreign path, no need to talk about Primordial morality, let’s gang up together and attack." However, it turns out that masters often carry their pride, coupled with a hint of innate repulsion.

Thus, the one sent to battle the Earth Qilin was Jin Ling Saint Mother.

Earth brings forth Gold; Jin Ling naturally carried an innate advantage against the Earth Qilin.

Jin Ling Saint Mother fought without any flashy moves, her whole body glowing with golden light like a female War God charging head-on.

The Earth Qilin appeared to share the same combat style. It raised its forehoof and charged forward. With each gallop, its scaled armor-covered legs resonated deeply with the earth beneath.

The earth vein’s energy ceaselessly poured into the Earth Qilin’s body. Though its speed wasn’t fast, the feeling of solidity and heaviness rushed forth like a tidal wave.

Jin Ling, resembling a golden cannonball, directly smashed into the "city wall."

After a deafening blast that seemed to shake the heavens and earth, Jin Ling’s hands pressed firmly against the Earth Qilin’s two horns, yet she was forced back several paces.

The Earth Qilin roared loudly, its hooves stomping heavily on the ground, releasing a dirt-yellow halo that enveloped both combatants. Jin Ling felt her body suddenly burdened thousands of times over.

As her body struggled to adapt, she was pushed back several more steps by the Earth Qilin.

Jin Ling’s body radiated dazzling light from the Golden Dao, which flowed and intertwined as she absorbed and transformed the overwhelming Earth energy. The golden glow on her body grew ever brighter.

Her three-headed and six-armed Dharma Form manifested, one of her arms wielding the Dragon Tiger Ruyi, imbued with golden sturdiness, which she swung fiercely at the Earth Qilin’s head.

Though Jin Ling’s ability to convert Earth energy had an upper limit, she managed to weaken the Earth Qilin’s formidable defense by three layers. Her powerful strike sent it flying several meters away.

Despite the heavy blow to its head, the Earth Qilin appeared largely unscathed. Rising to its feet, it shook its head and shot two dirt-yellow beams of light from its eyes towards Jin Ling.

Even though Jin Ling’s cultivation surpassed the Earth Qilin’s, it wasn’t to the extent of entirely evading its gaze. At that moment, she felt her whole body stiffen, as dense Earth laws invaded her, gradually inducing a petrification effect.

However, the Five Element Path balances itself through mutual generation and restraint. Jin Ling drove her Golden Dao to its peak, transforming Earth energy into Gold to counter the invasive mana. Instead of harming her, the Earth Qilin’s divine skill inadvertently replenished her mana continuously.

Seeing its divine skill rendered ineffective, the Earth Qilin roared furiously. With the weight of a continent upon its hooves, it stomped heavily toward Jin Ling. She showed no fear, wielding the Dragon Tiger Ruyi with one hand and the Flying Gold Sword with the other to meet its attack.

Man and beast fought fiercely, the battle raging to the point where heaven and earth blurred.

One absorbed the infinite energy of the earth veins to replenish itself, while the other treated its opponent as a source of energy, turning the battle into a heated exchange that showed no signs of ending anytime soon.

From a distance, Nezha and Kong Xuan watched the ongoing fight. Nezha furrowed his brows slightly—the battles of such powerful figures often lasted for hundreds or thousands of years, and deciding life and death could stretch into tens of thousands. It was too much time for him to spend here.

Tens of thousands of years? Even the monkey’s sentence was only five hundred years!

Yet the Mirage Pearl in Nezha’s hand pointed toward the Earth Qilin. Could this Earth Qilin actually be the Mirage Dragon?

"Sister Kong Xuan, could this Earth Qilin possibly be the Mirage Dragon?"

Kong Xuan, being a Second Corpse Quasi-Saint with a discerning eye, observed carefully for a moment before replying, "Yes and no. This Earth Qilin is shaped by the Mirage Dragon’s dream-realm strength combined with the essence of an Earth Qilin and remnants of the dream realm. Truthfully, this Earth Qilin is already long dead.

A Quasi-Saint’s combat power isn’t something common. This Mirage Dragon’s avatar could only exhibit such battle prowess here."

"Moreover, supported by the dream-realm’s power, while Daoist Jin Ling holds the upper hand, fully killing it is out of the question—not even with the supreme Qingping Sword."

While observing the intense battle in the distance and gaining insight into Gold and Earth elemental power, Nezha asked, "Sister, do you have any good ideas for dealing with it?"

"The best way to handle the Earth Qilin is to sever its connection with the earth. I could suppress it using the Five-Colored Divine Light, but if I do that, I won’t be able to fight against any stronger enemies in the future."

Considering the prior intelligence along with the Earth Qilin before them, it wasn’t hard to surmise that the Mirage Dragon might also have avatars of the Dragon and Phoenix clans. Losing their strongest ally at this moment was definitely not ideal.

Nezha pondered for a while before coming up with a plan. He presented his spirit sphere containing Yu Qiang to Kong Xuan.

"Sister, take a look at this."

As someone who had mastered the Five-Colored Divine Light to the utmost, Kong Xuan swiftly grasped the sphere’s intricacies. She commented, "The idea is excellent, though the blue light within is somewhat weak, and the transitions between the five elements are rather crude. Hmm, the Earth’s ability to tolerate and accommodate has been developed quite nicely.

Nevertheless, mastering the Five-Colored Divine Light in such a short time is truly impressive."

Now that’s expertise!

"So, the concept is to extend the Five-Colored Divine Light’s capacity as a special enhancement to the Five-Colored Stones? A commendable idea indeed. The balanced attributes of these stones make them excellent tools of reliance."

"Sister, could you use the same method to seal this Earth Qilin?"

After studying briefly, Kong Xuan replied, "It should be doable, though I’d need higher-quality Five-Colored Stones."

The refinement method for these stones was a unique craft imparted by Lady Nuwa to Nezha, and while Nezha could create them, he was far from matching Nuwa in skill.

Nuwa, admittedly out of laziness, had directly passed the technique to Nezha, which meant Nezha had only a handful of top-grade Five-Colored Stones.

Taking out three, he handed them to Kong Xuan. As she held them, sensing the seamless Five Element energy within, she couldn’t help but exclaim, "The methods of the Saintess are truly extraordinary!"

Without further ado, she began infusing her Five-Colored Divine Light into the stones using specialized techniques, while Nezha watched intently to study her methods.

After roughly three days, three spirit spheres crafted by Kong Xuan emerged. If the one Nezha used to seal Yu Qiang was akin to an ordinary spirit sphere, these were comparable to master-grade spheres capable of handling anything.

Having devised their strategy, Kong Xuan stepped forward. Her multicolored peacock feathers unfurled behind her, weaving a brilliant Five-Colored Divine Light that effortlessly separated the Earth and Gold elements on the battlefield.

The Earth Qilin seemed to sense danger. It quickly summoned the earth vein power to resist the Five-Colored Divine Light, but the yellow light proved overwhelmingly suppressive against it. As the other four elements cycled, the yellow light intensified in power.

With a flash of divine light, the Earth Qilin was swept into the Five-Colored Divine Light.

Kong Xuan’s feathers swiftly retracted, though the immense pressure from containing the Earth Qilin caused the speed of the divine light to visibly slow down.

"Nezha!"

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