Chapter 161: The Great Wheel of Yin and Yang

As the story previously told, the three wolf demons had their heart meridians severely damaged by Chen Yao's "Heavenly Soldier Drumbeating," causing their demonic energy to reverse flow. At this moment, the happiest entity of all was none other than the Primordial Mystery Dragon.

"Rihui, it seems your clever little schemes are as abundant as ever. You actually managed to split up the Earth-Pacifying God Incantation and use it piece by piece! Those four lines of incantation acted like four walls, trapping them right inside!"

The Mystery Dragon chuckled heartily and said, "Thanks to you, even if we can't finish them off right this second, my burden has been lightened immensely!"

"Times are progressing, and our strategies must keep pace with the era!" Chen Yao chuckled. "Besides, when dealing with crafty wolf demons and monsters, you can't get anywhere without pulling off a few tricks!"

On the other side, the lead wolf shouted to the Wolf Fiend, "Leader, the sound of this drum is far too tyrannical. If this keeps going, all three of us are going to be blasted to death by him!"

"I know he's powerful!"

The Wolf Fiend was also furious, feeling a deep sense of frustration. "Now that the three of them have sustained internal injuries, our strengths seemed to have balanced out again. In case that fellow Weizi comes back, that would spell absolute disaster for us!"

With that thought, the Wolf Fiend brought his palms together and actually began chanting a Daoist spell!

"Earthly Fiends of the Eight Directions, uniting with Heaven above, Earth below, and Water and Fire in the midst, come swiftly to my aid! Obey this command with utmost haste!"

Seeing this, the Mystery Dragon was greatly startled and hurriedly pulled back the step he was about to take toward the wolf demons. "Hey, hey, hey! Rihui, this Wolf Fiend has actually cultivated Daoist arts. This is vastly different from the Wolf Fiends we've dealt with before!"

Rihui was also exceptionally shocked. "It seems this Wolf Fiend has peered into certain truths of heaven and earth, carving out a whole new realm above his demonic cultivation!"

"Hahahaha!"

As soon as the Wolf Fiend finished chanting his incantation, distinct black and white Taiji Bagua patterns materialized all over his body!

Hiding in the shadows, Xiaobao gasped in sheer astonishment. "My god, what is going on?! How does the Wolf Fiend know Daoist arts?!"

"We are in serious trouble now!" Wenxing's expression changed drastically. "Just when I thought Master had the upper hand, who would have thought this Wolf Fiend could actually practice Daoist arts? This is truly unheard of!"

Hengxing nodded repeatedly as well. "There has never been a monster in history that cultivated into a fiend and then went on to practice the Dao!"

The Wolf Fiend opened his left claw and shouted, "Water, come!"

A clear element of water instantly condensed upon his left palm. Then, hearing him shout, "Fire, come!"

True to expectation, a blazing element of fire materialized in his right palm!

At this point, even Chen Yao felt a deep sense of difficulty. "How on earth did this Wolf Fiend manage to master both the Dao and demonic arts? Moreover, his Daoist arts are not orthodox Daoism; they resemble the spells used by crooked demonic practitioners. This is the first time I've ever encountered such a formidable foe."

"Master and Jingxin pursued him for decades without managing to subdue him. It seems this Wolf Fiend truly possesses extraordinary capabilities! Did he figure out these Daoist arts entirely on his own without a master, or was he taught by some rogue Daoist practitioner?"

Before Chen Yao could ponder further, the two pure elemental energies in the Wolf Fiend's hands struck toward him from left to right at lightning speed!

"Rihui, getting hit by this kind of energy is no joke. You must be extremely careful!"

With a flick of his body, the Mystery Dragon had already darted a hundred meters away!

The Wolf Fiend's objective was crystal clear: first, to force Chen Yao to stop beating that divine drum; and second, to attack Chen Yao with the power of water and fire, establishing an unshakeable advantage before Daoist Weizi arrived!

"Boundless Heaven and Earth, Universe lend me your force! A scroll of the Divine Light Incantation makes phenomena appear in the empty air. Chant the Golden Light Incantation, and ten thousand deities bow their hands in salute! Supreme Celestial Venerable, obey this command with utmost haste!"

A heaven-shaking incantation echoed from the air. Dabao and Dachun recognized it—this was the "Golden Bell Jar" contained within the "Golden Light God Incantation" that Chen Yao had used to rescue them from the human-snake entity's grasp!

The giant bell, radiating a dazzling golden light and covered entirely in talismans, instantly enclosed Chen Yao. At the same exact moment, two deep sounds of "Boom! Boom!" rang out as the water and fire elements crashed into it like ferocious tigers descending from the mountain!

"Puff!"

Chen Yao's mind and soul shook violently, his ears rang with a buzzing sound, and a trace of dark blood seeped from the corner of his mouth!

"Ahahaha!"

Seeing that Chen Yao had suffered a covert blow, the Wolf Fiend laughed heartily and taunted, "Rihui, you never expected that I would have mastered Daoist arts, did you?"

Inside the golden bell, Rihui wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, let out a cold snarl, and said, "What you practice cannot be considered true Daoist arts. At best, it is nothing more than heterodox sorcery!"

"Heterodox sorcery? Even so, it is derived from orthodox Daoist arts. The world is changing, and wise people know how to adapt. As long as one can bend Daoist arts to serve their own ends, what does it matter if it becomes heterodox? You people cling blindly to outdated rules, and in the end, aren't you going to be wiped out anyway?!"

Chen Yao rebuked harshly, "Not everything that adapts is heterodox sorcery. Using Daoist arts to harm people—that is true heterodox sorcery!"

He pointed straight at the Wolf Fiend and declared, "You use Daoist arts to harm others. No matter how pure your spells may seem, they are still heterodox sorcery! Today, I, Rihui, shall let you witness the profound and boundless nature of my Daoist sect!"

With that, Chen Yao fiercely bit down on the index and middle fingers of both hands, shockingly drawing a long, blood-red talisman directly in mid-air!

"What kind of Daoist art is Master using? He can actually draw talismans right in empty air?!" Seeing Chen Yao's wondrous and profound technique for drawing talismans, Xiaobao and Dachun were left staring in gape-mouthed amazement!

Wenxing smiled faintly at the corners of his eyes and explained, "That is Master's 'Radiant Sun Filling the Sky'! It looks like Master has made up his mind to completely subdue the Wolf Fiend!"

"Light of Heaven, light of Earth, light of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, the great common light, illuminating all ten directions! I invoke the Supreme Laojun to obey this command with utmost haste!"

As soon as the incantation finished, the blood-red spiritual talisman drawn by Chen Yao transformed into a pair of sun and moon wheels, penetrating the golden bell jar from left to right and hanging quietly suspended in mid-air.

The Wolf Fiend was no fool; he was hardly going to stand there quietly waiting for Chen Yao to unleash his attack. He shouted once more, "Water, come! Fire, come!", and two streams of energy carrying his demonic might and spellcraft surged forward like tornadoes, flying swiftly toward the sun and moon wheels!

"Puff! Puff!"

Before those two streams of energy could even touch Chen Yao's sun and moon wheels, they were forcefully deflected away by an invisible repulsive force, crashing straight into the three wolf demons who were still standing there in shock!

"Ah!!!"

The pathetic three wolf demons hadn't even had time to react before their bodies were struck by the Wolf Fiend's powerful backlash, sending them flying backward to crash heavily against the wall and plummet into a pile of shattered rubble that buried them completely.

"You! What kind of Daoist art is this?!"

Seeing Chen Yao execute such miraculous Daoist magic, the likes of which he had not witnessed in thousands of years, the Wolf Fiend's expression changed drastically as he took several steps back. "Good heavens, you actually managed to create your own Daoist art?!"

The corners of Chen Yao's mouth curved upward. Instead of answering the Wolf Fiend's challenge, he brought his palms together, rotating them simultaneously around his palms' centers, and roared, "Yin and Yang are boundless, Universe lend me your force, Dragons battle in the wilderness, all ten directions perish! Obey this command with utmost haste!"

The moment the incantation fell, the sun and moon wheels suspended high in the air began to spin! The sun and moon wheels acted like two giant magatama jades, head meeting tail and tail meeting head, spinning faster and faster, faster and faster!

"BOOM!!!"

A beam of golden light shot forth from the rapidly spinning sun and moon wheels, aiming straight at the Wolf Fiend!

"Oh no, there is definitely trickery in this!"

The Wolf Fiend was alarmed and immediately tried to dodge the entangling golden light at top speed. However, no matter where he ran or how fast he moved, that beam of golden light locked onto him as relentlessly as a precision laser targeting sight!

"That shape of the sun and moon wheels—aren't they just the magatama symbols from the Bagua?" Xiaobao gripped Dachun's hand tightly. "Dachun, I have a very bad feeling about this!"

"Rihui Yin-Yang Wheels, retract!"

At Chen Yao's command, the rapidly spinning Bagua magatama generated an overwhelmingly powerful gravitational pull, slowly sucking the once-haughty Wolf Fiend straight into its center!