The Southern Heavenly Gate
To the left and right of the gate, eight golden figures, each a hundred feet tall, stood like Divine Mountains.
They were clad in chainmail armor engraved with the True Immortal Divine Armor of the Nine Heavens Divine Patterns, wielding eight Nine-Bend Immortal-Slaying Ancient Spears, each three hundred feet long, and their bodies surged with the powerful laws of the early stage of the Ninth-Tier True Immortal.
Each one is powerful enough to sweep across a country in the Lower Realm and dominate the rise and fall of billions of living beings.
Sudden!
The once calm and flowing Southern Heavenly Gate Star River violently trembled, and an extremely brutal Spatial Rift was torn open thousands of feet away from the gate.
Boom!
The massive tremor from the shattering of the World Barrier triggered a continuous ringing of alarm bells throughout the protective array of the Southern Heavenly Gate.
The eight Golden-Armored Heavenly Generals suddenly opened their eyes, and a sharp killing intent capable of piercing through the Void instantly erupted from their golden Immortal Dao double pupils.
"Who are you, you scoundrel?!"
The golden-armored general at the head of the group stepped forward, his ancient spear, which he held, slammed heavily onto the star trail, causing waves to surge for thousands of miles.
However, what emerged from that violent Spatial Rift was neither the imperial carriage of one of their expected colleagues, nor an envoy from an upper-realm Immortal Sect.
He was a teenager.
He was dressed in a faded coarse cloth shirt, barefoot, with a rusty broken Broken Saber casually tucked behind his waist.
Even her hair was simply tied up with a plain hemp rope.
Ordinary cultivation in the Lower Realm?
The eight golden-armored generals were slightly taken aback, and then the wariness in their eyes instantly turned into utter absurdity and chilling intent.
One hundred thousand years.
Since the Celestial Court of the Supreme Sovereign ruled over the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, which ant in the Lower Realm, wishing to pay homage, hadn't knelt outside the Star Gate three times and kowtowed nine times, offering the most precious treasures of the entire realm?
Now, a native from the Lower Realm who doesn't even have a protective magic weapon has actually shattered the boundary barrier with his bare hands and swaggered to the Southern Heavenly Gate?
"Presumptuous!"
The leading divine general's expression darkened, as if a god were judging an ant; his grand, cold divine voice resounded throughout the Star Domain:
"How dare you, a mere ant among the Lower Realm, trespass through the Heavenly Gate without the imperial decree, shaking the Immortal Array!"
"According to the Heavenly Laws, his Divine Soul should be stripped away, and he should be banished to the Nine Netherworlds Prison for ten thousand years to be used as lamplight!"
Kneel down and accept your punishment!
With a furious roar, eight enormous, incomparable ancient spears that could slay immortals were raised simultaneously, their tips locking onto the boy's acupoints. The immense pressure of a true Immortal Might transformed into tangible golden light, crashing down from the sky.
Despite the divine might of the Heavenly Court, powerful enough to crush an entire Ancient Cultivation Star into dust, the white-robed youth did not even stop his advance.
He slowly raised his eyelids, and in his dark, deep eyes, there was a grayish-red, illusory image of Millstone.
Cold.
Tyrannical.
Like an extreme god or demon crawling out of the Abyss of the starry sky, it is eyeing a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered in a pen.
Within ten breaths.
Chen Fan spoke, his voice not loud, yet strangely overwhelming the thunder and Immortal Might, chilling to the bone.
"Hand over your supervising True Immortal, and the keys to the elixir storehouse." Before the words were finished, the entire Southern Heaven Star Domain fell into a deathly silence.
The pupils of the eight golden-armored generals simultaneously shrank to the size of pinpoints, almost unable to believe their ears.
Warehouse keys?
Offered with both hands?
A local peasant from a lower-level medicinal garden walked barefoot to the gates of the Heavenly Court, not only failing to kneel and pay homage, but also mistaking the Celestial Court of the Supreme Sovereign for a pawnshop in the mortal realm that had been robbed by bandits?
"You damned bastard!"
The leading divine general laughed in fury, his golden Divine Blood surging wildly through his meridians, and his entire immortal armor radiating dazzling brilliance.
"This madman has defied the law; he shall die!"
Boom!
The ancient spear, three hundred feet long, suddenly pierced through the Void.
The laws of the Early True Immortal were wrapped around the spear blade, tearing a ten-thousand-foot-wide rift in the void. With a world-shattering gravity capable of annihilating all living beings, it slammed head-on into Chen Fan's crown.
This attack was relentless, intended to crush this arrogant Mortal Body, along with its Divine Soul, into a bloody mist and dust.
However, facing the devastating force that was slashing down on him, Chen Fan didn't even blink.
He simply raised his bare left arm slowly.
Spread your five fingers wide and grab at the air.
Clang!
A deafening roar that shattered metal and split rocks suddenly echoed in front of the Southern Heavenly Gate, and the sound waves instantly shattered tens of thousands of floating meteorites within a radius of tens of thousands of miles.
The tip of that heavy ancient spear, powerful enough to pierce through Ancient Cultivation Star, was firmly grasped in the palm of a fair and slender hand.
Purely a matter of physical endurance!
The raging True Immortal Laws assaulted Chen Fan's palms relentlessly, but it was like throwing a stone into the sea; it couldn't even break through the layer of dead skin on his surface.
"This... how is this possible?!"
The leading general's expression changed drastically. The muscles in his arms bulged like writhing dragons as he exerted all his strength to try to push the ancient spear forward by half an inch, or to withdraw it.
But the other end of the ancient spear seemed to be frozen deep within an extremely Divine Mountain, remaining completely still.
"One breath."
Chen Fan remained indifferent and uttered two words.
Immediately afterwards, he suddenly exerted force with his five fingers.
Click!
A piercing cracking sound tore through the starry sky.
This Mid-Grade Immortal Treasure spear, forged over 30,000 years from a mixture of Taiyi Geng Gold and Star-Core Essence, was as fragile as a dried-out straw under the crushing force of Chen Fan's pure divine and demonic power. It shattered from the tip of the spear into countless golden iron filings flying everywhere!
"Puff!"
With his natal immortal artifact destroyed, the leading divine general was struck as if by lightning. He spat out a mouthful of golden immortal blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and staggered backward for thousands of feet, his chest armor completely shattered.
"Demon! Form the Immortal-Slaying Demon-Subduing Array!"
The remaining seven True Immortals were completely stunned by this scene, their arrogance instantly replaced by bone-chilling horror.
Seven celestial bodies, each ten thousand feet tall, retreated simultaneously, landing at the seven array eyes of the Southern Heavenly Gate. Ancient spears clashed, triggering the countless Primordial Runes flowing across the lintel.
Rumble!
High above the nine heavens, a Thunder Pool Dharma Form, formed from billions of crimson lightning bolts, appeared out of thin air.
The Immortal-Slaying Divine Thunder!
This is the method used by the Celestial Court of the Supreme Sovereign to suppress all Lower Realms. Even a giant in the Late Great Vehicle Mahayana stage would be instantly reduced to ashes if touched by even a trace of it.
"Fall!"
The seven gods roared in unison, causing the Thunder Pool to turn upside down.
A massive, crimson lightning waterfall, thousands of miles wide, carrying a torrent of laws capable of destroying everything, melted the Void within a radius of tens of thousands of miles into liquid before crashing down upon Chen Fan.
Despite being engulfed in a vast, stormy sea, Chen Fan's white robes remained completely untouched by scorch marks.
"We're offering you a way to survive, but you won't choose it yourself."
Chen Fan whispered, then pulled out the rusty, Broken Saber from his waist.
The instant the blade completely detached from its sheath, the gravity and laws of the entire starry sky froze instantly.
Behind him, a towering, gray-white Millstone, hundreds of thousands of feet tall, suddenly rose from the ground with a roar.
The Taiji reversed, the Life Formation Core frantically contracted inward, and the Death Formation Core, like a gaping maw of chaos, forcibly dragged the cascading torrent of immortal-slaying lightning into the core of the vortex.
Crack!
The tyrannical divine lightning of destruction didn't even cause a ripple; it was forcibly crushed the moment it touched the Millstone, transforming into the purest fire elemental Origin Source, nourishing the boundaries of the Divine Kingdom within Chen Fan's body.