Battlefield
The Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor led nearly 500,000 soldiers from the Fengyuan Gate forward slowly.
Suddenly, a person appeared in front of the Azure Emperor; it was Zhang Xingfeng!
"Your Majesty the Azure Emperor, it is truly a pleasure to see you!" Zhang Xingfeng said with a smile.
The Azure Emperor frowned. Heavenly Emperor, Azure Emperor. If it were an ordinary immortal, it would be normal to call the Azure Emperor "Your Majesty" or "Your Majesty the Heavenly Emperor." However, the Azure Emperor knew that Zhang Xingfeng was his equal, after all, Zhang Xingfeng had killed Zi Yan, a master of the late stage of the Immortal Emperor.
The Azure Emperor felt very uncomfortable, but he held back and outwardly appeared very enthusiastic, saying, "Oh, it's Xingfeng! That's wonderful! I've been waiting with bated breath. This million-strong army is just waiting for you to deal with it. I wonder what method you'll use, Xingfeng?"
Zhang Xingfeng said confidently, "Your Majesty need not worry about that. No matter what method I use, I will definitely prevent that million-strong army from exerting its collective effect. Hehe... I wonder if Your Immortal Emperor has prepared the immortal crystals that were agreed upon in advance?"
The muscles on the Azure Emperor's face twitched slightly, but in an instant, they brightened like a gentle spring breeze. "As for this matter, Xingfeng, you don't need to worry about it. I am, after all, the Azure Emperor! How could I break my promise? As long as you, Xingfeng, resolve this million-strong army, I will immediately offer you three million immortal crystals!"
"Good, good, good! I believe His Azure Emperor. Now we just need to wait for the million-strong army to arrive. Since that's the case, I'll take my leave first. When the great battle begins, Xingfeng will definitely take the lead!" Zhang Xingfeng cupped his hands slightly, and with a flash, he disappeared.
The Azure Emperor glanced at the Heavenly Emperor and the others beside him, all of whom were completely bewildered!
"Why isn't Zhang Xingfeng with us? Why did he run off alone? Is he really playing us for a fool?" the Heavenly Emperor asked, puzzled.
The Azure Emperor remained silent, but instead began to spread his Divine Sense downwards.
Suddenly, the Azure Emperor's body trembled, and he withdrew his Divine Sense, saying to the Heavenly Emperor, "Chiyang, it seems that things have changed!"
The Heavenly Emperor and Li Qiang all looked at the Azure Emperor. The Azure Emperor smiled bitterly and said, "Not far from us right now are those twenty old guys led by Huangyan True Person. In this vast wilderness, besides them, there are also those guys from the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm, as well as Gourd Venerable and his forces. It seems they've come just to watch the show. Of course, they wouldn't mind taking advantage of our mutual exhaustion to eliminate us and the Purple Cloud Realm!"
Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Emperor also swept his Divine Sense outwards.
He clearly saw that, far to their west, was the million-strong army of the Purple Cloud Realm. To their south were the old fellows, including Huangyan True Person. South of the Purple Cloud Realm army were the forces of the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm, while Gourd Venerable was far to the north of the Purple Cloud Realm.
Suddenly, the Heavenly Emperor sensed a familiar aura— Zhang Xingfeng's aura.
Zhang Xingfeng's Divine Sense also extended, sending a friendly signal to the Heavenly Emperor. The Heavenly Emperor immediately discovered Zhang Xingfeng's location—where Huangyan True Person and the others were!
The Heavenly Emperor and Li Qiang smiled slightly at the same time.
"Zhang Xingfeng is indeed formidable. He's even teamed up with that Huangyan True Person again. I really don't know whose side Zhang Xingfeng is on. However, the Purple Cloud Realm has mobilized a million troops, and we've also mobilized half a million. Although Huangyan True Person and his group are all experts, they can't exert much power in front of such a large army. Now, as long as we're careful and don't suffer too many losses when eliminating the Purple Cloud Realm, we should be able to deter these guys!" Li Qiang said calmly.
The Heavenly Emperor frowned and said, "Not much loss? The Purple Cloud Realm now has a million-strong army. We have already achieved a great victory by annihilating them. Do you think we can achieve this without losing much strength?"
The Azure Emperor knew how powerful his precious disciple Li Qiang was, so he was full of confidence and didn't care at all!
Immortal Realm Inheritor! That's equivalent to being the ruler of the Immortal Realm; within the Immortal Realm, that's invincible!
A million-strong army? Even if it's tens of millions of troops, as long as they're in the Immortal Realm, they have absolutely no chance of winning against Li Qiang.
Li Qiang himself believed that as long as he was in the Immortal Realm, he was invincible!
But he was wrong. Zhang Xingfeng possessed the unique skill "Realm of Space" and had now mastered "Absolute Space". In this Absolute Space, there was another space, which was equivalent to creating another world in the Immortal Realm. With Absolute Space, Zhang Xingfeng was not afraid of Li Qiang at all!
However, Li Qiang was unaware that, according to the Old Man Hei's own thinking, "Jade must be carved to become a useful object!" His apprentice still had to experience some setbacks.
Huangyan True Person and his group intentionally moved closer to the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm. The top experts of the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm combined numbered nearly twenty Immortal Emperor- level experts. They seemed to be interested in Huangyan True Person and his group of old guys who had dominated the Immortal Realm for hundreds of millions of years, and they also moved closer to Huangyan True Person and his group.
The two groups of people finally met.
"Isn't this Zhang Xingfeng? Xingfeng, you've brought the Divine Stone back, and it feels pretty good!" Old Ancestor Qimu felt a pang of jealousy. He longed to obtain the Divine Stone, but he also knew that there were many forces and experts stronger than him, so he had no chance of getting it. Now that Zhang Xingfeng had obtained the Divine Stone, Old Ancestor Qimu was still a little envious.
Zhang Xingfeng smiled and said politely, "I obtained this Divine Stone by sheer luck! It's all thanks to the experts who didn't chase after me and demand it back. If you had, I might have had to give up the Divine Stone!"
The Bright Sun Sect immediately glared and said, "Huh? Who would be so shameless as to forcibly demand it from Xingfeng? Xingfeng is a good friend of the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm. Offending Xingfeng is offending the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm! If anyone dares to demand it from Xingfeng, the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm will not stand idly by!"
The other Lingyu Sect Longshi Sect, echoed, "That's right, offending Xingfeng is offending the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm!"
Although the four sect leaders said this, they cursed inwardly, "Hmph, this kid only has a master backing him up. If it weren't for the Fire God, they would have gone after him long ago! But this kid is really powerful, he actually killed Zi Yan. Hmm, he does have strength!"
Although they thought this in their hearts, the four sect leaders showed great enthusiasm on their faces.
Zhang Xingfeng immediately burst into laughter, a truly radiant smile...
"I'm so incredibly excited! The four sect leaders have treated me so well; I truly don't know how I can repay them. Perhaps the only thing I can be proud of is my master. He might be visiting my Tianxin Sect in a while, and when that happens, I will definitely invite the four sect leaders to the Cultivation World!" Zhang Xingfeng was full of lies, but he didn't even blink, let alone blush.
Upon hearing this, the four sect leaders immediately recalled the Fire God's madness in setting fire to the sky and the earth, and each of them trembled in their hearts.
The sect leaders all said, "Ah, no need, no need, Xingfeng, your master. We won't go. Hehe, after all, there are rules in the Immortal Realm that those whose cultivation surpasses that of Nine Heavens Profound Immortal cannot enter the lower realms!"
Zhang Xingfeng's face darkened as he said, "Do the four of you perhaps look down on me, Zhang Xingfeng, or on my master?"
The four sect leaders might have some guts to look down on Zhang Xingfeng! But they wouldn't dare to look down on the Fire God even if they had ten times the courage!
"Xingfeng, how can you say that? The rules of the Immortal Realm must still be followed. Immortals above the Nine Heavens Profound Immortal realm cannot descend; there's nothing we can do about it. Besides, how could we possibly look down on you, Xingfeng? As for your master, we respect him from the bottom of our hearts!" The Lingyu Sect's face radiated with admiration...
Zhang Xingfeng sneered, "What agreement? These agreements are for those nobody's eyes. In the past, haven't you ever been to the Cultivation World? I remember when the Immortal Crystal Planet appeared last time, all the experts rushed to the Cultivation World like crazy!"
The four sect leaders were speechless.
Zhang Xingfeng continued, "Moreover, the Immortal Realm Agreement was formulated by the forces of the three Immortal Emperors. Now that they are fighting a great war, it is hard to say what the future will be like. However, the agreement they formulated back then is naturally invalid."
Upon hearing Zhang Xingfeng's words, the four sect leaders' eyes lit up.
Bright Sun Sect immediately said, "Xingfeng, once the battle begins, the situation will be hard to predict. However, I believe that the status of our Four Sects of the Immortal Realm will definitely rise. No matter which side loses, there will be many unclaimed cities, and that will be our opportunity. Xingfeng, would you like an Immortal Realm city as well? Don't worry, with the strength of our four sects, we can still acquire quite a few. Giving you one is no problem!"
The other three sect leaders also echoed, "Yes, yes!"
Zhang Xingfeng knew that these guys were being generous with other people's money, and the reason they were treating him this way was probably because of his master, the Old Man Huo who called himself the controller of the cosmic fire element!
"Don't worry, everyone. Huangyan True Person his group are determined to take this city. With their strength, I believe capturing the city will be a piece of cake!" Zhang Xingfeng said immediately.
Huangyan True Person glanced at the four sect leaders, nodded slightly, but said nothing.
The four sect leaders also knew that Huangyan True Person was a peerless master of their previous generation. On that day on Earth, a planet in the Immortal Realm, his body suddenly transformed into something resembling rock, even approaching the Divine Stone by only five steps. His power was evident; after all, even ordinary late-stage Immortal Emperor, such as the Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor, were only ten steps away from the Divine Stone. Even Ziwei, with her Seven Star Robe, only reached nine steps.
Five steps!
The strength of Huangyan True Person is obvious!
The four sect leaders discussed the matter telepathically. They knew how powerful Huangyan True Person, as well as the group of Huangyan True Person guys behind him. Back when Huangyan True Person and his brother, Old Man Huangshi, dominated the Immortal Realm, they also led a group of Immortal Monarch or Nine Heavens Profound Immortal with no background. They followed Huangyan True Person, and now, hundreds of millions of years later, these guys who were not considered top experts in the past are now all Immortal Emperor level experts.
With such a powerful group, capturing a city would be extremely easy.
"True Person, why don't we form an alliance with the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm True Person Realm? We have more than forty Immortal Emperor -level experts in total. Is there anyone in the entire Immortal Realm who can rival us? Taking over the city will be a piece of cake then," said Old Ancestor Qimu to Huangyan True Person.
"Not many, just three. We only need three cities!" Huangyan True Person said coolly.
Upon hearing this, the four sect leaders exchanged glances and smiled. Old Ancestor Qimu then said, "On behalf of the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm, I agree that no matter how many cities we jointly seize, three of them will definitely Huangyan True Person!"
Zhang Xingfeng smiled. If Purple Cloud Realm were to perish, there would be eighteen cities. With the combined strength of the Four Sects of the Immortal Realm and Huangyan True Person, capturing ten cities would be incredibly easy. Huangyan True Person, with his numerous experts, only needed to capture three, which was not a high priority at all!
This means Purple Cloud Realm is finished. If it were the experts from Fengyuan Gate and Tianlong Sect who were finished, the combined number of cities of Fengyuan Gate and Tianlong Sect would be even greater, and they would probably have captured even more. Three cities are indeed not many!
Huangyan True Person knew that with his group of old buddies, three cities were indeed too few, but... he had only secured these cities for the sake of the Yan Sect. The Yan Sect was not strong at the moment, and three cities were already the limit of his management. Of course, he still needed old guys like Huangyan True Person to oversee things. Otherwise, the Yan Sect would not be able to reliably manage three major cities.
Ten days later!
"The battle is about to begin!" Zhang Xingfeng looked at the two camps, feeling a surge of excitement.
The sky on both sides was completely covered and densely packed. In a sense, the feeling of an army of 500,000 immortals in the sky was the same as that of an army of 1 million immortals in the sky!
It's everywhere!
It's all so vast that you can't see the sky at all; all you see are immortals! In the wilderness, if you look up, you can't see the sky at all; all you see are immortals!
"Haha... Yuanmu, Chiyang, now that my million-strong army from the Purple Cloud Realm has arrived, why don't you surrender!" Ziwei shouted arrogantly.
The immortals behind Ziwei cheered, their confidence soaring. A million-strong army against an army of about 500,000 was an overwhelming advantage. Although the enemy had many experts, their numbers were no longer significant against a million-strong army.
"Ziwei, stop barking like a dog. If you want to fight, then fight! Today, I, Chiyang, will make you regret what you did to my Tianlong Sect!" When the Heavenly Emperor saw Ziwei, his eyes turned red. The dilapidated Tianlong Sect gate seemed to reappear before his eyes, and the voices and smiles of the dead Immortal Monarch disciples appeared before him.
"Kill!" the Azure Emperor suddenly commanded!
"Kill!" Ziwei was not to be outdone!
Zhang Xingfeng, who had received a telepathic message from the Azure Emperor, had already begun to take action.