After Gu Xi left the Human Tribe, he raced onward without pause.
Before long, he was hundreds of thousands of miles from the Human Race.
Boom!
Without warning, a golden divine ruler wreathed in purple energy and accompanied by nine golden flowers shot toward Gu Xi.
Pure yang energy cascaded from the ruler like a waterfall, crushing one mountain after another beneath it.
The ruler's attack seemed to be a signal.
The next instant, a divine ring encircled by dragons and phoenixes, a precious cauldron shimmering with countless images of mountains and rivers, and a blood fork trailing sky-high Blood Flame came hurtling toward Gu Xi in succession.
A dense barrage of supernatural abilities rained down on him like a meteor shower.
Heaven and Earth Vital Energy boiled for hundreds of thousands of miles around. Vast divine power shattered great swathes of space, while mountain after mountain crumbled to dust.
"So you finally couldn't hold back?"
Gu Xi immediately unleashed the Great Five Elements Art. An enormous Five-Colored Pagoda appeared above his head.
The Five-Colored Pagoda radiated brilliant light, surrounded by auspicious clouds and mist. Faint thunder rumbled within it, amid flashes of crystalline lightning.
Torrents of Five Elements Power poured down like waterfalls.
The Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror also appeared above him.
As the Five-Colored Pagoda turned, the Five Elements Power between heaven and earth began to boil. It became five-colored rivers that swept through space.
Most of the incoming supernatural abilities were swept apart by those rivers.
The few that struck the Five-Colored Pagoda raised only faint ripples across it.
Meanwhile, the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror blazed. Innate Divine Restrictions appeared in space, and boundless Six Yang Divine Fire surged from the mirror, forming four thousand-yard fire dragons.
They sent the divine ruler, ring, cauldron, and blood fork flying.
"A Primordial Spiritual Treasure! What a powerful Primordial Spiritual Treasure!"
The hidden Gods and Demons watched the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror repel four treasures with ease, and heat flared in their eyes.
"Human Race Gu Xi, leave your two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and all your Acquired Spiritual Treasures behind, and we'll spare your life!"
"Gu Xi, a wise man knows when to yield. You must know that it's no blessing for a mere Golden Immortal to possess so many treasures. Hand them over."
"A common man is innocent until the jade in his arms makes him guilty... Gu Xi, your strength doesn't warrant so many treasures."
Voices rang out from the void as Gods and Demons threatened Gu Xi and demanded every treasure he carried.
"Hmph. Cowards who hide their heads and show their tails dare threaten me?"
Gu Xi sneered. Divine light shot from his head and became the five-headed, nine-armed Dharma Form of Pan Wu. It flashed toward a patch of space, its nine arms striking with Magic Tools while its five heads spewed Divine Fire.
"Argh!"
A scream erupted there. The Dharma Form of Pan Wu smashed a bat-winged God or Demon to pieces, then collected his Dao Seed.
As it attacked, a mass of dark clouds shot from above Gu Xi's head toward a forest below.
Wild thunder and lightning, erupting volcanoes, raging floods, a collapsing Starry Sky... Countless scenes of disaster unfolded within the clouds, reducing the forest to dust.
A God or Demon shrouded in black mist fled the forest in disarray, only to be battered to death by the countless visions of catastrophe.
More than a dozen Acquired Spiritual Treasures flew from Gu Xi's body. They became brilliant Divine Rainbows that shot in every direction, killing one hidden God or Demon after another.
It took time to tell, but all of it happened almost in the blink of an eye.
In that brief moment, Gu Xi had ruthlessly killed fifteen or sixteen Gods and Demons who had dared pursue him.
"Gu Xi, these fellow cultivators came to ask you to hand over your treasures for your own safety. Who would have thought you'd be so vicious as to murder them?"
"Fellow cultivators, this man has fallen to demonic ways and become a scourge upon the world. Let's join forces and eliminate him."
Gu Xi's killing spree did not frighten away the Gods and Demons who had followed him.
Or rather, the lure of Primordial Spiritual Treasures was too great. They could not bear to give up on seizing them.
Figures enveloped in divine light appeared and surrounded Gu Xi.
Each kept a veil of divine light around their body to block Divine Sense.
Clearly, they did not want their identities exposed.
Perhaps they feared Gu Xi's revenge if they failed, or pursuit by other Gods and Demons if they succeeded and their identities became known.
"Kill!"
Every God and Demon sent supernatural abilities or Magic Treasures hurtling toward Gu Xi.
Their terrifying power shattered the sky across hundreds of thousands of miles.
The heavens broke apart like a mirror, revealing countless black cracks in space.
When the vast surge of energy struck the earth, it unleashed terrible disasters below.
The ground rolled like waves for over a hundred thousand miles. Mountains collapsed, forests were shredded to dust by storms, and great rivers soared into the sky...
Facing their combined attack, Gu Xi did not dare be careless.
Great Destiny Art!
Great Karma Art!
Great Wish Art!
Great Reincarnation Art!
Great Inner Demon Art!
Great Chaos Art!
Great Yin-Yang Art!
His expression solemn, his hands opened one after the other like lotus blossoms. In moments, he unleashed every one of the Three Thousand Great Daos he had learned.
He also drove the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, the Ice Soul Divine Needle, and more than a dozen Acquired Spiritual Treasures to their limits.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom...
Light from supernatural abilities and Magic Treasures engulfed the world as countless attacks collided.
Destructive energy swept in every direction.
Space collapsed, mountains and rivers shattered, and the earth sank...
It seemed as though heaven and earth were coming to an end.
The sight was terrifying.
At that moment, every living being on the East Sea Coast felt the dreadful shockwaves of the battle.
Many weaker creatures trembled in fear, terrified that the aftermath might reach them.
The clash had taken a brutal toll.
Gu Xi's long hair hung in disarray, his robe was torn, and bloody cuts covered his body. A trace of blood marked the corner of his mouth.
The Gods and Demons who had besieged him had fared worse. More than twenty had died.
"Damn it! How is Gu Xi so strong? So many of us attacked him together, yet he survived while we suffered such heavy losses..."
The survivors stared at Gu Xi in shock.
They had suspected that Gu Xi had killed Great Sage Qiongqi, so they had been prepared for his strength.
But the power he had just displayed far exceeded anything they had imagined.
Even setting his treasures aside, Gu Xi's own strength left them dumbstruck. His Magic Power was almost freakishly vast, and he was proficient in so many supreme supernatural abilities.
Gu Xi might well be the strongest Golden Immortal in the history of Hong Huang.
Even Quasi-Sage titans famed throughout Hong Huang—the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches—might not have matched him when they were Golden Immortals.
He was a monster.
Fortunately for them, Gu Xi had been wounded.
That gave them hope.
"Kill!"
The remaining Gods and Demons attacked Gu Xi again.
At the same time, two among them suddenly erupted with terrifying power. A Great Dao Phantom appeared behind each, and torrents of divine power swept across heaven and earth like an ocean.
"Hahaha! Human Race Gu Xi, that was your limit just now, wasn't it? After withstanding a combined strike from so many Gods and Demons, your Magic Power must be nearly exhausted. Your treasures belong to me, Great Sage Yuanyang!"
A towering God or Demon with a Great Dao Phantom behind him laughed wildly and formed a hand large enough to blot out the sky. It reached for Gu Xi.
"Old Ghost Yuanyang, you can't keep all the good things for yourself. Those who see them get a share."
The other God or Demon, who also had a Great Dao Phantom behind him, sneered. Countless bolts of black magnetic divine thunder surged from his body like a tide toward Gu Xi.
"This is bad! Those two Primordial Great Sages were hiding among us!"
The other Gods and Demons paled at the sight of the two launching their sudden attack.
If the Primordial Great Sages succeeded, the rest of them might not even get a sip of the broth.
Yet none of them dared interfere.
Facing the sudden attack of two Primordial Great Sages, Gu Xi's expression did not change. With a thought, a Blood-Colored Pagoda shot from his head, unleashing boundless blood-red light of slaughter.
It was the God Slaying Pagoda he had recently obtained from Great Sage Qiongqi.
At the same time, the Kongtong Seal within his Primordial Spirit trembled, and a ring of golden light spread from his body.
BOOM!
The God Slaying Pagoda and the golden wave stopped both the sky-blotting hand and the tidal surge of magnetic divine thunder.
"What? He has another Primordial Spiritual Treasure?"
"No. Besides the Blood-Colored Pagoda above his head, he must have a Primordial Spiritual Treasure inside his body too."
"Does that mean he has four Primordial Spiritual Treasures in total...?"
At the sight of the God Slaying Pagoda above Gu Xi and the immensely powerful golden light of a treasure radiating from his body, Great Sage Yuanyang and the others nearly went mad.
Damn it!
Gu Xi, a mere Golden Immortal, had four Primordial Spiritual Treasures!
If word spread, all of Hong Huang would be shaken.
How many Quasi-Sage titans possessed only one Primordial Spiritual Treasure?
Yet Gu Xi had four. It was madness.
"Hahaha, hahahaha... What a delightful surprise! Four Primordial Spiritual Treasures on a mere Golden Immortal. How exciting!"
"Indeed. Four Primordial Spiritual Treasures in the hands of a Golden Immortal. It's almost impossible to believe."
"Human Race Gu Xi, thank you for delivering us such a generous gift."
Amid laughter, five pillars of divine light descended. A figure with a terrifying aura floated within each one.
As the five figures arrived, the laws and power of the five elements grew extraordinarily active for hundreds of thousands of miles around.
They were Great Sage Jin Ling, Great Sage Mu Ling, Great Sage Shui Ling, Great Sage Huo Ling, and Great Sage Tu Ling.
They had arrived long ago.
But they had stayed hidden until Gu Xi revealed his "four" Primordial Spiritual Treasures. Only then could they resist no longer.
"Damn it. The five old ghosts of the Five Elements Dharma Lineage are here too."
Great Sage Yuanyang and the others looked grim.
With the five Great Sages of the Five Elements Dharma Lineage present, they had little hope of taking any treasures from Gu Xi.
The Five Elements Dharma Lineage was not called the strongest force on the East Sea Coast for nothing.
Each of the five Great Sages stood at the peak among Primordial Great Sages and was no weaker than Great Sage Qiongqi.
If they joined forces to form the Innate Five Elements Grand Formation, their power would surge dozens of times over—enough to sweep across the entire East Sea Coast.
Now, the five looked at Gu Xi with satisfaction.
He had given them an unexpected delight.
"Get lost, all of you."
The five swept indifferent gazes over Great Sage Yuanyang and the others, clearing the field.
They already considered every treasure on Gu Xi's body their own. Why would they let Great Sage Yuanyang and the rest fish in troubled waters?
Great Sage Yuanyang and the others were furious, but they knew they could not defeat the five. They could only sigh bitterly and prepare to leave.
Just then, Gu Xi smiled.
"Since you're all here, why the rush to leave?"
"Looks like nearly everyone has arrived. It's time for the real show to begin."
Smiling, Gu Xi unleashed a supernatural ability and sent it hurtling toward the five Great Sages.
"Hm? You're courting death!"
The five had not expected a Golden Immortal like Gu Xi to attack them first. Enraged, they each struck with a palm, intent on killing him.
As far as they were concerned, it did not matter if Gu Xi died, so long as his treasures remained.
But the instant they attacked, the sky over the entire East Sea Coast turned black at an unimaginable speed.
Boundless dark clouds appeared overhead without warning.
Then a Sea of Thunder of unimaginable vastness appeared beneath them.
Billions of lightning-forged divine weapons drifted within it. Countless thunder beasts—dragons, phoenixes, qilin, tigers, and more—roared, while dense ranks of phantom Gods and Demons formed from lightning appeared among them...
The moment that astonishing Sea of Thunder appeared, it shocked the entire East Sea Coast and countless living beings in the East Sea.
"Hiss... What is that?"
Across the ten continents of the East Sea, several Great Supernatural Beings abruptly opened their divine eyes and stared in shock at the boundless Sea of Thunder above the coast.
In the deepest reaches of the East Sea, an immense figure resembling a primordial mountain range suddenly raised its head from the seabed and gazed toward the sky above the East Sea Coast in shock.
As these Great Supernatural Beings watched, the terrifying Sea of Thunder came crashing down at an indescribable speed.
The five Great Sages had only just struck when a terrifying sense of impending death flooded their minds.
Before they could understand what was happening, the boundless Sea of Thunder descended and engulfed them.
They dimly saw billions of lightning-forged divine weapons, countless thunder beasts, and dense ranks of phantom Gods and Demons all hurtling toward them.
In an instant, their bodies, Primordial Spirits, Dao Embryos, and true souls were utterly annihilated.
Even at the final moment before their deaths, they could not understand what had happened.
BOOM----------
That day, a world-splitting roar shook the entire East Sea Coast and even the whole East Sea.
Every living being on the coast saw a terrifying, boundless Sea of Thunder plunge from the sky and strike the earth. Then an ocean of lightning surged upward.
That day, every living being on the East Sea Coast stared blankly at the lightning rising into the sky, each as dazed as a wooden chicken, utterly unable to speak.
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