Eradication

Chapter 14: Annihilate

As stated before, Golden Immortal is already the limit of the immortal path; Daluo and Primordial Unity actually walk the road beyond immortality. And since Golden Immortal is the limit of the immortal path, even within the same realm, strength can be as different as heaven and earth. The most essential distinction among them is whether one can grasp a thread of Law power. A Golden Immortal who has grasped Law power has set foot on the path to breaking through to Primordial Unity; without grasping Law power, no amount of cultivation is of any use. To grasp Law power, one can only rely on enlightenment and opportunity—bitter training is futile. A Golden Immortal at the early stage who has grasped Law power can even crush a Golden Immortal at the late stage who has not. The two are simply not on the same level.

Shen Gui currently grasps two kinds of Law power. One is the Law of Earth, naturally mastered because his Mysterious Black Tortoise of the Northern Darkness body is connected to the earth veins. The other originates from the Great Dao governed by Shen Gui's Chaos Demon God body. However, Shen Gui never understood what Great Dao he controlled back then, and now he naturally hasn't figured out what Law he wields, so the only one he can actually use is the Law of Earth. Even though he can only employ one of his two Law powers, using it to deal with three True Immortal realm existences is still overkill.

With a backhand motion, Shen Gui directly fixed them in place, and the three True Immortal realm Demon Race cultivators' expressions changed drastically. Yet, having annihilated more than one or two cultivators who coveted his wealth on his journey from Northern Kurukshetra Continent, Shen Gui felt no hesitation in making his move. After fixing the three with the Law of Earth, he flashed before one of them, struck the man's head with a backhand, and the man turned from head to toe into a puff of yellow dust that scattered away.

"Do not blame me for being ruthless. Since you sought to kill for riches, you must be prepared to perish body and soul." His tone flat, Shen Gui walked to the second person. With another backhand strike, the second man's Primordial Spirit and physical body were helplessly annihilated into dust by the Law of Earth. Finally, only the youth in the gaudy green robe remained.

Watching Shen Gui casually kill his two helpers, leaving not even their Primordial Spirits, and now walking toward him, the youth's face filled with terror. He hurriedly shouted, "You can't kill me! I'm from Qingmang Mountain! Our Mountain Lord is a Golden Immortal peak realm great power, on the verge of breaking through to Primordial Unity! If you kill me, our Mountain Lord will never let you go!"

"Oh?" Shen Gui stopped before the youth and said, "Qingmang Mountain?" Seeing that Shen Gui hadn't killed him outright, the youth quickly nodded. "That's right! If you let me go, I can still—" But before he could finish, Shen Gui struck with a backhand. "Sorry, never heard of it."

Looking at the youth who still seemed unwilling to close his eyes even as he turned to dust, Shen Gui shook his head helplessly. "Golden Immortal peak, half-step Primordial Unity—is that supposed to be strong?"

This was the Primordial Wilderness. Here, foundation and spiritual treasures outweighed everything. In terms of foundation, Shen Gui's physical body, born from Mysterious Yellow Qi, was no worse than the Three Pure Ones, Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, and other Primordial Deities. In terms of spiritual treasures, Shen Gui bore the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda and the top-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure Taixu Armor. Although Shen Gui was only at the early Golden Immortal stage now, if it really came down to it, not even a half-step Primordial Unity—let alone a true Primordial Unity Golden Immortal—could do anything to him, as long as it wasn't one of those Primordial Deities. Qingmang Mountain, a place Shen Gui had never heard of in his past life, he didn't believe it harbored a great cultivator he couldn't afford to offend. So the youth's threat held no weight for Shen Gui at all.

Having dealt with the three would-be robbers, and adhering to the principle that even a mosquito's flesh is meat, Shen Gui casually collected the items they left behind: some Origin Crystals, a few materials, and the crude magic tools they had refined themselves—things that didn't even qualify as Acquired Spiritual Treasures. After doing all this, Shen Gui seemed to glance casually in one direction, then drifted away.

After Shen Gui left, from the direction he had looked, a middle-aged man in black armor revealed himself. He took a few deep breaths of relief, a look of fortune on his face. Good thing he had planned to play the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind; otherwise, he would have been the one dead this time. As a Mystic Immortal late-stage great demon, the middle-aged man had some confidence in his eyesight. The strength the black-robed youth had just displayed clearly surpassed his own level—meaning the black-robed youth was a genuine Golden Immortal realm existence, and one who had grasped Law power at that. In all his life, the middle-aged man had only seen such a being twice.

The first time was when two Golden Immortal realm great demons, relying on their cultivation, ignored the ban and fought openly in Qingluan City. He happened to be present then. The city lord of Qingluan City, without even showing himself, merely manipulated the azure wind blades formed by the Law of Wind and blew those two Golden Immortal realm great demons into powder. It was from that moment that the middle-aged man deeply understood the difference between grasping Law power and not. And that black-robed youth just now—his unpredictable earthy yellow divine ability gave him exactly the same feeling as those azure wind blades back then.