Annihilation

Chapter 14: Annihilation

As mentioned before, Golden Immortals were, in truth, the limit of the immortal path. Taiyi and Daluo had already set foot upon the road beyond immortality.

And as the limit of the immortal path, even within the same realm, the disparity in strength between Golden Immortals could be worlds apart.

The most fundamental difference lay in whether one had grasped even a trace of the power of laws.

Only Golden Immortals who had grasped the power of laws could be considered to have embarked upon the path toward breaking through to Taiyi. Without grasping the power of laws, no amount of cultivation was of any use.

And to grasp the power of laws, one could only rely on comprehension and opportunity. Bitter cultivation was useless.

A cultivator at the early Golden Immortal stage who had grasped the power of laws could even crush a late Golden Immortal cultivator who had not.

The two simply existed on entirely different levels.

Shen Gui currently possessed two kinds of law power.

One was the Law of Earth, which he had naturally grasped because the body of the Mysterious Black Tortoise of the Northern Darkness was connected to the earth veins.

The other originated from the laws of the Great Dao governed by Shen Gui's body as a Chaos Demon God.

However, Shen Gui had never figured out exactly what Great Dao he had grasped in the first place. Naturally, he still did not understand what law he had grasped now, so the only one he could truly use was the Law of Earth.

And even if Shen Gui could only use one of the two law powers he possessed, using it against three True Immortals was still rather excessive.

The three True Immortal Demon Race cultivators were instantly immobilized by Shen Gui, and their expressions changed drastically.

However, Shen Gui had already killed far more than one or two cultivators driven by greed during his journey from the Northern Kurukshetra Continent. Naturally, he showed no hesitation now that he had acted.

After immobilizing the three with the Law of Earth, Shen Gui flashed and appeared before one of them. He struck the man's head with a backhanded palm, and the man instantly turned from head to toe into a cloud of yellow dust that drifted away.

"Do not blame me for being ruthless. Since you wished to rob and kill, you should have been prepared for your bodies and souls to perish."

With an indifferent tone, Shen Gui had already reached the second man.

Another backhanded slap descended, and the second man's Primordial Spirit and physical body were both reduced to dust by the Law of Earth without the slightest ability to resist.

Only the young man in the gaudy green robe remained.

Watching Shen Gui casually kill his two companions without even leaving behind their Primordial Spirits, then seeing him approach, the young man's face filled with terror. He hurriedly shouted, "You cannot kill me! I am from Qingmang Mountain! Our Mountain Lord is a mighty expert at the peak Golden Immortal realm, and his breakthrough into Taiyi is imminent. If you kill me, our Mountain Lord will never let you go!"

"Oh?"

Stopping before the young man, Shen Gui said, "Qingmang Mountain?"

Seeing that Shen Gui had not immediately killed him, the young man hurriedly nodded. "That's right. If you let me go, I can still—"

Before he could finish, Shen Gui had already brought down his palm. "Sorry, never heard of it."

Looking at the young man, who had turned to dust with his eyes still wide open in death, Shen Gui helplessly shook his head. "Peak Golden Immortal, half-step Taiyi. Is that supposed to be impressive?"

This was the Primordial Wilderness.

The Primordial Wilderness, where foundations and spiritual treasures mattered more than anything else.

In terms of foundation, Shen Gui's physical body, formed from Mysterious Yellow Qi, was no inferior to Primordial Deities such as the Three Pure Ones, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuanzi.

In terms of spiritual treasures, Shen Gui possessed the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda and the Top-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure, the Taixu Armor.

Although Shen Gui was only at the early Golden Immortal stage, if it truly came down to it, let alone a half-step Taiyi, so long as they were not Primordial Deities, what could even a genuine Grand Unity Golden Immortal do to him?

Qingmang Mountain was a place Shen Gui had never heard of in his previous life. He did not believe it possessed some great expert with divine abilities whom even he could not afford to provoke.

Therefore, the young man's threat had not been a threat to Shen Gui at all.

After dealing with the three people who had tried to rob him, Shen Gui followed the principle that even a mosquito was still meat. He casually collected the items they had left behind: some Origin Crystals, a few materials, and several crudely refined magic treasures that did not even qualify as Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

After finishing all this, Shen Gui seemingly casually glanced in a certain direction before drifting away.

After Shen Gui left, a black-armored middle-aged man revealed himself in the direction Shen Gui had just looked.

He took several deep breaths as though he had just escaped death, his face filled with relief.

Luckily, he had intended to play the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole waited behind. Otherwise, he would have been the one to die this time.

As a late-stage Mystic Immortal great demon, the middle-aged man had some confidence in his own judgment. The strength displayed by that Black-robed Youth had clearly surpassed his level. In other words, that Black-robed Youth was a genuine Golden Immortal—and one who had grasped the power of laws. He had only seen beings of that level twice in his life.

The first time was when two Golden Immortal great demons had ignored the prohibition and fought fiercely within Qingluan City, relying on their cultivation. He had happened to be present then, and Qingluan City's lord had not even shown himself. By merely controlling Azure Wind Blades formed from the Law of Wind, he had blown those two Golden Immortal great demons into powder.

It was also from that moment that the middle-aged man came to deeply understand the difference between those who had grasped laws and those who had not.

And the unfathomably powerful earth-yellow divine ability used by that Black-robed Youth just now gave him exactly the same feeling as those azure wind blades.