Dragon
A convergence of forces.
Thunder dragons dance wildly.
As Gu Jinlai reached out and grasped, in an instant, a terrifying devouring and binding force surged forth from the halo formed by the wind and clouds gathered by Mu Changsheng, Ying Wuxia, and Yun Yin, whose control over the thunderous power had ultimately been stripped away by Gu Jinlai.
As this force bound them, bolts of lightning descended from the sky, striking the three supreme Void Immortals, causing their expressions to change drastically, and they frantically unleashed their strongest techniques to obstruct it.
"Holy Lord!?"
"Quickly! Rescue the Holy Lord!"
"To catch the thief, first catch the king. Gu Jinlai, anyone who wants to control the Holy Lord and the two Supreme Lords must inevitably reveal a weakness, and then make a move..."
The remaining four Void Immortals roared and swiftly charged towards Gu Jinlai.
But Gu Jinlai didn't even glance at them. The power of the lightning domain around his body rapidly erupted and spread. Countless bolts of lightning, mixed with sword-shaped lightning, swept towards the four Void Immortals, making it difficult for them to get within a thousand meters of him.
"How can he be so strong?"
"We attempted to resonate with the Dao of Heaven and Earth through our own Dao to unleash Divine Ability, but this resonance was directly stripped away... It's as if a more perfect Dao has fundamentally suppressed the resonance between us and the Dao of Heaven and Earth..."
"These lightning bolts... I can't stop them anymore."
Under the halo of thunder, Mu Changsheng, Ying Wuxia, and Yun Yin found themselves in an extremely dangerous situation.
Among them, Yun Yin, whose cultivation was the weakest, even had his body, which was tens of meters tall, cracked by the lightning and crumbled inch by inch.
"That's all?"
Gu Jinlai shook his head.
Seeing Gu Jinlai's effortless Gu Jinlai, Mu Changsheng immediately realized the gap between the two.
They also guessed that the rumors about someone suppressing Lin Yuan and the immortal Jin Haoran with their Gu Jinlai strength were probably true.
Facing such a powerful figure...
Mu Changsheng, who was constantly bombarded by lightning, was immediately filled with a surge of divine power. "The divine might of the Ancient Palace Master is something that my Yinglong Holy Land cannot match."
As soon as he spoke, Ying Wuxia and Yun Yin, who only possessed the supreme power of a Void Immortal thanks to their divine weapons, were even more defeated. "Yes, yes, we admit defeat. Palace Master Gu, please show mercy."
"Um?"
Gu Jinlai looked at Mu Changsheng and said, "This shouldn't be the full strength of your Yinglong Holy Land! Doesn't your Yinglong Holy Land worship the innate divine beast Yinglong? Please come out and let me see the true strength of this innate deity."
"Palace Master, you may not know this, but the divine beast Yinglong that our Holy Land worships is nearing the end of its life and is no longer able to fight. Otherwise, our Yinglong Holy Land would not have faced such difficulties in recent years."
Mu Changsheng quickly replied.
"Life is nearing its end? Incapable of fighting again?"
Those who have heard this from Gu Jinlai have been somewhat disappointed.
Innate divine beasts often live for thousands or tens of thousands of years. This ancient being is actually about to die of old age.
He glanced at the Yinglong Holy Land group, who seemed genuinely afraid, and considering that he hadn't come to make a mortal enemy of the Yinglong Holy Land, he waved his hand.
The lightning halo, thousands of meters in diameter, in the sky gradually dissipated.
The silver dragon, which roamed freely and rampaged through the heavens and earth, also disappeared into the clouds.
The sky, which was shrouded in thunder and storm just a moment ago, returned to calm in an extremely fast speed.
This is the power possessed by those at the level of a Void Immortal or higher.
With every gesture, one can alter the celestial phenomena.
It caused the mountains and rivers to change color, and the sun and moon to lose their light.
Such a scene filled Liu Feiyun, who was following behind Gu Jinlai, with longing.
Such elegance is unmatched even among the most virtuous immortals in the world.
As the clouds in the sky cleared, Mu Changsheng, Ying Wuxia, Yun Yin, and the others finally had a chance to catch their breath.
Although no one in Gu Jinlai has ever tried to kill them, the repeated thunderbolts still left them in a terrible state, with injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Yunyin, who was the most seriously injured, suffered a fundamental injury and will likely need to recuperate for a long time.
After catching his breath for a moment, Mu Changsheng stepped forward and cupped his hands, saying, "The Ancient Palace Master is so mighty that Yinglong Holy Land is convinced."
"Is that so?"
They responded with a neutral, indifferent tone, Gu Jinlai.
Mu Changsheng seemed to realize something. Despite how polite Gu Jinlai's words had been, everyone knew each other's true thoughts.
He immediately said, "Palace Master Gu, please forgive us. If it weren't for Di Luo's instigation, our Yinglong Holy Land would never have harbored any intention to harm Qian Tian. After all, the Demonic Beasts surrounding our Yinglong Holy Land have not yet been completely eliminated."
"Di Luo".
The gazes of Gu Jinlai have traversed the void and fallen upon the Blood Demon Emperor Luo, the number one demonic figure who has ravaged Qiantian for a century.
The moment the gazes of people from Gu Jinlai fell upon him, Di Luo felt as if a towering mountain had pressed down on him, making his breath catch in his throat.
He knew that this was not some kind of Divine Ability that had been used Gu Jinlai.
It was only because he had personally witnessed the overwhelming force that had crushed the seven Void Immortals of Yinglong Holy Land, a feat unparalleled in Gu Jinlai, that he felt this suffocating pressure.
Ultimately...
The gap is too large.
It's so big it's despairing.
"How... is this possible..."
Di Luo's voice was somewhat hoarse.
In the Gu Jinlai defeated the invading Demonic Beasts the Three Thousand Great Swamps, he once used his great Divine Ability to defeat the three great Demonic Beasts kings in one blow.
Therefore, when persuading the Yinglong Holy Land, he tried his best to describe the direction of strength from Gu Jinlai, even...
They almost regarded him as a true supreme immortal.
I just didn't expect...
The power displayed at this Gu Jinlai is ten times stronger than that of the strongest Void Immortal.
He was so powerful that he suppressed the entire Yinglong Holy Land by himself.
So powerful that a single glance from him filled him with despair.
A long time...
Di Luo forced himself to cheer up and looked down at Gu Jinlai from the sky. He managed a weak smile, "Palace Master Gu... we... we both come from the demonic path. Your previous Purgatory Sect... was also one of the ten sects of the demonic path. We should be natural allies..."
"He harbors evil intentions, his demonic nature is untamable, and he brings calamity to the people; he deserves to be executed."
He spoke softly Gu Jinlai, as if delivering a judgment from the heavens.
As he raised his hand, lightning flashed.
Instantly, Di Luo's expression changed drastically, and unprecedented terror rapidly bloomed and spread in his eyes. "Palace Master Gu, please..."
"Boom!"
As the lightning struck, the Blood Demon Emperor Luo, who had once dominated the heavens for a hundred years and was known as the number one expert in the demonic path, was instantly blasted into charred remains by the lightning that Gu Jinlai had summoned with a mere wave of his hand.
The intense light released by the lightning piercing through the air illuminated the faces of the Void Immortals and Saints of Yinglong Holy Land, making their already pale faces, which were already somewhat ashen from fear, even paler.
Having annihilated the Blood Demon Emperor Luo, Gu Jinlai turned his gaze to Mu Changsheng: "According to what you said, Yinglong, although old, is not yet dead. I would like to see this innate divine beast."
"This..."
Mu Changsheng hesitated, but when he saw Gu Jinlai's unyielding gaze, he snapped to attention and quickly said, "If Palace Master Gu wants to see me, there's no problem. I'll take Palace Master Gu to where Yinglong is right now."
"Can."
Gu Jinlai nodded.
"This way, please."
With a wave of his hand, Mu Changsheng led Gu Jinlai swiftly down to a mountain below.
After they left, Ying Wuxia, Yun Yin, and the others exchanged glances, all seeing the bitterness in each other's eyes.
"I never imagined that just after the fall of a Wushi True Person, such a prodigy has been born Gu Jinlai... His destiny is not yet over."
Yunyin sighed.
"Not only is his fate not yet exhausted, but this ancient palace master... is even more powerful than the Wushi True Person of yesteryear."
Another illusory immortal sincerely said, "Moreover, he is not a true True Person forged from divine weapons. His potential is even greater than that of the Beginningless Immortal. Under his leadership, the entire Qian Tian region will likely rise to prominence."
His words made everyone think of ages Gu Jinlai.
According to Di Luo, his cultivation seems to have lasted less than a hundred years!?
Such achievements in less than a century...
In an era of great upheaval caused by the invasion of Demonic Beasts, whether having such neighbors was a blessing or a curse for the sacred land of Yinglong is hard to say.
Led by Mu Changsheng, Gu Jinlai arrived at a mountain range more than three thousand miles away from the main building complex of Yinglong Holy Land.
These mountains are steep and precipitous, making it almost impossible for ordinary people to set foot on them. From time to time, you can see many waterfalls cascading down the mountainside, splashing water everywhere.
After arriving at the mountains, Mu Changsheng explored for a while and then led Gu Jinlai to a mountain stream.
Here, a colossal creature, similar in length and size to a Tianlong tree but with a pair of fleshy wings that spread out to hundreds of meters, was lying in a stream.
Because its scales are also predominantly bluish-white, it seems to blend completely into the stream, making it difficult to distinguish from the other.
The mythical beast Yinglong.
"Feng Zu".
Mu Changsheng landed in front of the enormous creature and cautiously greeted it.
The enormous Yinglong opened its huge eyes, but the light within them was very murky, even somewhat dim.
Inside, Gu Jinlai can indeed see a trace of death.
"Hmm... I'm not dead yet?"
Yinglong responded in a daze.
"Do mythical beasts... also grow old and die?"
From Gu Jinlai, they have murmured to themselves.
"I smell an unpleasant odor on you."
At this moment, Yinglong's enormous pupils fell upon Gu Jinlai.
Gu Jinlai quickly realized something. "True Spirit?"
"It seems like only a short time has passed..."
The enormous Yinglong spoke.
"One hundred and twenty years. It has been one hundred and twenty years since we last disturbed you."
Mu Changsheng quickly explained.
"I see. If I think about it, I don't have many years left to live."
Yinglong opened his cloudy eyes. "At most another hundred years, I should die... but I don't know whether I will die of old age, be killed, or die with this world."
"Um!?"
What has been keenly observed Gu Jinlai: "To die along with this world?"
He reflected on his own understanding of the world's ecology. "Shouldn't this world... be like the rising sun? In a vibrant period of life? How could it possibly die?"
"The rising sun? A very apt metaphor."
Yinglong seemed to be caught up in some unpleasant memories. "However, in the deepest part of this world, there exists a terrifying monster that is weaving a terrifying net, intending to devour the entire world. When that monster awakens, the spirituality of this world will cease to exist, and naturally, it will die completely."