Ye Xuan Clashes Head-On with a Grand Unity Golden Immortal! A Chance Encounter with the Three Xiāo Fairies!

Above the East Sea, furious waves crashed against the shore.

Two streaks of light tore across the sky, one chasing the other, trailing two white wakes stretching tens of thousands of li over the sea.

The golden light in front was Ye Xuan, who had unleashed his Heavenly Peng Extreme Speed.

The terrifying crimson beam close behind him was the furious Grand Unity Golden Immortal pursuing him—Red Dragon King Ao Lie.

The chase had already carried them across hundreds of millions of li of ocean.

"You little human! You won't get away!"

Ao Lie's roar rolled like thunder, blasting countless columns of water from the sea below.

As a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, he had condensed the Five Qi in his Chest. His magical power flowed without end, and his attunement to the Great Dao far surpassed that of a Golden Immortal.

As time passed, the distance between them visibly shrank.

Up ahead, Ye Xuan abruptly halted.

He felt the terrifying killing intent drawing closer behind him, and a resolute glint flashed in his eyes.

There's no escaping.

If he kept running, he would eventually exhaust his magical power and become a lamb waiting for slaughter.

If so, then there was only one choice: fight to the death!

"So what if you're a Grand Unity Golden Immortal? Today, I'll find out just how tough this Great Emperor's body really is!"

Ye Xuan wheeled around and planted his feet in midair, no longer fleeing.

BOOM!

The blood in his body began to surge, roaring like a mighty river.

The Five Great Human Body Secret Realms erupted all at once!

The golden Sea of Suffering below his navel boiled, and the Life Spring gushed forth. Within the Dao Palace of his five organs, the Five Deities chanted in unison. His limbs reached through heaven and earth as the Spine Great Dragon roared. At his brow, the Immortal Platform radiated brilliant, imperishable divine light.

An overbearing, peerless aura shot skyward from Ye Xuan, stirring the winds and clouds.

"You've stopped running?"

Ao Lie saw this and sneered. His Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dragon Body coiled through the sky, trailing crimson flames that filled the heavens.

"Since you've stopped, then accept your death! I'll rip out your soul and suppress it beneath the sea's eye for ten million years!"

"Enough talk!"

The Double Pupils in Ye Xuan's eyes suddenly opened.

The world, previously clear in black and white, instantly transformed before his eyes into a source world made of countless lines and particles.

"Chaos Heavy Pupils—Heaven Splitting!"

Ye Xuan roared.

Two beams of murky gray light shot forth, weaving together and evolving in midair.

In an instant, a vast and ancient domain of chaos descended from nowhere, enveloping Ao Lie's enormous dragon body.

Within this domain, heaven and earth were newly divided, clear qi rose while turbid qi sank, and the forces of earth, water, fire, and wind surged wildly.

"What kind of divine ability is this?!"

The disdain in Ao Lie's eyes vanished at once.

He felt as if he had fallen into an independent Small World, where the surrounding Great Dao Laws were actually rejecting him.

The magical power he had once wielded as easily as his own limbs now flowed sluggishly.

The streams of Chaos Qi pressed down on him like heavy shackles, instantly reducing his speed and strength by thirty percent!

"Break for me!"

Ao Lie roared, unleashing the full power of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Five crimson torrents surged skyward above his head. They were the Five Qi in his Chest!

RUMBLE!

Terrifying waves of magical power burst outward from him. Crimson dragon flames incinerated everything, forcibly pushing back the surrounding Chaos Qi.

CRACK!

In the end, Ye Xuan's Heaven Splitting domain couldn't withstand the full force of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, not with the gap between their realms. It filled with cracks, then shattered with a resounding crash.

PFFT!

The backlash struck Ye Xuan through their linked auras. He grunted, a trace of blood welling at the corner of his mouth.

But he didn't retreat in the slightest.

The domain had broken, but it had still managed to make Ao Lie suffer a small loss. Several of the dragon's scales had shattered, and his aura had faltered for an instant.

That instant was all Ye Xuan needed!

"Grass Character Sword Art!"

Ye Xuan joined his fingers like a sword and slashed fiercely through the air.

Behind him, the phantom of a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass swayed gracefully.

Though it looked delicate, it radiated a supreme sharpness capable of severing the past, present, and future.

Whoosh!

A boundless sword qi swept out.

The sword qi blazed so brilliantly, it seemed capable of cutting down the stars in the sky.

Ignoring the distance between them, it struck Ao Lie directly at his vulnerable seventh inch.

CLANG—SPLURT!

Sparks flew everywhere.

Ao Lie's crimson dragon scales were indestructible, comparable to a top-grade Houtian Spirit Treasure, yet the sword qi cleaved straight through them!

Blood gushed out, staining half the sky red.

"RROAR!"

Ao Lie cried out in pain, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He'd been wounded?

A mighty Grand Unity Golden Immortal had just had his defenses pierced by a human at the Golden Immortal Realm?

"You little beast! You're asking to die!!!"

The searing pain fully unleashed Ao Lie's ferocity.

His enormous tail, like a crimson whip from the heavens, swept toward Ye Xuan, carrying the force of a thunderbolt.

BAM!

Ye Xuan didn't have time to dodge. He was sent flying like a meteor, crashing heavily into the sea and raising towering waves.

But the next second, he shot back out of the water.

His chest was caved in, white bones showing through. Blood stained his white robes, and his aura had weakened to the brink.

Even a Great Emperor's body could barely withstand a Grand Unity Golden Immortal's furious strike.

"Now let's see you survive that!" A gleeful glint flashed in Ao Lie's eyes.

And yet.

Ye Xuan stood on the surface of the sea, his expression still frighteningly calm.

He formed a seal with both hands, fragments of time dancing at his fingertips.

"Sky-Mending Technique."

Hum!

A mysterious wave of temporal energy enveloped his entire body.

To Ao Lie's utter astonishment, Ye Xuan's terrible wounds began to reverse right before his eyes.

His crushed chest bones repaired themselves. Torn flesh knitted back together. His faltering aura instantly returned to its peak!

It took no more than a single breath.

Ye Xuan stood there, completely unharmed. Apart from the blood on his clothes, it was as if he'd never been injured.

"W-what kind of divine ability is this?!"

Ao Lie's eyes bulged, his very understanding of reality turned upside down.

He'd recovered to full strength in an instant?

That was downright unfair!

"What kind of freak is this human brat...?"

For the first time, Ao Lie felt a trace of fear.

This young man had crossed an entire realm to fight a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, wounded his dragon body, and possessed a divine ability that seemed to make him immortal.

If he wasn't eliminated, he would become a grave threat to the Dragon Race!

"I can't drag this out any longer!"

Killing intent solidified in Ao Lie's eyes.

He opened his massive jaws, and a blood-red pearl, seemingly filled with an endless sea of flames, slowly emerged.

A low-grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure—the Flame God Pearl!

The moment it appeared, the seawater within a radius of ten thousand li boiled and turned into endless clouds of steam.

The terrifying heat warped even the empty sky.

"To force me to bring out my spirit treasure—you've earned the right to be proud."

Ao Lie no longer regarded Ye Xuan as an ant. He now saw him as a formidable enemy who had to be destroyed with all his strength.

"Go!"

The Flame God Pearl transformed into a blazing sun and descended upon Ye Xuan with the might of burning heaven and boiling the sea.

Space was completely sealed.

There was nowhere to dodge!

Ye Xuan looked up, feeling the suffocating heat, and knitted his brows.

The power of a Xiantian Spirit Treasure was far beyond what a physical body could withstand.

Looks like I have no choice but to run.

Ye Xuan sighed inwardly.

He wasn't happy about it, but as long as the green hills remained, there would be no shortage of firewood.

His Divine Sense had already reached the Double Piercing Gate deep in his Consciousness Sea. He was ready to open a portal at any moment and return to Perfect World to escape.

At that very moment.

On the horizon.

Three clouds drifted past, carefree and unhurried.

Standing atop them were three stunning female immortals, each graceful and distinct in temperament.

They were the Three Xiāo Fairies, disciples of Tongtian Jiaozhu of the Interception Sect.

"Hm?"

Qiong Xiāo wore an emerald-green dress and was the liveliest of the three. She suddenly stopped and pointed toward the sea below, crying out in surprise.

"Elder Sister, look! What's that?"

Yun Xiāo and Qiong Xiāo followed her finger and looked down.

On the boiling sea stood a young man in white, his clothes stained with blood, yet his bearing proud and unyielding.

Behind his head.

A huge, radiant, utterly sacred golden wheel revolved slowly.

Its golden light shone so brightly that it even outshone the Xiantian Spirit Treasure, the Flame God Pearl.

The Golden Wheel of Merit!

And it had nearly condensed into solid form—a wheel bearing an unfathomable amount of Heavenly Merit!