The Three Absolutes Immortal knelt and bowed toward Small Mountain Village, sending shockwaves through everyone present!
"The Three Absolutes Immortal... has he gone mad?"
"A peerless immortal merely glanced toward that village, and he was so terrified that he dropped to his knees?"
"What is going on?"
The people from Taiyan Holy Land and Ziyang Holy Land were utterly astonished. They couldn't understand it!
"What could he have seen..."
Ling Chao and Yuanyang Holy Lord were just as shocked.
"To be able to bow before Senior Li is his honor."
Jiang Xue spoke calmly:
"If his true body were here and had the chance to see that sight, his cultivation would immediately advance by a whole stage!"
At her words, everyone wore complicated expressions.
Had that senior really reached such a terrifying level?
The people of Three Absolutes Holy Land were completely dumbstruck!
Three Absolutes Ancestor was the final trump card and foundation of Three Absolutes Holy Land.
To them, the Three Absolutes Immortal was their faith, their Deity. All of Three Absolutes Holy Land had pursued his footsteps, hoping that one day they could recreate his glory.
But now, their faith, their Deity, was bowing before their enemy.
In that moment, countless Supremes felt their Dao hearts shatter.
The disciples of Three Absolutes Holy Land completely lost heart!
Their hearts were utterly broken!
Below.
Changsun Liancheng saw the scene and collapsed to the ground, his eyes vacant.
What kind of being had he... brought down upon Three Absolutes Holy Land?
It was over.
This time, it was truly over.
There was no salvation, whether in heaven or on earth!
The peerless Three Absolutes Immortal showed no concern for the thousands watching as he knelt and paid his respects to an unknown being.
Only after completing the ceremony did he slowly rise. His face filled with emotion, he looked at Jiang Xue and asked, "Three Absolutes Holy Land has offended you this time. Does Senior have any instructions?"
Jiang Xue replied calmly, "He said he never wants to see Three Absolutes Holy Land again."
The Three Absolutes Immortal nodded, his expression perfectly serene, without the slightest ripple.
He turned and looked at the thousands of soldiers from Three Absolutes Holy Land!
"You received my inheritance, and that is how you attained your present cultivation."
"Yet it is precisely because of that that you brought down this calamity upon yourselves!"
"I cannot spare you. No one in heaven or on earth can spare you!"
"If I kill you, you will at least have the chance to be reborn. This is the last kindness I can show you—"
The Three Absolutes Immortal spoke calmly, as if recounting some trivial matter. When he finished, he suddenly swept out a hand!
In an instant, a tempest of immortal power surged forth!
Like countless blades, it enveloped the entire army of Three Absolutes Holy Land!
"No! No!"
"Ancestor, spare us! Ancestor, please spare us!"
"We're innocent! We're innocent!"
The people of Three Absolutes Holy Land wailed in despair!
The Supremes knelt; the Mahayana cultivators lay prostrate, sobbing uncontrollably.
Who could have imagined that in the end, they would die at the hands of their own Ancestor...
It was impossible to accept!
But no one could resist. No one could stop it.
The Supremes crumbled to pieces.
The Mahayana cultivators burst into clouds of blood mist.
The Void Integration cultivators died by the dozen...
Even the people from Taiyan Holy Land and Ziyang Holy Land across from them felt a chill at the sight.
So this was the power of an immortal...
One sweep of his hand, and the army died in droves.
They weren't even worthy of being called ants.
With a wave of his hand, everything vanished.
The army of Three Absolutes Holy Land, which had surged from Central State to the Southern Domain and drawn the eyes of the whole world, disappeared as though it had never existed.
On the earth below, Changsun Liancheng knelt and watched the scenes unfolding in the sky, his body withered and broken.
His heart was already dead!
"I was wrong... I was wrong..."
He murmured in grief!
His mistake had been so unforgivable, and the price was far too steep...
The next moment, however, the Three Absolutes Immortal's gaze fell upon him.
"This all began with your greed. That zither and brush were left for someone with destiny, yet you failed to appreciate the gift and led your entire sect down this path."
"You will never be reincarnated, for all eternity."
The Three Absolutes Immortal swept out a hand.
Changsun Liancheng evaporated completely.
Even his soul had been refined into nothingness!
From that moment on, no trace of Changsun Liancheng could be found between heaven and earth—not a drop of blood, not a scrap of flesh.
Three Absolutes Holy Land had been utterly destroyed!
By now, the Three Absolutes Immortal's figure had begun to fade.
He was only a clone, and the time he had left was limited.
He turned to Jiang Xue and said, "Please tell Ziling and Nan Feng that from this day forth, if they wish, they may become the masters of Three Absolutes Holy Land."
"Everything buried beneath Three Absolutes Holy Land belongs to them."
Jiang Xue nodded. "I will."
At that, the Three Absolutes Immortal smiled with relief. Fortunately, Ziling and Nan Feng were still here, weren't they?
He turned back and gazed at the magnificent landscape. "What a pity that I was born in the wrong era. I never had the chance to learn at the side of such an unparalleled expert..."
"Life is full of regrets..."
His figure then vanished.
The Three Absolutes Immortal no longer existed in this world.
Everyone wore complicated expressions as they witnessed it.
They had seen an entire Holy Land perish with their own eyes...
And perish at the hands of its own Ancestor. Who could have imagined such a thing...
And it had all happened because of a single sentence from that senior.
The allied army fell silent.
Even those who had never heard the rumors before now understood completely.
In the Southern Domain, in that Small Mountain Village dozens of miles ahead, there must be an incomprehensibly powerful being living in seclusion.
One who could make an immortal bow his head, one who could make a Holy Land perish!
"That is a forbidden land,"
one Supreme murmured.
"I have a feeling the entire Profound Heaven Realm is about to change..."
"What kind of existence is this? From beginning to end, he has never appeared before the world, yet the whole world has already been transformed because of him!"
Everyone was filled with awe!
Holy Lord Lingchao and Yuanyang Holy Lord were both overwhelmed with emotion.
A major power that had dominated Central State had been wiped out just like that.
Completely wiped out!
"Fairy Jiang Xue, we should leave."
They then spoke to Jiang Xue.
Now that the situation had settled, and so much had happened, both Holy Lands urgently needed time to regroup.
"Go ahead."
Jiang Xue nodded and said, "Remember what that senior said. What happened at the Ascension Platform this time is only the beginning."
"Senior bestowed Immortal Destiny upon us for a reason. We can't just sit around doing nothing. Chess pieces must serve their purpose, or they will only become discarded pieces."
With that, she took one step forward and disappeared from where she stood.
Ling Chao and Yuanyang could only smile wryly.
That was blunt...
Chess pieces...
"Fairy Jiang Xue is right..."
But after thinking it over, neither of them found it unacceptable.
"Exactly. Compared with sects like Three Absolutes Holy Land, becoming a chess piece of Senior Li is practically a blessing earned by our ancestors..."
Yuanyang Holy Lord smiled and said, "Let's go. An event this momentous will draw the attention of the entire Profound Heaven Realm. Senior Li prefers the life of an ordinary person and doesn't like being disturbed, so we need to figure out how to explain this to the outside world."
At once, the allied forces of the two Holy Lands set out.
They departed.
At the same time.
High above, amid a vast sea of clouds.
Ahead, Profound Yellow Qi filled the air. That place seemed to be the very center of the world, a place no one could enter!
Several black-robed figures sat cross-legged in the clouds, watching it.
Through the shifting Profound Yellow Qi, a tree seemed to appear, blurred and indistinct.
"The World Tree of this realm has its roots firmly planted in the Southern Domain."
"Zang Xuan has already gone there. He'll use the Cangli Mountain Range and the Ascension Platforms of those sects in the Immortal Domain to evade the World Tree's defenses and kill all the experts."
"That will shake the foundations of the World Tree!"
"By my reckoning, it should be about time. We should make our move!"
"We strike simultaneously and destroy the foundations of every domain. The World Tree will reveal itself, and then we'll have our chance to seize it!"
The black-robed figure at the head spoke coldly.
Behind him, the others nodded.
Then they scattered.
Soon.
Northern Domain, Profound Heaven Realm.
A massive Daoist palace.
Before the palace stood a gigantic Black Tortoise Stone, upon which two brilliant characters shone:
"Beichen!"
Beichen Sacred Land!
One of the great Holy Lands of the Northern Domain.
"Boom!"
A gigantic hand suddenly descended from the sky!
Like the hand of heaven itself, it swept up boundless spiritual energy, making the sky tremble!
Millions of rays of light shot out from the palace. The immortal-level Mountain Protecting Great Array had been fully activated.
"Who dares to ambush Beichen Sacred Land?!"
A furious shout rang out from the palace!
At the same time, several Supremes charged into the sky above the palace, wielding the Holy Land's Quasi-Immortal Artifacts as they did everything they could to stop that palm!
But the giant hand came crashing down, sweeping everything before it away!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The Supremes wielding the Quasi-Immortal Artifacts were blasted to pieces, while the artifacts themselves were shattered and fell from the sky.
The massive palm crashed down. Even the immortal-level formation could not withstand it, and the formation plate collapsed.
"Boom!"
With a deafening roar, the entire magnificent Daoist palace was reduced to ruins!
On this day, Beichen Sacred Land was destroyed!
Eastern Wasteland!
An ancient clan had settled beside a surging river. The water coiled like a dragon, sheltering the clan.
From high above, a finger came down!
In an instant, the ancient lineage was struck with terror. Every cultivator felt something was wrong and rushed outside to look up!
"Powerful enemy incoming!"
A deep, resonant voice rang out at once, and nine Supremes soared into the sky!
"What Immortal dares attack my Xuanyuan Family?!"
The head of the family roared. The nine joined forces, and suddenly, the mighty river encircling the family surged into the air. Its waters transformed into a terrifying yellow dragon, which charged toward the finger descending from the heavens!
But it was all in vain. The yellow dragon was instantly snuffed out by a single finger. The Dragon Spirit died on the spot, and millions of tons of surging river water came crashing down from the heavens, flooding the entire ancient lineage!
"No!"
"How could an Immortal-level Dragon Spirit fail to withstand even a single finger?!"
Everyone cried out in shock. At that moment, the ancient lineage had become a living hell.
Countless people fled, shrieking in despair...
Western Desert.
An ancient Buddhist temple stood beneath a blue sky and white clouds, like the holiest place in the world. Before it, devout believers came to worship, bowing with every step.
Leiyin Temple had once produced more than one Buddha of Immortal rank.
Its incense burned brightly!
But today, a black tornado suddenly swept in from the desert, carrying millions of tons of yellow sand as it bore down on Leiyin Temple!
Along the road to Leiyin Temple, countless devout believers were swallowed by the gale!
"Dong!"
The temple bell rang out at once!
The old monk, who had sat in meditation in the main hall for hundreds of years, suddenly opened his eyes. "Demons!"
Countless monks assembled at that moment!
The black tornado finally drew near!
Nearly ten thousand monks suddenly chanted in unison, their voices like the sacred hymns of the Western Paradise.
Inside the main hall, the three Bodhisattvas worshiped by the people suddenly opened their eyes.
Their golden forms seemed to come to life, appearing before Leiyin Temple. The three formed a formation to stop the black tornado!
These were three golden forms of Immortal rank, worshiped by people far and wide and possessed of terrifying strength.
But the moment the black tornado arrived, it buried all three golden forms, along with the entire Leiyin Temple, beneath the earth!
Millions of tons of yellow sand came down, and Leiyin Temple disappeared completely.
As though it had never existed in this world.
Northern Region.
Eastern Wasteland.
Western Desert.
At the same time, the Profound Heaven Realm suffered a tremendous catastrophe!
On this day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared across the land and in the skies of the entire Profound Heaven Realm!
The earth split open without warning for tens of millions of feet, as if the world were about to be destroyed. Blood rain fell from the sky!
The whole world was shaken!
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