Life Restricted Area

Meanwhile, the Life Restricted Area of the Xuan Region welcomed several uninvited guests today!

Looking at the slowly flowing Taiyin River and Yang River before them, one of the figures spoke with some surprise.

"I never expected the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, a barren land used as a prison, to actually contain a Life Restricted Area."

The speaker's voice shook heaven and earth, his words nearly overturning the world itself. Had any peak expert been present, they would have been too terrified to make a sound.

Because this was a True Immortal! A genuine True Immortal, a complete True Immortal who should not have existed in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands!

"I once heard that the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm were extremely mysterious. Most of the Ten Fiends, whose ferocity was renowned throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, appeared within the Eight Regions. I had assumed it was merely because the Eight Regions were a prison suppressing darkness. Now it seems that, aside from darkness, there are other things here as well."

Another expert spoke in an exceptionally calm tone, yet his voice likewise changed the color of heaven and earth. Even Order Divine Chains were shaken into manifestation.

Clearly, this was an existence even more formidable than the True Immortal who had just spoken. If one had to describe him, he was an Extreme True Immortal—or rather, a Half-Step Quasi-Immortal King who had already stepped halfway across the threshold of the Quasi-Immortal King Realm!

"Enough. Shut up and keep moving."

Another Half-Step Quasi-Immortal King spoke slowly, his expression grave.

Before their group, surging Chaos Mist had appeared. Faintly, terrifying roars could be heard, like fierce beasts from some unknown ancient age howling at the sky.

Yet all those present were Immortal Dao experts, with even the weakest being a True Immortal. Naturally, they understood that these were not the roars of fierce beasts, but the thunderous sound formed by clashing laws. Looking carefully, they could even see manifested Order Divine Chains constantly intertwining.

Countless laws and Order Divine Chains collided within the boundless void like red-hot iron bars, endlessly bursting with limitless light. It was dazzling and resplendent to the extreme; even True Immortals had to circulate immortal power into their eyes before they could see clearly!

After an unknown length of time, the group finally stopped.

There was no other reason: they had caught the refreshing fragrance of something that could stir the senses even of True Immortal-level experts. One could only imagine what kind of medicine was giving off such a scent!

If cultivators of the Human Dao Domain were here, even Extreme Dao Supremes at the pinnacle of the Human Dao Domain would fight fiercely over the fragrant medicine. There was no other reason: this medicine was a so-called Longevity Medicine!

Every True Immortal present knew that they had arrived!

"Chu Xiong of the Immortal King Chu Clan has come to pay respects to the Lord of the Restricted Area!"

"Chu Yun of the Immortal King Chu Clan has come to pay respects to the Lord of the Restricted Area!"

"Chu Kuang of the Immortal King Chu Clan has come to pay respects to the Lord of the Restricted Area!"

"Chu Yue of the Immortal King Chu Clan has come to pay respects to the Lord of the Restricted Area!"

"Chu Xinghan of the Immortal King Chu Clan has come to pay respects to the Lord of the Restricted Area!"

Although all five present were Immortal Dao figures in the True Immortal Realm, and some were even Half-Step Quasi-Immortal Kings who had set half a foot across the threshold of the Quasi-Immortal King Realm, they knew even better that the ancient existence dwelling here was of taboo level. Even Ancient Ancestor Chu Yuan of the Immortal King Chu Clan, who had entered the Emperor Light Immortal King Realm, had to show this taboo existence some respect!

"Impudence! There have long been no Immortal Kings in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Where did this Immortal King Chu Clan come from? Though you are True Immortals, do you intend to force your way into my Life Restricted Area?!"

As that voice fell, astonishing changes suddenly arose within the Life Restricted Area. Boundless Medicine Fields lit up, and the refreshing fragrance grew even richer. The next moment, pillars of light shot up one after another, piercing the heavens like pillars supporting the sky, reaching the thirty-three heavens above and the eighteen layers of the underworld below. Their sheer grandeur was utterly horrifying.

Yet instead of illuminating everything around them, the countless brilliant pillars of light made the surroundings even darker, as though all light was circulating around them.

Even the supreme Immortal Dao figures present could not help falling silent at the sight.

They had only seen such methods in the ancestral land of the Chu Clan!

"You may not know this, but we are cultivators from the Immortal Domain, from the Immortal King Chu Clan."

Chu Xiong, the leading Half-Step Quasi-Immortal King, spoke slowly. His voice was neither servile nor overbearing, firm and forceful. He did not become meek simply because the other party was an Immortal King.

"Hmph, so what if you are True Immortals from an Immortal King family of the Immortal Domain? We once erected a Divine Stele: those who trespass into this place of slumber shall die! If you do not retreat at once, do not blame us for taking action!"

The True Immortals of the Chu Clan present all frowned. The creatures within this restricted area were far too domineering and arrogant, weren't they?

They had clearly treated them with courtesy, yet the other side did not appreciate it in the slightest, acting as though nothing could get through to them.

"Is that so? Then let us test it. If we win, allow us to meet the Lord of the Restricted Area slumbering here!"

Chu Xiong's voice remained neither servile nor overbearing, but his aura was steadily rising!

In merely an instant, his terrifying aura had driven away the surrounding laws and order, as though he were about to recreate heaven and earth!

"Impudence! Do you truly think we cannot deal with you?!"

Apparently enraged by Chu Xiong, that voice became even more furious, faintly carrying a tendency to overturn heaven and earth and reverse Yin Yang!

"Then come and try!"

"Try it, then!"

"Then come on!"

"If you have the guts, come in!"

Watching the scene unfold like a childish quarrel, the other four True Immortals of the Chu Family did not know what to say for a moment.

However, they also understood that the other party's strength was likely no more than equal to theirs, perhaps even that of an ordinary True Immortal. They were far from being like Chu Xiong, who had reached the extreme of the True Immortal Realm. Thus, if they wanted to fight Chu Xiong, they had to rely on the might of the Life Restricted Area.

Chu Xiong's thinking was simple. He was clearly stronger than the other party. In another location, he would not fear them in the slightest and could even suppress them in a few moves. Why waste his strength fighting fiercely against an opponent who possessed the advantage of terrain?

"Who dares disturb us?"

Just as both sides remained deadlocked like squabbling children, another voice rang out. It carried a slight magnetism, yet was gentle as jade. It was like a spring breeze to hear, and the instant it fell, the anger in Chu Xiong and the owner of the voice within the restricted area, which had been steadily rising, vanished completely.

For that very reason, the five True Immortals of the Chu Family were all startled.

The true master had finally appeared!

"Five True Immortals from the Immortal Domain have trespassed into our Heaven and Earth. They should be executed on the spot!"

As though he had found backing, the voice that had first spoken became exceedingly respectful. Yet killing intent gradually emerged between its words, instantly causing the five True Immortals of the Chu Family to tense and ready themselves, not daring to be the slightest bit careless.

They knew very well that, through the connection of their bloodline, they could summon the power of Ancient Ancestor Chu Yuan. But a clash between Immortal Kings would be unimaginably vast in scale. Even its aftershocks would be enough to leave True Immortals in Ten Thousand Calamities Irrecoverable!

"Tong'er, your killing intent is too great. If you do not correct it, it will affect your Great Dao."

That gentle voice remained as soothing as a spring breeze, and it also made the five True Immortals of the Chu Family let out long breaths of relief.

Since the other party had said that, they did not intend to fight.

That was for the best. Truly for the best!