"Rumble!"
The ancient Holy Mountain that sealed away the Primordial Dharma Body suddenly shook, splitting open in great swaths.
Jagged cracks spread rapidly like a spiderweb, soon reaching across the entire mountain. An indescribable aura of immortality erupted, so dense it was almost tangible.
Boom! A spiritual-energy pillar at least a million feet tall shot into the sky.
Within the transparent pillar, an ancient shadow flickered in and out of view.
Any powerful cultivator who had trained in the Immortal Golden Body and caught even a distant glimpse of it felt an almost primal urge to throw caution to the wind and merge with it completely.
The Eternal Undying Body had appeared!
"Too bad we don't have a chance anymore."
Ye Qing of the Asura Spear and Tuoba Cang, the Blade Saint, exchanged glances and smiled bitterly.
Defeated, their auras were weak and they were bleeding from multiple wounds. They let the descending teleportation pillar crash down around them and carry them out of the Eternal Pagoda, one after the other.
Two Late Immortal Grade giants had joined forces to charge him, and thrown everything they had into one strike. Mu Chen had subdued them with a flick of his finger.
The price they paid was the destruction of their Immortal Golden Bodies, the plundering of their origins, and their elimination.
Before the ancient Holy Mountain, which continued to crack apart, Mu Chen stood with his hands behind his back.
All that remained for the onlookers was the peerless sight of his back turned to all beings.
The pillar of light that had surged into the sky for over half a quarter of an hour gradually drew back, and its spiritual energy scattered.
An ancient and mysterious shadow was revealed beneath the countless gazes trained upon it.
It stood