Ambush: Battle of Celestial Immortals

Haoyang Great World.

In a small city several hundred thousand miles from the Sacred Fire Sect, the two Celestial Immortals and sixteen Loose Immortals who had previously gathered at Immortal Cloud Mountain had all arrived.

At this time, everyone had assumed various identities and hidden throughout the small city.

Some were diners, some merchants, some beggars. Every one of them kept an extremely low profile and looked utterly inconspicuous.

According to what the two Celestial Immortals had said earlier, they had long received news that Celestial Huoyun would quietly come to this small city every so often and stay for a time. They only needed to wait here, and the fish would take the bait on its own.

A Celestial Immortal traveled in secret, yet even his whereabouts could be discovered?

Zhou Yu ordered several dishes at an inn. As he ate and pondered, he increasingly understood just how terrifying the force behind the people organizing this assassination was.

Time passed, and the sky gradually darkened.

Suddenly, Zhou Yu looked into the distance. A figure was approaching atop a cloud.

It was an imposing figure dressed in a fiery red Daoist robe. Zhou Yu recognized him at a glance as Celestial Huoyun, the target of this operation.

Celestial Huoyun had clearly not noticed the danger. He soon descended into the small city.

"Move!"

A low shout suddenly rang out.

Boom!

The first thing to erupt was a vast array. Zhou Yu instantly appeared above the small city. As he formed hand seals, an independent space emerged, trapping the unprepared Celestial Huoyun within it.

"Qian is Heaven, Kun is Earth—Nine Absolutes Suppression!" Zhou Yu pointed forward.

In an instant, space solidified, while an immense amount of nine-colored power of Heaven and Earth rapidly condensed.

Like enormous hands that seemed to be everywhere, terrifying pressure surged toward Celestial Huoyun and bore down upon him.

Celestial Huoyun's expression changed at once.

A top-grade immortal treasure automatically appeared around his body, forming an expanding sea of flames. Yet the immense pressure instantly forced those flames back, leaving them compressed around Celestial Huoyun alone.

"Haha, what an excellent array."

Laughter rang out as the Celestial Immortal disguised as an old man entered the array as well. With a wave of his hand, countless blades of grass, trees, and willow branches sprang into existence, flooding toward Celestial Huoyun from every direction.

At the same time, the other Loose Immortals entered the array and attacked one after another, each unleashing attacks that had at least reached the threshold of a Celestial Immortal.

"Who are you people?"

Celestial Huoyun was utterly shocked. One Celestial Immortal and more than a dozen exceptionally powerful Loose Immortals were attacking him together? This had clearly been planned long ago!

"Celestial Huoyun, if you must blame someone, blame your master." The old man sneered.

"My master?" Celestial Huoyun wanted to ask further questions, but the overwhelming attacks had already arrived, forcing him to defend with all his strength.

At this moment, Zhou Yu was the most relaxed person present. His task was to control the array and suppress Celestial Huoyun, preventing his escape and limiting the extent to which he could use his power.

For such a premeditated encirclement and killing, failing to set up an array in advance would simply have been a waste of ideal conditions.

Although one Celestial Immortal was participating in the siege, his attainments in arrays were far inferior to Zhou Yu's. Naturally, the task of setting up the array had been entrusted to Zhou Yu.

This was a fixed grand array established with ample preparation time, and it had long accumulated a massive amount of power of Heaven and Earth. Once unleashed, its might was far greater than arrays Zhou Yu normally formed by slowly mobilizing the power of Heaven and Earth with the aid of Loose Immortals' mana.

The facts proved that this array indeed imposed tremendous suppression upon a Top-Tier Celestial Immortal, reducing his strength by at least sixty to seventy percent.

In truth, the reason the mysterious person had specifically summoned Zhou Yu from the Great Xia World for this assassination operation was because of his accomplishments in Array Dao.

With an array personally set up by Zhou Yu, the odds of success naturally rose considerably.

At this rate, Celestial Huoyun won't last much longer. Zhou Yu watched the scene without surprise.

The old man was even stronger than Zhou Yu had expected. Combined with the assistance of so many powerful Loose Immortals, Celestial Huoyun, restrained by Zhou Yu's array, naturally could not hold out.

"Celestial Huoyun is risking his life."

Zhou Yu instantly sensed that suppressing Celestial Huoyun had become much more difficult. He must have employed some sort of desperate secret art.

It's useless. He'll still die. Zhou Yu sighed inwardly.

And just then—

"Hm?"

Zhou Yu suddenly looked beyond the array. At some unknown point, a gaunt old man with a red beard had arrived outside it.

With a wave of his hand, the old man sent a flame-wreathed flying sword crashing into the array. Its terrifying power made Zhou Yu's heart jolt.

"Who is that?"

The people besieging Celestial Huoyun also noticed the newcomer at once.

"It's him? Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire!"

"Wasn't he said to have died in the void of the Three Realms?"

"Celestial Yu said he would intercept anyone who might come to reinforce him. So it was Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire?"

"Celestial Yu is too useless. How long has it been? He already let Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire get here?"

The Loose Immortals were all astonished, and Zhou Yu quickly understood as well.

Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire was Celestial Huoyun's master and the founder of the Sacred Fire Sect. According to the intelligence Zhou Yu had gathered, Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire truly was dead.

He had never expected the man to still be alive.

And Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire seems to have made a breakthrough, Zhou Yu thought.

At this moment, Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire was attacking Zhou Yu's array. Only Zhou Yu could sense the terrifying power contained in those attacks.

It was far stronger than an ordinary Top-Tier Celestial Immortal. The intelligence had never suggested that Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire had once been this powerful.

Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire should qualify as a Peak Celestial Immortal now, shouldn't he? Zhou Yu was secretly shocked.

Peak Celestial Immortals were almost all figures only one step away from becoming Pure Yang True Immortals, and they were exceedingly rare.

He had never expected Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire to have broken through.

"Fellow Daoist Liuhe, how long can your array hold?" the old Celestial Immortal suddenly asked.

"Three breaths." Zhou Yu answered. The Daoist name of his disguised identity was Liuhe.

"Only three breaths? So short?"

Short?

Zhou Yu was speechless. The man simply did not know that Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire could now be considered a Peak Celestial Immortal.

If Zhou Yu's array had still been at the level it was three years ago, it would not have been able to withstand even a single instant.

The array Zhou Yu had set up was actually the upgraded Nine Absolutes Universe Array.

Over the past two years, he had continuously studied it. Combined with his extensive past experience integrating the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth with the Great Dao of Arrays, he had successfully merged the two Great Daos he had comprehended one after the other, creating an upgraded version of the Nine Absolutes Universe Array.

This array was terrifying. It could even withstand three breaths of frenzied assault from a Peak Celestial Immortal, which spoke for itself.

This was the array Zhou Yu had set up from the beginning. He simply had not previously activated its full power, as he had not wanted to reveal all his strength.

After all, activating only part of the array was enough to kill Celestial Huoyun, and it would not count as violating the Heavenly Dao Oath he had previously sworn.

But now I have to go all out. Otherwise, I really will violate the Heavenly Dao Oath. With that thought, the hand seals Zhou Yu formed immediately changed.

Silently, the power of Heaven and Earth gathered by the array began to surge.

The solidification of space within the array also abruptly increased severalfold.

"No, how can this be?"

Celestial Huoyun's expression changed. The array's suppression over him instantly soared to an inconceivable degree, leaving him with less than ten percent of his strength.

When Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire had first appeared, Celestial Huoyun had been filled with delight.

He too had believed that his master was already dead. He had never expected his master to still be alive.

Furthermore, Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire's appearance had essentially meant that his crisis was over, that he could escape death.

With two great joys arriving at once, Celestial Huoyun had naturally been overjoyed.

But now, all joy vanished in an instant. Celestial Huoyun felt as though he had fallen into an ice pit.

How could this array be so powerful? How could it possibly be this powerful?

"This..."

At this moment, the old Celestial Immortal and the Loose Immortals all widened their eyes. They instinctively attacked.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

One attack after another easily pierced through Celestial Huoyun's defenses. Celestial Huoyun was blasted apart, body and soul utterly destroyed.

Whoosh!

The treasures left behind after Celestial Huoyun's death flashed and were caught by Zhou Yu.

Within this grand array, no one could be faster than him.

"You—"

The old Celestial Immortal instinctively wanted to rebuke him. Though he had been polite toward Zhou Yu and the others, given his status, he had not truly regarded a group of Loose Immortals as worthy of notice.

But before he could speak, the old Celestial Immortal suddenly recalled the array whose power had just surged so dramatically. That had clearly been Zhou Yu's doing.

Forget it. So what if he gets those treasures? the old Celestial Immortal thought.

"Everyone, I'm going to release the suppression over the void and detonate my array." Zhou Yu's voice suddenly rang out. At the same time, a Great Teleportation Talisman appeared in his hand.

Although Zhou Yu had comprehended the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, he could not yet use Void Great Teleportation. Naturally, he could only rely on the power of a talisman.

Without hesitation, Zhou Yu crushed the talisman. As spatial power gathered, he quickly vanished from the spot.

"That guy runs fast."

The other Loose Immortals did not dare hesitate either. They swiftly took out the Great Teleportation Talismans they had prepared beforehand and fled at top speed.

Only the old Celestial Immortal, confident in his own strength, reacted a little too slowly.

And it was precisely that brief pause that allowed Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire to enter the array, which had already begun to dissipate.

"Die!"

His beloved disciple had been killed before his very eyes. Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire's rage had reached its peak, and the only person still here naturally became the target for his fury.

Boom!

A terrifying immortal sword descended, carrying boundless flames as it crushed downward.

"What?"

The old Celestial Immortal was stunned.

He had not had time to think much before, but now he finally realized something was wrong. He also finally understood why, despite their planned interception, Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire had appeared ahead of schedule.

Not daring to take the attack head-on, the old Celestial Immortal immediately used an escape art and fled rapidly into the distance.

Having finally found an opportunity, how could the enraged Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire let him go so easily? He naturally pursued without relent.

In the end, the old Celestial Immortal exhausted all his trump cards and paid a considerable price. Only after fleeing all the way out of the Haoyang Great World did he finally escape with his life.

When he returned to his lair in a miserable state, he learned that Celestial Yu, who had originally been tasked with intercepting Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire, had actually been instantly slain by the suddenly empowered Celestial Immortal Sacred Fire.

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