Just as Guangchengzi was held back by the [Lunar Dark-Baleful Grand Array]!
Within the [Chaos-Reversing Nebula Grand Array]!
Jiang Yun's eyes suddenly erupted with boundless killing intent!
"Jade Cauldron!"
"Your time to die has come!!"
"Chaos-Reversing! Stars—Unite as One!!"
Jiang Yun split his focus in two and pointed with two fingers!
Boom—!!!
Within the grand array, the projections of the celestial stars formed from the three hundred and sixty-five [Star Pearls] suddenly converged at this very moment!
They transformed into a terrifying pillar of starlight, dazzling beyond measure, as though it could pierce through the entire Primordial World!
"No!!!"
Nothing remained in Jade Cauldron's eyes but endless terror and despair!
He desperately tried to flee.
Yet under that terrifying power of the stars, he could not even move a finger!
Rip—!!
The pillar of starlight vanished in a flash!
Jade Cauldron's Yuqing Immortal Light, which he had always taken pride in, shattered inch by inch as though it were made of paper!
Immediately after!
Bang!!
His physical body! His Primordial Spirit!
At that moment, both were completely annihilated by that terrifying stellar power!
Body and soul were extinguished!
Only a faint True Spirit shot into the sky, flying straight toward an imperceptible direction within the unseen!
Before the Epochal Tribulation had officially begun, the first person to ascend the [Investiture of the Gods] had appeared.
One of the Clarifying Sect's Twelve Golden Immortals!
Jade Cauldron!
"De—dead?!"
"Jade Cauldron was just killed like that?!!"
"Body and soul extinguished—what a vicious method!"
"At the Golden Immortal realm, he killed a Daluo through an array!!"
"Madman! This Marshal Tianpeng is a complete madman! He actually dared to kill him!!"
"It's over! It's over! He's stabbed a hole through the heavens this time!!"
"Ever since the Six Sages attained the Dao, this is the first time a Sage's direct disciple has fallen!"
"A second-generation disciple of the Clarifying Sect was killed before all the races of the Primordial World by a third-generation disciple of the Interception Sect!"
"The Clarifying Sect has lost all face. The one in Jade Void Palace will definitely fly into a rage!!"
At this moment, every great expert watching the battle trembled in soul!
"Junior Brother Jade Cauldron—!!!"
Within the [Lunar Dark-Baleful Grand Array], Guangchengzi's eyes nearly split apart as he let out a roar of utter grief and fury!
Beside him, Taiyi Zhenren trembled all over, his face deathly pale and his eyes filled with terror!
He was dead!
Jade Cauldron was truly dead!
Right before their eyes, he had been forcibly blasted to death by a third-generation disciple of the Interception Sect!
"Ahhh! Jiang Yun! Little beast! I'll make you pay with your life!!"
Guangchengzi had completely gone mad. Divine light surged from the [Heaven-Overturning Seal] as he prepared to break free from the grand array at any cost!
The Twelve Golden Immortals of the Clarifying Sect might not have shared particularly deep bonds.
But to Guangchengzi—
A dignified quasi-Sage had failed to protect even his own junior brother before a mere Golden Immortal.
Having his junior brother slain before his very eyes was undoubtedly like being slapped across the face.
It left Guangchengzi utterly humiliated.
However!
Right at that moment!
Buzz—!!!!
A supreme will, terrifying enough to crush the heavens and earth of the Primordial World and freeze hundreds of millions of living beings, descended with a thunderous crash!
The entirety of Jade Spring Mountain, along with the spacetime across hundreds of millions of miles, completely froze at that moment!
"To offend one's superior is punishable by death!!"
A cold, majestic voice devoid of the slightest emotion thundered down from the Nine Heavens!
Immediately after!
Crack—!
Space shattered!
A terrifying jade ruyi wrapped in endless Yuqing Immortal Light, as though condensed from countless Great Dao laws, tore through the void.
Crossing endless spacetime, it smashed down upon Jiang Yun's head!
The [Three Treasures Jade Ruyi]!
Primordial Celestial Worthy!
A Sage had attacked from afar!!
"Hiss—!!"
"A Sage! It really is the one from Jade Void Palace who has made his move!!"
"It's over! It's over! No matter how capable Marshal Tianpeng is, he is doomed to die now!"
"Even a quasi-Sage would fall on the spot from a Sage's strike! Marshal Tianpeng—he was ultimately far too rash!"
"What a pity. If such a heaven-defying prodigy could endure and cultivate for several hundred thousand years, he would surely have a place among the quasi-Sage experts of the Primordial World—"
At this moment, all the great divine experts watching the battle trembled in soul!
Before this world-destroying strike from a Sage, Jiang Yun's two terrifying killing arrays could not even stir the slightest ripple!
It seemed that in the next instant, both he and the arrays would be completely erased!
However!
At the critical instant before the [Three Treasures Jade Ruyi] descended!
"Senior Brother, quell your anger!!"
A somewhat urgent yet incomparably majestic voice rang out!
Buzz!
An ancient treasure mirror and a completely golden phoenix hairpin tore through the air!
The [Haotian Mirror]! The [Golden Hairpin]!
At that moment, the two Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasures erupted with power and barely managed to block the [Three Treasures Jade Ruyi]!
Boom—!!!!
A muffled blast rang out!
Heaven and earth lost their color!
The owners of the treasure mirror and phoenix hairpin had clearly suffered greatly!
Haotian and the Queen Mother tore through the void and arrived.
An unnatural pallor flashed across Haotian's face, showing that he had suffered no light injuries!
This was only because Haotian and the Queen Mother had borrowed the Fortune of the Heavenly Court through a wondrous art, while Primordial Celestial Worthy had slightly withdrawn his strength, that they had barely blocked this strike.
"Senior Brother Yuanshi, please quell your anger for now!"
Haotian forcibly suppressed his churning blood and qi, cupped his hands toward the void of the Nine Heavens, and said, "Jiang Yun is a righteous god of my Heavenly Court, personally appointed by me as Marshal Tianpeng!"
"Though he acted impulsively today, the matter should still be handled by my Heavenly Court. I hope Senior Brother will show regard for the Dao Ancestor and temporarily restrain your thunderous wrath!"
"Haotian!"
From the Nine Heavens came Primordial Celestial Worthy's cold voice once more. He was clearly enraged to the extreme!
"How dare you stop me?!"
Rumble!
A supreme figure seated high upon the [Nine-Dragon Agarwood Carriage] slowly descended!
Sagely might surged across the heavens!
All Dao submitted!
Primordial Celestial Worthy had descended in his true body!
Under ordinary circumstances, if Haotian had dared to obstruct him, Primordial Celestial Worthy would have long since crushed both him and the Heavenly Court with a single slap!
Yet not long ago, Haotian had gone to Purple Cloud Palace to lodge a complaint. Dao Ancestor Hongjun had summoned the Six Sages and clearly declared that he would support Haotian, reestablish heavenly rules, and deliberate the Investiture of the Gods!
If Primordial Celestial Worthy attacked Haotian now, it would be no different from publicly slapping Dao Ancestor Hongjun across the face!
Haotian could not be killed—
But that did not mean Jiang Yun could not be killed!
"Hmph!"
Primordial Celestial Worthy snorted coldly, and his emotionless Sage eyes fell upon Jiang Yun.
"A mere Marshal Tianpeng cannot represent the Heavenly Court!"
"An arrogant and ignorant fool, unworthy of his position, is bound to suffer calamity!"
"To offend one's superior is a crime beyond pardon!"
"Today, I shall cleanse the sect for my third brother!"
With a single word from a Sage, Jiang Yun's life and death had already been decided!
However!
Faced with this certain death, not the slightest fear appeared on Jiang Yun's face!
Still neither servile nor overbearing, he respectfully performed a Daoist salute toward that supreme Sagely figure. "This disciple, Jiang Yun, greets Second Granduncle-Master!"
"Jade Cauldron colluded with Outer-Realm Heavenly Devils and secretly broke the [Ancient Star River Grand Array], allowing the Demonic Tide to invade the Primordial World and causing grievous casualties among the Heavenly River Navy."
"As Marshal Tianpeng, this disciple commands the Heavenly River Navy and carried out punishment on Heaven's behalf, executing him according to the law."
"I acted in accordance with Heaven, and my heart is without guilt!!"
"Second Granduncle-Master is a Heavenly Dao Sage who teaches and guides all beings on Heaven's behalf. If you insist on suppressing and killing this disciple here today, then this disciple is inferior in skill and will bear no resentment!"
"A Sage's Primordial Spirit is entrusted to the Heavenly Dao, making them deathless and indestructible!"
"This disciple merely wonders whether the remaining martial uncles within Second Granduncle-Master's Clarifying Sect lineage can withstand the backlash of such Heavenly Dao Karma!!"
As his words fell!
Boom—!!!!
Jiang Yun no longer held anything back!
The [Mystic Yellow Merit Indestructible Body] was activated at full power!!
In an instant!
A dazzling, vast, and incomparably pure [Merit Golden Light] surged from Jiang Yun's body into the heavens!!
Mysterious Yellow Qi coiled around him! Merit Golden Light protected his body!
His Merit was so immense that it resembled a vast ocean, illuminating the heavens and earth for a million miles around!!!
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