Heavenly Might Repels the Enemy

"Third Sister, they've already locked onto this island. I'm afraid we can't leave now. You've expended too much energy, so leave the rest to me," Lei Xiao said.

"Leave it to you?"

Bi Xiao lowered her voice. "One of them is a mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal. Can you handle him?"

To break through the illusory realm and then play the Primordial Dao Sound to help Lei Xiao stabilize his cultivation, she had exhausted most of her mana. There was barely any mana left within her now.

She could not even use Taiyi Escape Light. Otherwise, the moment she sensed the enemies approaching, she would have used Taiyi Escape Light to flee with Lei Xiao instead of informing him of it.

Lei Xiao said nothing. A purple lightning mark emerged between his brows.

"Fourth Brother, don't tell me you intend to use that move from Three Immortal Isles? No! You nearly died after using it last time, and I still don't know how Eldest Sister healed your injuries..."

"Third Sister, there's no other way now. Besides, I only plan to scare them."

As soon as he finished speaking, an invisible heavenly might erupted from Lei Xiao.

What exactly is inside Fourth Brother's body?

Though it was not the first time she had felt this heavenly might, Bi Xiao was still deeply shaken.

At the same time.

Outside the island, the black-robed middle-aged man at the front was a mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal.

"Judging from the fluctuations earlier, a treasure must have emerged here." Feeling his divine sense swallowed by the white mist surrounding the island, the black-robed man was not alarmed. Instead, delight appeared on his face.

Yet in the very next instant, he came to an abrupt halt.

The heavenly might arrived without warning, like an ancient ferocious beast that had slumbered for eons suddenly opening its eyes, or like a supreme being above the Nine Heavens casting down an indifferent glance.

The instant the black-robed man's divine sense touched that heavenly might, it froze for a moment. It was the instinctive trembling of an ant gazing up at the sky; he did not even dare entertain the thought of fleeing.

"W-what is this..." Even the black-robed man's voice trembled.

"Who are you, and why have you trespassed into my cultivation ground to disturb my cultivation?"

A deep, ancient voice devoid of the slightest emotion seemed to cross the endless river of time and space before exploding directly within the black-robed man's sea of consciousness.

The voice contained no mana, yet it carried a trace of supreme heavenly might. It made his soul tremble violently, and the divine light protecting his body instantly dimmed by thirty percent.

"S-senior, this junior is..."

"Get lost—"

As Lei Xiao spoke, a wisp of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder silently pierced the black-robed man's already unstable protective divine light.

His mind had already been thrown into turmoil, and before he could even react to what had happened, he opened his mouth and spat out a large cloud of blood.

"This junior deserves death! This junior will get lost at once!"

How could the black-robed man dare hesitate any longer? He scrambled to steady himself, then directly burned his life essence blood.

With a muffled bang, his entire body transformed into a blood-red rainbow. At a horrifying speed that was practically self-destructive, he frantically fled toward the horizon. In the blink of an eye, he vanished without a trace, leaving only a faint smell of blood in the air.

As for the other Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals, they too had been cowed by the heavenly might. After seeing the strongest among them, the black-robed man, vomit blood, they immediately turned around and fled into the distance even faster than they had come.

Only after those fleeing auras had completely vanished beyond the limits of his divine sense did Lei Xiao let out a long breath.

As his mind relaxed, the purple lightning mark between his brows slowly faded away.

In an instant, the suffocating heavenly might shrouding the island receded like the tide, and the gloom above the Nine Heavens turned clear once more.

"Whew..."

Lei Xiao's body swayed slightly, and his face instantly grew paler. Though he had not truly invoked that world-destroying thunderbolt, activating the Purple Firmament Origin Divine Thunder within his body to summon heavenly might had still consumed a great deal of energy.

"T-they were scared off just like that?"

Bi Xiao had thought a desperate battle would follow, but she had not expected the crisis to be resolved so easily.

"Third Sister, let's leave first. It would be troublesome if they realize later that we were only scaring them and come back to kill us," Lei Xiao said.

Though the possibility was small, it was not impossible.

"Mm."

Bi Xiao took a deep breath and pushed the tiny strand of mana she had painstakingly recovered to its limit. It turned into an azure-green escape light that enveloped Lei Xiao as well.

The escape light shot into the sky, carrying Lei Xiao away. Before long, the two vanished from this stretch of sea.

Time passed swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years went by.

After a hundred years, Lei Xiao and Bi Xiao had long since fully recovered.

"Fourth Brother, King of the East is giving a discourse on Purple Abode Island. Why don't we go listen?" Bi Xiao suddenly asked one day.

"We can't go."

Lei Xiao immediately refused without hesitation.

"Why can't we?"

"King of the East is an immensely powerful innate divine being. Not long ago, he even went to Purple Firmament Palace to hear the Saint's teachings. We cannot go to Purple Firmament Palace to hear the Saint's teachings, so listening to King of the East's discourse would also be a rare opportunity."

King of the East had heard the Saint's teachings at Purple Firmament Palace. By listening to King of the East's discourse, they would effectively be hearing the Saint's teachings indirectly.

Bi Xiao looked at Lei Xiao in confusion, unable to understand why he had refused so decisively.

"Third Sister, King of the East is extremely ambitious. On the surface, he is giving a discourse, but in reality, he wants to recruit subordinates. If I'm not mistaken, he intends to gather the sea clans of the East Sea."

King of the East was a highly ambitious man. This could be seen from how, after Hongjun named him the leader of the male immortals following his second discourse, he immediately established the Immortal Clan.

If he had not prepared beforehand, how could he have established the Immortal Clan in such a short time?

Clearly, after Hongjun's first discourse, he had already begun planning to build his own power. Hongjun naming him the leader of the male immortals had simply given him an opportunity.

Unfortunately, King of the East did not know that he was nothing more than cannon fodder in the Lich Tribulation.

Lei Xiao stopped Bi Xiao from listening to the discourse because he did not want to become entangled in too much karma with King of the East, lest they be drawn into the Lich Tribulation.

"Gather the sea clans of the East Sea?"

Bi Xiao was briefly stunned before she understood. "Fourth Brother, you mean King of the East has ambitions to contend for supremacy in the Primordial World? But the Lich clans are so powerful now. Even if he gathers the sea clans of the East Sea, he cannot possibly contend against them, can he?"

"Who knows?"

Lei Xiao shook his head. "Third Sister, whether King of the East has ambitions to contend for supremacy in the Primordial World or not, as long as we do not get involved, that is enough."

Bi Xiao nodded slightly. She did not know why, but although her cultivation was higher, she would often unconsciously follow Lei Xiao's words.

"Third Sister, we're almost at Tang Valley. Let's keep moving!"

When he mentioned Tang Valley, anticipation flashed through Lei Xiao's eyes. According to the myths and legends, there was very likely an innate spiritual treasure there.

He did not possess opportunities like Bi Xiao's, but that did not stop him from actively searching for innate spiritual treasures.