Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls Beat the Twelve Golden Immortals Silent

The first to make a move was not Guangchengzi.

It was another Golden Immortal of the Explanatory Sect, one with equally profound cultivation.

Jade Clarity Immortal Light transformed into a massive hand.

It slammed down toward Zhao Gongming's head.

Zhao Gongming did not even move the Black Tiger beneath him.

He merely raised his eyes.

A Sea-Calming Pearl flew out.

Bang!

There was no complicated divine ability.

It even looked like nothing more than a simple collision.

Yet that Jade Clarity hand formed from magical power exploded on the spot.

The Sea-Calming Pearl did not slow.

It arrived before its opponent in an instant.

The Explanatory Sect Golden Immortal's expression changed slightly.

A protective spiritual treasure immediately rose.

Boom!

Five-Colored Divine Light erupted.

The man and his treasure were both blasted away.

Cheers immediately rose from the Shang Camp.

Wang Mo watched, slapping his thigh.

"Senior Brother Zhao is still fierce!"

Gao Yougan wore an equally envious expression.

"Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls."

"This treasure is downright unreasonable."

Lin Yuan said nothing.

His gaze remained locked on the battlefield from beginning to end.

This was the first time he had watched a genuine Daluo Realm battle from such close range.

When he had previously rescued the Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island, he had also seen high-realm Immortals make their moves.

But compared to Zhao Gongming—

They were completely different feelings.

Fast.

Far too fast.

The other side had only just formed a hand seal.

Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Pearl had already arrived.

Even more outrageous was that Lin Yuan now possessed Innate Spiritual Perception, Battlefield Killing Intent Perception, and had inherited quite a few combat abilities.

When ordinary Immortals fought, he could at least understand some of the intricacies.

But watching Zhao Gongming battle now—

It was already impressive if he could fully follow three or four moves out of ten.

"Daluo..."

Lin Yuan murmured.

The gap between realms was truly immense.

And precisely because of that—

He looked forward even more to the reward corresponding to Zhao Gongming.

An Immortal of this level—

What would his strongest ability be?

Seeing his fellow disciple suffer a setback in a single strike, Guangchengzi no longer let anyone attack alone.

Two Explanatory Sect Golden Immortals stepped forward at the same time.

One on the left, one on the right.

Jade Clarity divine abilities erupted simultaneously.

Yet Zhao Gongming burst into laughter.

"Good timing!"

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls instantly split apart.

Twelve suppressed the left.

Twelve bore down on the right.

Five-colored radiant light nearly dyed half the sky in brilliant hues.

Boom! Boom!

Two thunderous blasts rang out in succession.

The treasure wielded by the Explanatory Sect Golden Immortal on the left was smashed aside by a Sea-Calming Pearl.

The one on the right fared even worse.

His protective immortal light was smashed apart outright.

A Sea-Calming Pearl grazed his chest.

Though it had not struck him head-on, it still sent his blood and qi churning violently.

He staggered back over a hundred zhang.

Zhao Gongming remained seated on the Black Tiger's back.

He had barely even changed position.

Lin Yuan's mouth twitched despite himself.

Was this even a magical battle?

It was more like novice-village players ganging up on a max-level whale.

Your skill effects were certainly flashy.

Then the big shot raised a hand and tossed out a pearl—

Smack.

Gone.

Taiyi finally made his move as well.

He and Zhao Gongming had never held any deep personal grudge.

But with their factions now opposed—

He naturally could not keep watching.

Several streams of Jade Clarity Immortal Light sealed off Zhao Gongming's retreat from the side.

Another treasure pressed down from the front.

This time, Zhao Gongming finally became somewhat more serious.

All twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls rose into the air.

Five-Colored Divine Light intertwined.

They seemed like twenty-four bright moons hanging in the heavens.

"Fall!"

Rumble!

The Sea-Calming Pearls crashed down together.

Not one after another.

But wave after wave.

The first wave broke spells.

The second shook treasures.

The third directly crushed people.

Several Golden Immortals of the Explanatory Sect joined forces, yet they were still battered into retreating again and again.

Taiyi had only just condensed a divine ability.

When the next Sea-Calming Pearl came crashing over.

He could only defend first.

Once he blocked it—

More followed behind.

"Zhao Gongming!"

"What kind of skill is relying on the advantage of magical treasures?"

Someone finally could not help speaking out.

Zhao Gongming laughed when he heard it.

"Magical treasures aren't skill?"

"Since when did your Explanatory Sect forbid the use of magical treasures?"

"Why don't you all put away every spiritual treasure on you first?"

"Then I won't use the Sea-Calming Pearls either."

"Shall we fight barehanded?"

The other side immediately fell silent.

In the Primordial World, forbidding magical treasures in battle was not much different from telling a cook he could not light a fire.

Anyone who agreed would have to have a hole in their head.

Gao Yougan was already laughing himself silly in the distance.

"So they have a day like this too."

"When they attacked the Ten Ultimate Formation before, they brought the Formation-Reflecting Mirror, the Formation-Breaking Ring, and all sorts of countering spiritual treasures without leaving a single one behind."

"Now that they can't beat Senior Brother Zhao—"

"They've started complaining that his treasure is too strong."

Qin Wan smiled.

"Get used to it."

"If they can win, it is the will of Heaven."

"If they cannot win, then you are relying on external objects."

Lin Yuan nearly failed to keep a straight face.

Senior Brother Qin had spent too long around Senior Brother Gao lately.

His skill at veiled mockery had visibly risen.

On the battlefield—

Zhao Gongming fought ever more fiercely.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls moved in his hands almost like extensions of his limbs.

Even several members of the Explanatory Sect fighting together found it difficult to truly approach him.

The most miserable Golden Immortal was struck squarely on the shoulder by a Sea-Calming Pearl.

He plummeted from the sky straight into the ground.

Smashing out a massive crater.

Only after a long while did he fly back out.

His expression had turned utterly dreadful.

Guangchengzi could finally no longer sit still.

Several experts at the level of the Twelve Golden Immortals joined the battle at once.

The scale of the great battle rose again.

Heaven and earth spiritual qi churned violently.

The ordinary soldiers had long since retreated.

Wen Zhong even personally activated the army formation to keep the aftershocks from reaching the Shang army.

Lin Yuan also had no choice but to retreat farther away.

In a battle at this level—

If a Profound Immortal like him stood too close—

Even one uncontrolled aftershock would be enough to make him suffer badly.

But the longer he watched—

The stronger the sense of dissonance in Lin Yuan's heart became.

Zhao Gongming was too powerful now.

Pick out any one of the Twelve Golden Immortals, and he would be no match for him at all.

Even when several joined forces—

They still found it difficult to do anything to him.

A man like this—

Would actually be schemed to death in the end.

This Investiture of the Gods thing truly had no martial honor.

Another volley of Sea-Calming Pearls came crashing down.

The Explanatory Sect disciples retreated once more.

At last, Zhao Gongming did not continue the pursuit.

After all, he had only come this time to help the Ten Heavenly Lords recover their dignity.

It had not yet reached the point of a true fight to the death.

He recalled the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

The Black Tiger beneath him slowly stepped through the air.

"Fellow Daoists."

"Let us leave it at that today."

"If you wish to bully my Intercepting Sect disciples again in the future,"

"First ask whether these twenty-four pearls of mine agree."

With that, he turned around.

And left.

Decisive as could be.

West Qi was quiet to an excessive degree.

No one took the initiative to call for another challenge.

Yet in the direction of the Shang Camp, laughter and cheers erupted at once.

After Zhao Gongming returned to camp, Wang Mo and the others immediately gathered around him.

"Senior Brother Zhao!"

"That was satisfying!"

"That pearl just now should have hit even harder!"

Zhao Gongming waved a hand.

"If we truly killed an Explanatory Sect direct disciple,"

"Then things would become completely serious."

"A lesson was enough."

Hearing those words, Lin Yuan could not help nodding inwardly.

Zhao Gongming was not merely a reckless brute.

He knew where to draw the line.

But that was precisely the problem.

In a head-on fight,

The Explanatory Sect would have a hard time doing anything to him.

The next move would most likely no longer be a direct confrontation.

That night.

Inside an immortal cultivator's tent in West Qi.

Several Explanatory Sect disciples wore grim expressions.

"The twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls are far too troublesome."

"In a direct clash,"

"It will be difficult to win."

After a moment of silence.

Someone spoke.

"Though magical treasures between Heaven and Earth may be powerful,"

"That does not mean nothing can restrain them."

"In the region around Wuyi Mountain,"

"I have heard there are two Rogue Cultivators."

"Xiao Sheng."

"Cao Bao."

"The thing in their hands..."

"Is rather interesting."