Chaos Devours Treasures, Emptying the Immortal Court

Li Qingxiao stood atop the Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus, pearly divine light flowing around him.

He pushed the World-Cleansing White Lotus's "Ten Thousand Laws Immunity, Untouched by Karma" property to its limit.

Those shattered fragments of restrictions and lingering killing divine light

were silently purified and dissolved the moment they came within three feet of him.

Li Qingxiao strolled forward as if in a garden, taking one step and directly ignoring layer upon layer of damaged formations to reach the deepest part of the Immortal Court's treasury.

"Buzz."

Passing through the final curtain of light, the view before him suddenly opened up.

This was a vast and boundless Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm.

The treasure aura and dense spiritual energy rushing toward him were almost like tangible rain and mist, refreshing the spirit.

Looking around, piles upon piles of Taiyi Refined Gold were stacked like mountains, emanating a chilling sharpness.

Supreme-Grade Nine Netherworld Divine Jade and Star Essence were neatly arranged to one side, numbering in the tens of thousands.

In the medicinal field on the left side of the secret realm grew tens of thousands of fully mature Innate Spirit Medicines,

their fragrance assailing the nose as spiritual light gleamed brilliantly.

Above the secret realm, upon floating jade platforms,

dozens of low- and mid-grade Innate Spirit Treasures and embryonic treasures radiating innate Dao charm quietly floated there!

Using his honored position as Chief of the Male Immortals, Dong Wang Gong had spent thousands of years extorting and plundering everywhere,

and the fortune he had accumulated was truly terrifying beyond measure.

"Dong Wang Gong may be an idiot, but he is rather skilled at gathering treasures."

There was neither lofty detachment nor politeness in Li Qingxiao's eyes, much less the slightest pity.

In the cruel Primordial World, resources meant power, and reserves meant one's path to the Dao!

When he built his own Daoist sanctuary and planned for the great tribulation ahead, what would not require vast quantities of divine materials?

"Today, all of it belongs to this poor Daoist!"

With a sweep of Li Qingxiao's sleeve, the newly reforged and evolved Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Chaos Gourd, soared out from within his dantian!

"Buzz—!"

The Chaos Gourd was dark gray all over, and the three thousand divine patterns upon it lit up at once.

The gourd's mouth abruptly opened, transforming into a terrifying chaotic black hole ten thousand zhang in diameter!

Its incomparably violent devouring force swept through the entire treasury grotto-heaven like an apocalyptic storm!

"Crash!"

The mountain-like piles of Taiyi Refined Gold and Nine Netherworld Divine Jade turned into streams of light that were wildly sucked into the gourd's mouth.

Tens of thousands of Innate Spirit Medicines, along with the entire plot of supreme-grade spiritual soil,

were uprooted and poured into the black hole like a bursting river.

The dozens of Innate Spirit Treasures and treasure embryos floating in the air

did not even have a chance to struggle before they were suppressed and taken in by chaotic divine light!

In merely a few breaths, more than half of the entire treasury had been emptied.

Yet Li Qingxiao did not stop.

His gaze swept across the surroundings of the treasury, and his sleeve shook fiercely once more.

"Boom!"

His violent Great Luo mana transformed into an invisible giant hand,

forcibly lifting all tens of thousands of pieces of Eastern Sea Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade laid across the treasury floor and dragging them into the gourd.

Even the twelve Heaven-Piercing Hall pillars carved from Supreme-Grade Divine Crystal

were severed at their bases and casually taken away.

He had truly scraped the ground clean, leaving not a blade of grass behind!

After collecting everything, Li Qingxiao's gaze locked onto the earth-vein core at the very center of the treasury.

There, three supreme-grade Innate Ancestral Spirit Veins coiled and churned like true dragons,

emanating endless Eastern Sea Pure Yang ancestral energy.

This was the foundation of the Immortal Court's prosperity and the ancestral root of Zifu Continent's spirit veins!

"He who severs another's foundation shall have his own severed in turn."

Li Qingxiao's expression was indifferent as his hands formed the Heaven-Opening Seal Art.

The Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus above his head cast down tens of millions of rays of divine light, forcibly severing the karmic connection between the spirit veins and the Eastern Sea.

"Rise!"

He shouted, using the formidable mana of Late Great Luo to forcibly uproot all three supreme-grade Innate Ancestral Spirit Veins!

The enormous spirit veins let out shrill dragon roars and transformed into three golden dragons ten thousand zhang long,

which Li Qingxiao swept into his Universe in the Sleeve with a flick of his robe.

Having lost the support of its spirit veins, the entire grotto-heaven secret realm instantly began to collapse and sink, without even a trace of stray spiritual energy remaining.

Meanwhile, on the frontal battlefield.

As the ancestral veins beneath the ground were forcibly pulled away, the earth energy of all Zifu Continent suddenly vanished,

and Dong Wang Gong's already faltering protective immortal light instantly collapsed!

"Pfft!"

Taiyi's Golden Crow claws seized the opportunity to tear apart Dong Wang Gong's remaining Pure Yang divine light,

leaving a bloody wound on his chest deep enough to expose bone.

Di Jun's River Chart and Luo Writing transformed into a Yin-Yang millstone and slammed viciously into Dong Wang Gong's back.

Dong Wang Gong flew backward like a kite with its string cut,

his hair disheveled and his body drenched in blood.

Feeling the complete severance of the earth-vein energy, Dong Wang Gong was both shocked and enraged.

He only assumed that Taiyi's Chaos Bell was too overwhelmingly powerful,

and had forcibly shattered the connection between the entire immortal island and the Eastern Sea's earth veins!

"Damn it! Damn it!"

A trace of madness and determination flashed through Dong Wang Gong's eyes.

Borrowing the force of his flight, he transformed into a shrill streak of Pure Yang Escape Light,

retreating desperately toward the forbidden grounds treasury!

In his eyes, although the outer formation had been destroyed, the forbidden grounds treasury was protected by layers of restrictions.

The bodies of the three supreme-grade ancestral spirit veins buried deep underground, along with the foundation of countless divine materials accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, had to be intact!

"As long as I retreat into the depths of the treasury and forcibly detonate those three Innate Ancestral Spirit Veins and endless divine materials with my origin,

setting up a deadlock where we all perish together, I will make you two feathered brutes accompany me in death!"

Dong Wang Gong ground his teeth to pieces. Moving like lightning, he smashed through the ruined gate of the forbidden grounds and charged into the treasury grotto-heaven.

Yet when he staggered into the treasury and raised his bloodied face,

his entire body instantly froze in place.

There were no mountain-like piles of divine materials.

There were no spirit medicines and spirit treasures shining with countless rays of rosy light.

Even the ten-thousand-year warm jade paving the floor and the divine crystal pillars supporting the hall had vanished without a trace!

As far as the eye could see, there was only a gigantic deep pit, bare and empty from having been scraped completely clean!

Most absurd of all, the three Innate Ancestral Spirit Veins that should have guarded the center had not even left behind a shadow!

The surroundings were deathly silent, without even a wisp of spiritual energy remaining!

"Thud!"

Dong Wang Gong's knees gave out, and he dropped heavily into the deep pit.

His Dao heart, already grievously wounded, completely shattered and collapsed at that moment!

He threw back his head and let out a heart-rending, incomparably shrill roar:

"Thief!!!"

"Who took advantage of the chaos to steal the Immortal Court's foundation, accumulated over countless ages?!!"

"Puh—!"

A mouthful of essence blood mixed with shattered organs sprayed wildly several zhang into the air!

Yet before Dong Wang Gong could recover from his despair,

"Rumble—!"

The void above the treasury exploded apart!

Di Jun and Taiyi, cloaked in boundless Solar True Fire and holding the Chaos Bell and River Chart and Luo Writing,

shattered the void and descended from above, completely sealing off the treasury ruins!

And within the deepest shadows of the void, Li Qingxiao had long since transformed into a speck-like glimmer of white lotus light, quietly floating there.

His gaze was deep as an abyss, his expression calm as he coldly watched the Chief of the Male Immortals reach the end of his road.

The golden-red Solar True Fire illuminated the ruined treasury's deep pit with brilliant light.