Although Divine Lord Giant Wood had the cultivation of a Golden Immortal, with two supreme experts, Qi Nangong and Lu Yu, at his side, as well as tens of thousands of Sword Immortals reborn in his True Yang Jade Nectar Pool, his forces only looked impressive. In truth, their overall strength was no match for the Emei Sect.
The Emei Sect simply had too many Heavenly Immortals, including quite a few whose strength far surpassed ordinary Heavenly Immortals.
Li Yingqiong's generation had mostly accumulated cultivation across successive lifetimes—three, six, or nine lives were nothing unusual... Added together, these amounted to more than a thousand years, all erupting in this generation before the Dharma Extinction Age. Their Flying Swords and Magic Treasures, too, were the Emei Sect's thousand-year accumulation since the Three Elders. Their strength was formidable indeed.
Take Li Yingqiong, for example. Although her magical power fell short of Lu Yu's, with the Orthodox Mystic Sect's Immortal Arts from the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture, together with her Immortal Sword and Magic Treasures, Lu Yu could do nothing to her in a one-on-one fight, at least in the short term!
The others—Zhou Qingyun, Yu Yingnan, Yan Renying, and so on—were all outstanding talents, elite Heavenly Immortals who should have ascended long ago. Purple Ying, Green So, the Seven Cultivated Swords, the Silver River, and the Supreme Purity Mystic Gate Formless Sword Qi slaughtered ordinary Sword Immortals as easily as slicing melons and chopping vegetables. They could even raise a hand and point, unleashing a bolt of Taiyi Divine Thunder that blasted an entire swath of Sword Immortals into scattered souls!
By then, Emei Mountain had flown over Kunlun Mountain, and Divine Lord Giant Wood was doing his utmost to cast it into the Blood Lake in the Star Lodge Sea.
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