Subduing the Imperial Court Guardian Beasts Lu Wu and Kai Ming! Myriad Worlds Return to the Void Emerges in the Kunwu Realm!

Just then!

"Who..."

"Dares trespass on my Immortal Mountain!?"

An enraged shout exploded from the depths of the sky.

The voice thundered like billions of lightning strikes detonating at once, and the entire sky shuddered violently.

The silver-white auroras rolled backward beneath that furious shout, churning as though all heaven and earth were trembling before it.

Hmm?

As though some colossal embodiment of calamity had descended, Su Linxian lifted his gaze.

Rumble-

Countless bolts of lightning surged, the winds and clouds changed, and even the bands of aurora twisted and warped!

Then, high above, two pairs of enormous eyes opened at once...

Everything in the world seemed to freeze.

One pair held the sunken star rivers of countless ages, innumerable stars dying and being reborn within their pupils. Ancient and vast, they seemed to have watched this world for billions of years.

The other pair was supremely imposing. Boundless bloodlust churned within crimson pupils, their blood-red radiance staining half the sky dark red...

Two voices rang out together!

"Ignorant mortal..."

"Leave at once!"

Boom!

Furious thunder exploded.

Aboard the Spirit Boat, Mu Chiyu abruptly raised her head, disbelief surging through her beautiful golden eyes.

"They're..."

"Lu Wu... and Kai Ming?!"

For the first time, her ever-calm, indifferent voice visibly wavered.

"They're actually still alive!"

The former Ancient Imperial Court's-

Imperial Court Guardian Beasts!

"Su Linxian!" Mu Chiyu's voice carried from afar.

"Lu Wu and Kai Ming are both Imperial Court Guardian Beasts. Both are at the peak emperor realm."

"I can handle them..."

"No need."

Su Linxian spoke in an even tone.

He narrowed his eyes at those two pairs of terrifying eyes in the sky, the corners of his lips curling slightly.

"Let's test their strength."

He stepped forward.

Hum.

His figure streaked across ten thousand miles, space shattering like thin paper beneath his feet.

The next instant.

Su Linxian was already high in the sky, his black hair dancing wildly amid countless thunderbolts as strands of radiant divine law encircled him.

Looking at those two pairs of terrifying eyes overhead, Su Linxian spoke with a faint smile.

"Why all this ghostly posturing?"

"Show yourselves."

"Hmph!"

Lu Wu snorted coldly. His voice boomed with a force that violently shook the mind.

For an ordinary emperor, that single thunderous sound alone would have been enough to shake their soul!

"Those who defy the heavenly decrees of Everlasting Yin Mountain and trespass..."

"Die!"

Rumble-

An enormous beast claw reached out of the clouds overhead.

The claw was as thick as a pillar supporting heaven, covered in silver-white scales, each as large as a mountain peak. As it descended, the entire sky tore apart, space shattering into countless fragments to expose the pitch-black abyss of myriad worlds beyond.

Su Linxian neither dodged nor retreated.

The instant before the claw landed...

Thud.

The claw, powerful enough to crush an entire Dao Domain, seemed to strike an invisible wall. It could not advance even a fraction farther, and space froze between it and Su Linxian!

Terrifying golden emperor power spilled outward, sparks spraying across the sky!

Lu Wu exclaimed, "How is this possible?!"

Su Linxian grinned.

Hum.

Beneath the fingertips of his lowered right hand, a dark-red blood wheel condensed.

The slaughter divine law formed a rapidly spinning blood-red disc between his fingers, cutting through all things beneath heaven and radiating a sharpness capable of tearing everything apart.

"Go."

He raised a finger and pointed.

Bang!

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft-!

The Slaughter Blood Wheel raced upward along the enormous claw. Its silver-white scales shattered like papier-mâché beneath the blood wheel, dark-red blood spraying across the sky. The wheel pierced scales, flesh, and bone, traveled up the arm, and punched through the entire aurora-filled sky!

"Roar-!!!"

Lu Wu let out a roar that shook heaven and earth.

That roar brimmed with pain and fury, but above all, disbelief!

He had lived for hundreds of eras, guarding the Imperial Court since the Immortal Antiquity Era!

His flesh was indestructible; even divine abilities of the peak emperor realm could scarcely harm him!

Yet now, that blood wheel had sliced through his arm like tofu.

"This is... Her Highness the Goddess's slaughter divine law!?"

"Lu Wu!" Kai Ming bellowed, bloodlust surging within his crimson eyes.

Rumble!

He roared, his aura tearing away every cloud around him to reveal his enormous, terrifying true form.

He was a crimson beast with a lionlike body, nine horns on his head, and six pairs of crimson wings upon his back that blotted out the sky. Everlasting crimson divine flames burned upon each pair of wings, incinerating all things beneath heaven!

Lu Wu also revealed his true form. He was an enormous silver-white beast with a tigerlike body, a single horn on his head, limbs as thick as pillars supporting heaven, and silver scales along his spine like an unbroken mountain range.

"Awooo-"

Blood still dripped from the foreclaw wounded by the Slaughter Blood Wheel, but his aura grew even more violent.

The two Imperial Court Guardian Beasts revealed themselves together!

Their auras surged to the heavens!

The entire Immortal Mountain trembled violently beneath their pressure. Dense cracks spread across its silver-white slopes, and the auroras overhead were shredded into nothing!

Su Linxian stood high in the sky.

Facing two primordial guardian beasts at the peak emperor realm, his incomparably handsome face remained utterly calm. His robes fluttered, and his long hair danced wildly in the storm.

The patterns of the Great Dao flickered across his skin.

At that moment, Su Linxian's aura merged with the Heavenly Dao... as though he himself were the laws, as though he himself were the Heavenly Dao!

Su Linxian grinned.

"Now that's more like it."

"The Imperial Court's guardians are extraordinary indeed."

"Die!!!"

Lu Wu moved first.

His enormous silver-white body soared out of the mountain. A silver pillar of light spanning heaven and earth condensed upon his horn, filled with the sealing power of the primordial era, annihilating everything in its path!

Kai Ming attacked at the same time.

His six pairs of crimson wings spread at once, everlasting crimson divine flames burning upon each pair.

All nine horns lit up together. Crimson flames poured from them and transformed into nine fire dragons, each carrying primordial divine fire powerful enough to burn stars to ashes.

"Candle Heaven!"

A joint strike from two guardian beasts at the peak emperor realm!

The silver pillar of light intertwined with the nine fire dragons, becoming a heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating torrent that crashed toward Su Linxian!!

Yu Yao trembled all over before this terrifying spectacle of supreme grandeur.

Even at the emperor realm, she felt like nothing more than an ant!

Just a trace of that aura was enough to suffocate her!

Su Linxian watched the torrent hurtling toward him.

He raised his hand.

The Diya Sword condensed in his palm, its dark-gold inscriptions lighting up one by one.

The slaughter divine law and the desolate ancient brute force divine law coiled around the blade together, dark-red and dark-gold radiance intertwining in an endless flow.

He swept his sword across!

"Tai'e Return to Origin."

One sword strike!

The Dark Gold Sword Intent swept outward and collided with the torrent in the void.

Kaboom!!!

The sky exploded, and emperor power became a boundless divine sea that engulfed everything!

The silver pillar and nine fire dragons split down the center beneath the sword intent. Cracks spread like spiderwebs, covering the entire torrent in an instant before it scattered into silver fragments and crimson sparks that rained across the sky.

Those fragments struck Immortal Mountain, shearing off peaks and smashing deep craters into stretch after stretch of ground.

Kai Ming's pupils abruptly contracted.

"This man is no ordinary emperor!!"

His divine flames, combined with Lu Wu's power, were beyond what even an emperor at the same peak emperor realm could withstand. Yet that white-robed figure had split their torrent down the middle with a single sword strike.

"Lu Wu! Stop holding back!"

Kai Ming roared, his six pairs of crimson wings beating furiously as his body became a streak of crimson light hurtling toward Su Linxian.

Lu Wu lowered his head, pointing his horn forward. Amid the fragments, his body swelled larger, and a silver pillar of light a hundred times thicker than before condensed upon his horn.

One from the left, one from the right.

One silver, one crimson!

Rumble-

Deep within Immortal Mountain.

The enormous commotion made dozens of figures inside a stone hall shudder at once.

"Grand Elder! What happened?!"

Someone cried out involuntarily.

The old man with snow-white hair and beard abruptly rose, striking his staff heavily against the floor.

Silver-white light churned wildly within his pupils, shock and fury surging across his aged face.

"Someone..."

"Has forced their way into Immortal Mountain!"

The Grand Elder's voice was hoarse. "At this moment... they have already broken through Lu Wu and Kai Ming's defenses!"

Dead silence filled the stone hall.

"What!?"

"How is that possible!!"

Dozens of clanspeople exchanged looks, their expressions varied, their entire bodies trembling.

Lu Wu and Kai Ming were Imperial Court Guardian Beasts who had guarded the depths of Immortal Mountain since the Immortal Antiquity Era. No one had ever broken through their defensive line!

Yet now, the auras of those two guardian beasts were rapidly weakening!

"Bastard! Just who is it!?"

The Grand Elder turned, a resolute light surging within his aged eyes.

"Lu Wu and Kai Ming cannot stop them..."

"But as long as this old man has a single breath left, I will never let that person take so much as half a step into the Imperial Court!"

As he spoke, the Grand Elder raised his staff. Silver-white light poured from its tip, enveloping the entire stone hall!

"Everyone..."

"Follow this elder and defend Immortal Mountain to the death!"

The dozens of clanspeople rose together, their auras soaring at that instant.

"Defend the Imperial Court to the death! Defend Immortal Mountain to the death!!"

Streaks of divine radiance shot into the sky.

They pierced the stone hall, pierced the mountain range, and reached the highest reaches of the sky!

Outside Everlasting Yin Mountain.

Heavenly Prison Art!

"Roar!"

Kai Ming roared and struggled, his six pairs of wings beating wildly. Crimson divine flames scorched fissures through the force field. Lu Wu struggled as well, the silver pillar of light from his single horn clashing violently with the surrounding power of laws and exploding into a sky full of silver radiance.

Su Linxian curled his five fingers inward.

"Suppress!"

Bang!

The spatial laws abruptly contracted!

That power squeezed Lu Wu and Kai Ming inward from either side, slamming them together. Silver scales and crimson wings shattered and scattered on impact. Both colossal beasts let out muffled groans, plummeted from the sky, and smashed heavily into Immortal Mountain!!

Rumble!!!

The two enormous beasts blasted two bottomless craters into the mountainside. Rubble flew, and dust billowed into the sky.

Countless cracks spread across the silver-white mountain, and all of Immortal Mountain shook violently at that moment.

[Ding! Severely wounded the Imperial Court Guardian Beasts Lu Wu and Kai Ming. Gained 500,000 Villain Points!]

More than half the scales covering Lu Wu's enormous body had shattered. Dark red blood poured from countless wounds, pooling beneath him.

He struggled to stand, but his limbs were weak. The silver mountain patterns along his back flickered uncertainly, as though they might shatter at any moment.

Kai Ming was in an even worse state. Three of his six pairs of crimson wings had snapped, and crimson divine flames flickered around his wounds like a candle guttering in the wind.

He lay amid the rubble, dark red bloody froth constantly spilling from his mouth, yet his scarlet eyes remained fixed on the white-robed figure in the sky.

"Master is invincible!!"

Yu Yao stood on the Spirit Boat's deck, gazing up at the white-robed figure sweeping across the sky, her little face filled with adoration.

Mu Chiyu let out a quiet sigh.

"Even Kai Ming and Lu Wu couldn't stop him..."

Even in the Ancient Imperial Court, this fellow's strength would already have placed him at War God Level!

"Lord of the Emperor Clan!"

Below, Lu Wu forced himself to raise his head, his voice hoarse and heavy.

"We of Immortal Mountain and your Emperor Clan have always kept our well water clear of your river water. We seek only a secluded corner to call our own. Must you truly fight us to the death today?!"

Kai Ming roared and struggled to rise, crimson divine flames blazing wildly over his broken wings.

"So what if he's a Divine Emperor?! Lu Wu, let's fight him to the bitter end!"

Su Linxian looked down at the two guardian beasts still struggling below and said calmly,

"Quite a bit stronger than that Dao Qiniu..."

"Not bad."

"Enough. We're done fighting. Goddess, come out..."

Back when he faced Dao Qiniu, he had still needed to exert himself somewhat.

Now that his foundation as a Divine Emperor had been established, even dealing with these two Imperial Court Guardian Beasts, whose strength far surpassed Dao Qiniu's, took no effort at all.

Before his words had faded,

suddenly-

Boom!

All of Immortal Mountain began to shake violently.

The silver-white mountain trembled fiercely. Something deep within the mountain range was awakening. The auroras overhead churned wildly, as though the laws of the entire world were being rewritten at that very moment!

Dozens of figures appeared simultaneously atop Immortal Mountain.

"Everyone, burn your souls and lifespans!!"

An ancient, sacred aura wreathed the Grand Elder. Behind him stood dozens of clansmen in ancient robes, each driving the Great Dao Power within them to its utmost.

"Kunwu illuminates the world; all eternity is emptiness. Imperial Court Decree: The Myriad Heavens Bow..."

Their power converged into a torrent and poured into a mirror before the old man.

The Kunwu Mirror.

The mirror was silver-white throughout, its surface covered in countless flowing, ancient Dao patterns. Each pattern held a mysterious power that surpassed the Emperor Realm. Within the mirror were reflected the past, present, and future of the myriad heavens and worlds, with countless rivers of fate surging inside!

The old man slammed his cane down!

"Mirror, emerge..."

"Myriad Worlds Return to the Void!!!"

Hum!

The Kunwu Mirror abruptly flipped over, aiming at the white-robed figure in the sky.

Boom!!

A streak of Five-Colored Divine Light shot from the mirror!

That divine light was only about a foot long, yet it carried a terrifying power that transcended time and space. The instant it appeared, the entire world lost its color. All radiance was devoured by that divine light. Before it, the void shattered like thin paper, and even time broke apart within that foot-long radiance!

"This is bad!!"

Standing on the Spirit Boat's deck, Mu Chiyu's pupils abruptly contracted, panic plain on her face.

"Su Linxian, dodge!"

Her voice pierced ten thousand miles of void.

"The Kunwu Mirror is the Imperial Court's supreme treasure! If its divine light strikes anyone below Divine Emperor, their Three-Life Body will be erased from the world in an instant!"

"Past, future, and present-even a Divine Emperor traversing the river of time cannot restore them!!"

Su Linxian turned around.

The instant his gaze touched that Five-Colored Divine Light, his pupils tightened.

That was...

Even I could feel such an intense sense of danger?

The Kunwu Mirror.

The supreme divine artifact of the Primordial Imperial Court!

Su Linxian stood in the sky, facing that Five-Colored Divine Light capable of annihilating any existence below Divine Emperor, and the corners of his lips rose slightly.

"Interesting..."

"The Kunwu Mirror, capable of erasing the Three-Life Body..."

Now I...

wanted it even more!