"Is that... the Ten Realms Diagram? As renowned as the World King Diagram, it's a supreme immortal diagram! They say it contains a supreme heaven and earth capable of evolving into a great world. Someone actually refined it to suppress their enemies. What a grand undertaking!"
Someone from the Immortal Domain spoke. The Nine Heavens still possessed so many secret treasures! Some people's eyes darted about, as though they were plotting something underhanded.
The words had barely faded when a beam of divine light shone down from the firmament. Wherever it passed, Immortals retreated, not daring to face its edge, while Extreme Dao experts perished! At the end of that divine light was an Ancient Land! A single reflection shattered mountains and rivers!
"The Mountains and Rivers Mirror! Another Immortal King weapon! Damn it!"
Great Red Heaven was a supreme great world, yet its skies were covered in blood of every color! Some precious blood still radiated supreme power even after its owners had died, striking terror into all who saw it!
There was blood from the Foreign Realm's Extreme Dao experts and Immortals, and from the Nine Heavens' Extreme Dao experts and True Immortals. Occasionally, even the essence blood of Immortal Kings dripped from the river of time above the highest reaches of the firmament!
Anyone below the Immortal Dao who was unfortunate enough to be struck would die on the spot! Even Immortal Dao figures dared not withstand it head-on. The might of kings was no laughing matter!
Countless primordial stars were pierced until they resembled spherical sieves! Smaller stars exploded outright, becoming meteors that rained down!
Heaven collapsed and earth split; the sun and moon lost their light! In this war, the two sides fought until the cosmos itself crumbled!
By now, Lin Yue had gone mad with slaughter, his sword in hand. Supreme Dao Venerables who normally intimidated heaven and earth could not withstand even a single exchange. Each sweep of his sword resembled an Immortal Dao figure's strike! The terrifying divine strength of his flesh sent stars flying!
He was like a meat grinder on the battlefield. Wherever he passed, blood mist filled the sky!
"Ant, cease your arrogance!"
Three Supreme Dao Venerables attacked together. They already knew no one could face Lin Yue alone, and cared nothing for their dignity as they surrounded him to kill him.
A battle halberd, a divine spear, and a massive cauldron sought to meet him head-on and suppress him!
"Hmph! Ants, if you seek death, I shall grant you Rebirth!"
The man holding the massive cauldron erupted with an invincible aura, his divine strength equally astonishing. His intent was plain from his choice of a weapon resembling the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan's Primordial Mother Cauldron!
"Heh. Ants indeed!" Lin Yue sneered.
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword! Sever yin and yang, cleave all things!" True inscriptions that disrupted yin and yang emerged upon the Black Sword, bearing Indestructible Divine Runes and fluctuations!
Having reached the Apex of the Extreme Dao, Lin Yue unleashed a strike at the utmost limit, his terrifying divine strength joining his supreme killing power!
The black sword light swept through like a demonic dragon, tearing open the void as effortlessly as crushing rotten wood, faintly connecting with the secret power of time! This was the embodiment of strength shattering all arts! Every divine ability disintegrated beneath such an attack! Moreover, by connecting with immortal radiance from the Extreme Dao realm, it possessed the power to crush all others in that realm!
The halberd snapped, the spear broke, and the cauldron split. Beneath this Life-Severing Sword, the Foreign Realm's three Supreme Dao Venerables and their divine weapons vanished without a trace!
"So powerful!"
"Lord Lin Yue is invincible!"
Even on a battlefield where survival was a one-in-ten chance, countless people watched Lin Yue!
"Isn't this far too heaven-defying? Even a True Immortal's might could scarcely surpass this! He exceeds even Lord Wuzhong back then!" a True Immortal from the Immortal Domain exclaimed, then felt his words were inappropriate. After all, he believed the Human Dao domain was still only the Human Dao domain.
"Something is wrong! Quickly, ordinary Extreme Dao experts cannot contend with this man!"
Lin Yue's black battle robes remained unruffled. The force field formed by his flesh's divine strength spread like a black hole, drawing in the surrounding blood mist. He resembled an asura bathing in a pool of blood!
"I... I remember! He's the prodigy from the Nine Heavens who slaughtered four members of our Emperor Clan in Qingwei Heaven! It's him, no mistake! It must be him. No one else could achieve this!" someone from the Foreign Realm cried in terror, as though recalling something horrifying!
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! A Supreme Dao Venerable? How could he be the same person? How much time has passed? How is this possible?"
A Supreme Dao Venerable from the Foreign Realm denied it like a madman. As an Extreme Dao expert, he had not been able to attack Lin Yue during that battle, but he had witnessed it clearly. A member of the supreme Emperor Clan descended from the time beasts had wielded Extreme Dao power and joined three other Emperor Clan members to surround and kill their opponent. They had thought victory assured, only for the outcome to prove impossible for anyone to accept.
Their own prodigies, King Clan members, and even Emperor Clan members had piled their bleached bones into the foundation of his supreme renown!
How little time had passed? How could he have reached the Extreme Dao?
Now Lin Yue was surrounded by blood mist, all of it the blood of powerful beings, impossible to see through. That man simply refused to believe he was the invincible youth from back then!
Chapter 43: An Immortal Strikes
Lin Yue swung the Black Sword in his right hand, cutting through the blood mist and revealing his face!
At the sight of this absurdly young Supreme Dao Venerable radiating an invincible aura, some from the Foreign Realm instinctively stepped back!
"Damn it, stand firm! What are you afraid of? He's only one man. Surround him!"
At that command, more than ten figures radiating Extreme Dao divine brilliance approached from the Foreign Realm's rear.
Someone from the Foreign Realm refused to accept his might and led others straight in to surround Lin Yue!
"Exactly! So what if he's strong? In the end, he's only one man! How many can he kill, eight or ten?"
"Form the array!"
Twelve Extreme Dao experts from the Foreign Realm closed in to kill him, showing no fear of Lin Yue! In an instant, they laid down a great array at the four poles and eight corners of the surrounding space, trapping him! With such a formation, no one in the same realm could escape!
This was the Foreign Realm's advantage: whenever they could not win, they immediately surrounded their opponent!
Clang! Clang!
Two tolls rang out as a woman from the Foreign Realm carrying a great black bell struck first!
The terrifying bell thundered, its sound waves instantly tearing apart even chaos itself. Nearby stars trembled.
Cultivators who heard it were involuntarily stunned! Even Extreme Dao cultivators suffered this, let alone anyone else. Those who had not reached the Extreme Dao had their souls shaken straight out of their bodies, then shattered!
One toll shook the soul; the other immobilized the body. Even Lin Yue had never encountered such a strange secret art before. It was far too heaven-defying! He froze for a moment, seemingly dazed, his body pinned in place. Even his soul threatened to lose itself!
"It's that woman! Everyone, guard your souls! Don't let your guard down!"
"The Soul-Shaking Bell! Damn it! Lord Lin Yue, retreat!" A Supreme Dao Venerable from the Nine Heavens recognized that terrifying woman and cried out in alarm!
"Hahaha! Too late! Strike, everyone!"
The woman's shrill laughter drew everyone's attention as though imbued with demonic power!
"Heh! What a fuss over nothing. He amounts to no more than this! Die!"
All the Foreign Realm's Supreme Dao Venerables unleashed ancient arts at once. Divine abilities filled the sky and swallowed Lin Yue!
"Haha! It's over. Truly remarkable, but sadly, he still couldn't escape the arrangements of fate!"
Just as they were gloating, beams of black light abruptly pierced the sky-filling divine abilities engulfing Lin Yue. His immobilized body naturally erupted with Immortal Dao radiance, scattering everyone's divine abilities!
"That was close. I haven't tempered my soul and nearly lost myself. Without the Martial Dao Divine Infant, I really might have been lost."
Lin Yue broke into a cold sweat. Secret arts targeting the soul were truly too heaven-defying. One careless moment could mean death and the destruction of his cultivation! Fortunately, his Martial Dao True Intent recovered in time, and his body, comparable to that of an Immortal Dao being, kept the Supreme Dao Venerables' precious arts from injuring him!
"How is that possible? Does he possess some ancient protective artifact?"
"Hmph! Why panic? I don't believe it can protect him forever. Keep attacking!"
The Foreign Realm's Extreme Dao experts attacked again! Astonishing manifestations evolved from chaotic energy, almost covering the entire firmament!
Hmph. I'll shatter this wretched array first!
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword! Sever yin and yang, cleave all things!"
"Cleave!"
"This is his clan's art! No one can withstand it alone. Let us strike together!"
Facing an unparalleled divine warrior like Lin Yue, they remained exceedingly calm. None tried to play the hero; they struck together to withstand his attack!
Unfortunately, as the terrifying sword light slashed out, the great array formed by the twelve shattered into fragments!
Only when they truly faced Lin Yue's utmost killing strike did they understand what it meant to be impossible to resist by force, and what it meant for one sword to leave no life!
No matter how many times one witnessed it, such swordsmanship was equally shocking. It transcended the utmost limits, a fundamental slash without any flashy flourishes! Supreme divine strength evolved manifestations of the utmost extreme. It was far too terrifying. Beyond godlike strength, that single strike contained the ultimate truths of heaven and earth's yin and yang. Wherever it passed, divine patterns collapsed!
"How is this possible?"
"Colorless Yin-Yang Sword Realm, open!"
Without giving them time to recover, Lin Yue followed his strike with the twin-fish yin-yang diagram beneath his feet, which immediately spread across heaven and earth to form a great array. The Great Dao of heaven and earth manifested in the void as tangible swords!
Sword bodies as immense as primordial stars stood throughout the boundless void!
"Kill!"
With a lift of his hand, razor-sharp sword light flowed forth to slaughter them, cutting through chaos and the void, piercing stars and blood mist, and penetrating the bodies of the Foreign Realm's Supreme Dao Venerables! Countless severed remains revealed their true forms after leaving their bodies, falling like primordial stars!
"Save me! Quickly! I don't want to die!"
"He's an Immortal Dao being! Quickly, have the Immortals act! Have the Immortal lords kill him! Hurry!"
The Foreign Realm's Extreme Dao experts watching this battle went numb, instinctively avoiding this region, unwilling to fight Lin Yue.
How were they supposed to fight this? More than ten Supreme Dao Venerables had attacked, only to be slaughtered. Unless an Immortal intervened, Extreme Dao experts were ants in his hands, butchered at will!
Moments later, the Foreign Realm fighters, now reduced to primordial spirits, broke down completely, screaming in panic!
"Hmph! There isn't even a road through reincarnation for you! Die!"
"He defies heaven! The Extreme Dao! The Extreme Dao! Surely this is the true Extreme Dao, giving us an entirely new understanding of this realm! The pinnacle of the Human Dao domain, unrivaled unless Immortal Dao beings appear. This is the splendor this realm ought to possess!"
A Supreme Dao Venerable from the Immortal Domain looked over, his heart shaken. Even across the Immortal Domain's endless ages, he had never seen such an unparalleled genius!
Just as Lin Yue slashed out with the Black Sword, bearing the yin and yang energies that could destroy souls, an azure light shot from the void without the slightest warning. Immortal radiance suffused it, carrying power beyond the Human Dao domain that devoured all life.
An Immortal from the Foreign Realm had launched a sneak attack!
Boom...!
As though a Heavenly Star had struck the earth, Lin Yue's entire body was knocked from the firmament! Even after piercing through stars, he did not stop, plunging straight into the Great Red Land and sinking beneath the ground!
"Ah! Lord Lin Yue! Has one of their Immortals attacked?"
"Please, let nothing happen to him! Where are our True Immortals? Hurry and check on him! We cannot let Lord Lin Yue fall!"
"Despicable scoundrel!"
"Shameless wretch!"
"Lin Yue!" Far away, the Heavenly Horned Ant siblings, an elder sister and younger brother locked in a bitter battle, cried out in alarm. An Immortal had actually launched a sneak attack! They wanted to rush over to help, but several Extreme Dao experts surrounded them, leaving them unable to break free for the moment!
"What a shameless creature! An Immortal attacking a junior? How disgraceful!"
Someone from the Immortal Domain spoke up. Although he disliked the Nine Heavens and had come merely to oversee the battle without taking part himself, he still protested.
For the enemy to have a supreme being comparable to a True Immortal attack a junior made him feel that this realm had been disgraced!
"Hmph! The victor becomes king, the loser a bandit. In a war between two realms, what does it matter whether something is despicable? A pack of ignorant fools! Only the victors can write history. Learn that!"
"Excellent! Lord Feng Li is mighty! That's how it should be. Who cares about those damned rules? Victory is the only true path!"
A middle-aged man emerged from the void, holding a simple iron sword mottled with rust. Immortal light surrounded his entire body, and chaotic energy parted on its own to make way for him!
A Supreme Dao Venerable attacked, but his divine abilities could not even approach. The man seemed to have become law itself, making precious arts veer away from him automatically! This was an Immortal of the Foreign Realm, comparable to a True Immortal! A supreme being whose words became law!
"Alas! What a pity. Even such a prodigy can die and lose everything with one careless moment! Had he been allowed to mature, he would surely have entered the king realm!" A True Immortal from the Immortal Domain spoke, lamenting Lin Yue's fate!
"Hmph! Have there been so few prodigies with the potential to become kings who died throughout the ages?"
Others were equally dismissive. Until one entered the Immortal Dao and reached the king realm, the gulf between immortal and mortal remained! Death was perfectly normal, especially in a decisive battle of this scale!
Chapter 44: Defying an Immortal in Battle
"Shameless beast!"
A woman's furious cry rang out from the Nine Heavens' side! A peerlessly beautiful figure arrived!
"Profound Ice Crossing! Freeze heaven and seal earth! Seal!"
A flash of white light swept across the firmament toward the middle-aged man, bearing the ultimate force of ice!
The void froze. More than ten Supreme Dao Venerables from the Foreign Realm, their bodies shattered and only their souls remaining, were likewise frozen in place!
Crack! With a shattering sound, more than ten souls broke apart, falling like glittering ice crystals!
Feng Li dared not withstand this divine ability head-on. He tried to use Heaven-Defying Steps to escape this region of space!
Unfortunately, ice formed within the void! He was still a step too slow. The power of frost spread toward him, leaving even the void unable to condense Divine Marks!
"Damn it! How can she be this strong?"
"Hmph! It's not as though I've never killed an Immortal like you! You actually attacked a junior. Today, I'll send you to the Yellow Springs!"
The woman was furious. As soon as she finished speaking, she struck with bitter hatred, condensing an ice spear! Its tip reflected the light of heaven and earth, gleaming with a keen edge!
Whoosh!
Immortal radiance wreathed the frost spear as it shot forth like an ice dragon! Wherever it passed, the void twisted, unable to imprint such incredible speed!
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