"Damn it, how could this be?!" The middle-aged man lost his composure! How could there be such a gulf between two people in the same realm?!
Just as the ice spear was about to pierce Feng Li!
Ripples spread through the void, and a divine furnace blazing with fire shot out. Flames surged skyward within it, illuminating the entire firmament, which the battle had robbed of starlight! It stood in the sky like a brilliant sun!
The ice spear struck the divine furnace, dimming many of its flames as the ultimate ice turned into divine water! It nearly extinguished the furnace! In the end, however, the ice spear melted completely, turning into heavenly rain that fell onto the great red earth and blasted enormous craters into it. Some drops even pierced stars!
"The Skyvault Divine Furnace!"
"The furnace of the Immortal King, Yan Cang?"
Some cultivators of the Nine Heavens recognized the divine furnace, their voices trembling as they spoke!
"No. It looks very similar, but it's only a replica. Otherwise, we would all have been roasted to ashes! Still, its power is frightening enough. I'm no match for it!"
Someone from the Immortal Domain spoke, seemingly breathing a sigh of relief! How terrifying! They had only come to oversee the battle; getting killed would be a terrible loss!
"It's you, Yan Ling! The Foreign Realm's Quasi-King!"
A young man with fiery hair descended from the void. His long hair danced behind him like flames, as though it were alive.
He was powerfully built, naked except for a pair of trousers made from some unknown material. Ancient characters were inscribed all over his body, flickering with red light.
The woman revealed his identity, her brows tightly knitted.
"I recognize you-the Ice Sovereign of the Nine Heavens, Snow Linglong!"
"Thank you for saving my life, Lord Yan Ling!" Feng Li rejoiced at having snatched his life back!
Yan Ling said, "Mm! Go kill that junior! Leave this place to me!"
Yan Ling's words puzzled everyone!
Looking toward the red earth where Lin Yue had fallen, they saw a young man slowly climb out of the deep crater! Apart from the slit in the front of his black robes, only a shallow wound was visible. Even that was healing, gradually leaving a white mark!
"He actually survived an Immortal's attack! Has anything like this ever happened before?"
"With a body like that, is he from the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan?"
"No, he's human! The prodigy of the Nine Heavens who broke the Supreme Venerable's curse! Does breaking that curse make everyone's body this strong?" Everyone found it bizarre that Lin Yue had survived an Immortal's attack!
"Lin Yue, fall back, quickly!"
Snow Linglong called out, trying to rush to Lin Yue's side!
"Hmph! Do you think I don't exist?"
Carrying the divine furnace, Yan Ling smashed it straight at Snow Linglong, and the two instantly clashed! On one side was Extreme Dao ice; on the other, Extreme Dao divine flame.
Where they fought became nine heavens of ice and fire! Although the divine flames melted the ice, the ice turned into heavy water and extinguished his flames! For the moment, neither could gain the upper hand!
"Heh heh, leave it to me, Lord Yan Ling!"
Feng Li chuckled and charged straight toward Lin Yue. Although he shared their realm, he clearly could not help in their battle. If he rashly intervened, he might die on the spot. These were supreme figures who had already brushed against the King realm!
Though he had been ambushed, Lin Yue was utterly unconcerned. Watching his wound disappear, he chuckled as well! After bathing in blood of the extremity of strength and true phoenix treasure blood, the Human Immortal Martial Dao, which already focused on the body, was indeed formidable!
As Feng Li shot straight toward him, the corners of Lin Yue's mouth rose slightly!
"An Immortal, is it? Come, let me weigh how much difference there is between this world's Immortal Dao cultivators and my Human Immortal Martial Dao!"
The moment his words fell, his body, comparable to the Immortal Dao, erupted with its full power! The radiance nurtured within his flesh rose into the firmament with his raging blood energy like beacon smoke! His divine power drew in the stars of the heavens like a black hole! One force surged outward, the other pulled inward, like opposing yin and yang forces repelling the void! Under this power, the stars could neither retreat nor advance, only bob up and down!
"Such might! An Immortal Dao body? It surpasses even the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan. Truly incredible! No wonder he's so terrifying! With Extreme Dao divine power alone, he can glimpse the true runes of the Immortal Dao! Truly incredible-is he a junior of our Nine Heavens?"
Seeing Lin Yue unleash his power instead of fleeing, intending to meet him head-on, Feng Li immediately understood his plan!
"Boy, you think enduring one strike from me means you can defy heaven? Have you gone mad chasing fame? Let me tell you why we are called Immortals!"
"Immortal-Slaying Sword, kill!"
The keen sword intent made even the battlefield's blood mist part of its own accord!
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword! Sever yin and yang, slay all things!"
Lin Yue employed the Heaven-Defying Steps, Yin-Yang Reversal, and unleashed an ultimate strike!
Facing an Immortal, he erupted to his utmost and struck with all his strength, holding nothing back!
The originally formless, intangible void was cleaved apart. Chaos energy surged out of it, only to be split like waves upon the sea. Ripples spread wherever the sword light passed, stirring the power of time!
It was just like an Immortal Dao figure attacking! With ultimate divine power, he manifested the laws of the Sword Dao!
This was true swordsmanship-the sword emerged, and the laws followed!
Boom...
Energy ran rampant, shattering stars!
A figure flew backward and crashed into a star. It was the Foreign Realm's Immortal, Feng Li!
Did this make any sense?
"Is he trying to slay an immortal from a lower realm? Isn't this too heaven-defying? He's not even in the same domain as the Supreme Dao Venerables we know!"
"No, this is beyond heaven-defying. It's uncanny! Without entering the Immortal Dao, his body has reached divine heights, and his divine power overwhelms the world! To think such a being exists!"
Even in the Immortal Domain, peerless prodigies fighting across realms were no mere legends throughout the ages. Yet such feats had only occurred below the Immortal Dao. No one had ever slain an immortal from a lower realm-not even the greatest prodigies! No such tale had existed even in the era of the fallen emperor!
Battle Immortals were indeed formidable, but the term more often referred to those who could become immortals in a single bloody battle, not those who could truly slay immortals!
The distinction between immortal and mortal was no empty saying. The Human Dao and Immortal Dao domains were two different systems of cultivation!
Standing in the void, Lin Yue felt his right hand trembling and could not help frowning. As expected of an Immortal comparable to a True Immortal. No matter how many Supreme Dao Venerables came, none could withstand the strike he had delivered with almost all his strength, yet his opponent had shattered it with a casual blow! Though it looked as if he had sent his opponent flying, Feng Li had merely suffered for carelessly testing him!
Still, his own body was no weaker. In terms of divine power, he was not necessarily inferior to an Immortal, and might even be stronger!
"Boy, you deserve death! I'll strip out your soul and leave you unable to live or die!"
Feng Li's furious voice rang out. Being sent flying by a human Supreme Dao Venerable would probably stain his entire life! Even if he eventually reached a higher realm, it would never be forgotten!
If he could not capture Lin Yue today, it would likely become an inner demon, bringing his cultivation path to an end!
"Heh, does an Immortal only know how to wag his tongue? Come, let us decide who is superior, who lives and who dies! Throughout the ages, no one of the Human Dao has slain an immortal. If I, Lin Yue, cannot surpass those who came before me today, what does it matter if I die here? We martial cultivators will cut even immortals down from their divine pedestals!"
Chapter 45: The Frenzied Immortal
"Arrogant brat! One sword to slaughter immortals! Die!"
Feng Li had already gone mad. Lightning and divine thunder sprang beneath his feet, his speed exceeding comprehension. Even time stood still before such speed. He would kill Lin Yue with absolutely overwhelming power, put his heart at ease, and destroy his inner demon!
This second sword was a strike of fury, and an Immortal's peerless attack! It was called One Sword to Slaughter Immortals! With the force of thunder, it annihilated its foe, terrifying beyond measure!
Azure sword light, carrying an immortal, imperishable aura, crossed time and space to strike directly at him. Like the Heavenly Dao's wrath, a thunderbolt from a clear sky, it silenced all things, leaving them afraid to reveal themselves!
The keen sword intent carried a peerless Sword Dao treasure technique of the Foreign Realm straight toward Lin Yue's brow. Even the spectators felt chills throughout their bodies!
Many combatants turned to look. Most battles between Immortal Dao figures centered on wearing down their opponents' strength, for such figures were too difficult to kill and required prolonged battles.
Only when an opponent revealed an opening would they unleash an ultimate strike to kill them, while also testing whether the opponent had truly reached their limit!
Now, however, Feng Li attacked in outright frenzy. The sheer strength of his power naturally drew attention!
Once they noticed this battle, everyone was stunned. His opponent was actually a cultivator of the Human Dao domain. No wonder Feng Li had gone mad.
But what was this supposed to be?! With an Immortal's strength, he was trading blows with such an opponent? Was this a joke?
"Azure Yang, Profound Calamity! Nether Yin Pure Land! Yin and yang of the Great Dao, heed my command!"
Lin Yue held his sword horizontally before his chest, no longer holding back the strongest Sword Dao secret technique within the Yin-Yang Dao Chapter! Two figures behind him, one black and one white, radiated boundless power that devoured the yin and yang of heaven and earth!
"Great Yin-Yang Chengli Sword Qi!"
His cultivation at the apex of the Extreme Dao, coupled with a body and divine power comparable to a True Immortal's, unleashed a world-shaking sword strike. The phantoms behind him also swung their black and white swords. At that moment, the endless void seemed to split into two colors beneath this strike, shocking all who saw it!
The extreme yang sword shattered all tangible things; the extreme yin sword slew every intangible primordial spirit!
As the sword passed, both men flew backward, smashing stars. Cracks began appearing across the chest of Feng Li's immortal body! Immortal essence blood dripped down, directly melting cultivators in the Foreign Realm's camp. Even some Extreme Dao cultivators were pressed deep underground. Though they survived, they suffered grievous injuries!
Lin Yue was hardly better off. Blood streamed from his mouth, and his primordial spirit was wounded! Yet phoenix blood revived within his inner divine treasury, slowly healing him. In this exchange, Lin Yue had gained the upper hand completely! Moreover, as the phoenix blood within his inner divine treasury revived, his body's aura had already begun to stabilize!
This was the terrifying aspect of the Human Immortal Martial Dao. Divine universes formed within the body, and even the heavenly Great Daos manifested there had imprinted the power of phoenix blood, continuously radiating vitality like a memory! Once a battle became prolonged, victory was almost assured!
Moreover, the Great Yin-Yang Chengli Sword Qi truly deserved its place as the highest secret technique within the Yin-Yang Dao Chapter. It was genuinely terrifying, surpassing countless secret techniques and ancient arts!
"What terrifying swordsmanship! Its offensive power is unrivaled, and it can even slay primordial spirits! Which Immortal King's scripture is this? Its sword intent is even sharper than that blade of grass's was!"
Seeing such peerless sword intent, the many spectators instinctively recalled that fearsome being whose sword intent could shatter stars!
"Is it the Chaos-Quelling Art? Or that blade of grass's sword art?"
A True Immortal from the Immortal Domain overseeing the battle spoke. He was simply too shocked. Before any Immortal King had acted, he had already witnessed a King-realm sword art. He spoke instinctively, thinking it was the sword art he knew!
After all, that Chaos-Queller had been far too heaven-defying. In the middle of the Immortal Ancient era, several Immortal Kings had stepped into the Border Pass, intending to cross the boundary. In the end, the Chaos-Quelling Art had slain them and forcibly driven back the Foreign Realm's Immortal Kings, leaving behind a legend!
As for that blade of grass, even less needed to be said. A stir of its sword intent shattered stars. With an Immortal Dao body, it had fought four peerless Immortal Kings, confronting kings head-on with the Immortal Dao. The power involved needed no further explanation!
"No, but it's no worse than the Chaos-Quelling Art. Not only can it slay primordial spirits, its sword intent is no less keen than that blade of grass's. Its offensive power is unrivaled, and its destructive power surpasses theirs! It even resembles a combination of those two sword arts. Truly horrifying. I wonder which king's secret technique could achieve this!"
"Another fearsome figure. We cannot let him live. Feng Li, if you can't handle him, hurry and step aside. We will act!"
An Immortal of the Foreign Realm spoke, utterly scornful of Feng Li. With the lofty strength of an Immortal, he had actually been wounded by a cultivator of the Human Dao domain. It felt like an insult to their realm!
Feng Li floated out from the dimmed star, his body spattered with blood as he coughed up more!
"Get lost! How could a mere ant wound me?!"
Strike while he was wounded and take his life!
Lin Yue would not give his opponent a chance to catch his breath. An Immortal's recovery was no trifling matter! He stepped forward with the Yin-Yang Reversal footwork, instantly crossing the void faster than an ordinary True Immortal!
"Profound Yang Sword, die!"
Upon the Black Sword, scorching extreme yang power carried luminous divine radiance that swept away all darkness as Lin Yue struck with his divine power!
Feng Li was no slowpoke either. He likewise employed heaven-defying footwork, and the instant he raised his hand, his iron sword shot out like a venomous snake leaving its den, its cold gleam dazzling!
Sword qi swept across the battlefield, cleaving heaven and splitting earth, slicing stars apart like melons!
The battle between the two above the firmament left both sides dumbstruck. A battle between ordinary cultivators would never have drawn so much attention, but one combatant belonged to the Human Dao domain, while the other was an Immortal comparable to a True Immortal. That made all the difference.
Those of the Nine Heavens and the Immortal Domain were shocked that Lin Yue, a cultivator of the Human Dao domain, could fight an Immortal comparable to an Immortal Dao figure. The Foreign Realm was even more shocked that their opponents had someone capable of fighting an Immortal from a lower realm! Normally, the Nine Heavens could not necessarily win even in battles within the same realm. This overturned everything they knew!
"Ah...! Immortal-Slaying Sword, cut him down!"
Feng Li was the first to break mentally. Despite attacking with all his strength as an Immortal, he could not defeat a Supreme Dao Venerable of the Nine Heavens. The Foreign Realm, which had always regarded the Nine Heavens as ants, could not endure this humiliation!
Every time, he attacked furiously. Though he held the upper hand, Lin Yue was like a cockroach that simply would not die! Moreover, his recovery was astonishing. He could fight with almost the strength of a peak sword strike, showing not the slightest weakness after all this time. It gave Feng Li a bad feeling! He even had the illusion that Lin Yue was merely attacking normally!
Improving in battle, gradually adapting, imprinting and absorbing immortal divine radiance-this was the Human Immortal Martial Dao's greatest strength. It familiarized itself with an opponent, allowing the divine universes within the body to use the opponent's aura to imprint suitable patterns of divine essence circulation! Like the Great Dao of heaven and earth, it recorded everything. This was why the Human Immortal Martial Dao was also called the human body divine universes!
"Hmph! Profound Yin Sword, rise!"
Lin Yue had no fear now. His body's immortal radiance was enough to resist the suppression of immortal divine light. Now was the time to grind his opponent down!
A black flame that seemed alive instantly spread across the Black Sword, devouring all vitality. It even devoured the immortal divine radiance of Feng Li, an Immortal!
With one sword strike, Feng Li was sent flying again. The immortal light upon him dimmed as it was devoured!
"Damn you! You forced me to do this! You forced me!"
Feng Li was on the verge of madness!
"Have you gone mad? This is war!" Lin Yue said disdainfully!
"With my true life, I sever your path to immortality!"
Feng Li's entire body seemed to catch fire. His life essence burned, and his immortal true intent surged wildly, suppressing the entire firmament!
In that instant, his aura almost surpassed ordinary Immortals, even approaching the might of a Quasi-King! His black hair rapidly turned white. Drawing on power beyond his limits came at a price!
Immortals truly deserved their name. Every one of them had heaven-defying qualities and trump cards to preserve their lives!
"Junior, you truly have reason to be proud. From the Human Dao domain, you forced me to use a Limit-Breaking Secret Art. Even a True Immortal could not do that. It is enough to leave your name in history! But in the end, you are only of the Human Dao domain! Carry that glory with you into reincarnation!"
Feng Li attacked in frenzy, heedless of overdrawing his immortal divine essence, sacrificing his life essence. The Foreign Realm's terrifying Secret Sword Art True Runes flickered, and sword light swept across the firmament of Great Red Heaven like a slash from heaven itself! Primordial stars were cut in half! Even time seemed to be sliced into fragments!
Facing this sword, even Lin Yue's body, comparable to the Immortal Dao, began to ache faintly!
Chapter 46: Slaying an Immortal Through the Human Dao
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