"I'm worried about Lord Lin Yue now. He's invincible in this realm, but even Immortal Kings like Lord Wuzhong and the others... I'm afraid Lord Lin Yue might...!"
"Spit, spit, spit! Don't go spouting nonsense!"
Everyone grew worried as they watched the four Quasi-Kings surround Lin Yue!
"That's the depth of a great realm's reserves! Extreme Dao cultivators are worth less than dogs, Immortals walk everywhere, and even Quasi-Kings aren't hard to find!"
"You were the one who killed Yan Ling!"
A middle-aged man with three heads spoke from south of Lin Yue! This was the Three-Headed King, a supreme Quasi-King of the Foreign Realm who was close to becoming an Immortal King! His race might soon become an Emperor Clan!
To the east, a purple-haired man kept his gaze fixed on Lin Yue, his brows tightly furrowed!
To the west stood a human woman with a striking figure and a battle banner on her back!
To the north stood a Sky Fox woman, her face full of seductive charm as she swayed her body!
Boom...
There was no more pointless talk. They attacked directly, and the five plunged into battle, their manifestations shaking the heavens!
"Hehe, over here!"
Her beautiful, melodious voice induced illusions. Many of Lin Yue's attacks struck only her phantoms.
Some cultivators from the Immortal Domain even lost themselves merely watching the battle!
The Sky Fox race's Heaven-Enchanting Secret Art was said to be capable of enchanting even the Heavenly Dao once cultivated to perfection!
Lin Yue stared at the Sky Fox woman with murderous intent. It was not because of her beauty, but because her race had originally been a branch of the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox of the Nine Heavens before defecting to the Foreign Realm! Now they had actually returned to the battlefield to attack the cultivators of the Nine Heavens!
"Hmph, traitor! You deserve death! Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword, kill!"
The ultimate power of slaughter slashed out. Only now did the Sky Fox woman facing him understand how terrifying Lin Yue was! No one could contend with him alone!
"What overwhelming killing power. It truly can't be met head-on, but that doesn't mean there's no answer!"
"Spatial transfer!"
To the east, the purple-haired man raised his hand. Chaotic qi surged forth, then spread open the canopy of heaven! With supreme spatial power, he enveloped Lin Yue's heaven-shaking killing art and transferred it into the ranks of the Nine Heavens!
The terrifying power slashed out of the void and raced toward the cultivators of the Nine Heavens.
"That's Lord Lin Yue's ancient art! Why is it appearing here? Has Lord Lin Yue betrayed us too?" The cultivators of the Nine Heavens panicked!
"Idiot! What are you talking about!"
"That's the Void King Beast's spatial divine ability! They know they can't overpower Lord Lin Yue, so they're using supreme space to encompass heaven and earth and redirect his attack! That purple-haired one among the four is the Void King Beast! Don't worry. Someone will intervene!"
"So that's it! You gave me a fright!"
Watching Lin Yue's slash approach, the old Quasi-King of the Nine Heavens said, "Fellow Daoists, please lend me your strength!"
Though he had dwelled in the Quasi-King realm for countless years, he did not dare take Lin Yue's supreme killing art head-on!
Another Quasi-King joined him, while several True Immortals also unleashed their peerless treasured arts!
Boom...
Unfortunately, every divine ability and ancient art they unleashed, including Jing Ci's, was swept away like rotten wood before a storm. The moment they touched the slash, their Divine Marks disintegrated and their treasured arts collapsed! Moreover, the Indestructible Divine Runes within the Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword feared no sealing secret art!
Only after confronting Lin Yue's sword head-on did they understand what it meant to be impossible to overpower. Stubbornly charging into it meant death and the dissolution of one's Dao!
"Let me!"
A True Immortal brought out the Ten Realms Diagram, an Immortal King weapon, and finally drew Lin Yue's slash inside. It was the same method: using the supreme space within the diagram to transfer it to another realm!
A wave of lingering fear washed over Lin Yue. Only when he saw the slash finally redirected did he breathe a sigh of relief! But the instant he relaxed, a battle banner swept him away.
Even in the Quasi-King realm, two fists struggled against four hands!
With that said, he immediately brought forth his Martial Dao Divine Infant and Yin-Yang Dao Body!
"He really has cultivated a heaven-defying method! This secret art is far too outrageous. Not only is he invincible in the same realm, he can even crush several opponents at once!"
"Terrifying!"
Above the firmament, endless treasured arts scoured the world again and again! The Great Red Land was all but overturned countless times!
Chapter 51: A secret treasure emerges, kings arrive
Who knew how many years had passed? Lin Yue only knew that the longer he fought, the more smoothly it went. From defending passively at the outset, he eventually seized the initiative. As the Divine Universes within him gradually developed and all 129,600 Divine Embryos in his body fully formed, they drove his divine essence at full force, advancing his flesh still further. Now, with his physical body alone, he could almost suppress all four Quasi-Kings.
The four Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm were now gravely wounded, their expressions terrifyingly dark!
"Heavenly Slaughter!"
Lin Yue's three Dharma Forms suppressed the past, present, and future. Time could not encroach upon them, and even the void was suppressed. He weathered a blow from the woman's battle banner and punched straight at the Void Beast.
Golden lightning crawled over his divine fist like divine dragons coiling around it, ignoring everything in its path.
"Damn it! Realm-Sealing Art! Void Tribulation Manifestation! Seal heaven and earth! Seal!"
The Void Beast's perfected spatial divine ability could seal an entire world and hold it in his palm, like an evolved version of Heaven and Earth in the Palm. If he became a king and advanced another step, his supreme spatial divine ability might even encompass the River of Time. Unfortunately, it could not seal Lin Yue's Heavenly Slaughter punch.
The void shattered like a mirror, and his opponent was blasted to pieces beneath that Heavenly Slaughter punch!
Blood rained across the sky, immortal divine radiance glittering translucently.
Another Quasi-King had fallen!
"Is this another Heavenly Horned Ant? With a body like that, who can stop him unless a king appears!"
"Ah... Spirit-Disrupting Banner! Die, you monster!"
The woman roared in shock and fury. Thunder dragons surged through the great banner in her hands as her secret art frantically stirred the laws of the Heavenly Dao. Killing intent arose from the void, seeking to shred Lin Yue. He had actually endured her attack and slain the Void Beast, turning her face ashen.
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword!"
With the Void Beast dead, the Black Sword reappeared in Lin Yue's hand, and he unleashed the Life-Severing Sword! All the ordered laws gave way, not daring to block it! Every advance in Lin Yue's physical body raised this ultimate killing art, born from the Yin-Yang Body-Tempering Secret Art, to another level!
Swish...
The battle banner broke in two, and the woman's immortal body exploded once more.
Run!
That was the thought of the two remaining Quasi-Kings of the Foreign Realm! Of four Quasi-Kings, two died and two fled!
Lin Yue was simply too heaven-defying. Through years of bloody battle, he had slain Immortal after Immortal, his might surpassing even that of the Heavenly Horned Ant back then. Like a nightmare incarnate, he brought endless terrors upon the Foreign Realm! Even with Immortals walking everywhere, the Foreign Realm could not withstand such losses.
The tide even turned on the battlefield of Great Red Heaven. Under Lin Yue's leadership, they began to counterattack!
Indeed, the Immortal Dao was what truly dominated the battlefield!
Quasi-Kings can no longer threaten me. Will kings be next? I wonder how Yan and Yu are doing, and where they are!
The Heavenly Horned Ant siblings seemed to have fought their way out of Great Red Heaven. Neither could be found.
Lin Yue was about to step forward with Yin-Yang Reversal when his heart suddenly clenched, forcing him to halt! This was a supreme being's instinctive response to the might of heaven and earth. His body made the choice, and Lin Yue forcibly stopped in his tracks.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
A faint pulse began to reach them. Weak though it was, its penetrating power was truly heaven-defying. Like the heartbeat of a giant beast, it affected their minds and tugged at their heartstrings!
"What is that!"
A True Immortal from the Immortal Domain spoke! Everyone frowned, worried that it was an enemy technique. Even those from the Foreign Realm stopped fighting, not daring to ignore such a pulse!
Everyone could only hear that throbbing, yet could see nothing. It seemed far beyond the horizon, yet also right before their eyes, as though it came from within the River of Time, sounding in every corner of Great Red Heaven.
"A secret treasure? Is it a secret treasure?"
Those with a keen interest in treasures thought of this immediately. It was their instinctive response.
"Where is it?"
As the pulses grew stronger, everyone, including Lin Yue, looked toward the largest crater in the Great Red Land, a vast pit blasted out by repeated attacks and surges of energy!
Countless broken halberds and shattered swords lay within the crater, along with secret treasures buried deep beneath it.
One small wooden box stood out sharply amid it all. It was tiny and utterly ordinary, not the sort of box anyone would normally use to hold a treasure. Half of it protruded from the red earth, emitting pulses that shook the heart!
"What is that? A battered wooden box?"
"What do you know? The more ordinary it looks, the more heaven-defying it is! Seize it first!"
"Good point!"
The darkness instinctively dwelling in the bodies of those from the Foreign Realm drove them to fight for it! The very source of that darkness sought to corrupt what lay within the wooden box!
Although those from the Nine Heavens did not know what it was, they joined the struggle as well. One saying remained true: never let your enemy obtain what they want!
Since this wooden box has appeared, that sense of dread just now couldn't have been mistaken.
Lin Yue now had a suspicion about the wooden box. It might contain the sealed soul of the physical body of that truly supreme existence!
If they knew this secret treasure had emerged, how could the kings stay away? Perhaps this was why Great Red Heaven was destroyed in the original story! And it wouldn't be as simple as one or two coming. An entire host of kings would descend!
Just then, the workings of heaven fell into chaos, yin and yang began to reverse, and heaven and earth began to overturn! Everyone instinctively stopped and looked up at the sky!
The next instant, everyone's soul began to tremble. Only Immortal Dao cultivators and Immortals could barely endure it, while Quasi-Kings could steady their minds! This was a living creature's instinctive fear of a being higher than itself!
A vast, dark-red hand, like the claw of an ancient beast, seemed to reach out from the River of Time and the ages. Even primordial stars paled beside it! Its terrifying pressure overwhelmed the universe and swept through the eight wildernesses, as though the Heavenly Dao itself had acted!
This was the power of a king. Primordial stars seemed as though they could be crushed at a whim. That unrivaled kingly might naturally drew fear from the depths of every soul!
"A king! Hahaha... Our king has descended! Nine Heavens, perish!"
"Indeed. Lin Yue, was it? So what if your talent is unparalleled? Before a king, all your efforts are futile. Today's battle is settled!"
Everyone from the Foreign Realm cheered the arrival of their king!
The great hand had a clear target. It reached straight for the Rotten Wooden Box!
"Has a king descended? To fight for this secret treasure!"
"Even a king is acting! Just what is it!"
Just as the great hand was about to seize the small wooden box, another voice rang out from the void!
"Heaven-Breaking Halberd!"
A heaven-piercing battle halberd seemed to thrust out of the void toward the great hand, with stars retreating before it.
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword!"
Sever yin and yang, battle all things!
Lin Yue also unleashed his heaven-piercing sword of ultimate slaughter, striking the great hand together with the battle halberd!
Whoosh...!
Most of the shattered hand's energy vanished into the River of Time.
A king had descended!
Immortal Kings could even traverse the River of Time, descending into unknown pasts and futures. However, they could not choose the time themselves and could only rely on luck. The slightest misstep could leave them lost, or even dead, so kings would not casually enter the River of Time unless absolutely necessary.
Of course, even Quasi-Immortal Emperors wandering within the River of Time could not reach a destination of their choosing with certainty. They could merely divine more than Immortal Kings through unseen workings and find their targets faster! Yet unless absolutely necessary, they too dared not lightly entangle themselves in karma. The karma of the ages and time was too great; even Quasi-Immortal Emperors felt lingering dread!
Only a true Immortal Emperor, standing above the River of Time, whose true body existed in the past, present, and future, with every era belonging to them, could truly have no fear of the karma of the ages!
"Hmph! You escaped the previous encirclement by luck, yet instead of hiding, you've come out to stir up wind and waves again! Aren't you afraid of entangling yourself in supreme karma and ending in death, your Dao dissolved? Do you truly think you can defy heaven?"
As the words fell, a towering figure manifested within the River of Time. He stepped forward, ripples of the ages spreading beneath his feet! His true body stood deep in the firmament, with primordial stars and the radiance of the heavens appearing around him, slowly revolving.
An Immortal King, his Dharma Form shocking the world! Beings below the Immortal Dao and Immortal levels dared not look directly at his true body, for people instinctively sought to imprint a true king's Dharma Form in their hearts through their eyes. That was dangerous!
Even Immortal Dao beings dared not gaze at a king's Dharma Form for too long. A king possessed not only a powerful body, but, most importantly, a soul of overwhelming strength, like a blazing sun.
If it were merely the physical body, it would not matter so much. An adult Heavenly Horned Ant's body could rival a king's, or even surpass it.
But cultivators primarily cultivated their primordial spirits. Only through the primordial spirit could they perceive the Heavenly Dao and comprehend its laws, while a king was like the Heavenly Dao incarnate.
Who dared look directly upon the Heavenly Dao!
Body refinement cultivators, however, walked against heaven. Thus, whenever a heaven-defying physical body emerged, heavenly punishment would descend!
Rather than properly cultivating the Heavenly Dao and comprehending its methods, they cultivated their own flesh, defied heaven, and even grew stronger in body than kings. If heaven did not punish them, whom would it punish!
"Uya, an Immortal King of the Foreign Realm!" A True Immortal from the Immortal Domain spoke in a trembling voice!
In an instant, heaven and earth began to release killing intent, seeking to annihilate him. Had he not been an Immortal Dao being himself, with the workings of heaven concealing him, he might even have died of fright. Calling a king's true name at such close range was no different from courting death!
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