The Kunpeng Woman instinctively gripped her halberd with both hands and held it across her chest.
The Heavenly Desolation War Halberd bent at an astonishing angle under the blow! The Kunpeng Woman flew backward like a meteor, crashing through dozens of Primordial Stars in succession!
Then the enormous beast opened its jaws and lunged straight at Lin Yue!
Three Dharma Forms raised their hands to suppress it, forming a barrier within the void to imprison their opponent.
Lin Yue unleashed his Life-Severing Sword!
Roar...!
"Die, insect!"
The enormous beast roared in pain and struggled, thrusting out its terrifying claws. The void shattered, and even the barrier formed by Lin Yue's Dharma Forms began to crumble. Its terrifying strength was scarcely inferior to that of the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan!
Ripples of time surged over its claws. The terrifying divine power of this strike pierced straight through the suppressed space, tearing apart the heavens held down by Lin Yue's Dharma Forms!
"Fuck! Even this can't hold it down? Extreme Dao divine power?!"
Lin Yue cursed furiously!
All three Dharma Forms had emerged, suppressing all time, space, and laws. Neither the past, present, nor future could erode them or leave its mark upon them. Yet this peerless divine ability, which had never failed him before, was now broken by Extreme Dao divine power. It was only to be expected!
Watching the heaven-spanning claw descend, Lin Yue knew his sword was useless. The golden divine infant behind him immediately swung its divine fist!
Under that single punch, man and beast both staggered backward. For the first time, Lin Yue had met a match in strength!
"Damn it! Is this beast impossible to kill?"
The Kunpeng Woman, who had already flown back, had grown numb. An Immortal King's physical body was truly terrifying, all but ignoring her attacks! Unless she unleashed her power to its utmost limit, she could not injure him at all!
No sooner had she spoken than another earthshaking roar rang out. The enormous beast pounced again! Its massive claw shattered the void and struck Lin Yue directly!
Boom...
The void exploded. Lin Yue's blood essence scattered as he was sent flying! His entire body plunged into the Primordial Stars, his head ringing!
The black and white Dharma Forms returned to Lin Yue's spiritual platform, and he put away his sword as well!
Lin Yue began transforming into a heaven-spanning giant. This was the manifestation of the body attaining divinity through the Human Immortal Martial Dao: changing size at will.
Then the martial dao divine infant merged into Lin Yue's physical body. He seemed to have been gilded, golden light radiating from his entire body! The domain of a king's physical body crushed everything around him!
He drove a king's body with the martial dao divine infant! Spirit and flesh became one!
"Kill!"
Metallic crashes rang out as man and beast began using the most savage method of combat to send each other into oblivion!
Lin Yue's divine fist struck like a pillar holding up the heavens, wreathed in lightning! The enormous beast opened its bloody maw, its savage fangs gleaming coldly as it sought to devour him!
Above the firmament, the blood of supreme beings fell from time to time!
Lin Yue's kingly body reflected divine universes within him. His phoenix blood fully awakened, generating an inexhaustible flood of divine essence while healing his wounded kingly body! The Heavenly Horned Ant Clan's blood of the extremity of strength erupted as well, thundering through every cave heaven and acupoint vault! Golden lightning coiled around him, and indestructible divine patterns flickered across his skin!
The cultivators on both sides watched, dumbfounded. Was this what a battle between kings looked like? It was like watching two street thugs brawl!
As time passed, Lin Yue's physical body grew stronger and stronger. Taking the lead in their assault, he blocked Immortal King Uya's charges again and again.
In the end, Lin Yue's injuries grew increasingly minor! Meanwhile, the enormous beast manifested by Immortal King Uya was covered in golden blood, looking utterly wretched.
Boom...
Another joint strike drove the enormous beast back!
Roar...
"Heavenly Slaughter!"
"Heavenly Desolation!"
Lin Yue unleashed his divine fist to its utmost limit, and the Kunpeng Woman erupted with all her power!
Boom...
The heaven-spanning beast was blasted away by this strike! Unable to hold on any longer, he crashed to the ground, sinking into a deep crater!
"Ah... the King! The King has been struck down!"
"Impossible! How could this happen?!"
"The... the heavens are falling! Our realm's King has been felled!"
Utterly exhausted, the Kunpeng Woman stood stunned. She had never expected that the two of them could truly suppress a king by joining forces.
This newly risen powerhouse of the Nine Heavens possessed a truly heaven-defying physical body. He improved with every battle, as though an inexhaustible wellspring of strength lay within him. Every strike carried divine power pushed to its utmost limit.
Could such a physical body truly exist?
"We've only beaten him. His physical body is far too heaven-defying. Right now, he's merely exhausted his divine essence. If we want to kill him, we must hurry and wear him down until nothing remains! Otherwise, once he recovers, we'll be the ones who die!"
It had to be said that an Immortal King was truly difficult to kill. Even if Lin Yue went over and attacked him now, it would be useless. He might keep attacking until his opponent recovered and still fail to kill him!
No wonder most kings prioritized destroying their opponents' primordial spirits before grinding away their physical bodies! Some did not even bother with the body after killing the primordial spirit!
A king's body was hard to destroy!
A physical body giving birth to consciousness again was, after all, only a legend! No one had witnessed it through the ages, so they did not bother!
Just as the two were about to step forward, black mist rose between heaven and earth, blotting out the sky and sun!
Pairs of terrifying eyes stared at this place from within the River of Time!
Then a huge hand reached through a fissure in the void and tore it open, and a figure stepped into Great Red Heaven! A terrifying kingly aura bore down upon all heaven and earth!
"I hear the thing we're looking for has appeared!"
Chapter 54: Kings Gather
A figure clad in black battle armor appeared! His immortal aura pressed down upon heaven, earth, and the eight wildernesses. He looked as though he had crawled out of the Nine Netherworld Purgatory. More than a dozen black chains wound around his body, slowly writhing behind him like an octopus's tentacles. He seemed to have just finished another battle. Blood dripped from the chains onto the earth like falling stars.
Clearly, this was the blood of supreme powerhouses. Even a few drops weighed as much as stars.
Immortal King Youyu!
"It's Lord Youyu! Hahaha! Lord Youyu has descended! The destruction of the Nine Heavens is at hand!"
"Why have you still not obtained it? Where is Uya?"
"My lord, Lord Uya was defeated and is recovering now. Please act and exterminate these rats of the Nine Heavens!" a Quasi-King of the Foreign Realm said respectfully!
"Hmph! I told him long ago to wait until we arrived together. Now look what he's done-disgraced our realm completely by losing to an ant who hasn't even entered the king realm!"
Immortal King Youyu spoke in a tone no one dared challenge, then turned his gaze toward Lin Yue.
Many in the Foreign Realm wanted to speak. It was not that Lord Uya was incapable, but that his opponent's physical body was simply too heaven-defying, even more terrifying than that fully grown Heavenly Horned Ant from back then.
Unfortunately, they did not have the courage. This Immortal King was hardly good-tempered!
"Ant, you feel very familiar to me!"
Immortal King Youyu murmured to himself!
Lin Yue ignored him. Like the Kunpeng Woman, he wore a grave expression. They had yet to kill the first one, and now another Immortal King had arrived! They were in deep trouble!
"So that's it. The variable of the Nine Heavens? To think that in a mere hundred years, you've acquired a king's body! Truly astonishing! Is this the fortune of the Nine Heavens gathering as their destruction approaches, one final flare before death? Ant, honestly, you've impressed me! Unfortunately, before a king, every variable becomes a fixed outcome!"
Just then, startled cries rose from the rear of the Foreign Realm's forces!
"A King! A King! A King! An Immortal King!"
"Damn it! Are the Nine Heavens going to perish like this? Why have so many kings descended?"
"Lord Lin Yue, run! Stop fighting! Only if you live will the Nine Heavens have hope!"
Some in the Nine Heavens were already wailing. Kings truly inspired despair. They had thought Lin Yue and the Kunpeng Woman could join forces to suppress a king, but now so many enemies had arrived. Never mind ordinary Immortal Kings-even titans like Wuzhong had been surrounded and killed.
No sooner had those words fallen than an unparalleled figure manifested behind the Foreign Realm's camp. Black mist filled heaven and earth, obscuring him until only a vague outline remained. Two beams of divine light shot from his eyes, illuminating heaven and the firmament as though he could gaze upon the end of time! In his left hand rested a Black Bone Tower shrouded in black mist! Shrieks occasionally came from within, as though the souls of peerless beings were imprisoned there!
"Lord Fukui!"
"Has Lord Fukui descended as well?"
The people of the Foreign Realm cheered. Even this ancient ancestor had descended!
"Immortal King Fukui!"
Someone from the Nine Heavens called out his name!
In an instant, black mist shrouded heaven and earth. Yin and yang fell into chaos, and the laws vanished from sight. Unseen forces stirred as a heaven-spanning tower gathered in the firmament amid converging laws.
"You uttered my true name without my permission. Your allotted fate is lost. Your name shall be inscribed upon the Reincarnation Stele!"
The heaven-spanning tower descended to suppress everything. Nothing could hide from it. Even the dead stars seemed to gain consciousness, retreating of their own accord for fear of being crushed!
"Ah...!"
Facing a king's might directly, this Extreme Dao Cultivator of the Nine Heavens nearly went mad. Even his primordial spirit wailed, yet his entire body seemed nailed in place, unable to move!
Although the Black Bone Tower targeted only one person, if it descended, it would likely annihilate all their cultivators!
"Hmph!"
A golden, heaven-spanning figure stepped before the Black Bone Tower and threw a punch!
The black tower manifested from laws shattered beneath that punch!
"I survived!"
The Extreme Dao Cultivator trembled with lingering fear!
"Another ferocious brute. His physical body is even stronger than that ant's was back then. Unfortunately, what can he accomplish against such an overwhelming tide?"
They had thought the arrival of two more kings was terrifying enough, but it was not over yet!
Divine Marks spread, some emerging from the void, others from the River of Time!
It was as though the Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm were traveling together in groups!
The void began to grow scorching hot. The precious blood that had formed rivers across the Great Red Land evaporated, and a heaven-spanning divine furnace burst out of the void.
Divine fire roared, and flames surged to the heavens! A youth bathed in heavenly fire stood atop the divine furnace, his upper body bare. A flame-shaped divine pattern between his brows shone with golden light. He was extraordinarily handsome, like a spirit of the fire dao!
Around the divine furnace, Primordial Stars melted and fell like magma! Even across the River of Time, people could feel those scorching flames, as though they could burn through the ages!
"The true Skyvault Divine Furnace has appeared! The Foreign Realm's Immortal King, Yan Cang!"
Another peerless king had arrived!
Kings! The sovereigns of this world! Normally, it was difficult to see even one, yet now they were descending in groups. When had anyone ever witnessed such a gathering?
Three Immortal Kings had descended. Who could stop them?
"Is that the thing?"
Immortal King Yan Cang looked toward the small wooden box in the deep crater in the Great Red Land. Dazzling divine light shot from his eyes and illuminated the box, but he could see nothing!
"How strange. A shabby little wooden box can actually block a king's eyes. There's something to it!"
"Several elders have been searching for this wooden box, and today it has finally appeared! It seems we can withdraw our troops this time!"
"Let's kill this man first. With us here, we can take the box whenever we please!"
Immortal King Youyu spoke!
"Indeed. He dared challenge a king's might. No one can save him!"
Roar...!
Just then, a shocking roar rang out, and Immortal King Uya's enormous beast body leaped from the deep crater in the Great Red Land!
"I want you dead!"
Terrifying claws swept toward them, carrying the divine power of a kingly beast. This was an Immortal King: a terrifying physical body and frightening powers of primordial spirit recovery. Unless one could wear him down to nothing, only destruction awaited his enemies, for he could return at any moment!
This was a world-destroying strike, charging forth with the resolve to slaughter all the Nine Heavens! He no longer cared whether those he killed belonged to the Immortal Dao or the Human Dao. Lin Yue's earlier beating had already driven him mad.
Now there was no way to win this fight. Three peerless kings had descended. It seemed they would have to find a way to take the small wooden box away.
"From here on, we can only pray for our own survival!"
"What are you going to do...?!"
"Even if we can't seize that box, we cannot let the Foreign Realm obtain it! The consequences would be very troublesome...!"
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