The Kunpeng Woman hesitated for a moment. She knew there was a gap between her and Lin Yue, but the Foreign Realm had too many kings. There was simply no other way!
Gripping the Heavenly Desolation War Halberd, the Kunpeng Woman shot into the sky to face the Immortal King Beast head-on.
The three remaining kings of the Foreign Realm turned their gazes toward Lin Yue!
"Alas, though I am a king, I pity all living beings and have no wish to commit further slaughter. You already possess a king's body and extraordinary talent. In the future, you will surely enter the king realm. Please do not defy heaven. How about joining our realm? I can guarantee your safety. Like Gu, you can enjoy the treatment afforded to kings and be regarded as a member of the Emperor Clan!"
The Immortal King Yan Cang spoke. Unlike his fiery appearance, his tone was gentle, creating a striking contrast with the temperament one might expect of him. He looked at Lin Yue with admiration in his eyes.
"Heh, wipe that ridiculous smirk off your face. You're nothing but a pack of shameless trash. If this were a contest of cultivation, a fair fight, and our Nine Heavens lost, we would accept our bad luck. But you? You ambushed the Nine Heavens, surrounded and murdered our elders, and bullied the few with the many. You slaughtered countless living beings of the Nine Heavens, and now you're fucking putting on an act!"
"Stubborn fool. You will only bring about your own destruction!"
"You dare challenge a king's might? No one can save you! Die!"
The Immortal King Fukui attacked first! Heaven and earth trembled in an instant!
Chapter 55: Beyond Saving
Golden radiance blazed across Lin Yue's entire body. His Martial Dao True Intent mingled with the domain of his kingly flesh, contending against the Immortal King's domain as he unleashed a divine punch! Lightning coiled around his pillar-like arm, and the twin energies of yin and yang dissolved every divine ability. Even time began to shatter beneath this punch, unable to record it!
Facing the Immortal King Fukui, Lin Yue unleashed his utmost divine power from the very first strike. He had sensed danger from the other man's black tower. His primordial spirit seemed to be tugged by it, threatening to leave his body!
Boom...
Lin Yue punched the Immortal King Fukui's Black Ancient Tower away. Even the tower itself wailed. This punch contained the utmost of Lin Yue's divine power; even a Primordial Chaos Ancient Artifact would have been shattered.
Under that single punch, the Immortal King Fukui retreated. He had clearly underestimated Lin Yue's physical strength. That divine power, even more formidable than the Heavenly Horned Ant's, had made him suffer an unexpected loss.
Compared with Beast King Uya, Fukui was clearly somewhat inferior in flesh and divine power! Still, the gap was not too great!
Of course, facing three kings, testing their strength was the most foolish approach. Ideally, he would catch one off guard and kill him with a single blow. Unfortunately, Immortal Kings were no pushovers.
"Argh... ant! You dare injure me!"
The brows of the other two watching twitched sharply. What kind of body was this? His divine power reached the heavens!
"Surround him!"
The Immortal King Youyu saw what was happening and moved in at once, with Yan Cang close behind!
"Barely one punch, and you're already bullying one with many!"
"Hmph, what waves could you stir up even in a one-on-one fight? We merely wish to save time!"
Above the sky, astonishing phenomena unfolded. Each combatant represented one of the strongest paths in heaven and earth, evolving his strongest domain to its utmost! The three surrounded Lin Yue and attacked without pause.
The Immortal King Yan Cang's handsome face was cold. His entire body blazed like fire, burning away every divine rune. Wherever his divine flames passed, stars evaporated. Even time and the passing years seemed to burn, unable to record this ancient history!
Even the Indestructible Divine Runes covering Lin Yue's body nearly went out beneath his refining flames.
For the first time, their unfailingly indestructible nature suffered the impact of such power.
On the other side, the Immortal King Youyu's chains resembled chains of Dao laws. Each strike nearly sealed off Lin Yue's retreat. Had the Yin-Yang Reversal Step Method not been so outrageously powerful, Lin Yue would already have been trapped! Even so, there were attacks he could not avoid!
Meanwhile, the Immortal King Fukui brought forth the Soul-Refining Tower to suppress Lin Yue's primordial spirit! Unfortunately for him, Lin Yue knocked the Black Bone Tower away every time, even at the cost of taking the other two's attacks! This bone tower was far too heaven-defying. Lin Yue's primordial spirit had yet to enter the king realm, and the slightest carelessness could spell disaster!
Precious blood flew, countless droplets raining down! Lin Yue's golden blood likewise crushed the heavens and pierced through stars!
Even with flesh far surpassing kings and divine power greater than the Heavenly Horned Ant's, he could not gain the upper hand against three peerless Immortal Kings! They battered him until his kingly body split all over!
"Hahaha, that's it! Those rats from the Nine Heavens were bullying one with many just now. Let them taste what it's like to be bullied!"
The Foreign Realm's people cheered, no longer feeling stifled as before! Earlier, when Lin Yue and the Kunpeng Woman had jointly attacked the Immortal King Uya and beaten him into revealing his true form, everyone from the Foreign Realm had watched with pounding hearts, feeling as though the sky were about to collapse!
Boom...
"Indeed, his talent is extraordinary, and his flesh is unrivaled, surpassing even that ant from back then. A pity, but what does it matter? Who can defy heaven against three supreme kings?"
Seeing the divine furnace descend to envelop him, Lin Yue raised his hand and struck. Yin and yang energies coiled around his enormous hand, extinguishing the opposing divine flames as he struck the Skyvault Divine Furnace! The entire furnace hummed violently from the impact before returning to its owner's hand!
"Hmph! Nine Netherworlds Purgatory Chains!"
Dozens of black chains behind the Immortal King Youyu pierced the void like tentacles and trapped Lin Yue's right hand! Black mist spread across the chains, devouring the golden radiance on Lin Yue's body.
"Get over here!"
Lin Yue roared, seized the chains with their momentum, and used his divine strength to drag his opponent closer. Even the Immortal King Youyu's expression darkened before such power.
Lin Yue threw a punch. Unmatched, unyielding divine power shattered the void and blasted the Immortal King Youyu backward.
Before he could react, terrifying pressure came from behind! The black bone tower struck Lin Yue squarely in the back! He coughed up golden blood!
Boom... another strike!
Amid an earthshaking impact, Lin Yue flew backward as countless black chains coiled toward him again, seeking to bind his limbs!
"Yin-Yang Reversal!"
The Heaven-Defying Steps, surpassing the greatest speed in the world, kept Lin Yue from being defeated immediately. But whenever he counterattacked, he almost always had to trade injury for injury! The Immortal Kings would never let the slightest opening pass!
However, his Human Immortal Martial Dao had now all but begun illuminating his Human Body Divine Universes, allowing him to endure longer. He tried to inch toward the Small Wooden Box.
"So what if his flesh surpasses the Heavenly Horned Ant's? It is not enough to upset the balance."
Lin Yue was merely trading wounds for wounds now. To them, his attacks posed no mortal threat.
"Attack seriously! Otherwise, where will our dignity be?" the Immortal King Yan Cang said, his expression solemn!
"Netherworld Purgatory, Calamity Heaven Shackles! Heaven-Severing Lock, seal!"
Youyu's divine essence erupted. Boundless darkness spread through heaven and earth, and black chains manifested one after another. Even the Great Dao seemed to be locked down! Uncanny chains reached out from within time and bound Lin Yue's entire body before he could even use Yin-Yang Reversal. This was mighty power transcending time and space. Wherever he ran, it would be useless!
"It's over, ant!"
Was this the Immortal King Youyu's supreme secret art? Turning heaven and earth into chains and time into shackles, present everywhere, binding everything! Even Yin-Yang Reversal could not escape. Sure enough, not a single Immortal King was a pushover!
"Human Body Divine Universes, open!"
Lin Yue drove the Divine Universes of his inner world, and his divine essence began flowing madly. The twelve circumferential divine meridians, three hundred and sixty-five Cave Heavens, and seven hundred and twenty Cavern Acupoints! One thousand two hundred and ninety-six Divine Repositories began sublimating to their utmost, triggering a full eruption of the essence of the one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred Divine Embryos within him!
Endless divine essence erupted through his pores, forming a terrifying storm that swept across heaven, earth, and the eight directions. The Heavenly Dao's shackles seemed to be binding a raging vortex!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
As he raised his hand, terrifying extreme Dao divine power pulled on the chains of heaven and earth, producing deafening grinding sounds. It seemed those chains of the Great Dao would snap in the next instant!
The Immortal King Youyu swallowed, forcing his heart back down from his throat!
"Damn it, what kind of divine power is this? This monster is trying to break free of the shackles! Quickly, suppress him! Yan Cang!"
His almost hysterical shouting betrayed his shattered composure! The chains were already showing signs of breaking!
"Such a person has never existed through the ages. Step by step, through bloody battles, he has forged a supreme body, attained peerless divine power, and broken through the shackles of the Great Dao! The fortune of the Nine Heavens Realm has gathered upon him. If he survives, he may have a chance to glimpse a higher realm. What a pity."
"Skyvault Divine Furnace, melt heaven and refine earth! Refine him!"
Driven by Yan Cang's erupting divine essence, the Skyvault Divine Furnace poured out endless divine flames like flowing water! They submerged Lin Yue. The void became brittle from the heat, then began collapsing. Terrifying divine flames enveloped Lin Yue, melting and refining his flesh! Where he stood became a turbid pool of molten fire.
"Hmph, I refuse to believe he can withstand such methods. Even an Emperor could not survive!"
"Refine the soul, refine the spirit, refine the Dao! Refine him!"
The Black Bone Tower descended directly over Lin Yue. Dark red divine light enveloped him, and boundless suction sought to draw out his primordial spirit.
"Argh...!"
For the first time since setting out on his path, Lin Yue suffered such injury. His entire being howled in agony!
The cultivators of the Nine Heavens could not bear to look. Tears covered their faces, yet they could offer no support here!
"Lord Lin Yue! Quickly, someone, go help him!"
"Waaah!"
"Where are the Immortal Kings? Why aren't they attacking?"
Many began to weep!
Seeing Lin Yue suppressed, people of the Nine Heavens cried out with hearts torn apart. They had already lost too many kings! Now they were about to lose another peerless prodigy!
When the Kunpeng Woman saw Lin Yue bound, she tried to rush over. Unfortunately, Uya seized the opening and struck her with a claw. If this continued, her death would only be a matter of time!
Someone brought forth a supreme immortal weapon, but it was slapped away. An Immortal King Weapon was ultimately only a weapon, unable to truly contend with an Immortal King. Once a king treated it seriously, it could hardly stir up any waves!
"It is over. Even flesh far surpassing ordinary kings is of no use! In the end, he will vanish into ancient history just like Wuzhong and the others!"
The Immortal King Yan Cang spoke!
"This man's flesh is even more terrifying than the Heavenly Horned Ant's was back then! Even we struggle to break through his body and injure his primordial spirit."
Compared with them, Lin Yue was even more uncanny. Now that he was suppressed, all three breathed a sigh of relief.
Behind the Foreign Realm's lines, cultivators below the Immortal King realm also smiled. Some even secretly wiped cold sweat from their foreheads. From the outset, even three descending kings had been beaten until their precious bodies bled. The sight had left their hearts pounding, fearing the kings would be struck down like Uya.
Now all was well. This demonic young man had finally been suppressed, and the nightmare had dissipated.
Chapter 56: The Sorrow of the Nine Heavens
"You've gone too far!"
A furious roar rang out. At the same time, terrifying sword light tore through the sky, hurtling straight toward the Foreign Realm's three Immortal Kings! Its razor-sharp sword intent seemed capable of cleaving heaven and earth and ripping the universe apart.
"That is the Sword Art left behind by That Blade Grass! Damn it! We uprooted it back then, yet a legacy still remained!"
"No single person can withstand it!"
Kings, sovereigns of heaven and earth who looked down upon the rise and fall of eras and stood proud above the world, actually uttered such words now!
Before the sword light even arrived, its terrifying sword intent chilled even the kings to their bones. This represented the pinnacle of sharpness in heaven and earth, the utmost Sword Dao of the present age! Even when unleashed by a cultivator at the peak of the True Immortal realm, few kings would willingly meet its edge head-on.
The three Immortal Kings' ancient artifacts were currently suppressing Lin Yue. None wished to face such a peerless Sword Art alone. Even kings dared not ignore the lessons written in blood.
For they understood the terror of this Sword Art better than anyone!
One sword strike, and the kings retreated.
Yan Cang stood atop his divine furnace. Boundless flames of the Great Dao exploded with blazing light, even beginning to interweave into heavenfire lightning. This was the ultimate evolution of a technique, evolving all things through the power of a single path. If he could evolve ultimate ice from ultimate flame, he would truly be able to stand proud above heaven and earth.
Fukui and Youyu likewise dared not use their ancient artifacts. Even with the artifacts suppressing him, Lin Yue still unleashed power that shook heaven and earth from time to time. Several times, he had nearly broken free of the seal, leaving their hearts pounding. Now they could only unleash their supreme secret arts of greatest killing power.
The three joined forces and unleashed earthshaking secret arts. The phenomena in the sky resembled the first opening of heaven and earth. Lightning accompanied divine flames, stirring a swath of chaos that surged toward the sword light to block it.
Unfortunately, the sword intent tore through it with ease, then swept toward the Skyvault Divine Furnace.
Before the Nine Heavens' cultivators could cheer, another earthshaking surge of sword energy burst through the universe from behind the Foreign Realm's lines. Its azure light was plain and unadorned, yet it descended upon heaven and earth with resplendent heavenly might. With power that could cut down everything, it blocked the sword strike aimed at the Skyvault Divine Furnace!
"Who attacked?"
That heaven-cleaving, earth-destroying sword strike had torn through the three Immortal Kings' secret arts like rotten wood, only to be blocked by another sword light. The contrast was impossible to accept.
The ultimate intent of sharpness had been stopped. The Foreign Realm's Supreme Swordsmanship was not inferior to that of the Nine Heavens in the slightest.
"Another king has descended! An Immortal King!"
The Foreign Realm's army cheered again.
Another Immortal King descended, sword intent soaring from his entire body. The Foreign Realm's morale instantly shot sky-high!
"Kill!"
Only when that cry rang out did everyone see a figure from the Nine Heavens soar into the sky to face the Immortal King!
He was a white-haired man, wielding the Three-Foot Azure Sword, his sword intent piercing the ninefold heavens. Blood covered his body. After cutting down his opponents in another Ancient World, he had sensed the descent of Immortal Kings and rushed straight to Great Red Heaven! The moment he entered this realm, he saw a peerless expert of the Nine Heavens surrounded and attacked, and struck in fury! Unfortunately, another newly arrived Immortal King of the Foreign Realm intercepted him!
The two fought deep in the sky, their sword light cutting down swath after swath of stars.
At this moment, under the three kings' refinement, Lin Yue's precious body was close to splitting apart.
The flames of the Skyvault Divine Furnace burned Lin Yue red all over. Terrifying black chains bound his entire body. Had that been all, his divine strength would almost have torn them apart.
But there was also a Black Bone Tower that suppressed his flesh and sucked away his primordial spirit. With all three combined, scarcely any living being in heaven and earth could withstand such refinement! He had to resist the suppression of his body while anchoring the primordial spirit being dragged out. Moreover, Lin Yue's primordial spirit had yet to undergo true tempering. If not for his Martial Dao Divine Infant, his primordial spirit would likely already have been pulled from his body!
Just then, from above the River of Time, a pair of divine eyes peered through the power of time and the passing years, surveying all of Great Red Heaven.
Everyone fighting instinctively stopped!
A black hand even larger than the Immortal King Uya descended from the sky! It reached for the Small Wooden Box in the deep crater in Great Red Land!
"Hmph!"
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