Some were puzzled. Most kings entered the Boundary Sea to seek opportunities. Who would travel in a group? If they encountered a fortuitous opportunity, two kings might well turn against each other. It had happened before, after all. Conflict over attaining the Dao was only natural.
With such precedents, most had since ventured out alone. Several kings traveling shoulder to shoulder like this were probably here on business, and the onlookers could not be bothered to interfere.
Only after Lin Yue drove the ancient beast back with another punch did it notice three faint streaks of light approaching through the void. Unlike the other spectators watching from far away, these were coming straight toward them. In the end, its beastly instincts made it abandon its fight with Lin Yue and dive straight into the Blackwater Pool it had emerged from.
Before Lin Yue could rejoice at the azure beast's retreat, alarm bells rang incessantly in his heart. Only then did he realize that three Immortal Kings had surrounded him.
Without a king-realm primordial spirit, he was at too great a disadvantage. If his opponents did not release their auras, or used their primordial spirits to obscure heaven's secrets and conceal themselves, they were difficult to detect. Perhaps this had also played a part when the Heavenly Horned Ant and the others were surrounded and killed.
"Damn you, ant! Do you know how I've spent all these years? ... Ah! I'll tear out your primordial spirit and nail it to a pillar, denying you reincarnation for all eternity!"
Youyu the Immortal could no longer maintain the bearing befitting an Immortal King. He was on the verge of erupting.
"Today, we can finally end this game of cat and mouse. You certainly made us search long and hard. Hand over what belongs to us!"
Immortal King Fukui's expression was equally grim. Had the three of them not entered the Boundary Sea together, they might not have survived.
The moment Lin Yue's battle aura erupted, they had practically used blood escape to rush over.
Only after the three Immortal Kings surrounded Lin Yue did their world-shaking royal pressure erupt in full. The Boundary Sea's towering waves were flattened, terrifying energies intersected in the void, and even the seawater beneath their feet began to boil!
Beyond seizing the initiative, the three were chiefly intimidating the other spectators, warning them to retreat rather than interfere. If someone intervened and Lin Yue escaped again, who knew whether it would drive them mad? Lin Yue was simply too good at fleeing.
"Heh, people from that realm. Same as always, using numbers to bully the few." Someone voiced his indignation, but only dared mutter from afar.
"What a pity. Such extraordinary talent, such brilliance. If only we could obtain his methods."
Some sighed, some sneered, and some felt indignant. Unfortunately, none dared come to Lin Yue's aid.
"Three peerless kings have taken action. The outcome is settled!"
"Indeed. They aren't that beast from earlier."
As Lin Yue watched the three surround him just as they had before, anger surged through his heart, and his face turned icy.
If the Divine Embryos within him had finished their transformation, would he have been forced to flee everywhere like a homeless dog? Damn it!
"Kill!"
The divine meridians, Cave Heavens, Cavern Acupoints, and Secret Treasuries within him, together with countless Divine Embryos, erupted in full. His terrifying momentum accompanied the extreme Dao divine power of his flesh as he unleashed an invincible divine punch.
Lin Yue struck first almost immediately. With indignation filling his heart, where else could he unleash it?
"Hmph! A homeless dog dares act so arrogantly?"
Facing Lin Yue's furious blow, Immortal King Youyu's rage shook the heavens. He was even angrier than Lin Yue.
"Nine Netherworld Purgatory, Calamity Heaven Shackles, Heaven-Severing Lock-seal him!"
Just as before, Immortal King Youyu's supreme secret art sealed off heaven and earth. The Dao became shackles, imprisoning all living things! Neither the tangible nor the intangible could escape those fetters.
"Skyvault Divine Furnace, melt heaven and refine earth!"
Immortal King Yan Cang summoned his Skyvault Divine Furnace. His strength had advanced further since their last encounter. The entire archipelago began to melt, and vast quantities of Boundary Sea water evaporated, leaving a depression as though in solid ground. Seawater poured in from every direction to fill it, only to evaporate before it could settle. The cycle continued without end.
"What a Skyvault Divine Furnace! What a king of the flame Dao! Truly heaven-defying. He turns himself into a furnace and ignites divine fire with divine intent, smelting heaven and earth. This young man is in trouble."
A king watching from afar spoke. Some had rushed over from elsewhere. Several kings surrounding and attacking a peerless being was a spectacle rarely seen even in the Boundary Sea. It was impossible not to notice.
"Refine heaven, refine spirits, refine the Dao-refine him!"
Immortal King Fukui posed the greatest threat. His Black Bone Tower, capable of devouring primordial spirits, descended to suppress Lin Yue.
The spectators were all shocked. Three Immortal Kings surrounding one person, yet they immediately unleashed their supreme secret arts and trump cards. Was that necessary?
Chapter 63: Four Kings
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Lin Yue was not suppressed in the first exchange.
Since comprehending the transformation between life and death, he too had made tremendous progress.
The intent of life and death combined with the two energies of yin and yang and the undying nature of the indestructible divine runes. At his punch, even Immortal King Fukui's Black Bone Tower dodged of its own accord. Sensing the tyrannical fist intent upon his divine punch, it did not dare take the blow head-on as it once had.
"Damn it! How is this possible?"
Immortal King Youyu's shackles of Dao laws could no longer restrain Lin Yue amid his ceaseless eruption. Not only had the divine power of Lin Yue's body advanced further, but the intent of life and death and the energies of yin and yang also circled him, dissolving the shackles of the Great Dao.
"What frightening yin-yang ultimate intent! What terrifying Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent! His comprehension of the arts is truly rare in this age."
"Unfortunately, his primordial spirit is too weak!"
Just as the heaven-destroying, earth-shattering divine punch was about to strike Youyu, Immortal King Yan Cang transformed into something like a spirit of the fire Dao. Endless flames of divine intent swept toward Lin Yue.
"Leave him to me!"
Immortal King Yan Cang's flames of divine intent burned the heavens and boiled the sea, blasting apart the void and burning through laws. He sought to incinerate Lin Yue's Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent and destroy those strange fluctuations of true runes.
Some frowned deeply. How would they respond if faced with such extreme Dao divine flames?
Unfortunately, it was utterly useless. The Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent surrounding Lin Yue began extinguishing Yan Cang's immortal divine flames like water of chaos.
Life could turn into death, and fire could be extinguished by water.
The transformation of life and death could likewise be viewed as the transformation of yin and yang. If you had divine flames of ultimate intent, he had divine water that answered his will. This was the essence of Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent: within a single ultimate intent existed two opposing forces. Yet they did not conflict. They complemented and completed one another, cycling endlessly. When an outside force struck, they evolved into a counteracting power to meet it.
After raising a hand and slapping the Skyvault Divine Furnace away, he punched toward Immortal King Youyu once more.
"Die!"
The divine punch that annihilated heaven and earth ignored the chains coiling behind Immortal King Youyu and slammed into him.
Time shattered into drifting fragments. The void slowly twisted, overlapped, and finally broke apart.
After many years, Immortal King Youyu tasted Lin Yue's fist again. Unfortunately for him, Lin Yue was no longer the same man. He was blasted away like a punching bag.
His immortal king's body cracked like a spiderweb. Golden blood filled the void, reflecting five-colored divine light.
Clearly, the body of Youyu, the weakest of the Immortal Kings, could no longer withstand Lin Yue's divine punch.
The spectators froze at the sight. They had never imagined that this surrounded being could be so heaven-defying, blasting Immortal King Youyu away with one punch. His flesh and extreme Dao divine power were even more terrifying than they had imagined. He could defy the odds and battle kings. In a one-on-one fight, if he wore his opponent down over long years until their divine essence ran dry, he might even slay a king. Truly heaven-defying.
"No wonder they need several people to surround him. Even if he lacks a means to destroy a king's primordial spirit, none of them could keep him here alone."
"He truly defies heaven. Clearly, we all underestimated his body and divine power."
Boom...
Behind Lin Yue, Immortal King Fukui struck with a divine punch, sending him flying backward.
"Fuck...!"
Immortal King Yan Cang's divine furnace descended to envelop him again.
"Yin-Yang Reversal! Treading the Void!"
Lin Yue could not afford to worry about steadying himself. If the ancient artifact engulfed him, he would inevitably be suppressed just as before. He had only just begun the Heaven-Defying Steps when the Black Bone Tower descended again, drawing at his primordial spirit.
As Yan Cang's divine flames descended, Lin Yue ignored his attack and raised a hand to suppress the Black Bone Tower.
No matter the circumstances, this black tower that sucked away primordial spirits had to be dealt with first.
Boom...
The instant he slapped the Black Bone Tower away, Lin Yue turned back, trying to block Yan Cang's incoming divine punch. But an Immortal King was no ordinary cultivator. Even a momentary opening would be seized. Lin Yue barely managed to raise his arm before Yan Cang's divine punch slammed into it.
His right arm split open, golden light flowing through it. Blood dripped into the Boundary Sea, striking its surface like stars and raising towering waves.
"Martial Dao Divine Infant, suppress!"
Brilliant golden light shone from Lin Yue's entire body. The divine essence of his Divine Embryos erupted with immortal light, shining through his skin upon heaven and earth. He looked like a figure made of light.
"Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering!"
Facing the joint strike of Immortal Kings Yan Cang and Fukui, Lin Yue unleashed a Void Shattering punch.
Everything shattered and returned to the void. Both men were driven straight back, their kingly bodies cracking. Immortal king blood spilled across the sky before falling into the Boundary Sea like stars.
"Damn ant! All you needed to do was wait obediently for us to strike! Why resist? Why struggle? Ant!"
Immortal King Youyu's wounds had already healed, but his face was twisted.
"My will becomes chains; ten thousand calamities bind your body!"
Unable to endure Lin Yue's brazen defiance any longer, Immortal King Youyu directly drew upon the vital essence of his kingly body.
Countless chains extended from Youyu's immortal king body. Transparent links crossed the distances of time and space, instantly binding Lin Yue's limbs.
"Human Immortal Martial Dao, divine universes within-open!"
Panic appeared on Lin Yue's face as well. He drove the Divine Embryos within him with all his strength, making them writhe as though in revolt. Under the strain of his pulling, the terrifying chains formed from Immortal King Youyu's life essence actually began to weaken.
"Damn it! Yan Cang, Fukui! Suppress him, now!"
He practically roared the words!
Even the vital essence of an Immortal King could not bind Lin Yue when his Human Immortal Martial Dao erupted in full.
"Skyvault Divine Furnace, melt heaven and refine earth!"
"Soul-Refining Tower, suppress him!"
Immortal Kings Yan Cang and Fukui seized the opportunity as well. Drawing directly upon their life essence, they unleashed heaven-defying secret arts that crossed time and space to descend beside Lin Yue. Such an opportunity would never come again.
Immortal King Youyu's hair was turning gray. He had expended too much life essence, more than even his kingly primordial spirit could bear. He was now coughing blood.
The Black Bone Tower and Skyvault Divine Furnace descended to suppress Lin Yue, one scorching him while the other pulled at his primordial spirit.
"Is it over?"
"Yes. His primordial spirit has yet to enter the king realm. To perform this well against three peerless kings is truly remarkable."
"Indeed. If his primordial spirit were a little stronger, even if he couldn't defeat them, he might not have been suppressed. What a pity. The primordial spirit is the foundation of a king's survival through ten thousand calamities."
The dust had settled.
The three Immortal Kings breathed a sigh of relief as they watched Lin Yue being suppressed just as before. Yet remembering that he still possessed a heaven-defying disk, none of them dared relax for even a moment.
"Quick, send word to Yin Sha. The three of us alone aren't enough to guarantee this!"
Immortal King Youyu spoke!
At that moment, Lin Yue paid no attention to his body being scorched. Last time, he had howled in pain. Now, he made no sound at all.
It was not that he felt no agony, but that he was pushing himself to the utmost, his mind expanding.
He desperately drove his divine essence to communicate with the wheel of yin and yang within him. Yet no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. The wheel of yin and yang did not move at all.
"Soul Fiend Cauldron, suppress him!"
A great cauldron descended from the void to suppress Lin Yue. At the same time, another peerless king arrived. His royal pressure subdued the sky, his momentum surging to the heavens.
The piercing pain in his flesh, the wailing of his primordial spirit, and the trembling of his soul assailed Lin Yue's body and mind. His heaven-shaking howl seemed to resound throughout the entire Boundary Sea.
"Isn't this going too far?"
Someone murmured.
"Hmph!"
After that cold snort, no one dared look toward them. Four peerless kings-who dared take on that karma?
A middle-aged man manifested. He was Yin Sha, another Immortal King whom the three kings of the Foreign Realm had encountered in the Boundary Sea.
Three ancient artifacts-a tower, a furnace, and a cauldron-circled above Lin Yue's head.
The Great Dao bound his body, the divine furnace refined his flesh, the Black Cauldron battered his soul, and the bone tower drew out his primordial spirit.
Perhaps they were no match for giants of the king realm. Indeed, such giants would never give them the chance to employ these methods. But once suppressed, even a giant would perish in bitterness in the Nine Netherworlds.
No matter how fiercely one erupted, it would be useless.
Chapter 64: The Divine Infant Self-Destructs
"Impossible. There must be another way. There must be a way to escape."
Lin Yue seemed to have lost his senses.
"Escape? Hahaha...! Stop raving. Do you know how much strength we've expended to kill you? You really should be satisfied."
Even Immortal King Fukui spoke, a rare occurrence!
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