His divine fist swung out again, crushing everything like Mount Tai descending upon an egg.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Chain after chain shattered beneath his divine fist. In the end, Youyu was a notch weaker; he could not withstand a king like Lin Yue, who possessed the might of a titan.
"Impossible... cough..."
With every chain that broke, Youyu's primordial spirit fractured further. These were his intrinsic divine chains, forged by burning his vital essence. Endless blood fell into the Boundary Sea.
When the final chain snapped, Immortal King Youyu's primordial spirit was so weakened that he was close to death, yet it was already recovering at an accelerating pace.
"Damn it, even this won't kill him? Fuck!"
Lin Yue cursed as well. A king-level primordial spirit was truly too difficult to eradicate.
Just as he was about to step forward and seize Immortal King Youyu, the black hole overhead descended, swallowing Lin Yue within it.
Heaven and earth darkened. Lin Yue felt as though he had been locked inside a cage.
"Well done, Fukui! Cough...!"
Immortal King Youyu, reduced to nothing but his primordial spirit, rejoiced.
Chapter 72: Dominating Heaven and Earth
Faced with this sudden turn of events, alarm bells rang in Lin Yue's heart.
Lin Yue withdrew the golden divine lotus once more, merging it into the divine universes within his body. His Martial Dao Divine Infant rose from its seated posture, immortal light blazing all over it. With the Divine Infant at their center, his internal divine universes began gathering and rumbling.
The twelve Zhoutian Divine Meridians, three hundred and sixty-five cave heavens, seven hundred and twenty Cavern Acupoints, and one thousand two hundred and ninety-six Secret Treasuries began to roar. He pushed his divine essence to its utmost. One hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred deities began radiating the terrifying light of Immortal Dao kings.
"Heaven and earth are boundless; shatter all and return to the void! This fist is named Return to the Void!"
Starting around Lin Yue, the void shattered like a mirror. Everything, tangible and intangible, returned to nothingness. His heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating divine fist blasted straight through the endless black hole formed from Immortal King Fukui's body.
Above the Boundary Sea, the sky-shrouding black hole exploded. Immortal King Fukui's Black Bone Tower was smashed into fragments by Lin Yue's Return to the Void fist.
The black hole formed from Immortal King Fukui's body was also blasted apart head-on. Kingly blood scattered across the firmament above the Boundary Sea once more, its golden radiance even more brilliant than Youyu's.
There were even rumors concerning the Foreign Realm that blood radiating five-colored golden light was not the most precious kind. Some supreme beings possessed blood that approached seven-colored divine radiance.
The newly arrived Immortal Kings Yan Cang and Yin Sha had no time to rejoice before witnessing Lin Yue's Dharma Form spanning heaven and earth, rendered even more sacred by the golden glow of kingly blood.
Billions of miles away, the kings watching this scene were shaken to their cores. All their shock turned into awe.
Against four kings, including two apex kings and Fukui, who already had one foot in that realm, such a force had crumbled before Lin Yue's heaven-dominating, earth-subduing might.
Countless kings once again understood what a titan among kings truly was. This was it. Such power was unquestionably terrifying-utterly unrivaled!
Others might still have been stunned, but Lin Yue stepped forth with Yin-Yang Reversal and sent another divine fist crashing toward Fukui's remaining primordial spirit.
"Damn it, we can't win anymore! Yan Cang, protect them and withdraw at once!"
Immortal King Yin Sha roared. The two attacked Lin Yue again, not to kill him, but to buy time to escape.
To surround and kill such a titan would require several veteran apex kings. There was no way to gather that many now.
"Hmph! Heaven and earth are boundless; shatter all and return to the void!"
The fist that appeared to be aimed at Fukui abruptly turned toward the two coming to his aid.
"Come on! I don't believe you can throw many more punches like that!"
As an apex king, Immortal King Yin Sha naturally had his own pride. He immediately brought forth the Soul Fiend Cauldron, and Yan Cang followed close behind, unleashing the Skyvault Divine Furnace.
Boom...
The Soul Fiend Cauldron shattered, shaking heaven and earth. The Skyvault Divine Furnace exploded as well, countless divine flames shining brighter than kingly blood and illuminating the world of the Boundary Sea.
"Aah... die!"
Facing Lin Yue's fist, Immortal Kings Yin Sha and Yan Cang sublimated their power, drawing upon their intrinsic divine essence to unleash their ultimate strikes.
Boom...
The two Human King bodies cracked, yet they actually stopped Lin Yue's incomparably domineering Return to the Void fist.
"Well done! Again! Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering!"
Lin Yue roared and unleashed another invincible divine fist. No wonder apex kings could surround and kill a titan. Just two had blocked his heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating Return to the Void fist. Although both had sublimated their power to its utmost, it was still truly remarkable. If three or four more apex kings joined them, the outcome might well be uncertain.
"My will is a chain; ten thousand tribulations descend upon you!"
Immortal King Youyu even burned the flames of his primordial spirit. Chains like pillars supporting heaven swept around Lin Yue, trying to bind him. Unfortunately, they were utterly useless. Lin Yue scattered them with a single punch.
"Damn it, how is this possible?!"
Immortal King Yin Sha could not understand it. Even a titan could not unleash such an ultimate divine fist every time. Unfortunately, he had underestimated Lin Yue's fleshly body.
His flesh had attained the Dao, and the world within his body had taken shape. It operated on its own, endlessly renewing itself and supplying inexhaustible divine essence. This was the most terrifying aspect of body tempering through the Human Immortal Martial Dao.
This time, the two were blasted away. Even if a king's primordial spirit endured ten thousand tribulations without perishing, they could not recover quickly after unleashing a strike that sublimated their power to its utmost.
Lin Yue turned and strode toward Immortal Kings Fukui and Youyu. Though Youyu was not the strongest Immortal King, he was the most troublesome.
He threw another punch, the Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent intertwining, hoping it would annihilate his opponent's primordial spirit.
Unfortunately, just as before, he struck his opponent's primordial spirit again and again. Even within a single breath, Lin Yue landed countless divine punches. Although his opponent's primordial spirit wailed, he could not eradicate it in a short time.
"It's useless! A king's primordial spirit survives ten thousand tribulations! Just wait until you're worn down to death!"
Youyu spoke with absolute confidence. He might have seemed more imposing if one ignored his fractured, bleeding primordial spirit.
Lin Yue was helpless too. He could neither kill him nor destroy him.
Do I have to run away again? I haven't lost! If only the Great Yin-Yang Chengli Sword could slay a king-level primordial spirit.
Right-the Great Yin-Yang Chengli sword qi. Lin Yue seemed to realize something. Although his Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang Dao Body had transformed into a sun and moon and merged into his eyes to illuminate his internal divine universes, it had not vanished.
With a thought, he connected to the black moon fused into his left eye, which carried the Extreme Yin sword capable of slaying primordial spirits.
A ray of black light emerged, like a black sword cleaving through nothingness, and struck Fukui's primordial spirit directly.
"Aah! Aah! Aah!"
It worked? Immortal King Fukui's primordial spirit screamed. The kingly light suffusing it actually began to dim.
"Hurry, release me! Otherwise, the kings of my realm will slaughter the Nine Heavens and kill your entire clan! They'll exterminate every living being! You damned ant, did you hear me?!"
In an instant, Immortal King Youyu's primordial spirit trembled with terror.
"Heh. Die!"
Lin Yue drove the black moon in his left eye with all his strength, releasing a ray of dark light that extinguished all nothingness.
Swish...!
Immortal King Fukui's primordial spirit was annihilated before he could even scream. Lin Yue himself froze for a moment. The Extreme Yin sword, which shattered all intangible power, had actually become this terrifying after his flesh attained the Dao. Unlike the Great Yin-Yang Chengli sword qi, which possessed the destructive power to kill and obliterate everything simultaneously, this single secret art had grown even stronger after being separated from their union. It had directly annihilated a king-level primordial spirit.
This truly was a supreme secret art worthy of standing alongside the Three Great Immortal Ancient Sword Arts!
His flesh had attained the Dao. There was nothing the Dao could not destroy. No matter how formidable a king-level primordial spirit was, it remained within the Dao.
Lin Yue's eyes had not only fused with the Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang intents of the Great Yin-Yang Chengli sword qi; during his breakthrough, they had also merged with the black-and-white yin-yang light within the will of heaven and earth. Before heaven and earth, nothing could resist destruction except things that transcended the utmost limits. Unfortunately, Immortal King Fukui's primordial spirit had not reached that realm.
"Quick, Yan Cang, Yin Sha! Save me!"
While Lin Yue was momentarily distracted, Immortal King Youyu was already fleeing, crying out to the two as they rushed over again.
Before Immortal Kings Yan Cang and Yin Sha could react, a black ray that destroyed everything swept over Youyu, who had only his primordial spirit left. His primordial spirit dissipated on the spot.
The sight sent chills down both their spines. They all but burned their intrinsic vital essence to perform blood escape, fleeing in separate directions. Their speed was actually a fraction faster than Lin Yue's Yin-Yang Reversal.
In a mere instant, the two apex kings had vanished without a trace.
"What... what was that?"
Lin Yue's heaven-reaching Dharma Form froze. For a moment, he could not react either.
Only when this scene ended was the battle truly over. Every gaze watching this place disappeared. Lin Yue now had nothing else to do; if they displeased this titan, the consequences would be dire.
Afterward, some newly ascended kings learned another lesson: in the Boundary Sea, never casually forge karmic ties with beings who possessed heaven-defying talent, or the consequences would be unimaginable.
Had they not seen Immortal King Lu Kong of the Immortal Domain practically wishing he had a few more legs as he fled?
Four kings, two of them apex kings-two dead, two fled. Who would dare face the edge of this young titan who dominated heaven and earth? Lin Yue had also established his supremacy in the Boundary Sea.
"This is the power of a supreme king. It's time to find the way home. Nine Heavens, I will return."
Chapter 73: The Pitch-Black Tree Stump
The Boundary Sea was vast and boundless.
Above the endless Boundary Sea, a handsome young man with a golden lotus mark between his brows and black robes billowing around him flew through the void.
He no longer knew how many years had passed since his last battle. Ever since it ended, Lin Yue had been searching for the way back. Unfortunately, after all these years, he was still wandering aimlessly across the Boundary Sea.
Yes, he was lost. Without a king-level primordial spirit, he could only wander across the Boundary Sea by instinct. He did not even dare fly at full speed. What if he had the direction backward?
Along the way, he had even fought some dark beings and blasted apart several enormous islands. There were dark beings whom even Lin Yue, now possessing the might of a titan, could do nothing against.
Capture someone and question them?
Lin Yue finally realized it. Though the Boundary Sea was terrifying, since some kings dared enter it, they must have their own ways of returning. Otherwise, so many kings would not dare venture inside so casually. He simply did not know whether those methods had anything to do with the primordial spirit.
Within his perception, the kings billions of miles around him all took the initiative to avoid him. This had nothing to do with strength. After all, ordinary kings generally traveled alone in the Boundary Sea. Though kings claimed not to fear karma, most who came here seeking opportunities tried to avoid unnecessary trouble.
On the island ahead, a king entered his fleshly perception. The Immortal Dao flickered indistinctly throughout the king's body; he was already close to joining the ranks of apex kings. Had Lin Yue's eyes not merged with his Yin-Yang Dao Body and the will of heaven and earth, he might not have discerned the other man's strength.
Lin Yue immediately stepped forth with Yin-Yang Reversal. Since his flesh attained the Dao, this ultimate Heaven-Defying Steps had surpassed anything it had been before. It did more than exceed the greatest speed in the world—he seemed to pass through a motionless void.
The king on the island seemed to sense Lin Yue approaching at tremendous speed. This violated the rules of the Boundary Sea, and the other man's speed, surpassing that of kings, shocked him. Still, as a peerless king, he would not simply leave. Kings were proud and aloof. So what if the other man's speed was the fastest in the world? Kings all possessed secret arts that broke through the utmost limits. He had nothing to fear.
The king's heaven-reaching Dharma Form rose. Immortal light filled the place where he stood, and chaos surged forth, seemingly shutting out the gray mist of the Boundary Sea and forming a world unto itself. Such was a king: wherever he stood became his King Domain.
As a martial cultivator, Lin Yue enjoyed battle, but he was not bloodthirsty. Seeing the other man's Dharma Form rise into the heavens, he did not manifest his own. He had not come to fight.
Lin Yue stopped a thousand miles away.
"Greetings, fellow Daoist. I am lost in the Boundary Sea and have come to seek your guidance."
Though they were a thousand miles apart, his voice sounded as though it were right beside the king's ear. Moreover, Lin Yue's voice resembled the sound of the Dao, soothing the mind and spirit. This was a sign of returning to simplicity and truth; every word and action carried the rhythm of the Dao. Though the king could not sense Lin Yue's primordial spirit, he could not fathom such a person.
"You are too courteous, fellow Daoist. If you wish to ask the way, I can be of no help. Please forgive me. My homeland has already been destroyed, and the mark I left there has vanished. My primordial spirit can no longer sense it."
Lin Yue understood. Not every king in the Boundary Sea had a home. Indeed, most were rootless duckweed. When great worlds were destroyed and new epochs began, those places were merely gathering grounds for living beings to them, not their homelands.
"Sorry for troubling you."
"You carry the aura of another great world, fellow Daoist. Though there are differences, it is very similar. Might you be from that great world known as the homeland of immortals?"
Seeing that Lin Yue truly had not come looking for trouble, the other man spoke again.
"You know of the Immortal Domain!"
"Head to your left from here. There is a great world an immense distance away. I once encountered some people whose auras were almost identical to yours. But be careful. The laws of the Boundary Sea are chaotic. Even if you can sense coordinates through a primordial spirit mark, you may not necessarily reach them, for some places are distorted. Elsewhere, traces left by battles between kings give off auras that can mislead your divine sense. You might even enter a place only to be transported to another region."
"My name is Lin Yue. Thank you for telling me this, fellow Daoist. If we meet again someday, I will never forget your kindness in showing me the way today."
After speaking, Lin Yue committed the fluctuations of the other man's Immortal Dao laws to memory. If he kept drifting aimlessly through the Boundary Sea, he might well end up in the Foreign Realm.
With a rough direction in mind, Lin Yue stepped forth with Yin-Yang Reversal, traveling through time.
An unknown number of years passed, and Lin Yue lost his way again.
"Fuck! Damn it, whose Boundary Sea is this? It's all fucking water! I'm fucking lost again! Nine Heavens, I can't get back!"
Countless hopes, countless disappointments. He would wander around only to end up somewhere he could not recognize. Yes, this was the Boundary Sea.
"Human Immortal Martial Dao, rise! Deities within my body, awaken!"
Standing above the boundless Boundary Sea and staring at the endless waters before him, Lin Yue directly activated his internal divine universes. His kingly domain spread along with his Extreme Dao Divine Power. Wherever the domain reached, even the void burst apart.
After years of refinement, his internal divine universes had advanced further, and his strength had grown by leaps and bounds. Now, in his fury, Lin Yue began bombarding the sea...
"Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering! Die!"
Yin and yang flowed, life and death transformed. Above the lifeless, endless Boundary Sea, Lin Yue's body and divine fist seemed capable of opening up an entire world.
Boom...
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