Lin Yue's hair whipped wildly as he erupted in a furious roar. He had thought his opponent would fight fairly, only to suffer such a despicable ambush that severed his hand. He had been naive. Ignoring the Kings' killing blows, he sent this strike straight at Immortal King Yin Sha, trading injury for injury.
Yin Sha was blasted away by a single punch! Even his supreme kingly body cracked, spilling golden king's blood!
"An Lan, Yan Cang, you...!"
Seeing the Kings ambush Lin Yue, even seeking to strike him down, he was furious that others had interfered with this battle.
"Senior, this is war. We cannot let our emotions rule us!"
Yan Cang spoke, invoking the name of war!
"Dao brother, we are at war! Please keep your priorities straight!"
Once An Lan finished speaking, the other three Immortal Kings stepped forward and surrounded Lin Yue again!
"Indeed. Senior, there will be plenty of time and opportunities to fight later. The Immortal Domain has worthy opponents. There is no need to fixate on the one before you!"
"But... sigh! Since that is the case, let us fight!"
Wu Shang could hardly argue. After all, the war had yet to end.
"Come on! Today, I'll slaughter every last one of you shameless pieces of trash! Whoever dares call himself a king dies. You are unworthy!"
"Kill!"
Lin Yue roared, golden light radiating from his entire body, mingling with invincible divine power that crushed everything!
"Martial Dao True Intent, Yin-Yang Turning Wheel!"
Lin Yue threw a punch, which the five supreme Kings joined forces to withstand!
Immortal King Wu Shang unleashed his full strength. Sharp immortal energy radiated from the blade of his Bronze Battle Halberd as it thrust straight toward Lin Yue's brow, intent on impaling him!
Clang! A sound shook heaven and earth.
For the first time, blood flowed from Lin Yue's brow. Yet he ignored it, sending his divine fists toward An Lan and Yin Sha. Yin Sha, in particular, posed far too great a threat to him.
Unfortunately, the five Kings joined forces to block him again!
One titan and five peerless Kings surrounded a single man! Across all eternity, how many had ever received such treatment?
Chapter 79: The Immortal Refining Pot
"Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering!"
An incomparably domineering punch brought forth boundless vitality amid endless destruction. Life and death existed within a single Dao, and the power born of their interweaving broke through all limits, shattering every force.
The five supreme Kings did not dare be careless. They knew Lin Yue's strength. Even with Wu Shang holding the line, a moment's delay in their reactions could give Lin Yue an opening. If they failed to unite against his Extreme Dao divine fists, even their supreme kingly bodies would crack.
Lin Yue had attained the Dao through his flesh, and his Yin-Yang Reversal gave him speed surpassing all the Kings. Yet retaliating now was exceedingly difficult. The moment he exposed an opening, Wu Shang's strange crimson energy, immune to laws, would clash with his yin and yang energies. His Dao-attained body was now covered in blood.
Wu Shang, however, was little better off. His body was also bleeding. How could Lin Yue's attacks be so easy to endure?
For a hundred years, they fought a bloody battle, each side seeking to annihilate the other.
Golden light radiated from Lin Yue's entire body, his golden blood staining the sky. Battle after battle had left the whole Great Red Heaven shattered beyond recognition. Even Immortal King Wu Shang felt weary. Unlike other Kings, someone like Lin Yue, who had attained the Dao through his flesh, was difficult to wear down and destroy.
The remaining supreme Kings were cracked all over, and even the light of their primordial spirits had dimmed. Their previous encirclement of Wuzhong and Reincarnation had never been this difficult. It was not that Lin Yue was now stronger than Wuzhong and the others, but that his flesh was far too monstrous-even more monstrous than a hundred years ago.
Even a casual blow forced the supreme Kings to resist together. After a hundred years, their primordial spirits' recovery speed was plummeting. No one could endure such a battle easily. This was a contest of endurance, and Lin Yue had actually proven superior.
"Heaven and Earth as One, Soul Hooking and Spirit Drawing!"
Immortal King Yin Sha unleashed his supreme secret art again. His black hair turned gray, then white, as he directly tugged at Lin Yue's primordial spirit.
"Now! Kill!"
"Soul-Shaking Sword Strike!"
"Incinerate all Daos, Great Cang Flame Realm!"
Immortal King An Lan roared. As though they had planned it beforehand, the four Kings unleashed their innate ancient arts, striking first to suppress Lin Yue and deny him a chance to attack.
After a hundred years of bloody attrition, the Kings seemed to believe the moment had come. Once more, they seized the initiative.
"Heaven and Earth Overturned, Yin-Yang Reversal, Eight Wastelands in Chaos."
Facing the Kings' combined assault, Lin Yue unleashed his strongest secret art despite his depleted divine essence. Within his body, the immortal light around countless deities bearing his likeness had almost entirely dimmed, yet he did not dare relax in the slightest.
Yin Sha's secret art was simply too heaven-defying. No one knew what this supreme King had experienced when he ventured into the Boundary Sea in search of opportunities, but his secret art reached the heavens, threatening even a titan like Lin Yue.
The laws of his inner world disrupted the natural workings of the world outside. The entire region twisted. Advance became retreat, yin and yang reversed, and heaven and earth fell into chaos.
Immortal King Yin Sha persisted with his heaven-defying secret art even at the cost of his kingly body's destruction. He was already prepared for his body to be blasted apart. Even as his primordial spirit cracked and leaked golden blood, he paid it no heed.
Surrounding and killing such a titan was difficult without someone making a sacrifice. It had been the same with Wuzhong and Reincarnation. They had ample experience encircling and killing titans.
"Heavenly Slaughter, die!"
Boom...
Unleashing two secret arts at once, Lin Yue blasted Immortal King Yin Sha's already cracked body to pieces with a Heavenly Slaughter punch.
Yet at that moment, Immortal King Wu Shang's halberd swept in to kill him, ignoring the region Lin Yue had created.
"Heavenly Dao-Shocking Slash, Might Annihilating All Forms. Kill!"
Even the light of Immortal King Wu Shang's titan-level primordial spirit dimmed at that instant. The crimson blood energy around him began to solidify, forming a translucent red halberd that enveloped his original Bronze Battle Halberd. Like an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, this was a strike that ignored the laws of heaven and earth.
The blow broke through all limits, passed through the region of distorted worldly laws, and struck Lin Yue directly.
Boom...
"Aah...!"
Pain shook Lin Yue's entire body. His Dao-attained flesh actually cracked beneath the blow, and his heaven-reaching Dharma Form was cleaved down onto the Great Red Land like a Primordial Star.
Boom...
Rumbles rose from the countless chasms already split across the earth, lingering without end. Thunder Dragons emerged from the exploding sound waves, while fire dragons took shape within the ultimate energies, resembling streaks of lightning and blazing electricity.
The entire surface trembled as a heaven-shaking explosion rang out.
After the Primordial Ancient World had been shattered by the Kings in the past, Great Red Heaven-the largest ancient world of the Nine Heavens-now broke apart under the impact of Immortal King Wu Shang's peerless strike against Lin Yue. It became countless landmasses and ancient worlds scattered in every direction.
Lin Yue was stunned. The Divine Universes within his body formed worlds of their own. After he attained the Dao through his flesh, heaven could scarcely destroy him, earth could scarcely bury him, and the Dao could scarcely annihilate him. He was almost invincible.
Yet Immortal King Wu Shang's blow had cracked him open. This was a Dao-annihilating strike. That was no exaggeration-it truly possessed the power to kill him despite his Dao-attained flesh. Immortal King Wu Shang was indeed an eternal titan of the king realm, hiding such a heaven-defying ancient killing art.
"How is that possible?"
The Kings were stunned!
Wu Shang was stunned as well. He had drawn upon the light of his primordial spirit and sublimated his power to its utmost, yet a strike capable of annihilating the Dao had merely cracked his opponent's body. Worse still, that body was healing at astonishing speed.
"Damn it! This man has attained the Dao through his flesh. Heaven and earth cannot bury him. We can only destroy his primordial spirit."
Lin Yue climbed out of the chasm below, golden blood from his entire body spreading across what remained of the Great Red Land. Yet he did not pause. Stepping forth with Yin-Yang Reversal, his heaven-reaching Dharma Form charged straight toward Immortal King Yin Sha, who had only his primordial spirit left.
"Quick, stop him!"
"Red Peak Spear, Immortal Body Shattering!"
"Incinerate all Daos! Great Cang Flame Realm!"
"Immortal-Slaughtering Emperor-Slaying!"
Seeing Lin Yue charge madly toward Yin Sha, the Kings expended their very foundations to attack, despite their nearly exhausted divine essence.
"Martial Dao True Intent, Yin-Yang Turning Wheel."
His divine fist, carrying boundless power that reversed and disrupted yin and yang, blasted Wu Shang's halberd aside. Raising his hand, he sent the four Kings' combined attack flying with a palm strike, even dispersing Yan Cang's endless flame realm.
"Yin-Yang Eye-Shocking Tribulation!"
"Quick, save me!"
With only his primordial spirit remaining, Yin Sha desperately cried for help. He had sacrificed his flesh to force an opening in Lin Yue and create an opportunity for the Kings. That opportunity had indeed appeared, but they had failed to suppress Lin Yue. He did not truly wish to die.
From Lin Yue's left eye, a destructive black light capable of severing the intangible crossed the distance through the void and struck Immortal King Yin Sha's dim primordial spirit. Wherever his gaze reached, distance ceased to exist.
A supreme King vanished from heaven and earth just like that.
Only then did Lin Yue stop. His cracked Dao body radiated golden light as blood streamed all over him, and he stared coldly at the remaining Kings.
Even their ultimate strikes had failed to stop Lin Yue. Their kingly bodies were cracked and their divine essence depleted; even an all-out eruption could scarcely match their original might. Now they, too, stared at Lin Yue, chilled to the bone.
The Kings had joined forces, yet one of them had still been slain. Even without a king-realm primordial spirit, the man before them possessed a presence no less imposing than Wuzhong or Reincarnation. He truly resembled a god or demon.
"Immortal-Slaughtering Emperor-Slaying, kill!"
Immortal King Wu Shang would never fear. Even against Number Ten, knowing he was outmatched, he had pressed forward without hesitation, his divine valor unrivaled. He even relished battles that demanded every last ounce of his strength. Perhaps it was precisely this mindset that had made him an eternal titan.
As Wu Shang attacked again, the Kings followed close behind. Although Lin Yue's precious body was healing, it could hardly recover in such a short time. With Immortal King Yin Sha dead, however, Lin Yue could finally fight freely without dividing his attention, and could even counterattack.
Boom...
Wu Shang and Lin Yue's clash once again blasted the River of Time into view, and countless gazes turned toward them once more.
As they fought fiercely, an ancient artifact as large as a mountain manifested within the River of Time. No-it was a mountain-sized pot drifting down the river, unaffected by heaven and earth, untouched by the erosion of ages, and unhindered by time.
Chapter 80: The Primordial Spirit's Lament
No one seemed able to sense the mysterious ancient pot as it traveled toward them.
The Kings, driven back by Lin Yue's punch, thought he would press forward again. In their panic, they tried to rally and retaliate, but Lin Yue did not attack again.
Only when the mountain-sized divine pot descended from the River of Time above, enveloping and pinning Lin Yue, did everyone notice the ancient artifact.
"The Immortal Refining Pot!"
"It's actually that! How is this possible? Does it truly exist?"
Immortal King Yan Cang, the youngest of the Kings, stood dumbfounded. Young as he was, he had only ever heard legends of this pot.
Not only Yan Cang, but every King other than Wu Shang was also shocked. At the same time, they breathed inward sighs of relief. If this truly was the legendary pot, then this battle was finally over.
The Immortal Refining Pot!
Even some Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm had only heard rumors of it. It was the ancient artifact of a peerless expert from the Foreign Realm, and its legend spanned the realm's entire ancient history. It was said to have been passed down since the Foreign Realm's very beginnings, its origins astonishing.
Yet few had ever truly seen its master! Rumor held that its master was the strongest being in the Foreign Realm, gazing down upon the rise and fall of eternity. Once he acted, his enemies would inevitably be refined! For countless epochs, the Immortal Refining Pot's fearsome reputation had resounded far and wide, though it had never appeared before the world. Now it had come to suppress Lin Yue!
The pot's terrifying light enveloped Lin Yue like a cage. Although it could not fully suppress him, his primordial spirit was slowly being drawn out of his body, bit by bit! Under ordinary circumstances, the mysterious power of the Martial Dao Divine Infant would have left him unafraid of such uncanny things. Now, however, surrounded by the Kings, Lin Yue had to divide his attention. Like rootless duckweed beneath his feet, he began to lose his footing and could no longer exert his strength!
"Damn it, what the hell is this thing? Martial Dao Divine Infant, suppress it!"
Lin Yue was already roaring in alarm. He had meant to step forward in pursuit, only for this divine pot to arrive too suddenly, without the slightest warning. Worse, it was far too heaven-defying. Boundless suction tugged at the primordial spirit within his body, its power even stranger than Immortal King Yin Sha's had been.
Within his Cave Heaven, the Martial Dao Divine Infant rose to his feet. His flesh resembled a furnace of heaven and earth, erupting with golden light of divine essence as he resisted the strange ancient pot that sucked away primordial spirits. Even Lin Yue's boundless vital essence was being drawn away.
"Quick, attack together!"
Four supreme Kings and one titan jointly unleashed a blow with their power pushed to the utmost, forcibly driving back Lin Yue despite his Dao-attained flesh! Their combined strike had shaken his exposed primordial spirit.
Lin Yue's primordial spirit cried out in anguish and even cracked! Little by little, it slipped free of his flesh!
"One sword to cleave heaven!"
A thunderous roar rang out! Immortal King Yu Tuo's sword intent, bearing supreme heavenly might, struck the tiny exposed portion of Lin Yue's primordial spirit. Although the Martial Dao Divine Infant was anchoring it, a primordial spirit that had yet to reach the king realm could scarcely endure a King's sword. It split open at once, dripping blood.
"Aah...!"
Within Lin Yue, every Cave Heaven and Divine Repository, every deity in his body, erupted with brilliant golden light of the Immortal Dao. They roared madly, seeking to break free of the Immortal Refining Pot's suppression. Yet even with golden light surging around his entire body, the previously unstoppable Martial Dao Divine Infant could not pull Lin Yue's primordial spirit back.
Although this terrifying divine pot could not suppress the Martial Dao Divine Infant, it could isolate him, preventing him from even leaving Lin Yue's Cave Heaven. Normally, upon seeing the primordial spirit being dragged away, the Martial Dao Divine Infant would already have emerged from the Cave Heaven. The Immortal Refining Pot was simply too uncanny.
Immortal King Wu Shang charged straight in, erupting with divine power as his great halberd struck Lin Yue. Although he, too, was growing weary and failed to inflict further damage, he pinned down the wavering Lin Yue and forced him to divide his attention. Under that blow, his primordial spirit was dragged even farther out.
"Immortal-Sealing Secret Art!"
This was a divine secret art jointly unleashed by the Kings of the Foreign Realm. They, too, pushed their power to its utmost. Shackles of law extended from their bodies and primordial spirits like chains, binding Lin Yue's limbs with their own boundless divine essence!
The Immortal Refining Pot descended directly over Lin Yue's head! It spun furiously, and his primordial spirit had now been almost completely dragged out!
"Yu Tuo, Gu Xiu, quick! Destroy his primordial spirit!"
Seeing Lin Yue's fully exposed primordial spirit, Immortal King An Lan roared!
Immortal King Yu Tuo and Immortal King Gu Xiu erupted with peerless kingly might. Sword Dao bearing resplendent heavenly majesty and plain, unadorned sword intent surged into the sky.
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