The Heavenly Emperor Was a Sore Loser

"A mere lower-realm dweller-how dare you insult me!"

Every word Yuangeng spoke was like a sharp knife driven deep into the Undying Heavenly Emperor's heart. He had always taken pride in his talent and combat prowess, yet after a single battle with this ancient being, his entire understanding of himself had shattered in an instant.

His exquisitely handsome face barely changed, but the fury in his heart burned to its utmost. The Five-Colored Heavenly Blade awakened, and he unleashed the Nine Secrets Unified Art again and again, determined to destroy this ancient creature who did not know his place.

"The lower realm?"

The Undying Heavenly Emperor's words brought a cold sneer to Yuangeng's face, and he said disdainfully,

"Little phoenix, never mind you-even if the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor were reborn or Immortal King Butcher returned, neither would dare call our world a lower realm!"

The Dao Seed before his chest pulsed, resonating with this ancient world and thickening the lunar essence and aura of death throughout it. Every attack from the Undying Heavenly Emperor dissolved in midair, leaving only five-colored dao fire blazing across the firmament.

"Flying Immortal Waterfall!"

Finding himself utterly suppressed, the Undying Heavenly Emperor roared. Dazzling silver radiance erupted from his Immortal Platform, and an ethereal, unfathomable immortal aura surged forth. A waterfall wreathed in mist and silver light appeared.

The Flying Immortal Waterfall enjoyed a formidable reputation in the Shrouding the Heavens universe. It was hailed as one of the three great wondrous substances associated with longevity throughout all history and possessed incomparably mysterious powers.

"Not much ability, but plenty of tricks."

Yuangeng narrowed his eyes at the silver waterfall. Naturally, such a thing had not existed in his era, but with his discerning eye, he could tell it had been refined from some sort of extreme dao essence and already carried a hint of the immortal path.

Not long ago, the Undying Heavenly Emperor had manifested this waterfall to trade a head-on blow with Yuangeng. Now he had brought out its true form, clearly playing one of his trump cards.

Dazzling five-colored rays shone from the Heavenly Emperor's brow. Atop his Immortal Platform, a five-colored immortal phoenix stood proudly. Only three inches tall, it nevertheless possessed a majesty that spanned heaven and earth as it looked down upon three thousand worlds.

This was the Undying Heavenly Emperor's primordial spirit. Tempered by more than a million years, it had long since evolved to a certain limit. Now it merged with the Flying Immortal Waterfall and spread its wings, lunging at Yuangeng. Its interwoven, five-colored primordial spirit flames burned all things, boundlessly powerful.

Battles between primordial spirits were another crucial part of combat between extreme dao supremes.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

At the sight, the Dao Seed before Yuangeng's chest beat like a heart. Countless mighty powers converged at his brow, where an ink-black, three-inch figure also sat quietly cross-legged. His silhouette seemed eternal; even hundreds of millions of years of starlight could leave no trace upon him.

"Bury Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation!"

The ink-black figure formed intricate, inscrutable seals with his hands. An overwhelming aura of death and annihilation arose from him-a mighty power bordering on the immortal path, which Yuangeng fused with the lunar essence great dao, assimilating and wielding it with ease.

This was the art of an old Burial King from the Burial Domain, said to be a titan of the burial path. It had only been passed on to Yuangeng out of regard for his Dao companion. The art called for cultivating an undying spirit, standing beyond the mortal world, and burying ten thousand lifetimes of reincarnation.

At that moment, the Undying Heavenly Emperor felt Yuangeng's distant figure gradually blur, leaving only an ancient, vast universe in his place. That universe brimmed with immeasurable death. Even as the Heavenly Emperor, he could not escape the fate of dying.

This blow could not be met head-on!

Boom!

The collision between primordial spirits shook the Ancient World. Such a clash was even more dangerous than other forms of combat. The importance of the primordial spirit needed no explanation; once an enemy ground it into nothingness, death followed in its most immediate form.

Crack!

Yet the Undying Heavenly Emperor still evaded that fatal blow. Five-colored nirvana flame ignited. At the very last instant before their primordial spirits clashed, he had decisively detonated the Flying Immortal Waterfall. By sacrificing that rare treasure of longevity, scarcely found throughout the ages, he had allowed his primordial spirit to flee far away.

"What exactly have you cultivated over this million years?"

Seeing this, Yuangeng did not pursue him, instead asking the same question again. He did not know the standard for powerhouses bearing "Heavenly" titles in the Shrouding the Heavens universe, but at the very least, they had reached a level where they could crush ordinary extreme dao supremes. The Undying Heavenly Emperor had entered that realm in the early years of the primordial age, yet after all these years, he had only just brushed the threshold of the immortal path.

Granted, he did not deny that the Undying Heavenly Emperor possessed a wealth of methods. But if his own cultivation could not keep pace, however many methods he had, they were nothing but empty illusions.

"Shut up!"

The Undying Heavenly Emperor growled. After repeated clashes with Yuangeng, his face had grown somewhat pale. He grasped at the void, and a fingertip-sized pill appeared in his hand. It bore nine colors, each corresponding to a supremely powerful law, dazzling enough to intoxicate the senses.

It was the Nine-Turn Golden Pill, an ultimate medicinal treasure developed by a Heavenly Venerable of the Mythological Era, possessing countless supreme effects.

The Heavenly Emperor swallowed the immortal pill, and an icy smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. His aura swiftly steadied, and his five-colored blood energy rose to new heights. Spreading his wings, he soared naturally higher into the sky and looked down at Yuangeng:

"So what if you're stronger? Once I slay you today, everything you possess will become my stepping stone!"

Clang!

As his words fell, a lingering bell toll rippled out from within the Undying Heavenly Emperor. It was a mighty power that utterly transcended the human dao realm. The instant it spread, it made the distant Qilin Emperor's hair stand on end as he watched the battle.

Azure dao fire burned in his eyes. He saw that a golden bell had appeared, unnoticed, three feet above the Undying Heavenly Emperor's head. It seemed to come from beyond the flow of time, weighty and lofty, impossible to fathom.

"An Immortal Artifact! That's the Kunlun Immortal Bell!"

The old emperor felt that today's adventure was more spectacular than all the experiences of the first eighteen thousand-odd years of his life combined. Not only had the living god of the Myriad Races severely wounded him with a single slash, but he had also seen someone suppress the Undying Heavenly Emperor so thoroughly that he could not lift his head. Now he had even encountered the Immortal Bell, one of the three great Immortal Artifacts throughout history. It was simply too outrageous.

"So that bell did indeed fall into your hands."

On the other side, Yuangeng was not surprised by the Immortal Bell's appearance. With his hands clasped behind his back, he looked at the distant golden bell without revealing any further expression.

"Yes, it was my doing. The Kunlun Remnant Clan clung to its old ways and was utterly useless. They couldn't even hold on to the Immortal Ascension Ground. How could they deserve an Immortal Artifact?"

The Undying Heavenly Emperor was equally composed. With the Immortal Bell in his possession, he was confident he could completely suppress this ancient being, Yuangeng. His bearing was domineering to the extreme,

"Only someone like me is qualified to wield this peerless immortal weapon!"

Clang!

As his words fell, the golden bell above the Heavenly Emperor's head rang out again. Its waves spread like ripples through this stretch of spacetime, circle after circle, making the surrounding void tremble. Even the omnipresent great dao of death was shattered by the vibrations.

Woooo!

A giant kun let out a long cry. Defying an immortal might that far surpassed the limits of the human dao, Yuangeng used the kun art to manifest the lunar essence great dao and clash head-on with the Immortal Bell.

Unfortunately, there was ultimately a gulf between the human dao and the immortal path, and the Kunlun Immortal Bell was by no means a low-grade Immortal Artifact.

As expected, the bell waves shattered the giant kun into pitch-black seawater, which merged back into this world.

"Lay bare your memories and surrender your dao blood!"

At this sight, the Undying Heavenly Emperor's presence grew ever more imposing. He believed he had Yuangeng firmly in his grasp. The Immortal Bell above his head tolled on, and countless immortal mountains appeared behind him.

"Hah! It's only an Immortal Artifact."

Yet faced with such a threat, Yuangeng simply sat cross-legged in the void. He dispersed his lunar essence dao laws and remained there with effortless composure, facing the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the Immortal Bell without the slightest fear.

"Arrogant fool! Do you understand the majesty of the immortal path?!"

The Undying Heavenly Emperor roared. The Immortal Bell above his head thundered far more fiercely than before, and a massive immortal mountain manifested, poised to suppress Yuangeng utterly.

But suddenly, the Undying Heavenly Emperor felt a tremor between his brows. At some unknown moment, a massive stone coffin had appeared beside Yuangeng.