Breaking into the Immortal Court? A Blade of Grass Gravely Wounded a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body! The Universe Was Shaken!

Yet within the Immortal Court, clouds and mist churned, and immortal charm drifted through the air.

Apart from the soft rustle of mountain winds brushing through leaves, not a sound emerged.

Ye Mingyuan stood outside the forbidden zone like a blazing furnace, his golden blood Qi soaring into the heavens. His voice rolled across the entire Fallen Immortal Star and resounded through the starry universe.

But only deathly silence answered him!

One breath... ten breaths... a hundred breaths.

There was no response from within the Immortal Court.

The formation patterns circulated as usual. Not only did Lu Qingyun fail to appear, but not even a trace of divine sense or a wisp of presence seeped out.

Only a few roars from exotic beasts sounded, as though in reply.

It was as if he, a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body who dominated the present age, did not even deserve a glance!

"This..."

On Fallen Immortal Star, within the various sacred lands and great families.

Those who had been waiting to witness a battle for the ages were first stunned. Then, quite a few could not keep the corners of their mouths from twitching.

Yet not one of them dared actually say anything.

Ye Mingyuan's expression darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He had already arrived with anger bottled up inside.

Fighting Lu Qingyun had become his obsession!

But now, he could not even catch sight of the man!

Being ignored like this was more humiliating than an insult to his face.

"Good! What a Lu Qingyun! What a lord of the Immortal Court!"

Ye Mingyuan laughed in his fury.

His black hair whipped wildly, and towering waves surged through the golden Bitter Sea within him!

The pressure of his Great Accomplishment Sacred Body spread without restraint, shattering the surrounding void inch by inch.

"Since you refuse to come out, I'll fight my way straight in!"

He stepped forward, his golden foot about to stamp onto the formation patterns along the Immortal Court's perimeter.

He was confident in the formidable might of his Sacred Body's flesh.

Mere extreme Dao formation patterns might injure him, but they could not stop him!

Only...

At the very instant his toes were about to touch the formation patterns!

Every hair on Ye Mingyuan's body suddenly stood on end!

A shudder erupted from the depths of his soul, as though a primordial savage beast had fixed its gaze on him, or a heaven-cleaving sword hung above his head. If he dared advance even a fraction farther, his head would part from his body in the next instant!

"Hm?!"

He forcibly pulled his foot back.

His pupils contracted sharply as he stared fixedly at a faint silhouette slowly drifting over from the depths of the Immortal Court.

It was a small blade of grass.

It was emerald green throughout, with a slender stem.

Nine long, narrow leaves grew at its tip, each flat and straight as a sword, gleaming faintly.

It floated lightly out of the immortal mist just like that, without any earth-shaking phenomenon or soul-intimidating pressure.

It was so ordinary, yet impossible to dismiss!

"What is that?"

"A blade of grass? A spirit medicine growing in the Immortal Court? No, why is the Sacred Body reacting so strongly?"

The others could not understand Ye Mingyuan's reaction.

Wasn't it just a blade of spirit grass?

Did he really need to act as though facing a formidable enemy, not even daring to take a step?

Within the forbidden zones, several awakened Supremes also turned their gazes toward it, bewildered and uncertain.

They could see nothing extraordinary about it either.

But they knew that, given Ye Mingyuan's strength, no ordinary thing could possibly cow him!

It was just as they had surmised.

At this moment, Ye Mingyuan was enduring utterly terrifying pressure!

As the one facing it directly, he could clearly sense... a strand of sword intent beyond his comprehension entwined around that unremarkable little blade of grass.

It was not sword intent at the Great Emperor level, but something higher, farther beyond, and more terrifying!

It was as though a single sword strike could cleave the galaxies and annihilate the myriad Daos!

Even the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body he took such pride in was no different from thin paper before this strand of sword intent.

If he dared take one step forward.

He would undoubtedly die.

This thought was imprinted on his soul with absolute clarity, leaving no room for any hope of escape.

Ye Mingyuan's chest heaved violently, his eyes bloodshot.

Golden blood Qi surged around him, almost taking solid form!

He could not accept it. He had cultivated bitterly for thousands of years precisely to catch up to that man, to stand before him openly and honorably, and defeat him!

But now.

A blade of grass drifting out from the depths of the Immortal Court... had nailed all his pride and confidence firmly outside its gates.

"Has the gap... actually grown this vast...?"

His tightly clenched fists slowly loosened.

The anger faded from Ye Mingyuan's face, leaving only undisguisable self-mockery and exhaustion.

He had thought he was sprinting ahead.

Yet he had never imagined that the other man was already standing among clouds too high for him even to glimpse.

"Forget it... forget it."

He murmured those words twice, as though letting go of his obsession, yet also as though accepting reality.

He did not look at the little nine-leaf grass again.

Ye Mingyuan turned and departed, treading on dim golden light.

His retreating figure was desolate, utterly devoid of the high spirits with which he had arrived.

Yet...

Before the Immortal Court, the little nine-leaf grass hovering silently in the air.

Suddenly trembled slightly.

The sword leaf at its outermost edge silently detached, turning into a barely perceptible streak of azure light that merged into the void.

There was no phenomenon, no sound, not even the slightest spatial fluctuation.

Someone noticed this, but did not know what it meant.

But in the very next instant!

"Aah-!!"

An unbearably shrill scream suddenly erupted in the starry sky!

Everyone looked over in horror, only to see that half of Ye Mingyuan's body had vanished into thin air when he had barely traveled any distance!

Golden sacred blood rained into the starry sky like a torrential downpour.

His internal organs and shattered Dao bones were clearly visible, a gruesome sight beyond measure!

That streak of azure light flashed and vanished, as though it had never appeared.

But Ye Mingyuan's nearly severed body proclaimed the terror of that strike!

"What happened?!"

"One sword strike... just one?!"

"From that far away, a single leaf split a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body in two?!"

On Fallen Immortal Star, every cultivator of the sacred lands and great families froze in place, all color draining from their faces and their minds going blank.

That was a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body!

A Great Accomplishment Sacred Body whose flesh rivaled an Emperor Weapon, invincible among those of the same level!

Never mind taking a strike from an Emperor Weapon head-on-even if he stood still and let a Supreme hack at him, they might not manage such a clean cut!

Yet now, a single blade of grass had silently sliced away half his body across the void?

This was no longer merely powerful.

This was outrageous!

It was inconceivable!

It overturned everyone's understanding of the extreme Dao realm!

"Pfft-"

Ye Mingyuan spewed golden blood from his mouth. Even his soul had been gravely wounded by that sword strike.

Yet he could not even muster the thought of fighting back.

Mustering his last shred of strength, he drove all his blood Qi to protect his heart meridians and fled desperately without looking back, lacking even the courage to steal a backward glance.

His golden light dimmed as he scattered sacred blood along the way, fleeing in a wretched state back to the Feng Family's ancestral grounds.

Only once his figure had completely disappeared.

Did the little nine-leaf grass before the Immortal Court leisurely drift back, vanishing once more into the immortal mist as though it had never appeared.

Deathly silence filled heaven and earth!

All was silent throughout the vast universe. Even the sound of the galaxies revolving seemed to have disappeared.

Only boundless fear and shock remained in everyone's hearts...

They could not comprehend it.

What kind of world-shaking, awe-inspiring technique was this!