Chapter 475: Victory of the Outer Realm Demons

Some sect disciples and imperial court ministers noticed that their usually stoic sect masters, grand elders, supreme elders, and monarchs all had an indescribable smugness between their brows.

This smugness was hard to describe, like a group of people who had accomplished something, feeling a sense of achievement and honor.

These people looked up at the sky, gazing at the two figures on the horizon.

…

Bai Hongtu stood inside the Nine Provinces World Protection Array, glaring hostilely at Jiang Li.

“Damn Outer Realm Demon, how dare you invade our Nine Provinces World!”

“…Wait, do we need to act this realistically?” Jiang Li was speechless. Even if they were going all out with the performance, did they really need to start from here?

“Silence! Don’t try to get familiar with me!” Bai Hongtu roared, his pupils burning with raging fury. “As the protector of the Nine Provinces, I will defend this world with my very life!”

“Isn’t the Human Sovereign the protector of the Nine Provinces? When did it become your turn?”

Bai Hongtu turned a deaf ear, completely immersed in the role he had designed for himself: “How dare you claim to be the protector of the Nine Provinces? In the Human Sovereign competition, I defeated Jiang Li and Yu Yin to become the seventy-second Human Sovereign, so of course I’m the protector of the Nine Provinces!”

Jiang Li felt Bai Hongtu was bringing some personal emotions into this.

Since Bai Hongtu was acting so seriously, Jiang Li had no choice but to play along.

A cruel, cold smile curled at the corner of Jiang Li’s lips: “We Outer Realm Demons have invaded countless heavens and worlds. The Nine Provinces World is nothing but a tiny pebble in our path, completely insignificant. If you know what’s good for you, leave quickly and I might spare your life. If you persist in your foolishness, you’ll be buried along with the Nine Provinces World.”

As Jiang Li spoke, he emitted a sinister aura and killing intent like mountains of corpses and seas of blood, eroding the Nine Provinces World Protection Array with sizzling sounds.

The Desolate Heaven Halberd, serving as the formation anchor for the Nine Provinces World Protection Array, watched these two acting as if it were real, completely bewildered.

Did I miss something?

“Enough talk, let’s fight!”

Bai Hongtu activated the Nine Provinces Spirit Plant Array, with the Red Dust Pure Land’s immortal peach tree at its core. Countless spirit plants, spirit trees, and spirit grasses flickered with faint light, forming a magnificent and bizarre grand array.

If someone went to the back of the continent, they would discover that the sea grasses in all four seas—east, west, south, and north—were also glowing, becoming part of the grand array.

Judging by the array’s precision, complexity, and the computational power involved, it far surpassed the Nine Provinces World Protection Array. No one knew how much effort Bai Hongtu had poured into this.

This was the most complex and powerful array Jiang Li had seen in five hundred years.

The array that Executor of Honghu had set up in Ayla World couldn’t even compare.

Countless Unity Stage cultivators, along with the three Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators—Yu Yin, Li Er, and Sword Sovereign—placed their hands on nearby spirit plants, injecting new power into the array.

Commander Liu thought for a moment, then also contributed some of his power.

As a willow tree spirit, he had excellent compatibility with the Spirit Plant Array, and almost none of the power he injected was lost.

“I’m doing this to test the Spirit Plant Array’s power, nothing else,” Commander Liu muttered to himself, believing Jiang Li would understand.

Bai Hongtu’s power rapidly climbed, soon reaching a certain threshold.

“This power is stronger than Ancestor Changcun’s, probably reaching the Celestial Immortal level,” Bai Hongtu estimated his strength.

When Jiang Li clashed with Bai Hongtu, he discovered that Bai Hongtu’s power was indeed stronger than Immortal Elder Changcun’s but weaker than Mortal World Celestial’s, likely at the level of an ordinary Celestial Immortal.

Jiang Li didn’t bully Bai Hongtu either, suppressing his own power to match Bai Hongtu’s level.

Although this was just practice, their battle was still spectacular and would cause panic among the Nine Provinces cultivators, so both tore through space and leaped to the edge of the universe to fight.

Bai Hongtu pointed at the stars, causing them to shift positions and change trajectories, forming the Great Dipper formation. The positions of Killing Wolf and Breaking Army erupted with infinite killing intent.

Great supernatural power—Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations.

The killing intent was chilling, shaped like scythes that could take lives. This supernatural power targeted not the body, but the spiritual platform.

A yang spirit leaped from between Jiang Li’s eyebrows. The yang spirit clasped its hands together, blocking the scythes formed from killing intent.

Then, with a twist of force, it threw the scythes toward the stars, shattering the Great Dipper formation.

Yin and Yang energies appeared in Jiang Li’s palm. Yin and Yang gave birth to the Five Elements, and the Five Elements transformed into all things. As the Yin and Yang energies circulated, they both created and destroyed all things.

Bai Hongtu was caught between the Yin and Yang energies, with Yin energy attacking his soul and Yang energy attacking his physical body. The completely different energies felt like they were tearing his soul out.

Bai Hongtu formed two different hand seals with his hands, calling upon the sun and moon. He used the Yang energy from the sun to neutralize the Yin energy, and the Yin energy from the moon to neutralize the Yang energy.

Great supernatural power—Calling Sun and Summoning Moon.

This technique didn’t summon the actual sun and moon, but used them as conduits to summon the Yin and Yang principles they represented.

Before Mortal World Celestial, no one in the Nine Provinces could use the Dao of Yin and Yang, so the Nine Provinces’ Dao Ancestor created this technique to indirectly approach the Dao of Yin and Yang through supernatural means.

The two also fought with martial arts, their moves so exquisite they dazzled the eyes. Most remarkably, both could predict each other’s moves and counter them in advance.

This technique was called Foresight, allowing one to perceive what was about to happen. Unlike the absolute accuracy of the Time Dao, the Foresight technique would present several possibilities, with only one being the actual future.

As old rivals, they could easily identify the true future from among the several possibilities.

Boom—

Jiang Li struck Bai Hongtu’s chest, causing him to rapidly petrify from the chest outward.

Bai Hongtu’s five fingers glowed, shimmering with five-colored light. He wiped them over his body, and the petrification disappeared.

Five-Colored Divine Light—capable of erasing supernatural powers.

The Five-Colored Divine Light that Yuan Wuxing had painstakingly learned to beginner level was just an insignificant exchange of techniques in their battle.

Jiang Li’s Dao techniques were learned from the Dao Sect but transcended it. He claimed to have accidentally learned a few techniques in the Dao Sect’s Scripture Pavilion, but in reality, he had learned all the techniques in the Scripture Pavilion.

Jiang Li took three breaths and exhaled the three calamities of fire, water, and wind mentioned in Buddhist scriptures.

Seven suns appeared, burning the spiritual energy within Bai Hongtu’s body.

Dirty water from the Black Tortoise dripped between his eyebrows, defiling his spiritual platform and making Bai Hongtu’s vision go dark.

Colorless astral winds blew into his seven orifices, damaging both spirit and body, threatening to blow Bai Hongtu’s yang spirit and internal organs full of holes.

Not to be outdone, Bai Hongtu summoned sweet dew from heaven to extinguish the seven suns, silently recited the “Bodhi Heart Sutra” to purify his spiritual platform.

“The body is the Bodhi tree, the mind a bright mirror stand. The bright mirror is originally pure, where could dust alight!”

Bai Hongtu used swordpath to sever the colorless astral winds, then took a Major Rejuvenation Pill to repair his yang spirit and body.

The two continuously unleashed and countered moves, with various supernatural powers and Dao techniques that had long disappeared from the Nine Provinces frequently appearing in their battle.

Bai Hongtu showed signs of fatigue, knowing he was no match for Jiang Li. He roared angrily: “Behind me is the Nine Provinces World! I have nowhere left to retreat, I cannot lose! Damn Outer Realm Demon, even if I burn myself to ashes, I won’t let you advance one step further!”

“Alright, enough with the immersion.”

Jiang Li used his finger as a sword, executing Heart Sword and slashing Bai Hongtu back down to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

In the end, Bai Hongtu was no match for Jiang Li and suffered a miserable defeat.

Jiang Li dragged Bai Hongtu, who looked like a dead dog, back to the Nine Provinces.