Chapter 640: The Immortal Realm Won’t Let You Off!
Two Celestial Immortals engaged in battle, one holding an immortal artifact with a gloomy expression, the other fighting bare-handed yet dominating the fight.
“Is this it? Just this?”
“Is this what they call Celestial Immortal methods?”
“Have you really lived for tens of thousands of years? How can you still lose to a five-hundred-year-old youngster like me?”
Bai Hongtu’s mocking voice echoed throughout the cosmos, making Supreme Immortal Baoyi grind his teeth in frustration.
He had gathered all the power of the Eight Desolations’ upper echelons and even borrowed four Earthly Immortal monsters from the Immortal Realm to achieve Celestial Immortal status, yet his opponent used some unknown method to match him equally.
Moreover, Bai Hongtu actually handled Celestial Immortal techniques with ease.
Where did he get such combat experience?
As their exchanges increased, more and more questions arose in Supreme Immortal Baoyi’s mind, leaving him utterly perplexed.
Pfft—
Supreme Immortal Baoyi had a momentary lapse and suffered a heavy blow, immortal blood spraying across the starry sky and piercing through stars.
“Misfortune-Dispelling Asura Mirror, death ray activation!”
The Misfortune-Dispelling Asura Mirror shot out a black beam carrying an aura of death—touch it and perish instantly.
Bai Hongtu remained completely unruffled, extending his index finger and gently rotating it once, causing the space around the black beam to warp.
The black beam’s trajectory changed, bending backward to strike its user, forming a closed loop that triggered a massive death explosion.
At the explosion site, spiritual energy dissolved and all vitality vanished without a trace.
“Summoning winds…”
Bai Hongtu exhaled a breath that transformed into bone-eroding spring breeze, seemingly gentle but actually concealing lethal intent. Entering through the nasal cavity and exiting through the seven orifices, this cycle would carry out all substances from within the body, leaving behind nothing but an empty human skin.
“…And calling rain.”
The weapons of Eight Desolations cultivators went out of control, buzzing at their waists, breaking free from their owners’ restraints and gathering before Bai Hongtu.
They desperately tried to stop them but couldn’t hold them back, as if the blood-bound weapons no longer belonged to them but to Bai Hongtu instead.
The weapons of high-level Eight Desolations cultivators converged here, raining down like a downpour.
“Sleeve Cosmos!”
Supreme Immortal Baoyi extended his sleeve, drawing both “wind and rain” into his robe.
Bai Hongtu’s eyes lit up: “So that’s why you don’t use a storage ring—you’re using divine abilities to store everything in your sleeves!”
Bai Hongtu worked with both hands simultaneously, drawing talismans in the air with his left and right hands creating different talisman patterns.
“Merge.”
Bai Hongtu brought his palms together, the left and right talismans complementing each other’s flaws to form a complete talisman.
“Is this dual-minded concentration? Doubling talisman drawing speed!” Qian Desolation Lord exclaimed in shock, knowing how difficult this level of skill was to achieve.
He hadn’t realized that Bai Hongtu, who had been fighting him for so long, hadn’t been using his true capabilities from start to finish.
The talisman imprinted itself in space, connecting with Supreme Immortal Baoyi’s sleeve. Without another word, Bai Hongtu directly extracted everything from Supreme Immortal Baoyi’s sleeve and placed it into his own storage ring.
“How dare you, you insolent brat!” Supreme Immortal Baoyi had never encountered such shameless fighting methods.
“Azure Wave Art!” Supreme Immortal Baoyi summoned heavenly river waters that surged toward Bai Hongtu with overwhelming momentum.
“Freeze.” Bai Hongtu spoke with Word as Law, and the heavenly river waters froze solid, trapping even Supreme Immortal Baoyi within the ice.
Supreme Immortal Baoyi surged with immortal power, shattering the ice confinement. One frozen piece of heavenly river water took the shape of a spear, which Supreme Immortal Baoyi wielded to stab at Bai Hongtu.
“Thaw.”
The spear-shaped ice melted back into water, losing all offensive power as Supreme Immortal Baoyi’s attack fell short.
“Three Heads and Six Arms.”
Bai Hongtu’s six arms moved simultaneously—three drawing talismans while three formed arrays, combining talisman and array to create a runic immortal sword.
“Swords still feel most natural to use, Heaven Splitting!”
The runic immortal sword swept down with a righteous, honorable sword technique that was open and aboveboard.
Facing this sword strike, Supreme Immortal Baoyi felt as if he was confronting the lofty heavens themselves, looking down upon him as a mere mortal.
How could he possibly withstand a strike from the very heavens?
Bai Hongtu sheathed his sword as if he had merely struck out of momentary interest, unconcerned with the outcome.
The heavenly river waters split in two, and Supreme Immortal Baoyi was cleaved in half.
As Supreme Immortal Baoyi tried to resist further, Bai Hongtu’s six arms simultaneously drew talismans, attacking Supreme Immortal Baoyi.
Supreme Immortal Baoyi exploded into pieces, scattering in all directions. The Eight Desolations Array collapsed without being attacked, sending the Desolation Lords, Earthly Immortal monsters, and the Yin-Yang Immortals flying.
“The Nine Provinces are invincible! Retreat is our best option!” Seeing that even their strongest methods couldn’t overcome the Nine Provinces, Qian Desolation Lord knew the situation was hopeless and further resistance would be futile.
They had originally thought that with the Immortal Realm backing the Eight Desolations, they could act recklessly and dominate throughout the myriad heavens and worlds. They never expected the Nine Provinces to run so deep, with the Immortal Realm’s assistance completely inadequate against the Nine Provinces’ attacks.
His intuition told him this was far from the Nine Provinces’ limits.
At the very least, that Bai Hongtu fellow had achieved Celestial Immortal status without even using an immortal artifact.
The eight Desolation Lords and three immortals scattered to escape, with only the four mindless Earthly Immortal monsters remaining behind.
Bai Hongtu used his finger as a sword, and the four Earthly Immortal monsters met their ends, heads sent flying.
“Trying to run?”
Bai Hongtu wouldn’t let them escape. He targeted the eleven figures, splitting his sword energy into eleven streams that pierced toward them.
“Venerable Shenzang protect us!”
All eleven simultaneously used their strongest defensive techniques, enveloping themselves with the Venerable Shenzang Statue.
The Venerable Shenzang Statue held extraordinary significance, making Bai Hongtu’s sword energy unable to penetrate it.
Watching them use the Venerable Shenzang Statue as shields to escape into the void, their traces disappearing, Bai Hongtu stamped his feet in frustration.
Even if he concentrated his sword energy to pierce through two or three of them, the rest would still escape.
“You fought quite well. Let me handle this.”
Jiang Li’s voice sounded as he extended his right hand, fingers slightly spread before suddenly clenching into a fist.
The eight Desolation Lords and three immortals felt an indescribable brute force pulling at them. They exerted all their strength, but gained nothing more than futile resistance.
Jiang Li flicked his fingers, shattering the eleven Venerable Shenzang Statues.
“That’s the Venerable Shenzang Statue that even Celestial Immortals can’t break! You… you actually shattered the Venerable’s statue! This is supreme blasphemy!” Supreme Immortal Baoyi’s eyes widened, his courage broken by Jiang Li’s audacity and unfathomable power.
Even Immortal Lord Luwu treated the Venerable’s statue with utmost respect, yet this person dared to shatter the statues.
This Human Sovereign of the Nine Provinces was completely lawless, showing no regard for the Immortal Realm whatsoever.
“Qian Desolation Lord, how did you become so pathetic in the blink of an eye?” Jiang Li sneered, killing intent blazing in his eyes.
The Nine Provinces crowd surrounded the Desolation Lords and immortals, their murderous aura flowing freely without the slightest concealment.
The Desolation Lords and immortals felt their courage drain away—the Nine Provinces weren’t planning to leave any survivors.
“It seems your Eight Desolations indeed have deep connections with the Immortal Realm.”
Kun Desolation Lord shouted loudly: “Now that you know, hurry up and release us!”
“Let us be frank—we’ve already reported the Earth Vein matter to the Immortal Realm. The Immortal Realm will soon send people. If you’re sensible, release us, and we’ll put in a good word for you before the Immortal Lord. This is your Nine Provinces’ only path to survival!”
“Oh? The Immortal Realm already knows about the Earth Veins?”
Jiang Li’s eyes lit up: “There’s such good news?”
The eight Desolation Lords were baffled by Jiang Li’s reaction. What were the Nine Provinces planning?
“Don’t you realize what you’re doing, what the Earth Veins are!” Kun Desolation Lord panicked as the Nine Provinces showed no intention of sparing them.
“The Earth Veins are the embryonic form of the Heavenly Dao! By keeping the Earth Veins, you’re opposing the Immortal Realm! Could it be that your Nine Provinces plan to replace the Immortal Realm, with the Earth Veins replacing the Heavenly Dao…”
Kun Desolation Lord’s voice grew softer with each word as he noticed Jiang Li’s smile widening with every sentence he spoke.
Had he guessed correctly? The Nine Provinces were courting death! How dare they!
Jiang Li approached Supreme Immortal Baoyi and delivered a kick that caused him to burst open like a watermelon, his head exploding.
Yin Immortal, Yang Immortal, Qian Desolation Lord… Jiang Li successively crushed each of their heads underfoot.
“If you kill us, the Immortal Realm will never let you get away with this…” Kun Desolation Lord cursed vehemently, only to receive Jiang Li’s devilish whisper in his ear.
“Don’t worry, we’ll meet again in the Underworld.”
Bang—