Chapter 663: The Trembling Immortal Realm
The long-sought Immortal Realm had finally been reached today, yet Jiang Li felt none of the anticipated emotional turbulence. On the contrary, he appeared excessively calm.
His impression of the Immortal Realm had undergone many changes over time.
At the very beginning of his transmigration, he thought that since he had arrived in a world of cultivation, the natural goal was to cultivate into an immortal, achieving a longevity equal to heaven and earth.
Later, he learned that the Nine Provinces were invaded by Outer Realm Demons, causing countless deaths, and the Immortal Realm did nothing about it, which gave him a negative impression of the Immortal Realm.
Then, he traveled through multiple worlds, witnessed the schemes of the Outer Realm Demons, and saw that the Immortal Realm still adopted a laissez-faire attitude, watching idly as the demons wreaked havoc across the myriad heavens and worlds. He no longer liked the Immortal Realm, and his desire to go there was only to demand an explanation.
Finally, upon learning the truth about the Outer Realm Demons, he came to utterly despise the Immortal Realm and swore to make it pay the price.
Now, he had finally arrived in the Immortal Realm.
Looking at the immortals flying towards him from afar, he said, “It’s time to properly settle this debt.”
“Who are you!” The leader’s killing intent surged, yet his aura was restrained to the extreme, like a cold-blooded assassin.
“Who was shouting for help just now?” Another immortal arrived, burly in build with bulging back muscles.
A total of five Celestial Immortals arrived at the scene, their expressions wary.
Someone had just shouted for help, yet now there wasn’t even a trace of them, indicating that at least one Celestial Immortal had died at his hands.
This person was absolutely not simple.
Could he be an immortal who escaped to the underworld during the internal strife within the Immortal Realm?
One of the Celestial Immortals paled dramatically and turned to flee.
“Tianji, why are you running!” asked the one with surging killing intent and restrained aura.
“Heaven-Slaying Old Devil, run quickly! I used my cultivation technique to calculate fortune and misfortune, and it was all chaos. This person’s karma is completely erased. He is absolutely not someone we can deal with!”
“Penglai, Faxiang, Gu Gu, hurry up and run!”
“How unexpected. I just arrived in the Immortal Realm, and the first people I meet are actually seniors from the Nine Provinces.”
Jiang Li recognized the origins of the five.
The founder of the Heaven-Slaying Pavilion, the founder of the Tianji Tower, the first-generation island master of Penglai Immortal Isle, the first-generation sect master of the Dharmakaya Sect, and the Gu Immortal.
“You all, stop him immediately!” the founder of the Heaven-Slaying Pavilion commanded the Earthly Immortal monsters below.
Upon hearing the command, the Earthly Immortal monsters swarmed forward, intending to tear Jiang Li apart. Faced with attacks from so many monsters, even a Celestial Immortal would not survive.
But he was Jiang Li.
Jiang Li pressed down with his hand. A sky-obscuring great hand seal descended from the heavens, crushing the horde of Earthly Immortal monsters into a blurry mass of flesh and blood.
“Running away as soon as you see me is too standoffish.”
Jiang Li made a motion of pulling back. The bodies of the five fell under Jiang Li’s control and flew backward.
Knowing escape was impossible, the five chose to fight desperately.
The founder of the Heaven-Slaying Pavilion activated the Seven Kill Stele. Immortal sword energy erupted like a volcanic eruption, endless and boundless, while he himself hid in the shadows like a prowling shark.
The first-generation sect master of the Dharmakaya Sect manifested his strongest Dharma Body, one born from visualizing the War Immortal.
“The one who died just now was the First-generation Tianyuan Emperor,” Jiang Li suddenly said.
With just this one sentence, he utterly extinguished the hope of the five.
This was simply impossible to win!
“Since we are all fellow natives of the Nine Provinces…” the founder of the Tianji Tower began, trying to establish a connection. Before he could finish, Jiang Li casually swatted him to death.
Along with the Tianji Tower founder, the other four also died.
Jiang Li held not the slightest shred of pity for the Immortal Realm.
Jiang Li hefted the Seven Kill Stele, thought it was a decent local specialty, and put it back into his storage ring.
Jiang Li flew through the Immortal Realm, matching the collapsed buildings of the Immortal Realm one by one with what Immortal Elder Changcun had described.
Cloud-Dispatching Palace, Vaisravana Palace, Purple Emerald Alchemy Room, Jade Flower Palace, Reception Hall, Sun Palace, Moon Palace, Immortal Apricot Grove…
The Immortal Realm seemed frozen in time, unchanged since the battle nine thousand years ago.
Immortals were such noble beings, how could they engage in crude labor like constructing buildings? The structures of the Immortal Realm were built by cultivators for the immortals to inhabit.
Now, even Earthly Immortals had turned into monsters, let alone the cultivators.
The lowest tier in the Immortal Realm were Celestial Immortals, and the Celestial Immortals were also responsible for destroying worlds. Naturally, they had no spare hands to rebuild the Immortal Realm.
The agonized screams of Immortal Lord Tianyuan echoed throughout the Immortal Realm. Immortals kept encountering Jiang Li and were killed by him.
The screams coming from Jiang Li’s direction grew more and more numerous, chilling the hearts of the assembled immortals.
“What’s happening, what in the world is happening!”
The screams reminded them of unpleasant memories, of those immortals who rebelled against the Heavenly Dao nine thousand years ago.
The Heavenly Dao had taken action, purging the heretics. The screams of immortals had echoed through the Immortal Realm for three days and three nights. Even the immortals who submitted to the Heavenly Dao trembled in fear, terrified that the Heavenly Dao would erase them as well.
They didn’t know what was happening in the Immortal Realm, but they knew an extremely terrifying existence was roaming the Immortal Realm.
“Wait, not roaming… this direction leads to the Golden Palace of Clouds!” An immortal realized Jiang Li’s objective: he was heading for the Immortal Emperor.
“Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal… this is absolutely a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal!”
The immortals weren’t fools. Anyone who dared to slaughter wantonly in the Immortal Realm and actively sought out the Immortal Emperor had to be a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal!
“Who is it? Has the Dao Ancestor revived, or is there a new Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal?”
“All immortals heed my command! Assemble at the Jade Pool before the Golden Palace of Clouds. Do not engage this beast directly!”
The Immortal Emperor’s command reached the ears of the assembled immortals. For a time, winds rose and clouds surged in the Immortal Realm, with immortals feeling endangered.
The assembled immortals obeyed the Immortal Emperor’s decree, flocking to the Jade Pool. Being under the Immortal Emperor’s protection was surely better than fighting Jiang Li directly.
Without seeing Jiang Li’s figure, without hearing Jiang Li’s name, Jiang Li was like a shadow in the darkness, oppressing the assembled immortals so much they dared not even breathe heavily, fearing to attract him.
The assembled immortals detoured around Jiang Li’s location, flying cautiously, not even daring to release their spiritual sense.
Once spiritual sense was released, Jiang Li would detect it, and they would be killed.
All they could rely on were the screams of unfortunate immortals who encountered Jiang Li just before their deaths.
For a time, the Immortal Realm fell into an unprecedented silence. No sound, no spiritual sense. The quiet was terrifying.
But the assembled immortals knew what was terrifying wasn’t the environment, but the horrifying existence that meant certain death upon sight.
The Immortal Realm was vast and boundless. The Nine Provinces World was already considered large, but compared to the Immortal Realm, it was like a drop in the ocean, pitifully small.
Therefore, the Immortal Realm never placed the myriad heavens and worlds in their eyes.
Their Immortal Realm was the core of the myriad heavens and worlds, the ultimate goal pursued by all living beings.
No matter how talented the heroes of the underworld were, in the end, they had to come to the Immortal Realm, otherwise, there was no room for their development.
Even when they laid traps to destroy the myriad heavens and worlds, they did so from the identity of masterminds behind the scenes, thinking that with just a little trickery, worlds would be destroyed without knowing it was their doing.
The myriad heavens and worlds existed only to be slaughtered by them.
Today, their pride was shattered into pieces. An unprecedented genius from the underworld had ascended to the heavens, slaying immortals like cutting grass. Immortal ranks held no meaning in his eyes.
Celestial Immortal, Golden Immortal—it was all a matter of one move.
Among the assembled immortals, only one person knew the identity of this terrifying existence: the Executor of Karma.
The Executor of Karma never imagined Jiang Li would be so bold as to openly challenge the Immortal Realm.
Even though the Primordial Ancestor had taken some immortals to the River of Time, intending to ambush the Underworld in the future, leaving only the Immortal Emperor to hold the fort in the Immortal Realm.
But even if Jiang Li was a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal, so what? Above the Immortal Emperor was the Divine Vault Sovereign. Unless…
On the flight to the Jade Pool, a terrifying speculation was born in the Executor of Karma’s mind—he had severely underestimated Jiang Li’s strength all along.
He was definitely not on the same level as the Dao Ancestor, but above that, equal to Heaven!
Jiang Li pierced through the thirty-four layers of heaven, arriving at the Qingwei Heaven where the Golden Palace of Clouds was located.
The imperial-robed man stood with his hands behind his back, the Four Symbols to his left and right, the assembled immortals lined up in formation. He slowly spoke.
“To think the underworld truly produced such a remarkable figure. Not an immortal, yet possessing the same realm as We.”
“We have heard you are the Human Sovereign of the underworld. We give you an opportunity. If you willingly submit to the Immortal Realm, We can let bygones be bygones regarding your previous actions.”
The Immortal Emperor’s answer was Jiang Li’s sudden punch, smashing the Immortal Emperor’s face into a bloody mess.
“Where’s my welcoming banner?”