Chapter 674: Special Mission "Lord of the Immortal Realm" Opens Below
“I never imagined this place would be the Nine Provinces World, whose reputation resounds throughout the Myriad Worlds.” After twenty days of investigation, the Qian Desolation Lord and the others had already figured out the true situation of the Nine Provinces.
The strength of the Nine Provinces secretly shocked them.
“Venerable Sumeru Buddha of the Buddhist Sect, his great limit had arrived, he should have already passed away in meditation. I never thought he would achieve Nirvana and rebirth, breaking through destruction to establish anew, breaking through to the Late-stage Earthly Immortal realm in one go. Moreover, he is especially proficient in the spatial Dao, and with the Buddhist treasure Brahma Tower, he could likely fight the Embrace Unity Patriarch.”
“Immortal Elder Changcun, orthodox lineage of the Dao Sect, said to be a disciple of the Dao Ancestor, holds the Nine Provinces’ number one immortal artifact, the Yin-Yang Heaven Seal, and has few rivals among Earthly Immortals.”
“The one called Human Sovereign, Jiang Li, reached the Mahayana Stage, and slaying Earthly Immortals is as easy as slaughtering dogs for him.”
“And those immortal artifacts, they were already somewhat famous before the Celestial Ascension Ladder disappeared.”
“The Nine Provinces has been cut off from the Immortal Realm for nine thousand years, yet still possesses such power. Truly terrifying.”
Immediately after, the Qian Desolation Lord revealed a smile again. “However, the Nine Provinces is doomed. They actually gave birth to an Earth Vein suspected to be the embryonic form of the Heavenly Dao. The Immortal Realm will not let them off.”
“Once the Nine Provinces is destroyed, the Eight Desolations will annex it and become the deservedly strongest world under the Immortal Realm, among the myriad heavens and worlds.”
“And the Nine Provinces’ strength is not something our Eight Desolations can handle. Since that’s the case, why not report it to the Immortal Realm?”
*Crack—*
A breach opened in the Nine Provinces’ dimensional barrier. A massive tiger head poked through, its tiger eyes wide and round. Immortal power surged like a tide, washing over the entire Nine Provinces World.
“It’s… it’s Immortal Lord Luwu arriving personally!” The Qian Desolation Lord and the others were overjoyed. A Golden Immortal personally coming to the Nine Provinces was enough to show the importance of the Nine Provinces. They were going to achieve great merit.
“So that’s how it is. This Nine Provinces really has some tricks. The Realm Protection Grand Formation uses only spiritual energy as its power source, yet can have such an effect. The design is truly ingenious.”
“However, this Realm Protection Grand Formation can only hold off Earthly Immortals for a moment. Facing a Golden Immortal, it’s just a layer of sandpaper.” Immortal Lord Luwu squeezed his entire body into the Nine Provinces World.
“Hmm, the opening is too small.” The breach Immortal Lord Luwu opened wasn’t large enough, only allowing the front half of his body to enter. He forcibly squeezed into the Nine Provinces, causing cracks to appear in the dimensional barrier!
Immortal Lord Luwu descended upon the Nine Provinces World in his true form. His tiger body was like a mountain range, crushing space. His nine tails each displayed their divine abilities, as if splitting heaven and earth.
Immortal Lord Luwu used his spiritual sense to scan the Nine Provinces Continent, focusing on the Earth Vein beneath the Human Sovereign Hall. A look of joy appeared on his face. “There really is an Earth Vein. I’ll see if Netherfire doesn’t fall from power this time?”
Immortal Lord Luwu had just finished playing chess with the Immortal Emperor when he received the report from the Eight Desolations. Immediately overjoyed, he realized this was a great opportunity to topple Immortal Lord Netherfire.
“What is this, an Outer Realm Demon!” The people of the Nine Provinces were shocked. They had never seen any existence other than Outer Realm Demons come to the Nine Provinces by forcibly tearing open the dimensional barrier.
“Immortal Beast Luwu, a capable general under the Immortal Emperor’s throne!” Venerable Sumeru Buddha chanted a Buddhist verse, his expression grave.
When he learned from the Executor of Karma that killing could obtain merit and saw the Executor’s true face, he knew a major problem had arisen in the Immortal Realm. The Immortal Elder must have known but didn’t speak of it. It was a pity he had been placed under the Six Harmonies Seated Refinement Curse by the Executor and couldn’t tell Jiang Li about this matter.
Immortal Lord Luwu came with overwhelming force. A great calamity was about to befall the Nine Provinces.
“So this is a Golden Immortal.” The Idle One, Jiang Li, appeared, tearing through space, traversing who knows how many light-years, rushing from the Eight Desolations to the Nine Provinces.
“Doesn’t feel as strong as Big Brother First Emperor.” The Idle One Jiang Li muttered. He had never been to the Underworld nor come into contact with the high-level combat power of the Immortal Realm.
When doing system tasks, he obtained a pill recipe that could separate the soul from the body. Once the pill was complete, even a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator would die under this poison pill.
Things rewarded by the system were definitely useful. This was the experience he had gained over many years of doing system tasks. After refining the pill, he never used it, always waiting for an opportunity.
Sure enough, in a subsequent task to find the Celestial Ascension Ladder, his enemy was a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator. With his strength at that time, he couldn’t win, so he poisoned that Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator with the poison pill and successfully completed the task.
“Too weak.” The Idle One Jiang Li gently shook his head, not placing Immortal Lord Luwu in his eyes.
“Mortal from the Underworld, such audacity!”
The Idle One Jiang Li remained silent, taking out an immortal sword. Like a supreme sovereign of the swordpath, his majesty could not be violated.
Below, the Sword Sovereign looked at Jiang Li with gratification. His disciple’s swordpath had already far surpassed his own. There was nothing more he could teach.
The Idle One Jiang Li slowly uttered the name of the sword technique, stepped forward, and with just himself holding the sword, unleashed a slash that surpassed the Golden Immortal level!
“Great Sun Tathagata Sword Technique.”
The immortal sword blazed gloriously, like the Great Sun Tathagata. Its dazzling radiance broke through heaven and earth, illuminating the entire Nine Provinces World, leaving an indelible impression on all swordpath cultivators.
“This is the pinnacle of the swordpath.” The Sword Sovereign murmured. He couldn’t imagine any brilliance surpassing this slash.
“The Great Sun Tathagata Sword Technique, the peerless sword technique created by the Buddha. It’s a pity I could only comprehend the first seven layers.” The Sword Sovereign held the “Great Sun Tathagata Sword Technique” that the Idle One Jiang Li had respectfully given him, sighing regretfully. It seemed he was fated to miss the title of “Strongest in the Swordpath.”
His disciple’s swordpath cultivation was unparalleled throughout the ages. He was also proficient in every one of the Hundred Cultivation Arts, self-taught. Any genius compared to him would pale in comparison, becoming ordinary among the masses.
When he possessed this disciple’s body, watching him shine brilliantly in every field, he never saw him seriously study any particular skill. It was truly incomprehensible.
The so-called ‘one born with knowledge’ probably referred to someone like him.
Seeing this peerless slash, Luwu seemed to see the Buddha holding the Wisdom Sword. His face instantly turned deathly pale.
“Your Majesty, save…”
He took out a communication talisman to call the Immortal Emperor for help. The glorious sword energy descended, majestic and overwhelming, shredding him from his very origin. He only managed to utter these half words before being completely erased.
The talisman in the Immortal Emperor’s hand automatically burned, turning to ashes. This talisman was both a communication talisman and Immortal Lord Luwu’s life talisman.
The life talisman self-immolating meant Immortal Lord Luwu was dead. No trace of him could be found in the mortal world or the Underworld.
“What tremendous audacity!”
To kill his subordinate right before his eyes was truly not giving him any face.
However, the Immortal Emperor was also cautious. To erase a Golden Immortal with a single slash, clearly the opponent was also a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal.
The Immortal Emperor’s phantom descended upon the Nine Provinces, looked around, and revealed a cold smile. “So it’s the Nine Provinces World.”
The Immortal Emperor withdrew his phantom, summoned the host of immortals, and set out on a punitive expedition against the Nine Provinces.
The Immortal Emperor stood on the general-appointing platform, personally leading the expedition.
“The Underworld Nine Provinces, disrespecting the Immortal Realm, executing an envoy of the Immortal Realm, intending to rebel. The Nine Provinces must be erased!”
Since they were both Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortals, the Immortal Emperor naturally wouldn’t go alone. With the host of immortals empowering him, that was when he was at his strongest.
The Immortal Emperor threw out a Celestial Ascension Ladder and ordered, “Connect to the Nine Provinces.”
The Immortal Realm had collected fragments of the Celestial Ascension Ladder and pieced together some ladders.
…
The Idle One Jiang Li saw a golden celestial ladder extending from the endless void to the Nine Provinces.
At the same time, the system prompt sounded.
[Congratulations, Host, for successfully using the Celestial Ascension Ladder to ascend. Special Mission “Lord of the Immortal Realm” opens below.]
The Idle One Jiang Li was forcibly teleported to the Immortal Realm, utterly bewildered.
Seeing the Idle One Jiang Li actively come to the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Emperor felt this was a blatant provocation and immediately flew into a rage.
“What gall!”
“Take my spear!”