Chapter 326: 197. After becoming a fairy, Master Yuyan, the road to becoming an Emperor (5k chapters)
"We've gotten into... big trouble," Hua Shu muttered, his face filled with despair and desolation. "Not only his own strength, but the power behind him is also astonishing. The Heavenly Abyss Devil, she's willing to go this far for him..."
Just Xu Xing's individual strength alone had almost completely wiped out the experts of the Qiming Sect. Now, with an unfathomable Heavenly Abyss Devil protecting him, how could the Qiming Sect resist?
But it was no longer the Qiming Sect's turn to resist.
The Sect-protection Array was breached once again.
They were left with only two options: self-dissolution or accepting their fate and being slaughtered.
On the other side.
Xu Xing was also extremely shocked to witness this scene.
Breaking through the Qiming Sect's Sect-protection Array was not difficult for him. He could achieve it either through sheer force or by utilizing his mastery of array techniques.
The reason he had brandished this Green Bronze Piece was entirely to test the power contained within it, to sense the might of a higher realm.
However, he had not anticipated that when he used the Green Bronze Piece, he would not only summon a Jade palm of the Heavenly Abyss Devil but also nearly draw forth the Heavenly Abyss Devil's main body.
Heavenly Abyss Devil... Its aura, and this current behavior... could it be… Xu Xing thought of an old acquaintance from his past life's memories. A well-intentioned lie. A thousand-year reunion.
The Wu Yi Mountain Range... Wu Yi... Wu Yi... Was this mountain range meant to nurture another 'me'? Perhaps my birth here wasn't a coincidence or an accident, but preordained. Fate had decreed it.
Xu Xing felt somewhat dazed.
The Heavenly Abyss Devil's level of power had already surpassed the Nascent Soul Daoist Lords he knew of. It even transcended the Primordial Spirit Sage Monarchs.
It had reached another realm entirely – an Immortal!
Only an Immortal could form mountain ranges with a mere gesture, turn vast seas into mulberry fields with a single thought.
The Fate Determining Realm! Only by reaching the Fate Determining Realm can I glimpse into the past of this body, see the scenes of its very beginning...
Never before had he felt such an urgent desire to break through to a new realm, to witness the magnificent power that belonged to Immortals.
After all, his entire cultivation journey was aimed at achieving immortality.
Outside the Qiming Sect.
Following the appearance and subsequent demise of Supreme Elder Cai Qing's coffin, the area where the white-clothed woman stood gradually grew indistinct as a pervasive mist rolled in. It was as if a great power from heaven and earth was trying to force her back to her own domain, to make her leave this mortal realm.
"No!" the white-clothed woman shrieked mournfully.
Her cry was identical to the terrifying roars that emanated from the depths of the Heavenly Abyss. No wonder some called her the Heavenly Abyss Devil.
Countless red-gold chains materialized around the white-clothed woman, binding her limbs and neck, attempting to drag her towards the other side of a spatial rift. The golden chains were covered in runes that blazed with a brilliant light.
As they pulled, the golden chains groaned under the tension, emitting loud creaks.
"Someone is trying to subdue this Devil. This is a good thing."
"Gongyang Yi's Green Bronze Piece must hide a great secret..."
In that instant, the Supreme Elders from the other three major sects in the Wu Yi Mountain Range arrived, observing the astonishing scene from afar.
They were either Approaching Yang Realm Ghost Immortals or extremely powerful warriors of the Yuan Realm.
All of them gazed at the Green Bronze Piece in Xu Xing's palm with undisguised covetousness. This Green Bronze Piece could summon the Heavenly Abyss Devil, a being close to an Immortal. It surely contained supreme, hidden secrets that might help them reach the white-clothed woman's level of power.
To become immortal gods!
Gongyang Yi is not easy to deal with. He's also in the Approaching Yang Realm, unless... Nangong Ancestor of the Fragrant Fox Sect thought, her beautiful eyes flickering. Her gaze shifted to a man with hawkish eyes from the Extinct God Sect. This eagle-eyed man was a peerless warrior of the Human Yuan stage.
The Yuan Realm corresponded to the Ghost Immortal Three Realms, namely the Human Yuan, Earth Yuan, and Heaven Yuan stages. Similar to Ghost Immortals who underwent the Human Tribulation and Earth Tribulation, warriors in the Yuan Realm also needed to undergo tribulations. However, their tribulations involved the sublimation and transformation of their bloodline, changing it from mortal blood to divine blood.
Within the same realm, warriors reigned supreme and were invincible in close combat.
If anyone was confident of defeating "Gongyang Yi," it would be this eagle-eyed man from the Extinct God Sect—Ao Lin.
"Daoist friend Ao, you and I could join forces," a deep, hoarse voice suddenly called out from the distance.
An old, short, and thin man, leaning on a deer-head cane, approached, riding a white cloud. His long white eyebrows, originating from his forehead, cascaded to the ground. He had crane-white hair yet a youthful complexion, appearing like an auspicious sage of great longevity.
Supreme Elder Yin Shou of the Immortal Mushroom Sect, who died in meditation over two thousand years ago... Nangong Ancestor's pupils contracted. She hadn't expected the Immortal Mushroom Sect to conceal their strength so deeply. Although various sects had excavated Undying Medicine in the Heavenly Abyss, Undying Medicine could, at most, extend one's lifespan by a thousand years within a single realm. Before he died in meditation, Supreme Elder Yin Shou of the Immortal Mushroom Sect had already consumed Undying Medicine and reached the end of his lifespan as an Approaching Yang Realm Ghost Immortal.
For Yin Shou to appear now, there was only one possibility: he had already reached the Returning to the Netherworld Realm.
How ridiculous! I thought the Immortal Mushroom Sect and the Qiming Sect were the weakest. It seems now... our Fragrant Fox Sect is the weakest, Nangong Ancestor thought, a wave of relief washing over her. In recent years, the Fragrant Fox Sect had harbored ambitions of expansion. They had secretly assessed the strength of the other three sects, deeming only the Qiming Sect and the Immortal Mushroom Sect as easy targets. As for the Extinct God Sect, it was a sect of warriors, the strongest of the four major sects.
Unexpectedly, the Immortal Mushroom Sect had surpassed their estimations, possessing a Ghost Immortal of the Returning to the Netherworld Realm.
"Agreed!" the eagle-eyed Ao Lin declared with a nod. "Our two sects shall study this Green Bronze Piece together."
One was a Ghost Immortal, the other a warrior; their conflicts of interest were minimal.