Chapter 111: Shadow Sect Immortals Battle Heavenly Court
This! This is the Peak of Soul Path!
The Demon Venerable Spectral Soul before them, without needing a Physical Body, relying solely on his own soul that had long since reached the extreme, was sufficient to break through the ages, gaze across the eight wastelands, trample upon Great Tribulations, and tear apart ten thousand calamities with his hands!
A Pseudo-Venerable battle strength, sufficient to suppress all Pseudo-Venerables, genuine and authentic!
Seeing this, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortal Bai Cang Shui's expression was a mix of shock and fear, looking extremely ugly.
He turned to look at the Heavenly Court Gu Immortal from the Spectral Soul era, Thunder Ghost True Monarch: "Jing Lan, how can there be such a powerful soul in this world..."
Thunder Ghost True Monarch Jing Lan could be considered a Senior; she was a Rank Eight lightning path Gu Immortal from the Spectral Soul era and had once been one of the Gu Immortals who contended against Spectral Soul.
She had the appearance of a young girl, wearing slightly oversized armor, revealing a hint of cuteness.
Thunder Ghost True Monarch Jing Lan explained in a deep voice to Bai Cang Shui: "This is a Billion Desolate Soul. Humans have Hundred-Man Souls, Thousand-Man Souls, and even Billion-Man Souls, but the human body is weak, and the soul's limit is naturally the Billion-Man Soul."
"But Demon Venerable Spectral Soul broke this shackle, stepping into the realm of Desolate Soul above the Billion-Man Soul. And above Desolate Soul, there are Hundred Desolate Souls, Million Desolate Souls..."
"And this existence before us has already touched the current supreme limit of Soul Path—the Billion Desolate Soul."
Thunder Ghost True Monarch Jing Lan stopped there, paused, took a deep breath, and slowly revealed the most shocking truth: "This means he possesses Pseudo-Venerable battle strength..."
Upon hearing "Pseudo-Venerable battle strength," the expressions of the immortals present changed drastically, their eyes filled with unconcealable anxiety.
What does Rank Nine mean? In an era with only one Venerable, Rank Nine battle strength is synonymous with invincibility!
Thinking back to those days, the Rank Nine cultivation Demon Venerable Limitless, relying solely on his own power, attacked Heavenly Court...
"Everyone, there is no need to panic." At this moment, Duke Long displayed the calm and composure of a leader; even with the crisis at hand, his expression remained normal, without a ripple:
"Demon Venerable Spectral Soul's Heaven-Defying Rebirth violates the laws of fate, and Heaven's Will will naturally settle the score with him. Moreover, our Heavenly Court possesses the Rank Nine immortal gu house Heaven Overseeing Tower."
Before Duke Long finished speaking, he turned his head to look where the fate gu was located...
Suddenly! A sword light, sharp to the extreme, erupted from Feathered Sage City, piercing through the air and striking directly at Heaven Overseeing Tower!
The Heavenly Watchtower Master was shocked, and before he could activate the Heaven Overseeing Tower's intangibility method, the sword light had already ruthlessly struck!
"It's over!"
At the critical moment, a tall and sturdy figure suddenly blocked the sword light, catching this lethal sword light—which was capable of piercing through the Rank Nine immortal gu house Heaven Overseeing Tower—with a single hand!
"Who is it? To think someone could block this sword of mine!"
Above Feathered Sage City, Thin Green's green hair danced wildly in the wind, his black robe flapping loudly, and a trace of surprise flashed in his deep eyes beneath his sword-like eyebrows.
His sword-like gaze swept outside the city, and Thin Green stared at the Heavenly Court Gu Immortal who had caught the sword with one hand.
This person was a Pseudo-Venerable, with purple hair surging like waves, a coral-like dragon horn on each side of his forehead, wearing gilded armor over a purple robe, his pair of dragon eyes coldly locked onto Thin Green.
"To be able to force me to use this defensive move, it really is you."
Duke Long flew out from Heaven Overseeing Tower, his dragon eyes staring directly at Thin Green, and said coldly:
"The Pseudo-Venerable who split the five regions with a sword, bound by love for the sake of the common people; Thin Green, you are indeed a member of Shadow Sect. It seems that Heavenly Court's decision to refuse your entry back then was the correct choice."
The formidable Sword Immortal Thin Green, facing this Pseudo-Venerable Duke Long, felt a hint of trepidation in his heart.
More importantly, the one controlling Thin Green's Physical Body at this moment was not himself, but his wife, Mo Yao.
Mo Yao was only a Rank Seven Gu Immortal during her lifetime and could not unleash Thin Green's true battle strength.
Moreover, the Duke Long before them had strength even above Thin Green's. Even if Duke Long had only recently awakened and his battle strength had not returned to its Peak, he was definitely not someone to be trifled with.
"He is Duke Long?" Thin Green confirmed with the Shadow Sect immortals beside him, and after receiving an affirmative reply, he immediately made the most prudent decision:
"Duke Long and I are both Pseudo-Venerables; a prolonged battle will be hard to decide. We will switch to attacking the immortal gu house, and let Demon Venerable Spectral Soul hold off Duke Long and Heaven Overseeing Tower."
As soon as he finished speaking, thunder rumbled, dark clouds pressed down, and countless Heaven and Earth calamities bombarded the towering Demon Venerable Spectral Soul.
Thousand Pearl Light Tribulation, Profound Yin Flying Frost Tribulation, Desolate Beast Plague Tribulation, Dragon Roar Tribulation, Four Flame Cloud Cover Tribulation, Snow Scar Tribulation, Lightning Tribulation... all were top-tier Great Tribulations capable of destroying the world.
Yet, when these Great Tribulations landed on Demon Venerable Spectral Soul, they were almost ineffective, only causing his soul body to shrink slowly at an imperceptible speed.
This was hard on Fang Yuan; he had originally relied on concealment methods to hide the immortal gu house and intended to survive until the end.
Unexpectedly, the Great Tribulations were all area-of-effect Killer Moves, so he had to drive the immortal gu house to dodge frantically.
Just as the army of desolate beasts summoned by the Desolate Beast Plague Tribulation charged directly toward the immortal gu house, Fang Yuan immediately maneuvered the immortal gu house to flee at full speed.
"Sigh! If Senior Yuan Fang were here, he would only need one Ten Thousand Soul Beast Killer Move to summon a hundred soul beasts to hold off the desolate beast army, and he could easily break this tribulation..." Gu Yue Qing Shu, while activating the green vine immortal gu to whip the desolate beasts with giant vines, was full of anticipation for Yuan Fang's appearance.
Fang Yuan heard this and shouted sternly: "Senior Yuan Fang is targeted by Heaven's Will and must absolutely not step foot here; he is waiting outside Yi Tian Mountain to meet us at any time!"
At this time, the Southern Border immortals had suffered heavy casualties, and the Rank Six and Seven Gu Immortals were unable to withstand the Great Tribulations, with only a few Rank Eight Gu Immortals struggling to hold on.
Above the Yi Tian Mountain battlefield, inside the eighty-eight true yang building, Old Man Yan Shi, Shadowless Evil, and others were attacking the Heavenly Court's rank eight immortal gu house with all their might.
On the other side, Heaven Overseeing Tower was focusing its fire on Demon Venerable Spectral Soul.
Every punch Demon Venerable Spectral Soul threw at Heaven Overseeing Tower was cleverly dodged by the opponent using intangibility methods.
Originally, Thin Green planned for Demon Venerable Spectral Soul to deal with Duke Long, but Duke Long took the initiative to fly out of Heaven Overseeing Tower and kill toward the immortal gu house guarded by Shadow Sect.
Just before this, the rank seven immortal gu house green wave palace had been blown up by a single palm strike from Duke Long; the Shadow Sect Gu Immortals inside either fled into other immortal gu houses, threw themselves into the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation, or ruthlessly self-detonated, turning into the Great Unity Wind.
"You in Heavenly Court are not afraid to die for your Dao, so how could we in Shadow Sect be afraid of death!"
A Rank Seven Shadow Sect Gu Immortal had a look of determination in his eyes, rushed straight toward Duke Long, and self-detonated with a bang, turning into the Great Unity Wind that swept across the firmament, just like Qin Bai Sheng during the Hundred Days War.
The Great Unity Wind assimilates all things and has monstrous destructive power; even Rank Eight Gu Immortals find it difficult to resist it head-on.
Yet Duke Long was in the midst of it and remained unscathed, charging straight through the wind curtain and killing toward the immortal gu house Feathered Sage City.
"Not good! He's charging over!"
Fairy Jiang Yu frantically drove Feathered Sage City, and all the Shadow Sect immortals inside attacked, unleashing various Killer Moves like a torrential rainstorm toward Duke Long.
But Duke Long was like a wall of bronze and iron; all attacks landing on him could not hurt him in the slightest.
"I will go out and hold him off! You all attack the immortal gu house with all your might!"
Thin Green took a step out, instantly teleporting to several thousand meters above Feathered Sage City, looking down at Duke Long, and suddenly raised his right hand high.
The next moment, a sharp sword light slashed through the air, but Duke Long did not dodge or avoid it, charging straight toward Thin Green!
Suddenly, Duke Long appeared in front of Thin Green as if shrinking the ground into an inch, and that sword light had long been left behind, smashing heavily into the ground.
"Immortal Path Killer Move—Dragon Claw Strike!"
Duke Long slapped his palm out, so fast only afterimages remained. Although Thin Green was a Pseudo-Venerable, he had to activate a defensive Killer Move and retreat several thousand meters, lifting his hand to wave several more sword lights, slashing directly at Duke Long.
"Immortal Path Killer Move—Dragon Gate!"
A giant dragon gate appeared out of thin air behind Duke Long, and Duke Long stepped into it. The next second, another dragon gate opened behind Thin Green, and Duke Long charged out fiercely:
"Immortal Path Killer Move—Chaotic Dragon Fist!"
Thin Green was caught off guard and could only use a defensive Killer Move to take it head-on. In just a few breaths, he began to feel overwhelmed, waving his hand to slash out several sword lights, leaving several deep, bone-visible bloodstains on Duke Long.
From then on, the two Pseudo-Venerables fought from the sky to the ground, and back from the ground to the firmament; the aftermath of the battle was enough to kill any Rank Seven Gu Immortal instantly.
Just at this time, a large group of desolate beasts suddenly charged from afar—it turned out that Fang Yuan was controlling the immortal gu house and had led the herd to the battlefield.
Fang Yuan was also helpless in his heart; these desolate beasts were chasing him relentlessly, and he simply couldn't shake them off.
Thin Green saw this, raised his hand with a sword, and a brilliant sword light shot out like lightning, instantly piercing through the entire desolate beast army and annihilating them all.
Fang Yuan was both shocked and delighted in his heart; shocked by Thin Green's strength, and delighted that he had finally shaken off the beast herd's pursuit.
Just at this moment, another Heaven and Earth calamity descended with a boom. Unlike the previous ones, this was a Myriad Tribulation—
As the saying goes, "doomed beyond redemption," historically, Thin Green had died under a Myriad Tribulation.
The next moment, countless diamond beads descended from the sky, sweeping across the entire Yi Tian Mountain battlefield.
"This is the Relic Diamond Tribulation!"
Fang Yuan was greatly alarmed, controlling the immortal gu house to shuttle through the air at high speed, trying to avoid the most intense areas of the battlefield, while taking the opportunity to use the immortal gu house's special ability to crazily absorb the power of the Myriad Tribulation.
Very quickly, Fang Yuan's Rank Nine yellow apricot immortal essence in King Court Blessed Land was exhausted, but he had also absorbed over a hundred diamond beads during the Relic Diamond Tribulation.
After the yellow apricot immortal essence was used up, he took out Rank Eight white lychee immortal essence and continued to drive the immortal gu house with all his might, crazily snatching more diamond beads.
In just a moment, over a thousand diamond beads were stored inside the immortal gu house.
With just a thought from Fang Yuan, these beads would shoot toward the enemy like a torrential rainstorm.
Amidst the Myriad Tribulation, Demon Venerable Spectral Soul roared and smashed a fist heavily onto Heaven Overseeing Tower.
This was the only time Heaven Overseeing Tower failed to use intangibility in time and was forced to take this heavy punch head-on.
The force of the punch was so fierce that it smashed Heaven Overseeing Tower, causing debris to fly everywhere, and countless Gu remains fell to the ground, among which were not only mortal Gu but also several immortal gu.
"Shadowless Evil! It's time to use that move!" Inside the eighty-eight true yang building, Old Man Yan Shi shouted sharply. Shadowless Evil looked down at the entire battlefield and said in a deep voice:
"Watch me put Duke Long to sleep first! Immortal Path Killer Move—Soul Leading Into Dream!"
The next second, Duke Long, who was fiercely battling Thin Green, actually fell asleep on the spot.
Thin Green was overjoyed and was about to slash off Duke Long's head with a sword, but he was fiercely knocked away by an immortal gu house, and Duke Long was retrieved into the immortal gu house.
Thin Green, Shadowless Evil, and others looked up, and it was indeed the Heavenly Court's rank eight immortal gu house.
Under the power of the immortal gu house, the entire Yi Tian Mountain battlefield was completely covered by a giant web woven from seven red threads, and Demon Venerable Spectral Soul even had one of his giant hands sewn shut, unable to move.
The great battle continued, and the sky descended with another Myriad Tribulation, which was extremely unfavorable for the Shadow Sect immortals.
Old Man Yan Shi's eyes were bloodshot, staring angrily at the firmament, cursing Heaven's Will, and then he activated an Immortal Path Killer Move of the eighty-eight true yang building.
The next moment, a giant pillar of golden light pierced directly into the calamity cloud, and the Myriad Tribulation that had just formed was actually dissipated on the spot!
It was the Light of Trouble-Dispersing.
It turned out that among the ten core immortal gu of the eighty-eight true yang building, there was a Rank Seven Trouble-Dispersing immortal gu, which could disperse or even eliminate calamities.
Of course, a mere Rank Seven immortal gu could not resist a Myriad Tribulation, so a year ago, Shadow Sect had already refined this Trouble-Dispersing immortal gu to Rank Eight.
But a Myriad Tribulation is a Myriad Tribulation after all; even a Rank Eight Trouble-Dispersing immortal gu was about to collapse completely, and at most it could be activated one more time before it would perish completely.
Although Shadow Sect was having a rough time, fortunately, the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation was still operating normally, and there was no need to sacrifice the Zombie Alliance for the time being.
"Everyone! We must destroy the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation immediately!"
Thunder Ghost True Monarch looked anxiously at the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation on Yi Tian Mountain, and the immortals immediately activated Heaven Overseeing Tower's intangibility method, passing through Demon Venerable Spectral Soul's body.
And at this time, another Myriad Tribulation descended, attacking Demon Venerable Spectral Soul furiously, leaving the powerful Demon Venerable Spectral Soul with no time to attend to anything else.
Suddenly, a sword light slashed at Heaven Overseeing Tower, shattering a few bricks on Heaven Overseeing Tower with one sword.
The Heavenly Court immortals looked along the sword light, and it was indeed Thin Green.
Thin Green raised his hand and slashed out several more swords, and the body of Heaven Overseeing Tower was covered in sword marks.
"Dammit! If not for Duke Long falling for Shadowless Evil's Dream Path Killer Move, trapped in a dream and unable to fight, why would we fear this Thin Green now."
Inside Heaven Overseeing Tower, the Heavenly Watchtower Master glared at the Thin Green before him.
"I will go out and hold him off! The grudges of the past should be settled once and for all."
Li Huang's gaze was resolute; another Heavenly Court Gu Immortal stood out, and together with Li Huang, they flew out of Heaven Overseeing Tower to battle Thin Green.
Thin Green's gaze looked toward Li Huang: "You are Li Huang? That defeated opponent from back then?"
"Exactly! Immortal Path Killer Move—Yang Reckless Back Fire Clothes!"
The next moment, Li Huang's hair turned into flames, the flames kept growing longer, soon covering Li Huang's back, and then the flames covered Li Huang's whole body, forming a suit of fire clothes.
"Hahahaha! What Yang Reckless Back Fire Clothes; in my opinion, you are wearing mourning clothes for yourself! Five swords! I will take your head within five swords; if I fail, I will commit suicide on the spot!" Thin Green raised his right fist, his aura restrained.
"Thin Green! You are too arrogant! It has been tens of thousands of years; I have long since improved my Yang Reckless Back Fire Clothes!"
Li Huang's eyes were almost spitting fire, extremely angry. Suddenly! The first sword of the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword broke through the air!
The sword light was extremely fast; Li Huang couldn't dodge in time, and the sword light hit the fire clothes directly. The fire clothes, which were burning fiercely just a moment ago, now seemed like they could be extinguished by a basin of water.
"No! I cannot let him continue to unleash the next sword!" Li Huang attacked directly, flying toward Thin Green.
Suddenly, the second sword of the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword shot toward the two of them. With a sweep of the sword light, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortal beside Li Huang was beheaded, and his head fell from high in the sky...
"Thin Green! You!!!"
The third sword! The sword light pierced through Li Huang's "mourning clothes" on the spot, and with one sword, it cut off Li Huang's left arm:
"Thin Green! Don't you think you can kill me!!!"
Li Huang roared loudly, getting closer and closer to Thin Green, but still couldn't catch up to the arrival of the fourth sword of the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword.
With a swish, Li Huang was cut in half by one sword.
"No... no... I cannot die! Cannot! Why... why!!! My Yang Reckless Back Fire Clothes!!!"
Li Huang was crying and gradually became insane: "Ha... hahahaha! Thin Green! Don't you think... you can kill me! Hahahaha!!!"
Li Huang turned and ran, and Thin Green couldn't stop him even if he wanted to, so he had to slash this fifth sword at the immortal gu house, cutting off the spire of the immortal gu house with one sword.
Looking at Li Huang again, Li Huang was almost out of sight, and Thin Green snorted disdainfully: "Hmph, a weak fire path Gu Immortal; it's been tens of thousands of years, and you have no stats, no mechanisms, still so weak."
On the other side, Heaven Overseeing Tower flew rapidly all the way, charging toward the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation.
Suddenly, three immortal gu houses blocked the front of Heaven Overseeing Tower, which were the Ill-Omen Yin House, the mortal grass hut, and the Cocoon Weaving Pavilion.
Inside the mortal grass hut, a Shadow Sect Gu Immortal gave an order, and the three immortal gu houses all moved out.
The Heavenly Watchtower Master saw this, turned his head, and shouted to Thunder Ghost True Monarch: "Jing Lan! Hurry and use that move!"
Thunder Ghost True Monarch Jing Lan gave a hum and activated Heaven Overseeing Tower's Rank Nine Killer Move, that Rank Nine Killer Move capable of turning the tide: "Immortal Path Killer Move—Fate Defeat!!!"
Heaven and earth were all white; before everyone's eyes, it was all a vast expanse of whiteness.
When the white light disappeared, everyone was surprised to find that the two immortal gu houses, the Ill-Omen Yin House and the Cocoon Weaving Pavilion, had turned into a sky full of Gu corpses, falling to the ground.
Without any defense, ignoring all defenses, ignoring all obstacles, the two immortal gu houses were destroyed on the spot, and not even a single Gu survived.
Fate Defeat! If it is fated for you to be defeated, you must be defeated!
"Not good! It's too late! Immortal Path Killer Move—Soul Leading Into Dream!" Shadowless Evil used this Dream Path Killer Move again, and several Gu Immortals inside Heaven Overseeing Tower immediately fell into a deep sleep.
But it was still too late; at this critical moment, a Rank Eight Luck Path immortal gu house crashed over, directly knocking Heaven Overseeing Tower flying.
"Longevity Heaven! Do you also intend to help the Demon Venerable be reborn?" Thunder Ghost True Monarch was both shocked and furious.
A few heads poked out from the windows of that Luck Path immortal gu house, and one of the "pig heads" was none other than Tian Ji Zi Gai Mei: "You in Heavenly Court dare to plot to seize my master's all living beings luck true inheritance! Hand it over immediately!"
"No! When did we in Heavenly Court..." The Heavenly Watchtower Master's words were interrupted by Mao Li Qiu: "You stole the heavenly luck gu, I, Lord Mao, must give you a few big slaps!"
"Then... then let us fight..."