Within the Starry Sky Pavilion, there was only deathly silence.
All the Immortal Kings understood that the Primordial Imperial City was likely already… on the verge of falling!
At last, the immense fear and sense of responsibility overwhelmed selfish concerns.
King Pan suddenly rose to his feet and said solemnly, “There is no need for further discussion! All Immortal Kings, set out at once and rush to reinforce the border pass! At the same time, send people to invite the Golden Crow Clan’s Immortal King Lu Xuan!”
Several divine rainbows at the True Immortal level flew toward the Golden Crow clan grounds to seek an audience with Lu Xuan.
As for the people of the Immortal Domain, with King Pan and Immortal King Hunyuan at their head, Immortal King Qingwei, Immortal King Qingmu, Immortal King Xuangui, and more than twenty Immortal Kings nearly came out in full force!
Some manifested Immortal King dharma images that shrouded the river of stars; some drove ancient war chariots; some directly tore open spatial passages. Carrying overwhelming killing intent and resolve, they rushed to the battlefield!
It was a sight that would shake the Immortal Domain for all eternity!
More than twenty Immortal Kings moved out at the same time. Their combined might made the Great Dao of the entire Immortal Domain roar, and billions upon billions of stars swayed because of it.
Immortal light and auspicious radiance covered the starry road leading to the border pass, driving away the darkness along the way. This was the strongest power the Immortal Domain could unleash when faced with a crisis of life and death!
This was unprecedented since ancient times.
And yet, it was still not enough!
The Foreign Realm had two giants, King Chi and Wushang!
If the Immortal Domain lacked peak combat power capable of deciding the outcome with one stroke, then even if their number of Immortal Kings was equal to or slightly greater, they would still be unable to escape defeat under the assault of those giants.
At the same time that the twenty-plus Immortal Kings set out,
in two of the Immortal Domain’s most ancient secret lands, two figures that seemed to have slumbered for countless epochs slowly opened their eyes.
One place was the source of a river flowing with fragments of time. A blurred figure stepped out from the river, his entire body wreathed in the radiance of the ages, as though a single thought from him could reduce all eternity to emptiness.
He was none other than one of the Immortal Domain’s most ancient giants—Immortal King Shikong!
The other place was a land of nothingness where all things came to an end. A figure was born from absolute nonexistence, carrying a terrifying aura that could bring the Great Dao itself to its end. He was another giant—Immortal King Jimie!
These two were the Immortal Domain’s true pillars of stability. On ordinary days, they almost never manifested. Only when the Immortal Domain faced the danger of being overturned would they be awakened.
Immortal King Shikong’s gaze pierced through endless space and saw the tragic state of the border pass. A trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.
“King Chi, Wushang… in the end, you could not restrain yourselves.”
He took a single step, and beneath his feet, the phantom of the long river of time appeared, instantly crossing endless star domains.
Immortal King Jimie said nothing. Only the dao rhyme of extinction flowed around him. Wherever he passed, even light and sound were devoured as he silently headed toward the border pass.
The defensive line of the Primordial Imperial City.
“Crack—!”
A tremendous sound of shattering rang out, deafening to the ears!
Under the combined fierce assault of King Chi and Wushang, as well as the frenzied charge of thirty Undying Kings, the innermost city wall of the Primordial Imperial City finally could bear no more. A colossal breach spanning tens of thousands of li burst open!
“The city has been breached!!”
“Fight them to the death!”
The surviving defenders let out despairing roars, preparing to engage in the final hand-to-hand battle.
Immortal King Panyuan was covered in blood. His Immortal King body was riddled with cracks, and his aura had withered to the extreme. Yet he still stood firmly at the very front of the breach, facing King Chi and Wushang as they pressed closer step by step.
“Panyuan, what meaning is there in struggling on the verge of death?”
King Chi’s icy voice carried mockery. Fragments of spacetime condensed, preparing to deliver the final blow.
Wushang remained expressionless. His fist, immune to all methods, rose once more, locking onto Panyuan.
At this critical moment—
“Vile spawn of the Foreign Realm! How dare you invade my Immortal Domain!!”
“Kill—!!”
Like thunder exploding across the nine heavens, like the river of stars bursting its banks!
More than twenty vast and boundless Immortal King auras, like an enraged flood, suddenly descended above the shattered Imperial City!
An ancient flat-peach tree hovered above King Pan’s head, scattering ten thousand rays of rosy light and fixing a region of the void in place!
Immortal King Hunyuan held a gigantic axe that could split heaven, his blood and qi soaring into the sky as he directly cleaved toward an Undying King!
Immortal King Qingwei scattered endless clear radiance, transforming it into immortal rain that could purify all things, falling toward the tide of darkness!
Immortal King Qingmu urged boundless vitality, turning it into resilient vine-like dao laws that coiled toward the enemy!
Immortal King Xuangui manifested the phantom of a gigantic turtle shell, like the sturdiest of barriers, blocking the breach!
How terrifying was the might of a combined strike from more than twenty Immortal Kings?
In an instant, several Undying Kings charging at the very front were blasted backward. Vast swaths of dark divine abilities were annihilated, and the Foreign Realm’s previously unstoppable offensive was halted!
“Reinforcements! The Immortal Domain’s reinforcements have arrived!”
The defenders of the Imperial City erupted in wild joy, as though they had survived a calamity.
King Chi and Wushang stopped in their tracks and looked at the Immortal Domain kings who had suddenly appeared. Their gazes remained cold, without much surprise.
“At last, a few passable ones have arrived.”
King Chi said indifferently.
“Unfortunately, they will still only add to the casualties.”
However, the moment his words fell, his expression changed slightly.
Above the battlefield, two areas of the void rippled like water.
In one place, the phantom of the long river of time appeared. Immortal King Shikong stepped out and calmly looked toward King Chi. “King Chi, your opponent is me.”
In the other, Immortal King Jimie’s figure appeared silently, locking onto Wushang. “Wushang, your immunity to all methods—can it withstand the end where all things return to ruins?”
The appearance of the two giants of the Immortal Domain instantly reversed the comparison of the battlefield’s highest-level combat power!
King Chi and Wushang’s gazes finally turned solemn. Spacetime and Extinction—these were two extremely troublesome fellows. Even they did not dare underestimate them in the slightest.
“Shikong, Jimie… I did not expect you two old things to still be alive.”
King Chi’s voice was low.
“Enough nonsense. Fight!”
Immortal King Shikong attacked directly. With a palm strike, he drew upon the power of time, as though he intended to exile King Chi into the eternal past.
Immortal King Jimie was even more direct. His domain of extinction surged toward Wushang like a tide. Wherever it passed, even laws fell into withering and termination.
The four giants instantly clashed!
Their battle had already exceeded the understanding of ordinary Immortal Kings. Wherever its impact reached, spacetime fell into chaos and the Great Dao collapsed, as though heaven and earth were about to be created anew!
With the top-tier combatants held in check, the battlefield below became a brutal slaughter between more than twenty Immortal Kings and nearly thirty Undying Kings!
The radiance of colliding divine abilities illuminated the dim border wilderness, and fragments of law scattered in all directions like meteors.
At every moment, universes were shattered by the aftershocks, and Immortal Kings or Undying Kings were injured and coughed blood.
King Pan faced an Undying King of black chains who controlled curses. The ancient flat-peach tree swayed, purifying all evil.
Immortal King Hunyuan split the void with his axe, fighting to a standstill against a demonic god-king with a formidable physical body.
Immortal King Qingwei used exquisite purification divine abilities to specifically counter those dark beings emanating foul auras.
The battlefield sank into an unprecedented stalemate, tragic and bitter.
Relying on a surge of hot-blooded courage and the conviction to protect their homeland, the Immortal Domain kings barely managed to withstand the Foreign Realm army’s ferocious offensive. But everyone knew clearly that this was only temporary.