The number of Undying Kings still held the advantage, and the beings of the foreign realm feared no death, their way of battle even more brutal and ruthless.
One Immortal King, caught off guard, was besieged by several Undying Kings. His Immortal King body was smashed into pieces, and he let out a shrill, miserable scream. Though his primordial spirit barely escaped, it was gravely wounded and had lost all fighting strength.
“This can’t go on! There are too many Undying Kings!”
Immortal King Qingmu transmitted anxiously.
As Pan King fought his enemies, he looked toward the direction of the Immortal Domain, his heart filled with urgency.
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan… why has he still not arrived?!”
At this moment, in everyone’s hearts, that figure who looked down upon the Immortal Domain once again surfaced unbidden.
If he were here, with his terrifying strength that swept through those of the same rank, he would surely be able to break this stalemate, even… reverse the battle!
And at this moment, Lu Xuan, far away in the Golden Crow ancestral land, slowly rose to his feet. His gaze crossed endless space and fell upon that battlefield.
“The timing is about right.”
He murmured to himself. With a single step, his figure merged into the void and sped away.
Just as the kings of the Immortal Domain fought bloody battles and the situation grew ever more difficult—
“Dong—!”
A bell chime, as though it had come from before the primordial wilderness of ages past, rang out across the battlefield without the slightest warning!
The sound of the bell was not resounding, yet it carried a peculiar penetrating force. In an instant, it overwhelmed all the explosions of divine abilities, the cries of slaughter, and the rumbling collapse of laws.
It clearly entered the depths of the soul of every Immortal King, every Undying King, and even every ordinary cultivator!
Time seemed to freeze for an instant at this moment.
The violent torrents of energy came to a halt, and the Great Dao laws instantly calmed.
Every being locked in fierce battle felt their minds tremble involuntarily, and their offensives slowed.
Immediately after, a vast and majestic pressure, bearing the radiance of a brilliant sun illuminating all things, swept over from the direction of the Immortal Domain and instantly enveloped the entire battlefield!
A figure appeared soundlessly above the battlefield.
His black hair hung loose, his expression was calm, and his posture was straight as a pine. Faint true solar fire coiled around him, while illusory images of the sun, moon, and stars rose and fell behind him.
There was no heaven-shaking eruption of aura.
Yet merely by standing there, he seemed to become the absolute center of the entire battlefield, drawing every startled and uncertain gaze.
It was Lu Xuan!
“It’s the Golden Crow Immortal King! He’s finally here!!” an Immortal King of the Immortal Domain, drenched in blood, shouted excitedly, almost weeping for joy.
“The Golden Crow Immortal King! It’s that invincible existence!” The surviving defenders erupted into earth-shaking cheers, and the flames of hope were rekindled in their hearts.
The kings of the Immortal Domain, including the Spacetime Immortal King and the Nirvana Immortal King, who were locked in fierce battle with the Red King and Wushang, all split off a wisp of divine sense to watch. In their hearts there was anticipation, but also a trace of indescribable complexity.
They had fought to the death in bloody battle, while this man had only arrived belatedly at this moment.
As for the foreign realm, the thirty Undying Kings, upon sensing the aura on Lu Xuan’s body—so different from that of an ordinary Immortal King, and one that even made their souls tremble—
Especially when they heard that bell chime, which seemed capable of pinning down their primordial spirits, their offensives all stalled involuntarily for an instant, and looks of shock and suspicion appeared in their eyes.
The Red King and Wushang also temporarily forced back the two Immortal King giants and fixed their gazes on Lu Xuan.
From Lu Xuan, they sensed an unprecedented threat, especially the Dao resonance of that ancient bell.
“You are that Golden Crow from the Immortal Domain ten thousand years ago?” the Red King’s voice rang out, carrying a trace of gravity.
Even the Undying Kings of the foreign realm had heard somewhat of Lu Xuan’s deeds.
After all, three great Immortal Kings of the Immortal Domain had fallen in an instant. How could such a thing possibly be concealed?
Lu Xuan’s gaze calmly swept across the battlefield below, finally landing on the Red King and Wushang. His tone was indifferent:
“It is I.”
He admitted it cleanly and directly, without the slightest ripple.
“Very good.” The dark light source around the Red King twisted violently, killing intent rising. “In that case, you shall be buried here as well!”
He could tell that Lu Xuan was no ordinary figure and decided to strike first!
A beam of destructive light that seemed capable of devouring all radiance instantly tore through the void and blasted toward Lu Xuan!
This was one of the Red King’s killing moves, enough to severely injure or even erase an ordinary Immortal King!
“Be careful!” the Spacetime Immortal King warned aloud. He could sense the terrifying laws of destruction contained within that dark beam.
However, faced with an attack powerful enough to make even a giant treat it with utmost caution, Lu Xuan merely raised his right hand slightly.
There was no heaven-shaking clash of divine abilities, no violent rumble of laws.
At the instant the dark beam was about to reach him, an ancient bronze bell of simple and profound xuanhuang hue naturally appeared before him.
The Chaos Bell had appeared once more!
It merely hovered there quietly, scenes of the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, fire, and wind slowly circulating across its bell wall.
“Weng—”
That dark beam, enough to destroy an entire world, made not the slightest ripple when it touched the faint xuanhuang qi hanging down from the Chaos Bell. It simply, soundlessly… dissolved!
As if it had not been a terrifying attack capable of killing an Immortal King at all, but merely an insignificant wisp of smoke!
“What?!”
“That’s impossible!”
Whether it was the Undying Kings of the foreign realm or the kings of the Immortal Domain, all were horrified at the sight!
The Red King’s full-powered strike, one that even the Spacetime Immortal King found difficult to deal with, had actually been resolved so casually?!
It had not even made the body of that bell tremble in the slightest?!
What level of defense was this?!
What exactly was the origin of that bell?!
The Red King’s pupils contracted sharply, and for the first time, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.
He knew better than anyone the power of that strike!
On Wushang’s face, which had been as still as an ancient well, violent fluctuations also appeared for the first time.
He stared fixedly at the Chaos Bell, sensing that supreme Dao resonance, and said in a deep voice, “That bell… has a problem!”
Lu Xuan had neutralized the Red King’s attack as though he had merely brushed away a speck of dust.
His gaze calmly turned toward the Red King and Wushang, who were filled with shock and uncertainty, then swept over the vast number of Undying Kings. He slowly spoke, his voice clearly spreading across the battlefield:
“Those who invade my Immortal Domain shall be executed.”
As his words fell, his mind stirred the Chaos Bell.
“Clang—!!!”
This time, the bell chime was no longer clear and melodious, but vast and grand, carrying the meaning of judgment and finality!
A bell wave condensed almost into substance spread out fiercely in a fan shape, centered on Lu Xuan, toward the dense ranks of Undying Kings from the foreign realm ahead!
Wherever the bell wave passed, space shattered inch by inch like a mirror, then reformed into the most primal chaos!
Time became utterly disordered!
That dark matter, as if it had encountered its natural nemesis, melted away like ice and snow!
“Not good! Retreat!”
“Join forces to block it!”
The Undying Kings of the foreign realm sensed the fatal threat and roared in terror. One after another, they unleashed their strongest dark divine abilities and brought out their own natal king weapons, attempting to combine their strength to withstand this terrifying bell wave.