“Your true body, it seems, won’t make it back in time.”
The Blade King looked at the Chaos Incarnation, whose aura was growing ever weaker, and the corner of his mouth curled into a cruel sneer.
“Once this king cuts down this incarnation of yours, I’ll go seek out your true body! When that time comes, that bell will ultimately become something in this king’s possession!”
He raised the blade of imperial radiance high. An even more terrifying blade intent, as though it had gathered all the battle will from before, began to condense, preparing to deliver the incarnation its final blow!
Yet at this critical moment, the Chaos Incarnation, whose aura had been feeble and whose form had turned illusory, suddenly erupted with a resolute light in its eyes!
It no longer dodged, no longer defended. Instead, it began to frenziedly burn and compress all its remaining power, including the source essence and Great Dao runes that constituted its very existence!
An extremely unstable destructive energy surged violently within the core of the incarnation!
“Hm? Trying to self-destruct?”
The Blade King frowned, but did not care too much.
No matter how powerful the self-destruction of an incarnation was, it would still be difficult to truly harm his body of imperial radiance.
However, in the next instant, the incarnation’s actions exceeded his expectations!
The incarnation abruptly brought its hands together before its chest. Chaotic qi and True Solar Fire intertwined along an incomparably profound trajectory, outlining an extremely complex ancient sigil!
Taiyi Forbidden Art—Chaos Epoch Evolution!
This was not a simple self-destruction, but the supreme secret art of the Taiyi inheritance, forcibly drawing upon everything that made up its existence to simulate the transition of an epoch!
With the end of itself, it evolved the beginning of an instant!
“Blade King! Receive my final move!”
The incarnation let out a grand voice. Its entire illusory body transformed into that ancient Chaos Epoch Evolution sigil, carrying a terrifying Dao resonance as it charged straight into the blade intent the Blade King had slashed out.
And toward... the Blade King himself!
“Madman!” The Blade King’s expression finally changed!
From that sigil, he sensed a strange power that involved the essence of time and existence!
This was absolutely not a divine ability an incarnation should have mastered!
“Rumble—!!!!!”
A collision beyond words occurred!
There was no dazzling light, only an expanse of ultimate chaos spreading outward.
It was as though the time and space in that region had been forcibly erased, returning to some primordial point!
Terrifying fluctuations swept in all directions. Even Chi Wang, Wushang, Shikong, and Jimie had no choice but to temporarily stop and retreat in shock!
When that expanse of chaotic nothingness slowly calmed, the Blade King could still be seen standing where he had been, the glow of imperial radiance still shrouding his body.
But his face was unusually pale, and a wisp of dark golden blood even spilled from the corner of his mouth!
His right hand, which held the blade, trembled slightly, and the blade of imperial radiance formed from countless blade shadows had also dimmed somewhat!
As for Lu Xuan’s Chaos Incarnation, it had already completely dissipated, vanishing without a trace.
The Blade King was injured!
Although it was only a light injury, he had truly and undeniably been wounded by an incarnation!
And moreover, wounded by the other party with a forbidden art that sought mutual destruction!
The entire battlefield fell deathly silent!
Everyone was so shaken by this final scene that they could not speak.
A single incarnation had not only held back an Immortal King wreathed in imperial radiance for so long.
In the end, it had even wounded the Blade King in such a manner!
What kind of battle prowess was this?
What kind of courage was this?
Although the incarnation ultimately dissipated, the strength and bearing it displayed won a trace of respect from the depths of every spectator’s heart, both friend and foe!
“Lu Xuan...”
The Blade King wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth, his gaze gloomy to the extreme.
The killing intent in his heart, along with his greed for the Chaos Bell, also climbed to its peak.
If even a mere incarnation was this difficult to deal with, how powerful would his true body be?
That bell—he was determined to obtain it!
However, just as he suppressed his injuries and prepared to regroup with Chi Wang and Wushang to crush the Immortal Domain’s defensive line in one stroke—
“Your opponent isn’t dead yet.”
A familiar voice suddenly rang out behind him.
The Blade King’s entire body stiffened, and he whipped around!
He saw that at some unknown time, Lu Xuan’s true body had already appeared silently on the battlefield.
He was standing not far behind him, looking at him with an icy gaze.
Though his aura was somewhat depleted, that surging battle intent was even more terrifying than before!
He had returned... from pacifying the chaos in the Realm Sea!
The kings of the Immortal Domain were first stunned, then erupted in cheers that shook the heavens!
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan has returned!”
“The unrest in the Realm Sea has been quelled?!”
Hope was ignited once more!
As for the Blade King, Chi Wang, and Wushang, their hearts instantly sank.
The return of Lu Xuan’s true body meant that the turmoil in the Realm Sea had already been pacified. It also meant... they would have to face a Lu Xuan in complete condition!
The situation had reversed once again!
The true decisive battle was only now about to begin!
In the Primordial Ancient Realm, the flames of war had already scorched this shattered land until it was riddled with devastation.
Above the ruins of the Imperial Pass, Immortal King Wuzhong used the supreme Great Dao of time and space to forcibly suppress the two foreign-realm giants, Kundi and Pu Demon King.
But Kundi and Pu Demon King were, after all, veteran giants who had lived for endless ages, with profound foundations. Though they were suppressed, they were still searching for an opportunity to counterattack.
The battlefield below was even more tragic.
Pan Wang, Immortal King Hunyuan, Immortal King Liudao Lunhui, the True Dragon King, the Immortal Monk King, as well as the surviving kings of the frontier wilderness and cultivators of the ancient realm, were engaged in the cruelest war of attrition with the foreign realm’s Immortal Kings, who still held the advantage in numbers.
Every moment, immortal beings fell. Fresh blood dyed the shattered mountains and rivers dark red, and battle roars intertwined with wails of grief.
The Immortal Kings of the foreign realm were fierce and unafraid of death, their offensive frenzied.
They knew very well that as long as Kundi and Pu Demon King could hold back Immortal King Wuzhong, they could rely on their numerical advantage to slowly grind down the peak forces of the Immortal Ancient allied army!
The scales of victory were still slowly tilting toward the foreign realm.
“Hahaha! Wuzhong, you may be powerful, but how long can you protect them?”
While resisting the omnipresent power of time and space, Pu Demon King let out a sharp taunt, attempting to disturb Immortal King Wuzhong’s mind.
Kundi, however, remained silent. The Kun Wood Staff in his hand evolved chaos, firmly withstanding the pressure of frozen time and space like a stubborn rock, waiting for the slightest flaw that might appear in his opponent.
Just as the battle remained deadlocked, the casualties of the Immortal Ancient allied army continued to increase, and morale began to faintly decline from the seemingly endless bloody fighting—
“Hum—!”
A vast aura filled with boundless vitality and a peaceful, purifying intent suddenly descended upon this battlefield!
This aura was so pure, so warm.
It formed a stark contrast with the slaughter, darkness, and destructive aura raging across the battlefield!
It seemed to carry the power to purify all filth.
It caused all the exhausted cultivators of the Immortal Ancient allied army to feel their spirits rise!
“This is...”
Pan Wang, who was locked in bloody battle with an Immortal King, abruptly raised his head, uncertainty and astonishment appearing in his eyes.
“Such pure laws of life! Who is it?”
Immortal King Hunyuan cleaved his opponent back with an axe and also sensed this extraordinary aura.
Even Kundi and Pu Demon King, who were fully engaged in resisting Immortal King Wuzhong, had slight changes in expression as they sensed this powerful aura that had suddenly intervened!