Sword qi swept past. The World-Eroding Dark Immortal King’s dark shield was sliced open as though it were made of paper, and a sword scar deep enough to reveal bone appeared upon his core, drawing from him a roar of pain and furious shock!
“Ah! You dare wound me!”
The World-Eroding Immortal King flew into a rage. Countless dark tentacles madly coiled toward the Heavenly Sword Immortal King.
“Chickens and dogs of clay, and you think yourselves worthy of making noise?”
The Heavenly Sword Immortal King’s tone was icy. The ancient sword on his back had not even left its sheath; he merely tapped out repeatedly with his fingertips.
Streaks of sword qi capable of tearing apart the starry river crisscrossed through the void, annihilating all of the World-Eroding Immortal King’s attacks and forcing him back again and again!
The sharpness of his sword dao, the keenness of his offense, made the entire battlefield turn its eyes toward him!
Following closely after the Heavenly Sword Immortal King, another heavy, vast aura descended!
A colossal figure, his entire body forged of seven-colored immortal gold, as though fused with the laws of the Great Dao, came treading through the void.
Every step he took made the void rumble as if unable to bear the burden. It was none other than the Ancient Realm Immortal King whose fleshly body stood supreme across countless epochs—Daoist Immortal Gold!
“Those who violate the order of my realm shall be suppressed!”
Daoist Immortal Gold’s voice was like the tolling of a great bell. He had no flashy divine abilities; he simply raised that giant fist shimmering with seven-colored immortal light and punched toward the Dark Ancient Tree Immortal King on the battlefield of the eastern ancient forest!
Where his fist passed, space solidified and laws retreated!
That power and those firm dao principles, pure to the extreme, seemed capable of punching straight through a great universe!
“Dong!!!”
The Dark Ancient Tree Immortal King tried to block with roots that devoured vitality, but the instant those roots touched Daoist Immortal Gold’s fist, they broke apart inch by inch!
The force of the punch struck the main trunk of the Dark Ancient Tree without the slightest trickery, making it tremble violently. Its bark peeled away as it let out a shrill wail, and its enormous tree body was forcibly blasted back tens of thousands of li, smashing countless mountains to pieces!
With his strength alone, Daoist Immortal Gold forcefully suppressed the Dark Ancient Tree Immortal King, greatly relieving the pressure on the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit!
As for the third being to descend, his aura was even more wild, carrying an invincible bearing that looked down upon all under heaven!
His figure was tall and sturdy, shrouded in hazy chaotic qi, making his exact appearance impossible to see. Yet that terrifying vitality and blood power, as though he could tear apart a giant dragon with his bare hands and trample a primordial divine mountain beneath his feet, made every being who sensed it feel their hearts jump in alarm!
It was none other than that terrifying existence, Second Under Heaven!
“Hahaha! Lively enough! Your father is here!”
Second Under Heaven let out a heaven-shaking wild laugh. He did not even choose a specific target, but charged straight into the southern region, where the foreign army was wreaking havoc!
He had no need for divine abilities at all. Relying solely on that tyrannical fleshly body that dominated all under heaven, he smashed one dark warship after another to pieces and blasted groups of immortals into bloody mist!
“Where did this savage come from?!”
The Scarlet King was both shocked and enraged.
The arrival of these three powerful reinforcements instantly changed the balance of high-level combat power!
The Heavenly Sword Immortal King suppressed the World-Eroding Dark Immortal King, Daoist Immortal Gold drove back the Dark Ancient Tree, and Second Under Heaven swept through the foreign army!
The terrifying pressure faced by the Ancient Realm finally received substantial relief!
However, this was still not all!
Just as the reinforcements from the Realm Sea were displaying their divine might, deep beneath the land of the Primordial Ancient Realm, which had lain silent for countless years, something seemed to be stirred by this tragic battle and the powerful reinforcements from beyond, and began to awaken!
In a forbidden land of the Ancient Realm, an ancient stone coffin suddenly opened with a boom!
A figure with an ancient and powerful aura slowly sat up.
He opened his eyes, and within them seemed to be the turning of sun and moon, the birth and death of universes.
“Darkness… has come again…”
He murmured to himself, his voice carrying the vicissitudes of ages.
It was none other than one of the Ancient Realm’s slumbering ancient Immortal Kings—Immortal King Qiankun!
At the same time, in another land of absolute death, a gigantic figure also began to shudder and tremble as a savage, violent aura soared into the sky!
This was another ancient king of the Ancient Realm—Stone King!
These native Immortal Kings of the Ancient Realm, who had slumbered for who knew how many epochs, were finally startled awake at this final juncture of the realm’s survival and began to revive!
Their joining would, for the first time, allow the Ancient Realm’s side to suppress the dark and foreign allied forces in terms of the number of high-level combatants!
The light of hope had finally pierced through the densest darkness!
Immortal King Wuzhong sensed those ancient and powerful auras awakening one after another, as well as the might of the Realm Sea reinforcements. His mind, which had been taut all this time, finally relaxed slightly, and an unprecedented fighting spirit blazed in his eyes.
“The time to counterattack… has come!”
He looked toward the foreign army that was still madly destroying everything, then toward the Dark Immortal Kings who had been temporarily suppressed. His voice was icy as it spread throughout the Ancient Realm:
“Fellow Daoists! Follow me… and cleanse the universe!”
The horn of counterattack was officially sounded by the oldest guardian of the Ancient Realm!
Although the appearance of the Realm Sea reinforcements and the revived ancient kings had temporarily reversed the decline in high-level combat power, when the dark camp truly bared its fangs, the despairing disparity in strength was laid naked before all living beings!
Behind the torn rift in the Realm Sea, viscous dark matter surged out even more violently like a flood bursting through a dam!
Immediately afterward, auras more terrifying and profound than those of the World-Eroding, Soul-Silencing, and Dark Ancient Tree Immortal Kings descended one after another, like primordial demon gods waking from slumber!
One, two, three… a full ten Dark Immortal Kings of varying forms, yet all exuding suffocating pressure, appeared above the battlefield!
Some resembled twisted multi-headed demonic dragons, some were like flowing dark galaxies, and some were amalgamations formed from countless screaming faces… Every single one possessed formidable strength no weaker than, or even surpassing, the World-Eroding Immortal King!
And this still was not all!
Behind these ten Dark Immortal Kings, three even more towering and colossal figures slowly manifested like three ancient demonic mountains that had existed since time immemorial.
Their appearance made the laws of heaven and earth throughout the Ancient Realm begin to wail, and even Immortal King Wuzhong’s spacetime domain suffered a violent impact!
The Three Dark Giants!
These were beings who truly stood at the pinnacle of Dark Immortal Kings, vanguard commanders of the dark origin’s erosion of the myriad realms!
Their strength far surpassed ordinary Dark Immortal Kings.
One giant resembled a black pyramid covered in countless demonic eyes. Wherever its gaze swept, it seemed able to strip living beings of their will and reduce them to walking corpses.
Another giant was like a mass of dark nebula constantly expanding and contracting. Within it, the end of the universe seemed to be evolving, emanating the power of supreme annihilation.
The last was a broken dark heavenly halberd lying across the void. Though fractured, the intent of slaughter and destruction coiling around it made every Immortal King feel a stabbing pain in their primordial spirit.
The dark camp had committed ten Dark Immortal Kings and three Dark Giants all at once!
This was almost the majority of the core force used for this surprise attack!
The Ancient Realm allied forces, whose hope had just risen with the arrival of reinforcements, were instantly as if doused by ice water, their morale plunging once more to rock bottom!
“It’s over… so many…”
“How can we possibly withstand them…”
Even the Heavenly Sword Immortal King, Daoist Immortal Gold, and Second Under Heaven, these three powerhouses, now had expressions solemn to the extreme.
Though they were strong, in the face of so many peers—especially those three unfathomable Dark Giants—they too felt enormous pressure.
“Form the array! Fight to the death!”
Immortal King Wuzhong roared, forcibly suppressing the horror in his heart. The power of spacetime surged madly as he tried to stabilize the defensive line that was on the verge of collapse.