The revived Qiankun Immortal King and Stone King also erupted with ancient source power. Yin and yang revolved, shaking heaven and earth as they collided head-on with an oncoming Dark Immortal King!
The great battle instantly entered its most brutal stage!
Sword qi crisscrossed around the Heavenly Sword Immortal King as he alone held back two Dark Immortal Kings. Sword light and dark divine abilities clashed violently, tearing apart vast stretches of the starry river.
The Immortal Gold Daoist roared, his body of seven-colored immortal gold forcibly withstanding the siege of three Dark Immortal Kings. Fist seals and dark laws smashed against one another, erupting with thunderous booms like the dawn of the universe.
Number Two Under Heaven’s blood and qi surged to the skies as he fought in close quarters with a Dark Immortal King shaped like a demonic dragon. Every punch struck flesh, shattering dragon scales and spilling dark dragon blood, but he himself was scorched by dragon breath as well.
Pan King, Hunyuan Immortal King, True Dragon King, the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, Qiankun Immortal King, Stone King… almost every Immortal King on the side of the Ancient Realm and Immortal Domain had fallen into an absolute disadvantage, either fighting multiple enemies alone or being suppressed by a stronger foe!
And those three dark giants had not even truly made a move yet!
Merely the auras they emitted had already caused the balance of the entire battlefield to tilt completely toward the side of darkness!
“The struggles of ants end here.”
The Heart-Bewildering Giant released an icy mental fluctuation. Countless demonic eyes lit up at once, and an invisible, formless power of bewilderment that acted directly upon the source of the primordial spirit surged like a tide toward the allied army of the Ancient Realm!
In an instant, the gazes of many True Immortals, and even quasi-Immortal King-level cultivators, turned dull and chaotic. Some even began attacking the companions beside them!
Within the defensive line, chaos erupted at once!
“With your blood, I shall offer sacrifice to my lord!”
The nebula-like body of the Nirvana Giant rotated slightly, and a Dao Domain of extinction that brought all things to their end expanded outward. Wherever it passed, whether cultivator or matter, all rapidly lost their color and dissolved into the most basic particles!
The broken halberd blade of the Heavenly Halberd Giant lifted slightly, locking onto the No-End Immortal King, who was struggling bitterly to hold on. A killing intent powerful enough to sever karma descended with a thunderous crash!
A dead end!
A true situation of ten deaths and no life!
On the side of the Ancient Realm, every Immortal King was already covered in wounds, their magic power greatly depleted. Facing this absolute suppression of power, defeat and death seemed only a matter of time.
“Could it be… that it truly ends here?”
The Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King looked at the dark giants crushing toward them, his eyes of reincarnation filled with unwillingness and despair.
His Reincarnation Cave was already covered in cracks and could no longer hold on.
And at this final moment of despair, another change arose!
An even more ancient chaotic Dao resonance quietly spread like the breathing of a slumbering ancient god!
The appearance of this Dao resonance made the three dark giants, who were just about to launch their final strike, suddenly freeze!
Within their icy wills, for the first time, a trace of surprise and dread appeared!
“Dong——!!!!!”
A bell toll seemed to come from the very beginning of eternal chaos.
Carrying the force to suppress the primordial cosmos, it rang out without warning throughout the entire Primordial Ancient Realm, even piercing through the realm wall and echoing at the edge of the Realm Sea!
This bell toll did not come from the sealed Primordial Gate, but from a direction even farther away, yet seemingly close at hand—the Immortal Domain!
Wherever the bell toll passed, the Heart-Bewildering Giant’s power of confusion was wiped away as if by an invisible hand, dissipating in an instant!
The Nirvana Giant’s Dao Domain of extinction twisted violently, its expansion halted!
The killing intent of the Heavenly Halberd Giant that had locked onto the No-End Immortal King was forcefully interrupted!
Time and space seemed to fall into an instant of absolute stillness beneath this bell toll!
All beings locked in fierce battle—whether dark creatures, the foreign-domain army, or the allied forces of the Ancient Realm, Immortal Domain, and Realm Sea—were shaken to the core. Their attacks stopped involuntarily as they looked in horror toward the direction from which the bell toll had come!
In the chaotic void at the border between the Immortal Domain and the Ancient Realm, a figure stepped out!
His black hair hung loose, his eyes were like cold lightning, and tangible streams of chaotic qi and true solar fire coiled around him. Illusory images of the sun, moon, and stars rose and fell beneath his feet, as though he himself were a walking vessel of the Great Dao!
It was none other than Lu Xuan, who had emerged from seclusion in the ancestral land of the Golden Crow!
He had originally been deep in seclusion, deducing the Great Dao of the Chaotic Sun, but he had been forcibly awakened by the Ancient Realm’s suddenly intensified, heaven-piercing aura of calamity and desperate wills.
Without the slightest hesitation, he had directly torn through the void, using the Chaos Bell to open the way, crossing endless star domains to descend with overwhelming force!
His gaze was as cold as an ancient abyss of frost. In an instant, it swept over the ravaged mountains and rivers of the Ancient Realm, over the ten Dark Immortal Kings and the three dark giants whose auras even made his heart tremble, before finally landing on the weakened No-End Immortal King and the others.
“It seems I have not come too late.”
His words were calm, yet they carried an absolute majesty that looked down upon all enemies!
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan!”
When the No-End Immortal King, Pan King, and the others saw his figure, unbelievable joy erupted in their eyes!
At this most despairing moment, his appearance was no different from the only light in the darkness!
“It’s him! That Golden Crow Immortal King!”
Chi King and Wushang’s expressions changed drastically. They had personally witnessed Lu Xuan’s terrifying strength when he forced back the Blade King!
And those three dark giants also cast their cold gazes toward Lu Xuan, especially at the ancient bell faintly visible above his head, which emanated a chaotic Dao resonance that made even them feel a trace of discomfort.
“Another irritating insect.”
The Heart-Bewildering Giant’s will carried a trace of annoyance.
“His bell… is somewhat strange.”
The nebula-like body of the Nirvana Giant rippled slightly.
Lu Xuan paid no attention to the shock and hostility of the crowd. With a single step, he arrived at the very center of the battlefield, standing shoulder to shoulder with the No-End Immortal King and the others.
He looked toward the three dark giants. There was not the slightest fear in his eyes, only boiling battle intent.
“The darkness from the depths of the Realm Sea? So it was you who disturbed my quiet cultivation and attacked my allies?”
He slowly raised his right hand. The ancient, simple, Xuanhuang Chaos Bell fully manifested, and on its bell walls, the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, fire, wind, and the myriad primordial races all shone at once, emitting supreme might that enveloped all heavens and myriad worlds!
“Since you have come, then… all of you can stay!”
Before his words had faded, Lu Xuan attacked with overwhelming force!
He did not strike any specific enemy. Instead, he suspended the Chaos Bell high above his head and formed an incomparably profound seal with both hands.
This was the new realm of Taiyi divine ability he had deduced after tens of thousands of years in seclusion, merging the Taiyi inheritance with the gains from discussing the Dao!
“Chaos—East Emperor Domain!”
“Dong!!!!!!”
The Chaos Bell rang out with a thunderous boom. This was no longer a mere sound-wave attack; endless Xuanhuang qi erupted from it, instantly expanding outward with Lu Xuan as the center and enveloping the entire core battlefield!
This was not a domain, yet it surpassed a domain!
Under the shroud of this East Emperor Domain, all dark matter and foreign-domain demonic qi suffered immense suppression. Their circulation became sluggish, as though they had sunk into an invisible quagmire!
As for the allied forces of the Ancient Realm, Immortal Domain, and Realm Sea, they felt their bodies lighten. Their magic power circulated more smoothly, their comprehension of the Great Dao grew clearer, and even the recovery of their injuries quickened by several degrees!