With him at the center, the remnant laws of the entire shattered starfield were stirred, and the lingering wills of countless fallen experts, along with their undying battle intent, were gathered together.
They formed a vast vortex of battle intent, interwoven in blood-red and gold!
This was not a trial from heaven and earth. This was him, with his own supreme battle intent and Dao fruit, launching a forceful conquest against the Great Dao!
He would carve out a path to a higher realm by force from these ruins of blood and fire!
Within the vortex, the illusory figures of every powerful enemy he had ever slain emerged.
The dark bone dragon, the fallen divine vine, the curse master, the dark giant spirit, the fallen holy spirit, the primordial Dragon Emperor…
They roared, carrying their strongest divine abilities from life and endless resentment, pouncing toward Lu Xuan like a tribulation of heart demons!
This was the most perilous backlash of battle intent and karmic tribulation on the path of the Battle Immortal!
Lu Xuan suddenly opened his eyes. There was no fear in them, only boiling flames of war and absolute calm.
“Even when you were alive, I still cut you down. Now that you are nothing but dead phantoms, you dare obstruct my Dao path?!”
He rose to his full height and charged into the army of phantoms of his own accord!
The Nirvanic Sun Fist shattered the bone dragon!
The Chaos Golden Crow Body smashed the divine vine apart!
The radiance of the Glazed Heart Lamp purified the curse!
The Solar Judgment Finger pierced through the giant spirit!
…
He reenacted his past battles, crushing and shattering every enemy phantom once more in an even more domineering, even more perfect manner!
With every phantom he shattered, his battle intent condensed further, and his aura surged higher!
When the final phantom of the primordial Dragon Emperor was torn apart once more by his “Chaos Heaven-Opening Claw,” the entire vortex of battle intent suddenly contracted. Endless blood-colored baleful qi and golden battle intent surged into his body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!
“Crack!”
It was as if something within him had shattered!
The Supreme barrier—broken!
A brand-new power that stood above the Supreme realm, carrying the qualities of immortality, eternity, and conquest, erupted from within him like a volcano!
Under the scouring of this power, his true Golden Crow form became even more divine and majestic.
His feathers seemed forged from dark-golden immortal metal, burning with eternal, undying flames of war. Upon his brow, a rune imbued with the essence of chaos and conquest slowly condensed!
The True Immortal realm—achieved!
Moreover, he was not an ordinary True Immortal, but a True Immortal who had stepped onto the one and only path of the Battle Immortal!
His foundation in the Immortal Dao had been forged through endless warfare and slaughter—indestructible, with limitless potential!
Once his aura stabilized, Lu Xuan felt the vast, surging power within him, far surpassing that of an ordinary True Immortal, as well as the instinct for battle that had fused into his very bones. Slowly, he clenched his fist.
“The path of the Battle Immortal… the first step is complete.”
His gaze was like lightning as he looked toward the depths of the Realm Sea, where an even more terrifying darkness was surging.
He knew that the true trial had only just begun.
With this newly born Battle Immortal body, he would carve out a bright and clear world upon this final battlefield of the Era of Emperor’s Fall, slaughtering his way down a blood-soaked path toward the ultimate truth!
His figure transformed into a blood-gold divine rainbow that tore through the darkness, once again taking the initiative to charge toward the front line where the flames of war burned most fiercely.
Battle Immortal Lu Xuan had officially ascended the stage of the Era of Emperor’s Fall. His campaigns would become even wilder, even more unstoppable!
Having become a Battle Immortal, Lu Xuan’s aura underwent a qualitative transformation.
The sharpness he had once kept restrained was now fully revealed. The blood-gold battle intent surrounding him was like tangible flame; with every step he took, the void trembled and the laws wailed.
He was no longer merely a sharp blade on the battlefield. He was more like a mobile fortress of war, a killing machine born for conquest.
He took the initiative to seek out stronger opponents, and after the dark camp lost True Immortals one after another, it finally sent out an existence that could truly threaten him—a quasi-Immortal King!
A quasi-Immortal King had already begun to touch the domain of the King realm, condensing the embryonic form of their own Kingly Dao. Their grasp of the laws far surpassed that of a True Immortal, and the difference in strength was like heaven and earth.
Even in this glorious Era of Emperor’s Fall, a quasi-Immortal King was a hegemon of a region, sufficient to command a vast starfield.
This was a quasi-Immortal King transformed from a primordial blood bat after being corroded by darkness. Its speed was unmatched among those of the same level; with a beat of its wings, it could shuttle through the void. Its sharp fangs and sound waves specialized in breaking through the soul and blood qi. It hid within a nebula completely shrouded in darkness, hunting and killing many True Immortal generals of the divine kingdom.
Lu Xuan locked onto its aura and charged alone into the dark nebula.
The moment he entered, countless invisible blades of sound waves came attacking from every direction, stabbing straight at his soul!
At the same time, the Dark Blood Bat King’s figure turned into hundreds of millions of afterimages within the darkness, indistinguishable from reality. Its sharp claws, carrying dark laws that corroded essence blood, silently reached for Lu Xuan’s vital points.
“Petty tricks!”
Lu Xuan snorted coldly. The might of the Battle Immortal erupted with a boom, and his blood-gold battle intent swept out like a storm, dispersing most of those invisible sound waves.
Chaotic light bloomed from his eyes. Activating the dharma eye of “Severing the Three Corpses,” he saw through the illusions and instantly locked onto the Bat King’s true body!
“Found you!”
With a beat of his wings, his speed was not the slightest bit slower. He transformed into a blood-gold bolt of lightning that tore through the darkness and crashed straight toward the Bat King’s true body!
Claw strikes, wing slashes, beak pecks… the simplest attacks contained the immense power of a Battle Immortal and the destructive trait of Chaos Generating Yang!
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The two clashed fiercely within the dark nebula, their speed pushed to the extreme. Only two blurry streaks of light could be seen crossing each other again and again.
Every collision erupted with destructive energy shockwaves, completely clearing out the surrounding dark matter and small stellar remnants!
The more the Dark Blood Bat King fought, the more alarmed it became. The speed and soul attacks it prided itself on had greatly diminished effect against this opponent.
Meanwhile, its opponent’s close-quarters combat ability, along with that strange trait of growing braver the longer the battle went on—as though he could absorb the battlefield’s baleful qi to replenish himself—made it feel immense pressure.
“Dark Blood Devours the Heavens!”
The Bat King was forced to use a quasi-Immortal King-level divine ability. A blood-colored bat-wing dharma idol manifested, blotting out the sky.
It drew upon all the dark energy within the nebula, transforming it into a dark blood tide that devoured everything, drowning toward Lu Xuan!
Lu Xuan sensed the terror of this strike and did not dare be careless.
He let out a long cry, and behind him, the phantoms of the Three Corpses briefly manifested once more. Though they could not last long, they pushed his battle intent and Dao realm to their peak!
“Battle Immortal Art—Chaos Heaven-Opening Tribulation!”
He brought his claws together, drawing in all the battle intent, baleful qi, chaotic qi, and solar immortal flames around him, condensing them into a blood-colored war halberd that seemed capable of cleaving open chaos and reestablishing earth, water, fire, and wind!
Upon the war halberd, a terrifying aura of destruction and rebirth interwove. Facing the dark blood tide that came devouring toward him, he struck down ferociously!
“Riiiip—!”
It was like cloth being torn apart! That vast dark blood tide was actually split straight down the middle by this Battle Immortal strike that condensed all of Lu Xuan’s lifelong learning!
The halberd radiance did not lose momentum and struck directly upon the Dark Blood Bat King’s true body!
“No!!!”
The Dark Blood Bat King let out a shrill scream. Its quasi-Immortal King dharma idol was cleaved apart, and its true body was invaded by the chaos heaven-opening intent and Battle Immortal baleful qi contained within the halberd radiance.
Its dark origin instantly suffered a heavy blow, and its aura rapidly withered!