Chapter 137 - Cosmic Immortals
"Immortal Emperor Hao Yang? Who the heck is that?" Yun Xiao asked, genuinely baffled.
"Damn it!" Blue Star exclaimed, frustration evident on his face. "Didn't I tell you to hold back for a moment so I could figure him out? How did you just... off him with one stroke?"
"Well, yeah, I heard. I didn't hold back," Yun Xiao admitted, facepalming in embarrassment.
"..." Blue Star just stared, flabbergasted. He looked as if he wanted to scratch Yun Xiao right across the chest in sheer exasperation. "Dying from showing off isn't exactly an unusual occurrence, you know. So what if he's dead?"
But Yun Xiao had not just killed him. He was after the Seed of Creation. Just a moment ago, Blue Star had mentioned that this Ye Xingchen's Seed of Creation was even above that of Ye Guxing. How could Yun Xiao resist?
"It's not the show-offs that scare me," Blue Star interjected. "It's the show-offs with powerful backers! In this day and age, which young master doesn't have people he can call upon? If they can summon an Immortal Emperor, they must have some real skills."
"Why the fear?" Red Moon laughed. "If the Immortal Emperor comes, we just transform into a big coffin and make our escape with Creator."
"Oh? We can do that?" Yun Xiao's eyes lit up. "So, if we can't die, that means I can keep wreaking havoc, right? No need to hold back then."
Red Moon grinned, revealing a menacing set of teeth. "Don't you worry. While your first daddy might be timid, your second daddy has got your back! Immortal Emperor? Just a tiny sugar bean. In the past, they were just snacks for us. Crunchy and delightful!"
Blue Star simply stared, torn between laughter and disbelief. He'd hoped for some level-headedness, but both Yun Xiao and Red Moon seemed intent on charging headfirst into trouble.
"Look! There they are!" Blue Star pointed upwards.
"So soon?" Yun Xiao mused, having thought that backup would take decades to arrive. In just the span of ten breaths, they'd reached the battlefield? Did they tear a hole through the void, stepping out in a single stride?
At that moment, the entire Heavenly Realm, filled with its endless mists and Immortal energy, its countless palaces and pavilions, fell into an eerie silence. Time seemed to freeze. Every being, every object, even the wind itself, ceased to move!
An aura, terrifying beyond words, pressed down upon Yun Xiao. His thoughts were halted, as if suspended in time, and he felt deprived of even the right to think.
Around him, Chen Xi, Mu Tianshi, Ye Qingli, Han Jingli, and many others stared blankly, motionless.
Even the blood in Ye Xingchen's veins stood still.
Only a smoky gray figure with a twisted face and an expression of deep indifference stood before Yun Xiao. In a quivering voice, it declared, "You've committed the greatest blunder in all of existence. Brace yourself for eternal retribution..." It was clear; the figure was deeply shaken.
Yun Xiao could only observe and listen, his thoughts paralyzed.
"A Cosmic Immortal! Reddy, prepare to retreat!" Blue Star's voice held an unprecedented seriousness.
Cosmic Immortal? Yun Xiao felt he had caught a glimpse of something. The sky of the Heavenly Realm was but a barrier to this pocket universe. And now, beyond the sky, two colossal figures overshadowed everything else, seemingly freezing time and space in the Heavenly Realm.
The entirety of the Heavenly Realm felt like a toy in the hands of these two figures. The impact of this sight was second only to the memory of Yun Xiao's soul returning to the ancient bronze coffin.
BUZZ! Yun Xiao watched, transfixed, as the sky of the Heavenly Realm trembled.
Suddenly, a pair of radiant golden hands reached out, grasping the barrier of the Heavenly Realm's world. With a tug, they tore a rift in the sky—a chasm stretching for tens of thousands of miles!
The heavens were ripped asunder by bare hands! What once was a pristine sky now split in two, with mists from both inside and outside the Heavenly Realm converging. The tear in the sky resembled a gruesome wound, horrifying to behold.
From that moment, the entire Heavenly Realm shook. The ground cracked, and countless palaces crumbled.
BUZZ! Those colossal hands continued their grim work, widening the rift and tearing a gaping hole in the firmament of the Heavenly Realm.
Suddenly, a massive golden face peered through! This face resembled a vast, rolling sea of golden molten lava. Its eyes blazed like twin suns, its contorted features appearing as if mountain ranges of fire had been squeezed from them. Like chasms, its nostrils expelled two torrents of heat that swept down like divine dragons, sending the temperature of the entire Heavenly Realm soaring. Every being was rooted to the spot, drenched in a mixture of sweat from both heat and fear.
"Damn..." Awe was the only thing Yun Xiao could muster. Was this the force backing Ye Xingchen? A being capable of wiping out worlds with a mere wave of its hand?
Yun Xiao had once seen the corpse of the Creator Immortal. Even that memory couldn't prepare him for this upheaval. And as for everyone else—they were utterly paralyzed by shock.
But what truly left him slack-jawed was the silver face looming behind the golden one—a woman's face! And this was just the view from within the Heavenly Realm!
From the vantage of the Divine Continent, one could see, far above the heavenly clouds, two towering colossi. They stood as if legends from tales of gods who sculpted the world. Their radiant forms outshone the sun a thousand-fold. In a mere instant, the verdant greens of the continent below began to wither.
"Two Cosmic Immortals'!" Blue Star uttered, almost lost for words.
"The Solar Immortal Emperor, the Lunar Immortal Empress..." The grey figure atop the Cosmic Pagoda wailed, sinking to his knees. "I feared invoking karma and getting discovered by that being. I didn't dare to use the pagoda's power to its fullest and made an oversight in my haste. I am at fault!"
Never in his wildest dreams did he think that he'd be outwitted by a mortal Sword Cultivator from the lower realms. All the other times he'd flaunted his powers had gone off without a hitch, and he'd grown complacent. But this time, the script had dramatically changed.
Sword Cultivators—they killed too swiftly!
At that very moment, two eyes, blazing like twin suns in the firmament, fixed their gaze on Yun Xiao and the dismembered remains of Ye Xingchen beneath him.
"It's another fated sword bearer!" The golden face, eclipsing the sky, erupted into flames, its eyes burning with fury. "I condemn you to a hundred lifetimes of torment, never to be redeemed..." The voice thundered, echoing in Yun Xiao's ears like roaring thunder.
Meanwhile, beneath Yun Xiao's feet, the remains of Ye Xingchen began to reassemble.
"Resurrection?" Yun Xiao mused in shock.
Was this the power of an Immortal Emperor—to defy death and bestow endless suffering?
"Alright, alright! Let's relocate and start over. After all, you've only been cultivating for a couple weeks!" Blue Star's voice, filled with a mischievous undercurrent, whispered into Yun Xiao's ear. He clearly wasn't afraid or worried.
All Yun Xiao could think was, "What an eye-opener!" He, a mere mortal, understood the concept of having powerful connections, but he had never seen connections of this magnitude before!
Ripping through the void, with a mere thought one could obliterate an entire realm. Such overwhelming might, eclipsing the sun and controlling fates, resurrecting the dead and dictating countless tribulations.
"Well, if we're starting from scratch after killing them all, so be it!" Yun Xiao declared boldly. "I've borrowed the power of the Creator Immortal for my rebirth. Do you two Immortal Emperors really think you scare me? Just wait."
With allies like Blue Star and Red Moon, what was there to fear?
While Yun Xiao might not have had influential connections, his embodiment of the Creator Immortal was the ultimate trump card in this realm!
Kill the junior, then come for the senior? If one could touch the heavens, what was there to fear?
Suddenly, the terrifying power of the Solar Immortal Emperor surged towards Yun Xiao. He wasn't just intent on annihilating Yun Xiao, but also to brand him with a mark of reincarnation, condemning him to a hundred lifetimes of misery.
Now, that was a show of true power!
"Let's make our move!" With that, the forms of Blue Star and Red Moon began to morph into an ancient bronze coffin.
However, at this climactic moment of immense pressure, Blue Star's eyes sparkled mischievously. He chuckled, "No need to flee now!"
"Why?" Red Moon inquired.
"Just look above!" Blue Star laughed heartily, clutching his belly. "It's hilarious! Those two Immortal Emperors are being chased down. With their son dead, they rushed here in haste to revive him and in doing so, revealed their hand."
"The one chasing them is here?" Red Moon's eyes, as red as a blood moon, darted upwards in curiosity.
Yun Xiao was also looking. Suddenly, the Heaven Burial Sword Soul, which he hadn't put away, began to vibrate intensely.
"That's—" Yun Xiao squinted, his eyes narrowing to a mere slit. From beyond the tear in the sky, from the very expanse of the endless heavens above, a primal sword cry suddenly echoed through the ages.
In a heartbeat, a gargantuan sword, spanning the vast sky, plunged from the heavens, aiming straight down with ferocious intent.
"Supreme Azure!" The faces of the two towering giants beyond the Heavenly Realm changed dramatically, their visages cracking wide open.
"You two wanted prisoners of the Immortal Court dare to interfere with karma and destiny? Do you take me for a dead man, sitting still and doing nothing?"
BOOM! Along with this enraged voice, the great azure sword fell in a flash, splitting in two, piercing the heads of both the Solar Immortal Emperor and the Lunar Immortal Empress.
"No! We wish..." the golden molten giant face began in horror.
"Wish your granny! Die, you wretches!" The voice, seething with fury, echoed from the azure sword.
HUM! The immense Immortal bodies of the two Immortal Emperors vanished on the spot. Countless achievements and powers of theirs were annihilated under this sword strike, dissipating in despair like smoke in the wind.
Their crumbling colossal forms transformed into boundless spiritual and Immortal energies, pouring into the Heavenly Realm and the Divine Continent.
For a time, the natural forces in various places surged tenfold. Spiritual veins and dragon veins formed beneath the earth. Ordinary plants absorbed the spiritual energy and rapidly transformed into elixirs and spiritual herbs. An intense downpour of Immortal essence showered the realm...
Shadows of the giants vanished entirely from the tear in the heavens. Even the recently reformed body of Ye Xingchen beneath Yun Xiao's feet once again crumbled apart.
High above the horizon, a colossal sword, vast as the very heavens themselves, remained suspended in the azure, casting an eternal glow upon the world.
Upon this magnificent sword, Yun Xiao noticed an incredibly dense surging Sword Aura composed of over a billion layers, forming an ocean of sword energy. The sword seemed to be wrapped with tens of thousands of dragon-like Sword Rings...
"Is that the Sword Soul?" Yun Xiao was utterly gobsmacked. Without a wielder, the sword transcended infinite barriers and slew the two Immortal Emperors? Even he felt numb from the spectacle, let alone the other denizens of the Heavenly Realm... The worldview of everyone present was turned upside down!
The gray-robed figure beside Yun Xiao sat dazed on the ground, murmuring, "In the grand scheme of things, just a miniscule interference with karma and destiny, and the two were executed from across worlds..." He, along with the two Immortal Emperors, had gravely underestimated their pursuer's terror.
"It's you!" The gray figure suddenly glared at Yun Xiao, his face contorted in rage, "You've ruined everything!"
A nine-tiered Cosmic Pagoda materialized, its immense presence bearing down on Yun Xiao. Death loomed once more.
"Hmm? It seems like I'm being treated like thin air these days. Stay your hand, old servant," a voice that shook the very earth and heavens boomed.
WHOOSH! In a flash, a shadowy sword silhouette shot into the Cosmic Pagoda, instantly turning the gray-robed figure into a puff of gray mist.
"Good stuff!" Red Moon promptly emerged, opening wide and swallowing the gray mist.
"What was that?" Yun Xiao finally reacted.
"A portable grandpa! Tastes amazing!" Red Moon replied, savoring the taste.
"After we're done eating, the nine-tiered pagoda is ours," Blue Star whispered.
Yun Xiao's eyes sparkled upon hearing this.
At that moment, the shadowy sword that shattered the gray figure coalesced into a small black sword before Yun Xiao.
"Lad, by forcing those sinning Immortals to reveal themselves, you've done a great service. I grant you a strand of sword intent. If fate wills it, come to the Supreme Azure Star Emperor Immortal Court and seek me."
With those words, the little sword landed in Yun Xiao's hand, and the mammoth sword in the heavens vanished. Afterwards, the rift in the Heavenly Realm's sky began to mend, and everyone's vision blurred, seemingly forgetting all they had just witnessed.
What sorcery was this?
"Wait a minute!" Yun Xiao gripped the little sword, shouting at the sky, "What do you want me to find you for? Just take me with you!"
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