As the Blood River Lord cried out, the Immortal Emperor’s skeleton stood up and began to walk toward the Immortals. Despite his sedate pace, he reached Mu Ziyang’s side in the blink of an eye and thrust a palm at him.
Mu Ziyang roared, “Whoever you were in life, in death, you’re just a skeleton, nothing to be afraid of!” He raised a hand, which transformed into a giant dragon that collided with the skeleton’s palm. And then Mu Ziyang’s dragon hand crumbled to dust.
Mu Ziyang grunted in pain and backed away, and while he swiftly regrew his arm, this strike had still had a serious effect on him.
Meanwhile, the skeleton proceeded to ignore Mu Ziyang and continued forward, going up to Ye Yun and punching.
Ye Yun’s body erupted with golden light as his Godhead Armor raised its defenses to the maximum level. The skeleton’s punch landed against the protecting golden light with a bang, but the golden light did not break.
Ye Yun was delighted, but just when he was about to counterattack, he suddenly felt a force on his body that sent him flying off like a cannonball. And then he saw that the golden light was heavily deformed, after which it shattered into nothing.
While the punch had failed to injure Ye Yun, it had still shattered the golden barrier, meaning that the defense that he was so proud of could only block one strike.
Fortunately, that skeleton proceeded to ignore Ye Yun, this time moving to Blossom Queen Ran Qing and thrusting a finger at her.
That skeletal white finger seemed ordinary, but it packed enough energy to obliterate the world.
It was a high-pitched and mournful whistle that traveled so far that it left the bounds of the Blood River. Wherever the sound traveled, flowers would shrivel, grass would wither, and even beasts would age…
With this whistle, Ran Qing’s elderly appearance suddenly turned youthful.
As if time was reversing and spring was coming again, the old granny became a gorgeous middle-aged woman.
This was rather similar to what had happened with Sang Hongmei, but on a level many times higher.
The middle-aged woman smiled and thrust out a finger.
Fingertip collided with finger bone.
Surprisingly, the skeleton’s finger was not able to hurt Ran Qing, the two sides being equal.
Ran Qing then said, “So this is all you amount to.”
As she spoke, the winds of Time blew once more, and her face became even younger, her time reversing back to when she was a virgin and still had some naivety and inexperience on her face. Simultaneously, the power in her finger exploded, and the remains of the Immortal Emperor were blown backward, the skeleton falling apart.
The Blood River Immortals were all stunned.
They found it impossible to imagine that this hidden ally of theirs, the skeleton of the Immortal Emperor, had been undone by a single finger strike.
But a moment later, Ran Qing swayed, and her face instantly wrinkled up and her aura withered away. Guang Yuan seized this moment to strike Ran Qing in the back, causing her to fall from the sky with a scream.
“Blossom Queen!” Tang Jie waved his hand, and a clone immediately went to Ran Qing’s rescue.
The people of the six major sects of Rosecloud all knew that Blossom Queen Ran Qing used emotions as fuel to reverse Time, allowing her to unleash immense power. Among the six major sects, she had the most terrifying bursts of power, her power rising at that moment more than an entire tier. But whenever she used this move, she would greatly drain herself, akin to Tang Jie’s early use of the Devil Crushing Fist, and she would no longer have the ability to fight. This was why Guang Yuan was able to get in an attack on her.
“I’m fine!” Ran Qing shouted as she mustered Immortal energy to heal herself. She still possessed an undying and everlasting body, so she hadn’t fallen so far as to be completely unable to fight. Standing up, she said, “This old woman can still fight! I’ll hold down that traitor Guang Yuan. While I took some injuries, at least I finished off that skeleton. That’s a deal I’ll take anytime, hahaha!”
The Lord of the Blood River sneered, “Ha! The remains of the Immortal Emperor are not so easily destroyed.”
The scattered bones flew back together and reformed into a skeleton.
And then it began to walk toward them again.
The Rosecloud Immortals were alarmed and no longer dared to fight it directly. Thankfully, the skeleton was not completely impossible to deal with. While it had the ability to cross large distances in an instant, its actual pace was not fast, so if one could identify what direction it was headed toward, one could avoid it. And besides its physical strength, the skeleton seemed to have nothing else, so all they needed was to not let it get close.
But this made them very passive.
The skeleton’s appearance had already evened the scales of the battle, and Ran Qing’s injury meant that she could no longer overpower Guang Yuan. On the other end, the various incidents had let the Eight-Armed Heavenly Demon summon even more demons, so the Blood River side was gradually gaining the upper hand.
Moreover, they were still fighting within the Blood River, the Lord of the Blood River’s actual body, which suppressed their strength, so they were slowly reaching their limit.
The Rosecloud Immortals began to grow anxious and wonder why Yun Tianlan hadn’t come back yet.
The Lord of the Blood River knew what they were thinking, and laughed. “Don’t put your hopes on that old man, Yun Tianlan! We gathered countless resources across the Blood River Domain to make this Blood River formation, and it uses my own body as its foundation. Those giant fish are also not ordinary fish, but born from the flesh of the Immortal Emperor. His blood became the Blood River, while his flesh turned into those two fish. They’ve been guarding the skeleton all this time, and even I was unable to approach it. So long as they’re in the Blood River, they will be endlessly healed, so it’s simply impossible to kill them. With the formation and those fish made from the Immortal Emperor’s flesh, even a True Immortal like Yun Tianlan can’t escape.”
The Lord of the Blood River narrowed his eyes, a savage gleam within them. “Today, I’ll exterminate you all! And then we’ll use our advantage in numbers to crush Yun Tianlan to death!”
These words made the hearts of the Rosecloud Immortals go cold.
But at that moment, Tang Jie said, “So, this is everything you have, right?”
“Huh?” Blood River turned to Tang Jie in shock.
“I’m saying that if this is all you have, I can relax,” Tang Jie went on.
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“True Immortal!”
Fairy Gu Ye groaned in despair.
Jin Tianya had already recovered his former cultivation. He had once been a True Immortal, but many years of imprisonment had caused him to fall from this level. Somehow, he had managed to recover it in only a short time.
Jin Tianya chuckled at Fairy Gu Ye, “As I said, you’re sending yourself to your death.”
He swung the Godslayer Sword, which unleashed a sky-rending wave of energy at Gu Ye.
Gu Ye hastily dodged, instantly leaving behind countless afterimages, all of them seeming to be the real person and casting various different spell arts. It was similar to Tang Jie’s Reflections of Floating Life, but it used the special attributes of Space instead.
Jin Tianya shook his head and smiled. “Pointless.”
He swung his sword, and the sword light shattered the afterimages and took aim at the real Gu Ye.
The Godslayer Sword slew Gods and obliterated souls, its power equaling that of the God-Conquering Merak Sword.
Gu Ye knew that she couldn’t be hit by this sword’s attacks and immediately blinked away. But Jin Tianya simply grunted. With his True Immortal cultivation, even his sounds could travel ten times faster than normal, piercing through Gu Ye’s ears and exploding within her mind, almost causing her head to burst apart.
Jin Tianya’s sword neared.
Gu Ye reacted quickly, and before she was struck, her soul took leave of her body and vanished into the void.
It was only because she had entered the Dao of Space that she was able to escape in time and reform her Immortal body. Jin Tianya laughed and said, “Hurry and come out!”
He punched at the air.
He wasn’t proficient in the Dao of Space, but he had his own way of dealing with it. His punch sent ripples cascading through space, and Gu Ye’s location instantly became unstable. With another punch, space shivered and swayed, and that small dimension began to crack. With the third punch, Gu Ye’s small dimension could no longer hold and finally shattered, Gu Ye spilling out. Fortunately, she had finished reforming her body by then.
As another sword attack approached, she once more jumped away.
But no matter how formidable her spatial techniques were, Jin Tianya was still a higher tier of existence, and also equipped with a divine sword. Gu Ye had the treasures of Horizon Ocean Pavilion, but Horizon Ocean Pavilion’s number one Dao armament was the palace treasure, which she had not brought with her, and the other treasures were pointless against him.
In just a few moments, Jin Tianya had killed her three times.
While she had evaded the Godslayer Sword’s strike each time using her spatial techniques, this only delayed the inevitable.
Gu Ye started to be afraid and finally thought about retreating.
But Jin Tianya wasn’t just going to let her go.
He laughed, “It’s too late to leave now! Fairy, stay with me and assist me in recovering my strength.”
He raised the Godslayer Sword and unleashed another mountain-cleaving slash at Gu Ye.
At this moment, Fairy Gu Ye suddenly raised her head and stared at Jin Tianya. “You’re saying that I will assist you in recovering your strength… In other words, you haven’t fully recovered, right?”
Jin Tianya froze. Meanwhile, Fairy Gu Ye raised her hands and made countless spatial threads tangle around the Godslayer Sword.
The Godslayer Sword had originally been part of the Xuanyuan Sword, so such spatial blades naturally couldn’t hurt it. But those countless spatial threads could slice away the Immortal energy Jin Tianya had applied to the weapon.
A divine weapon without a master was useless, no matter how great its abilities were.
The Godslayer Sword floated in the air.
“Contending with my energy? Fool!” Jin Tianya snarled as he sent more energy toward Fairy Gu Ye, the two of them entering a standoff. But Jin Tianya’s aura was beginning to rapidly dwindle.
Fairy Gu Ye had been correct. Jin Tianya had not truly recovered his True Immortal cultivation. In truth, he could only temporarily break back into that realm.
But what did that matter?
With that temporary breakthrough, Jin Tianya could kill Fairy Gu Ye countless times, and after all the previous combat Fairy Gu Ye had already been through, she had to be running low on Immortal energy. Meanwhile, he was still at peak condition, so even if he fell back to the Earth Immortal tier, he was confident that he could slay his opponent.
With this confidence, Jin Tianya naturally didn’t fear this sort of contest.
At this moment, a voice rang out. “Is that so? What if I joined in?”
A hand reached toward Jin Tianya’s back.