Chapter 3047: Mortal Calamity |
Just as Ji Chaoyin’s command faded into the air, Ji Guiling and Ji Haiwen unleashed their respective killing trump cards.
“Ten Thousand Streams!” Ji Guiling roared.
In an instant, the void split apart as if torn by unseen hands. From the rift poured a vast and boundless torrent of principle power, surging forth like a heavenly flood bursting from the nine heavens, threatening to drown the world itself.
The force of that torrent of principle power was all-encompassing and vast beyond measure. Before it, everything appeared pitifully small and utterly powerless. As the strike was unleashed, Ji Guiling’s aura visibly faltered and his complexion turned pale.
Clearly, even a being at the Creation Eternal Realm could not unleash such a strike without paying an immense price.
“Mountains and rivers converge, the bright moon shines alone!”
At the same time, a cold, ethereal voice rang out. Ji Haiwen lifted her hand, and it was as though thousands of mountains and rivers unfurled across heaven and earth. Above them, a single luminous moon shone alone over the cosmos, pouring down a hazy, dreamlike radiance, clear, pure and chillingly serene.
Those mountains and rivers were all transformed from mysterious principles. Above all, the radiant moon seemed to be the incarnation of the myriad daos of the heavens, suffused with a supreme, peerless divine grace that shone alone through the ages.
The sight was breathtakingly beautiful, yet at the same time, terrifying beyond imagination. Even from afar, Ji Bowen and other Law Transcendence Eternal experts felt their scalps go numb. A suffocating sense of despair gripped their hearts, leaving them feeling utterly powerless before such might.
Buzz—
It materialized out of thin air, spanning tens of thousands of feet, blotting out the heavens and earth. It loomed like a gaping abyssal maw, ready to devour all existence. Now unleashed at full power by Lin Xun’s cultivation at the pinnacle of the Law Transcendence Realm, the forbidden divine might of the Gate of Exile was incomparably more terrifying than ever before.
Rumble—
The vast torrent of principle power unleashed by Ji Guiling was monstrous beyond words, but before the Gate of Exile, it was nothing more than rivers returning to the sea, swallowed whole without resistance.
“Impossible!” Ji Guiling shouted, horror flooding his expression as his brows twisted in disbelief. That strike was his ultimate trump card, draining the majority of his cultivation and strength.
At the same time, Ji Haiwen gasped in shock. The world of mountains, rivers, and moonlight was crushed like a paper painting, violently torn apart and swallowed into the Gate of Exile. The terrifying principle power contained within appeared utterly powerless, vanishing without leaving a trace.
Boom!
Heaven and earth thundered as the Gate of Exile swept forward, utterly unhindered, devouring everything in its path. Supreme divine arts, laws, and principles were all crushed and swallowed whole, swept away like debris in a raging storm.
The sight left Ji Bowen and the others utterly shaken, scalps tingling, eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.
At the same time, Lin Xun’s four dao bodies were already fully deployed. The Green Wood and Red Flame Dao Bodies joined forces to suppress Ji Guiling, while the White Metal and Yellow Earth Dao Bodies dealt with Ji Haiwen.
Meanwhile, Lin Xun’s true body fought with everything he had, desperately restraining Ji Chaoyin’s ferocious onslaught.
Rumble—
The battle grew ever more terrifying. In the blink of an eye, Ji Guiling was completely suppressed by the Green Wood Dao Body and Red Flame Dao Body. With no escape and no room to evade, he was swallowed outright by the Gate of Exile.
“No…!” Ji Guiling roared, his eyes bloodshot as he struggled desperately. Unfortunately, it was all in vain. In an instant, his figure was engulfed and vanished into the depths of the Gate of Exile.
Just like that, an initial Creation Eternal was exiled!
“You’re courting death!”
Ji Chaoyin erupted in rage, his gaze turning icy and ruthless as he unleashed his ultimate killing move. From between his palm and fingers burst forth a blade of dazzling light, slashing out in fury.
A bone-chilling sense of danger swept over Lin Xun, making his body go cold, but he did not retreat. Gritting his teeth, he met the strike head-on, resisting with all his strength.
Clang! Even the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron failed to withstand the blow and was blasted violently backward.
Immediately afterward, the sword qi bore down upon him. Even though Lin Xun resisted with all his might, he was still injured. His figure staggered backward through the void, retreating several steps before he could steady himself, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
That sword qi was terrifying beyond measure. It tore open a bloody gash across his chest, nearly splitting him in two. This was the might of an advanced Creation Eternal. Even though Lin Xun’s true body possessed heaven-defying power, he was still wounded in this life and death clash.
Regardless, Ji Chaoyin’s furious sword strike had ultimately been blocked by Lin Xun’s true body!
At the same time, Ji Haiwen was besieged by the four dao bodies. Their combined assault descended mercilessly, and she suffered a crushing blow. In the next instant, her grievously wounded figure was swallowed whole by the Gate of Exile, following in Ji Guiling’s footsteps.
Everything had happened far too quickly. Even Ji Haiwen, an intermediate Creation Eternal, was unable to withstand the full-force combined assault of the four great dao bodies! Of course, Lin Xun had paid a price for this victory. His true body was wounded by the sword light, but fortunately, the injury was not fatal.
Ji Bowen and the others were utterly stunned and enraged. The successive eliminations had driven their faces ashen, leaving every one of them cold to the bone.
After countless ages of survival and accumulation, the Ji Clan had produced four Creation Eternal Realm existences. Unfortunately, first Ji Guizhen had met disaster in the Eternal True Realm, and now Ji Guiling and Ji Haiwen had fallen one after another tonight. One could only imagine how devastating this blow was!
It had shaken the very foundation of the Ji Clan, enough to send their prestige plummeting!
“How is this possible…”
“How could it come to this…?”
“How…”
Ji Bowen and the other core figures are on the verge of madness.
“You…deserve to die!” At this moment, Ji Chaoyin completely erupted. He was like a mad beast unleashed.
Boom! His robes rattled violently as his aura erupted like a volcano, unleashing incomparably brilliant Eternal dao light. In that instant, he resembled a supreme sovereign pouring boundless wrath upon the world.
Most striking of all, a thin bloody fissure silently split open between his brows. From within it, a strange, demonic scarlet sword light slowly crept forth. With every inch of sword light that emerged, heaven and earth trembled, and Ji Chaoyin’s power surged another step higher.
When the sword light was fully revealed, it stretched seven inches long, eerily crimson, razor-bright and crystalline, as though forged from condensed divine blood. The terrifying aura it emitted dyed heaven and earth a chilling shade of red.
Rumble!
The entire Fengqi Sacred Mountain shook violently. Visible to the naked eye, countless currents of principle power transformed into radiant arcs, streaking out from every region of the mountain and converging frantically upon that seven-inch sword light. In an instant, its might surged explosively.
“Fengqi Absolute Sword!” Ji Bowen and the others could not help but reveal expressions of shock.
This was the Ji Clan’s supreme clan-protecting divine art, a forbidden peerless technique capable of summoning all the laws and principles suppressed within Fengqi Sacred Mountain and merging them with the wielder’s own power and lifelong cultivation, concentrating everything into a single beam of sword light.
Such power could effortlessly suppress and annihilate any Creation Eternal. Only beings of the Immeasurable Eternal Realm could contend with it at all.
Of course, within the countless epochal civilizations of the Fortune Dominion, it was utterly impossible for an Immeasurable Eternal to be born. Thus, this forbidden divine art could be regarded as the Ji Clan’s ultimate clan-protecting power, capable of striking fear across all under heaven.
Now, it had been unleashed by the enraged Ji Chaoyin. At this moment, even Lin Xun felt a chill run through his heart. He immediately withdrew, keeping his distance as he raised his guard, forcefully pulling himself out of that state of furious hatred and regaining his composure.
If I block it with everything I have, I might be able to hold it off, but I will inevitably suffer grave injuries. And if that happens, Ji Bowen and the other Law Transcendence Eternals over there would be more than enough to kill me…
Realizing the severity of the situation, Lin Xun did not hesitate. He summoned all four of his dao bodies to gather around and guard his true body. At the same time, he called Xia Zhi out from the Boat of Eternity.
“Xia Zhi, I’ll handle this old bastard,” Lin Xun transmitted. “But if I can’t hold on later, take me with you and fight our way out of here.”
“Let me do it.”
Xia Zhi stepped forward, suddenly charging straight toward Ji Chaoyin. Her speed was terrifying, so fast that Lin Xun couldn’t stop her in time.
“Come back!” His expression drastically changed as he chased after her.
“Go!” At that moment, Ji Chaoyin spoke, his voice icy and merciless.
Shua!
The long-prepared crimson seven-inch sword light leapt up and slashed through the void. In an instant, heaven and earth were plunged into a scene of collapsing destruction, as though the world itself could not withstand the might of that single sword.
As Ji Chaoyin struck, an indescribable aura of slaughter erupted, giving rise to a terrifying apocalyptic vision, as all heavens crumbled and fell. This was the Fengqi Absolute Sword, an unparalleled forbidden divine art so powerful that even beings of the Creation Eternal Realm would feel utter despair!
At that moment, around Xia Zhi’s slender figure, intricate and obscure chains of fate suddenly manifested one after another, radiating an aura of supreme mystery. Her body shone with blinding brilliance, as though she was burning her very own life force.
In her left hand surged a vast white radiance of time, while in her right hand flowed an obscure and mysterious power of karma. As the Fengqi Absolute Sword slashed down, she suddenly brought her hands together before her, forming a mysterious and profound hand seal.
The light of time and the power of karma fused within the hand seal, erupting outward with a thunderous boom. In that instant, the world fell into absolute silence, giving rise to an inconceivable scene.
As time flowed and karma intertwined like rivers, the starry sky seemed to sink into a strange cycle, where all things slipped into decay, decline, and annihilation.
Under the impact of this supreme power, all the strange phenomena between heaven and earth collapsed like fragile bubbles. The seven-inch sword light slashing down froze in midair before Xia Zhi, buzzing and trembling violently.
Then, it exploded apart with a deafening roar. The Fengqi Absolute Sword! This supreme, forbidden divine power was actually broken!
Lin Xun, who had just reached Xia Zhi’s side, stood frozen in shock.
Boom!
As Xia Zhi unleashed the hand seal that fused the mysteries of time and karma, heaven and earth overturned, all phenomena collapsed into ruin, and everything seemed to fall into a cycle of death.
Ji Chaoyin saw nothing but blinding white before his eyes, as an indescribable terror surged through both his body and soul. The powers of time and fate surged like a raging torrent, engulfing his body and soul and carrying him toward the unknowable abyss of time and space.
Then, before everyone’s horrified eyes…
Ji Chaoyin, an advanced Creation Eternal, looked like a withered tree stripped of all vitality. His essence, spirit, qi, and the power of the great dao he possessed vanished in an instant, while countless hair-thin cracks spread across his body like a spider web.
Bang!
At last, his body could endure no more. It crumbled with a soft rustle into a haze of ashen calamity dust, scattering away until nothing remained. The entire place fell into dead silence.
Even Lin Xun was stunned by the sight, shock unmistakably written across his face.
Just then, Xia Zhi’s clear, heavenly voice rang beside his ear. “That was the Mortal Calamity, the strongest divine power I can currently command.”