But then, one by one, they ceased their mockery, indifference, and displeasure.
Above the five great armies, a figure emerged from each.
The aura of five Great Luo Golden Immortals was unleashed, commanding the myriad troops.
The four armies bowed in unison, exclaiming: "Greetings, Realm Guardians!"
Although the four great powers in the sky were their ancestors, the four great powers were first and foremost the Realm Guardians of the Eastern Desolation, and only then their old ancestors!
On the countless serpent soldiers and warships of the central legion, a figure in white stood, chilling to the bone, a cold that even the sun could not melt.
The central serpent army bowed: "Greetings, Clan Leader!"
With a gentle lift of his finger, Ke Yu pointed towards the Eastern Sea, his indifferent and chilling voice resounding throughout the entire Eastern Primordial World.
"Our Xi Shan Ancient Clan has secluded ourselves since the Dragon-Phoenix era. Yet, Penglai Island has repeatedly killed our people and made enemies of us.
Today, by the decree of the Eastern Desolation Dao Master, we shall destroy Dong Wanggong, the Lord of Penglai Island!
All idlers, disperse!"
The five great armies marched majestically towards Penglai Island in the Eastern Sea, scattering countless ferocious beasts and evil cultivators along the way!
The rogue cultivators of the Eastern Sea watched, awaiting the clash between the two super-powers of the East!
This ancient land of the Eastern Desolation also revealed the profound heritage of the ancient clans to all cultivators!
Ahead of the five great armies, a magnificent pure white light bridge was erected, connecting to Penglai in the Eastern Sea.
An endless army crossed the bridge, traversing through time and space, descending outside Penglai Island!
On Penglai Island, the immortals and celestial lords were in a panic. The prestige of the Eastern Desolation Dao Master in those days was built upon the humiliation of their Penglai Island.
Dong Wanggong's expression changed slightly. He was finally going to make a move!
The arrival of the army was meant to drain his foundation.
Once Penglai Immortal Island was destroyed, his destiny and luck as an Immortal King would naturally vanish.
Dong Wanggong sent a telepathic message to the various immortal elders. The myriad immortals on the island returned to their positions, the island protection formation was activated, clouds surged, and various formation dao rhymes flowed, resembling a world in itself.
This formation was named the Myriad Immortals Cloud Sea Stabilizing Formation. It combined the power of myriad immortals and myriad clouds, with Penglai Island as its foundation. It stabilized the heavens above and suppressed the vast ocean below. It sacrificed offensive power for pure defense, thus possessing astonishing defensive capabilities.
Dong Wanggong sneered, "Even if that Yellow Dragon from the sea comes to fight, even if all powers from heaven and earth emerge, this formation of mine cannot be broken without a primordial supreme treasure!"
On the island, forty-nine Great Luo Immortal Venerables guarded forty-nine auxiliary formation eyes, while seven Immortal Venerables each guarded a main formation eye. Tens of thousands of immortals held formation flags, distributed throughout. The main and auxiliary formations complemented each other, making them virtually invulnerable.
Elder Zhi Ling looked at the vast beast army outside the formation and sneered, "If it weren't for the Immortal King ordering us to retreat into the formation, would mere five Great Luo dare to be so presumptuous before our Penglai Island?"
The formation masters in the seven auxiliary formation eyes beside him nodded in agreement. It wasn't that they were arrogant, but the gap in power was too vast!
Although the Great Dao techniques on Penglai Island were incomplete, they were the earliest cultivators. Now, Penglai Island had forty-nine Great Luo Golden Immortals as its Immortal Venerables, and seven quasi-saint great powers as its immortal elders.
Even with the departure of the three immortal elders, Fu Lu Shou, their Penglai Island was still the foremost power in the current Primordial World!
The four Realm Guardians stood before the myriad armies, with Ke at their head.
Bai Fu surveyed the formation for a moment and said gravely, "This formation has a long-lasting destiny; it is truly difficult to break!"
Ke said coldly, "No need to rush to break the formation. The enemy is strong and we are weak; the enemy is open and we are hidden. We just need to wait for the opportune moment!"
Bei Xu expressed some concern, "But besides Dong Wanggong, there are seven great immortal elders on Penglai Island, whose strength far surpasses ours. If they were to make a surprise attack..."
Bei Xu knew that Penglai Island activated its formation as soon as the Eastern Desolation dispatched troops because they were terrified by the Dao Master!
Even if Dong Wanggong was occupied by the Dao Master, the highest cultivation among them was Ke's peak Great Luo. She and Bai Fu were in the late stage of Great Luo, Hei Bao and You were in the middle stage of Great Luo. Their overt strength was indeed insufficient.
Even though Penglai Island had many pseudo-immortals, they couldn't withstand the sheer numbers.
Ke said unhurriedly, "Don't worry. We just need to surround Penglai. The rest is not our concern."
The four Realm Guardians bowed in agreement.
The situation in the Eastern Sea was bizarre and unpredictable. Dong Wanggong held his ground on Penglai Island, refusing to come out, while the Eastern Desolation army did not attack the island. Both sides were in a stalemate.
On Jian Mu, Qing Ling's primordial spirit deduced the Myriad Immortals Cloud Sea Stabilizing Formation. This formation was the culmination of the great Daos of myriad immortals. The profundity of this formation was by no means comprehensible to ordinary great powers.
Qing Ling happened to be no ordinary great power.
Although this formation was difficult to break, it did not mean it was unbreakable.
Qing Ling's primordial spirit evolved infinitely, and at the same time, the Chaos Me was also deducing.
The Qing Ling of the Primordial World was a combination of sensibility and wisdom, emotion and soul.
The Chaos Me was an entity of absolute rationality, absolute wisdom, and devoid of emotion!
Therefore, the Chaos Me was superior in the Great Dao!
The Chaos Me and the Primordial Me, two Qing Lings, deduced simultaneously, waiting for time to pass.
A hundred years of deduction was but a blink of an eye.
And Penglai Island had been besieged for a hundred years.
Qing Ling looked at Dong Wanggong, who remained as steadfast as a turtle, and couldn't help but smile.
I am waiting for an opportunity, but what are you waiting for?
Qing Ling reached out to the west and said, "Lend me the treasure of the Queen Mother of the West!"
In Western Kunlun, the Queen Mother of the West heard this, pondered for a moment, and a beam of cloud light rose into the sky!
Qing Ling received the cloud light into his sleeve, stood up, and stepped out of the Eastern Desolation.
"Crack~"
On Penglai Island, the void was like a mirror, shattered into fragments, a shocking sight!
Qing Ling emerged, standing with his hands behind his back in the sky.
Behind him, the myriad armies bowed in unison: "Welcome the Dao Master!"
The banners of the five peaks of Xi Shan fluttered in the wind, and there was silence all around, a stillness. The figure standing in the sky calmly accepted the salute of countless beings.
Qing Ling looked at Penglai and said with a smile, "Mu Gong, why don't you show yourself?"
On Penglai Island, Dong Wanggong responded and emerged.
"It has been a long time since anyone called me Mu Gong!"
Qing Ling looked at his eyes, which held a hint of sharpness within their turbidity, and seemed to remember something, saying, "Could it be that you are about to sever three corpses?"
Dong Wanggong sneered, but did not reply.
"Then it seems that you, Mu Gong, are destined not to sever the third corpse!" Qing Ling said with a smile, "Because I am your destined tribulation!
Our grievances have intertwined for dozens of epochs, and it is time to settle them."
Dong Wanggong's expression changed slightly, "Are you going to fight me to the death? What good will either of us get from mutual destruction?"
Qing Ling shook his head, "Mutual destruction, that is unlikely."
Dong Wanggong's expression flickered, "Your cultivation has not advanced, but has regressed. What basis do you have?"
Qing Ling's calm and collected eyes looked at him, "You will know if you try!"
As his voice fell, he waved his sleeve, and treasure light emanated. Suddenly, clouds arose everywhere, clouds gathered, clouds ascended, ten directions of clouds and mist absorbed the vast sea, and the surging sea of clouds held how many immortals?
Dong Wanggong sneered, "Even if you borrow the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Banner, so what?"
Qing Ling did not respond to him. He pointed to the sky and said coldly, "Seal the Heavens!"
Above the sky, the River Diagram and the Luo Script slowly unfurled, the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements evolved, Yin and Yang, sun and moon shone, and the universe of thirty-three heavens descended, a sea of stars pressing down upon the firmament.
Then he pointed to the earth, and the Map of Mountains and Rivers spread across the eight directions.
"Suppress the Earth!"
The mountains were so high that the earth was not visible, the rivers boiled without a trace of dust, the earth was impassable to the Nine Netherworlds, and heaven and earth were separated by Yin and Yang.
The top of the sky was no longer azure, and the dust of the earth could not see the mountains and rivers.
The great powers of the four directions looked towards the Eastern Sea, shocked by such a display.
The rogue cultivators of the Eastern Sea were all dumbfounded. Such divine abilities to seal the heavens and suppress the earth, with no access to heaven or path to earth, were beyond their imagination.
Dong Wanggong's expression became even more grim, and he angrily said, "Sealing the heavens and suppressing the earth, with no door to heaven and no path to earth, are you sure you can obtain my Dao fruit?"
Qing Ling sighed, "Mu Gong is, after all, an ancient great power. This is the grand ceremony I have prepared for your return to heaven and earth. No amount of grandeur is too much."
Qing Ling added, "All beings of the Eastern Desolation, attack the formation, slaughter the Immortal Venerables, destroy the Ten Elders!"
Immediately, the beings of the Eastern Desolation led their troops into the formation. The sea of clouds of the formation had been gathered by the Immortal Gathering Banner and restrained outside the formation. The heaven and earth were suppressed by the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the River Diagram and Luo Script borrowed from the Five Emperors of the demon race. Even if Dong Wanggong wanted to escape, he could not escape the Primordial World!
In the vast ocean, giant dragons soared into the sky. Behind the five-clawed yellow dragon were countless monstrous beasts, shrimp soldiers, and crab generals, who rushed into the Penglai Island protection formation.
The yellow dragon transformed into a human and, along with Qing Ling, surrounded Dong Wanggong from front and back.
Dong Wanggong's eyes burned with rage. The myriad immortals raised their staffs high, and behind him stood ancient trees and all living beings. A trace of the power of myriad immortals in heaven and earth was mobilized and returned to Dong Wanggong's body.
The ancient trees behind him grew tall, supporting a world. He was a god, an immortal, the king of immortals, the wood of gods.
The tall and majestic ancient wood unleashed a torrent of myriad immortals, rushing directly towards them.
"Boom~"
The firmament shattered, and the true dragon flew backward into the sea, while the ancient wood remained majestic and tall.
The yellow dragon sneered, "How long can borrowed power last?"
A brilliant lotus image appeared between Qing Ling's eyebrows. He formed hand seals, pointing to the sky and drawing from the earth. The phantom of the thirty-six-petal Creation Green Lotus flew towards the ancient wood.
The wheel of wood dao spun behind Qing Ling. The Dao Edict of the Ancestor of Wood Dao suppressed the ancient wood's power by three points.
Qing Ling's eyes flickered, like the birth and destruction of a world. The Dao of Life and Death revolved, and the wheel of time turned upon the ancient wood.
"Hum~"
A treasure mirror shattered, its brilliance dimmed, and a mid-grade primordial spirit treasure was destroyed by the Dao Forbidden.
On the ancient wood, Dong Wanggong sat on the lush, verdant crown of the tree. He reached out a finger, and the Dao power of wood swept out, breaking through layers of lotus sea and entering the depths of the lotus.
"Boom~"
The lotus flowers exploded, reaching three feet from Qing Ling.
Qing Ling swept away with his sleeve, and the phantom of the Creation Green Lotus flew back and covered the top of the ancient wood. Four-colored lotus leaves appeared, red, white, black, and green, corresponding to the four elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. The power of chaos slowly descended, as if heaven and earth were returning to chaos.
At the same time, beneath Jian Mu in the Eastern Desolation, a figure in black robes approached Jian Mu. With a stomp of his foot, the dozens of Golden Immortals and Tai Yi guarding the surroundings instantly turned into skeletons, their life force extinguished.
The black-robed figure approached Jian Mu, looking at the tall roots of Jian Mu with undisguised disgust in his eyes. He slowly raised his hand, and a terrifying poison law gathered in his palm, striking at Jian Mu.
"Boom~"
Countless tadpole-like white lights suddenly appeared on the body of Jian Mu, blocking the palm of immense poison and sending countless white tadpoles into the black-robed man's palm and into his body.
"Who?"
He quickly circulated his energy, forced back the white purifying light within his body, and shouted sternly.
"Heh heh, I am Qian Yan Demon Saint. Following the Demon Emperor's order, I guard Jian Mu and have been waiting for you, Mu Gong's evil corpse."
Qing Xuan slowly emerged from the void behind him. He clapped his hands on the ground, and countless pure white chains shot up into the sky, enveloping the black-robed man.