"Boom!"
"Clang!"
With Chen Jiuyang's move, a casual strike stirred up terrifying air currents, its immense power making the ground tremble as if an earthquake.
He stood with one foot on the head of the Lotus Mother, looking down at her with cold eyes, a hint of confusion in them:
"You old cur, did you not know I had stepped into the Imperial Path?"
"Imperial Path!"
The Lotus Mother's face showed astonishment, then anger, and finally terror.
The azure true qi on her body surged like a vast ocean. She instantly slipped from beneath Chen Jiuyang's foot, creating distance, and stared at him intently.
Her expression was more somber than ever: "You've stepped into the Imperial Path!???"
The next moment, the azure aura on her body abruptly changed, transforming into a dangerous immortal light. With a roar, she charged at Chen Jiuyang:
"So what!"
"Granny can still kill you!!"
Even the exceptionally talented Empress Yan had met her end in her hands.
What was this brat Chen Jiuyang?
Chen Jiuyang looked at the incoming azure immortal light, a flicker of solemnity in his eyes: "This old cur knows forbidden arts too!"
"Without forging a furnace, how did she achieve enlightenment, ignite the Dao fire, and illuminate the Celestial Terrace to borrow its power?"
The Lotus Mother had lived so long, her foundation was terrifying. To be able to borrow the power of the Imperial Path's Celestial Terrace was beyond expectation, even startling Chen Jiuyang.
The secrets of heaven and earth were too numerous.
"Cannot give the old cur Lotus Mother a chance to perform more forbidden arts!"
Chen Jiuyang immediately moved his mind, his killing intent surging in his eyes. His personal martial will suddenly manifested. He extended his arm, instantly condensing a great bow!
"Boom! Boom!"
Chen Jiuyang's martial furnace suddenly operated, invoking the gods of the Celestial Terrace. The divine treasures of the Dao Palace resonated in unison!
"Swish swish swish!"
The great bow was instantly adorned with a majestic immortal light aura: "Heavenly Will Four Symbols—"
"Myriad Heavenly Will!"
"Die! By! My! Hand!"
With this arrow, the heavens and earth changed color. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter arrived and vanished in an instant, like the exclusion of heavenly will. It contained the terrifying power of Chen Jiuyang's step into the Imperial Path, directly blasting towards the Lotus Mother.
To this day, Chen Jiuyang's Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow and Heavenly Will Like a Blade had become his signature moves. Who in the Immortal and Martial realms did not know the fame of these two techniques?
This arrow!
"How is this possible?!"
The Lotus Mother's expression drastically changed, her heart filled with dread.
She was not unfamiliar with this arrow. It was just that the last time she saw it, the power of the Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow had not been this terrifying, capable of making her feel the despair of death!
In an instant, the Lotus Mother was locked onto by this arrow. She felt the exclusion of heaven and earth, making her breathing difficult. Even the circulation of her true qi became arduous. Simultaneously, Chen Jiuyang's overbearing and peerless personal martial will attacked her along with it.
She had lived for nearly ten thousand years, yet she had never felt the breath of death so closely!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
She was shocked and angered, her heart surging with feelings of death and despair. She roared, "I am not convinced!!!"
She had cultivated martial arts for ten thousand years, mastering various forbidden arts. As a Venerable realm expert, she could kill peerless Imperial Path mighty figures across realms.
Such an achievement could be compared to an Emperor's son, something even Chen Jiuyang could not achieve!
Yet, how old was this brat Chen Jiuyang!
She was unwilling to perish like this!
She fully operated her cultivation techniques, burning her very essence, and roared, "Eight Lives of Immortal Cultivation—Turbulence!"
In an instant, even the exclusion of heavenly will carried by the Heavenly Will Four Symbols Arrow was disrupted and disturbed.
Threads of faint light erupted from the Lotus Mother's body. Her cultivation visibly regressed!
This was truly, truly using her life-risking trump card!
However, before Chen Jiuyang, who had ascended to the Imperial Path, this forbidden divine ability was useless!
"Rumble!!!"
The explosion swept across heaven and earth, like the end of days. Within a thousand meters, all forests, stones, grass, trees, and animals vanished!
Only the bare, cracked earth remained, exposing the entrance to the Immortal Seclusion Clan's forbidden ground, a pool of water.
"Both are exceptionally talented individuals, but ultimately, one is in the Venerable realm, and the other is in the Imperial Path... they cannot be compared..." a peerless mighty figure observing from the shadows sighed.
With one arrow, the Lotus Mother's physical body was annihilated, leaving only the coffin containing the remains of Empress Yan.
The Lotus Mother's roar echoed in the sky:
"Brat Chen Jiuyang, even if I abandon my immortal path, I will surely kill you!"
"Oh." Chen Jiuyang's expression was indifferent, and he said calmly, "I will await you."
Everyone knew that the Lotus Mother must have another living physical body within the Immortal Seclusion Clan's forbidden ground.
Chen Jiuyang flicked his finger, stirring the air currents, scattering the Lotus Mother's roar.
Just as everyone thought the matter was coming to a close.
The coffin containing the remains of Empress Yan suddenly exploded.
Everyone thought another変故 had occurred, only to see...
"Cough cough..."
"!!!"
Everyone was instantly stunned, even Chen Jiuyang was momentarily lost.
The deceased Empress Yan had actually come back to life. Heavily injured and coughing blood, he stood up.
"This..." Chen Beixuan was completely dumbfounded.
What in the world was happening.
Empress Yan was still alive.
Everyone present was stunned into place.
Empress Yan coughed blood, his eyes slightly dimmed. He looked at Chen Jiuyang and said with a wry smile, "Jiuyang, you shouldn't have stopped her from returning to the Immortal Seclusion Clan today..."
Chen Jiuyang was astonished and couldn't help but ask, "Empress Yan, what is going on?"
Empress Yan coughed and explained, "I was faking my death, intending to annihilate all eight of her physical bodies when the Lotus Mother attempted to possess my body... but your intervention today..."
"Has disrupted my plan..."
"Now, she is hiding within the Immortal Seclusion Clan's forbidden ground. For a short period, she likely won't appear in public again. A good opportunity to eliminate her has been missed."
The Lotus Mother's Eight Lives of Immortal Cultivation truly made Empress Yan feel threatened and wary, forcing him to resort to this tactic of faking his death.
Chen Jiuyang's expression was astonished: "If you had such a plan, why didn't you inform me..."
Empress Yan's expression was somewhat solemn: "She is not simple. There are great secrets and great terror about her. I only came up with this idea on the spur of the moment..."
Chen Beixuan's eyes turned red: "Master, I really thought you were gone."
"Cough cough..." Empress Yan coughed, smiling wryly, "I am known as the convergence of Dragon Country's martial luck for three thousand years. How could I die so easily."
"The last battle made me realize that although I founded the system of Wardens, I am powerless to advance this path further. Therefore, I decided to pass the Warden position to you..."
"I need to recuperate now, cripple my own cultivation, and tread the martial path once more..."
Chen Jiuyang took a deep breath: "Empress Yan has great spirit..."
To cripple one's martial cultivation and start anew, how many people in the world could make such a resolve?
Empress Yan's body swayed precariously. He looked at Chen Jiuyang: "Jiuyang... this time, I truly must trouble you to take care of things..."
With that, Empress Yan's body collapsed, his life truly hanging by a thread.
"..."