Chapter 787: Chapter 419 Deviation!_2
Even an old Heavenly Immortal from a major power within the Tao Alliance,
must act according to certain rules, right?
Su Ping didn’t want to turn the Xuanling Realm, a sustainable area of development, into a battlefield.
So he let his Primordial Spirit Avatar appear and block the path of the black Immortal Boat.
The massive Immortal Boat started off with an aggressive momentum.
However, after the Array confirmed the intelligence that the shattered Xuanwu Realm was indeed as described,
it also gradually slowed down its speed as Su Ping’s Primordial Spirit Avatar appeared.
For a power possessing a Heavenly Immortal, some respect and face must be given.
Not until the Chief Steward of the Cao Family from the black Immortal Boat tactfully suggested that as long as the Xuanling Realm would release the Cao Family’s young and old and return the captured larvae, this incident would be considered over.
But the Chief Steward didn’t expect his proposal to be decisively rejected by the other party.
Moreover, he soon learned from the rear Array,
that the other party had broadcast their conversation in the Xuanling Realm in front of billions of Cultivators!
This news would not take long to spread throughout the Lower Realm.
The Chief Steward felt a sinking feeling in his heart, as anger filled his brain in an instant.
After all, as a Mahayana Taoist Lord who had weathered thousands of years, he suddenly sensed something amiss.
"They...they are clearly provoking us on purpose!"
"What exactly does the other side want? Reputation? To offend a Heavenly Immortal for the sake of reputation?"
The Manager could not understand.
Nor could he guess that Su Ping indeed did it for the sake of reputation.
A reputation that didn’t even spare a Heavenly Immortal family’s face.
This could resonate rapidly through the entire Lower Realm within a short period, and it could even break through, potentially affecting the surrounding Time-Space Sea Domain.
At the same time, the story of the Xuanling Realm desiring Spiritual Medicine and having a Heavenly Immortal also naturally spread far and wide!
For Su Ping, at this moment, nothing was more important than attracting a large flow of Spirit Stones.
"The Cao Family’s face must not be lost!"
"If the other side doesn’t want to talk, then let’s fight!"
The Manager gritted his teeth and made the decision to commence battle.
Afterward, he teleported to the core area of the Array and took out a black talisman given by his master for emergencies.
In a Time-Space Sea Domain that wasn’t very bright but wasn’t dark either, under the illumination of countless distant stars,
the black Immortal Boat took the initiative to attack, with a black obsidian sphere at the top emitting a black light towards Su Ping’s Primordial Spirit Avatar.
But it was blocked halfway by the shell of the Mysterious Turtle Ba Xia, which had suddenly appeared.
Then, after retracting its head back into the shell, Mysterious Turtle Ba Xia spun its body and transformed into a boomerang, striking forward.
At this moment, the size of Mysterious Turtle Ba Xia had reached the maximum allowed by its current realm, with a diameter of over a hundred thousand meters and a height of over ten thousand meters.
From an external view, it was not much smaller than the black, palatial Immortal Boat.
Boom!
As Mysterious Turtle Ba Xia collided with the Shield, the light that burst forth could have led observers to believe that a new sun had been born.
And in the instant the sun appeared and vanished,
Mysterious Turtle Ba Xia that was close to the black Immortal Boat’s Shield opened its mouth from within its shell and spewed out one after another high-yield nuclear warhead that was stored inside.
Turning into a merciless nuclear bomb launcher.
In an instant, before the manipulating Cultivators of the Immortal Boat’s Array could react,
most of the area of the Shield endured the nearly simultaneous detonation of the nuclear explosions!
Hundreds of small suns appeared,
instantly maxing out the pressure on the Immortal Boat’s Array.
It caused the Array Masters to turn pale, with blood trickling from the corners of their mouths.
And just as the Chief Steward was noticing something wrong and calling for support,
before the support arrived,
with a spatial fluctuation, a rift appeared a kilometer away from the Shield.
It was the Sky Queen who, after being summoned, found the right moment to act.
She didn’t do anything particularly strenuous, merely using Divine Skills to assist Su Ping’s Primordial Spirit Avatar by affixing a stack of about a hundred Breaking Realm Talismans, soaked with Su Ping’s own blood for additional power, to the weakest part of the Shield caused by the nuclear explosions.
As these Breaking Realm Talismans, originally Sixth Tier but Enhanced to beyond Seventh Tier top-grade, activated,
within a million miles, a crisp, pleasant sound could be heard!
Following that, spiderweb-like cracks appeared all around the black Immortal Boat,
and then simultaneously shattered!
Ah!
The Array Masters on the Immortal Boat also crumpled as if they had been struck by lightning, one after the other wilting away.
The Chief Steward’s expression changed as well.
He recalled the sensation from that very instant.
Without hesitation, he hurriedly used the black talisman in his hand.
Suddenly!
A black fog appeared out of nowhere inside the Immortal Boat.
Then, following the dispersal of this black fog which absorbed the fallen Array Masters,
the figure of a hawk-eyed, wolfish bald and gaunt old man took shape under the Chief Steward’s astonished and fearful gaze.
This old man was dressed in an illusory dark robe adorned with golden embroidery.
After giving the Chief Steward a look, he became aware of everything.
Then, he softly uttered how interesting, and the next moment after releasing his Divine Thought,
his face was wreathed in ecstasy.
"When did such splendid treasures start appearing in this remote Lower Realm?"
"An avatar pulled by the Primordial Spirit actually has the Five-Colored Divine Light!"
"And there’s a Mysterious Turtle with the Royal Bloodline too!"
"Hahahaha!"
"Fate truly favors me!"
"I shall attain longevity and become the new Demon Lord of this Time Domain!"
"You’ve done well this time!"
The Old Heavenly Immortal gave a slight nod, then, after some thought, extended his skeletal right hand and grabbed onto the Chief Steward:
"I reward you with the freedom of entering my Demon Prison ahead of time!"
The Chief Steward’s face turned to one of horror, he instinctively wanted to resist, but felt something stir within his Divine Soul.
In an instant, all means of resistance disappeared.
He could only watch helplessly as his master absorbed his Primordial Spirit into a Small World.
His physical body and Divine Soul transformed into a stream of light and became a supplement for his master, making this avatar formed of black fog solidify into reality and its aura completely transform into that of a true Heavenly Immortal.
Seeing this, the Chief Steward accepted his fate, feeling that his sacrifice had meaning.
But then, the Chief Steward suddenly discovered that something seemed... a little off about the Small World he had entered?
Was this the same world he had seen before, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, akin to the Inner World of an Immortal described before?
Why was there a pervasive blood-red darkness everywhere?
Why were there three black suns hanging high in the bloody sky?
And upon closer inspection, on the surfaces of these black suns, could he see countless Cultivator souls screaming in despair, with only their heads and above visible?
Furthermore, among those screaming souls, why did he recognize quite a number of Cultivators?
The Chief Steward’s Primordial Spirit started to tremble.
He noticed among the people on the surface of the sun, there was the genius of the Cao Family who was thought to have failed in Crossing Tribulation.
There were young masters and mistresses he had watched grow up, servants and tributes as loyal as himself.
And there were... high-ranking Cultivators from either the same sect as Old Heavenly Immortal Cao or different ones but all part of the Tao Alliance.
"The master... the old master... must have fallen into Deviation long ago."
As Chief Steward, he was well aware that the Old Heavenly Immortal had been studying the Evil Techniques of the Demon Sect to prolong his life.
Although some of these methods were harmful to the heavens and detrimental to reason,
in the Chief Steward’s view, as long as the Old Heavenly Immortal from the Taoism survived, he could save countless more lives than those sacrificed.
In comparison, the lives consumed to prolong his were certainly worth it.
Those who were chosen could only be considered unlucky.
But now it seemed that the worst fears had become reality long ago.
The old master... has ultimately fallen into demonhood!
The Chief Steward sighed, and his Primordial Spirit burst forth with blinding light.
The next moment, just as he was about to blow a hole too big to close in this Small World,
a pale violet-edged blank card appeared in midair.
Instantly, the Chief Steward’s Primordial Spirit, ready to self-destruct, disappeared from its place, and like time being stopped, became fixed within the card.
Shush shush shush!
The sound of cards shuffling echoed through the sky.
Soon, the Mysterious Turtle that was about to collide with the shield and disappear onto the Immortal Boat proper noticed an old man in a black robe appearing in front of him,
and the other party raised a small card in his hand.
It made Ba Xia feel threatened!