In the sky, the gate of the Immortal Realm appeared. The giant hand flying out from that gate was precisely the hand that killed Fang Qingxue's clone. It was unknown what powerful existence it was that actually descended this time to kill Immortal Venerable Linglong.
However, the illusion of "Daoist Hongmeng" behind Immortal Venerable Linglong did not allow this giant hand to act tyrannically. With a shake of its body, it soared into the sky. Those eyes were enough to completely burn the Immoral Realm.
The illusion of Daoist Hongmeng remained completely motionless in the face of the giant hand's grasp. He merely reached out his hand gently and pointed a pure white finger out, hitting right in the center of the giant hand.
"Daoist Hongmeng, your main body is no longer here. Can the will you left behind still protect your successor?"
The giant hand grabbed, intending to crush Daoist Hongmeng's finger. At the same time, behind the gate of the Immortal Realm where the giant hand was located, an almost imperceptible voice was faintly transmitted out.
"The beginning of Hongmeng, the dawn of Taiji…" Daoist Hongmeng did not answer, but once again spoke the true essence of the eight characters. Brilliant light flashed on his finger, and streams of Hongmeng Qi shot out violently. Then it suddenly transformed into the diagram of the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao. This ancient supreme divine power, the absolute art he comprehended by sitting quietly in front of the Gate of Eternal Life for ninety thousand years, showed its true power.
In that Hongmeng Qi, countless universes were born and destroyed. In an instant, hundreds of billions of universes went from birth to destruction. People with high cultivation could even see traces of living creatures in those hundreds of billions of universes.
Perhaps the birth of a universe to its ultimate destruction, in the eyes of Daoist Hongmeng, was actually just a matter of an instant.
Everything must return to Hongmeng.
With a popping sound, the giant hand was actually pierced through by a single point from the illusion of Daoist Hongmeng.
Behind the gate of the Immortal Realm, an angry roar was immediately transmitted. But it seemed to be restricted by some kind of rule. The giant hand gradually disappeared, and the gate of the Immortal Realm also vanished in a flash.
The immortal envoy disappeared without a trace at this moment.
Immortal Venerable Linglong's body moved, and her face was slightly pale. The huge illusion of Daoist Hongmeng also gradually dispersed, turning into a talisman that fell into her palm.
That talisman was a piece of jade. It was unknown what material this jade piece was forged from. It was somewhat similar to a fragment of an artifact of creation, but not quite. Upon the jade piece, eight large characters were carved: "The beginning of Hongmeng, the dawn of Taiji." In the center of the eight large characters, the shadow of a Daoist floated up and down uncertainly.
It turned out that Immortal Venerable Linglong had just activated this mysterious jade talisman to trigger the illusion of Daoist Hongmeng.
Unfortunately, she seemed to have consumed too much vitality as well.
"How is it?" The Human Emperor Pen immediately manifested its physical form. "Immortal Venerable Linglong, do you know the origin of the giant hand that descended from the Immortal Realm just now?"
"That giant hand is very mysterious." Immortal Venerable Linglong shook her head, and the jade talisman merged into her body. "To think that the envoy of the Immortal Realm actually cultivated into a celestial immortal, possessed immortal artifacts, and could communicate with the Immortal Realm at any time to kill him. That would be extraordinarily difficult. This time, in order to integrate the Xuanhuang Great World and fight against the Protoss, the Immortal Realm has probably paid a great price."
"That is certain. The secrets of the Xuanhuang Great World are endless. If the Protoss is allowed to occupy it, explore it one by one, obtain its origin, and then heavily sacrifice the world, opening the gateway to the Immortal Realm in one fell swoop… Then the universe of heaven and earth will change for it." Demon Venerable Chiyuan said: "At the very least, once it is broken through, all the vitality of the Immortal Realm will leak down. Then there will no longer be an essential difference between mortal cultivators and cultivators of the Immortal Realm. All the advantages of the Immortal Realm will be swept away."
"Immortal Venerable Linglong, how is your cultivation now?" Ancient Demon Venerable asked.
Immortal Venerable Linglong smiled faintly: "I stepped onto another path. But one-on-one, against the immortal envoy, I can definitely contend. However, killing him would be very difficult. This time, if it weren't for you bringing back the Fruit of Wishes, I wouldn't have been able to return to the Hongmeng Secret Treasury again, find more secrets, obtain the inheritance and legacy of Daoist Hongmeng, and learn the Great Karma Technique."
"This is all Fang Han's contribution." Ancient Demon Venerable waved his hand. "My snatching of the Fruit of Wishes that time was extremely dangerous. If it weren't for Fang Han and the Human Emperor Pen stepping in, I might have fled with heavy injuries. The power of the Five Great Worlds Elite Alliance is truly too great."
"Fang Han… is it him again? It seems that my fate with him is continuously entangled." Immortal Venerable Linglong frowned: "After cultivating the Great Karma Technique, I feel that karmic retribution is infallible. Between me and this person, there is still unfinished karma."
"What should we do now? The envoy of the Immortal Realm has fled. Should we counterattack immediately, besiege the Taiyi Sect, and directly destroy this pawn of the Immortal Realm." The Human Emperor Pen said.
"That's unnecessary." Demon Venerable Chiyuan disagreed: "The Taiyi Sect is a pawn of the Immortal Realm, but it is also an important resisting force against the Protoss tribulation. After this Protoss tribulation, the Taiyi Sect will definitely grow stronger. This is unquestionable. Not to mention that if we go over now and destroy the Taiyi Sect, we will incur the true wrath of the Immortal Realm. Even taking ten thousand steps back and saying we destroy the Taiyi Sect, how will we resist the Protoss invasion?"
"The Taiyi Sect cannot be destroyed right now, and the immortal envoy cannot be besieged." Immortal Venerable Linglong finally said: "But this doesn't matter much. The Protoss tribulation is also our opportunity. We can strengthen ourselves in this tribulation. I have a premonition that the final attack of the Protoss will be within a few days. At that time, the Xuanhuang Great World, and even hundreds of billions of planets around it, will be filled with the smoke of war everywhere. A true killing tribulation of antiquity will descend."
"We must seize the time, comprehend Daoist techniques, and finally cultivate! After this tribulation, I am afraid we will also have to go to the Immortal Realm." The Human Emperor Pen said: "Only upon reaching the Immortal Realm will we obtain greater advancement."
"Indeed. After this tribulation passes, some loopholes might appear in the rules of the Immortal Realm. When we ascend to the Immortal Realm, we can bring some things along with us and not ascend completely bare." Demon Venerable Chiyuan said.
"Right, this is a good opportunity."
Suddenly, Immortal Venerable Linglong's body moved. The void of the entire Linglong Blessed Land suddenly shrank, turned into space dust, and drifted up. Only faint divine sense communication flashed in the void.
"Human Emperor Pen, go find the fragments of the artifact of creation with Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother Fang Qingxue. I wonder how that Fang Qingxue's cultivation is now?"
"Lord Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother found some things she lost back then, and her mana has advanced by leaps and bounds. At every instant, her cultivation is terrifying. She entered an unfamiliar place solely to cultivate. As for her current mana, I don't know what realm it has advanced to either. Moreover, she has the power of destiny on her. Everyone, even powerful existences in the Immortal Realm, do not know where she is or what she is doing. In the calculations of many heavenly secrets, she is a person who has jumped out of the real world."
"Destiny…" Immortal Venerable Linglong muttered these two words, and then her divine sense completely disappeared.
An earth-shattering battle came to a close.
"Such a pity, such a pity! Why didn't both sides suffer heavy casualties! If they could both suffer, I could take advantage of it, kill that Immortal Venerable Linglong or the immortal envoy, use supreme divine powers to fuse them into my body, and refine them. Then I could advance to become a true Divine Emperor."
In an inexplicable void, the son of the Divine Emperor, Huang Xiaoyu, hid in the fine dust. He was excited all over, yet also very disappointed.
He had witnessed this battle.
However, the fact that both sides did not suffer heavy casualties made him very displeased. He hoped they would both suffer, and then he could come out and take advantage. If he could kill a peerless expert, he would earn back all his losses from this time.
Unfortunately, things did not go as he wished.
"Young Master, let us go. This place is still extremely dangerous. Whether it is Immortal Venerable Linglong or that immortal envoy, they can easily discover us. Once discovered, I am afraid we won't even have a chance to escape." Divine Venerable Nixian said.
"Afraid of what?" Although Huang Xiaoyu spoke in a tough tone, he also had some apprehension. Facing these tyrannical figures, although he had always been arrogant and domineering, he would definitely die without a doubt.
"Let us go! Young Master!" Divine Venerable Nixian also saw that Huang Xiaoyu was fierce in appearance but weak within. However, to give the Young Master an easy way out, he changed the subject: "There are also a few sons of Divine Emperors who served as vanguards and lead the Protoss army. If we encounter them this time, I am afraid it will be difficult for the Young Master to face them."
"Right, right, right…" Huang Xiaoyu hurriedly moved: "We will leave immediately."
"Can you still leave?"
A voice was transmitted out from the void.
"Who! Who is it!"
Huang Xiaoyu's body jolted in shock, and he hurriedly radiated his divine sense in all directions to see clearly who exactly was speaking.
"Guard the Young Master!" Divine Venerable Nixian was also greatly alarmed. His whole body's punching energy surged, and his power boiled.
But right at this moment, above their heads, the void suddenly shattered. A massive bronze cannon appeared above them, and boundless crystal light blasted out, bombing continuously.
Instantly, the protective astral qi of Divine Venerable Nixian, Divine Venerable Zhantan, and Huang Xiaoyu were all blasted open. Their bodies were pierced through, and beneath them, many Divine Emperors fell down like raindrops.
"Immortal artifact! True immortal artifact power!"
Huang Xiaoyu's body trembled. The armor on his body emitted light, repairing the protective astral qi, and then desperately repairing the ruptured wounds in his body. At the same time, his body performed a shifting motion, intending to flee the area.
Swish!
As his body shifted out, he saw an ancient lightning city appear in the sky. Countless Divine Emperors were all sucked into it all at once. Even that Divine Venerable Zhantan was suddenly entangled by lightning and forcefully dragged into the lightning city.
Only Divine Venerable Nixian, amid a loud road, broke through many lightning blockades with one punch and escaped.
And after that lightning city absorbed all of his Divine Emperors inside, it gave a spin and disappeared without a trace. He couldn't even detect how this immortal artifact appeared and how it left.
In an instant, the wind subsided and the waves calmed out. Beside Huang Xiaoyu, only a lone Divine Venerable Nixian remained. The other major Divine Venerables and Divine Emperors had all been lost completely. His entire person became a loner.
"How could this be!" Huang Xiaoyu was furious continuously, while Divine Venerable Nixian looked extremely pale.