Translator: CinderTL
Immortal Great Wall.
Luo Yao displayed remarkable patience.
After learning about the situation in the Land of Buried Demons, she had considered venturing deep within to search for Li Chunjun.
However, given that the Land of Buried Demons had now spawned an Ultimate Heart Demon, and her primary mission was to intercept and capture Li Chunjun, she suppressed the unnecessary impulse and waited patiently for his return.
As for the Immortal God Race possibly colluding with Li Chunjun to set a trap for her...
She hadn't even considered it.
The tiny Immortal God Race, with not a single Dao Unification cultivator and only a Quasi-Tenth-Tier expert, wouldn't dare harbor any ill intentions toward her, even if they were given a hundred times their courage.
Unless they had lost all reason and were willing to sacrifice the entire Immortal God Race just to kill her.
Time passed.
Suddenly, Dragon-Master High God appeared in the courtyard where Luo Yao was in closed-door cultivation.
"Holy Daughter, we've located Li Chunjun. They'll reach the Immortal Great Wall in about a day's journey."
"Excellent."
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's eyes snapped open.
She rose directly, summoned a streak of escaping light, and shot toward the Immortal Great Wall.
As for requesting the Immortal God Race to use the Immortal Great Wall's power to intervene...
They clearly lacked the courage to harm a Human Void Refining cultivator.
Forcing them would only lead to passive resistance, and if things truly escalated, it would only create more variables.
So, she decided to leave the Immortal Great Wall, enter the Land of Buried Demons, and directly intercept Li Chunjun.
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's decision was swift and decisive.
Dragon-Master High God quickly realized the implications of her decisive action.
He sighed inwardly. The Immortal God Race would never regain the Heavenly Palace's trust.
However, recalling how the Great Longevity Emperor had treated the Immortal God Race as mere expendable pawns a thousand years ago, issuing one death order after another, Dragon-Master High God wasn't overly disappointed.
The Immortal God Race had to find its own path to survival.
Otherwise, it would inevitably fade away like countless other fleeting races in the vast Star Sea, vanishing after a few million, hundred thousand, or even tens of thousands of years, swallowed by the endless river of history.
Luo Yao's Escaping Light was itself a miniature flying Supreme Treasure, granting it incredible speed.
Guided by a faint mental connection, she quickly located the Golden Crow Battleship.
However, upon finding it, she stopped abruptly, hesitating to approach.
The reason...
A mental warning.
"Danger on the Golden Crow Battleship? Could Xuan Mi and Li Chunjun be traveling together?"
Luo Yao's expression flickered slightly. "Even if Xuan Mi and Li Chunjun are together, it shouldn't matter. Xuan Mi's strength is, at most, peak Void Refining. Even if they joined forces, they'd be nothing more than dead men before me..."
But the intensity of the mental warning...
It was a life-or-death crisis!
Ultimately, this Void Refining cultivator chose to trust her instincts. Turning around, she prepared to leave.
After all, Li Chunjun was rumored to have the support of the Profound Yellow Sect. While the Profound Yellow Sect wasn't as powerful as the Wu Ji Sect or the Taixu Sword Sect, it was still a native force of the Profound Yellow Great World.
Even a mighty dragon can't crush a local snake.
Who knew what hidden experts they might have lurking in the shadows?
"I must report this to Master before deciding what to do," she thought.
As for the two or three years she'd wasted...
She didn't give it a second thought.
In the course of her missions, Luo Yao had experienced both success and failure. If she couldn't let go of her stubbornness and insisted on clinging to her pride, she wouldn't have survived to this day.
Just as she was about to turn and leave, however, she sensed something amiss and abruptly dodged to the side.
The next moment, a beam of Seven-Colored Rainbow Light, like a sword piercing through the Void, shot toward her. It brushed past her side in an instant and came to a halt a hundred thousand miles away.
Clearly, someone had intervened to prevent her from leaving!
The crucial point was...
Only members of the Immortal God Race knew she had left the Immortal Great Wall to reach the Golden Crow Battleship. How dare they leak her whereabouts to these people!?
Such an act was nothing short of betrayal!
"The Immortal God Race! Damn you! How dare you!"
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's killing intent surged. With a wave of her hand, countless mirrors materialized around her.
Each mirror was hundreds of meters in diameter, and each one emitted intense light. As the light from all the mirrors intertwined, it converged into a single beam of light so powerful that it surpassed even the brilliance of a star. This beam shot toward the dissipating Seven-Colored Rainbow Light a hundred thousand miles away.
She cultivated the Giant of Light Dharma Aspect!
With the Flowing Light Dao as its core, this aspect possessed astonishing attack speed and frequency.
From the moment Li Chunjun sacrificed the prisms to the formation of the light sword, the entire process took less than a second.
The figure within the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light had barely materialized when the light sword struck directly, leaving no time for a reaction.
However, just as the light sword was about to pierce his body with incredible speed, a halo of light manifested around him, instantly deflecting the attack.
The flowing light within the halo shattered the light sword, fragmenting inch by inch and rapidly permeating and empowering the Scarlet Sky Sword that materialized immediately afterward. This caused the Void and Destruction energies contained within the Scarlet Sky Sword to surge dramatically.
This scene...
Caused Immortal Maiden Luoyao, who had seen countless wonders, to widen her eyes in shock: "Dharma Manifestation Armament!"
At the same time, she finally recognized the arrogant fool who dared to intercept her: "It's you! Li Chunjun!?"
Gazing at the Dharma Manifestation Armament Li Chunjun had summoned and the Scarlet Sky Sword, which was clearly no ordinary Dao Artifact, an uncontrollable greed surged within her eyes.
"Did the Profound Yellow Sect really trade a Dharma Manifestation Armament for your attempt to steal my Heavenly Palace's Profound Yellow Dao Fruit? Your Dao Artifact, your Dharma Manifestation Armament—all were obtained by sacrificing my Heavenly Palace's interests! You truly deserve to die!"
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's expression turned stern, and her immense mental power surged forth.
With a forward push, tens of thousands of prisms swiftly assembled, rapidly expanding after charging to form a massive mirror ring. Countless beams of light flowed through the ring, each revolution amplifying its power.
In an instant, an even more potent beam of light pierced through the starry sky, hurtling towards Li Chunjun, a hundred thousand miles away.
At the speed of light!
Six hundred thousand miles per second.
The distance of a hundred thousand miles would be covered in just one-sixth of a second!
But just as this beam, powerful enough to pierce through a Lesser Thousand World's atmosphere, crust, and core, was about to strike Li Chunjun, the Scarlet Sky Sword before him stirred.
One sword split into a hundred! A hundred split into ten thousand! Ten thousand split into a million!
In that instant, a storm erupted!
A vortex of pure Sword Qi swirled around him at breakneck speed. When the terrifying beam, capable of piercing through a Lesser Thousand World, slammed into the rapidly rotating sword qi storm, every ray of light was shattered, refracted, and scattered into an endless explosion of blinding light and searing flames.
The area within ten thousand miles of Li Chunjun instantly transformed into a living hell, a desolate wasteland where no life could survive.
Even a passing asteroid would be vaporized into plasma by the surrounding infernal heat, its essence released into the Cosmic Void.
"Hmm!?"
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's eyes flashed with cold fury as she saw Li Chunjun had actually blocked her attack.
Her gaze lingered on the Dharma Manifestation Armament enhancing the Scarlet Sky Sword, filled with envy and jealousy.
Clearly, she believed the Dharma Manifestation Armament was the key to Li Chunjun's ability to stand against her.
This Supreme Treasure could allow even a newly advanced Void Refining cultivator to unleash Eighth-Tier combat strength.
"The Dharma Manifestation Armament is a nascent Dharma Aspect. If I had such a treasure, I could forge my Giant of Light Dharma Aspect within a century and officially enter the Dharma Manifestation realm!"
Luo Yao stared intently at the sword qi storm driven by the Dharma Manifestation Armament, ignoring the persistent mental warning: "No matter how you slice it, you're still just a newly advanced Void Refining cultivator! Even with a Supreme Treasure like the Dharma Manifestation Armament, how long can you truly sustain it!?"
Fueled by this greed, resentment, and the injustice of her situation, she unleashed her full mental power. The Prism Treasure's radiance intensified, its light becoming even more dazzling.
The energy beams she unleashed surged downward in layers, crashing against the sword qi storm Li Chunjun had erected. The storm's rapidly spinning sword light shattered, refracted, and dispersed the beams in all directions.
"Fifth Layer Mind Power!"
Li Chunjun sensed Luo Yao's Mind Realm from the surge of her mental power.
They were on the same level.
And the combat prowess she displayed...
was truly astonishing!
Compared to Hong Qianjue, she was far more powerful!
If he set aside the Scarlet Sky Sword and Dharma Manifestation Armament, he might not even be able to contend with her.
Her combat techniques and dao technique execution were simply too refined.
But then again...
What kind of Sword Cultivator fights without their Lifebound Flying Sword? It's like fighting with both hands tied behind your back.
Moreover, the prisms in front of Luo Yao were actually the nascent form of her Dharma Manifestation.
In other words, she wasn't just starting to forge her Dharma Manifestation as rumors claimed. She had already created its initial form, but hadn't yet fully completed it.
As he pondered, Li Chunjun's mental power rapidly expanded, permeating every corner of the Dharma Manifestation Armament and the Scarlet Sky Sword.
With a flick of his finger, the rapidly spinning sword qi storm suddenly surged.
Countless strands of Sword Qi, like a flood unleashed from a dam, erupted with a roar, breaking free from their constraints and crashing toward the energy pillar piercing through the Void with overwhelming force.
The instant shift in offense and defense, the dramatic change in momentum, caused Luo Yao's pupils to contract sharply.
"This power..."
BOOM!
The fully activated Scarlet Sky Sword surged like a vast, raging tsunami, relentlessly crashing against the energy pillar that stood before it. The colossal pillar, capable of piercing through a Lesser Chiliocosm, shattered inch by inch under the relentless assault. Countless beams of light, refractions, and flames were pulverized and scattered in all directions as the sword qi storm surged forward.
The mere 100,000-mile distance between them was completely compressed and crossed by the sword qi storm in less than half a breath.
"This is bad!"
Immortal Maiden Luoyao's heart trembled!
Li Chunjun's true power, unleashed through his Dharma Manifestation Armament...
...surpassed even hers!
Even a true Dharma Manifestation Venerable would likely be no match for it!
Her mental warning hadn't failed!
This was a killing intent capable of bringing her mortal danger!
Realizing this, Immortal Maiden Luoyao made an immediate decision. She unleashed all her Qi and Dao cultivation, burning them fiercely. Within the Dharma Aspect prototype forming the mirror ring, a colossal phantom of a giant, spanning thousands of miles, materialized. Riding on a radiant glow, it roared towards the heavens and slammed down with immense force against the sword qi storm.
The terrifying attack momentarily stalled the sword qi storm.
But in the next instant...
More storms surged forward, engulfing and devouring the Giant of Light, instantly submerging its form.
Seizing this opportunity, Luo Yao activated her escape technique. Like a streak of light, she shot across the Void at a speed of 600,000 miles per second, vanishing into the depths of the Star Sea.
(End of the Chapter)
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