71: Chapter 71 Nine Nether Hound and Willow God Join Forces to Fight Against the Great Calamity of the Desolate Domain

"Is this... that tree?!"

A voice filled with shock and uncertainty drifted down from the rift in the high sky:

"It is that sacrificial spirit that suffered a calamity in the Immortal Ancient era! To think it is actually undergoing nirvana in this realm?!"

"Hahahaha! Heaven truly helps me! I thought I was only coming to catch an ignorant Nine-Nether Ao, but I never expected such an unexpected joy!"

"The origin of an Immortal King root bone, this value... is greater than all the living beings in these Eight Regions combined!!"

"Fellow Daoists, Bulao Mountain claims this willow tree!!"

"Boom!!"

Following a greedy and ecstatic roar, the void rift expanded once more.

This time, it was no longer an ordinary large hand that reached out, but a phantom of the five elements mountain, adorned with five-element divine rings and flowing with the power to create the world!

Heavenly Venerable Bulao! This was actually a titan from Bulao Mountain, who had even deployed a projection of the supreme treasure, the five elements mountain!

That five elements mountain was so massive that it almost completely obscured the sky above Shi Village.

Five-colored divine light swirled, transforming into a massive vortex, attempting to uproot the old willow tree along with the very land of Shi Village beneath it!

Facing this power capable of crushing the world, although Willow Deity's dozens of willow branches were sharp, she was still in the early stages of nirvana, and her divine power was insufficient.

They were actually suppressed by the five-colored divine light, bending down and emitting painful creaking sounds.

"Is this... a titan from the Upper Realm..."

Inside Shi Village, everyone fell into despair. In the face of such heaven-destroying might, human strength seemed so insignificant.

However, just as the five elements mountain was about to descend, and Willow Deity was preparing to burn her final origin to fight to the death...

A hand. A warm, powerful hand, seemingly carrying endless vitality and dominance, gently pressed against the trembling old tree trunk.

"Big sister."

Wang Teng's voice, amidst this apocalyptic clamor, appeared extremely abrupt, yet remarkably steady.

He stood beneath the tree, not looking up at the sky, but instead reaching out to gently stroke the scorched and cracked willow bark that had been damaged while resisting the titan.

"You promised me. When I returned, you would let me see your true face. Now, if you exhaust your origin and turn into old tree bark, wouldn't I be at a huge loss?"

The willow tree trembled slightly, and a faint consciousness was transmitted into Wang Teng's mind: "Wang Teng, run... The five elements mountain suppresses fortune, it is a True Immortal artifact... You cannot block it..."

"Block?" Wang Teng smiled. He released his hand and slowly turned around.

That pair of originally dark golden double-pupils was, at this moment, completely swallowed by an ashen gray. The World-Destroying Mark at the center of his brow erupted with an unprecedentedly dark light, as if connecting to the abyss at the end of the Boundary Sea.

He looked up at the arrogant five elements mountain above his head.

"I have never liked blocking things since I was young. I only like—tearing things apart!!"

"Roar——!!!"

A roar that sounded neither human nor beastly exploded from Wang Teng's mouth! This roar actually caused the blood rain falling from above to instantly reverse!

"Bang!" The ground beneath Wang Teng's feet did not shatter, because he had concentrated all his power into a single point. Like a meteor flying in reverse, he instantly rushed out of the willow tree's protective range, facing the descending five elements mountain head-on!

"Ant." In the void, Heavenly Venerable Bulao's voice was filled with disdain: "A mere beast from the lower realm dares to shake the five elements? You overestimate your..."

"Shut up! You old mongrel!!" Wang Teng roared, cutting off the other party's nonsense.

He did not manifest the massive true form of the Nine-Nether Ao. He did not use those flashy and complex Ten Fiends precious techniques. He did not even take out the tianhuang great halberd. Because last night, he had attained enlightenment with Willow Deity. Ultimate power does not need flashy trappings. Complexity returns to simplicity; truth returns to its essence.

At this moment, Wang Teng was in mid-air, his body beginning to blur. No, not blur, but rather, he was merging with the surrounding heaven and earth!

He held his right hand with fingers together like a sword. At his fingertips, a wisp of gray airflow was slowly rotating. That was the power of nirvana from the progenitor of the Nine-Nether Ao.

But unlike the violent devouring from before, this wisp of gray airflow was extremely condensed and extremely quiet. It had been compressed to the extreme by Wang Teng.

The extreme speed profundity of the Kunpeng was used by him to compress this power. The deconstruction principles of the Original True Explanation were used by him to find the flaws in the laws of the five elements mountain. The Emperor's will of the Ruthless Empress was transformed into the sharpness of this strike.

"All techniques are empty—" Wang Teng's figure had arrived directly beneath the five elements mountain. Compared to that ten-thousand-foot divine mountain, he was so insignificant that he was less than a speck of dust. But the light in his eyes was brighter than the sun and moon!

"Only I—one sword!!"

"Swish—" There was no earth-shattering explosion. No colorful light effects. Between heaven and earth, it was as if a mute button had been pressed at this moment. A single, extremely faint gray sword light, barely visible to the naked eye, slashed out from Wang Teng's fingertips.

This sword light was too pure. It was like the boldest stroke of ink on a sheet of rice paper, or like the first ray of light at the creation of the world. It slashed directly into the base of the five elements mountain.

Silence. A deathly silence lasted for a full three seconds. Then, "Crack... Cracking..."

In the unbelievable, terrified gaze of Heavenly Venerable Bulao, that projection of the five elements mountain—which flowed with five-colored divine light and claimed to be able to suppress immortals—from bottom to top, a straight, mirror-smooth crack appeared!

The crack spread rapidly, slicing the five-colored divine light, the chaotic energy, and the Immortal Dao laws within it, all... into two!

"Boom—!!!" Finally, the delayed roar erupted. That arrogant projection of the five elements mountain disintegrated and collapsed directly above Shi Village! Before the countless massive boulders could even fall, they were reduced to powder filling the sky under the remaining intent of the nirvana sword.

"Ah!!!" A shrill, miserable scream drifted from the void rift. Although Heavenly Venerable Bulao's true body was in the Upper Realm, that projection was connected to his mind. This sword did not just shatter the projection; that terrifying nirvana sword intent followed the line of karma and slashed directly into his divine sense!

"This... what sword technique is this?! This is impossible!!!" Heavenly Venerable Bulao's terrified roar echoed across the firmament.

A single sword strike shattered the five elements mountain! This scene did not only stun everyone in Shi Village. Even above the firmament, those other Upper Realm titans who were frantically harvesting also stopped their movements at this moment.

From within the rifts, countless gazes filled with extreme terror and solemnity were cast in unison toward the black-robed man floating above Shi Village, slowly retracting his finger.

That is... the Nine-Nether Ao? That is the variable rumored to have just entered the Zhanwo Realm?

Are you kidding me! That strike just now clearly carried... the true intent of destruction at the Immortal King level!!

"What? Are you all done catching people?" Wang Teng brushed the dust off his clothes and looked up at the massive void rift in the sky. He did not stop because of the successful strike.

He took a step forward. Black lotuses bloomed in the void beneath his feet, supporting him as he walked step by step toward the rift.

He walked very slowly, but with every step, the ancient pressure belonging to the Nine-Nether Ao progenitor grew stronger. By the end, the sky behind him had completely turned into pure darkness.

Within that darkness, a withered figure (the dharma form of the World-Destroying Elder), so blurred that merely glancing at it would cause one's soul to collapse, slowly emerged.

"You... who exactly are you?!"