132: Chapter 132 Heavenly Dao Inspects the Water Meter
Upper Realm, Outer Heaven of the Nine Heavens, Ruins of the Reception Heavenly Gate.
A breeze brushed over the messy fragments of Immortal Gold scattered across the ground, carrying a thick scent of blood.
"Cough... cough cough..."
Red-Bearded True Immortal, held in mid-air by his neck with one hand by Lin Que, kicked his feet futilely in the void.
His face, which was originally lofty and full of majesty, had now turned a purplish-red from suffocation, his eyes filled with unconcealable terror and despair.
"You... you cannot kill me..."
Red-Bearded True Immortal squeezed out a few words with difficulty through his teeth, attempting to use the Upper Realm's final trump card to save his life:
"This general is... the commander of the Third Vanguard Battalion under the Immortal Emperor! My Life-Soul Jade Slip is kept in the Immortal Palace. If you kill me... the Immortal Emperor's Supreme wrath will surely make you wish for death..."
"Immortal Emperor? Once I've paved the way here, I'll naturally pay him a visit."
Lin Que interrupted him with extreme laziness.
In those deep, heterochromatic eyes, there was no warmth, only the absolute coldness of looking at prey.
"Since you love looking down on others so much, I'll see just how much intelligence about the Upper Realm is packed inside that head of yours."
Lin Que's five fingers suddenly tightened!
The Blood Scripture and his Great Perfection of Spirit Transformation Primordial Spirit erupted simultaneously!
"Soul Search!!"
"Aaaaaahhh—!!!"
Red-Bearded True Immortal let out a scream that was shrill to the extreme!
A domineering and peerless Divine Sense, like a sharp knife, brutally stabbed into his Sea of Consciousness, instantly tearing the defensive line of memories hidden deep in his Soul to shreds!
Simultaneously, a purple-gold devouring power surged from Lin Que's palm. The pure immortal blood and Origin of this Void Returning Realm True Immortal, cultivated for ten thousand years, were being forcibly drawn into Lin Que's fifty-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth!
"Rumble!"
Within the inner heaven and earth, the world tree sapling greedily absorbed this Void Returning Realm True Immortal Origin. The phantom of a fifth leaf began to flicker faintly on its branch.
Under the nourishment of this massive Origin, Lin Que's Realm, which had just broken through to the Middle Spirit Transformation stage, not only stabilized instantly but his Foundation even began to climb toward an even more unfathomable extreme!
In just three breaths' time.
"Thud."
Lin Que let go.
Red-Bearded True Immortal's once-full True Immortal body had now become a dried corpse, stripped of all Divine Soul and essence. It crashed straight onto the ruins and turned into a pile of ashes.
"The Commander... the Commander was sucked dry?!!"
In the distance, the hundreds of thousands of Upper Realm immortal soldiers pinned to the ground by the [Ten-Thousand-Mile Realm Pressure] watched their invincible True Immortal commander being sucked dry like "juice." Each one was scared out of their wits, any thought of resistance completely extinguished.
"Qingyu, Old Chen."
Lin Que shook his hand, not even glancing at the routed army.
"Regroup the formation. Confiscate all the storage rings from these surrendered soldiers, clear these ruins, and set up camp."
"As you command, Lord!"
The hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry in the rear were now in high spirits.
Under the leadership of the thirty-six Old Ancestors, they pounced on the demoralized immortal soldiers like wolves and tigers, beginning the "corpse looting" and prisoner processing with extreme proficiency.
However.
Just as the Immortal Slaying Pavilion army stepped onto the ruins, preparing to set up camp and enjoy their first wave of victory spoils...
"Buzz—Rumble!!!"
The entire firmament of the Outer Heaven of the Nine Heavens suddenly trembled violently!
It wasn't the sound of the cross-Realm passage collapsing like before, but a grand, vast, and terrifying sense of rejection, as if tens of billions of living beings across the entire world were casting "disgusted" looks at them simultaneously!
In the sky, no tribulation clouds gathered.
But the space within a million-mile radius suddenly became as viscous as steel!
An invisible, grayish-white **[Realm Law Light]** poured down from the Nine Heavens, accurately enveloping Lin Que and the hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry!
"Thud!"
A commander of the Immortal Slaying Pavilion who had just entered the Early Nascent Soul Stage suddenly fell to his knees, his face pale. He discovered in horror that the true essence in his body was rapidly draining away!
Not only him, but the great demon mounts of the hundred-thousand-strong army also let out uneasy wails. The Demonic Qi on their bodies was being forcibly stripped away by this grayish-white light!
"Lord! What's happening?! Our cultivation is regressing!!"
Chen Family Old Ancestor looked at his hands in terror. His Nascent Soul Perfection Realm actually showed signs of dropping to the Late Nascent Soul Stage under the illumination of this grayish-white light!
"This is... the defense mechanism of the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao!"
Lin Que frowned slightly. The blood and Qi of his Major Achievement Demon God Body surged, firmly blocking the grayish-white light that attempted to drill into his body.
He had just searched the True Immortal's Soul, so he naturally knew what this was.
"We forcibly broke through the pass. We are labeled with 'Lower Realm turbid Qi' and 'illegal trespassers.' The Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Laws are subjecting us to a [Rejection Reaction]!"
If this issue wasn't resolved, within a day, the cultivation of these hundred thousand elites would be forcibly weakened by more than thirty percent by the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao, and they might even be permanently unable to absorb Immortal Qi to Cultivate here!
This was why, since ancient times, those who didn't come up through the normal "Ascension" channels ended up dying miserably. Without the Heavenly Dao's recognition, even breathing in this world was a mistake!
"Hahaha! You've incurred heaven's wrath! You ants from the Lower Realm, the Heavenly Dao will not accept you! You're all going to become useless people!!"
Among the captured immortal soldiers, someone couldn't help but laugh gloatingly.
"The Heavenly Dao won't accept us?"
Hearing the piercing laughter, Lin Que didn't panic. Instead, he let out an extremely speechless sigh.
"It seems that whether it's the Lower Realm or the Upper Realm, these 'water meter checking' property managers are quite annoying."
Lin Que crossed his arms, not using the power of his inner heaven and earth to resist the Heavenly Dao's rejection at all.
Resisting the Heavenly Dao by force was just reckless.
Since this was a logic problem, he would use magic to defeat magic.
"System. Stop playing dead."
"This crappy Heavenly Dao says we don't have temporary residence permits. Get permanent green cards for my hundred thousand brothers."
[Warning! Extremely high-dimensional 'World Heavenly Dao Rejection Law (Realm Firewall)' scan detected!]
[Analysis: The host and the hundred-thousand-strong army have been marked as 'illegal cross-Realm viruses.' Facing all-round dimensional reduction weakening and blockade!]
[Logic Reorganization Initiated—'Underlying Database Overwrite and Highest Authority Localization Authentication' mode!]
[Operation 1: Forcibly intercept the Heavenly Dao weakening command! Intercept the underlying frequency of the 'grayish-white rejection light'!]
[Operation 2: Conceptual Tampering! Batch-tamper the 'illegal trespasser virus' label into 'Heavenly Dao Supreme VIP Local Resident' identification!]
[Operation 3: Activate 'Heavenly Dao Origin Backflow'! Utilize the Heavenly Dao's scanning channel to reverse the rejection force into a 'Local Law Baptism,' reshaping the immortal Foundation for the entire army!]
"Ding! Your 100,010 'Upper Realm Permanent Residence Permits' have been processed urgently! We wish you a pleasant journey!"
Boom—!!!
At the exact moment the System's notification finished.
The overwhelming grayish-white rejection light in the sky, which was supposed to strip the army of its cultivation, suddenly stagnated in mid-air for half a breath in a bizarre manner.
Immediately after, the grayish-white light transformed into a dazzling, eye-catching light representing the highest blessing of the Heavenly Dao—the Seven-Colored Immortal Light!
"Buzz!"
The Seven-Colored Immortal Light poured over the hundred thousand soldiers like a waterfall!
A miracle occurred! The cultivation that was just regressing didn't just stop its decline upon contact with the Seven-Colored Immortal Light; it instead experienced an extremely violent rebound!
The "Mundane Turbid Qi" remaining in the bodies of the hundred thousand soldiers due to practicing Lower Realm techniques was instantly evaporated by this Heavenly Dao baptism. Their true essence completely finished the transformation into "Immortal Spiritual Qi"!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Continuous sounds of Breakthroughs rang out across the ruins. Ten thousand elites stuck at the Golden Core Peak actually formed their Nascent Souls on the spot, thanks to this wave of Heavenly Dao baptism!
Only at this moment did the overall strength of the hundred-thousand-strong army truly adapt to the Upper Realm, becoming an "Immortal Dao Army" that could run rampant across the Nine Heavens!
As the main formation eye, although Lin Que didn't break through his Realm, his fifty-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth completely washed away the last trace of discord, perfectly embedding itself into the underlying logic of this Major Thousand World!
"This... how the hell is this possible?!!"
The immortal soldier who was laughing just now almost had his jaw drop to the ground, his eyes bloodshot:
"Heavenly Dao rejection... turned into Heavenly Dao blessing?! Is this Heavenly Dao run by your relatives?!!"
"Shut up, you ignorant bumpkin."
Chen Family Old Ancestor slapped the immortal soldier away. Feeling the extremely pure Nascent Soul Perfection true essence in his body, which felt like it could touch the threshold of Soul Transformation at any time, he knelt before Lin Que with tears in his eyes:
"My Lord's abilities reach the heavens and penetrate the earth! You can even manipulate the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao at will! We swear to follow you to the death!!"
"Alright, the Foundation is stable."
Lin Que waved his hand, looking at the hundred-thousand-strong army that had completely adapted to the environment and was full of vigor.
From his storage ring, he took out the tiger tally representing the vanguard commander, which he had obtained from the Soul search.
Lin Que's eyes narrowed slightly. In Red-Bearded True Immortal's memories, he had found an extremely important location.
"This Reception Heavenly Gate is just a desolate outpost with meager resources."
Lin Que tossed the tiger tally to Su Qingyu:
"Qingyu, pass down the order. The army will rest for one hour on the spot... replace the warships' power cores with the captured Upper Realm Immortal Stones!"
"Lord, what is our next objective?"
Su Qingyu took the tiger tally capably, her beautiful eyes flashing with Battle Intent.
Lin Que raised his hand, pointing toward the northwest of these desolate ruins.
In Red-Bearded True Immortal's memories, about three million miles from here, there was the largest strategic location in this celestial domain.
"Three million miles from here, there is a super base built by the direct order of the Immortal Emperor—the [Immortal Transformation Pool]."
Lin Que's lips curled into a cold and greedy smile:
"That is the place the Upper Realm uses to forcibly brainwash Lower Realm ascendants and purify their Immortal Qi. It gathers twelve of the most pure, top-grade Immortal Spiritual Mineral Veins in the Nine Heavens."
Lin Que gripped the hilt of the starfall saber at his waist, his voice carrying an unquestionable dominance:
"The brothers have just arrived; they're travel-worn and dirty."
"Once the rest is over, the entire army will set out!"
"I'll take you all to have an Immortal Qi bath!!"