134: Chapter 134 The Immortal Emperor's Karmic Fire
Upper Realm, Outer Heaven of the Nine Heavens, ruins of the Immortal Transformation Pool.
Once a strategic stronghold shrouded in Immortal Qi and unparalleled in its arrogance, it had now completely devolved into a massive demolition site.
"Quick, quick, quick! Brothers of the Third Battalion, dig up that white jade archway too! That's Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Spirit Jade; we can take it back to make top-tier shields for our warships!"
"Don't snatch! Our Vanguard Battalion saw the companion Immortal Plants of those twelve top-grade Immortal veins first! Dig up even the soil; don't leave a single hair for the Upper Realm!"
Under the command of the thirty-six Old Ancestors, the hundred thousand heavy Dragon Cavalry had transformed into the most terrifying "swarm of locusts" in the history of the cultivation world.
Those once-lofty Upper Realm Immortal metals, Spiritual Plants, and formation bases were being crudely stuffed into storage rings by these red-eyed men from the Lower Realm.
At the edge of the ruins, the three hundred thousand surrendered Upper Realm Immortal soldiers had been stripped of their armor and were currently squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Watching the Holy Land they had guarded for a thousand years being stripped bare by this group of "bandits," their hearts bled, yet none dared to utter a word. After all, that white-clothed bringer of death, who had slapped three True Immortals to death with a single palm, was currently resting with his eyes closed on a warship not far away.
On the flagship, atop the nine dragon throne.
The clamor outside did not disturb Lin Que.
He sat cross-legged, his hands forming an extremely ancient Seal. Having just devoured the Origin of the Immortal Transformation Pool for a full hundred thousand miles, he had broken through to the Late Stage Spirit Transformation in one fell swoop.
This power was too immense; if it were any ordinary Cultivator—even an Immortal—their Meridians would have long since burst from the pressure.
But Lin Que was different.
The Blood Scripture within him was like a surging purple-gold divine dragon, overbearingly taming and compressing that violent liquid Immortal Qi before pouring it all into his Dantian.
Inside Lin Que's Dantian, the hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth radiated vibrant vitality.
The World Tree towered into the clouds, and a silver sea of creation churned beneath its roots.
Four Law leaves—Space (gray), Vitality (green), Time (dark silver), and Thick Earth (dark yellow)—formed a perfect cycle of life under the nourishment of the seawater.
"A Physical Body limit of twenty million catties, plus the Laws of this hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth."
Lin Que slowly opened his eyes, a glimmer of profound enlightenment that returned to simplicity flashing in his deep gaze.
"Although I am only at the Late Stage Spirit Transformation, as long as I don't leave the support of this inner heaven and earth, even if I encounter a true Late Stage Void Returning Realm True Immortal, he wouldn't be able to break my defense even if I stood still and let him hit me."
This was the invincible path of world-creation that Lin Que had forged for himself. He was in no rush to charge towards the Great Perfection of Spirit Transformation, for every step he took was to solidify his Foundation to an appalling degree.
"My Lord! Something... something has happened!!"
Just as Lin Que was satisfactorily examining his own Foundation, the Chen Family Old Ancestor suddenly rushed onto the deck, drenched in sweat and scrambling, clutching a crystal that emitted a piercing black light.
"What's the panic? Did you dig up someone's ancestor while excavating the Immortal veins?"
Lin Que's eyebrows twitched slightly as he leaned lazily against the back of his chair.
"It's not an ancestor; it's something even more terrifying than an ancestor!"
The Chen Family Old Ancestor's voice was trembling as he pointed toward the core area of the twelve top-grade Immortal veins that had already been excavated:
"While the soldiers were excavating the formation eye of the Immortal veins, they triggered a baseline Restriction left by an Upper Realm Immortal Emperor! Hidden within this crystal is an Immortal Emperor's [Nine Nether Karma Fire Curse]!"
Before he could finish his sentence, the black-light crystal in the Chen Family Old Ancestor's hand shattered!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, supreme pressure that transcended the entire Nine Heavens instantly descended!
This pressure had no physical form, yet it carried the sense of absolute "Heavenly Dao Judgment"!
Immediately after, a wisp of eerie, pitch-black flame drifted out from the shattered crystal.
This flame had no temperature, but the moment it appeared, the surrounding Void Realm silently annihilated!
"How dare you lay hands on my Immortal veins! No matter where you are, the Nine Nether Karma Fire shall burn away your Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits and wipe out the Lower Realm you reside in along with you!!"
A grand voice filled with endless arrogance and coldness, treating all living beings like grass, emanated from that black flame!
This was a projection of the Immortal Emperor's Divine Thought left within the Immortal veins!
Whoosh!
The wisp of black Nine Nether Karma Fire even ignored the inner heaven and earth shield Lin Que had deployed, following the invisible lines of Karma to drill precisely and maliciously toward the center of his forehead!
"The Immortal Emperor's Karma Fire?! It's over! This fire specifically burns Karma and Dao Foundations; once it touches you, it's impossible to extinguish!!"
Su Qingyu turned pale with fright and tried to block the blow for Lin Que, only to find that her body was completely immobilized under this Immortal Emperor's pressure.
"A karmic strike that ignores distance? The big boss of the Upper Realm sure has a short fuse."
Facing this terrifying Karma fire capable of instantly reducing a Void Returning Realm True Immortal to ashes.
Instead of dodging, an extremely excited fervor ignited within Lin Que's heterochromatic eyes!
He was just feeling that his Lifebound Treasure, the quasi-Immortal Artifact - starfall, could no longer keep up with his physical strength of twenty million catties; ordinary mortal fires and exotic fires of heaven and earth were simply unable to perform a second tempering on the starfall saber.
This Immortal Emperor's lifebound Karma fire had arrived more timely than charcoal in a snowstorm!
"System! Someone saw me forging without a fire and sent me a flame from afar!"
Lin Que issued a command in his mind with extreme dominance.
[Warning! Extremely high-dimensional karmic destruction strike detected (Immortal Emperor-grade Nine Nether Karma Fire)!]
[Analysis: This flame contains the supreme Laws of 'Burning Dao Foundation' and 'Karmic Tracking Lock-on'.]
[Logic Reorganization initiated—'Fully Automatic High-End Welding and Wireless Charging' mode!]
[Operation 1: Intercept underlying burning command! Forcibly tamper 'Destroy Dao Foundation' into 'Highest-Grade Non-Destructive Artifact Fire Tempering'!]
[Operation 2: Conceptual Conversion! Utilize the host's inner heaven and earth to rewrite 'Karmic Tracking Line' into 'High-Pressure Gas Delivery Pipe'!]
[Operation 3: Activate 'Furnace of All Things'! Forcibly Fusion the host's Four-Colored Exotic Fire and the Nine Nether Karma Fire. Target lock: Lifebound Treasure - starfall saber!]
"Top-tier welding torch from my bro received! Starting to polish and wax the great saber!"
Boom—!!!
The moment the System notification finished!
That wisp of black Immortal Emperor Karma fire, which had already reached within an inch of Lin Que's forehead, suddenly came to a bizarre halt.
Its black flame, which originally represented destruction and death, began to tremble violently under the System's overbearing tampering, as if it had encountered a higher-dimensional power a hundred times more rogue than itself!
Clang!
Lin Que pulled out the starfall mo dao from his back without hesitation.
He grabbed the wisp of black Karma fire as if it were a docile matchstick and crudely pressed it onto the blade of the starfall saber!
"Burn... for me!!!"
The four-colored divine demon nascent soul within Lin Que's body roared simultaneously!
Four types of exotic fire—purple (Destruction), white (Extreme Cold), red (Vitality), and gold (Suppression)—erupted, violently colliding with the Immortal Emperor's black Karma fire on the blade!
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!
The starfall saber let out a sharp cry that was both extremely pained and full of new life!
Originally, the material of this saber had reached the limit of the Lower Realm (quasi-Immortal Artifact), but under this unreasonable high-dimensional smelting of the Immortal Emperor's Karma fire, the Impurities within the blade were instantly incinerated!
Even more terrifyingly, Lin Que directly mobilized the four Law leaves from his [hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth]!
Space, Vitality, Time, and Thick Earth!
Under the perfect tempering of the Immortal Emperor's Karma fire, these four great Laws were forcibly branded into the deepest parts of the starfall saber!
"This... this is impossible!! You are using my lifebound Karma fire for... Artifact Refining?!!"
From within the flame came the Immortal Emperor's Divine Thought, sounding extremely stunned and even tinged with rage!
This was a supreme divine punishment he used to curse and kill thieves, yet it was being treated as a furnace fire for blacksmithing?!
"What are you shouting for? What's wrong with borrowing your fire? Don't be so stingy."
Lin Que grinned and laughed wildly. His Great Accomplishment Demon God Body's blood and qi acted like a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, firmly solidifying the Laws onto the blade!
[Ding! Tempering complete!]
[Congratulations to the host! Lifebound Treasure 'starfall' has successfully broken through its rank limitation!]
[The Magic Treasure has Advanced to—[True Immortal Artifact - Worldfall] (Peak Grade)!]
[New Special Effect: World-Shattering Strike (Each slash carries the world pressure of the hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth, ignoring all Law defenses below the Void Returning Realm, and severing the Karma between Immortal and mortal with a single strike)!]
Boom—!!!
A streak of pure dark-gold saber qi soared from the brand-new [jie yun blade], directly cleaving a bottomless gap through the ten-thousand-year clouds above the Nine Heavens!
"What a fine saber!"
Gripping this True Immortal Artifact, which now weighed a terrifying million catties, Lin Que felt the four Laws and World Power circulating within the blade, and the Battle Intent in his eyes boiled over. Combined with his current arm strength of twenty million catties, this saber was simply tailor-made for a massacre!
He looked at the wisp of black flame on the tip of the blade, which had been completely drained of energy and had become extremely faint (the Immortal Emperor's Divine Thought).
"The fire was good. Since you've been so generous, I shouldn't be impolite."
A devilish smile curled on Lin Que's lips.
He slowly raised the True Immortal Artifact [jie yun blade] and pointed the tip at the invisible karmic line connecting to the deepest parts of the Nine Heavens.
He didn't use any spiritual power; instead, he compressed his Late Stage Spirit Transformation cultivation, the World Power of his hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth, and his twenty-million-catty Physical Body limit into this single strike!
"System, send him a gift package through his gas pipe!"
"Seven Absolute Blades Supreme Profound Truth: Four Leaves as One—Immortal Slayer!!"
Swish—!!!!!!!
An indescribable, terrifying saber beam followed that invisible karmic line, ignoring the layers of spatial barriers outside the Nine Heavens, and surged upward with an overbearing posture, ferociously cleaving toward the supreme Immortal palace where the Immortal Emperor resided!
...
Meanwhile, in the Upper Realm, the Thirty-Three Heavens, at the Lingxiao Immortal Palace.
The Immortal Emperor, seated high upon his Nine Dragon Imperial Throne, snapped open his eyes, which contained the sun, moon, and stars.
A rare flash of fury and shock crossed his eyes.
"A Lower Realm ant... actually neutralized my Karma fire and even dared to counterattack along the karmic line? Arrogant!!"
The Immortal Emperor snorted coldly. He didn't even bother to lift his hand, merely manifesting a transparent Immortal shield before him that was as thin as a cicada's wing yet contained the supreme Heavenly Dao Laws, intending to casually block this ignorant attack.
However.
When that dark-gold saber beam—laden with the Four-Colored Exotic Fire, the erosion of time, and the crushing weight of a world—crossed the endless void and slammed into the Immortal shield...
Crack—!!!
A crisp shattering sound rang out abruptly within the silent Lingxiao Immortal Palace!
That Heavenly Dao immortal shield, claimed to be able to withstand a full-strength strike from a half-step Immortal Emperor, was actually split with a crack by that unreasonable "inner heaven and earth World Power"!
Although the saber beam eventually dissipated before the shield, the terrifying impact still caused the Nine Dragon Jade Desk in front of the Immortal Emperor to explode into dust!
"Impudent!!!"
The Immortal Emperor was furious, and he stood up abruptly. His terrifying Immortal Emperor pressure instantly swept through the entire Thirty-Three Heavens, causing countless Immortal generals to fall to their knees in trembling fear.
"Not only has he cultivated an inner heaven and earth... he has even forged a True Immortal Artifact!!"
Within the Immortal Emperor's unfathomable eyes, a trace of genuine killing intent finally emerged.
This was no longer just an ordinary Lower Realm interloper; this was a "variable" capable of threatening his rule!
"Pass down my imperial decree!"
The Immortal Emperor's voice was like eternal ice:
"Dispatch the Eight Legions of the Heavenly Dragon and undo their Seals! Led by three Immortal Kings! Descend immediately to the edge of the Outer Heaven of the Nine Heavens and completely erase those hundred thousand Lower Realm remnants... along with their souls, from this Universe!!"
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Ruins of the Immortal Transformation Pool.
Lin Que sheathed his saber and glanced toward the depths of the firmament with a smile.
He knew that while that strike might not have injured the Immortal Emperor, it had certainly flipped the man's table.
"My Lord! All twelve top-grade Immortal veins have been fully mined! We even pried up the floor tiles!"
The Chen Family Old Ancestor ran over to report, covered in dust but his face glowing with excitement.
Lin Que looked down at the Immortal Transformation Island, which had been turned into a massive pit, and the hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry who were returning fully laden, their morale at its peak.
"Well done."
Lin Que turned around, his crimson cloak snapping in the Immortal wind.
Within his heterochromatic eyes was the reflection of the terrifying Immortal Qi storm gathering in the depths of the Nine Heavens.
He knew that the true main force of the Immortal Realm had finally been drawn out by him.
"Brothers, now that we've had our fill, it's time to stretch our limbs."
"The Immortal Kings of the Upper Realm will be coming down to pay their respects shortly."
"All troops, form ranks! Prepare to welcome our guests!"