The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1111: Chapter 1096: Vacuous Realm, Undead (2)

As soon as Master Jinguang set up the big array, a multitude of strange figures charged at the group.

They seemed to hail from different worlds, wielding various magical abilities unique to their own systems. Yet, without exception, they bore the aura of the Death Ghost Realm, and ordinary magic treasures and magic would collapse upon contact with this taint.

However, Shen Mo and his companions were no ordinary people...

Master Jinguang commanded the formation, providing protection for the other five.

Jade Spring Fairy summoned the Taihua Mirror, channeling the power of the sun and moon to scorch the undead, leaving them devastated and burned.

White Crane Venerable transformed into his crane form, and with a sweep of his wings, he tore through space barriers, the fissures cutting through everything they touched like sharp blades.

Human Immortals Kong Ce and Xuanyuan Di unleashed their own methods, magic abilities and the spirit light of magic treasures engulfing the enemies before them.

Yet, no matter how powerful their spells or how fierce their offensive, the undead ”slain” would soon return to their original state;

Even when reduced to ashes scattered to the wind, vaporized with immortal laws, or sent into the Outer Void... these strange figures regrouped in the blink of an eye and charged at them anew.

Shen Mo frantically enhanced the effect of Prohibition Lotus, preventing the undead from unleashing their full combat strength, while his Taiyi Sword scattered millions of sword lights!

Numerous undead melted away like snow under a blazing sun, but the next instant, they reappeared, birthing enduring sword lights that gradually dimmed and faded under the Death Ghost Realm’s influence.

”Why are they so hard to kill?” Shen Mo wondered suspiciously.

Not only Shen Mo, but the five True Immortals including Jade Spring Fairy also couldn’t entirely annihilate these strange figures!

”Among these undead monsters, I spotted Master Yangji’s figure.” Inside the Earth Yuan Array, protecting everyone, Master Jinguang suddenly spoke.

Subsequently, Kong Ce recognized several ”known people,” including over a hundred Zhuji Continent cultivators and several True Immortals, transformed into these undead monsters... Due to their alternating appearances as corpses and living beings, and the originally obscured aura by the Death Ghost Realm’s essence and vast vitality, it was only after engaging them that Kong Ce could discern their identities when alive.

”The master of Vacuous Realm probably grasps some mysticism of the great path of life and death...”

”This person, perhaps through some method, redirected the Death Ghost Realm’s corruption of Vacuous Realm onto these cultivators, thus refining the entire Withering Realm into a restricted area descending into the Immortal Realm. Additionally creating those strange existences caught between life and death, they lack the concept of life and death, even burying them into the Death Ghost Realm might not utterly annihilate them!”

”It seems ordinary methods can’t completely destroy them.”

”We can try to suppress and seal them!”

Everyone exchanged their Divine Sense, guessed the peculiarities of Vacuous Realm and the undead by seven to eight tenths, and quickly thought up a countermeasure.

In the next instant, Master Jinguang transformed the Earth Yuan Array’s structure, turning the formation’s power into towering Heaven-Lifting Jade Pillars composed of Dao runes, with chains extending from the pillars to suppress each undead.

However, the Jade Pillars and chains formed by the array were quickly corrupted by the Death Ghost Realm’s aura, decaying and collapsing as if plunging into the realm, even starting to erode the Earth Yuan Array.

Seeing this, Shen Mo immediately abandoned the thought of using the Demon-Suppressing Tower to subdue the undead.

The Earth Yuan Array’s suppression and sealing power was exceedingly strong; even so, it couldn’t resist the Death Ghost Realm’s aura, and the Demon-Suppressing Tower’s power was far inferior to the Earth Yuan Array, likely collapsing shortly.

”We have roughly ascertained the origins of this restricted area; perhaps we should retreat for now and plan further later!” transmitted Kong Ce’s thoughts.

These undead monsters were so difficult to kill, and an Immortal Path Stronghold touching the great path of life and death was involved; everyone felt the urge to retreat. Now that Kong Ce suggested withdrawal, naturally, no one disagreed!

But at that moment, invisible Dao Rhyme ripples emanated from within the misty stream of light.

Instantly, Shen Mo and the six others felt the world spinning, and when their five senses and sense returned to normal, they found Immortal Abandoned Ridge’s space had become utterly chaotic, as if space had been warped and folded into a small world like a maze, with scenes appearing twisted and scattered.

In this distorted space, Master Jinguang’s Earth Yuan Array couldn’t connect, crumbling instantly.

And Shen Mo and the six others, along with the undead monsters, were separated into different areas, people seemingly nearby were actually tens of thousands of miles apart, unless able to understand the spatial maze’s entirety, escape skills would merely go in circles here!

Silently sensing, Shen Mo found the connection to Gecko False Body, weak but not severed, still able to use the Escape Skill.

He sighed in relief, then Destiny through Danger Perception warned again.

A hundred or more undead monsters were near him, among them the strongest seemed to be Master Yangji, who had summoned a golden cone magic artifact, its terrifying aura rippling out causing Shen Mo’s heart to skip... In the premonition image of Danger Perception, this golden cone would pierce his Mind Sea, severely damaging his soul!

Facing such a fierce attack, Shen Mo ceased holding back, rotating the Taiyi Sword. Simultaneously, behind him, the Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase emerged, holding a Dao-slashing Sword in tandem with his real body, striking at Master Yangji.

Clang!

Heaven and earth trembled, the Dao sword hummed.

Shen Mo’s Mana drained like a flood, consuming three-tenths. Simultaneously, the Dao-slashing Sword shattered the Life-Death Balance on Master Yangji.

The next moment, the Death Ghost Realm’s aura and vast vitality on him began to dissipate, and he broke free from the state between life and death, no longer alternately appearing as a corpse or living.

Master Yangji’s expression cleared, but his vitality had already ended, his clarity akin to a final flicker lasting only a brief instant.

He gratefully nodded at Shen Mo, enveloping a Storage Bracelet with immortal light and sending it to Shen Mo, then transformed into a gleam brighter than the blazing sun, slowly dimming until his figure completely faded into the world... Master Yangji escaped the state of neither human nor ghost, reincarnating!

Shen Mo put away the Storage Bracelet, but showed no joy.

Activating the Dao-slashing Sword could indeed annihilate these undead monsters, but just one strike consumed three-tenths of his Mana, and to completely destroy all the monsters before him, it would require sacrificing a huge amount of primal Essence and Qi, the cultivation level at least regressing by several decades.

As he prepared to use the Escape Skill, directly transferring his real body back to Five Dragon Mountain, suddenly the whole world darkened;

Shen Mo felt palpitation, looking up at the sky, as if an additional pair of eyes had appeared... some unknown presence seemed to have cast its gaze here.

Buzz!

The misty stream of light surged.

All undead retreated to Vacuous Realm, and the presence of Vacuous Realm in this world gradually thinned, eventually vanishing completely, evidently retreating from the Immortal Realm.

About half a tea’s time later, the folded and twisted space gradually restored under the world’s might, Shen Mo and Jade Spring Fairy reunited with the others.

”What on earth is happening?”

Everyone looked at each other, momentarily puzzled.

Shen Mo was likewise unclear of the situation, suspecting the unknown presence’s glare frightened away the Immortal Path Stronghold behind Vacuous Realm.

Now Vacuous Realm had completely departed from the Immortal Realm, whereabouts unknown.

With no need to worry about Immortal Abandoned Ridge’s change affecting his sect, in some sense, it fulfilled his goal for this journey, Kong Ce cheerfully took out nearly two hundred drops of Creation Bamboo Liquid to distribute among everyone... Jade Spring Fairy and Master Jinguang, the two True Immortals, each received fifty drops of bamboo liquid, while Shen Mo, Xuanyuan Di, and White Crane Venerable received thirty drops each!