102: The Emperor's Power Arrives

Outside the Star Palace, a fierce battle raged, turning the sky dark!

Lin Xuan, leading his gang of disciples, all of whom were now Golden Immortals, directly confronted the four ancient Asuras who had crawled out of the Asura Ancestral Land.

"One each! Don't embarrass me!" Lin Xuan roared, and he was the first to charge at the largest, most muscular, and most brute-force ancient Asura.

"Understood!" The disciples howled and charged forward.

Yun Qingyao faced the big-headed mage ancient Asura, unleashing streams of Ice Soul Divine Light that clashed with the strange light emanating from the opponent's erratically spinning eyeballs, causing continuous explosions. She had to be careful; the light was not only powerful but also carried various negative emotions, making it easy to fall victim if one wasn't careful.

Leng Yuechan and Ye Chen, the two old partners, with their impeccable teamwork, directly tangled with the speed-type assassin ancient Asura. Leng Yuechan's Nirvana Sword Intent enveloped the area, restricting the opponent's ghostly speed, while Ye Chen, like a venomous snake, hid in the shadows, ready to strike a brutal blow. The speed-type ancient Asura was fast, but the duo, one controlling the field and the other assassinating, made him extremely frustrated, and he soon had several cuts on his body.

Mo Sha and Kong Ming, this duo confronted the ancient Asura whose body was oozing pus and emitting poison gas. Mo Sha roared as he charged forward, and Kong Ming quickly conjured thick Buddha's Light shields for him, resisting the pervasive poison gas and the power of decay. Mo Sha's axe struck the creature, splashing out a disgusting amount of pus that corroded the axe with a sizzling sound, making Mo Sha yell in frustration.

The remaining disciples were not idle either. Su Yuan held the rear, rapidly calculating the energy fluctuations and weaknesses of the four battlefields, relaying them in real-time to the corresponding senior brothers and sisters. Linglong and You Ye began to cast illusions and demonic music upon the dense Asura army below, aiming to hold back as many as possible. Jin Bao and A Zi unleashed a barrage of dragon's breath and lightning from the sky onto the rear of the Asura army, conducting carpet bombing. Feng Qiqi, Qing Xuan, and Mu Ling Nannan fully supported the Star Palace army below, providing healing, purification, and accelerating the growth of defensive structures.

Chu Xinghe was even busier, fully maintaining the Star Chain Barrier, buffing all Star Palace disciples, and simultaneously diverting energy to interfere with the four ancient Asuras.

Below, that was the true hell on earth!

On the Star Palace side, including the Sky Patrol Army and the main legion, the numbers approached ten million! The lowest cultivation was Heavenly Immortal! True Immortals were as numerous as cattle! There were also many Golden Immortal-level generals.

On the Asura Clan side, Blood Butcher Prince also went all out, mobilizing all available forces, with numbers even slightly exceeding the Star Palace, and behind them followed ancient Asura warriors from the ancestral land, few in number but each exceptionally fierce.

The two armies collided like two massive torrents!

Immortal arts, demonic techniques,Magic, Buddha's Light, Sword Intent, and blood fiend shockwaves—energy lights of various colors flew everywhere, and the sounds of explosions, battle cries, and screams merged into a cacophony, impossible to discern.

Life was perishing every moment. The Star Palace disciples formed battle formations, covering each other, fighting with great discipline. The Asura Clan, however, was even more frenzied, often charging forward fearlessly to self-detonate.

The sky was shattered by the relentless bombardment of Jin Bao and A Zi and the clashes of powerful individuals from both sides, while the earth was ploughed over and over by various energies, causing mountains to collapse, the ground to crack, and rivers to evaporate.

Tragic! It was too tragic!

Although the Star Palace side had stronger individual strength, better coordination, and array enhancements, the Asura Clan had greater numbers, and the pressure from the four ancient Asuras was immense. While Lin Xuan and his disciples could barely hold them off, a quick victory was impossible.

Blood Butcher Prince himself joined the battle with his personal guards. This fellow, an Immortal Venerable, caused considerable damage as he plunged into the Star Palace's battle formations.

The battle became a stalemate, but overall, the Star Palace side gradually began to lose ground. The main reason was that the four ancient Asuras were too troublesome; their power attributes were very ancient, having a certain suppressive effect on the immortal power of the Star Palace disciples, and their recovery ability was extremely strong.

Mo Sha's side was the first to show signs of faltering. The decaying power of that pus-oozing ancient Asura was too disgusting; even Kong Ming's Buddha's Light struggled to purify it. Mo Sha charged several times, but was instead corroded by the poison gas, his movements slowed considerably, and signs of decay began to appear on his body.

"Damn it! This stuff is potent!" Mo Sha gritted his teeth, splitting the opponent back with an axe, but was hit by a spray of pus himself, his protective immortal light sizzling.

Kong Ming quickly provided healing: "Mo Sha, be careful! Its power is eroding your vitality!"

On the other side, Yun Qingyao was also forced to retreat continuously by the bizarre spells of the big-headed mage ancient Asura, her face somewhat pale. The opponent's mental attacks were difficult to guard against.

Although Leng Yuechan and Ye Chen's cooperation was exquisite, the speed-type ancient Asura was too fast, nearly breaking through their blockade several times to attack the army below.

Lin Xuan fought the most fiercely with the strength-type ancient Asura, trading blows that caused space itself to constantly collapse. Lin Xuan, being a late-stage Immortal Monarch, had a clear advantage, but this ancient Asura was thick-skinned and extremely resilient, making it impossible to defeat him quickly.

"This can't go on!" Lin Xuan's brows furrowed. His disciples were starting to struggle, and the casualties in the army below were continuously increasing. Although he still had the newly crafted "Chaos Annihilation Orb" unused, it might not be able to instantly kill such a tough opponent.

Just as the pressure on the Star Palace side grew, their defenses began to loosen, and many disciples showed signs of fatigue and a hint of despair.

A sudden change occurred!

Without any warning, the entire battlefield, both on the Star Palace side and the Asura Clan side, felt a sudden heavy sensation in their hearts!

It was as if the weight of the entire sky, no, the entire universe, suddenly pressed down!

An indescribable, supreme, terrifying pressure that made one tremble and feel insignificant from the depths of their soul, suddenly descended!

Boom!!!

Time seemed to stop!

All the flying energy lights, the exploding shockwaves, the clashing soldiers—everything was as if a pause button had been pressed!

The low-level disciples and Asura soldiers, moreover, directly collapsed to the ground, unable even to lift their heads, trembling all over, their thoughts frozen!

Even Lin Xuan, Blood Butcher Prince, and the four frenzied ancient Asuras all suddenly froze, their faces showing horror, feeling as if they had fallen into an invisible quagmire, every movement becoming incredibly difficult!

"This... this is..." Blood Butcher Prince's pupils constricted, his voice dry and filled with disbelief.

The four ancient Asuras also stopped their attacks, looking towards the void with suspicion and alarm. Their frenzied bloodlust was forcefully suppressed by this pressure, and they instinctively felt fear!

Lin Xuan's heart also sank sharply! This pressure was too terrifying! Far surpassing an Immortal Monarch! Even countless times stronger than any Immortal Venerable he had ever perceived! It was not on the same level of power at all!

Immediately after, to the horror of everyone, the void above the battlefield, like fragile cloth, was silently torn open into eight immense fissures!

Behind each fissure was a terrifying sight of surging chaos and collapsing laws, clearly an extremely distant extra-territorial battlefield!

And from those eight rifts, eight figures, whose power was beyond description, stepped out!

Their figures were not particularly gigantic, but at this moment, in everyone's eyes, they were giants supporting the heavens and propping up the earth! They were the center of the entire universe!

Vast, majestic, ancient, terrifying!

From the void rifts on the left, five figures emerged, each with a different aura, but all carrying a majestic and righteous, yet incomparably sharp, imposing presence! Immortal light, demonic energy, infernal flames, spiritual radiance, and dragon's might intertwined! These were the five Emperors of the Immortal Realm! The supreme beings of the Human, Demon, Fiend, Spirit, and Dragon races! But they seemed to have expended a great deal of energy at this moment, bearing wounds, their auras somewhat unstable, and their eyes filled with fatigue and anxiety.

From the three rifts on the right, the figures that emerged exuded a pure, extreme aura of darkness, slaughter, destruction, and bloodlust! Just one glance made one's soul feel as if it would shatter, as if witnessing the end of the universe! These were the three Emperors of the Asura Clan! Their condition seemed slightly better than that of the Immortal Realm Emperors, and their eyes gleamed with cruelty and mockery.

Eight Emperors! Descended simultaneously!

Their gazes, like tangible searchlights, slowly swept across the tragic battlefield below, which seemed to be frozen in time.

Upon seeing that the Star Palace had actually withstood the attacks of the main Asura Clan forces plus four ancient Asuras, a trace of imperceptible surprise flashed in the eyes of the five Immortal Realm Emperors.

And when the three Asura Clan Emperors saw Blood Hell King, frozen in profound ice and reduced to a mere remnant, and the four ancient Asuras struggling in battle, their eyes instantly turned incredibly gloomy and furious!

"Useless!" A bone-chilling voice, as if capable of freezing the soul, emanated from the mouth of one Asura Emperor, it was unclear whether he was scolding Blood Butcher or the four ancient Asuras.

The entire battlefield was deathly silent.

All the Star Palace disciples, including Lin Xuan's Golden Immortal disciples, felt their hearts sink.

Emperors! And eight of them! How could they fight this? This was simply not on the same scale! A single breath from them could probably annihilate everyone on their side!

Despair, like a plague, spread through the Star Palace ranks.

Even Lin Xuan's palms were sweating. No matter how capable he was of challenging higher ranks, facing an Emperor was like an ant looking up at the sky! No matter how powerful the system was, it couldn't let him fight an Emperor right now!

Was it over? After so many years of hard work, was it all going to end here?

Just at this suffocating moment of despair, on the Immortal Realm side, the human Immortal Emperor, clad in a Starry Emperor Robe and possessing the most profound aura, fixed his gaze on Lin Xuan, then swept over the Star Palace disciples behind him who, though terrified, still stood firm in their formation, and slowly spoke, his voice grand and weary, yet carrying an undeniable authority:

"Are you... the newly risen power of this realm, the Star Palace?"

His voice seemed to carry some power, slightly dispelling some of the terrifying Emperor's oppressive aura.

All the Star Palace disciples, including Lin Xuan, instinctively looked towards that Immortal Emperor.

Lin Xuan took a deep breath, enduring the terrifying pressure, straightened his back, and replied neither subserviently nor arrogantly: "To the Immortal Emperor, that is correct!"

The Immortal Emperor looked at him, then at the million-strong army standing ready behind him. A subtle hint of approval seemed to flash in his weary eyes, but was immediately replaced by solemnity.

He slowly raised his hand, pointing towards the three Asura Emperors radiating monstrous malevolence, his voice resounding through heaven and earth:

"The Asura Emperors have broken free and descended; this realm is in peril."

"Star Palace, heed my command! From this moment, you must, at all costs, hold your ground and await reinforcements! We require a brief recovery before we can fight again!"

Having said that, the five Immortal Emperors no longer spared another glance at the battlefield below. Their figures flickered and disappeared on the spot, clearly going to find a place for urgent recovery. It was already extremely difficult for them to break free from the extra-territorial battlefield and return; their condition was at its worst, and they were utterly incapable of immediately resuming an Emperor-level battle.

Meanwhile, the gazes of the three Asura Emperors had already locked onto the Star Palace below, and... Lin Xuan, standing alone at the very front, as if looking at dead men!

Terrifying killing intent, like an ice sea pouring down, instantly engulfed the entire Star Palace!