104: Emperors fight

That last strike truly made everyone break out in a cold sweat.

An Emperor's casual flick of a finger almost wiped out most of the Star Palace's foundation! Fortunately, Bai Li and Lin Xuan reacted quickly, managing to deflect it slightly. Otherwise, everyone would have already turned to ash and been blown into the void to eat dirt.

The disciples who had retreated below still had shaky legs, leaning on each other as they watched the powerful figures in the sky from afar, not daring to breathe loudly. This battle was simply unwinnable; a mere breath from the enemy and they would be gone. Going up would be pure suicide.

Up in the sky, the atmosphere grew even tenser.

The Asura Emperor named Blood Slaughter looked a bit embarrassed. His casual strike failed to finish the job, making him feel he had lost face. His gaze, sharp as a knife, sliced at Lin Xuan and Bai Li, his killing intent almost solidifying.

"Two little insects, quite slippery," Blood Slaughter's voice was cold. "I'd like to see how many times you can dodge!"

He truly seemed intent on personally crushing Lin Xuan and Bai Li.

"Blood Slaughter! Try touching my disciple!" The Azure Underworld Emperor of the Demon Race's eyes almost popped out. His demonic energy exploded with a roar. Although he was not in good condition, his aura was terrifying. The other four Immortal Emperors also stepped forward simultaneously, their immortal light, demonic flames, spiritual glow, and dragon might soaring into the sky, locking onto the three Asura Emperors. The message was clear: if you dare touch the young ones, we old ones will fight you to the death!

The three Asura Emperors' expressions turned grim. Their condition was better, but if the five old guys on the other side truly fought with their lives, they wouldn't fare well either.

Just as the tension was at its peak, on the verge of an explosion—

"Jie—!"

An extremely sharp shriek, full of pain and terror, suddenly echoed from the incredibly distant depths of the void! The sound had extreme penetrative power, even carrying a strange force that directly attacked the soul, making everyone below the Emperor level feel their heads buzz and almost faint.

"The Mother Worm's cry?" The Emperor Xuesha's face suddenly changed. He turned his head to look in the direction of the sound, his brows furrowed tightly. "What's going on? How could it...?"

The Mother Worm? Was it that super converter that continuously spawned insects and devoured the lower realms to feed the Asura Clan? Had something happened to it? It sounded like it was in great pain?

Before everyone could react—

Boom!!!

Another completely different, terrifying fluctuation came from another direction! This fluctuation was even more ancient, more obscure, carrying a heavy sense of suppressing all ages and sealing everything! It was as if a super vault, buried for countless years, had been violently struck, and its door had come loose!

"That seal?!" This time, even the five Immortal Emperors' faces changed. They looked in that direction with uncertainty and surprise.

"Could it be..." The Human Race Immortal Emperor seemed to have thought of something, his eyes suddenly brightening.

These two sudden disturbances instantly disrupted the atmosphere that had been tense to the point of explosion.

The three Asura Emperors exchanged glances, communicating through their eyes. It seemed something had gone wrong with the Mother Worm, which was a huge deal for their Asura Clan! If the Mother Worm was gone, a large part of their logistical supply would be cut off! And that ancient seal also seemed to involve something significant.

The Emperor Xuesha glared fiercely at Lin Xuan and Bai Li, then looked at the five Immortal Emperors on the other side, who had adopted a desperate stance, and finally snorted coldly: "Hmph! Consider yourselves lucky!"

He temporarily suppressed the urge to act immediately, but his killing intent remained undiminished.

The five Immortal Emperors also breathed a slight sigh of relief. It was naturally best not to fight. Their current condition was too poor, and they would suffer if they truly fought.

But among Emperors, how could they cease hostilities because of a small change?

After a brief silence, the Emperor Xuesha suddenly let out a sinister laugh: "Well, since we're here, we can't return empty-handed! Azure Underworld, how much longer can you five old useless ones, in such poor condition, last? I'll just warm up my muscles first!"

With that, he suddenly punched forward!

This punch was not a casual flick of a finger like before!

Rumble!

The entire space in front of him shattered like a piece of glass, instantly covered with countless black cracks! A dark red fist print, purely condensed from the laws of destruction, like a collapsing pillar of heaven, directly crushed through layers of space, blasting towards the five Immortal Emperors!

Wherever it passed, space was not merely distorted but directly annihilated! Turning into the most primordial chaotic void! Terrifying law currents raged everywhere!

"Form a formation! Block it!" The Human Race Immortal Emperor roared.

The five Immortal Emperors instantly connected their auras. Immortal power, demonic energy, devil essence, spiritual energy, and dragon power—five completely different forces—perfectly merged, forming a gigantic, multicolored light shield in front of them!

Boom!!!

The dark red fist print slammed heavily onto the multicolored light shield!

An indescribable colossal roar erupted!

No sound could describe this collision, because sound itself was annihilated by that terrifying energy! Only a destructive shockwave, like a circular tsunami, furiously spread in all directions!

Crackling...

Wherever the shockwave swept, space shattered in layers like fragile ice! The ground below was directly scraped away! Mountains, rivers, forests... everything was flattened, vaporized, and vanished!

Even though the Star Palace disciples had retreated far away and were protected by the last remnants of the Star Chain Barrier, desperately maintained by Chu Xinghe, they were still thrown off balance by the shockwave. Weaker cultivators directly vomited blood and were severely injured!

Lin Xuan and his Golden Immortal disciples also turned pale, quickly joining forces to set up layers of defense, barely managing to withstand the aftershocks. They looked at the destructive scene in the distance, a chill running down their spines. This was just the aftershock of the collision!

Emperors fighting was truly terrifying! This was not something human power could contend with! The entire Immortal Realm was wailing, as if it could completely collapse at any moment!

At the center of the collision, the multicolored light shield shook violently, its light significantly dimmed. The five Immortal Emperors all took a step back, their faces even paler, clearly indicating that taking that blow was not easy.

"Haha! How exhilarating! Again!" The Emperor Xuesha laughed wildly, punching out again! The other two Asura Emperors also attacked simultaneously, a soul-tearing bloody blade light and a corrupt black tide that corroded all things, simultaneously blasting towards the five Immortal Emperors!

"You're going too far!" The Dragon Race Emperor roared, revealing part of his true form, a giant dragon claw tearing through space to swat at the blade light! The Demon Race Emperor, with demonic flames blazing around him, transformed into a demon god to clash head-on with the corrupt black tide! The Azure Underworld Emperor's demonic energy materialized, a giant phantom of a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox roaring as it pounced!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The true Emperor battle had completely erupted!

The sky was utterly shattered! Various terrifying law powers collided and annihilated each other! Space continuously shattered and reformed, but the speed of reformation was far from keeping up with the speed of destruction! Countless black spatial cracks spread like a spiderweb, devouring all surrounding light and energy!

Occasionally, an attack would deviate, landing in the distance, instantly wiping that area completely off the map, leaving a huge hole leading to the void!

This was not a battle; this was a natural disaster! It was the end of days!

Lin Xuan and the others watched with pounding hearts, not even thinking of intervening. In a battle of this level, they would be mere cannon fodder, unable to withstand even a few aftershocks.

"Everyone! Continue to retreat! Retreat into the strongest defensive range of the sect's grand formation!" Lin Xuan yelled hoarsely, leading his disciples to cover the army as they ran towards the Star Palace's stronghold.

Now, they could only hope that their sect's defensive grand formation, cultivated over many years, could hold out a little longer, and that the five Immortal Emperor powerhouses could put up a good fight and not fall so quickly.

At the same time, Lin Xuan's mind was rapidly calculating.

Something seemed to have happened to the Mother Worm? Who was the fierce individual who did it? To actually be able to reach the Mother Worm's lair? And what was that ancient seal? It sounded like it might be beneficial to the Immortal Realm's side?

Perhaps... this was an opportunity?

As he ran, he couldn't help but look back at the battlefield where the sky was falling and the earth was cracking, then at the direction from which the Mother Worm's scream and the seal's fluctuation came, his eyes flickering.

"Damn it, fortune favors the bold... Once things stabilize a bit here, I need to find a way to go and see what's actually happening over there!"

And at this moment, no one noticed that in a corner of the devastated land below, which had been plowed over by the Emperor battle's aftershocks and turned into ruins, a small group of twisted dark figures, using some special magical artifact, were struggling to resist the suction of the spatial cracks, secretly recording everything!