49: Xian Kun

Lin Xuan was 'shearing wool' in this dead, dark-gold world.

His Chaos Nascent Soul was operating at full power, like an oversized vacuum cleaner, sucking the incredibly pure destructive energy and law fragments from the surroundings into his dantian.

He felt like an inflating balloon, his power surging upwards, just a hair's breadth away from the peak of Tribulation Transcension.

"Tsk tsk, this place is truly a good graveyard!" Lin Xuan commented as he continued to absorb.

The colossal dark-gold 'mountains' around him were all bones of unrecognizable super beasts, their residual malevolent aura strong enough to terrify True Immortals.

He tried to break off the smallest bone fragment; it was incredibly hard!

He casually stored it in his system space as a souvenir.

As he absorbed, he delved deeper and deeper.

This eerie place was boundless, with nothing but bones and massive fissures flowing with dark-gold magma, not even a single living creature.

Just as Lin Xuan was wondering if he should move to another spot to continue 'shearing,'

Boom!

The ground beneath him suddenly shook violently!

In the distance, an unimaginable, terrifying energy fluctuation swept over like a tsunami!

It was at least a hundred times louder than the commotion he made when he broke through to the late stage of Tribulation Transcension!

"Holy crap! Someone's fighting?!" Lin Xuan's eyes lit up.

Instead of fleeing, he shot like an arrow towards the source of the energy explosion!

Chaos Qi enveloped his entire body, and his Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes opened, piercing through layers of dark-gold destructive mist.

When he emerged from the mist and saw the scene before him, even the well-traveled Lin Xuan couldn't help but gasp!

Above a section of the dark-gold land that had been forcefully shattered, two colossal figures, reaching the heavens, were fiercely clashing!

The one on the left was ten thousand zhang tall!

Its entire body was covered in cold, grotesque, barbed dark-gold bone armor!

Three enormous heads roared furiously: one spewed a viscous, ink-like, space-corroding Breath of Annihilation; one had eyes burning with soul-devouring emerald green soul fire; and the other was a constantly rotating black vortex emitting terrifying suction!

Pure killing intent surged around like a tangible tide!

Its aura was hundreds, even thousands of times stronger than the claw that had projected through the world barrier before!

This was a true Asura King! And definitely a top-tier one among them!

The one on the right was equally enormous!

Was it a fish?

No!

It was an indescribably massive Immortal Kun!

Its entire body was covered in scales like the purest blue sapphires, radiating a vast, profound, ocean-like Immortal Spirit aura!

Each flick of its tail stirred up world-sweeping Immortal Spirit storms!

Each time it opened its mouth, it didn't spew water, but an extreme cold tide capable of freezing time and space!

Its eyes were like two giant stars, filled with age and wisdom, but at this moment, they too burned with towering rage!

Boom! Boom!

The Asura King's Breath of Annihilation fiercely collided with the Immortal Kun's ice tide, emitting a harsh sizzling sound and billowing black smoke!

The Immortal Kun's massive tail, carrying ten thousand acres of ice, struck the Asura King's bone armor like a pillar of heaven, sending bone fragments flying and sparks showering!

Soul fire rays and Immortal Spirit storms clashed and annihilated each other!

The vortex's suction tore at the Immortal Kun's scales!

The entire space was wailing!

Law fragments flew everywhere like shattered glass!

The dark-gold earth was ripped open with bottomless ravines, and viscous magma gushed out like blood!

"My goodness! An Immortal Kun of the Immortal Monarch level battling an Asura King?!" Lin Xuan watched, his blood boiling.

This was far more exciting than any blockbuster movie!

He quickly found a relatively safe spot behind a colossal bone mountain and hunkered down, his Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes fixed on the battlefield, analyzing the energy flow and law collisions.

Just observing a battle of this caliber was an immense opportunity!

The battle had reached a fever pitch!

Both sides had fought with true fury and sustained grievous injuries!

The Immortal Kun's sapphire-like scales were torn in large patches by the Asura King's claws and breath, revealing frozen immortal blood inside, emitting a shimmering treasure light.

One of its massive fin-wings was even ripped open with a terrifying gash by the vortex head!

The Asura King was no better off!

All three of its heads were wounded!

The soul fire in the bone skull's eye sockets dimmed considerably, half-frozen by the Immortal Kun's ice tide; the lizard skull's mouth was torn open, flowing with viscous black blood; the worst off was the vortex head, which was struck by the Immortal Kun's tail whip, imbued with space laws, causing its rotation to stutter, and it was covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

"Roar!" The Asura King let out a furious roar that shattered the void, its three heads simultaneously erupting with their final, destructive power!

A dark-gold torrent of destruction, a mixture of the Breath of Annihilation, soul fire rays, and vortex suction, like a world-ending spear, fiercely pierced towards the Immortal Kun's vital heart!

A hint of determination flashed in the Immortal Kun's enormous eyes!

It did not retreat; instead, it frantically poured its remaining immortal power into the colossal single horn on its head, which resembled an ice crystal crown!

The single horn erupted with an unprecedented brilliant blue light, and an ice-blue beam of light, condensed with extreme cold and space-freezing power, like a divine punishment that split heaven and earth, bravely met the destructive torrent!

Boom!

An indescribable, terrifying explosion occurred!

A giant energy orb, over ten thousand li in diameter, instantly expanded!

It swallowed both colossal beings!

The dazzling light temporarily blinded Lin Xuan's Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes!

Destructive and immortal spirit energies fiercely clashed and annihilated each other!

Space shattered inch by inch like a fragile mirror!

Time itself seemed to stop at this moment!

The light lasted for more than ten breaths before slowly dissipating.

In its place, only a bottomless, enormous abyss remained!

The Immortal Kun's massive body floated weakly in mid-air, its sapphire-like scales dim, its giant single horn broken, its entire body covered in terrifying wounds, its aura extremely weak, like a flickering candle in the wind.

And that once-invincible Asura King... was even worse off!

Only a small half of its massive body remained!

All three heads were gone!

Only a broken chest cavity and half a spine remained, frozen within a thousand-zhang thick, dark-blue profound ice!

That profound ice radiated the Immortal Kun's final power, firmly imprisoning the Asura King's remaining vitality and destructive essence!

Both sides suffered heavy losses!

The Immortal Kun's enormous eyes rotated wearily, seemingly trying to struggle, but its injuries were too severe, making even a slight movement difficult.

And deep within the frozen remnants of the Asura King's body, an extremely faint dark-gold light spot, yet full of undying ferocity, was frantically impacting the profound ice, attempting to break free!

"Opportunity!" Lin Xuan's eyes gleamed!

This was an absolute super windfall from heaven!

A crippled, frozen Immortal Monarch-level Asura King!

If he succeeded in delivering the finishing blow, the gains would be unimaginable!

Without the slightest hesitation!

Lin Xuan's figure shot out from behind the bone mountain like a phantom!

The power he had just broken through to and accumulated to its peak erupted without reservation!

His Chaos Nascent Soul spun frantically, activating all the Chaos Qi around him!

He didn't use the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, nor did he use the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon Roar.

To deal with such a frozen target, barely clinging to life, the most direct and effective method was the Nirvana Sword Intent, which condensed all his current essence, qi, and spirit, and fused with the essence of chaos and his comprehension of destructive laws!

"Slash, and be completely annihilated!" Lin Xuan pointed his fingers like a sword, and with a mid-air slash, he targeted the core of the Asura King's frozen remnants, that frantically struggling dark-gold light spot!

A gray, inconspicuous Sword Intent, seemingly capable of severing karma and annihilating all things into nothingness, silently slashed out!

This sword strike had no earth-shattering momentum, but it carried a cold will that ended everything!

Pfft!

The Sword Intent penetrated the thousand-zhang profound ice without hindrance, precisely hitting the dark-gold light spot that represented the Asura King's last life imprint!

The light spot trembled violently!

Immediately after, like a popped bubble, it silently extinguished!

The last trace of struggling ferocity in that massive remnant body completely dissipated!

The terrifying Asura King had fallen!

The moment the Asura King was completely annihilated, a vast, unimaginably pure source energy, mixed with fragments of shattered destructive laws, erupted from its remnants like a broken dam!

"Haha! A great tonic!" Lin Xuan laughed aloud, his Chaos Nascent Soul like a gluttonous beast, opening its mouth wide and frantically devouring this ownerless, Immortal Monarch-level source energy!

His aura soared again like a rocket!

The barrier to the peak of Tribulation Transcension shattered with a bang under the impact of this power!

Peak of Tribulation Transcension! It was a natural progression!

At the same time, the shattered bone armor, the flowing viscous black blood, and the refined materials contained within the massive remnants of the Asura King's body were all swept into Lin Xuan's system space!

These were Immortal Monarch-level materials!

Bringing them back as a welcoming gift for his disciples would be grand enough!

After all this, Lin Xuan's gaze finally turned to the dying Immortal Kun on the other side.

This great being was too severely wounded; its enormous eyes were half-open, half-closed, its life aura like a flickering candle in the wind.

The Immortal Kun's enormous eyes slowly turned, falling upon Lin Xuan, carrying a hint of surprise, a touch of understanding, and deep weariness.

An ancient and grand thought, heavy with the weight of countless ages, directly resonated in Lin Xuan's mind:

"Little friend, thank you."

The thought was intermittent, as if it could extinguish at any moment.

"You're too kind, Senior.

I just took advantage of the situation," Lin Xuan cupped his hands, speaking truthfully.

"This fiend is Blood Hell King of the Asura Clan, and I have fought him for nearly a thousand years," the Immortal Kun's thought carried deep weariness and helplessness.

"The Immortal Realm is in danger.

The three Emperors of the Asura Clan are holding back the five Immortal Emperors of the Immortal Realm in the outer domains, while the other Asura Kings and that Mother Worm are frantically attacking the Immortal Realm."

Lin Xuan's heart tightened!

Indeed!

The true battlefield was in the Immortal Realm!

"The Mother Worm is extremely special," the Immortal Kun's thought became even weaker.

"It hatches an endless number of larvae, devouring lower realms to strengthen itself, and can also feed the devoured power back to the Asura Clan.

Although the various clans of our Immortal Realm have united, we are retreating step by step."

Mother Worm!

Devouring lower realms!

Feeding back to Asura!

Lin Xuan understood!

The Abyss was a stronghold, wasn't it?

Those bugs were scattered everywhere!

Devouring everything was to strengthen the Asura Clan of the Immortal Realm!

That Mother Worm was a super converter, directly transforming the resources of the lower realms into the Asura Clan's combat power!

"My source power is exhausted, and I am beyond help," the Immortal Kun's thought carried endless unwillingness and a hint of plea.

"Little friend, if you ever enter the Immortal Realm, I hope you can lend a hand to the various clans of the Immortal Realm."

Its thought grew weaker and weaker, and its massive body began to emit a soft glow, like a star disintegrating.

The light grew brighter and brighter, and finally, the colossal Immortal Kun's body rapidly shrank and transformed within the light!

When the light dissipated, a palm-sized bird, covered in soft, pale blue down, with a tuft of golden hair on its head and eyes like two black gemstones, fluttered its wings and wobbled onto Lin Xuan's shoulder.

The Little Blue Bird tilted its head, curiously examining Lin Xuan with its black gemstone-like eyes, emitting clear, melodious chirps.

Where was the slightest trace of the Immortal Monarch Kun's majesty?

Lin Xuan: "..."

He looked at the adorable Little Blue Bird on his shoulder, then at the pile of colossal profound ice on the ground, which contained the Asura King's remnants, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently.

The contrast was too great, wasn't it?!

He extended a finger and carefully poked the tuft of golden hair on the Little Blue Bird's head.

The Little Blue Bird wasn't afraid of strangers; instead, it rubbed its fluffy head affectionately against his finger, letting out comfortable purrs.

"Alright, an Immortal Kun boss turning into a little bird, this art style is certainly unique," Lin Xuan accepted the reality with a wry smile.

He carefully tucked the Little Blue Bird, which was clearly in a state of deep slumber, into his embrace, wrapping it in Chaos Qi to ensure it slept soundly.

After all this, Lin Xuan's gaze once again turned towards the depths of this dead, dark-gold world.

He sensed that after devouring the Asura King's essence and breaking through to the peak of Tribulation Transcension, the call of the coordinates pointing to the Immortal Realm deep within his soul had become clearer than ever before!

"Immortal Realm Mother Worm, Asura Clan," a cold light flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes, but a hint of excitement curved his lips.

"Just wait!

After I 'shear' this last wave of 'wool,' I'll bring a million-strong demolition team to give you a good 'hand'!"

His figure flickered, transforming into a chaotic stream of light, and he sped towards the core area of this world, where the energy was densest and the laws most chaotic!

There, there must be even more good things!