249: ascend to immortality

In the boundary realm battlefield, sparks exploded like a waterfall. Dao Yi Realm and Blood Demon Realm warships continuously ignited, Cultivators either perished in the sea of fire or fled in panic. Even the ferocious Blood Demon Beasts were annihilated by more than a dozen upon engagement.

Xue Qin stood atop Blood Slaughter War City, looking down with indifference. Such a scene was already commonplace for her.

From the massive main cannon muzzle of the War City, a blood-red light surged like boiling water. Behind it, eighteen blood-colored Formations were frantically drawing energy, continuously pouring it into the cannon body.

This cannon was forged by Blood Heaven, who heavily invited the Demon Realm's grand master, Old Demon Tian Lei. Its ultimate power could only be fully unleashed in the boundary realm—when fully charged, it could unleash the full power of a Golden Immortal!

However, its cost was equally horrifying: one shot required draining the essence and Divine Souls of one hundred thousand Nascent Soul Cultivators. At this moment, captured Minghu Realm Cultivators were continuously thrown into the Formation to serve as fuel.

“Reporting to the Palace Master! The World-Annihilating Main Cannon’s energy storage has reached ninety percent and will be completed within half an incense stick’s time!” Above the sky platform, a Blood Demon general instantly appeared and reported in a deep voice.

“Very good. Once charged, stand by!” Xue Qin said coldly.

“Understood!”

Perhaps sensing the fatal threat, seventeen astonishing streaks of light suddenly shot out from the direction of the Dao Yi Realm, heading straight for Blood Slaughter War City! The streaks of light had immense Aura, all of them Mahayana Realm Cultivators, with the leader being a Quasi-Immortal!

Xue Qin’s eyes narrowed.

Without her command, more than a dozen blood-colored streaks of light had already surged out from the War City, bravely meeting the attack.

The two sides instantly clashed a hundred li outside the War City, engaging in fierce combat. Violent spells capable of tearing apart medium-sized warships crisscrossed, and energy surges ravaged the boundary realm.

Immortal Master Tian Luo, Junior Brother of Immortal Master Tian Xing (Heaven Walker), the Dao Yi Sect’s Sect Master, possessed even greater talent than his brother. He had long reached the Peak of Quasi-Immortal, just half a step away from becoming a True Immortal.

He had always been devoted to the Dao and indifferent to worldly affairs, but in this time of existential crisis for the boundary realm, the strongest combat power of the Dao Yi Sect, at least on the surface, had no choice but to step forward.

The surprise attack on Blood Slaughter War City was a pre-determined strategy.

The Dao Yi Realm and Blood Demon Realm had been clashing for a long time and were well aware of the world-destroying power of this War City’s main cannon. How could they allow it to fire safely?

The seventeen individuals on this mission were resolved to die and also held a trump card for a decisive kill—it was Immortal Master Tian Luo, hidden among them, with his Aura completely concealed, disguised as a Mahayana Realm Cultivator!

Their plan was: to risk their lives to cover Immortal Master Tian Luo as he approached the War City, triggering the Tribulation of Ascension within him, which could erupt at any moment! Even if they couldn’t completely destroy the War City, they would surely severely damage it!

The energy in the boundary realm churned like boiling water.

The seventeen top Cultivators of the Dao Yi Sect and the Sacred Blood Guard of the Blood Demon Realm fought inextricably, with halos exploding and space twisting at the points of collision. The violent shockwaves caused the blood-red War City below to tremble slightly.

Xue Ze, the commander of the Sacred Blood Guard, had a demonic body as massive as a giant mountain. As he wielded his dripping blood-red scythe, a hundred-zhang blood-colored ribbon of light swept across the sky, tightly entangling the white-haired Quasi-Immortal elder from the Dao Yi Sect.

The elder conjured a giant turtle shell shield, its runes flashing wildly, and cracks spreading. He struggled to hold on, clearly outmatched.

“Ants from the Dao Yi Realm, do you even deserve to covet the War City?” Xue Ze sneered, his giant scythe transforming into a sky full of blood shadows, fiercely sending the elder, shield and all, flying!

The elder spewed blood, his Aura instantly wilting.

On the sky platform of Blood Slaughter War City, Xue Qin stood with her hands behind her back, her crimson pupils indifferently scanning the battlefield.

In her eyes, the struggles of the Dao Yi Cultivators were nothing but a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

At the muzzle of the main cannon, a blood-red light had condensed into a terrifying, blood-colored blazing sun that seemed capable of devouring stars, its energy storage almost full!

Just as Xue Ze sent the elder flying, his Aura reaching its Peak, and was about to slaughter the remaining individuals—

A sudden change occurred!

Beside the elder, who was on his last breath, a seemingly ordinary gray-robed Mahayana Realm Cultivator, who was being attacked by two Sacred Blood Guards, suddenly unleashed a piercing glare from his eyes that seemed to penetrate the Void Realm!

“Now is the time!”

A low roar exploded like thunder!

The ordinary Aura around Immortal Master Tian Luo instantly vanished, replaced by a terrifying pressure infinitely close to the Immortal Dao, causing heaven and earth to tremble!

The Divine Souls of the two Sacred Blood Guards attacking him felt a heavy blow, and their movements became rigid.

Immortal Master Tian Luo paid them no mind.

He pointed his fingers like a sword, and a point of golden light, pure to the extreme, seemingly containing the power to create heaven and earth, suddenly lit up at his fingertip!

There was no earth-shattering commotion, only a golden ray as fine as silk, which, at a speed beyond thought, silently and invisibly pierced through the center of Xue Ze’s forehead, just as he was about to deliver the final blow to the Quasi-Immortal elder!

Puff!

Xue Ze’s arrogant expression instantly froze.

A tiny hole appeared in his forehead, and then his entire head, along with his demonic body, shattered like crumbling glass, disintegrating inch by inch, turning into a sky full of ashes!

The powerful Quasi-Immortal commander was instantly killed!

The battlefield fell silent! All the Sacred Blood Guards were greatly shocked, unable to believe it.

Immortal Master Tian Luo did not pause.

He took a step, his figure blurring, as if he had merged with space itself.

A distance of a hundred li was nothing to a powerhouse at the Peak of Quasi-Immortal, poised and ready!

Almost at the moment Xue Ze perished, Immortal Master Tian Luo’s gray-robed figure had already appeared directly above the massive, blood-light-shrouded dome of Blood Slaughter War City!

“Not good!” On the sky platform, Xue Qin’s millennia of icy indifference finally shattered, her crimson pupils contracting sharply!

An unprecedented sense of crisis seized her!

This person was extremely powerful, not much weaker than herself. Daring to launch a surprise attack above the War City, he must have a trump card. Her thoughts raced, and she suddenly felt a tremor of fear.

The Tribulation of Ascension! The other party’s scheme was clear!

Blood-red light burst forth from Xue Qin’s body, and she suddenly tore at the Void Realm with her jade hand! A pitch-black spatial rift instantly opened.

Just as she was about to escape into the rift—

Immortal Master Tian Luo, above Blood Slaughter War City, no longer held back! He completely unleashed his long-suppressed, immense Aura, capable of triggering the Laws of the Immortal Dao!

Boom—!!!

It was as if the entire boundary realm was overturned!

The dark red sky, stained by the Blood Demon Evil Qi, was instantly replaced by vast tribulation clouds from an unknown source!

A violent Aura of destruction, like the Nine Heavens’ galaxy pouring down, locked onto Immortal Master Tian Luo, and the massive War City below him was also completely enveloped by this world-destroying heavenly might!

Xue Qin’s figure vanished before the closing spatial rift, casting a cold glance back at the War City swallowed by the tribulation clouds.

There was no anger in her eyes, only the frustration of being completely outmaneuvered—her situation had been perfectly calculated by those old fellows of the Dao Yi Realm. This was a conspiracy combined with an open scheme, and her reaction was also within their calculations!

Having traversed the boundary realm for thousands of years, such frustration was a first!

But even knowing this, she still couldn’t get involved! As a Peak Quasi-Immortal, she could also trigger the Tribulation of Ascension at any time! Once locked by the tribulation Qi and forced to trigger her tribulation prematurely, with two tribulations superimposed, the consequences would be unimaginable! What kind of person was Xue Qin? How could she perish with this madman from the Dao Yi Realm?

The spatial rift closed, and Xue Qin’s Aura vanished without a trace.

Only the massive Blood Slaughter War City remained, and the faces of countless Blood Demon Cultivators on its walls, filled with terror and despair, completely exposed beneath the terrifying tribulation clouds that seemed to crush all realms!

At the same time, ten thousand li away, a figure enveloped in silver light was also rapidly approaching the battlefield.

“This is… the Tribulation of Ascension?!” Xiao Zhuo, sensing the world-destroying pressure coming from afar, materialized from the silver light, his expression filled with doubt and surprise.