255: Battle of True Immortals

"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang—!"

The Void Realm of the Boundary Sea transformed into the ultimate battlefield of gold and thunder, sharpness and Chaos!

Each collision erupted with a roar that tore through star rivers and destructive energy tides.

Northern Profound Ashes's sword had already transcended the realm of techniques; it was the manifestation of the Origin will of the Five Elements!

Every ray of Sword Qi was condensed to the extreme, as fine as a hair, yet it contained a terrifying power capable of severing Law.

They ignored distance, ignored defense, and stabbed at Xiao Zhuo's vital points from the most cunning angles. Each strike left deep, bone-visible wounds on Xiao Zhuo's immortal body, which flowed with chaotic lightning and shimmered with silver Xian Zhi runes!

The Evil Qi of gold frantically corroded, attempting to dismantle the immortal body's vitality and structure.

However, after Xiao Zhuo's Four Great Divine Bodies advanced to the True Immortal Realm and underwent a transformation, their resilience far exceeded imagination!

The devouring power within his body was like the most violent millstone, constantly grinding away and consuming the invading Evil Qi of gold.

The Innate Blood God Body, like the fount of life, repaired the Physical Body with astonishing speed as soon as it was injured, using the power of the Blood God Body.

Although the pain was excruciating and blood splattered the Void Realm, Xiao Zhuo's aura, stimulated by the battle, became even more ferocious and condensed!

"What a magnificent Origin of Gold! What a formidable Sword Dao of slaughter!" Battle Intent raged in Xiao Zhuo's eyes as he endured several sword threads that tore through the Void Realm. A bowl-sized blood hole was pierced through his chest, but in a blink of an eye, golden-red blood threads regenerated and repaired it.

His fists were like hammers pounding the heavens, entwined with the chaotic power derived from the Five Elements' rotation. Each punch carried immense force capable of shattering stars, forcibly smashing the incoming Sword Qi. The terrifying shockwaves forced Northern Profound Ashes to evade with exquisitely subtle footwork.

"Your defense truly lives up to the name Divine Body." Northern Profound Ashes's voice was clear and cold, his handsome face still unperturbed, but a trace of solemnity flickered in the depths of his eyes.

He had fused with a portion of the Origin of Gold from the Dao Yi Realm, and his Sword Dao's destructive power was considered top-tier among True Immortal Realm Cultivators. Ordinary True Immortal Cultivators would have long been cut to pieces.

Yet, this newly advanced True Immortal actually withstood his continuous, deadly sword strikes with his Physical Body and that peculiar Domain!

After a prolonged attack without success, a fierce glint flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes.

With a thought, a long saber, entirely black and ancient in design, suddenly appeared in his hand!

As this saber emerged, the Evil Qi of the entire battlefield solidified!

Upon this saber, there was both an incomparably terrifying bloodthirsty aura and a vast vitality that nurtured all things!

This was an origin divine weapon. A divine weapon conceals itself, making it impossible for outsiders to perceive. Now that Blood Heaven had also departed, Xiao Zhuo was confident that others could not discern the secrets of the black saber in his hand.

"Slash!" Xiao Zhuo roared, and the power of his Four Great Divine Bodies surged into the black saber!

On the saber's body, blood light erupted, wood grain grew wildly, chaotic lightning and a mix of green and red Qi intertwined. A terrifying, ferocious, domineering, and all-consuming Saber Intent, capable of making True Immortal Divine Souls tremble—the Divine Intent level Thunder Tribulation Saber Intent—shot into the sky!

He no longer defended. Holding the saber with both hands, he brought it down with full force towards Northern Profound Ashes!

"Lightning Tribulation · World-Splitting!"

A pitch-black saber light, spanning the Void Realm, fiercely slashed out!

Wherever the saber light passed, space silently annihilated. It wasn't merely cut open, but utterly extinguished by the immense power it contained!

All energy, Law fragments, and even light along its path were torn apart by this pitch-black saber light!

Its might was in no way inferior to Northern Profound Ashes's deadly sword light, which contained the Origin of Gold!

Northern Profound Ashes's pupils contracted slightly, feeling a fatal threat for the first time! The ancient sword in his hand hummed, and its blade instantly lit up with a pure golden glow that pierced the Universe. He himself seemed to transform into a peerless divine weapon capable of splitting heaven and earth!

"One Sword — Separating Worlds!"

The sword tip pointed out, not releasing Sword Qi, but instead drawing upon the most fundamental Geng Metal sharpness from the depths of the Void Realm!

With the sword tip as the core, the space within a ten-thousand-mile radius instantly solidified and crystallized, transforming into a terrifying Domain composed purely of the Law of Gold!

Countless fine golden cracks spread within the Domain. Each crack exuded an aura of nihility that ended all things, as if the entire space was heading towards the ultimate death of metallization, intending to completely decompose, assimilate, and return all existence caught within it to the ruins of gold!

The pitch-black saber light fiercely slashed into this metal nihility Domain!

Screech—!

It was like a red-hot iron cutting into ice! An ear-splitting friction sound reverberated through the Soul!

The pitch-black saber light and the pure golden Evil Qi Domain furiously consumed and annihilated each other!

The saber light frantically tore at the Domain of Gold, attempting to swallow it, while the power of the Domain of Gold continuously decomposed and solidified the saber light's energy!

A stalemate! The destructive energy reached its peak in silent annihilation!

Boom—!!!!

Finally, accompanied by a terrifying roar, as if the Universe had just begun, the solidified Domain of Gold and the pitch-black saber light simultaneously exploded!

An indescribable energy storm swept across the edge of the entire Boundary Sea battlefield. Even the boundary realm barrier of the Dao Yi Realm was violently shaken, cracking into countless spiderweb-like fissures! The Blood Demon Realm army and the remaining Cultivators of the Dao Yi Realm were impacted by this aftershock like fallen leaves in a gale, suffering heavy casualties!

At the center of the storm, two figures flew backward!

Xiao Zhuo was covered in blood, his black saber propped in the Void Realm to steady himself. He panted heavily, his chest rising and falling violently, and dark-golden immortal blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

His Origin was greatly consumed, and the black saber's light had also dimmed considerably, but his eyes burned with the light of victory!

On the other side, Northern Profound Ashes's white robes were stained with specks of golden-red, the color of his own immortal blood.

The ancient sword in his hand let out a low wail, and a subtle crack clearly appeared on its blade!

His aura was chaotic, and his face was slightly pale. Evidently, in the ultimate collision just now, he was slightly inferior, and his Origin had been shaken.

He stabilized himself and looked at the black saber in Xiao Zhuo's hand, a flicker of surprise in his eyes: "This time you won because of your weapon; otherwise, you absolutely could not have broken my Domain!"

Xiao Zhuo wiped the blood from his mouth, his Battle Intent undiminished: "Haha! If you let me Cultivate for a few years! I could kill you without a weapon! Again!"

Northern Profound Ashes, however, slowly shook his head, severing the aura around him that was vaguely connected to the Dao Yi Realm.

He glanced behind him at the Dao Yi Realm, whose boundary realm wall had been blasted open by the main cannon of Blood Slaughter War City during his battle with Xiao Zhuo, and shook his head.

"Karma is settled." Northern Profound Ashes's voice returned to its initial clarity and aloofness. "Today's battle, I lost one move. When we both advance to Heavenly Immortal in the future, I will naturally seek you out again to verify the Sword Dao!"

Before his words finished, he lightly drew with the ancient sword in his hand, and a subtle spatial rift silently appeared.

He stepped into it, his figure instantly vanishing, leaving only a final clear sword hum echoing in the Shattered Realm (Cultivation Class) Void Realm:

"Remember my name, Northern Profound Ashes. I hope we can fight to our heart's content next time!"

The spatial rift quickly closed, and the aura of that peerless Sword Immortal completely disappeared without a trace, as if he had never appeared.

Xiao Zhuo stared at the place where Northern Profound Ashes had vanished, his gaze as sharp as a saber.

This person's Sword Dao was the strongest opponent he had encountered since ascending to immortality! Even above Qian He's Incarnation.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the churning Qi and blood, and turned his gaze to the Dao Yi Realm below, which no longer had top-tier powerhouses guarding it and whose boundary realm barrier was riddled with cracks.

"Xue Lu! This person is very strong!" Xue Qin flew to his side: "But fortunately, he seems to have no intention of fighting to the death!"

Xiao Zhuo nodded. This Northern Profound Ashes seemed to have unused trump cards. His victory this time was due to the advantage of his weapon, and he didn't feel much sense of accomplishment.

The two looked towards the Dao Yi Realm.

"Kill!"

A cold voice, filled with destructive will, like the final judgment, resounded across the remaining battlefield.

The steel torrent of the Blood Demon Realm, under Xue Qin's fierce shout, transformed into a destructive tide, surging into the Dao Yi Realm through the shattered boundary realm wall.

Xiao Zhuo, however, stood still in the Void Realm.

He knew that before the boundary realm's Origin was extracted, he likely wouldn't be able to enter it. The Heavenly Dao of the Dao Yi Realm still existed, and True Immortal powerhouses had already exceeded the Dao Yi Realm's limit. As long as the Heavenly Dao did not permit it, he absolutely could not enter.

However, he had already earned enough Attribute Points from this battle. Looking at the nine-digit string starting with a nine on his panel, a smile played on his lips.