548: Chapter 548 Chaos is the chessboard, and immortals are also pieces.

Shen Yuanmo's sarcasm caused the four True Immortals to lose face completely.

Who were they?

They were existences at the peak of the Tian Yuan Star Domain's pyramid, Immortals whom countless living beings revered and worshipped.

Having lived for endless ages, they had long been accustomed to controlling everything.

Today, however, before the eyes of the entire Tian Yuan Star Domain, they were being humiliated by a junior who wasn't even a True Immortal.

Their proud Immortal Slaying Array had been broken, and they were further insulted by such words.

"Courting death!"

True Immortal Lei Huo was the first to lose his temper. He cultivated the Great Dao of Thunder and Fire, and his temperament was naturally the most violent.

"Today, I will certainly refine you, this Devil Head, along with your turtle shell, into fly ash!"

Before his voice could fade, the Thunder-Fire Immortal Sun behind him exploded with a bang.

It transformed into hundreds of millions of thunder dragons and fire phoenixes, blotting out the sky and forming a Thunder-Flame Desolate Domain that completely enveloped the Chaos Dao Palace.

Every thunder dragon and every fire phoenix contained the power to easily kill a Mahayana Saint Lord.

"River of Styx Crossing Calamity, Immortal Soul Sinking!"

True Immortal Ming Quan also struck at the same time, the pitch-black River of Styx beneath her feet surging violently.

The river waters billowed, emitting the sounds of ghosts wailing and gods howling as they swept toward the Chaos Dao Palace.

The waters of the River of Styx specifically defiled the Magic Treasures of Cultivators, corroded their Dao bodies, and could even drag their Divine Souls into it to sink for eternity.

"A Single Thought of Prosperity and Decay, Life and Death Rotation!"

True Immortal Ku Rong clapped his hands together; the branches of the giant tree beneath him grew wildly, with half sprouting emerald-green buds that radiated vitality.

The other half turned into withered dead wood, radiating extinction.

The two Qis of life and death intertwined, transforming into a massive Grey-White Millstone that pressed down upon the Chaos Dao Palace.

Although True Immortal Xuan Yu was somewhat injured, he suppressed his surging blood and Qi at this moment.

He brandished his Immortal sword, slashing out hundreds of millions of Sword Qi strands as thin as cow hair; they were silent but extremely sharp, specializing in striking the opponent's weak points.

At this moment, the four True Immortals truly brought out their signature skills.

Four completely different Immortal dao Domains expanded simultaneously from four directions.

They squeezed and collided with each other, turning the Shattered Star Belt into a desolate land of chaotic Laws.

Within this area, anyone below the level of a True Immortal would have their Divine Soul instantly torn to pieces.

Facing this world-destroying siege, Shen Yuanmo inside the Chaos Dao Palace remained indifferent.

"Good timing."

He did not choose to meet force with force.

With his Mahayana Perfection Stage cultivation and the enhancement of the Chaos Dao Palace, he feared no True Immortal in a one-on-one fight.

But facing four at once, a direct confrontation was by no means a wise move.

At this moment, his Divine Sense operated at an unprecedented speed.

The Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture was pushed to its limit.

Insight into Origin took in all the attack trajectories, Immortal dao rule compositions, and energy flows of the four True Immortals.

Perfect Deduction performed frantic simulations and calculations in his Sea of Consciousness at a speed of hundreds of millions of times per second.

The entire Chaos Dao Palace seemed to transform into a massive chessboard.

And the four True Immortals, along with their world-destroying attacks, became pieces on this chessboard.

"ship spirit, rotate the Dao Palace thirty-six thousand miles to the left, decrease main engine power by thirty percent, and activate the 'Lead' formula of the Myriad Dao Returning Origin Chaos Grand Array."

Shen Yuanmo issued a series of seemingly unrelated commands.

The massive Chaos Dao Palace moved in an extremely strange manner, tracing a profound arc through the Void Realm.

It perfectly avoided the core area where True Immortal Lei Huo's attacks were most concentrated; meanwhile, the Chaos force field on the Dao Palace's surface acted like an invisible hand, giving a gentle flick.

Nearly half of those hundreds of millions of thunder dragons and fire phoenixes uncontrollably changed direction, charging straight into True Immortal Ming Quan's River of Styx nearby.

Sizzle—!

Thunder and fire were extremely Yang and hard.

The water of the River of Styx was extremely Yin and cold.

When the two met, it was like boiling oil poured into ice water, instantly triggering a violent explosion.

The violent energy shockwave blasted a gap in the Domains of both True Immortal Lei Huo and True Immortal Ming Quan.

"Lei Huo! Why are you attacking me!" True Immortal Ming Quan let out an angry roar.

"What's going on?!" True Immortal Lei Huo was also full of shock.

He had clearly locked onto the Chaos Dao Palace; why did his attack hit Ming Quan's side?

Before they could react, the Chaos Dao Palace moved again.

Using the thrust from that explosion, it made a nimble sidestep, just in time to avoid the Ku Rong millstone pressing down from above.

At the same time, from the other side of the Dao Palace, a chaotic airflow curled out, giving a gentle pull.

The hundreds of millions of Sword Qi strands slashed by True Immortal Xuan Yu veered off course, with most of them striking that massive Ku Rong millstone.

Those hundreds of millions of Sword Qi strands were peerlessly sharp, while the Ku Rong millstone contained the power of Life and Death Rotation.

The collision of the two triggered another chain reaction, causing the life and death Domain set up by True Immortal Ku Rong to shake violently, nearly collapsing.

"Xuan Yu, you!" True Immortal Ku Rong's gentle face was also covered in a layer of frost.

For a time, the scene became incredibly bizarre.

Nine times out of ten, the attacks of the four True Immortals failed to land on the Chaos Dao Palace.

Instead, they were guided by an invisible force, interfering with and attacking each other, fighting amongst themselves with great intensity.

"Something's wrong! There's a problem with this space!"

True Immortal Xuan Yu was the first to realize; his Void Feather Immortal Dao Rules were extremely sensitive to spatial changes.

"He... he's manipulating our Immortal dao rule power! He's using our own strength against us!"

The four True Immortals had lived for endless ages and possessed immense combat experience; they understood the key point in an instant.

This mysterious Lord of the Dao Palace was, in a way they couldn't understand...

...turning the entire battlefield into his chessboard, while they involuntarily became the pieces.

This feeling made them feel a long-lost sense of frustration and fear.

"Stop!"

True Immortal Lei Huo roared, forcibly withdrawing his Thunder-Fire Domain.

The other three True Immortals immediately did the same.

For a moment, the violent battlefield became eerily quiet.

The four True Immortals surrounded the Chaos Dao Palace from a distance, their expressions solemn, no longer daring to strike lightly.

"This is getting interesting."

Atop the Dao Palace, Shen Yuanmo's dharma image chuckled.

"The warm-up is over; it's time to get serious."

He had been waiting without attacking proactively.

Waiting for the best opportunity.

Waiting for the four True Immortals' states of mind to shift from initial fury to midway shock, and finally to their current solemnity and wariness.

Once people start thinking and becoming wary, they reveal flaws.

And the flaw he had his eye on, from beginning to end, was only one.

—True Immortal Xuan Yu!

From the first clash of wills to the brutal collision just now, True Immortal Xuan Yu had been wounded repeatedly.

He was the weak link among the four and the first target Shen Yuanmo had chosen to sacrifice to his flag.

"Since you won't strike, it's my turn."

Shen Yuanmo's voice turned cold.

He pressed his hands together before his chest and then suddenly pulled them apart to both sides.

"Chaos Domain: Myriad Dao Furnace!"

With the Chaos Dao Palace as the center, a Chaos Domain a hundred times larger than before suddenly expanded!

This Domain was no longer just about defense and assimilation.

At the edges of the Domain, countless tiny Chaos Vortices appeared.

They frantically devoured everything in the Universe, including the immortal dao rules dissipated by the four True Immortals.

Within the Domain, Shen Yuanmo was the sole Dominator!

The four True Immortals immediately felt immense pressure; their Immortal dao Domains were drastically compressed, and the immortal dao rules within their bodies even showed signs of being forcibly extracted.

"Not good! He wants to settle everything in one blow!"

"Join forces to break his Domain!"

The four joined forces again, urging their respective Immortal dao rule powers to transform into four light pillars that reached the heavens and earth, crashing into the Chaos Domain.

This time, Shen Yuanmo did not dodge or redirect.

He intended to use the most straightforward method to withstand the combined strike of the four True Immortals head-on.

But his true purpose lay elsewhere.

Just as the four True Immortals were attacking the Chaos Domain with all their might, thinking Shen Yuanmo was arrogantly holding on...

...atop the Chaos Dao Palace, that massive death-grey cannon barrel, which had been silent for a long time, rose silently once more.

The muzzle quietly aimed at True Immortal Xuan Yu, whose defenses were slightly weakened due to his full-out attack.

The energy of the primordial immortal crystals was quietly injected.

In the depths of the muzzle, that point of extreme grey lit up.

This time, there was no earth-shaking momentum.

There wasn't even any light.

There was only a grey thread so thin it was almost invisible, flashing past in a way that transcended Karma and space-time.

When True Immortal Lei Huo and the others sensed something was wrong and suddenly looked back...

...they only saw True Immortal Xuan Yu's movements frozen in place.

A tiny, bottomless black dot appeared between his brows.

Then, centered on that black dot, True Immortal Xuan Yu's Immortal body, along with his Immortal soul and his immortal dao rules, began to annihilate silently.

Like a scroll being set ablaze, it turned into nothingness starting from the center.

"Chaos... Annihilation..."

True Immortal Xuan Yu's mouth uttered the last few intermittent syllables of his life, his eyes full of incomprehensible fear.

"This is... power at the level of an Immortal King or Immortal Emperor!"

Before he could finish speaking, his entire body completely vanished into the Universe.

A True Immortal who had traversed the Tian Yuan Star Domain for millions of years had thus fallen.

Dead silence.

True Immortals Lei Huo, Ming Quan, and Ku Rong were as if struck by lightning, their entire bodies cold.

They stared blankly at the place where True Immortal Xuan Yu had vanished, their Divine Souls trembling.

At this moment, Shen Yuanmo's cold and indifferent voice blew through their hearts like a cold wind from the Nine Netherworlds.

"Three left."