582: Chapter 582 Killing the Immortal King's Avatar, A Sword Strike from Afar

From the Perfection of True Immortal to the Half-Step Immortal King, what lies between is not the accumulation of cultivation.

But a chasm at the level of rules.

Countless prodigies exhaust their Lifespan yet fail to pry open even a sliver of a gap in that barrier.

Shen Yuanmo, during the fierce battle with the Clone of Immortal King Guyuan, tore through this rule barrier.

The dull boom within the chaos dao embryo was still echoing.

The remaining power of the Great Universe Origin surged out along his Meridians.

Wherever it passed, his broken Chaos Immortal Body began to reshape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The shattered dark gold bones joined themselves, and the sloughed-off flesh grew out from the gaps in the bones at an absurd speed.

Half a breath.

A perfectly intact body stood once again amidst the Spatial Turbulence.

As Shen Yuanmo broke through to the Half-Step Immortal King Realm, those violent torrents of energy capable of strangling Early-stage True Immortal Cultivators...

...automatically parted within a range of three zhang around him, bypassing him to the left and right.

There was no active casting of spells, nor any defensive measures.

Purely because he stood there, this layer of Spatial Turbulence, which had been chaotic for an unknown number of tens of thousands of years, automatically parted.

The Clone of Immortal King Guyuan saw this scene.

His physical shell was already nearly transparent, with eighty percent of the internal rule network extinguished, and the remaining light was flickering precariously.

But his remaining wisp of consciousness, the pride belonging to an Immortal King, made it impossible for him to accept what was happening before his eyes.

“Impossible!”

The hoarse voice of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone squeezed out from that shell about to disintegrate, carrying a near-frenzied denial.

“The rules of the Great Universe are strict; breaking through the Half-Step Immortal King barrier in the heat of battle, how can you not die?!”

Breaking through Realms is never like hosting a dinner party.

Especially the Realms after the True Immortal stage, which are incredibly difficult.

They require quiet meditation, talent, long periods of accumulation, and repeated questioning of the rules.

If one forcibly breaks through during battle, even the slightest mistake is enough to cause any Genius to perish.

The Clone of Immortal King Guyuan completely collapsed after seeing Shen Yuanmo's Breakthrough.

He made a final struggle as the remaining Immortal King Origin within the Clone's body began to expand violently.

Immortal King Guyuan intended to detonate it—to detonate everything remaining in his Clone.

Even the self-detonation of just a wisp of Origin would be enough within this Spatial Turbulence...

...to create an annihilation catastrophe spanning hundreds of millions of li.

Perishing together.

To maintain the final dignity of an Immortal King.

Shen Yuanmo extended his right index finger.

Just one finger.

He made a casual stroke in the void.

Though the motion was light, it was like brushing away dust.

The First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin, fell silently.

It transformed into an invisible rule shackle, embedding itself directly into the Origin core of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone.

The Immortal King Origin within the Clone of Immortal King Guyuan, which had expanded to the critical point, was extinguished.

Immortal King Guyuan's Clone opened his mouth but could make no sound.

Shen Yuanmo withdrew his finger and stepped forward.

One step, two steps, three steps.

With every step he took, the Spatial Turbulence beneath his feet would recede outward by about a zhang.

By the time he walked in front of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone...

...the Spatial Turbulence within a hundred-li radius had completely vanished, revealing the pitch-black Spatial Membrane at the deepest layer of the void.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword hummed incessantly in his right hand, the rift leading to nothingness in the center of the blade opening and closing.

The frequency became increasingly urgent, revealing an undisguised longing.

“You...”

The Clone of Immortal King Guyuan managed to squeeze out one last word.

The sword's edge entered between his brows.

There were no extra Moves, no gathering of power.

Just a simple straight thrust.

The moment the tip of the great evolution immortal slaying sword touched the Clone's brow, that void rift suddenly expanded to its maximum.

A Chaos Vortex gushed out from the rift.

Everything remaining in the body of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone—Immortal King rule fragments, Origin embers, and the Blood Fiend Crystals left by the Blood Fiend Formation of the Three Hundred Thousand Immortal Army...

...accelerated their disintegration under the devouring of the Chaos Vortex.

Rule chains broke one by one, turning into primitive rule particle streams, which were sucked into that void rift along the sword's blade.

The shell of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone began to shatter from the brow, spreading to the face, neck, and chest.

Silently.

Three breaths later, not even a speck of dust remained of Immortal King Guyuan's Clone.

But Shen Yuanmo did not put away the great evolution immortal slaying sword.

Insight into Origin captured something at the final moment of Immortal King Guyuan Clone's dissipation.

A Karma Thread.

An extremely thin and hidden wisp of Karma connection extended from the location where Immortal King Guyuan's Clone perished toward the depths of the Great Universe.

Traversing an unknown hundreds of millions of light-years of star sea, it connected to the Immortal King's true body in the Ancient God Abyss Forbidden Ground.

The umbilical cord between the Clone and the true body; even if the Clone was completely dead, this Karma Thread would not disappear immediately.

It required a very short window of time to complete the transmission of information.

The window was about three breaths.

Shen Yuanmo smiled faintly.

These three breaths are enough.

He gripped the great evolution immortal slaying sword with a reverse hand, pouring the Chaos Return to Origin Profundity into the blade.

The entire cultivation of a Half-Step Immortal King was compressed, condensed, and gathered at that infinitesimal point on the sword's tip at this moment.

Then he slashed out along that Karma Thread.

Dao Slash.

The sword light disappeared into the void.

...

An unknown hundreds of millions of light-years away.

Ancient God Abyss.

Ever since the projection of Immortal King Guyuan was devoured and his dao foundation suffered backlash ten years ago...

...the entire Ancient God Abyss had entered a semi-closed state.

The Immortal King-grade defensive Formation operated day and night; not even a fly could enter.

In the deepest layer of the Forbidden Ground, Immortal King Guyuan sat cross-legged in the center of a blood pool.

He was repairing his eroded dao foundation.

Progress was very slow; in ten years, he hadn't recovered even thirty percent.

That Chaos afterglow was like a cancer that wouldn't go away; as soon as one layer was cleared, another appeared.

Suddenly, his expression changed.

The Karma connection with his Clone was severed.

It didn't slowly weaken or gradually blur.

Instead, there was a 'crack,' like a taut lute string being chopped in two by a knife.

Tuoba Han was dead, the Three Hundred Thousand Immortal Army was dead, and the Clone was dead too.

He hadn't even had time to digest this information.

An invisible Sword Intent surged in from the end of the severed Karma Thread.

Immortal King Guyuan's pupils shrank abruptly.

“No—!”

It was too late.

The Dao Slash fell upon his already riddled Great dao foundation.

Immortal King Guyuan let out a wretched scream toward the heavens.

That scream penetrated the sound-insulating Restrictions of the Forbidden Ground, passed through layers of halls, and spread throughout the entire Ancient God Abyss.

His cultivation was falling rapidly.

His Late Stage Immortal King cultivation was forcibly shaved off by a large chunk by that sword strike.

The bitter cultivation of the past ten million years was ruined in an instant, and he spat out three mouthfuls of Essence Blood in succession.

The medicinal liquid in the blood pool was contaminated by the Essence Blood, turning black and becoming unusable.

Immortal King Guyuan slumped in the blood pool, his whole body trembling.

He had discerned the quality of that sword strike.

The cultivation of a Half-Step Immortal King, and that Chaos aura that had been his nightmare for ten years.

That madman has broken through.

After killing my Clone, he broke through to the Half-Step Immortal King Realm.

“Someone, come quickly!!”

Immortal King Guyuan's voice tore through the silence of the Forbidden Ground, carrying a tremor he couldn't control.

“They're all dead! Tuoba Han and the Three Hundred Thousand Immortal Army are all dead!”

Several Elders on duty in the outer hall rushed in, and seeing the incredibly wretched Immortal King in the blood pool, their faces turned pale.

“Quick! Immediately activate the Myriad Calamity Immortal Burial Array! Seal the God Abyss!”

Immortal King Guyuan grabbed the collar of the Elder closest to him, his lips trembling uncontrollably.

“He is a complete monster!”

...

Dead Silent Star Sea.

The battlefield no longer looked like a battlefield.

Three days and three nights of Immortal King-level confrontation had turned this already barren Star Domain into a vacuum.

The wreckage of a hundred Star-Destroyer Class Battleships was scattered in all directions; some were still burning, others had already gone cold.

Not a single aura of the Three Hundred Thousand Immortal Army could be sensed.

Shen Yuanmo stood in the void and sheathed his sword.

“ship spirit, come here.”

The Chaos Dao Palace emerged from its hidden state and slowly approached.

The ship spirit immediately performed a comprehensive scan of Shen Yuanmo.

Then her core array crashed.

For a full three seconds, all the lighting, defense, and life support Systems within the Dao Palace flickered.

After restarting, the ship spirit's electronic voice carried a very subtle hint of losing composure.

“My Lord... Your power has surpassed all records in the Dao Palace's database. When Immortal King Beichen was at your Realm, his energy purity was less than thirty percent of yours.”

Shen Yuanmo ignored these words.

His attention fell upon something still emitting a faint light amidst the ruins of the battlefield.

A damaged Immortal King Artifact, the Star-Splitting Array-Breaking Halberd.

Even though its master was dead and the Artifact Spirit was dormant,

the Immortal King rules remaining on this great halberd were still instinctively resisting the erosion of the Chaos Domain.

Shen Yuanmo reached out and made a grasping motion from a distance.

The Star-Splitting Array-Breaking Halberd flew into his palm.

The rule patterns on the halberd's body struggled frantically the moment he touched it, letting out a piercing wail.

Shen Yuanmo gripped both ends of the halberd's body and exerted force with his arms.

Crack.

The body of the Immortal King Artifact bent in the middle.

Snap.

It broke into two pieces.

The rule sparks splashing from the break fell onto the back of his hand, but they didn't even leave a red dot.

He casually tossed the two pieces of the broken halberd toward the great evolution immortal slaying sword at his waist.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword unsheathed itself.

The void rift in the center of the blade opened to its limit, swallowing the wreckage of the two pieces of the Immortal King Artifact in one gulp.

The Immortal King rule essence, Immortal Gold Origin, and Formation runes contained within the core of the Immortal King Artifact were all crushed and digested by that rift.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword began to vibrate violently.

A sword hum burst forth from the blade.

This sword hum was different from before.

This one carried a texture so heavy it oppressed the starry sky, and the sword hum spread outward.

Within a radius of trillions of li in the Dead Silent Star Sea, the remaining stellar debris began to vibrate involuntarily.

That void rift on the sword's blade underwent a transformation after devouring the essence of the Immortal King Artifact.

The edges of the rift collapsed inward, turning from a line into a point.

Then it folded inward from a point, eventually evolving into a slowly rotating miniature black hole.

The grade of the great evolution immortal slaying sword crossed the chasm from a True Immortal Artifact to an Immortal King Artifact, becoming a Low Grade Immortal King Artifact.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword returned to its sheath on its own, and the sword hum gradually subsided.

Shen Yuanmo patted the hilt.

“Full now?”

The sword blade trembled slightly in response to him.

Shen Yuanmo turned and walked toward the gate of the Chaos Dao Palace.

The three days and three nights of fierce battle, the Breakthrough to Half-Step Immortal King, and the remote strike of the Karma Dao Slash had indeed consumed quite a bit.

He needed to go into seclusion to digest all the gains brought by this Breakthrough.