589: Chapter 589 Extreme Trials, Living Towards Death

Stars collapsed and were extinguished in silence.

The phantom of an Asura pressed down with a giant hand that covered the sea of stars.

Along its path, stars were directly turned into cosmic dust.

Hundreds of millions of miles of space were brutally compressed into a seamless iron plate.

Even light could not escape, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

The power of the Half-Step Immortal Emperor level exceeded the limit that this Star Domain could withstand.

The Void Realm barriers collapsed over a large area, revealing deep and violent deep-layer spatial turbulence.

Shen Yuanmo did not retreat.

He stepped on the void and took the initiative to meet the pressure, which felt like the sky was collapsing.

The Chaos Qi within his body erupted with full force, and the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin, was applied to his body.

His originally slender body expanded rapidly against the wind—ten thousand feet, a hundred thousand feet, a million feet...

Until it reached ten million feet in height!

His dark-gold Chaos True Body spanned across the Void Realm, with ancient and obscure Dao runes flowing across its surface.

Shen Yuanmo raised both arms, his flesh and bones emitting a tooth-aching grinding sound.

With the sheer power of his Physical Body alone, he frontally caught that giant Asura hand that sought to destroy everything.

The meeting of two peerless powers did not produce an earth-shattering sound.

The greatest sound is silence.

The surrounding asteroid belts, numbering in the hundreds of millions, were silently turned to dust, leaving not even a scrap behind.

The power of that Half-Step Immortal Emperor level Asura phantom far exceeded Shen Yuanmo's expectations.

A hair-raising cracking sound came from the bones in his arms.

His dark-gold skin could not withstand the crushing force of the Half-Step Immortal Emperor level.

Large patches of it split open, and Chaos-colored blood poured into the boundless deep space like a torrential rain.

Each drop of blood weighed more than a thousand catties, smashing through small stars along the way.

An irresistible force pushed Shen Yuanmo down repeatedly, crashing through a dozen layers of void undercurrents in succession.

Wherever he passed, the spatial structure was completely shattered, leaving behind a shocking trail of nothingness.

In the first exchange with his opponent, Shen Yuanmo was completely at a disadvantage.

High in the starry sky, Immortal King Xuanming stood upon a Bone Nether Dragon and laughed wantonly.

The laughter penetrated the vacuum and echoed above the army of ten million, carrying undisguised mockery.

"Arrogant brat! How dare a mere firefly's light compete with the brilliance of the bright moon!"

Immortal King Xuanming raised his hand and pointed directly down at Shen Yuanmo's ten-million-foot True Body, which was struggling to hold on.

His tone was high and mighty, looking down upon all living beings.

"A Half-Step Immortal King actually dares to try and withstand the power of a Half-Step Immortal Emperor? Truly the height of absurdity!"

"Army, hear my command! Crush this fool who knows not the heights of heaven, along with his Divine Soul, into pulp!"

Ten thousand Star-Slaying class main ships hummed in unison.

Ten million immortal soldiers roared together, their magic power pouring into the Nine Netherworld Heavens-Slaying Array like a tsunami.

The Asura phantom exerted force again, and the pressure, as heavy as the immeasurable Major Thousand Worlds, stacked layer upon layer.

It was determined to completely erase the unyielding being below.

The fierce wind scraped his bones, and his internal organs trembled.

Shen Yuanmo wiped the blood from his lips. Not only did his eyes show no sign of retreat, but a heart-palpitating madness burned within them instead.

Pressure—unprecedented pressure.

This feeling of oppression, walking on the edge of life and death, was exactly the ultimate tempering he craved.

Cultivating behind closed doors would never allow one to reach the Peak of cultivation.

Only the baptism of blood and fire could forge the supreme Dao.

He no longer suppressed the frenzied energy within his body.

During his previous cultivation, he had swallowed dozens of high-grade immortal veins and a massive amount of Foundation from the Ancient God Abyss.

That energy was so complex and vast it was appalling, and it had been lying dormant deep within his Dantian Sea of Qi.

It had not been fully digested, like a powder keg that could lose control at any moment.

Now that this ready-made whetstone had come to his door, he might as well use it.

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

On the outside was the terrifying power of the Asura phantom, enough to crush an Immortal King at Perfection.

On the inside was the rampaging power of the immortal vein Origin, like a runaway horse.

Shen Yuanmo used himself as a world furnace and treated the enemy's attacks as a heavy hammer.

Using this extreme environment of internal and external pincer attacks, he forcibly squeezed and tempered his own massive Foundation.

With every downward press of the Asura phantom's giant hand, the Impurities within Shen Yuanmo's body were refined away bit by bit.

The massive amount of energy that would originally have taken decades of slow work to refine...

...was being transformed into extremely pure Chaos magic power at an inconceivable speed under this unreasonable, violent hammering.

Taking a beating without striking back was never Shen Yuanmo's style.

Insight into Origin, activate!

Perfect Deduction, activate!

His Divine Sense in an overclocked state slowed down everything around him by countless times.

The extremely complex rule lines of the Asura phantom and the energy flow trajectories involved...

...as well as the Formation patterns and veins of the Nine Netherworld Heavens-Slaying Array formed by the ten million immortal soldiers.

All were dismantled by Shen Yuanmo into individual rule runes.

Those Half-Step Immortal Emperor level rule runes that others could not comprehend in a lifetime...

...were being unraveled by him bit by bit, turning into nourishment for his own Foundation.

He even clearly captured the minute pauses in the energy operation of the Nine Netherworld Heavens-Slaying Array.

Above, Immortal King Xuanming's smile faded.

Something was wrong.

Reasonably speaking, under such a level of heavy pressure...

...even an Immortal King at Perfection should have had their Divine Soul destroyed long ago.

But that Half-Step Immortal King below, though his body was collapsing...

...was being reshaped at an even faster speed under the wrap of Chaos Qi.

The new flesh faintly shimmered with a darker luster than before, and its defensive power was soaring crazily.

What made his heart skip a beat even more was that the other party's aura was rising instead of falling.

There was a bizarre sign that he was about to break common logic and undergo a complete transformation.

Immortal King Xuanming did not hesitate at all and decisively activated the Half-Step Immortal Emperor level Immortal Artifact in his hand, the netherworld sky-covering seal.

In the palm of the Asura phantom's giant hand, a projection of a pitch-black great seal appeared out of thin air.

That was a type of Death Qi that stripped away the vitality of all things and caused all laws to wither.

The temperature of the surrounding Void Realm plummeted, and even the flow of time was affected.

The ten million immortal soldiers could even see the magic power they exhaled turning into frost.

The Nether Death Qi followed the giant Asura hand and poured directly into Shen Yuanmo's ten-million-foot True Body.

This was no longer a simple physical strike, but a deep-level erasure aimed directly at the dao foundation.

If even a fraction were touched, an Immortal King level Dao fruit would wither and rot in an instant, turning the person into a walking corpse.

Facing this lethal threat specifically designed to counter a cultivator's dao foundation...

...Shen Yuanmo made a decision that almost caused the ship spirit's calculation center to crash.

He actively released all defenses of his Chaos Immortal Body.

He withdrew the Chaos Qi wrapped around his body and opened his defenses, allowing that Nether Death Qi to drive straight in.

"My Master! Energy erosion warning! Risk of dao foundation damage is one hundred percent!"

The ship spirit's mechanical voice became sharp due to extreme overload.

Shen Yuanmo turned a deaf ear, using his Divine Sense as a guide.

He guided that extreme power of death, avoiding vital points, and headed straight for the Dantian Sea of Qi.

Between a Half-Step Immortal King and a true Immortal King, there lay an indestructible barrier.

This threshold had stuck ninety-nine percent of the Prodigies in the Universe.

If he were to grind it down slowly by himself, it would take a long time.

Since there was such strong external power, why not use the enemy's strength against them.

The Nether Death Qi turned into a pitch-black heavy hammer.

Under Shen Yuanmo's deliberate guidance, it slammed fiercely against that Immortal King barrier.

Crack.

A faint cracking sound rang out within his body, causing his spirits to rise.

Shen Yuanmo convulsed in pain, his Meridians snapping only to be reborn under the nourishment of Chaos Qi.

But those eyes grew brighter and brighter, like two burning supernovas.

At the Formation core hub.

Several Immortal King level Formation Masters responsible for maintaining the grand Formation were already covered in sweat.

They stared at the energy feedback on the Formation Plate as if they had seen a ghost, their fingers trembling.

"My Lord! The situation has changed!"

A Formation Master scrambled out of the core array, his voice laced with panic.

"The Nether Death Qi released by the grand Formation did not cause the expected destruction to the target!"

"Inside that madman's body is hidden a bottomless vortex that is devouring the Nether Death Qi released by our Formation; the Formation's energy reserves are draining rapidly!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire army was in an uproar.

The Nine Netherworld Heavens-Slaying Array, which the ten million elite immortal soldiers were so proud of, actually couldn't do anything to a Half-Step Immortal King.

Immortal King Xuanming's eyes were bloodshot, and he felt it was a great humiliation.

He had surrounded the enemy with a massive army and brought out a Half-Step Immortal Emperor Immortal Artifact.

Not only did he fail to kill the opponent instantly, but he had instead become the nourishment for the other person's breakthrough.

If this were to spread back to the Jiuyou Imperial Capital, he, Immortal King Xuanming, would become the laughingstock of the entire Immortal Dynasty.

"Brat, you go too far!"

Immortal King Xuanming laughed in extreme anger and resolutely bit the tip of his tongue.

A mouthful of essence blood containing the Immortal King Perfection Origin was sprayed directly onto the main body of the netherworld sky-covering seal in his hand.

The simple black seal greedily sucked in the Immortal King essence blood, and dense, crimson incantations appeared on its surface.

It expanded against the wind, turning into a black dark star that obscured the galaxy, and smashed straight down from the Peak of the starry sky.

The main body of the seal completely overlapped with the projection in the Asura phantom's palm, and its power increased more than tenfold.

This was a killing blow belonging to a Half-Step Immortal Emperor, with nothing held back.

It crushed through layers of space, heading straight for Shen Yuanmo's massive Chaos True Body.