565: Chapter 565 Earth Immortal? Nothing special.

Earth Immortal Realm.

As expected of the power standing at the peak of the Chengyun Immortal Domain Fragment.

That suppression originating from the Dao Foundation and Laws was a chasm that the True Immortal Realm could never cross.

On both sides of the street, countless Cultivators slumped on the ground, even forgetting their fear at this moment.

Their eyes widened as they watched the five young people who, just moments ago, had been like gods of slaughter within the Treasure Pavilion.

Now, with blood at the corners of their mouths and dust staining their clothes, they were scattered in a sorry state across this broken long street.

"They... they blocked it?!"

Someone squeezed out these words hoarsely, their voice filled with disbelief.

"An Earth Immortal's strike, and they actually didn't die?!"

"It's not just that they didn't die; they only spat out a mouthful of blood?!"

No one mocked their disheveled state.

Because that was an Earth Immortal; that was Crimson Burning Heaven.

That was the Scorched Earth for a Thousand Miles that had once incinerated an entire mountain fortress in a single blow, leaving not even the ashes of ten thousand people.

Had it been anyone else present, they would have already been a scorched mark on the street.

But they had only retreated and spat blood.

Xiao Ruobai propped himself up against the ruins and slowly stood.

The sleeve of his left arm was completely shredded; his arm, which had been covered in fine cracks, had now returned to its original state.

Fang Hanyu used his sword to support himself, his knuckles turning white; Ling Xi stood straight from among the shattered bluestones, brushing the dust from her sleeves.

They looked up at the crimson burning the sky.

Across the devastated long street, the gazes of the five met with Crimson Burning Heaven.

The surrounding onlookers whispered, their voices rising like a tide.

"They still dare to look?"

"That's an Earth Immortal! What right do they have to use such a gaze?!"

"Are they crazy? Do they really think killing Yan Lie means they can contend with the City Lord?"

Some remained silent.

At the Heavenly Sword Pavilion outpost, behind a half-closed window, someone gave a soft "tsk."

In that "tsk" was an almost imperceptible hint of interest.

From the direction of Myriad Beast Mountain, a circling messenger eagle did not leave but instead landed.

The Xuanyin Cult's secret message did not fly away but hovered in mid-air, pausing for a moment.

Crimson Burning Heaven's gaze moved from Xiao Ruobai to Fang Hanyu, finally landing on Ling Xi.

The woman who had killed Yan Lie and possessed the Devouring Dao.

"Interesting."

He spoke in a low voice, devoid of his previous furious roars.

Yet it was more chilling than any rage.

"To kill my Sect's Young Lord and still be able to stand and look at me."

"This seat has indeed underestimated you."

He slowly raised his hand.

A crimson speck of light began to condense in his palm; at first, it was only the size of a grain of rice, but in the blink of an eye, it grew to the size of a pigeon egg, then a chicken egg, like a trapped sun in his palm.

Dozens of yards away, the bluestone slabs of the street began to crack, soften, and flow.

This was no probe; this was Scorched Earth for a Thousand Miles.

It was his signature technique from when he attained the Dao; in six thousand years, he had only used it three times.

Three times, and not a single soul was left alive.

A low whimper escaped Mo Yu's throat, and the Qilin True Fire flickered unsteadily.

Xiao Ruobai also took a step forward.

Fang Hanyu's hand gripped his sword; the blade was already unsheathed.

Wang Xiaopang held three array talismans in his hand, their light flickering between his fingers.

But just then, a hand lightly pressed onto Xiao Ruobai's arm.

Xiao Ruobai paused and turned his head to look at Ling Xi.

"Eldest Senior Brother, I will take this fight."

Xiao Ruobai looked at the hand on his arm and was silent for a breath.

"Are you sure?"

"Ninety-nine percent."

"Still not quite safe enough."

Ling Xi did not answer immediately.

Her gaze passed him and fell upon the burning sky.

The blazing sun in Crimson Burning Heaven's palm had already expanded to the size of a human head.

The air began to scorch, and the street stones softened into slurry.

"Enough!"

Xiao Ruobai glanced at her again and let go.

In the next second, everyone saw Ling Xi take a step forward, very lightly.

But the moment she took that step, the aura around her changed.

With just one step, heaven and earth shifted abruptly!

"Buzz—!"

An indescribable, majestic Dao Rhyme, seemingly originating from the very beginning of the world origin, erupted from her delicate body!

Her aura, which had always been harmonious and restrained, soared into the sky like a prehistoric beast that had cast off all its shackles!

Her Void Immortal Realm disguise shattered instantly, replaced by a powerful and vast Immortal pressure!

A True Immortal! And a True Immortal with an unimaginably robust Foundation and flawless, perfected Dao Rhyme!

The intensity of her pressure was actually not inferior at all to the Early Stage Earth Immortal, Crimson Burning Heaven!

An invisible wave of air rippled out from beneath her feet, sweeping across the long street.

The melting bluestone slabs stopped.

The blazing sun in Crimson Burning Heaven's palm trembled imperceptibly.

For the first time, he looked at her directly.

Ling Xi's figure turned into an afterimage, instantly appearing before Crimson Burning Heaven.

Where she passed, space was not torn by her, but devoured.

She simply pressed her fair hand down, and Crimson Burning Heaven blocked with his arm.

"Bang—!"

Brilliant white and pitch black, the great sun and the abyss, collided head-on.

The airwave expanded outward like a ring with a roar.

The net woven from countless Divine Thought talisman lights above Sunset City shook violently from the shockwave, and several weak points shattered on the spot.

Countless Cultivators clutched their heads and screamed, blood seeping from their eyes and ears.

Crimson Burning Heaven retreated; although it was only half a step, true solemnity appeared in his eyes for the first time.

"A True Immortal?"

His voice was low, no longer the contempt of looking down at an ant, but the cold sharpness of facing an equal.

Ling Xi did not answer, closing in once more.

Within a ten-yard radius of Ling Xi and Crimson Burning Heaven's clash, space had been completely shredded by two diametrically opposed forces.

One half was the Blazing Sun Dao Principle that incinerated all things, and the other half was the void abyss that devoured everything.

The two Laws bit into each other fiercely, annihilating one another, as every inch of space repeatedly shattered and reformed.

This was not a battlefield a Void Immortal could enter; this was a head-on slaughter between two extreme Laws.

Every time Ling Xi struck, she devoured the fire elements around Crimson Burning Heaven.

It was not simple defense or counterattack; it was erosion.

She was consuming his Domain.

An inch, a foot, a yard.

Crimson Burning Heaven's Blazing Sun Domain was shrinking at a visible rate, and even the crimson solar fire swirling around him dimmed significantly.

He could clearly feel that the Crimson Sun Dao Principle he had spent his life immersing himself in was being stripped away and devoured bit by bit by the void aura emanating from Ling Xi.

Every exchange was like pouring his own cultivation into a bottomless abyss.

"Earth Immortal?"

Ling Xi's voice rang out calmly through the roar of their clash, without a ripple of emotion, yet it was like an ice needle stabbing ruthlessly into Crimson Burning Heaven's already taut mind.

"Nothing more than this."

Crimson Burning Heaven was enraged!

He had been famous for tens of thousands of years, carving his way from a lowly Cultivator to an Earth Immortal, intimidating several major Sects in the surrounding area.

Let alone a True Immortal, even an Earth Immortal of the same rank would not dare to use those four words to insult him!

What made him even more frantic was that his Blazing Sun Domain was being eroded and his cultivation consumed; he was actually being pressed into a disadvantage by a seemingly young True Immortal.