687: Chapter 688 The Immortal Hunter

"This place has a natural labyrinth; my illusions can borrow its momentum to achieve twice the result with half the effort. But an Immortal King is an Immortal King after all, with sharp spiritual senses. This labyrinth is incomplete, and I am not at my Peak..."

Dong Li calculated rapidly, illusory light flowing swiftly through its crimson eyes. "Three breaths at most! I can only guarantee trapping him for three breaths, and there must be no violent interference!"

"Three breaths..."

Fang Hanyu slowly tightened his grip on the ancient sword. The blade emitted a low hum as gray Sword Qi flowed along the edge.

"Enough."

Dong Li hesitated no longer. Its crimson eyes instantly erupted with a startling, colorful illusory light. With a flicker of its body, it silently merged into the shadow of a giant rock covered in strange patterns.

It began to fully communicate with and channel the chaotic power remaining in this ancient labyrinth, preparing its strongest illusion.

"Prepare," Xiao Ruobai barked in a low voice.

Fang Hanyu guided with a sword finger, and a faint but incredibly pure strand of Chaos Sword Qi silently penetrated through the layers of purple miasma.

It gently looped around a crimson figure searching carefully not far away—Immortal King Tianluo—and then rapidly withdrew!

"Hmm?!"

Immortal King Tianluo, who had been focused on searching, suddenly turned his head, his sharp gaze sweeping toward the direction the Sword Qi had come from.

Although that Sword Qi was so faint it was almost negligible, in this silent and eerie environment, any trace of abnormal spiritual fluctuation was enough to trigger his high alert.

"Found the rat's tail?"

Crimson fire flashed in Immortal King Tianluo's eyes. Without suspicion, his body turned into a streak of fire as he sped toward the direction where the Sword Qi had vanished!

For an Immortal King, such a distance was covered in an instant.

However, the moment he rushed into that stone forest area, less than a hundred feet from where Xiao Ruobai and the others were hiding—

"Illusory Moon... Heavenly Heart Attraction!"

Dong Li's suppressed hiss, accompanied by an invisible and intangible yet instantaneous surge of the surrounding purple miasma and broken Laws, erupted violently!

Immortal King Tianluo only felt the scene before his eyes suddenly distort and change!

The dense purple miasma dispersed, and he seemed to be standing in a magnificent hall burning with crimson flames, with mountains of various rare treasures beneath his feet.

And ahead, the five members of Xiao Ruobai's group were firmly bound by his flame chains, looking at him in terror.

Especially that red-furred fox, which was death-gripping a crystal flowing with thick Dao-resonance that made his Divine Soul tremble—the dao-embodying mysterious crystal!

"Hahaha! The dao-embodying mysterious crystal! It is mine! The realm of Immortal Sovereign is just around the corner!"

Wild joy instantly drowned Immortal King Tianluo's reason as he laughed and reached out to grab that crystal.

Now!

"Strike!"

Xiao Ruobai's voice exploded in everyone's Divine Sense!

Xiao Ruobai held a long halberd, pale gold blood Qi and simple battle runes intertwining to form a halberd glow that tore through the heavens, piercing straight for the brow!

Fang Hanyu merged his body and sword, his Chaos Sword Qi turning into a gray death ray that seemed capable of ending all things, aiming directly for the Dantian!

Ling Xi's figure appeared behind him like a ghost, her short blade carrying a darkness that swallowed everything as it slashed toward his neck!

Mo Yu thrust out a fatal spear, the speck of dark light at the tip appearing to pierce the Divine Soul, aiming straight for the heart!

At the same time, Cant Beat Me!

Waves of an invisible yet heavy-as-a-mountain strange Domain erupted, instantly enveloping Immortal King Tianluo, who had just fallen into the illusion and lost his mental guard!

Within this Domain, space stagnated and all Laws were suppressed!

The shadow of death had never been as clear as it was at this moment!

Immortal King Tianluo, immersed in the illusion, woke up instantly. The wild joy on his face was quenched like ice water, freezing instantly and replaced by boundless shock and extreme terror!

The vast magic power of an Immortal King exploded madly, and the protective immortal fire around his body surged, attempting to forcibly break through the double suppression of the illusion and the Domain.

He wanted to counterattack; he wanted to tear these juniors into ten thousand pieces and take back his dao-embodying mysterious crystal!

"No—!!"

He struggled with all his might, the space around him vibrating violently from his magic power. But the Domain's suppression was like an inescapable net, trapping him tightly and slowing his movements by more than tenfold!

Wang Xiaopang did not attack. Instead, he poured all his strength into the ancient shield, roaring as he slammed it hard onto the ground!

An even heavier suppressing force stacked onto the Domain, causing Immortal King Tianluo's struggle to halt. Terror completely replaced all other emotions in his eyes.

The four attacks, bolstered by the Cant Beat Me Domain, were perfectly synchronized, locking down all possibilities for Immortal King Tianluo to evade.

Carrying all the power and killing intent of the five people's life-risking strike, they slammed heavily into his body!

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Chii—!

The protective immortal fire shattered like paper, and the Immortal King's Dharma body was easily pierced!

The halberd glow shattered his skull, the Sword Qi crushed his Dantian, the short blade severed his neck, and the spear tip pierced his heart! Annihilative power exploded and rampaged wildly inside his body!

"This is impossible—!"

In the instant before his consciousness fell completely into darkness, Immortal King Tianluo's remaining thoughts were filled with boundless confusion and absurdity.

He, a dignified Immortal King who had roamed the Xuanqiong Immortal Realm for hundreds of thousands of years and survived countless battles, how could he...

How could he die at the hands of these ant-like Heavenly Immortals?!

"No—! This seat is unwilling!!"

"Ah—!!!"

Immortal King Tianluo let out a shrill scream filled with endless fear, anger, and disbelief, his crimson eyes instantly losing their luster.

His body became covered in cracks like shattered porcelain, and violent Immortal King-level energy began to leak and collapse uncontrollably!

A generation's Immortal King was actually killed in a single strike within this ancient remnant array by five Heavenly Immortal juniors he viewed as ants, through a meticulously planned execution!

Boom—!!

Immortal King Tianluo's remains finally exploded completely, turning into a destructive fireball of crimson energy. The terrifying shockwave instantly leveled the surrounding stone forest, and the purple miasma was swept away!

"Go!"

Xiao Ruobai's face was as pale as paper as he spat out a mouthful of blood; clearly, the strike just now had placed an immense load on him.

But he did not linger. He scooped up Dong Li, who had become withered again after exhausting its Soul Power, and turned into a streak of light along with Fang Hanyu and the other three.

They fled for their lives toward the deeper parts of Purple Miasma Mountain, instantly vanishing into the dense purple miasma that closed back up.

The wild wind howled, and the purple miasma rolled back.

Dong Li, tucked under Xiao Ruobai's arm, had a mind that was currently a complete blank.

In its crimson eyes, the image of Immortal King Tianluo's shocked, bewildered, and unwilling gaze—and finally his complete annihilation and the explosion of his Dharma body—kept replaying, rewinding, and zooming in.

What happened?

It's... over?

That notorious Immortal King Tianluo, who had roamed the Xuanqiong Immortal Realm for tens of thousands of years...

Was just gone like that?

Insta-killed by a combo he didn't understand but felt was terrifyingly beyond measure?

Dong Li with difficulty turned its stiff neck to look at Xiao Ruobai who was carrying it, and then at Fang Hanyu, Ling Xi, Mo Yu, and Wang Xiaopang who were following closely...

The tacit understanding, decisiveness, and ruthlessness these people had just erupted with, as well as that strange Domain at the end that made space stagnate...

"Strong..."

Dong Li's throat moved as it dryly spat out a single word.

"So damn strong..."

Just what kind of monsters are these guys?!

It subconsciously touched its chest with its claw; the sharp pain of its shattered monster core was still clear.

Only, it suddenly felt like the pain there had increased a bit more.

Not from the injury, but from the damn loss!

What a loss!

A few breaths later.

"Tianluo's aura... has vanished?!"

Immortal King Zhenyue, Immortal King Guiwu, Jian Chenzi, and Immortal King Yunyao, who were searching in other directions, all paled in shock and turned sharply toward the direction of the explosion.

"Not good!"

Four figures tore through the purple miasma and instantly appeared at the center of the explosion.

They saw scorched earth everywhere and chaotic space, with lingering terrifying energy turbulence and... the rapidly dissipating life and Divine Soul aura belonging to Immortal King Tianluo!

"Tianluo... is dead?!" Immortal King Guiwu's voice was dry, filled with disbelief.

"How is that possible?! Those juniors..." Shock filled Immortal King Yunyao's beautiful eyes.

"Chase! They must have used a forbidden method and paid a huge price! Now is when they are at their weakest!"