879: Chapter 880 The Battle of the Heavenly Venerables

Hall Master Li Gu, one of the seven Hall Masters of the Tianshu Dojo.

With a cultivation of the Fourth Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, he was violent and bloodthirsty, the sharpest yet most uncontrollable blade under the Sovereign's command.

The scarlet slaughter Dao patterns around Heavenly King Chi Xiao suddenly retracted, and his newly stabilized aura of the Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm was completely pulled into his body, leaving not a trace leaking out.

Not daring to delay, he took a step forward and landed directly beside Gu Changge.

Kneeling on one knee, a glowing pattern of a secret report formed from a Divine Soul imprint materialized in his hand, which he respectfully presented.

"My Lord, there is unusual movement in the Li Gu Hall under the Tianshu Dojo. The scouts I planted outside have sent an urgent message.

Hall Master Li Gu has left his station, and his direction of travel is heading straight toward the Remnant Boundary of the Immortal Realm."

Gu Changge raised his hand and lightly guided the glowing pattern to float into his palm. With a sweep of his Divine Soul, all the information in the secret report flooded into his mind.

His expression instantly turned cold. If Hall Master Li Gu were allowed to step into the Remnant Boundary of the Immortal Realm...

With his violent and bloodthirsty nature, he would surely turn the entire Immortal Realm upside down.

Gu Changge put down the Jade Slip in his hand and said in a cold tone:

"Lead the way."

Heavenly King Chi Xiao immediately cupped his fists. "Yes!"

One after the other, their figures vanished simultaneously from the summit of Zizhu Peak.

Within Chaos, Hall Master Li Gu was advancing at rapid speed.

Clad in dark gray bone armor, his entire body was shrouded in a dense, gray mist of deathly stillness.

Countless illusory skeletons tumbled and wailed within the mist, emitting a suffocating, fierce Evil Qi.

He suddenly paused his steps, his sharp gaze sweeping toward a certain spot in the Void Realm ahead.

"Who's there?"

A figure slowly stepped out from the Void Realm.

Heavenly King Chi Xiao looked calmly at Hall Master Li Gu from afar, his tone indifferent. "Hall Master Hall Master Li Gu, I hope you have been well."

Seeing who it was, Hall Master Li Gu was first taken aback, and then his brow furrowed slightly.

"Heavenly King Chi Xiao? Why are you here?"

Heavenly King Chi Xiao smiled faintly. "Is Hall Master Hall Master Li Gu heading to the Immortal Realm on this trip?

As it happens, I have just returned from there. I have thoroughly investigated it and found nothing unusual.

There is no need for Hall Master Hall Master Li Gu to make this trip again."

Hall Master Li Gu's gaze narrowed. He stared at Heavenly King Chi Xiao for a long while, his tone gradually turning cold.

"Heavenly King Chi Xiao, what do you mean? This is the Sovereign's command. Are you asking me to disobey the Sovereign?"

"Hall Master Hall Master Li Gu, you are overthinking. I just felt it would be too tedious for you to travel such a long distance!"

Hearing this, the suspicion in Hall Master Li Gu's eyes grew deeper, and his voice became even more sinister.

"You actually care about me? Could it be that you discovered something in the Immortal Realm and want to keep it all to yourself?

Or perhaps you want to betray the Sovereign?"

Heavenly King Chi Xiao remained silent for a moment. He slowly raised his head, his calm gaze meeting Hall Master Li Gu's cold, sharp eyes.

"It seems this battle is unavoidable."

His voice was not loud, but it carried an unshakeable resolve.

The moment the words fell—

Boom!!!

A majestic and vast aura suddenly erupted from Heavenly King Chi Xiao's body!

The red-gold power of immortal slaughter erupted like a volcano that had slept for eons, soaring into the sky.

Instantly, the churning gray mist of deathly stillness around them was completely dispersed!

Surrounded by red-gold light, Heavenly King Chi Xiao's robes fluttered wildly, and his long hair danced madly.

He looked like a god of war stepping out from ancient slaughter, emitting a terrifying pressure that made one's heart tremble!

The Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm!

His cultivation was fully displayed without any reservation!

Hall Master Li Gu's pupils contracted sharply, and the sneer on his face instantly froze, replaced by a look of unbelievable shock.

"The Third Heaven of the... Celestial Venerable Realm?!"

He stared intently at Heavenly King Chi Xiao, his eyes filled with suspicion and shock, as if he were truly seeing this person for the first time.

"When did you achieve a Breakthrough?! You were clearly only at the Peak of the Heavenly King Realm before!"

Heavenly King Chi Xiao did not answer his question, but merely stood there quietly.

The aura of slaughter surged like a tide, dyeing the surrounding chaotic airflow with a faint golden glow.

Hall Master Li Gu's gaze swept over him several times, waves of shock crashing through his heart.

From the Peak of the Heavenly King Realm to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, there was an entire major Realm in between, as well as the chasm of breaking through from Heavenly King to Celestial Venerable!

A chasm that ordinary Prodigies might not be able to cross even after tens of millions of years had actually been leaped over by this person in such a short period of time?!

Just what had he experienced?!

Hall Master Li Gu took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, and a sneer reappeared on his face.

However, his tone carried slightly less of his previous contempt:

"Hmph, no wonder you dare block my path. It turns out you've had a Breakthrough into the Celestial Venerable Realm and think your wings have grown strong."

He cracked his neck, producing a series of popping sounds from his joints.

The gray mist of deathly stillness around him also churned more violently.

"However, you don't actually think that with your newly-attained cultivation of the Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, you can act presumptuously before me, do you?"

Before his voice could fade, Hall Master Li Gu's figure blurred, and he vanished from the spot!

In the next instant, a massive bone claw covered in the power of gray deathly stillness tore through the Void Realm, swatting down toward Heavenly King Chi Xiao!

Crack!!

The Void Realm was torn wide open, and the massive gray bone claw blotted out the sky, pressing down with a decaying force that could annihilate all things!

Upon the bone claw, thousands of illusory skeletons roared ferociously, wrapped in a deathly Evil Qi capable of corroding a Celestial Venerable's Dao body.

Wherever it passed, the chaotic airflow instantly dissolved and shattered, and even the cracks in the Void Realm were dyed a deathly, pale gray.

As a powerhouse of the Fourth Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, Hall Master Li Gu had cultivated in this Realm for countless years. His methods were sinister and overbearing, far surpassing ordinary Cultivators who had just entered the Celestial Venerable Realm.

This seemingly casual strike had actually mobilized most of his cultivation, concealing supreme Dao Laws of Deathly Stillness, with the intention of suppressing the newly-advanced Heavenly King Chi Xiao in a single blow!

In his view, even if Heavenly King Chi Xiao had achieved a Heaven-Defying Breakthrough to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, his Foundation was ultimately shallow.

He was merely a newly ascended Celestial Venerable who had rushed his Breakthrough; with an unstable Foundation and unsolidified dao foundation, he could absolutely not withstand this wrathful strike.

Facing this overwhelming and terrifying offensive, Heavenly King Chi Xiao's expression remained unchanged, his eyes reflecting only the cold slaughter accumulated over eons.

Facing the massive bone claw descending from above, Heavenly King Chi Xiao did not dodge. Instead, a fanatical smile tugged at the corner of his lips.

He had waited for this day for far too long!

Tens of millions of years of silence, and now a Breakthrough in a single day!

He precisely needed a sufficiently powerful opponent to test his combat strength!

"Come on then!"

A cold shout echoed through the chaotic world, carrying an innate majesty.

In the next second, Heavenly King Chi Xiao suddenly unleashed both of his fists!

Boom!!!

The extremely condensed red-gold power of slaughter shook heaven and earth. Shedding the violent turbulence of his previous Breakthrough, it became heavy, overbearing, and sharp to the absolute limit.

The Dao comprehension accumulated from tens of millions of years of dormancy, paired with the supreme Profound Truth of the Immortal Heavenly Scripture of Slaughter, erupted in its entirety!

The dark red Slaughter Battle Armor floating around him burst with surging light, and the armor resonated, letting out a sharp, clanging ring that shook the Void Realm.

Heavenly King Chi Xiao's Physical Body swelled, his physical strength shaking Chaos. With Dao laws roaring upon his fists, he met that terrifying bone claw head-on in a fierce collision!

Bang!!!

An earth-shaking explosion erupted, and a chaotic storm swept madly in all directions, centered on the point of their clash!

The gray, deathly Evil Qi and the red-gold divine light of slaughter clashed violently, annihilating each other.

Blindingly brilliant divine light shot out in all directions, illuminating the dim Chaos in alternating flashes of light and dark.

The expected scene of Heavenly King Chi Xiao being severely injured by a single strike, flying backward and coughing up blood, did not occur.

Instead, that scarlet figure, whose Realm seemed slightly inferior, stood firmly in the Void Realm.

His feet were rooted in Chaos, completely motionless, like an eternal monument to the god of slaughter!

Meanwhile, countless dense cracks split across the surface of that unstoppable, massive bone claw.

Under the washing of the divine light of slaughter, the ferocious illusory skeletons let out shrill, desperate wails, instantly shattering inch by inch into ashes!

"What?!"

Not far away, Hall Master Li Gu, whose figure had materialized within the Void Realm, had his pupils contract sharply. His face was filled with disbelief, and a towering wave of shock surged in his heart.

He stared fixedly at the rock-steady Heavenly King Chi Xiao, the deathly mist around his body momentarily falling into disarray.

His strike contained the complete Dao laws of the Fourth Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm, paired with his Natal Bone Dao of Deathly Stillness.

Even a powerhouse of the same Realm would not dare to take it head-on easily, needing to evade cautiously or defend with all their might!

Yet Heavenly King Chi Xiao, a newly ascended powerhouse who had just broken through to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Venerable Realm and was still stabilizing his Realm—

—had actually caught it head-on relying solely on his Physical Body and slaughter Dao power, even shattering the power of his natal bone claw?!