254: Karma Fire

"No!!!"

Lin Yang had achieved Immortal Ascension, but instead of feeling any joy, his heart was filled with endless pain.

"Junior Sister..."

Lin Yang roared, instantly breaking free from the Immortal might that had previously immobilized him.

He reached forward, but in the end, he only grasped a fleeting speck of light that Shen Youchu had transformed into after her disappearance.

Besides that, he caught nothing.

"Clang!"

Where Shen Youchu had vanished, a crystal sword, clear as jade, dropped to the ground, emitting a crisp sword cry.

The Zhu Xian Sword.

It was the parting gift he had given Shen Youchu in the Lower Realm's Eastern Barrens when they separated.

It seemed now that Shen Youchu had likely treasured this sword as a token of their love, always keeping it with her.

Thump!

Lin Yang knelt, picking up the sword Shen Youchu had left behind. His eyes were bloodshot, and tears welled up uncontroll not from them.

"How could this happen..."

Lin Yang couldn't believe what was before his eyes, muttering to himself as if he had lost his Soul.

"Hiss!"

Just then, the old man who had achieved Immortal Ascension through Epiphany suddenly attacked from behind, his palm descending directly towards Lin Yang.

Boom!

Lin Yang spun around abruptly, sending him flying with a single punch.

"How is this possible?!"

Futuxuan was greatly alarmed, a look of surprise and doubt flashing in his eyes.

They had both just achieved Immortal Ascension, but how could Lin Yang's strength be so much greater than his?

He was a Mid-stage Earth Immortal.

Yet, it felt as if Lin Yang had directly reached the Middle Stage of Earth Immortal.

"It's you! You killed my Junior Sister!"

Lin Yang stood up, his eyes blood-red as he glared furiously at Futuxuan.

"This guy's eyes..."

Everyone gasped, looking at Lin Yang's eyes.

In his blood-red pupils, three comma-shaped black dots slowly emerged near his ink-black irises.

"Blood Wheel Eye!"

Not far away, even He Wuliang, a Heavenly Immortal who had only slightly changed color when he was Sealed, suddenly blanched upon seeing the change in Lin Yang's eyes.

"The Blood Wheel Eye, one of the three supreme divine eyes of ancient times..."

Beside him, the expressions of the two Earth Immortals also became solemn.

"Rumble!"

The heavens shattered, the earth cracked, and the Dao rules surged.

While everyone was astonished, Lin Yang had already resumed his fierce battle with Futuxuan.

"Kill!"

Lin Yang's eyes were crimson, and he charged forward with overwhelming killing intent, like a violent storm.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

Wherever his gaze fell, strange black flames continuously erupted, incinerating everything and melting all in their path.

Futuxuan's robe was touched by the black flames. He tried to extinguish them with water but found it completely ineffective, which greatly shocked him.

"What kind of flames are these? They defy the rules of the Five Elements!"

In the end, he could only painfully cut off that part of his flesh to prevent the flames from igniting his entire body.

Hiss!

Suddenly, a wisp of fire exploded in the sky, instantly releasing countless black flames, like a grand black meteor shower, rushing downwards.

Wherever the black flames passed, all things dissolved, and everything tangible turned to ashes in the burning.

He Wuliang, Shen Tianming, and others were greatly alarmed and quickly dodged, not daring to touch those black flames.

As Immortal Dao beings who looked down on all living things, even with their cultivation temporarily Sealed, their Immortal bodies were extraordinary.

They were impervious to water and fire, unshaken by thunder.

Yet now, they were actively avoiding these black flames, which was simply unimaginable.

However, He Wuliang and the other two, who understood the abilities of the Blood Wheel Eye, knew deeply.

Facing the black flames released by the Blood Wheel Eye, this was the best choice.

Because those black flames were eternal, unquenchable fire!

Unless the contaminated target was completely incinerated, they would never go out.

"Ah..."

Soon, people witnessed firsthand the power of these unquenchable flames.

Futuxuan was quickly defeated by the Immortal Lin Yang, with one arm covered in black flames.

That arm visibly melted, its flesh and blood dissolving, and the bones and Meridians inside gradually turned to ashes.

Even the Immortal power within Futuxuan's body couldn't stop it!

"Ah... Fellow Daoist, the death of that young girl was not my intention. I am willing to cease hostilities and return the immortal slaying gourd. I hope you will be lenient!"

Futuxuan severed his own arm, his face pale, and offered a truce.

Because he truly couldn't resist any longer.

They had both just achieved Immortal Ascension, but Lin Yang was inexplicably much stronger than him.

The black flames emitted from those eyes left him with no way to counter, forcing him to flee in panic.

"Die!"

However, his only response was Lin Yang's single word: "Die."

Not only that, after Futuxuan mentioned Shen Youchu, Lin Yang's killing intent intensified, and he immediately pushed the power of his Blood Wheel Eye to its limit, regardless of the consequences.

A trickle of fresh blood flowed from Lin Yang's eye.

In an instant, the entire sky was ignited by black flames, like the end of days, falling downwards.

"Whoosh!"

Seeing that Lin Yang would not let him go, Futuxuan gritted his teeth, glanced sideways, and with a flash of his figure, he plunged into the crowd.

"Fellow Daoist, the immortal alliance edict is above! If you continue to attack me and harm the innocent, don't blame the Immortal Alliance for punishing you later!"

Futuxuan pointed to the "Immortal" character edict suspended in the Void Realm not far away, and, using Immortal power to restrain the surrounding guests as hostages, he threatened Lin Yang.

"Young friend! No, Immortal! We are just spectators, it has nothing to do with us!"

Those guests hadn't expected watching the show to end up bringing disaster upon themselves. Their faces immediately changed, and some hurriedly begged Lin Yang for mercy.

However, this did not slow the descent of the sky-filling black flames in the slightest.

"The immortal alliance edict contains a Karmic Obstruction curse. If an Immortal attacks beings below the Immortal Dao, it will activate the Karmic Obstruction within, bringing punishment!"

Seeing that Lin Yang showed no signs of stopping, Futuxuan's face completely changed. Fearing that Lin Yang didn't know what was inside the immortal alliance edict, he quickly explained it to him.

"Stop, Immortals are not so easily killed. Do not make a grave mistake out of a moment's anger."

Even Li Shiya, after pondering, tried to persuade him.

After all, if these black flames fell, Futuxuan might not necessarily die, but the many guests below the Immortal Dao present would certainly be doomed.

"Since Junior Sister is dead, I no longer care about right or wrong. Even if Karmic Obstruction descends, I will still kill this old dog today!!"

With Li Shiya's persuasion, Lin Yang indeed responded.

But at this moment, his heart was already filled with rage, and he couldn't consider any consequences. He was determined to kill Futuxuan!

"Goddess, hurry! This guy has fallen into madness! No one can persuade him."

Seeing this situation, the Moonlight Divine Hall experts beside Li Shiya also knew that staying here would only put them in danger. They immediately joined forces to break through the Void Realm and escape.

Fortunately, Lin Yang still retained a trace of sanity at this moment, and he voluntarily let the Moonlight Divine Hall group leave.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah..."

But the remaining people were not so lucky. Apart from a few powerful individuals in the Slaying Three Corpses Realm who managed to escape.

The others were quickly burned to ashes by the black flames amidst their agonizing screams.

Immortals like Futuxuan, He Wuliang, and Shen Tianming were particularly targeted.

They were trapped and roasted within a fiery cauldron forged from countless black flames. Their Immortal bodies and Immortal Souls showed signs of melting in these terrifying black flames.

And just after those guests, held hostage by Futuxuan, tragically died, the immortal alliance edict floating in the sky suddenly flickered with a red glow.

A wisp of red lotus Karmic Obstruction fire, even more terrifying than the black flames, slowly emanated from the edict...