361: Threatening me, old man?

Zi Xuwu's gaze was icy, his voice like cold iron falling to the ground, each word striking Taichu Heavenly Venerate:

"Taichu Heavenly Venerate, are you truly going to sacrifice the billions of lives in the entire Spirit Realm for your own selfish desires?! You alone pursue the Heaven-Reaching Realm, yet you would turn millions of common people into cripples, shatter mountains and rivers, and collapse heaven and earth?! Are you worthy of the title 'Heavenly Venerate'?"

Taichu Heavenly Venerate heard this and laughed uproariously, his laughter filled with disdain and ridicule:

"Trying to scare me? Do you think I'm a weakling like Spirit Firmament Child? That Reverse Spirit Returning to Ruins Formation requires at least a hundred years of accumulated power to fully operate. For mere Five-Directional Immortal Emperors like you to try to activate it in a short time is a fool's dream!"

His gaze was like a torch, directly looking at Zi Xuwu,

"As for me, I only need a hundred years. By then, I will have long since broken through to the Saint Immortal Realm and ascended to the Heaven-Reaching Realm! Your Immortal Emperors are nothing but ants in my eyes! When the time comes, even if you kneel and beg me, I won't even spare you a glance!"

Zi Xuwu's lips curved slightly; far from being angry, he revealed a sinister smile.

"Taichu Heavenly Venerate, you have underestimated the Immortal Court's resolve. Do you think... these ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers are truly here to attack the Spirit Realm?"

"No."

"They are — suicide squads."

Before his words finished —

"Form up!!!"

With a single command, the tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers instantly changed their formation!

They no longer lined up to attack, but instead formed groups of five, quickly setting up an immensely vast Five Elements Spirit Guiding Formation!

The five major Spiritual Vein nodes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth instantly lit up, and the formation patterns spread across the earth like blood vines, reaching straight to the sky!

In an instant, deep within the distant Immortal Realm, the Reverse Spirit Returning to Ruins Formation, which was slowly taking shape, suddenly trembled violently!

Between the two realms, a beam of light spanning the Void Realm forcefully connected with a roar!

Within the light beam, countless runes flowed!

Taichu Heavenly Venerate's pupils widened, and he finally understood!

"So that's it... You're not trying to break through the Spirit Realm with a large army, but using these ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers at the Peak of Undergoing Tribulation as 'catalysts,' using their Divine Souls as a medium to forcibly resonate with the Immortal Realm's grand formation and accelerate the descent of the Reverse Spirit Returning to Ruins Formation!"

He let out a cold laugh, his killing intent surging:

"A mere ten thousand Cultivators at the Undergoing Tribulation Realm dare to try to shake the Foundation of the Spirit Realm? I can slaughter them all in a single thought!!!"

Zi Xuwu, however, laughed loudly, his voice crazed and resolute:

"Kill them! Kill them quickly!! As long as you dare to act, their Divine Souls will explode at the moment of death, which is the perfect 'ignition' for the Spirit Guiding Formation! At that time, the Five Elements Spirit Guiding Formation will be completely activated and fully linked with the Immortal Realm's grand formation, and the Reverse Spirit Returning to Ruins Formation will descend in an instant! The entire Spirit Realm will have all its spiritual power drained within a year, turning into a dead zone!!!"

The entire scene was dead silent!

Everyone in the Spirit Realm army changed color, even their breathing stopped.

This was not war; this was a world-ending ritual of exchanging lives!

The ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers had already resolved to die, just to light the fuse leading to destruction!

Spirit Firmament Child felt a sense of déjà vu upon seeing this.

Holy crap!! Isn't this the method he used to deal with the shattered Small World, Tianqi Continent back then?

He used this sinister method to kill Lu Chen!!

He planted the ancient Restriction of the "Eye of Returning to Ruin" on the three death row prisoners.

Once they died, the moment their Divine Souls shattered, it would tear open a temporary Spirit Realm passage for his army to invade!

He hadn't expected that the Immortal Realm would use this very method to destroy their Spirit Realm, and they invested even more heavily, using a full ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers at the Undergoing Tribulation Realm.

And there were also the five great Immortal Emperors to guide them!!

Spirit Firmament Child suddenly realized: "I understand, that Lu Chen was indeed a Reincarnation of a powerful being from your Immortal Realm, and you are here to avenge him!!"

Zi Xuwu was slightly startled, then laughed loudly:

"That's right! Lu Chen was originally an ordinary True Immortal from our Immortal Realm. He accidentally stumbled into an ancient Immortal Cave and actually discovered a Heaven-Reaching Cultivation Technique left behind from the beginning of Chaos! He Cultivated with it, and in just a thousand years, he actually broke through to the Saint Immortal Realm! Even when the Immortal Emperor personally intervened to suppress him, he tore through the Void Realm and escaped to the Lower Realm! We never expected that you would discover him! The Cultivation Technique you have now originally belonged to our Immortal Realm!"

Taichu Heavenly Venerate cursed angrily: "What a load of nonsense! Even if Lu Chen truly was from your Immortal Realm, he was still your enemy! What do the things he found have to do with you? Moreover, Lu Chen is dead. Emperor Qin, Shen Wuya, and Ling Tian were all cultivated in the illusory world Lu Chen created, and they have even less to do with your Immortal Realm!!!"

Taichu Heavenly Venerate finally understood the truth of the matter.

This Lu Chen was indeed a powerful being from the Immortal Realm who found an ancient Heaven-Reaching Cultivation Technique and then fled to a shattered Small World.

For some reason, he lost all his cultivation and could only create Small Worlds through special methods, teaching the Cultivation Technique within these Small Worlds, then having others Cultivate for him, harvesting the energy, and recovering his cultivation.

The reason everyone Cultivated different things was because the Cultivation Technique Lu Chen possessed likely had many variations, possibly a collection of all the Cultivation Techniques of the primordial gods and demons.

It was just a pity that Lu Chen died.

The whole story made sense now!!

Zi Xuwu smiled coldly, applying pressure again:

"Are you truly going to perish together? As long as these ten thousand suicide squads begin burning their Divine Souls, the Reverse Spirit Returning to Ruins Formation can fully descend in a maximum of one year! By then, the Spirit Realm will have no more Spiritual Veins, no more Cultivators, and no more Legacies! Do you think you can break through to the Heaven-Reaching Realm within a year?!"

Upon hearing this, the faces of the four Heavenly Venerates suddenly turned pale.

Fairy Zi Ming's fingertips trembled slightly, Old Ancestor Ming He lowered his eyes, Lord Chi Xiao clenched his fists, and The Celestial Venerable Taiyan remained silent.

They were not afraid of death, but they feared the entire Spirit Realm dying because of them.

Only Taichu Heavenly Venerate still stood tall, his gaze like a torch, his Battle Intent soaring to the heavens!

He laughed loudly, his voice shaking the Nine Heavens:

"Threatening this Old Ancestor?! What are you! Even if Immortal Emperor Haotian himself were to arrive today, this Old Ancestor would not fear him! I, Taichu, have lived for tens of thousands of years and have long seen through life and death! At worst, I die! I will live and die with the Spirit Realm!!!"

Realm Master of the Spirit World, Spirit Firmament Child, however, collapsed, roaring on his knees:

"Taichu Ancestor! The Spirit Realm was created by your fathers, who spent tens of thousands of years of painstaking effort! Are you really going to watch it be destroyed in an instant?!"

"Slap —!!!"

An aerial palm strike once again sent Spirit Firmament Child flying dozens of feet, crashing into a mountain wall, spitting out fresh blood!

Taichu Heavenly Venerate glared, his voice like thunder:

"Useless trash! You still have the nerve to mention my fathers?! If my father knew in the afterlife that the Realm Master of the Spirit Realm was a coward and spineless good-for-nothing like you, he would probably be so angry he'd crawl out of Reincarnation!!!"

Zi Xuwu hadn't expected Taichu Heavenly Venerate to be so unyielding, even preferring death to submission!

But he had no retreat.

He took a deep breath, his expression solemn:

"Since that's the case, then let's perish together!!!"

"Heavenly Soldiers of the Five Divisions, heed my command —"

"Burn your Divine Souls! Activate the Five Elements Spirit Guiding Formation! Until death!!!"

"Yes!!!"

Tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers responded in unison, their voices like a booming bell, shaking heaven and earth!

They had already prepared for death.