121: Chapter 121 Peak Golden Immortal? One punch and he's blown to bits!

The hateful voice of the Sect Master of Corpse Immortal Sect echoed over the ruins of the City of Ten Thousand Dead Bones.

The prayer he issued with the last of his Divine Soul strength triggered an ancient taboo hidden deep beneath this land of sin.

"Rumble—"

The deafening roar of the earth collapsing was soon drowned out by an even more terrifying tremor.

This vibration originated from the depths of the earth's core; it did not feel like a physical tremor, but rather the awakening of an ancient Dao Law.

In an instant, the Death Qi and resentment, which had been mostly purged by the spear of judgment, surged out from the abyss beneath the ground once more, its concentration and evil aura thousands of times stronger than before!

Even the zhou tian star boat fleet, floating high in the sky and radiating starlight, swayed under the impact of this aura.

The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals on board, even the ones with the lowest cultivation base being experienced True Immortals, all felt a sudden palpitation.

Their immortal bodies instinctively sounded an alarm, and their circulation of Immortal Qi became obstructed.

"What terrifying pressure… This is not something that belongs to the Golden Immortal Realm!"

A Golden Immortal-level commander turned pale, struggling to resist the cold aura.

"It is Taiyi… No, it hasn't reached a true Taiyi, but it has already touched that threshold… Half-step Taiyi!"

Another more knowledgeable veteran commander said with a dry voice, filled with shock.

Golden Immortal and Taiyi Golden Immortal, though separated by only a single word, were worlds apart.

That was a qualitative leap in Realm.

Even if it were only a half-step, it was enough to crush a Golden Immortal Peak!

Deep within the cracked earth, a massive pitch-black stone coffin slowly rose, lifted by an invisible force.

The stone coffin was primitive, without any carvings, yet it exuded an ancient aura.

"Click… Crack…"

The coffin lid moved on its own, making a harsh, grating sound.

A withered palm reached out from the gap in the coffin and rested on the edge.

This single hand alone caused the surrounding space to distort.

Then, a shriveled ancient corpse slowly sat up from the stone coffin.

He looked like a dried corpse that had been stored for countless years; his flesh and skin had long since withered and shrunk, clinging tightly to his bones, with deep-set eye sockets where two balls of ghastly green ghost fire flickered.

On his body, he wore a long-decayed ancient Daoist robe, with a primitive style that did not belong to any immortal Sect of this era.

This was the secret of the Corpse Immortal Sect, the Corpse Emperor refined from the remains of their legendary, long-fallen Old Ancestor!

After the Corpse Emperor sat up, he did not act immediately.

His eyes, flickering with ghost fire, slowly scanned the surroundings.

When he saw the City of Ten Thousand Dead Bones below, which had been wiped off the map and reduced to ruins and scorched earth, the ghost fire in his eyes flickered violently.

There was no roar, nor was there any questioning.

A silent rage began to permeate the area.

Under this will, the Dao Laws of this region began to be infected and assimilated by a strange Death Law.

The sky turned even grayer, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of blood.

The Corpse Emperor's gaze finally landed on the figure high in the sky with an indifferent expression.

He recognized the spear of judgment still embedded deep in the earth, its Divine Might not yet dissipated, and he recognized the master of the spear.

The next moment, the Corpse Emperor moved.

Without any warning, his figure vanished from the stone coffin instantly.

When he reappeared, he had already crossed the distance of space and arrived in front of Li Xuan.

His withered right fist punched toward Li Xuan's head.

This punch looked ordinary, yet it contained the power of a "Half-step Taiyi"!

Where the fist passed, space collapsed in large swaths, turning into Chaos.

Countless Death Dao Laws entwined around it, as if Death itself had descended.

The Heavenly Court generals felt as if their Primordial Spirits were about to be sucked into the true meaning of death contained within this punch, their minds shaken; some with weaker cultivation even couldn't help but close their eyes.

Too strong!

This was impossible to block!

They didn't even dare to imagine how the Heavenly Emperor would deal with this terrifying strike that had already surpassed the scope of a Golden Immortal.

However, Li Xuan, who was at the center of the attack, remained calm.

From the moment the ancient corpse appeared, his eyes had been calm.

At this moment, facing this punch that would make even a Golden Immortal Peak feel despair, Li Xuan curled his lips.

"Is that it?"

"I waited for so long, and this is the thing that came out?"

"I thought there would be some incredible trump card."

Thoughts flashed through his mind.

Li Xuan couldn't even be bothered to use a weapon or perform any complicated Divine Ability.

Just as the opponent's fist was about to touch his face, he simply raised his right hand and swung it out slowly to meet this terrifying punch.

There was no earth-shattering explosion of Immortal Qi.

There was no dazzling Divine Light of Law.

There wasn't even a trace of energy fluctuation leaking out.

Li Xuan's fist looked like a punch thrown by an ordinary person, soft and lacking strength.

However, at the very moment his fist was swung out.

Time and space seemed to freeze.

The Death Dao Laws entwined on the Corpse Emperor's fist instantly shattered in front of this plain, unremarkable fist, dissipating into primitive energy.

The collapsed and shattered space in front of the fist was instantly smoothed out by a higher-dimensional force, becoming incomparably smooth.

The "Half-step Taiyi" pressure on the Corpse Emperor, which was enough to crush a Golden Immortal, couldn't even make the corner of Li Xuan's clothes move in the face of this fist.

The Heavenly Court generals were all shocked.

Li Xuan's fist arrived first despite being thrown later.

It ignored the power and Laws contained in the Corpse Emperor's fist, ignored the distance of time and space, and directly and precisely imprinted itself onto the Corpse Emperor's chest, which was comparable to immortal gold.

"Pop."

A soft sound.

The Corpse Emperor's violently charging body suddenly froze in mid-air.

In his hollow eye sockets, for the first time, confusion and bewilderment appeared.

He slowly lowered his head and looked at his own chest.

There were no wounds, no fist marks, not even a trace.

However, he could feel an incomprehensible, irresistible force spreading from that point of contact toward his limbs and bones.

That was not a power of destruction, but a power of returning to the Origin.

It was a fundamental truth of the Dao!

His indestructible Taiyi immortal body was beginning to decompose from the most fundamental level, returning to the world.

His Divine Soul, his will, his very existence, was being forcibly erased.

"Click… Crack…"

Spiderweb-like fine cracks appeared on the Corpse Emperor's chest, centered on Li Xuan's fist.

Immediately after, the cracks rapidly spread to his whole body.

The Corpse Emperor stiffly raised his head and looked at Li Xuan again.

He seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't make any sound.

Finally, the two balls of ghost fire in his eyes went out completely in extreme terror.

"Whoosh—"

The next second, this ancient Corpse Emperor, which claimed to possess the might of a Half-step Taiyi and was treated as a trump card by the Corpse Immortal Sect, turned into fly ash and dissipated completely.

Body and soul destroyed.

There was dead silence between heaven and earth.

On the zhou tian star boat, all the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, all the Golden Immortal commanders, were stunned on the spot.

They were all dumbfounded, unable to think for a moment.

Is it over?

This… is it over?

That "Half-step Taiyi" Corpse Emperor, which exuded endless terrifying pressure and made even Golden Immortals tremble, was just… blown up by His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor with such a casual punch?

Without even a sound, it just turned to ash like that?

It was simply effortless!

So… this is the gap between a Golden Immortal Peak and a "Half-step Taiyi"?

No, this is not a gap in Realm, it is a crushing of the level of life!

Everyone was shocked by the scene before them!

After a brief silence, thunderous cheers erupted!

"The Heavenly Emperor is invincible!"

"My Emperor's might shakes the ages, peerless and unparalleled!"

All the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, regardless of rank or cultivation strength, all knelt on one knee from the bottom of their hearts, looking fanatically at that still composed figure.

In their eyes, this Emperor was an omnipotent god!

Li Xuan slowly retracted his fist, his expression indifferent, as if he had only done a small thing.

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over the devastated land below, and the spear of judgment still stuck in the ground.

"Send people down to count the spoils; all resources are to be returned to the Heavenly Court treasury."

The calm voice clearly reached everyone's ears.

"We obey the Emperor's order!"

The commanders responded loudly, their voices excited and respectful.

The war chariot of the Heavenly Court, under the leadership of the Heavenly Emperor, was finally about to crush its own mark into this broken immortal domain.