I'm Invincible, Do As You Please
The recent scene left them gaping in astonishment.
Earlier, Knife's words were not very loud, and coupled with its high altitude, those with weak cultivation could barely hear them.
But it was different for Murong Gong and the others.
After breaking through in their cultivation, they could clearly catch Knife's disdainful words from that distance.
The intensity was rare even in the immortal realm.
Yet it still claimed that one strike would suffice.
After destroying the pillar of light, it even uttered the word, "Trash!"
Murong Gong and the others had lost their senses.
They all witnessed that recent attack.
It appeared plain and unadorned.
But only those who had reached the Yuanying realm knew the true might behind it.
The terrifying aura.
The sharp blade light that could pierce through anything.
It gave them a feeling that no matter what stood before it, there would only be one outcome.
To be cleaved in two!
Murong Gong's cultivation was the highest, and he could sense that formidable power the most.
He had a feeling that if this attack landed on the ground, it would leave a bottomless pit!
He looked towards the horizon where the blade light had flown, wondering what happened over there.
After being stunned for a while, Murong Gong and the others finally shifted their gaze.
The pillar of light was gone.
They quickly looked towards the gate of light.
The entrance to the secret realm had opened!
Gulping.
Murong Gong and the others swallowed hard.
Knife must have come here on Chen Ping'an's orders.
Murong Gong's mind raced, and he quickly came up with a possibility.
"The pillar of light must have been constantly ringing, disturbing the senior's rest!"
This time, he had hit upon the right idea.
The pillar of light did disturb Chen Ping'an's sleep.
But Chen Ping'an had no idea that his Knife had come out to destroy the pillar...
At this moment, he was still sleeping quite well.
Murong Gong took a deep breath, his reverence for Chen Ping'an reaching its peak.
He didn't dwell on it any further and fixed his gaze on the secret realm's entrance.
If the pillar of light had remained quiet, he could have freely let his disciples enter.
But the pillar had suddenly become agitated so many times, giving him an uneasy feeling.
"Yun Hai, have a few elders go in first and check the situation," Murong Gong instructed.
Murong Yun Hai nodded, flying over to speak with a few middle-aged men nearby.
Soon after, three of them entered the gate of light, disappearing from sight.
At this time, in the immortal realm, a city with an ancient style akin to a nation was brightly lit by lanterns.
In the center of this massive city stood a towering divine tree that pierced the heavens.
Perched on this tree was a fiery, phoenix-like bird!
Across from the tree stood a majestic mountain that reached the very sky.
Coiled around the mountain's peak was a massive, golden serpentine creature.
Between the tree and the mountain was a stone stairway that ascended into the clouds.
Upon these steps stood a magnificent palace.
Inside the palace, a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged suddenly opened his eyes.
In that instant, the heavens and earth seemed to change color.
At the same time, a look of shock appeared on his face.
"How is this possible! The secret realm I personally created to imprison Ling'er has been destroyed?!"
For the first time in a thousand years, emotion showed on the middle-aged man's face.
He was none other than the Baxian Immortal Emperor who had seized the throne of the immortal realm a millennium ago!
A thousand years prior, he had a daughter whom he considered the apple of his eye.
Her name was Su Ling, and she was only six years old at the time.
Back then, he was vying for the Immortal Emperor position against the Hanren Immortal Patriarch, another top candidate.
He ultimately prevailed over the Hanren Immortal Patriarch, cutting him down and ascending as emperor.
But he never imagined that the resentful Hanren Immortal Patriarch would not rest in peace. With his dying breath, the patriarch transformed his essence into an evil specter that possessed Su Ling.
While he became the revered Immortal Emperor, his beloved daughter became a mindless demon.
No matter how much effort he expended, his transcendent cultivation could not save his daughter from her insanity.
Under the influence of the Hanren Immortal Patriarch's essence, his daughter's power soared rapidly, but she became a bloodthirsty killer who attacked anyone on sight.
Left with no choice, the Baxian Immortal Emperor had to imprison her.
Regardless of her monstrous state, he could not bear to lock his beloved daughter in a hellish prison.
In the end, he created a formidable secret realm and trapped her within it.
Then he cast the secret realm into the void, allowing it to drift across the mortal realm.
He was certain that the secret realm he had crafted was so durable that no immortal below the Patriarch realm could destroy it from the outside.
And since the realm only appeared in the mortal world, he thought even after tens of thousands of years, no mishap would occur.
But just now, he discovered that the secret realm he created had been destroyed!
He was utterly stunned.
What could have happened in the mortal realm?
At this moment, in the mortal realm, Murong Gong's group waited for a while.
Soon after, one of the elders who had entered returned.
Murong Gong and the others wanted to ask about the situation inside upon seeing this elder.
But in the next moment, they realized this elder was covered in blood!
Thud.
The elder collapsed to the ground the moment he appeared.
Witnessing this scene, Murong Gong and the others were dumbstruck.
At the same time, an intense sense of unease arose within them.
Just then, another figure emerged from the secret realm's entrance.
However, it was not one of their sect's elders this time.
Instead, it was a disheveled, filthy female figure.
From her physique and vaguely visible features, she was undoubtedly a woman.
She was very beautiful, but her eyes were blood-red.
"Keke..."
A sinister laugh suddenly escaped her lips.
Murong Gong felt his pores constrict upon hearing that laughter.
Boom!
An aura powerful enough to seemingly destroy the heavens and earth erupted from the woman.
The ground began to tremble.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Within a mile's radius, all cultivators below the Golden Core realm involuntarily fell to their knees, their bodies controlled by an external force.
Sensing this terrifying aura, Murong Gong and the others turned deathly pale.
This was undoubtedly not the cultivation of the mortal realm!
An Immortal...An Immortal!!
"Kill!" An ominous voice suddenly came from the woman's mouth.
Murong Gong and the others felt as if they had fallen into an icy pit.
Meanwhile, back in Qingxuan Town, the ground tremors woke Chen Ping'an again.
He tossed and turned in bed, his eyes still closed as he muttered in his sleep, "So annoying, can't you let me sleep..."
He hadn't fully awoken, but he resisted the jarring sounds.
Knife, who had just returned not long ago, heard Chen Ping'an's words and sprang into action again.
In the blink of an eye, it flew out of the courtyard towards the secret realm's entrance.
There, the filthy woman was about to unleash her slaughter upon the Lingshangang disciples.
Seeing this scene, Knife muttered, "Oh, an Immortal at the Yuanying realm possessed by demonic energy?"
The woman, originally prepared to kill, suddenly sensed Knife's abrupt appearance.
She turned her head with a cracking sound, staring at the floating Knife.
Suddenly, she grinned.
A keke laughter echoed around them.
Then, she erupted, transforming into a cannonball shooting towards Knife.
Murong Gong and the others, their hearts pounding from the overwhelming aura, watched with wide eyes as the woman charged toward Knife like a cannonball.
Knife looked on amusedly as the woman rapidly approached, seemingly finding something funny.
It remained motionless, waiting for her to draw near.
Just as the woman was about to reach it, a disdainful snort suddenly rang out.
In an instant, the woman, shooting up like a cannonball, abruptly froze in place.
She hung suspended in the air, mere inches from Knife, as if restrained by an invisible force!
Knife gazed at the frozen woman before it with disdain. "A mere Yuanying cultivator dares act ferocious before me? You should know that even Immortal Emperor trash has to call me 'Sir' when facing me."
Its flippant tone conveyed an aura of invincibility, of absolute dominance over all challengers...