Chapter 2873: The God of Fate Must Also Gamble His Life!

Green light instantly swept away the black mist, flooding the entire Secret Realm space in an explosive burst.

All objects not blocked by the city walls — including but not limited to the Devouring Demon Vines, Stone Man clones, Black Stem Borers, and Giant Armored Beetles covering the ground — were vaporized the moment the green light flashed past!

The Heavenly Demons had long since recognized the danger and joined forces to erect a barrier.

Green light also flickered on their barrier; it was the triangular marks on their backs channeling Jialou Tian's power into the barrier.

Being of the same nature and origin, the green light washed over the Heavenly Demons' barrier without shattering it.

But three Heavenly Demons failed to retreat into the barrier in time, and lacked the triangular talisman marks on their bodies, leaving them exposed beneath the green light.

As a result, they melted away as well.

Even the Divine Descent Bodies crafted from the Hidden Sovereign's corpse could not withstand the green light's might; their flesh and blood, their tendons and bones, melted like candles thrown into a high-temperature furnace, deformed beyond recognition.

In the span of merely two breaths, all those people and objects directly bathed in the green light vanished.

The scene was clean and spotless, not a trace left behind.

As the smoke dissipated, Jialou Tian also revealed his figure, his face cold as water.

The Nine Nether truly has some methods; the black smoke cocoon it released could not be broken even by its various divine abilities, and these black mists feared neither gang qi nor divine power — the moment they touched its Indestructible Golden Body they began to corrode it, truly formidable!

Its only way to break the deadlock was to use the power stored in the Sequence Decree Divinity for a thorough, all-out eruption — after all, it was already fully charged, an arrow on the bowstring that had to be loosed.

With this bottom-of-the-box supreme treasure, no wonder the Nine Nether could defeat the Hundred Battles Heaven.

The green light likewise swept over Jialou Tian's enemies.

Tong Ming True Monarch's Immortal-Slaying Mace bore the brunt, and its performance was equally direct — with a crack it split into four or five segments. Tong Ming True Monarch himself was neither skilled at nor fond of close combat, so the divine artifact he chose also possessed powerful defensive properties to compensate for his master's shortcomings.

He Lingchuan had inserted it into the shield, precisely to let it spontaneously protect the Soul-Capturing Shield. But it truly could not block Jialou Tian's frenzied strike.

However, having passed through this layer of buffering first, the green light's power was somewhat weakened.

Then, the Earth Firm Armor on the shield face also shattered, turning into flowing sand that fell back to the ground.

This was already enormous progress; after all, the armor turned to sand instead of vaporizing into nothingness like the other objects or Heavenly Demons.

With the protective armor stripped away, it was the great shield's turn to face Jialou Tian's fury head-on.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror's scream had turned into a roar, and the shield face erupted with golden radiance as dazzling as the proud sun.

The fruits of its many years rolling in the mortal world, its Dao cultivation advancing, its defensive power skyrocketing — all were handed over today, down to the last thread.

After all, what it protected was its master's safety, and the lives of every living being in the Secret Realm.

If it fell prematurely, this Secret Realm might well cease to exist.

This was also the beginning of He Lingchuan's desperate gamble.

He had other plans and methods, but all were premised on successfully blocking this one time. If it failed, there would be no afterward.

Even the God of Fate must stake his life!

Within a single breath, the green light frantically scoured the shield face hundreds of times, its accumulated power growing stronger and stronger.

This is also why Jialou Tian's attack is so fierce — it is not over just because the enemy survives the first wave.

With several "kala" sounds, the shield face shattered into countless tortoise-shell-like fragments.

The reverberating shockwaves washed over the Blood Demon Cloak and also rushed past He Lingchuan. In that instant, the cloak was torn to shreds by the frenzied power.

The Blood Demon's wails echoed in He Lingchuan's ears.

He Lingchuan uttered not a sound; countless lights flashed across his body, proof that seven or eight top-grade defensive artifacts had activated and been blown apart.

Among these were several powerful artifacts bestowed by the Mu Emperor, all treasures the Wuhuan True Immortal used personally in ancient times.

The impact He Lingchuan himself suffered goes without saying; his body shuddered violently, his face flushed crimson, but a mouthful of fresh blood he forcibly held back, daring not to spit it out.

Once this blood was spat, his whole body's strength would scatter.

But the pressure he endured was too great, causing blood to seep from his other six apertures as well.

Strangely, the floating lamps beside him still hung low as before, emitting their hazy light unconcernedly, surprisingly completely unaffected!

And the crowd behind him likewise stood in place, not moving an inch, letting the green light flash past yet remaining safe and sound, utterly unharmed!

Lamps and people alike, it was as if they were on a different plane from the Heavenly Demons and He Lingchuan.

Ling Jinbao and the others were themselves baffled, not knowing how they had gained undying bodies — Jialou Tian's Sequence Decree Divinity erupted, yet they felt not the slightest bit of it. Only Mingke Immortal and the Earth Mother suddenly realized:

"Yunqing God's Floating Lamp!"

This lamp is precisely the Yunqing God's treasure, the Floating Lamp; the first one He Lingchuan killed in the Yellow Sand Secret Realm was the Yunqing God, and this wondrous lamp fell into his hands. It allows the true body of those bathed in its light to swap places with their own shadows, thereby evading harm from the three-dimensional world.

This is a bug-like positional swap; no matter how strong Jialou Tian is, the effect of blasting a shadow is merely... blasting empty air.

In the Panlong World, Tong Ming True Monarch relied on this very move to slaughter his way through the Panlong Army, until later He Lingchuan saw through the karmic lines and he met with a killing calamity.

But it has one flaw:

Those covered by the lamp light can escape into the ground surface, but for the Floating Lamp to take effect, it itself must exist in reality and cannot escape into the void together with them.

Moreover its own defensive capability is not high; an ordinary cultivator's attack can interrupt its effect, so someone must protect it to ensure its safety and that of those bathed in its light.

This point, He Lingchuan bears inescapable responsibility.

With his injured and exhausted body, aided by all defensive artifacts and divine abilities unleashed to the maximum, he forcibly blocked the Sequence Decree Divinity's earth-shaking great eruption!

And just as the Sequence Decree Divinity's eruption light finished flashing across the entire field, He Lingchuan immediately vanished from his original spot.

Jialou Tian struggled free from the binding black cocoon, and had only just let out a long breath — precisely the gap where old strength was spent and new strength not yet born — when the Nine Nether transformed into black light, man and halberd crashing over together.

This halberd was like a meteor; the radiance erupting in an instant was brilliant yet fleeting.

He Lingchuan too burned himself without restraint like a meteor, disregarding his whole body's wounds and exhaustion, wholeheartedly and courageously pressing forward.

After the Sequence Decree Divinity's eruption, Jialou Tian's movements and reflexes were at a low ebb; he only managed to turn his body halfway, yet was pierced through the chest by the long halberd!

Clearly a True Immortal body borrowed from the Lingxu Saint Venerable, yet run through front to back.

Had he not turned quickly, this halberd would have struck into his heart.

The Sequence Decree Divinity had only just erupted, and the enemy's counterattack followed like a shadow; in three thousand years Jialou Tian had never encountered such a tough nut, and by the time he reacted, the immortal body was already severely wounded!

Jialou Tian was both shocked and enraged; he raised his hand and hammered He Lingchuan, smashing him away.

He Lingchuan's treasure shield was shattered, so he could only raise his arm to block.

With a dull thud, he was blasted backward more than ten zhang, blood spraying across the sky.

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