Chapter 590: Great Terror, Invincible in the World

"Zha~"

After Ye Li broke through to the Red Dust Immortal, with just a single sword she slew all fourteenth-realm alien species and heavily wounded the fifteenth-realm alien species.

That fifteenth-realm alien species tried to flee, but Ye Li killed it in one fell swoop.

"How strong!"

"Is this what a Red Dust Immortal is?"

Countless experts' hearts and minds swayed.

Red Dust Immortal, too strong.

The fifteenth-realm alien species were killed with just two swords.

The reason it took two swords was because Ye Li's first strike alone killed eight fourteenth-realm beings.

"The true great terror has arrived."

In the dark, a strong one sneered.

Ye Li's breakthrough to the Red Dust Immortal is merely the beginning of the real show.

The current starry sky.

Compared to the former starry sky, it is no longer the same.

Otherwise, why would countless experts be lying dormant, afraid to break through?

Indeed.

Not long after Ye Li's breakthrough, the starry sky grew dim.

The surrounding stars were going out.

"Not good!"

Everyone sensed that something was wrong.

Ye Li held a three-foot-long sword, furrowed her brows, and looked around.

Even though she had broken through to the Red Dust Immortal, she still could not see through what had happened.

Soon.

She knew.

An immeasurably vast shadow had already shrouded this star region.

In an instant, the entire star region fell into an ineffable eerie silence.

The starlight did not simply fade; it was as if some greedy maw sucked it dry, utterly extinguishing even the last trace of light, leaving only a suffocating pure void.

That shadow enveloping everything was not a physical entity, yet it was more despair-inducing than any material thing.

It writhed and shifted into incomprehensible forms; merely the concept of its existence caused all onlookers' souls to emit groans they could not bear.

Some cultivators with slightly weaker cultivation had their eyes instantly burst into blood mist, emitting shrill screams; many more stood frozen in place, their consciousness washed blank by incomprehensible horrifying visions, their Dao hearts shattering in an instant, their bodies beginning to undergo strange mutations, growing twisted tentacles and eyeballs!

Ye Li gripped her long sword tightly; the very immortal sword that had just slain the fifteenth-realm alien race now emitted a faint wail.

Her Red Dust Immortal power, before this pervasive "Great Terror," was like a tiny leaf in a raging torrent.

She tried to probe with her divine sense, but as soon as it left her body, it was like a drop of water merging into an ink sea—instantly devoured and assimilated; the feedback returned only countless fragments of madness and chaos, enough to drive even immortals into eternal frenzy.

She saw it!

The core of that shadow was not merely its size, but a "fallacy" of heavenly and earthly law, a paradox of existence.

It seemed like an erroneous abscess formed at the birth of the universe, now finally ruptured, oozing pus capable of contaminating the entirety of reality.

Countless huge, pallid tentacles slowly extended from within it, each tentacle studded with millions of eyes that constantly opened and closed, flashing with the wicked light of intelligence.

Those eyes turned in unison, indifferently "gazing" at Ye Li, gazing at her side's newly born, minuscule "miracle".

Merely this gaze caused Ye Li's surrounding mighty immortal power to violently boil and evaporate; the surface of her nigh-invulnerable immortal body displayed terrifying corrosive patterns, and her soul felt as if repeatedly pierced by billions of icy needles.

She let out a muffled groan, a strand of golden immortal blood seeping from the corner of her mouth; the blood drop, as soon as it left her body, transformed into a hideous, twisted little worm that shrieked and dissipated.

She gritted her teeth and poured all her strength into a sword strike!

This was the sword strike she condensed after attaining Red Dust Immortal, gathering her entire understanding of the sword Dao; its brilliant light could once again cleave the star river!

However, the sword light sank into that huge, writhing shadow, like a stone dropped into the sea, not even raising a ripple.

Those countless eyes even blinked once, revealing an almost... mocking emotion.

Immediately, a tentacle disregarded spatial distance and lightly brushed toward her.

Unavoidable!

Incomprehensible!

Unable to resist!

Despair first appeared in Ye Li's eyes.

She realized that this existence's level far surpassed her comprehension; this was not a mere gap in power, but an absolute crushing of life forms!

Just as a two-dimensional drawing cannot comprehend a three-dimensional observer, all her struggles might appear to the other as mere ludicrous writhing.

Just as the tentacle brimming with evil eyes was about to touch Ye Li, about to drag this newly promoted Red Dust Immortal into that eternal abyss of madness...

"It's over, she's done for."

"Quick, don't look at it."

The strong ones observing from the shadows were all retreating.

Among them.

Even there were fourteenth-realm experts.

However, this fourteenth-realm expert never showed up from start to finish, leaving not even a trace.

He did not want to be noticed by the Great Terror.

This Great Terror.

It is even more terrifying than the alien species of the starry sky.

Because its existence is incomprehensible.

Being incomprehensible, it cannot be dealt with.

Those immortals and gods dwelling high in the heavens need only use it to seal off the path to immortality and godhood for all living beings.

«So noisy! »

Suddenly,

A faint voice suddenly rang out in the dead silence of the starry expanse.

The voice was not loud, yet like an invisible edict it instantly overwhelmed all the mad background whispers.

In the next second, a figure appeared out of nowhere between Ye Li and that indescribable horror.

It was Lu Xun.

He gazed at the massive shadow capable of driving a true immortal mad, his eyes like looking at a cockroach that had accidentally crawled onto the dining table—an eyesore.

The horrifying tendril that had swept over had already reached before him.

Lu Xun merely raised his hand casually, extended his index finger, and lightly pointed at the tendril brimming with endless madness and pollution.

There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, no mysterious and unfathomable flow of laws.

It was as if he had merely popped a soap bubble with a light touch.

Pop~

A faint crack, almost inaudible.

That enormous tendril, studded with hundreds of millions of evil eyes, began at the point where his fingertip touched, silently turning into the most basic particles and then utterly annihilating, as if it had never existed.

The vast shadow permeating the starry expanse suddenly stalled; all its writhing tentacles and vicious eyes froze, and from its chaotic core came, for the first time, an emotion not of madness but... of astonishment and disbelief.

«Making things so mysterious—too bad, you've met me. »

Lu Xun slightly turned his wrist, and with a casual horizontal slash aimed at the vast shadow shrouding the starry expanse.

There was no mighty sword light, no piercing shriek that tore the starry sky.

Only an extremely fine, extremely dark line spread in a way beyond comprehension, silently tracing across that indescribable massive body.

Wherever that line passed, it was as if the rules were completely rewritten.

The twisted, writhing shadow, the eye‑covered tentacles, the core emanating ultimate madness—like being lightly erased from reality's canvas by an eraser, with no resistance, no trace left, not even the concept of existence surviving as it collapsed and dissipated.

Just a single sword.

The 'Great Terror' that had driven the newly ascended mortal immortal Ye Li to despair and shattered the Dao hearts of countless cultivators now vanished as if it had never existed, disappearing completely without a trace.

The dim starlight around fell again, as if the suffocating boundless terror just moments ago had merely been a collective hallucination.

«How is that possible! »

«This... this is not a power of the mortal realm! »

«Hiss! »

At this moment, the hidden powerhouses all started in surprise.

Even the Fourteenth Realm stalled for a moment.