Chapter 1041

During the process of the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou Emperor unifying Wanggu, the role of the Immortal Technique Great Emperor was extremely special.

The immortal techniques he created caused the combat power of human cultivators to multiply, inflicting massive damage, and they were incomparably bizarre.

Among them were many cruel and bloody techniques.

This made the other clans in Wanggu that were enemies of Emperor Xuanyou at the time hate them incomparably, yet they were helpless against them.

However, after the unification, given that immortal techniques were harmful to the heavens, all immortal techniques were sealed and no longer passed down.

And the Immortal Technique Great Emperor himself, due to various reasons, was eventually hidden by history.

He became the only Great Emperor among the human race that few in later generations knew about.

As for those immortal techniques, later generations, due to the arrival of the Remnant Face, the descent of gods, and the departure of most of the myriad clans to form the Holy Lands, were passed down again.

And the immortal techniques of Wanggu were also indirectly mastered by the myriad clans as one Immortal Technique Hall after another was discovered.

But in this Fifth Star Ring, this was the first time an immortal technique had been displayed.

Falling into the perception of that middle-aged Sovereign, his mind naturally shook violently.

In his investigation, whether it was the Sea of Six Desires that shrouded the nine demons or the vortex that had now appeared in his sea of consciousness, both caused this middle-aged Sovereign's gaze to grow heavy.

Especially the latter, that cold sense of being hidden in his memory without being detected, and then the white hair forming a vortex, turning into a gate, and rushing out—all of it revealed the indefensibility of immortal techniques.

A strong sense of crisis also couldn't help but erupt like a tidal wave within the middle-aged Sovereign's body, as if it wanted to submerge everything, and even his memories showed signs of not belonging to himself.

It was as if everything in his memories had now become his own enemy.

At the critical moment, the middle-aged Sovereign made a prompt decision. Without the slightest hesitation, he raised his hands fiercely, one hand falling on his brow, the other on his chest, pressing down simultaneously.

A roaring sound echoed. Relying on his profound cultivation base, the hand falling on his brow affected his soul and memories, causing the bizarre changes in his memories to stagnate.

The hand falling on his chest sealed his own sea of consciousness, causing the eruption within it to be forcibly suppressed.

After doing this, a red glint flashed in his eyes for an instant. He opened his mouth wide and took a sudden breath.

Immediately, the nine demons surrounded by the Sea of Six Desires each roared, their bodies collapsing on their own, turning into thick demonic qi, rolling back, flying and surging toward the middle-aged Sovereign's open mouth.

He swallowed them all.

At this instant, a sound of thunder came from his body. The originally thin and gaunt appearance surged in the next instant; his flesh and blood expanded, his skin color turned crimson, and the whole person transformed directly from a normal height to a giant of a hundred zhang.

A heaven-shaking baleful aura was on his body, and demonic flames spread from under his feet. While shrouding the surroundings, a heaven-shaking violent intent also erupted from him with a rumble.

Using this baleful aura, combined with his own violence, he swept through his body, searching for the places invaded by the immortal technique, and tore them fiercely!

This was precisely one of this middle-aged Sovereign's trump cards: The Descent of the Baleful Demon.

In the dark, a sound of cracking seemed to emerge. Xu Qing's expression was grim; he sensed that his immortal technique had been forcibly torn apart, and along with it, the segment of memory invaded by the immortal technique was also torn apart.

Both were violently torn open by this middle-aged Sovereign.

After doing this, the middle-aged Sovereign, who had transformed into a baleful demon, revealed madness in his crimson eyes. His body flickered, and he charged straight toward Xu Qing.

The storm spread, the momentum heaven-shaking. Xu Qing only sensed it for a moment, and his entire body's flesh and blood felt a stinging pain.

And the Sovereign's speed was so fast that he turned into an afterimage, approaching in an instant, and a palm fell.

Xu Qing's reaction was also swift. His cultivation base surged fully, his body retreated rapidly, but he was still affected by that palm. His whole body shook, the sound of his bones cracking emerged, and he sprayed blood wildly.

The power of a Sovereign is terrifying and shocking.

If it had been any other Spirit Repository cultivator, I fear that at this moment, it wouldn't just be their bones cracking, but their form and spirit would have been destroyed.

But Xu Qing's Extreme Immortal Body had its own extraordinary aspects. Although he was injured at this moment, by borrowing the power of the palm, his speed was bolstered, and he finally opened up distance while rolling back.

He did not choose to continue fleeing, but as the distance was opened and the Sovereign charged over again in his violence, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

He raised his right hand and brought it down fiercely toward the middle-aged Sovereign.

Gold as the blade, earth as the Dao platform, wood as the blade slot, water as the connecting axis, fire as the killing power.

This was precisely the God-Slaying Platform that Xu Qing had reshaped with his own Five Elements!

At the moment his right hand fell, the vast and heaven-shaking Five Elements God-Slaying Platform appeared in front of Xu Qing, appearing above that middle-aged Sovereign.

Shrouding him within it.

"Slay!"

Xu Qing let out a low roar.

Immediately, the God-Slaying Platform's aura locked on, sealing all directions, printing all trajectories. Under the violence of the fire, amidst the flashing blade light, the blade fell suddenly.

With a crack!

The blade fell on the neck of the middle-aged Sovereign's baleful demon body, but the invincible God-Slaying Platform was unable to separate the middle-aged Sovereign's head from his body at this moment.

Instead, it only slashed halfway before being impacted by a giant force, forcibly getting stuck.

As blood flowed, a heaven-shaking roar came from the middle-aged Sovereign's mouth, and overlapping shadows immediately appeared on his body; these were precisely the nine giant demons he had absorbed.

These nine giant demons were semi-transparent, emerging from the Sovereign's body like soul shadows, charging toward the God-Slaying Platform. The moment they touched it, they exploded directly.

Bombarding the God-Slaying Platform in this explosive manner.

In the blink of an eye, following the nine explosions, the God-Slaying Platform continued to tremble, finally unable to resist, collapsing in the heavens and earth, breaking into pieces.

Xu Qing's mind churned, blood sprayed out, and his body retreated again.

And that baleful demon Sovereign, after the God-Slaying Platform collapsed and the nine demons departed, his physical body also shrank rapidly, instantly transforming back into the previous middle-aged appearance.

On his neck, there was a bloodstain, with a few wisps of blood flowing down, but the wound was healing at a visible rate.

"As expected of a prodigy, with a cultivation base at the seventh layer of Spirit Repository, the techniques you display are one more bizarre and one more formidable than the last."

The middle-aged Sovereign's words echoed.

It seemed like a normal opening, and his words were also normal, but the moment they were transmitted, a crisis rose in Xu Qing's heart.

The next instant, around Xu Qing, the void rippled, and arrays appeared out of thin air.

First three thousand three hundred arrays, then thirty-three thousand arrays, then three hundred and thirty thousand arrays!

Countless arrays bombarded out from the void, dense and covering the sky, suppressing toward Xu Qing at a shocking speed.

This was precisely another of the middle-aged Sovereign's divine abilities!

The Three-Three Forbidden Array!

The so-called Three-Three means that as long as the words he speaks exactly match thirty-three characters, then at his thought, he can trigger it.

This divine ability is hidden; those who don't know it are hard-pressed to detect it in advance.

Xu Qing encountered it for the first time and simply couldn't dodge; arrays were everywhere. At the critical moment, his right eye suddenly flashed, and Dao marks flowed within it.

The Erasure Authority erupted violently.

Erasing every array he saw!

The next instant, the arrays continued and continued, and a large number were erased. For a time, Xu Qing was trapped in place, with roaring sounds around him, light flashing, and violent fluctuations.

"Finally made you use your authority; I guessed earlier that you couldn't possibly not have authority."

In mid-air, the middle-aged Sovereign watched this scene and spoke coldly.

He had never underestimated Xu Qing, whether just now or now.

He understood that such a lone traveler arriving from an outer star ring must possess a trump card.

And judging from the other party's calmness, this trump card had a high probability of being able to injure the Sovereign level.

So from beginning to end, although he appeared to be striking, he actually kept some of his mind in reserve.

Even after fighting until now, the other party had already displayed a slashing blade technique that seemed like a trump card, and he himself had used the Three-Three Forbidden Array, but the middle-aged Sovereign still did not let his guard down, his eyes flashing instead.

He wanted to force out Xu Qing's trump card.

So, in the process of Xu Qing using his authority to break the arrays, he suddenly raised his hand and waved it.

He took out a treasure.

That was a seed.

The moment it appeared, the seed sprouted instantly. Within a breath, it surged, becoming a sapling, becoming a tree, becoming a giant tree!

Forty-nine zhang tall!

Its whole body was like crystal glaze, incomparably translucent, and the leaves that were open were the same, looking treasure-lit and incomparably beautiful.

As for its function, it was absorption.

It actually absorbed all the aura from Xu Qing and the traces of the techniques displayed on this battlefield in an incredible way.

Then, three marks emerged on the trunk.

One was Xu Qing's Five Elements Heavenly Dao Hand.

One was the immortal technique.

One was the God-Slaying Platform from just now.

After these three marks appeared, they merged again in an instant, actually gathering a human figure on the trunk.

Looking at the outline, this figure... was exactly the same as Xu Qing.

Killing intent erupted from this figure, locking onto Xu Qing in the distance.

Xu Qing, who was using his authority to erase the arrays, immediately felt his mind shake.

"This treasure..."

This treasure could not only absorb but also form a corresponding body.

At this moment, this figure, exactly the same as Xu Qing, was struggling, wanting to rush out from within the trunk, and the trunk tore, with the figure on the verge of appearing in the world.

The crisis grew more intense. Xu Qing did not hesitate and transmitted a thought.

"Little Shadow!"

The moment his thought emerged, the shadow under Xu Qing's feet erupted violently. Like total darkness, after covering all directions, following the echo of a cackling sound, a large black tree rose from the ground.

The black canopy, the black trunk, and the black coffin hanging like a pendulum, as well as countless bizarre eyes that opened simultaneously, locked onto the Glazed Treasure Tree and pounced.

"Still not using it..."

The middle-aged Sovereign sneered. He did not approach but raised his right hand in mid-air and grabbed fiercely toward the sky.

"Ghost Gate Open, Heavenly Resentment Come!"

Under this grab, the sky darkened, and a black bone gate appeared in the heavens and earth.

This gate was ancient, projected by a technique. The moment it stood, countless wails and shrill sounds emerged from within the gate.

Then a giant bone claw reached out from within the gate. After grabbing the door frame, the aura of death erupted violently, turning into countless vengeful ghosts circling outside the gate.

And the terrifying existence within the gate was crawling out.

It wasn't over.

He had clearly already used the Three-Three Forbidden Array to trap Xu Qing, and clearly had already opened this Ghost Gate, summoning the so-called Heavenly Resentment.

Yet this middle-aged Sovereign still had a cold glint flash in his eyes, and he raised his hand to take out a purple incense stick.

"Life-Seeking Incense Burns, Connected to Your Life, When the Incense Extinguishes, the Person Dies!"

As soon as his words were out, this incense stick was suddenly lit.

The next instant, Xu Qing felt as if he were cursed, his life force flowing away.

"Forgot to tell you, the reason I was appointed by the family to guard this spirit mine is not because my cultivation base is how strong, but because I have always considered stability as the first priority in my work."

In mid-air, the middle-aged Sovereign spoke indifferently.

"So, if you are still not prepared to use your trump card, then... you will have no chance!"

A sharp glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes. The next instant, in the place where he was shrouded by the arrays, a loud sound suddenly emerged, black flames bloomed like flowers, and a Golden Crow flew out from within, soaring into the sky, burning the encroaching aura of death and those vengeful ghosts.

At the same time, three rays of light erupted within!

The first ray was a shield, rushing straight toward the Ghost Gate in the sky. Its target was the Heavenly Resentment crawling out from within the gate, and at the same time, it was growing larger, as if it wanted to block the Ghost Gate.

The second ray was a pair of giant scissors, appearing in the heavens and earth, exuding the aura of a Great Emperor, and snipping fiercely toward the void between Xu Qing and the burning incense!

Severing cause and effect!

The third ray was sword light.

Not Ninth Grandpa's sword, but Xu Qing's Imperial Sword!

He held the Imperial Sword, slashing the heavens and earth, breaking ten thousand arrays, whipping up the power of the earth, forming the Earth-Hidden stance, and rushing straight toward the middle-aged Sovereign!

"This sword, and this sword strike..."

The middle-aged Sovereign's eyes shrank, his body retreated suddenly, and at the same time, his heart began to boil.

"A supreme treasure of the human race!"