Chapter 2735

Dead silence.

This heaven and earth fell completely silent.

"This!"

"This is impossible!"

On the Heavenly Court's side, over twenty Golden Immortals such as Xuanshui Tongyou Jinxian and Mingyang Jinxian had their eyes nearly bulge out, unable to believe what they saw before them.

One by one, Heavenly Court Golden Immortals felt a chill run down their spines, trembling incessantly.

Before the battle, they were supremely confident, because in the time-space void, the junior cultivators' slaughter was invincible, ultimately only being besieged, then exchanged life for life with numerous Seventh Golden Great Era cultivators, thus barely winning; in dueling arts, Seventh Golden Great Era cultivators should be far inferior to Heavenly Court powerhouses.

For the higher one ascends in the Dao of Immortals, the greater the gap between cultivators.

And now,

this seemingly self-evident inference has been completely overturned!

What did they see?

Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian met the Solar Ancient Emperor in battle and was defeated in an instant!

Not after a prolonged struggle, not after long-premeditated plotting, nor even after burning essence blood to unleash a Dao authority strike—rather, with a casual gesture, like a Qi Refining cultivator's fireball technique, a simple move, and then instantly Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian was defeated, as if slaughtering an ant!

Ant!

Yes, exactly an ant.

Many Heavenly Court Golden Immortals could not help but rise a sense of absurdity in their hearts.

That is, the battle between Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian and the Solar Ancient Emperor resembled extremely closely a life-and-death struggle between a Golden Core cultivator and a Nascent Soul cultivator!

How absurd!

A Golden Core cultivator solemnly engaging a Nascent Soul cultivator in a life-and-death struggle, with composed demeanor before battle, full of confidence, even the opposing Nascent Soul cultivator likewise, completely unaware of the chasm between themselves and a Nascent Soul cultivator, utterly ignorant to the extreme.

Is this not a most laughable matter?

Like an ant solemnly going to duel an elephant, considering itself immensely powerful, able to stand shoulder to shoulder.

"No, it should be like this!"

"Bai Hu Qiu Sha is a Da Luo Golden Immortal, one who has gone further among Golden Immortals..."

"He is among the strongest few of us, and we, compared to him, are far inferior; Da Luo Golden Immortal is the strongest beneath the Immortal Venerable..."

A Heavenly Court Golden Immortal grew somewhat flustered, somewhat fearful: "Then, what realm is this Solar Ancient Emperor?!"

What lies above Da Luo Golden Immortal?!

Like a biting cold wind sweeping past, over twenty Heavenly Court Golden Immortals' hearts trembled again and again.

Above Da Luo Golden Immortal!

A higher order of existence!

What is it?

This seemingly ordinary, unremarkable figure in the Seventh Golden Great Era, not particularly outstanding, showing no trace of sole supremacy—Solar Ancient Emperor—could he be an Immortal Venerable?! Impossible, impossible!

Numerous Heavenly Court Golden Immortals roared in their hearts, yet dared not speak.

At this time, the Immortal Venerable remained high above, untouched by dust, sending down no instruction as before, unchanged.

Only this time, many Golden Immortals no longer regarded it as the Heavenly Dao treating all things as straw dogs, a joyless, sorrowless transcendent existence, and instead developed extreme suspicion toward it.

They, fearful and uneasy in their hearts.

……

"Flee!"

"Flee back to the Immortal Venerable's abode!"

Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian had already despaired, under the Solar Ancient Emperor's casual strike.

That casual strike, to him, seemed like cosmic collapse, the descent of oblivion—terrifying, instantly destroying the essence of Golden Immortals' eternal immortality; whatever Heavenly Court marvelous arts, the concepts of birth and extinction in the Metal Grand Dao, all shattered instantly before this casual strike, essence destroyed.

Utterly devoid of skill, purely terrifying crushing destruction!

This drives one to despair.

The enemy relied on no clever stratagems, no heavenly timing or earthly advantage, but crushed like heaven's collapse, destroying the Dao's essence, everything pushed to the extreme of horror.

"Flee!"

Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian burned his last trace of Dao essence, went mad as he fled into the Dao, vanishing instantly.

He was not weak; in the Fifth Golden Great Era, people called him Da Luo Golden Immortal, second only to the Immortal Venerable, in this era nearly coexisting with the Metal Grand Dao, representing one of the Five Elements of heaven and earth, worthy of being called the primordial ancient god of heaven and earth, omnipresent, omniscient, even having traversed the long river of countless ages, possessing hundreds of millions of years or more of lifespan.

He truly was not a weakling, a mediocre person, but one of the supreme beings of the Golden Great Era.

If Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian were born in the Seventh Golden Great Era, he would certainly become a top-tier forbidden zone ancient emperor, with extraordinary talent and ability.

Even before the birth of the Earth Immortal in the Seventh Golden Great Era, this Golden Immortal could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nine Great Final Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors.

Alas, Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian encountered the Solar Ancient Emperor after the birth of the Earth Immortal, the Solar Ancient Emperor at the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao!

Now he is doing this—challenging the Solar Ancient Emperor across levels!

Thus, everything is destined.

The sole change brought by Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian's mad flight was that he actively fled to stand before that radiant, magnificent being.

Heavenly secrets and causality were veiled, twisted, undiscerning of heaven and earth, up and down, universe and four directions.

He actively fled to stand before the Solar Ancient Emperor.

"Hahaha..."

Bai Hu Qiu Sha Jin Xian gave a miserable smile, utterly desolate.

Thereafter, he reversed his meridians and Dao, his body emanating a destructive, dangerous aura, death energy filling the four directions, causing even the Wu Jin Kong Kong to faintly echo with lament, as if seeing off the supreme authority of the Metal Grand Dao.

This peerless heavenly pride of the Fifth Golden Great Era could not endure such humiliation!

Nor could he endure being captured by others!

His pride would not allow him to do such a thing.

The Sun Ancient Emperor coldly watched all of this, like a deity, unmoved, calmly watching this golden immortal flee in madness, seeking survival.

Only when he saw him self-destruct did his gaze twitch slightly.

"Indeed,"

"Not some feigning of weakness..."

The Sun Ancient Emperor finally confirmed this, his gaze somewhat dazed: "In the Seventh Golden Great Age, among the myriad golden ages in the long river of eternity, is its brilliance also so radiant?"

"In our era, to later generations, it may seem very splendid."

Before him, Bai Hu Qiu Sha Golden Immortal self-destructed, about to die completely—this golden immortal was very heroic.

But alas, such heroism means nothing before higher beings.

In the distance, the Heavenly Court's Slaying Immortal Grand Formation strained to activate, seemingly wishing to tear open this split heaven and earth to save Bai Hu Qiu Sha Golden Immortal, but failed, being blocked.

Unable to change anything.

"Bai Qiu Daoist, you will not die."

"To let one who has fought me for long with the Four-Character Immortal Scripture Ancient Emperor commit suicide before me—this is a humiliation for me."

"You cannot do it."

The Sun Ancient Emperor calmly stated a matter.

Boom—

Above the high heavens, the sun suddenly blazed with radiance!

Beams of light, like solid pure gold, shone down, piercing the soul and immortal body of Bai Hu Qiu Sha Golden Immortal, solidifying him; the might of the Sun Dao even reversed a moment of time, forcibly reviving the Bai Hu Qiu Sha Golden Immortal who had just died an instant ago, then imprisoning him in cage after cage of golden light beams, freezing his divine consciousness, sealing him completely.

The Sun Ancient Emperor gathered the light cage sealing the golden immortal, glanced at the many golden immortals of the Heavenly Court, slightly shook his head, and then returned to the Immortal Dynasty Grand Formation.

In the Heavenly Court,

Seeing this scene, in the Slaying Immortal Grand Formation built from the 108 ancient realms and the myriad stars of Xing Zhou, the many golden immortals of the Heavenly Court fell silent like cicadas in winter.