Chapter 687

The mountain guardian deity of Mount Tianji is a great earth yellow dragon.

This dragon deity wears golden-yellow armor, has a heroic countenance, holds a silver divine halberd, and gazes upon the omen in the central rear garden with a slightly changed expression.

The several kinds of heavenly and earthly spiritual roots in the central rear garden—earth-yellow lotus, nine-world earth spiritual root, and boundary god flower—are innate spiritual roots born of nature, representing the changes in qi fortune within Mount Tianji.

In the past, even if a great calamity occurred between heaven and earth, at most the boundary sea flower would wither a few petals, not to the extent that the three fortune-stabilizing spiritual roots before him would all wither and die as they do now.

At this moment, a chill rose in his heart; he hastily reported the palace omen and, with his hand, performed a spell to communicate with the Huang Chao Ancestor.

Outside the Spiritual Realm, the Boundary Sea Heavenly Pass

Here stands a magnificent Boundary Sea Divine City upon spacetime, his entire body covered with countless extraordinarily strange heavenly and earthly Great Dao runes; on each divine brick, layers of chaotic immortal light intertwine, as if constantly resonating with the heavenly and earthly Great Dao laws of the Spiritual Realm, exchanging primordial qi.

Its radiance emits, and furthermore, boundless incense flows ceaselessly from the Spiritual Realm and other realms into this place, causing the divine city to emanate a magnificent and vast brilliance, as if capable of suppressing the myriad realms of void.

Around the divine city are moored many magnificent and colossal divine artifact-level warships, each warship entwined with intense immortal arts and technique brilliance; each warship is equipped with extraordinarily terrifying divine weapons, as if possessing the power to destroy heaven and earth across vast realms.

Yet even with so many terrifying warships, the many immortals and gods in the Boundary Sea Pass are not overly optimistic.

At this moment, several magnificent divine shadows on the city walls have worry in their eyes; though their gaze reaches outward, they see countless primordial stars in the outer void seemingly condensing from afar into form, and in the depths of the star sea, the troops of the 'Outer Void Demon Court' seen are several times more numerous than the gods.

Without relying on the advantage of terrain, how could they withstand the wolf-like and tiger-like gods of the Outer Void Demon Court?

But now the most severe situation is about to arrive: the Star Division of the Outer Void Demon Court will project the divine power of primordial stars here; once completed, the home-field advantage will be completely lost, and the stars will form the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.

This is indeed a famed killing array of the heavenly void; once formed, the pressure on the gods and demons primordials of the Spiritual Realm will greatly increase.

Not to mention, an extremely terrifying Outer Void Star Emperor has also arrived in the star sea to take command.

What kind of existence is the Ziwei Heavenly Emperor? The gods of the Spiritual Realm, though they have wandered the outer void, have also heard of him; he is one of the Six Sovereigns of the 'Demon Court', and moreover commands the primordial stars, with his subordinates' mighty innate star gods as numerous as clouds.

On the city walls, the primordials and various strong ones have unchanged expressions, yet secretly they are somewhat sorrowful.

Fortunately, they are not without reinforcements; the ancestors of various heterodox Dao traditions in the surrounding dimensions are all willing to lend them aid.

The reinforcements are continuously rushing along the road.

Besides personnel, there are also various mighty divine weapons and artifacts, heterodox secret devices, and so on, as well as Outer Void demon god legions.

There is not a lack of opportunity to counterattack.

This brings considerable relief to the many gods and demons primordials of the Spiritual Realm.

Huang Chao Old Ancestor also stands among the gods and demons primordials; his stature is magnificent, his entire body condensed with boundless divine light, resembling a giant god constructed from the boundless earth origin; even if his true form is minimized as much as possible, he is still several zhang tall.

His countenance is icy and stern, like a thousand-year-old unchanging stone in the mountains; he wears yellow robes, and at the center of his brow another earth-yellow divine seal shines brightly, his divine power vast.

Within the Boundary Sea Heavenly Pass, he is also one of the chief commanders.

His status is far beyond what ordinary gods and demons primordials can compare to.

At this moment, suddenly his expression stirred slightly; after a moment, he saw a divine general hurrying over.

"Huang Chao Ancestor God, a message has arrived from Mount Tianji!"

This divine general's countenance is respectful, and at the same time he takes out a message-transmitting jade bead.

Huang Chao Old Ancestor's pupils flicker slightly; he raises his hand and takes the jade bead into his hand, merely glancing over the message within, and his countenance becomes extraordinarily solemn, his eyes somewhat fluctuating.

The three fortune-stabilizing spiritual roots in Mount Tianji have all withered; does this not indicate that the decline of Mount Tianji is imminent?

But he is the strongest primordial of the Earth Spirit Ancient Clan, his Dao power and might suppressing the Spiritual Realm; as long as he is present, how could Mount Tianji decline?

Unless he has met with misfortune!

Huang Chao Old Ancestor's pupils turn extraordinarily gloomy, his countenance icy cold; he then glances once more at the outside world, his heart speculating whether this is related to the next major move of the 'Outer Void Demon Court'.

In his view, only that terrifying Ziwei Emperor Lord of the Outer Void Demon Court could pose a mortal threat to him, or perhaps the mighty star gods under his command.

"It seems that from now on, we must still be more cautious!"

Huang Chao Old Ancestor's countenance remains unchanged, yet deep in his heart there is no lack of vigilance.

"Huang Chao, what's wrong with you? Has news come from the lower realm?"

At this moment, beside him, a silhouette whose entire body flows with boundless deep-dark light gazes from afar.

It has a strange and bizarre form, even lacking any definite shape.

Life forms similar to it number several; some manifest as a life treasure tree, or transform into a cluster resembling a blood-red river leech.

It is one of the most terrifying primordial ancestors of the Spiritual Realm.

They are also among the strongest innate divinities in the Spiritual Realm.

In the Spiritual Realm, it seems the stranger the form, the stronger the Dao power.

That ancestor whose entire body resembles a boundless dark ocean is the Nether River Ancestor.

He is the renowned Supreme Will of the Spiritual Realm.

He represents the Supreme Nether River deep within the Spiritual Realm.

Huang Chao Old Ancestor's heart stirs slightly; he glances at this Nether River Ancestor, but ultimately still does not voice the concerns in his heart.

"Heavenly Venerable, it is merely some trifles, not worth mentioning!"

Upon hearing this, the Nether River Ancestor's dark-flowing fluid ripples slightly; Huang Chao Old Ancestor secretly feels his heart skip, but he soon notices this gaze shift away in an instant.

In the coming years, Huang Chao Old Ancestor has indeed become much more cautious; if challenged by a strong one named from the 'Outer Void Demon Court', he avoids if possible, striving to evade the spotlight.

For a time, this has inadvertently let him avoid several dangers through ill fortune.

One thousand two hundred years later, on this day Huang Chao Old Ancestor suddenly feels a change in his heart; yet he senses that in an instant, he feels a surge of fervent heart-blood, and his connection with a portion of Mount Tianji's descendants is suddenly severed.

Subsequently, he senses that through a special channel, a deity has sent over a secret method.

Mount Tianji has suffered an attack from other wilderness god primordials and can no longer withstand it.

A wilderness god with earthly attributes attempts to seize the earth origin within Mount Tianji.

Upon suddenly receiving such dire news, Huang Chao Old Ancestor instantly flies into a rage, then directly rips open the void and rushes toward the Spiritual Realm.

The Boundary Sea Heavenly Pass is situated in a special location; this place cuts off all messages; if one wishes to transmit, only through special channels.

Those special channels are usually not lightly used.

Unless it is a matter of life and death can they be employed.

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The Divine Province of Dongli, the vast Mount Tianji reaches heaven and connects to earth, appearing extraordinarily magnificent, with numerous immortal palaces standing upon mountain peaks.

The Earth Spirit Ancient Clan is the supreme overlord within the Eastern Divine Realm of Dongli Divine Province, governing numerous magnificent divine kingdoms, thereby ruling over boundless lands, with these divine kingdoms linked together, mutually supporting each other, extraordinarily formidable.

Yet today they encountered a great terror, as magnificent manifestations appeared in the void, where they passed either endless flames descended, or myriad golden sword shadows condensed, otherwise a colossal divine form of tens of millions of zhang manifested, where they passed, blood and qi fist seals coagulated, triggering the descent of boundless heavenly and earthly great Dao laws.

Within the divine kingdoms, the numerous powerful Earth Spirit Ancient Clan were like ants and mosquitoes in the hands of a giant god, the rule torrents they brought ravaged billions of li of void, obliterating one magnificent divine kingdom after another from the earth, shattering them.

For immortals and gods, destruction is often easier than creation.

Especially for three Dao Lord-level powerhouses, where they passed, those magnificent, formidable divine kingdoms were no more than rotten wood broken with a raised hand.

"Which ancestor dares to attack us without cause? Our ancestor fights bloody battles beyond the heavens, elders, you cannot do this..."

At this moment beneath the void, in the great earth immortal palaces condensed by the Earth Spirit Ancient Clan, a magnificent figure roared angrily.

Two divine lights also manifested from below.

These two divine lights revealed a ten-thousand-zhang earth-fire centipede apparition, or perhaps a body surrounded by intense earth-origin qi phenomena; they were also two ancestor-level living beings.

According to the division of the outer void, they had severed past, present, and future, proving the Dao Lord Dao Fruit level—powerful living beings.

"Are there more Dao Lord-level ancestors in this Spirit Realm than imagined?"

Beside him, the Wenqu Star Lord gazed at this scene, unable to help but sigh.

He raised his hand, and a brush appeared in his hand; the brush tip seemed to condense boundless righteous fire into form, and with a casual stroke, he wrote the character for "prison."

The prison character expanded, as if cut from the river of spacetime, manifesting a realm isolating heaven and earth, a chaotic world where the great Dao of heaven and earth was lost, possessing boundless power, instantly enveloping the ten-thousand-zhang earth-fire centipede ancestor.

That prison character seemed to sever the river of spacetime alone, manifesting an isolated realm where heaven and earth were severed, the great Dao of heaven and earth lost, a chaotic world.

Wenqu Star Lord then moved his brush like dragons and snakes.

The characters "Rend," "Slay," "Break"—great Dao-born characters—condensed in the void, each character seeming to contain multiple eternal Dao laws, myriad Dao patterns manifested, possessing the power to destroy spacetime; instantly light expanded, dismembering the true form of the earth-fire ancestor within the prison.

Nandou Star Lord Fuyuan acted simultaneously; he casually grasped, and a long banner emerged from the depths of the void, slightly swaying, whereupon the great earth ancestor's fate star dimmed instantly, eternal will thrown into chaos.

At the same time, he condensed several black thunder pearls in his hand.

These were the Yuan-Shen Divine Thunder crafted by the Department of Stars, high-grade, possessing divine power capable of splitting a heaven and earth.

Normally used to tear open the world barriers of a heaven and earth, now as Nandou Star Lord casually struck, the terrifying Yuan-Shen Divine Thunder violently exploded around the great earth ancestor, instantly shattering the ring of protective divine light around his body.

Beneath the thunderous roar, his expression became somewhat dazed.

Meanwhile, Wuchu Star Lord drew his bow and nocked an arrow; a blood-red arrow appeared, instantly shot forth, felling the great earth ancestor.

Nandou Star Lord, seeing this, shook his head and said: "The cultivation environment of this realm resembles the ancient era of the Manghuang World, innate blessings not yet dispersed, proving Dao Lord is far easier for them than for us, yet their cultivation lacks tempering, so they cannot compare to the orthodox Dao Lords born of the Ten Thousand Heavens Void!"

Afterwards he corrected himself: "Much weaker!"

On the other side, Wenqu Star Lord remained expressionless, merely condensing divine power before him to manifest a phantom of a magnificent divine sword.

This was the Nine Nether Void-Splitting Sword, also one of the acquired spirit treasures summonable by the Zhou Tian Star Gods.

Considered the supreme secret method of the Zhou Tian constellation for assaulting fortifications.

Sword light flashed, instantly striking toward the earth spirit ancestor; once this sword struck, the ancestor's primordial spirit imprint would be completely torn apart.

"Stop!"

At this moment, an angry roar came from above the void; with this roar, boundless heavenly and earthly spiritual mechanisms above the firmament, plus a divine power from a forbidden region, fell from the void, transcending spacetime and fate, seemingly seeking to envelop that earth spirit ancestor.

Simultaneously, several divine lights locked onto Wenqu, Wuchu, and Fuyuan, the three great Star Lords, in the void.

Pressured by this force, the three Star Lords' faces changed color, involuntarily manifesting their true forms to resist.

Only three figures were seen, like three great stars, within which evolved boundless heavenly and earthly great Dao law runes, each rune resembling Dao qi and primordial qi condensed into form, possessing the power to destroy heaven and earth.

Three streaks of starlight shot into the sky, shattering the divine light that had fallen from above the firmament.

Outside the river of spacetime, Huang Lao Ancestor also saw from afar the three ancient Star Lords manifesting their star god forms, then swept his gaze over the collapsing Tianji Mountain grandeur below, his eyes deep within spewing forth intense anger flames.

"Extraterrestrial evil gods, you seek death!"

He stepped across spacetime with one step, about to descend in true form, but at this moment his heart suddenly stirred with some passion, his Dao heart challenged, and he subconsciously wished to depart this spacetime.

Yet at this moment he saw boundless white clouds rolling in the depths of the void, layer upon layer of spacetime ripples surging outward, then suddenly expanding, completely covering this region, isolating the surrounding spacetime, fate, and even the resonance between all heavenly and earthly great Dao laws.

Huang Lao Ancestor, seeing this, showed no panic, a faint cold smile in his eyes, his body manifesting a magnificent map of the earth of the Spirit Realm.

In that earth map, Mount Tianji manifested, as did the power of all mountains, rivers, and lands, finally gathering into a magnificent mighty force, vast and mighty, as if able to grind all heavens and spacetime to powder, yet before his eyes the void shattered layer by layer, instantly turning to nothingness.

Huang Lao Ancestor, seeing this, gave a slight cold smile, preparing to leave at this opportunity.

Yet above the void, layers of cyan and white qi flowed and interwove, the purity and turbidity of Qiankun intertwining into streams of magnificent boundless chaotic qi, instantly re-manifesting the appearance of a magnificent chaotic world.

"Huang Lao Ancestor, this seat has awaited you long; where do you still wish to go?"

In the void, a nameless sound flowed from within the void.

Simultaneously, a magnificent divine power coiled like a dragon and serpent, instantly charging toward Huang Lao Ancestor; he hastily re-condensed the earth map, manifesting a magnificent mountain and earth to resist, yet in an instant the mountains shattered, and a purple-yellow dragon-shaped divine light killed its way to his front.

The divine power revealed within that purple-yellow dragon-shaped divine light was actually above him.

Likewise, it was Dao Venerable-level power!

"An alien realm Dao Venerable?"

Huang Lao Ancestor's face could not help but change color!