Chapter 164: Mission Completed!

"Lord...... what a mighty existence, how could you ants be able to spy on it?"

The Netherworld Sovereign's voice was sharp and piercing, like fingernails scraping a blackboard, carrying a kind of frenzy that made one physically uncomfortable.

The white bone altar beneath his feet writhed wildly, countless black tendrils plunged into the void, completely locking down this fragment of the shattered immortal realm.

That was a Heaven-Earth Great Furnace.

Using the world barrier as the furnace walls, the countless deathly qi as fuel, and the ingredients inside the furnace were those dozen or so ancient supremes wailing in anguish, as well as the Gu family grandfather and grandson.

"Refine! Refine for me! Even a Half-Step Immortal King, in this World-Exterminating Altar, would be reduced to pus!"

The Netherworld Sovereign's six wings trembled, his rotting face filled with feral delight.

Space was collapsing, yet the temperature plummeted.

That cold was not low temperature in the physical sense, but the stillness left after the Grand Dao's laws were stripped away.

A dozen or so supremes no longer even had the strength to curse.

They horrifiedly discovered that their Imperial Dao was melting like snow under a scorching sun, their origin spilling out uncontrollably, turning into brilliant ribbons of light that the greedy altar forcibly devoured.

"Is this what you call becoming immortals?"

Gu Cangsheng stood at the storm's center, his robes snapping, yet not a single hair was disturbed.

He watched the countless streams of supreme origin flying through the sky, shook his head, his tone full of disappointed exasperation.

"A bunch of idiots, sold out and still helping the buyer count the money. Since this furnace is making you suffer so much, old man, I'll lend you a hand."

The old man slowly lifted his right foot.

There was no earth-shaking buildup, nor any complicated, mysterious hand seals.

He simply, like stomping out a cigarette butt, came down hard on the void.

"Shatter."

Just a single word.

Boom—!!!

The space walls that had been frantically contracting and squeezing suddenly let out a groan unable to bear the load.

Immediately, an overbearing golden ripple spread out fan-shaped from Gu Cangsheng as its center.

This was not a spell, but pure power to the extreme—an absolute crushing of lower-dimensional space by a fleshly saint.

That World-Exterminating Altar, said to be able to refine even a True Immortal, couldn't even last a breath.

Crack!

White bones flew apart, runes vanished.

The black tendrils plunged into the void snapped inch by inch, and the altar's central devouring force instantly reversed.

"Pfft—!"

The Netherworld Sovereign, struck as if by lightning, had four of his six bone wings shatter instantly; he flew sideways like a torn sack, slamming hard into the shattered continental plates, kicking up clouds of dust ten thousand zhang high.

"Impossible…… this is a formation left by the Lord……"

The Netherworld Sovereign struggled to his feet, the ghost fire in his eye sockets flaring violently, full of disbelief.

"If your Lord himself came, perhaps he could exchange a couple moves with me. Leaving a pile of junk and thinking it could trap me?"

Gu Cangsheng flicked his cuffs, took a step, and instantly appeared before the Netherworld Sovereign,

"You overestimate him and underestimate the Gu Family."

A huge hand reached out, like the heavens collapsing.

The Netherworld Sovereign tried to burn his origin in a desperate last stand, but he horrifiedly discovered that the surrounding spacetime had been completely sealed. That palm loomed infinitely large in his vision, eventually blotting out all light.

"No!!!"

Plop!

A muffled pop, like squeezing a rotten watermelon until it bursts.

The Netherworld Sovereign, a fusion of True Immortal deathly qi that had survived countless eons, body and soul, was crushed by Gu Cangsheng's palm into a lump of black‑red blood‑mud.

A clump emitting a thick ominous aura, yet pure to the extreme, this gray‑black origin hovered silently in Gu Cangsheng's palm.

"Although it reeks a bit, it at least has a touch of True Immortal about it—taking it back to feed that sapling would barely suffice." Gu Cangsheng flicked his hand in disgust and tossed the origin to Gu Yuan behind him.

Gu Yuan caught it steadily, adeptly slipped it into the bronze ancient coffin, his movements smooth—clearly this sort of "battlefield cleanup" was ingrained in his DNA.

"All right, the main target is gone, next……"

Gu Cangsheng turned his gaze to the dozen or so fortunate survivors who had not died, now lying limp on the ground, the ancient supremes.

The moment their eyes met the old man's, these once‑overlords of myriad ages felt their scalps explode and a great terror surge from the depths of their souls.

"Run!"

Without any communication, a dozen or so supremes simultaneously reacted on pure instinct.

They burned what little lifespan they had left, even shattering their imperial weapons if needed, just for a sliver of survival. A dozen or so streaks of light shot madly in all directions, trying to burst out of this immortal‑realm fragment about to collapse.

"You've come all this way—why rush to leave?"

Gu Cangsheng sighed, his right hand's five fingers slightly spread, and he lightly grasped at the void.

Hum!

The whole immortal‑realm fragment seemed to turn into a scroll, and Gu Cangsheng, having pinched a corner of it, gave it a sharp shake.

Those dozen or so streaks of light instantly froze in midair.

Immediately, Gu Cangsheng clenched his fist tightly.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Fireworks exploded across the sky. Each blossom marked the fall of an ancient supreme. It was the final lament of the Imperial Dao, and the most extravagant funeral this fractured world could afford.

Gu Yuan watched from behind, slack‑jawed: "Tsk tsk, each blast of those fireworks costs hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation—what a waste."

However, amidst the rain of blood filling the sky, a sudden change occurred.

At the heart of the most intense blast zone, a streak of black light did not dissipate; instead, it rode the terrifying shockwave generated by the self‑detonation of other supremes.

Against all odds, a minuscule crack was torn open within Gu Cangsheng's blockade, as solid as bronze walls and iron walls.

That's the Stone Emperor! Lord of the Undying Mountain!

Among the ancient supremes, it is the oldest existence, second only to the Netherworld Emperor!

This old guy is ruthless; at the instant Gu Cangsheng clenched his fist, he kicked the back of the Reincarnation Sea supreme beside him, igniting his lifeforce imperial weapon—the Heaven‑Wasteland Halberd—turning it into a black line that shot into that fleeting spacetime rift.

"Huh?"

Gu Cangsheng let out a soft exclamation, his eyebrows slightly raised.

"Interesting, there's actually a fish that slipped through the net."

He raised his hand, and at his fingertips condensed a beam of immortal light capable of piercing myriad worlds, pursuing the Stone Emperor.

【Ding! Detected that the mainline task of the Burial Emperor Star Region has been completed.】

【Mainline Task 1: Quelling the dark turmoil has been completed.】

【Mainline Task 2: Restarting the Path to Immortality has been completed.】

【Ultimate Task: On the Path to Immortality, I am invincible (Dominate the Path to Immortality) completed.】

【Distributing task rewards…】

【Reward: 'Great Emperor's Origin (Complete) *108' has been delivered to the system space!】

【Reward: 'Chaos Spirit Stone Fragment' has been delivered to the system space!】

【Reward: 'Path to Immortality (Complete)' has been delivered to the system space!】

【Path to Immortality (Complete): A cultivator who has reached perfection in the Supreme Realm can set foot on this path, complete the entire journey, and thereby receive the baptism of the complete immortal Dao, reforging the true immortal body, a hundred percent… attaining the Dao as a true immortal!】