Chapter 364: All Realms Join the Kill

This scene chilled gods, immortals, and demons alike.

That gate was utterly sinister. As all the living beings of the Eternal Star Realm stepped in one after another, its radiance grew softer and its pull grew stronger.

Even gods and demons at the peak of the Third Step of Divinity could barely resist that pull; the moment they relaxed their guard, they would walk toward the gate as if possessed, scaring them into breaking out in a cold sweat.

Even immortals and demons were on the verge of being possessed.

The pull was steadily intensifying — it was deadly.

"Run!"

None dared linger. Their fighting spirit was gone; they turned and fled back toward their own rift passages.

Clang!

One being stepped into the passage, only to slam into an invisible slab of hard glass — no matter what, he could not enter.

Their faces twisted in panic. At some unknown moment, the passages had been sealed shut.

BOOM!!

Some tried blasting the passages to reopen them, but the passages were so solid it was as if they had never been broken through in the first place — they simply could not be forced open in any short span of time.

Involuntarily, they looked up at the young figure in the nine heavens above.

It had to be him!

He had done something to seal off the passages of this heaven and earth. For this was neither the passages closing nor being blocked — it was severance. The passages between this world and their own had been severed, like a body's immune rejection, expelling foreign bacteria.

"Fellow Daoist, please proceed on your way."

Kamikawa Mitsu spoke again, his voice still calm, but to the ears of all the gods and demons it sounded like a summons from the Nine Hells of the Underworld, chilling them to the bone.

Now the invading gods and demons could neither retreat nor stay; slowly consumed and drawn by the gate, they walked into it and died — like turtles caught in a jar.

"Fight him!!"

"Kill him and we might still have a chance to live!"

No one knew which immortals and demons had spoken, but their tone was icy.

Anyone who had cultivated to their level was a decisive killer — who would be willing to sit and wait for death?

Now that the passages were severed, sitting and waiting would only mean dying inside the gate sooner or later. Better to risk everything: killing this youth was their only way out.

"Kill!"

An immortal-demon roared, striking first without a shred of hesitation, and at the same time summoning a grand formation that descended upon Kamikawa Mitsu.

"The Four Directions Immortal-Slaying Formation?!"

A being cried out in horror, recognizing the formation.

It was one of the oldest formations in their world, and also the strongest — without equal.

Legend had it that this formation could even slay immortals and demons; it had indeed killed immortals, and thus earned its name.

But the Four Directions Immortal-Slaying Formation had been lost over a hundred thousand years ago, becoming nothing more than legend.

Little did anyone expect—

That it would reappear in the world under such circumstances.

If they could not break the deadlock this time, the Four Directions Immortal-Slaying Formation would truly be lost forever, drifting into other worlds, and from then on it would exist only as legend.

This being's cry was heard by the gods and demons of the other worlds.

Even if they did not understand the formation, even if they had never seen it, just hearing its name and seeing the terrifying killing momentum it radiated was enough to know this was a formation capable of slaying immortals.

Their morale soared.

With this formation, combined with their many gods and demons, they might well be able to cut down that terrifying being of this world.

In truth, every god and demon felt this world was terrifying — not only because of the density of its world's spiritual energy, but also because of Kamikawa Mitsu's strength. So young and already so powerful — this world surely possessed the heaven-defying fortune they all craved.

Fortune that could help them break through their shackles.

Boom!

The Immortal-Slaying Formation blazed to life, runes without end. The void was like an ancient scroll recording an overwhelming tide of slaughter; now within the killing formation it erupted in full, surging forth with matchless power.

Jin Ge's killing intent, grim and murderous, surged wildly.

"Young Master."

"Mr. Kamikawa Mitsu."

Ashiya Tou and the Demon Lord and the others wanted to charge into the killing formation to rescue Kamikawa Mitsu.

But Kamikawa Mitsu shook his head and refused.

"Protect the people of the Initial Realm well. Do not let the Initial Realm suffer even a single bit of damage."

Even standing within the Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation, his expression remained unchanged — never a hint of panic, calm and composed.

Seeing this—

Ashiya Tou, the Demon Lord, and the others did not hesitate; they turned and began protecting the Initial Realm.

Kamikawa Mitsu took a single step, crossing out of Earth and heading toward the starry sky, unwilling to wage a great battle on Earth for fear that a careless stray blade or bullet might wound humans.

The Immortal-Slaying Formation clung to his shadow, following Kamikawa Mitsu closely.

Once a formation was activated, unless the one trapped inside died, the formation would keep following its target.

The killing formation descended, gods and demons struck, and the starry sky beyond Earth boiled.

"Where are the satellites? Get me long-range satellites, use every piece of equipment you have — I want to know everything happening in the starry sky."

The leaders of every nation issued urgent orders.

Kamikawa Mitsu was their hope. If Kamikawa Mitsu fell, the Initial Realm was finished. When that time came, they would have no way to answer to the gods, would feel unworthy of the gods' protection, would be ashamed that the gods had fought bloodily on the earliest battlefields while they could not even protect the Initial Realm.

"Notify the Keyan Force — no matter how much money or manpower it costs, I don't care. Whatever they need, give it to them. I want you to develop something effective against gods and demons within one year, or every last one of you can pack up and go to prison!"

"Also, issue an order to investigate — find out who agreed to join the Eternal Star Realm's gods and demons during their recruitment drive. Give me a blacklist. I want to completely cut off these bastards."

It was impossible for everyone in the world to be utterly loyal to their country; there would always be traitors, people who would sell anything for profit.

The big shots of various nations planned to track down these people and make sure they suffered—whether to signal the gods or simply out of deep-seated loathing, the end result was the same: total blacklisting.

What they didn't know was that these people had already silenced Shangchuan Zun the moment they made their stance, just like the two netizens who were silenced.

Otherwise, the gods and demons of the Eternal Star Realm wouldn't have struggled so hard and still failed to win over a single one.

Beyond Earth, in the starry void.

Shangchuan Zun was halted, the chaotic, hazy gateway beside him; countless killing lights surged toward him, all sinking into the gateway and vanishing without harming him.

The Four-Sided Killing Immortal Array lived up to its name, unmatched in antiquity and modern times; without this gateway, the force just now could never have been so easily neutralized—the immortals and demons would have suffered grave injuries and might have been erased by the Killing Immortal Array at any moment.

"Ah!"

Several cries of shock.

Only to see Shangchuan Zun wave his hand, and several gods and demons surrounding him were instantly bound, unable to escape, now dragged toward him.

Other gods and demons tried to rescue them, launching wave after wave of attacks.

Hss!

Shangchuan Zun raised his brush as if idly flicking it, or perhaps sketching something—suddenly, a rain of light danced around him, dense with divine runes.

Then, these divine runes blazed brighter, transforming into dark, chain-like Dao principles that blocked each attack and bound the several imprisoned gods and demons, hurling them into the hazy gateway, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Having shattered the obstruction, Shangchuan Zun glanced at Earth, then turned and headed deeper into the starry void.

This place was still too close to Earth.

An immortal-demon war, especially with so many gods and demons attacking together, was far too likely to harm Earth.

In the starry void, divine runes danced around him like rain of light, brilliant as countless great stars; then, as Shangchuan Zun surged forward, they roared loudly and vanished into the depths of the cosmos.

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