Chapter 365: You seem weaker than I imagined? Ancestor!

Baichuan could sense that his entire body was rejecting all matter from the outside world, as if everything that made up the world—the earth, the air, the trees, the water… every substance that formed the myriad things of the world—was utterly incompatible with the matter that constituted his own being!

It was as if these two kinds of matter were, in essence, two diametrically opposed things, and by some chance encounter they had collided, producing an unimaginably violent reaction from which a mysterious energy he had never encountered before was being born!

Every single cell of his body, under this violent reaction, was releasing this terrifying energy!

The strength of this power gave him the feeling that it could destroy everything! A mere wisp of it was enough to surpass his former full Burst, enough to easily blow a lifeless planet apart completely! Turning it into the most brilliant firework in the Xingkong!

At this, his body high in the heavens changed!

Boundless energy surged forth from him, like floodwaters that had lost their floodgates, pouring out from his dragon horns, eyes, mouth and nostrils, scales, and indeed every part of his body, every single cell—and in an instant this surging energy transformed him into a beast-shaped star, suspended high between the barriers of the world, ceaselessly releasing what could only be called infinite energy!

And the vastness of this energy actually gave him the feeling that it could burst this world apart!

Light—endless light tinged with an eerie blue-purple—appeared!

That was the outward manifestation of the boundless, all-destroying energy!

At this moment, Baichuan was already finding it extraordinarily difficult just to forcibly gather this energy in, yet he had no choice but to do so, because he had a feeling that once he lost control, not only would this world be instantly destroyed by this energy, but he himself would completely, under the effect of this reaction, burn like firewood—and would absolutely not stop until he was reduced entirely to ash.

"What in the world is this?!"

Having witnessed all this with his own eyes, Guyue for the first time felt that the situation had slipped beyond his control. Just a moment ago, he had used the power of a True Immortal to easily shatter one of the opponent's claws and inflict serious damage.

But who would have thought that in the very next instant, the opponent had frozen mid-battle… no, more like gone rigid, and then his entire body had, as if out of control, erupted with boundless energy!

And the nature of that energy actually gave him an extremely familiar feeling!

The power of a True Immortal!

The greatest strength of a True Immortal realm expert was that, under this power, even an ordinary punch or kick would carry a force and destructive power beyond ordinary imagination.

But now, he was actually seeing the opponent wantonly erupting with a Boundless True Immortal power he himself would never dare imagine!

Even though this power merely carried a trace of the nature of True Immortal power, and did not count as the real thing.

But where on earth had the opponent obtained such a vast power?

"What exactly happened?"

Beneath the destructive storm that had reached its absolute extreme, Zi Da on the base platform hugged his battle beast's claw to anchor himself, muttering in bewilderment. At this moment he and his battle beast were trembling in this storm, like a small boat on a stormy sea; he simply could not understand what had happened.

Yet at this moment, no one could answer his question. Even his so-called well-traveled companions, or those surviving Old Gods, wore equally bewildered expressions, completely unsure of what had happened… No, let alone them who were not even Earth Immortals—even Guyue, honored as a True Immortal, did not understand.

Just a moment ago, he had held the upper hand, easily blowing apart part of the opponent's body. That massive body of the opponent, in his eyes, was like a pewter spearhead—good for nothing but a punching bag.

But right after he had blown the opponent apart, the opponent had transformed, becoming a world-obscuring giant shadow capable of destroying worlds!

That eerie blue-purple energy carrying the aura of True Immortal power actually gave him a feeling of terror.

It was simply that, compared to him, the opponent looked more like a lofty True Immortal!

Especially now, as the monster that had transformed into a blurred, colossal beast-shadow turned its gaze this way.

That gaze, which had almost become tangible, and the destructive force that spread along with that gaze, both forced him to muster his power to protect himself. Otherwise, he could feel that once truly tainted by the power within that gaze, his entire body would lose control, and变故 would occur that even he could not foresee.

No—he could not hesitate any longer!

Gazing at the ever more exaggerated figure, Guyue exhaled a deep breath of stale air. He had actually felt fear from an ant that had not even reached True Immortal! What kind of joke was this? He had broken through to True Immortal through endless hardship, not to still bow beneath others, but to become the one above all others, the god above all gods!

Immortal light blazed brilliantly; the grey moon shed endless radiance, and that grey moon actually swelled as if being inflated, seeming about to burst the entire world. Within the moon's body, a strange, bizarre single eye opened, and in an instant a ring of invisible ripples spread out.

That was an uncanny divine ability that could drag living beings into the deepest layer of dreams, causing them to sleep until death without ever waking—Guyue's old signature skill. After breaking through to True Immortal, it had sublimated into his exclusive True Immortal Characteristic power, 【Moon Dream】, becoming even more powerful.

Now, driven by True Immortal power, the force of this Characteristic was enough to envelop all living beings in the entire world, or to cause an unguarded True Immortal of the same realm to lose focus for a moment.

Then, he abruptly took out an object—a wisp of pure, bright moonlight!

It was something utterly different from the grey moonlight emitted by his moon-body. That pure moonlight, merely looking at it, gave one a feeling of the soul settling into tranquility. Though it was illusory light, in his hand at this moment it was like something tangible, and even caused the hand holding it to condense a dense white frost—one must remember, he was a True Immortal!

Yet merely holding this wisp of moonlight had produced a change that only an extremely cold scene should bring.

This was a small trinket that "Ancestor" had casually bestowed upon him back then, upon sensing his breakthrough. It was said to be drawn from the power of some primeval Star Beast.

But for an existence like "Ancestor," it was a trivial trinket; for him, however, it could serve as a trump card!

His face hardened, and he directly hurled it at that figure, following right behind his own divine ability.

In an instant, as Guyue threw the moonlight, heaven and earth suddenly changed once more.

A pure, bright full moon, carrying a biting cold that froze all things, had descended!

That was a power far more terrifying than his grey moon. The full moon transformed into an icy blade, carrying a misty, hazy cold aura, pressing horizontally across the world to grind everything away.

Wherever it passed, even the void itself froze. Such was its might that, were it aimed at a world itself, in an instant it would be enough to freeze an entire world or planet into an Ice Frost dead star! Even aimed at a star itself, it would be enough to instantly freeze a great fireball of a star solid!

Facing the assault of these two trump cards from Guyue, Baichuan—who was struggling to gather the energy erupting from himself—did not even move a muscle. The boundless energy leaking from him alone was enough to block the invisible incoming ripples; in a certain sense, no technique could touch him!

To reach his body, one would first have to break through the energy he kept erupting outward in all directions!

Only on the incoming icy moon-blade did he sense a trace of danger. That power, enough to freeze everything, seemed to target the very essence of all things. Merely approaching, it had already slowed the destruction of everything around him caused by the energy erupting from his own body—this was the first time the energy bursting from him had encountered something that could counter it!

He instinctively felt that, once struck by that icy moon, the violent reaction within him would come to a complete halt! But such a halt would be no different from throwing a fireball into liquid nitrogen. Whether the violent reaction could actually stop, he did not know; in any case, his own body would absolutely be unable to withstand being torn apart!

Therefore, he absolutely could not take it head-on. With great effort, he controlled the erupting energy to gather and converge toward his throat, forming a breath that he blasted toward that icy moon.

In an instant, high in the world's sky, a blurred, colossal beast-shadow opened a maw that seemed capable of swallowing everything, and spewed forth an absurdly immense, eerie blue-purple breath!

In a brief instant, the full moon and the eerie blue-purple breath collided—a sight beyond ordinary imagination. One seemed to freeze everything, freezing the true essence that constituted all things in the world; the other was the violent reaction energy born from the chance collision of two utterly different substances.

The two terrifying energies clashed continuously, grinding each other away, and the first to suffer was the world itself!

Destructive energy storms ravaged the entire world madly. Wherever they passed, nothing existed; all matter vanished, turning into a stretch of pitch-black vacuum!

Gravity, chaotic to the extreme, twisted and wandered visibly in the vacuum for almost the first time, like threads twisted to the utmost limit—wherever it passed, it either tore everything apart or dragged all manner of things flying about in chaos.

In a brief instant, this once-vast land was as if several scoops had been gouged out of it. Seawater poured back in, the land collapsed—the world was in agony, the world was groaning, the world was crumbling.

At this moment, looking out from the Xingkong, one could actually see a massive planet on the verge of splitting open—that was this world, which had become the battlefield between Baichuan and the True Immortal. Upon that about-to-shatter planet, looking closely, one could even see that above the Xingkong there seemed to exist another dimension? Or perhaps a space, where two mysterious forces were colliding with each other. And a body of a tree like jade swayed ceaselessly amidst the destructive scene, as if trembling, caught between the two.

That was the Tongtian Jianmu, formed from the body of a True Immortal in days past!

In such a scene, only True Immortals could barely remain unaffected and still exist.

"Not good! Run!"

"Quick! Quick! Retreat! Fall back toward the Jian Mu!"

"Careful—absolutely do not let this power touch you!"

"It's over, it's over! This world is done for!"

Amid the chaos, at this moment neither the Lingneng Clan nor the荒神 deities could spare any thought for fighting anymore, because under that destructive energy storm where brushing past meant death and touching it meant the same, no one wanted to die!

Even Baichuan's continent-level body was the same, because that was simply not a power that an Earth Immortal could touch!

In the end, that breath still overwhelmed the Ice Moon!

There was no other reason—after all, the Ice Moon was ultimately a rootless duckweed at this moment, without the support of power, it could not outlast Baichuan who had transformed into a large-scale destructive energy radiation furnace!

"No, impossible!"

Desperately watching that Ice Moon slowly dissipate, Guyue revealed an expression of disbelief, "I absolutely cannot believe it, that was a Star Beast item bestowed by the 'Ancestor'!"

"How could it lose? How could it lose?! A power beyond True Immortal, how could it lose?!!"

"Who exactly are you?! Tell me, this isn't real!"

"No! No! No!!"

Watching Guyue fall into despair and reveal madness, Baichuan also let out a sigh of relief and turned his gaze over, speaking with a hint of puzzlement, "True Immortal? You seem weaker than I imagined…"

"True Immortal, nothing more than this after all…"

While speaking, Baichuan also extended a claw, a brilliant blue-purple eerie light gleaming at the claw tip, and being cautious, he was about to crush the opponent to avoid any unexpected变故.

Anyway, trash talk and the like can wait until after it's over.

If the enemy were allowed to turn the tables, then it would be too late to regret.

"You, you… pfft—ah, I'm enraged to death!" Already in the midst of violent madness, Guyue was provoked by Baichuan's words, directly suffering an enraged heart attack, spitting out a large mouthful of stagnant black True Immortal blood, but looking at the increasingly approaching destructive power, a thought suddenly flashed through Guyue's mind, revealing a trace of wild joy: "No! No!! I haven't lost yet!!! I still have the Divine Decree bestowed by the 'Ancestor'!"

In his wild joy, he recklessly took out an ancient and simple paper scroll tinged with golden intent, which was the treasure he had been bestowed when he presented the Mysterious Blood Crystal to the "Ancestor" earlier!

Not good!

Hearing this, Baichuan, whose intuition told him something was wrong, was about to speed up, but this destructive power was already somewhat difficult to gather, and there was a vast distance between the two; even though he had long begun preparing to act, he ultimately still could not match the speed of a True Immortal taking out an item from himself!

In an instant, when the blue-purple destructive power came attacking, an ancient and simple piece of paper leisurely flew up, unexpectedly dropping a golden light barrier that protected Guyue.

As the blue-purple destructive power bombarded, within that golden light shield a virtual human figure whose appearance could not be seen clearly slowly emerged from within, a slender figure nearly as tall as the Tongtian Jianmu. Its whole body was shrouded in a cluster of mist-like floating and sinking light spots, standing tall on this destruction-like ugly great earth, that otherworldly cool and aloof temperament made the other party seem like an immortal banished from the heavens.

With its appearance, the previously meritorious blue-purple destructive energy was like a stream encountering an immovable boulder standing in its midst; no matter how torrential the stream, before that rock-solid boulder, everything was in vain!

Then, as if sensing something, that figure which had made no movement since appearing, seemed to react and slowly turned its head, looking toward the enormous light figure above the firmament.

And there it clearly saw Baichuan at this moment, who had transformed into a massive radiation energy source!

Danger!

In an instant, Baichuan could not help but feel his heart skip a beat, like when he was weak and encountered a super fierce beast ambushing prey in the jungle, it was a feeling of being targeted by an extremely powerful being.

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(End of this chapter)