Chapter 854: Clash at the Valley Mouth

Primordial Martial Qi shatters the shackles; Yan Buji's pure blood boils within him, and he throws a punch!

His fist condenses into a cyan‑gold phantom, instantly turning into a torrent that rushes toward the three. This Immortal Essence torrent, containing annihilating power, appears to head straight for the old man's face, but secretly veers, the force oddly bending in midair toward the gray‑robed man!

Bang!

In an instant of flash, the Way of the Universe Dao Mark inside Yan Buji spontaneously opens; although Yan Buji knows little of Way of the Universe secrets, the power triggered by the Dao Mark itself has its own trait, freezing the Blood Sword just a short distance away.

"Law of the Way of the Universe?!" the old man turns pale with shock, hurriedly presses a seal, and Ninefold Blazing Sun shoots out from his robe, forming a massive formation that scorches heaven and boils the sea!

At that moment, the darkness is illuminated by the great sun, enveloping Yan Buji within it!

At the other end, the golden‑armored commander directly summons a sixth‑rank Immortal Accumulation Artifact; a cyan iron spear transforms into a hundred‑zhang golden dragon, whose eyes emit two beams of gold light that pierce the void.

Yan Buji furrows his brows, holding the Rift Staff in his left hand and the Sea Kun Hammer in his right; Immortal Essence mana surges throughout his body, and both Blood Heaven Ascension Degree and Heaven Gate Five Elements Method fully activate for the first time!

Rumble!

As he swings the Sea Kun Hammer to shatter the golden light, Yan Buji infuses mana, the Rift Staff radiates, and Yan Buji, astonishingly multitasking, also summons a frenzied mana‑woven needle that pierces the formation!

Oh no!

At the same time, the Rift Staff opens several rifts outside the formation; the razor‑sharp spatial bee‑stingers would force even a Nascent Soul cultivator of Martial Dao to be cautious, yet the golden‑armored Martial Dao cultivator crushes the bee‑stingers with a single punch, though his fingers become smeared with blood!

"Cosmic Dao Immortal Accumulation?!" the golden‑armored commander's complexion changes; he didn't expect that Ji Mingyue had brought a fellow practitioner of the second Dao of the cosmos, whose mana is weak but who is also a Martial Dao cultivator!

The power unleashed from that body's qi and blood surpasses his own in every way!

"Nascent Soul of Martial Dao, mana Nascent Soul?!"

Die!

Yan Buji suddenly appears above the gray‑robed man's head, a hammer strikes down, the gray‑robed man panics, and activates his innate Immortal Accumulation to defend!

Ah!

The gray‑robed man's hastily raised arms explode into a blood mist. Horrifyingly, the splattered blood solidifies in the air into a sword shape, stabbing Yan Buji's eyes.

But the sudden attack shows the opponent hadn't realized Yan Buji could traverse space via the Rift Staff; the terrifying force of the hammer smash directly shatters the foe's Immortal Accumulation Artifact and protective spirit shield!

The gray‑robed man is violently driven back, screaming in agony, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. Yan Buji, seeing he hasn't died and about to strike, watches as the gray‑robed man begins to mutate, turning into a terrifying Abnormal Beast!

"Seven‑turn Abnormal Beast?!"

Yan Buji's pupils contract as he looks toward the other two.

At that moment, Yan Buji realizes the gray‑robed man is not human at all, but a disguised Abnormal Beast?!

No wonder his own mutation Dao Mark reacts so strongly... but that's not all; perhaps this Abnormal Beast is not an ordinary one.

Its strength already exceeds that of a human Nascent Soul cultivator, and it can also mimic...

"You descendants of the Human Emperor, you actually enslave Abnormal Beasts to serve you? Aren't you afraid of the mutation backfiring?!" Yan Buji doesn't understand what methods they used, but it's clearly tied to mutation and nothing good.

"Hmph, the old man is reckless, kill him!"

Whimper!

The terrifying Abnormal Beast emits a sticky, cooing sound, instantly making Yan Buji's hair stand on end, and he then spares no effort!

Wielding the Rift Staff and Sea Kun Hammer, Martial Dao mana erupts simultaneously, directly boosting his combat power to the limit!

"Go!" the old man activates the seal, re‑enshrouding Yan Buji with the Blazing Sun Formation, blocking his movement.

Yan Buji now has no time to break the formation again; a Seven‑turn Abnormal Beast comparable to a Nascent Soul stage attacks, its strength far exceeding that of ordinary cultivators of the same realm, but Yan Buji is no ordinary cultivator!

"This old guy is a bit hard to deal with!"

Watching Yan Buji leap and bound within the formation, the Seven‑turn Abnormal Beast cannot touch him and instead grows weaker from Yan Buji's attacks; the white‑haired old man outside grits his teeth:

"No, this is the only Seven‑turn Abnormal Beast I have!"

"We're almost there; if we don't kill this guy we won't get....."

Before the golden‑armored commander finishes speaking, Yan Buji suddenly hurls the Sea Kun Hammer, striking the beast's body and knocking it back dozens of meters!

Immediately after, Yan Buji channels his entire strength, chaotic Martial Qi coiling around his fist!

The golden‑armored commander feels something amiss, his pupils contract: "Bad!"

Ten illusory figures appear around the beast, then, like Yan Buji, swing their fists!

"True Flow Chaotic Break!"

The ten streams of fist power, imbued with chaotic Martial Qi, completely annihilate the Seven‑turn Abnormal Beast, and the Blazing Sun Formation shatters in response to the aftershock of Yan Buji's move.

The old man is violently thrust back a thousand zhang, his robe suddenly exploding; he cries out in pain: "My Blazing Sun Robe!"

The worst is the golden‑armored commander; although he reacts, he lacks the old man's speed, gets blown to the ground by the aftershock, convulses for a while before the old man helps him to his feet.

"You old thing!" the old man, enraged, laughs bitterly, then suddenly tears open his chest garment.

He reveals a half‑flag sewn into his chest, bearing the characters "Proof". "Today I'll let you witness the true Human Emperor Dao treasure!"

The moment the fragment separates, the entire Fallen Star Valley begins to collapse.

The ground cracks open into bottomless chasms, countless ghostly hands of the nether climb upward. Yan Buji suddenly feels the golden sun inside him sinking like mud, even the operation of his mutation Dao Mark becomes sluggish.

"Human Emperor Flag?!" Yan Buji finally changes color. This is clearly the Human Emperor Flag he had seen before, but the old man's in hand is the genuine Human Emperor Flag!

As for why the Human Emperor Flag exudes such ghostly aura?

Yan Buji isn't quite sure, but he has heard from various sources that the Human Emperor Flag is not a good thing.

The golden‑armored commander regains his stance and seizes the chance to thrust a spear, which shoots out like a dragon enveloped in a rain of blood!

The moment the spear tip touches Yan Buji's back, a cold, moonlight‑like silhouette suddenly flashes.

Ji Mingyue holds a complete battle flag, the flag cloth wrapping the spear and snapping violently.

"Ji Xuanze!" she shouts sternly, "Colluding with outsiders to harm your own clan, how can you still bear the surname Ji?"

The golden‑crowned commander named Ji Xuanze's face turns iron‑blue: "Mingyue girl, you secretly let outsiders into the ancestral ruin; that is the greatest sin of the clan!"

Ji Mingyue says no more; as the battle flag flutters, countless golden stars scatter.

Each golden star, upon landing, transforms into a humanoid golden‑armored warrior, forming a formation that blocks the Xuan Yuan family's old man's assault.

She slaps Yan Buji's back with her other hand, a pure flow of Human Emperor qi passing into his body.

"Run!" blood overflowed from her lips, "The true Human Emperor Flag suppresses all Human Emperor inheritances; we can't hold out long!"