Chapter 858

In an instant, Sun En felt his vision blur.

Originally deep in the wilderness, suddenly mist and clouds swirled all around him.

A chorus of Dao sounds spread out from within the mist and clouds.

A row of immortal cranes called from afar, flying toward Sun En.

On the distant horizon, a wheel of Dao rhythm appeared; beneath it sat what seemed to be a great transcendent.

"This this this… could this be the Immortal Realm?"

Sun En was first and foremost a Daoist Celestial Master, secondly a warrior of early Mythical Realm.

He had spent his entire life practicing martial arts and cultivation, all to seek the Dao through martial means, to reach the Immortal Realm and trace the footsteps of immortals.

The scene before him matched precisely the depictions of the Immortal Realm he had read in Daoist scriptures.

Even though Sun En's will was firm and his Dao heart stable,

he could not help but wonder whether he had truly reached the Immortal Realm.

As the immortal cranes drew nearer, Sun En smiled and leapt forward, ready to mount their backs.

Suddenly, an utterly yin and freezing aura struck toward his heart's vital point.

Then the entire scene of the Immortal Realm vanished in an instant.

In its place stood Zhang Wuxia, smiling, one finger jabbed into Sun En's chest.

"Hah! What damn Celestial Master—you're still just at my mercy…"

Zhang Wuxia was ecstatic; Sun En was a Heaven's Dao Golden List-level expert.

If her strike landed, even if it caused minimal damage, it would still be legendary in the martial world.

Yet all this was because Sun En's Huang Tian Divine Weapon had already been shattered, and the celestial elemental forces had been disrupted by the vortex afterward.

Thus, Sun En could only muster one or two tenths of his full strength.

Still, this was enough to make Zhang Wuxia wildly excited.

But before her smile faded, she suddenly felt the utterly yin power she had unleashed vanish into thin air.

"This this this…"

Zhang Wuxia was stunned as she watched Sun En before her dissolve into a wisp of green smoke, slowly fading away.

"How could this be?"

She immediately realized: though she thought her unique technique had deceived Sun En,

in truth, Sun En had feigned deception to make her strike miss entirely.

"Little girl, your crude illusion technique could ever fool this Celestial Master?

Don't you know Daoism is one of the origins of illusion arts?"

Sun En's triumphant voice echoed beside Zhang Wuxia's ear.

Daoist Wu Gong is known as Xuanmenzheng Sect.

Illusion arts were indeed studied within it.

Among its greatest masters was the Taiping Dao.

And the reward Sun En received for ascending the Heaven's Dao Golden List was the Taiping Dao's "Taiping Qingling Dao."

This Dao scripture was not only the origin of the Taiping Dao, but contained everything: talismans, Dao methods, illusion arts, and more.

Since obtaining this scripture, Sun En had devoted himself to relentless cultivation.

Though he had not fully mastered it, it was more than enough to handle Zhang Wuxia.

Taking advantage of Zhang Wuxia's shock, Sun En struck without mercy.

He spun and delivered a palm strike directly to her spine.

Though this blow from an early Mythical Realm powerhouse carried no celestial elemental force,

it was still beyond Zhang Wuxia's capacity to endure.

A bolt of lightning shot forth from Sun En's palm.

Instantly, it turned Zhang Wuxia—body and clothing alike—into a charred lump.

Zhang Wuxia had no time to scream; she collapsed heavily onto the nearby charred earth.

After dealing with Zhang Wuxia, Sun En calmly approached Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan.

He released his Xin Qiji and immediately sensed the locations of Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan's injuries.

"Save Your Majesty first!"

Shangguan Wan, brushed by Sun En's Xin Qiji, immediately cried out to him without hesitation.

"Understood!"

Sun En naturally prioritized Wu Zetian; he knew she suffered from massive blood loss and the lingering effects of the utterly yin force.

He immediately sent a thread of true energy into the air to expel the utterly yin force from Wu Zetian's body.

Had Sun En been at full strength, this yin force, though stubborn, would have taken little effort to remove.

But alas, his Huang Tian Divine Weapon had been shattered, and he could not draw upon celestial elemental forces.

Moreover, this yin force was no ordinary power.

Frowning, Sun En spent a long while before finally expelling every trace of the yin force from Wu Zetian's body.

Without pausing to rest, he immediately pulled a porcelain vial from his robes and poured out a pill.

He flicked it into the air with perfect accuracy, sending it straight into Wu Zetian's mouth.

As the pill entered her, Wu Zetian's complexion visibly flushed with color.

Clearly, her injuries had healed by more than half.

Her awakening was merely a matter of time.

"Fortunately, fortunately—if I'd come a moment later, it would've been troublesome."

Seeing that Wu Zetian's injuries had mostly healed, Sun En couldn't help but nod with a smile and let out a breath of relief.

He then turned to Shangguan Wan and said,

"Shangguan my lord, I shall now treat your wounds—forgive the intrusion..."

"No good!"

But Shangguan Wan's face turned pale with shock, staring in horror at Sun En's back.

Sun En had been facing away from Wanchan while treating Wu Zetian.

At the sight of Shangguan Wan's expression, he instantly sensed danger.

Before he could turn around, he casually swept his hand, enveloping Shangguan Wan and Wu Zetian in a surge of true qi and darted sideways at high speed.

Boom—

Just as Sun En, carrying Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan, escaped, a deafening roar erupted behind him.

The next instant, a massive shockwave surged toward Sun En.

Sun En had originally believed that, as a Heaven's Dao Golden List-level expert, he was invulnerable.

Though ranked merely twenty-ninth, he thought even a residual shockwave should not harm him.

But when the shockwave like a tidal wave swept over him, Sun En realized he was utterly wrong.

This shockwave was no ordinary residual reverberation.

Within the shockwave lurked an inexplicably profound and mysterious vibration.

Before the shockwave and vibration even reached him, Sun En felt his heart pound and his flesh tremble.

He knew that, in his current state, if he didn't give everything he had, he would suffer grave injury.

"Your Majesty, Shangguan my lord, forgive me."

Sun En had no time to explain further; after speaking those words, he immediately used a thread of true qi to gently propel Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan a mile away.

Without even glancing back, he spun around, unleashing his full true qi and executing his signature technique.

Huang Tian Wuji!

The scattered Huang Tian Divine Soldiers, under Sun En's reckless, no-holds-barred effort, finally reassembled.

He had no time to examine them closely—he swung his blade with all his strength toward the shockwave now upon him.

The Huang Tian Divine Soldiers truly lived up to their reputation, praised even by the Heaven's Dao Golden List.

Though they would instantly shatter against the Tang Dynasty's dragon qi,

against this terrifying shockwave, they managed, barely, to carve out a sliver of life within the wave.