Chapter 214: Four Sovereigns Besiege and Kill

Sword Qi shattered and vanished in an instant, Dao symbols turned to ash in the blink of an eye, leaving only a spirit blade flashing with silver radiance.

Jiang Xuan stood proudly between Heaven and Earth; at first glance, both sides seemed evenly matched, the outcome uncertain.

Suddenly, a wild, unrestrained cackle boomed through Jiu Xiao as the Immortal Crone launched a ferocious attack, a jade ruyi suddenly fluttering between her sparse strands of hair.

Faint light flickered in and out of sight, concealing endless profound mysteries and terrifying power.

Every beam of light was like a dazzling, brilliant star river, surging and roaring, capable of overturning mountains and seas and suppressing the Mythical Battlefield.

Such world-shocking, heaven-defying methods were enough to tear one's liver and gall apart; feats like destroying the vast starry sky or Pangu's Axe creating Heaven and Earth and reshaping Qian Kun were, to her, effortless and easy, their momentum terrifying the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, all things trembling at it.

This was no ordinary jade ruyi, but a complete, real, boundless universe carrying endless destructive pressure, rolling and crushing down.

Jiang Xuan stood firm like an ancient divine mountain, instantly unfolding a world-shocking phenomenon; likewise, a vast, boundless, majestic world appeared horizontally, violently colliding with the warm yet murderous jade ruyi above the Heavenly Vault.

In the silent yet world-shaking violent collision, the terrifying aura of all things' destruction surged and spread like a raging, furious sea; this place instantly became chaotic ruins, and over a dozen corpses in the distance, huge enough to leave one speechless and shaken in mind and soul, though undestroyed after endless ages and of unknown length, now turned into flying dust and ashes filling the sky.

How world-shocking and terrifyingly peerless was their collision!

Of course, these bones had long lost their immortal essence, having been drained dry, and were not as sturdy as before, but compared to ordinary divine materials, they still far surpassed them.

In this extremely fierce exchange, Jiang Xuan stood immovable, withdrawing his world-shocking phenomenon, while the jade ruyi was forced to retreat.

"What a Jiang Xuan, I truly must admire him from the bottom of my heart; with such a short time in cultivation, he has actually become strong to such a heaven-shaking, ghost-weeping degree, truly possessing heaven-defying, world-shocking capital!"

Jiang Xuan let out a long, loud whistle, and the dragon-like blood qi in his Tianling Cover surged forth; the Eight Trigrams Furnace flew up with a howl, possessing the ability to swallow and refine all spirits, even corpse qi could become its nourishment; not just spiritual qi, all things in this world, even chaotic qi, could be absorbed.

"Jiang Xuan, your courage is truly astonishing! With your abilities, you must be able to guess that we came forth with the determination to kill you, yet you dare to appear!"

The speaker's tone was extremely fierce and unyielding, his words like thunderclaps, shaking everyone present to their very souls; this was a transcendent, peerless expert, and even the various Sovereign Lords felt a chill in their hearts.

"It's actually the Great Peng Emperor!" the Immortal Crone gasped.

"I never expected the one to emerge from that place to be the Peng Emperor!" the Corpse Emperor also marveled.

"To do this with a body that has not yet proven the Dao is enough to be passed down through the ages, but you must die today," said the Gold-Winged Great Peng Emperor coldly.

He walked out from the depths of the dark universe with a majestic, upright posture, his head full of golden hair flying wildly; in an instant, golden light shone with brilliance of myriad zhang, illuminating the entire Mythical Ancient Battlefield as bright as day.

He was cast from pure gold, a strange demonic aura surrounding him, his eyes sharp as lightning, holding a divine-sword-shaped, twenty-eight-section God-Slaying Whip, his martial posture shaking heaven and earth.

This time, the Four Great Life Forbidden Zones each sent one person to take Jiang Xuan's life; all dispatched were invincible figures whose fame shook ancient and modern times.

"Om"

The Great Peng King wielded the golden divine whip, crushing the Heavenly Vault of the universe, emitting a terrifying wailing howl as he struck fiercely at Jiang Xuan's face, cold and ruthless, over ten thousand great Dao runes blazing brilliantly.

This person could only be described with four words: overwhelmingly invincible!

"Clang!"

Jiang Xuan's Vajra Ring Divine Ability shot out and collided fiercely with the golden divine whip, erupting a terrifying aura that chilled the bones; the place of their collision cracked open, spreading directly to all sides of the Mythical Battlefield, like shocking waves surging and roaring, the scene magnificent to the extreme, a cosmic wonder rarely seen since ancient times.

Boom—

The Great Peng Emperor was extremely arrogant; the golden divine whip in his hand could slay gods above and suppress demon kings below; he was unrivaled between Heaven and Earth, his divine might unstoppable, and as soon as he acted, he did not stop, wantonly slaughtering forward.

Jiang Xuan engaged him in a fierce battle; from the start, it was a world-shocking God War!

Obviously, the Great Peng Emperor was a battle-madman; even as a Supreme, he was the same, his nature unchangeable, desperate to fight Jiang Xuan to the death; one golden light after another tore through the cosmic star sea, the golden divine whip dancing without cease.

"Great Peng Emperor, don't forget we came forth to kill him, not to satisfy your battle lust!" the Immortal Crone reminded.

"I remember!" the Great Peng Emperor retreated and stopped attacking.

Jiang Xuan's expression was calm; he knew he had met a strong enemy, whether the Spirit Emperor or the Great Peng Emperor, both were stronger than imagination; none of these four were weak, worthy of being peerless figures of the Imperial Way.

"Jiang Xuan, strictly speaking, you are no match for us; in the past, you killed several Supremes only because their blood and qi had dried up, and you slowly wore them to death, but today you have not the slightest chance!" the Corpse Emperor shouted loudly.

"Only by fighting will you know; you few dare not dream of killing me; today shall be the time for you to lose your heads!" Jiang Xuan replied coldly.

"What a pity for such a hero!" the Spirit Emperor sighed.

Accompanied by a violent roar like Pangu's Axe creating Heaven and Earth, behind him instantly appeared a mysterious place that made one's liver and gall split; the South Heaven Gate stood tall like an ancient divine mountain; this was Shen Xu.

In the flick of a finger, it crossed the endless, vast star river from the unfathomably distant North Dipper Star Domain and ferociously descended upon this realm.

In fact, this was not a real Shen Xu, but the peak strongest imprint of this Life Forbidden Zone; all Dao Traces instantly burst forth like a volcanic eruption, crossing the boundless star sea, deeply branded from Beidou to here, laying down a world-shocking, unique peerless divine array.

Next, behind the Immortal Crone, a huge tomb complex rose high like an ancient majestic peak, continuous and unending, like a mountain ridge spanning Heaven and Earth, undulating.

Though a graveyard, it flowed with an ethereal, illusory, mysterious immortal aura; myriad auspicious lights interwove like a brilliant star river.

This was Xian Ling, likewise across the boundless, vast star sea, imprinting the profound, unfathomable Dao Traces, reproducing the magnificent, grand, qi-swallowing-mountains-and-rivers scene of the Forbidden Zone, making it the Immortal Crone's main battlefield for dominating Heaven and Earth and ruling the world.

Then an ancient mine appeared, a pitch-black, profound expanse like an endless abyss; the surrounding mountains rose and fell like a raging sea, vast and endless, like a sleeping dragon lurking.

But immediately after, the ancient mine exhaled the brilliant, dazzling starlight of the universe, making that area instantly shine with light of myriad zhang, dazzling to the eyes.

The Corpse Emperor stood proudly in the Taichu Forbidden Zone; this too was formed by Dao Trace imprints, composing an unparalleled, fame-shaking divine array, becoming his main battlefield.

Jiang Xuan let out a long sigh to the sky; though the several Great Forbidden Zones had not truly broken through space to come, they had moved the most world-shocking, bone-chilling Imperial Way arrays here, truly manifesting, as if the several Great Forbidden Zones stood here, tightly surrounding him.

Boom!

The final roar shook Jiu Xiao and the universe; nine majestic, boundless mountain ranges connected to a huge island, suppressing down with the force of thunder, appearing behind the Great Peng Emperor, the scene earth-shattering and startling.

Jiang Xuan's expression fluctuated; his gaze first shone like stars, then quickly dimmed; even though it was not his first time facing this extremely mysterious Forbidden Zone—Shang Cang, also called Burying Heaven Island—his inner heart still surged with shocking waves without cease.

Burying Heaven Island was a huge, majestic, vast island standing above the boundless Heavenly Vault of Donghuang, usually hidden in the ethereal Void, hard to detect.

Its main body was a huge coffin that could swallow Heaven and Earth, and the nine extending mountain ridges were like nine true dragons spanning the universe, majestic and peerless, their aura swallowing heaven and devouring earth, enough to make one's heart and gall split.

Every time Jiang Xuan saw it, his heart was filled with confusion, because it was almost identical to the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin he had seen back then.

Nine dragons pulled a majestic bronze ancient coffin; now no one knew where it was hidden; Jiang Xuan had searched with all his might many times but returned empty-handed; now Burying Heaven Island appeared out of nowhere, shaking his mind and soul, making it hard to calm down.

Qian Kun trembled, chaotic qi surged without cease; the ancient ferocious beasts of the Si Da Jin Qu roared forth, standing towering, their majestic qi intertwining; in an instant, they constructed a chaotic cage of a forbidden domain, trapping Jiang Xuan at the Core! Though this seal had no substance, the scene it formed was realistic to the extreme; mountains and rivers were majestic and vast, the great array appeared and disappeared unpredictably, like a world-ending desperate situation; the aura of death and despair spread, as if even the threads of time and space were imprisoned.

Jiang Xuan was trapped in this desperate dead land, the qi around him tightly locked, like a peerless evil jiao trapped beneath Jiuyou.

The four forbidden lands were like a world-destroying divine array woven from chaotic divine chains, sealing this Mythical Battlefield airtight, cutting off all his paths of survival.

However, would Jiang Xuan be frightened by a predicament? Stars flickered in his eyes, his gaze sharp as a blade, as if he could see through this endless darkness and obstacles, finding a trace of vitality.

Images of his past battles with three forbidden zones flashed through his mind; only that last mysterious place, even though he had visited it many times, was still shrouded in mist, mysterious and unfathomable, hiding a heaven-shaking secret capable of overturning Qian Kun!

"Hmph! Ignorant child, today I will make it impossible for you to escape even with wings, and you will perish here!"

The Spirit Emperor stood proudly in the Void, his voice like rolling thunder, shaking this Heaven and Earth until they trembled. Beside him, that silver great blade, a heaven-opening sharp edge, shed strands of holy radiance, just like the Silver River pouring backwards; every ray of radiance seemed able to pierce the Heavenly Vault.

Jiang Xuan remained calm and unafraid; the Eight Trigrams Furnace atop his head slowly rotated, fresh Supreme blood, a lively crimson snake winding and flowing. The Shadows of the Stone Emperor, Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Beast God, and other Supremes who once rampaged across Heaven and Earth emerged, like ancient deities resurrecting; endless Years of sedimentation lay upon the furnace body, adding several degrees of supreme majesty that looked down upon all living beings.

"I rose from insignificance, pushing aside enemies all the way; every road I traveled was a blood road, every realm I trod was corpse bones! This Heaven and Earth once trembled for me, these experts all once prostrated for me! My furnace has been silent for many years; today, with your blood, I will once again awaken its peerless ferocious might!"

Jiang Xuan's voice was like a great bell, resounding through the Star Sea; rolling sound waves like a raging sea surged in all directions, shaking the universe's various strongest races until their hearts and gallbladders split. Those ancient existences lurking in the dark depths, hearing this roar, all trembled, seeing an Ancient Times killing god about to reappear in the Mortal World, setting off a bloody great calamity!

"Boom—!"

A heaven-shaking, earth-cracking giant sound; the Si Da Jin Qu completely closed, the Heaven and Earth caul from when Chaos first opened, thoroughly isolating this world from the outside, turning into a vast boundless Forbidden Zone Battlefield filled with endless killing aura.

"Ha ha ha! To make us Forbidden Zone experts join hands to kill you, you junior are not the first, yet it is enough for you to be proud! When you perish, this illustrious reputation will surely leave an ineradicable chapter in history, becoming an unparalleled tragic song sung by the Ten Thousand Races of later generations!"

The Four Great Supremes each occupied a direction; their Mysterious Qi soared skyward; four Tai Gu Shen Shan suppressed Heaven and Earth; every thread of Mysterious Qi contained terrifying power sufficient to destroy stars; they had already laid out a must-kill situation, vowing to strangle Jiang Xuan on this battlefield.

"Kill!"

The Great Peng Emperor's eyes burned with flames of destruction, letting out a heaven-shaking, earth-moving furious shout.

This roar exploded like a great bell; sound waves rolled, with him as the center surging in all directions; wherever they passed, Space trembled, the calm lake surface struck by a giant stone, rippling layer upon layer.

That Golden Whip in his hand, its body entwined with endless wind and thunder power; every bolt of lightning seemed able to split the Heavenly Vault, every wisp of strong wind able to blow away stars.

He waved the Golden Whip; the whip tip tore through the Chaos Qi above Burial Heaven Island, carrying world-annihilation might, fiercely lashing toward Jiang Xuan.

Where the whip tip passed, Space shattered like Glass, collapsing into countless tiny fragments spraying in all directions; every fragment contained terrifying energy sufficient to destroy everything.

"Hmph! Truly think I would fear you rats? In past Years, the Stone Emperor, Beast God, Carefree Heavenly Venerate and their like all once tried to block my path forward, becoming my enemies. Where are they now? All have turned to historical dust under my invincible fist might, becoming stepping stones for my ascent to the Peak throne! Today, you will also repeat their fate, trembling and perishing under my fists!"

Jiang Xuan's figure was towering, his aura majestic. His full head of black long hair danced like black flood dragons, wildly dancing; every strand of hair seemed to contain killing power sufficient to shatter stars.

At this moment he was like a demon god descending; his body emitted a heart-chilling breath. That once world-shaking Xuan Huang body, after many years, once again reappeared in the Mortal World.

He fiercely swung a fist; fist wind howled, wanting to blast this Heaven and Earth Qian Kun into dust. This fist straight blasted toward the Great Peng Emperor's Golden Whip; where fist and whip collided, a Chaos-first-opening great explosion, light dazzling beyond eye-opening; endless energy ripples crazily spread in all directions; wherever they passed, Space was repeatedly crushed and twisted, like a crumpled torn cloth.

The four great experts' four Tai Gu Shen Shan standing since Heaven and Earth first opened simultaneously violently trembled.

The Shen Xu, Taichu Ancient Mine, Xian Ling, Burial Heaven Island they represented likewise trembled crazily.

Immediately after, endless runes brilliant as stars surged and spread from within these Si Da Jin Qu; these runes flickered with mysterious light, interweaving together into a sky-covering divine net, enveloping this vast universe.

They each occupied a direction, standing on their own most familiar main battlefield. This Forbidden Zone extended from their own bloodline, every Array Pattern a loyal Guard, bestowing supreme greatness upon them. Under the Array Patterns' amplification, their auras obtained a qualitative leap, becoming even more majestic and heavy, able to withstand Heaven and Earth collapsing might. Every wisp of Mysterious Qi fluctuation could trigger surrounding Space trembling, a calm lake surface thrown into a giant stone.

But for Jiang Xuan, these Array Patterns were instead sinister fangs hidden in the dark, laying layer upon layer of killing intent. Every Array Pattern contained fatal danger; invisible sharp blades, ready at any time to pierce his body.

This time to thoroughly kill Jiang Xuan, these Four Great Supremes, cunning hunters who had meticulously planned for long, laid out their scheme thoroughly, with full dedication.

They mobilized all power within their respective Forbidden Zones, gathering the entire Heaven and Earth's power onto one point.

"You frogs at the bottom of a well, thinking such trifling tricks can do anything to me? These places I have not never visited, how could I be trapped by your petty schemes?"

That Jiang Xuan standing at the peak of Heaven and Earth, Chaos Heavenly Emperor, atop his head the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Divine Furnace that birthed all things when Chaos first opened. Runes flickered on the furnace body, stars shone, slowly rotating, evolving the Xuan Huang body's supreme divine might.

Every fist swung, Heaven and Earth cracked, radiance ten thousand zhang. He, Heavenly Emperor Descends, body surrounded by hundred million zhang Divine Light; every ray of light contained an ultimate power, either Destruction or Creation. With this Invincible Posture, he hard-clashed against the terrifying kill-array these Si Da Jin Qu jointly laid; wherever he passed, he would tear open a gap in this Heaven and Earth that imprisoned him, kill out a blood road.

(Chapter End)