Chapter 136: Slaying Immortals in the Mortal Realm (Part Two)

A man dressed in white, pristine as if untainted by the mortal dust, gently pinched a wisp of the breeze, his cloud-like sleeves fluttering. He quietly watched the heavenly vein flowers, his eyes as calm as the surface of a mirror lake, without the slightest ripple.

"This person must also taste delicious!"

The Dark蚀 Bead quivered, continuously exuding a greedy aura. Subconsciously, he mistook this man for the manifestation of a spiritual entity—a celestial blossom-grade treasure of supreme deliciousness that could immensely satisfy his gluttonous desires.

Just as he was about to strike, the Dark蚀 Bead paused.

The breeze blew, causing the heavenly vein flowers to sway and appear even more enchanting and graceful, while the man in white, who had been standing to the side just moments ago, vanished with effortless ease.

What is happening?

The Dark蚀 Realm Beast was startled, his dark eyes revealing confusion. Even if this man's true form were a celestial blossom, it would be nearly impossible to evade his divine perception.

"Tap."

The man in white appeared directly behind the Dark蚀 Bead, gently picking up the black orb between two fingers and turning it about casually. Standing above from a position of absolute superiority, his eyes remained as calm and tranquil as the myriad brilliant lights of a vast starry river.

"You!" The Dark蚀 Realm Beast was both shocked and enraged.

As a dignified dark behemoth, he had actually been approached from behind without the slightest sound! Even more terrifyingly, he only realized it the moment the other pinched the Dark蚀 Bead!

"Get lost!"

With a roar from the Dark蚀, a destructive aura surged forth. The concussive force echoed, and not far away, three mountain ranges made of flowers instantly collapsed into crumbling ruins amidst billowing dust.

The man in white watched calmly, glancing at the three leveled peaks. Through the reversal of time, they returned to their original appearance at a clearly visible speed.

"The power of time and space!" The Dark蚀 was secretly alarmed. At this moment, he was still being held effortlessly between the other's fingers, and his previous shockwave had had zero effect.

Who on earth was this? Aside from the Goddesses of the Flower Sea, were there other practitioners with such combat prowess? Damn it, didn't the intelligence reports state that the Flower Sea was currently focused solely on the initial blooming of the divine flora?

The Dark蚀 roared repeatedly. Being pinched in someone's grip like this filled him with extreme humiliation and frustration.

No longer caring about concealing his aura, a surge of dark energy erupted, and the dark bead finally leaped upward, condensing into a robust, nine-foot-tall man in black robes.

"Go."

This black-robed man stood nine feet tall, with three diamond-shaped black scales growing between his brows, densely covered in destructive divine markings. As soon as he formed, he charged straight toward the firmament of the Flower Sea.

Clearly, this ferocious beast knew that once his true form was exposed, he could not linger for even a moment longer, otherwise, he would draw the joint siege of the Flower Sea Goddesses.

"Squeak..."

It sounded like tree branches being bent and strained to their absolute limit.

The Dark蚀 burned his divine power crazily, charging toward the misty boundary of the firmament. Yet, a shocking thing happened: after sprinting at full force for dozens of breaths, not only did his distance to the firmament fail to shrink, but he was actually retreating slowly.

Although the continent of the Flower Sea spanned nine light-years in diameter, to a cultivation-realm entity like the Dark蚀, crossing it should have been a matter of an instant. Yet, after all this time, he still had not escaped.

What was going on?!

The Dark蚀 was shocked, enraged, and utterly baffled. Looking back, he saw that the man in white wore an expression of unusual calm.

Within his fair palm, starlight flickered and multicolored mists danced, as if all distances between heaven and earth had been condensed entirely within his grasp.

"A world within the palm! He actually knows immortal magic! Damn it, damn it, blast it!"

This was immortal magic—entirely distinct from the modern cultivation system. Compared to ultimate martial arts, the divine arts of the Immortal Domain were far more profound, unfathomable, and unimaginatively vast.

"Roar!"

A ferocious, bloodthirsty roar, spine-chilling and soul-stirring, echoed throughout the entire continent of the Flower Sea. A massive dark behemoth appeared high in the firmament, its entire body wreathed in the laws of destruction, with a single horn on its head radiating a gloomy, deathly light.

This was the true form of the Dark蚀 Realm Beast.

Back then, he had once swallowed a brilliant blazing sun, and now the version appearing in the Flower Sea was a miniaturized form, stretching across tens of thousands of miles—yet still terrifyingly huge!

"The aura of a great ferocious beast! How could there be the aura of a great ferocious beast in the Flower Sea?"

In a distant sacred land, several goddesses were all alerted. Sensing that energy, their beautiful faces revealed incomprehension. Frowning slightly, they set out one after another.

"Not good, the Flower Sea Goddesses are about to arrive!"

High in the firmament, the Dark蚀 trembled with mounting panic. The destructive divine flames dancing across his skin flickered as he sensed several exceptionally powerful auras rushing toward this location.

He had been too rash!

The spiritual avatars of the Flower Sea Goddesses were all extraordinary, with several of them being no less formidable than Lord Yu. They guarded the peace of this sacred land, and not a single one of them was weak.

"Hurry and go!"

A starry sky materialized above the head of the Dark蚀 Realm Beast, with a dazzling, brilliant river of stars flowing across it. It smashed outward, attempting to push the man in white away and tear open the prison within his palm.

However, the man in white merely closed his palm slightly.

Immortal light flashed, and mystical power surged. That entire starry sky was rapidly compressed, and when it rushed within three feet of him, it disintegrated into a drizzle of light and vanished with a boom.

Simultaneously, as the palm clenched tighter, the Dark蚀 Realm Beast seemed to endure immense pressure. His massive head was forcibly pushed down against his shoulders, his teeth bared, his black skin pulled taut, and his bones grinding together with creaking sounds.

His entire body was being passively compressed!

Everything happened far too fast—in the blink of an eye. This dark behemoth, who had roamed the starry sky with supreme arrogance and self-confidence, was being played with in the palm of a hand!

"Lord Yu, save me!"

Panic-stricken to the core, the Dark蚀 was forced to transform back into human form. He sacrificed a feather that resembled celestial metal, entirely snow-white with brilliant golden edges. As it swept through the air, it carved layer upon layer of difficult ripples into the void.

"Immortal... vein..."

The man in white stared blankly at the divine feather, standing frozen in place as he uttered those two words. Distracted for a moment, his five fingers relaxed slightly, and the suppression over the void instantly abated.

Breaking through space without looking back, the Dark蚀 panicked and fled wildly toward the firmament.

Having snapped out of his daze, the man in white realized that the Dark蚀 had already shattered the Flower Sea's firmament and was on the verge of successfully escaping. Gazing at the feather seemingly forged from celestial metal, a strange glint flickered in his eyes.

"Slash!"

With just a single soft word, the spiritual energy of the boundless Flower Sea surged like an avalanche or a roaring tsunami.

A sword beam, snowy-white and nearly blindingly piercing, possessing peerless sharpness spanning over a distance of three light-years, rose from the earth. Acting like the terminator between dawn and dusk, it cleaved the massive boundary of the Flower Sea into two halves.

"My soul is trembling; it can't help but kneel..."

At Heavenly Snow Peak, the Twelve-Pin Heavenly Ainuo Lotus trembled. This celestial blossom looked at the firmament in sheer terror, its lotus petals curling inward in fright while its stem and leaves shook violently.

If a spiritual entity of her caliber was reduced to this state, needless to say, the others—billions of flower spirits—all lost consciousness instantly!

"That is..."

Several goddesses rushed out of the pure land, staring in a daze at the firmament. Especially the Goddess of Star and Moon, whose gaze was hazy, utterly conquered by that blindingly brilliant sword beam: "It's actually so breathtakingly gorgeous..."

Without a sound.

In the starry sky, the Dark蚀 Bead split into two, the cut surface as deep and smooth as black jade. A full quarter of it instantly shattered into black powder.

Faintly, the sound of a severely wounded individual coughing up blood echoed, weakened to the extreme. Not daring to linger, he transformed into a beam of dark light and fled rapidly.

A pristine white feather, seemingly forged from celestial metal, drifted and fell downward from the sky.

The man in white gently caught it.