Su Xuan slashed out ferociously with his blade!
Clang!!
The spirit blade cleared its scabbard.
The blade light pulverized everything in its path; before this single strike, any defense was a joke.
Su Xuan slowly rose to his feet as three severed corpses plummeted from midair.
Three mighty figures of the Immortal Realm had been cut down beneath his blade with such effortless ease.
Without losing a shred of momentum, the blade light cleaved straight into the Immortal Realm Gate!
With terrifying might, the slash sheared the massive Immortal Gate cleanly in half!
Boom!
A violent rumble echoed out.
A trace of blood seeped from Su Xuan's brow. His white robe was stained crimson with gore, his body marred by numerous blade and sword wounds.
Yet he seemed to have forged an iron resolve.
Step by step, he strode toward the broken Immortal Gate.
Within the gate, the assembly of immortals watched the old man approach step by step as if facing their greatest nemesis.
A chilling dread of death enshrouded them all!
His hands hung loosely at his sides as he came to a stop just three zhang outside the gate.
Every immortal took to the sky!
Weapons drawn, they stared at the old man outside the Immortal Gate on high alert.
Su Xuan's hair hung slightly disheveled. His eyes locked onto the figures within the gate, mentally calculating his odds.
Licking the blood from the corner of his lips, a ferocious snarl twisted the old man's face.
Within the scabbard in his left hand, a spirit blade of immortal primal energy coalesced once more!
He slowly stepped forward and raised his foot...
Boom!! Crack, crack, crack!
The old man brought his foot down in a savage kick against the remaining half of the Immortal Gate!
Thud!
Unable to withstand the staggering force, the colossal Immortal Gate instantly shattered into countless shards of celestial spirit!
Shards whistled through the air, shooting past the old man.
Su Xuan crouched slightly, his muscles coiled tight like a hunting leopard poised to pounce.
"Since you've severed his karma in the lower realm, you'd best prepare for my arrival up there!!"
Boom!
The celestial spirit bricks outside the Immortal Gate burst into dust as the old man surged into the gate like a ferocious beast!
In an instant, shrill shrieks reverberated through the Immortal Realm passage.
Violent explosions boomed incessantly, while shouts and agonizing screams tangled together in a chilling cacophony.
Half an incense stick later.
Su Xuan stood in place, panting heavily.
Inside the Immortal Realm passage, these immortals had retained their full cultivation.
Su Xuan, after all, was merely a Human Spirit Immortal who had never undergone the baptism of the Immortal Realm.
The primal energy in his body was only half-immortal primal energy; its purity was no match for theirs, resulting in massive exhaustion.
The old man's plain white robe was now dyed a dark, crusting crimson with blood.
The once-crowded passage had fallen into dead silence.
Across the ten-thousand-zhang passage, severed limbs and mangled corpses littered the ground.
Not a single living soul remained...
Over a hundred Mystic Immortals and Heavenly Immortals...
Su Xuan had stormed into their encirclement, but in reality, the confines of the passage meant he only ever had to face a dozen or so at any given moment.
Su Xuan stood motionless, blood dripping from the hem of his robe and his scabbard.
Soaked in fresh blood, the dark brown scabbard showed no change in hue.
Perhaps...
this scabbard had only taken on its current shade after bathing in far too much blood.
And Su Xuan's true blade was perhaps... left behind in the Immortal Realm.
It was hard to imagine:
if Su Xuan returned to the Immortal Realm, reclaimed his origin clone, and took back his blade... just how terrifyingly powerful would he be?
Right then, Su Xuan wiped the blood from his forehead and turned toward the depths of the immortal spiritual passage.
There, he could sense a remarkably formidable aura lurking in hiding.
A disdainful sneer curved the corner of his lips.
Straightening his posture, Su Xuan tilted his head slightly, staring contemptuously into the depths as he slowly raised the scabbard.
"Not coming out to kill me?"
No one answered.
Su Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood and spit, making no attempt to lower his voice.
"Gutless cur. You managed to hold back even while watching me slaughter every last one of them.
"In the Immortal Realm, you must be a cowardly turtle hiding in its shell, too."
With that, Su Xuan casually scratched his back with the scabbard and turned on his heel, strolling toward the exit of the Immortal Realm Gate with utter nonchalance.
As he walked, the old man murmured softly under his breath,
"The Immortal Realm... It's been so long since I went back.
"Now... the time really is drawing near."
In the depths of the passage.
A man clad in silver armor holding an immortal sword trembled slightly.
Beneath his visor, bloodshot eyes glared fixedly at the old man's retreating back, blue veins pulsing violently across his forehead.
His throat bobbed. In his mind, he had rehearsed a strike ten million times...
Yet no matter when he chose to strike, he would only die beneath the old man's blade!
More than that.
When Su Xuan had unleashed his slaughter, battling the desperate siege of Heavenly Immortals,
the cultivation realm he had revealed for that fleeting instant had clearly exceeded the eighth level of the Heavenly Immortal realm!
Which meant...
the intel sent back earlier by the gatekeeper remained inaccurate.
The peak of the eighth level of Heavenly Immortal was not the old man's limit...
And the aura unleashed in that single moment had left him thoroughly terrified.
Stepping across the shattered remnants of the Immortal Gate, Su Xuan glanced back toward the man's hiding place with a deadpan face, an inscrutable cold smirk playing upon his lips.
"Now that things have come to this, there is no need for this Immortal Gate to exist."
His voice falling, the old man kept his back turned to the Immortal Gate as blade light converged around him.
In an instant, dazzling rays of blade light erupted outward, a chaotic lattice of slashes tearing the entire Immortal Gate and passage to shreds!
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Tremendous explosions erupted within the void.
At that moment, the entire Human Spirit Realm felt a violent shudder.
Mountains and rivers trembled; tidal waves surged to the heavens!
Volcanoes erupted, and terrified birds hurled themselves against rocks, dying by their own panic.
Watching this unfold, the figure deep in the passage involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief...
Flipping his hand, he stowed away a recording mirror and turned to leave.
"He... is coming up!
"Is the struggle between mortals and immortals finally coming to an end...?"
Behind Su Xuan, thunderous detonations rang out without pause, yet the shockwaves dissipated on their own the moment they came within a thousand zhang of him.
Suddenly, the old man clutched his chest, pain twisting his features as blood oozed from the corners of his mouth—black as pitch.
Pale-faced, the old man sat cross-legged in the void, instantly crushing the floating shards of the shattered Immortal Gate into dust.
A boundless expanse of celestial spiritual energy surged toward his body.
Su Xuan slowly shed his dark red robe, revealing gruesome, bone-deep wounds across his flesh.
Traces of the mighty immortals' lingering power still clung to the gashes.
The old man let out a weary sigh.
A faraway look entered his eyes as he muttered softly,
"What a bloody mess...
"I can barely even stabilize my cultivation now.
"Looks like the time for my departure is getting closer and closer."
After roughly stabilizing his wounds, the old man braced his hands on his knees and slowly pushed himself upright.
He swept through the air and returned to his courtyard.
Slowly reclining into his chair, Su Xuan closed his eyes and whispered,
"Guanqi... in this game played across the Human Spirit Realm, you won by half a move!
"But after this, your grandfather can no longer keep you company.
"The rest of this road, you'll have to walk on your own."
Su Xuan's breathing grew somewhat labored.
This time, he had truly staked everything to sever the Immortal Realm's root!
He wanted to buy Li Guanqi a little more time.
Chapter 1496