Li Guanqi smiled faintly.
"The bet is on. Today... may not be the day."
Hearing this, Ye Feng spoke softly.
"I bet we ascend today!"
"I've lost so many times, but this time I have a feeling—I'm going to win."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than the celestial transmission passage shattered with a deafening crash!
A full three hundred and eighteen immortals descended upon the mortal realm!
Their cultivation realms had already stabilized inside the passage.
Their overall might exceeded that of the Seventh Domain by several times over!
Li Guanqi's heart sank. He could sense the crushing pressure of six or seven Ascension realm experts alone!
That was even more than he had previously detected!
It seemed many among them had prepared thoroughly, and the preceding suppression from the Heavenly Dao had been somewhat weaker than expected.
*Grandfather's battle outside the domain must be just as perilous!*
Now, neither battlefield—within the domain or without—could afford the slightest slip.
If even one line broke...
Every bit of Su Xuan's ten-thousand-year vigil would end in utter ruin.
The heavens and earth fell dead silent as an inexplicable, chilling slaughter-intent swept through the air.
Li Guanqi took a deep breath. The immortal primal energy within him roared, and the power of the Starfall Cold Lotus, once sealed in his body, gradually uncoiled.
*Boom!*
With a flick of Li Guanqi's hand, the terrifying Devouring Void Sacred Flame drew upon the heavenly flames within everyone present, forging a sprawling flame domain!
A radius of a thousand li transformed in an instant into a realm of blazing fire.
Spatial power swelled as the domain took shape.
Three colossal fire gates, each standing a thousand zhang tall, crashed down from above!
A terrifying force of suppression rolled outward.
Yet at that very instant, dozens of enemy cultivators struck in unison, shattering the spirit-incantation fire gates Li Guanqi had erected in the blink of an eye!
"Hmph! Petty parlor tricks. You thought to suppress us with this? Sheer delusion!"
A white-robed man spoke in a chilling voice, his eyes locked firmly onto Li Guanqi.
Six figures stood beside him.
All seven were in the Ascension realm, and the white-robed man possessed an especially surging aura that bore the pressure of the mid Ascension realm.
Li Guanqi showed not the slightest hint of fear. Raising his sword, he charged forward and bellowed with fury:
"Slay them all!"
Before his voice had even faded, Li Guanqi had already closed the distance to the man!
Three sword strikes sundered heaven and earth, cleaving the surrounding hundred li of space into fragments in an instant!
Li Guanqi stood tall and proud, facing all seven alone.
The white-robed man looked at Li Guanqi with unhurried composure, then glanced around and sneered.
"You think you alone can take on seven?"
As the words fell, a terrifying power of Heavenly Astral wind erupted from within his body!
A wind spiritual root!
*Boom!*
Azure astral wind howled and shot outward, severing heaven and earth.
The green-honed blade in his hand was enshrouded in fierce gales, its sword brilliance spitting incessantly.
"Aren't you being... a bit too arrogant?"
The clash was on the brink of erupting.
Outside the domain boundary.
Gu Li ripped away both of his sleeves, and the bracers on his arms all shattered!
Tens of thousands of inscribed talismans took flight, blotting out the sky like an ocean of talismans that enveloped the firmament!
The gems studded along his belt burst apart, and even more multicolored inscribed talismans merged into heaven and earth!
Beneath the flaming domain, the talisman ocean spanned a thousand li.
His face twisted with ferocity, Gu Li faded into the void.
"Consider this a greeting gift from yours truly, you bastards!"
Blue veins bulged across Gu Li's forehead. The immense strain on his divine sense flushed his entire face a deep, bruised purple.
Bleeding from all seven facial orifices, Gu Li pointed one finger toward the sky, bit through his fingertip, and drew upon his essence blood to trace talismans in midair!
"Old Six is putting his life on the line right from the start!"
Cao Yan narrowed his eyes and barked in a low voice:
"Protect him!"
The commotion was simply too colossal. Before the cultivators of either side could even clash, the vast ocean of talismans had already engulfed all their foes.
Fierce concussions boomed without pause as terrifying beams of destructive light shot in every direction.
Blades and sword flashes pierced the talisman sea, and figures darted out from the tears and cracks.
Yet an instant later, even more inscribed talismans swarmed over them, dragging them back down into the ocean of paper and ink!
Layer upon layer, the talisman sea rolled like ocean waves, ruthlessly bearing down upon the invaders.
Sustaining such a display pushed Gu Li far past his absolute physical limits.
Every cultivator of the Seventh Domain stood ready for battle. They all knew the terrifying power of Gu Li's inscribed talismans.
If such an astronomical number—nearly thirty million inscribed talismans—detonated all at once...
It would be enough to grievously wound most of the Immortal Realm cultivators in an instant!
By now, many cultivators on the immortal side had realized the danger as well.
In fact, their reaction was even faster than Gu Li's.
Gathering together in a flash, they focused their attacks on a single point in a frenzied bombardment!
In the blink of an eye, a massive hole was torn open in the churning sea of talismans.
Ye Feng lunged forward at once, roaring:
"Strike!"
Flashing sword lights and blade shadows streaked through the air as shrill, piercing shrieks echoed without end.
The two sides hurled devastating attacks at each other straight through the churning sea of talismans.
A stray sword light grazed Ye Feng's cheek, shearing away a large patch of flesh in a spray of blood.
Undaunted, the sword in his hand slashed out again and again, unleashing a chaotic storm of terrifying Geng Metal sword beams!
Ye Feng sent his voice booming out in a solemn transmission:
"Everyone, stay on your guard!"
*Splurt!*
Ye Feng shifted his stance repeatedly to dodge, dozens of enemy strikes whistling past him.
Yet a cultivator barely a hundred zhang to his flank was not so fortunate.
Dozens of concentrated attacks obliterated him on the spot!
His body turned into a burst of bloody mist, erased entirely within the blaze of sword light!
Seeing this from afar, a burly man cried out with bloodshot eyes:
"Old Zhou!"
"I'll slaughter every last one of you bastards!"
The man went mad, hurling ferocious attacks into the crowd below.
His sword severed an Immortal Realm cultivator's arm.
Yet the immortal capitalized on the man's forward momentum, seizing him by the hair, kicking him hard in the back, and using the rebound to vault free of the encirclement!
A cold light flashed through Ye Feng's eyes.
He teleported right before the foe, his gaze fixed ruthlessly upon him.
"You think you're getting away?"
The immortal, broad-backed and fierce-eyed, had no time to waste fighting Ye Feng and tried desperately to break clear of the talisman sea.
Yet the moment he moved half an inch, a thin line of blood appeared across his throat!
Had he not leaned his body backward by a foot just in time, his head would have already parted from his shoulders!
Ye Feng planted his sword in the man's path, then stepped in and smashed a fist into his shoulder, blasting him back several hundred zhang.
"You want to leave? You'd better ask me if I permit it first!"
Gu Li's face had gone paper-white, and his tracing fingers finally came to a halt.
With a savage snarl, Gu Li snapped his head up and flicked a finger. Every Seventh Domain cultivator was instantly teleported several hundred li away.
"Fall back!"
"Blow them all to hell!"
*Boom!*
A blinding flash of fire turned the entire domain bright as day.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
Deafening explosions drowned out all other sound!
The boundary of the Seventh Domain began to splinter and collapse.
Even the lightning domain hovering in midair was largely torn to shreds!
The roar of the blast raged on for nearly thirty breaths.
After thirty breaths had passed...
The entire world lay in shattered ruins, and nearly half of the Seventh Domain's boundary had been blasted away.
Through the boundless void, one could even catch glimpses of faint light beyond the emptiness, while the muffled rumble of explosions rolled in from the distance.
The domain's natural restoration was painfully slow.
Every single person had been hurled dozens of li by the sheer shockwave.
The lingering fury of the blast was simply too overwhelming.
Gu Li swayed on his feet, his head throbbing with agonizing pain as faint fissures cracked across his sea of consciousness!
With blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, Tang Ru grabbed Gu Li and pulled him into the void.
As the pervasive firelight gradually receded, numerous battered, ragged figures were revealed.
Mangled corpses plummeted from the sky.
One after another...
The simultaneous detonation of Gu Li's thirty million talismans had directly wiped out nearly thirty of the descending immortals!
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