Do You Seek to Overturn the Heavens?

The female immortal once again channeled her Primordial Spirit, sensing the myriad heavens and worlds, and relocated the immense Kunlun. Lofty Kunlun connected the myriad heavens and worlds, able to shift between various realms. In ordinary times, this movement was driven by the natural celestial motion of the myriad worlds. But the immortals sent down from the Immortal Realm pursued too closely; to escape them required someone of immense supernatural prowess to relocate Kunlun. The female immortal was that person. The Queen Mother of the West had assisted her in restoring her memories across reincarnations, helping her awaken the memories of her first lifetime precisely to borrow her power to relocate Kunlun. Yet Kunlun was a vast mountain range of staggering heft and scale. Moving Kunlun drained an astonishing amount of dharmic power. Even as a female immortal, she could not carry Kunlun across world after world without pause. A time would come when her strength gave out. The Queen Mother of the West spread her vast divine power, tensely monitoring the void. She sensed that the Immortal Realm pursuers were hot on Kunlun's trail, rushing toward them. Over the past seven years, they had weathered many such pursuits, and the pursuers grew stronger each time. Her heart sank. Just now, the female immortal had led them across from the Gengyin World to another world, yet they had still failed to shake off their pursuers. "The pursuing immortals must possess an extraordinarily formidable immortal artifact—one capable of locking onto and tracking Kunlun, and even transporting pursuers across the myriad heavens and worlds!" The Queen Mother of the West frowned slightly and looked back at the female immortal. The female immortal's Primordial Spirit was vast, her divine consciousness fine as strands of hair, linking to the myriad heavens and worlds. She was already preparing to mobilize her dharmic power to relocate Kunlun once more, departing this realm for yet another! The next moment, heaven and earth trembled, and Kunlun vanished from this new world. Tianyuan World. The residents living in Wangyou City were going about their daily chores when the void violently shook. Rosy light welled from the earth, and radiant beams shot into the sky, illuminating half the heavens in brilliant splendor. Next, the colossal mass of the Kunlun mountains came into view before the residents of Wangyou City. Towering snow-capped peaks blocked their vision entirely. Around the majestic mountains, the myriad heavens and worlds hung across the firmament like arranged constellations, dazzlingly bright. Yet in the next instant, heaven and earth warped and tilted. The newly arrived Kunlun range had barely settled before it surged once more toward one of the heavens in the sky. Whoosh—! Mount Kunlun vanished without a trace. While the residents of Wangyou City were still gripped with shock and suspicion, the sky cracked open again, spilling light from another realm. Accompanying the radiance of the Immortal Realm was a group of eccentrically dressed figures cloaked in ethereal immortal qi. Their Dao domains unfolded, and resonant Dao tones permeated the air. Those bizarre Dao tones caused living things in the vicinity to grow rampantly, turning mutated and twisted, even giving rise to horrifying sights of multiple species merging together. Even cemeteries saw bizarre occurrences: bones dead for a century crawled out of their graves, and the dead revived, wandering the streets! "Kunlun has already left! After it!" Those strange figures quickly vanished. Yet the bizarre phenomena did not vanish. The creatures corrupted by the Immortal Dao lurked unpredictably, devouring people everywhere, posing immense danger. As the female immortal carried Mount Kunlun through world after world, the Queen Mother of the West's expression grew increasingly grave. She could tell that the female immortal's strength was severely depleted; she could not hold out much longer and would soon be utterly exhausted. Meanwhile, the pursuers remained relentless, refusing to be shaken off. "Fellow Daoist, there is no need to move Kunlun any further!" The Queen Mother of the West stepped forward to stop the female immortal, saying, "The immortal artifact employed by the pursuers was likely forged from Kunlun stone harvested from Yuzhu Peak and Yuxu Peak. Once such a treasure is crafted into an immortal artifact, it can traverse the myriad worlds and track Kunlun. No matter where we flee, we will likely be overtaken. If so, let us prepare for a fight to the death!" The female immortal stopped and went beneath the Immortal Realm cave-heaven suspended above Kunlun, striving to recover her cultivation with the aid of Kunlun's immortal qi. This cave-heaven connected to the Jade Pool and could condense Jade Pool immortal water—a supreme sacred medicine for healing and saving lives! The Queen Mother of the West summoned all the gods of Kunlun, standing ready in battle formation. Due to Kunlun's sudden appearance squeezing the surrounding space, thunderstorms erupted. Countless lightning bolts converged near the many divine peaks of Kunlun, amid flashing lightning and rumbling thunder. The sky flickered between light and shadow. Tense, the Kunlun gods surveyed their surroundings, vigilant against the incoming enemy. Master Fire Dragon and Han Zekang were exceedingly nervous. Han Zekang trembled slightly and whispered, "Master, weren't we going to Penglai to become immortals? Why did we end up in Kunlun, fighting immortals?" Master Fire Dragon was also shaking a little, trying his best to suppress the tremor in his voice. "This... this is probably our pledge of loyalty to enter Penglai." Han Zekang asked, "Master, if we fight immortals today, can we still ascend and become immortals?" Master Fire Dragon fell silent. Beside them, Lu Wu kindly consoled them, saying, "Still dreaming of ascending to immortality? It's not even certain whether you can survive today—why bother worrying about useless nonsense?" Master and disciple turned ashen-faced. Kaiming said, "Lu Wu, stop scaring them. The immortals' strength isn't actually much greater than theirs. Not a single immortal has ascended over the past tens of thousands of years, and the immortals who ascended before that aren't much better than today's Ascension-stage Qi Refiners. When they underwent their heavenly tribulations, it was only a tribulation over a hundred li—not spanning thousands of li at every turn like nowadays! With your cultivation, there's absolutely no problem beating a few immortals before you die." Qingluan chattered, "I heard the Queen Mother of the West say that the immortals pursuing us this time are no trivial matter. They are most likely the very immortals who destroyed Kunlun back then—the immortals of the Thunder Capital Office among the Three Offices! And commanding the Thunder Capital Office is an Immortal King! Among the immortals of the Thunder Capital Office, very few are Human Immortals; most are Earth Immortals and Heaven Immortals." The master and disciple's faces turned the color of dirt. Suddenly, all the lightning abruptly paused. The next moment, ten thousand bolts exploded in unison. The glare of the thunder lit up every corner of the Kunlun Realm with dazzling whiteness, blinding all vision! When the light of the thunder faded, all the divine lightning across the heavens remained suspended in midair, as if time had congealed, freezing the divine thunder. Beneath that myriad of divine thunderbolts, a stone city emerged. Atop the stone city stood immortals clad in eccentric attire, their garments covered in thunder and lightning-fire patterns. They held peculiar immortal artifacts, mostly hammers, chisels, flags, axes, golden cymbals, and bright mirrors. At their head stood a middle-aged man in a red robe and a golden crown. He stood atop the stone city as heavenly light broke open, revealing the Immortal Realm beyond the sky. The middle-aged man looked toward the Queen Mother of the West from afar. Seeing her boundless, fathomless divine power, he could not help but shake his head. "Back then, the Heavenly Venerable of the Thunder Department led the One Mansion, Two Courts, and Three Offices under orders to eradicate Kunlun. I led the host to suppress and slay you wild gods. To think you could still revive. It seems the Kunlun Undying People were not completely wiped out after all, and they awakened you." The Queen Mother of the West sneered, "Fang Songhuai, Immortal King of the Thunder Capital Office, you were an Immortal King of the Immortal Realm back then, and to this day you are still an Immortal King. It seems destroying Kunlun did not earn you a promotion." The middle-aged man, Fang Songhuai, shook his head. "Wild god, don't think you can sow discord. A single step above me is an existence like an Imperial Monarch! How could the mere merit of eradicating wild gods of Kunlun elevate me to Imperial Monarch? If that were so, wouldn't the Immortal Realm be crawling with Imperial Monarchs?" The Queen Mother of the West said, "You even used the corpses of your fallen subordinates to lay down an array in Kunlun in an attempt to suppress me. It seems you people remain useful even after death." Fang Songhuai of the Thunder Capital Office darkened. This was indeed a point of grief for him. He had desperately wanted to bury his fallen comrades, but he was not the one in charge. He could only follow orders, using those comrades' bodies to lay down the formation to suppress the Queen Mother of the West's residual divine consciousness and prevent her revival. The Queen Mother of the West intended to say more to shatter his Dao heart, but Fang Songhuai gave her no chance. He sneered, "Deluding the masses with wicked words!" With that, he waved his hand and gave the command. Instantly, the immortals under the Thunder Capital Office surged out from the stone city, charging to slaughter the Queen Mother of the West and her host! The Queen Mother of the West had not yet regained her peak divine power, and gods like Lu Wu had revived from death without fully recovering. Had they been in their prior peak state, they would have had nothing to fear. One must know that when Kunlun was besieged back then, the Immortal Realm had mobilized the full might of the Thunder Department's One Mansion, Two Courts, and Three Offices, along with the Heavenly Venerable of the Thunder Department himself, before they managed to wipe out Kunlun. The Heavenly Venerable of the Thunder Department was an existence on par with an Imperial Monarch, his cultivation and power immense. Only with such colossal forces joined together was Kunlun finally eradicated. From this, one could imagine Kunlun's might at the time; calling it a primordial Heavenly Dao world would be no exaggeration. At that time, the Heavenly Dao world was merely subordinate to the Thunder and Fire Ministry of Works under the Three Offices of the Thunder Department, not even ranking prominently. To this day, the gods of the Heavenly Dao world were still under the command of the Thunder and Fire Ministry of Works. The immortals of the Thunder Capital Office charged forward, sacrificing their various immortal artifacts from afar. Lu Wu said to Master Fire Dragon, "Follow me when we charge out in a moment! In Kunlun, aside from the Queen Mother of the West, I possess the greatest combat strength! Don't fear death—if you fall in battle, the Xu family lad will awaken us!" Trembling with terror, Han Zekang asked shakily, "Exalted God, is it possible... that my master and I won't wake up after we die?" Lu Wu let out a loud roar and surged forth like floating light and fleeting shadows toward the immortals of the Thunder Capital Office. From afar, he let out a bellow that collided with the thunder bursting from the immortal artifacts, the sound waves vibrating and violently erupting! Kaiming said to Master Fire Dragon and his disciple, "You'd better keep up with Lu Wu. It is indeed as he said: his combat strength is the greatest, and he can protect you. The moment he can't protect you is probably when he falls in battle." Master Fire Dragon gritted his teeth and charged up with Han Zekang, shouting, "Disciple, stick close to me!" The other Kunlun gods roared and charged forth to meet the immortals of the Thunder Capital Office. Brave and skilled in battle, they wielded weapons forged entirely from immortal gold produced in Kunlun; though their weapons were exceedingly primitive, their power was astonishing. In the sky, thunder immortal artifacts appeared one after another, unleashing blasts of divine thunder rivaling heavenly tribulations to strike downward. As Master Fire Dragon and Han Zekang rushed to Lu Wu's side, Lu Wu swept his tail, scooping the two up and depositing them onto his forehead. Perched upon Lu Wu's forehead, master and disciple jolted violently. They saw Lu Wu using every part of his body as a weapon, head-on clashing against thunder immortal artifacts and lunging at immortals. His nine tails were heavy as mountains, whipping down with rushing wind! Master and disciple hurriedly joined in, deploying their divine powers and sacrificing their Primordial Spirits to battle the immortals closing in from all directions, striving to keep Lu Wu from being completely enveloped in encirclement. Yet the Kunlun gods were too few in number; encirclement was only a matter of time. Right then, the sleeves formed of the Queen Mother of the West's surging divine power spread out like an ocean, blanketing the entirety of Kunlun. They intercepted a portion of the Thunder Capital Office's immortal artifacts, preventing them from attacking the Kunlun gods. The pressure on the Kunlun gods and Master Fire Dragon's group eased dramatically. Immortal King Fang Songhuai took a stride forward, his Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit rising behind him, towering and immense like a primordial ancient god. Engaging the Queen Mother of the West, he sneered, "Fellow Daoist, you had best return to your slumber obediently so I can report my duty fulfilled." Beneath the Queen Mother of the West's sleeves, Feng Yao and Qingluan flew close along the thick mantle of divine power. Two Earth Immortals came pursuing from behind. Earth Immortals were formidable; even though Feng Yao and Qingluan's cultivation and strength were not inferior to the Angler's, they were genuinely powerless before Earth Immortals. Exhausted from fighting, the two women had depleted all the magical treasures on them. Qingluan gritted her teeth and sacrificed a bell. The bell floated in the air, chiming wildly—ding-a-ling! Suddenly, the chiming turned into the deep tolling of a bell. The immortal bell became as huge as a celestial body, tolling and ringing, throwing the two Earth Immortals' Dao hearts into complete disarray. Qingluan was dazed for a moment, but Feng Yao had already seized the chance to wheel around and strike back. Activating her five great secret depositories, she delivered a barrage of heavy blows, gravely wounding one of the Earth Immortals. The other Earth Immortal sacrificed an immortal axe and struck at the colossal immortal bell, only for the axe to fracture with a resounding clang. Only then did Qingluan snap back to her senses. Flapping her wings, she darted over, seized the silver ring atop the immortal bell, and swung it toward the other Earth Immortal. The impact shook the Earth Immortal's Primordial Spirit out of alignment, unable to return to his physical body. The two women slew both Earth Immortals. Qingluan said excitedly, "Young Miss, I might have misjudged Heavenly Artisan Zhu! This bell is truly useful!" Just at that moment, a massive Dao domain expanded, enveloping the two women. A Heaven Immortal of the Thunder Capital Office spread his Dao domain. Both women groaned, their Primordial Spirits suppressed. The Heaven Immortal walked forward, the immortal artifact behind him—the Doutian Five Dragon Spear—crackling with sparks of lightning. In the Immortal Realm, the Imperial Monarch, enjoying a rare moment of leisure, had come to visit Yuanjun to play chess with her. Holding a white stone, the Imperial Monarch smiled and said, "It is rather strange. My Crane Boy went down to the mortal realm, yet for some reason, he has still not returned." Holding a black stone, Yuanjun said, "The Immortal Realm is grand, but one cannot throw one's weight around here. Your boy is likely using his time in the mortal realm to swagger about and reap some benefits." The Imperial Monarch placed his stone and said, "I heard Yuanjun also sent Perfected Jade Pot to the mortal realm." Yuanjun pondered, stone unplayed, and smiled. "The mortal realm is fraught with trouble, and many old fogies of the Immortal Realm have reached their hands down. If I do not reach in as well, I fear there will be nothing left for me to reap later." She placed her stone softly. The Imperial Monarch picked up a white stone, just about to play it, when his expression suddenly changed drastically. He sprang to his feet. "Not good!" Surprised, Yuanjun inquired, "What makes the Imperial Monarch so flustered?" The Imperial Monarch's face darkened and cleared unpredictably. "Qiu, Ling, Yu, You, Yu... Good grief! Breaking five characters of my seal in one breath! Xu Ying, do you seek to overturn the heavens?!"