This vitality was exceedingly powerful, blanketing the sky in an instant. A ferocious aura erupted from his body, so intense that even the black mist across from him weakened slightly. Just as Jiang Feiyi had said, Mo Gang possessed terrifying strength.
Beside him, several members of the Maha Clan stepped forward in unison, their vitality bursting forth at the very same moment.
Their power linked together into an unbroken expanse, and an instant later, the Maha warriors struck.
Though clad in black armor, their formidable physical might was on full display. Leading the others beside them, the Maha warriors clashed directly against the experts of the Celestial Clan.
In an instant, the power of vitality and lightning intertwined, causing the earth to tremble.
These combatants were exceptionally strong. Ordinarily, when facing Celestial Clan members who had absorbed the power of extraterrestrial heavenly demons, the champions of various clans would find themselves at a disadvantage. But with the Maha Clan joining the fray, the entire situation changed. Their physical bodies were truly formidable, possessing a special innate gift that made the lightning barely a threat to them. Instead, it only spurred them to fight with greater vigor. Even so, that battlefield was not decisive. The ultimate outcome would hinge on the fight between the strongest among them.
"I don't care what your purpose is in coming here, but as long as I am around, you will never seize the Juntian Mountain Range!" Mo Gang declared. His vitality surged once more, and an instant later, he vanished.
The three extraterrestrial heavenly demons sensed his movement as well, black mist churning around them. Within moments, the four of them were locked in fierce combat.
Having fought extraterrestrial heavenly demons before, Lu Yuan understood them well. Such beings possessed terrifying physical might and wielded all manner of techniques, leaving them practically without a weakness. That was precisely why cultivators of this realm were consistently suppressed whenever they fought them at comparable cultivation levels. Moreover, the demons possessed an unusual power capable of corrupting the mind. Even so, this battle still took him somewhat by surprise regarding the Maha Clan's strength.
Lu Yuan could tell that the extraterrestrial heavenly demons before them were essentially on par with the Creation Immortal realm of this world. Yet Mo Gang was currently holding his own against all three of them at once, relying solely on his physical might.
His astonishing vitality steadily suppressed the billowing black mist as it surged outward. Mo Gang's prowess was undeniably in a class of its own within the same cultivation realm.
After reaching the Immortal Realm, fighting across cultivation levels was practically impossible unless one belonged to the ranks of supreme prodigies. Even Jiang Ningxian and Jiang Haokong could only barely manage it. In the vast majority of cases—more than ninety-nine percent of the time—no one could bridge the gap to fight above their level once they attained the Immortal Realm. Yet Mo Gang had accomplished this very feat.
After all, extraterrestrial heavenly demons were stronger than ordinary cultivators of the same rank, and in certain situations, they could even crush them with ease. Yet Mo Gang was fighting three of them single-handedly, which genuinely exceeded Lu Yuan's expectations. No wonder the man had charged in alone with his followers; he possessed absolute confidence in his own strength.
"He really is strong," Jiang Haokong remarked in shock. He felt that even if he reached the Creation Immortal realm, pulling off such a feat would be immensely difficult and would require risking his very life.
Beside him, Jiang Feiyi swallowed hard, knowing full well he was incapable of doing the same. Thinking this, he glanced at Lu Yuan beside him, relieved that Lu Yuan had not clashed with Mo Gang. Otherwise, no one knew how they could have resolved the fallout.
"Lu Yuan, this Mo Gang truly is terrifying."
"It seems our goal of stopping the extraterrestrial heavenly demons can be achieved this time," Jiang Haokong spoke up again, a hint of a smile in his eyes.
He had always worried that the demons were too powerful and their side lacked sufficient strength. But after seeing this, he believed that if the demons were only at this level, there was little cause for concern. He had gained some confidence in thwarting the extraterrestrial heavenly demons from fully seizing Celestial Star and subsequently dominating the Thunderstrike Star Domain.
After all, in the battle before them, Mo Gang's formidable strength was already steadily suppressing the demons.
Yet upon hearing this, Lu Yuan shook his head. "Mo Gang can suppress them because he possesses tremendous power and exerted his full strength from the very beginning. As the saying goes, courage is highest at the first beat of the drum, falters at the second, and exhausts at the third."
"Furthermore, those three extraterrestrial heavenly demons have not yet displayed their true strength. If it were only one, it might be fine."
"Unfortunately, Mo Gang is too confident in his own might and hasn't thought things through properly. Soon, danger will surface, and at that point, I will have to step in."
Lu Yuan spoke entirely from his reading of the battlefield, while also acknowledging Mo Gang's strength. After all, very few across the cosmos could achieve what the man had done. How many could directly suppress extraterrestrial heavenly demons at the same cultivation level? Yet he could also see that Mo Gang had unleashed his maximum power. If he could maintain it indefinitely, all would be well. The problem was that he could not sustain it.
His words left Jiang Feiyi momentarily stunned.
Jiang Feiyi fully acknowledged Lu Yuan's strength. But right now, someone was battling and had the upper hand; what did Lu Yuan mean by saying such a thing? Inevitably, even Jiang Feiyi began to wonder if this King Lu from the Milky Way Star Sector was overly confident in his own abilities. If Mo Gang couldn't handle it, could Lu Yuan really turn the tides by stepping in? Naturally, Jiang Feiyi knew better than to voice such thoughts. He merely smiled without speaking, not taking Lu Yuan's words to heart.
As things stood, there were two battlefields. On the first, Mo Gang held the advantage against the three extraterrestrial heavenly demons. On the second, the Maha warriors leading the others were thoroughly suppressing the Celestial Clan. As long as this continued, their side was bound to emerge victorious in the end.
Before long, however, Jiang Feiyi's expression began to shift. The situation unfolded exactly as Lu Yuan had predicted.
In his battle against the three extraterrestrial heavenly demons, Mo Gang seemed to gradually fall into a disadvantage. The vitality released from within him was no longer as vigorous as before. The three demons, on the other hand, were a different story. The black haze around them grew increasingly dense, filling the surrounding world with a perilous aura.
"This..." Jiang Feiyi was taken aback, having never expected Lu Yuan to be proven right. Involuntarily, he turned to look at the Jiang siblings beside him, only to find that neither of them looked surprised. It seemed they had trusted Lu Yuan's assessment from the start.
"It's time for me to act," Lu Yuan said, his gaze remaining as calm as before.
Throughout the fight, he had gained a rough understanding of the three demons' combat methods. In short, they were similar to the one he had encountered before, relying on their innate advantages to suppress opponents. Defeating them required greater methods and power, so he saw no reason to keep studying them.
"All right, be careful!" Jiang Ningxian nodded, making no move to stop him.
In the next instant, Lu Yuan stepped forward, appearing directly beside Mo Gang.
"What are you doing? This is no place for you! These three extraterrestrial heavenly demons are revealing their true strength now. Fall back, or I won't be able to protect you!" Mo Gang barked.
Though friction had arisen between them earlier, at this critical juncture, Mo Gang told Lu Yuan to retreat because he knew the danger. Resentment was resentment, but there was no deep enmity between them. Moreover, he admired Lu Yuan for attaining such strength in such a short time; he merely felt the young man shouldn't claim the title of the Heavenly Court, a name that once shook all eternity.
"If I leave, can you hold them off on your own?" Lu Yuan smiled.
He had gained a general sense of Mo Gang's character. The man certainly had a foul temper, but he had harbored no genuine malice from the start. Even now, under such circumstances, he still sought to protect Lu Yuan. All things considered, he wasn't bad.
"You!" Hearing Lu Yuan's reply, Mo Gang's expression shifted. Yet occupied with resisting the demons' oppressive auras, he couldn't spare the focus to argue further. He simply thought the man before him was utterly ungrateful when he had told him to leave.
In the very next moment, however, Mo Gang's expression changed dramatically.
Beside him, an unprecedented aura accompanied by terrifying vitality surged forth. In an instant, the clouds shattered as an endless, frightening power erupted. Even the black mist radiating from the extraterrestrial heavenly demons was ripped apart.
Everyone in the surroundings was shaken by this power. It belonged to a Creation Immortal, yet the might it displayed seemed to surpass the realm entirely.
"You...?" As a cultivator of the same realm, Mo Gang could immediately sense from this overwhelming aura that the man before him possessed immense strength, far beyond what he had imagined—and certainly more terrifying than his own.
The three extraterrestrial heavenly demons were equally stunned by this power. They had just gained the upper hand and were about to claim the mountain range, yet a newcomer had suddenly appeared and unleashed strength even greater than Mo Gang's.
Lu Yuan paid no mind to their reactions. The Daluo Sword Embryo materialized in his grasp, and grotto-heavens manifested behind him one after another. Unlike before, he only wanted to end this battle quickly. In his view, there was little value in learning more about these three extraterrestrial heavenly demons. Rather than wasting time, he preferred to resolve them swiftly.
With that, Lu Yuan struck. Golden vitality flooded the world, outshining the ten suns in the sky. He stood like an Immortal of War descending into the mortal realm, radiating unparalleled and peerless might!
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