Chapter 431: The Mortal World is Doomed to Fall
The enormous scar above the Second Great Mortal World continued expanding as golden light poured from within it, becoming increasingly brilliant.
The light illuminated the entire firmament, suppressing the darkness that had descended upon the world.
Countless mortals and cultivators stared upward in unison.
At that moment, a faint silhouette slowly appeared within the light before transforming into a figure that slowly stepped out from the depths of the golden radiance.
It was a middle aged man with an ordinary appearance, but his body was clad in golden armor that seemed to have been forged from fragments of Heavenly rules themselves.
Divine light continuously flowed around his body, and every movement he made caused the surrounding void to ripple.
He did not deliberately release his aura, yet the moment he appeared, the entire Second Great Mortal World seemed to become heavier.
*Boom!*
An invisible pressure descended all of a sudden, causing countless mortals and weaker cultivators to immediately collapse onto the ground despite being protected by various formations and restrictions.
All cultivators below the Immortal Ascension Realm outside the formations coughed blood, and even some Immortal Ascension cultivators felt their bodies become extremely heavy, as if an enormous divine mountain had suddenly been placed upon their shoulders.
The middle aged man’s expression remained indifferent; this was just his natural presence affecting the world around him.
His eyes slowly swept across the world as his Divine Sense spread outward.
Extending countless millions of miles, in merely an instant, it covered nearly a tenth of the entire Second Great Mortal World.
This was not a subtle probe ordinarily used by cultivators, but a domineering, unrestrained release of Divine Sense, deliberately not hidden and capable of being sensed by beings vastly weaker.
Such a vast Divine Sense caused the expressions of countless high level cultivators to change, including Vagrant Immortals.
Such vast Divine Sense range, even Vagrant Immortals could not compare to it.
This was the Divine Sense of an Earth Immortal!
The middle aged man’s gaze passed over the countless living beings below.
In his eyes was no hatred, anger, or excitement, only indifference, an extreme indifference, the kind of indifference someone might have when looking down upon ants.
To him, the countless living beings below were simply too insignificant.
Whether it be mortals, Immortal Ascension cultivators, Half Immortals, or even Vagrant Immortals, all of them were merely beings existing on a lower level.
Over the course of his long life, he had seen too many worlds being created and destroyed and too many civilizations rise and fall.
Perhaps at the beginning, he might have possessed some sympathy, but after countless years... all he had left was this indifference.
That was the nature of an existence who had lived too long and stood too high.
Tian Yun slowly raised his head, his gaze meeting the middle aged man’s above.
A trace of solemnity appeared within Tian Yun’s eyes.
"Earth Immortal..."
The moment the man’s aura appeared, Tian Yun already understood that this was an existence who had condensed natural elements within his state of existence, a being whose body, soul, and Dao no longer depended upon the surrounding heaven and earth in the same manner as a Vagrant Immortal and those below.
The difference was enormous, an absolute qualitative transformation.
Tian Yun’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Even with his awakened memories and the Supreme Daoist Physique beginning to awaken, he could not underestimate an Earth Immortal, at least not in his current state.
At this moment, two more figures slowly stepped through the golden passage.
One was a woman dressed in a pale blue Immortal robe, and the other was an old man holding a black wooden staff.
The moment they appeared, two more terrifying auras erupted.
*Boom!*
Their Divine Senses spread across the world without reservation.
The mere presence of three Earth Immortals was enough to cause the Lower Realm Spirit to tremble as the natural elements became increasingly chaotic and even the underlying operational rules of the Second Great Mortal World became unstable.
The weight of their existence was simply too heavy, far beyond the limits of the Mortal World.
The void surrounding them exploded outward; the Mortal World space could no longer withstand their existence.
The three Earth Immortals stood silently within the heavens, causing the hearts of countless supreme beings to sink.
Within the Benevolent Buddha Hall, the Supreme Bodhisattva’s expression became incomparably solemn as her enormous Dharma Avatar looked up towards the three figures.
After a moment, she slowly sighed.
"Three Earth Immortals..."
Her voice contained a trace of heaviness mixed with weariness.
"Perhaps we truly have no chance."
The other ancient existences remained silent, but their thoughts were more or less aligned with the Supreme Bodhisattva’s.
They had suspicions that an Earth Immortal might descend, but no one had expected three of them to descend.
At that moment, they suddenly remembered that person.
The Eternal Lord, Tian Yongheng.
The news that he was about to breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm had long since spread across the upper circle of the cultivation world decades ago.
Everyone knew that if he succeeded, his combat power would most likely be extraordinary, making him invincible among Earth Immortals.
Of course, the meaning of being invincible at the same realm varied from person to person, but in their definition, they thought of it as having peerless combat power capable of suppressing any person at the same realm in a one-on-one fight.
But there was a difference between an Earth Immortal who had just broken through and three Earth Immortals who had cultivated in the Upper Realm for countless years.
The Upper Realm possessed Immortal Qi far purer than the Spirit Qi of the Lower Realm, its natural elements were significantly richer, its worldly laws were far more complete, its heavenly rules were vastly more profound, its concepts of heaven and earth were beyond what the Lower Realm could compare to, its inheritances were deeper, its techniques were much more profound, and its resources were vastly superior.
On top of that, these three Earth Immortals were clearly not newly ascended Earth Immortals. They were veterans who had experienced countless battles and had already accumulated unimaginable foundations within the Earth Immortal Realm.
A newly ascended Earth Immortal against three such beings?
The odds were simply too low.
Of course, there was another reason the ancient existences of the Lower Realm had never placed all their hopes upon Tian Yongheng.
Every realm after immortality was a massive chasm.
A supreme prodigy in the Immortal Ascension Realm might challenge Half Immortals, and a monstrous Half Immortal like Tian Yongheng might kill Vagrant Immortals, but after reaching immortality, the gap became increasingly absolute.
A genius among mortals could only be considered average among Immortals.
Although Tian Yongheng had slaughtered Vagrant Immortals as a Half Immortal, those were Vagrant Immortals of the Lower Realm, much weaker than their Upper Realm counterparts.
Thus, they could not gamble the fate of the entire Lower Realm on Tian Yongheng.
If he broke through, it would be an additional pillar, an enormous pillar capable of supporting the heavens, but he was not their only hope.
As long as they managed to hold back the Immortal Gods for some time, they would inevitably head back, after all, forcibly opening the passage between realms had probably already forced them to pay a great price.
Unfortunately, looking at the three Earth Immortals before them, all preparations and pillars suddenly seemed insufficient.
They were like ants trapped in a jar with water continously rising, and no matter how much they struggled, all that awaited them was a dead end.
At this moment, the enormous passage trembled again.
Powerful auras emerged one after another as rows upon rows of figures began stepping through the golden passage.
The first wave was composed of Vagrant Immortals. Their exact number could not be determined at a glance, but the auras were unmistakable.
There were hundreds of Vagrant Immortals, and behind them were thousands of Half Immortals, tens of thousands of Immortal Ascension cultivators, and hundreds of thousands of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
The entire sky seemed to be filled with people as they emerged continuously from the passage, like an great army descending upon the world.
Looked from afar in the vast starry sky, they appeared exceptionally tiny, but the pressure they brought was horrifying to the extreme.
Countless cultivators stared at the army descending from the Upper Realm with pale faces before the top experts noticed something else.
Most of these Upper Realm cultivators were extremely young, not in terms of just physical appearance, but their life aura that could not be faked.
Yet, their cultivation... was far beyond what their life aura would suggest.
A young man wearing crimson robes stepped through the passage, the pressure of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm pressing forward without reservations.
His age... barely eighty years old.
A woman with silver hair appeared behind him, at the Immortal Ascension Realm.
Less than two hundred years old.
A golden haired youth walked out next, a Half Immortal.
Less than five hundred years old.
They were not ancient monsters, and neither were they old cultivators who had accumulated for tens of thousands of years.
They were the younger generation, the prodigies of the Upper Realm and the future pillars of countless supreme Dao lineages.
And they had come here to participate in the Cleansing.
They all wore a myriad of expressions on their faces. Some were curious, some excited, some arrogant, and some indifferent.
Some looked at the Lower Realm with disdain, and some looked around with genuine interest.
To them, this was a battlefield, a trial, a place to temper their Dao, to prove their strength, and to compete for opportunities.
The lives of countless Lower Realm beings... were simply part of the environment.
The sight caused something within the Lower Realm cultivators to snap.
"Hmph!"
A terrifying aura erupted from the distant outer space of the Mortal World, causing several stars in the distance to scatter into cosmic dust.
One Vagrant Immortal after another released their cultivation to its fullest as Half Immortals released their divine might.
Ancient Dharma Treasures awakened and the defensive formations covering the Second Great Mortal World erupted with brilliant radiance.
The Lower Realm cultivators did not retreat in the face of difficulties.
They knew the difference between the two sides was overwhelming, and just three Earth Immortals alone were enough to crush all of them, but they still stood like an immovable wall before the army of the Upper Realm, shielding the Mortal World behind.
They couldn’t retreat; behind them was not just the Second Great Mortal World, but their sects, their families, their disciples, their friends, their descendants, their civilizations, their homes, and even their Dao.
If the Second Great Mortal World fell, the other Great Mortal Worlds wouldn’t be far off, and if the Nine Great Mortal Worlds fell, it would be the end for the Outer Void as well.
Where could they retreat to?
The entire Lower Realm was being cleansed, there was nowhere to run.
Thus, even if they were ants destined to die,
They would still fight back.
*Boom!*
The auras of the Lower Realm collided with those of the Upper Realm.
The entire sky of the Mortal World trembled as countless mountains shattered into pieces.
The three Earth Immortals, however, remained unmoved.
The middle aged man looked down, his expression unchanged.
Watching the resistance, the anger, and the despair below, he finally let out a sigh that spread across every corner of the Mortal World.
It was a genuine sigh, containing no mockery or disdain, but only pity.
He looked at the countless cultivators below as though looking at beings who simply did not understand the immensity of heaven and earth.
The next moment, his voice spread across the entire Second Great Mortal World.
"Why struggle?"
His voice was not particularly loud, yet it reached every corner of the world.
Whether mortal or cultivator, all heard him clearly.
"The difference between heaven and earth cannot be overcome by courage alone, nor can hatred change fate. You are merely struggling because you have not yet understood the distance between us. You simply possess no chance."
The middle aged Earth Immortal looked down upon the Lower Realm.
"The outcome has already been decided."
His voice remained calm as he spoke.
"The Mortal World is doomed to fall."
The middle aged Earth Immortal continued, his gaze sweeping across the countless cultivators as he shook his head.
"Why bother trying?"