Immortal Martial Emperor

"Qi Tianbao, get down here!"

Hong Yu roared.

He activated Tyrant’s Walk, his Thunder Step rumbling with a dreadful thunderous sound. With a series of booms, he charged toward Qi Tianbao like an Ancient Thunder Beast.

Qi Tianbao was scared out of his wits and repeatedly roared, "Stop him! Stop him for me!"

"Quick, activate the arrays at full power and blast him to death!"

"Damn it all to hell! How dare he look down on our arrays like this! That bastard is too arrogant! Kill him!"

The Guiyuan Sect disciples controlling the arrays pushed the Attack Arrays even more frantically.

For a moment...

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi permeating the area around the stone steps became a kaleidoscope of colors. This was the result of them pouring all their energy into the arrays; the Inscriptions within them devoured the massive amounts of ambient Spiritual Qi, condensing it into powerful attacks to use against Hong Yu.

"Hmph!"

A profound light gathered in Hong Yu’s cold eyes. "You think this pile of broken arrays can stop me? Some self-righteous idiot tweaked all the arrays to their maximum power, completely destroying the coordination and synergy they should have. Let me teach you what the true Path of Array is!"

Hong Yu’s words were forceful and resonant.

They echoed majestically throughout Celestial Essence Peak, and nearly everyone heard them with perfect clarity.

This was especially true for the Primordial Core Realm powerhouses like Wang Ba, who were watching his every move.

Wang Ba’s face turned ashen with fury. "Ignorant brat! Arrogant! You are far too arrogant! How dare you nitpick the arrays that I modified! I will see you dead for this."

As he spoke, Wang Ba started to rise, intending to deal with Hong Yu personally.

To make a Primordial Core Realm expert lose his composure like this showed just how badly Hong Yu had infuriated Wang Ba.

But it wasn’t hard to understand if you looked at it from another perspective.

After all, Wang Ba was the dignified Grand Elder of the Guiyuan Sect. With Sect Master Yuan Cang in seclusion, he was the undisputed number one in the Artifact Dao within the sect.

Artifact Refining and Arrays are inseparable.

Naturally, he had great confidence and pride in his own attainments in arrays; it was a point of honor for him. Back when he discovered the "flaws" in the arrays set up by Yuan Cang, he had spent a full year researching them before modifying these Mountain Protection Attack Arrays into their current form.

He had pushed the power of these arrays to their absolute limit.

This accomplishment had always been a source of great pride and smug satisfaction for Wang Ba.

But now, Hong Yu had called these arrays trash and, worse, called him a self-righteous idiot.

How could Wang Ba possibly tolerate this?

Unfortunately...

He was destined not to interfere. Just as he rose, a cold snort from Old Sir Tie rooted him to the spot.

Old Sir Tie narrowed his eyes, watching him without a hint of weakness. "What’s this? Is Elder Wang planning to break our agreement?"

"You..."

Wang Ba’s expression tightened. A flicker in his eyes confirmed that Old Sir Tie was not joking.

’If I dare to move against Hong Yu, Old Sir Tie will definitely attack me immediately.’

Although Wang Ba was proud, he knew very well he was no match for Old Sir Tie. His eyes glinted with an unsettled light as he snorted coldly, "Fine. I’ll just watch how he dies!"

「At the same time...」

Hong Yu was already charging toward one of the arrays.

This was a Thunder Attack Array, with three Guiyuan Sect powerhouses inside controlling it. Surging with dreadful Thunder Power, it unleashed what looked like raging dragons of lightning that roared toward him.

"Get lost!"

Hong Yu shouted coldly.

Gripping the Godslaying Golden Spear, he flipped it in the air, creating a flash of brilliant gold. It came down with a BANG, sweeping out a field of golden spear shadows.

The golden spear shadows layered over one another, vast and mighty. Under their impact, the raging lightning dragons crumbled and disintegrated.

"Not good! Attack quickly!"

The three Guiyuan Sect powerhouses inside the array paled and yelled.

But it was too late.

"Get out!"

Using Wind Rider, the fastest technique in Tyrant’s Walk, Hong Yu had already turned into a gale and closed in on the array.

An azure light swirled in his left Cyan Eye, shooting deep into the array.

With his Spiritual Power, which had now reached the Early-stage Primordial Core Realm, combined with his thorough understanding of arrays from the *Initial Understanding of the Dao of Artifacts*, he quickly found the array’s flaws.

He used his Spiritual Power to analyze and alter it, completing the process in the blink of an eye.

As soon as the modification was complete, the three Guiyuan Sect powerhouses who had been inside seemed to be violently rejected by the array. With three muffled THUDS, the array’s own power flung them back. They were sent flying several dozen meters, and the landing was not a gentle one.

"Damn it, how could he have altered the array? This is impossible..."

Qi Tianbao was both shocked and enraged. He stared in disbelief as Hong Yu, as nimble as a monkey, weaved through the area, plucking one Guiyuan Sect powerhouse after another from within the arrays.

In the mind of every Guiyuan Sect disciple, these arrays were incomparably powerful and profound.

Never mind Qi Tianbao and the others; even Huo Yan, the one said to have inherited the mantle of Chief Elder Wang Ba, was helpless before these arrays.

But now, Hong Yu had effortlessly destroyed a Thunder Array?

’Impossible! This must be a coincidence! It has to be a coincidence!’

Qi Tianbao muttered to himself.

Suddenly...

A savage expression twisted his features. Though terrified, he put on a fierce front and roared, "Everyone, listen to me! Combine all the arrays into a Chain Kill Array! Use the fastest means possible to obliterate this arrogant bastard and wipe him from the face of this earth!"

"Yes, sir!"

The other powerhouses controlling the arrays were equally stunned by Hong Yu’s methods.

Qi Tianbao’s roar snapped them back to their senses. They stared at Hong Yu with wary and fearful eyes as they began maneuvering the arrays to link together.

"A Combined Killing Array?"

Hong Yu raised an eyebrow.

Qi Tianbao stood behind the Combined Array, directing the operation. He stared at Hong Yu with a cold and venomous gaze. "Even a Primordial Core Realm expert cannot escape a Chain Kill Array. Hong Yu, a person’s luck eventually runs out. Don’t think you can act all high and mighty in front of me just because you got lucky and the Yama Shuttle didn’t take your life!"

"Chain Kill Array, attack!"

Qi Tianbao shouted coldly.

Under his command, several dozen arrays actually fused together.

In a flash...

A Combined Array, formed from the fusion of more than twenty different Attack Arrays and said to be capable of annihilating even Primordial Core Realm experts, was assembled with lightning speed.

"Die, Hong Yu!"

Qi Tianbao barked, and the twenty-plus arrays began to operate simultaneously.

These twenty-odd arrays secretly aligned with the momentum of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. By communicating with one another, they produced a brilliant five-colored light.

Earth nurtures wood, wood nurtures metal...

The five elements complemented each other, condensing to form a five-colored ribbon of energy. A terrifying fluctuation emanated from this ribbon, one that would make even a Primordial Core Realm expert’s heart pound in fear.

Qi Tianbao’s face was a mask of sickly savagery and hysterical madness. "The Chain Kill Array is an attack born from the perfectly fused power of more than twenty arrays! Even if your body is as tough as an Earth-Level Primordial Weapon, you’ll still be torn to shreds!"

"Is that so?"

But Hong Yu just sneered.

His hands formed a Seal Technique, and an obscure energy pulsed in his palms.

Threads of energy flowed into the Godslaying Spear.

The golden light was blinding, as if golden lightning was coiling around the Godslaying Spear. "Illusion Spirit Spear Technique—Illusion Heaven Technique!"

As the Godslaying Spear shot forward, a golden light spread out, making the spear’s body swell to three times its normal size.

The brilliant gold light illuminated Hong Yu, casting a faint golden sheen on his face. He raised his arm slightly, and at the final moment of his thrust, a ball of golden light shot into the air.

The golden light hovered in the void, and within it, streaks of golden lightning seemed to weave and collide.

Then!

A golden Spear Aura descended from the sky, followed by a second, a third...

In the blink of an eye, thousands upon thousands of golden Spear Auras filled the world. Each time one landed, it exploded with a BOOM, unleashing a powerful shockwave of energy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The thousands of Spear Auras bombarded the Combined Array.

"Ah! What the hell is this stuff? My hand..."

"Damn it, how is it so dense? Curses, I’m blind..."

"No! I don’t want to stay here anymore! This is just suicide..."

Amid the screams, the area within the Combined Array was left in ruins, a scene of utter devastation. The disheveled Guiyuan Sect disciples, all heavily injured, fled for their lives.

Struck by one blow after another, Qi Tianbao trembled all over, staring blankly at the now-empty Combined Array, completely at a loss.

His eyes were filled with confusion. "H-How could he be so strong? That’s not right. Wasn’t I supposed to lead the Combined Array to crush Hong Yu? How did it turn out like this?"

"Let me tell you why it turned out like this."

A calm voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.

Qi Tianbao froze. He subconsciously tried to retreat, only to feel a sharp pain in his neck as his body was slowly lifted off the ground. An immense power surged from his neck into his body, paralyzing him despite his Celestial Soul Realm cultivation.

Qi Tianbao looked down with horrified eyes.

The one grabbing his neck was none other than Hong Yu.

At this moment...

Hong Yu held Qi Tianbao up with one hand while placing his other on the array, pouring a vast amount of Spiritual Power into it.

A moment later, the Combined Array actually reordered and reassembled itself.

Although the power of each individual array was now much weaker than before, once combined, its overall power was a full three times greater than it had been.

"This is the result of certain self-righteous idiots in your Guiyuan Sect dismantling and destroying a perfectly good rotating Combined Array, turning it into a pile of trash."

Hong Yu took a deep breath, his cold, sharp gaze fixed on Qi Tianbao’s eyes. "You didn’t lose unjustly. If you have to blame someone, blame that self-righteous idiot! As for now... hehe, you hit Tianshuang earlier..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Yu raised his palm and brought it down.

SMACK!

This slap, powerful enough to send a ten-thousand-jin boulder flying, landed squarely on Qi Tianbao’s face.

Even with Qi Tianbao’s Celestial Soul Realm cultivation, he was knocked completely silly by the slap, and half of his face caved in.

Hong Yu followed up with a backhand slap.

This time, both sides of Qi Tianbao’s face completely collapsed, rendering him unrecognizable. If not for the resilient power of the Celestial Soul Realm keeping him alive, he would have already died.

"Those two slaps were for hitting Tianshuang. Now, it’s time to settle the score for you ambushing me!"

As he spoke, Hong Yu raised his palm to strike again.

But at that very moment, an extremely terrifying yet familiar energy fluctuation caught Hong Yu’s attention. He glanced to the side and saw a young powerhouse approaching at high speed with eighteen black-robed powerhouses in tow. The leading young man’s stern shout carried from a great distance...

"Hong Yu, stop!"