Immortal Martial Emperor

"Everyone, we’ll have to fight for our lives!"

Hong Yu looked at the others with a wry smile.

Tie Heng, Chen Mu, and Tie Tongtian all looked at him in confusion. "Hong Yu, what in the world is this thing?"

"This is..."

Hong Yu took a deep breath. His voice, tinged with a hint of resignation and gravity, enunciated each word, "The... Thousand-Year... Tai... Sui!"

"What Thousand-Year Tai Sui?"

"Yeah, what’s a Tai Sui?"

Everyone looked utterly bewildered. They didn’t have the *Divine Medicine Scripture*, so how could they possibly know what a Thousand-Year Tai Sui was?

Hong Yu no longer hid anything, explaining with a wry smile, "A Tai Sui is a peculiar species, something between a Desolate Beast and a Heaven and Earth Spirit Essence. A Tai Sui has no parents. It can only be born under the right conditions, through a perfect alignment of circumstances and fate. From the day it is born, it undergoes a transformation every hundred years!"

As Hong Yu explained, the group began to get a vague understanding of the Thousand-Year Tai Sui.

This Tai Sui transformed once every century.

When born, it was about the size of a baby, resembling a Lingzhi.

After a hundred years, the baby-sized Tai Sui would grow a hundredfold.

After another hundred years, it would grow a hundredfold again...

Repeating this cycle, if a Tai Sui managed to survive for a thousand years, its sheer size and scale would be as large as a city that could house a hundred thousand people.

A shiver ran down Chen Mu’s spine. He looked around. The entire, vast Mist Canyon really did seem to be the size of a city for one hundred thousand residents.

He gulped hard. "H-Hong Yu, a-are you saying... that this... this entire Mist Canyon is the Thousand-Year Tai Sui?"

"I wish it weren’t, but the facts prove otherwise."

Hong Yu shrugged, a wry smile on his face.

"Ah!"

As they were talking, a sudden, bloodcurdling scream pierced the air.

Their gazes instantly focused on the source, only to see another expert fall victim to the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s attack, reduced directly to a pile of bloody pulp.

"Isn’t this Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s speed just too fast?" Tie Tongtian asked in astonishment.

So far, Xue De had been grievously injured and two disciples of the Guiyuan Sect had been slapped to death, yet no one had managed to get a clear look at the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s true form. The bizarre situation filled them with utter despair and helplessness.

Hong Yu smiled bitterly. "It’s not that its speed is fast. It’s because even the ground we’re standing on could be a part of this Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s body. When it attacks others, it’s actually attacking us as well. It’s just that the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s method of attacking us is a disorienting Spiritual Attack."

"Didn’t you say the Thousand-Year Tai Sui is like a plant? How... how can it use a Spiritual Attack?" Tie Tongtian asked.

Hong Yu said, "That’s because once a Tai Sui reaches the Thousand-year-old Level, a Heart of Tai Sui will form inside its body. This Heart of Tai Sui is the Tai Sui’s Life Core, and it’s the only place on its entire body that can be destroyed to cause its Annihilation. More importantly, once the Heart of Tai Sui is formed, it gains the ability to use Spiritual Attacks."

"Then can’t we just destroy the Heart of Tai Sui?" asked Tie Tongtian.

Hong Yu shook his head. "Destroying the Heart of Tai Sui is incredibly difficult. The Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s body is too large, and its attack power is terrifyingly immense. Unless some experts can hold its body in check while other experts find its head, enter its body through the head, and destroy the Heart of Tai Sui, it’s basically impossible to kill it."

"Moreover..."

Hong Yu glanced at the canyon, which was covered in Elemental Ores, and sighed with a bitter smile. "This is still just a part of the Tai Sui’s body. Its true form hasn’t even been revealed yet!"

*HISS!*

Everyone was horrified.

Just the part of its body that was exposed was equivalent to a ten-thousand-meter-long canyon?

Then just how big is its true body?

"Hmph, if this isn’t its true body, then we’ll just force it out!" Tie Heng snorted coldly.

Acting with lightning speed and decisiveness was exactly Tie Heng’s style.

With a flash, he appeared, pulling Xue De out from the earth. With a few pats of his hand, he set Xue De’s broken bones and fed him a Fourth-grade Healing Spirit Pill.

Although the Iron Soldier Pavilion was large and powerful, the value of a Fourth-Grade Pill was not something even they could squander casually.

For Tie Heng to unhesitatingly give the Spirit Pill to Xue De to deal with the Tai Sui, it was clear that he was a leader with a strong sense of the bigger picture!

"Tie Heng, you actually saved me?" Xue De said, surprised.

Tie Heng snorted coldly. "Cut the crap. Gather your people from the Guiyuan Sect immediately. We’re in big trouble this time. If we don’t cooperate, I’m afraid all of us will die here."

As he spoke, Tie Heng told Xue De about the Thousand-Year Tai Sui.

Before this, Xue De would certainly have made things difficult for Hong Yu.

However, after what had just happened, the memory of the humiliation of being sent flying without even being able to react made Xue De nod fiercely. He gritted his teeth and said, "Fine. This time, the Guiyuan Sect agrees to cooperate with you."

The experts from both sides gathered together once more.

Tie Heng said in a low voice, "Hong Yu, what can we do to force out the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s main body?"

"It’s simple. Just like when we destroyed the Ghost-faced Demon Vine, we just need to keep attacking the parts where the Elemental Ores are growing. We’ll definitely be able to force this Thousand-Year Tai Sui out!" Hong Yu said.

Under the threat of death, both sides cooperated wholeheartedly.

Bursts of terrifying energy erupted without any restraint, and one after another, incomparably powerful Martial Arts Secret Techniques were unleashed...

For a moment, the entire canyon echoed with the sound of terrifying explosions and a violent storm of energy.

Sand flew and stones rolled; it was a Heaven-Shattering Earth-Splitting scene!

Under the impact of the powerful Martial Skills, the Elemental Ores were sent flying or simply exploded.

As they attacked, they also discovered that after every strike, the entire Mist Canyon would tremble slightly.

"Chasing Star Finger!"

"Iron Tower Demon Suppression!"

The two Primordial Core Realm experts attacked with their full strength, their combined attacks slamming into the ground.

RUMBLE!

This attack kicked up a hundred-meter-high energy shockwave a full kilometer away, vast and mighty, like a magnificent flower of life in full bloom.

At that moment, the tremors throughout the canyon suddenly paused.

Then, an energy fluctuation that made everyone freeze and feel a chill run down their spine finally emanated from beneath the ground.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

Waves of furious roars rolled out like Thunder Sound.

The canyon began to shake violently. Rocks crumbled, the earth cracked, and immense energy scattered in all directions. The hard cliff walls were completely blasted apart by the powerful force from within.

The two towering peaks on either side were snapped in half at their waists, sending down a massive avalanche of rubble.

BANG!

The earth quaked.

Finally... a huge object resembling the trunk of a withered old tree shattered the ground, emerging from below and bracing itself firmly on the earth on both sides of the canyon.

BOOM!

Another identical object emerged from the other side.

One after another, a total of eight such objects forcibly pushed their way through the hard soil from deep underground, exposing themselves to the air.

"I-I... why do they look like eight legs to me?"

Tie Tongtian asked, swallowing nervously.

"Hm?"

Hong Yu and the others were all startled, feeling as though they had been jolted awake from a dream.

They all turned to look at the eight colossal, pillar-like objects.

Each one was over thirty meters tall. As for their thickness, you only needed to know that their narrowest point was comparable to an elephant to imagine their magnificence.

’Even its legs are this big. What does the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s main body even look like?’

Amidst their terror, almost everyone had the same question in their mind.

Fortunately, this Thousand-Year Tai Sui didn’t make everyone wait for long.

The eight giant legs pushed down hard on the ground. As they exerted their strength, the earth cracked and trembled, and a vast and terrifying amount of energy dissipated from both sides of the canyon.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The ground beneath everyone’s feet suddenly trembled. Cracked fissures began to spread across the earth, covering hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!

Hong Yu and the others felt their bodies sway as they were steadily rising.

Seeing more than half of the Mist Canyon rising, Hong Yu and the others exchanged glances, a dawning realization in their minds of where they were!

The Mist Canyon seemed to have been forcibly dug out of the earth. Supported by the eight pillar-like legs, it was slowly rising. With every few feet it rose, broken soil and rubble, and even entire mountain peaks, slid off and plummeted toward the ground below.

This process lasted for a full two minutes.

In those short two minutes, every surviving expert was soaked in sweat, drenched from head to toe.

"H-Holy cow, are we standing on the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s back?"

"The thing that attacked us just now was one of its tentacles?"

Even though Hong Yu had already learned of the Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s terror from the *Divine Medicine Scripture*, seeing it with his own eyes still left him feeling a sense of disbelief and shock!

The Thousand-Year Tai Sui’s overall shape was somewhat like a spider. Its body was chubby and round, but its surface was covered in a layer of Scale Armor harder than any Primordial Weapon.

Its eight giant legs firmly supported its body, and its abdomen was a full sixty to seventy meters above the ground.

Not to mention, its body was over fifty meters thick, making it a behemoth standing over a hundred meters tall!

But the most terrifying and dreadful thing wasn’t its appearance, but the thousands of tentacles writhing on its head.

Each tentacle was at least a hundred meters long, with some even exceeding a kilometer in length. The tentacles all moved independently. Normally, they lay on its back like hair—they were the culprits that had attacked Xue De and the others earlier!

At this moment, these thousands of tentacles were like the blood-soaked hair of a Bloodthirsty Godslayer, dancing wildly without any wind. They were like countless Evil Ghosts performing a soul-reaping, life-stealing dance, baring their fangs and claws, trying to harvest the fresh lives of the mortal world.

"Are we sure we want to fight this giant monster?"

Tie Tongtian’s words represented the thoughts in the hearts of most of the experts present.

The Thousand-Year Tai Sui was simply too terrifying and shocking!

Its massive, hundred-meter-tall body alone was enough to make countless experts lose their will and confidence to fight, not to mention its numerous, troublesome tentacles of immense strength.

Tie Heng and Xue De exchanged a glance.

After truly seeing the Thousand-Year Tai Sui, they both felt immense pressure and looked to Hong Yu. "Hong Yu, what do we do next?"

"The Tai Sui is extremely vengeful. As long as even one of us is left alive, it will absolutely not let this go. To survive, we must kill it!"

Hong Yu looked at Tie Heng and Xue De. "You two will be responsible for drawing the Tai Sui’s attacks and attention. The rest of you, help them keep it occupied. I need a few people to sneak into the Tai Sui’s body with me. We have to find the Heart of Tai Sui from the inside and destroy it. Otherwise, we are all dead for sure!"

Xue De spoke up first. "Too many people will just be chaotic. Let Qi Tianbao assist you!"

Hong Yu frowned slightly, but the situation was urgent, and Qi Tianbao was indeed the most suitable choice, so he could only nod in agreement.

Just as everyone had finished their arrangements, the Thousand-Year Tai Sui finally finished crawling out from underground. Its chilling aura locked onto Hong Yu and the others.

A great battle was about to erupt at any moment!