Chapter 813 - 317: Kill the One Who Cares for the World
The battles of the Fallen Immortal Land have always been a shared responsibility for the whole world.
Usually, no matter how great the conflict between two forces, when faced with the battles of the Fallen Immortal Land, they must shake hands and make peace; otherwise, it would be going against the major moral duty of the world.
Generally speaking, Wenxin Heaven’s role in the battles of the Fallen Immortal Land is to mobilize manpower and resources, while the situation on the battlefield is controlled by the White Jade Capital, which takes direct responsibility for the outcomes of any warfronts.
In the heart of the long night, the pitch-black and deathly silent Evil Mountain Sea Region was suddenly occupied by giant fish shimmering in variegated light.
They were arranged in neat rows, flapping their wing-like fins, and flew out from the Evil Mountain Fallen Immortal Land like the mythical Kun fish in legend.
The Profound Wall of the Evil Mountain Fallen Immortal Land could not stop them for even a moment and was swiftly breached, because, according to expectations, they shouldn’t appear at this time. The strength of the wall had not been fortified in time.
Even if it were reinforced to the level of a Tribulation Immortal, would that really be enough to stop them?
These are hundreds of thousands of Immortal-Seizing True Demons!
According to the statistics from the last Human Dao Assembly, the total number of Tribulation Immortals across the entire world was barely over ten thousand.
Celestial Venerable Shangli stared blankly at the True Demons that continued to fly towards the sky, as though he had lost his soul, with sunken eyes filled with terror and despair.
He was long incapable of imagining the impact these hundreds of thousands of True Demons would have on the world, nor could he contemplate the kind of public opinion the White Jade Capital would face.
He didn’t even have the energy to regret destroying the energy bridge leading to East Continent, hanging like a puppet suspended in the air.
"Shangli, Shangli! Quickly think of a way, stop daydreaming! Hurry!" Celestial Venerable Baiyu was still clear-headed, but at this moment, he no longer retained the image of an enlightened master, as though his rear was on fire, he panicked and shouted, "We must stop them from reaching the land! For any one of the continental regions, it will be devastating!"
In the thousands of years of mankind’s resistance against the Fallen Immortal Land, nothing like this had ever happened.
Even when there were situations where defences were breached before, it was promptly suppressed.
But now... this isn’t merely a breach, it’s a real catastrophe looming overhead.
The immense pressure caused Celestial Venerable Shangli to feel a throbbing pain in his stomach, he bent over clutching his abdomen, unable to suppress a strong urge to vomit. As an enlightened master, he had been fasting for thousands of years, and only bile in yellow and green was expelled.
Celestial Venerable Baiyu looked at him in disbelief. Never had he thought that he would one day witness this Celestial Venerable, unmatched in both cultivation and leadership, reveal such an ugly sight.
Is this still the Little Freedom Official?
Is this still an enlightened master?
"Shang...li." Celestial Venerable Baiyu almost pleaded, "I beg of you, come to your senses, if this goes on, the consequences will really be unimaginable."
Celestial Venerable Shangli abruptly straightened his back, the aura of his Dao entangled around him, but unlike the usual neat order, it had turned profoundly chaotic and frenzied.
He growled like a beast,
"White Jade Capital must protect the entirety of the world! Never shall anything be allowed to destroy the stability of this world!"
He forcefully pointed at the center of his brow, then fiercely extracted a strand of Dao mechanism, flinging it toward the True Demon group flying towards the sky. A banner, rapidly grew from the length of a finger, bursting forth like a blinding electric stream, radiating intense light that turned night into day.
This is the Innate treasure, the Sea-Stabilizing Banner, connected with the Cosmos, capable of sealing spaces.
Celestial Venerable Shangli controlled the Sea-Stabilizing Banner, arriving ahead of the True Demon group at high altitude, with the banner’s surface emitting a thick and uniform invisible vibration that caused the surrounding space to tremble. This tremor reaching its peak, space suddenly turned into a paste-like existence, completely isolated from the outside, trapping all the True Demons rushing out of the Evil Mountain Fallen Immortal Land.
These True Demons have no intelligence or individual will; they merely act in accordance with the directive of True Demon obsession and driven by the True Demon runes.
Originating from the obsession of heaven and earth, they must return to it.
Thus, they crazily attacked the Sea-Stabilizing Banner, attempting to create a spatial forbidden zone.
Every strike was a test for Celestial Venerable Shangli.
His body, his soul, his Innate Dao, his Daoist School’s aura... all are being battered.
Hundreds of thousands of Tribulation-level True Demons, with the purest power, inflicted pure harm upon him.
Though the Sea-Stabilizing Banner aided him in resisting much, the overwhelming quantity of True Demons, their undying and relentless obsession, as a collapsing mountain, pressured him down.
No more than a few breaths of time had passed before his complexion turned bloodless.
"Shangli, I shall aid you!" Celestial Venerable Baiyu was about to join him in resisting.
"No!" Celestial Venerable Shangli roared, "You must devise a solution! Just the two of us can’t possibly hold out! Quickly... quickly call for Ancestor!"
"Alright!"
Celestial Venerable Baiyu, without a hint of hesitation, clasped his hands together, raised two forefingers, and maneuvered the Dao Technique,
"Lord Laozi, urgent as law!"
A ball of fire ignited on his fingertips, countless slender beams of light flew towards all directions, disappearing into the darkness.
Moments later, he was pale as a sheet,
"Ancestor... is not within this world!"
Upon hearing this, Celestial Venerable Shangli’s form instantly wavered. The Sea-Stabilizing Banner subsequently flickered slightly, revealing a flaw in the Cosmic Forbidden Area, allowing one True Demon to slip through the gap. He hurriedly diverted his attention, casting out a Daoist Blade, driving it back.
This undoubtedly added more burden to a body already under enormous pressure, his lips turning a purplish-black.
The members of the Three Elders Pavilion, Ancestor Qing, Celestial Venerable Zizai, and Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao, were often not in the world, occasionally returning only once in a while. It was only due to the major issue of the Supreme Dharma Orbiting Device going missing that Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao came back to oversee Carefree Heaven.