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Chapter 574: Chapter 566: Suppression
"Lin Yuan!?"
Watching Lin Yuan bound by the vortex of lightning, unable to struggle, Jin Haoran’s face changed color, "This is bad!"
At this moment, he disregarded his dignity as an Immortal Master residing in the world, and paid no attention to whether it seemed unseemly for two to gang up on one; he swiftly stepped forward, treading on the void.
As he joined the battle, a glaze-like brilliance flashed across his body. No longer resembling flesh, his form swelled with the wind, transforming into a hundred-meter giant in an instant.
A far superior aura, unknown how many times stronger compared to his normal state, released from his body.
The energy that a hundred-meter body could contain, like a landslide or tsunami, soared into the sky, then guided by his own Dao of transformation, turned into a golden Tao Sword, condensed in his hand.
The piercing Sword Qi and pervasive Sword Intent shot straight into the clouds, ripping open a hole in the storm conjured by Gu Jinlai, allowing sunlight from above the clouds to fall and illuminate Daqian.
Such dazzling brilliance made anyone’s eyes widen.
This scene was as if the heavens and earth had been completely split open by sword light.
Especially the golden light piercing the sky and tearing through thousands of kilometers of cloud cover, creating a gap tens of thousands of meters wide, shocking the hearts of everyone from Sanqing Hall, the Daqian Royal Family, and other forces, including all the powerhouses within Lingxiao Palace.
"True Immortal! A True Immortal! This is what an Immortal Master residing in the world is like!"
"A True Immortal Body! A Saint Body of thirty meters already contains energy far exceeding that of Devas several times over, thereby gaining an overwhelming advantage against Devas in battle! A True Immortal Body reaching a hundred meters! And since the True Immortal Body has turned into an Energy Form, it has none of the raw hindrances of flesh and blood, making energy circulation much easier, can you imagine the terrifying power it could unleash!? It’s unimaginable! Truly unimaginable!"
"Master Gu actually managed to bind the Abyss Lord!? Even Emperor Tianji a hundred years ago was helpless against the Abyss Lord’s astonishing speed! To think that Master Gu could render the Abyss Lord unable to move a muscle! Has the Abyss Lord’s strength weakened, or is... Master Gu more powerful than Emperor Tianji from a hundred years ago!?"
Immortal Wu Zhong, Immortal Wunian, Tai A, Qin Yujing, Jiang Yindong, and others gasped in shock, staring at the explosion of the great battle in the sky in utter astonishment.
Also surprised was Liu Yuxi from the Immortal Country.
She was amazed not only by her Daoist Companion Lin Yuan’s shown strength but also by the True Immortal Body revealed by Jin Haoran when he made his move.
"He actually... directly revealed his True Immortal Body!?"
To know, once in the True Immortal Realm and the body has completely turned into energy, while possessing great strength, consumption also increases geometrically.
Therefore, True Immortals would only manifest their own True Immortal Bodies when facing powerful opponents of the same level or even when engaged in a life-and-death struggle that could threaten their lives.
The True Immortal Body is equivalent to the strongest burst state.
While this state has amazing combat power, it simply cannot last long.
Even if they ultimately win, the energy expended by True Immortals would take a long time to recover.
Greatly disadvantageous for their daily cultivation.
So, the next step for True Immortals requires the construction of a Grotto Heaven, uniting their own Dao with the Grotto Heaven into one.
When a True Immortal merges with the Grotto Heaven to become Master of Cave Heaven, with a Grotto Heaven constantly providing support and recovery, they can unleash the full might of the True Immortal Body without any worries, fighting and battling ceaselessly.
Master of Cave Heaven is what they call Immortal Master here.
The Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect refers to it as Heavenly Immortal, meaning Cave Heaven Immortal.
Now, while Gu Jinlai had already divided his power to bind Lin Yuan, Jin Haoran manifested his mightiest form, the True Immortal Body, at the first opportunity, and gathered his most skilled Great Divine Power, Heavenly Sword Descending...
This was clearly treating Gu Jinlai as an Immortal Master of the same realm residing in the world.
"Slash!"
The Heavenly Sword hung in the sky, descending with a thunderous crash.
Where the sword light aimed, it split rivers and seas.
Only here, the sea was the storm of ley clouds.
With one slash, the storm of wind and thunder raised by Gu Jinlai was seemingly split open by this sword, that sharp and mighty power was still superior compared to the Xuan Yang Demon God from back then.
But...
If it were during the period when Gu Jinlai and Xuan Yang Demon God had fought, this sword might indeed have had a chance to defeat Gu Jinlai.
But after the settling of that battle, plus the confrontation with the creator of Aries Star Palace, Gu Jinlai had expanded in every aspect and, using the words of Duanmu Chengyun and others, his combat strength even among True Immortals had reached high-level, even peak standards.
Facing the sword Jin Haoran slashed down, his form also began to ascend.
The power of the Chaotic Star Light Body was fully ignited, causing countless Thunders to circulate around him, the Thunder Power merely dissipating from him alone was enough to annihilate any creature that hadn’t yet condensed a Saint Body.
In other words, creatures without a Saint Body couldn’t even get within a hundred meters of him.
Carrying such wild Thunder Power, he suddenly raised his hand, and within the torn cloud cover above, innumerable flashes of electricity intertwined, as if weaving a gigantic net, mending the torn area anew.
While the vast clouds were being stitched together, a huge ring emerged beneath the clouds, thousands of kilometers in diameter. Around the ring, Thunder roared, exuding a suffocating oppression.
The golden Giant Sword that had been falling, seemingly set to split rivers and seas, was swept up by this massive Thunder Ring, directly pulled into it, the Sword Qi wrapped around the blade shattered by the Thunder blasting out from the ring.
This scene caused Liu Yuxi’s eyes to widen with a hint of shock, "Such Divine Skills..."
Gu Jinlai’s methods, even among the thirty-six True Immortals of the Immortal Country, could be considered outstanding, already beyond the ordinary True Immortal level.
"What a joke, I, Jin Haoran, am a True Immortal from the Immortal Country!"
Just then, the golden light burst forth all over Jin Haoran, as if he had become a golden deity, the ceaseless Geng Metal Energy was poured into the golden Giant Sword he held, the trembling sword making the void quiver, as if to completely tear apart the entire Thunder Ring.
"War God’s Heavenly Sword Dance! Heavenly Sword Cuts Heavenly Pool! Break for me!"
With a long howl, his True Immortal Body seemed to cast the towering phantom of a three or four hundred-meter tall figure, which broke the sky, grasped the Giant Sword of golden color, and then, holding the sword, stepped forward and fiercely slashed at the Thunder Ring with a diameter of a thousand kilometers.
One sword, two swords, four swords, eight swords...
"Slash! Slash! Slash!"
The violent Energy Blast from the continuous strikes made the Thunder Ring, measuring a kilometer in diameter, radiate dazzling lightning, with countless bolts frantically splintering. For dozens or even hundreds of miles around, the Sky Dome also violently shook, with innumerable lightning wildly dancing.
"Strong! Strong! Too strong!"
Above the Sky Dome, the confrontation between deities and Thunder made the hearts of Immortal Wu Zhong, Immortal Wunian, Tai Yuan, Qin Yujing, and others tremble.
"This is the power of a True Immortal! Is this the strength of a True Immortal residing in the world?! Such power, if it descends, would instantly obliterate us, the Saints, without leaving any room for resistance!"
"Gu Jinlai...to actually be able to fight to this extent with such a True Immortal...how...how is this possible?!"
"Even if Emperor Tianji, resurrected from the past, I’m afraid it would be no different."
One after another, the top powerhouses looked at the devastating scene in the Void, seeing it as a battle amongst Immortals.
Facing such power, everyone unanimously realized that the Qiantian World had already changed.
The stalemate among the major powers was bound to be broken.
Just like a hundred years before, an era where everything, everything was ruled and dominated by Five Earthly True Immortals, was coming.
...
"Not bad, you’ve worked hard."
Gu Jinlai looked at Jin Haoran who was furiously wielding his sword, his eyes filled with appreciation, "To show respect for your fighting spirit, I will use all my might in what comes next."
He spread his arms.
One hand reached toward the Thunder Ring that trapped Lin Yuan, drawing Lin Yuan’s figure toward that large ring by pulling it.
The other hand opened its five fingers, with the Chaotic Star Light Body inside his body running to its limit. Under the power of the rotating magnetic field, all the rampaging lightning within a hundred miles around gathered from all directions and poured into the Thunder Ring, which was a thousand kilometers in diameter.
This scene...
All of a sudden, Jin Haoran, who had unleashed all the power of his True Immortal Body, had a change of face.
"Talent?! Dao Fruit?! Mastering Thunder?!"
Previously, Gu Jinlai had not employed power similar to that of Dao Fruits?!
"Booming thunder!"
With the Thunder from within hundreds of miles pouring in, the Thunder Ring, originally only a kilometer in diameter, and even dimming with some notches from Jin Haoran’s continuous attacks, saw its might surge explosively.
Even more violent lightning burst forth from the Thunder Ring, illuminating the world brightly.
Under this intense light, the kilometer-wide Thunder Ring swelled to three kilometers, engulfing Jin Haoran.
Before Jin Haoran could continue to slash and break the Thunder Ring, Gu Jinlai’s gradually closing hands began to stir, moving up and down.
In correspondence, the two Thunder Rings, large and small, approached each other and began to spin rapidly in opposite directions.
Devas Dao Wheel!
This was the greatest Divine Skill that Gu Jinlai had derived from the traits of the Child of the Stars within the Chaotic Star Light Body, coupled with the trait of magnetic rotation.
However, compared to when he previously faced the Xuan Yang Demon God and several other Supreme Void Immortals like Dong Xuanzi and Si Wuya, this Great Divine Power had already been elevated from entry-level to Mahayana by Gu Jinlai, as if he had invested countless years of dedicated research and bitter cultivation.
When the Devas Dao Wheel was exhibited under these circumstances, its power was multiple times stronger than before, to say the least!
The three-kilometer-wide Thunder Ring was the best example.
Spinning rapidly, the lightning within the two Thunder Rings unleashed a frenzy...
Even though it primarily focused on Jin Haoran, it still caused Lin Yuan, who was not adept at direct combat but excelled in speed and Perception, to wear a shocked expression.
"No good! Retreat quickly!"
Lin Yuan roared, his scales contracting madly, making his body transform into something like...
a shuttle-like object.
As this shuttle-like being, he strived to break through the cover of Thunder at full force.
But the gargantuan Thunder Rings spinning in opposite directions had already formed a terrifying force field, and Lin Yuan, while trying to avoid the Thunder strikes, struggled to break free.
As for Jin Haoran, being Gu Jinlai’s primary target, ninety percent of the Thunder came calling at him.
The hundreds of meters tall golden-colored War God phantom he had manifested shattered in mere moments, and next was the Giant Sword he had condensed...then, his True Immortal Body!
As Thunder blazed his True Immortal Body, making the huge body resembling glazed crystal gradually collapse, a look of terror finally appeared in Jin Haoran’s eyes.
"Palace Master Gu...we..."
"Don’t be so quick to admit defeat. I told you, all three of you can come at once. Isn’t there still one person who hasn’t made a move?"
Gu Jinlai’s gaze fell upon Liu Yuxi, "Come, let me see if your strength is worthy of your pride."
