Chapter 844: Who Is the True God of Destruction!?

Is... is this... real?!" Inside the Jiuhua City shop, countless people stared with looks of utter horror, crying out as their voices failed them.

At this precise moment, it felt to them as if they were trapped in a dream.

"My gods! Our mortal world is not defiled!" Su Tianji was so anxious she was like an ant on a hot skillet; having just survived a brush with death, her mind was now an absolute blank as she hurriedly pointed toward the opposing side, stammering, "It's... it's them who are defiled! Go strike them!"

At that moment, everyone witnessed the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven slowly open both eyes, and his gaze, truly and remarkably, shifted toward the opposition.

"Who art thou?!" Only now did Gui Ye show a hint of alarm upon his face, asking in a deep, heavy tone.

"The Emperor of Abandoned Heaven!" As though every single word he uttered caused the surrounding heaven and earth to tremble in response, space itself began to display a state of instability; he hung high in the sky, never once descending, as if the moment he did, the entire vast earth would instantly shatter to pieces!

"Hehehehe... Hahahaha!" Hearing this, Gui Ye laughed maniacally, "Having already abandoned heaven, how dare you style yourself an emperor! I have never even heard of such a name; I suppose you must have crowned yourself sometime in the last century? Could it be that you are the mastermind behind all this? You do possess a fair bit of skill!"

Thousands upon thousands of immortal soldiers spread out behind him like wings, blanketing the entirety of the sky!

Immediately following this, at some unknown moment, a long whip wrapped in purple celestial lightning appeared in his grasp, its occasional flashes of violet electricity capable of instantly shattering the surrounding space.

"I can grant you two choices now, for who can say this commander does not cherish talent," Gui Ye smirked, "So... submit, or be beaten by my Purple Lightning Celestial Whip until your soul scatters to nothingness!"

"I..." Inside the Jiuhua City shop, a crowd of cultivators and martial artists heard these words and were rendered almost entirely incoherent.

"Well?" Gui Ye looked upon these cultivators and martial artists whose faces bore expressions of boundless terror and who were nearly frightened out of their wits, then ordered the host of immortal soldiers behind him to unleash their full auras, before smiling at the increasingly terrified cultivators and martial artists, "Otherwise... tsk tsk, scaring these pathetic mortals would be such a pity."

"A petty god of a foreign realm." Just then, the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven spoke, his eyes cold and detached, possessing a profound indifference that transcended the material world, devoid of both sorrow and joy, as if stating an absolutely undeniable truth, "Always ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth."

"..." Gui Ye's expression darkened instantly, and with a sweep of his single hand, he commanded, "Kill!"

Countless immortal soldiers traced one peculiar arc after another across the sky, seemingly forming a strange array formation that surrounded the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven, who was synchronized with Fang Qi, right in the center.

Directly after, the surroundings were filled with boundless auspicious light and churning mists as countless streaks of scorching solar violet qi transformed into raging torrents of heaven-burning fire, striking furiously from all sides!

The temperature of those flames was exceedingly high, for it was the Scorching Solar Heavenly Fire passed down through the Gui lineage, capable of incinerating even true immortals!

Furthermore, its speed was incredibly swift; ordinary immortals would not even have time to react.

Almost in an instant, it swallowed the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven whole!

Witnessing this scene, Gui Ye was first taken aback, and then he began to sneer cold-heartedly: "Unable to withstand even the Scorching Solar Heavenly Fire, you also—"

Before his words could finish, he beheld a scene that was completely beyond his imagination—the patch of purple heavenly fire suddenly transformed into a massive vortex at its center, spinning wildly.

Subsequently, the countless heavenly flames, like furious lotuses bursting into bloom, actually... flew backward in their entirety!

Several immortal soldiers tainted by these flames instantly shrieked in agony as the fire grew fiercer the more they tried to extinguish it, eventually plummeting from the sky.

High above First Ancestor Cliff, amidst the densely packed immortal soldiers filling the vast sky, several individuals correspondingly screamed out as their bodies ignited into blazing infernos, dropping from the heavens like falling stars!

Only now could it be seen around the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven that an invisible yet tangible protective qi barrier lit up, while the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven himself, situated within the barrier, remained completely motionless.

At this moment, even... Gui Ye felt a slight... chill run down his spine: "This... just who on earth are you?!"

"The strengthened Sacred Demonic Primal Fetus body, though still unable to bear too much power," the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven synchronized with Fang Qi turned his hands slightly, speaking with calm indifference, "requires no great effort to annihilate you all."

"A protective qi barrier...?! He took it head-on?!"

"What exactly is the nature of the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven's protective qi barrier? How can it be... so powerful?!" Inside the Jiuhua City shop, several martial artists asked with trembling voices.

Evidently, many had watched the show but had not studied it deeply.

Nalan Mingxue explained: "The protective qi barrier consists of two layers, formed by the excess, circulating qi that this Sacred Demonic Primal Fetus body cannot harbor within itself. These two layers of pure qi energy cannot possibly be broken through any trickery, and even if they are breached, they recover the very instant they are shattered... Thus, he has almost no need for defense whatsoever..."

"Im... Impossible!" Gui Ye stared fixedly at the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven before him with a pair of narrow eyes, saying in a chilling voice, "You must be forcing yourself to hold on, correct... In truth, your inside is already suffering terribly from the burning of the fire, isn't it!"

"No matter what, the next moment shall reveal the truth. Everyone! Activate the array formation with all your might!" Gui Ye roared loudly.

"God's Flame!" Just then, the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven synchronized with Fang Qi overturned his hands, and a surge of blue-violet flame billowed upward!

As the saying goes, yin alone cannot give birth, and yang alone cannot grow, yet this technique was a divine flame of pure and absolute extremity, so much so that not a single trace of impurity could be felt within it.

In this split second, the purple flames swept across heaven and earth.

Over a dozen immortal soldiers bore the brunt of it; before they could even manage to retreat, they were instantly turned to ashes at a visible speed within the rising conflagration!

And the hundreds of individuals following closely behind also burst into raging flames; apart from a portion at the rear who were extremely far away, at least half of those launching the assault transformed into balls of fire and plummeted from the sky!

Before long, their numbers were drastically reduced!

And at this moment, the Emperor of Abandoned Heaven began to unleash his second technique: "God's Vortex!"

The third technique: "God's Light!"

The fourth technique...

Earth, fire, water, wind, metal, wood, water, fire, earth—techniques deployed effortlessly at his whim, though not departing from the five elements, broke the constraints of yin-yang coexistence; every strike was the ultimate peak of a single, purest element, an ultimate technique that in an instant descended upon the world like an apocalypse.

Above the sky, beneath the siege of countless immortals, wind, thunder, light, and flame intersected as various colors of light swept in all directions, punctuated from time to time by a succession of shrill, wretched screams!

It even gave everyone an illusion—that this was the true God of Destruction who had descended upon the world, about to bring about the end of days!

A drop of cold sweat trickled down from his brow; Gui Ye said in a heavy voice, "I see now! You wicked god!"

Never had he imagined that these genuine immortal soldiers, even if conscripted from the lower realm with impure foundations, would be slaughtered by someone as if they were nothing but grass!

He bit the tip of his tongue with force, and a smear of faint golden immortal blood dripped onto the long whip emitting dark purple lightning.

The segments of the purple whip lit up one by one, before it lashed out viciously toward the figure.

The first layer of the qi shield lit up and shattered!

The second layer of the qi shield lit up and shattered!

Heaven knows what kind of artifact this was, for both layers of the qi shield were completely destroyed in a single strike!

His eyes lit up with brilliance: "Die already!"