Chapter 938: One Qi Purifies Three Pure Ones and the Imminent Final Battle!

"Afraid? Of a Sacred Ancestor?" After a long silence, Fang Qi smiled casually. "Perhaps."

Immortal Lord Long Chi’s expression darkened. "Have you been driven mad by fear?"

"I am afraid that with deities like you in this world, how can this realm ever know a single day of peace?"

"The heavens have lost their way, the earth crumbles and tears apart, and a whole world fractures into pieces. Have you ever felt the suffering of the mortal realm?! Have you ever held back the collapsing sky, or upheld the order of heaven and earth?!"

"Locking down the void, blocking the path to enlightenment—from antiquity to the present day, thousands upon thousands of seekers have died with bitter hatred in their hearts..." Fang Qi pointed toward the mortal realm below. "Have you ever heard the weeping and roaring of those thousand-year heroes whose grand ambitions were left unfulfilled?!"

"The mortal world burns abundant incense and offers all manner of worship, yet have you ever been worthy of their millions of years of reverence?!"

"None of it." Fang Qi sneered. "And yet you have the audacity to call yourselves Immortal Lords and Sacred Sages?! What virtue or capability do you possess to bear such titles?!"

"Who gave you the right to call yourselves Immortal Lords and Sacred Sages?!"

"I minded my own business in the mortal realm, yet time and again you threatened me with lives, and now you dare say I am arrogant? Presumptuous?!"

"What a joke!" The yellow-robed Daoist laughed in extreme anger. "We were born in response to heaven and earth, bearing luck equal to the cosmos and sharing the dao alignment of the universe. Born as the sovereigns of heaven and earth, our words are the heavenly laws! For you, as mere mortals, to offend the laws of heaven is a capital offense!"

"Now you even have the audacity to trespass upon the Desolate Tribulation Peak, intending to slaughter the Immortal Lords!" The Daoist laughed coldly and viciously. "What a vile beast! Still daring to flaunt your sharp tongue!"

"There is no need to speak further with him," another Daoist remarked.

With that said, the yellow-robed Daoist simply waved his wide sleeve. The heaven, earth, sun, and moon seemed to alter at that moment, and an unimaginably terrifying, colossal force pressed down toward Fang Qi and the Three Xiao Goddesses.

Even the Three Xiao Goddesses turned pale at this moment, to say nothing of Fang Qi. Fang Qi felt as though his entire body, every bone and meridian, was on the verge of collapsing under the immense weight. It felt as if the entire universe had received a certain command, squeezing him ruthlessly from all directions!

Immortal Lord Long Chi and the other Immortal Lords merely sneered at the sight.

In their eyes, they seemed to have already witnessed the conclusion.

"I do remember now," Immortal Lord Long Chi scoffed at that moment. "Among these humans in the past, there did emerge such a figure. From the wild untamed eras, he taught these ignorant, foolish creatures characters and Qi refinement... and indeed, there were those whose cultivation could rival immortals, who ascended to the Immortal Realm after the great cataclysm to forge an immortal body."

"There were even foreign races who ascended to godhood, revered by their clansmen for ten thousand years. However..." Immortal Lord Long Chi said chillingly, "unfortunately, they only raised a bunch of useless garbage. In our eyes, ants are ultimately just ants. These dregs of existence lack even the qualification to serve as cannon fodder. Of those who have not fallen on the battlefield today, which one is not absolutely deferential to our clan?"

"You immortals who have just obtained your immortal bodies, if you think you can act ferociously before the Sacred Ancestors because of this, it is truly too ridiculous!"

"Mere human immortals—even if they cultivate for another thousand, ten thousand, or hundreds of millions of years, they still cannot escape our methods. This is the mandate of heaven. Today, I shall let you, vile beast, open your eyes to witness my methods, so you may understand the gap between us. Even when your soul is scattered, you will not be wronged!"

The yellow robe fluttered, and the colossal force grew even grander. In the very next instant, it was about to crush everyone into powder!

At this moment, Fang Qi could not care about anything else. His final trump card was precisely that Summoning Divine Stone he had drawn earlier. Although this item had a restriction on the summoning level, it was completely different from the Carrier Stone—it required absolutely no synchronization rate to summon, and there was only this single one. These items were the physical manifestations of the system's energy, rendering them incredibly precious!

Suddenly, the clouds parted and the mists vanished in the sky. A wave of pure light enveloped the heavens, accompanied by dancing auspicious colors. Almost simultaneously, heaven and earth returned to clarity, and the terrifying force pressing down on Fang Qi and the Three Xiao Goddesses vanished without a trace!

"Who dares stop me!" The yellow-robed Daoist still maintained his attacking posture, but that power had long since dissipated. He looked up toward the sky only to see a Daoist riding a green ox arriving, as all the brilliance of heaven and earth gathered, and a beam of pure light shot into the sky!

"Who are you?!" At this very moment, including the several Immortal Lords, no one could have imagined that someone could actually block this Sacred Ancestor's strike!

"The primal chaos cracked open to reveal the black and yellow scenery, and again in the mortal world I govern the five elements; I guided Xuanyuan to ascend into the white canvas, and at Hangu Pass I bestowed the laws so the Dao remains forever bright." Laozi chanted, "I am the leader of the Human Sect, Laozi Li Er."

"I heard earlier that you all said that mortals who become immortals are all ants?" Laozi smiled. "Since Pangu, I have integrated heaven and man, and three lives came from one Qi. I have indeed governed the Human Sect for a long time, yet I have never heard of such a saying. Today, I have come to ask you all for an explanation, to see if, with my natural disposition, I am also like an ant in your eyes."

"What Human Sect?! Do you govern a flock of vile beasts and monkeys?"

Yun Xiao and the others hurriedly said, "Disciples pay respects to Uncle-Master!"

Laozi nodded, then cold-snorted, "These ignorant beasts truly have immense audacity! Strike!"

The Sacred Ancestor of the Eight Great Immortal Clans striking was no ordinary matter!

At this moment, the wind howled, heaven and earth vibrated, and thunderous lightning rained down like torrents, shaking the mountains and rivers. The yellow-robed Daoist urged his magic power, as thunderous serpents illuminated the wild skies, and killing intent permeated the nine heavens!

Yet on this side, Laozi saw a delicate pagoda rise into the sky from the top of his head, stabilizing the universe!

The yellow-robed Daoist's face could not help but turn cold. Although his Dao arts were not fully deployed, how could he not harm this person before him in the slightest?!

"Sacred Sovereign Xuanhuang, I shall assist you!" At this moment, another Sacred Sovereign beside him immediately struck. In an instant, it became a pincer attack from two sides, besieging Laozi!

"Vile obstacle, how formidable!" That Daoist shouted, "Do you have the ability to face two enemies alone?!"

"Why ever not?!" Right at this moment, Laozi split into three entities, as tens of thousands of rays of auspicious light burst forth behind him, dazzling to the extreme!

Laozi had actually transformed into three!

"Born before the primordial and after the celestial, borrowing the name of Li to gain form; having bowed to Hongjun to cultivate virtue and morality, only then can one Qi transform into the Three Pure Ones!" Laozi chanted longly and smiled, "Grains of rice dare to flash their brilliance! Even if two more of you come, I shall receive you just the same!"

At this moment, that Sacred Sovereign Xuanhuang was almost driven dumbfounded, while the three Immortal Lords shook like sieves. To say nothing of their tens of thousands of years of state of mind, even if another tens of thousands of tribulations were added, they could not withstand such a shock. Two high-and-mighty Sacred Sovereigns were actually being suppressed and beaten by a single person before them today?!

The three looked at each other in horror. "Who... who on earth is this person?!"

This scene had almost completely overturned the concepts formed in their minds over millions of years!

And what horrified them even more was that in the sky, an incomparably massive Yin-Yang Taiji diagram blotted out the sun, enveloping down from the heavens!

Above the heavens and below the earth, there was almost no way out!

"Go!" At this moment, even the two Sacred Sovereigns of the Immortal Clans could care about nothing else. Seeing the Taiji diagram descending upon them, they were terrified to the extreme and fled in a hurry!

In the next moment, the three Immortal Lords fell into the Taiji diagram and were instantly refined into flying ashes! Their souls went straight toward the Investiture of Gods Platform.

On this day, the three realms shook violently!

And when these most powerful existences within the three realms—these powerful lives that had existed for countless years—found their lives and their eternal rule fatally threatened, none of them would sit idly by awaiting death!

...Located above the heavens, within that eternal divine court, a pair of ancient, eternal eyes... slowly opened.

Its gaze stared beneath that incomparably deep abyss.

Even for an existence so high and mighty, a trace of solemnity lingered within those eyes.

"How is it...?" A voice came from beneath the abyss.

"Let us join forces!"

"Where is the Army of Wrathful Deities?!" A voice seemed to fall from above the dome of heaven.

In... the distant battlefield of gods and demons, skeletons and remnants that had long since withered crawled out slowly from the deep underground of a desolate battlefield.

They seemed to have been buried for countless years. There were elves with withered bodies that could only be distinguished by their long ears...

There were towering orcs with battered armor.

There were also... countless cultivators and warriors holding their long swords high... they roared toward the sky in resentment, as if still maintaining their appearance from before death.

Among the ruins, past broken walls could faintly be seen, as if narrating a piece of past glory and a memory that had long been sealed in dust.

Today, they were left with nothing but walking corpses of flesh and bone, driven by others.

That slender elven figure in tattered armor suddenly saw two dark green rays of spectral light light up within its hollow eyes.

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Within the Elven Forest, an exquisite silhouette dressed in a long dress, along with a silver-haired old man, gazed devoutly at the lake water that was as clear as a mirror.

Great Elder Heru's old eyes carried a shred of melancholy. "How many years has it been... has our God abandoned us long ago?"

Suddenly, within that lake water, a dark, gloomy light abruptly lit up!

"The Elven God has responded to us!" How many years had it been?! At this moment, they cheered and danced with joy, as happy as a child who had received candy.

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I failed to write two chapters, apologies everyone... the last paragraph was indeed a bit difficult to write.

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