Journey to the head

Before Jiang Baitao could react, the woman in the starlight twitched her eyelids and slowly opened her eyes.

In an instant, the billions of stars and star trails on the star trail paled in comparison.

It was a vast, overwhelming, and transcendent pressure beyond this realm, beyond description. Both Daoist and Void Refinement cultivators present were deeply shaken, almost to the point of prostrating themselves in worship.

Jiang Baitao felt dizzy and disoriented. In an instant, her perspective shifted, and she found herself trapped in the star trails. Then, another wave of dizziness washed over her, and her two gazes merged, layer upon layer, infinitely nested, with countless trapped Jiang Baitaos and Jiang Baitaos staring blankly outwards appearing simultaneously in her field of vision.

Jiang Baitao finally realized "herself".

I should have transcended the Three Realms, escaped the Five Elements, avoided reincarnation, and risen above all living beings.

I was meant to be an existence that mortals could not see, cannot spy on, and cannot grasp.

But now, "I" am too weak, so weak that I have already fallen below this level, so weak that I cannot even break free from the constraints here...

"That's right, that's right!" Immortal Lord Hedao let out an excited scream that was completely out of character for his status. "It's her!"

You Lianxu Zhenjun said with a face full of joy: "Congratulations, Ancestor Cunlu! You have obtained the opportunity today, and the day of becoming an immortal is near."

Immortal Lord Cunlu laughed heartily: "This is not just my personal opportunity, but the opportunity of our Tian Shi Yuan Dou Palace, and the opportunity of everyone!"

The giant star trail trembled.

Immortal Lord Cunlu roared impatiently, "Everyone, take your positions and let's begin!"

He and five other True Monarchs, including True Monarch Xuming, shifted positions, each standing at a corner outside the star trail. From their vantage point, a giant six-pointed star suddenly began to flash, with a spherical giant star trail at its center.

At this moment, the connection between their gazes was severed again. Jiang Baitao stared at "herself" in the star trails, while "herself" stared back at her.

The two people were suspended face to face, like a reflection in a perfectly clear mirror.

A voice rang out in Jiang Baitao's mind; it was "herself" speaking.

"You're early."

"You were supposed to be guided here by Fomalhaut two thousand years from now, why is this happening?"

"Ah, I'm so weak, I didn't even realize it. You must have been drawn to him, caught in a chaotic vortex of fate, your destiny suddenly skewed."

"The calamity we face today is likely unavoidable."

The six people from Tian Shi Yuan Dou Palace shouted in unison, and the light of the six-pointed star spread across the sky, even overshadowing the billions of stars in the star trail.

One Dao Integration cultivator and five Void Refinement cultivators unleashed seemingly inexhaustible spiritual power, causing the entire hall to tremble and creating massive spatial waves. Void creatures living on the spatial walls were startled and flashed by, leaving huge shadows in the hall.

The six people, wielding this spiritual power, began chanting obscure and difficult incantations, their hands forming long, seemingly endless hand seals.

From each of the six points of the six-pointed star, a thick chain woven from countless hair-thin incantations shot out and plunged into the star orbit. Billions of stars twinkled in unison, and then from each star, an extremely thin, intermittent thread of starlight began to extend, reaching towards Jiang Baitao and the woman.

Before Jiang Baitao could even feel fear, those silk threads suddenly pierced into her body through every pore!

!!!

The intense pain caused her to faint instantly, only to be jolted awake by the continued piercing of the fine wire.

She was firmly fixed in mid-air by these silk threads, unable to move an inch, screaming was out of the question, and she couldn't even convulse.

In an instant, the soul was already on the verge of collapse from the pain. As those fine threads slowly pierced into the pores of the body, a quick death became a craving.

In the repeated cycles of collapse and painful awakening, blood began to seep from every thin thread. Jiang Baitao's entire body was a bloody mess, with not a single piece of good flesh left.

Before Jiang Baitao, the woman's figure jolted violently. Jiang Baitao's endless pain surged through her simultaneously; she frowned, her face contorted with agony, and the starlight enveloping her trembled, shaking and growing ever fainter!

The fine threads coiled around her like venomous snakes, simultaneously stabbing at her, attempting to pierce the faint starlight.

"Keep going, don't stop! Don't stop!" Cunlu Immortal Lord shouted, his eyes filled with longing. Beads of sweat began to appear on the foreheads of each of them, and the five Refining Void True Lords were even drenched in sweat on their backs.

Finally, a thin thread suddenly pierced through the starlight and entered the woman's body!
A dazzling starlight was extracted along the thin thread, bringing with it the brilliance of the stars in the star trail, shining like the sun!
Bathed in the starlight, Immortal Lord Cunlu made no attempt to hide his ecstatic joy.

"Give her a push, she's almost at her limit!"

The woman glared with angry eyes, and that terrifying pressure came over again. The hearts of the six cultivators pounded like drums, but driven by boundless greed, they gritted their teeth and continued to output spiritual power.

In an instant, her voice resonated in everyone's hearts.

"When my true form descends upon the Heavenly Market Palace, I will surely banish your souls to the Nine Netherworlds, where they will suffer unbearable torment for countless eons!"

However, Immortal Lord Cunlu burst into laughter: "You've actually started making threatening remarks; it seems you're really going to lose."

"Your true form is currently sealed, and there's also the Luo Tian Forbidden Immortal Tent. How could you possibly descend to the mortal realm?"

"Once we have fully digested this clone of yours and comprehended your Great Dao of Stars, we can also ascend to immortality through it."

His face turned bright red, and his expression began to contort.

"Then how will you be able to kill me!"

"Give up!" Immortal Lord Cunlu unleashed his profound incantation once more, and the fine threads attacked even more fiercely. "Just like thirteen thousand years ago, I will transform this avatar of yours into fuel for my ascension to the Immortal Realm, and into fuel for our Heavenly Market Palace!"

Several more threads pierced through the starlight barrier and embedded themselves in the woman's body. She let out a low cry of pain, and Jiang Baitao, on the verge of collapse, suddenly saw many hallucinations.

Thirteen thousand years ago, a large star fell onto the Immortal Meteor Islands.

The star suddenly vanished, transforming into a severely injured, dying, extremely weak, and unconscious woman.

She paid a huge price to break through the seal of the Immortal Realm with an avatar, then passed through the Luo Tian Forbidden Immortal Tent, and finally arrived in the Yuan Chen Realm.

However, she underestimated the power of the Luo Tian Forbidden Immortal Tent. Passing through the tent caused her such severe injuries that almost all of her power was sealed by the tent, to the point that she almost vanished into thin air.

"What a powerful seal! What a powerful Immortal Forbidden Tent, capable of killing the Yin of Life and Death!"

At that moment, she was discovered by a group of monks.

When they discovered that something they had previously been unable to perceive was now helplessly falling from the clouds, heaven knows how excited and thrilled they were. The cultivators immediately captured her, and then extracted the Dao essence of the Great Dao of the Stars from her severely injured and powerless body, which began to dissipate, thus advancing their cultivation by leaps and bounds.

They grew stronger and stronger, eventually creating the Heavenly City Palace using the Star Path they stole from her.

Then, Tian Shi Yuan Dou Palace used the stolen Dao techniques to build this grand hall in the void, creating this star track to trap her. They even attempted to continue dismembering her, hoping to completely grasp the secrets of the Great Dao of Stars.

However, she was not so easy to deal with after all.

Or rather, the true immortal still surpasses the imagination of mortals, even if she is just a severely injured clone.

Throughout the long years, although she was suppressed and weakened every moment, she was still slowly recovering and accumulating power. Finally, the cultivators of Tian Shi Yuan Dou Palace were shocked and furious to discover that they could no longer extract the Dao aura from her.

However, by this time, the Heavenly City Palace was powerful enough that even if they couldn't deal with her for the time being, she couldn't escape from her imprisonment.

In the midst of the stalemate, she made a bold attempt. After biding her time for a long time, taking advantage of the fact that the Celestial Lords of Tian Shi Yuan Dou Palace were not all present, she fought back with all her might to attract attention, and then directly split herself!

He severed a true spirit, bestowed with the blessings of countless stars and the protection of the Southern Heaven King, Beiluo Shimen, and sent it directly into the Pure Land of the Yellow Springs and the Netherworld!
This true spirit will enter reincarnation and embark on the path of cultivation. Under the protection of the stars, she will possess great fortune and luck, receive the love and care of many people, and grow up under the companionship and protection of Beiluo Shimen.

Until the day she is strong enough, she will come here again under the guidance of Fomalhaut and reunite with herself.

At that time, I will regain my full power, and even if the Heavenly Market Palace has three Dao Integration Realm experts, they will only tremble before me!
But now, she has arrived two thousand years earlier than planned!

"This is fate, why do you still struggle?" Immortal Lord Cunlu smiled brightly, yet it sent chills down one's spine. "Now that you have obtained the true spirit that has escaped, we can follow the connection between you and use the Immortal Technique - Great Zhou Heavenly Starfall Disintegration Technique to completely shatter you!"

"Oh, so I learned this magic from you."

Jiang Baitao was completely soaked in blood, and those star-like threads were invading her internal organs, tearing every inch of her flesh apart.

"Destiny?" The woman suddenly sneered. "You mortals, have you ever seen destiny?"

Nebulae swirled in her eyes, and starlight suddenly gathered around her, desperately pushing away the fine threads.

The fine threads on Jiang Baitao's body were pushed up inch by inch, but this caused her to bleed even more.

She couldn't make a sound, but as she gradually collapsed, the image in her mind became clearer, as if it had been repeatedly wiped clean.

Sister Lu Qian
Cunlu Immortal Lord's face darkened. He hadn't expected that even at this point, the woman would still have the power to resist.

Next, it will be a contest between the two sides.

However, she was only at her last gasp, struggling desperately.

"Why suffer so much? Just give up," he said with a sneer.

"You can't hold on much longer. The nineteenth Heavenly Lord, the Celestial Star Lord of the Universe."

"elder sister!"

Inside the silver-white warship, Jiang Qingfeng suddenly raised his head.

For a moment, she seemed to hear Jiang Baitao calling out.

But she quickly regained her senses. Now, the group of the Six Immortal Pillars, under the strict surveillance and cover of the Dragon Clan, had arrived at the Dragon Clan's sacred land, and the Dragon Palace was right before their eyes.

Having already traveled an unknown distance from Jade Pot Island, how could one possibly hear Tao Tao's voice?

She must be sitting by the sea right now, poking at crabs while sulking.

Jiang Qingfeng smiled. As long as the trip to the Dragon Palace goes smoothly, perhaps in less than thirty-three days, my junior brother and I will be able to go back and pick her up.

With a map of the Dragon Palace, all you need to do is enter the Dragon Palace.
But has Junior Brother found a way to enter the Dragon Palace?
"Sister Jiang." Hai Shuangyao poked her head in, her face full of excitement. "We've arrived! Father said this is the Dragon Palace Holy Land, officially called the Great Ocean Abyss. Now, you'll have to pretend to be my maid and follow behind me."

Jiang Qingfeng nodded with a smile. In fact, Hai Shuangyao was older than her, but Hai Shuangyao was completely oblivious to this. She simply called Bai Tao "sister," and Jiang Qingfeng went along with it.

As the two reached the cabin door, they encountered Hai Yiwei, who stood like an iron tower. He looked serious and raised his hand to stop them: "Don't go out yet, something's wrong outside."

"These rotten fish, shrimp, and old mudfish are trying to give us a hard time."

Upon hearing this, Hai Shuangyao was alarmed and peeked out from under her father's arm, allowing Jiang Qingfeng to catch a glimpse of the situation on the sea.

At first glance, she saw a strange, multicolored sea surface, shimmering and sparkling under the bright moonlight and starlight, creating large patches of iridescent halos.

Upon closer inspection, the two of them gasped in shock.

Those were dragons with different colored scales and different body shapes, covering the entire sea area!

Or they perch atop massive underwater mountains, standing motionless like sculptures, their scales gleaming with a cold metallic sheen in the deep-sea light.

Or it meanders through the middle layer of the sea, its massive body stirring up the ocean currents, rolling into waves that roar and vibrate.

More dragons hovered on the sea surface, gazing at the procession of the Six Pillars of Immortal Fall. Their naturally emanating dragon might condensed into a tangible pressure, making the entire space thick and heavy, as if muffled drumbeats were echoing in one's heart.

Dragons are in the water, dragons are in the air, dragons are in the seabed, dragons are on the surface of the sea.
"How many dragons are there here?" Hai Shuangyao asked blankly. "This is too exaggerated. These are dragons, not fish from the sea!"

Hai Yiwei shook his head: "The entire dragon race of the Star Sea has gathered here, numbering well over a million?"

Beneath the radiant glow of the gathering dragons lay an equally awe-inspiring army of sea creatures.

Huge waves rose from the sea, towering like hills. Countless sea creatures were arrayed on the waves, their deep horn sounds mingling with the roar of the waves, converging into a rumbling thunder that rolled back and forth across the deep ocean.

Clad in heavy armor, the Xuan Turtle formed an impregnable wall, resembling a fortress. Whale Sharks, wielding tridents and possessing imposing, muscular bodies, stood in a forest of formation, their eyes gleaming with bloodlust. Swift as lightning, the Sailfish Riders darted through the gaps in the formation, leaving trails of sharp water in their wake.
Layer upon layer, densely packed. The sea race's army had completely surrounded the forces of the Six Fallen Immortal Pillars.

Seemingly in response to such provocation and intimidation, three Dao-Merging Immortal Lords slowly ascended into the sky from the fleet of the Six Pillars of Immortal Fall, like three suns stretching across the heavens, aiming to suppress the arrogance of the Dragon Clan and the Sea Clan.

One of them simply waved his hand, and a tsunami erupted in the ocean, with ordinary dragons and sea creatures being tossed and turned amidst the roaring waves.

But the next moment, four auras, like towering pillars supporting the sky, rose up!
They stood at the four corners, within the formation of the dragon and sea races, as if they had merged with the entire ocean, instantly restoring tranquility to the sea.

An immense and boundless pressure spread out without any concealment, like invisible shackles intertwined. Then, a giant island rose up, breaking through the sea and emerging from the waves.

The three immortals who had perished and merged with the Dao all paled in shock. (End of Chapter)