There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Wang Ping had no choice but to abandon his meditation and use a public teleportation array to appear near the Ascension Platform of the Demon Star, devoting most of his consciousness to the front lines.

Although the True Lords of Tianmen and Xuanmen often quarrel, given the current situation, they must maintain a united front against external threats. With True Lord Diwen personally facing the enemy, they naturally cannot stand idly by.

Even faster than Wang Ping arrived were Tiangong and Lieyang, followed by Xuanqing and Baiyan. The arrival of these True Lords caused the demon cultivators around the Ascension Platform of the Demon Star to instinctively lower their heads. Quan Xing, who was left to guard the Demon Star, quickly came to the Ascension Platform to personally welcome them.

In this short period of time, the earth elemental energy of this starry sky had been fully gathered, and the Earth Script True Lord had appeared in front of the defensive formation constructed on the periphery of the rebel army.

The defensive array constructed by the rebels pierced through the starry sky, with surging demonic energy covering the array. From a distance, it looked like a pitch-black cosmic behemoth breathing in and out spiritual energy. Upon closer inspection, one could see layers upon layers of runic barriers shimmering with a dark spiritual light. The distorted extraterrestrial demonic energy within the array was almost tangible, forming pitch-black barriers that seemed to tear the entire starry sky apart.

Earthly True Lord stood in the void, the earth elemental energy beneath his feet condensing into a substantial Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams array. Then, with an indifferent gaze, he raised his hand and said:

"town!"

In an instant, the earth elemental energy of the entire starry sky boiled, transforming into billions of streams of dark yellow light, converging from all directions.

These earth elemental energies did not surge randomly, but followed some unseen order, condensing in the void into the phantoms of nine giant mountains, each comparable to the massive defensive barrier built by the rebels.

When all nine mountains appear together, even the starry sky trembles.

As if sensing a threat, the extraterrestrial demonic energy within the defensive array suddenly surged and transformed into countless ferocious demonic shadows that lunged at Earthly True Monarch. However, before these demonic shadows could even get close, they were crushed by the primordial yellow light emanating from the giant mountain and dissipated into black smoke.

Earthly True Lord raised his hand again, and the nine divine mountains moved rapidly, eventually arranging themselves into a nine-palace formation, completely enveloping the rebel army's defensive array. Then, he clenched his fist and issued a decree:
"town!"

The nine mountains pressed down simultaneously!

"boom!!!"

A deafening roar shook the starry sky, causing the rune barriers of the defensive array to crumble inch by inch. The surging demonic energy within the array was evaporated by the Xuanhuang light. The rebel cultivators at the base of the array didn't even have time to react before being reduced to dust under the suppression of the divine mountain, without even being able to utter a scream.

The moment the great formation shattered, the array diagram beneath the feet of Earth Script True Lord changed again. The earth elemental energy transformed into a raging torrent, rushing in through the gap in the great formation. Wherever the torrent passed, the rebel warships and encampments were all crushed into dust.

Those extraterrestrial cultivators who attempted to escape were imprisoned by invisible earth elemental power as soon as they entered the starry sky. Their bodies then petrified inch by inch, eventually disintegrating into a sky full of dust.

The noise was brief, then fell into dead silence.

Only the figure of the Earthly True Lord remained standing in the void, his black and yellow Daoist robe spotless, as if the world-destroying power just now had nothing to do with him.

But the silence was brief, followed by a roar that echoed through the starry sky:

"Geographical markings!!!"

As the roar erupted, billowing demonic energy appeared, and two consciousnesses simultaneously appeared in front of the collapsing defensive array, followed by boundless darkness.

"Two nobodys, how dare you address me by my name?"

Di Wen's cold eyes showed no emotion as he stared at the two demonic cultivators who had arrived before him. The Star God Cores no longer existed within them; instead, they had been transformed into an unknown and distorted demonic energy.

The cultivator on the left was surrounded by distorted, chaotic currents of rules. With each step he took, the space cracked like a fragile ice surface, and spiderweb-like cracks spread thousands of feet beneath his feet, failing to heal for a long time.

The cultivator on the right shifted between reality and illusion, and the ancient mirror floating behind him reflected countless afterimages. With each rotation of the mirror, the light of the surrounding star field dimmed, as if its brilliance had been swallowed up.

The array diagram beneath the feet of the Earthly True Lord suddenly lit up, and the patterns of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams extended into the void, instantly freezing the shattered space wherever it passed.

Then, from within the surging and dark demonic energy, another dark and mysterious light tore through the void and struck, causing the starlight and spiritual energy it affected to boil and evaporate, forming a vacuum trajectory that stretched for tens of thousands of miles. This was an unknown secret technique jointly performed by the two demonic cultivators.

Then, Diwen Zhenjun raised his hand, and the runes flowing on the surface of the nine condensed mountain shadows suddenly shone brightly, suppressing the dark and mysterious light that was attacking.

"boom!"

A blinding white light burst forth from the center of the collision, and the spatial structure within a radius of a thousand miles shattered like glass, exposing the chaotic void beneath.

At this moment, the demonic cultivator with the ancient mirror floating behind him refracted three thousand beams of light from the mirror, which transformed into tangible blades, each one cutting through the basic structure of space.

As the phantom that flew out from the sleeve of the Earthly True Lord unfolded, a 'life and death light curtain' quickly enveloped the starry sky.

"Shh~
The 'Life and Death Light Curtain' swept away the three thousand beams of light like autumn leaves, shattering them into sharp blades. However, the interwoven starlight time flow suddenly became disordered, undergoing a thousand reshapings in just a few breaths.

At this moment, the array diagram beneath the feet of Earthly True Lord suddenly rotated, the nine palaces were abruptly reversed, and the earth spirit of the entire starry sky was distorted accordingly.

The two demonic cultivators swayed, their demonic energy being torn apart by an invisible force, leaving countless cracks that scattered like tattered cloth. The demonic cultivator on the left roared, and the turbulent flow of demonic energy condensed into a pitch-black chain that pierced into the void, attempting to anchor the turbulent space. However, the Earthly True Monarch's sleeves fluttered, and the Xuanhuang Sandstorm unleashed by the 'Dust Light Technique' had already swept across tens of thousands of miles.

Every grain of sand in this sandstorm carries the cycle of life and death, and when it collides with the dark chains, it produces a metallic clang.

Under the pressure of the two forces, the starry sky collapsed into countless mirror fragments, reflecting millions of distorted battlefield scenes. The ancient mirror of the demonic cultivator on the right suddenly shattered, and the afterimage in the mirror turned into a physical entity and rushed out, but it faded and decayed the moment it touched the sandstorm, as if it had been washed away by billions of years of time.

"Destroy!"

As the Earthly True Lord uttered the decree, the light barrier of life and death suddenly contracted into a line. Wherever that thin gray-white line passed, the protective demonic runes on the demon cultivator's body melted away like spring snow, and the core of the spiritual body was instantly exposed to the starry sky.

The demonic cultivator on the left roared as he hurled a spear formed from demonic energy, leaving shattered spatial and temporal scars wherever it passed. Meanwhile, Earthly True Monarch merely raised his left hand, and three of the nine mountain shadows collapsed with a deafening roar. The erupting earth elemental energy gathered before him, and he uttered a command:
"town!"

The moment the spear collided with the boundless pressure, the gravity of the entire battlefield was rewritten.

The dissipating demonic energy suddenly became as heavy as lead and mercury, pressing spiderweb-like cracks into the spiritual bodies of the two demonic cultivators. The demonic cultivator on the right struggled to form hand seals, and the fragments of the ancient mirror reversed their flow to reassemble, but just as it was about to take shape, it was grasped from afar by the Earthly True Monarch. The immense power of the earth in his hand directly crushed the spell enshrined in the mirror. The starry sky suddenly darkened.

The dark yellow patterns on the Earthly True Lord's robe lit up one by one, and the power of life and death in the Samsara Realm instantly enveloped the battlefield.

The spiritual veins of the two demonic cultivators began to regress uncontrollably, transforming from their current demonic form back to their original pure spiritual light. They frantically urged their demonic energy, but this only accelerated the regression process, causing their spiritual bodies to dissipate rapidly like an inverted hourglass.

At the final moment, Earthly True Monarch pressed down with his right hand, and the remaining six of the nine mountain shadows sank into the void at the same time, completely sealing the demonic cultivator's scattered spiritual veins within the broken interlayer.

The starry sky returned to silence, with only the earth elemental energy still slowly circulating, repairing the fragmented spatial structure.

The array beneath the feet of the Earthly True Lord remained intact. As his Xuanhuang Daoist robe surged, the earth elemental energy spread in all directions like a tide. Wherever he passed, the scattered demonic energy dissipated and disintegrated as if encountering a natural enemy, turning into wisps of black smoke that were crushed into the void by the power of the earth. The shattered starry sky healed itself wherever he went, as if the entire star field was reshaping its order in accordance with his will.

Then, amidst the astonished gazes of the other True Lords, he once again gathered the boundless earth elemental energy of the starry sky, clashed with the billowing demonic energy further away, and moved forward toward the heart of the rebel army.

The snake demon Bai Xin and the monkey demon Hou Ji behind them exchanged a glance and immediately followed Di Wen's footsteps without hesitation. Tian Gong made a choice at the first moment, transforming into a golden light that tore through space and appeared around the outer star in an instant, supporting Di Wen, Bai Xin, and Hou Ji.

Lieyang cast a spell, and the sunlight in the starry sky intensified. However, it fell on the dark borderland in the blink of an eye, but it could not completely dispel the darkness there. However, it effectively suppressed the expansion of the darkness.

Just then, five more demonic cultivators appeared in front of Diwen Zhenjun and his companions, forming a magic array barrier that stretched for hundreds of thousands of miles, cutting off their path.

"It's that same demonic aura again. It seems the rebels have indeed gained some different knowledge."

Wang Ping's voice was very soft. As he spoke, Xuan Qing was using a communication token to command the other True Monarchs of the Demon Clan to go to the starry sky where the extraterrestrial army was gathered and build a sufficient defensive barrier to prevent the rebels from launching a sneak attack from other starry skies.

"The power of their spiritual veins is strong, but it is very weak afterward, like a one-time power!" Bai Yan made a simple assessment.

"Even so, we should not underestimate them, after all, only seven or eight hundred years have passed since the battle on the outer planet." Lieyang's tone was serious.

While they were talking, the other True Monarchs of the Demon Clan had already arrived at the Outer Planet and organized the Xuanmen and Tianmen disciples gathered there to build a defensive barrier. They also dispatched a considerable number of reconnaissance flying boats to investigate the secret passages that the extraterrestrial rebels had been using in recent years.

Meanwhile, at the forefront, Di Wen, Bai Xin, and Hou Ji also faced off against five newly emerged demonic cultivators…

Bai Xin and Hou Ji made their moves almost simultaneously.

As Bai Xin formed hand seals, the 'Spirit-Binding Technique' was suddenly unleashed, freezing the spiritual energy of the starry sky instantly. Even the demonic energy was imprisoned, and the demonic energy surging around the five demonic cultivators seemed to sink into a quagmire.

Hou Ji's figure blurred as he activated the Shadow Clone Technique, and three physical clones appeared simultaneously, attacking the demonic cultivators in different directions. His main body, meanwhile, used spatial leaps to instantly approach the demonic cultivator on the far left, and then his five fingers formed a claw, directly targeting the core of the opponent's spiritual vein.

The demonic cultivator reacted extremely quickly, his demonic energy surging and transforming into sharp bone spikes to counterattack. However, Hou Ji directly used his invulnerable body to withstand the erosion of the demonic energy, forcing the opponent to retreat.

On the other side, Bai Xin's eyes flashed with a ghostly light, and he instantly activated the 'Intimidation Technique'.

In an instant, the scene before the five demonic cultivators changed drastically, as if they were in an endless abyss. Countless pairs of scarlet snake eyes stared into the darkness, and the terrifying pressure struck their minds. One of the demonic cultivators was shaken and his movements faltered for a moment. At that instant, Bai Xin's Soul-Stealing Technique had silently invaded his Qi Sea. The demonic cultivator groaned, his primordial spirit feeling as if it had been bitten by ten thousand snakes, and the circulation of his demonic energy was completely disordered.

At the same time, Hou Ji's three clones had already entangled the other three demonic cultivators. Although they could not kill them with one blow, they successfully restrained their movements.

Seeing this, the last demonic cultivator suddenly activated the demonic energy array, attempting to forcefully break through the seal of the spirit-suppressing spell.

However, Bai Xin sneered and activated his energy gathering technique. A pitch-black spirit emerged from behind him, devouring the surrounding starlight like a black hole, and then burst forth as a violent star-devouring technique.

A chaotic stellar wind swept out, and wherever it passed, the defensive barrier constructed by the five demonic cultivators crumbled inch by inch.

Just as Bai Xin and Hou Ji were about to completely defeat these five demonic cultivators, a surging force rushed towards them—the 'Destruction Rule' that had appeared during the battle on the outer planet.

The moment this power appeared, it devoured all order like a greedy beast. Bai Xin's spirit-sealing domain was torn apart, and the shackles of frozen spiritual energy shattered like thin ice. Hou Ji's clone was eroded by the invisible destructive power and collapsed on its own before it could even touch the enemy.

The pitch-black torrent swept towards Bai Xin and Hou Ji. The snake demon's Star Devouring Technique storm was devoured and assimilated as soon as it came into contact with them, which instead amplified the power of destruction. Hou Ji tried to dodge with spatial jump, but found that the surrounding void had been completely locked, and even the flow of time had become disordered.

Just as the destructive torrent was about to engulf the two—

"Certainly."

The voice of the Earthly True Lord was calm and cold.

The Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams array beneath his feet suddenly expanded, and the patterns on his Xuanhuang Daoist robe burst forth with dazzling brilliance. The earth elemental energy of the entire starry sky, as if under command, transformed into billions of chains that intertwined into a net, forcefully blocking the destructive torrent outside. At the moment the two forces collided, the starry sky seemed to be split in two: one half was the ever-collapsed pitch-black destruction, and the other half was the earth vein order as thick as a mountain.

The rules of destruction were frantically eroding the earth spirit chains, each impact shattering large sections of them. But Earth Script True Monarch remained unmoved, simply raising his hand, his fingers forming a loose fist, and saying:
"Reincarnation."

The nine phantom mountains reappeared, but instead of suppressing the enemy, they formed a cycle barrier around the battlefield. The power of the rules of destruction was like falling into a quagmire as soon as it touched the barrier, and began to retreat at a speed visible to the naked eye. The pitch-black torrent faded to gray-white, and finally collapsed and was completely assimilated by the power of the earth spirit.

The moment the rules of destruction were repelled, a graceful figure slowly emerged from the void.

She was dressed in gray combat leather armor. With each step she took, dark, unknown runes bloomed beneath her feet, absorbing all the remaining destructive energy.

It's Wei Ling!
Her gaze swept across the battlefield, finally landing on Diwen Zhenjun. She clasped her hands in a salute and said, "This junior greets Diwen Zhenjun and congratulates you on your escape from Zhongzhou Star."

"Your cultivation is quite good, but you've taken the wrong path. Extraterrestrial secret techniques shouldn't appear in this starry sky," Di Wen coldly replied.

Meanwhile, Wang Ping, standing behind, frowned slightly, because he could no longer sense the 'time' property within Wei Ling! (End of Chapter)