A journey of survival starting from Zhetian

Chapter 688 The Ultimate Strike

The young divine ape stopped practicing his less-than-perfect Heavenly Secrets Algorithm, slowly exhaling a wisp of pure air to calm the unease in his heart.

He no longer cared about why he was already in this place after his enlightenment ended; his only hope now was to survive and complete his "mission" to make his so-called "return."

The divine ape repeated the main quest it had received, a thoughtful look flashing in its eyes, "Explore the ominous and eerie atmosphere of the world, find the immortal beings spreading the pollution, and kill them. The mission deadline is only one year, or perhaps even shorter."

"This means that the immortal beings that spread pollution are not hard to find, and perhaps this ominous and eerie core area that permeates the world is the place."

"The problem is immortal beings themselves."

Within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, only immortal beings can be called immortal, and even the weakest among the immortal beings, who attain the Dao Fruit of Ghost Immortal through various tricks and self-destruction, are still immortal beings.

As long as one does not enter the Dharma-ending Age and is not struck by the will of Heaven, and one's origin remains intact, one's lifespan is infinite. No matter what kind of defect one has, it will be remedied one day. One is inherently stronger than the vast majority of human beings.

Although we are no longer in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, judging from the background of the world described in the mission and the laws of the world we just came into contact with, when this world was intact, its origin was not very strong. It was roughly equivalent to a celestial cave heaven. The immortal beings that spread pollution would not be too powerful and should not have the power of a top-level true immortal.

However, the eeriness and ominousness are a terrifying set of variables. What's even more frightening is that they converge on a being that can be called an immortal being. For a cultivator at the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, let alone killing it, whether they can even effectively restrain it is a problem that needs to be discussed.

"Therefore, we have Side Quest 1: Save the Remaining Resistance Forces in the World."

"Does the powerful immortal who sent me here think that I might need to rely on the remaining power of this world to have any hope of killing this immortal being that spreads corruption?"

After careful and repeated deliberation, the divine ape drew fifty counting rods from the Sea of ​​Wheels, using forty-nine of them. With its own destiny and fate as the basis, it performed eighteen calculations to obtain the six lines, arranged the Eight Trigrams, and extracted a wisp of fortune and misfortune from the unseen.

"To obtain a position in the east is ominous."

"The rest are in great danger!"

"I am not predicting the fate of that immortal being, but merely my own fortune and misfortune. It is unlikely that potential adversaries will detect this. Is such an outcome strange and ominous?"

The divine ape's expression changed repeatedly. It retrieved the counting rods into its sea of ​​consciousness, stepped into the sky above the battlefield, and sped off towards the due east.

"boom!"

No sooner had he left than a strange change occurred on the battlefield littered with corpses. One after another, hideous withered hands slowly rose, and wisps of blood mist spread within his mutilated body. Fragments of weapons, shattered into pieces, gathered together, embedding themselves into flesh and bones.

“Uh.”

A hoarse growl emanated from the withered throats of the bodies, and fragments of "Tao" and "Dharma" seemed to be summoned, converging under the call of a distorted and stitched-up turbid consciousness, transforming into a ray of brilliant immortal radiance with eeriness and ominousness.

The long-dead corpses have come back to life. Their consciousness has been strangely and ominously stitched together, and countless "Tao" and "Law" have also undergone terrible distortions, reversing the normal form of life.

Their states are converging; their bones are slowly liquefying and flowing towards the center of the battlefield. Their flesh and blood are bursting with an incredible, eerie vitality, like living worms, slowly wriggling. The liquefied bones are constantly intertwining and dissolving with the flesh and blood worms, splashing out a sweet, metallic smell.

A body that challenged the limits of normal immortal beings and imprisoned the stitched-together consciousness of billions was born.

"howl!"

Flowers of flesh and blood bloomed on this body, like fruits, forming large, pale, and strange hands. Ominous gray hairs grew on the body's surface, curling up with ferocious instincts.

After a few breaths, the stitched-up consciousness within this body melted slightly, allowing it to truly cultivate a wisp of intelligence from its murky state. It waved its gray-haired arms, performing different hand seals, attracting the twisted, filthy, and bizarre "Tao" and "Dharma" filled with stitched marks.

Hatred for all things in the world emanated from within this body, and terrifying malice was like a raging fire that threatened to annihilate the world. It burned through the laws of heaven and earth, melted away the matter and energy that were near it, and caused the entire sky to tilt toward it.

The indescribable creature suddenly looked eastward and saw the divine ape rushing about.

In the next instant, countless gaping mouths opened from various parts of the body, emitting roars filled with a devouring desire. Large, hairy, and ominous hands reached out, causing the spacetime structure to shatter and manifesting chains of divine laws, which were now in a semi-distorted state.

A feeling of palpitation instantly enveloped the divine ape's entire body, and every quasi-royal weapon on its body trembled, silently cracking with tiny fissures.

He turned back, his divine eyes gazing at the source, and murmured in shock, "This is the 'ominous' sign presented in the eerie and ominous divination."

Nine immortal Dao patterns manifested in his pupils, forming an immortal ring that emitted a golden radiance as brilliant as a star.

The changes in heaven and earth slowed down instantly. Fragments of the collapsing spacetime structure, the countless light and shadows reflected in them, the semi-twisted chains of divine laws, and the traces of contamination were all revealed in their entirety.

As the gaze deepened, focusing on the indescribable body, one could glimpse the twisted flesh resembling worms or silk, and the bones formed from fragments of weapons and countless other remains. Grains of gray material quietly appeared in the depths of the eye, exuding an eeriness and foreboding.

"The source is these gray substances; they are the source of the eeriness and misfortune?"

As this thought echoed in the divine ape's mind, a strange sense of nausea surged up instantly. His own divine consciousness seemed to be inexplicably corrupted, about to split in two. His primordial spirit on the platform was stained with a wisp of gray haze, giving him an inexplicable sense of separation.

Without hesitation, he immediately recited the "Scripture of Salvation" created by Lingbao Tianzun, causing the divine power within the secret realm to operate in a mysterious trajectory. At the same time, it emitted a wisp of supreme purity and divine intent, and generated a terrifying sharpness that instantly cut away all the ominousness within his body.

Subtle Dao light extended from within his body to the outside, emitting wisps of brilliant, clear light that disintegrated all the strange phenomena near his Dao body.

"The Scripture of Salvation is useful, and its effects are even more powerful than expected. It is indeed worthy of being created by the Heavenly Venerable Lingbao to eliminate the calamity of corpses."

The divine ape turned and leaped, unleashing its immortal iron staff. The power of the "Scripture of Salvation" was gathered at the tip of the staff, which it then hurled across the sky.

The terrifying force, carrying a sliver of luminous light, directly tore apart the semi-distorted laws of heaven and earth, shattering the already fragmented spacetime structure, until the indescribable being collided with its waving pale hand.

"boom!"

A spray of blood mist erupted as chunks of flesh and bone, mixed with weapon fragments, were crushed by terrifying force. A chilling aura spread from every drop of blood, every piece of flesh, and every bone fragment, unleashing a terrifying killing power that fundamentally disintegrated these eerie and ominous substances. "Ugh!"

The enormous staff pierced through the indescribable creature, pinning it to the desolate earth. Painful roars emanated from its body, and the distorted "Tao" and "Law" that had been summoned were swept away, their meaning erased, seemingly destined to be completely annihilated into a void where nothing would remain.

"boom!"

Countless dust particles flew and dissipated, drifting into the void like dream bubbles. This indescribable being with immortal properties vanished completely and ceased to exist in the world.

However, when the divine ape reached out to recall the long staff, the palpitations that echoed deep within its heart did not diminish in the slightest; on the contrary, they continued to increase, reaching a peak after the indescribable creature had completely perished.

Clearly, the "inauspiciousness" presented in the divination results does not entirely apply to this newly formed, indescribable statue.

"Walk."

The divine ape once again took to the air and sped eastward, not daring to linger for even a moment.

However, this action was still a little too late. At the western end, a consciousness imbued with the laws of immortality had already arrived.

The enormous, indescribable crater suddenly erupted with an ominous gray light, directly gathering the corpses and broken weapons from dozens of surrounding battlefields, as well as wandering, eerie creatures, stitching them together in a terrifying way to create an even more horrifying shell for the world.

Amidst a series of roars with unintelligible meaning, a hundred-armed giant, standing 100,000 feet tall, was born. Staring with its single, enormous pupil, it traversed vast distances in one stride and directly struck the rapidly soaring divine ape.

Even more distorted than before, the "Tao" and "Law" silently gathered in his palm. Ferocious mouths and limbs covered his palm like lines. All the Taos of this world were broken open, turning into a "void" with only distorted laws remaining.

This time, the divine ape's expression changed slightly. The power of this attack was no weaker than any forbidden chapter unleashed by any supreme being in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths who was constantly under divine restrictions.

This time there was no way to escape, nor could they use any supernatural powers or secret techniques to flee. The entire sky was sealed off by that strange and distorted "Tao" and "Dharma".

"Then fight!"

A surge of fighting spirit rose within him, transforming into sparkling flames that leaped from his golden fur. The five secret realms within his body temporarily merged, and the accumulated divinity, under the control of the "Heart Secret," transformed into a stairway to penetrate the divine forbidden realm, allowing his already terrifying combat power to directly break through the barrier leading to the ultimate path.

The long staff in his palm was stretched out horizontally, swung across the sky, piercing the clouds and shattering the void, unleashing a powerful immortal killing technique that made the entire world tremble slightly.

"boom!"

The long staff collided with the terrifying giant hand, and the terrifying shockwave swept across the desolate land, cracking open deep fissures and erupting lava from the depths of the earth.

When the second terrifying tremor resounded, all matter and energy within a radius of millions of miles were rapidly disintegrated, torn into almost invisible wisps of dust. The void itself was ripped apart by this force, creating terrifying rifts that seemed to stretch straight to the heavens.

As the third major attack occurred, a terrifying blood mist filled the sky. The 100,000-foot-tall Cyclops roared in pain, piercing through the distorted power that covered the sky, allowing a golden light carrying a hint of blood to shoot out and head straight for the east.

"Roar!"

The giant seemed to have a sliver of consciousness awakened by the intense pain; the consciousness trapped within its body, marked by stitches, quietly transformed into reason.

It, or rather, he, at this very moment, has truly come to "live".

"A variable not contained in the secrets of heaven, you lowly little insect, die!"

The giant roared, and the hundreds of giant hands on his body twisted again, producing inexplicable distortions and undergoing even more powerful and terrifying mutations.

The spacetime structure was disintegrated in these giant hands, and wisps of turbulent time were generated in his palms, causing a terrifying shift in the history of this world, even just a few minutes ahead.

The astonishing hand overlapped, changed, and merged. In a past moment, a ten-thousand-meter-tall hand descended from the sky, directly suppressing the golden light that was trying to escape, and blasting it into a spray of blood light with a hint of golden radiance, tearing apart the "Dao" and "Dharma" existing on its body.

The divine ape, rushing eastward, suddenly felt a jolt in its pupils. Its memories had become slightly altered, and a giant hand, ten thousand meters long, almost covered everything.

Reality was distorted; the enormous palm print crushed his body, and terrifying, eerie substances penetrated every secret realm within his body. Even the divine power that was constantly circulating according to the "Scripture of Salvation" could not immediately dispel these terrifying ominous signs.

Blood and bones have been torn apart by an unknown force. The Dao body, which was comparable to that of an ordinary supreme emperor after enlightenment, is now on the verge of collapse. The five secret realms are creaking as they approach disintegration. Every inch of the primordial spirit is even covered with twisted gray Dao wounds.

All signs indicate that he is going to die!

This is a desperate situation, a situation that has never occurred before, from the beginning of my cultivation to the tribulation on the ancient star!

There was absolutely no hope of survival!

The divine ape's pupils dilated to their limit, and the nine immortal Dao patterns encircling it were extremely dim, yet time seemed to slow down at this moment.

He saw the face of the hundred-armed giant, his distorted primordial spirit, the tormented soul imprisoned within his body, and the "Tao" and "Dharma" covered with stitches.

The Bodhi tree on the Sendai swayed, and all things in heaven and earth seemed to be in harmony like never before.

His "spirit" seemed to have traversed this vast world in that instant, witnessing countless desolate scenes and the faint wisp of fire in the east.

The long staff was raised again by the nearly shattered, bloody hand, and swung horizontally, unleashing a strike that pushed him to the limit of the Immortal Path.

In an instant, the world became clear and the eerie atmosphere vanished.

(End of this chapter)