A master of comedy!

The last wisp of the Empress's primordial spirit flew to Yang Ying's front, heading straight for his brow and heart, intending to use the power of possession.

She had planned to escape quietly, but Zhou Sheng saw through her plan. Left with no other choice, she had to take a risk and make one last desperate attempt.

Among those present, she could possess many people. Even if only a trace of true spirit remained, the primordial spirit of an Earth Immortal was something that ordinary people could not withstand.

But she knew that Yang Ying was the only way to survive.

Jinse, the Holy Maiden of Longhua, is undoubtedly the most suitable choice, but she is a great cultivator who has survived three heavenly tribulations, making the situation too uncertain.

Yang Ying is exceptionally talented and has a solid foundation. Most importantly, this woman is definitely closely related to Zhou Sheng!
Once she takes over this woman's body, she can use her as a hostage to threaten Zhou Sheng. If she manages to escape, she can use this body as a foundation to quickly cultivate and recover her cultivation level.

Get more in one fell swoop.

Yang Ying looked at the Empress's primordial spirit flying towards her with some fear, as if she could feel the greed and malice in its eyes, and felt her soul tremble.

The Ziwu Cave Void Hairpin automatically protected its owner, and the treasure that had been with her since birth rippled with a dazzling light and suddenly pierced towards the Empress's primordial spirit.

Unfortunately, once illuminated by that primordial spirit's light, the hairpin swayed precariously, as if it were drunk.

Even a dying tiger is no match for a jackal.

"Success!"

The Empress was overjoyed. She looked at Yang Ying's brow, which was now within arm's reach, no more than a finger's width away, and her fingertips could even touch her delicate skin.

So young!

A girl of seventeen or eighteen, her life as beautiful as a flower, was about to belong to her!
But then she realized something was wrong.

Why... haven't we gone in yet?

She was only a tiny bit away from entering, and could slip in in the blink of an eye. But that last bit of distance seemed to be stretched infinitely by some force, making her feel like she hadn't arrived for a very long time.

No, it's not that the journey has become longer, it's that time has slowed down!
As expected of an Earth Immortal, the Empress quickly realized the root of the problem, but she had no solution.

Time seemed to slow down, and everything around us seemed to be slowed down a hundred or a thousand times, so that tiny distance became an insurmountable chasm.

Not only her, but even the panicked look in Yang Ying's eyes was slowed down countless times, allowing one to see every detail of the change in her gaze.

Only one person can still move freely.

Zhou Sheng strode forward, as if stepping on the long river of time, exuding a unique and mysterious aura.

Time flows on, and I walk alone.

Under the Empress's angry gaze and amidst Yang Ying's delighted expression, Zhou Sheng approached the two of them, took Yang Ying's hand, and pulled her behind him.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Zhou Sheng's voice was gentle yet firm, and his warm palm seemed to possess some kind of strange magic, instantly sweeping away Yang Ying's fear and replacing it with a sense of inexplicable peace of mind.

Why is he so good to me?
At this critical moment of life and death, this sentence actually popped into Yang Ying's mind. Moreover, not only Zhou Sheng, but also the Holy Maiden of Longhua, whom she had never met and whose status could be said to be opposite, was looking at her with a concerned and urgent gaze.

Yang Ying even noticed that the Holy Maiden of Longhua had already stepped forward with her left foot, and it seemed that she wanted to stand in front of her and take the impact of the Empress's primordial spirit in her place.

That kind of instinctive, physical protection is absolutely impossible to fake.

What exactly is their relationship with me?
Zhou Sheng turned around to face the Empress's primordial spirit. His calm gaze concealed an indescribable coldness. He smiled slightly and softly murmured, "Release."

In an instant, time returned to normal. Due to inertia, the Empress's primordial spirit could not stop and rushed directly into Zhou Sheng's brow dantian, disappearing without a trace.

Zhou Sheng then slowly closed his eyes.

……

The Empress arrived in a vast, dark expanse of space, as if it were the universe itself, where time and space seemed endless and every star was a world unto itself.

Why is his spiritual platform so vast and boundless?
Just then, the stars twinkled, illuminating the dark universe. The starlight coalesced into the figure of Zhou Sheng, his primordial spirit incarnation. "Zhou Sheng!!!"

The empress glared angrily, looking as if she had gone mad.

"When you first completed your apprenticeship, I sent you an invitation to a play. Even though you didn't come, I never blamed you. We kept to ourselves. I have some connection with your Yin Opera lineage. Your master even performed at the Blissful Banquet, and I rewarded him with treasures. Why do you want to be my enemy?!"

She was filled with resentment. After years of planning, she finally managed to lure out a Celestial Realm expert, but unexpectedly, two of them appeared at once.

There are probably no more than ten Earthly Immortals in this world, extremely rare, like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, like dragons whose heads are seen but not their tails. She has held so many Blissful Banquets over the years, but she has not attracted a single one.

This time, two of them came at once.

She was confident that she could defeat any opponent who was only at the Earth Immortal Realm today.

"To be your enemy?"

Zhou Sheng shook his head, a cold smile appearing on his face: "The dragon liver and phoenix marrow, the fine wines and delicacies at the Feast of Ultimate Bliss, have never offended you?"

The Empress was taken aback, her eyes showing disbelief as she looked at Zhou Sheng with great surprise.

"Just for those lowly, ant-like people?"

After cultivating to the Earth Immortal realm, she no longer regarded mortals as human beings. The gap between immortals and humans was so great that it was even greater than that between humans and ants.

Would you consider ants to be of the same kind?

In her view, Zhou Sheng was also a powerful being at the Earth Immortal Realm. Even if he pretended to be benevolent and righteous on the surface, he could never have believed that mortals were equal to her.

In her view, those mortals lead mediocre lives, their lives as insignificant as grass, and to be transformed into divine beasts like dragons, phoenixes, and qilin by her magic is already an immense blessing.

Even if their livers were cut open and their marrow extracted, it would be an honor for them. After all, once they were eaten, they would become part of the cultivators, allowing them to come into contact with a world they had never experienced before.

Zhou Sheng shook his head and sighed deeply.

"When will you cultivators realize that the true protagonists of this world have never been immortals, but humans?"

Having said that, he stopped wasting words, raised his sword finger, and transformed into a sword light that cleaved through the chaos, slashing towards the Empress.

The Empress still wanted to struggle desperately, but under that sword light, her primordial spirit kept shattering and reforming, becoming more illusory and transparent with each reformation.

This is a pure clash of the primordial spirits, a collision of spiritual power.

The Empress suffered a crushing defeat.

Besides her serious injuries, the main reason was that Zhou Sheng had just received the true inheritance of Lu Zu and learned the Heavenly Escape Sword Technique.

This sword technique was passed down from the Fire Dragon Immortal; it suppresses all demons externally and cultivates the sword heart internally.

The first step is to sever ignorance, greed, and anger; the second is to sever ignorance, love, and desire; the third is to sever ignorance, afflictions, and this is the supreme method of wisdom, specifically designed to subdue all mental demons and evil spirits.

That's why Zhou Sheng dared to let the other party in, luring him into a trap.

"I have another secret, one that involves the Queen Mother of the West. Spare me, and I can tell you—"

Clang!
The sword rang out like thunder. After shattering the Empress's primordial spirit for the thirty-sixth time, she finally let out a mournful cry and was never able to reassemble herself.

With years of ambition, and a heart full of regret and resentment, this "Queen Mother" of the Earthly Immortal Realm, the overlord who had dominated Kunlun for hundreds of years, finally vanished completely.

The Immortal Realm has fallen.

"Even if I kill you, I'll still find out."

Zhou Sheng stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the scattered fragments of primordial spirit like fireflies, and smiled faintly.

...(End of this chapter)