“Training? These guys are True Immortals! I"m not afraid of taking on one True Immortal, but there are two here!” Despite saying that, Huo Yunlong had already pushed forth all his might for this. Taking the initiative, he then attacked True Immortal Earthmount.
As Huo Yunlong was attacking, a river of stars charged forward to split the s.p.a.ce there into two. True Immortal Soulsift felt the world around him transforming and he lost sight of both True Immortal Earthmount and Huo Yunlong.
“Not good!”
True Immortal Soulsift also found that he could no longer make contact with the wars.h.i.+p.
“One-on-one. This should be fine, no?” Chen Feng"s voice rang out beside Huo Yunlong"s ear again. This time, Huo Yunlong seemingly did not hear Chen Feng. He was completely focused on the battle at hand. His opponent was a True Immortal, after all. There was no room for carelessness.
Dazzling starlight flashed and hazy energy streams kept converging, like an everchanging cl.u.s.ter of stars. With a grim look on his face, True Immortal Soulsift then strode forward and punched. His objective was to punch open a path forward. And yet, despite his formidable might, he found that the pressure bearing down on him and the restricting forces coming from his surroundings were becoming increasingly strong.
At the same time, there were also streams and waves of soft power. In the beginning, True Immortal Soulsift had a.s.sumed that he was only facing attacks formed from the power of stars. Only after sensing that his body had become suppressed did he realize that his surroundings had – unknowingly – become a great ocean. Furthermore, this great ocean was even bigger and greater compared to a cl.u.s.ter of stars.
This was the result of the combined suppressive actions from the Bedazzling Star Map and Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin, both at the pseudo-Divine tier.
An intense feeling of danger abruptly surged up from True Immortal Soulsift"s heart. The very depths of his heart had begun shaking. This was a result of the grave threat that he was facing, the threat of death.
In the hundreds of thousands of years of his cultivation path, he had only encountered a handful of such incidents.
Boom! Boom!
Due to the threat of death, True Immortal Soulsift"s body was stimulated and pushed beyond its limits. Formidable blood energy charged out to envelop the starry s.p.a.ce before swiftly retracting. His figure hovered in s.p.a.ce, becoming incomparably ordinary.
“Sir, who are you? Please come out and meet me.” True Immortal Soulsift had completely calmed down.
“You don"t even know who the other party is. And yet, you decided to chase us anyways. Is that not suicide? Though, the allure of pseudo-Divine artifacts is something that can bring out greed even in a True Immortal.” Smiling, Chen Feng then appeared before True Immortal Soulsift.
“An Earthen Immortal!”
True Immortal Soulsift frowned and his eyes flashed with light, seemingly in disbelief at what he was seeing.
The one mobilizing the pseudo-Divine artifacts is only an Earthen Immortal. If so, by killing him, the two pseudo-Divine artifacts will be mine! He could not stop the thought from emerging.
“No matter how you cut it, you are a True Immortal in the end. To so easily become greedy, how disappointing.” Chen Feng shook his head.
“Greed is the driving force for progress,” True Immortal Soulsift said, not taking any overt actions. And yet, Chen Feng promptly backed away. There, at the very spot that Chen Feng had been occupying a moment ago, a great hand had silently appeared. This was a full-powered attack from the True Immortal.
“A True Immortal launching a sneak attack against an Earthen Immortal. Are you not afraid of becoming a laughing stock?” Chen Feng waved his hand and the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin slowly unfurled. Cyan-coloured streams of light enveloped the surrounding s.p.a.ce before charging towards True Immortal Soulsift.
Chen Feng, who was in possession of pseudo-Divine artifacts and absolute power here, would not choose to fight this opponent on his own. Besides, utilizing the two pseudo-Divine artifacts to defeat them both was also not an easy feat.
Enveloped by the river of stars, True Immortal Soulsift failed to emerge. Instead, he had to constantly struggle against the attacks coming at him from the inside. Seeing that, Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Waving his hand, he sent the river of stars pouring into the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin, True Immortal Soulsift along with it.
Next up is to slowly sap away his strength. Chen Feng himself was feeling surprised to see how easily it had suppressed a True Immortal.
Once I advance to the Ascendant Immortal stage, suppressing True Immortals of this level should also be this easy. Let"s check up on Huo Yunlong. With a thought from Chen Feng, the s.p.a.ce before him moved and a smooth mirror appeared in s.p.a.ce. The battle between Huo Yunlong and True Immortal Earthmount could be seen on the surface of the mirror.
Huo Yunlong was displaying his full power for the battle. He had even obtained the support of Flame World, allowing his strength to become infinitely close to the True Immortal stage. Even so, he was still no match for True Immortal Earthmount. If it weren"t for the fact that they were fighting in a place that favoured him, Huo Yunlong could have died to True Immortal Earthmount already.
True Immortal Earthmount"s combat power was slightly weaker compared to True Immortal Soulsift. He cultivated the grand dao of earth and mountains. Due to that, his whole person emanated an aura of highly-packed firmness, towering like a mountain. Just by standing still and focusing on defence on his part would leave Huo Yunlong with no way of dealing with him.
After watching the fight for a moment, Chen Feng extended a finger to tap the surface of the mirror, causing a ripple to spread out for a moment. True Immortal Earthmount, who was in the midst of fighting Huo Yunlong, instantly sensed danger. He promptly retracted his attack while his body twisted like a drill. At the very next moment, he re-appeared some distance away.
Sou!
A mote of starlight abruptly exploded only to hit thin air.
“What are you s.p.a.cing out for? Hurry up and make use of this chance, attack!” Chen Feng"s voice rang out from beside Huo Yunlong"s ear.
Sou! Sou! Sou!
At the same time, the stars in the surrounding starry s.p.a.ce began flas.h.i.+ng. Starlight extended out towards one another, pulling and linking up continuously. Quickly, they formed a star pattern. When the star pattern flashed, True Immortal Earthmount felt a power of destruction charge towards him. While it locked down on his soul, it also bore down on his fleshly body.
In the face of death, True Immortal Earthmount quickly shouted, “Fellow friend, let"s stop for now! Let"s talk about this!”
“Ha ha ha! To think that I would be able to kill off a True Immortal today! Just thinking about it is making me happy!” Seeing that, Huo Yunlong laughed loudly. With Chen Feng attacking from the dark, Huo Yunlong knew that the result of this battle had already been decided.
Truth be told, True Immortal Earthmount and True Immortal Soulsift had long since sent out a distress signal. Only, they were inside a pseudo-Divine artifact and their distress signal failed to make it out.
On the other side, as there had been no news from True Immortal Soulsift since he left to go after the pseudo-Divine artifacts, the leader of the fleet began feeling uneasy. Around the time the two True Immortals fell under siege, the leader dispatched two more wars.h.i.+ps after them. Only, the two wars.h.i.+ps failed to find any clues regarding the two True Immortals. Rather, they ended up falling prey to a trap that Bi Qing had set up instead.
Two star patterns were fully formed to firmly sandwich True Immortal Earthmount in between. Taking advantage of the situation, Huo Yunlong then left several wounds on True Immortal Earthmount"s body.
Next, Chen Feng"s figure flashed to re-appear before True Immortal Earthmount. When he saw Chen Feng, the expression on True Immortal Earthmount"s face became shocked.
The two True Immortals were thus suppressed within the pseudo-Divine artifacts. They no longer had the ability to turn the situation around. Chen Feng was continuously extracting the laws and power within their bodies. As time went by, the two True Immortals would only become increasingly weak before dying.
“One Immortal-tier wars.h.i.+p, two True Immortals and tens of Ascendant Immortals. This is a great harvest,” Chen Feng said with a smile.
“The other party has 100,000 wars.h.i.+ps. If only we can hunt a few more.” Huo Yunlong began feeling somewhat unsatisfied.
“Take care not to get crushed instead.” Despite saying that, Chen Feng found himself becoming somewhat tempted as well. At any rate, cultivating bitterly would not net him as much gains as this act of plunder.
Just by utilizing the Heavengulping Absorption Technique to absorb a small portion of the True Immortal"s essence, Chen Feng would have gained a cultivation boost the equivalent of bitterly cultivating for thousands if not ten thousand years.
Finally, all the True laws within the two True Immortals were completely extracted. Chen Feng also devoured a small portion of their blood essence. Though, more were stored up. Strands of soul power fell upon Chen Feng"s hand and his face immediately turned into one of shock.
“Guess what I found out?” Chen Feng cast a peculiar-looking expression at Huo Yunlong.
“Could they really be from the Immortal Plane? Surely not.” Huo Yunlong shook his head. From the battle he had with True Immortal Earthmount earlier, Huo Yunlong had sensed a mysterious aura from his opponent, one that was different compared to that of the Immortal Plane. At any rate, Huo Yunlong was simply incapable of determining their background.
“The other party is from a foreign region,” Chen Feng said.
“Foreign region? Which foreign region?” Huo Yunlong became puzzled.
Chen Feng nodded, aware that Huo Yunlong"s present level was not enough to reach that point of knowledge. If it weren"t for the fact that he was from an important branch of the Longevity Clan, Chen Feng himself would have been in the dark about this.
“Forget it. We"ll talk about this next time. All you need to know is that these fellows are from a faraway s.p.a.ce, another star region.” In the beginning, Chen Feng had wanted to explain it to Huo Yunlong only to change his mind later.
“So, they are from another star region. Still, to think that they would be so powerful. How unexpected.” Huo Yunlong accepted that explanation.
Chen Feng said nothing else, but his heart was in turmoil. The immortal region that he was in was known as the Limitless Immortal Region. No one could tell just how big the Limitless Immortal Region was. Even if the Immortal Plane and all the Celestial Planes were to be lumped together, they would only form a small and inconspicuous part of the whole immortal region.
Generally speaking, cultivators at the Ascendant Immortal stage would not even know of the name Limitless Immortal Region. Even the number of True Immortals who knew about it was small. Naturally, Chen Feng only had a vague knowledge of it. He did not know the specifics either.
Cultivators who had reached the True Immortal stage could go explore the other immortal regions. Only, that matter was something that the present Chen Feng did not know much about. That said, Chen Feng believed that Bi Qing should know about it.
Through the earlier soul search, Chen Feng found out that the 100,000 wars.h.i.+ps were from a place known as the Heavenscrown Immortal Region. It was on the same level as the Limitless Immortal Region. This force had come here through a pa.s.sageway constructed using great magics. Bluntly speaking, they were here for an adventure.
After entering the Limitless Immortal Region, these people had swept through some star regions and life-bearing worlds. Along the way, they did not encounter any highly formidable experts and was able to gain a lot. Back then, they had only inadvertently entered this star region. Next, however, their fleet will be splitting up to attack Eternal World, Domain World and some other life-bearing worlds.
Finding out all that caused Chen Feng to feel uneasy. This force was simply too powerful. By concentrating their strength, this fleet would be able to easily destroy a world. Even when split apart, they were still not something that the other worlds would be able to defend against.
“Not unless a true expert appears. Maybe, with the intervention of the Immortal Plane or those other high-levelled worlds,” Chen Feng could not stop himself from saying that out loud.
“Chen Feng, what are you talking about?” Huo Yunlong grew puzzled. He did not understand what Chen Feng was mumbling about. However, once Chen Feng informed him about it, his face grew shocked as well.