The battlefield fell into a dead silence.
Within the shattered Immortal Domain,
crippled stars continued to fall soundlessly.
Above the skies of the Nine Provinces,
immortal blood, corpse qi, sword light, incense offerings, and eerie mist intertwined.
Any stray ripple falling into the mortal world
could turn an entire stretch of mountains and rivers into a forbidden zone.
Yet at this moment,
the five immortal-level beings had ceased attacking one another.
All of them were staring at Wang Hao.
More precisely,
they were staring at the things on Wang Hao’s person.
A drop of Xuanming’s source blood, half-immortal and half-eerie.
A drop of immortal blood from the Blood Luo Immortal Lord.
A drop of Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s golden, corrupted blood.
A right-foot Life Coffin belonging to the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
A fragment of the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal’s broken sword.
And fragments of an incense immortal ring, an immortal bronze coffin nail, the essence of a corrupted tentacle, and Nine Heavens Immortal Lightning.
The five immortals had fought for so long,
yet none of them had managed to take much from the others.
Wang Hao, a mere mortal,
had practically fleeced every last one of them.
The broken immortal ring behind Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s head began to turn.
His voice was dark.
“Mortal.”
“Hand over this Immortal’s source blood and the fragment of the immortal ring.”
The sea of blood beneath the Blood Luo Immortal Lord’s feet boiled.
“He may keep Taiyi’s things.”
“But this Immortal’s arm and source blood
must be returned.”
All eight ancient immortal bronze coffins of the Corpse Liberation Immortal flew open at once.
Thousands of corpse hands reached out from within the coffins.
“The right-foot coffin.”
“And the two Life Nails.”
The Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal demanded nothing.
He spoke only a single word.
“Die.”
The teeth in Xuanming’s right eye slowly revolved.
“This Immortal’s source blood
cannot be allowed to remain in a mortal’s hands.”
Five waves of immortal might descended at once.
The void beneath Wang Hao’s feet collapsed with a thunderous crash.
His body sank under the pressure.
All the wounds that had only just closed split open again.
Corpse poison continued to creep from his right arm toward his heart.
And between his brows lingered the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal’s sword intent.
The Dragon-Slayer stepped to Wang Hao’s side.
The sword wound in his chest was still bleeding.
“Can you still run?”
Wang Hao asked,
“Run where?”
The Dragon-Slayer looked toward Great Xia.
“This old man will carve open a path.”
“You take these things back to Great Xia.”
Wang Hao shook his head.
“We can’t go back.”
The five immortal-level beings had already locked onto them.
No matter where they fled,
they would draw all five immortals after them.
Within Great Xia lived hundreds of millions of people.
Without the shattered Immortal Domain to serve as a buffer,
the true descent of even one immortal
could bring about an irreparable catastrophe.
The Dragon-Slayer clearly understood that as well.
He tightened his grip on his woodcutter’s blade.
“Then we fight for our lives.”
Wang Hao glanced at him.
“Senior.”
“Fighting for our lives is the final option.”
“Before that,
we can try using our brains.”
The Dragon-Slayer fell silent.
He dearly wanted to remind Wang Hao
that trying to outthink five rotting corpses
would hardly be anything to boast about, even if he won.
But Wang Hao had already taken a step forward.
Facing the five waves of immortal might,
he raised his right hand.
“You all want your own things back?”
“Fine.”
The auras of the five immortal-level beings shifted slightly.
Wang Hao took out the Immortal-Sealing Jar from his robes.
“But there is only one share of the goods.”
“And there are five of you.”
“I do not like playing favorites.”
“So.”
“First, decide the order among yourselves.”
Immortal fire flickered in Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s eyes.
“You are trying to stall for time.”
Wang Hao shook his head.
“I am merely considering matters on your behalf.”
“For instance, Corpse Liberation.”
“He is missing one Life Coffin.”
“He is already incomplete.”
“Why should he receive an equal share with the other four?”
The head embedded in the Corpse Liberation Immortal’s chest abruptly turned.
“Mortal!”
“You dare sow discord!”
Wang Hao did not look at him.
Instead, his gaze settled on the Blood Luo Immortal Lord.
“Blood Rakshasa.”
“That arm of yours was refined by the Immortal-Sealing Jar into complete source blood.”
“This means there is already a breach in the origin of your Sea of Blood.”
“If Taiyi were to use the Incense-Faith Immortal Bell to suppress the Sea of Blood now…”
“And Corpse Liberation used the Life Coffins to take away your flesh…”
“How much of you do you think would remain?”
There was no skin on Blood Luo Immortal Lord’s face.
Naturally, no expression could be seen.
Yet the Sea of Blood beneath her feet receded tens of thousands of miles.
Putting distance between herself, the Taiyi Ancient Immortal, and the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
Wang Hao turned to the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal.
“Heaven-Deficient.”
“A crack has appeared in the natal sword within your left eye.”
“The next time you clash head-on with Xuanming…”
“What shatters may not be the sword.”
“It may be your Immortal Path.”
The tiny sword in the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal’s eye socket trembled faintly.
The myriad broken swords around him immediately shifted direction.
Half locked onto Xuanming.
The other half targeted Wang Hao.
At last,
Wang Hao looked at Xuanming.
“As for you…”
“They have all seen the core of your immortal aberration.”
The shattered starry sky within Xuanming’s chest slowly drew inward.
He tried to conceal the half-silver, half-black heart at its deepest center.
But the attacks of the four decayed immortals had already torn open his chest.
For the moment,
it could not close completely.
Sure enough, the gazes of the Taiyi Ancient Immortal and the others shifted toward Xuanming’s chest.
There had never been trust between five immortal-level beings.
They had only temporarily aimed their weapons at Wang Hao
because he had taken too much.
Now that their weaknesses had been laid bare one by one,
the alliance they had only just formed immediately began to crack.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal sneered.
“Mortal.”
“You think a few words can save your life?”
Wang Hao nodded calmly.
“No.”
“So I prepared something else.”
He raised his hand and tossed something.
A lump of silver-black flesh flew toward the center of the five immortals.
It gave off Xuanming’s dense aura.
Immortal Dao and aberrant origin intertwined within it.
It looked no different from Xuanming’s source blood.
Xuanming’s right eye suddenly widened.
The Taiyi Ancient Immortal was the first to act.
The river of incense-faith transformed into a golden hand
and grabbed for the silver-black flesh.
Blood Luo Immortal Lord was even faster.
The Blood Sea Immortal-Devouring Spear pierced through the void.
All eight of the Corpse Liberation Immortal’s Life Coffins flew out at once.
Their lids opened.
A terrifying suction force enveloped the flesh.
The Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal also slashed out a beam of sword light.
Only Xuanming did not move.
He stared at the silver-black flesh.
Then suddenly spoke.
“That is not this Immortal’s source blood.”
The Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s golden hand had already collided with the Blood Sea Immortal-Devouring Spear.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s Life Coffins were sent flying by the sword light.
All four decayed immortals paused at once.
Seizing the opportunity,
Wang Hao grabbed the Dragon-Slayer and retreated a hundred thousand miles.
The New Emperor Sword poked his head out from behind Wang Hao.
His face had gone pale.
“Master.”
“What was that thing you just threw out?”
“The eye I pulled from your tongue.”
The silver-haired youth’s expression instantly froze.
“Didn’t you crush it?”
“I crushed the shell.”
“The polluted origin inside was absorbed by the Immortal-Sealing Altar.”
“But that was still pulled out of my body!”
“It belonged to me!”
“Who gave you the right to throw it around?”
Wang Hao’s face remained utterly calm.
“Didn’t you say you would stop eating things at random?”
“I helped you throw it away.”
“Is there a problem?”
The silver-haired youth opened his mouth,
but for a moment, he could find no retort.
At the center of the battlefield,
the Taiyi Ancient Immortal crushed the silver-black flesh in his palm.
There was no source blood inside.
Only a wrinkled black eyeball.
The eyeball was ground beneath the pressure of four immortal powers.
It instantly turned to ash.
Half of the Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s decayed face twitched violently.
“Mortal!”
Wang Hao had already retreated to the edge of the shattered immortal domain.
“I’m here.”
“No need to shout.”
“I can hear you.”
The Taiyi Ancient Immortal was thoroughly enraged.
The ancient golden bell crossed space itself.
It descended toward Wang Hao’s head, seeking to crush him.
The Blood Luo Immortal Lord likewise brandished the Blood Sea Immortal-Devouring Spear.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s eight life coffins unleashed chains of corpse dao.
The Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal swung his decaying immortal sword.
Though Xuanming had not been deceived,
he had no intention of letting Wang Hao leave either.
Twelve pairs of immortal, uncanny wings unfurled at once.
Five immortal-level attacks
sealed off every possible route of retreat from five directions.
The Dragon-Slayer stood before him, saber held horizontally.
“This is what you call using your brain?”
Wang Hao watched the attacks draw ever closer.
“At least it bought us a hundred thousand li.”
“What use is a hundred thousand li?”
“Enough to choose who dies first.”
Wang Hao lowered his head.
His gaze settled on the right-foot coffin.
From the moment Taiyi Ancient Immortal and the others had shifted their focus,
he had been continuously activating the Myriad Pact Same-Origin Seal.
The dark pact mark had already spread over the entire ancient coffin.
The life flame within the right-foot coffin was wrapped layer upon layer by the pact seal.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s other eight life coffins
shared the same origin as it.
Threads of connection, invisible to the naked eye,
were emerging between the nine life coffins.
The Myriad Pact Same-Origin Seal could not forcibly bind the Corpse Liberation Immortal in a pact.
But it could use the right-foot coffin as a medium
to trace the source veins of the other eight coffins.
“Corpse Liberation.”
Wang Hao looked up.
“I just told you.”
“You are no longer whole.”
“So…”
“You die first.”
The head embedded in the Corpse Liberation Immortal’s chest revealed a savage grin.
“By you?”
“By them.”
Wang Hao kicked the right-foot coffin.
The ancient bronze coffin spun through the air.
Not toward the Corpse Liberation Immortal,
but toward the Taiyi Ancient Immortal’s golden immortal bell.
The Taiyi Ancient Immortal frowned.
But the immortal bell had already fallen.
Dong!
The right-foot coffin was struck head-on by the ancient golden bell.
A crack appeared along the coffin’s surface.
At the same moment,
identical cracks appeared in the Corpse Liberation Immortal’s other eight life coffins.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s smile froze.
“What did you do?”
The Myriad Pact Same-Origin Seal in Wang Hao’s palm blazed to its fullest.
“The thing need not belong to me.”
“But once it has passed through my hands,”
“it must obey my rules.”
“Nine coffins, one origin.”
“If one coffin is damaged,”
“the other eight share the burden!”
The Blood Luo Immortal Lord’s spear followed close behind.
Wang Hao twisted aside to evade the spearhead.
Yet with his right hand, he gave the tail of the spear a light push.
The Heaven-Imprisoning, Earth-Overturning Palm erupted.
He could not redirect the immortal spear head-on,
but he could shift its tip by several feet.
Several feet.
Just enough to strike the right-foot coffin.
Boom!
The Blood Sea Immortal-Devouring Spear pierced through the coffin.
Beside the Corpse Liberation Immortal,
eight life coffins were simultaneously pierced by bloody spear-shadows.
The right-shoulder coffin was the first to explode.
A cluster of ash-white life flame flew from within.
Xuanming’s twelve pairs of wings had already descended.
One of those wings curled around the life flame.
The countless eyes upon its feathers opened their mouths in unison.
In the blink of an eye, they devoured the life flame.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s right shoulder withered at once.
His entire arm fell from his body.
“No!”
At last, the Corpse Liberation Immortal panicked.
He commanded the eight life coffins to return to his main body.
But the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal’s decaying sword had already struck.
Wang Hao raised his palm once more.
The first four palm strikes slammed into the side of the sword qi.
The sword qi did not waver in the slightest.
The fifth palm strike.
The sword qi shifted by a hair.
The sixth palm strike.
Corpse blotches on Wang Hao’s right arm burst apart.
The seventh palm strike.
The river of imperial destiny surged into his palm.
The eighth palm strike.
A golden dragon of fortune coiled around the edge of the sword qi.
“Ninth Palm!”
“Turn!”
Rumble!
The flesh on both of Wang Hao’s arms exploded.
The Heaven-Deficient sword qi was forcibly pushed half a zhang aside.
The sword that had been aimed at Wang Hao’s head—
came down upon the Coffin of the Right Foot.
Slash!
The Coffin of the Right Foot was cleaved in two.
Through the Mark of Ten-Thousand Pact Shared Origin,
the sword light was transmitted to the other eight coffins at the same time.
The second.
The third.
The fourth!
Three life coffins exploded in succession.
Three clusters of ash-white lifeflame shot into the sky.
The Blood Luo Immortal Lord swept back his sea of blood
and swallowed one of them.
The Taiyi Ancient Immortal rang his golden ancient bell.
The second cluster of lifeflame was drawn into the bell.
As for the third, it was torn apart by the Heaven-Deficient Sword Immortal’s myriad broken swords.
The Corpse Liberation Immortal’s grotesque body began collapsing one part after another.
His left hand.
His spine.
And vast swathes of flesh around his chest and head.
All lost their vitality at once.
“Stop!”
“The Coffin of the Right Foot is yours!”
“This Immortal will pursue the matter no further!”
For the first time, the Corpse Liberation Immortal yielded.
Wang Hao looked at the Coffin of the Right Foot, already broken into two pieces.
“You should have said so earlier.”
“Now it’s broken.”
“It’s useless for me to keep.”
The Corpse Liberation Immortal roared,
“This Immortal can repair it for you!”
Wang Hao shook his head.
“The imperial treasury does not accept defective goods.”
“Better send you on your way.”
The remaining five life coffins frantically fled toward the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
