Wanted Order of the Immortal Realm

The woman had a Dao Fruit between her brows as well.

But behind her grew nine tails that had already rotted away.

“Su Hongxiu.”

“Of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan.”

“She ascended seventy-eight thousand years ago.”

From the third Immortal Coffin crawled a young man with only half a body.

The other half had been pierced through by countless black chains.

“Mo Xuan.”

“Of the Prison-Suppressing lineage.”

“He ascended sixty-four thousand years ago.”

The instant the three of them stepped out of the Immortal Coffins, the entire Eclosion Hall began to tremble violently.

The ascenders Wang Hao had already subdued suddenly let out shrill howls in unison.

Their flesh began to melt.

Tentacles emerged from the ground one after another, lunging madly at the three newly freed ascenders.

Gu Changfeng raised a hand.

A sheet of gray-white flames swept across the hall.

The tentacles withered one after another.

Su Hongxiu flicked her nine tails.

Countless overlapping illusions appeared in the void, dragging the monsters inside the Eclosion Hall into them.

Mo Xuan threw a punch.

The black chains transformed into a canopy of darkness, sealing off the entire hall.

The auras of the three were not particularly powerful.

At most, they were at the peak of the Earth Immortal realm.

But their power was entirely different from that of ordinary immortals.

It was the power of those who had endured the erosion of endless years without rotting away.

Wang Hao looked at them.

“Do you know how to leave Ascension Immortal City?”

Gu Changfeng nodded.

“I do.”

“The western gate.”

“But it’s already too late.”

Wang Hao asked, “What do you mean?”

Gu Changfeng raised his head and looked beyond the Eclosion Hall.

“The Eclosion Hall sent a signal to the Immortal Realm just now.”

“It reported that an ascender who severed the Imperial Dao has appeared in the Ascension City.”

“The various bureaus will come to arrest you immediately.”

“Arrest me?”

“Not arrest. Apprehend.”

Su Hongxiu spoke softly.

“There hasn’t been a new ascender in the Immortal Realm for thirty thousand years.”

“You’re the first.”

“Why arrest me?”

Gu Changfeng looked at Wang Hao.

“Because your ascension was not normal.”

“You carry the collective aspirations of ten billion living beings.”

“And you possess the destiny of the Imperial Dao.”

“Under the laws of the Immortal Realm, this is called—”

Mo Xuan continued, “Establishing a private immortal dynasty in the lower realm.”

“Stealing the authority of the Immortal Realm.”

“Disrupting the cycle of Heaven’s Mandate.”

Wang Hao was silent for a moment.

“I merely became an emperor in the mortal world.”

Gu Changfeng said seriously, “In the Immortal Realm, that crime is enough to execute you nine times over.”

The silver-haired youth whispered, “Master, was becoming an emperor perhaps a mistake from the very beginning?”

Wang Hao said, “Shut up.”

Boom!

Outside the Eclosion Hall, a deafening bell suddenly rang.

The sound passed through the hall.

The heads of all the ascenders exploded at the same time.

A line of scarlet immortal script appeared across the dome.

[The entire Ascension Immortal City is under lockdown.]

[An illegal ascender has been detected.]

[Target: Wang Hao.]

[Charges: Stealing from Heaven, Defying the Laws, Establishing a Private Imperial Dao, Refusing Eclosion.]

[Reward: Three complete Dao Fruits and one Immortal Emperor’s legacy.]

The entire immortal city erupted into chaos.

One eye after another opened within the countless shattered immortal towers.

Upon the city walls, rotten war drums began beating on their own.

Immortal soldiers sleeping within the flesh rose one after another.

A massive gate slowly descended from the heavens.

Two characters were written upon it:

“Immortal Apprehension.”

Wang Hao gazed at the gate.

Then he suddenly laughed.

“Looks like…”

“This fugitive of mine…”

“is worth quite a lot.”

Gu Changfeng’s expression turned solemn.

“Do not underestimate the various bureaus.”

“Back when the Immortal Realm had not yet collapsed, they were responsible for suppressing all thirty-three layers of Heaven.”

“Though they have decayed now…”

“a few Heavenly Immortals still survive.”

Wang Hao lifted his foot and crushed an eye on the ground.

“Then let them come.”

“I happen to need a path out of this city.”

He turned to look at the three of them.

“Do you want to live?”

Su Hongxiu smiled faintly.

“Naturally.”

“Then follow me.”

Gu Changfeng asked, “Where are you going?”

Wang Hao looked west.

There, the walls of flesh were slowly closing shut.

“The western gate.”

“To escape Ascension Immortal City.”

“From this day onward…”

“I am no longer the Great Xia Emperor.”

“I’m merely a rogue immortal hunted by the Immortal Realm.”

Mo Xuan clenched his fists.

The black chains behind him clattered.

“A rogue immortal?”

Wang Hao raised a hand and rested it on the hilt of his sword.

“No imperial dynasty.”

“No subjects.”

“No aspiration power.”

“No Mandate of Heaven.”

“Only cultivation by my own strength.”

“That will be more interesting.”

The next moment, the gates of the Eclosion Hall exploded.

Countless white bone immortal spears pierced through the walls of flesh.

A cold voice rang out from above the entire immortal city.

“Illegal ascender Wang Hao.”

“Kneel immediately and submit to arrest.”

Wang Hao looked up.

The Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda floated into the air.

The gate to its third level slowly opened.

Purple lightning gathered within it in a frenzy.

Wang Hao bared his teeth in a grin.

“Kneel?”

“The rules of your Immortal Realm…”

“I don’t particularly like them.”

“So…”

“I’ve decided to make a new set.”

Boom!

Thunder shot into the heavens.

For the first time, Ascension Immortal City resounded with the defiance of a fugitive.

The purple lightning transformed into a thunder leopard.

It charged out of the third level of the Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

The thunder leopard was only a hundred zhang in size, yet it moved faster than space itself.

The white bone immortal spears that had pierced through the Eclosion Hall had not even fallen before the thunder leopard tore them to pieces.

The shattered bones writhed in midair.

An eye opened upon every fragment of bone.

Wang Hao waved his hand.

Immaculate Kindling swept across the sky.

All the eyes closed at once.

“Move.”

Gu Changfeng and the other two followed close behind.

The Longevity Earth Immortal led the remaining immortals as they swiftly charged out of the Eclosion Hall.

As for the ascenders who had already been subdued and half-transformed into monsters, Wang Hao stored them all on the fourth level of the Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

It wasn’t because he wanted to save them.

It was mainly because fleeing while carrying a group of noisily shouting heads would seriously slow them down.

Before one of the heads was stuffed into the pagoda, it was still loudly protesting.

“I am a Golden Immortal!”

Without even turning his head, Wang Hao said, “Then get out by yourself.”

“…”

Outside the hall, Ascension Immortal City had already transformed into a monstrous creature awakening from sleep.

The immortal towers on both sides of the streets opened their bloody maws.

The shattered signboards drooped down like tongues.

In the sky, the enormous blood vessels running through the city contracted, squeezing out sheets of dark-red blood rain.

The ground split open.

Ranks of golden-armored immortal soldiers crawled out from the flesh below.

Their immortal armor had completely warped.

Sharp horns had grown from both sides of their helmets.

Through the gaps in their armor, countless infant faces opened their eyes at the same time.

“Illegal ascender.”

“Submit to arrest immediately.”

“Eclosion is the only destination.”

Wang Hao glanced over them.

“How many of you are left?”

The mutilated body of the Ascension Herald was in his grasp.

At this moment, this official of the Immortal Realm had only half a body remaining.

The small gate in its chest had already been swallowed halfway by the Eclosion Hall.

Yet it could still speak.

“There are a total of 379,621 Ascension Immortal Soldiers.”

“Of them, 120,000 have completed their half-transformation.”

“The remaining 259,621 are on their way here.”

The silver-haired youth spoke excitedly from within the New Heavenly Son Sword.

“Master, that’s quite a number.”

“Can we eat them?”

“You can only eat those at the seventh realm at most right now.”

“Then let’s only pick the seventh-realm ones.”

“I don’t like waste.”

The silver-haired youth immediately burst into laughter.

In the next instant, sword light tore through the air.

He transformed into a streak of silver light and shot out from the New Heavenly Son Sword.

The young man wore a silver-white robe, his long hair hanging loose. Yet his eyes were utterly black.

He spread his arms and charged toward the countless golden-armored immortal soldiers.

“Who wants to go first?”

An Ascension immortal soldier swung its immortal halberd.

Before the halberd could come down, the silver-haired youth had already appeared behind it.

He brought two fingers together.

With a gentle swipe, the immortal soldier’s head flew off.

“Too weak.”

He opened his mouth.

The severed head instantly transformed into a streak of black light and was swallowed into his stomach.

Boom!

The aura around the silver-haired youth rose slightly.

His original strength, which had been at the seventh realm of martial cultivation, began edging toward the eighth.

A look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

“As expected.”

“Things from the immortal world taste better than those from the lower realm.”

A group of half-corrupted immortal soldiers pounced on him at once.

The silver-haired youth spread both hands.

Countless silver sword threads burst from the void.

The sword threads pierced through their bodies.

The immortal soldiers did not die immediately.

Instead, they were sliced into perfectly uniform chunks of flesh.

The silver-haired youth began sorting through them in midair as though choosing ingredients.

“This one has too much hair. Not eating it.”

“This one has eyes. Not eating it.”

“This one cries. Too noisy.”

“This one looks pretty good.”

He grabbed one of the immortal soldiers and shoved it straight into his mouth.

Wang Hao frowned slightly.

“I told you to smell it first.”

“I did smell it.”

“You smelled it?”

“It had a charred smell.”

“That’s called tasting.”

The silver-haired youth chewed on the immortal soldier and mumbled indistinctly, “Close enough.”

Taixuan Heavenly Immortal led the other immortals in a charge from behind.

He brought one palm down.

The cold of the Northern Abyss surged forth like a tidal wave, freezing the avenue for several thousand zhang.

Countless immortal soldiers were sealed in ice.

Withered-and-Blooming Heavenly Immortal brought both hands together.

A gigantic ancient tree tore itself from the ground.

Half its crown was covered in fresh buds, while the other half was draped with withered leaves.

The fresh buds released a vast force of vitality.

The withered leaves, however, transformed into a sky full of deathly aura.

The two powers intertwined, blanketing the entire district.

The moment the immortal soldiers were frozen, the deathly aura invaded their bodies.

Their immortal forms rapidly decayed.

Longevity Earth Immortal was responsible for maintaining the central formation. He continuously tossed out wooden tablets.

“Register them!”

“Register every last one!”

“Anyone who kills an Ascension immortal soldier gets credit!”

One Earth Immortal roared, “Do you have any idea what’s going on? And you’re still registering them?”

Longevity Earth Immortal remained expressionless.

“The Supreme Emperor said that not a single military merit may be overlooked.”

The Earth Immortal fell silent at once.

He suddenly felt that the military laws of Great Xia might not be the most frightening thing after all.

The most terrifying thing was that Wang Hao had brought those laws to the immortal world.

Wang Hao did not take part in the fighting on the outskirts.

He stood at the very front of the formation.

His gaze pierced through layer upon layer of buildings made from flesh and blood, landing on the western side of Ascension City.

There was a city gate there.

The gate was already close at hand.

Yet floating above it was a massive bronze mirror.

The mirror reflected Wang Hao’s figure.

The next moment, a line of bloody characters appeared across its surface.

[Wanted notice from the Immortal Arrest Division.]

[Wang Hao.]

[Illegal emperor of the lower realm.]

[ cultivation: First Level of the Earth Immortal Realm.]

[Threat level: Immortal King.]

[Crimes: Stealing the willpower of ten billion living beings; destroying the Hall of Ascension; severing the Imperial Path; murdering officials of the Ascension Office; refusing the immortal world’s supreme apotheosis.]

[Reward: Three complete Dao Fruits.]

[Additional reward: Anyone who captures him alive will receive the coordinates of an Immortal Emperor’s legacy.]

After reading it, Wang Hao fell silent for a moment.

Taixuan Heavenly Immortal asked, “What is it?”

Wang Hao pointed at the bronze mirror.

“Don’t you think they’ve exaggerated me a little too much?”

The immortals looked over.

The corner of Taixuan Heavenly Immortal’s mouth twitched.

“An Immortal King threat level.”

“That’s no longer an exaggeration.”

“They’re treating you as an Immortal King.”

Wang Hao nodded.

“I’m only at the first level of the Earth Immortal Realm.”

“Yet they’ve offered an Immortal King-level reward.”

“They’re slandering me.”

Gu Changfeng said solemnly, “This isn’t slander. It’s fear.”

“After you severed the Imperial Path, you were no longer bound by the willpower of the lower realm.”

“The various offices of the immortal world cannot see through your true strength.”

“So all they can do is write your threat level as high as possible.”

Wang Hao rubbed his chin.

“Then shouldn’t I sue them for defamation?”

Su Hongxiu glanced at him.

“They’re currently sending three hundred and seventy thousand immortal soldiers to hunt you down.”

“How exactly are you planning to sue them?”

“First, we survive.”

Wang Hao raised his right hand.

“Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.”

A second purple lightning dragon surged out from the gate of the pagoda’s ninth level.

The lightning dragon stretched across the entire avenue.

Its head slammed into the western city gate.

Boom!

The gate did not break.

A gigantic immortal seal emerged from within it.

[Western Gate Sealed.]

[Unauthorized ascenders may not leave the city.]

The lightning dragon crashed into the immortal seal and was actually deflected back.

Purple lightning scattered in every direction.

Wang Hao’s gaze sharpened.

“A formation at the Heavenly Immortal level?”

Gu Changfeng shook his head.

“It isn’t a formation.”

“It’s the law of Ascension City.”

“This entire city is itself an uncanny artifact.”

“To leave through the western gate, you must present proof of ascension.”

The Ascension Herald suddenly began to laugh.

“Anyone who ascends into Ascension City must register their identity.”

“Wang Hao never registered.”

“Therefore, he naturally cannot leave the city.”