Fantasy: Unparalleled Prince, Conquering the Heavens!-Chapter 652 - 626: Slaying Immortal and Ascending_1

RUMBLE!

The starry sky thundered. A streak of Sword Qi, carrying terrifying Rule Power, descended with boundless sharpness, like the cataclysmic strike that birthed worlds in the primordial Chaos.

The starry sky, the Sword Qi, even the ancient Immortal Sword in the Ninth Ancestor's grasp—all were rent in two.

"Great Luo Dao Mark, manifest!"

"Block it! Block it for this Ancestor!"

Face pale, the Ninth Ancestor hastily discarded the shattered Immortal Sword. He desperately channeled his Great Luo Dao Mark, forming countless layers of protective shields. Golden Dao characters flickered, hinting at a transcendent power.

This was an invincible defense! Not even a stellar explosion could mar it!

However, even so, when it encountered the Sword Qi unleashed by Cao Cao, it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. Layer by layer, the shields were obliterated, revealing the Ninth Ancestor's deathly pale face, contorted in utter terror.

"No!"

He shrieked in agony, fear consuming him as he tried to retreat explosively into the distance. But no matter how he fled, he could not evade the Sword Qi. In boundless despair, his head was severed, Rule Power invading his body and extinguishing all life.

Crimson Immortal Blood geysered into the cosmos, staining tens of thousands of miles of Changkong red. A massive head, trailing a gout of Immortal Blood, spun and tumbled towards the distant starry abyss, its eyes wide with unwillingness and regret.

He was an Ancestor of the Sky Eye Clan! An existence on the verge of breaking through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm! He had never dreamed, not even in his wildest nightmares, that he would die at the hands of a True Immortal he had dismissed as a mere ant! If only time could be reversed, if events could be unwound, he would never have come to this 'Mortal Realm.' Alas, there is no medicine for regret in this world.

"The... the Ancestor... has fallen!"

In a more distant region of the starry sky, Qin Li, who had been observing the battle, stammered, his face ashen. A bone-deep chill permeated his body, freezing even his soul, rendering him immobile.

He couldn't believe his eyes. What had he just witnessed? The Ninth Ancestor had fallen! In the Sky Eye Clan, who didn't know the Ninth Ancestor's prestige? He was the clan's pride, the one with the greatest hope of breaking through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm! Hailed as a pillar of the clan, he was revered by countless individuals. Yet, such an exalted being had perished in the 'Mortal Realm'!

"There's one more little straggler!"

Amidst the boundless Immortal Light, Cao Cao maintained his sword-wielding stance. His bearing was extraordinary, his face exuding a murderous Evil Qi, and his aura grew increasingly majestic, deterring anyone from looking at him directly.

As if sensing something, he turned his head towards Qin Li. His gaze, filled with tyrannical dominance, shot forth a ray of supremely terrifying light that pierced through the starry sky.

"Not good!" Qin Li cried out. The thought of escape had barely formed in his mind when, before he could even turn, he felt a sharp pain in his chest as his body exploded into a mist of blood.

Until his death, he couldn't understand how a mere gaze could kill.

"Finally settled!" Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief and led the Nine Provinces World through the Immortal Gate.

Once through this gate, it was another world entirely.

「...」

"In just a few short years, the Great Qin Saint's Court has actually ascended!"

On the Original Continent, upon the scorched earth of the Western Territory, a wisp of black light emerged, blossoming into a Black Lotus that pulsed with a roiling Buddha-Demon Qi.

Atop the Black Lotus sat a figure. Though clad in a Kasaya, his skin was dark, and his Buddha-like eyes were crimson, filled with an aura of corruption. This being, neither Buddha nor demon, was none other than Wisdom Absolute Buddha. An aura far surpassing the Semi-Immortal Realm emanated from him.

Coincidentally, when the Great Qin Saint's Court was migrating the Nine Provinces World, he had been in secluded death meditation, using the power of faith to break through the bottleneck to the Immortal Realm. Unfortunately, his luck was poor. Just as he was about to break through, the Original Continent became a dead star; its Spiritual Energy vanished and its Dao power disappeared, completely removing the prerequisites for a breakthrough. The result was failure, severe injuries, and unconsciousness.

"The Immortals from the myriad heavens and worlds should possess some good things!" Wisdom Absolute Buddha murmured. With a tap of his feet, he arduously traversed the starry sky. It took all his effort, the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, to reach the Ninth Ancestor's nearby severed head.

The moment he drew near, he sensed the alluring scent of Immortal Blood, and a gnawing hunger resonated from his very soul.

GULP.

Subconsciously, Wisdom Absolute Buddha swallowed, an overwhelming urge to devour the head rising within him.

Just then, a flicker of Buddhist light shone from deep within his pupils. But it was swiftly suppressed by Demonic Qi.

"Amitabha!"

Then, Wisdom Absolute Buddha extended his right hand, lifted the Ninth Ancestor's head, and slowly brought it to his mouth. Like a savage, he began to tear into it, consuming the brain matter.

He was a man, yet he was eating another man! Eating another man...

An hour later, the Ninth Ancestor's head had been gnawed clean, leaving only a skull that gleamed with an eerie white light.

"JIEJIEJIE..."

"Delicious! Truly a delicacy of the mortal world!" Wisdom Absolute Buddha cackled, his face smeared with thick blood, resembling a demon.

After devouring the head of a powerful expert who cultivated the Great Luo Dao Mark, his cultivation surged, successfully shattering his shackles and allowing him to break through to the Immortal Realm.

"Master, in the Buddha's embrace, you must be deeply disappointed! Your disciple didn't break through using Buddhist Law, but through the Demonic Path. Yet, as Buddhist scriptures say, 'If I do not enter hell, who will?' Just consider me fallen into hell..."

After his breakthrough, Wisdom Absolute Buddha felt no joy. Instead, he knelt in the starry sky and wailed, shedding two streams of blood-red tears, his heart consumed by immense pain.

After he finished crying, he regained his composure.

Gazing at the Ninth Ancestor's skull, an evil grin touched his lips. With a wave of his right hand, he conjured a ball of black flame and began to refine the skull, continuing until it shrank to the size of his thumb.

Then, he found a cord and hung the skull around his neck.

「...」

Sixth Heaven! Divine Eye Middle Thousand World!

Inside the Clan Leader's Hall, the atmosphere was deathly still.

The Sky Eye Clan Leader sat upon the main seat, staring at the fragments of Soul Jade hovering before him. His expression was glacial, radiating an bone-chilling killing intent. Beside him sat eight other figures, all with grim, somber faces.

"The Ninth Ancestor has fallen!"

"Our clan's hope for ascendancy has been shattered!" The Sky Eye Clan Leader rasped, snatching a fragment and clenching it tightly in his palm.

No one could fathom the depths of his fury at that moment.

Since the Dark Era, the Sky Eye Clan had been one of the powerful clans in the Middle Thousand Worlds. They had waited for tens of billions of years for a member to be on the verge of becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal. For the past three years, he had been meticulously planning to lead the clan into a Great Thousand World, to become one of the preeminent clans across all heavens and realize the aspirations of generations of ancestors...

But now, with the Ninth Ancestor's demise, all had turned to dust.

The greater the hope, the deeper the despair.

The deeper the despair, the more potent the killing intent.

"Vengeance! We must have vengeance!" one of the other ancestors roared.

"But how? The Cosmic Rule Power in the 'Mortal Realm' is unique, preventing any divination. We don't even know who the murderer is!" the Sixth Ancestor, who was skilled in divination, said with a troubled expression. As soon as the Ninth Ancestor's Soul Jade had shattered, he had immediately activated their ancestral divination artifact, only to receive a blurry, indecipherable vision, yielding no useful information.

"We may not know who the murderer is now, but we can find out!" the Sky Eye Clan Leader declared, his eyes narrowing. "The Ninth Ancestor was immensely powerful. Any Martial Artist or faction capable of killing him must be exceedingly formidable, likely on the verge of ascension themselves. We need only identify the Martial Artists and factions that have ascended recently. By investigating them one by one, we will pinpoint the culprit!"

The Sixth Ancestor first nodded, then shook his head, frowning. "There are countless Starfields in the Second Heaven. To investigate them all would be incredibly difficult and consume a vast amount of time!" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Hmph! No matter how difficult, we must find them! The Ninth Ancestor cannot have died in vain..." The Sky Eye Clan Leader clenched his fist. His killing intent erupted, piercing through the Azure Sky, its might vaster than a dozen Small Thousand Worlds, annihilating all in its path.