The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 475: Illusionary Mirror_1
"BOOM!"
"BOOM BOOM!"
In the midst of the raging storm, the attacks of Shen Mo and his companions were all dismantled and destroyed.
The Yuxin Sword Master, the Giant Corpse Master, and others were once again severely injured. Even Shen Mo was struck in the chest, which caved in deeply!
Subsequently, the Corpse Spirit scanned the crowd as if selecting ingredients, its gaze finally settling on Elder Chu Zhen of the Profound Moon School. Her only distinction, perhaps, was being the sole female cultivator present.
"Good!" the Corpse Spirit praised, then immediately stretched out its hand to grab Chu Zhen.
It had inherited the Unnamed Heavenly Monarch’s Snatch Soul Skill. In its eyes, any cultivator with profound cultivation or a unique skill was a supreme delicacy!
Especially after feasting on the brains and souls of Xuanzhu Zi and the others, it learned that during its "hibernation," the cultivation world had undergone earth-shattering changes. It didn’t want to miss a single "ingredient."
As long as it consumes every cultivator who has entered the tomb, it will surely regain its former glory and once again stand at the peak of this domain, it thought.
With this in mind, the "appetite" in the Corpse Spirit’s eyes flared even more. Necrotic energy surged in its hand, reaching towards the top of Chu Zhen’s skull.
This Elder of the Profound Moon School was already infected with corpse toxins and malevolent qi. After consuming an Elixir to expel evil, she had barely recovered some of her combat strength. However, her exposed skin—face, neck, and arms—still bore the pallor of death!
Seeing the Corpse Spirit target her first, her already deathly face became even more ghastly. She launched several attacks in succession but could not stop the Corpse Spirit’s advance.
The instant before the Corpse Spirit’s hand touched her skull...
Suddenly, the space before everyone, like a mirror, began to fragment and shatter!
From the broken mirror surface, a radiant golden fist emerged, punching the Corpse Spirit and sending it flying over ten miles, crashing through and destroying a large stretch of hills and scenery within the tomb.
Afterward, a majestic, golden-armored Ghoul materialized from the shattered mirror.
This Ghoul’s eyes shone with a bright, spiritual light; it was clearly full of awareness, a stark contrast to the Giant Corpse Master’s lifeless Ghouls.
Amid his shock, Shen Mo quickly recalled it, he thought. This was the golden-armored Ghoul of the Ghost Corpse School’s patriarch. The one who fought a Class IV Big Heavenly Demon near Sea State, whose death triggered a celestial phenomenon.
However, if the one controlling a Ghoul perished, the Ghoul itself would soon fall into a deep slumber!
The current situation suggested that, just as Prince Yongzuo had said, the patriarch of the Ghost Corpse School had not truly perished. Instead, he had used a Secret Technique to transfer his consciousness into the Ghoul that had accompanied him for so long.
This golden-armored Ghoul *was* the Ghost Corpse School’s Golden Core Realm patriarch himself!
Besides him, as the mirror-like, distorted scene completely shattered and dissipated, four more figures were revealed.
"Patriarch!" Shen Mo and the others immediately went forward to greet them, bowing with clasped fists.
The reason was simple: including the golden-armored Ghoul, these five figures were all Golden Core Realm Supreme Elders from their respective immortal sects.
The Supreme Elder of the Riverside Sect, a white-bearded old man in a red robe, was also among them!
Behind these Golden Core Realm patriarchs was Chou Jiuyian, the Deputy Sect Master of the Seven Stars Altar, looking shaken but relieved. He had, after all, successfully set up the Teleportation Altar and brought the patriarchs here. However, the magic altar had turned to ashes the instant its power was activated.
This was also why Chou Jiuyian hadn’t used some exclusive Secret Technique to set up the magic altar in advance!
Once set up, the magic altar’s power would immediately activate, unlike a normal Teleportation Array that could be controlled at will.
"Well done! Now, leave the rest to us!" The Seven Stars Altar’s Supreme Elder smiled at Chou Jiuyian, then, along with the other four Golden Core Realm experts, charged toward the Corpse Spirit.
...
"What’s going on?" a puzzled Shen Mo asked.
The Yuxin Sword Master, Giant Corpse Master, and the others were equally baffled, turning their questioning gazes towards Elder Chu Zhen and Chou Jiuyian.
A bitter smile touched Chou Jiuyian’s lips as he shook his head. "I don’t know what happened either."
"Just before that fiend was about to annihilate me, I was somehow pulled away from the situation..."
"It was as if I was watching through a watery mist as it crushed another ’me’ and the magic altar to dust."
"But in reality, I wasn’t harmed in the slightest. Afterward, I continued to set up the magic altar and activated its power to bring the Supreme Elders here!"
Hearing this, Shen Mo and the others turned their gazes to Chu Zhen.
At that very moment, the five Golden Core Realm patriarchs had already engaged the Corpse Spirit of the Heavenly Monarch in battle!
The entire tomb was thrown into violent tremors. The powerful shockwaves even forced Shen Mo and his group to deploy defensive measures to negate the lingering force of the magic and martial arts.
Although the Corpse Spirit possessed an extraordinary and transcendent Dao Body, the remains of the Heavenly Monarch, its strength Realm was ultimately only at the early-stage of Class IV.
Facing the combined assault of five experts of the same rank, it was soon at a disadvantage.
Then, everyone saw a trace of unwillingness appear on its face, followed by a peculiar spatial power emanating from its body.
In the next instant, the Corpse Spirit abruptly vanished without a trace, not even a whiff of necrotic aura remaining.
"Cave Paradise!" the Supreme Elder of the Riverside Sect exclaimed.
Immediately, the Seven Stars Altar patriarch took out sixty-four divination chips from his bosom. After a series of calculations, he tossed them into the air.
WHOOSH!
The seemingly ordinary divination chips instantly flew off in all directions, quickly vanishing into the void.
A moment later, the Seven Stars Altar patriarch said something to the Heaven Sword Sect patriarch. The Sword Path expert nodded slightly, then slashed his sword towards a point in the void.
Instantly, a rift, somewhat similar to a spatial passage, appeared in mid-air.
Without a second word, the five patriarchs flew into the rift. In the blink of an eye, the fissure was smoothed over by spatial power, as if it had never existed.
Shen Mo and the others had witnessed the rapid turn of events clearly...
The Corpse Spirit of the Heavenly Monarch, realizing it couldn’t defeat the patriarchs, had hidden in its Cave Paradise. Then, the Seven Stars Altar patriarch divined the location of this Cave Paradise, used a technique to lock it in place, and had the Heaven Sword Sect patriarch slash open a spatial passage leading into it!
Only for self-contained realms like The Smallest Space or Cave Paradises could Golden Core Realm patriarchs so easily open a passage between two domains.
When it came to the barrier between this world and the Heavenly Demon Realm, neither Golden Core Realm patriarchs nor Class IV Big Heavenly Demons could easily break through it, short of waiting for some cosmic opportunity.
Seeing the patriarchs pursue the Corpse Spirit into its Cave Paradise, Shen Mo and the others collectively breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, Elder Chu Zhen of the Profound Moon School began to explain the matter that had puzzled everyone earlier.
"This was all thanks to the power of our sect’s ultimate treasure, the Illusionary Mirror! Its abilities can turn illusion into reality and reality into illusion—it’s truly wondrous."
"When I left the sect, I received a sliver of the Illusionary Mirror’s light from my Martial Grand-Uncle."
"Just before Fellow Daoist Chou was about to perish, I activated that sliver of light. Unexpectedly, it transformed directly into the Illusionary Mirror itself! It projected the scene of Fellow Daoist Chou being slain, deceiving that fiend with a false image!"
