Chapter 80: Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus Matures

Chapter 80: Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus Matures

Zhang Cuiying hid her surprise when she saw Xi Mengfei’s second sword strike. Or rather, she sensed the ripples from the aftereffects. The Huang Realm was far too large for even an Immortal Empress like her to cover in her immortal sense.

Xi Mengfei’s Dao of Heaven, Earth, and Man was infamous to the other Immortals of the Huang Realm. With her Dao as a foundation, as long as she could sense you, she could unleash an attack no matter the distance. Without Zhang Cuiying noticing, Mengfei’s sensory abilities had already surpassed hers.

Xi Mengfei’s title as the strongest expert Immortal of the Huang Realm wasn’t officially recognized by other Immortal Emperors. At their level, Immortal Emperor ranked experts wouldn’t care for a fleeting title such as the strongest of the realm.

The prestige came from the words of the Immortal Monarchs and True Immortals. And the most terrifying aspect of Sword Empress Xi was her ability to manipulate destiny. She wouldn’t even need to attack personally, and her target would still die. Her targets would mysteriously suffer horrid luck or enter danger zones beyond their abilities. As long as you were weaker than her, the Sword Empress could kill you without even moving a finger.

At least that was the general consensus.

“Did you kill him?” Zhang Cuiying asked.

The number of cultivators that passed their immortal ascension was already few, barely one in a thousand years. In the lower realms, it was even worse. Perhaps, even after a million years, not even one would be able to become an Immortal and ascend to the Huang Realm.

And among those Immortals, the number capable of rising to become Immortal Monarchs were even fewer. Each Immortal Monarch was the result of a horrifying amount of resources and time. If one died, it would not be a lie to say that the power balance would change.

But Immortal Soulfish was a loose Immortal Monarch, so his death wouldn’t bring too much impact with how low profile he was. It would have been another story if Begonia Tower had still existed.

Begonia Tower was a former first-rate sect that drifted in the endless seas. Terrifyingly, all of their cultivators were soul cultivators. Monarch Soulfish was the sole survivor of the Begonia Tower’s demise, and it is said that the Immortal Emperor Ranked Artifact, the Soul Pagoda, he carried was refined from the former base of Begonia Tower.

“No,” Mengfei’s half-lidded eyes began to droop, and her breathing slowed. “He disappeared, I can no longer sense...him...”

Zhang Cuiying didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, seeing the usually stoic and famed Sword Empress act so sleepy in such a situation. Her earlier attacks had agitated many Immortal Monarchs and True Immortals, causing them to heighten their guard. There was even a slight chance that the battle would start prematurely and disrupt the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus’s maturation.

She released a hidden sigh of relief after no battle erupted. Like this, the tension started to ease slowly but never did it entirely disappear.

As time passed, the pillar of light started to dim. The size of the pillar also began to decrease until it was as thin as a silk strand. Nevertheless, that single strand shone like liquified light.

All parties observing the phenomenon tensed. The moment the light disappeared, the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus would be fully mature.

The fragrance of lotus began to disperse from the light. It stretched far and wide until it nearly fully enveloped the whole Heaven Continent. Then the light disappeared.

But from the ground where the light vanished, a blinding yet gentle light erupted. At the center of this light, a silver-white lotus resided. Each of its nine petals shone like the moon, giving off the feeling of etherealness.

At this instant, space around the flower began to distort, and a hole appeared in the fabric of reality. From within the hole, the aged face of Monarch Yonderheart appeared with his hand stretched out towards the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus.

However midway, space fractured. An Immortal clad in bronze armor charged in towards Monarch Yonderheart with a punch. He was Monarch Warpath and someone who ascended cultivating the martial way.

It wasn’t just these two battles, but numerous other battles were taking place simultaneously.

The strangest thing was that none of the Immortal Emperors or the Cloud Goddess acted. They should have been the first one to act. Of course, their first action would be to enter the Vast Void before fighting.

At their current realm, any attacks would bring countless changes to the Huang Realm, and thus it became an unspoken rule that whenever two Immortal Emperor ranked experts fought, they do so in the Vast Void.

But none of them acted. The reason was because of Xi Mengfei. When the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus matured, she didn’t react at all as if truly sleeping.

Seeing the Sword Empress not move, none of the Immortal Emperors moved either. What if while they were fighting in the Vast Void, she struck and took the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus?

As time passed, the tension between the Immortal Emperors became heavy. Eternal Night Emperor and the Cloud Goddess shared a look before looking at Zhang Cuiying and Mengfei.

Zhang Cuiying felt their stares as if they were asking her why Mengfei wasn’t moving. She wanted to say she didn’t know either but could only close her mouth. To her, it was obvious that Mengfei had entered a strange state, as if in the process of enlightenment.

Finally, she couldn’t wake any longer. She would compete with the Cloud Goddess and Eternal Night Emperor to determine who would snatch the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus. As for Mengfei?

If she didn’t move at all, Zhang Cuiying was sure that she could convince Mengfei to cede the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus to her. She could even compensate her with the treasures she had gathered in her lifetime.

Having made up her mind, Zhang Cuiying stored her immortal boat away and started to ascend towards the Vast Void. The Cloud Goddess and Eternal Night Emperor shared a look before glancing at Mengfei, before they, too, ascended towards the Vast Void.

Hurricanes clashed against disastrous tornadoes. Volcanoes erupted hot magma into lightning storms. White and black seemed to have reversed at points while at other times, colors seemed to have stopped existing. Light and darkness reversed.

Rather than a fight between Immortals, it seemed more like living calamities clashing against one another.

This was the scene that Yan Nie bored witnessed to, even as he was fleeing from the Pan Kingdom and the Northern Region as a whole. He could not believe his eyes.

Yan Nie had bore witness to the techniques of Unity Realm Venerables, but compared to that, this level of battle was even more incomprehensible to him.

“Master, is this really the fight between Immortals?” Yan Nie couldn’t help but question his master, his clear body floating in the air.

“Yes,” Immortal Pillrabbit said, his voice quiet and strained. There was admiration within his eyes, but there was even more envy. “To be clear, what we’re witnessing is a battle between many Immortal Monarchs.”

“Immortal Monarchs? What about Immortal Emperors?” Yan Nie asked.

“Immortal Emperors have an iron-clad rule they follow. They will never fight within the realm itself; otherwise, their extraordinary powers will cause irrevocable changes and perhaps destroy the realm. We don’t have the power to witness their power.” But an Immortal Monarch did. Only Immortal Monarchs had the power to resist the Vast Void and witness such a legendary scene. Had he not been schemed against, he would have been able to participate.

Suddenly Immortal Pillrabbit’s face scrunched and twisted.

“Master, what’s wrong!” Yan Nie asked, sensing the agitation from him.

“Hehe, it seemed that my traitorous disciple is also participating in the battle. It’d be best he gets killed here. Otherwise, once I regain my power and become an Immortal Monarch, he will wish to have his soul dispersed!”