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Chapter 859: Slay the Immortal - The Madman's Journey

...On the shores of the North Sea, monstrous waves surged to the heavens.

The seawater for ten thousand miles around was boiled by some terrifying force, transforming into billowing white steam that blotted out the sun, moon, and stars.

"BOOM——!!!"

With a deafening roar, two figures plummeted from the clouds, smashing violently into the deep sea and stirring up waves ten thousand zhang high.

They were two Heavenly Star Deities, each a hundred zhang tall.

One had a dragon's head and a human body, its entire form covered in dense, sinister scales, each dragon scale inscribed with ancient star constellation runes. This was the leader of the Twenty-Eight Mansions—Kang Jin Long.

The other had a pig's head and a human body, wielding a rake, with raging flames coiling around its form. Wherever it passed, seawater instantly evaporated. This was one of the Star Deities—Shi Huo Zhu.

And facing these two Heavenly Deities.

An even more colossal, even more ferocious beast stood treading upon the waves.

A ram's body with a human face, eyes beneath its armpits, tiger teeth and human claws.

Its body seemed pieced together from parts of countless ancient Fierce Beasts, a pair of fleshy wings spread out, blotting out the sky and sun.

Every inch of its skin radiated a horrifying greed and brutality.

And this terrifying beast was none other than Muscle Tyrant, who had fully unleashed its power.

"Old loach! Roast suckling pig!"

Muscle Tyrant opened its maw, large enough to swallow mountains and ranges, black mist swirling within its mouth as if chaos itself was being swallowed and spewed.

"This is the might of the Celestial Court's Heavenly Deities? Just this much strength?"

"It's not even enough to scratch this lord's itch!"

It swiped down with a claw, that terrifying force capable of tearing the void apart directly sent Shi Huo Zhu flying backward, even the flaming rake in its hand was bent by the blow.

"Damnable wretched beast!"

Shi Huo Zhu steadied itself, wiping golden blood from the corner of its mouth, its eyes filled with shock and fury, "This Taotie... how can it be this strong?!"

"Clearly, it was sealed ten thousand years ago, having undergone over a hundred cycles of reincarnation, its True Spirit should have been utterly depleted, why has its power not diminished but instead increased?!"

Kang Jin Long was also in a sorry state at this moment, scales flying off, utterly disheveled.

The light from the Star Dragon Pearl in his hand was dim, clearly having suffered a great loss in the previous clash.

"No more talk! Form the formation!"

Kang Jin Long roared, the void behind him splitting open.

BOOM——! Behold, a massive phantom of the Azure Dragon star constellation slowly materialized.

That Azure Dragon drew upon the power of the Nine Heavens' stars, transforming into streams of brilliant starlight that poured down to suppress Taotie.

"Star Constellation Great Formation? Pah!"

Muscle Tyrant spat a contemptuous mouthful of saliva.

It neither dodged nor avoided, the countless pupils beneath its armpits suddenly widening, a flash of crimson killing intent flickering within them.

"Devour the Heavens!"

ROAR——!!!

As Muscle Tyrant roared and opened wide, a pitch-black, bottomless black hole formed before it.

That torrent of starlight, powerful enough to suppress an entire world, was actually swallowed whole by this great maw, not even a single splash rising.

"*Burp~*"

Muscle Tyrant let out a belch, its face full of disdain, "Stellar power? Not even as chewy as that garlic-flavored turtle I ate last time."

"You!!"

Kang Jin Long was so furious his dragon whiskers trembled wildly, nearly suffering a cultivation deviation on the spot.

"Shi Huo! Use True Fire on it!"

Shi Huo Zhu obeyed, a massive flaming wild boar Law Manifestation appearing behind it, spewing Samadhi True Fire that turned half the North Sea into a sea of crimson.

But Muscle Tyrant acted as if it was taking a bath, stretching its body within that True Fire capable of melting gold and iron, even using a claw to scrub the grime off its back.

"Comfortable! Turn up the heat! Didn't you eat?!"

Humiliation.

Bare-faced humiliation.

The two great Star Deities grew more and more alarmed, more and more aggrieved the longer they fought.

Was this even a battle?

They were clearly being treated as toys by this ancient Fierce Beast!

Just as the two were caught in a dilemma.

RUMBLE RUMBLE——

From the eastern horizon, a heart-palpitating peal of thunder suddenly rang out.

Immediately after, a vast, mighty aura of heavenly and earthly laws began to boil.

The pressure was so immense that even separated by hundreds of thousands of miles, it made Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu feel their Divine Souls tremble.

"This is... a world-ending Heavenly Tribulation?!"

Kang Jin Long's face changed drastically as he looked toward the east, "Someone is undergoing a tribulation? And it's... a tribulation powerful enough to annihilate a True Immortal!"

"Not good! The aura of that tribulation is too terrifying. If we get caught in it, we might be in mortal danger!"

Shi Huo Zhu also wore a look of terror, its grip on the rake somewhat unsteady.

"Taotie!"

Kang Jin Long made a decisive decision, retracting his Law Manifestation, shouting at Muscle Tyrant, "Let's call a truce for today! After the tribulation passes, we'll..."

"Truce?"

Muscle Tyrant's pupils abruptly contracted.

It too sensed that familiar aura within the heavenly tribulation.

That was... the master's aura?

The Big Boss... is undergoing a tribulation?!

"We've only been apart for a short while, and the Big Boss is already about to ascend?!"

Muscle Tyrant's heart was filled with shock and doubt.

Although it didn't know how Chen Huaian's realm had risen so quickly, it certainly couldn't let these two guys go disturb its master.

"Truce your grandpa's ass!"

Muscle Tyrant roared, its body swelling dramatically.

WHOOSH——! Its fleshy wings behind it flapped, riding the gale, coiling into a black lightning bolt as it pounced toward the two retreating Star Deities.

"Trying to run? Have you asked your grandpa's great stomach?!"

"Madman! This beast is a madman!"

Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu cursed vehemently, but were forced to engage in battle.

Two Immortals and one beast fought while retreating, battling so fiercely across the North Sea that it darkened the heavens and earth, yet they gradually moved away from the center of the tribulation.

However.

Just as their fierce battle was at its peak.

RRRIIIP——

A sound like tearing silk abruptly drowned out the thunderclaps filling the sky.

Immediately after.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

The two deities and the beast instinctively stopped fighting, all looking toward the east in unison.

They saw, upon that firmament.

A pitch-black, bottomless fissure—as if cleaved open by an invisible giant axe—traversed the sky.

Splitting that lofty, high "heaven" cleanly in two!

"The... the heavens have opened?!"

Shi Huo Zhu's rake clattered into the sea, its mouth hanging open wide enough to fit a watermelon.

"This... how is this possible?!" Kang Jin Long trembled all over, the scales on his body rustling loudly, "Someone... has cleaved open the Boundary Wall between the two realms?!"

Muscle Tyrant stared blankly at that fissure.

For the first time, true fear appeared in its eyes, along with a trace of unbelievable, wild joy.

"That's... the aura of the Sky-Cleaving Axe?!"

"The master... the master really... did it?!"

The next second, Muscle Tyrant roared, transforming into a black streak of light as it charged toward the fissure.

"Taotie! Where do you think you're going?!"

Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu exchanged a glance, gritted their teeth, and followed.

...

Outside the South Heaven Gate, a sea of blood surged to the heavens.

War drums thundered like peals of thunder from the Nine Heavens.

Thirty-six Thunder Ministry Divine Generals, clad in violet-gold heavy armor, astride Thunder Beasts, formed the [Thirty-Six Heavenly Thunder Demon-Slaying Great Formation], encircling Chen Huaian completely.

"Kill!"

At the command.

Thirty-six Thunder Spears stabbed out simultaneously, lightning intertwining to form an impenetrable net of killing thunder, vowing to grind this world-destroying Sword Cultivator into dust.

Chen Huaian stood atop the Mountain of Corpses and sea of blood.

Within those half-demon, half-immortal eyes, there was no fear of death, only a kind of... madness akin to seeing an absurd joke.

"HAHAHAHA!"

Laughter rose.

At first just ripples, but in an instant, it became a raging tidal wave.

"Persuading the sovereign proved hard, coming too late; Whip in hand, I mounted my steed, journeying the distant road."

Chen Huaian's wrist flicked, the divine sword condensed from tribulation lightning in his hand following his laughter, thrusting straight toward the firmament.

"The foolish wife slighted Mai Chen for his poverty; I too left home, westward to Qin I went."

Sword emerged from poetry, the Sword Stance grew wilder.

"Looking up to heaven, I laugh aloud..."

BOOM!

A vast, mighty Sword Intent shot toward the heavens.

It was not Sword Qi, but the Dao Rhythms of Great Freedom.

It was a madman's aura, suppressed for ten thousand years, that revered neither heaven nor earth, bowed to neither ghosts nor gods.

This aura surged forth like a great river breaching its banks, pouring down torrentially, instantly washing away that stern, orderly thunder.

The Thirty-Six Thunder Generals only felt their vision blur.

They saw the originally impregnable thunder net was actually, by this "madness," forcefully scattered into disarray, like a fence swaying and about to collapse in a flood.

Chen Huaian moved.

He did not use movement techniques to dodge, but like a drunken madman, amidst the collapsing lightning, he staggered, yet with incomparable ease and freedom, took a step forward.

—Slay the Immortal - The Madman's Journey.