The First Immortal of Destiny

This iridescent Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade was one of the Great Demon Turi Jia’s most formidable killing methods!

Not long ago, Turi Jia had ”personally” witnessed Shen Mo successively pass the tribulations of the Evil Monarch, the divine thunder of nine heavens, and the Demonic Killing Field. It thus had a vague understanding of Shen Mo’s cultivation level and strength. Having seen Shen Mo’s sword cleave through the forbidden land, Turi Jia confirmed that its previous conjectures were not unfounded. It understood that ordinary means would not suffice against Shen Mo, this newly ascended Heavenly Monarch! Therefore, if it chose not to act, so be it; but once it made its move, it unleashed its ultimate spell, intending to overwhelm Shen Mo in a single decisive strike, to either critically injure or outright kill him.

This Class V Ten Thousand Eyes Demon had mastered over 9,800 spells. Three hundred of these, if used individually, could threaten a Heavenly Monarch-level entity and were categorized as Class V spells. And this iridescent Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade was a combination of hundreds of spells, with more than two hundred belonging to the Class V spell category. Turi Jia’s ability to perfectly integrate them showcased its terrifying mastery of spells!

As soon as the iridescent Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade had emerged, Shen Mo’s [Chanjue] Destiny started warning his mind incessantly, signaling the impending danger. Upon probing, he discovered that he could not avoid this massive spell, the Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade, by any means. Once he saw, sensed, or discerned its existence, the Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade had already locked onto him completely. Even if he used the Sword Escape Skill to instantly flee thousands of miles, immediately retreated to the Green Cloud Cave, or conjured a Gecko False Body to confuse its tracking, this spell would still land on him without fail! There was no other way except to face its might head-on!

In a few flashes of thought, Shen Mo took a series of countermeasures. He activated the [Indestructible Body] Destiny to strengthen his Dao Body, conjured the Crystal Brahma Flame to form a three-foot-thick barrier around himself, raised the Green Cloud Umbrella, and struck out with successive Palms, establishing multiple defensive shields. With these numerous defensive measures, he was thoroughly protected. Even if the iridescent Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade struck him directly, he wouldn’t be gravely injured!

At the same time, Shen Mo also activated the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique. Two more heads sprouted from his neck and shoulders, and four more arms extended from beneath his ribs. Soon, one of the new heads and two of the new arms instantly withered, yet the Taiyi Sword in his hand grew increasingly mystical, emitting a terrifying and soul-stirring aura. He was using a method of self-sacrifice, offering a portion of his Essence and Qi to enhance the destructive power of his sword technique!

”Reincarnation of the Universe’s Myriad Phenomena!” This time, Shen Mo unleashed not ’Slay Demon,’ but ’Reincarnation,’ another sword technique he had created. He would send the iridescent Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade into reincarnation, send the Great Demon Turi Jia into reincarnation, and also send all the demons, large and small, within the honeycomb-like forbidden land into reincarnation...

In the next instant, the extremely violent, profound, and terrifying Reincarnation Sword Qi crashed into the Heaven-Slaying Giant Blade! Heaven and earth fell silent for a moment, as if all sound had been extinguished, plunging into a deathly stillness. The spiritual energy within a thousand-mile radius erupted into a frenzy, continuously annihilated and reduced to nothingness as the two powerhouses induced, collided, and mutually destroyed it. The blazing sun hung high in the sky, yet its brilliance was eclipsed by another, even more dazzling radiance!

Half a breath later, the environment seemed to return to normal. The area where Shen Mo and Turi Jia had fought had completely transformed into a Spiritless Land. All nature’s spiritual energy had vanished. The sky was filled with dense, tiny spatial cracks. Mountains, rivers, and the very rock strata of the earth had been utterly obliterated, with only magma from the deepest subterranean layers continuously churning and surging upwards. Fortunately, the moment Shen Mo arrived, he had already moved all surviving human immortals and mortals—those whose eyes had been gouged out—into the Green Cloud Cave. Otherwise, likely no living creature could have survived the aftershocks of their battle!

This was the primary reason Shen Mo’s tribulations during his journey to understand and attain the Dao were so extraordinarily severe. Once Class V beings, including Divine Bridge Realm Heavenly Monarchs, made a move, they would inflict devastating damage upon ”all living beings and all things in heaven and earth.” The ”will of heaven and earth” would naturally do everything in its power to prevent the emergence of such existences!

If the Primordial Realm were considered a mortal, it too could not escape ”birth, old age, sickness, and death.” After withering from the Universe Tree, it would inevitably advance towards aging, decay, and demise. The ”Spiritless Land” created by the clashes of powerful experts was akin to ”illnesses and injuries” upon the body of the Primordial Realm. It wouldn’t be fatal, but it would undoubtedly accelerate its decline!

At this moment, Shen Mo could clearly perceive the ”pain and anger of the will of heaven and earth,” but he couldn’t afford to dwell on it. The raised Green Cloud Umbrella showed no damage on its surface, but its interior was filled with a vast amount of chaotic and potent residual spell energy. This energy suppressed the ”True Intention of the Cycle of Life and Death” of this spiritual artifact. If it were not refined in time, its spirituality would likely be completely destroyed, turning this magic treasure into a pile of scrap metal! The defensive Palms and the Crystal Brahma Flame barrier he had deployed were also instantly obliterated. A ghastly wound appeared on his shoulder, extending down to his chest and abdomen. Within it, iridescent specks of light flickered in and out of existence, gradually being suppressed by Shen Mo’s Dao Power!

Looking at the Great Demon Turi Jia, its condition was several times more wretched than Shen Mo’s. Its orb-like body, resembling a watermelon cleaved by a knife, had split open left and right. Copious amounts of blood and tears gushed out, and it was only barely maintaining its bodily integrity through spells. Of the nearly ten thousand eyeballs densely covering its body, over a thousand had exploded into bloody cavities from which bloody tears continuously flowed. The remaining several thousand eyeballs had also dimmed considerably, no longer possessing the same uncanny brilliance as when first seen!

The honeycomb-like forbidden land it had been protecting behind it was sliced in half by the sword strike. Only the larger portion still hung high in the sky, but fragmented corpses of Thousand-eyed Demons, mixed with a torrential downpour of blood, continuously fell from the severed edge. The smaller portion, however, had been completely flung away, landing hundreds of miles distant in the searing magma, where it sizzled and burned! At least thirty to forty percent of the Thousand-eyed Demons had perished beneath Shen Mo’s sword.

VMMMMMM~~~~ The Taiyi Sword began to hum. Although this place had been turned into a Spiritless Land, making it impossible to borrow the power of heaven and earth, Turi Jia had similarly lost the ability to draw upon nature’s spiritual energy or to augment its spell power with natural disasters and earthly tribulations. Shen Mo surged his True Yuan once more, intending to thoroughly annihilate the critically injured Great Demon before him!

But just then, hundreds of eyeballs on the Great Demon Turi Jia’s body suddenly blazed with light, transforming into a hazy grey spirit light that enveloped its entire form. Then, it vanished completely. Simultaneously, the forbidden land of the Thousand-eyed Demon tribe, of which only a large portion remained hanging in the sky, was also veiled by a layer of hazy grey radiance. Under the shroud of this luminescence, its very presence instantly became faint and indistinct.

CLANG!

Shen Mo’s Sword Light slashed out, but it passed right through the honeycomb-like forbidden land, as if it had already entered another dimension. Clearly, Turi Jia no longer wished to fight him to the death. It had retreated into its forbidden land and was attempting to flee the Primordial Realm!