The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1006: Chapter 1006: Aftermath of the Great Battle

The battle between Jade Spring Fairy and other Earth Immortals against the Heavenly Demons has lasted for more than half a year!

Both sides exerted their full power, unleashing the might of immortals and demons that gradually expanded, completely turning the western region of Dongjie Continent into a spiritless territory. Even Ghost Immortals and Human Immortals of True Immortal level fled from it. Shen Mo, after slaughtering billions of demon heads using the Soul Refining Flag, was also forced to escape to Yinsu Mountain. Relying on the formations laid in advance and the prohibition left by Jade Spring Fairy, he barely resisted the horrific aftermath that swept through.

But any sense probing into the battlefield was torn to shreds, making it impossible to know the details of the battle; one could only infer the situation from the strength changes of the two sides’ energies!

Towards the battle’s end, the energy belonging to the Heavenly Demon side grew so intense that even Shen Mo felt a chill in his heart. Just as he thought Jade Spring Fairy and the others were doomed to defeat, a shocking sound erupted, causing the entire Dongjie Immortal Continent to tremble violently.

Yinsu Mountain even collapsed towards the northwest corner amidst the shaking. If the Immortal Mountain were not as strong as iron, it might have already crumbled. In the next instant, the Heavenly Demon’s energy completely dissipated, leaving only the Earth Yuan Array and the energies of five Earth Immortals standing firm, which then slowly gathered away!

”It seems the fairy and the others have won!”

Shen Mo immediately used [Sword Escape] to rush toward the Earth Yuan Array’s location.

The sight along the way was unbearable, especially the original belly of the Demon Zone, the demonic nest that nurtured billions of Heavenly Demons, had completely become a spiritless land...

Nature’s spiritual energy, including various demonic qi and Demonic Qi, had vanished without a trace. The world was filled with countless spatial rifts through which one could see the vast, dark Outer Void; spiritual qi from other places would escape through the rifts as it surged in, but thanks to the heavy barrier of the Immortal Realm, these rifts were slowly healing. When completely closed, the world’s spiritual qi will gradually recover, estimated to take a thousand years at this trend; the mountain’s base was also shattered, and the deep magma beneath appeared dark red through the abyss, as if an earth-sized dark red sore had appeared.

As for the creatures here, needless to say, after it became a demonic cave, no living thing remained except for Heavenly Demons. But now, there’s not even a trace of a Heavenly Demon, utterly lifeless!

The environment of the Demon Zone’s belly is even a hundred times worse than the already devastated northern Dongjie Continent.

The northern region ravaged for tens of thousands of miles was the work of two profoundly cultivated Earth Immortals. Although they are on the same level as Guangyuan Zi, they did not achieve the status of Divine Immortal due to restrictions on their cultivation level. Hence, during large-scale hand-to-hand combat, the damage to heaven and earth was relatively small; whereas Jade Spring Fairy and the others relied on the Earth Yuan Array, capable of unleashing power comparable to a Divine Immortal. Alongside Chunyang Zi who had the advantage of the land, akin to a Divine Immortal figure, hence the terrifying scenario of heaven collapsing was created during the battle!

Seeing this devastation, Shen Mo somewhat understood the will of the universe.

True Immortals who cultivate to the Divine Immortal level must guard the Heavenly Gateway, essentially extracting uncontrollable power from the Immortal Realm.

Although the Universal Realm is ”the leaf on the Universe Tree that never withers,” an era or a period can be annihilated, how could the Immortal Realm truly exist eternally?

Divine Immortals and Heavenly Immortals level beings can cause enormous damage to the Immortal Realm if they act with impunity. Millions of years accumulated could accelerate the decay of the Immortal Realm, hasten the end of the Divinity Era...

There were still scattered Heavenly Demons along the path, but Shen Mo did not bother with them and headed directly to the Earth Yuan Array.

This peerless big array, too, was largely destroyed, leaving only nine medium Immortal Mountains intact, while the rest were almost completely demolished. The relatively complete ones were smashed halfway, some turned entirely into a pile of crumbling rocks, and even some vanished into nothingness leaving not even a pebble.

Among the five Earth Immortals in the formation, none fell, but all were heavily injured.

The most severely injured was the native Earth Immortal of Dongjie Continent. Her immortal body was shattered several times, nearly dying at the hands of Big Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi. When Shen Mo arrived, she was left with just a head, her body below was formed by spiritual qi and spiritual items, collecting her scattered flesh and bone fragments that were not yet annihilated on the battlefield!

Additionally, the Earth Immortals Wu Meng from Kunlun Continent, Master Jinguang from Penglai Continent, and Changsun Tai from Ying Continent had varied injuries, healing within the broken array. Conversely, Jade Spring Fairy was less injured and, upon slight recovery, was beside them serving as protector.

From Jade Spring Fairy’s account, Shen Mo learned the details of this great battle!

At the very start, Big Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi commanded countless Heavenly Demons to charge into the array and die, forming a sea of demonic primal intent from their dispersed primality to pollute all the heavens of the Earth Yuan Array and sever its mana sources.

Earth Yuan Array’s mana sources are divided into three: Heaven, Earth, and Man. The omnipresent various spiritual qi, sunlight and moon essence, star power, etc., are the source of heaven; the earth vein mana extracted from metal ore veins and magma flames beneath Immortal Mountain is the source of earth; the immortal source power provided by the Earth Immortals stationed within the array constitutes the source of man.

Once this heaven is polluted by the demonic primal intent, two main sources will be instantly severed, making it impossible for Jade Spring Fairy and the others to unleash the Earth Yuan Array’s strongest prowess, unable to resist the surging offensive of the Heavenly Demons. If the array breaks, the five Earth Immortals can only escape in disgrace.

However, Chunyang Zi evidently underestimated this peerless array.

Under Master Jinguang’s maneuver, the array began to refine infinite demonic primal intent, transforming into its own fuel to unleash increasingly ferocious killing power. Although the domain continued suffering pollution, the speed of turning into the Demon Zone was reduced, even before being completely polluted, it could utilize more ferocious formation power and refine countless Heavenly Demons, killing all Seventh-Order Great Demons like Chunyang Zi!

Realizing the situation was amiss, Big Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi used his own body as a vessel, began absorbing the demonic source ocean, even swallowing three Seventh-Order early-stage Great Demons at once, evidently indicating signs of breaking through to a late-stage Seventh-Order.

Upon hearing this, Shen Mo furrowed his brows, saying: ”Heavenly Demons can’t devour their kind to elevate their realm, could it be upon reaching Seventh-Order, they can break through this limitation?”

Jade Spring Fairy shook her head, raised her cup and drank some Drunken Immortal Wine.

What she drank now was the most effective in healing among the various spiritual wines brewed by the Drunken Immortal Pot, beneficial even to True Immortal wounds. Shen Mo had given a pot to Master Jinguang and the other three Earth Immortals, except for the Dongjie Continent Earth Immortal who never bothered to look directly at Shen Mo.

”Qingyun’s Drunken Immortal Pot, truly extraordinary and infinite. If you’re willing, I could exchange one top-grade spiritual treasure with you.”

Jade Spring Fairy’s face glowed with immortality, beside her phenomena were emerging as she refined the spirit wine’s medicinal power to recover from her injuries. After Shen Mo politely declined her proposal to swap magic treasures, she showed a regretful expression but soon gathered herself, continuing the previous topic: ”Breaking the immortal path’s restriction isn’t that easy. Able to absorb the origin power of other Heavenly Demons to strengthen oneself should come from Chunyang Zi cultivating a heavenly demon secret magic!”