Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

267: Chapter 267 The Fall of the Immortal King!After reclaiming the Xuanming Immortal Realm, the Demon Emperor, Sacred Heavenly Lord Jin Yu, did not stop there.

Leading his Demon Soldiers westward, he broke through three of the Immortal Court’s immortal realms in succession. Wherever he went, the Solar True Fire burned the heavens and boiled the seas, and the Immortal Court’s defenders collapsed at the mere sight of him.

At this moment, he stood upon a battlefield known as the Chihong Immortal Realm.

This Chihong Immortal Realm was originally a prosperous land at the border of the Immortal Court and the Demon Court, crisscrossed with immortal veins and dotted with spirit mines.

Three days ago, it was still the territory of the Immortal Court; now, most of it had been occupied by Demon Soldiers.

The Demon Emperor stood in the Void Realm, the dark-gold sun behind him rotating slowly, scorching half the sky crimson.

Before him lay the Immortal Court’s final line of defense.

Three Great Star Godss of the Immortal King rank, leading fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers, had formed a Tripartite Grand Array, layered one upon another, with immortal light soaring into the sky.

But the expressions of those three Immortal Kings were each more unsightly than the last.

Because what they were facing was the Demon Emperor himself.

The ancient Three-Legged Golden Crow.

”Sacred Heavenly Lord Jin Yu!” the leading Immortal King shouted sternly.

”As the noble Demon Emperor, don’t you find it beneath your status to personally take action against us? Bullying the small with your greatness and the weak with your strength—aren’t you afraid the heavens will laugh at you if word gets out?”

The Demon Emperor did not speak.

He simply raised his hand, and the Heaven-Burning Sun Wheel rose slowly.

As it rose into mid-air, the temperature within a radius of ten thousand miles instantly soared to an absurd level.

The light barrier of the immortal array beneath the three Immortal Kings’ feet began to sizzle even before the Heaven-Burning Sun Wheel descended.

”Form the array! Activate it with all your might!” the leading Immortal King roared hoarsely.

The three Immortal Kings simultaneously activated their lifebound Immortal Artifacts, and three beams of immortal light shot into the sky, merging into the grand array.

Fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers shouted in unison as immortal power flooded into the array’s core like a tide.

The light barrier of the grand array suddenly transformed from a thin layer into a three-foot-thick glaze-colored shield.

Seeing this, the Demon Emperor sneered and said, ”When you took advantage of the Buddhist Sect’s misfortune to launch a sneak attack on two of my Demon Court’s immortal realms, why didn’t you think you were bullying the small?”

”What, is it only permitted for you to strike, but not for this Emperor to fight back?”

With that, the Heaven-Burning Sun Wheel suddenly pressed down.

Boom!

Solar True Fire poured down like a waterfall, drenching the immortal array.

In the first breath, cracks appeared in the immortal array’s light barrier.

In the second breath, the cracks spread like a spiderweb.

In the third breath, it shattered.

Among the three Immortal Kings, the Great Star Gods at the Early Stage of the Immortal King realm—the one with the lowest cultivation—was instantly swallowed by the Solar True Fire.

The other two Immortal Kings fared no better; one had half his body burned away, and the other had his left arm scorched off as they fled for their lives.

Over half of the fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers were killed or wounded, and the rest scattered in flight, their ranks utterly broken.

The Demon Emperor stood in the Void Realm, watching this scene expressionlessly.

In his heart, there was only one word.

Satisfying.

It was truly satisfying.

For months, he had been tortured daily by that curse, his Luck eaten away and his cultivation worn down, leaving him with a belly full of rage and nowhere to vent it.

Now, personally taking the field, with every punch and kick, and the Solar True Fire burning through everything, watching those Immortal Kings and Heavenly Soldiers turn to ash before him, that long-suppressed sinister fire finally found an outlet.

This feeling was like being constipated for ten days or half a month and then suddenly having a massive release.

Refreshing.

He even felt a bit of regret; had he known it would be this satisfying, he should have taken the field personally long ago.

All those rules about how emperors shouldn’t act lightly and how taking personal action was beneath one’s status were absolute bullshit.

Rules are set by the weak; the strong are the rules.

The Demon Emperor was enjoying himself when he suddenly frowned.

He sensed two extremely powerful auras rapidly approaching from the east.

He was all too familiar with those auras.

”They certainly arrived quickly,” the Demon Emperor snorted coldly, withdrawing the Heaven-Burning Sun Wheel and waiting for the two to arrive.

A moment later, two beams of immortal light pierced through the air.

The light dissipated, revealing two figures.

They were none other than the Lord of the Divine Court, Emperor Haotian, and the Lord of the Immortal Court, Emperor Cang.

Behind the two, immortal light and divine light reflected off each other.

Following behind them was a dense throng of Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals.

Emperor Cang’s gaze swept over the ruined immortal realm below, the scorched earth, and the corpses of Heavenly Soldiers scattered everywhere; his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

He looked up, staring at the Demon Emperor, and said, ”Sacred Heavenly Lord Jin Yu, have you gone mad?”

The Demon Emperor stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly, ”This Emperor is perfectly sober.”

”Sober?” Emperor Cang laughed out of sheer anger.

”Are you trying to start an all-out war with the Immortal Court and the Divine Court?”

”All-out war?” The Demon Emperor sneered. ”When you launched a sneak attack on my Demon Court, wasn’t the war already underway? What, is it only permitted for you to strike, but not for this Emperor to strike back?”

Emperor Haotian interjected from the side, ”That was normal confrontation on the battlefield—Immortal Kings against Demon Generals, Heavenly Soldiers against Demon Soldiers, each relying on their own abilities. For you, a Demon Emperor, to personally take the field against Immortal Kings—what kind of behavior is that?”

”Exactly!” Emperor Cang took over the conversation.

”Jin Yu, you are the lord of a faction after all; do you not understand this simple logic?”

”If you take the field personally, then shouldn’t we also take the field personally? How would the war be fought then? Is everyone just going to stop following the rules?”

Watching the two of them play off each other, the Demon Emperor grew increasingly irritated.

”Rules?” His voice turned cold. ”You’re talking to this Emperor about rules?”

”The Immortal Court, the Divine Court, and my Demon Court have been contending across the heavens for who knows how many years. Territory, resources, Luck—which of these have you not tried to snatch from this Emperor?”

”When you launched sneak attacks on my Demon Court’s immortal realms and killed my Demon Soldiers and generals, were you following the rules then?”

”Now that this Emperor has struck back, you suddenly want to talk to me about rules?”

Emperor Cang’s expression froze, and Emperor Haotian also shut his mouth.

Because the logic was indeed not on their side.

The war had been fought for so many years that everyone knew the score; no one was cleaner than the other.

But who was Emperor Cang? He had been the Lord of the Immortal Court for countless millennia; what scene had he not witnessed?

He quickly adjusted his emotions and adopted a tone of earnest advice:

”Brother Jin Yu, what you say is incorrect. Although there are frictions between the Immortal Court and the Demon Court, when have they not been kept within limits? You take one of my immortal realms, I occupy one of your resource sites—we have a tacit understanding, and things have never escalated to this point.”

”But look at what you’ve done today. Three immortal realms, hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers, several Immortal Kings—you just killed them all. Are you trying to burn away tens of thousands of years of tacit understanding in a single fire?”

Emperor Haotian also chimed in, ”Exactly. Jin Yu, our factions have been at war for so many years; don’t you know what should and shouldn’t be done? If you personally take the field today, how can this war continue?”

Hearing this, the sinister fire in the Demon Emperor’s heart burned even more fiercely.

With the Buddhist Sect in trouble and unable to help, his Demon Court was already isolated and weak.

The Underworld Emperor had even retreated back to the Nine Serenity Yellow Springs decades ago, barely able to look after himself.

Now, the Demon Court couldn’t even count on its last potential ally for support.

tribulation qi surged in his heart once more, magnifying every bit of anger and resentment.

Emperor Cang’s phrase about things never escalating to this point sounded particularly grating to the Demon Emperor.

You never said those words when you were occupying my territory.

Now that this Emperor is striking back, you’ve suddenly become the rule-followers?

”Tacit understanding? This Emperor’s territory was already the smallest, and your two factions have joined forces to squeeze my Demon Court both openly and secretly for how many years? And now you come to talk to me about tacit understanding?”

His gaze swept over Emperor Cang and Emperor Haotian, and his voice deepened:

”If you want to fight today’s war, this Emperor will oblige. If you want to talk, compensate this Emperor with nine immortal realms.”

Emperor Cang and Emperor Haotian exchanged a glance, their expressions both darkening.

Now that things had reached this point, further reasoning was superfluous.