Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 595 - 363: Expulsion_2

Even under such severe injuries, even a Lord of the Nether would be trapped in the jaws of death.

Seeing this, Xu Yang still did not relent. With a sweep of his left hand, the horsetail whisk transformed into a Law Sword. The sword, dazzling with Seven Stars, gained even more might from the Taoism, gathering lightning to pierce through the void.

"Pfft!!!"

A muffled clang echoed as the Seven Stars Sword, trailing thunder, penetrated the Lord of the Nether’s chest.

"Ah!!!"

Unable to even cry out in agony, all he could do was let out a raspy roar. The Yin Heavenly Lord staggered backward, eventually collapsing in front of the Palace of King Tai, one hand pressing tightly against his chest, the other reaching into the void. His eyes were fixed on Xu Yang, filled with resentment and unwillingness.

Yet the Taoist Man, heedless of the Lord’s plight, strode upon the Seven Stars, stepping through the Heaven Gang, as his Curse Spell fiercely pressed for his life!

"Supreme Elder enlightens below, Heavenly Master commands, summoning thunder to shake the cosmos, directing lightning to illuminate Qiankun, flying talismans to seek out evil spirits in temples, divine scriptures and swords to Slaughter Demon spirits..."

"Bang bang bang!"

The Curse Spell was rapid, Divine Power emerged, and inside the Seven Stars Sword, thunder roared, lightning bolts intensely flickered, ready to explode.

In that moment...

"Who dares to act wildly within the Youming Underworld?"

A cold rebuke rang out through the nether, shaking the halls of Senluo. Stay tuned for updates on empire

Deathly energy of the Netherworld surged like waves, rolled into the body of the Yin Heavenly Lord, forming an extraordinary vitality, with an inexplicable mighty force suppressing the Seven Stars Sword, causing the Heavenly Gang’s Five Thunder to withdraw, and the Divine Power of his Dharma Body to falter.

"Hmm!?"

Xu Yang’s eyes narrowed, he stopped the Curse Spell and looked up.

In front of him, a Nether Palace bore the plaque with the words "Mount Tai," exuding the majesty of a king.

"Bang!"

Then, the palace doors flung open, Yin Qi dispersed, and a towering figure stepped out from within.

It was...

"Mount Tai King!"

Xu Yang looked on coldly, eyeing the figure emerging from the palace gates, where the raging Yin Qi obscured the figure, shrouded in darkness, indistinct, but what was clear was the aura of authority, like the weight of Mount Tai, oppressive and suffocating.

It was the master of the South Observation Nether Palace, the esteemed ruler of the Seven Halls of Fengdu—the lord who wields darkness in the southwest, Mount Tai Yama!

Compared to the Fourfold True Tribulation of the Dragon King of the Southern Sea years ago, the Mount Tai King, though slightly less advanced in cultivation, having only endured Three Yama Heavenly Tribulations, his presence was no less imposing, and even more formidable.

After all, the old dragon of the Southern Sea had only shown a claw, while he now stood in his True Body, even though obscured, a difference like night and day.

"Your Majesty!"

The Lords of the Nether, who had just been scattered in alarm, rushed back at this moment, flanking from front and rear, cutting off any retreat.

"Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi?"

"A junior with no lack of strength!"

"However, does he not overstep his bounds to cause trouble in my Underworld?"

In front of the Palace of King Tai, the shadowy figure of Yama, veiled in darkness, only a gaze shone out, severe and forbidding, the weight of Mount Tai more crushing than ever,

Under the heavy pressure of Mount Tai, before the might of Yama, the Dao Practitioner’s complexion remained unchanged, and he even dared to speak, "The path of cultivation, the reached are the foremost, the virtuous are on top. You are a Yama King of the Netherworld, yet your virtue is lacking, sheltering Demons, indulging your subordinates, and now you dare to threaten me.

Are you not afraid that the Heavenly Dao will take notice, that karma will exact its toll, ensuring that you cannot escape your destined calamity?"

"Hmm!?"

With those words, the atmosphere shifted dramatically. Mount Tai King’s eyes narrowed, and a surge of wrathful fire appeared: "Ignorant junior, daring to speak loosely of the Heavenly Dao and karma. Today I shall show you what it means to ’reach the heavens and to delve deep into the earth’!"

"Hmph!"

Xu Yang swept his sleeves, hands behind his back, showing no fear: "Then come!"

"This...!"

Seeing such a posture, the few Lords of the Nether behind him changed expressions.

Was this Zhen Yuanzi so arrogant?

The Nether King in person, Yama himself appearing, and not only did he not flee, he even invited battle?

Although our king of Mount Tai’s Seven Halls had only gone through Three Calamities, but Three Calamities were still Calamities after all.

A difference in one Realm meant a world apart; let alone a Three Calamities Yama, even a One Calamity Human Immortal could defeat all Mahayana.

For Mahayana to Cross the Tribulation, it was the difference between mortal and immortal; no matter how talented you were, how brilliant and extraordinary, crossing the Heavenly Pass from mortal to immortal was difficult.

But him...

"Hmph!"

Amidst the onlookers’ doubt and astonishment, Yama wasted no time, emitted a cold snort, and reached out. The Nether Qi around him churned, transforming into an iron stylus, its bristles dipped in cinnabar, as Yama penned life and death.

Cultivating skills?

Divine Power?

Neither!

It was merely a hand, casually extended.

But that casual gesture had grasped the principles of life and death, the ways of reincarnation.

For a Dao Practitioner, Dao is the foundation. A Calamity Immortal has entered the realm of Dao Xuanzhen, where every action contains truth, commanding the Dao of Heaven and Earth, the rules of the world.

Such is the way to ward off the decrees of Yama King, the brush deciding life and death.

"When Yama decrees a man to die at the third watch, who dares to keep him till the fifth?"

This was an attack at the level of Dao, on the level of laws, ordinary means simply could not resist.

But...

"The hearts of men are all scattered and confused, yet with a single thought, they become pure!"

The Dao Practitioner swept his horsetail whisk, and thunder suddenly rose around him, transforming into a Dharma Body that faintly revealed the silhouette of the Thunder Ancestor.

"Hmm!?"

"The Heavenly Heart Five Thunder?"

"A Divine Power Dharma Body?"

Seeing this scene, the Mount Tai King also frowned.

The Calamity Immortal speaks of the Dao, but beneath the Calamity Immortal, there is also reason.

The Heavenly Gang Divine Power, the Dharma Body of the Great Dao, also obtained the principle of Xuan Zhen, able to resist the prestige of the Calamity Immortal.

Under the protection of this Dharma Body, the pen of the judge and the decree of Yanluo also struggled to take effect.

Yanluo says I shall die at the third watch?

My Daoist Dharma Body shall exist at the fifth watch!

"Hmph!"

Returning empty-handed, Yanluo’s cold and increasingly angry voice boomed as the power of life and death intensified, with the wheel of reincarnation activated even more fiercely.

Mahayana Cultivators can cultivate immortal power, but having immortality without the Dao is like blank paper; their mighty powers are limited.

Only by entering the Tribulation Realm and comprehending the Dao’s Xuan Zhen can this ’blank paper’ gain color, and only then can it possess the power to create and transform.

Therefore, Mahayana immortal power can only be called immortal power. Only above Mahayana can one wear the name of the "Great Dao."

Just like him, the Yama Calamity Immortal, possessing the power of life and death and the wheel of reincarnation.

He is a Three Calamities Yama. Although this person has cultivated the Divine Power Dharma Body and is protected by the Heavenly Heart Five Thunder, he is no more than comparable to a Human Immortal of a single calamity. How can he withstand his full might and dedicated action?

As expected, under the intensifying power of life and death and the delineation of reincarnation, the Heavenly Heart Five Thunder was extinguished inch by inch, and the Divine Power Dharma Body shook as if it was about to collapse.

But...

"Boom!!!"

A loud explosion echoed through the Netherworld.

The Mount Tai King’s pupils contracted, and as he turned around, he saw a dazzling lightning glow before his own palace gates.

Within the lightning, all was ashes, the dust of what once was a Corpse Body’s skeleton.

"Yin Heavenly Lord!"

"You...!!!"

Seeing the Yin Heavenly Lord’s body struck by Thunder Series, turning to ashes, the Mount Tai King was both shocked and enraged, and immediately turned back.

Although he had just made a move to suppress the thunder within the Yin Heavenly Lord’s body, the power of Xu Yang’s Heavenly Heart Five Thunder was beyond his expectation; it had taken advantage of the situation to bravely destroy the Yin Heavenly Lord.

The Yin Heavenly Lord, like him a direct disciple of Fengdu, was limited by his origins and innate deficiencies, finding it difficult to achieve the Dao with the legitimate methods of the Underworld, yet he still harbored a sliver of hope to become a Calamity Immortal.

Therefore, he was allowed to go to the South Observance Continent to become a Demon, to practice the Four Methods in hopes of advancing further.

After more than seventy thousand years, he finally had some success, but to think that it would all be ruined by Zhen Yuanzi, costing the Underworld one Yama Calamity Immortal.

How could he endure this, how could he endure?

Furious, the Mount Tai King unleashed his full power, and a majestic mountain emerged from the void, carrying with it the intent of life and death from the nether, and bore down directly toward his opponent’s thunderous Dharma Body.

But unexpectedly...

"Boom!"

The sound of thunder roared, the Dharma Body radically changed, transforming into the light of the Five Elements, and also contained the force of Yin and Yang, furiously twisting open.

Heavenly Gang Divine Power—the Five Elements Great Escape!

The Five Elements turned, Yin and Yang parted, the Dao’s Qiankun moved, and Mount Tai fell into the void.

"Bang!!!"

Mount Tai pressed down, the void collapsed, but no figure was to be seen, nor was the distinction between life and death clear.

"Zhen Yuan! Zhen Yuanzi!"

With the strike missing its mark and the enemy gone without a trace, Mount Tai Yama roared with rage that made the Netherworld shudder.

"King, Your Majesty!"

"The, the Book of Life and Death!"

A group of Mahayana Lord of the Nethers knelt on the ground in panic, trembling as they looked behind, wanting to speak but hesitating.

"The Book of Life and Death?!"

Only then did the Mount Tai King come to his senses. He turned to look, and saw only dissipating smoke. Where was any trace of a book?

"Zhen Yuanzi!"

Such an outcome inflamed the Mount Tai King with towering rage as he bellowed furiously, "I will not rest until I am at peace with you, not until I am at peace!"

In the Fengdu Underworld, there are eleven copies of the Life and Death Book, one main register, the treasure of his Patriarch’s ascension, and ten are the registers of the Ten Yama Kings, the emblems of their authority.

As the Yin Heavenly Lord was not ranked among the Ten Halls, he had no right to wield the Book of Life and Death, but in order to assist him in comprehending the Dao of life and death and to break through the Crossing the Tribulation Realm, as well as to gain a foothold in the South Observance and to resist various powerful foes, he was given his own book on the order of his teacher.

But who would have thought...

He lost his wife and his soldiers!

Zhen Yuanzi killed the Yin Heavenly Lord, and wasn’t content with just that—he even dared to take the Book of Life and Death?

With such audacity, how did he regard the Underworld?

If he did not retrieve it, wouldn’t he, the Mount Tai King, become the only Yama in the Ten Halls without a Book of Life and Death?

This can be tolerated, but that cannot be tolerated!