Chapter 1087 - The Great River Sword Approaches From the Sky, Turning Volcanic Terrain Into Wetlands
Inside the Lin clan, many of its disciples were preparing to deal with Chu Kuangren’s arrival, and all of them had grim looks on their faces.
After all, there have been too many rumors about Chu Kuangren recently.
Everyone already knew full well how strong he was.
“Do you think we can win?” asked one of the Lin clan disciples to another beside him.
That person was the Lin clan’s sky-pride.
He grinned and said confidently, “Of course, we’ll win. Have you forgotten that we belong to the Lin clan, an ancient Immortal clan with deep foundations and a background superior to the other immortal orthodoxies? No matter how powerful Chu Kuangren is, he’s still a man limited in strength.”
“How can someone like him possibly face off against a whole clan?”
Another Lin clan disciple joined the talk and added, “That’s right. Do you think the Lin clan has millions of disciples for show? With our warships, Immortal Weapons, formation techniques, combat puppets, and other assets, even a Heavenly Immortal wouldn’t stand a chance against us. Chu Kuangren is only an Earthen Immortal, so how can he possibly win against us?”
Most of the Lin clan disciples were quite confident about the battle. After all, they were proud of their clan.
In their eyes, the Lin clan was undoubtedly the greatest. Ever since ancient times, no one had been able to stand against the Lin clan at all.
Some disciples who were apprehensive about the battle were soon influenced by the confidence and calmness of others.
“I must be overthinking it. There is nothing to fear about Chu Kuangren alone.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Let’s wait and see if Chu Kuangren loses then.”
Meanwhile, most of the orthodoxies had already gathered outside the Lin clan.
They were people from the Yokai Hall, Holy Judgement Sect, Great Yuan Divine Dynasty, and many other immortal orthodoxies or ancient immortal orthodoxies.
Ten cultivators in golden armor, emanating a dense yokai qi, were standing in a corner.
They were the Golden Crow Guardians of the Yokai Hall.
“Commander, do you think Chu Kuangren will win this time?” one of the Golden Crow Guardians asked.
The one referred to as Commander was a man shrouded in golden light and emanating a frightening aura.
That man was one of the four Golden Crow Guardian Commanders, the Golden Wing Commander!
He possessed the bloodline of the Gold-winged Great Peng, an ancient divine beast. Although his bloodline was not pure, it was still enough to gain him a high position in the Yokai Hall.
Among the four commanders, he was the strongest.
“Chu Kuangren’s strength is mysterious and unfathomable. There’s no point in making speculations like this before the battle has even begun,” said the Golden Wing Commander.
There were two Golden Crow Guardians with powerful auras standing beside him too.
Those two were the remaining two commanders.
They were the White-Hawk Commander and Night-Sparrow Commander respectively. Besides Commander Moya, who was killed by Chu Kuangren back then, the remaining three Commanders had arrived at the Lin clan. They even brought along many Golden Crow Guardians with them.
There was no way they were just here to spectate.
However, the crowd did not interfere.
After the battle at the Yin Underworld Universe, everyone knew that the last Fated One was in the Yokai Hall. For the Fated One to become the Heavenly Champion, they would have to get rid of Chu Kuangren, who was currently their greatest obstacle.
The Yokai Hall had long been at odds with Chu Kuangren. On top of the currently ongoing Battle of the Fated Ones, both sides were nothing short of enemies.
“It looks like these guys are here to deal with Chu Kuangren.”
“Are they planning to attack when Chu Kuangren and the Lin clan are heavily injured? Hm. It seems like a great plan they have there.”
Everyone secretly thought to themselves.
Soon after, two days had passed, but the Lin clan remained cautioned and on high alert.
However, Chu Kuangren was still nowhere to be found.
“Why is Chu Kuangren still not here yet? I’ve been waiting for so long now. The heat is killing me,” some cultivators said unhappily.
The Lin clan was situated on volcanic terrain, so the surrounding temperature was so high that the air was dry. For cultivators who specialized in Fire-based Dao, the place was a wonderland. However, the other cultivators would find the heat unbearable.
“Let’s wait a while.”
“Chu Kuangren can’t possibly be bailing out on this, right?”
“No way. With how arrogant he is, there’s no way he would do something that’ll make him the laughingstock of others. He’ll surely come.”
“This heat around here is really intense, huh?”
“Wait a second. What is that sound?”
Suddenly, someone noticed something.
Sounds of swishing and swooshing sounded from a distance away.
“It sounds like water.”
“You’re kidding. How can there possibly be water here?”
“It really is water.”
Someone started to feel some dampness in the air.
As the swishing and swooshing became louder, the moisture in the air also became denser.
“Quick, look over there!” someone exclaimed.
With that, everyone looked into the distance.
They were greeted by the sight of gigantic body of water gushing towards them through the air, and a young man in white robes was mobilizing the water at the front.
It was Chu Kuangren!
Everyone was stunned and speechless.
“Did the guy bring a whole ocean with him?”
“F*ck me!”
“This is truly surprising.”
The swishing and swooshing sound soon arrived above the Lin clan. Everyone could even see the various aquatic plants and animals inside that hovering body of river water.
The Lin clan disciples gulped in shock. None of them had expected something like that to happen.
“I hereby present this gift as a token of my visit. I hope the Lin clan likes it!” Chu Kuangren’s voice reverberated through the sky.
In the next instant, the vast body of water immediately fell from the sky!
The target was none other than the Lin clan!
“Activate the great defensive formation!” Lin Zhaotian roared.
Beams of flaming light appeared around the Lin clan, and a huge flaming shield soon enveloped the whole Lin clan like a gigantic bowl turned upside-down.
The vast body of river water poured down mercilessly, and as it landed on the bowl-like flame protecting shield, sounds of explosions erupted.
The river water and the flames collided, producing vast amounts of steam that covered a radius of ten thousand kilometers of land.
The vast amount of river water dispersed and flowed down the entire volcanic terrain. The originally scorching hot air was soon filled with moisture, making it now hot and humid at the same time.
The spectating cultivators felt as if they were in a sauna.
The vast river water poured out endlessly like a gargantuan waterfall, slamming onto the Lin clan’s great defensive formation.
The sight made all the spectating cultivators dumbfounded.
The river water was still pouring down from the sky!
“Ha! There’s no need to be shy. Why? Is the Lin clan unsatisfied with such a wonderful gift?” Chu Kuangren laughed out loud.
Then, he put out a sword hand sign while channeling his Immortal’s Core energy. He injected his sword intent into the never-ending river water, turning it into a gigantic sword made out of water!
The water sword came crashing down with utmost might.
Together, the river water and the gigantic water sword came crashing down from above!
Boom!
Following a crash, the Lin clan’s great defensive formation immediately caved in. On top of the violent sword intent within the vast river water slamming into the formation, cracks began to appear.
“This is bad!” Lin Zhaotian’s expression changed.
Boom!
The Lin clan’s defensive formation crumbled with a bang!
With that, the vast river water and sword intent poured in, flooding the whole Lin clan and destroying most of the buildings inside. Frightened, the cultivators quickly channeled their cultivation to defend themselves against that overwhelming might.
The river water gushed across the land. Most of the cultivators inside the water held on frantically until the impacting force gradually dispersed.
The Lin clan was now in ruins, with most of their buildings destroyed and most of their cultivators either injured or dead.
The ten-thousand-kilometer-long river was something they could defend themselves against but not the sword intent inside the water!
Those who were spectating the battle gulped in fear, and they could not find any words to describe what they just witnessed.
With a large amount of moisture filling the air, most of the volcanoes in the area had crumbled, turning into mounds of wet soil. There were puddles all over the place, and larger ones began to form into lakes.
Chu Kuangren arrived bringing a whole river’s worth of water with him, and using the river as a sword, he instantly turned all of the volcanic terrains surrounding the Lin clan into wetlands!
He had turned the volcanic terrain into wetlands!
Chapter 1088 - The Battle Begins, Destroying the Flame Formation With the Yin Yang Symbol, An Ancient Immortal Clan’s Foundation
“Are you satisfied with this great gift of mine?” Chu Kuangren’s voice echoed from the skies.
The Lin clan’s cultivators were all trembling and gritting their teeth with anger.
Chu Kuangren’s attack earlier did not only reduce the whole Lin clan into ruins, but it also killed and injured a large number of Lin clan disciples.
He even turned the whole volcanic terrain into wetlands, completely destroying the Lin clan’s treasured cultivation terrain with a single sword attack!
Lin Zhaotian stared daggers at Chu Kuangren. He had never hated someone so much in his life that he wished to tear them into pieces!
“Chu Kuangren, you shall die now!”
Following a roar, the Lin clan officially started their war with Chu Kuangren!
The first to attack was Lin Zhaotian, the Lin clan’s leader. Being an Earthen Immortal at peak cultivation level, he was an extremely powerful individual.
Bursts of divine fire emerged from his body, instantly vaporizing the surrounding moisture around him, and then he unleashed a punch.
With a boom, an explosion erupted in the void!
A golden ball of divine fire was hurled toward Chu Kuangren.
“Playing with fire, huh? But are you a match for the Essence of All Flames?” Chu Kuangren chuckled.
As he raised his hand, the cries of a phoenix rang out, and a wave of golden crimson Phoenix’s Flame surged forth, instantly devouring the incoming divine fire.
The moment the two divine fires clashed, the Phoenix’s flame broke through. Shocked, Lin Zhaotian quickly dodged it.
The Phoenix’s Flame landed on the Lin clan and exploded into countless sparks that fell everywhere. The Lin clan disciples who could not evade were immediately engulfed and set ablaze by the flames.
“How is this possible? Those are only sparks of embers.”
“No, no…”
Some of the Lin clan disciples tried to disperse the flames but to no avail. The flames were akin to gangrene attached to their bones, unrelenting until their target had been completely burned away.
“These flames are burning their sins and karma! This is a Karmic Flame!”
Lin Zhaotian immediately recognized the trait of that crimson-golden Phoenix’s Flame, and his expression changed. “You have refined and mastered the Crimson Karmic Lotus Flame!”
Chu Kuangren grinned. “That’s right. You can now call it the… Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame!”
He slowly descended from the sky. The moment his toes touched the Lin clan’s ground, another phoenix’s cry sounded, and a gigantic red lotus made of flames gradually bloomed.
A powerful Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame emerged as the red lotus bloomed. That flame was so incredibly powerful that it almost engulfed most of the Lin clan in an instant.
Countless Lin clan cultivators’ expressions changed as they quickly dodged the Phoenix’s Flame. Those who could not evade in time were trying to resist the flames by consuming the fire-proofing pill.
However, the situation was unlike at the Thousand Flame Valley back then, when the Crimson Karmic Lotus Flame was not in anyone’s control. Hence, consuming the fire-proofing pill was still somewhat helpful.
Now that the Crimson Karmic Lotus Flame had combined with the Phoenix’s Flame, the power unleashed was far more potent than before. It was beyond what a fire-proofing pill could handle.
For a moment, screams and cries were everywhere.
One by one, the Lin clan cultivators were set aflame by the Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame. Their whole body and even their souls were all burned into ashes.
The spectating cultivators outside were stupefied as they watched.
“What a terrifying Phoenix’s Flame. I can’t believe it can even set alight one’s sins and karma. This power is simply frightening.”
“Every cultivator has taken a life before, but this power that sets alight one’s sins and karma is too horrifying.”
“Indeed.”
“The Phoenix’s Flame is already unparalleled as the Essence of All Flames. Now that it has the power of the Crimson Karmic Lotus Flame, it has gotten even more scary and destructive.”
The Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame was a combination of the Crimson Karmic Lotus Flame and the Phoenix’s Flame. Hence, it did not exist in the Divine Fire List.
However, its power was comparable to the divine fires in the top ten.
“D*mn it. Quickly, activate the Thousand Manifestation Army!”
Seeing the Lin clan disciples being slaughtered mercilessly, Lin Zhaotian immediately yelled with a grim expression.
Then, the grounds of the Lin clan started trembling, and countless figures emerged. They were all combat puppets!
All of those combat puppets were comparable to a top-tier Heavenly Daoist Celestial, while some had the strength of a Half-Immortal. They numbered in tens of thousands, charging toward Chu Kuangren.
The combat puppets did not possess any soul, so they had no sins or karma. That was why they would not be affected by the Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame’s karma-burning properties.
However…
“Trying to stop me with combat puppets who aren’t even Immortals? You guys truly are foolish.” Chu Kuangren sneered.
He made a sword hand sign and slashed forth into the void. The Crimson Lotus Phoenix Flame immediately turned into a sword shadow, slicing all the combat puppets into pieces.
Although there were no sins and karma to burn, Chu Kuangren’s attack was the real deal. The ordinary combat puppets were no match for the Phoenix’s Flame attack.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One after another combat puppets were destroyed by Chu Kuangren.
“Great Buli Flame Formation!” Lin Zhaotian ordered.
Several Earthen Immortals immediately rushed toward Chu Kuangren with Lin Zhaotian. They all took a position each, activated their divine fire, and made an incomparably powerful formation. With that, all of the flame currents in the surroundings immediately gathered towards them.
Under the effects of the formation, Chu Kuangren could feel that his Phoenix’s Flame was suppressed. On the other hand, the attack of Lin Zhaotian and others had gotten more powerful instead due to the strengthening effects of the flame currents.
“Divine Triple Flame Essence Pierce!”
“Flaming Sky Punch!”
Lin Zhaotian and the others activated their techniques and attacked Chu Kuangren with the help of the formation.
Chu Kuangren was not scared at all in the face of their attacks. He raised his hand, activated his Immortal Consciousness, merged them with his Immortal’s Core energy, and unleashed his ultimate defensive technique once more!
“Ultimate Chasm of Convergence!”
Then, a vortex appeared around him, absorbing all of the incoming attacks into it, so none of the attacks could injure him. Following that, the Phoenix’s Flame retracted from his body, and it was replaced by surges of Celestial Demon qi.
White flame, brimming with endless life, appeared in his left hand, and black flame filled with utter destruction in his right!
Chu Kuangren clasped his palms together, making a mysterious hand sign, and Yin Yang Life and Death intent emerged in the void to form a rotating Yin Yang symbol.
“Chaos Celestial Demon, Yin Yang Life and Death Symbol!”
With the appearance of the Life and Death symbol, the Great Buli Flame Formation started trembling violently. A few of the elders were directly hit, and the impact sent them flying with blood spitting out of their mouths. Their faces turned pale as they looked at Chu Kuangren with horror.
“What a powerful attack.”
“Chu Kuangren is just too overpowered.”
With the Great Buli Flame Formation destroyed, the elders of the Lin clan were all critically injured.
Only Lin Zhaotian alone was radiating with Immortal Sparks. On him, he had a golden armor that had Daoist patterns intertwining mysteriously on the surface, which seemed to emit a golden flame.
That armor had blocked most of the life and death intent for Lin Zhaotian.
“Oh, it’s that defensive Heavenly Immortal Weapon,” Chu Kuangren said indifferently.
“I’m still not done!”
Lin Zhaotian took out a pill and consumed it. The moment he swallowed it, his aura started increasing rapidly, pushing him closer to a Heavenly Immortal’s level.
“Fire God Avatar!” Followed by his roar, divine fire rose into the sky as golden flames intertwined in the void. Just like that, a flaming giant manifested!
The flaming giant was as tall as the sky, and the surrounding terrain rumbled with its every movement. It was like a supreme god who was a master of flames!
“That Heavenly Immortal Weapon, the pill that rapidly increases one’s power, that advanced avatar… It seems quite beneficial being in an ancient Immortal clan.”
“However, if that’s the best you’ve got, your defeat today is certain!” Chu Kuangren said apathetically.
The next instant, a surge of powerful energy fluctuation erupted from Chu Kuangren’s body. As he sat in the void, he pointed a finger to the sky and pointed another to the ground, making a mysterious hand sign that emanated a never-before-seen poise of invincibility!
“In that case, let us fight avatar against avatar then. I shall let you taste the power of Papiyas, the Demonic Buddha!”
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