novelraw Chapter 984 984 The Immortal Demon Map
Chapter 984 984 The Immortal Demon Map
Tian Canzi's body fell from midair.
There was a sword mark between his brows, pierced clean through from front to back.
Looking inside, the entire brain had been shattered into nothingness, and the primordial spirit had long since vanished.
Yet the skull remained intact.
This was more than enough to show that Jun Xiaoyao's current understanding of the sword had reached an extraordinarily refined level.
Then again, it made sense — of the five great divine sword arts, Jun Xiaoyao alone commanded four of them. His swordsmanship couldn't help but be exquisite.
"This… how is this possible!"
The Sun Sacred Guard and Moon Sacred Guard felt a chill run through their entire bodies.
This was a supreme-level seed-tier figure.
Even their own master couldn't have eliminated someone so cleanly and decisively, could they?
At that thought, both of them felt as though they had fallen into an icy abyss, their courage utterly shattered, and they wanted to retreat.
How could Jun Xiaoyao possibly give them that chance?
He casually struck out, his divine power surging.
In the void, a massive ancient stele materialized, carrying with it a mighty force that seemed capable of suppressing all the heavens.
This too was one of the open-hand techniques from the War God Compendium — the War Stele Hand.
Splat!
The Sun Sacred Guard and Moon Sacred Guard were both crushed beneath the ancient stele, their bodies bursting apart like ants ground underfoot, their primordial spirits shattered and extinguished.
At this point, all three Sacred Guards — Sun, Moon, and Star — who served under the Immortal Realm Chaos Body, had fallen.
This could be said to have thoroughly and completely offended that Immortal Realm Chaos Body.
But Jun Xiaoyao didn't care.
It had all started when the Star Sacred Guard instigated the Gatekeeper clan and kidnapped Yu Chanjuan.
From that moment on, the enmity between Jun Xiaoyao and the Immortal Realm Chaos Body had already been forged.
In the end, only Ji Qingyi remained.
Princess Longjie and her two companions had long since withdrawn from Purple Gold Ancient City.
Facing Jun Xiaoyao alone, Ji Qingyi's delicate brows were tightly knitted, her expression grave.
The more she gazed at that hazy silhouette shrouded in chaos, the more she felt it resembled someone she knew.
On top of that, Ji Qingyi was sharp-minded and deeply calculating.
So her thoughts ran deeper than anyone else's.
"Foreign Realm Chaos Body, do you know Jun Xiaoyao?"
Ji Qingyi suddenly spoke, her gaze locked firmly onto Jun Xiaoyao at the same time, trying to detect any subtle change in him.
"Heh, women…"
Jun Xiaoyao inwardly sighed.
This Ji Qingyi was probing him.
From the very first time he had seen Ji Qingyi back in the Desolate Heavenly Immortal Realm.
He had already sensed that this woman's mind ran extremely deep, and that she was far from ordinary.
By now, many of the geniuses who had appeared in the Desolate Heavenly Immortal Realm around the same time had already died.
Ji Qingyi, however, had managed to navigate every situation with ease, surviving unscathed, and had even grown stronger than before.
That alone was proof enough of her scheming nature.
"But such scheming still needs to be put in its place — in the face of absolute power, any calculation looks pale and laughable."
Jun Xiaoyao sneered inwardly, then made his move directly.
Vast chaos energy spread through the void.
He struck out toward Ji Qingyi.
As it happened, he could use the identity of the Foreign Realm Chaos Body to probe the true depths of Ji Qingyi's strength.
After all, back in the Immortal Realm, Ji Qingyi had never provoked him.
In fact, she had even repeatedly shown goodwill toward Jun Xiaoyao, saying she wanted to become friends.
So back then, Jun Xiaoyao had no reason to casually make a move against Ji Qingyi.
Now, with this disguise in place, he could finally strike and test her.
Just how deep did Ji Qingyi's waters run?
Seeing that Jun Xiaoyao paid her no heed and simply attacked directly.
Ji Qingyi's brows arched slightly.
She had no choice but to fight back.
Her jade palms struck out, stirring the winds of heaven.
At the same time she activated some kind of secret technique, her power climbing steadily, surging all the way to the brink of the quasi-supreme great perfection.
It should be noted that among the seven supreme realms, secret arts capable of temporarily boosting one's power were extraordinarily rare.
Yet Ji Qingyi had mastered one.
Boom!
The two figures collided.
Ji Qingyi was forced back step by step, feeling as though she had been crushed by some primordial behemoth.
"Worthy of a Chaos Body…" Ji Qingyi murmured inwardly.
Jun Xiaoyao, however, was surprised.
When Ji Qingyi had attacked alongside the others earlier, her power had been roughly on par with the Sun Sacred Guard and Moon Sacred Guard.
Now that she was alone, her power had surged to such a terrifying degree that she could actually withstand a direct blow from Jun Xiaoyao head-on.
"Let me see just how many more secrets you're hiding." Jun Xiaoyao grew more and more intrigued.
His figure flickered, tearing through space, pressing down toward Ji Qingyi once more.
Ji Qingyi bit her lip inwardly.
No matter how clever her mind or how deep her scheming ran.
In the face of absolute power, any calculation was rendered pale and powerless.
In just a few short exchanges, Ji Qingyi was driven back step by step, blood trickling from the corner of her lips.
"So this is your true strength — stronger than I imagined, but still not enough…" Jun Xiaoyao thought to himself.
Suddenly.
Right at the moment when Ji Qingyi was at her weakest, a cold gleam flashed through her clear, water-like eyes.
A phantom dao diagram burst forth from within her slender body, pressing directly down toward Jun Xiaoyao.
The diagram was extremely ethereal, not a physical object, but something that existed like a brand.
Upon it were carved images of immortals and demons — celestial beings filling the sky above, hordes of devils crowding the depths below.
Two completely opposite scenes, yet appearing together on a single painting.
A terrifying aura that suppressed all demons and sealed all immortals radiated outward.
"An immortal artifact brand?"
Jun Xiaoyao was genuinely astonished, truly caught off guard.
Immortal artifacts — how extraordinarily rare they were, far more precious than even emperor weapons by an immeasurable margin.
The vast majority of immortal-level powers possessed emperor weapon foundations.
But very few powers had immortal artifact foundations.
Whether the Jun family had one, Jun Xiaoyao didn't know, and had never asked.
But the most well-known example was naturally the Supreme Immortal Court, which had once possessed an immortal artifact — the Heavenly Emperor's Throne — only for it to be lost later.
And in the end, Ling Yuan had obtained the brand of the Heavenly Emperor's Throne.
But the thing was, that was the Supreme Immortal Court.
It was perfectly normal for them to possess an immortal artifact.
Yet Ji Qingyi, a single individual, had somehow also obtained an immortal artifact brand.
That was hidden very, very deep.
No wonder Ji Qingyi hadn't been too flustered when facing him.
"Immortal Demon Diagram, suppress!"
Ji Qingyi let out a sharp cry.
Even though it was only an immortal artifact brand, its power had still reached the absolute extreme.
The entire Purple Gold Ancient Hall hummed and trembled, and even with the divine-marked purple gold encasing it, it nearly cracked apart.
"Has this Ji Qingyi obtained some kind of inheritance, or does she hold some great secret?"
Jun Xiaoyao felt more and more certain that Ji Qingyi was no simple figure.
Immortal artifacts weren't something just anyone could possess.
They either came from some supremely powerful faction at its peak, or were the inheritance of some top-tier mythical powerhouse.
Jun Xiaoyao knew this was definitely not an immortal artifact belonging to the Ji family or the Human Immortal Sect.
Rumble!
The Immortal Demon Diagram brand came pressing down in a vast, sweeping torrent, as though the ancient heavens themselves were collapsing.
Anything connected to the word "immortal" was never simple.
Even if it was merely an immortal artifact brand, its power was still overwhelmingly formidable.
Ji Qingyi's face had gone pale at this moment.
Even just activating an immortal artifact brand was somewhat taxing for her.
Even if a true immortal artifact were placed right in front of an ordinary cultivator, they would struggle to wield it, and might even suffer a backlash.
Seeing this, Jun Xiaoyao remained completely calm and unhurried.
He casually reached into his spatial artifact and withdrew a dark-gold halberd.
In an instant, a wild and ferocious battle intent and demonic might erupted, overturning all ten directions!
The dark-gold halberd was seven feet long, its blade shimmering with a dark-gold, crow-black light.
Along the shaft, lines of blood writhed like living things, transforming into vein-like tendrils that burrowed into Jun Xiaoyao's arm.
The dark-gold war halberd seemed to awaken, radiating an aura as deep as an abyss and as fierce as a demon, utterly unrivaled in its dominance!
Jun Xiaoyao's full head of black hair turned instantly white as hoarfrost.
He gripped the Divine Lament War Halberd and slashed toward the Immortal Demon Diagram!