What is an immortal?

Chapter 1081 - 1046: Beneath the Magic Cloud Tree

Above the Demon Cloud Valley, a thunderous roar erupted, and a streak of lightning seemed to tear through the endless darkness, plummeting straight to the ground.

As the lightning dissipated, Lei Yu's colossal body abruptly appeared and then vanished just as quickly, leaving only the proud figure of Yuan Ming, standing firm in front of the Three Realms Immortal Boat.

The power of this Thunder Escape Technique surprised even Yuan Ming himself, who never expected to reach this place with just one use.

Seeing Yuan Ming suddenly appear, the Demon Clan cultivators outside the Three Realms Immortal Boat roared furiously and charged at him.

Yuan Ming raised his hand, and the Great Black Sky God Palm descended like a world-destroying giant hand, instantly crushing those charging Demon Clan cultivators into dust, as if squashing a group of insignificant ants.

The remaining Demon Clan cultivators were terrified and fled back into the Three Realms Immortal Boat.

Just as they were preparing to attack again, a blinding light suddenly shone from the Immortal Boat.

The Immortal Boat suddenly accelerated, rushing toward Yuan Ming like a meteor crashing into the earth.

This Dao Treasure's power was indeed extraordinary. As it compressed the space, not only did it strengthen the surrounding void like an iron wall, but it also applied immense spatial pressure, attempting to crush Yuan Ming's entire body.

Yuan Ming's gaze sharpened, fearless.

He sneered, raised his hand, and the Shura Palace appeared out of thin air, colliding violently with the Three Realms Immortal Boat.

"Boom——"

When the two space Dao Treasures collided, they triggered intense tremors in the void.

A massive spatial rift spread from the collision point, swallowing everything around like a black hole.

Chaotic black spatial currents shot out from the rift, engulfing the entire valley.

Deafening explosions echoed like a barrage of artillery in the void, the violent shockwaves ravaging the Demon Cloud Valley like an earthquake.

In the wake of the collision and explosion, Demon Cloud Valley was leveled, its cliffs collapsing into rubble, and a cross-shaped fissure over a hundred miles long appeared within the valley.

Dust and smoke rose and lingered endlessly.

Hundreds of miles away, Hua Zhi and Vajra had just escaped the terrifying storm of Demon Cloud Valley, their eyes still fixed on that direction, their faces pale with fear.

"That apocalyptic commotion must have been the master's doing, right?" Hua Zhi's voice trembled slightly.

"The aura is indeed his, but this power... is simply unbelievable." Vajra's pupils were filled with shock.

"We..." Hua Zhi's tone was filled with hesitation.

"Hold on, let's watch and wait." Vajra hurriedly interrupted her, a wary look in his eyes.

While the two were still in shock and fear, Yuan Ming had already taken advantage of the fierce collision between Shura Palace and Three Realms Immortal Boat to infiltrate the interior of the Immortal Boat quietly.

As a former partial master, he knew the layout of the Three Realms Immortal Boat's forbidden formations intimately, rendering them ineffective before him.

He easily broke through and ventured into the heart of the Immortal Boat.

Inside the boat, Yuan Ming quickly located the area where the Demon Clan had gathered their forces.

Without mercy, he released the Flame Killer God, and flames swept across the whole area instantly, causing a series of deafening explosions. The Demon Clan army suffered severe losses from this sudden attack.

But Yuan Ming's goal this time went far beyond that.

He knew well that stopping the Three Realms Immortal Boat from invading the Chuyun Realm was the urgent task at hand.

Therefore, he did not indulge in slaughter but decisively headed toward the underground space where the core of the forbidden formation was located.

When the underground space came into view, Yuan Ming's pupils suddenly contracted.

The spot where the World Tree once stood was now replaced by an enormous Magic Cloud Tree.

Pieces of the World Tree were embedded in the trunk of the Magic Cloud Tree, with strange rune formations inscribed on its body, clearly meticulously modified to temporarily replace the World Tree as the power core of the Three Realms Immortal Boat.

Under the Magic Cloud Tree, three figures sat cross-legged.

Two of them were middle-aged men, their faces gaunt like two dried corpses, one wearing purple and the other clad in blue robes.

The last was an elderly woman in red, with white hair and wrinkled skin, her eyes fierce and sinister.

"Purple and Green Demons, Red Flower Ghost Mother."

Yuan Ming recognized these three from Su Wu and the Black-armored Man's memories; the two middle-aged men were known as the "Purple and Green Demons," rumored to be fellow cultivators practicing a Purple and Blue Demon Technique.

This cultivation technique was a renowned Poison Skill in the Demon World. Despite years of relentless practice, the two managed only to reach the Peak of Dharma manifestation, unable to advance for tens of thousands of years.

Later, through some great fortune, they managed to hunt down a Level 7 Poison Element Beast. They split the beast's poisonous sack, sealing it with secret techniques into their bodies at great risk of losing their lives.

With the help of the Poison Element Beast's poisonous sack, they successfully broke through to Mahayana. However, because they relied on external force, their physical bodies suffered backlash, turning them into the zombie-like appearances they had now.

As for the elderly woman in red, called "Red Flower Ghost Mother," she was a Ghost Witch, famous in the Demon World, ranked only below the Yan Emperor, Star Emperor, and Mountain Emperor, three titans of the Demon World.

The three also noticed Yuan Ming and stood up abruptly.

"Human Clan cultivator! So you're the one causing trouble? Prepare to die!" the Purple Demon, with a fiery temper, immediately launched an attack.

A large expanse of purple toxic mist erupted from this person, quickly spreading out and in the blink of an eye, submerged the entire underground cavern, forming a Purple Poison Domain.

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

The purple mist contained deadly poison, and the nearby rocks and ground melted rapidly upon contact.

"Die!"

The Purple Demon raised his hand and pointed, causing the purple toxic mist to condense in one spot.

Accompanied by a resounding dragon roar, a hundred-zhang long Poisonous Dragon soared into the sky, charging straight towards Yuan Ming.

"Toxic attack! What a pity that Wulu isn't here; otherwise, he could devour this Poisonous Dragon, and his cultivation would definitely improve significantly," Yuan Ming remarked with regret, raising his hand to grab at the empty air.

Green light flashed, and a grayish-green palace appeared—it was none other than the Shura Palace.

The nearby space power twisted and turned chaotic again, and just as the purple Poisonous Dragon approached Yuan Ming, it inexplicably vanished, being absorbed into the Shura Palace.

Yuan Ming directed his thoughts, settling the Poisonous Dragon in the Cold Martial Realm.

Since the Shura Palace had advanced to a Dao Treasure, the Cold Martial Realm was no longer the same as before, the cold air was a hundred times stronger than before, and Dharma Phase cultivators found it piercingly cold, significantly suppressing toxic creatures.

Yet the purple Poisonous Dragon was truly frightening, still spreading rapidly.

A flicker of a foreign color appeared in Yuan Ming's eyes as he opened the Chaos Spiritual Domain.

Having refined several Mahayana entities in succession, in terms of mana, he was far superior to the Purple Demon, easily enveloping the Purple Poison Domain within his Chaos Spiritual Domain.

Ordinary Mahayana cultivators, even if stronger than the Purple Demon, would need to respond cautiously to this Purple Poison Domain, but Yuan Ming did not.

The Chaos Spiritual Domain could absorb all spiritual power, including poison.

The Purple Poison Domain quickly dissolved, on the verge of being completely swallowed.

"What is this..." The Purple Demon's expression changed drastically.

At that moment, countless green toxic gases spread out, forming a Green Poison Domain, which intertwined with the Purple Demon's Purple Poison Domain, creating a new Purple and Blue Spirit Domain.

The Purple and Green Demons cultivated the same poison skill, and both advanced to Mahayana by borrowing the power of the same demon beast, thus their spirit domains could merge.

The merged Purple and Blue Spirit Domain had four to five times the power of the Purple Poison Spirit Domain, rapidly generating streaks of purple-blue toxicity, barely resisting the swallowing of the Chaos Spiritual Domain.

Yuan Ming showed a surprised expression, just as he was about to enhance the power of the Chaos Spiritual Domain, his head suddenly buzzed as though struck by something.

Yuan Ming's vision blurred, finding himself in the countryside amidst extraordinarily vibrant red flowers all over the mountains, with intoxicating floral fragrance in the air, tempting one to indulge.

"An illusion? No, this is the Red Flower Ghost Mother's soul domain..." Yuan Ming immediately understood the situation at hand.

The power of the soul domain wasn't comparable to any illusion, as the captivating aroma inundated him.

Yuan Ming activated the Moonlight Technique, striving to stay conscious but still succumbed, immersed in the fragrance with his awareness becoming drowsy.

At that moment, the Chaos Dao Fruit within him started to operate autonomously, a surge of chaotic power spread throughout his body, finally entering his sea of consciousness.

Yuan Ming's divine soul trembled, awakening from the state of intoxication, while the illusion before him disappeared without a trace, and his vision returned to the underground cavern of the Three Realms Immortal Boat.

His sea of consciousness was empty; the originally abundant soul power had inadvertently vanished by fifty percent.

Yuan Ming felt a chill in his heart; luckily, he woke up in time, otherwise, all his soul power would have been absorbed by the Red Flower Ghost Mother's soul domain!

At that moment, the front suddenly went dark, and a large black ghostly figure lunged towards him, already within three feet, opening its mouth to bite his head.

The ghostly figure had no mana fluctuations but emitted surges of soul power, evidently a divine soul attack.

Golden light flashed under Yuan Ming's feet, his body instantly shifted sideways, barely evading the black ghostly figure's bite.

"You woke up so quickly?" The distant Red Flower Ghost Mother was shocked and suspicious, once again activating the soul domain, attempting to drag Yuan Ming back into the illusion.

Yet at that moment, the Chaos Spiritual Domain spun rapidly, countless chaotic spiritual lights swept through the underground cavern.

The Red Flower Ghost Mother's soul domain, though intangible, couldn't resist the Chaos Spiritual Domain, quickly being absorbed and refined, disappearing more than half in the blink of an eye, unable to affect Yuan Ming.

"What is this spirit domain that can even refine my soul domain!" The Red Flower Ghost Mother was so shocked she nearly cried out.

"The soul domain is truly formidable; I was already wary of the Red Flower Ghost Mother but still fell prey, it seems I need to advance to Ghost Witch to confront her!" Yuan Ming stood at the center of the Chaos Spiritual Domain, murmuring to himself.

As his mind raced, his hands didn't pause, further unleashing the power of the Chaos Spiritual Domain to its utmost.

Chaotic spiritual lights swirled within the underground cavern, rapidly devouring both the Purple and Green Demons' Purple and Blue Spirit Domain and the Red Flower Ghost Mother's soul domain, soon collapsing completely.

"Damn it! Where did this person come from, possessing such a terrifying spirit domain that rivals the Yan Emperor's Yama Spiritual Realm!" The Red Flower Ghost Mother's expression was extremely ugly, hastily summoning a Treasure Umbrella Spiritual Treasure to protect herself.

Purple and Green Demons' bodies flashed with spirit light, each appearing with a set of Purple and Blue Battle Armor, shielding their entire bodies.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming furrowed his brow; the situation within the Three Realms Immortal Boat was chaotic, and other demon clans could arrive at any time, he needed to resolve the conflict quickly.

With this thought, he began reciting chants, countless chaotic light strands shot out from the spirit domain, entangling on the spiritual treasures of the three.

The engulfing power of the chaotic light strands far surpassed the spirit domain, rapidly draining the spiritual power within the treasures of the three, with the light quickly dimming.