Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 904 - 558: Invitation to Battle

Chapter 904: Chapter 558: Invitation to Battle

Several days later, Demon Suppression Division, Immortal-Slaying Stage.

Inside the live broadcast room, as usual.

“It’s time for the beloved beheading segment!”

“Let me see who the unlucky one is this time?”

“Ah, ever since a few big shots stopped broadcasting, only the Immortal-Slaying Stage has been worth watching.”

“What can you do without material, the small ones aren’t camera-ready, and the big ones hide away, naturally they had to stop updating.”

“Didn’t they say that an evil god of True Immortal level caused trouble at the East Sea, could they at least make a bit of material for the big shots to update once?”

“Who knows…”

The crowd chatted endlessly, still heartless as ever.

Turning to the live broadcast, within the frame, a grand execution ground was visible.

The execution ground was vast, situated above the Sea of Clouds, on it stood a high platform built of white jade, aligning with Tai Chi and the Bagua, Yin Yang and the Five Elements, adorned with Thunder Talismans and Electric Seals, True Law Cloud Patterns, stern yet also awe-inspiring.

It was indeed the Immortal-Slaying Stage!

Years ago, shortly after the battle at E’mei concluded, the Wandao School established this platform. It was set up within the Demon Suppression Division in various places as an instrument of lawful execution. Anyone who violated the laws, requiring the utmost penalty, be they Immortals, Buddhas, Gods, and Demons, or mere mortal cultivators, all had to make their way to this platform, to have their sentencing openly and to comfort the public heart.

Over the years, countless criminals had been lawfully executed on this Immortal-Slaying Stage, annihilated both physically and spiritually, dead and their paths dissolved, becoming the number one penal instrument of Wandao School, deterring cultivators and sects all around.

As of now…

“Minor Millstone Honored One, Wo Jianming, a subordinate of the evil god Suzano, first killed 728 fishermen in the East Sea, then conducted bloody sacrifices of passersby on Ezo Island in the East Sea, a crime most foul, by law, to be sentenced to death!”

Two enforcement cultivators escorted a young man onto the platform, pressing him at the beheading spot. A law enforcement spiritual official read out the charges, revealing his identity, which was…

“Wo Jianming?”

“Isn’t that the Martial Honored One from Dongying?”

“The top henchman of Suzano, a subordinate deity of Six Stages of the Calamity Realm?”

“I said there was such a big commotion at the East Sea recently, good heavens, they captured him!”

“Too bad, let Suzano, that old boy, run away, otherwise, this Immortal-Slaying Stage could have seen the blood of a True Immortal.”

Comments flew, all in jest, completely unconcerned.

Unconcerned indeed!

Since the establishment of the Immortal-Slaying Stage and the Demon Suppression Division, those executed upon the stage grew increasingly significant. Although there had yet to be a True Immortal splattered in blood to this day, those who died in the Calamity Realm were not few, including many mighty ones from Six or Seven Levels and even the most formidable from Eight Levels.

So, adding another Six-Level Calamity Realm martial figure from Dongying was not something unusual, and the crowd certainly didn’t take it to heart.

Only…

“Wandao School!”

“This is too much!”

“They really think they can do whatever they want because fate is on their side?”

“Today it’s the Dongying Divine Lineage—whom will it be tomorrow?”

“As those few individuals’ cultivation levels rise, their bullying has only escalated these years. How much longer must all the Divine Lineages endure?”

“I refuse to believe that those few are invincible among the True Immortals, and the Earth Immortals won’t step forward and let them act tyrannically!”

“It’s all because they are intimidated by fate. If it weren’t for this heavenly mandate, the top True Immortals of all Divine Lineages would have long suppressed them; how could they have tolerated their arrogance until now?”

“Fate, heavenly mandate…”

Watching Wo Jianming being forcefully brought to the Immortal-Slaying Stage, about to be executed lawfully, numerous Immortals and Gods of the Calamity Realm clenched their teeth, feeling both sorrow for another and deep anger yet powerless to interject.

Years ago, after the battle at E’mei, the Nine Instruments Xuanyuan Sword dominated the world, marking the beginning of the era of True Immortals entering the mortal realm.

Various Divine Lineages, subsequently unsealed, numerous True Immortals and True Gods returned to the world, among them were ancient powerhouses who had long proven their Dao, whose strength was even above that of the Mysterious Heaven Sword Master Ren Bai Mei, possessing Divine Artifacts in their hands, the ultimate existences among the Nine Tribulations Immortals and Gods.

Yet even these supreme True Immortals had to yield and retreat in the face of the expansion of Wandao School.

After all, carrying fate, favored by heavenly mandate!

Even though Nine Tribulations True Immortals, having completed their merits and free from calamities, still existed within “heaven and earth”.

If they acted against heaven and became detested or even faced punishing strikes, even the Nine Tribulations True Immortals could possibly fall from the clouds and suffer from horrific calamities like the “Five Declines of Heaven and Man.”

Therefore, facing Wandao School, all Divine Lineages chose to forbear.

And at that time, although the actions of Wandao School were overbearing, they still knew when to stop and did not push too far, allowing the Divine Lineages to reluctantly accept it through clenched teeth.

But times changed, and this state of affairs would not maintain forever. As time passed, those three advanced triumphantly, their cultivation skyrocketing, their power increasing day by day. Wandao School’s actions grew more and more overbearing, successively establishing entities like the Demon Suppression Division and the Immortal-Slaying Stage, reducing the living space of all Divine Lineages.

Great Nine Tribulations Immortals and Gods, of such exalted status, how could they endure being subjected to penal measures and having the sword of damocles hanging over their heads?

Not to mention Wandao School’s tyranny; others’ Divine Realms and Sacred Places, you say enter and you enter, say search and you search, drawing swords without a word, exploiting situations for guilt by association.

Who could endure this?

Conflicts erupted once again, the war of True Immortals finally commenced.

However, as several Nine Tribulations Immortals and Gods were harshly suppressed, this newly ignited war quickly subsided.

Years of development, from python to dragon, at this point trying to suppress them was already futile.

But…

“No!”

“It hasn’t come to that yet!”

“If the top True Immortals of all Divine Lineages act, even if they cannot suppress those few, they can at least curb their growth!”

“In the end, it’s all about this fate, this heavenly protection!”

“It was a mistake to forbear them initially; if they had been bravely eliminated from the start, how could they have ended up in such a dire situation today?”

“Earth Immortals should enter the world—when will the Earth Immortals enter? Those few have gone mad, backed by the power of the fate and added merits, in just thousands of years they’ve passed multiple celestial tribulations, their cultivation advancing at a tremendous pace, their combat power increasing by the day. Allowing this to continue, perhaps the Earth Immortals won’t even have entered the world before those few have already proven the Dao!”

“At that time, our situation…”

“No wonder Suzano could not endure any longer, to continue yielding might jeopardize their very lives.”

“Aren’t the various Divine Lineages making a move yet?”

A group of individuals clenched their teeth, signaling the undercurrents were surging.

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In the meantime…

“Execute!”

The law enforcement spiritual official threw the arrow, about to enact the extreme penalty.

“Ahh!!!”

Wo Jianming suddenly let out a roar as he struggled to lift his body on the edge of the blade, raising his head in rage, “I am the Great Harmony Martial Honored One, who dares to slay me…”

“Whoosh!!!”

Before he could finish speaking, a brilliant light shot forth, three zhang in length, plunging directly into the mud palace, seizing his Primordial Spirit True Soul and causing Dongying Honored One to instantly collapse, his head falling onto the execution blade, like a clay puppet carved from wood.

“Behead!!!”

At that moment, the execution arrow was thrown down, and the executioner’s blade fell in response, immediately splattering crimson all around the execution site, a head rolling into the bowl, its eyes dull, expression bewildered, showing despair and raging fury!

“Next!”

The Law Enforcement Spirit Official paid no heed and directly ordered someone to gather up the corpse, then brought another criminal onto the stage.

…

Days later,

Fu Long Mountain, Mingxiao Observatory.

The sky suddenly darkened, then light appeared again, but it was a fiery red color, fiercely burning the earth.

“Hmm!?”

The cultivators’ gazes sharpened as they looked up, only to see fierce flames consuming the clouds above, amidst a sky full of red aurora, a god riding a green sheep approached.

That god, covered in flames and with four arms, held a Green Bamboo Purifying Bottle in his right two hands and a horsetail whisk prayer beads in his left two hands, straddling a green sheep, treading on Heavenly Fire, coming forth like a fierce sun descending.

“This is…”

The surrounding Taoists seeing this, all appeared unsettled.

“I am the Brahma Fire God Agi Ni, here to visit the Mingxiao Observatory Master!”

The god wore a slight smile, exuding calmness despite being enveloped in Heavenly Fire, without the fierce intensity.

“Agi Ni?”

“He is the Flame God of the Brahman Sect!”

“A top-tier among True Immortals?”

“Quickly go inform the Taoist Master…”

The Mingxiao Taoists were startled and headed towards the ancestral hall.

However, before any action could be taken, auspicious clouds surged up, Ten Thousand Golden Lotuses bloomed widely, lifting another figure into the high heavens, standing opposite the Brahma Fire God.

Above the auspicious clouds, amid the golden lotuses, stood a person holding a horsetail whisk, his hair bound in a fishtail crown, donning a multicolored mystical robe, precisely the master of Mingxiao, a true cultivator of Taoism.

“So it’s the Honored Respected Lord of Fire Light from the Brahman Sect, may I know what brings you to my Mingxiao Observatory?”

Xu Yang, holding a horsetail whisk, looked at the Brahma Fire God with a serene expression, unflustered and calm.

The Brahman Sect—a major divine system of this world, with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva as the three Supreme Lords, holding a status akin to that of the Immortal Emperor Lords of the Profound Gate Immortal Path.

Beneath the three Supreme Lords are the Eight Great Heavenly Gods, known as “Brahma’s Eight,” Agi Ni being one of them, ranked sixth, holding the authority of fire.

Logically, beneath the Heavenly Gods are the Earth Immortals, so these eight Great Heavenly Gods positioned beneath the three Supreme Lords should hold the Earth Immortal status.

However, the Brahman Sect is peculiar; the three Supreme Lords are not solitary figures, each is accompanied by a Heavenly Girl as their divine consort, their strength and status above those of the Eight Great Heavenly Gods, thus they are truly the Earth Immortals of the Brahman Sect.

And these Eight Great Heavenly Gods, except for the strongest, the Heavenly God Indra, the other seven are True Gods, including this so-called “Respected Lord of Fire Light,” Agi Ni.

Although he, the Flame God, is the closest among the Eight Great Heavenly Gods to Indra, he is only close and has not achieved it, so after all, he is merely a top-tier true god of this era.

How Earth Immortals are, Xu Yang has not seen, so he dares not speak recklessly.

But for this True God, unless there is a Heavy Weapon like those in the Central Region at hand, there is not much difference in his eyes.

Agi Ni wore a slight smile, his expression serene, even bringing his hands together in a salute, “I’ve long heard of Mingxiao Observatory Master’s Divine Power; seeing it today, it truly lives up to its reputation. This humble god is thoroughly convinced!”

The words were humble, his posture very low, completely disregarding his identity as one of the Brahman Eight Great Heavenly Gods.

“Respected Lord of Fire Light flatters too much.”

Xu Yang’s expression remained unchanged, still calm and light, speaking the pleasantries, “For the Respected Lord of Fire Light, a Brahman Heavenly God, to travel countless miles to my Mingxiao Observatory, I am truly honored.”

“Not at all, not at all!”

Agi Ni shook his head, smiling faintly as he spoke, “To be honest, my visit this time is to ask the Observatory Master for a favor, to release Weide back to the Brahman Sect. He has toiled in the Mingxiao Observatory for ten thousand years, and his crimes of the past should already be redeemed!”

“So it’s for this matter.”

Xu Yang’s expression was indifferent, “The sins of Garuda have indeed been redeemed; the reason he still remains in my Mingxiao Observatory is of his own personal will. The Respected Lord of Fire can ask for his own wishes, if he wishes to leave, I certainly won’t force him to stay. But I also hope the Respected Lord of Fire will not force others against their will.”

“…”

Upon hearing this, Agi Ni was also silent, then changed his tone, “Since Weide is willing to stay at the place of the Observatory Master, let him be.”

After speaking, he raised his gaze to look at Xu Yang, “I’ve heard that the Observatory Master possesses a Wonderful Skill named the Innate Five Elements Great Formation?”

“Indeed!”

Xu Yang nodded slightly, speaking softly, “Does the Respected Lord of Fire Light have any advice?”

“Not at all, not at all!”

Agi Ni shook his head, speaking softly, “I merely heard that once upon a time, there was a fight between Xuanyuan Sword and E’mei, so today this humble god also wants to try the Observatory Master’s Five Elements Wonderful Skill.”

“Oh?”

Xu Yang’s eyebrows raised, also interested, speaking lightly, “I wonder how the testing would proceed?”

Agi Ni brought his hands together, “This humble god has meager strength, I dare not comprehend the Observatory Master’s Wonderful Skill alone, hence I have invited a few fellow cultivator friends. Five of us together will learn about it. I wonder if the Observatory Master might agree?”

Xu Yang smiled carelessly, “Why not, what time and place?”

“Right here in the Fulong Mountain Mingxiao Observatory!”

Agi Ni’s expression was calm, “The Observatory Master can prepare early; three months from now, this humble god and four friends will come to comprehend your Wonderful Skill together.”

“Good!”

Upon hearing this, Xu Yang was also straightforward, “Let it be as the Respected Lord of Fire Light says, I shall arrange the formation to welcome you.”

“Then it is settled!”

Agi Ni brought his hands together, his face full of smiles, clearly here to challenge, yet placing himself in such a low stance, “This humble god will take his leave now.”

“Respected Lord of Fire, take care!”

Watching Agi Ni ride away on the Qingyang horse, Xu Yang’s expression was indifferent, saying nothing further, as the auspicious cloud descended back into the observatory.

In the end, it was still the Brahman Sect that made the first move.

But it was also within reason; apart from the Mysterious Gate, Buddhism, and the recently trouble-seeking Dongying Divine Lineage, it was this Brahman Sect that had the greatest grievances and the deepest blood debts with him.

Besides, those three Supreme Lords of the Brahman Sect had gotten involved with the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit transformed by Boxun. If they really obtained it, then the Brahman Sect would undoubtedly become his deadly enemy.