However, Yan Zhaoge remodeled the Heavenly River Vessel, relinquishing many of its original abilities and enhanced a few of its features. As a result, a special kind of divine vessel was created.
If an Immortal Realm expert focused solely on maneuvering this vessel, they could enhance the divine vessel, causing its speed to increase tremendously.
With the enormous divine vessel, not only could she carry Shi Jun, Xu Fei, and Ying Yuzhen along, there wouldn’t be any issues bringing along Yan Zhaoge and the others as well.
Gao Qingxuan’s speed when soaring with her sword-light was already breakneck. With the dark-red sword-light, she had already reached the peak of speed, seemingly unprecedented among all other Grand Virtual Immortals.
The Grand Heavenly Realm experts were all holding each other back. Without these experts’ interference, their advantage in speed being increasingly jarring.
The giant dark-red sword soared and spun around, continually shifting away from their enemies, avoiding everyone they came across.
The Great Devils weren’t the only ones blocking their path. Buddhist chantings resounded throughout the universe and encompassing Demonic clouds filled the surrounding universes. Even Buddhist and Demon Race experts had joined the fray and attempted to stop Yan Zhaoge’s group in their path.
Initially, they moved whenever they heard the vessel’s movements. However, everyone was only left with disappointment.
The Demon Race’s Great Sage – the Roc of Thousand Cloudy Miles was feared by many others, including even other Grand Heavenly Realm experts, due to his supersonic speed. He could turn the tides of battles in just an instant.
At this moment, the group of experts surrounding the dark-red sword bore the same feeling they had when facing the Roc of Thousand Cloudy Miles.
Time passed as the game of cat and mouse continued.
Using their advantage in speed, Yan Zhaoge and the others managed to acquire more time and space.
As the passage of time flowed and the dark-red sword was soaring through the void, the suppression of the Earth Devil was undergoing as well.
The Nine Underworld Devils chasing after the darting vessel could sense the weakening of the Earth Devil’s devilish intent.
Many foreshadowings implied that the Earth Devil could be very well following after the Water Devil’s footsteps.
It caused the group of Great Devils to become anxious and furious.
The Demon Race bigwigs and the Buddhist experts weren’t as anxious as the Nine Underworlds Infernal Devils.
Compared to the residues of Daoism, their utmost priority was to prevent the Earth Devil’s reincarnation.
However, stopping Yan Zhaoge’s group’s advancement was also their intention.
With a laxer treatment from the Demon Race and the Buddhists, the Nine Underworlds had more leeway in planning their placements.
As a result, more and more Infernal Devils managed to group up with each other. With that, they managed to predict Yan Zhaoge’s group’s general location and lay down their besiegement in advance.
Then, they slowly closed in, attempting to constrain the giant dark-red sword’s area of freedom.
Even if they shook off by the dark-red sword-light, they could still cooperate and shift their locations. Utilizing the time others used to block Yan Zhaoge’s group, the other Devils reformed their besiegement, ultimately becoming a group of relentless Devils.
The flying vessel shifted once again, breaking through another layer of the cosmic space.
However, more than one Great Devil was already awaiting their arrival.
The roving Devilish qi connected, manifesting a devilish domain resembling the descent of the Nine Underworlds. The domain sealed the entire space, blocking any possible methods of advancement.
Facing such a blockage, the dark-red sword-light would have a hard time breaking through it.
Through refurbishment, the divine vessel could cooperate well with Gao Qingxuan’s speed. However, it still wasn’t proficient in displaying Gao Qingxuan’s sword-intent filled with her honed killing intent.
If she were to display its might, the vessel’s speed would decrease.
If she slowed down, her enemies would immediately surround her. By then, it would already be challenging to accelerate.
As such, the dark-red sword-light had never clashed against any opponents at all. Most of the time, it was focused on escaping with full-speed ahead.
The Devils had also been interacting with Yan Zhaoge and the others for quite some time. Gradually, they begin realizing that as long as they banded together, they could halt the dark-red sword-light’s advancement.
However, Gao Qingxuan remained her composed self. The giant dark-red sword continued soaring forward. It flickered mid-air and continued dashing forward.
As the red light flickered, the ethereal dark-red sword suddenly attacked one of the Great Devils present.
It was a Devil Monarch on par with Daoism’s Virtual Immortal.
Due to its extreme speed, the Devil Monarch was instantly face-to-face against the sword-light’s attack.
The Devil Monarch kept his calm and coldly stared at the dark-red sword-light without retreating. Just like how a mountain stood its ground against a flood, he was about to go head-on against the attack.
Currently, no one else could help him. He could only rely on himself to fend off against the attack.
However, he had sufficient confidence to withstand the attack and force Yan Zhaoge’s group to stop here!
Boundless Devilish qi converged, turning into a sea of darkness, and prepared to receive the attack, which exceeded the concept of time.
However, all of a sudden, the dark-red sword-edge was imbued with a layer of faint-purple radiance.
The purple radiance flickered, bringing about the sword of great dao, which bore unobstructed momentum. It opened the heavens, split the earth, leaped towards the future, and ended history itself!
The horrifying flood of momentum embedded with the transformation of creation came crashing upon the Great Devil!
The intent of an era breaking away from its matured shell caused the giant dark-red sword to slash through the dark Devilish sea!
The Devil Monarch groaned.
As the purple lights flickered, his Devilish Aura experienced signs of stagnation.
While it didn’t harm his body which had achieved the Five Qis Unification, he didn’t have any more confidence in facing the dark-red sword any longer. Thus, he was forced into retreat.
The giant dark-red sword brushed past him and audaciously dashed through the gap created by him. It came out of the devilish domain, undergone a spatial shift, and instantly flew into a different universe.
Gao Qingxuan remained her usual self as she continued maneuvering forward.
By the bow of the ship, Yan Di stood there pridefully. The invisible blade formed by the Grand Illusory Spatial Thunder pointed forward, his unobstructed momentum fused with Gao Qingxuan’s sword-light.
The dark-red sword continued soaring through the vast and boundless void’s outskirts, dodging through one opponent after another.
However, as more and more Devils gathered, someone could finally catch up with the dark-red sword’s speed.
That Devil Monarch was someone specialized in speed. Taking the form of smog, his speed didn’t pale in comparison to the Golden-Winged Great Roc!
The Great Devil tightly followed after the sword-light.
Whenever the sword-light required breaking through a particular barricade, its movement speed would decrease slightly.
Whenever such an occasion happened, the smog-like Great Devil would inch closer to them!
Finally, he managed to catch up with the enormous dark-red sword and instantly wreathed around the sword-light!
However, all of a sudden, the dark-red sword’s hilt turned black!
Blue-black devilish flames scorched about, bringing about the end of a timeline, ending the world thorou
ghly.
The black flames formed a gaping gulf, instantly stopping the smog-like Great Devil from his chase!
The ruthless saber-intent swung about, clashing against the Devil Monarch. As a result, the Devil Monarch’s body went numb, forcing him to remain on the spot.
The dark-red sword-light flickered and instantly disappeared without a trace. Their enemies’ efforts to chase after them had all been in vain.
Standing quietly by the ship’s stern, Feng Yunsheng, clad in snow-white, held her black saber upended.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1448 - Fight Against the Cosmos, Bending Yin and Yang Into Reversal
Yan Di opened up the path ahead, while Feng Yunsheng settled with the enemies tailing them. Gao Qingxuan was rid of her worries with them, and she could focus on maneuvering the sword-light.
By casting the Immortal Trapping Sword along with her clone and working together with the divine vessel, almost no one among the Grand Virtual Realm could match its speed.
The dark-red sword soared through the cosmos, breaking through hurdles after hurdles, leaving all their foes behind.
The group of Great Devils was unable to do anything to hold them back. Even if they besieged the sword-light, the sword-light would always break through them.
This matter was related to the Earth Devil’s reincarnation, and the Infernal Devils weren’t willing to give up just like that. Even if they were thrown behind, they continued to regroup, reposition themselves, and continue besieging the sword-light.
Most importantly, a group of Buddhism bigwigs and Demon Race experts had entered the fray, imposing further pressure upon Yan Zhaoge’s group.
Just like what happened when the Water Devil was reincarnating, the Buddhists and Demons merely wanted to massacre the Great Devils’ reincarnation physiques.
At the same time, they wanted to capture Yan Zhaoge’s group as well!
Contrary to when they were suppressing the Water Devil, Yan Zhaoge and the others had to find a way to escape from the Nine Underworlds, no matter if they failed or succeeded.
If they managed to flee, the Devils would face insurmountable difficulties locating the Awakened Sky Cosmos.
As such, the Buddhists and Demons were also attempting to besiege the dark-red sword.
However, they didn’t consider themselves to have allied with each other. After all, the Western Pure Lands and the Demon Race had many sorts of conflicts against each other.
While the three sides were all hunting down the Daoism’s successors, they merely prioritized their own faction’s benefits. Their movements weren’t in sync at all. It was already surprising for the three not to have clashed against each other.
However, with this, the number of people besieging Yan Zhaoge’s group grew larger and larger.
Suddenly, a golden light flashed across everyone. Using the moment others slowed the sword-light down, the golden light came closer to the dark-red sword-light.
The figure of a middle-aged Daoist emerged from the golden light.
He was the Roc of Thousand Cloudy Miles’ son, a Demon Race Small Saint – Fuluo Zi.
His speed was considered one of the quickest among all the Grand Virtual Realm experts.
When Yan Zhaoge’s group broke through others’ hurdle, and their speed slowed down a little, Fuluo Zi had already chased up to them.
He didn’t instantly attack the vessel. Instead, his golden wings flapped about, sending waves of thunderstorms resembling golden lights towards the dark-red sword.
Dark saber-light arose from the hilt, causing meteor shower-like attacks to descend upon the Great Roc.
Fuluo Zi’s gaze turned cold, and he retained his composed self. He first ensured that he wouldn’t be thrown behind and finally used the attrition battle technique to hold Yan Zhaoge’s group back.
Simultaneously, the other experts who entered the fray hurled their ranged attacks to the side of the dark-red sword-light.
Both the dark-red sword and Fuluo Zi’s flying speed were rapid.
While many others had already predicted the colossal sword’s estimated location, their attacks still missed completely.
When the horrifyingly destructive attacks arrived, the sword-light had already left the spot long ago.
However, since so many people attacked, a few among the densely-packed attacks managed to hit the dark-red sword-light.
Since their foes hastily attacked, the might contained within was bound to be limited.
However, those that could strike the dark-red sword-light were all in the Grand Virtual Realm, who had already achieved the Five Qis Unification.
Any one of their casual attacks was already capable of forcing Profound Immortals into submission.
Every time the enormous dark-red sword was attacked, it would tremble slightly in mid-air.
Yan Di and Feng Yunsheng both stood on opposite ends. The former was responsible for breaking through the enemy’s hurdles, while the latter was responsible for dealing with Fuluo Zi, who was hunting them down. At this moment, none of them could divert their attention to those waves of attacks.
Being affected by this, the sword-light’s soaring speed slowed down slightly.
Their enemies became overjoyed and continued putting more effort into their attacks.
Suddenly, a layer of glimmering white light appeared by the dark-red sword-light’s surface, circulating dimly by the sword.
The external attacks were all dissolved by the white light, causing little influence unto the sword-light itself.
Beneath the sword-light, Gao Qingxuan and her clone remained standing on their original location, while Long Xingquan sat in a cross-legged manner by the deck. In front, a longsword was pierced into the deck.
The Exalted Lunar Luminary – Ling Qing stood beside him.
She just came out from the vessel’s cabin and helped Feng Yunsheng, Yan Di, and Gao Qingxuan shoulder a part of their pressure.
With Ling Qing’s assistance, the vast dark-red sword accelerated once again.
However, other than Fuluo Zi, the smog-like Devil Monarch reappeared by everyone’s sight. He was gradually chasing up to the vessel.
Being chased after by two opponents possessing such speed would undoubtedly place them in a disadvantageous situation.
However, just as the Devil Monarch was about to get close, the soaring dark-red sword-light suddenly changed its direction!
Gao Qingxuan and her clone executed their attacks together, bending yin and yang into reverse.
As the dark-red sword-light flickered, it suddenly slashed towards Fuluo Zi, who was tightly chasing after it!
There wasn’t any direction when soaring through the void or when leaping through different planes of space.
However, Fuluo Zi had been studying the intricacies happening when the void transforms. While chasing after the dark-red sword by the void, he turned the two’s brawl into a straight line.
However, the straight line in his sight underwent an abrupt change. The sword-light’s tail suddenly turned around and came piercing towards him.
While Fuluo Zi was startled, he didn’t panic.
He wasn’t just proficient in speed alone. Even among the Demon Race Grand Virtual Realm experts, he was among the more outstanding individuals.
All of a sudden, purple, white, black, and red brilliance rays radiated from the sword’s edge, bringing about an unstoppable momentum!
Fuluo Zi’s expression changed slightly. Knowing that he was unable to withstand it, he could only avoid the attack.
The sword-light passed through Fuluo Zi and instantly dashed away from the besiegement before the smog-like Devil Monarch arrived.
Others’ ranged attacks had utterly missed the sword-light.
“Continue chasing them. If this continues, their space of movement would only lessen over time.” Fuluo Zi’s expression turned calm. He flapped his Great Roc wings and continued chasing after the dark-red sword once again.
Other
experts did the same actions as him.
However, the Nine Underworlds’ Devils had become even more anxious.
The Demons and Buddhists weren’t only targeting the reincarnating Earth Devil alone. Yan Zhaoge’s group was also listed among their capture list.
However, to the Nine Underworlds Infernal Devils, being unable to settle the score quickly would result in the Earth Devil’s reincarnation’s failure!
Currently, they could already feel the Earth Devil’s aura weakening to the state of being unstabilized.
Yue Zhenbei, Long Xingquan, and Daoist Cloud Conquest had already left the cabin and ascended to the deck to assist Feng Yunsheng, Yan Di, and Gao Qingxuan in fending off their foes.
Yan Zhaoge remained by the cabin alone. His hand signs continued changing, continuously manifesting one rune after another, which all landed upon the massive tree in front of him.
The tree’s lush green had already disappeared, being replaced by a tree close to withering.
However, the ritual used to suppress the Earth Devil’s reincarnation was close to its end. Shi Jun and the others had a considerable chance of success now.
However, right at that moment, the lightning mirror hovering by the deck trembled slightly and turned dim!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1449 - Mightiness of the Grand Heavenly Realm
The mirror formed by the lightning seemed to have been shrouded in a dust layer, causing the radiance to dim down.
As the mirror’s light dissipated, the invisible thunderous roar became softer.
It didn’t affect Feng Yunsheng, Yan Di, Gao Qingxuan, and the others on the deck at all.
However, to Shi Jun and the others in the cabin who was in the final most crucial moment of suppressing the Earth Devil, such changes became deadly.
Even Yan Zhaoge, who stood by the wilting tree, felt that something was off.
His initially calm mental state underwent turbulence, causing waves of emotions within.
More and more waves continued to appear.
His heart’s internal darkness became nearly impossible to suppress, causing even colorful phantom mirages to appear.
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