Chapter 00315: Not Every Cultivator Fears Death
# Not Every Cultivator Fears Death
Chapter 315
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 315: Not Every Cultivator Fears Death
Teng Jilou sighed and said, "You don't understand. That powerhouse from the Qingfang Immortal Domain has long since left the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain. His injuries have already healed. Think about it, the one in the Black Pottery Forest Range..."
Teng Jilou pointed in the direction of the Black Pottery Forest Range.
Teng Mo finally understood, his face filled with shock.
"Father, are you saying..."
Teng Jilou nodded heavily.
"It must be true. I think it will take at most a month, maybe even less, before the strongest wave of beast tide in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain arrives at the Mysterious Path Immortal City. By then, the people from the other three major immortal domains will have already left."
"No wonder," Teng Mo realized.
The number of cultivator armies participating in this beast tide had decreased by nearly half.
It turned out that everyone knew that the level-ten immortal beast's injuries were about to heal, and without a demigod-level powerhouse, how could humans contend with a level-ten immortal beast?
At the same time, on the defensive walls of the Mysterious Path Immortal City, Liu Ming stood with a desolate expression.
"City Lord, the cultivator armies of the four Immortal Court Kings have mostly left. Let's go too," said a voice.
The speaker was a minor Immortal Venerable, the deputy city lord of the Mysterious Path Immortal City, Pei Xing.
Over the years, he had worked tirelessly alongside Liu Ming to develop the city.
After all the effort to build the Mysterious Path Immortal City to its current state, it now faced imminent destruction.
Liu Ming laughed self-deprecatingly.
"I was once abandoned. If I leave now, it would be the same as abandoning the Mysterious Path Immortal City and the countless cultivators who remain here. Why impose on others what I myself would not want? Besides, I am the city lord. Pei Xing, you should go. If the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain still exists in the future, come and burn a stick of incense for me."
Pei Xing immediately replied, "City Lord, we have faced life and death together in the Mysterious Path Immortal City. What hardships haven't we endured? Since you won't leave, I, Pei Xing, will not leave either. So what if it's a level-ten immortal beast? At worst, we'll just reincarnate."
Liu Ming patted Pei Xing's shoulder but said nothing.
He knew that Pei Xing staying here meant accompanying him to death.
They both knew that the city's defensive array was already compromised.
Although it was only an eighth-grade immortal array, having a defensive array was completely different from not having one.
...
Lan Xiaobu's Eight Extremes Entrapment and Killing Immortal Array was not yet complete when his array mastery broke through again, truly stepping into the realm of a ninth-grade Immortal Array Emperor.
This delighted Lan Xiaobu, and without hesitation, he began setting up a ninth-grade entrapment and killing array behind the eighth-grade arrays.
The location Lan Xiaobu chose was already far from the Mysterious Path Immortal City.
Now that the city seemed to sense something, many people had chosen to leave.
As for whether they would still be swept up in the beast tide after leaving, that was not their concern.
For those who fled, escaping the immediate danger was the priority.
Aside from the cultivator armies, many cultivators were unaware of the impending danger.
Even the cultivator armies themselves might not know; they were simply following orders to leave the Mysterious Path Immortal City.
When the first ninth-grade defensive immortal array was set up, Lan Xiaobu immediately implanted a top-grade immortal spirit vein and ten mid-grade immortal spirit veins.
The Mysterious Path Immortal City already had several top-grade immortal spirit veins beneath it.
As a ninth-grade Immortal Array Emperor, Lan Xiaobu easily harnessed the spiritual energy from these veins, using them as the source for his arrays.
As Lan Xiaobu was setting up the second ninth-grade killing array, the true beast tide arrived.
Compared to the previous tens of thousands of beasts, this tide truly illustrated what it meant to be boundless.
The Mysterious Path Immortal City was vast, but under this endless tide of beasts, it would likely be submerged without even a fight.
The terrifying roars and the sound of countless beasts charging toward the city created a violent momentum that made countless cultivators tremble with fear.
How could they fight this? Where was their cultivator army?
"Where is the cultivator army?" The cultivators remaining in the Mysterious Path Immortal City roared in desperation.
Faced with such a terrifying beast tide, they couldn't see any sign of the cultivator army.
"They're here, but why so few?" someone shouted as they saw the cultivator army approaching.
However, the army numbered only ten to twenty thousand at most.
This was the Mysterious Path Immortal City's own cultivator army.
This was their home, and aside from staying to defend it, they had no other choice.
Moreover, their city lord was at the forefront, also refusing to retreat.
...
Lan Xiaobu could only speed up the setup of his entrapment and killing arrays.
Without these arrays, the defensive arrays could only delay the immortal beasts from entering the city but couldn't kill them.
A violent and terrifying aura swept over, making it difficult for Lan Xiaobu to even breathe.
A massive leopard-like beast, standing over ten feet tall, leaped out from the horde of immortal beasts.
Its body was half-human, half-leopard, as if its evolution was incomplete.
Yet, its aura alone caused the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Mysterious Path Immortal City to falter, their resolve wavering.
Was this a level-ten immortal beast? It was terrifyingly powerful.
Lan Xiaobu was inwardly shocked.
He was certain that even with his Great Luo Golden Immortal strength, he wouldn't be able to escape from a level-ten immortal beast.
Its aura alone could crush his Golden Light Escape Technique.
It seemed he needed to learn a new escape technique.
Even if he couldn't win, he could at least flee.
"Hahaha..."
A hearty laugh rang out from the Mysterious Path Immortal City.
Liu Ming stepped out from the city walls and declared, "Warriors of the Mysterious Path Immortal City, we were born here, we grew up here. Today, the beasts of the Black Pottery Forest Range come to drink our blood and take our home. All cultivators of the Mysterious Path Immortal City, we have only one choice: to fight to the death. A level-ten immortal beast? Let me, Liu Ming, see how powerful it is!" As he spoke, Liu Ming's aura surged, and the pressure of an Immortal Emperor spread out, alleviating the oppressive sense of death that had gripped the city's cultivators.
However, after just a few breaths, Liu Ming began to struggle, and a stream of blood spurted from his mouth.
"City Lord Liu is right. I, Xi Shengyin, will also see how strong a level-ten immortal beast is," another voice rang out.
A man in green robes landed beside Liu Ming, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
The combined aura of the two Immortal Emperors resisted the pressure from the level-ten immortal beast.
"Brother Xi..."
Liu Ming, feeling slightly relieved, looked at the man in green robes with surprise.
"I thought you had left."
This was Xi Shengyin, the Immortal Court King of the Luo Yun Immortal Court.
Most of the Luo Yun Immortal Court's cultivator army had already retreated, and the rest were nowhere to be seen.
Liu Ming had assumed that Xi Shengyin, like the other three Immortal Court Kings, had left the Mysterious Path Immortal City.
He hadn't expected someone to stay behind, foolishly waiting to die with him.
Xi Shengyin laughed.
"Part of the Luo Yun Immortal Court's cultivator army has already retreated. If I, Xi Shengyin, were also afraid of death, how could I have the face to remain in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain, let alone be an Immortal Court King?"
"Good!" Liu Ming was overjoyed.
He understood Xi Shengyin's sentiment.
Sending part of the Luo Yun Immortal Court's army away was because the court couldn't be destroyed because of Xi Shengyin.
Xi Shengyin could die for the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain in the Mysterious Path Immortal City, but the Luo Yun Immortal Court couldn't be destroyed along with him.
"And me, Mu Zifeng," another man stepped out from the city, landing beside Liu Ming and Xi Shengyin.
Liu Ming was shocked.
"Elder Mu, you cannot stay with us. You are the only ninth-grade Immortal Pill Emperor in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain. If you fall, how will our domain ever rise again?"
Mu Zifeng also laughed.
"If the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain must rely on fleeing from beast tides and sending others to their deaths to rise again, what difference is there from death? Besides, without me, Mu Zifeng, it's not certain that another ninth-grade Immortal Pill Emperor won't appear in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain."
Seeing the three Immortal Emperors step forward, the panicked cultivators in the Mysterious Path Immortal City seemed to find their backbone and roared in unison.
The leopard-like beast let out a fierce roar, and countless high-level immortal beasts charged toward the Mysterious Path Immortal City.
More low-level immortal beasts surged forward like a flood.
At this moment, everyone knew that even with three Immortal Emperors on their side, they were still doomed.
Under such a beast tide, not just people, but everything would be reduced to dust.
However, if even the Immortal Emperors faced death with such resolve, what did they have to fear?
Seeing the level-ten leopard beast and seven or eight level-nine immortal beasts charging toward Liu Ming and the others, Lan Xiaobu knew he couldn't let them face the level-ten beast alone.
That would be certain death.
The eighth-grade defensive array, the eighth-grade entrapment and killing array, and the eighth-grade killing array he had set up earlier were all activated, along with the ninth-grade defensive array.
After activating these arrays, Lan Xiaobu sped up the setup of the ninth-grade entrapment and killing array.
If these immortal beasts weren't taught a lesson, they would think that brute strength could crush everything.
Today, he would teach them that without overwhelming power, everything depended on strategy.
Liu Ming, Mu Zifeng, and Xi Shengyin had already drawn their weapons, ready to fight to the death, when suddenly, layers of defensive arrays appeared before them.
The countless beasts charging toward the city were halted by the arrays, their momentum momentarily stalled.
As the killing arrays activated, some of the low-level immortal beasts were instantly shredded into bloody pulp.
Liu Ming and the others stared in shock at the leopard beast and the seven or eight level-nine immortal beasts that had been abruptly stopped.
In just a few breaths, they understood what was happening.
Liu Ming shouted, "Someone has set up eighth-grade entrapment and killing arrays and defensive arrays here. Let's go! We must not let that leopard beast break through the eighth-grade defensive array!"
Though they were thrilled, Liu Ming and the others knew that an eighth-grade defensive array couldn't hold back a level-ten immortal beast for long.
It could only delay the inevitable.
But even a temporary delay was better than certain death.
"Boom!" The leopard beast swung a massive iron hammer, smashing it into the eighth-grade defensive array.
In just one strike, cracks began to spread across the array.
Without hesitation, Liu Ming and the others unleashed their weapons, attacking the leopard beast.
They couldn't let it continue to damage the defensive array.
(End of Chapter)