Chapter 00430: Whether You Boast or Not, It’s All Death
# Whether You Boast or Not, It’s All Death
Chapter 430
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 430 – Whether You Boast or Not, It’s All Death
2022-05-06
Chapter 430 – Whether You Boast or Not, It’s All Death
Death spread with that hand seal toward Lan Xiaobu, yet instead of triggering his Void Divine Formation, Lan Xiaobu activated his Ninth-Level Void Entrapment Slaughter Immortal Formation.
At the same time, he invoked the Seven-Tone Halberd.
With one swing the halberd slashed downward.
The hand seal that had been reaching for Lan Xiaobu suddenly froze; in the very next moment the Seven-Tone Halberd struck the arm.
Crack! The halberd hit as if it were chopping dry kindling.
The arm broke in an instant.
Before the severed limb could even fall, a burst of flame descended upon it, and in a flash the arm turned to nothingness.
“Looking for death…” came a roar filled with anger and frenzy.
A fist imprint thundered over from afar, smashing Lan Xiaobu’s Ninth-Level Void Entrapment Slaughter Immortal Formation to pieces.
Boom! That fist struck the Seven-Tone Halberd, hurling Lan Xiaobu backward.
Then, with another crack, several of his ribs shattered.
It was clear he had surpassed the half-divine realm—this man before him was a true Divine Being.
Lan Xiaobu’s heart sank as he realized that the enemy had shattered his Ninth-Level Void Entrapment Slaughter Immortal Formation with a single punch.
This showed that his opponent was well-versed in the ways of void arrays.
Moreover, the enemy’s strength at this level completely overwhelmed him.
“I have some pills here,” Qu Fei said anxiously as she hurried to Lan Xiaobu’s side.
She produced a pill and extended it to him.
Lan Xiaobu waved her off.
He knew that his foe had not yet left the meditation mat.
If he got up and left, there would be no chance to take him on.
Fortunately, he still had his trump card.
His trump card was not his immortal formation but rather his unending chain of Void Divine Formations.
And he could only use that trump card once; he had to save it until the moment was absolutely crucial.
Once the Void Divine Formation was activated, if he did not kill his enemy or at least leave him gravely injured, he would lose everything.
“Very well, you schemer…” The man in the green robe sitting behind the formation gate glared at Lan Xiaobu.
His words vibrated with powerful Dao resonance that swirled around him. “A Ninth-Level Void Formation Immortal Emperor disguised as an Eighth-Level Immortal Formation Lord. I want to see just how capable you are – dare you touch what belongs to my Cai Shang…”
At that moment, one by one the cultivators standing on the blood pillar in the square withered away, until finally they collapsed into a heap of discarded garments on the ground.
“He—he’s refining the Immortal Domain…” Qu Fei’s voice trembled.
Deep down, what frightened her most was the thought of someone refining an Immortal Domain.
In her mind, the scene of countless cultivators from the Mysterious River Immortal Domain collapsing one after another was replayed.
It was a living hell—a torment even worse than the torment of purgatory.
Had her master not led them away, they too would have been among those collapsing cultivators.
Lan Xiaobu clearly felt that with each cultivator on the blood pillar who collapsed and vanished, the vitality of the space grew thinner and thinner.
It felt just as when he had first arrived in the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain, where everything was withered and lifeless, but now that lifeless state was only worsening.
Although Lan Xiaobu knew that this was a sacrificial refining formation, he was not clear on how to perform the refining.
Now he understood that this enemy was refining the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain to the very end.
He must have been in a hurry for some urgent purpose and wanted to speed up the refining process; normally it would take many years to refine the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain, so this man used the blood cauldron sacrificial formation to save time.
He absolutely could not allow this man to continue his sacrificial refining.
Once the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain was completely refined, he would be nothing more than a sacrificial lamb in that immortal domain.
With that thought, Lan Xiaobu seized a set of formation flags and tossed them aside.
Even though his formation was only at a Ninth-Level, it was enough to slow down the enemy’s pace of using the blood cauldron sacrificial formation to refine the domain.
“Are you looking for death?” Cai Shang’s eyes turned blood red with fury as he threw another punch at Lan Xiaobu.
The raging primordial qi surged over.
Lan Xiaobu quickly activated his Reincarnation Cauldron.
He had seen the might of Cai Shang’s fist, and without his divine formation activated he would have been unable to withstand it.
Boom! The primordial qi exploded outside the Reincarnation Cauldron, yet Lan Xiaobu emerged completely unscathed.
“Is that a Pre-Heaven treasure?” Cai Shang was momentarily stunned, then burst into manic laughter.
He suddenly leaped from his meditation mat behind the formation door and lunged toward Lan Xiaobu.
As soon as Cai Shang left the mat, the vitality of the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain swiftly recovered.
Every sign of life surged upward rapidly.
By that time, Lan Xiaobu was clear: the moment Cai Shang left the formation door, he had effectively given up on refining the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain further.
It wasn’t that he was afraid for his own sake; it was simply that Cai Shang was eager to seize the Reincarnation Cauldron.
The minute Cai Shang charged toward the square, Lan Xiaobu did not hesitate to activate all of his Void Divine Formations— even the chain Void Entrapment Slaughter Immortal Formation was triggered.
Lan Xiaobu knew that his opponent was fearsome.
After unleashing various Void Divine Formations and guarding himself with the Reincarnation Cauldron, with the Seven-Tone Halberd’s gleaming spear light and its resounding, sorrowful tone echoing the sound of the Seven-Tone Divine Ability “Shang Yin Kill”, the stage was set.
He had chosen to use the Shang Yin Kill because he recalled Cai Shang once said that he wanted to leave this place quickly and return to enjoy some grand feast.
Clearly, Cai Shang was desperate to leave.
At this moment, using his mental divine ability in tandem with his Void Divine Formation was the best strategy.
Cai Shang had only charged halfway when endless space-blades enveloped him, and at the same time, rifts in space effectively sealed off his path forward.
Then, Cai Shang threw another punch.
In the immortal realm, no one could stop his punch.
No—one could say that in the immortal realm, no one and no immortal formation could block his punch.
Under that blow, even a Ninth-Level Immortal Formation would shatter and collapse.
If it were not for the enormous allure of the Reincarnation Cauldron, he might not have rushed forward so recklessly.
He had countless means to crush Lan Xiaobu, but with the Reincarnation Cauldron before him, he could not bear even a moment’s delay—the cauldron had to be in his hands.
Thump, thump! Two streams of brown blood mist erupted from Cai Shang’s body.
His steps faltered, his eyes widening in shock as he cried out, “Void Divine Formation? This cannot be! Absolutely impossible!”
How could there be a Void Divine Formation in the immortal realm? When another wave of spatial displacement swept over him, Cai Shang’s whole body turned cold.
He knew without a doubt that this was a Void Divine Formation.
Since a divine being who had transcended the Immortal Emperor level like him could appear in the immortal realm, then why could the immortal realm not contain divine formations?
“Stay calm… I must remain calm.” He had to rein it in, otherwise today he might very well capsize in the gutter.
His opponent was as cunning as they come—first appearing as an Eighth-Level Immortal Formation Lord, then revealing himself as a Ninth-Level Void Formation Immortal Emperor.
He even used the Reincarnation Cauldron as bait to lure him out, and then trapped him with his divine formation.
What was a Void Divine Formation to him? Cai Shang had seen plenty of similar scenarios before.
To break through this Void Divine Formation… No, he didn’t even need to break it.
He only needed to wait for that moment when the little Immortal Venerable below made his move.
If he could, under the cover of these divine formations he would inflict heavy injury and seize his position.
Then everything would fall back under his control.
Cai Shang did not move at all; he simply waited for Lan Xiaobu to activate his Void Divine Formation once more to attack.
As soon as Lan Xiaobu activated his formation, Cai Shang would be able to lock onto his location and, within a few breath cycles, seize him.
No matter how strong the Void Divine Formation was—even if it destroyed his physical body—a single primordial spirit could still turn the tide.
Today, he was willing to sacrifice his mortal body.
The space became oppressively silent, almost suffocating.
A chill ran to Cai Shang’s brow.
Was that… had the Void Divine Formation been activated? He had not sensed Lan Xiaobu’s position at all.
But in the next moment, Cai Shang grew excited.
He could sense Lan Xiaobu’s location—waves of spatial misalignment energy and endless blades swirling his way.
This did not matter now.
Cai Shang summoned out a real turtle shell as his sacrificial device.
With the turtle shell clinging to his back, he charged frantically toward where he sensed Lan Xiaobu was.
Just as Cai Shang felt his hand seal reaching for Lan Xiaobu’s neck, the Void Divine Formation could no longer hold back the murderous momentum of the Shang Yin Kill Divine Ability.
The continuous, relentless sound of halberds, as if coming from the edge of the heavens, sealed off the space where Cai Shang was.
Thump, thump! One burst of brown blood mist after another exploded as Cai Shang’s body was repeatedly torn apart by the Void Strangling Divine Formation and the Spatial Displacement Divine Formation.
Yet despite his body being shredded under the Void Divine Formation, Cai Shang continued his charge toward the direction from which the endless halberd sounds were coming.
Even though Lan Xiaobu could feel death drawing ever nearer with each moment—only a single hand grip around his neck would be his final doom—Cai Shang was like an indomitable cockroach.
He ignored the pain of his injuries, locking onto Lan Xiaobu’s position as he charged desperately forward.
He could not retreat.
He had only recently reached the stage of a Void Divine Formation Master; the loopholes in his formation were too many, and if he backed off even a little, Cai Shang would break through.
Once Cai Shang exited the Void Divine Formation, even if only his primordial spirit remained, he would have no escape today.
No matter how the aura of death thickened, Lan Xiaobu’s feet remained firmly planted, and the qi of his Dao essence gathered more and more strongly around him.
The sound of the Seven-Tone Halberd reached its ultimate intensity, its spear light and tone filled with a desolation that echoed through the void.
Then the Dao sound burst forth, and even Cai Shang was affected.
His figure staggered as if he saw himself standing amid an endless battlefield at dusk—with corpses scattered everywhere, and blood rivers flowing—and he was merely swaying between the countless corpses and rivers of blood.
Countless blades converged, the combined killing intent focusing into a single point above his brow.
He longed to dodge, yet suddenly he lost the will to avoid it.
In the end, everyone must face death.
No matter how high one might stand or how mighty one’s achievements, death is inevitable… Yet, at the moment before dying, he seemed to have forgotten where he came from and where he was headed.
The Dao sound swirled in, and the halberd blades descended upon Cai Shang’s brow.
The Void Strangling Immortal Formation tore him into several pieces, and still he made no move.
The sound of desolation echoed as the sound of the halberd pierced through the air—dismal and sorrowful—and all faded away as brown blood cascaded along the halberd blades.
At last, he saw clearly the man before him.
Lan Xiaobu clutched his long halberd with both hands.
One could see that even his hands trembled; his entire aura was weakened to the extreme.
“I still can kill you…” Cai Shang glared at Lan Xiaobu, the red in his eyes already fading away, his tone remarkably calm.
“Won’t you die if you stop boasting? Fine, whether you boast or not, it all ends in death…” Lan Xiaobu twisted the long halberd in his hand.
At that moment, a primordial qi hand seal extended once more from Cai Shang’s brow.
The ethereal hand slowly reached toward Lan Xiaobu’s head.
But just as the hand seal was about to land atop Lan Xiaobu’s head, the light in Cai Shang’s eyes gradually dimmed and he murmured, “Tarsal Bone Flame…”
Within the long halberd, the Tarsal Bone Flame burst forth like a spark landing on oil, exploding with a mighty bang that completely engulfed Cai Shang.
(That is all for today’s update.
Good night, friends!)
(The End of this Chapter)