Chapter 3604
Chapter 3604: Battle Amongst the Top Three (One)
For the next few days, everything seemed quiet, allowing him to spend a few peaceful days in the inn without any further interruptions.
Meanwhile, an intense discussion began in the Observance Heaven City about who would obtain the Thousand Immortal General’s post.
After all, this was an event that only occurred once every several thousand or even ten thousand years. As a result, whenever a competition occurred in the Observance Heaven City, it would lead to the attention of countless people.
Of course, the higher the post, the more attention it would gather.
In particular, the posts for Thousand Immortal Generals and Myriad Immortal Commanders would even draw in many immortals from beyond the city to study, hoping to benefit somehow from the clash of these experts.
Time trickled by silently. Before he knew it, the day of the final match had already arrived.
The Observance Heaven City could only be described as bustling on this day. Over seventy percent of the immortals had already gathered near the central square.
The projection of the ancient battlefield had already appeared above the ancient square, so basically everyone throughout the entire city could clearly see the battlefield.
The ancient battlefield resided in an independent miniature world. Fortified by the power of the Observance Heaven City, the miniature world was extremely tough. Even if Immortal Exalts began fighting with their full strength, they would struggle to destroy it.
At this moment, inside the ancient battlefield, violent storms of energy turned into fierce winds that whistled through the surroundings. These were streams of energy kicked up by previous battles. Despite all this time, these energy streams had yet to disperse.
A thousand metres in the air, Jian Chen, Ye Qingyun, and Xia Mingtian hovered in a triangle. All three were rather pale and haggard as if none of them were in peak condition.
Clearly, three short months were not enough for them to completely recover.
However, Ye Qingyun and Xia Mingtian were the only ones who did not recover. Jian Chen had specially instructed the Source of Life to not heal all of his wounds.
He wanted to create the false image that he was running out of healing pills, numbing everyone.
“Chang Yang, I heard you want to make me pay an unimaginable price during this round? Is that true?” At this moment, Xia Mingtian from the Immortal Feather sect broke the silence. He glared at Jian Chen, looking down on him completely as if he were superior.
Ye Qingyun’s eyes immediately shone when he heard that. He turned towards Jian Chen in surprise. Even he could not help but admire his courage for directly threatening the strongest great elder of the Immortal Feather sect.
“First, an Immortal Monarch from your Immortal Feather sect threatened me, saying that if I didn’t hand over ten healing pills, your Immortal Feather sect would not spare me. Since your Immortal Feather sect has already gone so far, then I can only deal with you the same way.” Reaching there, Jian Chen paused. He stared at Xia Mingtian calmly and said with an extremely serious tone, “Xia Mingtian, it’s best if you forfeit soon, or I will really make you pay an extremely heavy price. You’ll lose this round sooner or later, so you might as well forfeit a little earlier. That way, it’ll save you some physical pain.”
Xia Mingtian was stunned by Jian Chen’s threats at first, but he soon became enraged. He was the strongest great elder of the mighty Immortal Feather sect, a peak Immortal Emperor. Despite that, a backgroundless independent cultivator whose cultivation was below his was threatening him. That was a colossal smear to his name.
On top of that, Jian Chen’s calm and serious demeanour only set off Xia Mingtian even more. He felt like his dignity was being violently trampled on.
“Even an independent cultivator is bold enough to threaten me. Chang Yang, show me just how capable you are then. You better not disappoint me.” Xia Mingtian laughed out of anger. Surging killing intent erupted from his body. Shortly afterwards, with a flip of his hand, a high quality god artifact sword appeared silently, shining with blinding light.
Xia Mingtian wielded the sword before turning into a colossal streak of light, shooting towards Jian Chen with a terrifying force that even shook up the space there.
Ye Qingyun was unfazed. Three streaks of light, formed from laws, shone around him. Wielding a high quality god artifact spear, he also struck immediately, going after Jian Chen at the same time as Xia Mingtian.
Immediately, the spear in Ye Qingyun’s hand seemingly turned into a dragon, engulfing Jian Chen with earth-shaking power.
Two Ninth Heavenly Layer Immortal Emperors had struck out at the same time while wielding high quality god artifacts. Even a First Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalt would not dare to be careless when facing the might behind their combined attack.
Everything that occurred in the battlefield was perfectly projected in the Observance Heaven City. When the audience noticed how the two peak Immortal Emperors were working together against Jian Chen, they immediately erupted into an uproar.
“He’s done for! Under the combined attacks of two peak Immortal Emperors, Chang Yang probably won’t last for many clashes even if he possesses those powerful healing pills.”
“No, not many clashes. He won’t even have the opportunity to consume those pills!”
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“Shangqing, what do you think of this battle?” Daoist Master Shangqing’s ancestor also watched this battle from one of the courtyards of the Observance Heaven City.
“I have a very strong feeling that it’s extremely likely for Chang Yang to emerge as the final victor,” Daoist Master Shangqing said in thought.
“Xia Mingtian comes from the Immortal Feather sect. His strength cannot be underestimated. Although he seemed to have a very difficult time during the previous rounds, he has never used some of the ancient secret techniques of the Immortal Feather sect. He’s been preserving them the entire time. Can Chang Yang who’s only at the Sixth Heavenly Layer really defeat Xia Mingtian? On top of that, he’s up against Ye Qingyun and Xia Mingtian at the same time,” the ancestor of Daoist Master Shangqing murmured.
On the battlefield, Xia Mingtian’s streak of light and Ye Qingyun’s dragon-like spear rapidly pressed closer to Jian Chen. The tremendous presence had already locked onto him firmly.
Faced with their attacks, Jian Chen was calm and composed. He did not panic at all. Right when Xia Mingtian’s streak of light was about to swallow him, he suddenly thrust out with his sword.
When he thrust out, the sword and a small part of his arm vanished into the space there.
The Shadowless Lifetaking Strike!
In the next moment, Xia Mingtian’s face changed drastically. Deep disbelief and absolute shock filled his eyes.
Spurt!
The light around him collapsed immediately. Blood sprayed from his mouth uncontrollably, together with chunks of his organs, dyeing the space before him red. His tremendous presence that had climbed to the peak deflated like a balloon.
Boom! At the same time, Ye Qingyun’s spear struck Jian Chen, creating a great rumble. Under the storm of energy, Jian Chen was flung far away. A bowl-sized wound appeared after the spear pierced him.
The flesh around the wound melted away bit by bit. His injury was rapidly expanding. The power of the Laws of Metal, Wood, and Water rapidly destroyed his body.
If he had been a regular Ninth Heavenly Layer Immortal Emperor, he would be half-dead even if he managed to survive Ye Qingyun’s attack.
The three laws had all reached the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Immortal Emperor. Coupled with a high quality god artifact, Ye Qingyun’s battle prowess was obviously extremely great, far beyond any regular Immortal Emperor’s.
However, a wound like that was nothing to Jian Chen. He fished out a pill, and his body immediately shone with green light. All of his injuries healed at a terrifying rate.
Under the Source of Life, all of Jian Chen’s injuries closed up instantly.
Before him, Xia Mingtian had already become sheet-white. His body tottered about, swaying violently. He almost fell out of the air.
Internally, his organs had already been reduced to mush. He had sustained extremely heavy internal injuries. Even the high quality god artifact armour on him was unable to defend against such injuries.
