Chapter 1649 Re-entering the Shangjing Immortal Mansion

"A terrifying thing that even True Immortals fear and must avoid..." Zhang Xuan chewed on these words, feeling a chill rise from his spine, even more unsettling than the gaze of the Abyss's Eye. "More terrifying than the Abyss's Eye of the Heavy Water Alien Clan? What exactly is it?"

"You took the Imperial City and the Flame away, was it to hide? Or was it to... preserve hope and find a way to fight back?"

He could almost see his son's face at the moment he achieved immortality, not with joy, but with boundless solemnity and determination.

"Wooden Stick, where did you go? Is the place you went a land of hope, or another prison of despair?"

Worry, confusion, unease... all sorts of emotions collided and intertwined intensely in his heart.

This half-step Mahayana practitioner, having witnessed the rise and fall of the stars and experienced life-and-death trials along the way, is now troubled by news of his son.

He subconsciously raised his hand, and the pool of silent, unified matter of all laws appeared in his palm.

“This thing is not compatible with my path, but its status is extremely high…” His gaze was deep. “Perhaps, in the future, I can use it to exchange for a rare Dao Source object that matches my Dao authority.”

In the quiet room, he exhaled a long breath, as if trying to expel all the complex emotions in his chest.

“No matter what…” His eyes hardened again, “His injuries must heal as soon as possible, and his strength must increase! The Realm of True Immortal is not the end. The unknown terrors, the dangers that Mu Gun’er faces alone… How can I, as his father, fall too far behind?”

"Wooden Stick, no matter where you are or what realm you have reached, your father... will definitely find you. The ancient calamity, the destiny of humanity, the suppression of the Immortal Realm—we, father and son, will one day face it side by side!"

Once the thought was made up, he no longer hesitated and began to guide the chaotic spiritual energy and the essence of the precious materials obtained from the central ancestral vein to slowly nourish and repair the damaged illusory Great Dao Tree and its broken body.

Zhang Xuan's injuries have finally been fully healed.

The illusory image of the Tree of Great Dao Rules became even more solid and stable at this moment.

His understanding of the origins of all the great principles has also reached a new level.

Although he still had many high-level spiritual items brought from the central ancestral vein that he had not yet refined, he had more important things to do at the moment.

In the Immortal Gourd Realm, at the Upper Immortal Abode.

When Zhang Xuan and Tianyezi stepped into this dilapidated and ancient land of Tianluo again, their feelings were completely different.

The secret realm that he used to have to explore with great care now felt like an extension of his own arm to him.

Now that a solution has been found to deal with the Heavy Water alien race in the Central Ancestral Vein, it's time to put an end to the Heavy Water alien race in the Shangjing Immortal Mansion.

"Go directly to the core area. That old man from the Heavy Water alien race appeared near the Myriad Spirit Pool last time."

With a clear goal in mind, Zhang Xuan, accompanied by Tian Yezi, traversed a distance that used to take several days to travel, arriving at the edge of the array core constructed from giant skeletons in a few flashes.

It was still that same desolate scene, with shimmering scales and golden light flickering in and out.

Unlike his hasty escape last time, Zhang Xuan's aura was calm and his eyes were sharp this time. Although he did not manifest the phantom of the Great Dao Tree's authority around him, the chaotic Dao rhyme within him had already calmed the unstable spatial fragments around him.

Almost the instant they arrived at the core area, a cold and viscous aura emanated from the depths of the formation.

That familiar figure emerged from the shadows and slowly coalesced.

It was still that same stiff face, those empty eyes, and the same skin that didn't seem to belong to him.

It was the same old man from the Heavy Water alien race who had driven them to the brink of despair last time!

At his peak, this elder from the Heavy Water alien race was at least at the Mahayana level, and possibly even reached the True Immortal level.

However, after millions of years, their strength has been reduced to a fraction of its former glory.

When Zhang Xuan was in the Nascent Soul stage, he naturally dared not have any thoughts.

Now that he has advanced to the half-step Mahayana stage, he has enough confidence to crush him.

The old man appeared without saying a word, his empty eyes locking onto Zhang Xuan. An invisible spiritual corrosion and law suppression descended instantly, even more condensed than before!

"Hmph, the same old trick!" Zhang Xuan snorted coldly, without even moving.

With a slight thought, the projection of the Tree of Authority of the Great Dao behind him flickered slightly, and the Daoist rhyme of the side branch of the Primordial Qi Sea flowed out, spreading an aura of returning to the origin of chaos, silently eliminating and assimilating the spiritual corruption and the suppression of the laws.

The old man's stiff face twitched slightly, and a barely perceptible fluctuation flashed in his empty eyes.

"It seems the loss you suffered last time has taught you a lesson," Zhang Xuan said calmly, with a hint of scrutiny. "But is that all?"

He deliberately tested the waters, not going all out, but instead pointing his fingers like a sword, drawing upon a trace of the power of the illusory branch of the Sword Domain Starry Sky.

A condensed beam of Xuanxiang sword light shot out, aiming straight for the old man's brow!

This sword strike was fast, accurate, and ruthless!

It's enough to easily kill an ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!

Faced with this fierce sword strike, the old man's initial reaction was still somewhat slow, as if he wanted to rely on his immortality to withstand it.

But the instant the sword light struck his body, countless fine rays of light flashed wildly in his empty eyes!

"Buzz!"

The old man's skin instantly became as fluid as mercury, and its internal structure underwent countless fine-tuning and reorganizations in a flash!

He actually imitated the energy flow and destructive Dao rhythm of the Xuanxiang Sword Light, condensing a layer of dark water armor with sword intent fluctuations on his body!

"laugh!"

The Xuanxiang Sword light struck the water armor, producing a piercing cutting sound.

The water armor fluctuated violently, and a gash was torn open, but it ultimately failed to penetrate completely. The power of the sword light was greatly weakened and dispersed, and was eventually absorbed by the old man's writhing body.

"Sure enough... he's learning and imitating even faster now!" Zhang Xuan's pupils constricted slightly.

Last time it took several exchanges to imitate, but this time it was almost instantaneous!

"Come again!"

Zhang Xuan's fighting spirit surged. With a swift movement, space folded beneath his feet, and he instantly appeared beside the old man.

This time, he used the power of the Space Tree and the side branch authority of the Gravity Source Core!

The punch was not thrown with brute force, but rather caused the surrounding spatial structure to collapse and the force of gravity to be a hundred times stronger!

Wherever the fist passed, fine cracks appeared in space, forming a miniature gravitational singularity that devoured everything!

The old man attempted to imitate it again, his body surface surging with black water as he tried to construct spatial folds and a gravitational field.

However, his understanding of these two profound principles was clearly far less refined than Zhang Xuan's, and the structure he imitated was crude and unstable.

"boom!"

Zhang Xuan's fist landed solidly on the old man's chest!

The old man's chest collapsed instantly, and his entire body was sent flying backward as if struck by an invisible giant hammer. The black water on his body surface boiled violently and dissipated, and his aura became noticeably disordered!

"Effective!" Tianyezi, who was watching the battle from a distance, was invigorated.