Chapter Ten: Turmoil in the Mortal Realm and the City Wall Warriors

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Within the Primordial Ancient Mine, an ancient sovereign from the distant past, peering through the sealed immortal source, sensed a faint divine intent: “According to my calculations, the path to immortality should not open in the Big Dipper constellation for several more years.”

“Why? Why does the aura of the Immortal Realm appear at the wrong time and at the wrong coordinates?”

“The path to immortality has only opened a few times over millions of years and was never fully accessible. It should only be possible to breach the barrier of the path at the right time and place.”

“Who exactly is it that forcibly broke through the path at the incorrect time and place? How did I fail to detect it?”

“Could it be...”

“Is there someone from the Immortal World fighting on the path to immortality, causing the spatial-temporal barrier to be pierced from the other side, even if only for a moment?”

The ancient sovereign, feeling perplexed, operated his archaic secret calculations, attempting to unravel the heavenly mystery and discern the truth behind this event:

“No, that’s not a leakage of the path’s aura!”

“The magnitude of that power, and the immortal energy contained within... it must be either a genuine immortal herb, a recently deceased immortal corpse, or an injured true immortal!”

In the very next moment, he cast caution to the wind, disregarding the deep slumber of his physical body and primordial spirit, ignoring the damage caused by awakening abruptly without temporal cushioning.

In an instant, boundless radiance burst forth.

The dark ocean of endless death qi swept through the Primordial Ancient Mine, forcibly siphoning the essence from countless divine materials.

The faintly decaying blood qi was fully activated; the deities within the Dao Palace unleashed infinite divine power; the great dragon of the spine trembled with a dragon’s roar; the immortal platform on the forehead radiated endless light.

Aside from the sovereign’s Dao principles, his physical body, blood qi, and primordial spirit had been fully revived. Even the revival of the sovereign Dao principles was fully prepared, ready at any moment to reclaim his former peak battle power!

Countless golden rays poured into the void, extending at an indescribable speed across a starry sky over eighty billion light years, carrying the ancient sovereign’s figure into the divine liquid sea that permeated the starry expanse.

Within the Primordial Ancient Mine, the cycle sea, the immortal tombs, the Undying Mountain...

Almost all the ancient sovereigns, emperors, and celestial lords—those who stood at the pinnacle of the universe with one foot stepping into the realm of immortals—except for a few sovereigns who did not believe the path would open in the Big Dipper, all those targeting the Big Dipper path to immortality awoke simultaneously and emerged in full force.

The official opening of the path to immortality would be at most a few years away.

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As long as they did not fully awaken and elevate their sovereign Dao principles to the extreme realm, the vast amount of immortal energy and the indestructible material dispersed throughout the starry sky would be enough for them to refine their bodies to the utmost state in the coming years, enabling them to assault the path to immortality with full might!

For this purpose, they would stop at nothing!

Or rather, it seemed they need not resort to extreme measures.

The power there continued to surge, and the dozens of cubes placed by Fang Zheng still emitted chains of rune symbols at maximum speed.

The indestructible material contained within was more than sufficient for these ancient immortals to share.

Having lost their former enthusiasm while waiting for the path, they most likely wished to avoid unnecessary internal strife before assaulting the path...

However, everything about to unfold in the starry sky was temporarily unrelated to Fang Zheng.

Sensing the impending explosion, Fang Zheng had already prepared an Ender Pearl for short-range teleportation, along with a platform roughly aimed in the intended direction, constructed from bedrock.

In Minecraft, items like Ender Pearls never truly take explosion damage; explosions merely accelerate their travel.

At the moment the explosion began, Fang Zheng discerned the direction amid the blast’s onslaught and lightly tossed the Ender Pearl.

“Though the distance seems absurdly large, if the general direction is accurate, I should reach that city wall, right?”

“Probably…”

“By the way, that white tiger and vermilion bird shouldn’t be destroyed by the blast, right? I hope they won’t seal me again. It’d be best if we could communicate peacefully. Hopefully, that city is more interesting…”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The collapse of the Four Symbols Killing Formation, infused with the relentless killing power of the White Tiger and the divine fire of the Vermilion Bird, cut and scorched space-time, bridging the vast distance that light alone needed over seven hundred years to traverse, crashing like a tsunami upon the law-imbued shadow walls guarding the path to immortality.

Thus, aided by the explosion’s space-time distortion—exceeding light speed by unknown multiples—the small pixelated Ender Pearl was swept along to strike the fortress wall.

Whoosh!

Accompanied by the familiar teleportation sound, the pixelated figure of Fang Zheng, standing steadfast amidst the endless energy tsunami more than seven hundred light years away, was carried by purple pixel particles across the vast distance to arrive beneath the majestic great city!

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The majestic and boundless law-imbued fortress stood resolutely between heaven and earth, emanating an aura seemingly eternal and unchanging.

Suddenly, with violent distortions in space-time, hundreds of light years of space were compressed and stretched forcefully, causing objects from hundreds of light years away to traverse the immense distance in an instant and arrive before the imposing city walls.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

More than seven hundred light years away, the Four Symbols Killing Formation was directly burst apart. The resulting energy tsunami surged like a mighty tide, crossing space-time continuously and battering the magnificent walls.

The hundreds of cubes Fang Zheng had placed, endlessly spraying chains of law rune symbols outward, continuously replenished the energy of this tsunami, maintaining its relentless momentum.

Yet, the vast distance diluted the energy density, weakening its power.

When the energy tsunami struck, countless runes covering the great walls emerged, weaving a network between heaven and earth like layers of filters, dispersing and suppressing the violent energy in stages until it became harmless.

The runes even absorbed and refined the divine power within the tsunami to replenish the defensive formation’s own consumption.

At that very moment, during the first frame of time after Fang Zheng’s teleportation via the Ender Pearl, the law-imbued shadow forms of the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird—guardians of the Immortal Realm’s fortress, preventing all intruders—had just been overwhelmed.

Then, the fortress’s defenders descended.

A towering, imposing figure clad in golden armor appeared, his face stern, wielding an ancient bronze spear inscribed with countless law runes.

The moment the blocky figure suddenly appeared against the wall, he materialized from within the fortress.

The golden-armored warrior gripped his spear with both hands; a strike capable of piercing stars was compressed endlessly, converging into a single point of black radiance atop the bronze spear.

Within that first frame of Fang Zheng’s arrival, the golden-armored guardian thrust over a million spear strikes toward every part of the blocky figure’s head, chest, and body.

Each spear thrust was capable of piercing stars!

The guardian’s form transformed into a stream of golden light, circling the strange block entity, launching a frenzied all-out assault.

Before the first wave of attacks could take effect, an inexplicable fluctuation emerged, and millions of identical golden-armored warriors appeared once more within the fortress walls.

Each shared the same face; they were the defensive forces embedded within the fortress’s formation, also known as Dao Soldiers.