My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1177 Relentless Pursuit
Yuanshi Tianzun never expected that after the Jie Sect disciples were defeated, they were forced to be conferred the title of gods and scattered to various places in the Heavenly Court and the Underworld as celestial officials. As a result, when they gathered, they were a pile of excrement, and when they scattered, they were a sky full of stars.

They gathered together to form the Great War of Ten Thousand Immortals, but were cut down as easily as slicing melons and chopping vegetables by the allied forces of the Chan Sect and the Western Sect, and captured as easily as catching pigs and chickens. If ten thousand pigs were released for the immortals and Buddhas to catch, they might not have caught as many as the Jie Sect immortals because they thought it was dirty.

Now, the disciples of the Jie Sect, each fulfilling their respective duties, are using their acquired Heavenly Dao authority and the power of Heavenly Dao rules to launch an attack on the Chan Sect, with surprisingly good results.

Even with the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning overseeing things, it's still somewhat impossible to guard against.

Since the Chan Sect claims to be the orthodox sect of Heaven, it has always regarded "those who follow Heaven prosper, and those who defy Heaven perish" as its creed, and it often says it. Now that the immortals of the Jie Sect represent Heaven and have brought down punishment, they have no choice but to accept it. To resist is to defy Heaven.

At the same time, the harassment on the ground also escalated suddenly.

The mech battle group, which had been engaged in a melee, suddenly retreated. Immediately afterward, countless cracks appeared in the ground, and giant burrowing mechs burst out of the ground, firing "gravity bullets" at the bottom of the Chan Sect team. The moment the gravity bullets exploded, the gravity in the space below the Chan Sect team suddenly increased tenfold. Many disciples were caught off guard and their bodies plummeted downwards, their protective immortal light being deformed by the pressure.

"Steady up!" Guang Chengzi shouted sharply, swinging the Zhuxian Sword to unleash a sword aura, attempting to cleave the gravity field. However, the sword aura landed in the gravity field as if sinking into mud, its power instantly dissipating by more than half. His expression turned solemn—the technology of this gravity bomb was more advanced than the one he had encountered last time, clearly a modification specifically made by Wen Rui to target the characteristics of the immortal energy of the Chan Sect.

Worse still, the nano clouds in the sky suddenly began to condense into "phase cages," a nano-application of phase-locking technology. Chains of light particles descended from the clouds, binding the disciples of the Chan Sect.

A disciple with lower cultivation level was accidentally entangled in chains and instantly found himself unable to mobilize his immortal power, only able to watch helplessly as the drone's energy beam shot towards him.

"Watch out!" Master Yu Ding reacted swiftly, wielding the Absolute Immortal Sword to sever the chains and pull the disciple behind him. However, his own arm was grazed by another chain, leaving a deep wound that exposed the bone. No blood flowed from the wound; instead, it was eroded by nano-light particles. The flow of immortal power was phase-locked, making it impossible to heal the wound.

"These light particles can erode immortal power!" Jade Cauldron True Man said through gritted teeth, quickly circulating his immortal power to suppress the erosion of his wounds. "Everyone be careful, don't get touched by the chains!"

As Yuanshi Tianzun watched his disciples being injured one after another and their immortal power being consumed more and more, his anxiety grew stronger.

He originally wanted to speed up the march and reach Freedom City as soon as possible to fight the Intercepting Sect, but now he was ambushed layer by layer, making even moving forward extremely difficult.

He looked up at the sky and saw that the stellar energy cage in the clouds was becoming increasingly dense, with thunder, flames, and gravitational fields intertwined, like a net that trapped the Chan Sect army.

"Master, this can't go on!" Huanglong Zhenren flew to Yuanshi Tianzun's side, his tone urgent: "Our disciples have already lost nearly 20% of their strength. If we continue to be passively attacked like this, we may be wiped out before we even reach Freedom City!"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable took a deep breath, a ruthless glint in his eyes: "Pass on my order, use the 'Jade Void Immortal Light'! Concentrate the immortal power of all disciples and forcefully break through the ambush ahead!"

"But Master, the Jade Void Immortal Light consumes a lot of immortal power, and we are also targeted by the rules of the cycle of life, which greatly reduces our immortal power recovery speed. If we encounter another ambush, I'm afraid..."

"I am worried," said Master Taiyi.

"We can't worry about that now!" Yuanshi Tianzun interrupted him: "If we don't break through here, you won't even have a chance to see Freedom City. Once you're all dead, even if I alone kill my way to Freedom City and set up the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, it will be too late!"

As the command was given, the immortals of the Chan Sect poured their immortal power into the Immortal Slaughtering Array Diagram in the hands of Yuanshi Tianzun. The array diagram instantly erupted with dazzling golden light, transforming into a massive pillar of light that surged towards the ambush circle ahead. Wherever the pillar of light passed, drones were instantly vaporized, gravitational fields were torn apart, and a gap appeared in the Star Power Cage.

"Quickly! Seize the opportunity to break through!" Yuanshi Tianzun shouted, leading the immortals toward the gap.

Just as they were about to break out of the ambush, a roar suddenly came from afar—hundreds of giant space motherships appeared in the sky, their cannons aimed at the Chan Sect army, energy constantly gathering at the cannons, emitting a chilling aura.

Yuanshi Tianzun gazed at the space mothership poised for launch in the distance, then looked at his exhausted disciples beside him, feeling both anxious and angry.

He knew that if he forced a breakout at this moment, he would only pay a greater price; but if he retreated, it would mean that the Chan Sect's revenge war had failed completely and that they would lose face.

The main guns of the space carrier are fully charged and ready to fire at any moment.

The surrounding nano-clouds had gathered at some unknown time, and amidst the churning mist, the outlines of mecha giants gradually emerged in the sea of ​​clouds, about to take shape.

Yuanshi Tianzun clenched his fists tightly, his fingernails digging deep into his palms.

He looked at his disciples, whose auras were waning, and then at the space mothership poised to launch in the distance, as well as the ever-increasing suppression of the rules between heaven and earth—lightning cleaved the immortal light, flames scorched the Daoist robes, star power entangled the body, and even the immortal power in the disciples' meridians was almost locked up by the life force rules of the clouds.

If this continues, the entire Chan Sect will be wiped out before they even reach Freedom City. Only he, with his immortal body as a saint, can break through the encirclement.

"Enough! Today, let the Three Realms witness the power of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation once more!"

Yuanshi Tianzun suddenly raised his head, a fierce glint of determination flashing in his eyes, and shouted at the assembled immortals: "Guangchengzi, Yuding Zhenren! Return to your positions with your swords! Taiyi, Qingxu! Activate the entire formation! All disciples, use your essence and blood as a catalyst to help me activate the sword formation!"

Upon hearing this, all the disciples of the Chan Sect were stunned—activating the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation in advance meant that they had to forcibly activate the innate killing formation with nearly half of their immortal power depleted. This would not only be extremely taxing on the person who set up the formation, but also could cause the sword formation to backfire on them due to unstable control of the power!

"Master, you mustn't! Our immortal power is insufficient; forcibly activating the sword formation could lead to unforeseen consequences!" Master Taiyi hurriedly dissuaded him.

"How could I have taught you such a bunch of useless fools!" Yuanshi Tianzun's voice was icy as he dripped his own saintly blood essence onto the Immortal Slaughtering Formation Diagram: "Is there any choice left now? Either use the sword formation to fight your way out, or be completely annihilated here!"

Taiyi Zhenren's chubby face darkened, and he muttered under his breath, "Actually, there's another way we can go, which is to retreat—if we don't fight the Jiejiao, the Jiejiao won't kill us..."

(End of this chapter)