Mysterious mirror hanging high

Yun Xuance and the Nascent Soul female cultivator exchanged a glance. Without saying a word, they moved almost simultaneously, transforming into two streaks of light. In an instant, they rushed out of the pavilion and hovered in mid-air above the immortal mountain, looking up at the sky.

As far as the eye could see, the area outside the Immortal Continent Star was now completely covered by a chilling aura of war!

Beyond the sky, countless golden-armored soldiers, arrayed in a strict formation, had silently appeared.

Their numbers were countless, like a boundless golden sea of ​​clouds that obscured most of the sky above Xianzhou Star.

At the very front of this golden army formation, several body cultivators with bare upper bodies and bulging muscles stood out conspicuously.

They were all several meters tall, with fierce auras, and all had the cultivation level of the Mahayana realm!

A giant drum floats in front of each person.

They gripped the heavy drumsticks tightly and pounded the drumhead with all their might, one strike at a time.

Thump! Thump thump! Thump thump thump—

Strangely, the outer reaches of the stars are a vacuum, where ordinary sounds cannot travel... but the sound of these war drums seemed to ignore the constraints of the vacuum, directly piercing through the boundary barriers and array restrictions of the Immortal Continent Star, and booming into the ears of every living being within the Immortal Continent Star.

The sound of the drums was not just a simple loud noise, but more like heavy hammer blows striking their minds.

In an instant, both Yun Xuance and the other felt their blood and qi surging, and their true essence circulation suddenly became sluggish. An uncontrollable restlessness and palpitations rose involuntarily from the bottom of their hearts, and even their souls felt a stinging pain and instability.

Yun Xuance's gaze swept rapidly across the golden military formation, finally settling on the tallest and most conspicuous banners in the center of the formation.

At the very center of the banner, embroidered with a kind of silk thread that shimmered with a sharp golden light, were two large characters, powerful and vigorous, seemingly imbued with supreme majesty and a murderous aura—

[Yuwen]!

"Yuwen...Yuwen family?!" Yun Xuance's pupils shrank sharply, and his heart sank.

The sound of war drums inexplicably reminded her of the prophecy she had divined in the Six Lines Star Palace's inheritance secret realm...

Just as many cultivators on Immortal Continent were filled with panic, boundless light suddenly shot up from all parts of the stars in the sky above Immortal Continent.

The radiance quickly intertwined and converged, evolving into two magnificent phantom images that almost covered the entire starry sky.

In the eastern sky, thousands of mountains rise abruptly from the ground!

The mountain ranges stretched endlessly... Though they were all illusions, they exuded a majestic aura as heavy as the earth and as towering as the ages.

In the western sky, a vast ocean suddenly appeared out of nowhere—

Towering waves surged, the vast expanse of blue water reflected in the deep, endless seascape, echoing the distant, illusory shadows of the mountains to the east.

Where mountains and seas meet, and illusory images overlap, a magnificent barrier, seemingly both real and illusory, combining strength and gentleness, is formed above the Immortal Continent Star!

The eerie war drumbeats, which were all-pervasive and shook the very soul, struck the barrier of mountains and seas, and their power was immediately weakened, dispersed, and neutralized.

Although not completely eliminated, the drumbeats that entered the stars were no longer so thrilling, and the impact on the cultivators' minds was greatly reduced.

Within the Immortal Continent Star, countless cultivators immediately felt a sense of relief, and the restlessness and palpitations subsided considerably. They all looked up at the sky with a mixture of joy and surprise.

"It's Senior Xiao!"

"Iron-Legged Immortal has made his move!"

Just as the illusory image of mountains and seas stabilized, a figure that was not particularly tall, yet seemed to be able to stand tall and upright, slowly rose from a certain place on the Immortal Continent Star. With one step, it was already in the sky, at the center of the illusory image of mountains and seas.

The person who arrived was none other than Xiao Buyi.

He was still dressed in that simple blue robe, holding a seemingly ordinary iron cane in his hand, his face peaceful and his eyes calm.

But at this moment, he stood there like a pillar of strength, bringing some peace of mind to all the cultivators of the Immortal Continent who saw him.

Xiao Buyi raised his head, his expression unchanged, but his voice carried clearly, echoing in the void beyond the heavens:

"Xiao Buyi of Xianzhou is here."

"What brings the Yuwen family's army here? Could you please have the general leading this army appear before us?"

However, what he received in response was a sneer filled with an eerie, arrogant, and undisguised murderous intent.

"Ah……"

Before the laughter subsided, at the forefront of the golden army formation, a heroic figure clad in dragon armor and wielding a phoenix-winged gilded halberd appeared out of thin air.

Xiao Buyi's expression changed drastically in an instant.

"Unfathomable... Could this person be a true immortal?"

Yuwen Tianfu merely stood there, yet the terrifying aura of dominance he naturally exuded emanated from him. His phoenix-winged gilded halberd pointed diagonally downwards, as he looked down at Xiao Buyi within the Immortal Continent Star, and said:

"You are Xiao Buyi?"

Before Xiao Buyi could answer, he nodded to himself, his tone so calm it was as if he were stating something trivial:

"The foundation is good, it should be... Someone asked me to kill you."

He paused, then his divine sense swept across the entire Immortal Continent:

"No, it's not just about killing you."

"We will also annihilate the entire Immortal Continent... All cultivators from the Immortal Continent lineage will be killed without mercy!"

Xiao Buyi's heart sank. The other party's undisguised killing intent and condescending attitude made his intentions clear.

However, facing a being at the True Immortal level, any attempt to confront them head-on would be tantamount to throwing an egg against a rock.

He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and was about to speak, trying to use words to negotiate, even if it was just to buy himself a moment's respite or find some room for maneuver:

"This must be the Heavenly Immortal. May I ask who could command such a venerable immortal? I, Xiao, am willing to offer double the reward..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by an impatient voice.

"Noisy."

Yuwen Tianfu didn't even bother to look at him again, as if Xiao Buyi's existence itself was superfluous.

He tilted his head and said in a flippant tone, almost as if commenting on the struggle of ants:

"Who do you think you are, to dare to negotiate with me?"

He casually weighed the phoenix-winged gilded halberd in his hand, the mere aura of which was enough to shatter the void, but then shook his head, as if he felt that using it to deal with the people below was a waste.

"Never mind."

He chuckled and casually tucked the phoenix-winged gilded halberd behind him... Then, seemingly out of nowhere behind him, he pulled out a longbow.

Yuwen Tianfu casually held the bow in his left hand and flicked his right hand in the air. A fully condensed arrow of qi appeared naturally between his fingers and was nocked onto the bowstring.

Draw the bow and nock the arrow.

Then, let go.

brush--

The arrow was released from the bow.

Initially, it was no bigger than an ordinary arrow.

But at the very moment the arrow was released, endless destructive energy gathered on its body, causing it to expand rapidly!

One zhang! Ten zhang! One hundred zhang! One thousand zhang!

As the arrow flew across that not-so-distant interstellar distance, it transformed into a colossal object that stretched across the heavens, carrying boundless destructive winds...

Outside the Immortal Continent Star, the mountain and sea barrier that Xiao Buyi had set up failed to withstand this arrow for even a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the destructive torrent unleashed by the arrows crashed into the Immortal Continent itself without any obstruction.

The enormous star began to crumble inch by inch the moment it came into contact with the arrow!

Cities, sects, formations, living beings... everything, whether tangible matter or intangible spiritual energy and formation light, all moved towards utter nothingness under the blow of the arrow carrying the gale.

Just a moment ago, Yun Xuance was hovering in mid-air above the mountain peak, feeling slightly relieved by the rise of the mountain-sea barrier. His mind raced, considering countless possibilities for dealing with the crisis and protecting the Immortal Continent—contacting allies, activating hidden agents, utilizing the terrain, and even considering a temporary retreat to preserve the flame…

next moment.

Her thoughts hadn't even shifted from "the Yuwen family's army pressing in" to "Xiao Buyi taking action to defend against it," let alone jump to the concept of "the destruction of the stars," which she subconsciously believed could never happen in an instant.

She felt that everything before her eyes—the sky, the clouds, the distant mountains, and the Nascent Soul female cultivator beside her—lost all color and shape at the same moment, turning into a wildly surging phantom.

She felt her physical body disintegrate silently; flesh, bones, meridians... all vanished meaninglessly before the attack of a true immortal.

She saw her nascent soul, which she had painstakingly cultivated and condensed, vanish like a bubble before it could even utter a mournful cry.

She even saw her inner grotto-heaven, which had just begun to evolve and carried the hope for her future path, collapse instantly and turn into dust.

Everything is happening simultaneously, so fast that there is no process, only the result.

Consciousness falls into the boundless void.

The final thought was not fear of death, nor resentment towards enemies, nor even regret for what was left undone.

Rather, it is an extreme sense of bewilderment and absurdity.

Thousands of plans and thousands of plans...

So it turns out... it really... couldn't withstand...

Yun Xuance's train of thought came to an abrupt end there.