The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 247 The Battle of the Immortals: The Ten Fierce Immortals and Their Immortal Bodies

The Hongwu reign lasted for 90,000 years.

Within the Eternal Starfield, which was personally established by Emperor Tianyuan, another Daoist was born.

His artifact for proving his Dao was a celestial robe made of Dao Tribulation Gold, and he was revered as the Dao Evolution Emperor.

Because of the presence of the Heavenly Emperor, Dao Yan did not presumptuously enter the Immortal Court, nor did he challenge the Martial Emperor. Knowing his own limitations, he used the pretext of a visit to see the Martial Emperor.

Unfortunately, he was not qualified. Only the Heavenly Emperor came forward and met with him. The two sparred, and Dao Yan was defeated.

After that, he devoted his life to arduous cultivation and eventually chose to join the Celestial Court.

All of this is managed by the Phoenix Emperor. Those who are not at the near-immortal level naturally do not catch the eye of the Martial Emperor and are not worth disturbing.

At this time, Wang Hongwu was experiencing an unprecedentedly bitter struggle.

Because this time, it wasn't just one person appearing, but twelve reincarnation bodies emerging simultaneously!

He will fight alone.

The twelve individuals, each treading upon countless paths, are supreme beings in their respective realms, surrounded by celestial light, and have forged their own paths to immortality.

Each of them possessed an imposing aura that dominated the heavens and reigned supreme throughout the ages. Putting aside everything else, their mere presence alone would put even the Heavenly Emperor under pressure.

"After tens of thousands of years of fighting, in this battle, I shall ascend to immortality!"

Wang Hongwu took a deep breath, and the divine form of the Elixir of Immortality and the strange phenomena of forbidden zones manifested around him. In the center of those ancient and renowned forbidden zones, the Thirty-Three Heavens Celestial Court hung high, the fruits of countless years of conquest.

Without a word, those figures, with their awe-inspiring presence, looked down upon the world, dominating the ages, all exuding an invincible aura. Each of them walked with steady steps, shattering the blue sky of history. The next moment, they suddenly attacked together, their immortal power surging, their aura suppressing the universe, and suppressing Wang Hongwu.

Boom! In an instant, he transformed into his Celestial Battle Body, directly charging forward to fight against the twelve people.

He can do it, and so can they. They have even evolved their own unique abilities. Each of them possesses a Celestial Spirit Battle Body, but each has their own focus. This is a bloodbath, where heaven and earth unite, chaos arises, and countless bolts of lightning cover this place.

During the battle, Wang Hongwu's immortal ancestral body continued to evolve, manifesting the Ten Fiends, and even merging with the immortal metal. In addition to his own eight types, he also manifested two other types of immortal metal.

The Immortal Tears Green Gold merges with the Nine Netherworld Hound, giving birth from death and revolving Yin and Yang; the Divine Mark Purple Gold combines with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, inscribing all laws on the leaves, severing the Dao without a trace; the Eternal Blue Gold merges with the Cricket, freezing time and space, a fleeting moment in eternity; the Dragon Pattern Black Gold combines with the True Dragon, unparalleled in nine transformations, reigning supreme over the ancient immortals; the Dao Tribulation Gold combines with the Thunder Emperor, immortal through countless calamities, acting as Heaven's representative to punish; the Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold combines with the Divine Phoenix, achieving nirvana and immortality, burning away and being reborn.

When the Azure Gold of Feathered Transformation merges with the Kunpeng, Yin and Yang transform, allowing for swift ascension to immortality; when the Bright White Gold of Light combines with the Heavenly Horned Ant, its power surpasses all heavens, pure and flawless; when the Orange Gold of Destiny combines with the Qilin, it brings auspicious destiny, with all spirits paying homage; when the Seven-Colored Immortal Gold combines with the God-Slaying Stone, it draws in countless streams, refining all materials; the Ten Great Immortal Golds and the Ten Fiendish True Forms thus merge, achieving ultimate sublimation.

Ten golds, ten fierce beasts, ten complete bodies, an indestructible, invincible, and immortal body!
Using celestial gold as a boat and the ten fierce beasts as oars, they traversed countless tribulations in the mortal world before finally reaching the eternal shore.

"What do you think I am! With martial prowess spread throughout the world, the Twelve Immortals will serve as my furnace, forging my path to immortality. You are but firewood!"

Wang Hongwu laughed loudly, and behind him appeared ten immortal golden forms: the Immortal Tear Nether Beast, carrying nine Netherworld chains; the Divine Mark Sword Grass, carrying the light of ten thousand laws; the Eternal Divine Cicada, carrying a sundial and a moon wheel; the Black Gold True Dragon, with its claws and mouth on an immortal mountain, ascending the Heavenly Gate; the Dao Tribulation Thunder Emperor, ruling the heavens, summoning all tribulations to punish; the Crimson Gold Divine Phoenix, flapping its wings, swallowing and spitting out indestructible heavenly flames; the Feathered Kunpeng, separating day and night, yin and yang; the Platinum Heavenly Ant, holding up the sky with one arm; and the Heavenly Mandate Sacred Qilin, auspicious and auspicious, with seven-colored divine stones piercing through the heavens.

With the immortal ancestral body forged, his combat power soared instantly. At this moment, he was fierce and domineering, sweeping through the crowd with wide and sweeping movements. His cosmic immortal body roared, his palms enormous, like a giant god who created the world. With a single palm strike, his fingers transformed into a universe, the heart of heaven vast and boundless, and all paths becoming the backbone of heaven and earth.

Boom! This was very strange. It was clearly a palm, but it was accompanied by earth-shattering chaos, immortals crying and demons weeping, and even a torrential rain of blood. Wang Hongwu directly countered with a palm strike, and five immortal seeds evolved in his palm, each evolving into an immortal realm, showing different immortal Dao rhythms. With one tremor after another, it forcefully caused the cosmic palm to collapse.

This was like the end of the world, with immortal seeds shattering the universe. Wang Hongwu smashed that person to pieces with a single palm strike, then turned around and exchanged a punch with the Heavenly Horned Ant Immortal. That person did not retreat even half a step, and with a sinister laugh, threw another punch. This punch was too domineering and frighteningly fierce. The heavens and earth collapsed, and were being shaken apart by that punch. The power was at its limit, and the fist intent reached the heavens!

"Come!" Wang Hongwu shouted, and the true form of the Platinum Heavenly Ant behind him pierced through the heavens, matching the punches in a fierce contest. Each punch was faster and more powerful than the last. In the light of the punches, countless immortal spirits surged, immortal gold cleaved, and immortal seeds devoured the Dao. Ten-colored light bloomed between the two, and lightning and fragments of time danced together, causing the place to explode.

Then, they separated like two bolts of lightning, each rushing to one side; the Heavenly Horned Ant Immortal's fists were bleeding, and his strength was shattered! The Incense Phoenix Immortal had already arrived, its body covered with symbols and emitting sacrificial sounds, the sounds of eternal faith and vows, directly transforming into a temple to suppress them. At the same time, the Thunder Emperor Immortal seized the Immortal Tribulation and used it to forge a great bow, flashing with lightning, and a terrifying aura permeated the air.

With a wave of his hand, countless tribulations flew in, condensing at his fingertips and transforming into a divine arrow. He nocked it on the bowstring, then pulled it back with great force, shooting it towards Wang Hongwu. With a whoosh, the universe was directly shattered by the arrow. The two joined forces, putting pressure on Wang Hongwu. With a roar, his left hand manifested a crimson-gold divine phoenix wing that rose up to block the temple, while his right hand transformed into a Dao Tribulation Lightning Spear that blasted the arrow. He fought two against one, holding his own.

In an instant, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Immortal moved, his palms and fingers whistling, his leaves shaking heaven and earth, as if to cleave through time and attain immortality. A ray of sword light became the only one, sharp to the extreme. This was astonishing; he was actually using sword light to cleave fragments of time, shocking all directions. Wang Hongwu roared, and a Heavenly Will Blade shot out from between his brows, a blade that could cut through a thousand autumns, to contend with it.

Swords clashed, creating a deafening roar. Then, the Myriad Weapons Immortal Body descended, chuckled, and disintegrated, transforming into various immortal artifacts that pressed down upon him. Wang Hongwu remained fearless, sweeping away the Divine Mark Sword Grass with a whooshing sound, and the Myriad Laws Sword Light blocked it. At the same time, he unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, unleashing six consecutive killing moves that sent the people blocking his way flying, and rushed straight towards the True Dragon Immortal Body.

"The four directions and the universe are called the universe, and my breath can swallow the universe!" The True Dragon Immortal roared, swallowing the sun, moon, and the universe, and melting all the myriad paths of heaven and earth. Wherever he passed, everything blurred and was devoured.

Even the power unleashed by Wang Hongwu was devoured by it, making it far more terrifying than the Chaos Body. When the Primordial Chaos reincarnated into its body, this guy even devoured himself!

In the frenzy of battle, the True Dragon Immortal Body swallowed its own tail with its head, like an ouroboros, devouring itself completely, intending to perish together with Wang Hongwu's Primordial Reincarnation. At the same time, the place where it disappeared was also refining a massive amount of essence, and the void was also swallowed up and melted, releasing the power of all things in heaven and earth.

The amount swallowed is the amount that can be released!
With a deafening roar, all things in heaven and earth, and the starry sea of ​​the universe, emerged together, forming a cosmic explosion. He and Wang Hongwu were reborn at the same time, and it was impossible to determine a winner.

The arena was filled with invincible figures, each a legend of their era. Their roars shook the heavens and earth; their powerful bodies clashed, their cold eyes blinked, and their surging blood energy surged, creating an atmosphere that seemed to swallow an entire epoch. Each of them could suppress even the Heavenly Emperor on the outside, their battles silencing all voices for eternity. Yet here, they were merely part of a siege. The so-called Heavenly Emperors, the so-called near-immortal beings, were no match for them here, not even a single blow, let alone a single hand.

Wang Hongwu let out a long roar, his immortal ancestral body strengthened to an astonishing degree. He remained unharmed even after a series of great collisions, and even seized the opportunity to strike fiercely, tearing apart the Divine Phoenix Immortal Body. He then turned around and smashed the arm of the Qilin Immortal Body, completely unleashing his full power in the fight against himself. The secret techniques he knew, these people also knew, and they were very clear about his moves and style.

This was the most brutal battle of his life, unmatched by any other. The two were evenly matched, and they fought to the point of unleashing all their abilities. But the gains from this battle were enormous. Each of his immortal bodies expanded into directions he had never explored before, which benefited him immensely and immeasurably.

It's like twelve versions of himself each researching a different path, then competing and verifying their findings, nurturing their own "tree" to grow stronger, adding branches and roots, and sprouting leaves and bark.

In the end, the power of the Immortal Seed was also integrated into Wang Hongwu's ancestral body, transforming into five layers of ever-changing immortal weapons. Unbound by form, they transformed into countless different objects, such as the Wheel Sword, the Coffin Mirror, the Bell-Cutting Banner Knife, the Furnace Spear, the Tree-Nailing Spear, and the Great Millstone, displaying divine wonders. They flew around each other, and the three major methods merged, allowing his strength to break through once again.

He was incredibly brave and unparalleled, his moves were bold and unrestrained, and he didn't back down at all, engaging in an epic battle with them!
As the Yin-Yang Wheel turned, heaven and earth and all things were divided, the two polarities cleaved the darkness and dawn, forcefully slicing open the body of the God-Slaying Stone Immortal; the Five Elements Sword cleaved, reversing the cycle of reincarnation, knocking the Kunpeng Immortal Body away, piercing its limbs and head; the Cosmic Seal crashed down, forcefully crushing the Thunder Emperor Immortal Body; the bronze coffin fell, the most terrifying of all, even though it could break all laws with its power, the Heavenly Horned Ant Immortal Body was trapped and buried by it; the Myriad Tribulations Mirror burst forth with immortal light, those who were shone upon were all entered into the cycle of myriad tribulations, preventing the Gugu Immortal Body from escaping, and time and space were also within the cycle of reincarnation.

The Yin-Yang Calamity Sea Scissors swirled and flew, the left blade devouring all things, the right blade burning all laws, opening and closing, overturning Yin and Yang, severing lifespan and cause and effect, and intersecting with the True Dragon Immortal Body to slash and kill; the Five Virtues World-Suppressing Bell vibrated the laws of the Five Elements, and wherever the sound waves reached, all laws returned to earth, water, fire, wind and space, and five deities separated from the bell body, chanting the true words "Gold cracks, wood entangles, water drowns, fire burns, earth buries", triggering the Five Elements Heavenly Disasters, suppressing the Divine Phoenix Immortal Body.

The Chaos Four Extremes Banner descended, imbued with the energies of wind, water, and fire, and as it swayed, it seemed to witness the birth and death of the universe, suppressing the immortal body of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass; the trunks of ten thousand trees served as the hilt of a sword, the branches as the guards, and the blade was formed by the overlapping of ten thousand leaf patterns, creating a sword that cleaved through the Dao. Wherever the sword light passed, the bodies of ten thousand weapons crumbled, and even immortal artifacts were cleaved and shattered; the Primordial Universe Furnace also flew out, its walls engraved with a diagram of the birth of the starry sea, and its mouth spewed out primordial chaos, taking the Nine Nether Hounds into it to roast them, to turn them into pills.

At this moment, nine-colored immortal blood spilled, violent fists and feet clashed, and terrifying immortal light devoured the sky. This battle was a true immortal war, with the twelve immortals vying for supremacy. It was cruel and fierce, sweeping across all directions. They fought to the point of madness, and their blood energy permeated the heavens and the earth.

The explosion of the physical body is nothing, and the soul can be reassembled after being split into four pieces. They all rely on their own Tao to survive. Only by defeating and suppressing this Tao can they truly disappear.

Undead in a hundred battles, indestructible in ten thousand, Wang Hongwu fought relentlessly, even disintegrating himself multiple times. This was the most brutal form of cultivation, all for the sake of becoming a battle immortal, to overcome this insurmountable chasm through hellish trials.

For tens of thousands of years, he attained enlightenment in the most terrifying great battle, fighting madly against himself.

This final battle alone lasted for ten thousand years.

"Through the cycle of all things, I am the only one!"

Wang Hongwu roared and fought wildly. He merged with the Crimson Gold Divine Phoenix and slashed fiercely, splitting the Incense Phoenix body in two. Then he spun around and turned into flames to burn it to ashes. After that, he rode the Platinum Heavenly Ant True Form and smashed the sky with force, breaking force with force, and forcefully shattered the Heavenly Horned Ant Immortal Body!

So what about that auspicious Qilin? It was trampled and shattered by his orange-gold sacred Qilin, breaking apart with every step, vanishing into nothingness after nine steps! So what about that sword grass that had cultivated nine sword intents over ninety thousand years? It was struck by his divine sword, using all laws as its sword and the heavens as its blade, killing it for nine lifetimes!
The One Yuan Kunpeng evolved into Yin and Yang and the Four Symbols, but was directly pierced by his Azure Gold Kunpeng's rapid descent, causing all myriad phenomena to vanish into nothingness; the Dao Palace Thunder Emperor's Palm of Myriad Tribulations was swallowed whole by the Dao Tribulation Thunder Emperor he evolved, his body absorbing myriad tribulations; the Nine Deaths Nether Hound attempted to destroy the world with death energy, but was transformed into endless vitality by his Immortal Tear Nether Hound, and was annihilated alive.

The sacrificial divine stone arrived through the sky, crashing down upon countless paths, yet it was melted into one by his seven-colored divine stone alone; the Time-Space Cricket clashed with the Blue-Gold Divine Cricket, time against time, space against space, but the immortal gold was indestructible, forcefully suppressing it to death; the Cosmic Immortal Body was struck by the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens, crushed into nothingness; the Myriad Weapons Immortal Body was shattered by the Myriad Paths Fist, exploding into dust.

In the end, Wang Hongwu killed the True Dragon Immortal Body and wiped out all twelve Immortal Dharma Bodies. He fought until he was completely exhausted, his body withered and emaciated, with only the character "Battle" between his eyebrows shining brightly!
As if it had received some kind of nourishment, it formed a vortex, within which countless battle scenes emerged, spanning his entire life, including the mythical era, the primordial era, and the ancient era, gradually forming a phantom image like a war immortal.

He attained the enlightenment he sought.

This is a myth within a myth, a true legend of invincibility!
He fought for seventy thousand years, reaching the pinnacle of his cultivation through battle. In the end, he fought to the death against twelve versions of himself with different methods of achieving immortality, and successfully fought his way out. It should be noted that his cultivation was already equivalent to that of a four-times Heavenly Emperor. With the addition of ten thousand years of conquest, he was equivalent to five or six generations of other Heavenly Emperors to achieve such results. This shows how arduous this path is.

"After countless battles to become an immortal, I have finally reached this point."

On this day, Wang Hongwu's true form returned, unleashing the most terrifying aura.

This year marks the 100,000th year of the Hongwu reign!

Emperor Wu lived for 100,000 years!
The moment his blood aura manifested in the Thirty-Three Heavens, the world trembled, everyone was shocked, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Emperor Martial!"

Ten thousand years have passed, and he is not only alive but also still young, dominating the universe, his blood and energy as vast as the sea, in the prime of his life.

Even the God Emperor, who was said to have the longest reign, had to admit defeat and sigh in admiration. This was the ultimate achievement in the human world, unmatched by anyone in history.

Roar!
At this moment, Wang Hongwu suddenly let out a long roar, and the character "Battle" between his eyebrows transformed into a Battle Immortal who soared into the sky, crashing against the universe to break free from the shackles of this Dharma-ending Age and defy the heavens to ascend to immortality.

boom!
In an instant, a monstrous light burst forth from beyond the universe, dimming all paths.

"What?! What's that?!"

Many people were shocked and couldn't understand what it was, but they had seen similar things before—it was divine light!
However, this time the divine light did not appear from the path to immortality, but rather spread from people.

"The light of immortality shines through the past and present!"

Duan De, who had just crawled out of a grave, exclaimed in surprise, then slipped and fell back down, unable to contain his grief and indignation, "Old Wang, you old bastard!"

The light of immortality illuminated the universe in an instant, and a rain of light fell, sweeping directly across the nine heavens and ten earths.

(End of this chapter)