The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"just in front!"

"That's... a palace?"

The three figures transformed into three streaks of light, rapidly advancing across the mist-shrouded land.

The sea of ​​mist in the Pantheon was also fraught with danger. Even though these three figures were all exuding powerful auras, they did not dare to fly recklessly in the air.

They quickly approached, gazing across the vast, rippling lake at the source of the violent disturbance in the distance.

"That's... Chongyuan Hall? It's actually Chongyuan Hall!"

Among the three figures, the young man in the golden Taoist robe looked at the magnificent palace in the distance, a hint of apprehension flashing in his eyes, "This battle fluctuation is actually coming from this Chongyuan Palace."

"Chongyuan Hall!"

The two followers behind the young man in the golden Taoist robe also frowned.

They had extensive knowledge of the information within the Pantheon and a clear understanding of this perilous place in the Sea of ​​Fog.

"This Chongyuan Palace is one of the most dangerous places in the Misty Sea," the gray-robed man said solemnly. "However..."

"According to intelligence reports, although the main hall of Chongyuan Palace is dangerous, it also contains great treasures."

"Could it be that a cultivator has obtained a precious treasure from the main hall of Chongyuan Palace?" another woman dressed in snow-white asked.

"Unfortunately, we reacted quickly enough, but there are just too many World Gods and Chaos Immortals attracted around here!"

Looking into the distance, besides the magnificent palace at the core of the intense battle, one could also see groups of cultivators quietly approaching the Chongyuan Palace.

Among these approaching cultivators, the weakest were at the level of World God or Chaos Immortal, and many others exuded the aura of a Perfect World Realm cultivator.

However, no treasures have been found yet, and there are simply too many cultivators gathered around, drawn by the battle's fluctuations. All of them are wary and are patiently observing the situation.

After all, no one who can cultivate to this level is stupid.

Before even seeing the treasure, they rush off to fight to the death. Such recklessness will only benefit others in the end.

suddenly.

boom! ! !
Countless brilliant golden lightning bolts swept out from the main hall of Chongyuan Palace, resembling terrifying golden lightning dragons.

A terrifying, world-destroying power surged forth, and the terrifying power spread instantly as soon as it left the main hall.

The terrifying aura was like the end of the world, causing all the cultivators who approached Chongyuan Hall to change their expressions drastically.

"What a terrible thunder!"

"Could it be that someone has triggered all the array formations and restrictions within the main hall?"

"This lightning might be too powerful even for a weaker Dao-grade divine weapon!"

"A great treasure! A great treasure will definitely be born!"

"With such a huge commotion, and the Chongyuan Palace having so many treasures, the treasure that caused this disturbance must be an extremely rare and precious artifact!"

The World Gods and Chaos Immortals who were staring intently at Chongyuan Palace were all secretly thinking that if they were to observe such a terrifying scene normally, they would probably have noticed something and then avoided it from afar.

But there may be a great treasure. People die for wealth, and birds die for food. Besides, everyone wants to be the bird that gets the benefits and can leave safely.

"call out!"

As thousands of golden lightning dragons descended, a young man dressed in black robes wielded a black spear. With a sweep of the spear, a vast expanse of lightning trembled.

With another furious strike, the trembling lightning seemed to freeze, its speed visibly slowing down.

"Phew! We almost couldn't get out!" Lei Zhan took a deep breath as he looked at the golden lightning, which had slowed down considerably.

With a whoosh, Lei Zhan seemed to merge into time and space, instantly escaping far away.

"treasure!"

"That cultivator in black robes escaped from the Chongyuan Palace!"

"That golden lightning has been relentlessly pursuing that young man! The treasure must be on that black-robed youth!"

Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw the cultivators fleeing from the pile, their hearts filled with longing for the treasure.

at last,

"Treasures! The worst of all the treasures that can be kept in the Chongyuan Hall are eternal divine weapons!"
Before I entered the Pantheon, the Great Mo Academy had already announced that the Treasure Competition was about to begin. If I could get my hands on this eternal divine weapon in the hands of the cultivators… The gray-robed World God holding a blood-red banner made no attempt to hide his desire. He looked at Lei Zhan and finally couldn’t hold back any longer!

"Fellow Daoists, this treasure is rare, kill!"

"Hmm? Someone's made a move?" A Chaos Immortal's eyes lit up, and he manipulated several magical artifacts that resembled chaotic stars to quickly smash towards Lei Zhan.

"Hahaha! The Eternal Divine Weapon must belong to the Seventh World God of Su!" A burly man with a large body covered in scales and wearing dark blue armor revealed six arms, grabbed six large hammers, and charged forward.

"They've withstood the lightning and survived, so even if they still have some strength, they're probably already at their limit! Kill! Kill! Kill!" A cultivator shrouded in black mist, whose appearance was difficult to discern, revealed eight arms and wielded a silver-white short stick as he instantly charged towards Lei Zhan.

……

"Treasure! Treasure! It's only yours if you grab it! What's the use of fighting now if you can't escape after you've got it?"

Some, driven by greed, couldn't resist launching a frenzied attack on Lei Zhan, while others remained clear-headed, holding their ground and observing from afar.

"This cultivator can withstand the lightning; his methods are extraordinary... Let's observe him!"

“Master, we…” The gray-robed man stood on a slightly undulating hill, his eyes filled with longing, “Should we make our move?”

He had been itching to get started for a while, after all, his powerful master had made a promise before he entered the Pantheon.

If he gets enough, he can buy a Heaven-Stealing Life-and-Death Pill at the Treasure Club!
If he could obtain a Heaven-Stealing Life-and-Death Pill, he could fully utilize the pill's profound mysteries to forcibly break through and become a First-Step Dao Lord!
Even the weakest Dao Lord is worlds apart from the World Realm.

"Don't move yet! This cultivator who escaped from Chongyuan Palace is no ordinary person!"

The young man in the golden Taoist robe frowned and said, "The methods this cultivator just unleashed, as well as the speed at which he escaped, indicate that he is at least at the peak of the World God level!"

"When the time is right, we can make our move then!"

"Yes!" the gray-robed man nodded.

"Yes." Another woman dressed in snow-white nodded in agreement.

……

With a whoosh, Lei Zhan used his escape technique to quickly flee, and in an instant, he appeared a million miles away.

If it weren't for the worry of accidentally being teleported into a terrifying restriction within the Sea of ​​Fog, Lei Zhan would be confident he could teleport directly out of the Pantheon.

"Ok?"

Lei Zhan looked into the distance and frowned.

One after another, streaks of light appeared, charging towards him, while countless magical treasures radiating immense power filled the sky.

"Goodness, that's quite a commotion! It's attracted nearly a hundred World Realm experts in no time."

Lei Zhan muttered to himself, "Even if we don't count those who are trying to take advantage of the situation, there are already sixty or seventy people who have made a move against me. They really think highly of me!"

"However, with my strength... if you want to swallow me whole, you'd better watch out and break a few teeth!"

Thinking this to himself, Lei Zhan smiled.

Although dealing with sixty, seventy, or even nearly a hundred World Realm experts in one go is very risky, and there is even a possibility of capsizing in this small ditch, in the face of such a siege, there are only two choices waiting for Lei Zhan.

One method is to use one's terrifying speed, far exceeding that of a typical fourth-step Dao Lord, to leave directly, or even hide in a secluded place, change one's appearance, and then come out again.

Another option is to 'kill'! Kill them until the world turns upside down, until these cultivators who are blinded by treasures are terrified, and naturally no one will dare to covet or provoke them anymore.

"To stay or to leave?"

Lei Zhan's heart stirred, but looking at the cultivators whose faces showed greed and even some madness, as well as the dozens of cultivators watching from afar.

"Nearly a hundred World Realm experts were attracted here by my battle fluctuations, and they were originally just a disorganized bunch..."

Lei Zhan suddenly smiled, but the smile was very cold. "I have a spacetime barrier formed by the cycle of reincarnation, and I can use escape techniques to get away at any time. Today, I'll be unrestrained for a while!"

A cultivator, following the Dao, is inherently free and unrestrained, yet possesses all the necessary caution and self-confidence, capable of destroying everything, and is equally adept at cultivating it.

"BOOM!"

In an instant, the surrounding world changed color, and the spacetime within a radius of millions of miles became distorted and shattered, with endless spacetime strangulation power erupting instantly.

"Die!" Lei Zhan snorted coldly, directly swinging the black spear in his hand, which instantly grew to a size of a million feet. At the same time, the spear emitted a ghostly light, and the huge black spear was filled with extreme destruction, and its speed was terrifying.

Time and space seemed to shift before it; though it was quite far away before, the enormous black spear brought it right in front of it.

Puff puff puff ~~~~~

Where the black spear passed, magical treasures far exceeding the limits of the Heavenly Dao were blasted away with overwhelming force, and World Realm cultivators were instantly pulverized. "Is it a Dao Lord?"

"How dare you, Dao Lord? How dare you enter the Palace of Ten Thousand Gods?"

"Dao Lord! It must be Dao Lord."

"How could this be? It's clearly the aura of the World Realm."

"Daojun actually disguised himself as a World Realm expert." Almost instantly, many World Realm experts were stunned with fear.

Those who watched from afar, waiting for their chance, all turned pale.

"If they didn't have some tricks up their sleeves, how would I dare to take the risk?" Lei Zhan looked at the World Gods and Chaos Immortals whose expressions had changed and immediately laughed.

With a thought, countless massive black holes of all sizes, radiating an aura of annihilation, rapidly appeared.

Then, massive spacetime barriers appeared one after another, layer upon layer, instantly turning the entire million-mile radius into a spacetime prison.

Within this cage-like region, countless black holes were intertwined with chaos at their edges, and a powerful and terrifying force of strangulation and destruction enveloped all directions, instantly transforming a million-mile radius into a vast spacetime domain.

It should be noted that although Lei Zhan's sweeping spear attack was very powerful, it only shattered more than twenty World Realm cultivators. Many other World Realm cultivators used various trump cards to escape unscathed.

But now, the Annihilation Style has been unleashed at full power, and the Reincarnation Style, which has already embarked on the strongest path, has also instantly enveloped most of the World Realm cultivators, including those World Realm cultivators who were waiting in the distance to observe the battle.

Under the strangulation of the power of spacetime, it spread in all directions, and once it enveloped someone, no one could escape.

"Ah—no!"

"No! Spare my life!"

"I...I'm willing to be a servant under your command! Spare my life!"

Those weaker Chaos Immortals were instantly annihilated into nothingness the moment they screamed in agony.

World gods with weaker protective abilities were also directly annihilated and killed.

"Run away."

"Escape!"

"This world realm is too powerful."

"They are probably already beings who have surpassed the peak of the World Realm."

"Why are you so unlucky?"

"I've finally seen a possibility of breaking through to the Dao Lord of Life and Death! My Heaven-Stealing Life and Death Pill!"

There were more than twenty world gods with strong protective abilities, as well as some extremely powerful beings who could withstand the space-time annihilation.

In addition to the dozen or so who had already fled when they sensed the danger, they all quickly scattered in all directions.

Although some of them were extremely powerful and had already fled, such as the young man wearing a golden Taoist robe with scales on his cheeks... they were no longer willing to fight.

After all, we haven't seen the treasure yet, but if we lose our lives, then we really have nothing left!

Even if they use their most treasured possessions, they would only use them if they hadn't forgotten about them before. Even if they managed to kill the opponent, whether they could recoup their losses was another question.

"Of those who sat and watched the snipe and the clam fight, a few were quick to escape!" Lei Zhan glanced at the World Realm beings fleeing in all directions, but didn't care.

At least within the prison of the Reincarnation Realm, there are still more than twenty World Gods and Chaos Immortals who have survived by sheer luck and are struggling in the Reincarnation Realm.

"Damn it! Die!" The Blood-Robed World God, wielding the Blood Banner magic weapon, desperately resisted the spacetime strangulation power coming from all directions, his face full of ferocity and madness.

Wow~~~
Suddenly, a blood-red, crystalline leaf appeared in his right hand.

"Since you want me dead, then—none of you should live!" The Blood-Robed World God revealed a maniacal smile and clenched his right hand tightly.

"Snap!" The seemingly ordinary pinch shattered the leaf, and the sound was very faint, yet it caused Lei Zhan's expression, which had a faint smile on his face, to change.

"This... what terrifying power! Has someone actually gotten lucky enough to obtain a treasure that can threaten me?"

The moment the blood-red, crystalline leaves shattered, the incredible power instantly instilled fear deep within his soul.

Even if he were truly facing death, Lei Zhan wouldn't be so terrified with his current state of mind. However, this power, comparable to that of a third or even fourth-step Dao Lord, instilled an involuntary fear in him—a biological instinct.

The instinct of lower-level life forms to fear higher-level life forms.

"This, the power of this talisman is at least at the third step, and there's even a slight possibility that it has reached the fourth step Dao Lord level!"

Lei Zhan had no other thoughts in his mind but one: the farther away he was, the better, and the more spacetime barriers around him, the better.

……

"This, this power..."

"That's...that's the Black Fiend World God? I never expected he could get his hands on such a trump card!"

One by one, the cultivators who had fled secretly returned, but when they saw the blood-robed world god, they were all shocked.

"This power... it's the work of a being at the level of a Dao Lord of Life and Death! No, that technique is comparable to Master's full power!"

The young man in the golden Taoist robe sensed the power emanating from the spacetime barrier from afar. Although this power was not directed at him, it still made him tremble from the depths of his soul.

"Hurry! We don't know if we can withstand that person's attacks!"

They could all sense a terrifying power descending upon the space-time continuum!
Perhaps this terrifying presence wasn't targeting them, but they still couldn't help feeling fear.

call!call!call!
One by one, they frantically fled the area.

……

It sounds slow, but in fact it all happens in an instant.

boom! ! !
The immense and terrifying power hidden within the leaf talisman finally erupted!

A terrifying phantom of a blood banner appeared around Lei Zhan, and as soon as this phantom appeared, even space and time were subtly suppressed.

The previously all-encompassing, sky-covering spatial domain began to shatter under this terrifying power.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"

One after another, spatial barriers appeared rapidly, like sturdy shields, layer upon layer, desperately trying to isolate the power of the blood banner phantom.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
One after another, solid spacetime barriers shattered rapidly under this terrifying power, and as the spacetime barriers shattered, new ones were constantly being born.

Birth and death, just as Rui Zhan calls this style 'reincarnation', seem like an endless cycle.

"Block!" While using the Reincarnation Style to block, Lei Zhan also swung the black spear in his hand forward, and wherever it passed, the space-time was trembling and distorted with a rumbling sound.

“Thousand Realms…” Lei Zhan murmured softly, but the power of the black spear in his hand grew increasingly terrifying.

In Lei Zhan's vision, the Thousand Realms Style is about shattering space and time, shattering everything; it is both a path of attack and a path of defense.

After all, the best defense is a good offense!

This is a wide-ranging attack that destroys everything, shatters everything, and can also isolate everything!
This is a completely different direction from other styles such as Reincarnation, Shattered Star, Instant Shadow, and Annihilation.

"boom!"

The enormous phantom of the blood banner trembled violently, becoming slightly more illusory.

"Hmm?" Lei Zhan immediately revealed a smile. As the power of the Thousand Realms Style he unleashed grew stronger, even the speed at which the blood banner phantom shattered the spacetime barrier slowed down slightly.

Boom~~~~

Boom~~~~

Boom~~~~

A series of loud explosions followed, and time passed in an unknown manner.

It could be a cup of tea, a stick of incense, or even dozens or hundreds of breaths...

Although the power of this blood banner phantom is strong, it is ultimately just a talisman, a source of water without a source, a tree without roots.

Everything began to return to calm.

"boom!!!"

In that instant, a black spear was suddenly drawn, shattering space and breaking time, carrying a destructive force that seemed capable of crushing everything in existence!
"A thousand worlds, this is the true thousand worlds!"

"The Thousand Realms Style is complete!"

...(End of chapter)