Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 862 - 533: Immortal-Slaying_2

Chapter 862: Chapter 533: Immortal-Slaying_2

It was based on this principle, reversing Yin Yang and Five Elements, that he realized the reverse application of the Nine Ceremony Great Formation.

In its direct application, the Nine Ceremony Great Array joins heaven and earth to bless oneself.

By the same logic, in reverse, it is the array joining heaven and earth to suppress the enemy.

The former can elevate a Void Immortal to True Immortal status, and the latter can press a True Immortal down to Void Immortal, or even cast them down to the mortal world, falling below the Tribulation Realm.

Furthermore, Xu Yang’s recent enlightenment of the “Nine Bends Yellow River Formation” led to deeper understanding of the meritorious fruit of the Immortal Path of Three Flowers and Five Qi, directly elevating the effect of this “Reverse Nine Ceremony Great Formation” to a level on par with the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, capable of suppressing cultivations, stripping away Three Flowers and Five Qi, leaving their Taoist Result empty.

In fact, the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation is also laid out according to the method of the Nine Rituals, aptly described as “the Yellow River Evil Formation follows the Three Principles, in this calamity even immortals and gods suffer,” such formation principles and Xu Yang’s Reverse Nine Ceremony Great Formation are remarkably similar, unintentionally coinciding with each other.

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Thus, this Reverse Nine Ceremony Great Formation could be seen as a special version of the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation.

But there is one issue, and that is the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation requires a treasure to unleash its true might, which is the Primordial Gold Cauldron left by the Three Skies Celestial Monarch.

This treasure takes its name from the Chaos Yuan, combining the Yin Yang Two Extremes Qi and the Power of Reincarnation. Paired with the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, it is exquisite for cutting away Three Flowers and Five Qi, slashing away the Taoist Result of True Immortals, naturally beyond discussion.

Similarly, Xu Yang’s Reverse Nine Ceremony Great Formation needs the genuine Nine Instruments Xuanyuan Sword, forged by the Heavenly Dao’s merit, to exert its greatest might, suppressing enemies, reducing Immortals to mortals.

In the current world, Xu Yang has neither the Primordial Gold Cauldron nor the Nine Instruments Xuanyuan.

What to do then?

One can only borrow strength from heaven and earth!

Qi Zhengming’s strength is not weak, even as an early-stage True Immortal, born of Holy Land Immortal Sects with ancient inheritance and profound potential, he himself also has extraordinary talents. With more than a hundred thousand years, he reached completion and possessed treasures like the Immortal Treasure Remnant Soldiers of Xiaohuang. Even among True Immortals, he is a formidable figure, not inferior to Ren Baimei of the Blue Star World and the Great Roc Heavenly King, Chi Yan, and Fire Evil of the Earth Immortal Realm.

If in the Earth Immortal Realm, Xu Yang without the assistance of True Immortal Mecha like the Nine Instruments Xuanyuan, the Five Elements Immortal Venerable, would have had no choice but to flee from him.

But this is not the Earth Immortal Realm, this is the Northern Domain of the present world!

In the Lower Realm of Northern Domain, there are natural laws of heaven and earth that do not permit Nine Tribulations True Immortals.

Xu Yang took advantage of this, using the repelling force of heaven and earth against True Immortals in place of Xuanyuan, to bring out the full power of the Nine Ceremony Great Formation, successfully suppressing Qi Zhengming, stripping away the Three Flowers on his crown and the Five Qi in his chest.

Once the Three Flowers on the crown were cut off, and the Five Qi in the chest removed, a Nine Tribulations True Immortal falls to the world of mortals.

And then… there was no more ‘then.’

For a Nine Tribulations True Immortal who has fallen to the mortal world, the imminent concern is the end of their lifespan.

Qi Zhengming, though a peerless Sword Immortal of his generation, did not easily achieve Nine Tribulations Completion, which had consumed more than a hundred thousand years of hard work.

Originally, Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods shared longevity with the heavens, having attained the merit of eternal life, free from the confines of lifespan. For them, more than a hundred thousand years, even a million years, is nothing.

But what about a True Immortal falling to dust, plunging from the Tribulation Realm?

What would be the outcome then?

The end of lifespan, the death calamity of a demoted immortal!

There was no need for Xu Yang to take further action. Qi Zhengming, with his Three Flowers and Five Qi stripped away and his True Immortal Meritorious Fruit emptied, immediately displayed the signs of the “Five Declines of Heaven and Man,” and died of old age in front of everyone in an instant.

The Power of Time revealed without doubt!

This is the cause and effect, the inner mechanism.

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Qi Zhengming was also unlucky, just happening to crash into the muzzle.

If it were in an Upper Realm like the Earth Immortal Realm, without a True Immortal Mecha and the assistance of heaven and earth, then solely with this Reverse Nine Ceremony Great Formation, Xu Yang might not necessarily be able to deal with him.

After all, he is a Nine Tribulations True Immortal, and even with tens of thousands of years of arduous cultivation, with Xu Yang’s Array Formation already reaching the Eighth Order Realm, it would still be hard to kill a Nine Tribulations True Immortal. If the opponent chose to detonate an Immortal Treasure, forcibly breaking the formation, he would be helpless, only able to let him escape.

But the world doesn’t have that many ‘ifs,’ and neither does it have such coincidences and good fortune. Everything was a meticulously arranged killing array.

If Xu Yang weren’t fully confident and considerably well-prepared, how could he have set up a formation to confront Qi Zhengming, a Nine Tribulations True Immortal?

Victory and defeat, already a foregone conclusion!

Outclassed, what is there to dispute?

Amidst the lamentations all around, Xu Yang remained silent, gathered Qi Zhengming’s remains, and from the surging waves of the Southern Sea, he fished out the broken Xiaohuang Sword.

Though Xu Yang had already recorded victories over True Immortals in both the Earth Immortal Realm and Blue Star World, slaying a True Immortal was a first for him.

Every Nine Tribulations True Immortal had cultivated for over a hundred thousand, or even several hundred thousand years. Their potentiality was immense, their strength unimaginable to the average person.

Not to mention the old monsters from the Earth Immortal Realm and Blue Star World, even a newly ascended True Immortal like Qi Zhengming had many tricks up his sleeve and numerous hidden cards. If he were to brandish them, even Xu Yang piloting an Immortal Mech like the Five Elements Immortal Venerable would find it difficult to slay him.

It was only because the Reverse Nine Rites Great Formation struck at the critical moment, instantly killing Qi Zhengming and ensuring all his strategies were stillborn, that the outcome was as perfect as it was. Otherwise, even if Xu Yang had emerged victorious in the end, it wouldn’t have been as splendid as it turned out.

An effortless slaying of a True Immortal.

Obtaining an Immortal Treasure without any loss.

And on top of it, the legacy of Qi Zhengming, the Northern Domain’s number one Sword Cultivator of over a hundred thousand years…

The very thought excited one’s mind.

But Xu Yang, having been exposed to the wider world, did not rush to check the spoils of war. Instead, he studied the Xiaohuang Sword in his hand while intensifying the Array’s pressure, sweeping through any remaining Calamity Immortals in the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion.

Immortal Treasures!

Indeed, there were plenty of treasures hidden within the Heaven Reaching Secret Realm. It was not just First-Order Human Immortal treasures, but even Tenth Order Earth Immortal and Eleventh Order Heavenly Immortal treasures that Xu Yang had seen plenty.

But seeing is one thing, getting them into one’s hands is another!

After so many years of exploration in the Heaven Reaching Secret Realm, Immortal Treasures that could be excavated and claimed were almost all taken by the major Tao Lineages, leaving behind untouchable Earth and Heavenly Immortal treasures like the Innate Five Directions Banner and the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man, along with Golden Immortal treasures like the Godslayer Spear that might not even exist.

Such treasures, not to say Humans Immortals, even Earth Immortals may not dare to touch.

Therefore, although Xu Yang had explored the Heaven Reaching Secret Realm for nearly ten thousand years, he hadn’t acquired any Immortal Treasure. His greatest tangible gain was the replica of the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife obtained from the hands of the old demon Chi Yan.

The Xiaohuang Sword was the first Immortal Treasure he had personally obtained, just as Qi Zhengming was the first True Immortal he had slain.

Nevermind its value, the significance alone was extraordinary.

Moments later, Xu Yang put away the Xiaohuang Sword, and the mournful cries within the Nine Instruments Formation gradually subsided.

The Calamity Immortals of the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, though not rejected by heaven and earth like Qi Zhengming and without the pressure of a Nine Tribulations Completion True Immortal’s Taoist Result, were no match for Xu Yang, who could fully mobilize the Reverse Nine Rites Great Formation to bring them down to the mortal world and seal them as dry bones.

But it was unnecessary. Xu Yang was a man of broad mind; provided conditions allowed, he always left a path of life for others.

This time was no exception. Apart from Xiao Buping, who was a deeply rooted foe with high cultivation, not easy to “instruct,” Xu Yang took all others alive if possible.

After all, the newly-founded Wandao School in the present world was just getting started, and how could he afford to waste such precious human resources as Calamity Immortals?

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Having captured the Cultivators of the Sword Pavilion, Xu Yang looked outside the formation to find the surroundings of the Southern Sea completely deserted.

Xu Yang shook his head and smiled, not saying much. He waved his sleeve to dismiss the formation and soared into the sky with a sweep of his Sword Light, heading straight for the Central Plains.

Leaving behind the Southern Sea, where Cultivators from the Hundred Sects and Ten Factions looked at each other, at a loss for words.

“That direction, is he heading to… the Central Plains?”

“The Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion… has been defeated?”

“Impossible!”

“The one who just brandished that Heaven piercing Sword Momentum must be the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion’s Immortal Taishang!”

“I’ve long heard that the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion has a Supreme Elder, the number one Sword Cultivator in the Northern Domain, and now among the True Immortals, he has actually…”

“If the Sword Pavilion had won, they would have certainly swept through the Southern Sea, annihilating the Wandao School, but that Sword Light just now was headed for the Central Plains, so it seems…”

“It was Xuanyuan Sword Master who won!”

“You came to my Southern Sea, now I visit your Central Plains. This Xuanyuan Sword Master really pays tit for tat, with clear grievances!”

“You pull off the first trick, and I’ll follow with the fifteenth, what’s wrong with that?”

“With Holy Land Immortal Sects coexisting, the power dynamics of the Northern Domain might indeed need a change!”

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