Facing the Apocalypse with My Other Selves-Chapter 424 - 248: Encircling and Killing the Profound Immortal (Part 2)

Chapter 424: Chapter 248: Encircling and Killing the Profound Immortal (Part 2)

The new universe created by Cultivator Shen Yu, although an independent universe at its birth, became non-independent after Shen Yu connected it with the original universe to obtain Spiritual Energy and deepen interaction.

Even though Profound Immortals cannot detect the existence of this universe, the foundation of the Demon Cultivators is clearly not as simple as just the Profound Immortal level.

Cultivator Shen Yu is unaware of their methods, but he discovered that the Divine Senses of several powerful Demon Cultivators have already penetrated the Second Universe.

"It seems we need to apply greater pressure on the Demon Cultivators." Cultivator Shen Yu gathered ten Orthodoxy Profound Immortals to express his stance.

"Then we’ll have to take action against those Profound Immortal Demon Cultivators." Emperor Jiang raised an eyebrow, openly eager, "To Profound Immortal level Demon Cultivators, everything below their level is just consumables. Even if all are cleared out, as long as the Heaven and Earth Laws remain, they can continuously harvest fresh blood from the Orthodoxy. Only by killing Profound Immortals can real pressure be applied on these Demon Cultivators."

What Emperor Jiang said is actually common knowledge. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Cultivator Shen Yu also understood that what he said was right.

Engaging in war, and even killing a few True Immortal level Demon Cultivators, might inflict some damage on the Demon Cultivator camp and instill some fear in their forces.

However, Cultivator Shen Yu clearly understood that for the Demon Great Powers truly giving orders from above, it did not carry much weight.

"In your opinion, how should we proceed?" Cultivator Shen Yu looked at the other Profound Immortals.

"Your Majesty." The Star River Profound Immortal was the first to step forward.

At the Profound Immortal level, besides Emperor Jiang, the closest relationship within the Orthodoxy camp was between this Star River Profound Immortal and Cultivator Shen Yu.

After all, Cultivator Shen Yu directly chose this individual’s Cultivation Technique for his practice.

The Star River Immortal Law, especially at the Profound Immortal level, was entirely created by the person before them.

He is the true founder and ancestor of the Star River Immortal Sect.

And at this moment, as he spoke, he directly explained the situation for Cultivator Shen Yu, who lacked experience at this level of conflict.

"Profound Immortals have already touched the Heavenly Dao, and can even use the Escape Technique to traverse infinite space in an instant. Where the Heavenly Dao extends, the Profound Immortal can arrive," the Star River Profound Immortal said slowly, "Therefore, even ten against one makes it hard to encircle and kill. Our biggest role in this battle is to contain each other to prevent any Profound Immortal from attacking those below their level, causing wanton slaughter."

Indeed, in this world, Profound Immortals are indeed very hard to kill.

Even a single Escape Technique is difficult to contain.

Naturally, Emperor Jiang was also aware of this point, yet he still proposed action against the Profound Immortal Demon Cultivators for a reason.

That reason is—the Association!

After the Star River Profound Immortal finished explaining, all the Profound Immortals focused their attention on Cultivator Shen Yu.

Apparently, their views aligned with Emperor Jiang’s.

If Cultivator Shen Yu truly intended to suppress the Demon Cultivators’ arrogance in exploring the Second Universe and continue implementing the migration methods of various worlds, he would have to once again showcase the mighty power of the Association!

If this were before, Cultivator Shen Yu might indeed have been stumped.

But now, the Gray Mist in his possession had reached an unprecedented level.

After handing over a total of 2.7 trillion to the Association, he still retained an astonishing amount of over 4 trillion.

Such an amount is enough to create another Profound Immortal.

However, Cultivator Shen Yu naturally would not do this, directly boosting strength is most advantageous and effective when used on himself.

"So, the biggest issue in encircling a Profound Immortal lies in restricting their Heavenly Dao Escape Technique." Cultivator Shen Yu directly used the Gray Mist to inquire about consumption and, looking at the answer received, smiled slightly, "Naturally, you all aren’t completely without research on this, are you? Provide me with your research results, and I’ll take them to the Association for support."

The Profound Immortals looked at each other, and an intense anticipation appeared on everyone’s face.

If they were to directly request a similar plan from the Association, they believed there would certainly be one.

But now, to hear it phrased like this, that they are to design a new plan based on their research direction within a short period of time?

The difficulty is significantly higher than the former approach, and the benefit is merely that they could more quickly take up the task themselves.

Yet, since Cultivator Shen Yu had said so, naturally, no one objected.

Soon, each of their research results was swiftly handed to Cultivator Shen Yu.

This was the culmination of the collective research of over a dozen Profound Immortals spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

Although they had not been overly focused on it—after all, no one would wholeheartedly collaborate on means capable of killing themselves—

Even so, these transmissions in hand still saved Cultivator Shen Yu quite a bit of Gray Mist.

And ultimately, there were three plans laid out before him.

"Lock-on Pursuit, Absolute Heaven Barrier, Rule Binding Curse." Cultivator Shen Yu murmured these three plans.

The first, as per its literal meaning, was also the main direction considered by the other Profound Immortals, capable of continually locking onto the enemy’s position, allowing pursuit no matter where the target fled.

The Gray Mist consumption was also the smallest.

The problem was, with such pursuit, though theoretically capable of encirclement, the time consumption was incalculable.

The second involved setting up a Barrier that could restrain the Heavenly Dao Escape Technique, allowing a ten-to-one quick annihilation.

The third was rather powerful.

Temporarily shattered the opponent’s understanding of the Heavenly Dao, rendering them for a brief period essentially a True Immortal with merely dozens or hundreds of times the Mana!

The consumption was greatest, the effect also most potent, nearly a certain kill.

Cultivator Shen Yu actually leaned more towards the third option, because although this plan consumed an astonishing amount of Gray Mist, it also helped to deepen understanding of the Heavenly Dao Laws.

There’s no doubt, having reached this level on the Extraordinary Path and continuing, everything would return to the Extraordinary Source.

Which is above the Law.

This is after all a unique power independent of material rules, yet capable of interfering with and affecting the forms of material rule manifestations.

Taking this opportunity to deepen understanding in advance was no bad thing.

Moreover, as long as the Demon Cultivators’ exploration and destruction of the Second Universe are stopped, this amount of Gray Mist, compared to the incredibly massive population of the entire universe, isn’t much at all.

"So the third option it is." Cultivator Shen Yu made his decision, with a frenzy of Gray Mist consumption.

After just four months passed, when Cultivator Shen Yu gathered all the Profound Immortals again, everyone felt an indescribable sense of dread emanating from him.

A feeling derived from the Extraordinary Rules and from a strong instinctive awareness of life’s hierarchy!

What had this "Celestial Emperor" obtained from the Association?

Everyone became more solemn, including Emperor Jiang and the Star River Profound Immortal, the two closest to him, not to mention the others.

"Gentlemen." Cultivator Shen Yu gazed at everyone before him, as if he could clearly perceive the related Laws surging on their bodies, and said slowly, "I suspect that some of you have already contemplated defecting to the Demon Cultivators."

A single sentence instantly made everyone present tense up.

But no one spoke, nor was anyone in a rush to explain.

"The Heavenly Dao Laws you comprehend are all experiencing changes, subtle changes more inclined toward the way of the Demon Cultivators," Shen Yu squinted as he looked at each Profound Immortal.

This was indeed his oversight.

Mainly, he had just recently broken through to Profound Immortal and practiced the Star River Profound Law.

The Star River Profound Law, among the myriad mystical Laws of Profound Immortals, is the one least susceptible to changes in transient rules imposed by the world.

Therefore, he had not detected the changes in the Heaven and Earth Laws at the Profound Immortal level in this world in time.

However, though he hadn’t noticed, none of these Profound Immortals had issued a warning.

The subtlety of the situation was self-evident.

Cultivator Shen Yu even knew that these people did not desire to offend him; his bottom line was only that they could not harm their kind, but the Demon Cultivation Method allows for mutual harm.