Immortal Venerables have a lifespan of 100,000 years, and Quasi-Emperors have a lifespan of 200,000 years.
Even with various life-extending Spirit Plants and Elixirs, one could not cling to life for too long.
There were, however, quite a few old geezers who chose to resort to heretical arts that extended their lives by staining themselves with the karma of slaughtering countless beings.
But their end was always tragic.
Not only would they suffer divine retribution, but they were also regarded as scourges by the major Tao Lineages and Holy Lands of the Immortal Domain. Everyone had the right to execute them.
The days of constantly fleeing and hiding were simply no life at all.
To live just a little longer, these old fossils with one foot in the grave had tried everything imaginable.
So powerful experts from the Immortal Domain chose to venture into forbidden places such as the Samsara Sea or the Nine Kings' Palace, seeking that slim chance to live a second life.
But they all died.
To live a second life… how could it possibly be easy?
Searching through all the Ancient Great Emperors, one would find only a handful who managed to live a second life, so few they could be counted on one's fingers.
For them, it was because either their cultivation boundary had advanced further, or they had obtained the legendary Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill that could elevate a mortal to the Immortal Venerable Realm on the spot.
Otherwise, the only fate awaiting everyone was to turn into dried bones.
Although a soul could enter the Samsara Sea after death, they had cultivated to their current boundary. How could they willingly give up their lofty status and supre cultivation within their Sect Gates and Tao Lineages?
Who could guarantee that a reincarnated self could safely reach the peak of the Immortal Domain again? All creatures are selfish and greedy; no race is an exception.
Xu Lai even saw an Immortal Venerable of the Human Race hiding among the distant crowd.
He couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.
The emperors among mortals would stop at nothing for immortality, but are the 'Immortals' in the emperors' eyes any different? Even a Great Emperor is nothing more than a slightly stronger ant.
"Deal with these minions quickly," Xu Lai waved his hand, his interest already waning. "Since they've co, don't let them leave."
His voice was very flat, yet Baize heard the boundless coldness hidden within it.
Baize's lips curved up slightly before quickly returning to normal. "Perhaps the Heavenly Court has been too quiet in recent years, making them all forget how it once slaughtered its way through the Immortal Domain's major Holy Lands, leaving them trembling in fear."
"But from today onward, they will rember."
Baize stopped using voice transmission and instead spoke with a chilling voice, "The Supre Emperor orders: Kill!"
Those few short words prompted the other Divine Generals hiding in the shadows and the Heavenly Soldiers stationed in different directions to act in unison.
The Supre Emperor's order outweighed all else.
"How dare you!"
"Baize! Do you truly intend for the Heavenly Court to make an enemy of the entire Immortal Domain?"
"Give one Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill, and I will retreat imdiately! Otherwise, today will be a battle to the death!"
"..."
Many old fossils from the various Tao Lineages and Holy Lands roared in protest. So were furious, others were shocked. A few even clung to a sliver of hope that the Heavenly Court was so wealthy it might casually hand out Nine Revolutions Immortal Pills.
But that was obviously impossible.
One part pity, two parts coldness, three parts indifference, and four parts scorn flashed through Baize's eyes. Trying to pull a scam at the Heavenly Court's very gates and still clamoring so brazenly. They were truly courting death.
PFFT.
BOOM.
"Run for it!"
"AAARGH!"
"..."
The area around the Heavenly Court instantly devolved into chaos. The sounds of clashing Divine Skills and Magic Artifacts mingled with curses and pleas for rcy, accompanied by the thunderous roar of pill lightning.
Countless bolts of pill lightning struck both the Pill Furnace containing the White Crane Elixir and the body of Shan Baiwan, the Tenth Divine General.
Under Shan Baiwan's desperate protection, the Pill Furnace was naturally unhard.
As for Shan Baiwan...
As the pill lightning relentlessly struck his round body, he began to "slim down" at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, a man weighing several hundred pounds had transford into a handso man with a well-proportioned physique.
This was sothing Xu Lai had never imagined.
He couldn't help but laugh and curse, "That fellow Shan Baiwan actually looks quite handso when he's thin."
Baize didn't respond. She had been divining the course of the battle with her fingers, but her expression gradually grew solemn. With a flicker of her divine sense, a chessboard with three hundred and sixty-one pieces appeared before her.
She controlled both the black and the white pieces.
She placed them on the board with rapid succession. The moves seed chaotic and disorderly, yet each one was enough to strike terror into the heart of any chess-savvy powerhouse.
In less than half the ti it takes to drink a cup of tea, Baize waved her sleeve, and the chessboard and pieces before her vanished.
"They are coming," Baize said wearily. "The rest is up to you, Supre Emperor."
This "they" she referred to were clearly the instigators who had been covertly manipulating the various powers into attacking the Heavenly Court.
"Mm," Xu Lai said. "You should rest. I'll take it from here."
"Rest?"
Baize stared into Xu Lai's eyes, silent for a long mont.
"Why is Divine General Bai staring at like that?"
"The Supre Emperor is becoming more and more considerate."
Without any pretense, Baize sat down cross-legged in the void and closed her eyes. With the Supre Emperor dealing with the hidden experts yet to erge, the two Quasi-Emperors and the other invading Immortal Venerables were rely clowns. As for the Tenth Divine General, Shan Baiwan, he should be fine. She did indeed need to rest.
Once these ssy troubles were dealt with, the next task was to awaken the two colossal giant corpses with a Poison Pill—a task that no one but her could accomplish.
In the vast universe, ti passed swiftly.
In less than a day, a blood-soaked Taotie knelt on one knee before Xu Lai and reported, still not fully satisfied, "Reporting to the Supre Emperor, two Quasi-Emperors, thirty-nine Immortal Venerables, and more than three hundred Celestial Venerables have been slain."
"All invaders have been put to death!"
"Mm."
In just one day, the Universe witnessed a succession of Immortal's Demises that left all cultivators in the Immortal Domain utterly dumbfounded.
In the past thousand years... no, in the past ten thousand years, so many Immortal Venerables had never fallen at once. What was happening today?!
Soon, news of the invasion of the Heavenly Court by Immortal Venerables from various factions spread throughout the Immortal Domain, and the major Tao Lineages fell as silent as cicadas in winter.
The factions whose Immortal Venerables had died were especially seething.
Wanting to extend your life is fine; no one is stopping you. But are you out of your mind? You made a move against the Heavenly Court? You should have at least hidden your identity!
Given the temperant of the Heavenly Court's Great Emperor, once this affair was concluded, even if he didn't co personally, Divine Generals would surely pay their Tao Lineages a "visit."
Are they coming for tea and a chat about cultivation? No, they're coming to extort us!
Thinking of the impending bloodletting, the faces of the various Holy Masters and Supre Elders of the Tao Lineages turned various shades of pale and purple.
The Heavenly Court had long wanted to get its hands on these "fat sheep." In the past, held back by decorum and lacking a good excuse, they wouldn't act too disgracefully, and everyone maintained a superficially amicable relationship.
But today, these factions had stuck their own necks under the Heavenly Court's blade, inviting it to bleed them dry while practically screaming, "Co and chop !"
In the end, it was all the Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill's fault.
Forget a whole pill, even half of one was enough to make rivers of blood flow in the Immortal Domain and stir up endless storms. It was completely understandable that a furnace full of Nine Revolutions Immortal Pills would attract a horde of old geezers on the verge of death, desperate to gamble for a sliver of life.
If they put themselves in their shoes... they would probably act even more deplorably.
But in this era where the Heavenly Court reigned supre over the Immortal Domain, any such attempt was little more than suicide, incapable of causing the slightest ripple.
BOOM!
A suffocating imperial might suddenly washed over the Four Immortal Domains, causing the expressions of all the Holy Masters to change drastically.
This was a completely unfamiliar imperial might
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