Peerless Immortal Emperor in City

Chapter 1045 - 969: Paying Respects to the Immortal! (Double-Length Chapter) _2

Such momentum was not confined to Earth alone. In just an instant, the entire Milky Way, and even the surrounding several million light-years, countless Stars of Life, innumerable worlds, all sensed this terrifying aura.

Many Great Saints, Saint Kings, and Deities who had been in slumber were jolted awake, all of them incomparably terrified, their hearts shaken to the absolute limit.

"What is this, my heavens, a Great Emperor—it's actually a Great Emperor!!"

"A Great Emperor has actually appeared in the mortal world!? Which Great Emperor is this, how could it be..."

"The Annihilator! It's the Annihilator— that direction is… the Central Heavenly Domain. No way, the Emperor of Destruction is going to make a move against the Central Heavenly Domain!?"

"The Central Heavenly Domain has long since declined. It's already the End of Dharma Age, there aren't even a few Saint Kings left."

"There are still eighteen thousand Subsidiary Worlds attached there, they can't be underestimated."

"In any case, this time the Central Heavenly Domain is doomed. The Annihilator is no ordinary Great Emperor, this one is far too powerful."

"Tsk tsk, never thought that after sleeping for ten thousand years, the moment I wake up I'd run into the destruction of the Central Heavenly Domain."

In the void, countless strands of Divine soul thought flickered, exchanging information with one another. These mighty beings did nothing to conceal themselves, so quite a few Great Saints and Saint Kings also came to understand what was happening over on Earth.

All of them were incomparably shocked.

A Great Emperor had actually descended— that was a Great Emperor!!

To many Great Saints and Saint Kings, that was an existence straight out of Myth and legend, utterly impossible to appear in reality. Yet in the exchange of these mighty beings, they were clearly talking about a Great Emperor manifesting in the Central Heavenly Domain!

And it seemed he even intended to destroy the Central Heavenly Domain!?

Too bizarre!

Utterly astonishing!!

However, for these people, even if the Central Heavenly Domain was destroyed, they themselves would not be in the slightest danger, so no one was afraid; they were merely filled with amazement in their hearts.

At the same time, they felt that Earth, or rather the Central Heavenly Domain, was too unlucky, actually provoking a Great Emperor.

No one believed Earth would be spared this time, and even fewer believed this Great Emperor would fail. The Annihilator was famed as one who destroyed all heavens and myriad worlds, his ferocious might renowned throughout the universe. Any civilization with a shred of inherited history would know of him.

Once the Emperor of Destruction unleashed devastation and opened the tide of annihilation, a world in that direction was certain to be shattered. Never had there been a single world that could escape.

Never!

Even if the Central Heavenly Domain had once been incomparably powerful, even if it had once possessed more than one Great Emperor, even if it had once been the absolute core, the Heavenly Realm, the Pure Land, the Place of Origin, the source of all, the dwelling place of all Immortals, saints, gods, and devils.

But now, it was already the End of Dharma Age; there wasn't even a single expert above the level of a Saint King. It was absolutely impossible to withstand a Great Emperor!!

As for the eighteen thousand great worlds, among them there might indeed exist Great Emperors, there might even be Immortal Artifacts, truly possessing the ability to resolve this Emperor of Destruction— but they might not act.

Because, although the eighteen thousand great worlds existed in the extradimensional void surrounding Earth as its Subsidiary Worlds, they had originally been drawn in back when the Central Heavenly Domain had yet to decline, when it swallowed Chaos and absorbed Innate Qi, automatically attracting many worlds of extremely high essence and fusing them into its own vassals. These Subsidiary Worlds were themselves extremely powerful worlds, some not inferior to heavenly myriad worlds.

These newly awakened mighty beings did not know that Earth had already begun its revival of Spiritual Energy, and would soon recover to the scale of the Ancient Era's Mythological Era. Thus, in their eyes, if Earth were destroyed because of this, it might not be a bad thing for the eighteen thousand great worlds.

After all, the current Earth was no longer the Central Heavenly Domain of the Ancient Era, no longer able to use its own immense essence to nourish and elevate the eighteen thousand great worlds.

If they could use this opportunity to become independent, to escape the fate of being Subsidiary Worlds to Earth, then for these worlds whose own essence was already terrifyingly high, it would be a very fine thing. Thus, those powerhouses might not take action to slay the Annihilator.

Therefore, considering all kinds of reasons, these mighty beings all believed that the Central Heavenly Domain could not escape this calamity and would certainly be destroyed. The countless beings who obtained information from their exchanges naturally agreed with this view, believing that Earth was surely finished.

But at this very moment, these mighty beings suddenly felt their Divine soul thoughts come to a halt, as if frozen in place, affected by some invisible force and directly locked in.

However, this was not freezing or stagnation in the usual sense, but a sensation akin to dimensionality reduction.

Originally, these mighty beings had been watching the situation on Earth; now they only felt that their Divine soul thoughts were nailed to a plane— or rather, to a sheet of paper— utterly unable to move.

Moreover, the Great Emperor aura that had just swept across several million light-years vanished the instant this invisible power appeared!

That's right!

It vanished— utterly vanished, as if it had never appeared!

The aura of a Great Emperor, along with all the Dao-rhyme and laws he emanated, all disappeared without a trace in that instant!

As though some power had imprisoned it, suppressed it!

Too insane!

Too inconceivable!

This was a power they could not comprehend and could not resist in the slightest, terrifying to the extreme, mighty to the extreme, far beyond the scope of anyone's imagination.

It simply did not seem like a power that could exist in the mortal world, but something that had descended from a higher-dimensional spacetime.

This invisible power filled these mighty beings with boundless fear.

Because they all knew that even a Saint Emperor, even a Great Emperor, could not possess such a force!

Only an Immortal!

Only an Immortal of the heavens could possess this kind of high-dimension striking down low-dimension power!

What did this mean?

This meant that right now, on Earth— in the Central Heavenly Domain— there very likely existed an Immortal.

An Immortal who had descended from the Heavenly Realm!

Heavens!

How was this possible!?

Although they all knew in their hearts that this was the most probable explanation, it was still far too outrageous!

After all, there had been no Immortal appearing in the mortal world for two hundred thousand years.

Ever since the Immortals of the Central Heavenly Domain left two hundred thousand years ago to open up the legendary Heavenly Realm, they had never appeared again.

Could it be, could it be that because this Emperor of Destruction wanted to annihilate Earth, some sentimental Immortal had directly descended from the Heavenly Realm to the mortal world to exterminate this Great Emperor?

All kinds of conjectures, all kinds of doubts, surfaced in the hearts of these newly awakened mighty beings.

And on Earth, heaven and earth and all things were already frozen.

All events and all things had fallen still.

Even time no longer flowed, and space no longer moved.

Within the Annihilator's perception, he discovered that everything around him had fallen completely motionless; only he and this strange human before him could still move.

Moreover, he could feel that he himself now seemed to be in a very peculiar state, one he had never before experienced, yet whose essence was clearly higher than his own.

Because in this state, or rather in this environment, he realized that the Emperor Level Dao-rhyme, laws, and life aura on his body no longer had any effect on the surroundings.

Just like an ordinary mortal— if he did not deliberately act, he simply could not affect the environment around him.

The youth standing opposite him, the one called Qin Xuantian, stood with hands clasped behind his back, hovering in midair, seemingly completely unaffected.

Only, the mode of existence of this youth seemed to have undergone a tremendous transformation. Though he merely stood there, he gave off the feeling of standing at an infinite height, a being one could only look up to, utterly out of reach.

As if he existed in a higher-dimensional spacetime, fundamentally impossible to interact with normally.

This was the Immortal Realm.

When the Emperor of Destruction began to unfurl his aura and Dao-rhyme, Qin Heng had already stepped into the Immortal Realm, directly pulling him into a higher-dimensional level— the Realm of a Heavenly Immortal.

However, this Emperor of Destruction felt no confusion— only immense shock and… fear!

He stared, eyes bulging, at Qin Heng, his face filled with an expression of utter disbelief.

As though he had seen a ghost.

His whole body even began to tremble and shudder, his face turning ashen, terror written plain on his features, his former arrogance utterly gone.

Then he dropped straight to his knees, kneeling before Qin Heng.

Incomparably reverent, prostrating with all five limbs on the ground!

"I kowtow before the Immortal, I beg the Immortal's forgiveness!"

At the same time, Qin Heng ended his Immortal Realm state, but the Annihilator still knelt before him.

This scene appeared before the eyes of everyone.