Gai Jiuyou — a peerless figure from eight thousand years ago who had swept through the world without equal, looked down upon all living beings, and fell only a single step short of becoming a Great Emperor — was said to have passed away in meditation within the Desolate Wilderness.
Faint and ethereal immortal music drifted through the air, flowing as though from ancient times, resonating with the Great Dao, rendering the night sky vast and void, filled with an inexplicable divine charm.
Beneath the moonlight, Xia Jiuyou stood clad in white robes, her eyes bright and clear, her hair streaming in the wind, as though she stood upon the sacred soil of an immortal realm.
Yet a killing intent surged — in this moment, many cultivators found their bodies cracking, their five organs on the verge of injury, their divine souls threatening to shatter, their very bones nearly dissolving.
Boundless killing intent!
When Heaven releases its killing intent, the stars shift from their courses; when Earth releases its killing intent, dragons and serpents rise upon the land; when Man releases his killing intent, Heaven and Earth overturn.
Every heart ran cold with dread. People fled in panic, retreating rapidly — as the Nine Serenities Immortal Song rang out, it concealed boundless killing intent, carrying with it the force to shatter the heavens and split the earth!
Xia Jiuyou was clearly standing close by, yet she gave the impression of being impossibly distant — as though she stood at the far shore of the starry sky, sealed within another world entirely beyond reach.
“Hum!”
The Immortal King struck — an attack that blanketed the sky and covered the earth. A great hand swept across the heavens, nearly reaching Xia Jiuyou’s side, colliding fiercely with the “Dao Resonance” of that sealed world.
It was like the clashing of a million-strong army, piercing metal and splitting stone, stirring the high heavens — and like a tsunami reaching to the sky, with endless great stars falling together. The moment the two clashed, they unleashed world-shaking offensives.
Ye Fan stood still within the void, immovable as a mountain, giving rise to a small world of his own — nine heavens rising and falling within it.
Above his head, ten thousand streams of Profound Yellow Qi descended in cascades. He manifested another version of himself — seated high upon the Ninth Heaven, radiant and dignified in bearing, like a divine deity.
The Immortal King Descends Upon the Nine Heavens — one of the most terrifying phenomena since antiquity. The moment it fully manifested, it carried the force to shatter the heavens and cleave the earth, instantly holding every person present in awe.
“Boom!”
The Immortal King descended upon the mortal world, looking down upon all living beings, striding forth from atop those nine heavens toward Xia Jiuyou — crowned with the Nine Dragon Crown, robed in the Ten Thousand Dragon Robe, his aura surging like a great ocean.
“Hum!”
The void trembled, nearly torn apart. The Immortal King cleaved through the barrier’s restraints, drawing ever closer to Xia Jiuyou, pressing toward entry into her sacred land.
“Zheng… Zheng…”
The immortal song shook the world. Its killing power rolled forward like a tide — as though a thousand troops and ten thousand horses were charging in full gallop — dimming the stars and moon, shattering the vault of heaven, resisting its enemy.
“Dong!”
The Immortal King’s might was unrivaled. His great hand hammered relentlessly against the Dao Resonance that had taken form, clashing with it in violent collision after collision!
The Nine Serenities Immortal Song — a sound rarely heard throughout all the ages, one that had only resonated a handful of times since antiquity, standing alongside the Divine Prelude as world-shaking Dao Resonance — possessed incomparable and overwhelming power.
It could be said to contain the profound mystery of seizing Heaven and Earth’s creative force, capable of erasing every technique in the world. Had anyone else come to challenge it, they would have already perished without question — reduced to fine dust, utterly incapable of drawing near.
Yet the Holy Body was without equal, capable of suppressing all phenomena in the world beneath the heavens, overpowering every form of Dao power. Nothing could obstruct his advance — break one, break all. His edge could not be deflected.
It was precisely because of this that the two were like the point of a needle meeting the sharp end of a grain of wheat — locked in fierce opposition, neither able to overcome the other in the short term.
It was an extraordinary battle. Xia Jiuyou had seared her presence into the void itself, as though standing at the far end of the starry sky. The Nine Serenities Immortal Song drifted on and on, holding sway over this entire world.
Step by step, the Immortal King advanced — as though crossing the countless heavens — seeking to enter that sealed world and confront the supreme immortal song!
Many among the younger generation had gone pale. This kind of battle chilled them to the core. Once the Nine Serenities Immortal Song sounded, who could dare contend with it?
It could erase every technique in the world, wash away the Great Dao, cleave down the vault of heaven — it wielded supreme and overwhelming power! This luminously-eyed, snow-skinned beauty of incomparable appearance was truly a heaven-defying prodigy.
Even in its incomplete form, this song alone could roam freely throughout the world and look down on the younger generation with contempt — no wonder he dared to call himself the greatest under heaven, and sought to take Ye Fan as a servant.
Only the Holy Body would dare to be so forceful — taking the initiative to strike, traversing the heavens, pressing forward relentlessly, relying upon its supreme ancient phenomenon to assault the immortal song.
“Zheng…”
The immortal song rang out, and Heaven and Earth lost their luster. It transformed into tangible waves — like streams of Great Dao runes, suppressing downward.
Dragons and serpents rose together, phoenixes and qilins contended!
The White Tiger howled at the moon, the ancient tortoise soared into the sky!
The immortal song shook the heavens. The tangible sound waves transformed into patterns of the Great Dao, taking the shapes of various immortal beings, slashing toward Ye Fan — seeking to obliterate the Immortal King.
“Qiang!”
Ye Fan stood like a deity, immovable and unwavering, his phenomenon’s aura growing even more powerful.
The Immortal King attacked in his stead, walking upon the Nine Heavens, pressing toward that sacred land, striking at its gate!
He pushed the sun and moon forward with both hands, like a true and worthy Immortal King on a heavenly patrol — shattering one divine pattern after another in unstoppable fashion!
“Hum!”
The immortal song stirred, and nine Great Dao patterns transformed into nine winding great rivers flowing forward, surging toward the Immortal King.
Ye Fan was startled — those nine Great Dao rivers looked strikingly like the Nine Bends of the Yellow River, possessing inconceivable and overwhelming power, sweeping away everything and stirring the high heavens.
“Boom!”
The Immortal King was like an abyss — unfathomably deep. Both hands formed seals, unleashing the sun and moon, illuminating the starry sky, exhausting every last profound mystery of Heaven and Earth. His phenomena surged like a vast ocean.
In the sky, a tremendous sound rang out. The Immortal King was pushed back; Xia Jiuyou also shook. A strange radiance flickered within her clear eyes — yet her battle intent grew even fiercer. She murmured to herself: “Only a servant like this is worthy of me!”
The Immortal King Descending Upon the Nine Heavens against the Nine Serenities Immortal Song — for a time, neither gained the upper hand, leaving all present stunned and shaken.
“Xia Jiuyou must have some connection to Gai Jiuyou from eight thousand years ago — most likely she received his inheritance. They share the same physique!”
People quickly formed this conjecture, for at her age she could certainly not have comprehended a true immortal song on her own. This must be an immortal song pattern engraved by a predecessor.
Otherwise, once the Nine Serenities Immortal Song rang out — Heaven and Earth losing color, sun and moon going dark — with power beyond imagination, nothing could withstand it.
For it stood alongside the Divine Prelude as equals, not the least bit inferior to it.
When the Peerless Divine King performed the Divine Song, it had shaken the heavens and moved the spirits of the dead, erasing the Holy Body’s curse that had persisted for over a hundred thousand years — the Innate Dao Diagram itself.
Yet the Nine Serenities Immortal Song people witnessed now was evidently far from that level. It was certainly an imitation — not the immortal song born from one’s own heart and spirit elevated to transcendence.
“It has to do with Gai Jiuyou from eight thousand years ago… this…” — once the conjecture was formed, everyone present was struck with awe.
At the same time, people were deeply shaken by Ye Fan’s phenomenon. The Immortal King Descending Upon the Nine Heavens was only in its initial stages, still far from its perfect completion — and yet no one in this world could speak to its ultimate power.
This most terrifying of ancient phenomena contained within it an Immortal King — that alone said everything!
“Have you exhausted your techniques? If so, bind yourself in iron chains and come with me.” Xia Jiuyou stood with her hands behind her back, utterly arrogant — a bearing thoroughly at odds with her incomparably beautiful appearance.
“What grounds do you have for such arrogance?” Ye Fan retorted coldly.
Xia Jiuyou wore an expression of absolute contempt for the world and declared: “My heaven-defying methods have yet to be revealed. With what do you intend to contend with me? I possess the Nine Serenities Immortal Song — it can utterly break your phenomenon. Do not even dream of closing the distance for hand-to-hand combat. Once cultivation enters the Four Extremes Secret Realm, one draws upon the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth’s four poles. Who would still fight with their flesh and blood? What I wield is the Great Dao itself — it is more than sufficient to suppress you!”
“Qiang!”
A suit of dark gold battle armor appeared upon Xia Jiuyou — translucent and lustrous like dark jade, its cold black metal making her skin appear even more snow-white and delicate. The dark gold battle armor encasing her form gave her a heroic bearing; the otherworldly beauty of her features lost some of its softness, replaced by even greater arrogance. Her eyes were like clear water, her hair streaming in the wind, and in her hand she held a black immortal sword.
She remained standing within that separate world — just as she had said. Having comprehended the Great Dao, she had seared her presence into the void, capable of wielding the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as her weapon. Compared to other cultivators of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, she was unquestionably an existence standing in the clouds, transcending them all.
“It is not that I seek to bully you for having just entered the Four Extremes Secret Realm — it is because the distance between us will only grow greater. I am about to advance into the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm. You can never catch up to me. For you, right now is your last opportunity!”
The dark gold battle armor shimmered around Xia Jiuyou. Her bearing was unparalleled in the world, her skin translucently lustrous, her eyes crystal clear. The black immortal sword emanated a daunting aura — utterly self-assured beyond measure.
“Become my servant. Pledge your loyalty to me for life!”
Where others believed this was the best moment to kill Ye Fan, she believed precisely the opposite — her arrogance had reached its absolute extreme.
“Little brat!” Ye Fan spat out only these three words.
“Boom!”
Ye Fan stood motionless as a mountain, yet his blood and vital energy surged to the heavens. The Immortal King Descending Upon the Nine Heavens phenomenon merged with him entirely — he himself became that Immortal King, and with his every movement and gesture, he seemed on the verge of cleaving this world in two.
“Hum!”
The dragon-patterned Black Gold Holy Spirit Sword in his hand trembled — ten zhang in length, heavy as a great mountain, nearly crushing space itself into collapse. Ye Fan advanced step by step.
“The Holy Body and phenomenon have merged as one!”
“Legend says — this bestows incomparable battle power!”
Every cultivator present was stunned. No one had expected Ye Fan to achieve this upon his very first entry into the Four Extremes.
“Hum!”
Ye Fan swung the great sword, cleaving through the sky, forcefully overpowering the Nine Serenities Immortal Song!
“Dong!”
Xia Jiuyou — her presence seared into the void — swung her immortal sword in a direct downward slash, unleashing the Innate Dao Diagram that came pressing down. She did not draw near. Exactly as she had said, she fought by wielding the Great Dao, refusing to engage in close-quarters combat.
“Hum!”
The Nine Serenities Immortal Song resounded through the Nine Heavens, the Dao resonance unceasing, reverberating through the starry sky — possessing supreme and overwhelming power, erasing all tangible things in the world. This was the prelude to the Tribulation-Crossing Immortal Song!
“Boom!”
Suddenly, Ye Fan in one stroke cleaved open that small world and strode inside — truly like an Immortal King, his divine might unstoppable.
The “All” character formula of the Nine Secrets was unleashed — battle power instantly increased tenfold. Even the Nine Serenities Immortal Song could not stop it!
In that instant, Ye Fan pierced through the Nine Serenities Immortal Song, strode into Xia Jiuyou’s sacred land, and swung the dragon-patterned Black Gold Holy Spirit Sword in a great slash.
“Dang!”
Xia Jiuyou was startled. The dark gold battle armor covering her entire body blazed with radiance. She raised the black immortal sword in her hand high and met the blow head-on — the sound reverberating through the heavens.
“Boom!”
“You…!” Xia Jiuyou cried out in shock, her face flushing crimson with fury, her black hair streaming wild.
Ye Fan swung the great black sword, cleaved open the small world, and brought it down upon her rear — sending her flying through the air. Had the dark gold battle armor not been on her body, she would already have been in mortal peril.