Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

Chapter 1185 A Desperate Struggle

The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord stared intently at the "Five Elements Ancestor," his pupils contracting violently with extreme rage. His body radiated a blue light that surged like raging magma, each ray carrying the power to tear through the void, like an ancient volcano about to erupt, poised to incinerate everything around it. His fists clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white from the force. His gaze towards the "Five Elements Ancestor" was like that of a primordial beast enraged by a betrayal of its own kind, surging with a ferocious, predatory light. He wished he could tear apart the hypocritical face before him, strip away its flesh and soul, and devour it alive, only then could he vent the raging fire that burned across the heavens.

“Betrayal of the Thirteenth Prince?” Upon hearing this, the “Five Elements Ancestor” seemed to have heard an unprecedented joke. A cold sneer curled at the corner of his mouth, and he looked at the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord with a mocking gaze, as if he were sizing up an ignorant fool. “I have never been loyal to him, so how can there be any talk of betrayal?”

"What? What do you mean by that?" The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord was stunned. The rage on his face froze instantly, like a raging wave frozen in ice. His ferocious expression was frozen on his face. For a moment, he couldn't react. Only the phrase "never swore allegiance" was booming in his mind, making his immortal soul buzz.

"literal meaning!"

Before the words were even finished, the "Five Elements Ancestor" took a step forward, and the chaotic void beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, creating a massive vortex with a diameter of billions of light-years. The chaotic air currents within the vortex swirled back, emitting a mournful howl. He no longer suppressed his aura; his entire body's power surged wildly like a tsunami. Streams of golden runes erupted from his pores, swirling around his body like dragons, emitting a deafening buzz. With a deafening boom, his cultivation level skyrocketed, breaking through two major realms in the blink of an eye, leaping from the perfect third-tier Quasi-Immortal King to the late fifth-tier. A boundless, star-sea-like pressure swept outwards, causing the surrounding Immortal Array to tremble violently, its runes flickering erratically.

This wasn't the end! Within the Five Elements Ancestor's natal immortal domain, one hundred and eight illusory spirit bodies swiftly took their positions, transforming into one hundred and eight points of light, forming a profound Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Returning to One Great Formation. As the formation light illuminated, the power of all the illusory spirit bodies flowed into the Five Elements Ancestor's body like rivers flowing into the sea, causing his cultivation to surge once again. He broke through the barriers of the sixth and seventh tiers like a rocket, steadily crossing the threshold of the seventh-tier Quasi-Immortal King. The terror of his aura was not much weaker than that of the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord. The two pressures collided in the chaos, stirring up ripples of energy across the sky.

Almost simultaneously, within the Innate Five Elements Grand Array, a terrifying aura of a seventh-order Quasi-Immortal King suddenly surged forth from the "Purple Origin Dao Lord." That aura resonated subtly with the aura of the "Five Elements Ancestor" like the source of water, slowly merging in a strange rhythm to form an even more powerful combined force. Like two towering locks, it further sealed off the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's retreat, leaving not even a crack.

"This aura... You are not the Five Elements Boy and the Purple Origin Boy, who exactly are you?" The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's expression changed again, the color drained from his face in an instant, leaving only a pale white. The sense of unease in his heart grew wildly like weeds, rapidly rising in his mind, almost devouring his reason.

Those immortal arrays were already enough of a headache for him, and with the addition of two seventh-tier quasi-immortal kings who were not much weaker than him, what lay ahead was a nine-out-of-ten chance of death.

"Who we are is none of your business, you are a dying man." The voice of the "Five Elements Ancestor" suddenly turned cold, like the shattering of ten thousand years of ice. There was no longer any mockery in his eyes, only a murderous intent that had been frozen for eternity. He looked at a corpse that was destined to decay without any emotion.

"Don't speak too confidently!" The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord roared, unleashing the full pressure of a late-stage seventh-order quasi-immortal king. His body condensed into a colossal sword that seemed to tear apart the Great Dao of Immortality. "You think you can keep me here? Not so easy!"

"Is that so?" The Five Elements Ancestor raised a slight smile and slowly raised his hand. "Fellow Daoists, please come out."

"What? Could it be that they have something to hide?" The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's heart trembled violently. A chilling sense of foreboding ran through his entire body like a cold current. His unease grew stronger and stronger, almost turning into a tangible shackle that tightly bound him.

As if to confirm his conjecture, the moment he finished speaking, five dazzling beams of immortal light descended from the chaotic void, like five shooting stars piercing through eternal darkness, crashing down upon the battlefield with overwhelming divine might. The immortal light dissipated, revealing five figures, some clad in golden armor, some standing on lotus platforms, and some hidden in shadow. Together with the "Five Elements Ancestor" and the "Purple Origin Dao Lord," they formed the Big Dipper constellation, completely surrounding the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord, sealing off all his escape routes—above, below, in front, behind, left, and right—leaving not even a wisp of his divine sense able to escape.

Immediately afterwards, five terrifying pressures erupted from these five figures, each no less powerful than the "Five Elements Ancestor" and "Zi Yuan Dao Jun," all of them being seventh-order quasi-immortal kings.

The next second...

"boom......"

The auras of seven seventh-tier Quasi-Immortal Kings intertwined, rising like seven ancient divine mountains, overwhelmingly crushing towards the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord. Wherever they passed, the chaotic energy was compressed and fractured, even space itself cracked like a spiderweb. The myriad immortal arrays seemed to respond, their runes flowing even more rapidly, their power surging once more, compressing the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's range of movement to its limit, like an ant trapped in a jar.

"Damn it, five more seventh-tier quasi-immortal kings..." The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's expression changed again, his pupils shrank, completely losing their color, and his eyes were filled with despair.

With seven mid-stage seventh-tier quasi-immortal kings and the surrounding immortal arrays, unless an eighth-tier quasi-immortal king intervenes, those below the eighth tier have virtually no chance of escape.

"Fellow Daoists, let's make our move!"

The Five Elements Ancestor waved his hand, his voice like thunder, resounding throughout the chaos. The six illusory spiritual bodies, including the Purple Origin Dao Lord, responded in unison, their immortal power surging out like a bursting river, frantically pouring into the surrounding immortal arrays.

Instantly, tens of thousands of immortal arrays blazed with divine light, and countless runes seemed to come alive, surging and intertwining within the arrays. The already terrifying power surged exponentially, sweeping out like a tsunami, instantly tearing apart, crushing, and annihilating the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's aura! Then, carrying with it a world-destroying force, it continued to suppress the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord at the center of the array—the gray runes of the Primordial Chaos Returning to Origin Locking Dao Array became increasingly viscous, tightly binding his immortal soul and hindering his connection with the Great Dao; the karmic fire of the Karmic Entanglement Imprisoning Immortal Array burned fiercely, transforming into a black firestorm, even charring his hard immortal bones and emitting a pungent, burnt smell; the Space-Time Layered Barrier Restricting Void Array caused the space around him to continuously collapse and compress, as if to grind his immortal body into dust…

"You want my life? Not so easy!" The Dark Ruins Immortal Lord's eyes were bloodshot, his eyeballs covered with scarlet blood vessels that spread like a spider web. Veins bulged all over his body like writhing dragons, throbbing menacingly beneath his skin. He let out a hysterical roar that shook the chaos, like a wild beast driven to the brink of despair, filled with endless madness and determination.

Before he finished speaking, dazzling beams of immortal light shot up from his body, and dozens of quasi-Immortal King artifacts floated in the air, shimmering and resonating with each other. Among them were three seventh-grade quasi-Immortal King artifacts: a "Sky-Splitting Sword" wreathed in azure light, its sword cry like a dragon's roar, containing a sharpness capable of tearing everything apart; a "Suppressing Yuan Seal" engraved with the trajectory of stars, as heavy as a mountain, seemingly capable of suppressing the nine heavens and ten earths; and a "Netherworld Banner" whose every move seemed to echo with the wails of ten thousand ghosts, shrouded in black mist, radiating a strange power that corroded immortal souls. These three were surrounded by dozens of fifth-grade and sixth-grade quasi-Immortal King artifacts, their aura shaking the heavens and earth, not much weaker than that of an ordinary seventh-grade quasi-Immortal King.

That wasn't the end of it. Immediately afterward, a resolute determination to sacrifice everything flashed in the eyes of the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord. The azure light around him suddenly became as dazzling as the blazing sun, and countless cracks appeared on the surface of his immortal body. He was willing to burn his immortal essence, which he had cultivated for hundreds of millions of years!

In an instant, the aura of the Dark Ruins Immortal Lord surged wildly, showing signs of breaking through the shackles and stepping into the eighth-order Quasi-Immortal King realm. The terrifying pressure moved even the seven illusory spirit bodies, and the operation of all the Immortal Arrays faltered slightly.

"Roar! Even if my soul is scattered, I will take you few down with me."

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