The veil of darkness vanished from the sky as it was replaced by a golden light brighter than the sun. Everyone in the world grimaced and clutched their eyes in pain after witnessing this divine radiance.
Only Cayden, the Heavenly Demon could see everything without getting affected. There were a hundred apparitions of various sorts like phoenixes, tigers, dragons, trees, humans, devils, orcs, elves, buddhas, and many more.
Each one of them looked imposing as they released oppressive pressure and bloodlust that was not inferior to the previous six immortals. Some of them were even stronger. Mainly, the divine beasts.
The situation went grim, but he did not panic at all since they were only incarnations in the end. After the earlier battle, he had great confidence in himself. Plus, escaping might not be a problem and he had yet to show all his cards.
So, he calmly gazed at them and recorded their faces in his mind. If he managed to enter the Divine Realm in the future, he would surely teach them a lesson.
Recollecting these thoughts, he shouted loudly, "Are you all done? Or do I have to give you more time to slander me?"
"What? Slander? You shameless animal. Do you think we are wrong?" An old human immortal with royal robes scowled.
"Father-in-law, she died of old age. Why do I need to lie to you?" Cayden showed a sad expression.
"Beast! How can a Venerable Stage cultivator die this early? Moreover, you still have the audacity to call me father?" The old man made a grabbing motion in the air, resulting in the rules of heavens and earth turning upside down with a huge phantom of a palm crashing down upon him.
"Humph! Old man. Don't get too cocky." Cayden raised his fist which was covered by thousands of laws and took the attack head-on.
"Boom!"
A huge explosion took place, forming ripples in space and shockwaves to spread in all directions, traveling the whole continent before subsiding.
Screams and cries of cultivators who had not yet escaped the continent sounded in the air but nobody bat an eyelid.
Seeing this, Cayden sighed, "Old man, why so cruel?"
Gazing at him, who was unscathed, the old man sneered, "I don't want to hear this coming from you. Especially, when we have clues of how you capture cultivators to refine them into pills."
Cayden was about to reply when an impatient young girl's voice sounded.
"There is no point talking to this beast. We will torture his soul and scan his memories. I want to know what actually made my disciples go after him."
Not wanting to waste any more time, she rushed towards Cayden.
"Haha, is that still a thing to ask? It was definitely my manly charm that attracted them." Cayden laughed.
Listening to him, she became angrier and angrier. How could she not know his character? He must have used some evil techniques.
"Surround him," she ordered.
Whoosh!Whoosh!
All the immortals made their moves as the color of the heavens and earth kept on changing. Meanwhile, Cayden mobilized all the power of laws and blood to coat his body, turning him into a dark crimson-green-colored man. Next, they exchanged hundreds of blows in a short period of time.
"How can it be possible?"
"What is this recovery speed!!"
"Our main body is also not this capable!!"
The immortals became shocked as they noticed how fast Cayden's body regenerated. Even the trace of divinity that they left behind to wreak havoc inside his body was doing the opposite effect. Instead of damaging him, it was instead fueling his spark of divinity.
Therefore, they realized this battle would never end if this kept on. It was simply impossible to kill him without destroying his whole body in a single blow. Nevertheless, was it even possible?
They communicated mentally, thinking of ways to handle him.
Noticing their helplessness, Cayden mocked and hinted at something interesting while grappling the wings of a phoenix. "Haha! Did you guys see how strong my body is? There is a reason why I hunted these divine beasts."
"Eh!" He suddenly sensed something dangerous behind his back, forcing him to free the wings and disappear from the spot.
"Don't believe him. Our body is not as strong as him." A dragon with sharp claws appeared in that place as he hurriedly spoke.
"Then consume the phoenix as well. If it is still not enough, then devour the tiger. If…" Cayden hoped to create internal friction between them. Nevertheless, it didn't work.
He perceived that the expression of everyone besides the divine beasts was ugly. It looked like they were afraid of something.
"Is it due to the higher status of these divine beasts in the Divine Realm?" While he was pondering, the immortals returned back to their senses and made a strange move.
Twenty-five human immortals floated above his head and stood in different positions, setting up a weird pattern. They made weird hand signs and he immediately knew what they were planning.
"Formations."
Although he had studied and broken thousands of formations in the immortal continent, he couldn't be sure about the ones from the Divine Realm. After all, unknown things were always the scariest ones.
Thus, he dived down toward the ground, wanting to escape from the range. However, it was futile. How can the other immortals not guess his thoughts?
A Buddhist chant rang in his ears, causing his eardrums to bleed and his vision to nearly blank out. Only after mobilizing the laws to isolate the sound, did he come back to his senses. Nevertheless, it accomplished its goal.
Divine energy shot from the feet of all the twenty-five immortals and met at one point through which chains made of runes and weird symbols materialized out of thin air.
They arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye and wrapped around him, squeezing him tightly, making it impossible for him to move freely. In addition, he felt that the laws of the heavens and earth were being cut off from him, reducing his combat ability by more than half.
"This is the weaker version of our immortal sect's Heavens Punishment Divine Formation. Now, we will grind you to death." One of the immortals spoke proudly.
"Is this it? Then you underestimated me." Cayden smirked as his body began enlarging at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Saint Body"
His body became ten thousand feet tall, red crystalline with dark green colored threads of laws slithering around his skin happily. Two black horns protruded from his head like devils, two wings popped out from his back where one resembled a dragon's and the other one like a phoenix.
His hands transformed into tiger claws with small rectangular pieces of tortoise shells coating his whole body like armor. These were indeed the four characteristics of the Dragon race, Phoenix race, White Tiger race, and Black Turtle Race respectively.
This proved that he had undoubtedly slaughtered all the divine beasts and tempered his body with their blood. Observing all this, the beast immortals raged with fury. Listening to and witnessing with their own eyes were two different things.
They really wanted to skin him alive. But they couldn't do it as the human immortals yelled for help at once.
"Lend us your energy. He is breaking free."
They helplessly suppressed their anger and did what they were told.
Clang!Clang!
The chains crackled, rejoined, and crackled again, continuing to repeat this cycle. This forced more immortals to join in the formation, ensuring only a dozen of immortals to be left behind.
"Kill him now."
The remaining immortals took this chance and slashed their weapons directly at the neck of Cayden, believing that the victory was in their hands. Nevertheless, they were bound to fail with how cunning and powerful the Heavenly Demon was.
Cayden forcibly grabbed the space ahead of him, tearing it apart to create a void from which spiritual artifacts of various types rushed out like a fountain. They were all plundered from everywhere within the myriad realms with some of them being his own creation.
"Explode"
Boom!Boom!Boom!
Thousands of earth-shattering explosions took place, and the immortals swiftly produced aura shields to cover them from the aftershock while keeping on going forward, showing no signs of stopping. Ultimately, mortal weapons were nothing in front of the immortals, no matter the number.
Just as they reached a few inches near him, they had an ominous foreshadowing. A tiny flame possessing horrendous power flashed by their eyes.
"Spark of Divinity"
The moment they said it, their bodies instinctively transformed into similar types of flames which were much bigger and purer, proving that the incarnations were indeed formed from divinity.
Afterward, a feeling of terror and fear developed from millions of people enveloped them in an instant and various scenes of the Heavenly Demon causing havoc played in their vision.
At the same time, Cayden spat a terrifying sharp black sword from his mouth, not giving them any chance to breathe.
Swish!