Listen While Reading: 天地の鼓動-----
The moment the Dark Storm Dragon attacked the Murim Army and started to turn those he killed into weird dragon-like metallibies, several Primordial Cultivators decided to escape. Despite being among the stro here, they prioritized their lives above all else, even going as far as killing anybody that dared to stop them by asking for help.
Their disciples? Even their family members? They were killed if they dared to e for their aid, as they prioritized their lives selfishly, despite knowing that they were strong enough to resist, even more if together as a rge army.
With Fang Gu Lan being firmed to be gone and for that dragon, or whatever he was, taking over his pce, it ractically over for them; without a powerful leader charging into this war, it would be hopeless to even dare fight Bing Xue, whom all these Primordials and Immortals feared the most amongst all other Venerables.
Why? Because of how she worked and how her ruthlessness and iron fist have turhe war-driven world of Murim into a world of peace where even the poorest and most miserable of mortals had three meals a day and a pce to sleep on, which they sidered unfair for those hardw that deserved more, and even worse, they believed a world of pealy iivized stagnation, and without growth, cultivation as an art could bee fottehe ages by mortals, and new immortals or Primordials would rarely be born anymore.
Without a stant influx of Immortals and Primordials from the Human Tribe, the other Tribes of Demi-Humans and Intelligent Martial Beasts lurking across the world’s untamed nds would gain an advantage, and slowly overtake the world that was oaken away from them by the Human Aor.
It was even worse as Bing Xue helped people from other Tribes, something that not evehodox Fa believed to be the right thing to do, uhey were sves who could no longer pose a threat to them.
However, Bing Xue and the powerful Sect she funded and built shut down all those that didn’t want to embrace a New Age, and she created True Peace…
Albeit even the greatest era came to an end, as they saw the old venerable appear, leading them to a war against her to end her.
They willingly jumped ships despite having bee submissive to Bing Xue’s Sect… and now they were regretting it all!
Their reasons might have good enough justifications, but at this point, trusting Fang Gu Lan over Bing Xue was a terrible mistake.
“That bastard of Fang Gu Lan is dead! The dark dragon is definitely not him!”
“Dammit! Why did we even trust him?!”
“It would have beeer if we just stayed on Murim, on all the territories we had, the sects we possessed… Bing Xue ook them away or something!”
“We might have been fueled by too much greed and hatred towards her for what she did against the other Venerables to realize how good we had it…!”
Several of them mao get far away enough; those that escaped at first, like Elder Emerald Tree escaped through special means. Some dug underground, others tore through spad disappeared, some turned into tless butterflies and flew north, aurned into a pure wind and disappeared, and so on.
However, there were still a rge quantity of Primordials that were caught off-guard; the timing for the rest that mao escape was too tight, only leaving space for a few dozen to get alive from this!
The rest? Surrounded by dozens of Dark Draified Immortals, whose numbers rapidly increased as the other Immortals were being bitten and ied.
They tried fighting back before being bitten, of course; they were immortals, specializing in powerful teiques and martial arts; they shook the heavens and the sky; sword teiques, spear arts, palm attacks, elemental barrages, and explosioed everywhere.
But ultimately, the Dark Draified Immortals tinued regeion, overp them, biting them, and iing them…
The Primordials who were managing to somehow survive all of this, gnced in utter disbelief at the chaos in front of them and immediately decided to run away despite being rather te at that.
“We have to escape! Leave the Immortals behind!”
“I agree, we’re getting out of here; even outer space seems like a safer pce!”
“Goodbye!”
They rushed away as quickly as possible, but the Dark Draified Immortals followed them, ering them as they moved incredibly fast through the sky with their massive metalligs.
“Shyaaaah! Don’t leave!”
“It’s good to be like this! Gryaaah!”
“I like it! Join usssss!”
Their Darkness Auras surged from their bodies with immense power, stopping their advand quickly encapsuting them within pseudo domains of their bined darkness.
“W-Wha…?”
“You have to be kidding me!”
“H-How fast are they?!”
“This ot be! We have to get out of here and quick!”
The Primordials of all appearances, shapes, and sizes readied themselves, unleashing their Primordial Immortal Auras and g against the Dark Draified Immortals.
An old man with long white beard and hair, brown skin, and silver eyes swung his bare palms against them, his white and golden clothes waving by the wind as he unleashed powerful shockwaves.
“{White Heaven Palm Arts}: {Soul-Pierg Palm}!”
His Aura erupted, transf into a multi-armed golden statue resembling some sort of bodhisattva; their huge, golden palms blew up their foes’ souls into pieces.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
“Gryyyaacck!”
“Uuuarrgh!”
“Shyaaagh!”
The mohat were once Immortals screamed in agony as their bodies exploded into pieces, and their souls received great amounts of damage.
“Prepare yourselves, you filthy monsters!”
Another Primordial stepped in, looking slightly younger, with a bzing red beard and short hair, sharp crimson eyes, and a tall, muscur frame, wearing bd red se armor, and holding a huge staff made of gold and red metal.
“{Bzing Ape King’s Staff Arts}: {Burning Inferno}!”
FLUOOOSH!
His Aura bzed, taking the shape of a huge golden-armored ape that swung their staff alongside him, each blow geed gigantic bzing explosions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“Gruuaargh!”
“Gryyeegh!”
“Shyaaaeergh!”
Dozens of Dark Draified Immortals burned aorn to shreds! The power of just two Primordial Cultivator Masters showcased incredible power and the clear superiority of Murim.
“Oooh! Elder Heavenly Palm and Bzing Ape Emperor! They’re incredibly unparalleled, as the rumors about them have said!” A slightly nerdy-looking apothecary Immortal muttered, readjusting his gsses as he saw the se in disbelief, writing things down in his notebook even amidst this battle. “T-This is my first time ever seeing them in a!”
“They’re indeed incredible…!”
“But they arely proteg us; they’re only fighting for themselves!”
“What we do?! The ied are to, and we ’t run!”
“Do we have to succumb to our deaths?!”
The other Immortals surrounding this peculiar Immortal all looked troubled and with faces full of despair, but the gss-wearing man seemed calm.
“I always dreamed of learning about another world! And this has been an incredible experience! I believe that as long as I am able to fulfill this dream of mine, I die at ease. I’ve lived too long already; all my loved ones are long gone…” Smiled the Immortal with slight mencholy. “Let’s face death together, brothers!”
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However, the Immortals gred at him with anger, raising their eyebrows at him as if he were a weirdo, and then…
“Get out of here!”
“If you’re so happy to die, then buy us some more time!”
“Kick him out of the group!”
“Damn Apothecary! How did you even bee an Immortal?!”
They quickly grabbed him and began t him away from the rge group, kig him out into the open battlefield!
“W-Wait a sed! Hey! You ’t do this! Why are you like this, brothers? The Era of Peace hasn’t even mellowed your cold hearts o- Uaagh!”
The man screamed as he saw a bck cw toug his right shoulder.
“Shyaaaahh! Join usssss!”
One of Dark Draified Immortals attacked the Apothecary, screaming at his ears. The Apothecary barely mao escape his cws, screaming as he saw the thing approach him.
“W-Wait a sed! We talk about this rationally, right? You’re still a human deep down!”
“I am… a humaaaan? Nooooo… I am… lord Dark Storm Dragon’s Pawn!”
"Okay, but you don’t have to scream!”
As the Dark Draified Immortal rushed towards him, the Apothecary threw tless cos at his face, most of them exploding in flesh-melting acid and fusing gases.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“GAAAARRCK!”
“L-Look! We solve this peacefully! I’ll even gdly join you if you let me… Well, examine a bit of your biology, which I find fasating!” Said the man. “Just don’t turo a mindless monster! I’ll do anything you ask!”
“GRYAAAASSH!”
The monster, however, didn’t have any other ahan a furious hiss, its wounds rapidly regeing as thick clouds of pure Darkness ed around its body.
“Oh no, this isn’t good… Nope, not good at all! Uaaaagh!”
The Apothecary flew away as fast as he could, but the Dark Draified Immortal caught up with him with a single fp of his metalligs, his gigantic bck cws rushing down towards his throat.
“It’ll be quick! Join us and you shall see what it is all about, shyaaaahhh!”
“I am seriously not ied in being one of youuuu! Someone save me!”
As he screamed pathetically, something that many Immortals would find deplorable and pletely shameful…
RUMBLE!
The sky above rumbled as a silver shockwave desded from the sky. A young child no older than four or five years of age in appearance crushed the Dark Draified Immortal as he desded over its back; its entire body exploded into pieces, flying down and impag the floor below, resembling a pile of meat paste and crushed bones.
CRAAASH!
“W-Wha…?!”
The Apothecary Immortal g his side, realizing there was a child right there, the ohat had killed that crazy powerful mutated immortal like nothing.
“Mama said I had to save you because you were asking for help,” the boy said. His muscur body uing of his age was striking, his long, silvery-white hair resembling bzing fmes was even more amazing, and his rainbow eyes, shining like stars, were intimidating. All of this trasted with his clear brown skin.
“Y-You’re… one of the Great Venerable Bing Xue’s allies?” The Apothecary muttered. “N-o meet you! And thank you for saving my life! My name is Xue Xenxue! I am a Self-Procimed Immortal Apothecary, Stist, and Alchemist! I aspire to one day discover the mysteries of the ws of physid of all creation!”
“I am not Mama’s ally; I am her son! And my name is Rainbow Eyes!” the boy said grumpily, crossing his arms. "Also, I didn’t uand a thing you said! Why do adults always use plicated words? They ’t be like my mommies!”
“S-Son?!” Xue Xenxue was shocked. “R-Right, I did hear that she had children! To think she had so many already, when in Murim it was always said how bitter and loveless she was…”
“Mama is not loveless; she has many aunties she loves!” Rainbow Eyes said angrily. “Also shut up already and stand there! I’ll protect you because Mama said so.”
“T-Thank you so much! I am forever grateful!” Xue Xenxue bowed to the child without any shame; he was very different thaher Immortal Cultivators of Murim. “And, uh, the guy’s ing back!”
“Hm?” Rainbow Eyes looked down, seeing the guy he made sure to destroy rushing ba. “Oh, he's a tough one! I like that.”
“Y-You do?!” Xue asked in shock.
“Shut up and don’t talk while I’m talking!” Rainbow Eyes said angrily. “Don’t think I’ll five you so easily for attag our home!”
“I-I’m sorry! But I firm I never harmed your beautiful, beautiful golden pagoda!” Said Xue. “I’ve only been staying in the baes iigating this world; quite holy, I have never engaged in battles that much; I dislike fighting!”
“…You’re a weird one, aren’t you?” Rainbow Eyes squinted his eyes, swinging his fist doung the Dark Draified Immortal ing after him.
BAAAMM!!
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Pach
