Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal
Chapter 735 - 661: The Hegemon

Chapter 735: Chapter 661: The Hegemon

Over a hundred Mechas, their cannons roaring in unison.

One nuclear bomb after another was blasting the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven, completely vaporizing the already magma-like surroundings of the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven.

A brilliance far surpassing the Sun filled everyone’s vision.

The entire Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven was enveloped in this terrifying gleam, a white-hot annihilation that was enough to suffocate any living being.

Even the Heavenly Fire Sect True Immortals and Venerable Daoist Elders hiding within the Grotto Heaven were no exception.

Seeing this spectacle, Gu Jinlai, who was already somewhat flagging high above the Sky Dome, did not disperse the South Fire Divine Light, but he slightly contracted his True Immortal form, shrinking from over thirteen hundred meters back to just over nine hundred meters.

This size was precisely the most powerful state the Great Sun Core could maintain without too much strain.

Or in other words, his normal state.

Although it was a "normal" state, it remained terrifying, ranking among the pinnacle of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, only comparable to those Immortal Masters who stood high in their Grotto Heavens.

Gazing down from high above at the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven, besieged by endless bright flames, he sincerely remarked, "For attacking strongholds and destroying sects, nothing is more suitable than the Cheng Ying Mechas. The power of over a hundred Mechas firing at full strength even somewhat surpasses my own fullest efforts."

He quietly witnessed the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven’s struggle to hold on.

With the terrifying firepower output of these hundreds of Cheng Ying Mechas, defeating the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven was only a matter of time.

Realizing this, the Heavenly Fire Sect naturally understood as well.

Seeing some of the weaker Cave Heavens on the verge of collapse, fourteen True Immortals wrapped in Spirit Mechanisms shot up from within the Cavern Heavens, rising into the sky.

Amplified by the Spirit Mechanisms, each True Immortal’s might reached the level of the Strongest True Immortals, with a select four comparable to Supreme True Immortals, essentially, ordinary Heavenly Immortals.

They were planning to...

"Break out?"

Gu Jinlai’s expression was calm.

The South Fire Divine Light from high above the Sky Dome split into fourteen streaks in an instant, each carrying terrifying energy as they shot towards the fourteen True Immortals trying to break out.

"Buzz buzz!"

The Cave Heaven at the very center of the Heavenly Fire Sect seemed to emit a slight tremor, as a black Flame Phoenix, thousands of kilometers in size, surged skyward.

"Jiang Yufeng!"

Inside the black Flame Phoenix, Daoist Zi Yan’s eyes brimmed with a resolute determination of Jade and Stone Burn Together.

Under his control, the dark Fire Phoenix transformed into a giant black vortex, like a Black Hole, frantically devouring all of the strong light and intense flames around it, rapidly absorbing thousands, tens of thousands, even millions of degrees of high temperature.

Although the dark Fire Phoenix was located at the very center of consecutive nuclear blasts, the temperature around it was terrifyingly low.

In a radius of several dozen miles, a large number of flames were frozen, forming blood-red ice flowers that rustled as they fell to the ground.

Ice snow in the shape of flames, a spectacle that seemed impossible in the eyes of ordinary people, thus appeared vividly before everyone’s eyes.

And it was spreading rapidly, reaching out to envelope Gu Jinlai’s fourteen separated South Fire Divine Lights, ready to swallow them whole and turn them into gigantic ice pillars hundreds of meters tall, plummeting to the Earth.

"Lightless Heavenly Dao."

Gu Jinlai declared.

Immediately after, he made a grasping motion in the air, "Since you have already offered up this Heavenly Dao, I will gladly accept it."

Gravity was invoked!

The Lightless Black Phoenix, which had transformed into a kilometer-sized being and was swallowing the South Fire Divine Light in a vortex spanning dozens of miles, was instantly restrained in the Void. Furthermore, an invisible giant hand appeared to seize its body, pulling and dragging it from the Cave Heaven behind it, severing its connection with the Cave Heaven below.

At the same time, Gu Jinlai’s spiritual fluctuations reached the ears of Zhang Yukan.

Fifty-two Heavenly Monarchs and Divine Martial Peak disciples, grouped in threes, pursued the fourteen True Immortals who were scattering in an attempt to flee.

The remaining Cheng Ying Mechas simultaneously pushed their nuclear fusion reactors to the limit.

Dozens of nuclear bombs once again streaked across the Chang Kong, striking the Heavenly Fire Sect Cave Heaven.

Luminescent brilliance once again lighted up hundreds of miles of the heavens.

That unbearable brilliance, mixed with intense flames, voraciously consumed everything in front of it, including...

The Cave Heaven below.

Without the Lightless Heavenly Dao to absorb the terrifying thermal and light energy released by the nuclear bombs, the already overstrained Cave Heaven finally collapsed.

As the Cave Heaven began to crumble, the connection between the Lightless Black Phoenix and the Cave Heaven beneath was finally severed by Gu Jinlai, and, bound by the powerful gravity, it rapidly condensed.

Inside the Lightless Fire Phoenix, Daoist Zi Yan struggled desperately to free himself from the terrifying gravitational restraint, but without the support of the Cave Heaven, the Lightless Black Phoenix became like a rootless weed, its strength rapidly exhausted, its might visibly weakening to the naked eye.

This scene finally brought Daoist Zi Yan to despair.

"I never imagined... a momentary lapse would lead to the end of the Heavenly Fire Sect’s thousands of years of heritage by my hand, Zi Yan."

His eyes were filled with self-recrimination and regret.

"There’s no such thing as an eternally existing sect. How many sects has the Heavenly Fire Sect annihilated over the years? Just like sixty years ago, didn’t Creation Gate almost perish under your Heavenly Fire Sect’s schemes? Now you are merely repeating the path of those sects you’ve annihilated before," Gu Jinlai spoke calmly.

Upon hearing Gu Jinlai’s words, Daoist Zi Yan managed a wry smile.

Then, in the next instant, as the gravitational restraint furiously compressed the weakened form of Daoist Zi Yan, his Immortal Body loudly collapsed.

Perished on the spot.

With Daoist Zi Yan’s control lost, the Lightless Heavenly Dao also rapidly faded, captured in one move and sealed within the Nihility Core.

To others, the Black Phoenix transformed from the Lightless Heavenly Dao appeared forcibly restrained and bound by Gu Jinlai, brought before him, and then swallowed whole...

Such a scene of cataclysmic destruction, akin to that of a supreme Demon God, deeply stimulated everyone’s spirit, even for those disciples extremely loyal to the Heavenly Fire Sect, at this moment, they too let out cries of despair.

"It’s over,"

Gu Jinlai declared.

The Heavenly Fire Sect’s greatest trump card, the Lightless Heavenly Dao, had been sealed and suppressed by him.

The core Grotto Heavens were also collapsing under the bombardment from the Cheng Ying Mecha.

As for the palaces and pavilions originally established on the periphery of the Grotto Heavens...

Let alone leaving ruins behind, even the mountains, forests, and rivers surrounding these buildings had all been melted into magma.

The landscape for hundreds of miles around had undergone massive changes.

The core area of the Heavenly Fire Sect had been completely leveled to the ground.

Even calling it flat ground was an understatement.

Since the earth had melted, the terrain here was obviously much higher than in other places, and as time passed, heavy rain continued to accumulate water, eventually turning this place into a marsh, a lake, but never flat ground.

This was the power that Gu Jinlai possessed at that moment.

This was the destructive power of a Profound Immortal Realm powerhouse.

Altering landscapes.

Moving mountains and rivers.

Transforming seas into mulberry fields.

Given a bit of time, Gu Jinlai could even completely flatten the thousands of miles of the Heavenly Fire Mountain Range.

"When the power of living beings becomes so formidable, it’s no wonder they no longer consider themselves human, but rather call themselves immortals!"

Gu Jinlai’s gaze lingered on the mountain gate of the Heavenly Fire Sect for a moment before turning his head to look down from above at the periphery of the Heavenly Fire Sect.

There, countless Outer Disciples from the Heavenly Fire Sect were running away in panic as fast as they could.

Due to the distance, everyone at this moment appeared like small black dots in his eyes.

This feeling reminded him of when he was a child and would pour boiling hot water over an anthill, those ants scalded and scurrying in all directions.

After watching for a moment, he withdrew his gaze.

Then, taking a deep breath, the Great Sun Core inside his body erupted once more, terrifying energy permeating around him, eventually forming a huge ball of light behind him.

Subsequently, the light ball exploded, turning into fourteen brilliant beams of energy that crossed hundreds of miles at an inconceivable speed and struck the fourteen Heavenly Fire Sect True Immortals that were entangled by the Cheng Ying Mecha and attempting to break free and flee.

True Immortals may gather and disperse at will, but that refers to their energy-based bodies’ ability to freely change form. However, when their entire bodies were refined into nothingness by the South Fire Divine Light, how could they ever condense again?

Just like those Martial Arts Saints who could regenerate severed limbs and Human Immortals who were said to be capable of regeneration from a single drop of blood, but once their bodies were burned to ash and blown away, leaving not a drop of blood, how could they be reborn?

...

"Venerable Daoist,"

Zhang Yukan quickly brought the Cheng Ying Mecha to Gu Jinlai’s side: "All of the Heavenly Fire Sect’s Earthly True Immortal Realm and above elders and protectors have been utterly slain, and now Divine Martial Peak Disciples are pursuing those of the Saint Realm and Returning to Void Realm, True Disciples and Stewards."

"For disciples and stewards in the Saint Realm and Returning to Void Realm, except for those who are die-hard loyalists to the Heavenly Fire Sect, you may spare them and not continue to slaughter,"

Gu Jinlai declared.

It wasn’t that the Heavenly Fire Sect was filled with bad people.

He claimed his destruction of the Heavenly Fire Sect was for revenge, but the process was not necessarily justifiable as justice.

Especially when he attacked the Heavenly Fire Sect and used the South Fire Divine Light to refine the Heavenly Fire Sect Grotto Heavens, the scorching heat that spread caused unknowable harm to numerous innocents.

Even without looking, he could guess that the Karma on him must have already turned so red it was almost black.

This was also why Gu Jinlai would later spare even some top cultivators marked with Red, giving them a chance.

Upon reaching the True Immortal Realm...

Even the Saint Realm, every action can cause destruction and impact that is too astonishing.

Like Gu Jinlai, if he maintained his True Immortal State and flew across the land at supersonic speeds, the hurricanes he induced would wreak havoc on the ground, shattering mountains, dividing rivers, and annihilating cities and countries were not difficult tasks.

In many cases, even when he carefully controlled his power to avoid affecting ordinary people, he would inadvertently create carnage.

Thus, there has been some change in his way of handling matters now.

Of course, for those who considered themselves no longer part of the Human Clan after attaining the status of a True Immortal and were indifferent to the life and death of others, Gu Jinlai would not show mercy.

Inadvertently causing harm to the innocent is one thing.

Acting against humanity is quite another.

"Now, take over this territory,"

Gu Jinlai commanded: "From now on, the Heavenly Fire Sect shall cease to exist in the world, and the Flame River Dao should have a new ruler."

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