Chapter 541: Reverse the Universe

"When can Patriarch Qianxing arrive?" Chen Mobai asked again. However, Lan Haitian, who usually answered every question, hesitated this time.

"Five Peaks Immortal Mountain is half an Immortal Sect territory away from here. It's quite a distance, so the Patriarch might need some time."

When Patriarch Qianxing last took action, Lan Haitian's grandfather had not even been born yet, so he knew nothing about the Patriarch's speed. Furthermore, information about the strength of Soul Transformation Patriarchs within the Immortal Sect was always top secret, and even with Lan Haitian's status, he had no access to relevant data.

"So, we still have to rely on True Monarch Narcissus." After saying this, Chen Mobai glanced at the battle situation on the highest peak of the Danxia Mountain Range. His instinctive combat awareness led him to begin a calm analysis. On their side were four individuals: True Monarch Narcissus, Gongsun Jielü, Lan Haitian, and himself. Facing them were two powerful evil cultivators from the Ascension Cult. Both the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master and the Blossoming Courtyard Master, if they had descended in their true forms at their peak, would have been no weaker than True Monarch Narcissus.

Fortunately, after the Blossoming Courtyard Master underwent corporeal dissolution and reincarnation, she had not yet cultivated back to the Nascent Soul realm, likely to avoid attracting the attention of the Immortal Sect's upper echelons. As for the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master, he had merely activated a divine seed and possessed Yu Tianguang's body to enter the fray. The power these two could exert would not be overly outrageous. As long as True Monarch Narcissus could perform normally...

Just as Chen Mobai was thinking this, the Blossoming Courtyard Master suddenly swung the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand towards the huge shark phantom in the sky. The treasure tree glittered like a rainbow, instantly drawing an arc of light that plunged straight into the Bĕimíng Realm. With a thunderous roar, Chen Mobai felt the entire Danxia Mountain Range begin to tremble. True Monarch Narcissus also frowned slightly and said to the three of them, "While I suppress the Jade Green Parasol Tree, the spiritual veins of the entire Danxia City are also being stirred by this spiritual tree, resisting and trying to break free from my Bĕimíng Realm."

At this moment, the Blossoming Courtyard Master was continuously swinging the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand. Arcs of iridescent light shone, connecting with Danxia City's vast spiritual veins, striking the Jade Green Parasol Tree from both within and without. A crack even appeared in the huge shark phantom. Through the crack, one could clearly see the Jade Green Parasol Tree, with bark as green as jade and leaves like flowers, continuously steaming and exhaling mist, drawing immense spiritual energy, striving to break through the Bĕimíng Realm that trapped it.

"If not for the Jade Green Parasol Tree and the spiritual veins of Danxia Mountain restraining me, I could take down these two by myself," True Monarch Narcissus spat in frustration. Then, vast and profound spiritual energy bloomed from her entire body, transforming into a brilliant blue spiritual light that surged into the huge shark phantom in mid-air, strengthening the Bĕimíng Realm.

"True Monarch, is there anything we can do to help you?""Will Patriarch Qianxing come?" Chen Mobai and Lan Haitian asked different questions simultaneously after hearing this.

True Monarch Narcissus replied, "Uncle-Master Qianxing is a homebody who doesn't like to go out. What's happening here isn't a big deal in his eyes, so he might not intervene." These words made Chen Mobai and the other two exchange glances.

"Then what should we do?" On the other side were two Vice-Cult Masters of the Ascension Cult, both at the Nascent Soul stage. "If I deploy the Six Imperial Sword Fiend Array, I can hold one of them back." At this point, Gongsun Jielü also revealed her ultimate trump card. She flung aside her green suit, rolled up her shirt sleeves, and revealed six sword fiend scars on her hands and arms. The sword fiend marks were dark green, like dragons and snakes. The dragon's head was on her left hand, the tail on her right, and the dragon's body ran across her upper back. Although covered by her white shirt, Chen Mobai could clearly see the sword fiend marks as they lit up.

"Why are you so worried? I have extraordinary means to suppress these cultists." True Monarch Narcissus, however, showed no signs of concern. She was the Head of the Enforcement Department, and among the Immortal Sect's fourteen Nascent Soul cultivators, her combat experience ranked among the top three. As she spoke, she had already taken out a jade-white bracelet, from which an uncomfortable aura spread, making even Chen Mobai feel uneasy.

"The three of you, listen carefully..." True Monarch Narcissus's spiritual transmission resonated in the minds of Chen Mobai and the other two. In just an instant, she had fully informed them of her plan.

"Can you do it?" After finishing her battle plan, True Monarch Narcissus looked at Shi Qing, who was constantly swinging the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in mid-air, and the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master, who stood guarding her. Gongsun Jielü replied, "I'll do my best." Lan Haitian declared, "Even if it costs me my life, I will hold her back." Chen Mobai merely nodded without speaking. True Monarch Narcissus didn't pay him much mind; after all, although Chen Mobai was said to possess the potential for Soul Transformation, he had only just formed his Golden Core, so his combat power was undoubtedly the lowest among the three.

"Before I devour the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master, make sure you aren't devoured by the Blossoming Courtyard Master first." As True Monarch Narcissus spoke, her mouth spread into a grin, revealing two fangs, and she directed an instinctively cruel expression toward the two Ascension Cult members in mid-air.

"If possible, could you spare True Man Yu's life?" Chen Mobai hesitated, then, following his intuition, requested of True Monarch Narcissus. In response, Narcissus merely gave him a strange look, offered no reply, and then closed her eyes, casting a powerful spell from the Kunpeng Dao Academy. "Close eyes, become night!" In an instant, the sky turned dark.

In mid-air, the Blossoming Courtyard Master and Divine Guardian Pavilion Master, who were causing cracks in the shark phantom formed by the Bĕimíng Realm by stirring the Jade Green Parasol Tree, were naturally drawn to this scene. "The Candle Dragon Divine Eye Art!" Ancient evil orthodoxies had fought the Immortal Sect for thousands of years, and they were generally familiar with each other's signature techniques and spells. As soon as they saw True Monarch Narcissus close her eyes and turn day into night, they recalled this top-tier spiritual eye art of the Immortal Sect. But what use was this in the current situation?

The Divine Guardian Pavilion Master was a thoughtful person. Seeing this, he wondered what his opponent intended to do. He didn't believe that someone of True Monarch Narcissus's cultivation level would do something meaningless. "Will the Jade Green Parasol Tree's power weaken in a nighttime environment?" the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master asked the Blossoming Courtyard Master beside him. The latter coldly shook her head. She didn't care about such matters; she was merely continuously shaking the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, urging this artifact—which had condensed all the power of her previous life—to guide the Jade Green Parasol Tree to break through the realm and complete her own full rebirth.

The Jade Green Parasol Tree in Danxia City was a Grade Four, high-rank spiritual plant. Under the Blossoming Courtyard Master's careful nurturing, it had already shown a tendency to evolve into a Grade Five spiritual plant. Originally, her plan was to wait for her current reincarnated body to steadily break through to the Nascent Soul realm. Then, she would cast the Blossoming Courtyard's forbidden art, causing the Jade Green Parasol Tree to drain all the spiritual veins of Danxia City. This would overdraw the spiritual plant's full power, allowing it to bloom a Grade Five Nine-Colored Immortal Flower! This immortal flower contained all the essence accumulated by the Jade Green Parasol Tree over four millennia. Furthermore, under the Blossoming Courtyard's forbidden art, it would filter out all impurities and conscious elements, such as the vastness of the earth and the changes of rivers and mountains, leaving only the purest vitality and primal energy. Once consumed, the Blossoming Courtyard Master would not only instantly merge the powers of her past and present lives, reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, but also use it to comprehend the profound Dao rhythm of a spiritual plant advancing to Grade Five. With her vast accumulated knowledge, she might even be able to achieve Soul Transformation from Nascent Soul, reaching the pinnacle of the Immortal Sect's cultivation methods with Shi Qing's reincarnated body!

Unfortunately, even the best disguise was still exposed. Shi Qing could vaguely guess when she was exposed. Had she known earlier, she should have stopped that person, even if it meant letting both the dark spiritual root and wind spiritual root perish within the Immortal Sect. That would have been better than alerting them. Thinking of this, Shi Qing couldn't help but feel a hidden resentment.

When Kong Feichen took Yang Jing away, as it involved the Ascension Cult, she, as a Vice-Cult Master, was certainly aware of it. The Divine Guardian Pavilion Master had also communicated with her beforehand, prior to dispatching anyone. After Lan Haitian and other members of the Heaven-Mending Group arrived, she had also been secretly observing. In her opinion, Kong Feichen and Yang Jing combined were not as important as her little finger; the mission's success or failure was irrelevant. The crucial point was that she could not be exposed. However...

The Blossoming Courtyard Master frowned, recalling the individual who had intervened at the last moment to forcibly help Kong Feichen take Yang Jing away. But with matters having reached this stage, the most crucial task was to forcibly catalyze the Jade Green Parasol Tree before the Immortal Sect's experts arrived. Even if she couldn't ultimately generate the Nine-Colored Immortal Flower, she had to leave the Mortal Star before a Soul Transformation cultivator arrived.

With this thought, the Blossoming Courtyard Master no longer hesitated, unleashing the full power of the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand. An unprecedentedly brilliant multicolored light shone from her grasp, as if connecting to a rainbow bridge spanning the sky, with one end in her hand and the other disappearing into the head of the colossal shark, which was faintly visible in the night. This strike seemed to trigger a qualitative change!

With a crash! The Bĕimíng Realm could no longer sustain itself. The huge shark began to split open from a crack in its head, spreading outwards, and the top of the Jade Green Parasol Tree first emerged from the gap. "I have merged with the Jade Green Parasol Tree through a forbidden art, wielding the power of this Grade Four, high-rank spiritual plant. The spiritual veins of the entire Danxia City can be used by me, and suppressing True Monarch Narcissus is no problem!" After seeing the Jade Green Parasol Tree burst out of the Bĕimíng Realm, the Blossoming Courtyard Master spoke with a confident expression. She then waved the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, having the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master guard her as she flew towards the parasol tree.

"Do it!" But at this moment, True Monarch Narcissus suddenly spoke. Her jade-white bracelet suddenly turned completely black, and a terrifying force capable of reversing yin and yang spread outwards. Before the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master and Blossoming Courtyard Master could react, this black torrent spread, engulfing the skies above the Danxia Mountain Range and covering everyone within it.

Chen Mobai only felt his vision darken and then lighten; the sky had already returned to its clear state. However, looking down, he saw a turbulent ocean surface below. As far as the eye could see, only scattered small islands dotted it like stars. This was within the Bĕimíng Realm! They had been sent inside by True Monarch Narcissus.

And besides them, another person had also been sent inside: the Blossoming Courtyard Master! She looked astonished, waving the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, intending to stir the Jade Green Parasol Tree and break through the realm. However, her current cultivation was only at the ninth layer of the Golden Core stage, and breaking through the realm from the inside was several times more difficult than from the outside.

"Damn beast, I underestimated her!" The Blossoming Courtyard Master immediately realized she had been outmaneuvered by Narcissus. Her expression involuntarily became somewhat distorted as she cursed. If she had merged with the Jade Green Parasol Tree, she was confident she could overpower Narcissus. But at the crucial moment, True Monarch Narcissus had used an artifact to reverse the Bĕimíng Realm, releasing the Jade Green Parasol Tree and trapping her inside instead. Furthermore, she had separated her from the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master.

Thus, outside the Bĕimíng Realm, True Monarch Narcissus was left alone to face the rampaging Jade Green Parasol Tree and the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master. However, without the Blossoming Courtyard Master to control it, the Jade Green Parasol Tree posed little threat to True Monarch Narcissus. Furthermore, the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master was currently only in a borrowed body state; facing True Monarch Narcissus, a genuine Nascent Soul True Monarch, he would likely not last more than a few moves.

"I can make the spiritual plant shatter Danxia City's spiritual veins. The resulting massive explosion can also break through the Bĕimíng Realm from the outside." However, the Blossoming Courtyard Master was, after all, an experienced old hand among evil cultists. She immediately prepared to wave the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree and cast a forbidden art, but a dark green sword light, like a dragon, instantly struck down towards her head.

The dark sword marks on Gongsun Jielü's hands surged like ink dragons, and the dragon heads opened their mouths wide, lunging towards the Blossoming Courtyard Master's head. With a flicker of the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree, the dark green sword light was immediately blocked. Buzz, buzz, buzz! Zzzzzzz! Following Gongsun Jielü, Lan Haitian and Chen Mobai also struck simultaneously. Facing an evil cult demon, it was certainly a matter of attacking together, shoulder to shoulder, and striking decisively!

But at this moment, the Blossoming Courtyard Master fully displayed the essence of her higher cultivation realm. She held up the stone flower, her natal artifact refined in this life. Its blooming fiery radiance, like a red lotus, incinerated all the flying needles and lightning surging from all directions. Only Gongsun Jielü's dark green sword fiend managed to break through the barrier of the stone flower red lotus, striking before the Blossoming Courtyard Master. However, facing the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree, the sword fiend became soft and powerless, dissipating into smoke. Yet, seeing this scene, Chen Mobai's eyes lit up.

They only needed to hold back the Blossoming Courtyard Master here. True Monarch Narcissus outside guaranteed that she could suppress the Divine Guardian Pavilion Master, who was merely in a borrowed body, in at most five minutes!

"You little brats, since you're seeking death yourselves, don't blame me!" But clearly, the Blossoming Courtyard Master had also realized this. She absolutely had to draw upon the Jade Green Parasol Tree's power to break open this realm and escape the Mortal Star. At this thought, a sharp glint flashed in her eyes. She immediately took the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand and fiercely stabbed it into her own heart. In an instant, the root of this treasure tree turned crimson. Drops of essence blood were absorbed, spreading along the withered branches throughout the entire treasure tree. The original seven-colored luster gradually began to display an eighth color!