Chasing Down Yinying Yan

Yinying Yan felt dazed. The armoured Hu Wenxi smashed his smoky construct with his staff dragon head first. The treasure crashed right onto his skull. The immortal was a stealth operative by trade, although he was still diminished by Hu Wenxi he was still a true immortal.

However even his skull that was reinforced by the passionate energy of the fire heavenly Qi could not resist the blow. His skull gave way to the staff. The divine power of the staff was too great, its strength was too great.

CRACK!

The entire smoky feline head was pulverised to bits. Yinying Yan's head chest to his belly was smashed to bits of gore. Only chunks of ribcage and spine attached to his lower half was still visible. The body of an immortal was destroyed just like that.

However how can one call oneself a True Immortal when the crippling of the flesh can stop you. If you were a buddha then that's a certainly a yes, but immortals have always been more skewed towards spiritualism. Yinying Yan's immortal essence condensed into an ethereal incarnation of himself. His vitality was greatly weakened but his eyes still burned with hatred.

"Don't think killing me is impressive, among the hundreds of Immortals of our sect I am one of the weakest" the ethereal being grasped the air around him. Spacetime ripped apart and the gap between the two combatants were distorted. Distance shortened and in an instant a knife brimming with Immortal power appeared before Hu Wenxi's throat.

"Shit" Hu Wenxi detected the distortions in spacetime and immediately began working around that. Divine power flooded out of him trying to reverse the damage. However he noticed the blade too late. This knife was an beautiful thing in a haunting way. Its edge was silvery with sickly green scars running along its blade almost as if it is swelling in toxic energy.

Very soon the blade will cut into his flesh. Hu Wenxi's divine body was created among a brutal battlefield. It was designed and specialised towards melee combat. As such it was absurdly tough. Yinying Yan's weapon wasn't another high grade sacred artefact or any cheap sneak attack. It was a genuine Immortal artefact of the True level.

The moment it made contact it will be able to hurt Hu Wenxi. Yinying Yan's mantras and spells directed the knife. It oozed green smoke that disorientated Hu Wenxi's immortal senses. It was a strong poisonous substance that was actually able to corrode away the divine power reversing spacial distortions.

"Don't think that just because I'm not able to keep up with you in combat that I don't have any tricks" Yinying Yan smirked flexing his skeletal fingers. The blade cut into Hu Wenxi's throat slashing sideways. A long red gash adorned the emperor's skin.

Small streams of blood and divine essence oozed out. "You" Hu Wenxi starred in surprise. Yi Guang and Nan Fan who saw this immediately rushed to the emperor's aide. Yi Guang attacked hoping to distract Yinying Yan while Nan Fan took joined in.

"Ha, I don't have to play with you anymore" the immortal held out his hand and stabbed. Yi Guang saw the attack coming but could not evade in time. Yinying Yan stabbed with ferocious intent unlike the lazy way he treated Yi Guang earlier.

"Don't get involved" Hu Wenxi commanded. The space around him cracked before breaking in a whirlwind of destruction. Yi Guang and Nan Fan were thrown hundreds of miles back. The spell of Hu Wenxi also force teleported everyone else out of star city.

Those like Long Chi Bai, Qiang Mei Hua, taoist shark and others were also forced out of the area. When they all appeared in a location far away, they were able to witness the chaotic battle taking place. Hu Wenxi had not let his slashed throat deter him, he did not slow down in his attack on Yinying Yan.

"If you wish to help, help my loyal forces against the rebels" sent Hu Wenxi in a mental transmission. Understanding the circumstances Yi Guang and taoist Shark who was still relatively fresh led the others towards the other major battlefield.

The ethereal gaunt man began trying to kite Hu Wenxi trying his best to avoid the swings of the dragon staff. Luckily the gaunt man had a spell that dissolved his being into untangle smoke that fazed through the attacks. That was until Hu Wenxi struck with attacks imbued with the divine authority of the grand Tao.

While an Immortal cultivated the Tao from the Heavenly Tao a god creates his own Tao from grand Tao. It was the source of all things, even the Heavenly Tao. While Heavenly Tao controlled the universe, it was the grand Tao that saw its beginning.

Hu Wenxi's divine might attack in brutal swings that would've cracked planets and pulverised Immortals. Yinying Yan discombobulated his body as each of Hu Wenxi's strike will shatter his soul. In doing so he would be sent tumbling back into the cycle of samsara.

"You know you're only denying the inevitable right" said Hu Wenxi. Yinying Yan upon seeing the emperor saying so really wanted to rip him apart. However he could not do anything but run. His smokey pieces flew around looking like a swirl of dancing ghosts.

"I need to regroup with the others" Yinying Yan scanned the city discovering nothing. At this moment he realised that Hu Wenxi had likely killed them all or at least captured them all. Feeling disheartened he was left with one other option and that was to find Celestial Star king.

Earlier Hu Wenxi's true self had pushed the Celestial Star king out of the city into the skies far above. They were likely in low orbit by now. The two were still locked in fierce combat but the Celestial Star king was inevitably going to lose.

As he had no realistic way to escape Yinying Yan saw a chance in using the king as a meat shield to slow Hu Wenxi down until he can get into space. Yinying Yan felt very indignant that he had to flee a second time, he felt disappointment that he'll have to fail his master. However if he did not Hu Wenxi will definitely kill him without question.

"Damn it" Yinying Yan's bits merged together narrowly avoiding dancing rabbits leapfrogging across the battlefield. Hu Wenxi in order to chase Yinying Yan down had formed the rabbits construct that worked in conjunction to chase down all of Yinying Yan. 'Desperate times call for desperate means' Yinying Yan held his knife and slashed down at one approaching rabbit.

The blade cleaved the rabbit in two. The other rabbits approached, one bit into his side tearing a chunk of his immortal essence soul out. "GAH" Yinying Yan swung wildly while another rabbit tore off his left hand with its incisor.

"Son of a bitch" howled Yinying Yan, his body exploded on a flurry of black smoke ravens. The birds flew in a swirl using their talons to attack the rabbits shredding them apart. Hu Wenxi smirked, "The only bitch here is you" he swiped his hand and divine power formed into a massive green sea serpent.

The knife floated along with the swarm of ravens fired a wave of green liquid. "You do have some fantastic tricks" said Hu Wenxi, the snake opened its mouth drinking the green liquid. It revealed corroding properties revealed itself as it melted through the serpent's belly. However as if time itself disagreed, the moment rewound and the wound healed until there was no sign it was ever there.

The liquid retracted into the belly of the beast and flowed in reverse out of its mouth. However it stopped mere centimetres away from the serpents condensing into a ball. This was not the work of Yinying Yan, Hu Wenxi extracted the liquid by reversing time then trapping it inside a dimensional bubble.

It was not a physical barrier but a tiny universe with its own limited space that that the liquid into its current ball shape. Yinying Yan cursed in his heart. He blitzed upwards hoping to pierce the clouds. Hu Wenxi frowned, "Where do you think you're going?".

"Just try and stop me" Yinying Yan blitzed with all his speed. He may not a weak combatant but he was very skilled in escape. Yinying Yan's mystical ability roared with life, his ethereal body seemed to transform from black smoke to swirling ravens to other types of obscure clouds. The immortal was deploying all the techniques he knows in order to escape.

'I need to slow him down' thought Yinying Yan. He empowered his knife grabbing hold of it and slashed down. Hu Wenxi met the attack with his ruler and struck forward with his staff. Yinying Yan spun around narrowly dodging the attack by mere inches. His body thick with smoke and surrounded by bloody raven corpses narrowly avoided instant death by bludgeoning.

"HAH" Yinying Yan screeched. As if a thousand screaming tortured goals howled at the same time, Yinying Yan's screech was painful to hear. If a lower realm cultivator heard it they would have their ear drums burst. Higher realm experts would certainly be demoralised. Yinying Yan was hoping he could affect Hu Wenxi's mind to at least distract him.

Hu Wenxi widened his eyes. He immediately worked to block the sound and negate the attack. Yinying Yan possessed a variety of abilities that he did not showcase two hundred years ago. Hu Wenxi was thankful for that as he would've likely died. Wether Yinying Yan was an idiot or just careless was unimportant. Hu Wenxi was not afraid of him gaining some distance.

"Gotta run" Yinying Yan pushed his fire Heavely Qi infused body to its limits. He broke through the atmosphere that kept mortals earthbound reaching into low orbit. He took a quick glance below and immediately saw Hu Wenxi strolling towards him, both of them from two directions along with a female dressed in black.

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While Hu Wenxi's divine avatar dealt with Yinying Yan, his real body sat comfortably on his massive throne counteracting every single one of the Celestial Star king's attacks. The Celestial Star king was wildly swinging his axe around at Hu Wenxi who appeared so much smaller yet as time went on only felt more bigger.

Hu Wenxi used his immortal throne to full effect diverting massive amounts of energy to parry the axe strikes with sandy energy beams that whipped out in long arcs. Hu Wenxi held out his hand and materialised an ancient scroll from. It of paper embroiled in jade. Its contents were that of a map of flowing river through circular points.

The Celestial Star king recognised the object. "A treasure?" he said. Hu Wenxi shook his head, "A spell". Rays of light emitted from the map scroll in twelve directions. These light rays took faint appearances of a rabbit, tiger, bull, rat, dragon, snake, horse, monkey, goat, rooster, dog, and boar.

The Celestial Star king widened his eyes. He swung his axe horizontally slicing apart reality. From the split rays of cosmic light emitted swirling like a wormhole. "Swallow!" He commanded, his wormhole hung in the sky swirling rapidly consuming the twelve light rays. Hu Wenxi raised an eye brow.

The Celestial Star king flipped his hand in several positions and the wormhole stopped spinning. It actually solidified and elongated to a burning star, specifically a dying star undergoing supernova. Hu Wenxi leapt from his throne supported by sandy rays of light. He clasped his palms and chanted.

"Burn to ash!" Cried the Celestial Star king. The sun exploded in one direction sending all its power towards Hu Wenxi. However Hu Wenxi had already completed his spell. The outburst of white hot energy halted in its place and began dispersing. It did not look like it was cancelled out.

"You aged it?" The Celestial Star king barely made out. Hu Wenxi's body was covered in sweat, the effort had clearly taken its toll on him. The Celestial Star king was hardly looking better, he was pale as of he had the life sucked out of him. His six followers all looked as if they were being drained dry.

Hu Wenxi held out his palm, his throne flew towards him and he grabbed it by the back rest. The Celestial Star king gritted his teeth in rage, "Just die already". He swung his axe down in a long arc, the immortal Qi pulsed greatly further empowering the strike.

Hu Wenxi also attacked. He smashed down with his throne. The massive chair smashed into the shoulder of the cosmic giant before the axe hit Hu Wenxi. It deformed the cosmic body smashing the whole arm right off.

"NO!" Cried the Celestial Star king as he watched the axe fall from his grasp. He reached out to with the other hand to grab it. Hu Wenxi payed no attention but instead looked wryly, "Are you done watching?". Before he was even done a black dragon raced passed him.

This dragon had a long body 10,000 metres long covered in smooth glistening black scales. She had a mane of white and purple hair mixed together and deer like antlers sprouting from the top of the draconic head.

"You had no issue dealing with him on your own" said a lofty female voice. The dragon flew through the sky swiping its massive claws into the cosmic giant. Caught off guard the Celestial Star king widened his eyes.

The black dragon tore into the giant ripping away chunks of cosmic flesh. "A Demonic Ascendent?" The Celestial Star king's arm was already stretched out retracted back to smash the dragon's brain to bits. The black dragon scoffed and quickly rolled its head out of the way while scraping its body along the giant.

"A Human Immortal is still human, don't think you're too special" roared the black dragon. He scales stood up like blades, by racing along the giant's body the scales cut into the cosmic flesh.

"Your majesty, we can't hold on" cried one of the feeble saints. "He's right you know" said Hu Wenxi looked directly at the Celestial star king through the cosmic giant. The emperor reached out and stabbed the giant through its head with a long thin sand blade.

At the same time the black dragon ripped into the giant grabbing two saints with both her claws. Veins appeared on her palm as the dragon squeezed. The two unfortunate saints couldn't get a word out before being crushed to paste.

Hu Wenxi's sand sword stabbed into the Celestial Star king's chest, "Its over Xin Da Kong, and thank you Ao Changying". The Black dragon nodded changing back into the form of a beautiful young woman.