Chapter 540: Reverse the Universe

"When will Ancestor Qianxing be able to arrive?" Chen Mobai asked again. However, Lan Haitian, who usually answered every question, hesitated this time.

"Wufeng Immortal Mountain is half a Sect territory away from here, so it's quite a distance. The Ancestor might need some time," Lan Haitian replied. The last time Ancestor Qianxing took action, Lan Haitian's grandfather hadn't even been born yet, so he knew nothing about the Ancestor's speed. Furthermore, within the Immortal Sect, information regarding the strength of Soul Transformation Ancestors has always been top secret. Even with Lan Haitian's status, he had never accessed any related data.

"So, we still have to rely on Reverend Narcissus for now." After saying this, Chen Mobai glanced at the battle situation on the highest peak of the Danxia Mountain Range. His innate combat instincts led him to begin calmly analyzing the situation.

On their side, there were four individuals in total: Reverend Narcissus, Gongsun Jielu, Lan Haitian, and himself. Facing them were two powerful demonic cultivators from the Ascension Sect. Both the Divine Control Pavilion Master and the Blooming Court Master, at their peak and with their true bodies, were beings no weaker than Reverend Narcissus. Fortunately, after the Blooming Court Master underwent "Soldier Dissolution" and reincarnation, she likely avoided attracting the attention of the Immortal Sect's upper echelons, so she hadn't yet cultivated back to the Nascent Soul realm. As for the Divine Control Pavilion Master, he had merely catalyzed a divine seed and taken possession of Yu Tianguang's body. The power these two could unleash would not be excessively overwhelming.

As long as Reverend Narcissus could perform normally... Just as Chen Mobai was thinking this, the Blooming Court Master suddenly took the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand and swung it towards the giant shark phantom in the sky. The treasure tree shimmered like a rainbow, instantly drawing an arc of light that plunged directly into the Northern Dark Realm. Amidst a rumbling sound, Chen Mobai felt the entire Danxia Mountain Range begin to vibrate. Reverend Narcissus also frowned slightly and said to the three of them, "While I'm suppressing the Jade Wutong Tree, the spiritual veins of the entire Danxia City are also being agitated by this spirit tree, resisting and trying to break free from my Northern Dark Realm."

At this moment, the Blooming Court Master was continuously swinging the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand. Beams of rainbow light shimmered, connecting with Danxia City's vast spiritual veins, launching a combined internal and external assault with the Jade Wutong Tree. A crack surprisingly appeared in the giant shark phantom. Through the crack, one could clearly see the Jade Wutong Tree, with bark as green as jade and leaves like flowers, constantly exhaling mist and attracting immense spiritual energy, attempting to break through the Northern Dark Realm that confined it.

"If it weren't for the Jade Wutong Tree and the restraints of Danxia Mountain's spiritual veins, I could take care of these two myself," Reverend Narcissus couldn't help but spit. Then, vast and profound spiritual power erupted from her entire body, transforming into a brilliant azure spiritual light that surged into the giant shark phantom in mid-air, enhancing the power of the Northern Dark Realm.

"Reverend, is there anything we can do to help you?""Will Ancestor Qianxing come?"After hearing this, Chen Mobai and Lan Haitian asked different questions.

Reverend Narcissus replied, "Martial Uncle Qianxing is a homebody; he doesn't like going out. What's happening here isn't too big in his eyes, so he might not intervene." This statement left Chen Mobai and the other two exchanging bewildered glances.

"Then what do we do?" On the other side were two vice-leaders of the Ascension Sect, both at the Nascent Soul level.

"If I activate the Six Imperial Sword Fiend Array, I can hold off one of them." At this point, Gongsun Jielu also revealed her ultimate trump card. She flicked her green suit aside, rolled up the sleeves of her shirt, revealing six sword fiend marks on both of her arms. The sword fiend marks were a dark cyan, like dragons and snakes. The dragon's head was on her left hand, its tail on her right, and its body extended across her upper back. Although covered by her white shirt, Chen Mobai could clearly see the sword fiend marks light up.

"Why are you all so worried? I have extraordinary means to suppress these cultists." Reverend Narcissus showed no signs of concern. She was the head of the Law Enforcement Department, and among the Immortal Sect's fourteen Nascent Soul cultivators, her combat experience ranked among the top three. As she spoke, she took out a jade-white bracelet. An unsettling aura, even to Chen Mobai, spread from the bracelet.

"Listen carefully, all three of you..." Reverend Narcissus's spiritual transmission echoed in the minds of Chen Mobai and the other two. In a mere instant, she had fully informed them of her strategy.

"Can you do it?" After explaining her battle plan, Reverend Narcissus looked at Shi Qing, who was continuously swinging the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in mid-air, and the Divine Control Pavilion Master, who stood guarding her side.

Gongsun Jielu said, "We'll do our best." Lan Haitian declared, "Even if it costs me my life, I'll hold her back." Chen Mobai merely nodded without speaking. Reverend 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. His combat strength was undoubtedly the lowest among the three.

"Before I devour the Divine Control Pavilion Master, make sure you don't get devoured by the Blooming Court Master first." As Reverend Narcissus spoke, her mouth spread into a grin, revealing two prominent fangs. She showed an instinctively cruel expression to the two Ascension Sect members in mid-air.

"If possible, could you spare Reverend Yu's life?" Chen Mobai hesitated, then, following his true feelings, requested of Reverend Narcissus. In response, Reverend Narcissus merely gave him a strange look and offered no reply. Then, she closed her eyes and activated a powerful art from the Kunpeng Daoist Academy.

"Closing eyes to summon night!" In an instant, the sky turned dark! In mid-air, the Blooming Court Master and the Divine Control Pavilion Master, who were causing cracks in the shark phantom formed by the Northern Dark Realm through the Jade Wutong Tree, were naturally drawn to this sight.

"Candle Dragon Divine Eye Art!" Ancient demonic sects and the Immortal Sect had battled for thousands of years, so they were generally familiar with each other's signature cultivation techniques and arts. Upon seeing Reverend Narcissus close her eyes and turn day into night, they immediately recognized this as the Immortal Sect's top-tier spiritual eye technique.

But what use was this in the current situation? The Divine Control Pavilion Master was a thoughtful person. Seeing this, he wondered what his opponent intended to do. He didn't believe someone of Reverend Narcissus's cultivation level would do something meaningless.

"Will the Jade Wutong Tree's power weaken in a nighttime environment?" the Divine Control Pavilion Master asked the Blooming Court Master beside him. The latter shook her head indifferently; she didn't care about such things at all. She merely kept shaking the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, urging this artifact, which embodied all the power she condensed in her previous life, hoping to guide the Jade Wutong Tree to break through the realm and achieve her complete rebirth!

The Jade Wutong Tree in Danxia City was a top-grade Tier 4 spiritual plant. Under the Blooming Court Master's careful nurturing, it already showed a tendency to evolve into a Tier 5 spiritual plant. Originally, according to her plan, once her current reincarnation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, she would be able to perform the Blooming Court's forbidden art, causing the Jade Wutong Tree to completely drain Danxia City's spiritual veins. This would allow her to overdraw all the spiritual plant's power and make it bloom into a Tier 5 Nine-Colored Immortal Flower! This immortal flower contained all the essence of the Jade Wutong Tree from over four thousand years. Furthermore, under the Blooming Court's forbidden art, it would filter out all impurities and conscious fragments, such as the vastness of the earth and the shifting of mountains and rivers, leaving only the purest essence of vitality and primal energy. Once the Blooming Court Master consumed it, she would not only instantly merge the powers of her past and present lives, reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, but also gain insight into the profound Daoist rhymes of a spiritual plant advancing to Tier 5. With her extensive accumulation, she might even be able to use this to achieve Soul Transformation with Shi Qing's reincarnated body, reaching the pinnacle of the Immortal Sect's cultivation methods!

Unfortunately, even the best disguise eventually gets exposed. Shi Qing vaguely guessed when she was exposed. If she had known, she should have stopped that person, even if it meant letting the dark and wind spiritual roots die in the Immortal Sect; that would have been better than alerting them. Thinking of this, Shi Qing couldn't help but feel resentment. When Kong Feichen took Yang Jing away, she, as a vice-leader, certainly knew about it since it involved the Ascension Sect. The Divine Control Pavilion Master had also informed her before sending people. After Lan Haitian and the other Heaven-Mending team members arrived, she had been secretly observing them. In her opinion, Kong Feichen and Yang Jing combined were not as important as her little finger; whether the mission succeeded or failed was irrelevant. The crucial thing was that she couldn't be exposed. However... The Blooming Court Master frowned, thinking of the person who had intervened at the last moment to forcibly help Kong Feichen take Yang Jing away. But now that things had come to this, the most important task was to forcibly catalyze the Jade Wutong Tree before the Immortal Sect's experts arrived. Even if it ultimately failed to produce the Nine-Colored Immortal Flower, she had to leave the Mortal Star before a Soul Transformation expert appeared.

With this thought, the Blooming Court Master no longer hesitated and unleashed the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree's power to its maximum. An unprecedented brilliant rainbow light flared in her hand, as if it were a rainbow bridge connecting both ends of the sky: one end in her grasp, the other disappearing into the head of the giant shark, which was faintly visible in the darkness. This strike seemed to trigger a qualitative change! With a crash, the Northern Dark Realm could no longer hold. The giant shark began to tear apart from the head's fissure, spreading outwards, and the tip of the Jade Wutong Tree first emerged through the crack...

"By merging with the Jade Wutong Tree through a forbidden art, I can harness the power of this top-grade Tier 4 spiritual plant. The entire Danxia City's spiritual veins can be used by me, and suppressing Reverend Narcissus will be easy!" Seeing the Jade Wutong Tree burst out of the Northern Dark Realm, the Blooming Court Master spoke confidently. She then waved the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, having the Divine Control Pavilion Master guard her as she flew towards the wutong tree.

"Now!" But at this moment, Reverend Narcissus suddenly spoke. Her jade-white bracelet abruptly turned completely black, and a terrifying power capable of reversing heaven and earth, yin and yang, spread forth. Caught off guard, the Divine Control Pavilion Master and the Blooming Court Master watched as this dark torrent expanded, engulfing the sky above the Danxia Mountain Range and enveloping all of them.

Chen Mobai felt his vision go dark and then bright again. The sky had already returned to clear. However, looking down, he saw a turbulent sea below. As far as the eye could see, only scattered small islands dotted the surface, like stars. This was inside the Northern Dark Realm! They had been sent in by Reverend Narcissus. Besides them, one more person had also been sent in: the Blooming Court Master! Her face was filled with astonishment. She waved the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand, attempting to activate the Jade Wutong Tree and break through the realm. However, her current cultivation was merely at the ninth level of Golden Core, making the difficulty of breaking open the realm from the inside several times greater than from the outside.

"Damn it, I underestimated her!" The Blooming Court Master quickly realized she had been outmaneuvered by Reverend Narcissus. Her expression distorted slightly as she cursed. If she had merged with the Jade Wutong Tree, she was confident she could suppress Reverend Narcissus. However, Reverend Narcissus had, at a crucial moment, used an artifact to reverse the Northern Dark Realm, releasing the Jade Wutong Tree and trapping her inside. Furthermore, she had separated her from the Divine Control Pavilion Master. In this way, outside the Northern Dark Realm, Reverend Narcissus would be facing the Jade Wutong Tree and the Divine Control Pavilion Master alone. However, without the Blooming Court Master to control it, the Jade Wutong Tree posed little threat to Reverend Narcissus. Moreover, the Divine Control Pavilion Master was currently only in a borrowed-body state; encountering Reverend Narcissus, a true Nascent Soul Reverend, he likely wouldn't last many moves.

"I can make the spirit plant destroy Danxia City's spiritual veins; the resulting explosion would also break through the Northern Dark Realm from the outside." However, the Blooming Court Master was, after all, an experienced cultist with rich combat experience. She immediately prepared to swing the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree to unleash a forbidden art. But a dark green sword light, like a dragon, instantly struck down towards her head. The dark sword marks on Gongsun Jielu's hands swelled like ink dragons, opening a dragon-head mouth that aimed to bite the Blooming Court Master's head. The Seven-Colored Treasure Tree shimmered, instantly blocking the dark green sword light. Buzz! Sizzle!

After Gongsun Jielu, Lan Haitian and Chen Mobai also struck simultaneously. Facing a demonic cultist, it was definitely a matter of working together decisively and striking hard! But at this moment, the Blooming Court Master fully displayed the essence of her higher cultivation. She lifted the stone flower, her life-bound 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 Jielu's dark green sword fiend managed to break through the barrier of the stone flower's red lotus, striking the Blooming Court Master. However, against the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree, the sword fiend became soft and powerless, dissipating into smoke.

However, Chen Mobai's eyes lit up at this sight. They only needed to hold back the Blooming Court Master here; outside, Reverend Narcissus guaranteed she could suppress the borrowed-body Divine Control Pavilion Master in five minutes at most!

"You little brats, since you're seeking death yourselves, don't blame me!" But clearly, the Blooming Court Master had also realized this. She absolutely had to unleash the power of the Jade Wutong Tree to break through this realm and escape the Mortal Star. With that thought, a sharp glint flashed in her eyes. She directly took the Seven-Colored Treasure Tree in her hand and fiercely plunged it into her own heart. In an instant, the roots of the treasure tree turned a fiery red. Drops of vital blood were absorbed, spreading along the withered branches to the entire tree. Its original seven-colored luster gradually began to glow with an eighth color!