“Given how many wars.h.i.+ps there are, I would think you're lying if you tell me they only have a few True Immortals.” Chen Feng's figure flashed to evade two incoming attacks. The two attacks were somewhat haphazard and relatively weak. Thus, Chen Feng was able to easily evade them.

“I'm wondering, why are they attacking us?” Huo Yunlong had already transformed into a ball of flames and he hovered about in s.p.a.ce.

Bi Qing had informed them to find the chance to take action. And yet, Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong came to realize that the situation was even more dire than they had expected. The 100,000 wars.h.i.+ps were able to easily – despite the distance of billions of li between them – open fire on the three of them. On the other hand, Chen Feng's team of three was incapable of getting close to the wars.h.i.+ps. Trying to approach the wars.h.i.+ps was simply suicide. Thus, they had only one other option, run.

Sou! Sou!

Huo Yunlong and Chen Feng rapidly retreated. In just the blink of an eye, they had covered a distance of tens of millions of li. And yet, the attacks from the wars.h.i.+ps suddenly became even fiercer. Hundreds of the wars.h.i.+ps opened fire at the same time and various powers came together to form a ma.s.sive curtain of light, which charged forward to envelop both Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong.

“Not good! We cannot evade!” Chen Feng instantly sensed their surrounding s.p.a.ce shrinking, becoming compressed. 

“Let me!” Before Chen Feng could respond, Huo Yunlong took action. Both his hands shot forward to fire out a ferocious fire dragon. With a roar, the fire dragon charged forward, desirous of tearing the curtain of light apart.

“Oh, no!” Chen Feng had sensed great danger. Huo Yunlong's response was the right one. Only, in the face of absolute power, nothing mattered. Additionally, this attack from the wars.h.i.+ps was not as simple as it looked.

Huo Yunlong's fire dragon failed to tear the curtain of light. Instead, the curtain of light easily crushed the fire dragon. When Chen Feng rushed forward to pull Huo Yunlong back, the curtain of light abruptly flared with light and the power it emanated bombarded them both.

During that critical moment, a wave of water ripples emerged out of nowhere to encase both Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong and all the attacks striking the water ripples disappeared.

“A pseudo-Divine artifact!” 

A voice cried out in surprise from one of the wars.h.i.+ps located far away from Chen Feng.

“To think that some random cultivators with low cultivation bases would have a pseudo-Divine artifact.”

“True Immortal Soulsift, go capture them.”

“Affirmative!”

A wars.h.i.+p split off from the fleet of wars.h.i.+ps. It flashed through s.p.a.ce a few times as it pursued Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong.

“Are you all right?” A scroll suddenly appeared somewhere in s.p.a.ce. Next, Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong emerged from it. Chen Feng was in a slightly better state than Huo Yunlong, who had sustained some injuries.

“I'm fine. Thankfully, we managed to enter the array diagram earlier. Just one moment later and I would be ripped to pieces.”

“Did you manage to figure out their background?”

“Not a clue.”

“Sigh, let's go.” Chen Feng then pulled Huo Yunlong back into the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin. The scroll then became a stream of light, flas.h.i.+ng its way through s.p.a.ce. In but several breaths' worth of time, they had covered a distance of 10 million li.

Chen Feng had made use of this pseudo-Divine artifact earlier. Speaking of which, Chen Feng possessed two pseudo-Divine artifacts on his person. But be it in terms of control or power, the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin was superior to the Bedazzling Star Map. At the end of the day, while the Bedazzling Star Map also possessed a highly formidable offensive power, it was still just a treasure map in the end. Its offensive power and lethality could not be compared with the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin.

“What happened?”

“The opponent caught up to us, but there is only one wars.h.i.+p. We'll lure it far away and kill them off.”

The Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin was already infinitely close to reaching the Divine tier. Although it was not jumping through s.p.a.ce, its flight speed alone was unimaginably high. After flying for an unknown period of time, it finally slowed down. Within a dead s.p.a.ce, it suddenly flared with light before disappearing from sight.

After one joss stick's worth of time, a wars.h.i.+p appeared and a domineering-looking youngster emerged from it. Immediately after that, a line of cultivators flew out from the wars.h.i.+p to fan out behind the youngster.

“One True Immortal and 20 Ascendant Immortals. They'll be hard to handle.” Chen Feng, who was hidden inside the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin, could clearly sense what was happening outside.

“Without the True Immortal, I can singlehandedly finish off the Ascendant Immortals. Still, Chen Feng, don't you have pseudo-Divine artifacts? Finis.h.i.+ng off this True Immortal should not be an issue, no?”

“It's not that simple. The other party is clearly coming for my pseudo-Divine artifact. For them to dare come over, they must be confident in themselves. Besides, just think about it. They have 100,000 wars.h.i.+ps. Just one of them would possess this level of strength. If a few more comes, can you imagine what would happen?”

“Those wars.h.i.+ps probably don't have this level of strength as well, right?” Huo Yunlong felt shocked thinking about it. If every single one of the wars.h.i.+ps could field such a line-up of powerhouses, they could even rampage about in the Immortal Plane.

“Moreover, this is just the power that they are choosing to reveal.”

“You mean there are still others inside the wars.h.i.+p?”

“What nonsense! Of course there are others inside.”

“Still, the other party is incapable of finding us. We can launch a sneak attack on them. As long as we can finish off this True Immortal, there will be no need to fear the rest. Besides, we can also get our hands on an Immortal-tier wars.h.i.+p.”

The wars.h.i.+p hovering before them was a high-grade Immortal artifact. It was a flying wars.h.i.+p with both offensive and defensive capabilities, something with a very high value. At the very least, just looking at it was causing Chen Feng and Huo Yunlong's eyes to turn bloodshot.

“The other party has found us. Next up, you need to give it your all. If we can take them down, the wars.h.i.+p will be yours.”

“Alright! You said it!”

“Come on out.” The True Immortal leading the other party finally took action. He stretched his hand outwards, and his five fingers moved to swiftly tear s.p.a.ce. Like a piece of cloth, s.p.a.ce was thus torn down and the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin appeared before them all.

“As expected, a pseudo-Divine artifact. Looks like we'll be getting a sizable harvest this time,” the True Immortal said, reaching out with his hand towards the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin.

Boom!

A clump of flames charged out and Huo Yunlong, whose cultivation base had been pushed up to the half-step True Immortal stage, charged forward to attack, a battle lance in his hand.

“Where did this fellow come from? You're courting death!” 

Even before overcoming his tribulation, Huo Yunlong could already push his combat power to the half-step True Immortal stage. And now, by utilizing the Seed of the Fire Essence, his combat power became infinitely close to that of a bona fide True Immortal. By adding some other methods into the mix, Huo Yunlong could even fight against a True Immortal.

However, the unknown True Immortal's palm flashed out and flowing light churned. Contrary to Huo Yunlong's expectations, the resulting strange wave of energy fluctuations easily blocked his attack. At the same time, Huo Yunlong sensed waves of power a.s.sailing him. More, each wave was stronger than the previous one, giving Huo Yunlong the impression that he would be incapable of stopping this attack.

Finally, Huo Yunlong unleashed his full power. The Seed of the Fire Essence completely melded with his body and his strength rose again. The battle lance in his hand transformed into a fire dragon to collide against the enemy's attack.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

A series of explosive sounds rang out, accompanied by blossoming sparks. In the end, Huo Yunlong was sent flying. It was then that a stream of cyan-coloured light emerged from the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin to enter Huo Yunlong's body. At the same time a rivulet of water flowed out before abruptly exploding, transforming into a torrential river, which charged towards the enemy.

“Humph! Break!”

The True Immortal suddenly straightened his figure, becoming like a G.o.d of War to give off a shocking aura of might. Next, he punched out and a ma.s.sive fist silhouette appeared before the torrential river. Surprisingly, he had managed to stop the pseudo-Divine artifact's attack.

Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou!

The other Ascendant Immortals swarmed forward to surround Huo Yunlong. Without saying a word, they levelled various attacks against him.

“These fellows have a very peculiar background. They don't seem like cultivators from the Immortal Plane.” After fighting them briefly, Huo Yunlong then sent Chen Feng a secret vocal transmission.

“I sense it as well. You be careful. I will deal with this True Immortal first.” When the True Immortal attacked earlier, Chen Feng had already sensed a power of laws different from those of this part of the universe. Due to that, faint speculations began forming within Chen Feng's mind.

Surging rivers gushed out from the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin, like dragons swirling about wantonly. It did not take long before all of them occupied the surrounding s.p.a.ce. This was the might of the pseudo-Divine artifact, an array-type attack.

“You want to hide? Get out here!” The True Immortal roared skywards and his body grew in size, reaching over 10,000 zhang in height.  Energy streams surged across his whole body and symbols appeared on his body. Next, he fired out a punch and the surging rivers were smashed apart in the wake of his fist blast. When the fist blast arrived before the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin, it then transformed into the shape of a palm and grasped at the array diagram. 

The Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin then shook to quake the palm apart. At the same time, invisible waves of energy fluctuations spread out, causing the True Immortal to back away.

“With just this much ability, you dare think about collecting a pseudo-Divine artifact? Can you not sense the arrival of the G.o.d of Death?” Following Chen Feng's voice, a ma.s.sive hand emerged from the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin. It could seemingly control the whole world and collect the stars. The hand then grasped at the True Immortal. It was a simplistic-looking move. And yet, it was unstoppable.

I don't believe you can block the attack from a pseudo-Divine artifact! Chen Feng thought. During the earlier clash, Chen Feng had secretly mixed in hex power and soul power with his attacks. In the face of this combo, even a True Immortal would be hurt.

As expected, the True Immortal who had been emanating an aura of vigour suddenly faltered. His essence, energy and soul power seemingly drained away and he began turning lethargic. Next, the ma.s.sive hand caught him.

“Good!”

Huo Yunlong, who was fighting the Ascendant Immortals, instantly cheered. Chen Feng was also feeling delighted and he wanted to put the True Immortal into the array diagram. Once that happened, the True Immortal could forget about escaping.

It was at that moment that the wars.h.i.+p suddenly attacked. The wars.h.i.+p charged forward, its ma.s.sive body encased in a layer of flowing light to seemingly become a sword. Sharp energy waves were left in its wake and it cut the ma.s.sive hand that the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin had created.

And so, the True Immortal broke free.

Boom!

The wars.h.i.+p then fired out a beam of light at Huo Yunlong. Huo Yunlong, still in the midst of battle, felt a chill run down his spine and his hairs stood on end. An intense feeling of danger rose up uncontrollably from his heart.

“Oh, no!”

Just as Huo Yunlong was about to take the attack head-on, an unstoppable power enveloped him and he found himself inside the Primary Spirit Diagram of First Origin next.

1 li = 0.5 km

1 zhang = 3.333 m