The figure of Daoist Monarch Lianshan immediately appeared in the void, his eyes filled with anger.
This Demon Monarch of the Black Abyss Demon Realm had actually snatched away Ji City right under his eyelids!
Zhang Jian’s figure followed right after; his expression was calm. Seeing the shifting gloom and brightness on Daoist Monarch Lianshan’s face, he knew that Ji City being taken would affect both of them.
It was not only that the Array of Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow lacked one Array Master.
The Saint Emperor’s Family would likely harbor some resentment as well.
But Zhang Jian did not care. Daoist Monarch Lianshan, as a Daoist Monarch, had failed to protect Ji City; as for him, a Immortal God who had only just stepped into the Taiyi Great Perfection Realm, he had even less means to wrest Ji City back from the hands of a Demon Monarch of the Black Abyss Realm.
Daoist Monarch Lianshan’s features shifted between gloom and brightness for a moment, then he turned toward Zhang Jian and spoke.
"Fellow Daoist Ling Yuan, next I will separate out a Daoist Monarch Incarnation to preside over the Southern Earth Ancestral Acupoint in my stead. The two of us should minimize sending out our True Bodies, to avert accidents!"
Zhang Jian nodded.
At this time the great undertaking was on the verge of success; to die now would be far too unworthy.
After Ji City was seized, the Array of Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow was, to some extent, affected; the Grand Array’s operating speed slowed.
But with Daoist Monarch Lianshan as Array Master, it could still temporarily guard the Earth.
Zhang Jian was also mobilizing the Earth Emperor’s Authority, assisting Daoist Monarch Lianshan to smooth the Earth Spirit Vein as much as possible.
Zhang Jian dispatched several Void Spirit Bodies into the Earth, repairing the Earth while at the same time stationing them at several Earth Spirit Acupoints and Earth Ancestral Veins that had lost their resident Immortal Gods.
Only, without his main body personally taking the field, the speed of repairing the Earth was greatly reduced.
Yet this was far better than ceasing repairs altogether and sitting waiting for doom.
After Ji City was abducted, the likelihood of powerful Outer World Demon Monarchs and even hostile Daoist Monarchs appearing upon the Earth indeed grew. Those mighty Daoist Monarchs also knew that the grand trend of the Donghua Realm was about to be established, and so they shifted their stance, attempting to seize a profit from the Donghua Realm before withdrawing.
Even if the Donghua Realm in the future succeeded in elevating its dimension, they would still do their utmost to diminish the Donghua Realm’s potential for growth.
And this scene was naturally taken in by the various Daoist Monarch Taiqing Celestial deep in the void.
Among them, one Daoist Monarch, clad in a Void Immortal Robe and bearing a uniquely distinguished aura, swept his gaze below and said coolly.
"Chunyang, you continue to preside over the Array of Ten Thousand Immortals. I will lock onto one of them and help you first behead one, to kill the chicken and warn the monkeys!"
Daoist Monarch Chunyang raised his sword at these words.
"Very well, Senior Brother Nanhua, I will guide your way!"
His longsword stirred the Array of Ten Thousand Immortals; the colossal Array shifted stars and moved constellations, immeasurable Heaven and Earth inverted. The figure of the Nanhua Immortal was wrapped by the power of the Array of Ten Thousand Immortals, and in an instant appeared upon the Earth.
Here upon the Earth, a Daoist clad in a peculiar Daoist Robe, a Divine Banner in his hand, was waving that Divine Banner to unleash innumerable bizarre plagues of insects, madly devouring the Immortal City before him.
This Immortal City’s Spiritual Light flowed, towering and vast; clearly it was a rather renowned large Immortal City within the Donghua Realm.
Otherwise it would not have been able to withstand that ocean-like sea of insects.
That was a Daoist Monarch, Daoist Monarch Ten Thousand Gu, a Daoist Monarch under the command of Ancestor Panwang of the Heterodox Sect.
He herded the insect sea; these insects could actually form Arrays, and could also transform into peculiar Eternal Immortal Techniques, exceedingly terrifying.
Wherever they passed, all became bare land.
"Ten Thousand Gu, your allotted fate has reached its end!"
At this moment, a cold voice came from the depths of the void.
The face of Daoist Monarch Ten Thousand Gu, who was attacking Furong Immortal City, suddenly changed drastically, and a surge of intense cold rose in his heart.
In the depth of his palm, the Panwang Divine Banner instantly swung, as if a vast Immortal power cleaved open the void, fiercely slashing toward the void.
Yet he saw countless butterflies dancing forward from the depths of the void.
Those pink, golden, and gray butterflies, in all their dazzling colors, were sliced by the golden Immortal Light in his hand and shattered at once, seemingly pitifully fragile.
But Daoist Monarch Ten Thousand Gu was as though facing a great enemy; he knew that what he had encountered this time was an exceedingly terrifying Daoist Monarch of the Taiqing Celestial Realm.
Nanhua Daoist Monarch.
This Nanhua Daoist Monarch could be called one of the most dangerous Daoist Monarchs of the Taiqing Celestial Realm.
Not only was his Dao Practice overwhelmingly powerful, second only to the Daoist Venerable, the many Immortal Techniques he wielded were also eerie and unfathomable.
At this moment his striking first was not for the sake of contending with the opponent, but more for escape.
In his hand the Panwang Divine Banner transformed, and streams of strange Panwang Ancestral Qi flowed out from within, as if engendering countless insects of Ancestral Qi, devouring heaven and earth.
An ocean-like tide of anomalous Ancestral Qi insects arose, as if a god was born within heaven and earth; wherever they passed, all things could be devoured, butterflies included.
Only, what made Daoist Monarch Ten Thousand Gu’s expression change was that as those butterflies swept in, they grew ever more numerous.
The more they devoured, the more vast they became.
He further saw innumerable golden and gray butterflies speeding in, intertwining like blades of heaven and earth; with a turn they severed the many Panwang Qi Insects he had released, and then slashed furiously toward him.
The void was filled with a grim killing web woven from countless butterflies streaking and crossing.
A trace of dread flickered in Daoist Monarch Ten Thousand Gu’s eyes. Between him and Nanhua Daoist Monarch there was originally a great disparity in Dao Practice; he could not withstand such a terrifying killing move.
He swung the Panwang Divine Banner in his hand, hastily activating another protective Secret Technique within the Panwang Divine Banner.
Innumerable Ancestral Qi Immortal Light streamed out, engendering countless Poisonous Insects that instantly crawled all over his body; circles of pitch-black radiance also surfaced upon his skin.
The pitch-black radiance was still swelling; innumerable dense black Poisonous Insects clambered in circle after circle. If one looked closely, on the back of every one of these black Poisonous Insects was an individual, unique Dao Pattern; combined, they possessed a First Layer of Immortal, Unextinguished might.
That was Ancestor Panwang’s Secret Technique.