Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World Chapter 975 - 457: Heavenly Destiny Artifact, Empowered by the Heavenly Dao

"Three seconds? Yeah, that ought to suffice."

As the hint reached him, a icy gleam surged within Jiang Fan's gaze.

Clearly, despite the heavy wounds on both this bizarre faction and the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, taking them down proved no easy feat.

Luckily, the destiny hint's ability was at his command, letting him peer right into the threads of fate.

Thus, regardless of the fearsome strength those odd creatures held, they remained trapped under destiny's unyielding grasp.

Whoosh!

That idea in mind, Jiang Fan wasted no time. He swiftly employed Shrinking Earth into Inches, materializing before the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall in a blink. Next, he triggered the Life Talisman he carried—the Heaven-Crashing Blade Talisman.

Even though the talisman sat at Entry Level, his Sixth-Layer Divinity Transformation cultivation allowed him to draw out a portion of its Immortal Realm might.

Boom~~

The talisman rapidly formed into fearsome blades, which morphed into a storm of swords, slamming toward the horde of odd creatures inside the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall.

Right away, a devastating shattering energy exploded forth, slamming into those bizarre entities.

"What in the world is happening?"

The horde of strange beings stood stunned. Jiang Fan's approach had gone completely unnoticed, since their full attention was locked on battling the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, trying to wear down its Artifact Spirit.

Success would let them fully integrate with the Ten Thousand Treasures Spiritual Ruins and wipe out all hopes of the Immortal King of Ten Thousand Treasures reviving. It promised gains on every front.

Yet, right in this pivotal instant, they hadn't foreseen a new foe bursting onto the scene.

The enemy's arrival had slipped past their senses entirely.

Only when that force hit them did they realize, but escape was already impossible.

Boom!

The blades crashed against their forms, shattering the layers of barriers and seals around them in a flash, splintering apart like fragile glass.

That marked their First Layer of defense.

Usually, foes barely scratched past their First Layer of defense.

Yet this time, a single strike from the attacker demolished their unique shields outright. This force appeared specially potent against seals and barriers.

"A human—it's a Divinity Transformation human launching the assault."

"Has to be that human cultivator who massacred loads of demons."

"How the hell did this scum locate the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall? Did he know we were here from the start?"

"Take him down, eliminate this cursed human right now. He can't be allowed to survive."

Fury boiled over in the strange beings, words failing to capture their rage.

Ever since slipping into the Spirit Ruins Realm, such a setback had never befallen them.

They were the ambushers of humans, not the reverse.

This flipped the script entirely.

Yet prior to any counter from these odd creatures, the second second ticked in.

Without a moment's pause, Jiang Fan invoked the Immortal Artifact known as the Seven-Colored Lotus Lamp.

Abruptly, rich Primordial Magical Power flooded the immortal lamp, strands of seven-colored immortal flames roaring to life, as if ready to banish infinite shadows and scorch the void till it crumbled.

Boom~~

The seven-colored immortal fire stirred like a beast, lunging at the strange beings, igniting wildly like fire meeting fuel oil.

The dark matter coating the strange beings' forms served as kindling, boosting the seven-colored immortal fire instead, until their whole bodies were swallowed by the blaze.

Agonizing torment raced through them at once, a torment utterly foreign to these strange beings.

"No way, is this the fabled Seven-Colored Immortal Fire?"

"But the Seven-Colored Immortal Fire was supposed to have vanished from the Immortal Realm, right? Why show up in a place like this?"

"This feels off—this human reeks of suspicion. That jerk knew we were around; he's come purely to counter us."

"Relax, our Undying Bodies make us invincible; no single human can end us."

"If this human wants to die, we'll make it happen for him."

Shock and wrath gripped the strange beings in equal measure.

Still, they picked up on the anomaly, for the human's techniques felt tailor-made to suppress them, like he grasped their vulnerabilities inside out.

The Seven-Colored Immortal Fire's blaze wiped out their Second Layer of defense completely, burning away the massive dark matter to nothing, reducing it to dust.

At once, their cores stood exposed—the hearts of these strange beings.

Those pitch-black cores repulsed the eye, like pulsing obsidian hearts, tiny as rice grains, yet entwined in warped Laws.

They looked woven from swarms of wriggling worms.

An undying essence clung to these eerie cores, rendering them hard to destroy.

Buzz~~

Suddenly, the strange beings' fury peaked, unleashing torrents of dark power, curses, and death energy in a frantic bid to fight back.

Dark matter swarmed this void region, spawning endless fissures like accursed tendrils that spanned thousands of kilometers.

Their emitted weird energy could erode a cultivator's Life Force, strip away any creature's Lifespan, and consume the vitality inside.

The third second struck!

But Jiang Fan ignored every move the strange beings made. Guided by the destiny hint's warning, he promptly drew forth the Immortal Artifact, the Human Emperor Sword.