Immortality Martial Arts: I Started with the Five Animals Health Fist Chapter 1149 - 387: Great Annihilation! Splitting Heaven and Earth! (Grand Finale)

Phew!

The emptiness endured for a mere heartbeat before the dimensions of space, time, light, and darkness surged back into existence. As the colossus of the Divine Phoenix manifested once more, the First Saint stood across from her, frozen in a state of utter shock.

The First Saint’s physical form was turning translucent, resembling a fading silhouette of light and shadow on the verge of total erasure.

A complex array of emotions flickered across the First Saint’s face, a mixture of profound joy and lingering bitterness—joy that a champion had finally emerged to halt his path, yet bitterness that he had been bested in a direct confrontation.

"There truly is no end to those with greater power... It is a tragedy that the horizon beyond this world will remain forever out of my sight."

A long sigh escaped the First Saint.

Fixing his complicated gaze upon the Divine Phoenix, the First Saint questioned, "Is this... the level that transcends Entering Saint?"

To suffer a direct defeat while at the absolute pinnacle of Entering Saint meant that only a force exceeding that realm could have struck him down.

"Indeed. I have named this state the Fusion Realm. It represents the total integration and mastery of a singular pathway, liberated from the constraints of heaven and earth. Had the Heavenly Demon God not corrupted the pathways of this world, making them fragmented and flawed—thereby increasing the difficulty of Cultivation for future generations by a hundredfold—you too might have possessed the potential to enter this realm."

The Divine Phoenix offered a slight, acknowledging nod as she looked toward him.

"Divine Phoenix... have you truly attained the state of transcendence above the world? The Fusion Realm..."

Terror gripped the hearts of humans and demon monsters alike. The Heavenly Wolf King’s eyes, in particular, radiated a brilliant light. Despite its current alliance with the Demon Monster Clan, it felt a surge of dignity and pride knowing such a supreme being had risen from the True Beast bloodline.

The Nine Great Ancient Sages had merely bonded with shards of the Heavenly Dao, wielding only fractured pathways and a mere glimmer of the Heavenly Dao’s true power. To reach transcendence, one was required to master a pathway in its entirety!

Ever since the descent of the Heavenly Demon God, the world had suffered non-stop devastation, causing the Heavenly Dao to shatter. This fragmentation made Cultivation an uphill battle; in a world where the Heavenly Dao was broken, perfecting a complete pathway was an almost impossible feat!

Take Su Changkong, for example; though he had birthed his fourth Great Divine Power and gained insight into the Yin-Yang Life-Death Pathway, it remained a mere seedling. He would need to nurture it to its absolute limit and evolve it into a finished pathway to achieve transcendence.

The Divine Phoenix was an exception. Born as a True Beast during the primal dawn when the Heavenly Dao was whole, she was blessed from birth with the seed of the Ice-Fire Pathway. Through eons of dedicated Cultivation, she advanced further, mastering the Pathway of Nothingness and successfully becoming Transcendent.

Standing before the First Saint, she existed on a superior plane, like a higher-dimensional entity looking down. Naturally, the First Saint stood no chance!

Regret washed over the First Saint—regret that he would never ascend to that peak or witness the vastness of the cosmos.

With a final sigh, he turned his head toward Hua Shan and the others: "I wish you luck... I hope survival is within your reach. Now that I am fallen... the Heavenly Demon God will descend into total madness and trigger a genuine apocalypse..."

As his voice faded into a sigh, the First Saint’s body dissolved into the void. It was as if he had never graced the world, save for the Heavenly Dao fragments he had once absorbed, which now drifted back into the universe.

He was the peerless titan of the human race throughout history, a man who had never known defeat, yet he eventually drifted away like smoke, leaving only a memory behind.

"The First Saint... has fallen..."

The demon monster faction was paralyzed with fear. The First Saint had been obliterated in a single strike by the Transcendent Divine Phoenix, reduced to nothingness—a feat that defied their very understanding of power!

"Retreat... we must leave now!"

The Heavenly Demons and Demon Monster Kings began to flee in every direction, abandoning all else as they realized their cause was doomed. Even before the First Saint’s intervention, their loss was imminent. Now, with both the First Saint and the Ancient Demon Saint gone, and a Transcendent Ancient Overlord standing against them, victory was a lost dream.

The oppressive demon clouds vanished from the sky, and a sense of peace returned as the brilliant sun broke through.

"Is it over? Are we the victors?"

An overwhelming sensation filled the hearts of every Saint Warrior.

They had wagered their lives in this titanic struggle. They had moved from the first hope of triumph to the depths of despair when the First Saint and Ancient Demon Saint appeared and crushed the Five Great Ancient Sages. Then, the momentum shifted again; Su Changkong slew the Ancient Demon Saint, and the Divine Phoenix brought the First Saint to his knees. The entire sequence felt like an elaborate dream!

"Craaack!"

High above, the massive form of the Divine Phoenix started to break apart. Before the stunned eyes of the onlookers, amidst the swirling remnants of ice and fire, a woman appeared. Clad in snow-white robes, with skin like translucent jade and a grace like a winter spirit, she bore a faint phoenix sigil upon her forehead.

"She... she is the Divine Phoenix? But isn't the Phoenix a True Beast?"

Hua Shan and the others watched in disbelief as the Divine Phoenix’s monstrous form dissolved to reveal the woman. The one who had crushed the First Saint was undeniably human in appearance!

However, no one was more stunned than Su Changkong!

"Miss Ji?"

Su Changkong’s expression shifted from shock to sudden realization as he gazed at the woman in white.

This was Ji Xuexiao, the woman who had vanished from the Great Flame Empire long ago!

"Ji Xuexiao is the Divine Phoenix reborn? So she was the one undergoing the metamorphosis within the Ten Thousand Beasts Tomb! It makes sense now... why she aided me, and why her presence felt so familiar!"

Many pieces of the puzzle finally clicked for Su Changkong.

It was Ji Xuexiao who had provided him guidance back in the Ten Thousand Beasts Tomb!

"Brother Blade, a long time has passed since we last met."

A faint smile touched Ji Xuexiao’s lips. She had always been a solitary figure, detached from the world’s trivialities. Su Changkong, having crossed paths with her and saved her life on two occasions, was one of the few people she considered a friend.