Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 859: Slay the Immortal - The Madman's Journey

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At the North Sea's shoreline, massive waves surged skyward with fury.

The ocean waters spanning ten thousand miles nearby were seethed by a horrifying power, morphing into vast clouds of white mist that veiled the sun, moon, and stars completely.

"BOOM——!!!"

A thunderous blast resounded as two silhouettes tumbled from the heavens, slamming fiercely into the abyssal depths and whipping up towering waves ten thousand zhang tall.

These were a pair of Heavenly Star Deities, each standing a hundred zhang in height.

One possessed a dragon head atop a human torso, its body clad in thick, ominous scales, every single one etched with primordial star map runes. This was the chief of the Twenty-Eight Mansions—Kang Jin Long.

The other featured a pig head on a human frame, gripping a rake, surrounded by blazing flames that coiled fiercely. Everywhere it moved, the seawater evaporated on contact. This was one of the Star Deities—Shi Huo Zhu.

Standing against these two Heavenly Deities.

A far vaster, far more savage creature strode atop the churning waves.

Human-faced with a ram's body, eyes tucked under armpits, tiger-like fangs, and human hands as claws.

Its form appeared stitched from fragments of myriad ancient Fierce Beasts, a set of fleshy wings unfurled to eclipse the sky and sun.

Every bit of its hide emanated a chilling aura of avarice and savagery.

And this monstrous entity was none other than Muscle Tyrant, having unleashed its full might.

"Old loach! Roast suckling pig!"

Muscle Tyrant parted its cavernous jaws, vast enough to engulf mountains and peaks, with swirling black fog inside like devouring chaos itself.

"This is the might of the Celestial Court's Heavenly Deities? Just this much strength?"

"It's not even enough to scratch this lord's itch!"

A single claw slashed downward, its devastating power ripping through the void and hurling Shi Huo Zhu backward, bending even the fiery rake clutched in its grasp.

"Damnable wretched beast!"

Shi Huo Zhu righted itself, brushing golden blood from its mouth's edge, eyes blazing with astonishment and rage. "This Taotie... how can it be this strong?!"

"Clearly, it was sealed ten thousand years ago, having undergone over a hundred cycles of reincarnation, its True Spirit should have been utterly depleted, why has its power not diminished but instead increased?!"

Kang Jin Long looked equally battered right now, scales shedding everywhere, appearance a total mess.

The glow from the Star Dragon Pearl he held had dulled significantly, evidently drained heavily from the prior exchange.

"No more talk! Form the formation!"

Kang Jin Long bellowed, as the space behind him tore apart.

BOOM——! There emerged a gigantic illusion of the Azure Dragon star constellation, manifesting gradually.

This Azure Dragon harnessed the stellar energies from the Nine Heavens, converting them into radiant starlight beams that cascaded down to crush Taotie.

"Star Constellation Great Formation? Pah!"

Muscle Tyrant hawked a scornful glob of spit.

It didn't evade or flee; the myriad eyes under its armpits abruptly dilated, crimson murderous glints sparking within.

"Devour the Heavens!"

ROAR——!!!

Muscle Tyrant bellowed while yawning its maw impossibly wide, birthing a lightless, endless abyss before it.

That deluge of starlight, potent enough to subdue a whole realm, got gulped down entirely by the gaping void, without a trace spilling over.

"*Burp~*"

Muscle Tyrant belched, expression dripping contempt. "Stellar power? Not even as chewy as that garlic-flavored turtle I ate last time."

"You!!"

Kang Jin Long's rage shook his dragon whiskers violently, almost triggering a cultivation deviation right there.

"Shi Huo! Use True Fire on it!"

Shi Huo Zhu complied instantly, summoning a enormous flaming wild boar Dharma image behind itself, which vomited Samadhi True Fire and dyed half the North Sea in scarlet flames.

Yet Muscle Tyrant lounged in it like a soothing soak, lolling in the gold-melting blaze, even scratching its back with a claw to clean off dirt.

"Comfortable! Turn up the heat! Didn't you eat?!"

Humiliation.

Outright humiliation.

The two mighty Star Deities felt escalating alarm and frustration as the fight dragged on.

Was this truly combat?

They were plainly just playthings for this primordial Fierce Beast!

Right when the duo found themselves trapped in deadlock.

RUMBLE RUMBLE——

A spine-chilling thunderclap erupted from the eastern skyline.

Soon, an overwhelming presence of heaven-and-earth laws surged violently.

The oppression was so crushing that, even across hundreds of thousands of miles, Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu's Divine Souls quaked in fear.

"This is... a world-ending Heavenly Tribulation?!"

Kang Jin Long's expression twisted in shock as he gazed eastward, "Someone is crossing a tribulation? And it's... a tribulation fierce enough to obliterate a True Immortal!"

"This is bad! That tribulation's aura is utterly horrifying. If it engulfs us, we could face certain death!"

Terror etched across Shi Huo Zhu's face, its hold on the rake growing shaky.

"Taotie!"

Kang Jin Long swiftly decided, withdrawing his Law Manifestation and yelling at Muscle Tyrant, "We'll pause the fight for now! Once the tribulation ends, we'll..."

"Pause?"

Muscle Tyrant's eyes suddenly narrowed sharply.

It detected that unmistakable aura amid the heavenly tribulation.

That was... the master's aura?

The Big Boss... is facing a tribulation?!

"We've parted for just a brief time, yet the Big Boss is on the verge of ascension?!"

Shock and disbelief flooded Muscle Tyrant's heart.

Though puzzled by Chen Huaian's rapid realm surge, it absolutely wouldn't allow these two to bother its master.

"Pause your grandpa's ass!"

Muscle Tyrant bellowed, its form expanding massively.

WHOOSH——! The fleshy wings on its back beat fiercely, harnessing the wind, twisting into a bolt of black lightning as it lunged at the fleeing Star Deities.

"Want to escape? Did you check with your grandpa's massive gut?!"

"Madman! This beast is insane!"

Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu swore furiously, yet they had no choice but to clash once more.

Two Immortals and a single beast clashed while falling back, their brutal fight over the North Sea shaking the skies and dimming the world, slowly drifting from the tribulation's core.

Yet.

Right when their savage combat reached its height.

RRRIIIP——

A ripping sound like shredded fabric suddenly overwhelmed the roaring thunder overhead.

Right then.

Silence blanketed heaven and earth.

The two deities and the beast halted their blows on instinct, all turning eastward together.

There, across the firmament.

A deep, endless black crack—like sliced by some unseen colossal axe—stretched across the sky.

Severing that towering "heaven" straight down the middle!

"The... the heavens are torn open?!"

Shi Huo Zhu's rake dropped into the ocean with a clang, its jaws gaping wide as a watermelon.

"This... impossible!" Kang Jin Long shuddered violently, scales rattling on his body. "Someone... has slashed through the Boundary Wall dividing the realms?!"

Muscle Tyrant gawked at the rift.

True dread flickered in its gaze for the first time, mixed with a spark of incredulous, ecstatic delight.

"That's... the presence of the Sky-Cleaving Axe?!"

"The master... the master actually... succeeded?!"

The instant after, Muscle Tyrant howled, morphing into a dark beam of light hurtling toward the fissure.

"Taotie! Where are you headed?!"

Kang Jin Long and Shi Huo Zhu shared a look, clenched their jaws, and pursued.

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Beyond the South Heaven Gate, a bloody ocean roared skyward.

War drums boomed like thunder crashing from the Nine Heavens.

Thirty-six Divine Generals of the Thunder Ministry, armored in violet-gold plate and mounted on Thunder Beasts, arrayed in the [Thirty-Six Heavenly Thunder Demon-Slaying Great Formation], surrounding Chen Huaian entirely.

"Kill!"

On that order.

Thirty-six Thunder Spears thrust forward at once, bolts of lightning weaving into a flawless web of lethal thunder, determined to pulverize this doomsday Sword Cultivator to nothing.

Chen Huaian perched above the pile of corpses and bloodied waves.

In his eyes, blending demon and immortal, no trace of deathly fear lingered—only a manic glee, as if beholding some ridiculous farce.

"HAHAHAHA!"

Laughter erupted.

Starting as faint echoes, it swelled instantly into a stormy surge.

"Persuading the sovereign proved hard, coming too late; Whip in hand, I mounted my steed, journeying the distant road."

Chen Huaian's wrist snapped, the tribulation lightning-forged divine sword in his grasp echoing his mirth, stabbing upward toward the vault of heaven.

"The foolish wife slighted Mai Chen for his poverty; I too left home, westward to Qin I went."

From verse sprang the sword, its Sword Stance turning ever more frenzied.

"Looking up to heaven, I laugh aloud..."

BOOM!

A colossal, unstoppable Sword Intent rocketed skyward.

Not Sword Qi, but Dao Rhythms of utter Great Freedom.

A madman's presence, bottled for millennia, defying heaven and earth alike, scorning ghosts and deities.

This presence burst free like a flood shattering a dam, cascading wildly, instantly scouring away the rigid, disciplined thunder.

The Thirty-Six Thunder Generals merely saw their sight haze over.

The onlookers witnessed how the once impregnable thunder net was torn apart by this sheer "madness," flung into utter chaos, resembling a shaky fence teetering on the edge of collapse amid raging floodwaters.

Chen Huaian sprang into motion.

Foregoing any evasion techniques, he lurched forward like a drunken lunatic through the crumbling lightning bolts, staggering yet advancing with supreme ease and boundless freedom.

—Slay the Immortal - The Madman's Journey.