Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 865: Chaos Golden Body, Indestructible and Undying

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Previously on Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?...

Taishang Laojun confidently awaited the refinement of Chen Huaian within the Eight Trigrams Furnace, mocking the Celestial Court's immortals. As cracks spiderwebbed across the indestructible furnace, it exploded in a cataclysmic blast, unleashing Chen Huaian clad in divine flame armor, his sword empowered by the devoured Six Ding Divine Fire. Chen unleashed a torrent of heavenly fire that scorched the Nine Heavens and severed Laojun's dharma body with a single stroke, enraging the Sage's true form in Tushita Palace to surge forth in vengeance.

The grand doors of Tushita Palace burst open.

*Thump—! Thump—!*

With just two strides forward, the heavens and earth quaked violently.

In a flash, the vast distance between Tushita Palace and the South Heaven Gate was crossed.

Chen Huaian squinted his eyes, staring at the enormous figure towering amid heaven and earth ahead. Its overwhelming presence forced apart the clouds across the Nine Heavens.

"Is this Taishang Laojun's true form?!"

He gazed upon that Sage.

Only derision surged within him.

Not an immortal had emerged, but a true god.

Standing ten thousand *zhang* tall, his hair cascaded like the Silver River, his beard resembled sturdy ancient pines.

His left face bore a kindly expression, the right one grim, with mouth corners warped in a bizarre mix of sorrow and mirth.

Regardless of the myriad feelings on that timeless visage, a veil of gray mist cloaked it, rendering his features even more savage.

Gripped in his hand was no whisk, but a massive flat crutch poised to smash the entire cosmos.

"Wretched fiend."

Laojun uttered.

His toneless voice alone pulverized the countless floating peaks beyond the South Heaven Gate.

"You killed my Law Manifestation, destroyed my treasure furnace."

"Your bones are indeed much harder than that monkey's from back then."

Chen Huaian lingered amid the wreckage, tilting his head up toward the sky-obscuring Law Manifestation.

He appeared tiny as a speck of dust.

Yet a grin spread across his face.

His lips curled, baring sharp white teeth. Golden-red eyes gleamed with a wild frenzy that pierced even a Sage's heart.

"Hard or not…"

Chen Huaian stomped fiercely, cracking the earth apart, his form erupting into a golden-red streak that soared toward the heavens.

"Why don't you… try knocking on them!!!"

*Boom!*

Fist thrust forth.

Behind Chen Huaian, shadows of the Ancestral Dragon and Heavenly Demon appeared. The Ancestral Dragon twisted its form, the Heavenly Demon bellowed in rage.

Even against a Sage?

He would battle regardless!

This punch, entwined with gales and thunder, hurtled directly at Taishang Laojun's Law Manifestation's face.

Laojun remained unmoved. He lifted that colossal palm veiling the sky and slammed it down.

The full pressure of heaven and earth gathered in this palm strike. It looked plain, but carried the weight of Mount Tai descending.

*BANG—!!!*

Fist met palm in clash.

The Nine Heavens' cloud sea exploded instantly, exposing the dark void below.

Chen Huaian's body hurtled downward like a shooting star, tearing through cloud layers before crashing brutally into the ground.

The earth splintered. Deep inside that endless pit.

*Pfft.*

Fresh blood sprayed out.

His right arm exploded into fragments, chest bones collapsed inward, half his frame reduced to mangled pulp.

Such was a Sage's terrifying power.

A single clash inflicted devastating injuries.

However…

"Is that all?"

Laojun gave a cold huff, preparing to pull back his hand.

But then he witnessed, in the profound crater, that bloody pulp of flesh and gore, enveloped in Chaos Qi, start to convulse wildly.

*Crack, crack, crack.*

Bones reformed, meat regrew.

In three breaths' time.

Chen Huaian lurched upright.

Besides his ashen complexion, his body stood fully restored.

"Heh heh heh…" Chen Huaian twisted his freshly mended neck stiffly, lifted his gaze, and fixed cold eyes on the Nine Heavens overhead. "Old man, thanks are due for your Eight Trigrams Furnace. It forged an excellent body for This Venerable One. Your Eight Trigrams Furnace and Six Ding Divine Fire were truly… *too nourishing*!"

Hitting a raw nerve.

The thing Taishang Laojun loathed above all was the ruin of his Eight Trigrams Furnace.

At Chen Huaian's words, his expression grew even darker.

"Seeking death! A mere demonic body, and you dare act arrogant?!"

The flat crutch in his grasp lifted, surging with Great Dao runes.

"Since your flesh proves indestructible, I'll simply cleave your Divine Soul."

*Hum—*

A vertical eye cracked open on Laojun's forehead.

Its icy stare locked onto Chen Huaian. An unseen law morphed into a razor blade, bypassing the flesh entirely, slicing straight into the Sea of Consciousness.

The Great Dao targeted the soul.

A sudden icy sensation gripped Chen Huaian's Sea of Consciousness.

A sword's tip already pressed against his Divine Soul.

"Scram!"

Chen Huaian bellowed.

From his Divine Soul's core, the Heart Sword—honed through endless trials—suddenly drew forth.

*Clang—!*

Sword Qi slashed wildly inside the Sea of Consciousness.

The Sage's will-forged blade actually nicked against this Heart Sword before fragmenting.

Laojun let out a grunt as a bead of red blood trickled from the vertical eye on his forehead.

He failed to destroy this pest's soul.

Instead, he suffered a counterbite.

"Excellent, excellent, excellent! Who would have thought that a tiny ant like you has reached such a profound, sage-level understanding of the Sword Dao!"

"Fascinating! Utterly fascinating! *Jie jie jie*!"

Laojun's laughter erupted in furious rage, causing the roof tiles of Lingxiao Hall to scatter wildly.

"Immune to death? Indestructible?"

"This old man will test just how many strikes you can endure!"

*Boom!*

The flat cudgel rained down relentlessly.

Every blow deepened the overwhelming pressure from all of heaven and earth.

Enveloped in wind and thunder, the cudgel thrust forward, making the Nine Heavens quake and space crack apart.

Chen Huaian resembled unyielding iron under the hammer, flattened repeatedly, his body exploding in gore, yet reforming instantly within the Chaos.

Pain turned into mere numbness.

Yet the flames in his eyes blazed ever fiercer.

"Cough, cough… That's everything you have?"

Chen Huaian dragged himself from the blood pool again, hacking up another gob of blood.

He had realized it.

This ancient fool couldn't slay him right now.

Unable to die…

Chen Huaian whipped his head around abruptly.

His golden-red eyes bypassed Taishang Laojun, fixing on the distant clouds where celestial immortals and buddhas spectated from above.

In that instant.

The immortals caught in his stare felt their hearts freeze.

A chill of being hunted by an apex predator.

"*Jie jie*! Old fool, if you can't kill This Venerable One, then This Venerable One…"

Chen Huaian licked blood from his lips, his sword vibrating with a hum.

"...will butcher these countless heavenly deities!"

*Swoosh—!*

His form blurred, and in a blink, he materialized among the immortals, right behind one of them.

It was a Star Deity.

Feeling the horrifying presence at his back, the Star Deity's face drained of color, lips quivering as he turned slowly.

But before completing the turn.

*Slap—!*

A hand clamped onto the back of his head from behind.

"You minions are better off dead anyway!"

Behind the Star Deity, Chen Huaian was shrouded in Chaos Qi, revealing only those piercing golden-red eyes. The arm on the immortal's head pulsed with Great Dao runes snaking under the skin like coiling golden script.

A maniacal grin twisted his lips. "And after death… serve as This Venerable One's nourishment!"

*Hum—!*

Chaos Qi poured forth.

The Star Deity had no chance to respond before vanishing into the swirling Chaos.

Within two breaths, all the Chaos Qi flowed back into Chen Huaian.

His radiating aura surged noticeably stronger.

After consuming numerous immortals, the Heavenly Demon Art had ascended to an unimaginable height.

Chen Huaian didn't know what to call that level.

No matter. As long as he could slaughter these underlings.

Whatever worked!

The Star Deity's demise sparked total pandemonium.

"This is bad!!"