Chapter 114 Immortals... Dead?

It took Date Masamune a great effort to lift his head. He felt like every bone in his body was broken, and intense pain swept through him, the result of the divine power failing to manifest and backfiring! When he looked up, he saw the giant Heavenly Venerable’s palms coming together like a heaven-covering seal. The two immortals wielding divine weapons on their side had vanished into thin air! He was stunned by this outcome.

Then came great terror!

"Mr. Uesugi, that... could it be!"

Date Masamune had been isolated by the Five Elements Formation, and the Ming immortal had unleashed a large number of swords, causing the earth to crack and dust to fill the air. He hadn't clearly seen the opponent's appearance, only knowing that it was a person dressed in black.

Now it seemed...

A very ominous premonition rose in his heart, impossible to dispel!

"It's over!"

Uesugi Kagekatsu's reply, these two words, caused Date Masamune to mentally collapse even further! Of course, Uesugi Kagekatsu was equally panicked. Even though his body was filled with vengeful spirits and he lacked three souls and seven spirits, he felt a shiver run down his spine when he witnessed the two fake immortals perish at the opponent's backhand. A huge terror surged from his long-still heart, even causing him a faint ache.

He couldn't believe it.

He had already entered the Yellow Springs... yet he had relied on his own strength to tear through the Yellow Springs and return to the human world?

Was such a thing even possible?

The Yellow Springs was the final destination of the dead. All the Dharma realms and the human world were separated by barriers, and these barriers were even greater for underworld Dharma realms like the Yellow Springs, because yin and yang could not be reversed. Reversal would inevitably come at a price.

The dead could not return to the yang world through brute force.

But now such a situation was actually unfolding before his eyes.

Could it be... was this the supreme power possessed by a true immortal!

"Didn't they say he was just a crippled immortal? Does even a crippled immortal possess the great power to break through the Yellow Springs? I've never heard of such a thing!"

"Now... run..."

Uesugi Kagekatsu called out to Date Masamune. Although the two of them could make a last-ditch effort, the ending would definitely be a miserable death, and the opponent would be completely unscathed.

The Ama-no-Sakahoko bow and Ama-no-Habakiri arrow... now the Ama-no-Habakiri arrow had flown into the city and disappeared!

The foreseeable bad outcome was that his divine weapon had already fallen into the opponent's hands!

Then, only the Ama-no-Sakahoko bow remained, and it was impossible to defeat the enemy with just one divine weapon!

"The golden seal, the grass-cutting sword, the feathered arrow, all fell into his hands. We must report this news to the other corps commanders, and tell the supreme commander..."

The supreme commander he was referring to this time was naturally the overall supreme commander of the entire army, not the eastern or western front commanders. In fact, Uesugi Kagekatsu also understood that the western front commander, Kobayakawa Hideaki, had probably been killed, or had already surrendered. Otherwise, Wangjing would not have been captured by the Ming army in half a day, and the eastern front's Shimazu Yoshihiro had been captured alive. This was something that Ming immortal had told him.

The eastern and western fronts had completely collapsed!

With the loss of the three sacred treasures and the two fake immortals, plus the previous deaths of Tachibana Muneshige and the Sword Saint Yagyu Munenori, and the large number of swords and the Lightning Cutter also falling into the opponent's hands, the losses were simply too great, and would have a tremendous impact on the upcoming battle!

Uesugi Kagekatsu grabbed Date Masamune, abandoning Shimazu Tadatsune. Now was not the time to humiliate this young man. Getting away was the priority! His body instantly transformed into a stream of vengeful energy and swept away into the distance!

The vengeful energy swept away the divine generals and Ming soldiers in front, creating a gap. Uesugi Kagekatsu wanted to retreat to the south, flying between heaven and earth, far away from Wangjing. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as the scenery changed before his eyes...

He was surrounded by Ming soldiers once again!

"Hmm!"

Uesugi Kagekatsu was startled, and so was Date Masamune. The two of them had just escaped from Wangjing, so how could there be so many Ming soldiers in the south!

His face darkened, and the vengeful wind surged again, sweeping away the Ming soldiers and causing them to fall to the ground. Then he continued south... arriving before a large city!

Joseon Wangjing!

Uesugi Kagekatsu's pupils contracted violently, and then he turned his head...

It was the same Ming soldiers from before, appearing like ghostly apparitions that couldn't be shaken off!

"Who exactly is the vengeful spirit?"

Even Date Masamune couldn't help but utter this self-deprecating remark. Of course, he could also see that the current situation was strange. He immediately broke away from the vengeful energy, manifested the Kurikara Dragon King form, and swept forward with the Sword of Wisdom in his hand!

"Equal in position to the bodhisattvas on the samadhi ground, the Kurikara Dragon King recites his name, appears and removes the fear of demonic obstacles!"

"Demons and evil obstacles, all be severed! Three-pronged Dharma Sword!"

The demon-slaying sword swept forward, and the sword energy stirred up a chaotic wind that ravaged everything in heaven and earth. When the demon-slaying storm of sword energy dissipated, the Ming soldiers disappeared! Date Masamune immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "A mere illusion, a small trick. Do you think you can stop me with just this..."

He turned around.

Thousands of Ming soldiers appeared once again, surging from before Joseon Wangjing!

"No, these are not illusions!"

Uesugi Kagekatsu's expression changed. Vengeful energy surrounded him, and the Ming divine generals in front were displaying their divine might, each attack striking his vengeful spirit body with tangible force!

Date Masamune began to doubt his life!

"That's not right, if it's not an illusion, then where did my attack go?"

"How could these ordinary soldiers, without the protection of another country's national fortune, possibly withstand my sword energy?"

At that moment, two divine generals charged forward, and Date Masamune was repelled. He looked to the side and suddenly saw a shocking sword energy rising, shattering all of his sword energy!

The Wudang Old Sword Immortal had arrived!

"Refining Spirit Realm!"

Date Masamune saw that the newcomer was a Great Cultivator of the Refining Spirit Realm, and a sword cultivator at that. His expression immediately changed, and he blinked his eyes. Only then did he belatedly realize that the sword energy he had just unleashed had been blocked by this Old Sword Immortal of the Refining Spirit Realm!

But he hadn't noticed his existence at all before! This was too strange!

The Old Sword Immortal manifested the form of a celestial god, chanting the name of the celestial god:

"I beseech the Five Emperors and Five Directional Divine Generals! To send the Azure Thearch General, the Nine Yi Sovereign of the East, from the seat of Taiwei! To cut down all the fierce and evil qi under heaven with his sword!"

"Azure Heaven Nine Qi!"

The Old Sword Immortal transformed into the image of the Five Directional Divine Generals under the seat of the Taiwei Five Emperors, the Eastern Divine General. At that moment, the sword energy swept out, and it was also a celestial art of slaying evil and breaking through obstacles. The tip of the sword turned, and nine streams of azure qi suddenly erupted from the position of the Eastern Zhen Mao, and its sharp edge shredded all resentment and demonic qi!

"Don't fight him!"

Seeing that Date Masamune seemed to want to fight the opponent head-on, Uesugi Kagekatsu knew that now was not the time to fight to the death. He once again transformed into vengeful energy and fled. In essence, he had the vengeful spirit warriors within him envelop them to move, so once they were touched by this evil-breaking sword energy, the power of the vengeful spirit warriors would be weakened, and they would not be able to escape. If that happened, this group of Ming soldiers would launch a fierce offensive to the south with thunderous force, and the Japanese army would definitely fall into a great rout!

He absolutely could not fight the opponent head-on at this moment and lose the opportunity to escape!

The yin wind swept out, and the Ming soldiers did not pursue.

Uesugi Kagekatsu took Date Masamune and fled from Joseon Wangjing once again.

A moment later.

They appeared before Wangjing once again!

"This... where exactly are we!"

"If this isn't an illusion, then what is it!"

Date Masamune was already dumbfounded. He couldn't help but look at Uesugi Kagekatsu beside him, thinking, you led me to escape, but how did we come back again?

Uesugi Kagekatsu's face grew paler and paler.

"This is indeed not an illusion, but what exactly is this..."

He already knew that there was no hope of escape. No matter how many times he tried to leave, the result would be that he would return to before Joseon Wangjing!

His gaze moved upwards. The only one who could do this was the Ming true immortal who had fought his way out of the Yellow Springs and crushed the two immortals on his side!

Uesugi Kagekatsu was looking at Ji Xiang, and Ji Xiang was also looking down at him.

His hands were spread open, still in the image of the Heavenly Venerable.

"Not bound by form, not attached to evil obstacles. Not attached to empty views, pure and quiet six roots. Severing all evil obstacles, I am you. The Heavenly Venerable is compassionate, wishing to use this illusory body to cultivate right awareness."

"I, Ji, am you. Since I am here, all true sentient beings are also like illusions, and cannot escape without extinguishing evil obstacles and understanding right awareness."

"The Great Dharma of Eliminating All Views and Extinguishing All Evil Interests."

"The Heavenly Venerable Who Cuts Off Evil Obstacles!"