I Am Immortal in Great Yu

The attack was perfectly contained, without any grand display. It was just a single flash that entered the Sword Qi tornado before disappearing.

'Is this "Godslaying Spirit Shattering" Divine Technique a cheap knockoff? From the looks of it, this is even less impressive than the attacks I used back at the First Grade!'

Fang Rui watched the underwhelming display, a knot of panic tightening in his stomach. He prepared to bolt at a moment's notice.

「A moment later.」

The Sword Qi tornado dissipated, and the pillar of Qi Fortune dimmed and turned ethereal.

The flesh-and-blood giant that Bao Sichun had become was sliced into mincemeat. After being seared by the pillar of Qi Fortune, the large pile of charred black flesh struggled to coalesce. It writhed by sheer momentum, re-forming into the giant's shape, only to abruptly collapse again.

SPLATTER!

Huge chunks of meat rained down.

From the pile of minced flesh, countless faces rose up. Their ferocity was gone, as if they had been liberated, and they disintegrated into nothingness in vast droves.

Finally, Bao Sichun's Divine Soul appeared, seeming to regain its clarity at that very moment.

"Qing Tian is dead! Qing Tian is dead! Qing Tian is dead!"

He cried out three times, his voice like a cuckoo crying blood. Then, his expression suddenly twisted in terror. "Black Heaven... Great Black Heaven... It..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his Divine Soul shattered. A point of light at its core flared brightly before dimming and extinguishing.

His True Spirit had clearly been obliterated.

"Incredible. It's finally over! The Divine Technique 'Godslaying Spirit Shattering'... I knew I could count on you."

Fang Rui exclaimed in admiration, his mind relaxing slightly.

HUM!

Where the giant had been, only a single page from a book now floated in mid-air. It pulsed with a bizarre, ominous aura, filled with boundless temptation.

The moment Fang Rui laid eyes on it, he inexplicably knew its name: the Black Heaven Mysterious Book.

"The Black Heaven Mysterious Book? Why... why Black Heaven again?!"

He recalled what Bao Sichun had said just before his soul scattered and his True Spirit shattered. 'Qing Tian is dead... Black Heaven... Great Black Heaven... Does "heaven" in this context mean the world?'

'And Bao Sichun was so terrified before he died. He wasn't talking about a he, a she, or a normal it... he was talking about *It*?!'

'A Divine Spirit?! No, that's not right. Considering all the bizarre things I've seen on this trip, it must be some kind of unnamable existence.'

"This is too much! This damned world... At first, I thought it was a low-level martial arts world, then it became Xianxia. Then I discovered it was more like high fantasy, and now there's Lovecraftian horror thrown into the mix..."

Fang Rui had the strange feeling of watching a chaotic free-for-all of demons, and he felt deeply that he had probably never truly understood this world.

A dim, obscure light swirled erratically across the Black Heaven Mysterious Book, continuously emitting information.

'The form of great virtue follows only the Tao. The Tao as a thing is vague and elusive, oh so elusive, oh so vague... To attain longevity, one must eat giant sesame, and one's form can be extended... To achieve Immortality, consume the flesh-lingzhi and drink from the fetid spring...'

'Is this a Taoist Scripture? No, it's a Deceit Scripture! It's reflecting my own self, manifesting in a way I can understand.'

'It started out fairly normal, but it quickly devolved into something bizarre.'

'But is it really trying to tempt me with Immortality?!'

Fang Rui glanced around the Alternate Space. The so-called 'flesh-lingzhi' was a lingzhi mushroom shaped like a human head, and the so-called 'fetid spring' was a spring of blackish-red blood.

He had to give Bao Sichun some credit for that. If it were him, there was no way he could bring himself to consume those things.

"Ridiculous. I am already capable of Immortality, why would I need to learn your methods?"

"Break!"

Spiritual Essence surged within him. He shaped his hands like a blade and unleashed a brilliant slash of Sword Qi.

SWOOSH!

The slash passed through, but the Black Heaven Mysterious Book remained completely unscathed, without a single scratch. It trembled slightly, as if in mockery.

"Ugh... It's that durable?!"

Fang Rui was startled, but then he immediately understood. 'Oh, right. It was able to help Bao Sichun block my Divination. In terms of its standing, it must be extremely high, probably not much inferior to an Innate Supreme Treasure. How could such a precious treasure be destroyed so easily?'

"But," his expression suddenly turned incredibly strange. 'The Divine Technique "Godslaying Spirit Shattering" is usable...'

'Does this mean that this "Black Heaven Mysterious Book" is, in a sense, a living thing? A manifestation of a consciousness?'

'A mere manifestation of a consciousness can solidify into a tangible object, a Supreme Treasure. Is this... the 'It' that Bao Sichun spoke of?!'

Fang Rui was horrified by the thought.

'Still, I don't care what you are. As long as the "Godslaying Spirit Shattering" Divine Technique works on you, you can be destroyed.'

He took a deep breath. "Now... shatter!"

A streak of light flashed.

CRACK!

A web of cracks appeared on the Black Heaven Mysterious Book, and it exploded into pieces.

But in the very next instant—Fang Rui suddenly felt his 'Outside the Calculation' Divine Technique activate, and his consciousness entered the Void Realm Space.

"Holy hell, someone's using Divination on me! Let's see who it is..."

He saw that he was shrouded in ethereal mist, powered by a threefold supply of Spiritual Essence, Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin, and Tribulation Points. He nodded in satisfaction before looking around, searching for the one performing the Divination.

But strangely, unlike the time before last when the Zhen Family's ancestor used the 'Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers Map' for Divination, or the last time when Bao Sichun used the Innate Supreme Treasure 'Chaos Four Symbols Banner', this time he couldn't find the source of the Divination at all.

"Hmm, I just shattered the 'Black Heaven Mysterious Book,' so... No way. It can't be, can it?!"

Fang Rui muttered to himself. Suddenly remembering something, he stiffly raised his head.

His gaze fell upon a black shadow in the far distance that blotted out the sky.

It was hazy and indistinct, impossible to see clearly, as if separated by an entire world and rapidly moving away.

But even the tiny corner he could glimpse...

...was: infinitely vast! Immeasurably profound! Endlessly great! Utterly unfathomable! Completely unnamable!

Compared to that unnamable phantom, Fang Rui was truly like an ant to a mountain, a mayfly to the vast ocean.

It was no wonder he hadn't noticed it before.

—It was like an ant crawling on the ground, completely unaware of the Cyan Eagle soaring through the sky.

"Holy crap, an Evil God is personally performing Divination on me?! Does it have to be this intense?!" Fang Rui clutched his chest, his face flushed and his heart pounding. He felt like he was about to fall apart.

...