I Am Immortal in Great Yu

'Oh, wait. I'm in my Divine Soul state. How could I blush or my heart pound? Never mind, then.'

Fang Rui joked to himself, his eyes clear and his mind composed.

Some people possess a profound sense of calm in the face of great crises. He was one of them—the greater the challenge, the steadier his heart.

Besides, Fang Rui had been mentally prepared for the fallout from shattering the Black Heaven Mysterious Book; he just hadn't expected it to happen so soon.

'It seems now that Bao Sichun was at a critical juncture. When I ruined Its arrangement, It must have sensed it. The Divination probably didn't start just because I shattered the Black Heaven Mysterious Book.'

Shattering the Black Heaven Mysterious Book had been a calculated decision on Fang Rui's part, not a rash one.

'By killing Bao Sichun and destroying Its plan, I've already forged a karmic link.'

'You either do nothing at all, or you see it through to its absolute conclusion!'

So, for Fang Rui, it was only natural to eliminate the problem at its root by shattering the Black Heaven Mysterious Book—and reaping a nice sum of Tribulation Points in the process.

He really wasn't afraid of something like a long-distance Divination.

'If that Evil God could truly act with impunity, this world would have stopped being normal long ago. Therefore, I deduced that even if there's a backlash, the worst it could do during a Divination like this is attempt some kind of remote contamination through the Void Realm Space.'

But Fang Rui possessed the Divine Technique 'Outside the Calculation.' When activated, it allowed him to transcend the Three Realms and the Five Elements, shielding him from all causality. How the hell was it supposed to contaminate him?

On the other hand, if he had ignored the Black Heaven Mysterious Book and just left, waiting for the day that Evil God descended... now *that* would have been a true recipe for disaster.

'I have plenty of Tribulation Points right now. As long as I don't have to face It directly, what's an Evil God to me?! Especially here, in the Void Realm Space...'

'Slaying a god might not be impossible!'

Of course, he was just joking. Fang Rui hadn't gotten that carried away.

Strategically, he despised his enemy; tactically, he took them seriously.

He fueled the ethereal mist manifested by his Divine Technique, 'Outside the Calculation,' with a threefold power supply—his own Spiritual Essence, the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin, and his Tribulation Points—and waited on high alert.

'That barrier in the vast emptiness high above... could it be the wall of the world?! The Evil God and I are separated by an entire world. No wonder its terrifying presence is being blocked.'

'The Evil God seems to be rapidly moving away. Performing a Divination on me like this must be costing It a great deal.'

'I just need to hold on for a bit. It should retreat on its own.'

Fang Rui mused, deciding not to attack. In this situation, it was better to remain still than to act.

—It wasn't that he didn't want to attack; rather, with an entire world between them, he had no way of launching an attack across that distance.

'Huh, here it comes?!'

The distant realm boundary was suddenly shrouded in a boundless shadow, and the entire Void Realm Space seemed to dim. Then, an indescribably faint sound arose.

—Despite its faintness, the sound inexplicably filled any who heard it with irritation, a nameless panic, and restless impatience.

Meanwhile, on the realm boundary, a vast expanse of blinding light erupted in utter silence.

These methods of combat were beyond description; Fang Rui couldn't comprehend them at all. Or rather, they fell into a cognitive blind spot for him.

'Is this on the level of Rules and concepts?!'

Fang Rui sighed as he watched a faint black energy pass through the world wall high above and pour into the space.

The black energy was strange and foreboding. A single glance was enough to make one's blood run cold; it was clearly something utterly terrifying.

However, it seemed unable to find a target to corrupt. It swirled and dissipated, passing through the mist manifested by the Divine Technique 'Outside the Calculation' as if passing through empty air.

'I'm in the clear!'

A thought struck Fang Rui: 'It seems the status of my panel is comparable to, or perhaps even higher than, that of the Evil God.'

'And, just as I suspected, the backlash is a form of contamination transmitted along lines of causality. Bao Sichun must have been subjected to this kind of corruption, which explains why he transformed so quickly.'

'Is it trying to corrupt me, too? To make me Its dog?!'

Fang Rui sneered inwardly: 'I may not be able to do anything to your true form, but you think I can't handle a mere projection of your power?'

"Go!"

He formed a blade with his fingers. Using his Spiritual Essence and the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin, he directly generated a Sword Qi Realm within the Void Realm Space and sent it forth to annihilate the energy.

KRSHHHHHH!

The swirling black energy was caught off guard by the sudden assault and was indeed significantly affected.

Even though it took ten parts of Sword Qi to erase one part of the black energy, he still managed to grind away a considerable amount of it.

But before Fang Rui could feel any joy, a terrifying scene unfolded.

HUMMMMM!

The residual black energy in the Void Realm Space twisted and coalesced, forming a distorted shadow. It suddenly opened a mouth and uttered an indecipherable syllable.

And then, Fang Rui's Sword Qi Realm collapsed in a way he could not comprehend.

Moreover, Fang Rui instantly felt his Martial Arts Spiritual Essence and Spirit Master Spiritual Power stagnate simultaneously. The power supply from the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin was also cut off.

Only his Tribulation Points continued to function, sustaining the Divine Technique 'Outside the Calculation' and maintaining the ethereal mist it manifested.

'My Spiritual Essence, Spiritual Power, and the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin... what on earth is happening?!'

'Thank God for my caution. I had three power sources, and the Tribulation Points are still working. Otherwise, the Divine Technique 'Outside the Calculation' would have failed, and I would have been locked onto instantly.'

Amidst his terror, Fang Rui suppressed his distracting thoughts. Abandoning his Spiritual Essence, Spiritual Power, and the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin, he no longer held back his Tribulation Points, pouring them out at full power to manifest two Innate Supreme Treasures he had once witnessed: the Chaos Four Symbols Banner and the Primordial Golden List.

'I refuse to believe that an attack from an Innate Supreme Treasure manifested with Tribulation Points—an attack of such a high order—can be inexplicably dispelled so easily by you.'

BOOM!

The Chaos Four Symbols Banner and the Primordial Golden List. Phantoms of the two Innate Supreme Treasures—one a banner, the other a list—came crashing down violently upon the twisted shadow.