Chapter 1408 - Opening the Gate of Space-Time

No one knew where the other shore led. All good karma would cross to the other shore, attaining the immeasurable merits of Buddhas, gaining wisdom and holiness beyond imagination. That was the other shore.

Life and death were considered this shore, and nirvana was the other shore. This, too, was another shore—crossing to it meant rebirth.

The loulan race drew closer, but Liu Wuxie had yet to finish inscribing the last soul rune. The other shore signified both death and rebirth. Even Liu Wuxie didn't know whether inscribing the final soul rune would lead to life or death.

Xiao Yuesheng's group of three didn't rush him. They knew that there had to be a reason why Liu Wuxie had chosen to pause.

Closing his eyes, Liu Wuxie focused his senses, and the Bridge of Void flickered in and out of existence, as though it had vanished into the universe itself.

Meanwhile, the battle finally reached its climax.

Luan Xiuwen and the others suffered immense losses in the face of the loulan race's fierce attacks.

"Liu Wuxie, what are you still waiting for?!" Luan Xiuwen roared, urging Liu Wuxie to finish inscribing the last soul rune, as they were on the brink of collapse.

The loulan race was overwhelmingly powerful. They had more than a dozen Earth Immortals, putting the humans in dire peril.

"Everyone, get ready! Once the teleportation is activated, we'll head out to kill Liu Wuxie," Elder Shi instructed the Grand Unity Sect disciples who hadn't sworn oaths. Though they had sworn not to oppose Liu Wuxie within the Celestial Immortal Star, the oath did not bind the cultivators who had escaped Tata Prison.

"Sun Xiao and the others have been maintaining a close distance to Liu Wuxie, and we won't have a chance," Elder Li said. This was a golden opportunity to kill Liu Wuxie. After spending the past few days with him, they already knew how formidable he was.

If they allowed such a prodigy to grow, he would eventually become a nightmare for the Grand Unity Sect. They had to eliminate him now.

"We'll hold back Sun Xiao," Elder Shi said, looking toward Sun Xiao and the others. If they could keep the Heavenly Dragon Sect's experts occupied, Liu Wuxie would have no chance of survival with so many Void Realm experts in pursuit.

Holding Sun Xiao back wasn't the same as becoming his enemy, and it couldn't be considered a violation of the oath they had taken.

The power of life and death, yin and yang, light and darkness began to flow within Liu Wuxie. The soul rune hidden in the Bridge of Void stirred, and the Bridge began to transform. The flow of the Three Thousand Weakwater accelerated, revealing the end of the other shore.

"I see it!" Liu Wuxie's eyes snapped open, his face illuminated by a glimmer of realization.

He referred to the soul rune he had inscribed previously as the "life rune," while he named the one he had obtained from the sevenfold heaven's fifth level the "death rune."

The death rune served to guard the blood fiends and human martial souls.

The death rune could control martial souls more easily than the life rune. The life rune could control one martial soul at a time, but the death rune could control many.

The first six levels of the tower began to rotate clockwise as Liu Wuxie inscribed the last soul rune into the seventh level. From here on, he could only leave everything to fate, and even he wasn't entirely confident whether they could leave this planet and return to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.

As the windmill on the seventh level began to spin, it unexpectedly turned counter-clockwise instead, just as Liu Wuxie had predicted. After all, life and death were opposites.

A massive black hole tore open the sky, and a massive gate materialized. The gate looked identical to the one Liu Wuxie had entered through—like a gate of space-time.

The moment the teleportation array activated, everyone began charging toward it with all their might.

"Quick! Kill Liu Wuxie now!" Elder Shi shouted. He immediately led the Grand Unity Sect disciples to hold back Sun Xiao, hoping to use the loulan race to wipe out the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

On the other hand, more than twenty cultivators at the Void Realm at Liu Wuxie. The situation grew perilous for him. Among them, over ten were at the high levels of the Void Realm, and Liu Wuxie wouldn't stand a chance against them.

"Shi Yuan, you're despicable! How dare you break the oath?!" Sun Xiao roared. He wanted to rush over and save his junior brother, but Shi Yuan intercepted him with a palm strike.

Shi Yuan's main objective was not to fight Sun Xiao to the death, but to hold him back. Since their cultivation levels weren't too different, Sun Xiao couldn't do much for him for the moment.

Liu Wuxie remained calm, as he had already expected this move from the Grand Unity Sect.

Luan Xiuwen and the others were stunned, unable to comprehend why Shi Yuan had made such a move.

They couldn't understand the grudge between them, mainly when they could deal with their personal feud once they returned to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.

However, Liu Wuxie had played a crucial role in their return to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, which made Shi Yuan fear him even more. He knew that they had to kill Liu Wuxie now, or he would become a nightmare for the Grand Unity Sect.

Without Sun Xiao's forces to hold back the loulan race, the members of the loulan race began a massacre, further fueling everyone's hatred toward the Grand Unity Sect.

Had Shi Yuan not obstructed Sun Xiao, the Moon Tribulation Incineration Array would have kept the loulan race at bay, minimizing casualties.

Now, the loulan race could begin a massacre, all thanks to the Grand Unity Sect's interference.

"Shi Yuan, you bastard!" cursed a cultivator at the Void Realm before his death.

As the death toll continued to rise, many more began hurling venomous curses at the Grand Unity Sect. Most human cultivators had gathered under Sun Xiao's leadership to seek protection, but now that Sun Xiao and the Heavenly Dragon Sect elites could no longer fend off the loulan race, Luan Xiuwen and Yu Zhuang couldn't stop the massacre.

Over ten Earth Immortals closed in. With just the two of them, survival was uncertain, let alone fending them off. The blood fiends' leader was also struggling to hold his ground as the death toll among the blood fiends increased.

"Shi Yuan, you bastard!" Three Earth Immortals struck Yu Zhuang and sent him flying into the air with blood spraying from his mouth.

In a single breath, hundreds of human cultivators died, and the situation grew increasingly unfavorable.

Shi Yuan, however, remained unfazed. Once Liu Wuxie was dead, they would enter the teleportation array without hesitation.

Some cultivators who managed to flee first were already closing in on the space-time gate. Xiao Yuesheng's group of three was ready for battle, but Liu Wuxie stopped them.

A token appeared in Liu Wuxie's hand. He knew that the power of this token was enough to kill everyone charging toward him. He didn't summon Gong Gong, as the latter had fully recovered after the battle with the loulan race.

Liu Wuxie knew that Shi Yuan had to have discovered something, as he dared to take such a drastic step. Gong Gong's interventions had been brief each time, and even if Gong Gong were to appear now, it wouldn't be possible to kill so many experts from the Grand Unity Sect.

Shi Yuan was willing to sacrifice the ordinary elders and disciples to kill Liu Wuxie.

"Liu Wuxie, die!" Dozens of Grand Unity Sect experts pounced on Liu Wuxie, moving with unmatched speed.

"Since you're all courting death, I'll gladly oblige," Liu Wuxie replied, and the token flew from his hand, unleashing a powerful aura that swept across the battlefield.

It wasn't an ordinary token but a rare energy stone shaped into one that contained the power of a Quasi-Immortal. As it flew out, the Grand Unity Sect experts instantly realized that something was wrong, and a sense of foreboding instantly gripped their hearts.

"This is bad! Retreat!" a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Void Realm shouted, urging everyone to back away, but it was already too late.

An earth-shattering explosion erupted, instantly evaporating all the Grand Unity Sect experts charging at Liu Wuxie.

Was that the power of an Earth Immortal's strike?

Liu Wuxie was stunned as he watched the Grand Unity Sect experts disintegrate.

"This is the power of a high-level Earth Immortal's strike! Master didn't tell me about it!" Liu Wuxie realized with a shock. The token contained the strike of a high-level Earth Immortal, though his master hadn't revealed this to him.

Though low and high-level Earth Immortals were technically in the same realm, the difference between them was like day and night.

The explosion's shockwave instantly killed several members of the loulan race nearby, throwing the entire battlefield into chaos.

The power Liu Wuxie had unleashed left Shi Yuan drenched in cold sweat. He clearly hadn't anticipated that Liu Wuxie still had such a powerful trump card.

The space-time gate began to tremble. The impact had destabilized it, and it flickered dangerously. If it ended up vanishing, all their efforts would have been for nothing.

"Quick! We have to leave immediately!" Shi Yuan shouted. Abandoning his plan to hold off Sun Xiao, he led the remaining Grand Unity Sect elders toward the space-time gate.

"Senior brother, go into formation!" Liu Wuxie shouted. He wouldn't let Shi Yuan go after all the suffering he had caused the human cultivators.

Sun Xiao immediately went into formation, forming a defensive line to prevent Shi Yuan and his group from reaching the gate.

"Everyone, listen up! Enter the space-time gate immediately. We, the Heavenly Dragon Sect, will hold off the loulan race!" Liu Wuxie called out. The remaining cultivators from various planets and sects turned to him with gratitude.

"Liu Wuxie, I will personally thank you if I make it back to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain alive," said a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Void Realm before rushing toward the space-time gate.

The members of the loulan race rushed forward as Sun Xiao led the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples in defense, blocking Shi Yuan and the Grand Unity Sect from advancing while giving the remaining human cultivators a chance to escape.

"Liu Wuxie, you have to live!" Luan Xiuwen said, vanishing into the space-time gate.

One by one, more people entered the gate, not knowing where they would end up as the battle raged on between the Heavenly Dragon Sect elites and the charging members of the loulan race.

Corpses piled up on the ground amidst their fierce fight.

Shi Yuan and his men were entangled by the members of the loulan race, facing waves of assaults.

"Liu Wuxie, let us through!" Elder Li pleaded desperately. The ten Earth Immortals of the loulan race had arrived.

Shi Yuan couldn't stop them alone.

"You people deserved it!" Sun Xiao said coldly. He couldn't kill the Grand Unity Sect due to the oath, but he could let the loulan race finish the job.

Almost all the human cultivators had entered the space-time gate when it finally began to collapse, and more people continued to pour in.

Sun Xiao and the others were entirely at the mercy of the Loulan race, and escaping wouldn't be easy for them.

With a loud explosion, the loulan race's Earth Immortals unleashed a combined attack that obliterated everyone from the Grand Unity Sect except for Shi Yuan.

Sun Xiao stood firm, enduring the attack as an expert at the second-level Earth Immortal Realm.

Just then, buzzing sounds echoed as the pressure emanating from a Heaven Gaze Realm swept across the battlefield.

Liu Wuxie cast the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art from the sky to tear open an opening.

"Senior Brother, leave

now!

" he shouted, urging his senior brother and the others to enter the space-time gate.