On Tianjun Mountain, eleven streaks of escape light immediately rose, and eleven figures in white robes, white clothes, and white hats ascended and stood tall.
This included the three cave lords who had previously been defeated and fled back to the mountain.
Below, another white-robed cave lord emerged, slowly ascended, and stood at the head of the twelve positions, encircling the Black Underworld Supreme.
"Purple Nether Lotus? Our clan has no such treasure," the Great Cave Lord said leisurely.
The Black Underworld Supreme sneered, "I sensed that Purple Nether Lotus is left in your tribal land. Since you won't hand it over, I will go and find it myself!"
"Presumptuous!
Does our Tianjun Divine Mountain allow you to trample upon it?" the Second Cave Lord, beside the Great Cave Lord, shouted.
"Oh? A mere Taiyi dares to clamor before me? Is it your clan's old ancestor? He has barely stepped into the Great Luo First Heaven and still wants to make a move against me?"
The Great Cave Lord was not angry at all, as if untouched by any worldly affairs. He said softly, "Third Cave Lord, why were you three defeated?"
From the streaks of light that had just returned, the Third Cave Lord replied with shame, "It was because we underestimated the enemy. This person is protected by a high-grade innate spiritual treasure, and our strength is insufficient."
"Oh? A high-grade spiritual treasure? Then it's not your fault, the three of you," the Great Cave Lord said calmly. "Since you are causing trouble in our Tianjun Axolotl clan, you will not leave today!"
The Black Underworld Supreme let out a scoff, "I am truly curious, who gave you the courage?"
From afar, Qing Ling, who had poked his head out of his tree hole, couldn't help but become curious. How could the Tianjun Axolotl clan, with only one Great Luo First Heaven, capture the Black Underworld Supreme who was at the Tenth Heaven and possessed a high-grade spiritual treasure?
The faces of the Twelve Cave Lords were hidden by their wide white robes, making them impossible to see. However, they showed no unease or fear.
"Form the array!"
"Myriad Constellations, Celestial River!"
"Myriad Mountains, Eternal Peaks!"
"Four Seas Boundless, Three Thousand Waters!"
"East Rises Great Sun, Yang Li!"
"West Swells Tide Moon, Yin Kan!"
...
The eleven Cave Lords simultaneously revealed various sights, and their eleven elemental Dharma aspects intertwined, forming an illusionary universe that engulfed the Black Underworld Supreme.
The Black Underworld Supreme couldn't help but sneer. Such mere illusionary techniques dared to fabricate a universe?
Behind him, a dark flag rose, the Nine Yin Soul-Slaying Banner. Twenty-two layers of innate Dao restrictions lit up. Nine Yin transformed and entered the Heavenly Gate. Endless dark clouds filled the sky, the Nine Gates opened wide, and nine terrifying ghost heads had their seals lifted.
The nine ghost heads, unrestrained, let out terrifying ghost laughter and acted wildly. The Black Underworld Supreme stood beneath the banner, pointing at it with one finger. The banner trembled, and the nine ghosts successively spewed terrifying black flames, burning for thousands of miles.
Everything in their path turned to nothingness.
Some ghost heads even opened their mouths to devour heaven and earth. The myriad phenomena formed by the eleven Taiyi cultivators collapsed one after another.
Qing Ling, from afar, was deeply shocked. This Black Underworld Supreme had so easily broken through the techniques of eleven Taiyi cultivators. His strength was too terrifying.
If he were truly captured, escape would likely be impossible.
On Tianjun Divine Mountain, the eleven Cave Lords remained unfazed. They suddenly raised their left palms and spread their right palms towards the ground, mysterious markings on their palms shooting towards the sky and plunging into the earth.
Subsequently, eleven strange divine lights rose simultaneously from the sky and the earth, merging with the bodies of the eleven Cave Lords.
In an instant, the aura of the eleven Taiyi cultivators vanished, as if they had become ethereal.
"Heaven, Earth, Black, Yellow, Universe, Primordial World, Merge!"
The eleven Taiyi cultivators jointly attacked again, and the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth once more sealed the Black Underworld Supreme within an illusory world.
But this time, the ghost heads raged, and the Soul-Slaying Fire they spewed could not break through the illusion of heaven and earth at all.
The Black Underworld Supreme's expression changed slightly. He remotely pointed at the Nine Yin Soul-Slaying Banner, and the nine ghosts returned.
On the divine banner, terrifying Yin Nether Qi transformed into a vast expanse of ghost qi, permeating this world. Simultaneously, the Black Underworld reached out and summoned a divine wheel. The Nether Vajra Wheel multiplied into countless sharp divine wheels, cutting through heaven and earth.
However, behind the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth, there were countless golden Dharma chains, exuding an irresistible divine might like heavenly power.
From afar, Qing Ling was greatly alarmed. These were already order chains! This was not a power that cultivators could cultivate. Throughout the ages, there had been only one exception.
That was Hongjun! He cultivated the power of the Heavenly Dao, aided by the Primordial Treasure Jade Disk of Creation, and promoted the Heavenly Dao to control the Primordial World.
This time, Qing Ling was certain that the Tianjun Axolotl clan was definitely under the command of Old Ancestor Hongjun.
Thousands of golden order chains surged forth, their vast divine might like heavenly power, shaking the hearts of countless beings. Even the Black Underworld Supreme felt uneasy.
He hurriedly revealed his Great Luo divine abilities, his three flowers gathering at the apex, his five energies returning to their origin. Above the sea of clouds, a ghost head commanded all Yin Nether Qi in the world, and all eight directions' ghost souls obeyed.
However, the Great Cave Lord, who had been observing without intervening, leisurely pointed a finger!
As his fingertip touched this world, the flow of time was affected. Time, heaven and earth, and all beings froze.
In an instant of time, as if experiencing thousands of reincarnations, the profound divine power of time, stretching from ancient to present, pointed at the Great Luo. Before the Black Underworld Supreme could even show the terror in his eyes, time pierced directly into his Xuan Guan Yuan Shen (mysterious gate, primordial spirit).
Time transformed into a talisman, a Year and Era Divine Talisman, which was affixed to the Black Underworld Supreme's Yuan Shen.
Instantly, the ghost qi of heaven and earth dissipated, the Nine Yin Soul-Slaying Banner's radiance dimmed and fell. The eleven Cave Lords resumed their forms, and the illusory world they had formed converged again, suppressing the motionless Black Underworld Supreme within the illusory world. Golden Dharma chains bound his entire body, and he was suppressed at the center of the world.
The Great Cave Lord pointed at Tianjun Divine Mountain again. The divine mountain opened and closed, and the world fell, along with the Black Underworld Supreme suppressed within it, to be imprisoned beneath Tianjun Divine Mountain.
"Fifth Cave Lord, Twelve Cave Lord, you two will go and pacify the western tribes."
The Great Cave Lord's voice remained calm as he issued the command.
"Yes!"
Two Cave Lords immediately stepped out and turned into streaks of light, flying towards the western tribal region. The other Cave Lords then returned to Tianjun Divine Mountain.
However, as the Great Cave Lord descended the divine mountain, he glanced back. Even across millions of miles, Qing Ling could feel that the Great Cave Lord was looking at him!
His mind completely stunned, Qing Ling jolted and quickly bowed in gratitude.
Tianjun Divine Mountain in the distance returned to peace. Not a single flower, plant, or tree on the divine mountain was damaged. Who could have imagined that a battle to suppress a Great Luo Golden Immortal had just taken place here?
In his distant tree hole, Qing Ling was numb for a long time. Even when the bird eggs beneath him cracked and five chicks huddled close to his body, he was completely unaware.
It wasn't until one of the chicks pecked at his body with its beak that Qing Ling finally reacted.
That Great Cave Lord had definitely noticed him.
That feeling of looking at him from millions of miles away, yet feeling as if he were looking at him up close, was too bizarre.
Qing Ling felt that he should no longer refer to this powerhouse as the Great Cave Lord of the Tianjun Axolotl clan, but rather as Hongjun's Good Corpse!
How could the terrifying laws of time and the profound understanding of the Great Dao that allowed him to control heaven and earth with a single finger be possessed by a mere Great Luo Golden Immortal First Heaven?