Chapter 2922: Nine-Child Lotus Seat, Dustbrush of Purification

As the purple cage’s radiance surged, it suddenly shrank, as though turning into a mass of purple energy, winding around and wrapping Phoenix King inside.

Wrapped and bound, Phoenix King’s expression changed drastically. She struggled desperately, yet it was all in vain.

That purple power was like an endless torrent of river water crashing against her. Every time her Immortal Origin power surged up, it was ruthlessly shattered!

In that instant, Phoenix King felt like "I am but fish on the chopping block, to be butchered at will," and deep in her heart there was only profound helplessness.

"Purple Energy from the East!"

Seeing Phoenix King bound, Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch’s faces changed again, and they also recognized that the method Wyatt Barnes was using was exactly the Monarch Level Divine Ability "Purple Energy from the East" from Xuantian Immortal Sect.

Moreover, they could tell that Wyatt had completely comprehended and mastered Purple Energy from the East; otherwise, it would have been impossible to wield it with such ease, as though it were an extension of his arm.

"Wyatt Barnes, let go of my junior sister!"

Although she was shocked by Wyatt’s strength and means, seeing Phoenix King bound by Wyatt, Milena Nangle still made her move.

Swoosh!

Her figure, like Lanni, tore through the sky, shooting straight toward Wyatt Barnes.

Arlet Lynch, though she said nothing, closely followed Milena Nangle, preparing to join hands with her against Wyatt.

If it were before, whether in Pill Tao or anything else, they had never taken Wyatt Barnes seriously.

In the past, they would never have imagined, even in their dreams, that one day they would join forces to deal with Wyatt Barnes.

And even now, despite joining forces, they had no real confidence.

Simply because the strength Wyatt had shown was too terrifying, at the very least on the level of a Ten Directions Immortal Lord, perhaps even stronger!

Just as Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch moved, Wyatt noticed them, but he didn’t grant them even a single glance. His gaze still fell on Phoenix King, who was struggling bitterly.

If not for the fact that this woman was Milana Harrington’s master, and Milana’s feelings for her were deep, he would have killed her long ago to eliminate future troubles!

Even though there was a Ten Directions Immortal Lord behind her.

But now, even a One Origin Immortal King was within his kill range—why would he fear a mere Ten Directions Immortal Lord?

"Immovable Vajra King!"

As Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch rapidly approached, Wyatt still didn’t shift his gaze, but with a mere thought, another surge of power rose from his body.

A moment later, a golden Buddha phantom suffused with purple energy appeared around Wyatt’s body, firmly protecting him within.

Boom!!

Rumble!!

...

No matter how Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch attacked, the golden Buddha phantom rising from Wyatt’s body showed not the slightest sign of collapsing.

The two women’s attacks, when landing on the Buddha phantom, were more like they were scratching him, unable to pose any threat at all.

"Nine Children Lotus Seat!"

"World-Purifying Dust Whisk!"

While aghast at Wyatt’s terrifying defense, Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch simultaneously grew solemn as they drew out their King Grade Immortal Artifacts.

In Milena Nangle’s hand appeared a lotus seat, upon which stood nine child figures arranged in three rows.

Five children below, three children standing atop the five, and one child standing atop the three.

This was precisely one of Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s three sect-protecting Immortal Artifacts: the Nine Children Lotus Seat, a King Grade Immortal Artifact adept in both offense and defense.

It was also the foremost among Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s three sect-protecting Immortal Artifacts!

Swish!

As Milena Nangle solemnly channeled Immortal Origin power into the Nine Children Lotus Seat, its mysterious light erupted, and two avatars split off from it.

Besides the main body remaining in Milena’s hand, one avatar appeared beneath her feet and expanded, lifting her entire person.

The other avatar transformed into a massive phantom, enveloping Milena Nangle within, like an iron fortress.

On the other side, the dust whisk appearing in Arlet Lynch’s hand was also not unfamiliar to Wyatt.

This dust whisk was exactly the one Milana Harrington had found in that small world she had entered together with him, and it was likewise one of Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s three sect-protecting Immortal Artifacts, named "World-Purifying Dust Whisk."

This World-Purifying Dust Whisk had been lost outside for many years, until only a few years ago, when it was recovered by Milana Harrington.

Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect had another sect-protecting Immortal Artifact, currently in the hands of the Sect’s Supreme Protector, Phoenix King’s father, Qiu Kuang Wang.

"The Sect Leader even brought out the Nine Children Lotus Seat? Is Wyatt Barnes’s defense really that terrifying?"

"Isn’t it obvious? Before using their King Grade Immortal Artifacts, the Sect Leader and Protector Arlet joined forces and still couldn’t break Wyatt’s defense. How could his defense not be terrifying?"

"Now Protector Arlet has also drawn the World-Purifying Dust Whisk... Two Nine Palaces Immortal Lords and two King Grade Immortal Artifacts—this should be enough to break Wyatt’s defense, right?"

"This time, even if Wyatt’s defense is finally broken, his strength is already beyond doubt... At the very least, he’s of the ’Ten Directions Immortal Lord’ level!"

...

Only now did the group of Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect elders and disciples present slightly recover from their shock, because the impact Wyatt Barnes had brought them was simply too great!

Phoenix King was the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s second Protector, and moreover a Nine Palaces Immortal Lord, yet before Wyatt Barnes she did not even have the strength to retaliate, and was directly restrained.

Though this was partly because Phoenix King, at the outset, had not taken Wyatt Barnes seriously and was careless, it still required Wyatt Barnes to have sufficient strength to accomplish this.

Now, seeing the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s other two Nine Palaces Immortal Lords joining forces and furthermore drawing out two of the sect’s three Sect-Suppressing Immortal Artifacts, they stared unblinkingly at the development unfolding before their eyes.

At this moment, most of them believed that with these two Nine Palaces Immortal Lords of the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect wielding King Grade Immortal Artifacts, there was an eight- or nine-tenths chance they could shatter Wyatt Barnes’s defense.

Yet very soon, their confidence in the two began to waver.

"That is..."

"That’s also a King Grade Immortal Artifact?"

"There’s absolutely no way a Monarch Grade Immortal Artifact would possess such an aura!"

...

The Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect group clearly saw that when Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch brought out their King Grade Immortal Artifacts and activated them, an Immortal Artifact likewise appeared in the hand of that violet-clothed youth.

That Immortal Artifact was an umbrella—an umbrella whose canopy was painted with strange patterns, and whose handle was etched with bizarre markings.

As soon as the umbrella appeared in the violet-clothed youth’s hand, it unfurled, then in a flash transformed, and in the blink of an eye arrived in the hand of the golden Buddha phantom that was propping up around the violet-clothed youth’s body.

Once the umbrella fell into the golden Buddha phantom’s hand, it was instantly shrouded in a layer of golden light; accompanying that golden light upon its surface were strands of faint purple energy.

Whoosh!

In an instant, a brilliant mystical radiance surged forth from the umbrella, resonating with the golden Buddha phantom and the purple energy, then as though fusing into one.

At the same time, the attacks unleashed through the King Grade Immortal Artifacts in Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch’s hands also arrived.

Milena Nangle gripped the Nine Lotus Child Pedestal; with a single tremor, the nine child images upon the pedestal seemed to come alive, their eyes snapping open one after another.

The next moment.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

...

Amid a chorus of howling wind, the nine children left the pedestal, darting toward Wyatt Barnes with a speed surpassing thunder.

And in this process, the nine children’s small bodies continually swelled, as though growing larger the more wind they encountered.

When the nine children simultaneously struck the golden Buddha phantom at Wyatt Barnes’s surface, whose hand held the umbrella aloft, they were like a succession of death-squad warriors hurling themselves forward; mystical light erupted violently across their bodies, and they almost simultaneously self-detonated.

Boom!!

Rumble!!

...

The nine children self-detonated at the same time; the overlapping blasts were earth-shattering, making the stretch of void at the blast point shudder violently, and terrifying shockwaves swept out in all directions.

The umbrella-bearing golden Buddha phantom likewise trembled and shook when the nine children self-detonated in unison, giving off a sense of tottering on the brink of collapse, as if it might be shattered at any moment.

Whoosh!!

Crash!!

...

Just as the umbrella-bearing golden Buddha phantom was shaken by the nine children’s self-detonation to the verge of crumbling, a series of torrential, piercing wind howls arrived right on cue.

It was Arlet Lynch striking after Milena Nangle; the Purifying World Dust in her hand seemed to come alive, and with a sweep, the void quaked as a clearly visible tempest howled forth, its target locked straight onto Wyatt Barnes’s location.

This tempest tore through the sky like a mighty ferocious beast crossing over from the primordial era, opening its blood-soaked maw to bite down on Wyatt Barnes.

The golden Buddha phantom, already shaking from the nine children’s self-detonation, was suddenly slammed by this tempest, and instantly became even more violently agitated.

"Is Wyatt Barnes’s defense about to be broken?"

A group of Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect elders and disciples stared fixedly at that umbrella-bearing golden Buddha phantom at Wyatt Barnes’s surface. As their hearts trembled, hope simultaneously rose in their eyes.

Yet the scene that followed left them disappointed once more.

They could see that after being battered about like a boat in stormy wind and rain, the umbrella-bearing golden Buddha phantom still endured, and when it steadied once again, it stood unmoving like a mountain.

Because the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader Milena Nangle had taken care to protect the disciples present after unleashing her strike, none of the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect disciples were affected by the lingering might of that thunderous joint attack from her and Arlet Lynch.

"This... still wasn’t enough to break his defense?"

"His King Grade Immortal Artifact is no ordinary item... and it seems to be a purely defensive King Grade Immortal Artifact!"

"We can now further confirm... he is at least a being at the level of a Ten Directions Immortal Lord!"

...

The group of Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect elders and disciples, while shocked that Wyatt Barnes had withstood Milena Nangle and Arlet Lynch’s attack, also shifted their attention to the umbrella Wyatt Barnes had produced.

That umbrella, now in the golden Buddha phantom’s hand, interwove purple radiance, golden light, and mystical glow, as if capable of warding off all the storms of the mortal world!

"So they’ve finally arrived?"

Just as the Merciful Voyage Immortal Sect crowd was once again stunned by Wyatt Barnes’s strength, his gaze fell upon the distant high sky.

There, a figure was rapidly streaking toward them.