Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm - Chapter 402:
Chapter 402: Chapter 401: The Origin of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon
Long Eyebrow had been in seclusion for several decades in his cave dwelling. When he emerged, his face had aged, but he was glowing with vitality, as lively as ever.
A group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators, who had been waiting for a long time, gathered around him as soon as they saw him.
Their anxious waiting for Long Eyebrow to provide answers was a comfort to their hearts.
“Master, whose hand was that, and is the Immortal Ascension Stairway still there? Will the Immortal Realm aid us?”
As Tribulation Crossing Cultivators, they could only sense the location of the Immortal Ascension Stairway and relied on it to establish a faint connection with the Immortal Realm, as they couldn’t see the Stairway.
When the giant hand reached out towards the Stairway, they neither sensed the existence of the Stairway nor the connection with the Immortal Realm, leaving them in despair, where every second passed was pure agony.
Just as Long Eyebrow was about to say something, he saw a crack appear in the sky, as a fearsome alien creature emerged from the Broken Void, stirring up the terror on Earth with its aura.
This Earth Immortal creature appeared to be stitched together from various beings: a human torso, snake scales, pig’s feet, bat wings, spouting nonsense in a language nobody could understand.
On this monster, Long Eyebrow vaguely recognized parts of a good old friend. He was good at concealing his emotions.
“What kind of creature is this? It is clearly Earth Immortal but it doesn’t belong to our human race, nor the demons, none of the beings of all realms match.”
With the Immortal Ascension Stairway cut off, how did the Immortal Realm find our world so quickly? Once this question flashed into Long Eyebrow’s mind, he understood.
Unlike other worlds, ours is quite well-known. Even with the Stairway cut off, the Immortal Realm could approximate our location based on what they remember.
Several decades have passed, enough time for the Immortal Realm to have located our world.
“Follow me to the battlefield!”
Facing numerous foes at such high-level forced everyone to be fearful. However, with Long Eyebrow leading the charge, the group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators managed to follow suit.
“Attack!”
Long Eyebrow’s eyes were filled with pain, as he struggled against the monster, sparing no effort to conserve his Immortal Power.
Upon engaging the monster directly, Long Eyebrow was at a disadvantage. This beast, lacking rational thinking, and unpredictable in its attacks, managed to catch Long Eyebrow, a theorist who seldom engaged in direct combat, off guard, and knocked him flying.
The other cultivators rushed in to intercept, besieging the monster.
The creature, formidable in its physical presence, directly charged into the cultivators.
The Tribulation Crossing Cultivators, lacking coordination, fought individually, making it quite challenging to combat the monster. Many were severely injured and had to resort to regeneration using their essence-blood time and again.
The monster was eager to exterminate the cultivators by sucking them dry of their blood and essence. Catching the monster’s gaze caused the cultivators to shudder with terror.
The scale of the battle was enormous, causing all the cultivators in the world to lift their heads up in watchful anticipation. While they did not know exactly what the high-ranked cultivators were combating, they could sense the malicious intent that the creature harbored towards their world.
“Twenty Tribulation Crossing cultivators can’t even gain the upper hand against the serpentine, can our world still be saved?” These thoughts clouded the minds of the cultivators and mortals alike, shielding them from the harsh reality.
In truth, even if the creature was formidable, with their number, victory seemed inevitable against it.
However, the Tribulation Crossing cultivators were not coordinated, interfering with each other quite a bit. Even when two cultivators attacked the monster at the same time, due to their conflicting attack methods, the power of their attacks was significantly reduced.
“Can’t you cooperate with me?”
“Darn it, didn’t you see that I attacked first?”
While the two bickered among themselves, the monster took advantage of their distraction and inflicted severe injuries on them.
Thankfully, Long Eyebrow adjusted quickly and regained his footing against the monster.
Though Long Eyebrow is humble about his talents and claims that he could only cultivate to the stage of Earth Immortal, he is, after all, the esteemed disciple of a patriarch, and is nearly invincible at the stage of Earth Immortal.
The group no longer engaged the monster directly, and used their magic charms and Dao techniques frequently to besiege the monster, eventually managing to kill it.
After the monster was slain, it disintegrated into powder, and vanished into the air, leaving no trace behind.
“Master, what in the world was that?”
Although they managed to defeat the creature, the group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators were still worried. Just as the Immortal Ascension Stairway disappeared, an inexplicable creature turned up, far superior in power and leaving them in a terrible state of injuries beyond recovery anytime soon.
Only creatures at the stage of Earth Immortal could exist in the Immortal Realm.
Could this creature have come from the Immortal Realm…
“Master, what exactly is going on? Since you are from the Immortal Realm, do you have any idea?” As the representative, Daoist Jin asked, respectfully hoping for an answer and explanation.
Long Eyebrow glanced at Jin Daoist, Long Eyebrow Buddha, Yuan Shang, Li Wu and everyone else before answering slowly, “Yes, indeed the Immortal Ascension Stairway has disappeared due to the giant hand.”
Upon hearing this, the group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators clenched their fists reflexively, but then went limp.
If anyone among the group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators was most devastated, it had to be Daoist Jin.
He was at a stage where he could ascend at any moment, but he didn’t, preferring to solidify his cultivation base first to optimize his ascension.
Who could have thought that right before ascension, the steadfast Immortal Ascension Stairway would disappear?
“When can the Immortal Ascension Stairway be repaired?”
Long Eyebrow shook his head gently, “It’s hard to be repaired. As you all probably know, it took several Immortals to construct the Stairway, using highly complex techniques. Once the Immortal Realm broke contact with the Ten Thousand Realms, they never built another Stairway. Nowadays, to build another one would require an unknown amount of immortal power and time.”
“But please be assured, this is a major matter and the Immortal Realm won’t let it be. We just need to wait patiently, and eventually, there will be a solution.”
“However, it’s likely that your masters, and the elders, aren’t going to pay Jiuzhou a visit anytime soon.”
“The only connection between the Immortal Realm and Jiuzhou was the Immortal Ascension Stairway. Now that it has disappeared, the Immortal Realm needs to both rebuild the Stairway and seek out Jiuzhou’s coordinates.”
The crowd was silent. What Long Eyebrow meant was that there is hope for the re-establishment of the Immortal Ascension Stairway, but the timeframe is uncertain. It could be a hundred years to ten thousand years.
They won’t be alive in ten thousand years.
Thankfully, there is still hope.
“Is that monster from the Immortal Realm?”
Daoist Jin raised this question, his heart heavy. If the enemy came from the Immortal Realm, then the construction of the Immortal Ascension Stairway would truly be in the distant future.
Moreover, if it came from the Immortal Realm, it follows that there will be more of them, ceaselessly. One or two times is still tolerable, but how could they consistently fend off these creatures?
If they can’t overcome the enemy, it might be better to indulge themselves fully before the enemy actually arrives.
At this thought, Long Eyebrow tensed and noted the troubled expressions on the faces of these Tribulation Crossing Cultivators. If they lose hope and purpose, they may become desperate, which could lead to various malicious acts.
However, she quickly reassured them with a light laugh, brushing off the seriousness of the monster, “How could it possibly be from the Immortal Realm? The Immortal realm would never tolerate such an ugly monster. It’s simply called a Heavenly Demon from Beyond.”
“A Heavenly Demon from Beyond?”
The group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators looked at each other, none of them had ever heard this term from any of their immortal seniors or any of the immortal scriptures.
“If you haven’t heard of it, it’s perfectly normal. Heavenly Demons from Beyond are the enemies of the Immortal Realm. However, they really pose no threat, their sheer numbers are just annoying.”
“They’re just a bunch of creatures at the Earth Immortal stage. Easily crushed by any Heavenly Immortal.”
“Would the immortals make a big fuss about some pesky ants?”
Upon hearing this, the group of Tribulation Crossing Cultivators seemed to relax a bit.
Yes, a creature without logic, recklessly charging around because of its Earth Immortal form, isn’t it just a pesky bug in analogy?
If they could become immortals, they certainly wouldn’t fear these creatures. Oh, the Heavenly Demons from Beyond.
