Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Shatuo Domain was large—it was so vast that it took Saint Kings almost a month to make it across the domain.
However, Youshen and Bloodlord Sijia had arrived at the edge of the domain in just a split second.
They were delighted, thinking that as long as they made it out of the Shatuo Domain and into another realm, Yueshen would not dare to pursue them.
At first, they had thought of taking the opportunity to defeat Empress Chi Yao and Yueshen to establish the Heavenly Realm’s standing. Yet, they failed, and things ended up the other way around.
It was their fault; they had underestimated the enemy and caused themselves to flee with their tails between their legs. They were completely humiliated, but they had been too naïve for thinking like that.
“Do you really think that the Shatuo Domain is a place where you can come and go on a whim?”
Without warning, Yueshen appeared, standing on the Sun-moon Crystal Coffin in front of them. A silver moon rose behind her and blocked Youshen and Bloodlord Sijia’s escape route as it gradually grew larger.
“How did she manage to be so quick?”
Youshen and Bloodlord Sijia’s hearts skipped a beat.
They did not want to end up like Yanshen. Exchanging looks with each other, the two gods got off their high horse and cupped their hands in an apologetic gesture.
“Youshen and I trespassed the Shatuo Domain with the intention of saving lives. We did not mean to disrespect you. We will definitely give you a heads-up the next time when we visit,” said Bloodlord Sijia.
Youshen was extremely beautiful, although not as beautiful as Yueshen and Chi Yao. “Since the Kunlun Realm’s rookie god was killing innocent lives, we had no choice but to intervene. Bloodlord Sijia, Yanshen, and I will make up for the losses that the Guanghan Realm has suffered,” Youshen explained.
Yanshen was not dead; he was just badly wounded.
Right before Yanshen’s divine body crumbled, Empress Chi Yao had soaked up a vast volume of his divine blood with her Blood Dripper sword.
Yanshen might have reconstructed his divine body, but he was only half as healthy as before. Without a divine spring or medication, he might not be able to fully recover even after a hundred years.
He could not have been angrier right then. He hated Yueshen, not to mention Empress Chi Yao.
However, he knew that since he could not defeat Yueshen, he should not stay in the Shatuo Domain any longer. So, he fled in another direction.
Yet, Empress Chi Yao refused to let him go. She pursued him, shooting beam after beam of sword energy and aggravating Yanshen’s injury.
Yanshen gritted his teeth with fire in his mouth. “This is too much, Chi Yao! I dare you to wait for me to recover my full strength. Then, we will fight one-on-one under the starry sky!”
“You are not qualified to fight with me,” Empress Chi Yao said.
Blood spurted out of Yanshen’s mouth as he could not take the insult. How dare a rookie god with only a few years of experience look down on him?
The Chaotic Space-Time Lotus erupted in a bright luminescence again, shooting a beam of light at Yanshen. The strike left behind a deep wound in Yanshen’s back, and more divine blood oozed out of his body. Yanshen was furious as he fled. “Once the battle is ignited in the Kunlun Realm, the Heavenly Realm will surely wipe all of you out, banishing every single one of you to the bottom of the abyss. By then, none of you will be able to recover.”
Boom!
The Chaotic Space-Time Lotus’ energy destroyed thousands of square miles of land, tearing the dimension apart like a piece of paper to reveal the dark void inside.
Yanshen was forced to retreat into the void, but Empress Chi Yao had no intention of letting him go. She went into the void to pursue him.
The void had the power to destroy everything, yet divine power could still withstand its destructive force.
As long as there was no great danger inside, Chi Yao could still survive in the void for some time.
Of course, she needed to get out as soon as possible. Otherwise, the power of the void would still eat into her.
Outside Guanghan Temple at Mount Yueshen, a demonic shadow ripped open the dimension and emerged from the void.
It was a demon with a Hexagonic Warhammer in his right hand. He had a pair of horns on his head, and his body as massive as a hill.
With a wave of his left hand, he drew all of the Heavenly Realm’s remaining Saint Kings into a scroll. Immediately after, his eyes landed on Zhang Ruochen and the others inside the ring of divine light.
“Do you really think that a tiny divine ring can protect them?”
The demon sneered, and his eyes turned dark like a pair of super-powerful black holes that was about to suck the Saint souls of Zhang Ruochen and the others.
“Sh*t! There is one more god here…”
The second that thought came to mind, Zhang Ruochen felt something strike his Saint soul before his consciousness started to fade.
Looking out, he saw the Saint souls of the cultivators inside the ring leave them.
Supreme Saint Manjian had the highest cultivation attainment and could withstand the stare. He bent down to press his hands on the divine pattern that Yueshen left behind on the ring, injecting his power into it.
“The ‘Blood Moon Swallowing the Heavens’ Grand Formation!” Supreme Saint Manjian roared.
Starting from the center of the divine-patterned ring, countless inscriptions appeared all over Mount Yueshen as an ancient matrix was activated.
The white Mount Yueshen instantly turned blood-red.
Once the stare was defeated, the demon was forced to take two steps back.
As that happened, the Saint souls returned to Zhang Ruochen and the others’ bodies.
In contrast to Zhang Ruochen, Blackie, and Awesome, the Little Taoist who remained standing, the other cultivators had dropped to the ground.
Blackie and Awesome were not any better, though; their heads sank into their necks as they hid in Zhang Ruochen’s clothing.
The demon put on an apologetic smile. “I see. This divine ring pattern is the key to activating the Blood Moon Swallowing Heaven Formation. No wonder Yueshen seems so secure about leaving all of you here while she gives chase to Youshen and Bloodlord Sijia. What a shame. With only a Supreme Saint, the power is not enough to drive the entire Blood Moon Swallowing Heaven Formation.”
The demon raised his Hexagonic Warhammer and jumped up into the air before he sent a minor tremor throughout Mount Yueshen as he landed. His Warhammer instantly struck the divine ring pattern with a loud boom.
Dazzling light flared out from the ring, and a powerful shock wave spread a few thousand miles from Mount Yueshen in all directions.
The Warhammer was stopped, but inside the ring, Supreme Saint Manjian began to spit blood.
Before he could react, the demon had descended on them with another strike.
His arrival at Mount Yueshen was not only to save lives but also to tie up all the loose ends, and that loose end was Zhang Ruochen.
The moment the demon appeared at Mount Yueshen, Empress Chi Yao and Yueshen’s faces changed, realizing that the Heavenly Realm had tricked them.
Empress Chi Yao summoned the power of the Chaotic Space-Time Lotus, trying to use its dimensional jump to travel across a hundred thousand miles to return to Mount Yueshen. Unfortunately, a huge demonic hand broke the dimension and struck her, sending her flying back.
Soon after, a massive body appeared in front of Empress Chi Yao.
The current demon appeared identical to the demon on Mount Yueshen, but its body was at least ten times larger, and its energy was far stronger than Yanshen’s. This demon looked like a majestic ancient mountain as his head reached the sky and his feet touched the earth.
In fact, this was his actual body. The demon on Mount Yueshen was just a clone of his divine will.
Empress Chi Yao’s expression became cold when she saw the demon. “This is unexpected, Blackheart Demonlord. Apparently, you are the Kunlun Realm’s traitor. I am really surprised that someone like you managed to survive the Yuanhui Tribulation and live to see the second tribulation.”
“I have never been a living being of the Kunlun Realm, so naturally, you cannot count me as a traitor of this realm.” Blackheart Demonlord looked down at Empress Chi Yao, who seemed like a speck of dust in his eyes. Every word he said was forceful and loud.
“If the Kunlun Realm had not imparted you with civility and teachings, giving you all the methods of cultivation, how could you have become a god and how could the Blackdemon Realm have become a part of the Celestial Court? Without the Kunlun Realm, the Infernal Court would have found you and made all of you their dinner. The entire realm would have been destroyed,” said Empress Chi Yao.
“I have become what I am today through my own effort. The Kunlun Realm’s help is merely auxiliary. Looking back on my days of cultivating and learning in the Kunlun Realm, did not I grin and bear every humiliation I received? I have come a long way, and my attainment today is a testament of it,” Blackheart Demonlord declared.
“Your current achievement only proves one thing: the Kunlun Realm raised you as a human, yet you willingly became a running dog for the Heavenly Realm,” Empress Chi Yao retorted.
Blackheart Demonlord hissed and proceeded to punch Empress Chi Yao. Just as he was about to do that, a stone tablet the size of a star appeared, and the air in the Shatuo Domain stood still for a moment.
In the shadow of the stone tablet was an abstruse pattern representing one of the drawings on the Demonstone Engraving1.
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Meanwhile, Yueshen was furious. She thrust both of her hands out and smashed Youshen, as well as Bloodlord Sijia’s body before she hurried back to Mount Yueshen.
Just then, a blood vortex formed in the sky and engulfed her.
The blood vortex was so large that it possessed mass-destruction energy, powerful enough to roll up all the mountains and rivers in its wake.
Yueshen cocked an eyebrow and looked at the sky with a grave expression on her face.
In the vortex’s eye, thousands of miles away, she saw a middle-aged man with eight blood wings on his back. He was holding a whisk and moving his wrist slowly.
The man was Bloodlord Erjia from the Fane of Bloody War.
“You really made it to divinity. What a surprise!” Yueshen exclaimed.
The man snickered. “We have only met once. I am flattered that a figure like you can still remember a junior character like me, Senior Yueshen. You once said that I had great potential and would attain divinity someday. Your words have motivated me and become my inspiration. Even during the hardest time of my life, during the most hopeless moment, I found the strength to go on when those words came to mind. After a hundred thousand years, I can finally tell you, Yueshen, that I did it!”
He no longer addressed Yueshen as his senior and himself as a junior at the end of his statement. He was proud of the fact that he was finally Yueshen’s equal.
“You? If you are thinking about defeating me, you can dream on. Your teacher, Jiatianxia, would stand a better chance.”
Jiatianxia was the most powerful figure in the Fane of Bloody War.
The following three figures who had attained divinity could only use the title of Bloodlord Erjia, Bloodlord Sanjia, and Bloodlord Sijia. The three of them were in Jiatianxia’s shadow.
“One hundred thousand years ago, you and my teacher were equal in terms of cultivation. No one could claim one was better than the other. However, my teacher has been improving over the past one hundred thousand years while you were in hibernation, declining in your divine power. You are no longer in peak form. One is moving forward while one is going backward. Do you really think that you still can fight my teacher, Yueshen? Perhaps I can help you gauge how far you have gone backward.”
Yueshen glanced in Mount Yueshen’s direction. It appeared as though something had occurred to her because she was no longer in a hurry to return.
