“You!! What a pestilence that won’t leave well alone!” The Ghost Bat King shrieked with outrage when it saw the pillars of gold and silver light and furled its wings, protecting the darkness around it.
Bam!
Bam!
The two pillars ruthlessly blasted its wings; the gloom in this part of the void crumbled away. Around the outskirts of the mountain, the hordes of ghost bats spooked and hastily streamed back to their king, taking shelter under its wings.
A dot of faint purple light slowly rose beneath the two beams of radiant splendor. Dressed in purple, a young man wielding a sword paced out of the unknown. A sun and a moon floated over his head—the chaos sun and moon of the second realm.
The Ghost Bat King’s scarlet eyes fixed on the newcomer that’d abruptly appeared. Strange noises gurgled from its throat and its razor-sharp teeth clenched tight, grinding down on themselves.
“Greetings, father.” The purple-clad youth raised a cupped fist salute to Lu Yun—he was Lu Qing, son of Lu Yun and the little fox. “We meet again, my good disciple.” He turned and nodded at Yueyi.
“This… this disciple greets the master.” Yueyi woodenly made her gesture. Her mind was a mess of thoughts and she couldn’t make sense of things. Her venerable master, Purple King Lu Qing, should be a Hongmeng true king. He’d at most be a potentate, so how had he brought the huge bat to heel as soon as he appeared?
According to Jian Bu’er’s words, the bat was at least a fifteenth level sequence expert! Even if its strength couldn’t be fully deployed in the lands of order, its presence alone was enough to crush a Hongmeng potentate.
However, the giant bat and the little ones around it were plainly afraid of Lu Qing. In fact, they were so afraid that they seemed traumatized by the mere sight of him. The bats retreated into the darkness as soon as he appeared, leaving behind gory wreckage and horrific casualties.
Fourth realm cultivators took advantage of the respite to run; there were only a few Nihil World Sovereigns and sequence experts left within the blink of an eye. They’d realized the gravity of the situation and stayed to see things through to the end.
Mount Astronomia stood at the edge of the known expanses; the border was an impoverished region without many residents. The consequences would be unimaginable if the bats made it to the heartland of the Boundless Planes.
By now, everyone understood the purpose behind the Luminaries. If it wasn’t for the faction, the lands of order would’ve long been punctured by a thousand boils and a hundred holes, falling into utter mayhem.
……
“Master, you…” Yueyi didn’t know what to say to Lu Qing.
“I stood guard in the chaos sea and protected the second realm’s sun and moon for countless eons, suppressing this exact bat.” Lu Qing tilted his head up to the Ghost Bat King. “It comes from the land of darkness and brings unending gloom and bats with it, wishing to invade the Hongmeng through the chaos sea. Destroying the chaos sun and moon is another one of its goals.
“These two celestial bodies are the source of light for the entire fourth realm. Darkness will make its way inside unobstructed if they are extinguished.”
Mount Astronomia was the rise and fall of the fourth realm’s sun and moon. The latter two were projections of the ones in the second realm, and together, they illuminated the entire fourth realm.
If the sun and moon in the chaos were no more, then their projections in the fourth realm would also burn out. Darkness would surround the Boundless Planes and reduce it to complete disarray.
“How can a minor Hongmeng potentate like you suppress a monstrous fiend of fifteen levels of sequence?” Cold laughter suddenly echoed in the void. It came from a man with a long aquiline nose and a piercing gaze stabbing out of narrow eyes. He looked like some kind of avian creature.
The Peng Sovereign King.
In the Kunpeng Ocean, there was a Peng Sovereign King and a Kun Sovereign King. After the latter’s demise, it was time for the Peng Sovereign King to step forward.
His words cut straight to the point and immediately raised the suspicions of the Nihil World Sovereigns and sequence experts still around. Indeed, how could a Hongmeng potentate keep a fifteenth level sequence expert in check? It was too far-fetched even for the wildest tale! Things weren’t as they seemed!
Whoosh!
Brilliant sword splendor cut through the void and landed on the Peng Sovereign King. He was promptly sliced into two. Jian Bu’er followed his sword light like he was a ghost and snuffed out the Peng Sovereign King’s fleeing nascent spirit with his palm.
“You’re such an odd fellow. I let your nascent spirit survive when I killed you earlier, but you courted death and came back as someone else. Do you really think I don’t dare kill you?” Jian Bu’er sneered.
The sequence experts and world sovereigns gasped sharply. They’d all thought that the Kun Sovereign King and Peng Sovereign King were two different seventh level sequence experts. But they were one and the same?
The crowd failed to grasp Jian Bu’er’s deeper meaning—both sovereign kings had had their bodies stolen by the same person and had been refined into replicas.
“I can’t be bothered with the rest of you.” Jian Bu’er scanned the surroundings. There were more than ten thousand Nihil World Sovereigns still present, but just a dozen sequence experts. While this crowd appeared to be a large number of powerhouses, it was a drop in the ocean compared to the talent in the known expanses.
“The Luminaries guard Mount Astronomia to suppress the land of darkness and prevent its vile spawn from defiling the lands of light,” Jian Bu’er addressed the Ghost Bat King and its bats.
The king shrieked with outrage that this lowly creature dared talk to it; ghost bats spewed forth from the gloom. But with the chaos sun and moon, as well as the World Star itself now on the scene, they didn’t dare do anything.
Lu Qing had imprisoned them for countless eons. With him here, they wouldn’t take any action.
“The Luminaries are dead in all but name. Therefore, the Formula Dao Academy of Fairylands will be established on this spot to teach formula dao and suppress the darkness!
“If any of you possess sufficient courage, you will attend to learn formula dao. If not, piss off to where the sun doesn’t shine!”
There was no one else in the fourth realm more persuasive or commanded more attention than Jian Bu’er at the moment. He was an eleventh level sequence expert, the strongest in the Boundless Planes!
