Tianchu Heavenly Master’s action has greatly slowed the advance of the Hell Realm army. Otherwise, before the heavens of Heavenly Court could react, figures like Siyang Heavenly Lord, Feng Caiyi, and Jiushi Yi Heavenly Emperor would probably have pushed straight to Heavenly Court’s second starry defence line!
One can say Tianchu Heavenly Master has indelible merit towards Heavenly Court.
Little Black said impatiently, “Old man, just tell us. Was Tianchu civilisation destroyed or not?”
The old drunkard was not angry, but he simply refused to answer.
Zhang Ruochen, however, sensed some meaning in it and secretly relaxed.
The old drunkard had already said enough. The heavenly master had great merit towards Heavenly Court, one could say he sacrificed himself for the Dao. The entire Heavenly Court owed him a debt. At this moment, if Yu God King wished to lead Tianchu civilisation away from the battlefield, even if the heavens of Heavenly Court noticed, they would pretend not to.
The general trend was lost. Why force Tianchu civilisation to perish with it?
Moreover, with Grand Master and Ancestor Yuqing there, how could they not lend Yu God King a hand?
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Hell Realm’s next targets will surely be Hundred Clans Royal City, Xing Huan Heaven, and Xing Tian Cliff. I believe we should act quickly rather than delay. Now is the time to move them into…”
“Shh!”
The old drunkard made a silencing gesture and looked down the mountain, then laughed loudly. “Old ghost Xu, I did not expect you to still be alive and well. It seems that below Emperor Fengdu in the Hell Realm, your strength ranks second!”
Xu Tian’s burly figure emerged silently from the void. White hair fell on both sides of his cheeks, his beard hung like a white waterfall to his chest. With majestic bearing, he climbed the mountain and said, “With this heaven’s cultivation? One sword can sever past and present. One thought can cross star rivers. Let alone Luo Yifeng detonating his divine source, even if Haotian did, this heaven could leave with ease.”
The old drunkard laughed heartily. “Not afraid of boasting too much and bursting? Though Luo Yifeng did not seal as heaven, his cultivation was not much weaker than yours. In my view, you are strong on the outside but weak within, using mental power to conceal your injuries.”
“Have you drunk yourself stupid? This heaven is the foremost in the path of nothingness today. Who can injure me?”
Xu Tian’s aura was powerful. He stared at Zhang Ruochen and said coldly, “Your cultivation has advanced greatly. Planning to slip away? Where is your wife?”
The old drunkard walked to face Xu Tian. “Xu Fengjin, you are a heaven after all. Why put on airs before a junior? If you have the ability, like when you challenged Sumeru alone back then, go fight Haotian.”
“Just wait and see. This heaven will sooner or later slay a Heavenly Venerable and prove the Ancestor Realm.” Xu Tian’s arrogance soared to the clouds, his beard and hair flying.
Zhang Ruochen was somewhat worried. Xu Tian had rushed back to the Hell Realm so urgently, likely to block them. “Reporting to senior, Ruochen has already defeated Hai Shang You Ruo and completed the test.”
“Since your cultivation has advanced greatly, hurry back to Kunlun Realm and do what you promised this heaven.”
Xu Tian then looked at the old drunkard, his expression suddenly growing much graver. “For some reason, this old man has felt uneasy lately, always sensing something major is about to happen in the universe. Do you feel the same?”
Mental power experts of the Tian Yuan Wu Que level were one with heaven and earth, often able to sense some events in advance, glimpsing heavenly secrets in the unseen.
The old drunkard’s expression turned serious. “Even you feel it!”
Little Black said quietly, “Major events in the universe have already happened, haven’t they? Do you two old seniors still need to sense them? Emperor Fengdu’s return, the collapse of the starry defence line, near-heaven experts detonating divine sources. Which is minor?”
“You know nothing!”
Xu Tian glanced unkindly at Little Black, perceived his origins, and did not bother arguing. “These events, to existences of our level, are still only minor. Truly major events are the fall of heavens, the descent of quantity tribulations, heaven and earth collapsing…”
Boom!
Before he finished, the earth truly shook violently, like an earthquake.
Xu Tian and the old drunkard sensed something. Their faces changed.
In an instant, Zhang Ruochen’s view shifted. He found everyone had arrived above the Blood Heaven Tribe’s Wing World, standing in the dark cosmic void.
The rules of heaven and earth seemed to have changed.
Xu Tian gazed towards the starry sky where the Shura Race resided. His withered palm pressed forward. Divine light flashed in his palm. The entire universe’s space-time seemed compressed. Countless stars flew past Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
The view shifted again. Zhang Ruochen clearly saw Luo Zu Yunshan Realm across endless distant star domains, as if close at hand.
Such methods inspired awe and shock.
Legend said Luo Zu Yunshan Realm was one of the three great demonic sources, formed when Demon Ancestor Luo Hou fell and his body transformed into a humanoid great world. The entire world was riddled with holes, demonic qi surging, bloody scent permeating the surrounding star domains.
Luo Zu Yunshan Realm underwent astonishing change. Demon Ancestor Luo Hou’s eyes, closed for billions of years, now opened. One like a blood moon, one like a cyan sun.
Demonic qi grew thicker, radiating blood and cyan light. Lightning flashed endlessly within.
All beings in the star domain where Luo Zu Yunshan Realm lay knelt in worship, believing Demon Ancestor had revived.
Pfft!
Meeting the demon ancestor’s eyes, Little Black and Bai Qing’er both spat blood.
The old drunkard immediately released his mental power domain. “Quickly sit and regulate your breathing.”
Fisher Rumour Divine Master was moved. “Could Demon Ancestor not be dead and be awakening?”
“Demon Ancestor is dead. How could he revive? It is the demonic path rules in heaven and earth suddenly increasing, reviving some dormant ancient and primordial demonic path auras. Is something major truly about to happen?” Xu Tian’s eyes showed rare gravity.
The old drunkard sensed something and looked towards the northern starry sky.
…
Pangu Realm, Ancient Demon God Temple.
In the main hall of the Ancient Demon God Temple stood a statue of the Great Demon God, mighty in form, with eight heads: male, female, Buddha, serpent, goat, dharma seal head, skull head, ten-eyed head.
Outside the main hall stood seventy-two mountain-like stone pillars carved with reliefs of the seventy-two pillar demon gods.
This day, earth-shaking roars rang from the Ancient Demon God Temple, sounds of slaughter, hatred, battle cries. All beings in Pangu Realm could hear them.
Gods went to investigate but were blocked by surging demonic qi.
The plain where the Ancient Demon God Temple stood became a million-li demonic qi ocean, lightning flashing unceasingly.
Some gods heard the Great Demon God awaken, uttering demonic sounds, seeking to reclaim control over cosmic life and death. Some saw one of the Supreme Four Pillars, Demon God Gai Mie, appearance and form matching legends exactly, walking the plain amid lightning.
All this, unknown if illusion or truly occurring.
The anomalies in Pangu Realm spread to Heavenly Court, shocking the myriad realms.
That day, seventy-two bell tolls rang from the Heavenly Palace.
Mortals and cultivators alike could see divine lights streaming endlessly towards the Heavenly Palace. The entire Heavenly Court was shrouded in fear.
…
Kunlun Realm, a boundless desert in the Barbaric Secret Realm.
Yellow sand stretched endlessly. Black mist swirled in the air, demonic qi thick.
This desert formed in the divine war a hundred thousand years ago, burying Kunlun Realm’s former three great divine halls, one being Jiuli Divine Hall. Many gods turned to dust and sand here.
Mu Lingxi had entered Jiuli Divine Hall decades ago and not emerged.
Chi Xingtian worried for her safety and did not want to wait. He prepared to enter the underground divine hall ruins. But just then, overwhelming demonic qi rose from the eastern domain, condensing into black clouds that blotted sky and sun.
“This is…”
Chi Xingtian flew out, heading towards the human race’s eastern domain.
Tianmo Ridge in the eastern domain had been a remote place with only weak counties. Only after Kunlun Realm’s revival and Wang Mountain’s appearance did it gradually become a cultivation holy land in the eastern domain, the sphere of influence of the Ming Sect Zhang family.
In towering mountains not far from Wang Mountain, vast demonic qi surged upward, black and oppressive, as if a peerless evil demon was about to emerge.
Demonic qi overturned heaven and earth, corroding the ground black.
When Chi Xingtian arrived, Calamity Venerable was already there.
“What has happened?” Chi Xingtian asked.
“See for yourself!”
Calamity Venerable’s face was grave, even somewhat uneasy and irritable.
In the area of densest demonic qi, a majestic conical black mountain grew from the ground. On the mountain stood ruined halls and ancient altars, all bearing traces of ages.
Cracks spread across the surrounding earth, connecting to form great canyons thousands of li away.
“This is… this is the legendary Tianmo Mountain!” Chi Xingtian was overjoyed.
Who could have thought the dojo of the once-glorious ancient Tianmo Sect, Tianmo Mountain, lay beneath this unremarkable eastern domain earth? It was not merely a mountain but a heavy artefact refined by Tianmo.
Chi Xingtian had searched bitterly for years, thinking it destroyed in antiquity. He had not expected it to emerge today!
…
Zhang Ruochen pushed the Eye of Truth to its limit, faintly seeing seventy-two pillars standing in the northern starry sky, wrapped in a strange nebula.
Visible across such vast distance, how immense those seventy-two pillars must be, awe-inspiring.
Suddenly, a divine sound rang across the entire Hell Realm. “By the name of Heavenly Venerable, I command all Immeasurable Realm gods of the Hell Realm to assemble at Wuding Divine Sea and conquer Beize Great Wall. Those not arriving within one day will be slain by this Heavenly Venerable’s hand.”
The voice spread simultaneously across the entire Yellow Spring Star River.
Emperor Fengdu’s cultivation had reached a level gods could not imagine.
All beings in the Hell Realm heard this voice and knelt in worship. All Immeasurable Realm gods were stirred. Some emerged from divine halls, some awoke from underground, some from mortal seclusion…
They set out, heading for Wuding Divine Sea.
Something major must have happened at Beize Great Wall. Immeasurable Realm gods could already sense some things. Now with the Heavenly Venerable personally ordering all Immeasurable Realm gods to war, the situation’s severity was imaginable.
Xu Tian said, “It seems Fengdu and Haotian reached a truce agreement at Wuding Divine Sea. Are you going?”
The old drunkard sighed long. “I really do not want to!”
“Then do not go!”
“But I must!”
The old drunkard knew how major this was and what immediate truce between Heavenly Court and Hell Realm meant at this time. Avoiding it would have grave consequences.
