Chapter 1773 - Traitor and Junior (2/2)

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 s.p.a.ce-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 ma.s.sive 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 G.o.d 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 ma.s.s-destruction energy, powerful enough to roll up all the mountains and rivers in its wake.

Yueshen c.o.c.ked 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 b.l.o.o.d.y 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 b.l.o.o.d.y War.

The following three figures who had attained divinity could only use the t.i.tle 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.