Chapter 989: Four Heavenly Kings (1/2)

With the appearance of the ghost ancestor, an endless tide of akasha souls appeared throughout Witherdew Major. The akasha ghosts outside of the major’s palace, including the origin divine, immediately fell to a prone position and cowered on the ground.

Though Xuanyuan Xiaoyue and the little fox were jointly suppressing the major with the Xuanyuan Sword and Scroll of Shepherding Immortals, they were unable to erase fear of the ghost ancestor from the akasha ghosts. After all, this was the head mastermind behind the deaths of countless worlds and realms, and it’d resided in the chaos for countless aeons.

Xuanyuan Xiaoyue wasn’t the strongest kind of realm monster there was, and the ghost ancestor was afraid of only a boundless horde of realm monsters. She was here by herself!

The akasha souls stirred into action under the ghost ancestor’s command, walking out of a state of nothingness as scarlet beings. They looked like eerie human babies, but were more than ten times bigger than actual infants.

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“Kill!” Gaze cold, the little fox roared her command.

Three dao palaces and a hundred thousand fortress ships lit up at the same time. Light from a variety of combat arts and treasures blasted squarely at the ghost ancestor and enormous infant akasha souls.

The great battle was joined once again.

Frosty killing intent crackling in the air, Xuanyuan Xiaoyue brought out her Embittered Ocean Orb and charged at the ghost ancestor. Snarling in response, the ghost ancestor dove at Xuanyuan Xiaoyue. No matter how the eldest princess of the human race had turned into a realm monster, it would kill this last realm monster that existed!

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Rumble—

An enormous door of light slowly swung open in the void, releasing strange ripples through the air.  Numerous scarlet babies were flung backward from the force.

“You akasha ghosts already know the existence of hell, so I won’t hide it any longer.” Lu Yun’s voice slowly traveled out from the abyss over the threshold. “You will have a chance at life if you enter hell through the Gates of the Abyss. Otherwise… die here.”

Despite that, the akasha ghosts didn’t immediately walk through the doors. They were born of the ghost ancestor and it possessed a natural deterrence by being physically present on the scene. Normally ruthless and bloodthirsty, they didn’t quite know what to do.

Rumble—

A second explosion traveled from the air as a pair of doors made of milky-white light opened above the Gates of the Abyss, also releasing enormous ripples that swept back the akasha souls charging at it.

“You can come to my heavenly palace if you don’t wish to enter his netherworld kingdom,” Qing Yu’s voice echoed slowly. “It’s gotten too crowded in hell, but there are no residents in my palace yet. You can be my heavenly soldiers if you join me.”

Having taken complete shape, the heavenly palace offset the kingdom of hell. One was in charge of the heavens and the other in charge of the earth. With battle raging at peak fury, Lu Yun and Qing Yu displayed their domains at the same time.

“The heavenly palace?!” shrieked the ghost ancestor while locked in combat with Xuanyuan Xiaoyue. “How is it possible that the heavenly palace and kingdom of hell exist?! They’re just things of legend, they’re not actually real!”

Though the ghost ancestor knew that Lu Yun was the master of hell, that place was just something derived from the hell of human dao in its eyes. It wasn’t a real kingdom of the dead. But the heavenly palace and kingdom of hell both manifesting at the same time threw it into utter disarray and panic.

It was also quite confused. How had something of myths and legends manifested in this realm? Did they even have a chance of destroying this place anymore?