Volume 1, Chapter 308 – Long-Term Mission

“Ah…”

The divine soul of the Myriad Phenomena Realm was worlds apart from that of the Heavenly Astral Realm. Even though its body had been torn apart, that Demon King was not yet dead, and its soul was still struggling.

Nine blood-colored flying knives slashed out of the void and erased its soul in the blink of an eye.

A Demon King was reduced to body and soul alike in the span of a breath.

Shi Lan loosened her hands, and the mutilated corpse fell to the ground, revealing its true form. It was a gigantic emerald-green mastiff, huge as a small hill.

At the critical juncture between life and death, Shi Lan used the Divine Phoenix blood within her body to be reborn in fire. Not only were her injuries completely healed, she also used the opportunity to open the nine apertures of her head, break through the mysterious barrier between life and death, and step into the Myriad Phenomena Realm, extending her lifespan by more than three thousand years.

Upon stepping into the Myriad Phenomena Realm, her soul power increased, allowing it to nourish the flesh, and her lifespan was greatly extended.

With her life essence greatly increased, Shi Lan’s original snow-white silver hair turned black. A waterfall of dark hair hung down her back, faintly carrying a trace of dark red.

Divine light glittered in her eyes, her flesh and bones shone like crystal, and her entire person radiated vigorous life.

ated vigorous life.

The black illusory scene slowly unfolded behind Shi Lan and enveloped the remains of the Demon King on the ground.

Strands of blood and qi essence were extracted by the Black Domain. In the end, the hill-sized mastiff was drained into a withered skeleton, while its flesh and blood were condensed into a basin-sized mass of essence blood.

Shi Lan did not absorb that mass of essence blood. Instead, she sent it beside Tianbai and wrapped him within it completely.

Tianbai had already fallen unconscious. When he woke again, after absorbing all the essence blood of this Demon King, he would undergo another transformation.

The two Demon Kings nearby turned pale and could not stop themselves from backing away, until at last they dropped to their knees.

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“Your Excellency…”

“Please forgive us this mortal offense!”

Shi Lan lowered her eyes, glanced at the two Demon Kings kneeling on the ground, and spoke softly:

“Take your own lives. I will leave your corpses intact.”

Her tone was very light, almost gentle, yet the two Demon Kings on the ground were frightened out of their wits.

Cangyue slowly rose to his feet. His icy beastly eyes stared at the two Demon Kings as he growled in a low voice:

“Step forward and accept death!”

The two Demon Kings did not hesitate any longer. Rising to their feet, they tore open space and fled toward the outside of the formation. In their pursuit of the utmost speed, they even revealed their true forms.

If they stayed any longer, there would be nothing but death waiting for them.

Shi Lan closed her eyes. With a thought, an invisible force rose within the void, becoming an invisible blade that slashed into the bodies of the two fleeing Demon Kings.

Pfft, pfft!

Two blossoms of blood burst open in the sky.

With a single thought, Shi Lan severed the bloodline bond between the Lan Clan and those two Demon Kings.

In an instant, the bloodlines within the two Demon Kings collapsed violently. They suffered grievous injuries and fell from the void.

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Before they could beg for mercy again, Cangyue had already stepped forward and killed the two demons with a single claw strike.

The remaining Demon Kings at the side stood silent as cicadas in winter, their hands hanging at their sides, not daring to move in the slightest.

After tossing down the two corpses, Cangyue shrank his body and came to Shi Lan’s side, lowering his head as he said,

“It was my failure in supervision. I allowed such faithless ingrates to join the clan. Please punish me, Your Excellency.”

Shi Lan shook her head. This was not Cangyue’s fault. In truth, she was somewhat grateful to him at this moment. If he had not come to her aid, she might already have died.

She had always been clear in distinguishing gratitude from grievance, so naturally she would not blame Cangyue.

After properly settling Tianbai, Shi Lan dismissed the Demon Kings and kept Cangyue behind to ask about the Lan Clan’s current situation.

The changes within the Lan Clan were even greater than Shi Lan had expected. Not only had the number of high-end combatants such as Demon Kings increased greatly, even the scattered lesser demons beneath them had already reached the number of a million.

Within the sphere of influence of the Feather Emperor Hall, the Lan Clan could now barely be counted as a force of some standing.

“As for the human who was chasing you, I intended to capture him alive, but his cultivation was higher than mine, so I failed.”

When Shi Lan learned that Cangyue had not discovered the old man’s origins, she felt somewhat disappointed and told Cangyue to leave first.

After Cangyue left, Shi Lan could not help but feel a little emotional. Back when she established the Lan Clan, it had merely been an idle act, something done casually without much thought. She had never expected it would lead to what it had today.

Thinking of the fragments of memory that had flashed through her mind earlier, Shi Lan’s heart grew heavy.

She had once thought that coming to Lingyang Realm had been merely accidental, but that scene upon the great river had made it unmistakably clear to her that it had not been an accident at all.

More than twenty years earlier, she had already arrived in the Vast Land of Shenzhou. It was only that her spiritual awareness had been clouded.

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All at once, it felt as if she had awakened from a great dream. The memories of the previous twenty-odd years became clearer and clearer, as vivid as yesterday.

Shi Lan let out a soft sigh, her emotions a little complicated. Fate truly made fools of people.

Shaking her head slightly and casting those messy sentimental troubles behind her, Shi Lan closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing for a moment, then unfolded the Empress-raising System’s panel in her mind.

Just now, she had been too busy dealing with those Demon Kings to listen carefully to the system prompts, and she had not even had time to experience the fourth layer of the Yuqing Creation Art.

[Host: Shi Lan]

[Cultivation: early Myriad Phenomena Realm]

[Physique: Innate Spiritual Body, Divine Phoenix Body (unawakened), True Martial Undying Body (first layer)]

[Methods: Yuqing Creation Art (fourth layer), Vajra Divine Fist (major mastery), Jade Tempering Art (complete), Heaven Extremity Seal (beginner), Spirit-Burning Art (incomplete)]

[Divine Abilities: Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight (three-star), Black Domain (seven-star), Howl at the Moon (five-star)]

[Strength Evaluation: accomplished]

[Prestige: 123670 (famous across one world)]

[World Coordinates: 500 minor worlds, 70 middle worlds, 10 major worlds]

[Current Owned Worlds: minor world x1]

[Current Space-Time Coordinates: Lingyang Starfield, Lingyang Realm, Taishi Calendar, Year 48927]

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[Main mission completed. Mission rewards distributed.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained: Space Law Fragment x1.]

[Host cultivation has reached the requirement. Some sealed elements are now unsealed.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained 200 minor world coordinates, 35 middle world coordinates, and 6 major world coordinates.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the star maps of Chunyang Starfield, Rolling Thunder Starfield…]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained Demon-Sealing Sword Finger, first level.]

[Current remaining energy: 2.95 units of nine-star energy body]

The system panel had changed somewhat. The Root Bone section had disappeared entirely and been replaced by Physique.

Shi Lan had nearly used up all of her prestige points, yet in the span of a single day, they had risen by more than fifty thousand again. That rate of growth was obviously abnormal.

But none of that was what concerned Shi Lan right now. After taking in the general picture with a glance, she directly entered the task section. At present, the system’s main mission was what mattered most to her.

Looking at the task prompt before her, Shi Lan could not help frowning.

This time, the mission was no longer about raising her cultivation within a set period of time, and even the threat of dying together with it had vanished.

[Long-term mission issued: An Empress cannot personally handle everything. She needs the support of a powerful force. Initial completion reward: Immortal Mountain Cave Abode x1. No penalty for mission failure.]

[Side mission issued: Reach ten million prestige points to unlock the time flow adjustment function of the system’s virtual space. No penalty for mission failure.]