Volume 1, Chapter 427 – Supreme

War is fought for the sake of contention.

No matter the scale, beneath the word war there are always blood, flesh, and bones that can never be washed clean, and it is bound to spill over onto the innocent.

This could not be avoided.

War had always been cruel.

Watching those figures rush one after another toward the outer starry sky, Shi Lan let out a soft sigh.

Dark clouds covered the sun; great calamity loomed overhead.

“The Heavenly Dao of the Qiongluo Realm has awakened…”

Sensing something, Reincarnation spoke in a grave tone.

“Is it trying to keep those people from escaping?”

If that were truly the case, Shi Lan could understand it.

“No. The Heavenly Dao has lifted the seal on the Qiongluo Realm. It did not stop them…”

…

Beyond the endless void, the invisible barrier that had shrouded the void around the Qiongluo Realm quietly vanished. The living beings of the Hundred Races who broke out of the world met with no obstruction at all as they waded into the surging river of stars.

A consciousness slowly awakened and stood silently on the far shore of the starry sky, watching the many departing figures grow farther and farther away without the slightest ripple.

It had endured a span of years beyond ordinary imagining and had long since lost all emotional fluctuation.

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From the moment of its awakening, it understood every secret within the Qiongluo Realm.

The living beings of the Qiongluo Realm could all be said to have been nurtured by it. Yet toward those who abandoned it and left, it offered no obstruction, only a broad and open road to life.

…

In a stretch of cosmic starry sky extremely far from the Qiongluo Realm, a vast continent with a diameter measured in light-years stood suspended in the void, wrapped in rolling chaos qi, as though it had existed since time immemorial.

Three blazing suns and six moons revolved slowly around the continent.

From within the blazing suns came an extraordinarily intense pulse of life, as if powerful beings lay dormant inside.

Above the continent, rosy light filled the heavens, and the world’s origin qi was so dense it had reached an unimaginable level, enough to grant sentience to ordinary plants and turn wild beasts into demons.

Unranked spirit herbs covered the mountains and plains, yet no one bothered to gather them. An ordinary child of three or four could lift a cauldron and possess several thousand jin of brute strength.

This was a world with foundations so profound that it no longer seemed mortal.

On a plain at one corner of the world stood a sacred land of cultivation:

Huanyu Divine Hall.

Inside one of its side halls, a middle-aged man stood with his hands clasped behind his back. He wore a brocade azure robe, had a tall build, and his ink-black hair was bound beneath a jade crown. Beneath his brows lay a pair of deep-set eyes, and at the center of his forehead grew a heavenly eye.

Before him hung a glazed mirror. On the other side of the mirror was a young man in coarse cloth, currently reporting on the state of the Qiongluo Realm.

“That invading Supreme, what level is his strength at? Among the army under his command, are there any other Supreme-realm experts?”

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The middle-aged man seemed thoughtful as he spoke.

“This disciple has no way to verify it.”

The young man shook his head slightly, looking troubled. Most powers beyond the domain were extremely mysterious and difficult to investigate clearly.

“I understand.”

The middle-aged man waved a hand and cut off the connection, put away the glazed mirror, then softly murmured a few lines. The words that left his mouth instantly condensed into a talismanic decree and fled into the void.

Half a quarter-hour later, a ripple stirred through the hall, and a gray-haired elder in a long robe slowly stepped out.

“Greetings, Grand Elder.”

The middle-aged man bowed respectfully.

“I’ll make the trip myself. A great world, even a ruined one, if offered to the Heavenly Dao, would be enough to increase the fortune of my Huanyu Divine Hall by another measure.”

“Should we bring men with us? At present, there are still seven thousand Star-ranked Hall Envoys in the hall.”

“No need. To campaign against a ruined world and still bring an army? Even if there is a Supreme there, his strength is likely nothing remarkable. I alone am enough.”

The gray-haired elder replied indifferently, then added,

“When the time comes, await my message. Simply open the world gate to receive me.”

“Understood.”

…

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In a stretch of starry sky outside the Qiongluo Realm, a world gate reaching from heaven to earth had opened at some unknown time.

Torrent after torrent poured out from the gate. Riding strange beasts, the Dragonblood Army spread across the boundless starry sky, blotting out the heavens. At a glance, their number was no less than a hundred million.

At this moment, people were still continuously fleeing the Qiongluo Realm. Whenever they ran headlong into this Dragonblood Army, without exception they were cut down on the spot, their blood scattering through the boundless starry sky.

Emperor Yuan sat high upon a war chariot. The dragon pattern between his brows flickered faintly, and the pressure of a Supreme was completely undisguised, silencing the starry sky within a million li.

“A top-tier system… a reaction from ninth-tier energy fluctuations?”

Emperor Yuan looked at the continent before him, a hint of amusement in his expression. To him, this news was merely a small diversion before swallowing the Qiongluo Realm whole.

Nine figures clad in battle armor stood silently behind him, their auras blazing like volcanoes, stronger even than the great suns of the stars. All of them were experts above the eighth tier, and several had even stepped into the extreme limit of the eighth tier, touching upon part of the power of the Supreme domain.

When Emperor Yuan saw those figures continually fleeing outward, a cold glint flashed through his eyes, and he immediately raised a hand to issue an order:

“Seal off the Qiongluo Realm.”

Such a large-scale escape meant that news of his arrival in this world had undoubtedly leaked.

These people were all part of the Qiongluo Realm. After death, they would all return their nourishment to the heavens. They were tangible source power. Letting even one escape was a loss.

The reason he had mobilized so many men for this campaign was precisely to seal off heaven and earth, let not a single one slip away, and thereby maximize the benefits.

The nine figures behind him vanished in an instant, occupying the skies of the ten directions around the Qiongluo Realm. They spread open a gigantic curtain of light that completely sealed off the entire realm.

The countless beings pouring out of the Qiongluo Realm were thrown into panic, trapped with no way forward or back, filled with despair.

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An illusory consciousness invisible to the naked eye condensed within the starry sky. The Heavenly Dao manifested once more, sheltering the Qiongluo Realm beneath itself.

Even though its power had already declined to rock bottom, it still chose to appear.

“So weak it’s laughable…”

A cold sneer spilled from Emperor Yuan’s lips. The dragon pattern between his brows burst with bloody light, and a battle axe appeared at his side, blazing with resplendent spiritual radiance as the majesty of a Supreme rolled across the starry sky for myriad miles.

The entire starry sky trembled. Countless dim dead stars nearby were instantly crushed into powder by that pressure.

“From this day on, there will be no more Qiongluo.”

…

Within the Qiongluo Realm, watching those figures withdraw one after another from the starry sky, Shi Lan’s gaze froze for a moment as she looked up toward the heavens.

That aura which had suddenly erupted was far too tyrannical to be ignored.

“The Supreme of the Reincarnation Hall has arrived!”

Reincarnation felt a heaviness in its heart. Shi Lan’s situation had already become incomparably dangerous.

The outer-domain passage opened when they entered the realm was right at the edge of the Qiongluo Realm. If they withdrew now, there was no way they could hide it from a Supreme’s senses. They would definitely be intercepted.

Blinding divine light smothered the sunlight. The clear blue vault of heaven was torn apart by explosive force, and a gigantic axe hacked straight down from the starry sky into the Qiongluo Realm.

Vast laws washed down from the heavens, instantly sinking an entire continent. The great formation woven from runes shattered apart without the slightest power to resist, and countless living beings were reduced to tribulation ash.