Volume 1, Chapter 428 – The Fires of War Ignite

Below the Supreme, all were ants.

A Supreme stood at the pinnacle of the Extreme Dao, enough to sit astride the starry sky and overlook the Myriad Worlds.

Before that power, the Qiongluo Realm had no strength with which to resist.

Rumble!

The gigantic axe tore open the vault of heaven, and blood-red war riders flooded in like a deluge. Their iron hooves thundered out the rhythm of war.

Bzzz…

Runic light flashed from many giant cities. Countless beams of rune-light rose into the air, and pillars of light condensed from immense energy swept across the nine heavens like world-opening divine swords.

The war engines belonging solely to the Qiongluo Realm had finally bared their fangs once more.

In an instant, the void was riddled with holes. Countless cavalry riding savage exotic beasts were blown apart, and blood rained across the sky.

But compared to the immense number of riders, it was no more than a drop in the ocean.

True qi surged around Shi Lan, batting away the blood rain falling from the sky. Looking at the cavalry steadily drawing near in the distance, she turned and slipped into space.

She had no wish to clash head-on with the army. With that Supreme present, the Qiongluo Realm had no chance of victory at all. What mattered most now was preserving herself and finding a way out.

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“A world that once produced a Supreme may still have remnants of a Supreme artifact left behind…”

Outside the starry sky, Emperor Yuan rose from his war chariot. Just as he lifted a foot to step into the Qiongluo Realm, a black abyss suddenly split open in the nearby starry sky and swallowed several neighboring stars.

A gray-haired elder slowly walked out, his Supreme pressure utterly undisguised, the sea of stars behind him trembling.

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Seeing the gray-haired elder appear out of nowhere, the light in Emperor Yuan’s eyes gradually turned cold, like an ancient frozen pool.

“Fellow Daoist, what brings you here?”

The elder did not look at Emperor Yuan. After sizing up the Qiongluo Realm, he said blandly,

“I want this Qiongluo Realm. Have your men withdraw.”

“Oh?”

Emperor Yuan laughed from sheer fury.

“What imposing bearing, Fellow Daoist.”

“Imposing bearing? Hardly. If you refuse, then your road ends here today. It has not been easy for you to cultivate this far.”

The elder’s expression remained calm, his every gesture brimming with powerful confidence.

“Do you know that what you are doing is no different from snatching a pearl from beneath a dragon’s jaw…”

Emperor Yuan raised his battle axe once more, cold light surging in his eyes.

“You truly have a way of courting death!”

The moment Emperor Yuan’s words fell, the gray-haired elder turned. Rosy light burst behind him, and when his eyelids opened and closed, divine radiance overflowed from within, burning with blazing law fluctuations.

“Junior, you are digging your own grave!”

He struck abruptly. Terrifying power exploded through the starry sky in an instant. His punch split apart ten thousand miles of the galaxy, and a destructive aura swept in all directions.

“This Emperor will grind your bones to dust and scatter your ashes. You won’t need a grave!”

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With a shrill roar, Emperor Yuan swung his battle axe. The void collapsed beneath it as vast divine might surged forth and hacked toward the gray-haired elder, crushing countless stars along the way.

Boom!

Boundless chaos qi exploded, and the starry sky shattered apart.

The battle of Supremes was unimaginably mighty. The moment they exchanged blows, they nearly smashed apart this whole stretch of starry sky.

“Stubborn and unrepentant. I’ll kill you today, then take Qiongluo!”

The elder spoke coldly and reached out, drawing forth a pitch-black war spear, its tip wrapped in world-shaking killing intent.

Emperor Yuan said nothing more. The towering waves of blood and qi that belonged solely to a Supreme boomed through the heavens. The battle axe shone with blinding red light. Before the axe blade even moved, distant stars were already exploding one after another…

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The fierce battle in the starry sky affected the Qiongluo Realm. Fragments of countless stars came crashing down, turning into meteors that destroyed innumerable cities, towns, and villages. Quite a few of the invading riders also died beneath the falling stars.

Even the faintest ripple from a Supreme battle was enough to bring annihilating disaster upon the living beings on the ground.

But the meteors that kept falling did not affect the flames of war spreading ever more fiercely across the land below.

Countless ferocious beasts poured out of the mountain ranges in full force.

Shi Lan kept her head down and hurried on, taking advantage of the chaos to gather rune stones left behind in ruined cities and feed the Extreme Dao Rune Seal within her nascent soul.

The right path was to raise her strength as quickly as possible. With every bit stronger she became, her hope of escaping safely increased by another bit.

“Another Supreme has arrived.”

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Reincarnation sensed the great battle in the outer starry sky and grew even more uneasy.

For Shi Lan, the best possible outcome would be for those two Supremes to perish together.

But no one who had cultivated to the level of Supreme was easy to deal with. That possibility was vanishingly small.

Still, if the Supreme on the Reincarnation Hall’s side were slain, Shi Lan’s chances of escaping unscathed would undoubtedly increase by quite a lot.

Boom!

Before Shi Lan could reply, a deafening blast rang out. The void suddenly exploded and forced her out of the spatial passage.

“Kill!”

More than twenty savage war riders surrounded her on all sides. The leader held a blood-red halberd and had no intention of wasting words with Shi Lan. He struck like lightning, his killing intent surging into the sky.

Shi Lan’s gaze was icy, her expression as still as an ancient well. Blood and qi erupted as she directly summoned the Scarlet Crow War Halberd, its halberd-light sweeping in every direction.

Pfft! Pfft!

More than a dozen riders were cleaved apart on the spot, flesh and blood flying everywhere. In the blink of an eye, fewer than ten riders remained.

The leader’s halberd trembled violently in his hand. On its blade was a glaring break, shocking to the eye.

Shi Lan pressed forward immediately, giving the remaining enemies not the slightest chance to breathe, and swung the jet-black war halberd in her hand once more.

She was like a battle immortal, long hair streaming, her eyes filled with cold lightning.

Boom!

The earth split apart. The halberd-light seemed to shake the entire mortal world. The land within a hundred li shattered instantly, and the remaining riders had no power to resist at all. They were cut down in an instant, together with the savage beasts beneath them, all turned into bloody pulp.

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“These people must have sensed my existence. Otherwise, with their strength, there’s no way they should have been able to discover you.”

Reincarnation spoke in a low voice.

“Shi Lan, undo the binding. Without me, perhaps you still have a chance to escape alive.”

Even as it spoke, riders had already appeared once more on the distant horizon.

Shi Lan put away the halberd, gathered her slightly disheveled hair, and reached out a hand to smooth the violent fluctuations of origin qi in heaven and earth. Then she stepped forward, and in a single step she was already a hundred li away.

She did not open a spatial passage again, but traveled by teleportation instead.

Compared to a spatial passage that could cross tens of thousands or even millions of li at a time, teleportation was much slower. But her position was easy to expose now. Inside a spatial passage, she would feel nothing of the outside world and would instead be more easily ambushed. Relatively speaking, teleportation was far safer.

“The Reincarnation Hall has special means of sensing my existence. Staying together with me will only increase the risk of exposure.”

Seeing that Shi Lan had no intention of paying it any heed, Reincarnation became anxious at once.

“Shut up.”

Shi Lan’s eyes turned cold as she glanced behind her. A portion of the riders had already caught the scent like hyenas smelling flesh and were biting onto her trail like a tail.

“What is there to fear? At worst, I kill them, or they kill me.”

Shi Lan’s speed quickened again. Her breathing grew slightly faster, her heartbeat accelerated, and the sound of blood coursing through her body became ever clearer. Her fingertips trembled faintly.

Her entire being was almost exhilarated to the extreme, and the light in her eyes was dazzling.

“He’s only a Supreme. It’s not as if I’m certain to die!”