Volume 1, Chapter 468 – Sudden Change

The Scarlet Crow War Halberd was deeply embedded in the red-gold earth. As the doors of the golden hall opened, the formation shrouding the surroundings dissipated along with them.

At the sight of the red-clad woman’s defeat, the few Heaven Demons entangled with the three Heavenlords instantly tensed and withdrew from the battlefield.

Nie Lin’an and the other two also retreated to Shi Lan’s side, seizing the chance to regulate their breathing and recover.

In just a short while, the three human Heavenlords had already suffered severe injuries. The starry sky above Nie Lin’an’s head had collapsed, his scroll had been torn apart, and Daoist Yunzhen’s primordial spirit had also been badly wounded.

Tian Xuanjing’s condition was slightly better, but he too had burned away a great deal of world power, shaking the very foundation of his cultivation.

Not far away, more than twenty Heaven Demons stood in formation.

Shi Lan’s strength, enough to defeat a Demon Emperor, was right there before their eyes. None of them dared act rashly.

“How does this person look so much like Qinglan?!”

Because of Tu Shan Yuqi’s actions before the mausoleum opened, most of the Heaven Demons had carefully examined Qinglan’s appearance before and remembered it clearly. At a glance, they saw the resemblance.

Shi Lan had made no attempt to conceal her appearance, because her portrait had long since appeared on the three races’ prodigy rankings.

As Qinglan’s fame grew in the future, it was only a matter of time before someone noticed the similarity between their faces.

Qinglan was a genuine demon race member. Unlike the avatar arts of the Lingyang Realm, she possessed a complete and independent primordial spirit. Even if a Demon Emperor stood before her in person, it would be impossible to detect anything unusual.

In a certain sense, she and Shi Lan were originally two completely different people.

She had never worried about whether her identity would be exposed.

Other than Tian Bai, across the entire Boundless Demon Domain, only the Feather Emperor knew the truth.

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If the Feather Emperor wanted to make a move against her, the Lan clan would not be able to escape it.

A huge gap had been torn open in the sky-curtain. Shi Lan swept her gaze downward and sensed dozens of powerful auras rapidly drawing near.

Recalling the Scarlet Crow War Halberd, Shi Lan took a single step and dove straight toward the golden hall.

The hidden injuries left in her primordial spirit by the lightning tribulation had not yet healed. At most, she could maintain her current battle strength for one hour. There was no time to waste.

A divine phoenix had entered Huang Ze’s mausoleum. What kind of fortune it might obtain there was almost impossible to imagine.

If it were allowed to stabilize its imperial domain, then given Shi Lan’s current condition, everything would be over.

“Stop her!”

“The Great Venerable has already entered the hall. She must be receiving Emperor Huang Ze’s inheritance. We cannot let her disturb it!”

Sensing Shi Lan’s movement, the Divine Phoenix clan’s Heaven Demons did not hesitate in the slightest. In an instant, they ignited their Dao foundations and erupted with incomparable speed, getting in front of the doors before Shi Lan did.

To them, this was the hope for the Divine Phoenix clan’s revival. No accident whatsoever could be allowed.

Several divine phoenixes revealed their true forms directly. Their blood and qi surged violently, their essence blood reversed within them, and phoenix true fire ignited across their entire bodies. Like several blazing suns ascending into the sky, they slammed into Shi Lan.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Violent explosions rang out one after another, and blinding firelight shone through the void.

A figure tore through the flames and stepped out. The self-destruction of several Heaven Demons had failed to injure Shi Lan in the slightest.

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The strength she was currently unleashing was already enough to rival an expert who had only just entered the imperial domain. The self-destruction of a few Heaven Demons did no more than stall her for an instant.

Having no desire to get entangled, Shi Lan strode forward. Behind her, her primordial spirit golden body followed closely, swinging out a giant palm and casually brushing aside the dozen or so Heaven Demons blocking the doors as if dusting away floating ash. Without pausing for even a moment, she stepped into the great hall, and her figure vanished into the rolling mist.

Bzzz—

The half-open doors of the golden hall slowly closed, sealing off all disturbance from the outside world.

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Just as Shi Lan stepped into the great hall, dozens of streaks of light flashed by. The human Heavenlords who had received Tian Xuanjing’s message arrived above the sky-curtain.

The human side held the advantage in numbers, but they had only two Pseudo-Emperors, while the demon race had four demon race Great Venerables in the realm just under the Feather Emperor’s command alone. Their overall battle strength was not all that different.

The moment the two races met, not a word was wasted. One Heavenlord attacked first, offering up an ancient stele whose aura seemed able to swallow heaven and earth as it smashed toward a Heaven Demon, like water poured into boiling oil, instantly detonating the entire battlefield.

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The fierce battle above the sky-curtain was too brutal. Almost every moment, Heaven Demons and Heaven-Man cultivators were falling.

The muffled booms of small worlds collapsing spread through the entire great world, echoing layer upon layer beyond the void before finally turning into pure nourishment and returning to heaven and earth.

Qinglan raised her head toward the sky. Looking at the enormous and glaring gap in the sky-curtain, she remained silent.

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Within the universe, there was not only one Lingyang Realm. A faint thought began to arise in her heart.

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Tap… tap…

In the silent space, only the sound of footsteps echoed. All around was a hazy field of light and shadow.

There was none of the imperial pressure Shi Lan had imagined. Instead, a faint exotic fragrance drifted through the air, causing her body to relax involuntarily.

She withdrew her primordial spirit golden body and suppressed the medicinal force within her, trying to prolong the time she could maintain her combat strength.

From the outside, the golden hall did not appear large, yet by now she had already walked several thousand miles and still had not seen the end.

Either the interior contained a world of its own, or she had fallen into a formation.

“Be careful. I can sense a trace of a Supreme’s aura. It is still alive.”

Reincarnation’s voice sounded in the depths of her heart, making Shi Lan’s already tense mind jump abruptly and throwing the rhythm of her heartbeat off. She still found Reincarnation’s sudden appearances hard to get used to.

Without source power to replenish it, Reincarnation spent most of its time asleep. After refining the Qiongluo Realm, Shi Lan had gained an ample supply of source power and had once thought about using it to restore Reincarnation’s energy, only to be refused.

That was because, for Shi Lan, source power was at present a completely nonrenewable form of energy and incomparably precious. At her current speed of cultivation, when the time came, it might not even be enough for her own use.

“It is still alive? You mean Huang Ze?”

Steadying her slightly disordered heartbeat, Shi Lan’s gaze sharpened.

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“That was a figure from the Middle Ancient era. How could that be possible?!”

“I don’t know the details either, but there is definitely a living Supreme in this hall. Source power fluctuations this active could not possibly appear inside a dead body.”

Reincarnation’s perception was entirely attached to the system. The reason it could sense the anomaly was because every Supreme contained source power within their body.

Shi Lan stopped walking and did not advance any farther. After thinking for a moment, she slowly closed her eyes and circulated the divine phoenix blood within her body, transforming it into a gauzy veil of blood and qi that covered her outer form.

With her eyes closed, following that vague, unseen sense of guidance, she began moving forward once more, rushing straight ahead.

Whoosh—

The shriek of wind echoed past her ears, and the exotic fragrance around her grew heavier and heavier.

Rip—

Suddenly, a soft sound like fine silk being torn rang out beside her ear.

“Careful!”

Reincarnation’s warning echoed in the depths of her mind. Shi Lan abruptly opened her eyes and saw a bloodless face right before her. It was the red-clad woman who had escaped from her hands not long ago.

Shi Lan inhaled sharply and withdrew at high speed.

At some point, the spiritual mist around them had already dispersed. The red-clad woman lay limply collapsed on a golden phoenix chair, her breathing faint and shallow, nearly imperceptible.