Chapter 1344: Evil Infant Awakens
Outside the Star God Realm, Qianye Fantian, Zhou Xuzi, and Yue Wuyai, the three Eastern Domain Divine Emperors, still had not left.
However, under the isolation of the Star Soul Absolute Barrier, they had no knowledge of what was happening within Star God City.
"The Star Soul Absolute Barrier cannot last for much longer. Seven more days will be its limit. Are the two of you still waiting?" Zhou Tian Shen Di said.
"Since we have come, we will naturally wait." Fantian Shen Di said with a chuckle.
"For something so major that the Star God Realm would deploy a Star Soul Absolute Barrier, its repercussions are likely to affect our entire Eastern Divine Region. If we cannot learn the truth at the first moment, how can we feel at ease?" Compared to Fantian Shen Di, Yue Shen Di's expression was slightly more solemn.
Zhou Tian Shen Di nodded slightly. Thinking of Yun Che, who had directly entered the Star Soul Absolute Barrier, worry once again surfaced on his face: "Regardless of why Yun Che suddenly came here from the Dragon God Realm, his entry into the Star God Realm at a time when they have sealed the realm for such an important event will inevitably be an unexpected variable. I fear..."
"Hehe, Zhou Tian Shen Di need not worry." Fantian Shen Di said: "Yun Che is no ordinary junior. His talent is unmatched, and he is the 'Child of the Heavenly Dao' personally prophesied by the Tianji Three Elders. Moreover, he is protected by the Dragon God. No one would be willing to lay a hand on him. Besides, his power is still weak. Even if he is a surprise, he is merely an insignificant one."
"..." Zhou Tian Shen Di nodded: "I hope so."
His gaze swept across Zhou Tian Shen Di's face, and Fantian Shen Di's smile grew deeper: "It seems that even though Yun Che chose to stay in the Western Dragon God Realm, Zhou Tian Shen Di still cares for him deeply. This child is truly fortunate. Speaking of which, Zhou Tian Shen Di must deeply regret that he did not enter Zhou Tian Realm but instead remained in the Dragon God Realm. However, if you wish to bring him back to the Eastern Divine Region, it is actually not that difficult."
"Oh?" Zhou Tian Shen Di turned his head.
"Everyone knows that Yun Che went to the Dragon God Realm and never returned because he feared Yue Shen Di." Fantian Shen Di chuckled, glancing at Yue Shen Di: "If Yue Shen Di were to announce that he would no longer trouble him over the matter of the 'Divine Empress,' he would naturally return. Yue Shen Di, am I right?"
Yue Shen Di neither confirmed nor denied. He turned his head away, his eyes narrowing coldly.
Fantian Shen Di continued: "This way, it not only demonstrates Yue Shen Di's broad-mindedness but also fulfills Zhou Tian Shen Di's wish. In the future, when Yun Che grows to his full potential, it will be a blessing for the entire Eastern Divine Region. Three birds with one stone—how wonderful."
"Hehe, Fantian Shen Di speaks most reasonably." Yue Shen Di said with a faint smile that was not quite a smile: "Since I have publicly accepted Qingyue as my adopted daughter, I naturally cannot be bothered to pursue that brat Yun Che's affairs. As for why that brat chose to stay in the Dragon God Realm and not return... Fantian Shen Di, you don't actually believe..."
Thump!!
Before Yue Shen Di could finish, his heart suddenly convulsed violently... In the same instant, the three Divine Emperors' expressions changed drastically.
"What is that!?" Yue Shen Di said in a deep voice.
"..." Zhou Tian Shen Di furrowed his brow, instantly releasing his spiritual sense to scan the vast world around them.
Fantian Shen Di looked up... At that moment, the sky suddenly darkened. Black clouds, coming from nowhere, gathered rapidly, rolling and churning in the air before pressing down layer by layer. Before long, the heavens, completely buried by black clouds, pressed down entirely, almost within arm's reach.
"This... this is?"
The expressions of the three Divine Emperors turned extremely grave. A similar omen had appeared over a year ago. At that time, rolling black clouds had covered the entire Eastern Divine Region, and what descended thereafter was the world-shocking Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation.
This time, it was different. Because the gloom and oppression that sank with the black clouds was hundreds, no, thousands of times more terrifying than that time!!
So terrifying that even these three Divine Emperors were completely suffocated, their souls trembling in horror, spasming as they never had before.
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Within Star God City, the sky was also filled with black clouds. An intangible oppression weighed heavily on everyone's chest. Between heaven and earth, the sound of a heartbeat grew louder and louder... As if a primordial chaos god, dormant for endless ages and vaster than the God Realm itself, had suddenly awakened, casting its claws and fangs down upon this fragile world.
"What is happening? What exactly is happening!?" Under this too-terrifying pressure, even the Star Gods felt a deep unease stirring in their hearts... Soon, that unease rapidly transformed into fear, growing deeper and deeper, causing their souls, hearts, bodies, and even their hair to tremble wildly.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
The heartbeat grew heavier and faster, and the aura of terror filled every corner of the world. Only Mo Li remained completely still, without any reaction, her eyes pitch black and hollow.
Yun Che...
Yun Che... Yun Che...
"Sister... what... what's wrong with you? Sister?" Cai Zhi's face was pale. Facing the one closest to her in this life, an inexplicably deep fear surged within her heart. She called out again and again, but Mo Li showed no response at all. Finally, Cai Zhi suppressed all her fear and reached out to grasp her hand.
In an instant, her hand retracted as if shocked by electricity, and her face grew even more pallid: "Sis... sister..."
Mo Li's hand was freezing cold, colder than the deepest polar wasteland... And it was a chill that pierced straight to the soul.
Then, Mo Li suddenly moved.
She raised her left hand and pressed it against the barrier that had been sealing her and Cai Zhi, suppressing all their power.
On the back of her hand, a dark wheel imprint flashed, and then suddenly released an extremely dense black light.
The moment that black light appeared, it was as if a black hole with infinite tearing force had manifested. Everyone's spiritual sense and sight were irresistibly drawn to it, all converging on that one point. Staring blankly at the black light shining on Mo Li's hand, everyone's pupils unconsciously dilated, bit by bit...
Black—the most ordinary, the most familiar color in the world.
But none of them had ever known that black could be so deep, so profound.
The black light was only a small mass, but staring at it, an awful thought inexplicably arose in everyone's mind:
This black light was enough to devour any life, enough to devour the entire Star God Realm, enough to devour everything in the world...
"Wh... what is that?" Tianyuan Star God was the first to come to his senses. His hair stood on end, and he cried out in alarm.
Black light... There was no profound artifact in the Star God Realm that could release such profound light. And it could not possibly belong to the power of Tiansha Xingshen!
Black light—that was clearly light released by dark profound force! But in his tens of thousands of years of life, among all the dark "demon people" or dark spirits he had encountered, none of their dark profound light had ever brought him such a terrifying feeling.
"..." Xing Shen Di could not speak. He wanted to know more than anyone what that mass of black light was. What was happening to Mo Li? What was happening to all of Star God City!?
As the black light dazzled the soul, streaks of black light lines suddenly released from the left hand covered by the black light, rapidly spreading and radiating to every part of Mo Li's body. In just a few breaths, dense black light lines covered her entire body.
Her hair also flew up at this moment. In the horrified pupils of all onlookers, that blood-red hair—dyed by the power of Tiansha Xingshen and symbolizing the Star God of Celestial Slaughter—gradually, bit by bit, transformed into a fluttering jet-black.
Darker than the abyss, deeper than the night.
"Ah... aah... ah!? Th-this... what in the world is happening!?"
More than half of the Star Gods and Elders rose within the barrier. They had barely managed to calm down from the shock brought by Yun Che, and now they were filled with terror again...
But this was only the beginning. In the next instant, their souls all flew out of their bodies.
Crack!!!!
A tiny crack appeared beneath Mo Li's palm, bringing with it the sound of a sky-tearing, earth-splitting explosion. The moment this crack appeared, it almost made the eyeballs of every Star God, Elder, and Star Guard burst.
Because this crack appeared on the barrier that had sealed Mo Li and Cai Zhi!
The barrier that was connected to the power of the Nine Star Gods, the Thirty-Six Elders, and countless profound stones and crystals—a barrier they had thought impossible to break or damage!
"Ah!!??"
"Im... possible!!" Xing Shen Di rose trembling, his eyes bloodshot, as if trapped in a nightmare.
Crack————
The black light flashed again, instantly expanding several times, engulfing Mo Li's slender left arm. Another long crack exploded on the barrier. Then, this crack merged with the previous one, and then spread with extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, it extended across the entire barrier.
This isolation barrier, formed from the peak power and aura of an entire king realm and considered the strongest in the world, was split in two by a single crack under that strange black light, as fragile as a piece of glass.
Then... it shattered.
Crack————————
The sound of the strongest barrier shattering was as sharp as a billion awls piercing eardrums and hearts at once.
This barrier was not only connected to the power of the Nine Star Gods and the Thirty-Six Elders, but also to their auras. The backlash from its shattering could be imagined. Amid the sharp tearing sound, numerous Star Guards suffered ruptured eardrums and blood spraying from their seven orifices. The Nine Star Gods and the Thirty-Six Elders, including Xing Shen Di himself, were all struck as if by a heavenly hammer, vomiting blood, their meridians and blood vessels shattering piece by piece, and even their internal organs splitting with countless cracks...
In the same instant, the ritual barrier they were in and the two layers of Star Soul Absolute Barrier that sealed Star God City and the Star God Realm completely collapsed. The sound of shattering and the power of the explosion stirred up thousands of catastrophic storms in the sky above the Star God Realm. The entire Star God Realm was like a natural disaster descending, with terrified screams and wails rising to the heavens.
The Nine Star Gods, the Thirty-Six Elders... they all fell to the ground, vomiting blood wildly under the too-terrible backlash, almost draining all the blood from their bodies. They did not know what kind of nightmare this was. Their minds were blank, their souls trembling and about to scatter...
"Heeheeheeheehee..."
"Wuwu... wuwuwuwu..."
"Yingying... yingyingyingying... diediedie... diedie hahahahaha..."
In this nightmare world, terrifying sounds suddenly came from all around. The voice was very shrill and thin, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, seeming both to cry and to laugh. At first listen, it sounded like the voice of an infant, but it was also extremely eerie and terrifying, making their whole bodies go cold, as if they had fallen into an icy hell abyss.
They subconsciously looked up... In the sky, black clouds blotted out the sun, churning with apocalyptic scenes. And amidst the churning black clouds, a gray face slowly appeared... It was the face of an infant, but it had eyes fiercer than a demon's, emitting laughter and wails more sinister than a vengeful ghost's...
"Yingyingying..."
"Diediedie... wuwuwu... yihahahaha..."
Below the infant's face, Mo Li stood quietly. Her whole body was covered in black lines, her jet-black hair dancing in the windless air. Her once-blood-red eyes now shone with terrifying black light, making her face appear even paler.
And on her left hand was attached a jet-black wheel, as large as her body, its blades spreading out like demon fangs. She slowly raised her black eyes, looked at the world shrouded in darkness before her, and spoke with the voice of resentment from the deepest demon prison:
"You... all... deserve... death..."
"You... all... deserve... death!!"
"..." Xing Shen Di stared fixedly at the dark wheel in Mo Li's hand. His body began to tremble, trembling so violently it nearly shattered his Divine Emperor body. From his mouth came the most terrified, trembling voice of his life:
"E... vil... In... fant... My... ri... ad... Ca... lam... i... ty... Wheel..."