Chapter 1736: Falling Moon (Six)
The Purple Sea was endless, like a purple hell that could never be escaped.
In an instant, she had wounded both Yun Che and Qianye Ying'er. Xia Qingyue's figure vanished again, and then thousands of purple rays suddenly appeared, stabbing toward Qianye Ying'er like a rainstorm.
Every purple ray was dense enough to be blinding, and carried an icy, bone-piercing killing intent.
Qianye Ying'er's entire body was churning with qi and blood. This time, she suddenly converged all her darkness, her figure rapidly retreating, leaving behind a series of illusory afterimages in the purple domain.
Earlier, when Xia Qingyue and Yun Che had clashed, purple and black collided, evenly matched.
But now that the Purple Que Divine Domain had been deployed, what followed was an overwhelming suppression of unreasonable magnitude. Meanwhile, Xia Qingyue's power and momentum instead surged explosively; every finger thrust and sword strike exuded heavenly might.
With this shift in balance, even their combined strength crumbled in an instant.
"Pour all my strength, unfold a divine domain of a hundred breaths."
Qianye Ying'er recalled Xia Qingyue's earlier low murmur.
A hundred breaths...
Such a terrifying domain, if it could indeed last a hundred breaths, both she and Yun Che might indeed be buried within that time.
She had never underestimated Xia Qingyue. In the Northern Divine Region, when she spoke to Chi Wuyue about the most dangerous factors of the Eastern Divine Region, the first was Xia Qingyue.
But this domain, which after being deployed had widened the gap to such an exaggerated degree, still far exceeded the upper limit of her estimates for Xia Qingyue... and moreover, this domain was absolutely abnormal!
No longer attacking, Qianye Ying'er rapidly shifted her position while transmitting a voice to Yun Che: "Find a way to break this domain! A domain this bizarre cannot be without a flaw!"
But within the Purple Sea, Qianye Ying'er's soul sound could not reach Yun Che's heart.
Watching Xia Qingyue's power and killing intent directly pressing toward Qianye Ying'er, Yun Che pressed his hand against his chest, unmoving for a long time. Blood beads oozed from the wound on his chest, staining his fingers, while the pupils in his eyes gradually contracted, growing increasingly dark.
Purple Que Divine Domain.
A domain named with the word "Divine."
In his life, he had encountered countless powerful domains.
The first domain he had ever faced was back in the Cang Feng Ranking Battle, when he and Xia Qingyue had fought for the first time. It was the incomplete Ice Cloud Domain she had unleashed at that time.
Back then, Xia Qingyue's profound strength was at the Earth Xuan Realm, the ninth level of the mortal realm. And a domain was a power that was fundamentally impossible to comprehend and control at that level.
Yet it had appeared on Xia Qingyue, deeply shocking everyone present at the time.
It was also back then, under that power that clearly transcended the boundary of her realm, that Ling Yun—also at the Earth Xuan Realm and with slightly higher profound strength than Xia Qingyue—had been utterly defeated without any struggle within the Ice Cloud Domain.
And as for him, he had ultimately relied on burning his Phoenix blood to forcibly break that originally unsolvable domain power.
At that time, Mo Li had told him that the reason Xia Qingyue could wield domain power at the Earth Xuan Realm was because of the Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body she possessed, which could transcend the laws.
"Hah, again... transcending the laws?"
The image in his mind shattered. Yun Che murmured softly, and a grim smile twisted at the corner of his mouth.
Suppressive domains—Yun Che had seen far too many. And at the Divine Lord Realm—the highest realm achievable by humans—even a suppressive domain deployed with the power of a tenth-rank Divine Lord could never suppress a first-rank Divine Lord's profound strength to such an exaggerated extent.
This domain absolutely transcended the normal "boundary." Perhaps it truly did... barely touch that illusory "Divine" domain, making it absolutely impossible for any power within the "boundary" to resist.
Since it cannot be resisted...
"Then let this space's laws..." He extended his blood-stained hand, and the Heaven's Calamity Demon Emperor Sword flew back into his grip, rekindling its pitch-black demonic light: "all collapse."
As he murmured, he suddenly threw his head back, and a clear phoenix cry rang out. With the instant flash of the Golden Crow divine shadow behind him, golden flames erupted on his body, a sky-piercing golden blaze that melted through the purple domain, and in the blink of an eye ignited a thousand-mile Golden Crow fire prison.
Under the Purple Que Divine Domain, the golden flames quickly extinguished. But the grim smile on Yun Che's lips remained. He raised his palm to the sky, and ten thousand thunderbolts suddenly crashed down, forming a thousand-mile thunder domain. The color of the lightning was not the familiar divine purple, but a blood-like crimson red.
Every bolt of lightning was a Heavenly Dao Calamity Thunder, superior to all thunder in the world!
The golden flame domain and the crimson thunder domain spread out simultaneously within a single breath, instantly overlapping, unleashing a terrifying cataclysm of thunder and fire.
But far from over, after the calamity thunder, another phoenix cry echoed through the sky. The Ice Phoenix shadow appeared amid the radiance of flames and lightning, instantly blooming with ice, freezing a thousand miles.
Fire, thunder, ice... three elemental forces erupted simultaneously from the same person, unfolding three immensely powerful and pure elemental domains. With their violent superposition, the order laws of the space were forcefully shaken and suddenly thrown into chaos.
The suppression of profound strength would also be reflected in movement techniques. After several continuous shifts, Qianye Ying'er was struck head-on by a purple ray and tumbled backward.
Xia Qingyue followed like a shadow, her Purple Que Divine Sword thrusting straight down... But at that moment, the purple glow in her eyes suddenly trembled violently.
BOOM RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE——
The purple-light-woven world suddenly, like a storm-swept ocean, erupted in extremely violent tremors and churning. Xia Qingyue's momentum also halted at that moment.
WHOOSH!!
After the flames, calamity thunder, and ice, a storm surged wildly, twisting the Purple Sea into great chaos.
The burning of golden flames, the destruction of calamity thunder, the sealing of ice, and the ravaging of the storm—all simultaneously impacted the Purple Que Divine Domain.
If Yun Che had fully released a single elemental force, it would have only been gradually devoured and suppressed by the Purple Que Divine Domain.
But from a single person, four laws... and this itself was a kind of transcendence and rebellion against the laws.
The Purple Que Divine Domain was struck as if by a heavenly hammer, shaking violently, and then suddenly a long, thin crack split open... Once the crack appeared, it spread madly centered on the overlapping four-element domain, reaching a thousand miles, ten thousand miles, a hundred thousand miles in an instant...
Meanwhile, a pallor violently swept across Xia Qingyue's face, and the purple light in her pupils dimmed by more than half.
The Purple Que Divine Domain underwent earth-shattering changes, but no matter whether it was Yun Che or Qianye Ying'er, what their eyes fixed on was Xia Qingyue's suddenly chaotic aura and deathly pale complexion.
This instant change clearly told them—the Purple Que Divine Domain was actually connected to Xia Qingyue's life essence!?
In other words, this Purple Que Divine Domain was actually built by Xia Qingyue at the cost of burning her life!
Amid the surging Purple Sea, Qianye Ying'er felt the pressure drop sharply. A black gleam flashed in her pupils, and she instantly opened a massive dark domain. The Divine Oracle flew back into her hand, and a thread of golden light, like a golden serpent's breath, stabbed straight at Xia Qingyue from several miles away.
CLANG!
Their powers collided, and the Purple Sea instantly surged with towering waves. Xia Qingyue leaned back, while Qianye Ying'er's left arm shook violently, her wound splitting open... But compared to the absolute suppression earlier, it was a world of difference.
Xia Qingyue turned her gaze, looking at Yun Che far away, who had miraculously opened four domains simultaneously. She extended her hand, and nine purple moons blazed up at once, intending to destroy Yun Che's domains... But a cold light stabbed out from the nine abysses, piercing straight toward her heart and soul.
After all, Qianye Ying'er possessed the blood of the Demon Emperor. Though the Purple Que Divine Domain had not completely collapsed, its suppression on her had already diminished to less than twenty percent.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG——
The two women's powers clashed violently. With each collision, the Divine Oracle in Qianye Ying'er's hand instantly deformed—sometimes as sword light tearing the sky, sometimes wrapped in thousands of golden rings, sometimes flying like golden snakes, sometimes releasing endless golden radiance.
It was like a divine bell being struck violently again and again, the terrifying sound waves easily tearing apart the souls of all living things. Every energy storm that exploded in each instant was enough to annihilate a star... or even a star realm.
BOOM!
Purple light exploded. Qianye Ying'er was blasted dozens of miles away in an instant by the Purple Que Divine Power, her entire body's qi and blood churning. Blood traces quickly flowed from her lips, and the Divine Oracle slipped from her hand again.
And at that moment, Yun Che's fifth domain—the most powerful Eternal Night Dark Domain—violently unfolded while he maintained the miracle of four elemental domains, black light covering the sky.
Instantly, five overlapping domains, chaotic, surging, and violent like an end-of-days tsunami, impacted the supposedly unsolvable Purple Que Divine Domain, collapsing its domain laws with irresistible force.
HUM——
A soft hum, as if from an ancient abyss. Beneath Yun Che's five-fold domain, the Purple Que Divine Domain was no longer just cracking, but furiously collapsing. In the blink of an eye, the boundless Purple Sea was destroyed, leaving a thousand-mile hole.
To the vast and boundless Purple Que Divine Domain, this hole was not large. But it was like a sharp blade cruelly piercing through Xia Qingyue's life. All color instantly drained from her face, and a large spray of crimson blood burst from her lips.
In that instant, Qianye Ying'er flashed over, her fingertip instantly condensing a tiny demon god domain containing terrifying darkness, pointing it at Xia Qingyue's heart.
And at that moment, Xia Qingyue also turned around with difficulty, her eyes condensing purple light.
BOOM!!
Darkness and purple moon exploded simultaneously. Amid the fractured and misaligned space, both women flew out spattering blood.
CHIRP~~~~~~
Without the suppression of the Purple Que Divine Domain, this phoenix cry was incredibly piercing and soul-shaking. As the fiery gleam shone in Yun Che's eyes, the Phoenix Phantom pulled the thousand-mile flame domain, carrying a crimson flame storm that pierced through dimensions, mercilessly burying the flying Xia Qingyue.
BOOM!!
In the sea of flames, a purple moon rose into the sky, turning into endless purple light, tightly binding the Phoenix Phantom... Amid the flames, Xia Qingyue was already half covered in blood, her purple eyes losing most of their divine radiance. But the might of the Moon Goddess emanating from her was still as vast and overwhelming as ever.
With a sharp, miserable cry, the Phoenix Phantom was torn apart by the purple light, scattering into residual flames across the sky.
Without a glance at her injuries, and without calming her completely disordered qi and blood, she dragged a cold, bloody trail, her sword light icy and resolute, thrusting toward Qianye Ying'er.
Transcending laws—the Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body could easily achieve that.
But transcending the boundary of laws—how could that be so easy?
The Purple Que Divine Domain relied not only on the Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body, but also on her burning her life—the life essence of a Divine Emperor—to exchange for a hundred breaths of a divine domain.
Because only with this hundred-breath domain that transcended boundaries and could not be broken by any power of the current age could she truly achieve the absolute kill of Qianye.
It was a domain that should have been unsolvable—her final gamble.
The only one who could possibly shatter it was Yun Che, who was also beyond boundaries and could even reverse laws.
He had indeed done so, and so quickly.
After all, the current him was no longer the him of the past. His cultivation, temperament, means, and his instincts for the profound path and laws had all undergone earth-shattering changes.
She wasn't even that surprised.
It's just...
Why, of all people, did it have to be him...
BOOM!
Her power and Qianye Ying'er's collided within the shattered Purple Que Divine Domain... And at that very moment, Yun Che let out a low roar. The five domains—flame, calamity thunder, ice, storm, and darkness—were all released simultaneously, exploding within the trembling, about-to-shatter Purple Sea into a truly world-destroying calamity that caused even all laws to collapse.
Dimensions collapsed. The vast purple domain finally crumbled under the immensely violent tremors, scattering into endless shards of dazzling purple.
Amid the shards of dazzling purple that filled the starry sky like a fantastical, beautiful star dust, Xia Qingyue, her red robes stained with blood, flew far away like a broken-winged red butterfly.
In the distance, in the eyes of countless profound practitioners of the Eastern Divine Region, that purple moon silently scattered and extinguished, spreading out a devastatingly beautiful painting of destruction, until the last purple light vanished at the horizon, leaving not a trace behind.