Chapter 1744: Heartbreak (Part 1)
"Master, what's going on?" The Brahma Kings also noticed Qianye Fantian's abnormal condition.
When they asked, following Qianye Fantian's gaze, they all also stared blankly, their faces filled with shock.
The green emerald light in Qianye Zixiao's eyes was something they would never forget until death.
Because that was the Heavenly Poison Pearl's Heavenly Poison Light!
Back then, when Qianye Fantian was schemed against by Yun Che and Xia Qingyue, entangled with the Evil Infant's demonic aura while also poisoned by the Heavenly Poison Pearl's deadly venom... at that time, the light shining in his pupils was precisely this kind of emerald green poisonous light.
Moreover, the emerald light released from Qianye Zixiao's eyes was even greener and more profound than what had been on Qianye Fantian back then.
"Hmm?" Qianye Zixiao was even more astonished: "What exactly is wrong with you... all..."
Before he could finish speaking, his expression suddenly froze. Then, his body and internal organs began to tremble uncontrollably, and a chilling pain that pierced the soul spread wildly through his entire body.
"Ugh!"
With a low groan, a clump of emerald green strange light suddenly exploded in his pupils. His body collapsed to its knees, trembling like a sieve all over, and in but the blink of an eye, his aura had become chaotic to an almost unbelievable degree.
Heavenly Poison force and Dark Profound Force can mutually catalyze each other—a fact that was once proven on Qianye Fantian's body.
The dark wounds lingering on Qianye Zixiao's body, the stealthily invading Heaven's Wound Severing Thought poison erupted first on him.
"Zixiao!"
The Brahma Kings were greatly alarmed. They instinctively wanted to move forward, but then suddenly thought of something and hurriedly retreated.
"Ugh... aaaaaaah!"
A pained voice escaped Qianye Zixiao's mouth. He struggled to straighten his body, and when he lifted his head, not only his pupils but even his face was covered in a faint layer of emerald green. His features twisted hideously like an evil ghost under extreme agony.
"Poison... it's poison!" He roared in terror, cold sweat raining down from his forehead and all over his body.
He was Qianye Zixiao, the Tenth Brahma King of the Fan Di God Realm, a powerful Ninth-rank Divine Lord! At his level, he should have been immune to all evils and invulnerable to all poisons. The only poison he knew that could threaten him was the Southern Abyss Divine Realm's demon poison, "Godslayer Desolation Poison."
But at the moment the poison erupted, it was as if countless evil ghosts had awakened inside him, crazily devouring his body, blood, life... and even his soul!
He desperately circulated his Brahma King's power... yet even the Brahma Divine Power, so strong it was at the late stage of the Divine Lord realm, could only barely suppress those rampaging evil ghosts inside him, but could not dispel them, and could not even annihilate a single trace!
"That's the Heavenly Poison Pearl's poison!"
Qianye Fantian said in a low voice: "Focus your breath, calm your emotions. The Heavenly Poison Pearl's poison is a kind of demonic poison. The more frightened and agitated you are, the more violently it erupts!"
The shadows of the past re-emerged like a nightmare. As Qianye Fantian spoke, cold sweat already beaded his palms. No one knew better than him what terrible torment Qianye Zixiao was suffering... back then, it was under such a nightmare that he had schemed and abandoned Qianye Ying'er to save himself.
"Zixiao, when exactly did you fall victim to Yun Che's scheme!" the First Brahma King said, his voice trembling.
"No," Qianye Zixiao shook his head with difficulty, each word painful to the point of death: "On my journey to and from the Yin Xue Realm, I never saw Yun Che!"
Just then, the atmosphere of the Brahma Emperor's royal city suddenly changed drastically. As the air twisted abnormally, even the line of sight began to show slight, bizarre distortions.
And then, miserable screams of agony erupted like thousands of surging waves, sounding in every corner of the Brahma Emperor's royal city.
In the pupils of the Brahma Kings, which had dilated dozens of times in an instant, they saw the vast and magnificent royal city... suddenly blanketed by countless emerald green lights.
Guards of the royal city collapsed in droves, their bodies convulsing and spasming, emitting despairing, agonized shrieks.
Then came the Brahma Emperor's disciples... the Brahma Emperor's Divine Envoys... and even the Brahma Emperor's elders, who possessed the power of Divine Lords!
Every familiar patch of the royal city land that their sight reached and their spiritual sense touched, every single Brahma Emperor profound practitioner... one after another, group after group, endless and unceasing.
It was like an emerald nightmare descending.
No... it was a Heavenly Poison Hell that had suddenly manifested in the Brahma Emperor's royal city!
"How... how... how... is this... possible..."
The head of the Brahma Kings, the First Brahma King, whose power and will were both incredibly strong, had a trembling voice and shrinking pupils... at this moment, he believed with overwhelming intensity that he was in some absurd dream.
Qianye Fantian slowly turned his head. His gaze swept across the dazed, soul-lost faces of every Brahma King, and from the pupils of each Brahma King, he saw a hint of emerald green silently expanding.
He pointed a finger, and a faint flash of profound light appeared. Using the reflection of that light, he saw in his own eyes two points of green light even more terrifying than the eyes of demons...
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In the Eastern Divine Region, the brutal battle still raged across countless star realms. Blood and corpses covered more and more land.
Although prolonged peace had made the Eastern Domain's profound practitioners too afraid to die, and the successive destruction of the King Realms had severely damaged their morale, the Eastern Divine Region was not without unyielding strongmen.
Flying Star Realm, a powerful upper realm in the Eastern Divine Region.
Dream Soul Sword Sect, the realm king sect of Flying Star Realm and one of the few upper realms with two Divine Lords.
The Flying Star Realm King, Master of Dream Soul Sword, Dream Canyang, who possessed the power of a sixth-level Divine Lord.
And his son, Dream Duanxi, who ranked eighth in the Eastern Divine Region's Profound God Convention back then and achieved the third-level Divine Lord realm after three thousand years in the Zhou Tian realm.
Wave after wave of demon-people pressed in, but with the strong defense built by the Dream Soul Sword Sect, centered on their two Divine Lords and dozens of Divine Sovereigns, their defensive line was never breached. Instead, they permanently left group after group of demon-people on Flying Star Realm.
Flying Star Realm was also one of the "strongholds" Chi Wuyue had designated as must-take. Responsible for attacking it was a powerful upper realm from the Northern Divine Region, named Falling Star Realm, which appropriately meant "falling of the Flying Star"!
But facing the strong and tenacious Flying Star Realm, Falling Star Realm had suffered heavy losses despite a prolonged assault.
With nearly seventy percent of all "strongholds" already captured, the Falling Star Realm King had long grown increasingly anxious.
"Really a bunch of stubborn rats." The Falling Star Realm King once again roared threatening words at the father-son duo of Dream Canyang and Dream Duanxi: "Our Demon Lord's demonic might is unmatched, supreme under heaven and earth. Your King Realms are falling one after another. Why don't you just obediently submit to our Demon Lord's command? What are you still struggling for?"
"Surrender early, and you won't die. Don't let your innocent clansmen die in vain for your stupidity!"
"Hmph!" Dream Canyang sneered coldly. He raised his bloodstained longsword high, gritted his teeth, and each word carried a proud, unyielding spirit that soared to the clouds: "The profound practitioners of my Flying Star Realm would rather die than become slaves to demon-people!"
"On the contrary, you won't be hopping around much longer!" His voice shook the four fields, instilling his will into everyone in the Dream Soul Sword Sect: "We of the Eastern Divine Region were caught off guard and have temporarily fallen into a losing position. But with such heinous acts, the Western Divine Region and the Southern Divine Region will certainly not stand idly by! When the three regions unite, you demon-people will all die without a burial place!"
"Hmph, utterly stubborn!" The Falling Star Realm King said viciously: "Kill!"
The battle between both sides began anew. As profound light and sword energy erupted violently like a natural disaster, instantly, corpses littered the field.
The demon-people, transformed by the Eternal Calamity and pushed into a corner, were indeed terrifying. But this was, after all, the home ground of the Dream Soul Sword Sect, and they clung to an unyielding will. As they repelled the demon-people time and again, their confidence grew day by day.
Under the fierce battle, the demon-people troops still could not penetrate even an inch into the Dream Soul Sword Sect. Instead, before long, they were forced back step by step.
Similar situations played out in many star realms of the Eastern Domain.
"Kill! Use your swords to drink deeply of these demon-people's blood!"
Dream Canyang severed the heads of hundreds of demon-people with a single sword stroke, roaring loudly... but just as his roar faded, a chill suddenly ran through his entire body. He looked up sharply.
The space above suddenly split open. The figure of a woman with black hair and black clothes, tall and curvaceous, walked out slowly. Amidst this battlefield steeped in blood and screams, her steps were as leisurely as a casual stroll. The moment her gaze swept down, it was as if the entire Flying Star Realm had darkened.
The Falling Star Realm King looked up, then let out a voice mixed with surprise and fear: "Wel... welcome Lord Yan Wu!"
Yan Wu gave no response at all. She extended her arm, and a pitch-black long spear blazed with ferocious black light like lightning, striking straight toward Dream Canyang.
Though a sixth-level Divine Lord, he felt his body and soul about to shatter under this overwhelmingly terrifying dark might.
"Father!"
Sensing the immense crisis as well, Dream Duanxi flew over in a flash. Connecting his sword aura with Dream Canyang's, they met Yan Wu's spear light together.
Crack!!
Amid the heaven-shattering, earth-splitting collision, blood droplets splattered from the ears of countless profound practitioners. As a burst of black light that devoured space exploded, Dream Canyang and his son both tumbled horizontally across the ground, routed in an instant.
Yan Wu's expression showed not a trace of fluctuation. She stepped forward, her long spear sweeping with casual indifference, the Yama's power releasing mercilessly like a falling black star.
Boom!!
The massive dark ring of light spread a thousand miles in an instant. Countless Dream Soul Sword Sect disciples and Flying Star profound practitioners were sent flying, spraying blood.
The spear shaft turned again. A dark storm raged and swept, shattering six Divine Sovereigns and dozens of Divine Kings in an instant, their bodies and bones flying everywhere.
Even the protective grand formation of the Dream Soul Sword Sect, which had held for several days, was now cracking with countless dark fissures.
But the resistance of the Dream Soul Sword Sect did not collapse or stop there. With a soul-shaking roar, Dream Canyang and Dream Duanxi both flew out of the ruins at the same time. Two sword beams blazing like scorching suns stabbed toward Yan Wu with unwavering battle intent...
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When Yun Che left the Fan Di God Realm and returned to the Zhou Tian Realm, it was already fully occupied by the Northern Divine Region, with not a trace of Zhou Tian profound practitioners' aura remaining.
Fen Daoqi was personally inventorying the spoils of the blood-soaked King Realm. Although the Zhou Tian Realm had been heavily drained by various major events in recent years, the Zhou Tian Realm was still the Zhou Tian Realm after all, with hundreds of thousands of years of foundation. How could the word "enormous" even begin to describe it?
Rumble rumble rumble...
Under the operation of the Void Law, Yun Che expressionlessly opened the protective barrier of the Zhou Tian God Realm and obtained complete control over it.
As the protective barrier of the core land of a King Realm, it was naturally extremely powerful. However, since they had descended directly from the sky within the Zhou Tian Realm, this protective barrier had become completely useless. Now, it conversely became a powerful barrier for their use.
It also turned this former Eastern Domain King Realm into the Northern Divine Region's most solid stronghold in the Eastern Divine Region.
"Not all strongholds have been breached yet?" Yun Che scanned the profound images in front of him. Different strange lights flickered over the "strongholds." His gaze turned cold, and he suddenly smiled faintly: "Since they like struggling so much, then..."
Just then, an aura that shouldn't have appeared here suddenly approached rapidly.
"Hmm?" Yun Che's gaze sharpened.
Soon, the figure of a tall, slender man arrived like a storm. Before he could even catch his breath, he had already prostrated himself before Yun Che: "Tian Guhu pays respects to the Demon Lord."
Yun Che frowned and said in a deep voice: "Aren't you supposed to be in the Northern Border? Why are you here?"
Tian Guhu quickly replied: "Reporting to the Demon Lord, by order of the Demon Empress, there are some important items that must be delivered into the Demon Lord's hands."
The fact that Tian Guhu personally crossed the Eastern Domain to deliver it clearly indicated it was something extremely important that could not afford to be lost.
Having said that, he raised his hands in offering. As the barrier's power dissipated, a few points of water-blue radiance came into Yun Che's view.