Chapter 1845: Eternal Dark Blood and Soul (Part 2)
A brutal bloodbath unfolded before the Canglan Royal Palace. Yet the three Divine Emperors—Chi Long, Hui Long, and Wanxiang—never managed to approach the palace. Instead, they were forced farther and farther away by the black Divine Edict releasing terrifying dark light, gradually about to break out of the Canglan Divine Region's range.
Qianye Ying'er's berserk state lasted far longer than the three Divine Emperors had anticipated, but now it had finally reached its limit.
In an instant, the black light on the Divine Edict dimmed, and Qianye Ying'er's wildly fluttering black hair also settled at that moment.
She froze in midair, and the terrifyingly extreme dark aura on her body suddenly poured out like a tidal wave. The black light in her pupils gradually dissipated as well, as if she had lost all consciousness in that instant, falling powerlessly from the sky.
The three Divine Emperors were covered in wounds, and the dark profound force lingering on their bodies was unexpectedly difficult to dispel, stinging to the marrow. Watching Qianye Ying'er, whose aura collapsed and delicate body fell, they all let out a sharp gasp.
Wanxiang Divine Emperor clenched his teeth and was about to charge down, but Chi Long Emperor grabbed him: "The Dragon Emperor's order: break the barrier first! Yun Che must be inside!"
"Let's go!" Hui Long Emperor swept up a storm and rushed straight toward the Canglan Royal Palace.
It was easy to imagine that with the addition of these three Divine Emperors from the Western Domain, the guardians of the Canglan Royal Palace would face a massive increase in pressure.
"Wanwu, Wanlie... kill her!"
With that command, Wanxiang Divine Emperor and Chi Long Emperor also activated their full speed, charging toward the Canglan Royal Palace. At the same time, two Wanxiang Divine Lords swooped down from not far away, carrying icy killing intent toward Qianye Ying'er, who seemed to have lost consciousness.
But just then, Qianye Ying'er's pupils suddenly regained focus. The black light that had almost completely dissipated in an instant condensed once more, dark and deep like an abyss.
The three Divine Emperors—Chi Long, Hui Long, and Wanxiang—suddenly felt a chill down their backs. They reacted extremely quickly, whipping around... In an instant, their vision went black, and they saw no light.
Three hundred li of space was shrouded in darkness, with no light remaining.
"What... is this!?"
In the darkness, the three Divine Emperors exclaimed in shock, but immediately realized with alarm that they could not sense each other's presence, nor even hear their own voices.
They quickly released their profound energy, but then became even more horrified to find that their power release had become extraordinarily sluggish. Even raising an arm required several times the effort. They felt as if they had fallen into a thick, endless dark swamp.
In the darkness, Qianye Ying'er raised her arm. The briefly silent Divine Edict was once again enveloped in dense black light.
This was the Eternal Night Without Light, activated by the Demon Emperor's Blood! Within the domain, it devoured all light, and also devoured the spiritual sense, touch, sight, hearing, and smell of all living beings... Under the suppression of the domain's level, even the three Divine Emperors of the Western Domain could not resist.
Chi!
The Divine Edict traced a dark ray, instantly piercing the bodies of the two Wanxiang Divine Lords, shooting straight toward the three Divine Emperors. Upon touching Wanxiang Divine Emperor, it tightly coiled around him, then extended further, firmly wrapping around Chi Long Emperor and Hui Long Emperor, then violently tightening.
In the dark swamp, the three Divine Emperors' spiritual senses became exceptionally dull, and their power release unusually slow. None of them managed to avoid the Divine Edict wrapping around their bodies.
However, they were, after all, endowed with the power of Divine Emperors. Hui Long Emperor and Chi Long Emperor, in particular, possessed formidable dragon bodies. As they struggled with all their might, the Divine Edict sliced through profound energy, cut through flesh... but when it touched bone, its tightening became extremely slow.
In the darkness, drops of blood slowly fell from the corners of Qianye Ying'er's lips, and her face grew paler by the moment.
The earlier collapse of her power was not a feint.
After all, the Demon Emperor's Blood had perfectly fused with her body. When her body approached its limit of endurance, the power of the Demon Emperor's Blood spontaneously withdrew to protect its host... yet Qianye Ying'er forcibly unleashed it again.
Earlier, she had been bearing the Demon Emperor's power with her body.
Now, she was unleashing it entirely with her life.
The outflow of life and vitality was so intense that she could clearly perceive it herself. The blood drops between her teeth gradually turned into a blood stream, but she still squeezed out the last remnants of the Demon Emperor's Blood's power with near-madness.
How she wished she could sever the bodies of these three Divine Emperors... but she knew this was inevitably a luxury. At the very least, she had to use the Divine Edict in her hand to lock them here, never allowing them to approach the Royal Palace a single step... even if she had to burn up the last thread of her life.
Boom!!
Before the Canglan Royal Palace, the third barrier shattered.
Long Bai watched from a distance as the blood-aura-shrouded Canglan Royal Palace. He still did not make a move, because the scene before him was too intoxicating.
Yet within that intoxication, there was inevitably some regret.
What a miserable defense, what a pitiful struggle, what a hopeless situation. If only Yun Che could see it with his own eyes... What a pity, what a pity.
Dragon Empress... Soon, I will prove to you that your choice was wrong. You were truly wrong.
How could he be worthy of you... He is not even qualified to look you directly in the eye!
Before the Canglan Royal Palace, the Northern Domain Xuan practitioners leaning against the barrier were wounded all over their bodies, without exception.
Yan One, Yan Two, and Yan Three stood alone against two Withered Dragon Venerables and the three Dragon Gods—Qingyuan, Fei, and Biluo. Although they struggled immensely, they were, conversely, the relatively most stable defensive position among all directions.
But no matter how perilous and vulnerable the other positions became, they absolutely could not divert their attention to help. Because the power of the Withered Dragons and Dragon Gods was the most fatal to the barrier. They had to use strength beyond their own limits to desperately seal them off.
To the south, nearly half of the hundred Primordial Dragons had fallen. Mixed among the dying Master Dragons, the shattered dragon bones and carcasses soaked in dragon blood were like a blood-covered purgatory.
The upper-tier Realm Kings and Divine Lord elders of the Northern Domain had also fallen in large numbers... The dark aura of their own kind, they could instantly recognize. Some lay in pools of blood, some were skulls underfoot, some were severed limbs flying in the air...
One step behind them was the Yellow Springs, and they had already transformed into vicious ghosts ahead of time, using their own strength and lives to slaughter all enemies who approached.
Boom!
Water blossoms bloomed. Shui Yingyue's Yao Xi Sword danced, and a move called "Liuguang Heavenly Attraction" spread out a gorgeous water curtain, redirecting the power of two Master Dragons toward each other.
With a thunderous roar, the two Master Dragons howled in agony and fell simultaneously, but the power of a third Master Dragon she could no longer resist. She was smashed heavily down from the air, staining her blue robes with blood.
"Cough... cough..."
She clutched her heart, looking at the blood-colored earth and sky, yet her watery eyes held a determination utterly at odds with her cold, elegant face.
As the Liuguang Realm King, a mid-stage Divine Lord achieved in just three thousand years, she was undoubtedly one of the most admired women of the age... But in this battle, her power was so weak and feeble.
"Meiyin... you must not die..."
She whispered softly, stood up, and charged into the sky once more, blooming the heavenly blue water blossoms of the Liuguang Realm in this battlefield—the most tragic in the history of the Divine Realm.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!!
Wave after wave of Divine Lord-level might slammed into the barrier. If this were not a dark barrier forged by the combined power of the top Northern Domain Divine Lords, it would have collapsed in an instant.
Attacking a city is easier than defending it, especially when the barrier could be attacked from all directions. Even if the number of Northern Divine Realm Divine Lords were doubled, they could not block all the power.
And each boom was undoubtedly a strike on the heartstrings of the Northern Domain Xuan practitioners.
Yan Tianxiao was already covered in blood from head to hand. His fingers moved like demon claws, piercing, tearing, and flinging away one Western Domain Divine Lord after another. His body bore countless wounds, as if exploding open.
And the bloody hole pierced through his chest by Long Bai had long since completely split open, blood spraying with every release of power—yet he seemed utterly unaware.
Ugh!!!
With two of his teeth broken, his raised arms respectively and deathly locked two Chi Longs of the Tenth-rank Divine Lord. But from behind came yet another despair-inducing explosion.
The bodies of two Yan Ghosts crashed heavily into the barrier already covered in cracks. The lingering residual power shattered the fourth barrier.
"Ughhhh!!"
Yan Tianxiao's eyes split at the corners. Black light exploded across his entire body, blasting the two Chi Longs far away. He abruptly turned back, about to roar, but watched helplessly as a Yan Mo, having had his power collapse while resisting the dragon aura of three Dragon Lords, was heavily wounded all over, then pierced through the heart by Baihong Dragon God's dragon claw... his internal organs all shattered.
His vision blurred for a moment. The ten Yan Mo that once dominated the Northern Yan Mo Realm now numbered only four.
At that moment, the light on the battlefield suddenly brightened by a fraction.
Into the world of Eternal Night Without Light, a few strands of brightness suddenly pierced.
The moment light invaded, the entire dark world began to violently collapse.
The three Divine Emperors' spiritual senses rapidly recovered, and the pressure on their bodies sharply decreased. They exchanged glances, then three Divine Emperor-level powers simultaneously erupted.
Boom!!!
The trembling dark world shattered like a bubble. The Divine Edict wrapped around their bodies was easily shaken off and flung away... The black light on it quickly faded, reverting to its original shining gold within moments.
As the darkness receded, just a few li away, Qianye Ying'er's figure slowly fell. Her face had not a trace of color left. Her body no longer emitted dark light or aura. Even her long hair, in the fall, shed its blackness and returned to gold.
Wanwu and Wanlie—the two Wanxiang Divine Lords previously ordered by Wanxiang Divine Emperor to kill Qianye Ying'er—had become two charred corpses on the ground.
The three Divine Emperors' bodies were branded with one dark mark after another that made them suffer soul-piercing pain at all times. Especially at their waists, a ring of flesh nearly an inch high was missing, exposing scorched black bones—an extremely horrifying sight.
Thud!
Qianye Ying'er hit the ground heavily, but she did not faint. Her fingers clawed at the cold, dry earth. Her arms twitched and convulsed, as if she desperately wanted to stand up... But her aura was as frail as drifting duckweed.
"This demoness!" Wanxiang Divine Emperor clenched his five fingers, his face twisted.
Scanning Qianye Ying'er's condition, Chi Long Emperor said coldly, "So it's at the cost of burning life. Hmph!"
"Her vitality is almost spent. We don't even need to act; she will soon expire on her own," Hui Long Emperor added, then couldn't help but sigh regretfully: "The Fandi Shennü, famed alongside the Dragon Empress... Tsk, truly a pity."
"Divine Emperor!!" From afar, the cries of the Fan Kings suddenly rang out.
Then, all remaining Fan Kings, disregarding everything else, desperately rushed over.
"Let's go!" Unwilling to tangle with these Fan Kings, the three Divine Emperors charged straight toward the Canglan Royal Palace. Before they even got close, they brought three waves of crushing weight that pushed the already desperate Northern Domain Xuan practitioners into deeper despair.
Her blurry consciousness still perceived the approach of six Fan King auras. Qianye Ying'er struggled to lift her head, her lips emitting a weak yet sinister voice: "Don't... come! Guard... the barrier!"
The Fan Kings' steps paused slightly. The Third Fan King said with a trembling voice, "But, Divine Emperor, you..."
"Anyone who dares approach... I'll kill them!" Qianye Ying'er's deathly pale face twisted in pain, but she still gritted her teeth and hissed, "Get lost!"
The Third Fan King bit his own teeth hard, turned around, and roared, "By the Divine Emperor's order! Return to defend the barrier!"
With no other choice, the six Fan Kings, covered in bloodstains and exhaustion, charged back into the center of the Canglan battlefield from the rear.
After roaring out that word "get lost," Qianye Ying'er's head drooped, and her entire body had not a shred of strength left.
Her consciousness drifted away. She knew that when her world fell into complete blankness, that would be the moment of her death.
Yun... Che...
In the increasingly hazy world, only this one name remained so clear.
I had thought... even if I die... at least die in your arms... by your side...
Even if... killed by you...
But...
I suppose it's fitting too... a person as full of sin as me... how could I be worthy of a good end...
How could I be worthy of having my wish fulfilled...
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[A chapter will come later, but it's not recommended to wait!]