# Chapter 3231: Xue Changjin Falls
Worlds collided with worlds, and from time to time, divine bodies were blasted apart. Screams, curses, and thunderous roars interwove into a chaotic symphony.
Among the various clan deities, those with higher cultivation tried to offer dissuasion, but dared not approach, fearing they would be pulled into the battle circle.
Such dissuasion proved utterly useless; both sides were convinced the other was problematic.
The Underworld Clan deities believed in Gong Shang, thinking Xue Changjin was a Quantity Envoy and that the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion harbored more Quantity Organization members, so they dared not let them activate the slaughter divine formation.
The Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion deities naturally trusted Xue Changjin and Zhao Wu, believing Gong Shang had defected to the Heavenly Court and released Chi Chaluo specifically to create chaos in Fengdu Ghost City. Some even suspected that Golden Jade Heavenly God had been forced to death.
Hai Shang Youruo closely pursued Chi Chaluo as she rushed over, witnessing a vast expanse of city territory reduced to rubble, countless divine lights colliding, and ruins everywhere.
Fortunately, although the battle was intense, both sides exercised restraint, knowing that Quantity Organization members and Heavenly Court spies were only a tiny minority, so they did not deliver killing blows.
Now, the fear was of a divine fall event occurring.
That would trigger a chain reaction, causing both sides to fight with reddened eyes.
Hai Shang Youruo believed she lacked the power to suppress the war among deities, so she did not recklessly rush in.
She found Zhang Ruochen standing before the Ghost Emperor's Mansion gate and immediately transmitted a message: "Tang Lan died in the Divine Prison. A mysterious strong figure took her there and killed her in front of Chi Chaluo."
"Quantity Organization?" Zhang Ruochen asked.
Hai Shang Youruo said, "That's possible, but it can't be ruled out that the Heavenly Court is behind it. They deliberately wanted to provoke Chi Chaluo while simultaneously triggering conflict between the Western Ghost Emperor's Mansion and the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion, creating chaos in Fengdu Ghost City."
Zhang Ruochen looked up toward the outer cosmos and indeed saw that Tang Lan's Star Soul Divine Throne had already gone dark. Turning his gaze to Xue Changjin and Chi Chaluo, he saw the divine battle had escalated again.
Chi Chaluo had truly gone mad. Ghost Qi burned within her body as she directly used forbidden arts to fight, displaying a posture of stopping at nothing to kill Xue Changjin.
Xue Changjin's Divine Realm World was battered and broken. Forced into a corner, he too burned Ghost Qi to resist Chi Chaluo's attacks.
Both of them possessed overwhelmingly powerful cultivation. In a life-or-death battle state, who dared approach to stop them?
Blazing Sun Heavenly Lord only approached to offer a word of advice before being slapped into the ground by Chi Chaluo and fleeing in disgrace.
Zhang Ruochen was suspicious, but Hai Shang Youruo's words awakened him. With so many incidents occurring in Fengdu Ghost City today, could the Quantity Organization alone have caused such massive upheaval?
Could there truly be Heavenly Court forces behind the scenes, fanning the flames?
Zhang Ruochen noticed that the Absolute Wonder Zen Maiden had disappeared, her aura appearing inside the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion. Clearly, in her view, that mysterious spiritual power expert was also a tremendous threat, and now was the time to act.
Zhang Ruochen worried it might be Wu Yue and was about to rush over.
Suddenly, from the various Divine Realm Worlds outside the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, angry roars of shock and fury erupted.
An Underworld Clan lower-ranked god was struck by a powerful divine ability unleashed with full force by the Ghost Lord, falling on the spot, all divine matter ground to nothing.
The divine fall event had finally occurred.
"You dare kill our Underworld Clan deity! Are you Ghost Clan trying to create internal strife? Do you really think having the Heavenly Venerable as your backing means you can treat us Upper Three Clans as nothing?"
The Underworld Clan deities surged with murderous aura, and many great gods began to fight in earnest.
The Upper Three Clans and Middle Three Clans had always had conflicts, and now, with a deity fallen, the contradictions were magnified infinitely.
"Misunderstanding! I, the Master, just made a mistake. I didn't intend to kill him. Calm down!" the Ghost Lord said.
"Calm down? How can we calm down? Xuan Zhen, such a young deity with limitless future potential, was killed by you just like that. How can we calm down?"
"Kill a Ghost Clan deity, then we can calm down."
"Gong Tianzi, an Underworld Clan deity has fallen in Fengdu Ghost City. You must seek justice for us and avenge Xuan Zhen."
The Ghost Lord, while fending off attacks from all sides, explained again: "It really was a mistake just now. That strike wasn't aimed at him. If everyone can calm down, I, the Master, am willing to offer Divine Stones as compensation."
"You killed a new god with the potential to become a Heavenly Venerable! What compensation can you offer? Even the entire Earth Fiend Ghost City wouldn't be enough compensation!"
Everyone said that those with reason on their side would not yield. Many Underworld Clan deities possessed the superiority of the Upper Three Clans, and there were great gods who harbored grudges against the Ghost Lord. How could they pass up this opportunity to crusade against him?
A new god with Heavenly Venerable potential? Complete nonsense.
But potential was the most illusory concept!
Who said that new god definitely didn't have a chance to attain the Heavenly Venerable path? Anyway, he had already fallen.
Zhang Ruochen stared at the Ghost Lord with a strange expression.
Could this old fellow also have problems?
If he said it was truly a mistake that killed that lower-ranked god, Zhang Ruochen wouldn't believe it at all.
The Ghost Lord was extremely shrewd, not a brute like Yan Ju who relied purely on combat power. How could he not know the consequences of a "divine fall"? How could his control over power be so poor after hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation?
But if he were a Quantity Organization member, that didn't seem right either.
If he were a Quantity Organization member, he should have kept some distance from Xue Changjin. Why would he be so close to him?
The battle between Ghost Clan and Underworld Clan deities reached a fever pitch, with another divine fall possible at any moment.
All the deities who had come to offer birthday congratulations wore grave expressions. Who could have imagined such a storm suddenly erupting? If it truly led to civil war between the Underworld Clan and Ghost Clan, the Hell Realm would soon collapse and fragment.
A war between two clans wasn't just a matter concerning those two clans. The connections between the Hell Realm's various clans were intricate and interwoven. A war between two clans would quickly spread to all ten clans, with no one spared.
Of course, they didn't believe matters would truly deteriorate to that point, but the divine battle already erupting before them was terrifying enough to cause long-term opposition between the two clans.
The Ghost God Temple, transcendent above the Five Ghost Emperor's Mansions yet simultaneously checking and balancing them, floated in a lake, majestic and magnificent, with thick yin clouds overhead.
The temple gates opened, and a deity with seven heads walked out.
To be precise, Soul Seven had only one head; the other six were phantoms floating on six sides of his neck. He gazed toward the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion and drew a blade.
Raising the blade above his head, his aura gradually intensified, as if he had become the master of heaven and earth.
The entire sky above Fengdu Ghost City churned with wind and clouds.
The next moment, he swung the blade. Across a vast expanse of city territory, a blade shadow appeared outside the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Mansion, separating the Underworld Clan and Ghost Clan deities who were locked in combat.
The blade light was like a wall of light connecting heaven and earth, containing an irresistible, domineering force. Countless deities were sent flying, their bodies covered in blade wounds.
Blade Venerable was called the number one blade under heaven.
And Soul Seven was the number one in the blade path below the Infinite Realm, a rising blade path prodigy who, while still in the Taiyi Realm, had declared he would surpass Blade Venerable.
This single blade left a long canyon in Fengdu Ghost City, piercing through countless formations, truly overwhelming.
The Underworld Clan and Ghost Clan deities were all stunned and ceased fighting.
Zhang Ruochen looked toward the Ghost God Temple's location, seeing Soul Seven standing outside the temple through the void. His heart filled with admiration—what a formidable blade strike! No wonder he was the number one expert in Fengdu Ghost City.
With just this one blade, few below the Infinite Realm could withstand it.
"Look, what is that?"
A startled cry rang out!
Cultivators in Fengdu Ghost City raised their heads to look upward.
The entire sky was burning, clouds like fire, temperature soaring sharply. The yin clouds and divine energy between heaven and earth were all boiling.
It was Chi Chaluo mobilizing her twenty-one Star Soul Divine Throne planets, crashing them down toward Fengdu Ghost City.
Each Star Soul Divine Throne planet was as enormous as a star, over a million miles in diameter, containing immense divine power within. The Star Soul Divine Throne was often a divine formation; standing within it, a deity's combat power could double.
The twenty-one Star Soul Divine Throne planets, suppressed by the rule divine patterns and formations enveloping Fengdu Ghost City, grew smaller and smaller, but the divine might they released was extremely terrifying, breaking through layer after layer of formation light barriers.
The Star Soul Divine Throne planets flew faster and faster. Without activating the city-protecting divine formation, they couldn't be stopped.
Even Soul Seven frowned slightly. If he swung his blade, he could shatter all the Star Soul Divine Throne planets, but the planet fragments would fall into every corner of Fengdu Ghost City.
The destructive power of a top-tier great god was displayed to its fullest in this moment. One Star Soul Divine Throne planet after another seemed about to crush even this eternal divine city.
Suppressed by the rule divine patterns, when the twenty-one Star Soul Divine Throne planets crashed into the city ground, they had shrunk to the size of mountains.
But their weight hadn't diminished. The flames could refine all things in the world, and the divine power contained within exceeded the total divine energy within Chi Chaluo's body.
"Boom!"
How could Xue Changjin have imagined Chi Chaluo would go mad to such an extent? Hit consecutively by twenty-one Star Soul Divine Throne planets, his divine body exploded. Divine mist, ghost energy, and divine thoughts burned in the scorching flames.
Chi Chaluo was using a mutual destruction battle method, because she too was struck by the Star Soul Divine Throne planets and couldn't avoid them.
But she was the caster and didn't fall. She quickly recondensed her divine body.
Her divine body recovered, but her aura had greatly diminished.
Moreover, the twenty-one Star Soul Divine Throne planets were destroyed, reduced to rubble and dust—a heavy price paid.
"Xue Changjin's aura has disappeared. He couldn't have fallen just like that, could he?"
"Xue Changjin has an extremely powerful divine soul. Even a Divine King or Divine Venerable would find it no easy task to kill him."
"No matter how strong the divine soul, what use is it? Chi Chaluo used a mutual destruction technique. When the Star Soul Divine Throne annihilates, even a great world would be destroyed. Can it not kill Xue Changjin?"
"Who could have imagined that a perfectly good birthday banquet, a joyous occasion, would turn into a funeral?"
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Zhang Ruochen used the Earth Cauldron to protect himself, barely blocking that destructive force. His Truth Heart had been extended outward, and he keenly sensed that Xue Changjin's aura had indeed gradually weakened after the Star Soul Divine Throne planets fell, finally disappearing completely.
It didn't disappear suddenly, meaning he hadn't secretly fled.
But it all felt unreal. How could Xue Changjin have fallen like this?
In fact, many great gods in the Hell Realm were observing that vast city territory that had been burned into a lake of rock. Even if Xue Changjin was dead, the Quantity character imprint, even the Quantity Envoy mask and Quantity Envoy divine robe, would certainly have been preserved.
If there was no Quantity character imprint, it would mean Xue Changjin likely wasn't a Quantity Envoy.
A dead person couldn't lie.
Zhang Ruochen quickly realized this point. What was surprising was that no Quantity character imprint appeared. However, a large amount of Fist Path Esoterica was released, about to return to heaven and earth.