Chapter 3313: The Strong Ones Emerging from the Marr Temple
Xue Jue War God had just broken through the Heart-Stop realm and felt he could soon catch up to Desolate Heaven. In an excellent mood, he said, "Our information is delayed, and the information of the Heavenly Court gods on the Starry Sky Defense Line must also be delayed. Right now, their minds are in chaos. If we don't strike now, when will we?"
"Let Soul Seven handle the negotiations on the Santu River side. It's best to mobilize the power of the Middle Three Clans to attack. That will surely catch the Paradise Realm off guard, making them suffer both internally and externally."
The Hell Realm gods actually knew the approximate locations of the tributaries connecting the Santu River to the various major worlds.
However, these tributaries were key defensive points for both sides, rigged with countless measures, and some were even hidden. Under normal circumstances, no one would want to attack from this direction, because the passages were narrow and fragile, easily falling into traps. Whoever attacked would suffer the losses.
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In the universe, the fame of the Marr Temple was not as great as that of the Radiant Divine Temple.
But in the eyes of countless Paradise Realm gods, this ancient temple located on Marr Divine Mountain was supreme, representing a primordial ancestor from ancient times.
On this day, the temple, built from piled stones, emitted a bright divine light, and the soil on the ground all turned purple.
Three figures with powerful auras walked out of the temple.
The first was a one-eyed giant, with a divine body ten thousand zhang tall. It had no other facial features, only a huge vertical eye. The vertical eye was tightly shut, like two closed divine gates.
The second was a fallen one with black wings on its back, surrounded by black divine mist.
The third was wrapped in a mass of fire clouds, with elf wings on its back.
Marr Divine Mountain was tall and majestic, vast and imposing. A Great God standing on the mountain peak and looking into the distance could see the entire floating world of the Paradise Realm.
"Is the Paradise Realm of this era so incompetent? A mere few Tai Xu Great Gods have caused such chaos that they've even called us out." The fallen one's voice was cold, his dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Court gods even greater than with the troublemakers.
The elf within the divine fire said, "It seems that a hundred thousand years of peace have made many gods complacent and lost their drive for advancement."
"First, fully activate the Realm-Protecting Divine Formation and destroy the Tongtian Divine Temple. Whoever dares to kill in the Paradise Realm will pay tenfold, a hundredfold the price!" said the one-eyed giant.
Three beams of divine light flew out, heading towards the Radiant Holy Temple.
"How can it be you? How are you still in this world?" Ji Donghuang stood on the Formation-Controlling Altar, utterly shocked.
The three said nothing and struck directly.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Ji Donghuang, who was at the Heart-Stop realm, was suppressed and killed by them.
His Divine Sea was pierced through by the one-eyed giant, his physical body was burned to ashes by the fire elf Mera, and his divine soul was corrupted by the fallen one, Krusa.
The Formation-Controlling Altar collapsed, turning into a pile of rubble.
Soon, beams of light rose from the Radiant Divine Temple, connecting with the Realm-Protecting Divine Formation in the sky. In an instant, the power of the Realm-Protecting Divine Formation increased at least threefold.
Ke Yangshan recondensed his divine body and looked at the three before him, somewhat incredulous.
They were still alive?
As the Young Hall Master, he didn't even know this secret.
"You stay here to guard the Radiant Divine Temple. If any more accidents happen, even if you are the son of Hall Master Ke, you will not escape blame!"
The fallen one, Krusa, left these cold words, flew into the clouds, stepped on a circular formation seal ten thousand miles in diameter, and headed straight for the Dwarf Clan.
The one-eyed giant and the fire elf Mera also stepped on their circular formation seals and followed.
The Great Shang Divine Dynasty, the Blood Sea Hidden Heaven Divine Temple, and the Dwarf Clan all lived on the same continent. But now, this continent was severely damaged, shrouded in thick smoke, as if eternal night had descended.
Not only had the Great Shang Divine Dynasty suffered heavy casualties, but the Blood Sea Hidden Heaven Divine Temple had also been breached.
Divine soil had turned into scorched earth, and the blood sea had been evaporated.
An ancient divine temple that had shaken the Heavenly Court and Hell was directly destroyed. No cultivator escaped alive, leaving only scattered ruins.
The Tongtian Divine Temple hovered above the Dwarf Clan's divine temple. Countless divine formations manifested in the two temples, emitting divine power and forming dense waves of formation light.
For hundreds of thousands of miles, the land had long turned into red earth. More than ninety percent of the dwarves had been killed by the residual power of the divine force, nearly driving the clan to extinction.
Inside the Dwarf Clan's divine temple, Heavenly Court gods gathered. Some used the power of the Dwarf Clan's temple to defend, while others activated the Realm-Protecting Divine Formation to launch attacks.
A Dwarf Clan Upper-Level God, with tears in his eyes, said angrily, "No one has ever dared to commit such heinous crimes in the Paradise Realm. You will surely face judgment. No matter where you flee, the Dwarf Clan and the Paradise Realm gods will hunt you down for generations."
"Boom!"
The Tongtian Divine Temple, as large as a planet, crashed down.
Not only was Divine Concubine Shen Yao urging the temple forward, but Wu Yue, Zhuque Huowu, and Chi Xingtian also struck together.
Words of the heavens flew out of the temple. The Two Forms Dao Seal also slammed forward.
A series of explosions rang out. A large section of the Dwarf Clan's divine temple's protective divine formation cracked. The buildings in the outer area of the temple, as if made of sand, all turned into ashes of calamity.
Vast numbers of sacred armies didn't even have time to scream before they exploded into blood mist.
Inside the Dwarf Clan's divine temple, all cultivators, including the gods, were in despair.
Suddenly, an uplifting voice rang out: "The Radiant Divine Temple has emitted divine light! The Realm-Protecting Divine Formation there has been activated!"
"Rumble!"
Thunder roared in the sky. Clouds imbued with the power of light drove away the darkness. Dazzling lightning bolts shuttled through the clouds.
All living beings in the entire Paradise Realm knelt down, bowing in the direction of the Radiant Divine Temple.
The gods in the Tongtian Divine Temple all looked up at the sky, feeling a suffocating and dangerous aura.
Chi Xingtian urged, "We need to leave now. If we don't, we really won't be able to!"
He wasn't just urging Divine Concubine Shen Yao, but also Zhuque Huowu and Wu Yue. These two formidable women were each more ruthless than the other, as if they wanted to annihilate the entire Paradise Realm.
Billions of living beings bursting into blood mist seemed like splendid fireworks in their eyes.
A long, icy voice came from beyond the sky, saying, "It's too late to leave now. Your crimes are enough to make you die ten times over. But of course, I'm just saying that. How could I bear to let you die so easily?"
Krusa appeared ten thousand miles away. The circular formation seal beneath his feet was brighter than a star.
Chi Xingtian showed an expression of disbelief and said, "Krusa, how can it be you? Have you reached the Infinite Realm? No... you're still at the Heart-Stop realm!"
Yue Shen, Wu Yue, and Zhuque Huowu all fell into deep thought.
They had heard of Krusa's fame as soon as they started their cultivation journey. Calculated by age, Krusa had lived for over nine hundred thousand years, reaching his eighth eon.
But how was this possible?
Under normal circumstances, even a Tai Xu peak Great God could only live to their sixth eon at most. Those who could survive the sixth Eon Calamity and live to the seventh eon were considered anomalies, rare in ancient times.
Eight eons—many God Kings and God Venerables had only this lifespan.
Three hundred thousand years ago, when they were just beginning to make a name for themselves at the Great God level, Krusa had already disappeared from the world. Some said he failed to survive the Eon Calamity, others said he was buried in Lihentian.
After vanishing for three hundred thousand years, who would still care whether he was alive or dead?
It could be said that Krusa's reappearance in the world at the Heart-Stop realm was even more shocking than if he had appeared at the Infinite Realm.
The fire elf Mera and the one-eyed giant arrived one after another. These two Heart-Stop realm Great Gods were even more ancient than Krusa, their ages exceeding a million years.
In their respective eras, they were top-tier figures, leaders of the Great Gods in different periods of the Paradise Realm, much like Ke Yangshan today. Even stronger than Ke Yangshan!
Xiao Hei was so shocked his jaw nearly dropped. He said, "Could they be the sleepers of the Paradise Realm? No, making a Great God fall into a sleep-like state of stopped time requires a huge price, and even the heavens might not be able to do it."
Xiao Hei thought of the sleepers in the Kunlun Realm, which gave rise to this guess.
But almost all the sleepers in the Kunlun Realm were at the Saint realm, with very few Great Saints.
Wu Yue, dressed in an ethereal white robe, said, "It should be some mysterious power within the Ancestor Realm that allowed them to sleep for hundreds of thousands of years. With the talent and strength of these three, they should have gone to Lihentian long ago to break through to the Infinite Realm. The fact that they didn't go but instead fell asleep can only mean that this sleep could make them even stronger."
Regarding the Primordial Ancestor, many methods could not be judged by common sense. Wu Yue had once entered the mausoleum of Huangquan Great Emperor, reaching a corner of the Ancestor Realm, and had seen a residual force left by a Primordial Ancestor. Countless years had passed, yet that residual force could still affect time and space.
It was because of this that Wu Yue had such a guess.
The Ancestor Realm was the most secretive power of every force, their final foundation. Even if the entire force was destroyed, as long as the Ancestor Realm remained, it could flourish again.
(End of Chapter)