# Chapter 3413: So It Was You
Five Dragon God Emperor, a current-generation All Heaven, possessed blood energy as vast as a divine sea, with rivers flowing through his blood vessels.
"Ten Thousand Dragons Paying Homage!"
As the divine ability was unleashed, ten thousand dragons soared together.
The Demon God Stone Pillar was sent flying backward, and waves of dragon-breath divine force struck the four Hell Realm Boundless Infinite experts, forcing them to activate their Divine Realm Worlds to defend.
Qiangshake was ultimately an existence from over ten million years ago. Though his realm was high, he had not recovered. When facing a current-generation All Heaven, his weakness was immediately exposed.
"Boom!"
The Azure Venerable, entangled by chains of rules, let out a mournful cry. His divine body developed cracks, unable to withstand the pressure, and exploded apart.
Strands of divine venerable blood energy were absorbed by the demonic clouds.
The soul fragments of the Azure Venerable emitted sharp screeches, trying to escape.
"You are my tonic for reclaiming the pinnacle of the universe. Where do you think you can go? The blood energy and soul of a divine venerable contain such immense power that not even all the living beings of a medium-sized world combined can compare."
The demonic clouds churned, pulling and entangling the Azure Venerable's soul fragments.
The Azure Venerable's roars and cries for help echoed through heaven and earth.
The Hell Realm divine kings and divine venerables all looked toward Second Master.
Second Master's expression was extremely grim. "Supreme Pillar, don't forget, we are still allies!"
"I haven't forgotten! But if I don't recover some of my cultivation, how can I help you fight against the Heavenly Court's All Heavens? Are you all a match for that Five-Clawed Golden Dragon yourselves?"
Qiangshake's tone carried arrogance, clearly showing disdain for all the cultivators present. Only the current-generation All Heaven, Five Dragon God Emperor, was worthy of his attention.
The City Lord of the Divine City and War God Nether Lord both let out heavy snorts, releasing divine might as their rule divine patterns burst forth.
Second Master transmitted to the two: "First use him to contain Five Dragon God Emperor. You two go break the chessboard divine formation set up by Yunshen Daozhu. Finish it quickly. Not a single cultivator inside the formation is to be left alive. Remember, Zhang Ruochen is to have his soul searched!"
The chessboard divine formation had already been shattered by Qiangshake.
The City Lord of the Divine City and War God Nether Lord were very interested in the Earth Cauldron and God-Defying Stele on Zhang Ruochen, as well as the Time Esoterica on Qiangu Nüdi. Naturally, they would not miss this opportunity to seize the greatest benefits.
As for the Azure Venerable, he was no sworn brother. Even if he fell at Qiangshake's hands, it was Tiannan's responsibility.
But killing Zhang Ruochen and Qiangu Nüdi would still not be easy. Ice Emperor stood in front, manifesting hundreds of thousands of miles of glaciers, with the momentum of one man holding the pass against ten thousand.
...
The demonic path was derived from the path of darkness, as domineering as the path of death. Driven and developed by the three great demonic sources, the demonic path had surpassed the paths of death and darkness in many aspects, standing alone.
The Azure Venerable's spiritual will was corroded by demonic nature. His blood energy and divine soul were continuously devoured by Qiangshake, and his resistance grew weaker.
The next moment.
Two streams of dark purple demonic force flew out from Qiangshake's true body, piercing through layers of demonic clouds, surging toward Elephant Venerable and Desolate Heaven.
One Azure Venerable was not enough to satisfy him.
Elephant Venerable propped up his Divine Realm World, using a divine artifact to protect his body, holding his ground within a hundred zhang radius.
But he could not withstand it.
"Boom!"
The Divine Realm World was crushed into fragments by the dark purple demonic force. The earth plates turned to powder, rapidly contracting, impacting his divine body.
On the other side, Desolate Heaven released two kinds of radiance—life and death. Without unfolding his Divine Realm World, he directly used his stone body to resist the impact of the dark purple demonic force.
Cracking sounds came from his stone body as many cracks appeared.
After helping Dragon Lord stabilize his injuries, Five Dragon God Emperor took the initiative to attack, taking three steps forward.
With each step, his body underwent partial dragon transformation. After three steps, he transformed into a ten-thousand-mile-long golden Five-Clawed Divine Dragon, tearing through the demonic clouds to attack Qiangshake's true body.
The dragon might unleashed by the Five-Clawed Divine Dragon caused the heaven and earth rules of Lihentian to change, summoning lightning from all directions, raining down golden divine rain, and calling forth chaotic gale winds.
The demonic clouds were scattered. The pressure on Elephant Venerable and Desolate Heaven suddenly decreased. Though they still could not break free, their divine bodies slowly began to reform.
In an instant, the battle reached a fever pitch.
Waves of divine force, like rippling water, continuously struck the broken divine formation on the floating island.
Chi Xingtian replaced Yuyao to continue guarding the formation.
But his formation mastery was truly poor. The broken formation was soon pierced through by the Hell Realm's Boundless Infinite experts using divine artifacts.
"Zhang Ruochen, you two break through faster. Outside are all divine kings and divine venerables. I can't hold them off for long."
Chi Xingtian gave up on the broken formation, picked up the wolfskin battle flag, and charged into the air, clashing with the divine artifact "Seven Sorrows Nether Flower" thrown by White Venerable.
The wolfskin battle flag blocked the Seven Sorrows Nether Flower, but the ancestral divine power inside was exhausted.
With a "pfft" sound, the wolfskin shattered, the battle flag split apart, and Chi Xingtian was knocked down by the residual force of the Seven Sorrows Nether Flower, crashing toward the floating island, sinking the entire island dozens of miles.
The Seven Sorrows power entered his body. Chi Xingtian's flesh and skin necrotized, turning black, emitting a corpse stench.
From Nine Serpent Divine King's nine heads, beams of divine power shot out respectively, containing nine different forces—time, death, darkness, flame, ice... and so on.
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen and Qiangu Nüdi were both at critical moments of breakthrough, and Dragon Lord and Ice Emperor were both occupied, Chi Xingtian had no choice but to stop refining the Seven Sorrows power in his body.
"If it's a fight, then fight! I am the descendant of the Heavenly Demon. Why should I fear you?"
He pulled out a demonic blade, activated the ancestral divine power inside, and struck toward Nine Serpent Divine King.
The demonic blade spun through the air, cutting through the nine beams of divine power, slashing toward Nine Serpent Divine King.
Nine Serpent Divine King was greatly alarmed. How could he have expected Chi Xingtian to have so many ancestral relics?
The ancestral divine power was too strong. He was not a Great Unbound Infinite and dared not take it head-on, immediately retreating.
White Venerable made her move, throwing the Seven Sorrows Nether Flower. At the moment when the demonic blade's power was weakest, she wrapped it in the flower petals and suppressed it.
Chi Xingtian roared in anger.
There was no helping it. He was only at Grand Void realm, while his opponent was a divine venerable with many means to collect ancestral relics.
Chi Xingtian threw out one ancestral relic after another, blocking the Hell Realm's Boundless Infinite attacks five times in a row.
But on the sixth time, he finally failed.
"Boom!"
His body was crushed by Nine Serpent Divine King's divine artifact, the Ghost King Vessel, exploding into a cloud of blood mist.
"Just a mere great god, a mantis trying to stop a chariot."
Nine Serpent Divine King flew toward the floating island, landing in the broken chessboard divine formation.
He stomped down, divine power surging outward.
"Rumble!"
The various strange phenomena formed by the divine formation continuously shattered, turning into wisps of green smoke.
The black and white chess pieces suspended in the formation, losing the support of formation inscription patterns, fell one after another, collected into Nine Serpent Divine King's hand.
Nine Serpent Divine King looked at the blood mist not far away, his gaze cold. He extended his right arm to control the Ghost King Vessel.
The Ghost King Vessel flew up, releasing nether yin energy, stripping away Chi Xingtian's divine soul from the blood mist.
Chi Xingtian's roar came from the blood mist: "Four Hell Realm Boundless Infinite fighting me alone! Even if I fall today, I'll become a legend. Worth it!"
"Good, I'll send you on your way..."
Nine Serpent Divine King sensed a threat and looked toward Zhang Ruochen, who was manifesting the sun.
He saw a heavenly banner slashing toward him.
From the banner, four blazing divine suns flew out.
It was the aura of an All Heaven. Nine Serpent Divine King's expression changed slightly. He immediately gave up collecting Chi Xingtian's divine soul and drove the Ghost King Vessel to smash into the incoming heavenly banner.
The heavenly banner was blocked.
But the four divine suns landed on Nine Serpent Divine King one after another, shattering his various defensive measures. His body was sent flying, looking extremely disheveled.
The All Heaven divine power contained in Four Yang Heavenly Lord's heavenly banner was fully activated by Zhang Ruochen at once.
Even so, it did not cause too much injury to Nine Serpent Divine King.
Clearly, Nine Serpent Divine King's cultivation had reached the peak of Qiankun Boundless Infinite. Unless Four Yang Heavenly Lord came in person, a mere heavenly banner could not threaten him.
"Nine Serpent, Nine Serpent, you've lost your edge after being beaten by Ji Wang. Repeatedly suffering losses at the hands of a great god, your lifelong reputation is ruined."
White Venerable's laughter was melodious as she rode a white mist cloud, landing on the floating island with the wind.
The moment she landed, she became alert.
Zhang Ruochen, who was condensing the sun, and Chi Xingtian, who was reforming his body, were right before her eyes, yet she felt as if the two had frozen.
The divine mountain, divine sea, jade tree, and ink moon stopped spinning.
Chi Xingtian, who had condensed his lower body, had his upper body's blood energy frozen still.
"It's time..."
White Venerable's expression changed drastically as divine energy fully erupted from her body.
"Shua!"
A sword light cut through time and space, appearing from nothing, slashing across the position of her neck.
Half of White Venerable's neck was severed. Fortunately, at the last moment, she broke free from the suppression of time power and escaped the floating island.
Qiangu Nüdi walked out from space. The Boundless Sword in her hand was still dripping blood. Her three-foot-long hair fluttered in the wind, and her gaze was as sharp as frost as she locked eyes with White Venerable.
"Such a fast breakthrough speed. To think you comprehended Boundless Infinite just like that."
White Venerable extended her left jade finger, gently touching her neck. The wound disappeared, and her skin became like jade porcelain again, without a scar.
Both Qiangu Nüdi and Desolate Heaven had cultivated in Lihentian for over two hundred years. While cultivating the measurement body, they were also comprehending measurement and Boundless Infinite.
At the critical moment of life and death, they both erupted with unparalleled potential.
"Zhang Ruochen, I'll help you!"
Qiangu Nüdi's divine light surged, her skin becoming even fairer, comparable to White Venerable.
With thirty percent of the Time Esoterica, even the heaven and earth rules of Lihentian could not suppress it. The time rules of the surrounding heaven and earth continuously converged toward the floating island.
Zhang Ruochen transmitted to Qiangu Nüdi: "You've just broken through. Don't fight them head-on. Take the floating island and leave this place immediately!"
"Aren't you going to charge into the Boundless Infinite realm?" Qiangu Nüdi asked.
Zhang Ruochen said: "My situation is special. I don't need to fully comprehend measurement and Boundless Infinite. As long as I can condense the sun and achieve the Four Symbols Great Perfection, it's equivalent to a successful breakthrough."
Qiangu Nüdi released her Divine Realm World, wrapping the floating island inside.
"Want to leave? It won't be that easy."
"Attack together. First, cut down Huaying Qingchan."
...
The four Hell Realm Boundless Infinite stood at four directions, each exuding murderous aura that pierced the sky. They activated their divine artifacts, dyeing the sky in four different colors.
Divine clouds churned as four streams of destructive force brewed.
Each stream surpassed the aura on Qiangu Nüdi's body.
The female emperor had just broken through. She might be considered strong among early Qiankun Boundless Infinite cultivators. But the four above were all old-school titled kings and venerables. She had no certainty of victory against any one of them.
One against four was impossible to withstand.
Zhang Ruochen had no choice but to take a risk. While condensing the sun, he rotated the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram at maximum speed.
A passage gradually took shape.
With Desolate Heaven and the female emperor successively breaking through, they had already passed the most difficult moment and could leave Lihentian.
This way, the female emperor's Time Esoterica could exert greater power. Dragon Lord, Ice Emperor, and the others could also deal with powerful enemies more calmly.
The crisis was instantly resolved.
But how could the Hell Realm experts give them this opportunity?
Second Master's spiritual power moved, and the passage Zhang Ruochen had barely opened immediately collapsed.
The residual spiritual power nearly shattered the fourth symbol "sun" that was half-condensed, causing Zhang Ruochen's divine soul to sting sharply, his face turning pale.
Suddenly, Second Master sensed something unusual. He found that the divine artifacts thrown by the four Hell Realm Boundless Infinite were frozen in the void.
Four invisible spiritual powers entangled the four divine artifacts.
Such formidable spiritual power was truly rare in the world.
"We've finally made it in time." Second Master muttered softly.
The sky was filled with crow cries.
Star Heaven Cliff flew in from beyond the heavens, towering and majestic, covered with red crow trees. Fire crows filled the sky, flying among the cliffs.
The old woodcutter stood at the edge of the cliff, his face gaunt and wrinkled, holding a woodcutter's knife. He raised his voice: "Second, did you really think those people on Life and Death Boundary Star could hold me back?"
Wu Qingzong, the Nightshade Clan Ancestor, and Fire Ghost King all stood on Star Heaven Cliff, behind the old woodcutter, each with extraordinary bearing.
Second Master remained calm in the face of change, smiling: "It doesn't matter anymore. You've come too late after all."
"Too late?" the old woodcutter said.
Second Master's gaze turned toward the place where the demonic clouds were thickest.
There, Qiangshake had completely refined the Azure Venerable. His cultivation and strength had advanced by leaps and bounds. He distanced himself from the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, then swallowed Elephant Venerable in one gulp.
The old woodcutter's aged eyes understood many things. "So it was you! But do you know that Qingtian deliberately let Qiangshake accompany him to Lihentian to test you?"
"Does it still matter?"
Second Master smiled faintly: "As long as Supreme Pillar recovers his cultivation, who in the world can oppose him? All of you will become his tonic for returning to the peak."
Seeing that Qiangshake was about to devour Desolate Heaven, the old woodcutter could no longer stand by. He used his spiritual power to drive the woodcutter's knife, swinging it out, cutting through the rule chains binding Desolate Heaven from afar.
Desolate Heaven took the opportunity to escape, narrowly avoiding Qiangshake.
Second Master had already been exposed. Thunder Ancestor no longer hid, stepping out from the void. "Yuan Juren, it's useless even if you've come. It won't change anything! It's still not too late to flee now. Once Supreme Pillar's cultivation recovers, you'll die too."
Thunder Ancestor locked his gaze on the floating island below, raising his five fingers above his head, summoning a sea of lightning, striking downward.
"Crackle!"
The old woodcutter let out a heavy snort, releasing vast spiritual power, condensing it into rivers of time. Though launched later, they arrived first, crashing into the sea of lightning.
Second Master moved to the edge of the lightning sea, pressing his finger forward.
At his fingertip, a spiritual power barrier appeared, splitting all the rivers of time from the center.
"I told you, even if you came, you couldn't change the outcome... Hmm..."
Second Master turned to look back, finding that the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram had appeared again. The passage to Lihentian was opened. Before the sea of lightning could press down, Qiangu Nüdi carried the floating island and charged into the passage.