If I cannot have it, no one else will.
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The Emperor Serpent and the invisible imperial might radiating from Jing Shang’s mirror caused the entire Hundred Flowers Valley to collapse. If everything Dongyin Gonggong had done before could be compared to a husky tearing apart a house, then the instant their noses met was the annihilation of all things.
Above the heavens, upon the earth, beneath the ground, and even throughout outer space, countless spatial rifts spun into existence and formed black holes. The clash of their mere auras was enough to destroy heaven and earth.
Sky-Piercer’s brows twitched violently. If the two of them began fighting, they would steal the stage from everyone else, and no one could say what unforeseen disaster might follow.
He extended a hand—not toward Wuyun or Jiayouke, but toward Long Yi beside Antuo.
Long Yi had only just finished expressing his gratitude and amazement. Even though he was ten thousand times stronger than Jiayouke, he had no power whatsoever to break free from Sky-Piercer’s immortal art.
At the height of his glory, he had merely reached the level of a peak Immortal King. How could he ever have come into contact with imperial arts and divine powers?
Moreover, this immortal art clearly contained the power of laws. It tore open the void, and Long Yi advanced like a flickering star, bright one moment and dark the next.
When he arrived in the next instant, Long Yi hurled out the Soul-Shocking Saber. His own body, ridden by the Six-Talents Ancestral Dragon, tumbled miserably to Wuyun’s feet.
Dongyin Gonggong watched as though he were looking at a clown. He made no move, and neither did Niu Chongxing. The two of them understood each other perfectly.
The moment the Soul-Shocking Saber was cast out, it transformed into a divine power. Just as Sky-Piercer was about to seize it, a colossal figure blocked his path.
It was the corpse of the Dragon Emperor beside Niu Chongxing. Trailing a tide of deathly energy, it fought Sky-Piercer for the divine-world blade.
“A mere dead thing dares to display its crude tricks before me?”
Sky-Piercer pointed once. It was an utterly casual gesture, yet the corpse of the imperial dragon retreated again and again, as if scorched by fire.
Just as Sky-Piercer was about to claim the divine blade, the Emperor Serpent moved. So did Jing Shang. The two flashed into position, forming a triangle with Sky-Piercer and jointly restraining the Soul-Shocking Saber.
“What a fine blade!”
After witnessing the saber’s power, Sky-Piercer immediately understood that it was extraordinary. Broadly experienced and knowledgeable, he split open the space before him. Three other divine senses came through, circled the blade once, and then three voices rang out:
“There is actually such a divine treasure in the Immortal World.”
The three divine senses took the shape of three shadows and prepared to lend their aid, but the Dragon Emperor’s corpse transformed into its true form and used its draconic might to block them.
“Why have you still not shown yourselves? Do you intend to let it slip away?”
Sky-Piercer roared furiously. The treasure should already have been his, yet Jing Shang had arrived far sooner than expected.
Just as the three divine senses vanished and three imperial artifacts came flying over, outer space trembled, and an incomparably powerful aura descended.
Jing Shang revealed a pleased expression as he looked at the others.
“I advise you all to leave. Do not provoke a mighty power.”
The Emperor Serpent’s brows drew together, and his anger deepened.
“They are merely third-grade imperial artifacts. What is there to fear?”
This time, the Emperor Serpent’s clone had come prepared. It carried an imperial artifact from his true body, and when it was revealed, it too proved to be third-grade.
Imperial artifacts were classified by grades, also called tiers. Apart from the Emperor Serpent’s, the three artifacts that had flown over were only first-grade.
After revealing his third-grade imperial artifact, the Emperor Serpent was preparing to unleash a devastating attack when a calm voice drifted from one of the artifacts flying in from beyond the heavens:
“My dear sister, our faction has always invited you to join us. But your circumstances are unusual, and you have kept delaying your answer. I have not come here with hostile intentions. I only want that boy and the friends beside him. Our interests do not conflict in the slightest.”
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At the sudden appearance of the immortal bow, Long Yi and Old Bear Three felt their scalps grow hot. Wuyun in particular greeted it cheerfully:
“Long time no see. You must have had a hard time tracking me down!”
This immortal bow was the imperial artifact that had once pursued Wuyun when he entered the Third Immortal World. At that time, he had nearly been killed.
A vague figure emerged from within the immortal bow—a mass of consciousness. It did not fear the Emperor Serpent’s probing gaze and spoke to the imprisoned Wuyun:
“Friend, I will say the same thing as before. I obtained cultivation methods from another Immortal World, so I must do a service for them in return. Whether the weapon in your possession is from the Divine World does not concern me. I care only about you and those beside you. Even if you die, your soul fragments will be enough for me to fulfill my obligation.”
The figure explained the matter to the Emperor Serpent, then continued:
“We each want something. You need his weapon; I need this man and his soul. As for the Immortal Emperor Sky-Piercer, the four of you have already obtained the inheritance of the Carefree Grand Immortal Sect. I acknowledge your strength, but these people truly have nothing to do with the Carefree Grand Immortal Sect.”
The figure spoke slowly. Though his bow-shaped immortal artifact was immensely powerful and particularly formidable when used in ambushes, he still hoped to reconcile with Sky-Piercer, the other three artifacts, and their divine senses.
Once Immortal Emperors began fighting, the entire planet would be pierced through. That was the last thing the figure wished to see.
Faced with the figure’s persuasion and the third-grade immortal bow radiating immortal might, the Emperor Serpent fell into thought.
Wuyun called out, “Little Bibi, I promised to come home with you. Don’t you dare go back on your word!”
The Emperor Serpent remained silent. Meanwhile, after Sky-Piercer communicated with the three artifacts, three rifts appeared in the sky. Three figures slowly emerged from them.
Two men and one woman. The moment they appeared, even the figure within the immortal bow instinctively retreated a hundred miles.
“Immortal Emperor Famen!”
“Grandmother Sihao!”
“Grand Immortal Emperor Tongtian!”
The first two were Immortal Emperors who had survived one imperial tribulation. The third was the strongest among them—a Grand Immortal Emperor who had survived two.
At this level, an Immortal Emperor who had survived two tribulations would almost always leave the Third Immortal World and travel through the surrounding dimensions in search of opportunities and a path to the Divine World.
The first to appear was Grand Immortal Emperor Famen. His face could not be seen, but his white hair streamed in the wind. After appearing, he spoke softly:
“First let water and fire fill the heavens; then let all demons upon the earth be extinguished.”
As his words fell, the entire sky began to burn.
No—the entire planet began to burn, igniting all the immortal energy and spiritual veins within it.
He was not trying to pierce the planet apart. He was clearing the field.
Nearly all the Profound Immortals instinctively opened spatial passages and burrowed inside. But the moment they entered, they cried out in alarm.
Those passages were filled with formations. As soon as anyone entered, they were transported to unknown spaces and trapped there.
Several outside factions had taken the lead. Their warnings did not immediately arouse suspicion, because water and fire had merged throughout the planet, producing endless mist. Famen condensed that mist into laws. Anyone below the Profound Immortal realm who touched it had their body dissolved at once, leaving only a soul struggling desperately.
Antuo remained motionless. He watched the Third Inner Sect Elder, Three-Eyed Divine Gaze; the Fourth Elder, Wu Yingfeng; the Fifth Elder, Silent and Merciless; the Sixth Elder, Qinghe; and the Tenth Elder, Old Tui, together with Wangqing, urgently organize the evacuation.
They had already entered the Valley Master’s Tower of Hundred Towns and Thousand Evils. Now they rescued every descendant of their clans. The entire Immortal Fruit Planet resounded with screams.
After they and the Tower of Hundred Towns and Thousand Evils vanished through a spatial rift, the nine remaining Immortal Kings joined forces to form a formation around Luohuawu.
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Every disciple in the valley could retreat. The Immortal Kings alone could not.
Even though the distance between an Immortal King and an Immortal Emperor was vast beyond measure, Luohuawu would not withdraw, and so they could not retreat either.
Black Ear was as frantic as an ant on a hot griddle. He shouted that the Grand Priest had finally come into his own. From time to time, he released wisps of laws to inspect the paths within the spatial rifts and check for turbulent currents.
When Luohuawu furrowed her brows and questioned Sky-Piercer and the other three Emperors, the two heads of Grandmother Sihao revealed sharp teeth beneath their gaping mouths.
“The Hundred Flowers Valley was originally nothing more than a pond of fish raised for slaughter. Now the fish have grown, and it is time to harvest them. Think back to long ago, when the descendants of the Carefree Grand Immortal Sect migrated here. A million disciples barely increased my cultivation by a little.”
“You intend to destroy the entire Hundred Flowers Valley?” Luohuawu cried in shock.
The planet appeared vast, and the faction powerful, but within the Third Immortal World, it was far from exceptional.
Especially with more than a million inner and outer disciples in the Hundred Flowers Valley—if they truly perished in a clash between Immortal Emperors, who would dare speak up for them?
A chill spread through Luohuawu’s heart. She had no time to seek help and could only turn her hopes toward the Emperor Serpent.
He shook his head.
“Little sister, it is not that I do not wish to help you. Look at these three Immortal Emperors. Every one of them is steeped in evil. Grandmother Sihao in particular uses the flesh and blood of immortal beasts to increase her cultivation. As for Immortal Emperor Famen, he excels at attacking the soul. Even if I could hold him off for a while and buy you some time, only my true body could withstand Grand Immortal Emperor Tongtian.”
Every word the Emperor Serpent spoke was true.
Luohuawu looked toward Grandmother Sihao and pleaded, “Grandmother Sihao, if you destroy our Hundred Flowers Valley, there must at least be a reason!”
“There is no reason. Grand Immortal Emperor Carefree has not died. I need strength. In the past, I could afford to wait, but now I can feel his fury. I cannot wait any longer. I must become stronger immediately, or I will be unable to resist my inner demon!”
Grandmother Sihao’s voice shrieked. Each time she screamed, flesh and blood from the surroundings gathered and merged into her body.
Some inner and outer disciples of the Hundred Flowers Valley had been greedy for treasures and mounts. After being swallowed by the mist of water and fire, they were shattered by her shrieks. Only their souls remained, running aimlessly in every direction.
Luohuawu still could not accept it.
Wuyun spoke:
“The Hundred Flowers Valley was established to lure out the descendants of the Carefree Grand Immortal Sect. It was merely a chess piece. But none of that matters. What matters is that those two are about to undergo their second imperial tribulation here. When that happens, the entire planet will be shattered.
“When Grand Immortal Emperor Carefree returns and finds that the sect and planet he created have vanished completely, it will damage his state of mind. That damage will hinder his cultivation forever, preventing him from ascending to the Divine World.
“That is the crucial point!”
Grand Immortal Emperor Tongtian’s gaze blazed as he studied Wuyun from head to toe.
“You truly are extraordinary. Could it be that you are a sinner from the Divine World who has fallen into the Immortal World? I need the memories within your divine sense. They are more valuable than a discarded divine artifact.”
As he spoke, every word became a heavenly soldier or celestial general. They scattered Niu Chongxing’s resistance, sent Long Yi and Rong Ya—who were shielding Jiayouke—flying, and struck Wuyun.
The soldiers and generals were as enormous as mountains, but when they reached the top of Wuyun’s head, they became tiny and entered his body. They then attacked the divine consciousness within his mind directly.
Tongtian had long since noticed the fluctuations of Wuyun’s soul. He cared nothing for whether Wuyun lived or died. But the moment he touched the most precious memories within that soul, it was as though a kite’s string had been severed, or as though fire had singed it. The shifting immortal characters suddenly collapsed.
Tongtian Immortal Emperor frowned.
“As expected, you are a visitor from the Divine World. There are more than three thousand vast Immortal Worlds, and every person who descends from the Divine World has either suffered damage to their memories or lost their divine power. Each one is capable of stirring a tide of tribulation across an entire Immortal World.”
“Rise!”
Under the control of the three kinds of laws wielded by Tongtian Immortal Emperor, Wuyun was utterly powerless to resist.
“Do not think that because the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder protects your soul, I will be helpless. You are wrong. My attainments in the study of souls are extraordinarily profound. If you willingly open yourself to me, I will search through your memories and restore them completely. You will still be yourself afterward.
“But if you continue resisting, then death is nothing to me. What I cannot obtain, no one else will obtain either.”