道罗邪皇子 (邪神之道 B5)

Chapter 822

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Silence looms over a specific part of the vast heavens.

Within this area of the outer heavens are a myriad number of asteroids ranging from the size of an island to that of a continent.

In the distant past this area had been a world where life had thrived but that is a tales from eons past for all of it had come to an end at the hands of a single individual.

Should an actual person be in the area they would be surprised to pick up the scent of iron.

If one were to ignore the eerie air of the region and brave into the center they would discover the source of this scent to have originated from a giant landmass.

At the center of this landmass is a massive pool of blood.

There's no easy way to tell just how deep this pool of blood really is without going down and measuring it for themselves.

Normally not a single bit of ripples would appear on the smooth surface of this blood pool but today-

*...!* bubbles form on the surface of the bloody lake that would normally be undisturbed.

If it was just one instance of this occurring it wouldn't be anything to think twice about but gradually more and more bubbles appear making it seem almost as if the entirety of the pool is being boiled.

*...!!!* a violent noise that couldn't be picked up by the ears went off as the boiling intensifies to a greater degree.

It was also in that instance that the entirety of the landmass trembles.

Accompanying the violent tremors is the powerful fluctuation of a practitioner's cultivation base in rotation.

*Kakakakakakaka!!!* bits and pieces of the landmass are chipped from the main body as a mist of dust spreads outwards.

*Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!* a total of nine blood pillars rise into the air and as the curtains of blood are shed the skeletal bodies of nine serpents appear in the opening with each of them giving off a roar of fury!

The spheres of light held in the empty sockets of the serpents' skulls that are meant to represent their eyes gave off a radiance of cruelty that would cause the backs of any that makes contact with them to sweat.

As the undead serpent that stands at the center of the nine opens it maw the figure of a person sitting in lotus position can be seen inside of it.

Surrounding the body of this person who is dressed in a purple and red set of robes is a sphere of blood and covering their face is a demonic mask with three eyes.

Through the holes of the demonic mask one can readily see a flame of heaven scorching fury held in the person's eyes as they look into the far distance.

[Hua Luo...]

With a begrudging tone Ye Tian Xie curses beneath his breath as he removes the demonic mask with his pale right hand to reveal a streak of blood flowing out from his lips.

On the outside the backlash that occurred with the destruction of his clone didn't seem too severe but on the inside his cultivation base has gone completely into disarray.

As one's cultivation base rises the less likely they are to be wounded by ordinary methods. But this also means that any sort of damage that they incur will be difficult to recover from.

With how difficult it is to wound a practitioner of Ye Tian Xie's cultivation it has resulted in the creation of divine arts that deal damage in an obscure way to bypass the natural defenses that a Half-Monarch would come to possess after ascension.

The method employed by Hua Luo through an incomplete Absolute Law is one of the few means to wound a Half-Monarch.

The underlying mechanics of Hua Luo's method is unknown to Ye Tian Xie but he knows that the result of it has caused his cultivation base to go into disarray the moment his clone was destroyed.

[This grudge... I'll be sure to pay it back to you tenfold.]

Turning his head around Ye Tian Xie looks to the pool of blood.

It's impossible to give an estimate on how much blood there really is but one could describe it as the accumulation of a world's worth of lives because that is simply a fact.

Every person or animal that was once a part of this region's world made up this blood pool that Ye Tian Xie has been using to cultivate.

One might wonder what had caused all these lives to die out in the first place.

The answer to that should be obvious when Ye Tian Xie is the last remaining relic of this ruined world.

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One after the other blood red phantoms appeared to stand behind Ye Tian Xie.

Their numbers easily exceeded the billions making them a scalp numbing sight to behold when there are a few amongst their numbers that possessed an Exalted Celestial's realm of cultivation.

Each of these phantoms looked to Ye Tian Xie with terror in their eyes.

Even till this day these phantoms can readily recall the final moment of their life.

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Towards the lights of terror that are directed towards himself Ye Tian Xie smiles in satisfaction before facing forward.

[Tears do not buy miracles. Greed and lust are what drives a person into action. Will is what persists us to advance. Wishes are what we reach for at the end of the arduous journey. My Eternal is an inescapable calamity towards the myriad lifeforms that reside in this plane of heaven and earth... Why is that? Because you all are to blame for me walking on this path. Since you've forced me to become a demon I shall play that role from beginning to end without questioning it.]

At the words of Ye Tian Xie the undead serpents' eyes gave off an ominous glow as they raise a low hiss while directing their heads down at the phantoms.

As each of the serpents draw in a breath of air the phantoms are turned into mist and sucked into their maws.

Fibers of flesh and scales of darkness manifests to cover the skeletal bodies of the serpents with the increasing volume of mist that they devoured.

Eventually a nine-headed serpent of black scales is formed with Ye Tian Xie directing his left hand towards the pool of blood.

A swirling vortex appears on the palm of Ye Tian Xie's hand and the force of suction that comes from it begins to drain the pool of its contents.

It didn't take very long for the blood of pool to vanish to reveal a crater of unknown depths.

[His highness Duo Tian was it?]

Hearing this name from the mouth of Hua Luo right before the death of his clone Ye Tian Xie narrows his eyes with a stern expression on his face.

[...He shouldn't be in that world for long when he has more pressing matters to attend to.]

Not even Ye Tian Xie himself had realized that at the mentioning of this name a bead of cold sweat had rolled down the side of his head.

The name Duo Tian is something that only individuals of a Half-Monarch's cultivation are qualified to know because that person, that thing is without a doubt the "strongest abnormality in all of existence."

[The incident of that year isn't easy to recover from. Even if he does appear he can't possibly be as powerful as I had theorized. But... Ideals are nice to have but reality will always be cruel.]

With this thought in mind Ye Tian Xie sighs before choosing to move in the direction of the world that Ye Gui Feng resides in.

It's unknown as to how long it will take for him to make it there but he wasn't in any rush to do so.