DLWAV CH62

How could they possibly be dreaming!

After all, the blood on their longswords was still warm!

They had really won!

Thinking of this… they still couldn’t quite snap back to reality.

Mainly because they had won far too easily—

However, the milk dumpling (system) had already stopped caring about any of this.

It had said so—Yan Chong was nothing but a loser; there was no greater mastermind behind him at all.

Thinking of this, it gleefully rubbed its hands together and sank its consciousness back into its database, preparing to continue skimming off Ao Ruize’s points and undermining his foundation!

Meanwhile, the expressions of the White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others instantly changed.

Because they had indeed won far too easily. If the Demonic Path were that easy to defeat, they wouldn’t have been locked in a stalemate with them for tens of thousands of years.

Furthermore, this time they hadn’t just defeated the Demonic Path—they had practically wiped them out entirely, from top to bottom.

Immediately after, they remembered the incident just now: Black City had fired dozens of projectiles at them. As a result, the people of the Four Great Families were unaffected, while the cultivation levels of the Demonic Path members plummeted collectively by at least two major realms.

Even a little thought made it obvious that there was definitely something fishy going on here—

And right at this moment, a sneer suddenly exploded in their ears.

They abruptly turned their heads to look.

They saw Yan Chong standing atop the towering city gate tower of Black City, looking down at them from high above.

The smugness in his eyes was almost tangible.

Seeing this scene, how could the White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others not realize that all of this was his doing?

But they weren’t stupid enough to think that Yan Chong was intentionally helping them. After all, it was a fact that he had tried to murder Long Ruize, and it was also a fact that the Four Great Families had hunted him down for an entire year. Therefore, there was no way he would help them.

Which meant that behind this matter, a much larger conspiracy was definitely brewing.

Thinking of this, everyone’s expressions darkened.

But what they couldn’t figure out was this: even if Yan Chong was worried that after overthrowing the Righteous Path, the Demonic Path—whose strength far exceeded his own—would go back on their word and turn on him, he should have waited until both the Demonic and Righteous Paths were mutually wounded before making his move to reap the fisherman’s spoils.

Yet he had chosen to directly attack the Demonic Path at the very beginning of the war, to the point that the Righteous Path’s strength hadn’t been weakened much at all.

Most importantly, the troops that had charged out alongside the Demonic Path soldiers just now included his own subordinates. Yet now, they too had been entirely slaughtered by the Righteous Path.

In other words, the only people left by Yan Chong’s side who could help him now were the few Tribulation-stage and Soul Formation-stage cultivators standing behind him.

What gave him the confidence to think that these few people alone could stand against the entire Righteous Path allied army?

As if guessing what they were thinking, Yan Chong smiled. He didn’t mind letting them die knowing the whole truth: “That is, of course, because from the very beginning, my target was never the Four Great Families, nor the entire Righteous Path, but rather to slaughter the entirety of the Demonic Path…”

Almost at the exact same time, the earth began to violently shake.

Seeing this, the Righteous Path cultivators below immediately mounted their flying swords and took to the air.

Then, under their shocked gazes, the corpses of the demons on the ground actually began to decompose at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a short while, their stark white bones were exposed.

Standing atop the city wall, Yan Chong articulated every word: “…And then, use the flesh and blood of these hundred thousand-plus demons to shatter the barrier laid down ten thousand years ago by the Four Great Divine Beasts using the last of their spiritual energy…”

The spiritual energy of the Four Great Divine Beasts, much like the spiritual energy of Righteous Path cultivators, possessed a Yang attribute. The demonic energy within the flesh and blood of the demons possessed a Yin attribute. Therefore, the demonic energy within the demons’ flesh and blood perfectly canceled out the spiritual energy of the Four Great Divine Beasts that supported the barrier.

“So at a time like this, if your flesh and blood had been mixed in as well, wouldn’t the losses have outweighed the gains?”

So the formula for the Absolute Vein Pill was real; otherwise, how could the people of the Demonic Path have been so easily fooled by him?

But his claim that he had improved the Absolute Vein Pill formula was a lie.

If he had possessed that kind of ability, he wouldn’t have lived such a pathetic, worthless life in his previous incarnation.

Furthermore, in just the short span of less than a year, how could he possibly have refined that many Absolute Vein Pills?

Therefore, what was loaded into those projectiles wasn’t the Absolute Vein Pill at all, but a type of spirit grass powder that was colorless and odorless.

However, if this spirit grass powder mixed with the poison he had secretly ordered people to slip into the Demonic Path’s wine a few days ago, it would turn into a new type of poison. And its exact effect was to temporarily disrupt the demonic energy circulation of the demons.

There was indeed a much larger conspiracy hiding behind this matter—

But the White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others were now obviously much more concerned about something else: “What did you say? This barrier was set up by Lord Azure Dragon and the others?”

Because of that barrier, the Mingxiao Continent had been completely sealed off and could no longer receive the spiritual energy fed back from the Upper Realm. As a result, the spiritual energy in the Mingxiao Continent grew thinner by the day, and cultivation for the cultivators here grew increasingly difficult. For this reason, they had cursed this barrier more times than they could count.

“Exactly.”

Yan Chong continued: “In the Upper Realm, there are Four Great Emperor Lords ruling the East, South, West, and North. Ten thousand years ago, a great war broke out in the Upper Realm. At that time, the Southern Emperor, whom the ascended cultivators from the Mingxiao Continent served, suffered a crushing defeat. The cultivators under his command were almost entirely slaughtered—including those who had ascended from the Mingxiao Continent.”

“At the time, a young Prince under the Northern Emperor set his sights on the rich cultivation resources of the Mingxiao Continent and brought people down to extract them.”

“The Four Great Divine Beasts detected the anomaly immediately. They all moved out to try and stop them, because once the cultivation resources of the Mingxiao Continent were drained away, the cultivators here would inevitably face the dead end of cultivation, and the creatures on the Mingxiao Continent that fed on spiritual energy would also be driven to extinction.”

“But how could they possibly be a match for those high-level cultivators from the Upper Realm?”

“Even fighting with all their might, they only managed to heavily injure that young Prince.”

“In the end, they could only risk their lives to drive the other party out of the Mingxiao Continent. Then, exhausting their own spiritual energy, flesh, and blood, they set up a massive array barrier outside the Mingxiao Continent. And they themselves were suppressed beneath Great Laugh Ridge outside Black City by the magical artifacts deployed by those high-level Upper Realm cultivators.”

So this was the truth behind the simultaneous disappearance of the Four Great Divine Beasts ten thousand years ago.

Wait, Great Laugh Ridge—

As if realizing something, the expressions on the faces of Long Gang and the others froze.

But it was still the same truth: right now, these things were no longer important—

Because this meant Yan Chong’s goal was to shatter the Mingxiao Continent’s barrier and bring the people of the Upper Realm down—

“Are you insane?!”

The Vermilion Bird Clan Patriarch immediately yelled: “Since the Four Great Divine Beasts thwarted the Upper Realm’s scheme and heavily injured that young Prince, it’s easily imaginable that they definitely harbor a deep grudge against the Mingxiao Continent! Once the barrier is broken, they will inevitably return to the Mingxiao Continent and launch a massive massacre against us.”

The White Tiger Clan Patriarch also caught on: “You want us to perish together—”

“Hahahaha!”

Yan Chong burst into loud laughter: “Who said this Young Master is going to perish together with you?”

“Are you even worthy?”

The White Tiger Clan Patriarch and the others frowned: “This Young Master?”

“That’s right.”

The one speaking was the ‘living map’ that had suddenly flown out from Yan Chong’s robes.

“Young Master Yan Chong is the bloodline that my family’s young Prince left behind on the Mingxiao Continent all those years ago. He is also my family’s young Prince’s sole remaining bloodline at present.”

According to the ‘living map’, if Upper Realm cultivators entered the Lower Realm, influenced by the laws of the Heavenly Dao, their strength would be suppressed down to the Ascension stage. Coupled with the fact that the Four Great Divine Beasts suppressed beneath Great Laugh Ridge stubbornly refused to give up, continuing to inject whatever hard-won spiritual energy they could absorb into the barrier every day, those from the Upper Realm had never managed to break through that barrier in these past ten thousand years.

But fortunately, as so many years passed, the Four Great Divine Beasts suppressed underground gradually aged, and the spiritual energy they replenished into the barrier each day grew less and less. While the people in the Upper Realm still couldn’t break the barrier, they could barely combine their strength to pry open a small rift—just enough to send one magical treasure through.

And this ‘living map’ was, astoundingly, the very magical treasure they had sent in.

—Otherwise, how could it possess the heaven-defying ability to identify and locate the world’s top-tier magical treasures and heavenly materials?

“Kill him—”

Hearing this, the White Tiger Clan Ancestor screamed hysterically.

The eyes of the others also instantly turned red.

They charged toward Yan Chong on the city wall like madmen.

If they had still not taken Yan Chong too seriously before this, then right now, they only wished they could travel back to a year ago and beat to death their past selves who had sat on the mountain watching the tigers fight and let Yan Chong slip away.

“Too late!”

The one who spoke was none other than Yan Chong.

And right at this moment, the heavens and earth suddenly began to tremble violently. The surrounding spiritual energy, including the spiritual energy within their own bodies, subsequently underwent severe turbulence. As a result, the attacks they were preparing in their hands but hadn’t yet released simply dissipated into the air.

“What?”

They looked down and realized that the corpses of the demons on the ground had already completely dissolved.

Following closely, streaks of blinding light suddenly shot up from the ground. Those lights instantly converged in mid-air into a massive black sphere of light, wrapping within it world-destroying energy, which then rocketed toward the edge of the sky.

The next second.

Boom!

The instant that black sphere of light collided with the barrier that appeared out of nowhere in the sky, a terrifying sonic boom swept outwards. Countless Righteous Path cultivators painfully fell to their knees clutching their ears, fresh blood seeping out from between their fingers.

Almost at the exact same time, a blinding white light erupted from the “living map” beside Yan Chong. In the instant the barrier in the sky was pierced through by that black sphere of light, it shot straight out through the opening.

Yan Chong’s loud laughter then echoed once again: “I said back then that the humiliation the Four Great Families inflicted upon me, I would return a hundredfold! Today is the day I, Yan Chong, fulfill my promise!”

“No—”

But right at this moment, a series of mournful, piercing roars suddenly transmitted from not far away.

Yan Chong instinctively turned his head toward the source of the sound.

It was Great Laugh Ridge.

It turned out that in the instant the barrier shattered, a significant amount of its spiritual energy was drawn back by the Four Great Divine Beasts.

Relying on this spiritual energy, they had actually directly broken through the seal and were charging toward this location, killing intent blazing.

Seeing the overwhelming, heaven-blotting bloody aura they brought with them, Yan Chong’s expression drastically changed, and he instinctively stepped back twice.

But also right at this moment, dozens of majestic, oppressive auras appeared out of thin air, instantly rolling out in all directions with the force of toppling mountains and overturning seas.

Pfft!

In less than a few seconds, countless people spat blood and fainted directly on the spot, including the milk dumpling (system) in Ao Ruize’s mind.

Only a hundred or so powerhouses, such as the White Tiger Clan Ancestor, managed to endure it. But even so, a portion of them failed to hold on and fell straight to their knees.

The figures of the Four Great Divine Beasts, who had just charged out from underground, were also forced to a direct halt.

They abruptly looked up and saw that at the edge of the sky, dozens of figures had suddenly appeared.

The man leading them was none other than the young Prince of the Northern Emperor’s Manor who had brought people down to steal the Mingxiao Continent’s cultivation resources ten thousand years ago.

Except ten thousand years had passed, and he had long since transformed from the arrogant, hot-blooded youth of back then into a mature, experienced middle-aged man.

However, this did not stop him from still deeply despising the Mingxiao Continent.

Even though he had experienced many failures in his lifetime.

This defeat on the Mingxiao Continent was the only one he still hadn’t smoothed over to this day.

At a single glance, he spotted the Four Great Divine Beasts not far away: “Hahahaha, ten thousand years! You didn’t expect this, did you? That we would have a day where we meet again.”

“You can only blame your bad luck that you happened to run into me patrolling nearby. Otherwise, you might have lived a few more days. No, rather, I should say your luck is very good. After all, with your current cultivation levels, if we were in the Upper Realm, you wouldn’t even be worthy of this Prince acting personally.”

Hearing these words, the White Tiger Clan Patriarch and the others instantly felt as if they had plunged into an icy abyss, unable to even spare a moment to acknowledge the Four Great Divine Beasts.

Long Jingdan, who had not yet completely fainted, violently spat out another mouthful of blood.

She had never imagined that this matter would ultimately escalate to the heights of involving the lives of tens of billions of living beings on the Mingxiao Continent.

Even less did she imagine that they would ultimately end up with such a fate.

But there were still some benefits. At least this way, no one in the future would ever blame this incident on Ao Ruize again.

Long Jingdan let out a bitter, tragic laugh, and then completely lost consciousness.

And right at this moment, a voice rang out: “…Ancestor.”

The one speaking was none other than Yan Chong.

He was wild with joy, dropping to his knees toward the middle-aged man: “Your child greets the Ancestor.”

“Hm?”

The middle-aged man turned his head to look, his brow immediately furrowing.

And so, in the next second, Yan Chong heard him ask: “Who is this?”

Yan Chong’s expression froze.

The ‘living map’ beside him immediately flew toward a tall, thin man standing next to the middle-aged man.

After the tall, thin man retrieved that ‘living map’ into his storage ring, he immediately spoke. Astoundingly, his voice was exactly the same as the voice the ‘living map’ had produced when it spoke earlier: “To answer Your Highness: after we sent the Thousand-Mechanism Map into the Mingxiao Continent, because we were worried the person who found it wouldn’t serve us loyally, I made up a lie saying he was your only descendant…”

Speaking up to here, he gave Yan Chong a mocking look on the spot: “As soon as this guy heard he could inherit the Northern Emperor’s Manor in the future, he sure enough started working for us with dead-set devotion.”

“And you might not know this, Your Highness, but you have no idea how ruthless this guy is. When he found out he wasn’t the biological child of the Yan family in that major town, he actually directly ordered people to massacre the Yan family—including his own biological parents—all just because the Yan family hadn’t treated him too well in the past…”

Yan Chong’s expression completely froze.

So he wasn’t the sole descendant of the Upper Realm Northern Emperor’s young Prince at all.

All of this was a lie these guys had casually fabricated, purely to trick him into helping them break the Mingxiao Continent’s barrier.

He was a complete idiot, played in the palm of their hands from beginning to end without even realizing it.

Yan Chong’s eyes instantly turned red: “How dare you, how dare you…”

However, before he could stand up and charge at the middle-aged man, the tall, thin man casually swung out a water blade, blasting him dozens of meters away.

So much so that before Yan Chong could even finish speaking, his eyes rolled back in his head.

Seeing this scene of dogs biting dogs, the White Tiger Clan Elders and the others didn’t feel the slightest bit of thrill in their hearts; instead, their hearts went completely cold.

Because they knew perfectly well that barring any miracles, Yan Chong’s fate would soon be their fate.

How could they accept this!

But no matter how unwilling they were, it was useless.

Because under the oppressive aura of the middle-aged man and his subordinates, they couldn’t mobilize even a single trace of spiritual energy.

The middle-aged man also withdrew his gaze at this moment. He looked back at the Four Great Divine Beasts: “Ten thousand years ago, a momentary lapse in my judgment allowed you to escape a calamity. But today, even if the Heavenly King himself arrived, you would only have a dead end waiting for you.”

Then, as if thinking of something, he suddenly began laughing loudly again: “However, a few of the mounts in this Prince’s manor happened to die a few days ago. If you are willing to submit to this Prince and obediently pull dung carts in this Prince’s manor… considering that despite being old and frail, you still have some use, it’s not entirely impossible for this Prince to spare your lives…”

Hearing these words, the White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others immediately revealed furious glares. But what they hadn’t expected was that in the very next second, the Four Great Divine Beasts actually all knelt down.

They were stunned for a moment, and then a look of utter despair rose in all their eyes.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged man also couldn’t help but be stunned for a second, because he hadn’t expected the Four Great Divine Beasts to genuinely submit just like that.

“Hahahaha! If you knew today would come, why did you act as you did back then…”

He just hadn’t expected that in the next second, a voice would suddenly ring out, interrupting his words: “The Northern Emperor’s young Prince, is it? We have remembered you.”

Everyone subconsciously turned to look down, only to discover that the person speaking was actually Ao Ruize.

Regarding this, the very first thought of the White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others was: Why hasn’t Ao Ruize fainted? After all, he’s only in the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, the Dragon Clan Patriarch, finally reacting, practically blurted out: “What are you standing around in a daze for? Run quickly…”

But very quickly, his voice came to an abrupt halt.

Because they suddenly realized that the direction the Four Great Divine Beasts were prostrating themselves… didn’t seem to be the direction where the middle-aged man was located… but rather the direction where Ao Ruize was standing.

Were their eyes playing tricks on them?

But very soon, they knew their eyes were not playing tricks on them.

Because before the middle-aged man could even finish reacting and say the phrase ‘Who are you?’, Ao Ruize suddenly waved his sleeve—exactly the same way the tall, thin man had dealt with Yan Chong earlier.

Immediately following that, the middle-aged man and his subordinates in mid-air were directly sent flying backward, just like Yan Chong before them, and smashed ruthlessly into the city wall not far away.

When the dust settled, they saw them lying haphazardly among the ruins, their limbs twisted at odd angles, looking even more miserable than the White Tiger Clan Patriarch and the others. Where was any trace of their insufferably arrogant appearance from just a few seconds ago?

The White Tiger Clan Ancestor and the others: “…”

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