Chapter 688: Chapter 118 Heaven and Earth are Unkind, All Things are Spare Dogs
Thunder Light tens of thousands of feet tall descended from the sky, turning the entire Heavenly Soul Mountain into an endless world of the Thunder Domain in an instant.
The Heavenly Soul Mountain was engulfed by boundless thunder, and in just a moment, it turned into a vast ocean of lightning.
Thunder evolved into various forms of Heavenly Tribulation and chaotic anomalies, bearing the momentum of ten thousand jun and the power to destroy Heaven and Earth as it pressed down, launching a powerful offensive of Destruction against Heavenly Soul Mountain.
It was as if a catastrophic apocalypse had arrived.
Every Cultivator present felt the immense terror of an apocalyptic disaster, each filled with doubt and their Souls trembling.
This was a terror too great to resist, impossible to counter, as if they could only wait for death with eyes wide open.
“This is…”
Hou Tianjian silently observed the unfolding scene, his eyes flickering with a strange and mysterious light that seemed to be rapidly calculating some Dao.
Suddenly, his body trembled, and for an instant, there was a flash of enlightenment and clarity in his eyes, which then blazed with an intense light.
However, in that moment, Hou Tianjian’s face showed the utmost shock, and he immediately tried to speak, but found himself unable to utter a single word.
His body became like an intangible beam of light, suddenly twisting, then utterly vanishing from existence.
…
Yuan Ci Secret Realm.
Thunder Expansion Sacred Land.
“Pu—”
The meditating Hou Tianjian suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes blood red, his expression ferocious.
“No—”
“Stop! Stop it! Aaahh—”
Hou Tianjian roared loudly, his voice shaking the Heavenly Vault.
“Heavenly Sword, what’s happening to you—ah—”
Sensing something amiss, Hou Yan nearly instantaneously opened the door sealed with restrictions and rushed to Hou Tianjian’s side, only to be met by a palm strike of True Void Spirit from Hou Tianjian, sending Hou Yan flying backward, coughing up blood.
“Hou Tianjian, what are you doing?”
Suddenly, the Void trembled, and then Bai Ying appeared, instantly restraining the frenzied Hou Tianjian.
“Quick! Let me go back, let me return to the True Void Forbidden Land, the Saint Master has been schemed against—aahh—”
Hou Tianjian continued to roar, his voice gradually weakening.
In that moment, he saw through the True Void, understood that it was a setup, a grand scheme waiting for the return of Lei Yan King’s inheritance, yet he was unable to warn anyone.
For the moment he saw through everything, his True Void Spirit responded, pulling him from his illusory world back to reality within the Yuan Ci Secret Realm.
“Hm?”
Bai Ying paused, then her face suddenly changed drastically, immediately beginning to calculate with her lifeblood.
Moments later, the entire Thunder Expansion Sacred Land was shrouded in a layer of blood color.
The blood color lingered for a long time.
Thunder Expansion Sacred Land became dark and gloomy, filled with the stench of Blood Qi.
The sky turned cold, the winds low and somber.
…
Thunder, Soul Mountain.
The Essence Blood of the Extraordinary Woman of the Ten Thousand Realms, along with various resources, seemed to have merged together, creating a scenario of Perfection.
Heaven and Earth changed, and endless Blood Mist and Soul Mountain connected, forming soul waves that surged towards Zhou Yan.
At this moment, as everything seemed on the brink of success, Lei Yan Demon Soul finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But, at that very moment, a drop of blood suddenly emerged from his brow, and his smile froze.
His body, in that instant, completely shattered, replaced by another wave of Blood Mist.
At that moment, Mu Qingyan’s body was enveloped by endless Blood Mist, as if being Devoured, and infinite chains of Order appeared on her, each one terrifying as if binding a Divine being.
Mu Qingyan showed an expression of boundless agony, her face completely changing color.
The immense pain made her exquisitely beautiful face instantly age, turning ghastly as if a skull brushed in rouge.
Her soft black hair also turned into white silk in an instant, the white light glaring.
…
“Heaven and Earth are heartless, treating all beings as stray dogs.”
“The day of my resurrection is the time of all beings’ Destruction.”
“That which should not exist, ought to fall.”
“That which should not be possessed, must be discarded.”
A Blood Shadow emerged from the shattered body of Lei Yan Demon Soul, growing and manifesting its own outline.
It was the true persona of the face on the Blood Tablet.
A true Evil Soul.
“You… You are… You are the King’s ultimate despair and evil thoughts; I never expected you to split off and already have…”
The shattered Lei Yan Demon Soul, instead of dying outright, coalesced into a bloody figure, addressing the Evil Soul with a voice full of terror.
“Lei Yan Demon Soul, you are merely a wisp of my Heavenly Heart and Demon Heart remnant thoughts, with Spiritual Wisdom capable of Sovereign a realm. But you should know, only by abandoning emotion and wisdom can one truly achieve the path to immortality. So, all of you can depart at ease, I will eventually take that step and slay all enemies and attachments.”
“You—”
The Lei Yan Demon Soul’s pupils constricted, yet they revealed a sense of utter despair.
“Right, the more you despair, the stronger I become. Right now, I need nothing else, not even the next life that the righteous and miscellaneous souls live out. But I must use him to destroy the guardian will left behind by my original self. To have you destroy the Ancient Array, to have him repair the Ancient Array, was all to activate the guardian will of my True Self with the Tai Chu Rune.
Now, you have done everything, and you are no longer of value. So, it’s time for you to die.”
The voice of the Evil Thought Demon Soul was cold and merciless.
It instantly drew away Mu Qingyan’s restrictions and Life Potential, while also channeling the power of the Three Souls and the Endless Thunder into Zhou Yan’s body and soul.
At that moment, it was ready to kill the Lei Yan Demon Soul.
Time seemed to freeze.
“I never expected, as I laid down the True Void legacy in search of the king, that you would set up the True Void Forbidden Land on me. I have lived within your True Void, destroying myself and also the king’s last hope… But even in death, can you let me know why you learned of the king’s legacy coming here before I did?”
The Lei Yan Demon Soul was extremely pained as it asked in desperation.
“Heavenly Heart and Demon Heart, residing within one heart, I derived many Demon Heart Bloodlines, scattered across the Universe, all to find the imprint of the king under the state of the five decays of heaven and man.
Unfortunately, on one occasion at the Sword Burial Ancestor Star, I set my sights on a person, someone quite extraordinary.
Not only that, setting my sights on this person also led to the discovery of that betraying woman, Mu Qingyan!
So, you all know what happened next. The part of the Demon Heart that I sent out has been tracking, observing him, knowing that he was bound to come and integrate the Three Souls of my True Self, and then this trap of the True Void Forbidden Land was set.”
“Do you understand now?”
The Evil Thought Demon Soul mocked with a cold laugh.
The Lei Yan Demon Soul gave a saddened sigh, his gaze hazy as he looked at Zhou Yan, who seemed as if frozen in the void, his eyes filled with endless pain, regret, and self-reproach.
But even as strong as he was, he still got obliterated into nothingness by a Blood Light from the Evil Thought Demon Soul.
“Bitch, the memories you sealed can now be unlocked. You have treated my True Self like this, yet my True Self still took care of you, allowing you to live such a good life this time, how can this be? I would rather let down the whole world, than let the world let down me!”
The Evil Thought Demon Soul sneered, suddenly shouted, “Break—”
“Puchi—”
“Puchi—”
Upon Mu Qingyan’s body, endless order constraints exploded terribly, but the explosion didn’t harm her at all.
But now, she had aged, transformed into an old crone, her body nearly decaying, her hair gray and white like snow, glaringly white.
Her face was dense with wrinkles, no longer holding the glory of the past.
“Your Essence Blood will be drawn by me, refined into the most Perfection soul liquid. Pity, you are such a waste, not even having condensed a Life Soul. However, it’s fine. I want you to watch in pain as I condense Jiang Yuning, that little bitch’s Life Soul, while you recover your memories.”
The Demon Soul said.
Mu Qingyan’s gaze cleared from confusion, and all around her, there was only Blood Light.
Her body had already aged, but her spirit was even older and more exhausted.
The returning memories of loss brought endless suffering and self-blame, like thousands of venomous insects nibbling at her heart.
She looked at the Evil Thought Demon Soul with deep sorrow and pain, then looked towards Zhou Yan, who was already like a puppet, and suddenly her eyes filled with boundless tenderness.
“In the past life, you forcibly possessed me, abused me, humiliated me—was that you in a state of evil thoughts?”
Mu Qingyan seemed to understand something and suddenly asked.
“It was my True Self, but just the Demon Heart uncontrollably acting out, and I have never been interested in you from the beginning to the end.”
The Evil Thought Demon Soul sneered coldly.
“So…”
Mu Qingyan’s voice was already somewhat hoarse but still trembled as she asked.
“My True Self did not treat you well, fearing the outburst of the Evil Thought within me, suppressing and assassinating you. Because you are his heart’s knot, and once I appeared, it would inevitably bring slaughter, killing my own heart’s knot to clear the way ahead.”
“I can devour a planet in one breath, while he is just a lovestruck fool, after all. Did you perhaps think that the nickname ‘Lee Sha’ came from nowhere? And how did the title ‘King Yan’ come about?”
The Demon Soul mocked with a cold laugh.
Mu Qingyan stood as though struck by lightning.
“He sacrificed all his lucid moments for you, yet you have been ungrateful. Alright, now I am the Sovereign, he is dead, I will kill you, control his next life and refine the Three Souls, and I will accomplish the Heavenly Destiny Evil Soul, the Immortal Evil Soul!”
The Demon Soul suddenly started to laugh sinisterly.
Tears streamed down Mu Qingyan’s face, her eyes swimming with boundless despair.
At this moment, no one could save her, whoever came would be facing death.
Even a Heavenly Venerate… might not be able to stop it.
“Fool… this life, you are so close to me, yet I still rejected you completely before.”
Mu Qingyan cried continuously, her withered, old hand reaching out gently toward Zhou Yan’s face, yet unable to touch him at all.
“Hmph, still want to confide your feelings?”
The Demon Soul sneered coldly.
…
In the Yuan Ci Secret Realm, within the Thunder Expansion Sacred Land.
The moment the order constraints inside Mu Qingyan broke free, the Zhou Sisi in Feng Lingqing’s arms suddenly opened her eyes, turning blood-red as if dripping with blood.
But the redness disappeared in an instant.
Feng Lingqing, discussing Dao with Li Qimeng, didn’t notice this scene.
Not just her, no one present did.
But in that instant, Zhou Sisi suddenly flew up, then burst into a massive cloud of Blood Light and an invincible aura of slaughter, covering all within the Yuan Ci Secret Realm.