Chapter 176 A Glimmer of Light

In the Dreamtail World, the two enormous emerald eyes rapidly shrank, eventually coalescing into a gaunt Tejiao monarch draped in a dark red cloak. He gazed at Ma Xun. "Since there's no escape, let's fight to the death. Either you die, or I die."

"Good." Flames erupted from Ma Xun's entire body, spreading in all directions. His flames already possessed some characteristics of "Primordial Star Flames," causing the power of nightmare to be scorched and annihilated.

Monarch Mo You paid no heed to the burning flames, instead looking up at his surroundings. "Dark Gunmaster, I know you're hiding in the higher dimensions, spying on this place. Over a hundred years ago, I sent Wu Qing to deal with you, but unfortunately, he failed."

"Later, you influenced three cosmos domains."

"Now, you're hidden in the higher dimensions, and I can't even sense you. Even after fleeing over two hundred light-years, you can quickly deliver Ma Xun to my vicinity," Monarch Mo You said. "If I'm killed this time, it will be by you. Ma Xun is just your tool."

"Mo You, don't flatter me. My strength is weak, so I can only hide," a voice descended, echoing everywhere.

As long as it was within Xu Jingming's higher-dimensional observation range, he could naturally transmit his voice to any point within that range.

"You spoke."

Monarch Mo You smiled.

"I wonder... if I could know... what you're really called?"

"You're a Tejiao, just obediently die, don't ask so much," the voice echoed.

Monarch Mo You's expression changed slightly.

At this moment, terrifying flames were rapidly spreading. Even with the Nightmare World suppressing them, these flames had engulfed one-third of the area and were still expanding.

"I believe that one day, I will know who you are." After Monarch Mo You spoke, he looked at Ma Xun. Simultaneously, Monarch Mo You transformed into two enormous emerald eyes, beginning a desperate struggle with Ma Xun.

Ma Xun was very patient.

Since his junior brother was confident in tracking him, he would strike at the root of the problem, completely incinerating these nightmare powers. The fewer nightmare powers there were, the weaker Monarch Mo You would become.

"Come, let's settle this life or death."

Monarch Mo You was unwilling to delay, and the two enormous eyes lunged towards Ma Xun.

Higher dimension.

Xu Jingming had been focusing all his attention here, overlooking everything that was happening in that stretch of cosmic starry sky.

"Senior Brother Ma is so powerful. His flames can actually use 'nightmare power' as fuel to continuously burn. The more it burns, the greater the fire, and he suffers almost no loss himself," Xu Jingming observed. "If this continues, the flames will eventually incinerate the entire Nightmare World. So, Monarch Mo You can't stall, he must risk his life."

After Senior Brother Ma Xun was trapped inside the pair of green eyes, the two green eyes seemed to become illusory, actually merging together.

Rumble~~~

That stretch of starry sky was shaking, and terrifying flames were burning inside the eyes.

The battle between the two sides continued.

"Eh?"

Xu Jingming watched in astonishment. From the higher dimension, he could see that Senior Brother Ma Xun, who was trapped inside the two eyes, was standing there, not moving half a step. Any means of encirclement and attack had no effect on him.

"Monarch Mo You can't hurt Senior Brother Ma?" Xu Jingming was amazed.

In terms of self-preservation, Monarch Mo You couldn't hurt him in the slightest.

In terms of attack, the flames incinerated everything, being invincible.

Seemingly, his moves weren't complicated, but with just these few moves, Ma Xun was faintly the number one expert of the Primordial Research Institute's tenth level. Of course, he was too old, and his potential was far inferior to Senior Sister Yuan Yi, Senior Brother Jian, and others.

"I didn't expect Ma Xun's attainment in spacetime to be no less than his attainment in fire. Admirable!" Finally, a voice resounded mightily in all directions. Cracks appeared on the fused emerald eyes. The aura of life was dissipating, the Nightmare World turned into nothingness, and the fused emerald eyes split into two again. The two eyes and the blood-colored curved horns floated in the starry sky.

Senior Brother Ma Xun collected all of these.

"Junior brother, come over here." Senior Brother Ma Xun looked up at the higher dimension. His mental strength could sense a greater range in the higher dimension than Monarch Mo You could, and he could also see Xu Jingming.

Only then did Xu Jingming descend from the higher dimension.

"Senior brother." Xu Jingming couldn't help but say, "Mo You is dead?" From the higher dimension, he could no longer detect any of Mo You's aura, but that pair of emerald eyes still contained terrifying power, perhaps Mo You was hiding in them.

"Yes."

Ma Xun nodded. "His life was integrated into the two eyes, and I have completely incinerated him."

As he spoke, he stretched out a hand, and in his palm appeared the two emerald eyes with cracks that were slowly healing. "Even if Monarch Mo You is resurrected in the future, without these two eyes, his strength will be greatly reduced, and he won't be worth mentioning."

Xu Jingming nodded. "Becoming stronger by relying on fusing higher-dimensional objects—once you lose those higher-dimensional objects, your strength will also greatly decline."

"Finally, Mo You has been eliminated, and the situation in the Tianmang Cosmos Domain will also be better." Xu Jingming was in a good mood. In recent years, Mo You had been too insane, with too frequent massacres. A large number of life planets and a large number of Origin lifeforms had died at his hands.

Eliminating him would also deter other Tejiao monarchs.

In fact, the human race didn't want to start a war, because the human race's path of evolution mainly involved accumulating knowledge and tempering the mind. Even without war, by burying themselves in research, human evolvers could still make breakthroughs.

The Tejiao, on the other hand, evolved through life-and-death killings and needed battle even more.

"Actually, Mo You could have committed suicide," Ma Xun said. "If he had returned to the Tejiao territory and chosen to commit suicide, he could have preserved these two eyes. After being resurrected… without these two eyes in his body, he could have gotten rid of higher-dimensional assimilation."

The source of higher-dimensional assimilation was this pair of eyes.

Without the eyes, he would naturally no longer be assimilated.

"He would rather become even more insane and plunder than commit suicide." Ma Xun was somewhat puzzled.

"Perhaps he wanted to break through in life-and-death battles," Xu Jingming said. "As long as he breaks through to become a cosmic legend, I believe he can control these eyes."

"Is becoming a cosmic legend that easy?" Ma Xun shook his head. "Let's go, let's go back."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Immediately, he brought Senior Brother Ma Xun across the vast distance and returned to Fang sheng Star.

After returning to Fang sheng Star, they quickly handed over the spoils of war and determined the merits. This time, in killing Mo You, both Xu Jingming and Ma Xun received half of the spoils of war and merits! Mainly because neither of them cared too much. Ma Xun wanted to befriend this genius junior brother, and Xu Jingming himself earned a lot of merits, so he didn't want to take advantage of him. So, in the end, everything was divided equally.

The next morning, the morning sun rose, dyeing half the sky red.

"Having killed Mo You, my mission in the Tianmang Cosmos Domain can be considered complete." Ma Xun, dressed in a white robe, smiled slightly. "I won't stay any longer. Today, I will go to the Void Divine Race battlefield."

"The Void Divine Race's strength surpasses ours. Senior brother, please be careful on this trip," Xu Jingming said.

"Haha, I want to reach cosmic legend, and I need even stronger tempering." Ma Xun said. Although Monarch Mo You was troublesome, that was only for Senior Brother Jian and Senior Brother Yi Sa. Meeting Ma Xun… he couldn't even hurt Ma Xun.

The top ten of the Primordial Research Institute, when going to the battlefield, generally went to the Void Divine Race battlefield.

Ma Xun was faintly the number one, so he naturally craved that place even more. Only there were there terrifying opponents.

"Then I will wish Senior Brother Ma Xun success in breaking through and becoming a cosmic legend," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"Hahaha, to be honest, I feel that you will become a cosmic legend faster than me." Ma Xun laughed. "As for me, my goal isn't that high. I just hope to break through before the end of my lifespan, and I will be very satisfied."

"Alright, I'm leaving. Junior brother, I look forward to seeing you again on the Void Divine Race battlefield." As Ma Xun said this, he took a step and arrived outside the planet, entering a cosmic spaceship.

The cosmic spaceship quickly disappeared into the distance.

Xu Jingming watched from afar.

"Senior brother, see you again on the Void Divine Race battlefield," Xu Jingming said softly.

If he was strong enough, he would eventually go to that more terrifying battlefield.

The death of Monarch Mo You was something that some people like Xu Jingming, Yi Sa, and Jian cared about, and many Origin lifeforms in the Tianmang Cosmos Domain cared about. After all, they had been shrouded in the shadow of Monarch Mo You for a long time.

But when placed in the entire human race, in the entire Tejiao race… it was just an inconspicuous little thing.

After all, Monarch Mo You wasn't even a cosmic legend!

There were many Tejiao monarchs who had fused with "higher-dimensional objects" in the Tejiao race. Mo You was just relatively strong. He was ranked eleventh, twelfth, or thirteenth among those ten thousand Tejiao monarchs….

How much worse could they be than Monarch Mo You?

On an ancient wasteland, a towering figure was wearing armor and had five blood-colored curved horns on his head. The five blood-colored curved horns were like a crown. He sat high on a black jade stone-carved throne, overlooking the bottom.

Five of the Ten Monarchs gathered, bowing respectfully.

This towering figure had the normal appearance of a Tejiao, but his body was much larger. Even when restrained, he was still nearly half a light-year tall. He sat on the huge throne, occupying one percent of the area of this ancient wasteland.

"Your Majesty." The most powerful cosmic legend of the Tejiao, Monarch Shi Ku, said respectfully, "Monarch Mo You has died and lost his fused object. It can be determined that even if he is resurrected, he will not be able to restore his original strength. One of the Ten Monarchs is missing and needs to be replaced."

The Ten Monarchs were very important within the Tejiao race.

In addition to representing strength, they also represented a lot of power! In the case where the Progenitor and the Majesty did not interfere, the order of the Tejiao was mainly managed by the Ten Monarchs. With one missing, they had to be replaced as soon as possible, otherwise the entire operation of the Tejiao would have some problems.

"Mo You is dead, and he also lost his fused object?"

The Majesty looked remotely at the endless spacetime. His gaze passed through many obstacles, looking at one Tejiao monarch after another within the vast territory. What he was observing were the monarchs who had fused with higher-dimensional objects.

The Majesty suddenly noticed an existence, a Tejiao monarch who was gnawing on a star.

"Monarch Chi Huo has regained his sanity," the Majesty said. "He has almost perfectly controlled that wisp of abyss bloodfire, and his strength is enough to rank among the Ten Monarchs."

There were many Tejiao monarchs who had fused with higher-dimensional objects. Many were even crazy, but even in madness, perhaps one day their control would increase and they would no longer be crazy, and their strength would naturally reach a new realm. Therefore, the ranking of the Tejiao monarchs' strength was uncertain.

Who knew who would suddenly emerge?

Like this time, those "Tejiao monarchs" who were considered to be in the top ten were not selected, but rather a crazy Monarch Chi Huo who had no fame.

"Yes." The five monarchs respectfully responded.

The position of the Ten Monarchs was very important, but the aloof "Tejiao Progenitor" would not pay attention to them. The Tejiao Progenitor would descend if he wanted to, and if he didn't, there was nothing they could do.

Generally, important matters within the race were decided by the Majesty.

As a higher-dimensional lifeform, his judgment was naturally accurate, and the Tejiao monarchs also trusted him very much.

Thus, Monarch Mo You was out, and Monarch Chi Huo became one of the new Tejiao Ten Monarchs.