Desolate Heaven Realm
Huangtian Mansion
The Desolate Heaven Prefecture is named after the Heavenly Realm. It is the largest, most prosperous, and most powerful prefecture in the Desolate Heaven Realm, and the center of the Desolate Heaven Imperial Dynasty, which is also the number one power in the Desolate Heaven.
The center protected by the Desolate Heaven Palace is the Desolate Heaven Imperial City.
The Desolate Heavenly Imperial City is more than five times the size of the Green Wood Prefecture City. Top-tier families abound within it, and high-level cultivators are as common as dogs.
Its prosperity is far beyond that of other prefectures in the Desolate Heaven Realm. Even a single pancake in the city cannot be bought with gold or silver; only fine stones can circulate.
However, compared to its former prosperity, the Desolate Heavenly Imperial City is now nothing but ruins.
The once towering and noble buildings have long since collapsed, and the imperial palace, which symbolized the Desolate Heaven Dynasty, has been shattered into the void, with blood flowing like rivers.
A chilling, terrifying crimson aura of killing intent permeated every corner of the Desolate Heavenly Imperial City.
The imperial palace, now a ruin, reverberated with terrifying power, causing countless noble families in this once-powerful city to abandon their millennia-old legacy and flee in droves.
Amidst the ever-flowing crowd fleeing outwards, three figures suddenly appeared. Instead of fleeing in the face of the surging fluctuations, they went against the fleeing cultivators towards the Imperial Palace, where the power was most terrifyingly unleashed.
These three figures were Zhou Xingdou, Xiao Tianzuo, and Luo Bailian, who were being led around.
Looking at the collapsing buildings and crumbling ground around him, Zhou Xingdou frowned slightly.
Countless sharp gusts of wind and fluctuations powerful enough to kill someone at the Refinement Realm were instantly reduced to nothingness by an invisible force within a hundred feet of him.
Xiao Tianzuo squinted at the chaotic energy zone around the Imperial Palace, his expression somewhat grim, and said:
"Why isn't the battle over yet?"
This is precisely why Zhou Xingdou frowned. Ye Xuan and Su Tong are dead, and all the starting realm cultivators of the Desolate Heaven Dynasty are dead. With the Desolate Heaven Empress's starting realm cultivation, how could anyone in the Desolate Heaven Dynasty still be able to resist?
Moreover, there is Qing Yanjing, a quasi-emperor peak grandmaster of formations. Even if the Desolate Heaven Dynasty has hidden Origin Realm experts, they would never be able to stop the two of them.
It has probably been half a day since Qing Yanjing and the Empress of Huangtian arrived at Huangtian Imperial City, but the fact that such terrifying fluctuations are still surging deep within the Imperial Palace suggests that the battle is still extremely intense, which is truly strange.
Zhou Xingdou's mind raced, his expression instantly turning cold. He frowned and looked at Luo Bailian and Xiao Tianzuo, coldly saying:
"You two retreat outside the city, I'll be right back!"
Before Xiao Tianzuo could ask what had happened, he felt a sudden dizziness and was instantly dragged by Luo Bailian to a hundred miles outside the city.
The moment Xiao Tianzuo and Luo Bailian left, Zhou Xingdou did not hesitate. With a frown and a look of surprise on his face, he broke through the layers of energy turbulence and entered the depths of the Imperial Palace.
The Desolate Heavenly Palace has now been reduced to a void. Inside the turbulent energy are ancient killing arrays surging with murderous intent. Countless killing arrays combine to form a towering killing array, locking this place in place.
But even this formation that locked down heaven and earth could not stop Zhou Xingdou, who understood the connection between the two worlds.
Moreover, Zhou Xingdou could sense that this formation was set up by Qing Yanjing, so it naturally couldn't stop him.
But the thing that Qing Yanjing set up this ultimate killing array composed of countless ancient killing arrays is definitely more terrifying than Ye Xuan and Su Tong!
Within the Sky-Piercing Killing Array, Qing Yan sat quietly in the void, endless spiritual imprints cascading out like a waterfall, illuminating the heavens and earth.
The majestic ancestral pagoda behind her serves as the core of the formation, suppressing the array and maintaining its stability.
Even so, Qing Yanjing's beautiful face remained extremely cold and stern. Her ten delicate, white fingers moved rapidly, forming hand seals and constantly changing the attack methods of the formation.
Empress Huangtian stood at the center of the suppressing power of the formation, wielding the Blood Refining Fierce Sword and swinging it continuously. Half of the power of the Sky-Piercing Killing Formation transformed into blood threads connecting to her back, allowing the power that had not yet fully recovered to be completely restored, even surpassing its peak!
The cold, heroic face of the Desolate Empress was filled with shock. The blood essence of countless powerful beings within the Blood Refining Fierce Sword had been reignited, making it several times more powerful than it had been in Ye Xuan's hands.
But she had already screamed in horror:
"What the hell is this thing?! How dare those two beasts, Ye Xuan and Su Tong, suppress this thing in the Imperial Palace?!"
However, the being facing two quasi-emperors at their peak and half the suppressive power of the Sky-Piercing Killing Array was a colossal entity!
Zhou Xingdou silently stepped into the killing formation, and his figure appeared beside Qing Yanjing, who was sitting high in the sky.
His silvery-white eyes, swirling with purple energy, were fixed on the colossal object, his emotions a complex mix of shock, disgust, and a hint of joy, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts.
"Evil King!"
Zhou Xingdou took a deep breath. At the time, he was still somewhat incredulous when he used the One Thought to probe the changes deep within the Dao Emperor Palace, but now that he had witnessed it with his own eyes, he was instantly certain.
However, this demon king is different from the one encountered in the Primordial Era. It is not like the Primordial Era's law, where the more human-like a demon king is, the stronger it becomes.
This demon king was like a mountain of flesh, and its ominous aura was not strong, unlike in the beginning of time when the demon king appeared with an endless and terrifying ominous aura that permeated the world.
Of course, this could also be due to the suppression by Qingyanjing and the Futu Ancestral Pagoda.
As for why Zhou Xingdou was certain that it was the Demon King, it was quite simple: if a general-level demon could not withstand the killing blows of Qing Yanjing and the Desolate Heaven Empress.
However, if it were a royal-level being, even if crippled, Qing Yanjing and the Desolate Heaven Empress alone could not withstand it for such a long time.
When Zhou Xingdou uttered the words "Demon King," Qing Yanjing realized that the little man had somehow appeared beside her, which surprised her otherwise cold expression.
Seeing the even deeper aura emanating from Zhou Xingdou, she realized that her man had broken through again.
Even though she had once been Zhou Xingdou's system slave, and then rose to become his lover and true spirit, fighting against him for countless years in the long river of time, Qing Yanjing was still shocked by his breakthrough after only half a day apart.
It is a well-known fact that the path of cultivation becomes increasingly difficult as one progresses. Not to mention reaching the Quasi-Emperor level, even reaching the Supreme level requires centuries of cultivation.
Zhou Xingdou, on the other hand, progressed faster and faster. Despite starting over, his cultivation level suddenly skyrocketed, reaching a level that others could not achieve in ten thousand years in less than a month.
However, Qing Yanjing was only surprised for a moment. Since their hearts were connected, there was no need for formalities. She directly explained the reason to Zhou Xingdou:
"My cleansing of the Huangtian Dynasty with Huangtian was originally going smoothly, but unexpectedly the formation beneath the imperial palace broke down midway, and this thing lost its suppression and broke out of the ground."
Moreover, this thing can spew out a plague-like black mist, causing those who come into contact with it to lose their minds and be controlled by it. I had no choice but to summon the ancestral tower to set up an array to suppress its ominous black mist, otherwise this city might have fallen under its control!
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