Demonic Beasts Make Their Move

A song whose lyrics no one knew had ended, yet Deficiency You remained dazed and unable to move.

Yun Ye had manipulated things in secret, but he found that unless he activated the concept of the Ten Heavenly Stems Law within Deficiency You, he truly could not make him move. Without exposing himself, he could at most accelerate Deficiency You's recovery.

Yun Ye issued the command to accelerate his recovery. Deficiency You began circulating his power, changing its nature to counteract the interference of Zi Huo Heaven Chosen's Divine Art.

Naturally, he could barely move at first. But once he got started, the momentum snowballed, allowing him to break free at a relatively fast pace.

But it was still too slow—slow enough for his opponent to kill him hundreds of times over.

And since she was targeting his weakness to exterminate him, she would naturally see it through. The beauty in the purple dress pointed with her right hand. Ripples spread from her fingertip, rapidly expanding from their initial small waves until they covered half the sky and completely enveloped Deficiency You.

"Ten Thousand Prisons Divine Sky!"

Deficiency You's resistance came to an abrupt halt. Space seemed to cooperate with Zi Huo True Person, dividing itself into countless layers and imprisoning Deficiency You's Demonic Disaster Virus separately.

This process severed the connections between the Demonic Disaster Viruses. They could no longer share power, and neither could they evolve together.

Then, Zi Huo True Person brought her hands together, and the annihilation of space began.

This offensive completely dismantled Deficiency You's advantage. It was an exceptionally ingenious counter, so even Deficiency You, whose potential was limitless, was annihilated on the spot—practically killed outright.

But what a pity. This weakness was indeed a weakness, yet compared to Deficiency You's limitless potential, it was still far from fatal.

Even if every individual was wiped out, the hazy concept still activated. Deficiency You seemed to turn back time, returning directly from death to life.

"An Saint Domain-level Yin Yang Spirit Law—the Flying Zombie's divine ability? It actually replaced the Flying Zombie and connected to the Manifest Realm..."

Zi Huo Heaven Chosen True Person watched without forcibly interrupting him.

The Undying Zombie, King of the Manifest Realm—that was an ancient inheritance of great renown. It had been passed down for at least twenty generations. Let alone her, even several Venerable Ones working together would be unable to kill their way in.

To eliminate the Flying Zombie connected to the Manifest Realm, she only needed to sever its relationship with the Manifest Realm—and this process was not as difficult as one might imagine.

Wan Qing True Person had been able to kill the Flying Zombie earlier, so Zi Huo naturally could as well.

Even after it had transformed into the harder-to-kill disaster beast Deficiency You, there was no difference.

In terms of level, the Yin Yang Resurrection Spirit Law was indeed extremely advanced. Its flaw, however, was that it had to rely on some kind of vessel, much like a lich's phylactery.

It was just that in this world, ordinary vessels could be traced back along causality and destroyed with ease. Only a vessel like the Manifest Realm, which possessed its own laws and rejected all interference, could preserve its resurrection mechanism without failure. That was what had forged the Undying Zombie's great reputation.

After being reinforced for twenty generations, the Manifest Realm of the Undying Zombie had completely become part of the laws. Although it could not interfere with the outside world, even an Emperor could do nothing about it when it was merely being used as a resurrection vessel—at most, they could seal it.

But this was limited to the King of the Manifest Realm. The disaster beast before her had not reached that level. And even if it did, the Undying Zombie was not truly impossible to kill; otherwise, it would not have been passed down for twenty generations. Some of those twenty generations had genuinely died.

"Die!"

Zi Huo True Person repeated the same trick. The instant Deficiency You resurrected, she divided him up and annihilated him again. This time, however, she added a Divine Art countermeasure to wear away his immortality.

Deficiency You was stronger than every Flying Zombie Yun Ye had encountered. The Flying Zombie they had encountered outside East King City earlier had only completed the nine deaths and had yet to settle the nine lives or connect to the Manifest Realm, so dealing with it had not been too difficult.

But now that he was connected to the Manifest Realm, the situation was entirely different. Only True Person-level power could erase him.

Zi Huo True Person urged all her True Essence and unleashed the True Law, forcibly denying the Flying Zombie's reality and causing the fact of his connection to the Manifest Realm to gradually disappear.

Without a doubt, the Sole Truth Power was also a kind of universal concept. It could effectively target any concept—in a sense, it was an ability born with the myriad races as its imagined enemy.

"The myriad races..."

Yun Ye chewed over those two words repeatedly, feeling as though he had overlooked something, yet he could not recall what it was for the moment.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Although Deficiency You's immortality was being ground away, he still fought to grow stronger. But he had no source of energy. No one was feeding him moves; his power was merely being consumed through constant annihilation. Moreover, Zi Huo True Person had far too many methods at her disposal—formations, talismans, Magic Treasures, and even Dao artifacts.

Under these circumstances, Deficiency You had no opportunity to activate the concept of the Ten Heavenly Stems Law. He truly had nowhere left to run.

Just before everything was about to end, a figure suddenly descended. At the same time, a warning from Ruxin Benle Tianxuan True Person rang sharply in Zi Huo True Person's ear: "The newcomer possesses the characteristics of Manifest King-level Demon Power. He is a Manifest King clone. Retreat, now!"

Boom!

Space collapsed. The figure pulled Deficiency You out, examined him a few times, and appeared utterly satisfied. His body immediately collapsed and fused directly with Deficiency You.

"Roar!!!"

Demon Power swept over the world like a storm. Zi Huo True Person sighed, quietly withdrew, and vanished from the area.

Deficiency You evolved, rapidly merging into a physical form and manifesting in the material world.

It was a transparent humanoid figure.

Enormous beyond measure.

Ripples covered his entire body, shattering space. Behind him was a pair of wings resembling those of a Flying Zombie, except that they were transparent and not connected to the humanoid form. They simply floated behind him.

"Your Highness Manifest King, you should understand the price of interfering in our sect's affairs."

"I hope... you won't regret this."

Ruxin Benle Tianxuan True Person's voice drifted across the battlefield.

He did not care whether anyone could hear him. Once he spoke, the words would inevitably reach the ears of the one who had acted—and this was no mere threat.

The Nine Stars Heaven Sect was already entirely different from what it had been in the past. It was merely lying low, unwilling to expose too much, not lacking in strength.

And this incident involved a Heavenly Venerable. Clearly, they had no choice but to act. Even if it meant exposing themselves, they would suppress everything and display the majesty of the sect.

"Well, this is something—he came all this way to take the blame for me, and even helped Deficiency You activate a cheat?"

Yun Ye was astonished from the side, then activated the concept of the Ten Heavenly Stems Law within Deficiency You without the slightest hesitation.

The power of the Manifest Realm King clone was absorbed in its entirety. A live demonstration of what was called leap-style evolution unfolded on the spot.

Deficiency You's aura rose one step every second, evolving once every second. In the blink of an eye, the scenery of the world began to collapse. The world belonging to Deficiency You...

Was about to descend!

He was about to achieve the position of Manifest King!

Actually, Wan Qing True Person's feeling had not been wrong. Deficiency You did possess the power of Authority. The concept of the Ten Heavenly Stems Law was a portion of the divine authority split from Yun Ye's Heavenly Stems Universe. Although it was extremely tiny, once stolen, it could indeed be used to achieve a Venerable Position, and even grant a lifespan far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.

The only catch was that this Venerable Position would take effect only with Yun Ye's permission, and it was bound to the Heavenly Stems Universe.

At this very moment, Deficiency You was about to sublime into a Manifest King. Perhaps the Manifest Kings of the demonic-beast race believed they were gaining another Demon King capable of aiding them, but in reality...