"I am the Azure Heaven Dao Son, born Unparalleled and Invincible!"
Qing Liu Sheng stood above the mortal world in the form of the Dharma Realm.
The instant his words fell, he made his move.
The four ribbons of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire swayed, churning the void. The world immediately fell into chaos, and the Four Elements of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire manifested.
Heaven and earth were opened anew!
The Holy Anthem of Open Heaven and Split Earth rang out, gradually echoing through the skies and spreading across the entire Red Heaven Realm.
His voice should have been drowned out, leaving no one able to hear it.
But Tian Xiaoxiao was powerful. She fell from the void, wrapped in the power of Open Heaven and Split Earth, yet her physical body remained unharmed.
Divine light protected Tian Xiaoxiao. Even the power of Open Heaven and Split Earth could not obliterate her in a short time.
Thus, not a single syllable of those voices that had been annihilated in the void was lost. Every one of them poured into her ears.
"The Azure Heaven Dao Son?"
She was dazed, her body and heart utterly cold.
Was everything a deception?
Had God Empress, Dream Ji, and the divine phoenix that had bestowed God Blood upon her truly expected her to defeat a tenth-tier monster?
For a moment.
When she entered Purple Snow, her conversation with Dream Ji replayed like a lantern show.
"You are going to seek the hope of the true spirits. Only by forming a contract with the destined one will the true spirits have a place in the world of the future."
"He is in Purple Snow."
Tian Xiaoxiao realized that Qing Liu Sheng was the destined one Dream Ji had spoken of.
But could the Dao Son of the Azure Heaven Immortal Clan lead the true spirits to endure in the mortal world?
On what grounds?
At this very moment, the entire world should know Qing Liu Sheng's identity. An Immortal Clan Dao Son was not a true spirit and had no legitimate identity!
He had admitted on the Heavenly Road that he was the Azure Heaven Dao Son. The evidence was conclusive—enough to activate a Dao Artifact and annihilate him!
Did God Empress want Qing Liu Sheng to defeat her and reclaim the Slaughter Power and vast amount of providence, then personally strike down Qing Liu Sheng herself, killing two birds with one stone?
That was the most logical guess.
But...
The confusion still lingered in her heart, refusing to dissipate for a long, long time.
"The Azure Heaven Dao Son!?"
"Qing Liu Sheng is a descendant of the Immortal Clan, and perhaps even the rumored True Immortal counterpart—something that even the Immortal Clans find difficult to give birth to?"
"It is said that a Dao Son is a True Immortal counterpart within the Immortal Clans, naturally compatible with the Dao Codex and able to cultivate the Dao Arts without hindrance! The Water Emperor is the counterpart of Rainbow Radiance True Immortal. He gained the Dao Codex's recognition in his youth and was unstoppable from then on. He could even fight against a Grotto-heaven Master of an Imperial Dao Grotto-heaven!"
"He is actually the contemporary Dao Son of the Azure Heaven Immortal Clan?"
Qing Liu Sheng's self-identification on the Heavenly Road projection was like a nuclear bomb dropping, directly blowing the entire cultivator circle of the Immortal Dynasty into utter chaos.
Especially the Grotto-heaven Masters!
They knew countless secrets and were destined to deal with the Immortal Clan forces, so they understood the significance of a Dao Son.
A True Immortal counterpart!
This was not simply possessing True Immortal bloodline!
According to the laws of the Red Heaven Realm, True Immortals could not control their own Dao Codex at all. What this True Immortal counterpart was compatible with was the Dao Codex after sublimation!
It could be said that an Immortal Clan Dao Son possessed a certain quality belonging to the true pinnacle of humanity. That was why he could earn the Dao Codex's favor!
The most striking example was Ni Xinzhao, the Dao Son closest to the present age.
They were different from the children of Dao Artifact Wielders.
What was taken here was the Son of the Great Dao and the Daughter of the Great Dao. Thus, their talents were astonishing. Even without the talent to become a Grotto-heaven Master, they were still sufficient to roam unhindered beneath the heavens.
After all, they were born sacred!
"Qing Liu Sheng is even more terrifying than those born sacred. He obtained authority before he was even born, yet he also gained a power that transcends authority..."
"Born with a grotto-heaven body!"
Hundreds and thousands of Grotto-heaven Masters were horrified. At a glance, they saw through the true nature of the four ribbons coiling around Yun Ye's body.
The four ribbons were origin power of a higher level—the highly sublimated essences of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. They were worlds apart from ordinary spiritual energy.
This was the power that allowed the youth to open Heaven and split Earth at any time, achieving the strength to become Unparalleled and Invincible beneath the heavens!
With this constitution, opening Heaven and splitting Earth would cause the grotto-heaven to far surpass the mortal world.
It was imaginable that once this person opened Heaven and split Earth, he would likely rival the Heavenly Stems Grotto-heaven and immediately stand at the pinnacle of the Immortal Dynasty!
"Your Majesty, God Empress! This person is an Immortal Clan remnant. He must be executed!!"
Director Chi Hua shouted sternly.
He could no longer remain calm. Such an obvious threat was far too frightening. What would happen if an existence like this were allowed to mature?
It had to be snuffed out!
"Other than the Moon Immortal Clan submitting to the Immortal Dynasty, the Four Great Immortal Clans have harbored evil intentions for ten thousand years. They have constantly sought to interfere in the Immortal Dynasty. And now, the strongest bloodline of the Immortal Clans has even infiltrated the Immortal Dynasty?"
"Your Majesty, God Empress, we should indeed kill one to warn the rest and cow the Four Great Immortal Clans. Otherwise, if this continues, would the Immortal Dynasty not become a sieve?"
"Anyone who wants to enter can simply enter?"
Shui Fa Ming spoke as well, his expression extremely grim.
He had long been displeased with these circumstances. The fate of Director Purple Snow, who had been judged, made it clear that countless dark forces were hidden in the current Red Heaven Realm. It was merely that no one had brought them into the open. God Empress, who possessed the ability to cleanse the world, had almost stopped taking action because of her limited lifespan, further emboldening those dark forces.
Now that Qing Liu Sheng had revealed before the entire world that he was the Dao Son of the Qing Clan, he was dancing entirely atop the Immortal Dynasty's bottom line.
Under these circumstances, God Empress had more than enough reason to purge them. If she remained unmoved, the world might truly descend into chaos, and everyone would see the weakness of the Immortal Dynasty's ruler!
However...
Events truly moved in the direction he least wished to see.
God Empress sat atop the high platform. No change could be seen in her expression, but she fell silent and did not agree at once.
That silence, brief to the extreme, immediately chilled Shui Fa Ming's heart, as though a basin of cold water had been poured from head to toe.
To kill Qing Liu Sheng directly and suppress the darkness of the Red Heaven Realm, the greatest prerequisite was naturally strength. Without strength, everything was empty talk.
At present, the only person in the Immortal Dynasty with such strength was Water Dance Song, God Empress herself!
Yet God Empress's great limit was approaching!
God Empress's silence represented one thing: her power was declining more severely than imagined. She was likely no longer capable of completely suppressing every upheaval.
And Shui Fa Ming himself had personally exposed this fact.
"It is of no consequence. Once darkness is placed beneath the sunlight, it is no longer worth mentioning. The Qing Clan wishes to return and contend for the Becoming Immortal Opportunity, does it not?"
"Perhaps the current Immortal Dynasty already possesses the ability to find them and exterminate the inheritance of the present-day Immortal Clans."
God Empress raised her eyes. Her gaze pierced through space and time, as though looking toward an independent immortal domain.
At that instant.
Within the immortal domain, a flash of azure spiritual light passed through Qing Kong's pupils. She sensed some great terror, took a slight step back, and the trial projection before her shattered.
The great formation of the entire immortal domain activated immediately. Every connection with the outside world was severed completely, and it entered an even deeper, unknown dimension!
If Qing Liu Sheng had not now remained outside as a waypoint, this closure would have taken at least several thousand years before she could find her way back.
After doing all this, Qing Kong still felt a chill down her back, and a drop of crystalline cold sweat fell.
At her level, she had already cultivated a perfect physical body. How could something like cold sweat exist?
Rather than cold sweat, it was better described as the remnants of her emotions.
The drop of cold sweat struck the ground and pierced straight through it, transforming into a strand of azure gale that devoured everything. Had the place not been covered everywhere with formation patterns that suppressed all power, even this tiny remnant of emotional strength would have been enough to cause immense destruction.
Qing Kong was clearly powerful. She was the lord of the Immortal Clan. But her strength had a limit: the Red Heaven Master, the Heavenly Stems Grotto-heaven Master, God Empress Water Dance Song...
That woman had no limit. No one knew where the extremity of her power lay!
Qing Kong had no choice but to admit that she was afraid of that woman, Water Dance Song.
But the current era was different!
Talents have emerged in every generation, each dominating the age for several hundred years. The Immortal Dynasty has enjoyed two thousand years of longevity, and you, Water Dance Song, have stood high above the world for two thousand years!
Far too long! Far too long!
It is time for a change!
The Heavenly Road would record history. Thus, even after the Immortal Clans perished, someone would inherit their Dao Arts and slowly develop into a new Immortal Clan.
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