Fled

In the starry sky, the blazing lightning tribulation raged with unparalleled ferocity, stirring up gales of the Great Dao. A single wisp of thunder could severely wound or even kill a Saint.

The two Great Sages were displeased when they saw so many people chasing them while enduring tribulation.

If they made a move, the tribulation would lock onto their auras, and a Great Sage tribulation would descend. Enduring that while capturing or killing a few peerless Heavenly Prides would be well worth it.

But the problem was that after crossing the tribulation, they would fall into weakness and severe injury. If the Human Race's Guide Envoy made a move then, they would be in danger.

"Hmph, a few little brats think they can bully us?" one Saint Spirit Great Sage said, displeased. He held a massive black hammer, his stone body almost entirely gone, leaving only his right hand as stone.

But his entire person looked like a Black Ghost.

His original form was Black Star Divine Iron, a material even Great Sages craved. Using it to forge a Great Sage artifact would rival Great Luo Silver Gold.

In the starry sky, two streaks of swift light came to an abrupt halt. Facing the vast, boundless tribulation, they stayed at its very edge the whole time.

Smirking with amusement, they watched the many Heavenly Prides.

They simply refused to act, staying just outside the tribulation's locking range.

This stunned several Heavenly Prides, whose faces twisted in agonized pain. Gritting their teeth, lightning coiled around them as the Saint King tribulation descended relentlessly.

Xu Changqing glanced at the few who had just arrived in the starry sky, a little speechless.

With Great Sages moving so fast, how could the tribulation possibly lock onto them?

Xu Changqing, Duan De, and the Woman in White had only wanted to use the tribulation to scare off the Saint Spirit Great Sages and retreat safely.

They hadn't expected these people to mistakenly think they intended to use the tribulation to fight the Great Sages.

In the starry sky, several Heavenly Prides wore pained expressions, but their eyes were firm, radiating an Unstoppable Momentum as they kept chasing the two Great Sages.

If the two dared to act, the tribulation would lock onto them. Once the Great Sages made a move, Tian Youqing and the others would use their trump cards to block the attacks and avoid injury.

Their plan was beautiful, but unfortunately, the two Black Ghost Great Sages didn't make a move. Instead, they watched the pursuers like they were watching monkeys.

Xu Changqing turned his head and saw Duan De wearing a dumbfounded expression.

Duan De also looked at him, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"Hahaha..."

"Wuliang his mother's Heavenly Venerate, how wonderful. They're drawing the Saint Spirit's fire for poor Daoist."

"Time to run, hahaha!"

Duan De laughed loudly, turned around without a second thought, and fled, completely ignoring that group.

The Woman in White stood proudly within the tribulation, glanced at the Human Race's Fiftieth Pass, then turned to look at Xu Changqing, only to find he had also run.

She wasn't surprised and followed suit.

No one had expected that the three of them would actually run.

And so openly, at that. Didn't they care about face?

When Tian Youqing and the others saw Xu Changqing and his two companions run, their morale shattered. Incredulity spread across their faces, and disappointment shone in their eyes.

"Damn it, they... just ran?"

"We went out of our way to help them, and they didn't even say a word, didn't even acknowledge us, just ran..."

A Purple-haired Youth couldn't help but curse, his entire person questioning life itself. According to his original plan, he was supposed to settle down for a while before crossing the tribulation to become a Saint King.

But when he saw the Saint Spirits bullying them right at their doorstep, and that the ones being hunted were the Human Race's two strongest Heavenly Prides, his blood boiled. He wanted to resist the foreign enemy. He never expected...

The passion in his heart felt like it had been doused by a basin of ice-cold river water.

Three figures turned into white light, charging off in unknown directions. None of them took the same path; they fled in opposite directions.

Duan De wanted to get far away from the two demons. Xu Changqing wanted to go get revenge. The Woman in White wanted to seek out various opportunities.

Everyone who saw this was dumbfounded.

"This... they... they are unworthy of being called the era's Heavenly Prides!!"

"With such terrifying cultivation and peak Combat Power, instead of joining the other Heavenly Prides to fight and uphold the Human Race's honor, they ran. Don't their hearts ache?!"

"I think they did the right thing. After all, they're all competitors. Why should they care if the others live or die? And those people went on their own. Did Heartless ever call for help? From start to finish, the Twin Demons of the Era never said a word."

"The Female Demon, the Heartless Heavenly Demon—those names say it all."

In the city, everyone watching was discussing this. The Guide Envoy watched silently, also quite disappointed in the three.

But that fatty—no one recognized him. Yet he could travel with Heartless, even pull out a Great Sage artifact, and be personally hunted by a Great Sage. He definitely wasn't some simple character.

Everyone felt that this fatty was bound to be a formidable rival.

Mu Miaomiao was also stunned the moment she saw Xu Changqing flee.

From the first time she met Xu Changqing until now, she had never seen him run or compromise. He always charged forward, unstoppable by any obstacle.

And now, while several peerless Heavenly Prides were enduring tribulation to chase the Great Sages, he and his companions ran instead.

Tian Youqing wore a veil, her expression unreadable, but disappointment flickered in her clear, almond-shaped eyes. She took the vast tribulation far from here, arriving above the city.

"Our passion, in their eyes, was probably very foolish."

"Maybe they never needed our help at all."

"We were being presumptuous."

Though they were enemies, they couldn't bear to see them fall at the hands of the Saint Spirit Great Sages. If any of them were to become an Emperor later, they would be criticized—if those three had still been alive back then, none of them would have had any hope of becoming Emperor.

But now, they found themselves in an awkward position.

"Heh, so these are the two strongest from your Burial Emperor Star? Nothing special. With courage like that, how do you plan to face the experts of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds?" A man with thick black hair and an overbearing aura sneered coldly.

The terrifying Saint King Heavenly Tribulation fell upon him without causing any harm.

He was an Overlord Body, one of the strongest Heavenly Prides on the Emperor's Path.

He held Xu Changqing and the other two in contempt. Though their displayed strength was impressive and fearsome, they lacked Unstoppable Momentum and that reckless, all-out state of mind.

They had no Invincible Heart.

That was Overlord Emperor's assessment of Xu Changqing and his companions.

If Xu Changqing knew, he would sneer and look down on these people.

Invincible Heart? What was that? Since ancient times, who could truly define it?

Just because you think you're invincible and strong, does that make you invincible?

Xu Changqing always put himself first, prioritizing his own life above all.

The Guide Envoy saw this scene and sighed helplessly, stepping out from the city gate, his body radiating a powerful and terrifying pressure.

He had hoped the younger generation could make the two Great Sages look pathetic, but instead, the two Great Sages lingered at the edge of the Heavenly Tribulation in full view of everyone.

He had thought they were proud, treating the Great Sage Tribulation as nothing, and would eventually kill several Heavenly Prides while enduring it.

It seemed he had overestimated them.

"Foreign Race, slaughtering my Human Clan's Heavenly Prides and treating the Human Clan Emperor's Path as nothing—you deserve death!"

"Saints, daring to use the blood of my Human Clan's special physiques to nurture your unborn Heavenly Prides—you deserve death!"

"Just two Great Sages dare to provoke my Human Clan?"

After the Human Clan Guide Envoy appeared at the Fiftieth Pass, several aged voices echoed from the starry sky.

Everyone grew excited—was the Guide Envoy going to surround and kill the Saint Spirit Great Sages?

"Oh? Are you sure your aged bodies and withered blood energy can contend with us?" Black Ghost Great Sage's eyes flickered with Cold Light, his tall, burly frame exuding an oppressive aura as he restrained his presence.

The Guide Envoys said nothing, silently encircling the two Saint Spirit Great Sages. Finally, in front of them, they spoke a single sentence.

"Since they came to surround and kill you, then you should go hunt the Saint Spirits. Don't fear so-called curses—what are curses worth? Does Wuqing fear them? He doesn't fear them at all."

"See a Saint Spirit, kill it directly."

The Guide Envoys' voices were firm and resolute. Finally, using Divine Sense, they transmitted the route of the Emperor's Path of the Holy Spirits to Xu Changqing and the Woman in White, who were already fleeing.

Though Xu Changqing and the Female Demon had run far, far away, they couldn't outrun a Great Sage's Divine Sense.

"Qing Ming, take everyone in the city and leave. The fiftieth pass of the Human Clan is in danger—it's about to collapse," one Guide Envoy said.

Another Guide Envoy nodded, vanishing instantly, appearing in the sky above the fiftieth city. With a wave of his hand, a Teleportation Array materialized.

"Master, are you going to act?" Mu Miaomiao looked at the figure beside her and asked. She also wanted to know how strong her master was.

"Not yet. The Saint Spirit Race won't let their two Great Sages die. Besides, these two Great Sages come from the Heavenly Severance Forbidden Zone..."

"Reel in the big fish with a long line," the figure said softly.

Great Sages? No matter how many came, He would kill them all.

As for why He didn't let Mu Miaomiao participate in the Emperor's Path—it was because she wasn't suited for it.

If she wasn't suited and still joined the Emperor's Path, it would be a dead end. Even with His teachings, making her stronger and higher in cultivation than her peers, it would be useless.

In the end, it all came down to the individual.

But Mu Miaomiao's Master kept watching Xu Changqing, a look of regret in His eyes.

This was a rare talent. What a pity...

He watched as Xu Changqing, far from the fiftieth pass of the Human Clan, underwent his tribulation in a Starry Ruins to become a Saint King. The Heavenly Tribulation was terrifying, countless times more dreadful than ordinary tribulations.

"Xu Changqing, the Woman in White—one of the two should be able to reach the summit."

As a top expert of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, He could see through the foundations and strength of Xu Changqing and the Woman in White at a glance.

The Woman in White had created a terrifying demonic technique, extremely suitable for everyone, every Living Being to cultivate. In His view, the Overlord Body and the Innate Dao Embryo were merely her nourishment.

As for Xu Changqing, he had walked a path unprecedented in history, and he had even succeeded.

Both possessed unparalleled talent, with their own secret techniques, their own Forbidden Secret Techniques, and even the embryonic form of an Emperor Scripture.

At the same time, the two of them constantly remained in the Forbidden Domain, ready to enter Divine Prohibition at any moment.

In the starry sky, several peerless Heavenly Prides underwent their tribulations to become Saint Kings. For a time, above the city, thunderclouds gathered, various Visions appeared one after another, and several experts with special physiques unleashed their secret techniques.

The Innate Dao Embryo, Tian Youqing, formed a certain seal with her jade-like hands, then brought them together and parted them again, revealing a crystalline White Lotus. Inside the lotus, Great Dao patterns and endless laws were contained, even freezing the Heavenly Tribulation for a moment.

Finally, she tossed the lotus in her palm into the Heavenly Tribulation, smashing it open. Countless Seas of Lightning turned into raindrops falling, blasting a massive hole in the Sea of Lightning, causing the entire tribulation to pause.

The starry sky trembled, the void shattered, and countless stars turned to dust.

On the other side, the Overlord Emperor, clad in black robes with a stern face and thick black hair flying wildly, his burly frame giving him an overwhelming sense of pressure, shouldered the boundless Lightning Tribulation with an utterly composed expression.

The Saint King Tribulation, to him, was just that—hardly any difficulty at all.

Though it was a bit stronger than ordinary Heavenly Tribulation, it wasn't much stronger.

As for Xu Changqing and the Woman in White, their tribulations were far more terrifying.

The dreadful Lightning Tribulation blazed with incomparable intensity; a single bolt split the starry sky, evaporated countless Star Seas, and dimmed entire star regions.

Chaos Qi wrapped around the descending thunder, blasting Xu Changqing's entire body apart in an instant, sending flesh and blood flying.

The Chaos Divine Thunder descended, making the starry sky tremble. Fortunately, it was far from the Human Race's Fiftieth Pass, and aside from Mu Miaomiao's Master, no one else detected it.

The Chaos Divine Thunder left Xu Changqing in a wretched state, but it wasn't over—various tribulations rained down rapidly.

Cyan thunder descended with a terrifying aura, including tribulations of the Laws of Five Elements, and even rules and order transformed into blades and swords.

This tribulation was unique; there were no Humanoid Lightnings, only various rare and dreadful divine thunders.

The Woman in White's side was different. She activated the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, absorbing the tribulation. Though she was also injured, she managed to maintain her condition.

A few hours later, Tian Youqing and the others finished their tribulations, and the two Saint Spirit Great Sages began to make their move.

In the starry sky, a Great Sage battle erupted directly. Three Great Sages fought two Saint Spirit Great Sages, but unfortunately, the Guide Envoys were at a disadvantage from the start.

A day later, Xu Changqing and the Woman in White successfully crossed their tribulations, both becoming Saint King powerhouses, and upon breakthrough, they were already at Saint King Third Heaven.

After crossing the tribulation, Xu Changqing planned to leave. He wanted to go to the Emperor's Path of the Holy Spirits and kill until they trembled with fear.

The Human Ancient Path could be visited anytime, but leaving a grudge unavenged for even a day made him uncomfortable all over.

In his mind, he had the coordinates and route given by the Guide Envoy—entering the Emperor's Path of the Holy Spirits through the Golden Seven Cities.

Duan De had no idea where he had run off to. No one saw his figure; it was as if he vanished in an instant, the person gone without a trace.

Suddenly, Mu Miaomiao's Master noticed a change where Xu Changqing was. Not only him, but also the Woman in White—a change occurred there as well.

A wizened old man, smiling amiably, blocked Xu Changqing and said kindly, "This young friend, would you like to be a guest at my clan?"

Xu Changqing said nothing, merely standing silently in the starry sky, adjusting his condition.

Having just broken through, his body was covered in countless wounds, yet his aura was immensely powerful, his blood vitality vast as an ocean. Moreover, upon breakthrough, he was already at Saint King Third Heaven.

The Supreme Heartless Body activated, spreading a mysterious profound meaning. In Xu Changqing's eyes, several special runes appeared, runes like the origin of the Great Dao, or like the origin of living beings.

He looked at the old man ahead and saw greed and killing intent overflowing from the old man's Crown of the Head.

The visitor meant ill.

On the Human Emperor's Path, not everyone was as good as those few Guide Envoys from before.

The Woman in White on the other side was not so fortunate. The Vague Figures said nothing; after blocking her, they directly Immobilized her.

"You're unlucky, running into me, and into her. If you had kept a low profile, perhaps I wouldn't have made a move against you."

"Unfortunately, you're too dazzling, making even my heart tremble. So, you cannot be spared."

On the Emperor's Path, there might be many powerhouses with a pure heart for competition, wanting to defeat all enemies by their own strength.

Unfortunately, the clans behind them would not allow any accidents. Those too strong were unacceptable; without certainty, once they lost, they were finished.

ps: My back and neck ache—I have a stiff neck. It's miserable.

I get tired after coding for a little while. I'm done for.