The Spirit Emperor smiled.
Her laughter was no longer bleak or bitter. Instead, it was carefree and relieved—utterly mad!
"I owe you?"
The Spirit Emperor laughed until tears filled her eyes. Her face turned icy as she glared at the Heavenly Emperor, who had gone pale with fear. Her voice was cold and accusatory.
"For these thirty thousand years, whatever you asked me to do, I did with all my strength!
"Thirty thousand years have passed. I've repaid what I owed you. I owe you nothing now!"
"But you..." The Spirit Emperor let out a bitter, shrill laugh. "You killed my father, slaughtered my people, and forced me into the bloody struggle for the Great Dao!"
"You didn't need to do that. So why did you slaughter my people?"
"This is what you owe me!"
"You can repay me with your life!"
Tears fell from the corners of the Spirit Emperor's eyes.
Thirty thousand years of endurance, thirty thousand years of pretense, thirty thousand years of love... She had served the Heavenly Emperor like a dog for thirty thousand years, all so she could kill him!
The Heavenly Emperor's expression changed completely!
He panicked and hurriedly said,
"Ling, listen to me..."
Boom!
Caught off guard, the Heavenly Emperor's mouth was blown apart!
"Heavenly Emperor, save your lies for hell." The God Emperor cut him off coldly.
"Ling, would you be willing to resolve the Origin calamity?"
The Human Emperor stepped forward and looked straight at the Spirit Emperor, his voice grave. "We'll join forces to kill the Heavenly Emperor. He'll be dead for sure!"
By now, the Heavenly Emperor had lost the support of the Immortal Source and the Origin Source. He should have lost the Seed's life passage, too.
Even if the Heavenly Emperor still had a life passage to the Seed, they could ask the Yang God to help restrain it.
After all, the Heavenly Emperor had already transcended. The Seed would never allow such an invincible powerhouse to live without restraint or oversight!
"Exactly, exactly,"
the Western Emperor chimed in. "If we're going to kill the Heavenly Emperor, shouldn't we first take out whatever the Sky Screen rewarded him with?"
The Southern Emperor and Beast Emperor also stood beside the Human Emperor.
"Ling, you can't be so selfish..."
Rumble!
"Get lost!"
The Eastern Emperor flew into a rage and shattered the bodies of the Southern Emperor and the others with one punch. Heaven and earth trembled!
"Huang, you have no right to tell Ling what to do. She owes you nothing, and she owes the Three Realms even less!"
The Eastern Emperor's face was cold.
The God Emperor said icily, "This is no place for you to linger!"
"Go back and guard your Origin Sources."
As he spoke, several blades crashed down on the places guarded by the Southern Emperor and the others.
Rifts tore through the void, and the Origin Sources shook!
The backlash left the Southern Emperor and the others covered in blood, with blood spilling from their mouths!
"Why are you all still blabbering? You're annoying!"
The Earth Emperor withdrew his longsword and barked.
"Hong, you!"
The Southern Emperor's eyes glowed red as he glared at the Earth Emperor and the others, consumed by hatred.
He scoffed, deeply resentful!
You act so noble. You've all transcended, while we're still trapped in the Origin Sources!
The Western Emperor was deeply frustrated. They'd started fighting before he'd even said much.
A weak emperor had no authority!
"Ling, you can't kill me!"
The Heavenly Emperor roared. "I'm the master of the Immortal Source and the Origin Source. If I die, both will inevitably be thrown into turmoil!"
"Then you'll be the ones responsible for destroying the Three Realms!"
The Heaven Fighting Emperor spoke indifferently:
"Heavenly Emperor, even now you're still struggling and spewing lies!"
"Whatever happens, you're dying today!"
The Spirit Emperor had laid a trap for the Heavenly Emperor for thirty thousand years, and they had held a grudge against him for just as long.
Today, even without the Sky Screen's extra reward for the Spirit Emperor, they would still surround and kill the Heavenly Emperor!
If combining three paths proved impossible, then they would forcefully combine four!
The Spirit Emperor calmly turned her gaze back to the Heavenly Emperor and smiled. "Master, I'm afraid you'd be too lonely if you lived forever.
"So go ahead and die."
The Heavenly Emperor was terrified and completely lost his composure!
He didn't attack the Spirit Emperor. Instead, he turned and ripped open the void, trying to flee the Three Realms!
But at that very moment, the Three Realms suddenly began to tremble!
The Immortal Source shook as well!
An arrow's shadow pierced heaven and earth, tearing through the void and piercing the Nine Heavens in an instant!
The entire Three Realms dimmed.
Buzz!
The void trembled, and blood rained down in torrents!
"Heavenly Emperor!"
The God Emperor and the others were horrified!
The arrow had pierced the Heavenly Emperor's body!
With a thunderous boom, the Heavenly Emperor exploded. Half his body was sliced away by the void!
Half of the Heavenly Emperor lay prostrate on the ground, his aura barely lingering!
"Who was it? Who could it be?!"
The Human Emperor, Western Emperor, and Southern Emperor were horrified.
The Heavenly Emperor had been shot dead with a single arrow!
Such terrifying power... Who could it possibly be?
"That's Zhan's aura!"
The God Emperor's expression changed drastically. He sensed a faint trace of Zhan's aura lingering on the Heavenly Emperor!
How was that possible?!
Zhan had clearly perished completely. He had filled the sea and suppressed the source—there was no way he could return!
"Zhan?!"
The Eastern Emperor's expression shifted as well.
The Earth Emperor's eyes flickered. He had sensed it too, and looked astonished. But... how was that possible?
The Spirit Emperor paid no attention to where the arrow had come from. She smiled brightly at the Heavenly Emperor, then gripped the Jade Sword in her delicate hand and drove it viciously into his skull!
With a crack!
His skull shattered and vanished into dust!
The Heavenly Emperor had fallen!
Blood rain swept across the Three Realms.
In an instant, even the Forbidden Sea was dyed red.
The Spirit Emperor wept silently, smiling through her tears.
She made no further choice. Her figure flashed, and she vanished from atop the Immortal Source!
"Ling, you..."
The Eastern Emperor's expression was complicated. He sighed softly.
"Qiong, Dou, Hong, let's go too."
The God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Earth Emperor nodded and left the Immortal Source as well.
They had more important matters now.
Was that arrow really shot by Zhan?
If it was, then Zhan was terrifyingly powerful!
But if it really had been him, why wasn't he on the Sneaky Ranking?
The Heavenly Emperor was dead, but the Immortal Source remained, and so did the Origin Sources!
Even if they resolved the problem with the Origin Sources, as long as they failed to deal with the Seed, new problems would arise even if the Origin itself was no longer a problem.
Without the Heavenly Emperor, there would be another one!
The Western Emperor returned to the place he guarded and carefully examined it.
Could he finally break free, at least temporarily?
With the Heavenly Emperor dead, his power seemed to have returned to the Origin Source, making it more stable.
But... the Western Emperor was torn.
It seemed there were beings in the Three Realms even stronger than the Heavenly Emperor, lying in wait. Would he die even faster if he went down there?
That arrow that had killed the Heavenly Emperor... Could it have been the War Heavenly Emperor?
The Western Emperor furrowed his brow, his expression shifting between light and dark.
Besides, the Beast Emperor and Northern Emperor had acted so quickly earlier that they'd overlooked one thing.
Their combat strength was far below the Heavenly Emperor's. They simply weren't powerful enough to suppress the Immortal Source and the Origin Sources!
The Human Emperor searched the Immortal Source for a long time before finally leaving with a grim expression. He didn't dare refine the Immortal Source and the Origin Sources recklessly.
Unlike the Heavenly Emperor, he had no help from the Seed.
He couldn't suppress the cracks in the Immortal Source by himself, nor could he quell the unrest in the Origin Sources.
The God Emperor and the others wouldn't let him refine the Origin Sources and Immortal Source so easily, either.
Fortunately, with the Heavenly Emperor dead, his power had returned, making the Origin Sources and Immortal Source more stable.
The Southern Emperor's gaze was dark. Covered in blood, he stared fixedly at the Immortal Source.
Blood poured over the Three Realms, but no one knew whether the Heavenly Emperor had truly fallen, or which option the Spirit Emperor had chosen.
"The blood rain won't stop... Did the Spirit Emperor ultimately choose to kill the Heavenly Emperor?"
King Gen, King Xun, King Gan, and the others speculated.
In the Earth Cave,
King Ming was deep in thought as well.
"Is the Heavenly Emperor dead?"
In the Human Realm,
the Heaven Suppressing King, God Forger, and Zhang Tao exchanged glances.
"The Heavenly Emperor may already be dead."
Zhang Tao spoke softly.
Hadn't the Spirit Emperor endured for thirty thousand years precisely to kill the Heavenly Emperor?
Now that the Sky Screen had given her the chance, how could she not take it?
The Heaven Suppressing King and God Forger said nothing.
They still felt that something wasn't right.
In Yang City,
the Yang God looked doubtful. "Did Zhan make a move?"
Had Zhan really kept something in reserve?
That couldn't be right.
If Zhan really had a backup plan powerful enough to kill the Heavenly Emperor, who had two hundred million combat strength, why hadn't he simply launched the attack back then?
And if it really was Zhan, why wasn't he on the Sneaky Ranking?
But when had another unfamiliar powerhouse appeared in the Three Realms?
The Yang God could tell that someone had shot the Heavenly Emperor dead!
But he couldn't tell where the arrow had come from.
Meanwhile,
in Southern Martial University,
Zhang Xuan gripped the bow and arrow in his hand and nodded with satisfaction.
"Now that's more like it. Everyone's on edge!"
Without a sense of crisis, the God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Earth Emperor might decide the Heavenly Emperor was dead and that they were invincible, then start wreaking havoc in the Human Realm. What would happen then?
So he'd put a little pressure on them!
"Spirit Emperor."
Zhang Xuan gave a slight wave, and the bow and arrow vanished in an instant.
He figured that without his interference, the Spirit Emperor would probably have chosen to kill the Heavenly Emperor.
But now, he wasn't so sure.
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