Chapter 373
The Demon Emperor was engulfed by starlight and pierced by sword light. Covered in blood, he smashed countless asteroids before finally crashing onto a desolate star, creating a giant crater.
"Cough cough cough!"
The intense pain caused the Demon Emperor to groan as his bones shattered.
But he gritted his teeth and endured it, then looked up.
The silver-white sword slowly disappeared, and Xiao Minghuang's figure appeared. She stood on starlight, her expression cold as ice.
"Xiao Minghuang..."
The Demon Emperor stared at Xiao Minghuang, his eyes filled with resentment.
He never imagined that he, a dignified immortal, would be defeated by a mere young girl!
What a disgrace!
He roared inwardly.
His heart was filled with intense resentment.
He killed his wife and daughter, and finally became a celestial being. He could have entered the heavenly realm and lived a carefree and immortal life, but he never expected to encounter a freak like Princess Xiao!
Knowing he was no match, the Demon Emperor took a deep breath and said, "Princess, please hear me out!"
"Demon Emperor, you could have left, but your greed and arrogance led you to return, which is why you have fallen to this state."
Xiao Minghuang's calm voice came. "You don't need to say anything more. I gave you a chance, but you didn't cherish it."
Upon hearing this, the Demon Emperor's pupils constricted sharply.
Rumble!
As Xiao Minghuang took a step forward, the starlight in the sky followed her, each ray containing extremely powerful energy.
"You..." The Demon Emperor's expression changed drastically.
He never expected Xiao Minghuang to be so ruthless, daring to kill a Celestial Immortal!
"Princess Xiao! Are you truly determined to show no mercy?! I am a celestial being, do you really dare to Slay Immortal?!"
The Demon Emperor roared.
But his answer was still the boundless tide of starlight and swords!
Xiao Minghuang remained calm, seemingly unmoved.
Whew~
A curtain of starlight descended, enveloping her and blocking all view, preventing the Demon Emperor from seeing Xiao Minghuang's figure or sensing her attack.
Swish swish!!!
Beams of starlight sword light shot in from all directions, completely surrounding him. Each sword light contained astonishing power, and each beam of starlight possessed the power to pierce through the stars.
The Demon Emperor fought back with all his might, his body radiating intense golden light. The Immortal Dao Law merged with the Immortal Embryo Minor World to resist the sword lights.
But none of this worked.
Pfft!
Blood splattered everywhere. The Demon Emperor's chest was cleaved open with hundreds of wounds, revealing his chilling white bones—a horrifying sight!
He lay sprawled on the ground, blood trickling from his mouth, clearly severely injured.
He struggled to his feet, his eyes bloodshot, and roared:
"Princess Xiao!! Do you really intend to exterminate them all?!"
"Demon Emperor, our feud is an irreconcilable one, destined to end in death. Today, I will send you on your way!"
Xiao Minghuang gave him a cold glance.
Zheng--
Before she finished speaking, starlight shone brightly, and she wielded the Star River Sword, which transformed into countless starlight rays, hurtling towards the Demon Emperor.
The Demon Emperor was filled with extreme resentment, but there was nothing he could do. If he were still at the Earth Immortal level, he would have already burned the Earth Immortal Method to fight to the death. However, after becoming a Celestial Immortal, the Immortal Dao Law were as solid as a rock, and he could not use secret techniques such as self-ignition or self-destruction at all.
Boom!
The sea of stars boiled, and starlight burst forth.
Xiao Minghuang's expression was extremely cold. She wielded the Star River Sword, slashing down relentlessly, each move ruthless, completely with the attitude of wanting to kill everyone.
On the other hand, the Demon Emperor was forced to defend himself by the sword light.
A quarter of an hour... an hour...
One day, two days, three days...
After twelve days, the Demon Emperor was exhausted and could no longer hold on. His body was torn apart by starlight.
"No..."
Before his death, the Demon Emperor let out a miserable scream, filled with resentment and regret.
He never imagined that he would be defeated by a mere mortal.
"I refuse to accept this!! I refuse to accept this!!!"
But even though he was unwilling, even though he was resentful, he eventually turned into a flame and was completely annihilated in the tide of starlight swords.
A celestial being, a ruthless hero, a demon emperor—their story has come to an end!
490. The Immortal Dao Origin
In the pitch-black, dark cosmic sky.
A figure sat cross-legged on a shattered asteroid, enveloped in thick starlight, looking exceptionally strange.
It was Xiao Minghuang from just now.
"Call..."
After a long while, Xiao Minghuang withdrew the starlight around her, sighed softly, and shook her head, muttering to herself:
"This victory was somewhat fortunate..."
In this battle, if she hadn't coincidentally revived the lost Star Dao, her ultimate fate would likely have been to sever her own world origin and flee to another place.
Although that would save her life, the backlash from self-severance would inevitably cause her to fall from the Earth Immortal realm, with unimaginable consequences. Without recuperation for thousands or tens of thousands of years, she probably wouldn't recover at all.
"My strength has progressed too quickly, and the enemies I've encountered have changed too rapidly, leaving me unprepared..."
Xiao Minghuang murmured softly.
When she first arrived in the Southern Wilderness, her only enemy was the Demon Lord of the Six Paths of Demonic Ways. Later, a patriarch of the Earth Immortal suddenly appeared, and in the end, she directly confronted the Demon Emperor!
Moreover, this is a Demon Emperor who has already become an immortal!
Although she also merged with the Southern Wilderness Origin and officially became the Lord of the Southern Wilderness, it was indeed too hasty.
Initially, her target was only the five ancient immortals hidden in the Southern Wilderness, but she did not expect that they had somehow made contact with the Demon Emperor.
This puzzled her greatly.
Judging from the Demon Emperor's actions, he must have learned about the effects of the World Origin through some channel, and this channel must be a powerful immortal being or above in the Immortal Dao Domain.
Therefore, after leaving, the Demon Emperor did not immediately go to the Heavenly Realm, but instead contacted the Five Ancient Immortals and returned to the Southern Wilderness, intending to seize it.
"However, if the person behind the Demon Emperor truly has ulterior motives, why hasn't he shown himself yet now that the Demon Emperor is dead?"
She pondered it over and over, but couldn't find a solution.
"Never mind those for now."
Xiao Minghuang shook his head, then flipped his hand, and a blazing golden ball of light appeared in his palm, within which one could vaguely sense an infinitely terrifying power fluctuation.
She narrowed her beautiful eyes, carefully examining the object in her palm.
This golden light is the very essence of the Immortal Dao Law he left behind after slaying the Demon Emperor!
Although Xiao Minghuang has not yet entered the Immortal Dao Domain, she is no longer an ignorant novice in cultivation. She even knows quite a bit of extremely secret and forbidden knowledge.
The so-called Immortal Dao Origin are formed from the Immortal Dao Origin after the fall of an immortal.
Xiao Minghuang knew that the most fundamental characteristics of an immortal were an immortal embryo and a small world, neither of which could be lacking.
The former is the root of the immortal Immortal Dao Law and also possesses the function of the Primordial Spirit and true spirit of mortal cultivators; the latter constitutes the entirety of the path followed by immortals and is also the existence of immortals themselves.
Once the immortal embryo is destroyed and the small world is annihilated, the immortal dies.
Just now, she killed the Demon Emperor by using the Star Dao and the Heavenly Dao of the Southern Wilderness to annihilate his immortal embryo and small world. Otherwise, even if she destroyed the Demon Emperor's physical body countless times, she would not have been able to kill him.
The golden light in her hand was formed from a portion of the Demon Emperor's small world.
The sheer magnitude of this power is beyond imagination. Even if only one percent remains, it far surpasses that of an Earth Immortal. It is an incomparably pure and the most primordial energy in the universe.
If you were to devour it, it would be equivalent to devouring one percent of an immortal's Immortal Dao Origin!
"The Immortal Dao Origin..."
Xiao Minghuang murmured softly, her eyes burning with intensity.
However, she could also sense that within this Immortal Dao Origin, a portion of the Demon Emperor's mark remained, resisting any external forces and preventing her own Dao from merging with it.
She had a premonition that if she forcibly devoured it, it would likely only result in mutual destruction!
"Never mind."
After a moment, Xiao Minghuang dismissed the idea and slowly stood up:
"We'll make a decision about this Immortal Dao Origin after we return to the Eastern Pole."
With a thought, she stored the Immortal Dao Origin into her Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.
Looking at the Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, which had undergone earth-shattering changes, she couldn't help but sigh slightly.
Before leaving the Eastern Pole, she was only at the Longevity Realm Eighth Heaven, and had not even stepped into the Supreme Realm. In a short period of time, she had already become a powerful Earth Immortal!
Moreover, through a series of unexpected events, she revived the Supreme Great Dao of the universe and the Star Dao, making her strength surpass that of the Demon Emperor who had just transformed from mortal to immortal!
Now, the boundaries of her Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven have expanded many times over, covering an area of more than ten thousand miles. On the surface, it looks almost no different from a small world.
Even the Celestial Demon Emperor, whom she had just killed, did not have a small world as vast as hers.
"As expected of the Supreme Great Dao of the universe, it actually contains such a vast Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven..."
Xiao Minghuang's eyes shone with divine light, and she was slightly delighted. As she revived the Star Dao, the power of this Supreme Great Dao was fully displayed, causing her Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven to rise and expand rapidly.
The size of a cultivator's Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven is generally determined by a combination of factors such as cultivation level and the laws of the Great Dao. She has only just entered the Earth Immortal realm and has only a wisp of Immortal Qi in her body. She can only be considered to have passed the threshold of Earth Immortal. However, the size of her Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven has already surpassed that of a Celestial Immortal. According to common sense, this is simply impossible!
However.
That's exactly what happened.
This is the power of the Supreme Great Dao of the universe!
"However, condensing a celestial embryo and evolving a small world still requires a long period of accumulation..."
Xiao Minghuang lowered her gaze slightly, lost in thought.
Although she was revered as being below the Celestial Immortals, and could kill a Celestial Immortal like the Demon Emperor with her full power, that was all.
Until one steps into the realm of celestial beings, one remains merely a mortal.
To condense a celestial embryo and evolve a small world, one must infuse their entire body with Immortal Qi, eliminating all impurities and undergoing a complete transformation before they can touch the Immortal Dao Domain and give birth to a true celestial embryo!
Otherwise, even over hundreds of thousands of years, it would be difficult to complete the transformation.
At this moment, she had actually walked almost all the paths that her predecessors had walked within the Five Directions One Realm. Only the last step remained, but it was also the longest and most difficult step!
"Forget it, let's not think about it for now and let time decide!"
The image of those graceful figures flashed through her mind, causing Xiao Minghuang's lips to curl into a slight smile.
Immediately, she lightly touched the ground with her toes, and the asteroid beneath her hummed and began to move rapidly, streaking through the void like a comet striking the moon, hurtling towards the direction of the Five Directions One Realm.
Five Directions One Realm.
East of the easternmost point lies the endless sea.
In the depths of the vast ocean, an island stands serenely. At its summit, pavilions, towers, palaces, and palaces are shrouded in ethereal mist, resembling a celestial paradise.