Battle of the Dou Dis

Zhu Kun, who had been trapped by Tou She Ancient God for many years, attacked Hun Tiandi as soon as he appeared, because Xiao Yan had met him beforehand.

The Hun Tiandi never dreamed that the first thing he would do upon opening the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion was to release a powerful figure of equal strength.

Moreover, this powerful figure is his enemy.

"Snort!"

Seeing the situation suddenly reverse, the Hun Tiandi's face turned ashen, and the Ancient Jade in his hand suddenly burst forth with dazzling rainbow light.

The beam of light descended from the heavens, piercing the mottled stone gate like a spear of divine punishment.

With his full power, the Ancient Jade jade's flowing patterns transformed into crimson flames, illuminating the entire sky.

"Click--"

The massive bronze gate, sealed for millennia, emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound, its surface cracked like a spiderweb.

As debris fell in a flurry, the two heavy doors finally swung open slowly to the sides with a roar, revealing a deep, dark passageway behind them.

"Boom!"

The moment the door opened, an ancient, primordial pressure swept out like a tsunami.

Suddenly, the wails of countless souls echoed throughout the heavens and earth, and the battle formations of both sides crumbled instantly.

Those with weaker cultivation levels were sent flying thousands of feet backward like kites with broken strings. Even Dou Sheng Expert were thrown off balance by the shockwave, and only a handful were able to stand in the air.

"Hold on!" Xiao Yan's body surged with Heavenly Flames, and the Green Lotus Core Flame transformed into Fire Lotus to protect the Flame Alliance members. His booming command pierced through the turbulent energy flow.

"The cave... is really about to open..." Gu Yuan's pupils shrank suddenly, and the veins on his hands under his sleeves bulged from being clenched too tightly.

He stared intently at the widening crack in the door, as if he could see some slumbering horror through the darkness.

A complex look flashed in Zhu Kun's eyes, and his rough dragon claws unconsciously stroked his chest.

"Gu Yuan, do you know what's hidden in the cave?" Zhu Kun suddenly spoke, his voice carrying the aftershocks of energy that echoed across the battlefield.

"Rumor has it... there's an opportunity to break through to the Dou Di." Gu Yuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and glanced at the Hun Tiandi, who was also suspended in mid-air in the distance.

"Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill." Zhu Kun's dragon whiskers fluttered even without wind. "Before the ancient Tou She Ancient God ascended to heaven, he condensed his life's Dou Qi into this pill. If it were to fall into the hands of the Hun Tiandi..." His unfinished words turned into a cold snort, causing the clouds to churn.

"We absolutely cannot let him succeed." Bone Spirit Cold Flame ignited at Gu Yuan's fingertips, distorting the surrounding space with its surging energy. "Once the cave is fully open, we'll storm in immediately. If we can seize the Emperor Pill first, our combined strength..."

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Zhu Kun suddenly roared to the sky, his dragon's cry carrying a thousand years of pent-up resentment. Brilliant dragon scale phantoms appeared on his back, clearly indicating that he had pushed the secret techniques of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan to their limit.

The Hun Tiandi, who was some distance away, overheard their conversation. Instead, a sinister smile crept onto his lips, "A thousand-year plan, now begins."

The roar from the Ancient Emperor's Cave grew increasingly deafening, and the two massive bronze doors finally opened completely!

"Walk!"

Xiao Yan's pupils shrank to needle size, and the Emperor Flame ignited golden flames in the depths of his eyes.

His battle Dou Qi exploded, tearing cracks in the surging chaotic mist around him. His figure transformed into a crimson-gold meteor, carrying the scorching heat of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, forcefully smashing through the primordial pressure that suppressed heaven and earth.

Behind them, the powerful members of the Flame Alliance and the Ancient Clan swarmed like locusts, their streaks of rainbow light disappearing into the distorted spatial passage, tearing the sky above this Magma Sea to shreds.

As soon as the last figure disappeared, the space behind the bronze gate suddenly collapsed into a pitch-black vortex.

Amidst the roaring churning of lava, only the colossal gate, cracked with the marks of time, remained silently suspended above the boiling sea of fire, the nine-colored rays of light flowing within seemingly unchanged since time immemorial.

"Buzz--"

The void trembled as if a string had snapped, and a misty fog gathered wildly from all directions.

This space, which had been isolated from the world since the ascension of Tou She Ancient God, finally welcomed its first visitors.

"Emperor-Realm Soul are suppressed to such an extent..." Xiao Yan's foot shattered the ripples in the void, his expression slightly grim.

He clearly sensed that within the spatial folds within a radius of a thousand feet, there were seventy-two naturally formed soul restrictions, which could trigger Soul Storm powerful enough to severely injure Dou Sheng if one was not careful.

"Heh heh, Gu Yuan, do you dare to follow?"

Nihility Devouring Flame laugh erupted from the mist, and as the black flames surged, they tore open a vacuum passage several feet wide in front of everyone.

The Hun Tiandi stood with his hands behind his back beside him, a fragment of Ancient Jade in his hand resonating mysteriously with the space around him. Wherever he passed, the spatial turbulence that was enough to crush Dou Sheng was automatically diverted.

How could they know the route?

Zhu Kun's dragon claw suddenly pierced the void, sending sparks flying. "When I was trapped in the Void Space, I saw the spatial imprint left by the Tou She Ancient God." He looked at the faintly visible crimson pillars of light ahead, a hint of apprehension flashing in his dragon eyes, "Those pillars of light... are the energy leaking from Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill!"

Before the words were even finished, the powerful figures from both races had already transformed into streaks of light and shot out.

As Xiao Yan gazed at the strange, unpredictable movement of the Hun Clan members ahead, his pupils suddenly contracted—those seemingly random turns actually corresponded to some mysterious trajectory of heaven and earth.

Xiao Yan's lips curled slightly, and his Emperor-Realm Soul instantly unfolded a star map deduction. He formed profound hand seals, Heavenly Flames behind him suddenly split into twenty-eight fire lines, piercing into the thick fog like shooting stars. In an instant, the fog in front of him receded like a tide, revealing a sky-reaching road paved with starlight fragments.

"Good lad!" Upon seeing this Zhu Kun roared to the heavens, and with the full activation of the spatial talent of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, he actually took half a step ahead and stepped into the Great Dao.

After passing through the Heavenly Flame Plaza, the group finally saw the enormous stone statue of Tou She Ancient God and the Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill.

Everyone desperately wanted it, but the terrifying power of the Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill surpassed that of Hun Tiandi and others.

With the help of the Tou She Ancient God Jade, the Nihility Devouring Flame used the Pill Transformation Divine Art to subdue the Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill, thus giving the Hun Tiandi the opportunity to become an Emperor.

Watching the Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame leave, Xiao Yan silently moved the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue Tuoshe, arrived at the Sky Tomb, and activated the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Legacy.

This greatly surprised Zhu Kun, who was preparing to keep the secret of the stone statue to himself; he hadn't expected that someone else also knew about it.

Because Xiao Yan directly entered the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Legacy, he became the newest Dou Di on the Dou Qi Continent!

However, Xiao Yan did not immediately emerge from seclusion. Instead, he activated his Origin Qi and began to unleash the Heavenly Flames within his body, enabling them to achieve a further breakthrough.

Just then, Hun Tiandi, who sensed the appearance of Origin Qi due to the failure of the Spirit-Devouring Life-Severing Formation, began to stir within his body and also began to advance to the Dou Di level.

As time passed, the "Hun Tiandi" successfully broke through and immediately emerged from seclusion.

However, with the help of Origin Qi, he became Dou Di, but he was no longer the original Hun Tiandi. Instead, he became a low-level Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill.

With the help of the Origin Qi, the Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill advanced to become a true Emperor Pill.

Not long after the appearance of the Emperor Pill, crimson-gold fire clouds surged out from the cracks in the void, like magma pouring from a furnace of heaven and earth, causing the space to ripple with a glass-like distortion wherever it passed.

The sea of blood on the ground boiled and steamed in the 3,000-degree heat, and the blood mist rose into a strange red cloud, but was burned into nothingness the moment it touched the curtain of fire.

Exclamations erupted from the fleeing crowd, and countless gazes pierced through the dust and smoke.

Amidst the raging flames, a black robe fluttered in the wind, and the Emperor Flame condensed into two suns deep within his pupils. Wherever his gaze swept, the Hun Clan's protective Dou Qi melted away like spring snow.

"Retreat!"

Suddenly, cries of alarm rose and fell from the Hun Clan's ranks. From within the crimson-gold fire cloud, a gigantic flaming hand crashed down, shattering the space in its path into chaos.

The Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs Formation, jointly set up by several Hun Clan Dou Sheng Saints, turned into green smoke the moment it touched the flames, vanishing without a trace before they could even scream.

"The Dou Emperor Domain... This kid has actually reached that level!" Hun Miesheng looked at the disintegrating Soul Imprint in his palm, his voice filled with panic for the first time. The young man who was forced to burn his own body by them back then can now rewrite the laws of heaven and earth with a single thought. This earth-shattering change made the Soul Hall Master feel a chill run down his spine.

Xiao Yan walked on fire, each step leaving a crimson-gold footprint in the void. He looked down at the remaining allied forces, then suddenly raised his hand and clenched it, instantly condensing the fire elements of the entire world into billions of green lotuses.

These fiery lotuses gently landed inside the wounded soldiers' bodies, and their severed limbs regenerated, their wounds healed, and even their Dou Qi qi, which had been eroded by the soul poison, regained its brilliance.

"Flame Emperor, have mercy!"

It's unclear who was the first to kowtow, but in an instant, the world was filled with a dense, dark mass of kneeling people. Even the rogue cultivators from non-alliance forces were moved to tears. They had seen too many powerful figures at their peak disregard for ants, but they had never seen a Dou Di powerhouse willing to sacrifice their life essence for an ant.

"Xiao Yan! You think becoming Dou Di will turn the tide of the battle?" Emperor Pill suddenly sneered, the Ancient Jade fragment in his hand emitting an eerie, blood-red light. "This world will ultimately..."

The crimson fiery clouds suddenly split open, and the black-robed youth stepped out from the void.

His eyes shimmered with the magnificent brilliance of twenty-three Heavenly Flames merging together, and the flame totem on his forehead seemed to be alive, breathing in and out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The lava pools within a thousand miles responded to the flickering of the totem, boiling into a crimson fire dragon that soared straight into the sky.

"Hun Tiandi, this world cannot tolerate you alone claiming the title of Emperor." Xiao Yan stood with his hands behind his back, his Dou Qi as solid as an abyss.

Within his seemingly ordinary figure, a chaotic aura flickered, and even the void itself cracked with spiderweb-like fissures as his robes fluttered.

The pupils of those old monsters lurking in the shadows shrank sharply—this state of returning to simplicity was clearly a sign that their Dou Qi had been compressed to its original level.

"The legacy of the Tou She Ancient God?" A sinister glint flashed in the blood-red eyes of the Dan Emperor, and as his robes billowed, blood mist condensed into the phantom of a nine-headed demonic serpent.

Xiao Yan's voice resonated with the heavens and earth. Although he did not deliberately release his pressure, the power of law flowing in his every move made the knees of the allied forces below go weak.

Only Xun'er and Cai Lin stood tall, clearly sensing that the young man who had fought alongside them was now as old as heaven and earth.

Suddenly, the Pill Emperor erupted, his blood-red Dou Qi condensing into a sky-covering blood-red handprint.

The surrounding area was instantly dyed crimson. The surviving Allied soldiers screamed and rolled in the blood mist, their skin cracking into a bloody fog.

Xiao Yan frowned slightly. His Emperor Flame transformed into twenty-three interlocking fire rings, shredding the blood handprint into a rain of blood.

"What a glorious victory or defeat." Xiao Yan stepped forward through the flames, each step leaving a green lotus mark in the void.

"Arrogant!" Blood mist condensed around the Pill Emperor, forming a phantom of an imperial crown. The Ancient Jade piece in his hand suddenly emitted a dazzling light, echoing the blood moon in the sky.

The entire Central Plains began to tremble, and ninety-nine crimson pillars of light shot into the sky from the ground, intertwining to form a crimson array in the heavens.

The allied soldiers, their eyes now bloodshot, stood up and mechanically lunged at Xiao Yan.

"Blood Sacrifice Ten Thousand Souls Formation?" A cold glint flashed in Xiao Yan's pupils, and his Emperor Flame suddenly surged into a sky-covering curtain of fire.

He formed profound hand seals, and the phantom of the Tou She Ancient God appeared behind him. Twenty-three different kinds of Heavenly Flames transformed into fire dragons and rushed into the blood array.

The crimson pillars of light crumbled one after another under the Heavenly Flames, and the blood mist on the bodies of the controlled allied soldiers, as if they had encountered boiling oil, let out a shrill scream before regaining their clarity.

"This is impossible!" Blood trickled from the corner of Dan Di's mouth.

Xiao Yan stood in mid-air, his Emperor Flame condensing into a crimson-gold Fire Lotus in his palm. Looking down at the ravaged land below, he suddenly pointed his fingers together as a sword and slashed towards the sky.

A sword aura carrying chaotic energy pierced through the air, dispersing the blood mist wherever it passed, and even the spatial rifts were melted back together by the Heavenly Flames.

The illusory image of the Emperor's crown crumbled inch by inch under the sword energy. He was horrified to discover that his connection with the fragment of the Ancient Jade had been severed.

"It's time to end this." Xiao Yan's voice resonated with the laws of heaven and earth. His Emperor Flame transformed into twenty-three chains that pierced through the void, firmly imprisoning the Pill Emperor in the center of the blood-red array.

Those struggling Hun Clan powerhouses turned into wisps of smoke the moment the chains of Heavenly Flames touched them, vanishing without even a chance to scream.

Blood clouds pressed down on the city. The Pill Emperor lightly touched the sea of blood with his toes, his scarlet robe fluttering in the wind. With a wave of his hand, the entire Central Plains was engulfed in blood mist. The Soul Clan Army swept away like the receding tide for thousands of miles. Even the Supreme Elder of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan fled in panic, tearing through space. The aftershocks of the battle between the two Dou Di were enough to turn the surrounding area into chaos.

"Xiao Yan, watch as I, the Emperor, prove my Dao with the blood of ten thousand spirits!" The Pill Emperor stood on the waves, ninety-nine blood-red Emperor Runes appearing deep in his blood-red eyes. Each breath he exhaled caused the void to shatter, and the sea of blood behind him condensed into a phantom of a demon god that blotted out the sky. The blood-red imperial crown, formed from the resentment of billions of living beings, was dripping with viscous blood beads.

Xiao Yan's black robes fluttered without wind, and the Emperor Flame condensed into a twenty-three-colored sun disc deep within his pupils. Gazing at the overwhelming waves of blood, the patterns of the Green Lotus Core Flame suddenly appeared on his fingertips. The magma of the entire Central Plains resonated at this moment, and a pillar of crimson-gold fire erupted from a thousand-foot-long fissure in the ground, bursting into the sky and colliding with the waves of blood with a devastating roar.

"Is this the power bestowed upon you by the Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill?" Xiao Yan walked on the fire, the Heavenly Flames surrounding him transforming into twenty-three fire chains that pierced through the void. He suddenly pointed his fingers together to form a sword, and the Emperor Flame condensed into a crimson-gold sword beam that spanned the heavens and the earth. Wherever it passed, the blood mist dissipated, and even the Emperor Runes condensed by the Pill Emperor were cracked.

Emperor Dan let out a sinister laugh, and his blood-red imperial crown suddenly exploded into a shower of blood.

Xiao Yan flicked his finger, shattering the incoming blood spears. His Emperor Flame transformed into Azure Lotus Flame shield, protecting the allied forces below. Suddenly, he opened his mouth and inhaled, causing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of ten thousand miles to form a funnel-shaped vortex. Twenty-three different kinds of Heavenly Flames condensed into Fire Lotus at the center of the vortex, and the phantom of the Tou She Ancient God could be vaguely seen at the heart of the lotus.