After refining the Dao Fruit of the Creation of Heaven that Primordial Heavenly Venerable had severed from himself, Meng Qi's aura grew deeper and more complete, as though it had ascended to a higher plane.
Meng Qi opened his eyes, saw Qi Zhengyan, and greeted him with a smile.
"Cousin, you're here."
The two were not actually cousins. A series of events had led Meng Qi to play Qi Zhengyan's younger cousin for a while, and he had kept calling him that ever since.
"You really took your time," Meng Chuan said.
"You're fast. You're the fastest at everything." Meng Qi glanced at Meng Chuan. "What's the point of a man being so fast?"
"And you're such a pain when you talk."
"Great Emperor, Cousin, let me show you something good." Meng Qi raised his fingers like a sword and slashed upward, sending out a dim ray of chaos light.
Its sharp edge pierced the River of Time, severed Fate, crossed layer upon layer of Space-Time, and struck at the Daoist Grounds of another Great Evil Demon in the Nine Netherworlds.
The Black Heavenly Emperor was an ancient Evil Demon of the Nine Netherworlds. With the Nine Netherworlds bolstering him, he was a False Other Shore Being.
But he now had another identity: one of the Three Corpses of the Ancient One, Bodhi Ancient Buddha.
As one of Bodhi Ancient Buddha's Three Corpses, the Black Heavenly Emperor could fairly be called his eyes and ears.
He was also Bodhi Ancient Buddha's means of interfering in the Nine Netherworlds.
Generally speaking, Other Shore Beings seldom entered the Nine Netherworlds unless they had business there.
It was not that they feared it. There was simply no need, and the Nine Netherworlds themselves rejected them.
Yet no ambitious Other Shore Being would abandon