Evil Keyboard Immortal

Long Xiao was also worried about Xiao Huohuo's safety. After tossing Iron Protector and Elder Hai a bottle of pills, he hurriedly said, "Recover here first and protect Xiao Yi Xian. I'm going in to rescue him."

Iron Protector and Elder Hai immediately nodded.

"Brother Long Xiao, be careful!" Xiao Yi Xian said anxiously.

"Mm."

Without wasting another word, Long Xiao entered the cave again.

But the moment he stepped inside, a gentle force enveloped him and pulled him in.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a space of primal chaos.

A tall, slender, illusory figure appeared before him, radiating a faint, gentle glow that gave him an air of hazy mystery and inviolability.

"You're Long Jian's son, aren't you? I sensed the same aura on you as his."

The phantom asked calmly.

Wariness stirred in Long Xiao's heart. This man had exposed his identity with a single sentence. Could he know his father?

"Yes, my name is Long Xiao, and my father is indeed Long Jian. Senior, you are...?" Long Xiao asked.

He had no intention of hiding it. If this man truly knew his father, lying before such an unrivaled powerhouse clearly wasn't an option.

The phantom turned around. He was a man who looked to be in his twenties, dressed in gray robes with a smile on his face. His eyes seemed capable of piercing through eternity.

"So you really are that bastard Long Jian's son!" The man before him suddenly clenched his fists, looking thoroughly displeased as he spoke through gritted teeth.

His air of an unparalleled master vanished without a trace, replaced by the sulking demeanor of a child.

Only after a while did the man calm down.

Questions crowded Long Xiao's mind. Just what history did this guy have with Father?

"I am Evil Keyboard Immortal," the man suddenly said.

"Evil Keyboard Immortal... why does that sound a little familiar?"

Long Xiao muttered to himself, then immediately sent his divine soul into his Storage Ring's space.

"Encyclopedia, look up the name Evil Keyboard Immortal for me."

The Encyclopedia soon supplied an answer.

"Evil Keyboard Immortal, an unparalleled powerhouse from the Primordial Star Domain. Affiliation: Key Clan. Patriarch of the Key Clan. Wild and unrestrained throughout his life, he enjoys roaming the various star domains, and his whereabouts are unpredictable."

"Look up information on the Key Clan for me too."

Long Xiao seemed to have seen information about the Key Clan in ancient texts. Their innate gift seemed to lie in mental attacks.

"Key Clan: a major clan of the Primordial Star Domain. Its abilities are unique, specializing in invisible mental attacks and verbal abuse techniques that leave opponents unable to guard against them. The Key Clan is also one of the major races on the front lines of resistance against the Outer-Domain Evil Clan, earning the admiration of many powerhouses."

After hearing the Encyclopedia's introduction, Long Xiao finally remembered. The Key Clan was indeed a heroic clan, standing on the front lines against the wicked Outer-Domain Evil Clan.

The Outer-Domain Evil Clan was the race most hated by every faction and race across the Myriad Worlds Starry Sky. Bloody and cruel, they invaded one plane after another.

Yet their purpose remained unknown. All anyone knew was that this clan's strength was unfathomable.

As for what history Evil Keyboard Immortal had with his father, he had no idea. He probably hadn't been born yet at the time.

"Finished looking me up?"

Evil Keyboard Immortal suddenly looked at Long Xiao with a faint, knowing smile, breaking his reverie.

"Uh... yes, I'm done."

Long Xiao couldn't help feeling embarrassed. As expected of an unparalleled powerhouse, nothing could be hidden from him.

"Senior, you are a hero of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. Please accept this junior's bow." Long Xiao bowed respectfully.

"You're a good kid. Your father and I are old friends, so no need to stand on ceremony. But that father of yours is such a bastard. I really want to curse him to death!"

Evil Keyboard Immortal took a step forward as he cursed.

Long Xiao: ...

"By the way, Senior, why are you here? This place seems very far from the Primordial Star Domain. And your current state..."

Evil Keyboard Immortal froze, a trace of sorrow flashing through his eyes.

"Ah, I was too arrogant back then. I thought I was unrivaled beneath the heavens, and then retribution came. You saw correctly. I've already fallen, right here on this minor plane in the Great Thousand Star Domain. It's been over a thousand years now, I suppose."

"How could that be?"

Long Xiao found it hard to believe. Evil Keyboard Immortal was almost as powerful as his father, a supreme existence across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. How could someone like him have fallen?

Moreover, his mental attacks struck terror into every opponent at the mere mention of his name. What kind of powerhouse could have killed him?

Evil Keyboard Immortal saw Long Xiao's confusion and continued, "Nothing in this universe can exist forever, not even the True Gods who have already disappeared."

"I was defeated by the evil gods of the Outer-Domain Evil Clan. Even my Primordial Star Domain paid a devastating price."

"Senior, the Primordial Star Domain isn't weak, is it? How could the Outer-Domain Evil Clan have overrun it?"

Long Xiao couldn't understand. The names of those ancient mighty beings in the Primordial Star Domain were renowned throughout the universe: Xuanyuan, Nuwa, Pangu...

One could say that the Primordial Star Domain was hardly inferior to the Northern Dipper Star Domain, where his Heaven Clan resided.

Sometimes, he even wondered whether Blue Star might be in the Primordial Star Domain.

At Long Xiao's question, Evil Keyboard Immortal's expression grew much gloomier, filled with profound self-reproach.

"They were powerful, but the powerhouses the Outer-Domain Evil Clan deployed were endless. Some of our people fell, some were sealed away, and some went into slumber. Even now, I don't know what has become of the Primordial Star Domain or the Key Clan. All of this was because of me..."

"What's more, the Ancient God Clan actually colluded with the Outer-Domain Evil Clan. Otherwise, how could my Primordial World have been reduced to such a wretched state? You know of the Ancient God Clan, don't you?"

Long Xiao nodded.

The Ancient God Clan was fiercely ambitious and had once waged war across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, only to be suppressed by the Heaven Clan in the end. If the Heaven Clan was the foremost divine clan in all the heavens, then the Ancient God Clan was unquestionably the second... excluding the bizarre Outer-Domain Evil Clan, of course.

"What exactly happened back then?" Long Xiao continued asking.

"Back then, to strengthen the Key Clan's foundations, I traveled the Myriad Worlds Starry Sky in search of materials, all to forge a Super Divine Artifact. I lacked ancient yang pure gold, a material only the Ancient God Clan possessed, so I paid the Gu Clan a visit."

"But I never imagined it was a trap laid by the Ancient God Clan. I believed my strength was unrivaled and that the Gu Clan couldn't hold me, so I had no fear. In an unprecedented move, they actually agreed to my request and gave me the ancient yang pure gold. Their only condition was that I forge the weapon in their Ancient God Realm, as they wished to witness it."

"I agreed, because once it was forged, my strength would increase greatly. Even if the Ancient God Clan wanted to seize it, they wouldn't be able to."

"What I never imagined was that their purpose was to keep me there. They tipped off the Outer-Domain Evil Clan, and upon learning that I was away from the Primordial Star Domain, the Outer-Domain Evil Clan immediately launched a massive invasion."

"By the time I rushed back to the Primordial Star Domain, all was lost. It had already been reduced to ruins, its living beings plunged into misery, with bloodshed and chaos everywhere."

"The Outer-Domain Evil Clan was also waiting there for my arrival. They sent out an Eighteen-Eyed Evil God and nearly ten seventeen-eyed evil gods. They joined forces against me, and even with a Super Divine Artifact in hand, I was no match for them."

Eighteen eyes?

Long Xiao's heart jolted. He knew that each eye of the Outer-Domain Evil Clan represented a realm. Eighteen eyes meant someone on par with one of the supreme powerhouses like his father. No wonder Senior Evil Keyboard Immortal had been unable to prevail!

He hadn't expected the Outer-Domain Evil Clan to be so unfathomable!

"Ah, in the end, I fled to this Great Thousand Star Domain, but they still intercepted me. Using my Super Divine Artifact as the vessel, I laid down the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Grand Array and perished together with that Eighteen-Eyed Evil God. Only an exceedingly faint remnant of my consciousness reached this place. There is no longer any possibility of my resurrection."

"I see. No wonder the plans for the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Array appeared here." Long Xiao nodded. Senior Evil Keyboard Immortal truly deserved his respect.

"Kid, the Great Thousand Star Domain isn't safe either. While I was passing through, a junior from the Outer-Domain Evil Clan who called himself Heavenly Evil God was also invading the Great Thousand World. That Great Thousand World should be the strongest plane in the Great Thousand Star Domain."

"However, through divination, I determined that someone surnamed Mu would break through to the Ruler Realm in the Great Thousand World in the future and stop him. So I didn't interfere further."

Long Xiao nodded. The Ruler Realm meant that Heavenly Evil God should only be at the eleven-eyed level. He wasn't particularly strong.

The Ruler Realm qualified one as a powerhouse in the Myriad Worlds Starry Sky, but it did not grant the strength to break through the barriers between star domains or establish contact with other star domains. Only upon reaching Divine Emperor could one travel freely among the various star domains.

Of course, asking someone else to open a passage or using a supreme treasure was another matter.

Otherwise, how could the various star domains establish contact? Remaining confined to a single domain would only make them weaker and weaker.

Generally, any faction with a Divine Emperor powerhouse overseeing it could obtain knowledge of star domains beyond its own.