Eat My Flesh?

"Still trying to run? Do you think you can escape?" A Half-Saint blocked the exit.

"Why not behave and let us divide you up to eat? Why insist on making yourself suffer?"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the Azure Emperor was surrounded by demon experts, their eyes brimming with greed, as though they had spotted a peerless beauty.

Even as they spoke, the White Tiger Demon Saint acted, suppressing him with one hand.

The Azure Emperor held the Green Lotus, and a phantom Chaos Green Lotus appeared behind him. It came from ages past, spanning boundless space and time to tower over the present age!

"The four extremes secret realm? What a monstrous talent! The Immortal Medicine truly is one of this world's great mysteries. Even after taking the form of a demon, it still possesses terrifying cultivation talent. In a mere dozen years or so, you've grown from a minor divine bridge realm cultivator into an expert of the four extremes secret realm!

"But unfortunately, until you become a Saint, you remain an ant! Even if your abilities reach the heavens, you must stay here today and help me live a second life!"

With a raised hand, he used the power of a Saint to shatter the Azure Emperor's dharma body, breaking his bones and sinews and dispersing all his magical power.

The Flowing Flame Demon Saint approached from behind as well. Only after observing for a while did he say, "We need to hurry. The immortal medicine essence within him is turning into his foundation dao base. With every extra breath he lives, the immortal medicine essence he contains will diminish."

The Flowing Flame Demon Saint had perceived the changes taking place in the Azure Emperor's body.

"Uncle Luo!" the Azure Emperor called in a low voice.

Although he had been an Immortal King in his previous life-the legendary Chaos Green Lotus-his current cultivation left him no chance against three Demon Sages.

If this world's connection to the Immortal Realm had not been severed, he would surely have returned to the Immortal King realm!

He would have surpassed even the Great Emperors of this age!

"Stop struggling. Even if that supposed elder protecting you were here, you still couldn't escape certain death!" The Three Demon Sages were supremely confident, giving no thought whatsoever to the Guardian behind the Azure Emperor.

"If he dares come, we can taste the flesh of a human Saint while we're at it! I've never tried it before!" The Azure Luan Demon Saint was no benevolent soul either, and spoke with a cold sneer.

The Azure Emperor said nothing, for he had already sensed a familiar aura spreading toward them.

The world suddenly went dark.

No... it was not the world that had darkened. A dazzling light shone from the far end of the sky, stripping every color of its original luster and making heaven and earth seem dim.

"What... is this?!!"

Countless demon experts were filled with terror. They were fixed in place, as though their feet had sunk into a mire and enormous mountains rested on their shoulders. The blood and vital energy within them and the dao patterns spreading around them fell silent. In that instant, their heaven-reaching magical power could no longer be summoned, its connection to them severed.

It was not just them. The Three Demon Sages suffered the same fate!

Who were they?

The strongest experts on this planet!

They were supreme Demon Sages who divided the world among the three of them, beings who could shatter stars with their fists, tread upon the heavens, and cross the starry sky with their physical bodies alone.

The instant that light shone upon them, they lost control of their bodies!

"Eat my flesh? My flesh doesn't taste very good!" An aura of decay drifted over. Although the man looked like a youth in his twenties, an air of decline and rot spread outward from him, making him seem like an old man nearing the twilight of his life.

The demons were aghast. This was definitely no Saint!

A Saint could never wield such strength. He suppressed three Demon Sages with ease, without even lifting a hand. As he approached one step at a time, the void trembled. His Dao was crumbling, stirring a tremendous resonance...

The Azure Emperor was stunned.

They had been apart for only ten years, yet the incomparably heroic Uncle Luo of his memories had become so aged and decrepit.

"Uncle Luo..."

Luo Yan looked at him calmly and said, "Though I've grown old, my youthful heart hasn't faded! I still like my younger self best."

Thud!

He raised his hand and struck, smashing a Half-Saint into minced meat on the spot. The Half-Saint's divine sense fled in terror, rushing toward the outside.

Luo Yan reached out again. His hand appeared impossibly slow, yet it ignored the distance between them and effortlessly caught that divine sense in his palm.

"I remember you... You tried to hunt down Wan Qing back then, too, but a wisp of my aura frightened you away. Why did you attack him again?"

The divine sense cried out in terror, "Senior, I was wrong! I shouldn't have harbored ill intent toward your junior! I shouldn't have set my sights on him! Please spare my life..."

He frantically repented, begging for mercy over and over.

"It's not that you know you were wrong. It's that you know you're about to die!" With a gentle squeeze, that divine sense vanished like smoke, never to live again.

He killed a Half-Saint as casually as crushing an ant, without stirring so much as a ripple. He used no heaven-reaching methods, only a strike and a grasp!

"Now... it's your turn!" Luo Yan turned his gaze to the other demon experts.

"Run... run!!!"

The Three Demon Sages burned their life essence blood, paying an enormous price to break free of their restraints and flee out of the city.

The remaining demon experts abandoned their bodies, their divine senses leaving their flesh and surging out of the place.

They... had truly provoked a terrifying, supreme being, an expert far beyond the Saint realm!

He was very likely a Saint King, and one who had reached the very pinnacle of that realm!

That autumn.

The Three Demon Sages of White Tiger Holy City and a host of demon experts sought to divide up the Azure Emperor and devour him. The Immortal Medicine was transferred into the Azure Emperor's body, and he severed his connection to the Green Lotus.

A mysterious expert entered White Tiger Holy City and slew numerous demons. The Three Demon Sages were nailed dead to the city walls by this mysterious expert.

Not long afterward, the peerlessly gifted Azure Emperor disappeared. Some said the mysterious expert had devoured him, while others said that expert was his elder and had led him to another star system.

Demon Star lost a peerless genius, while Big Dipper gained a Heavenly Prodigy named Wan Qing.

That same year, Luo Yan reached the end of his lifespan and "died." The demon experts who had been brought here in the past began hunting down the Azure Emperor.

After being brought to Big Dipper, those demon experts had not followed Luo Yan's instructions to spread word of the Azure Emperor's origins. Instead, they had quietly lain low, waiting for news of Luo Yan's death before attacking the Azure Emperor, hoping to refine him into a great medicine!

Their ambitions began to show.

Of course, some demon experts did not turn against the Azure Emperor and instead chose to follow him. In the end, however, his enemies outnumbered his friends. More than half of those demon experts began hunting him, and after repeated failures, they started joining forces with the demons of Big Dipper.

Hidden within the Time Mirror, Luo Yan began refining the Immortal Green Lotus Medicine. He feared he would not last until the day the Azure Emperor achieved emperor-proving.

Luo Yan marveled that the Azure Emperor truly lived up to his foundations as an Immortal King. Hidden within the Time Realm, he witnessed the Azure Emperor's entire journey of growth with perfect clarity.

Hunted by the demon experts Luo Yan had once suppressed, the Azure Emperor showed no fear. Instead, he survived one perilous encounter after another, growing in defiance of heaven.

After leaving a strand of consciousness within the Azure Emperor, Luo Yan began sinking into a deep slumber.

I hope that when I wake again, I'll already be living my second life! Luo Yan felt uneasy, unable to shake the sense that something would go wrong this time.