"The heir to the Six Paths must not live!"
Just then, a low voice rang out near that light of chaos, carrying supreme majesty.
As the voice fell, the entire Hundred Broken Mountains shook violently, as though some terrifying creature was about to awaken. Endless stretches of forest shattered, and verdant vegetation turned to dust in an instant.
That shout seemed to carry the power to suppress all the heavens, its divine might unfathomable. Some weaker cultivators exploded into blood mist on the spot.
The remaining cultivators trembled uncontrollably, as though a pair of terrifying demonic hands had seized their hearts. Their souls wailed, on the verge of tearing apart.
In an instant, snow-white fluff danced through the air, blanketing heaven and earth like countless dandelion seeds sweeping along with the wind. It looked soft and beautiful, yet seemed to bear the laws of annihilation, draining away all life wherever it passed.
"Ah! My life force! What's happening?!"
The fluff clung to a Savage Bull and took root within his body, stripping away all his essence in an instant. His enormous bovine body became a dried corpse and crashed to the ground.
"No, this is wrong! It's a Pu Demon Tree! Run!"
Someone recognized the fluff. These were the seeds of a Pu Demon Tree, known as Cursed Demon Whiskers. Once they took root in flesh and blood, they would devour every last drop of blood essence, leaving not even the marrow behind.
"In ancient times, there was a Pu Demon Tree whose ferocity towered to the heavens. It was so bloodthirsty that even Divine Beings feared it. Only when All Saints joined forces was it finally slain."
"That battle was unbearably grueling, and boundless saintly blood was spilled. Now such a creature has awakened again. Do the heavens mean to destroy us?"
Wails rose everywhere. This Pu Demon Tree was far too powerful. Its demon whiskers veiled heaven and earth, turning the world into a boundless expanse of white, like an endless ocean surging without cease.
It had already shrouded this entire world. Wherever anyone fled, demon whiskers followed, like maggots clinging to bone, impossible to shake off.
Snow-white demon whiskers kept descending. Blood gushed, staining the earth crimson, while a mysterious force swept up the scattered blood essence and gathered it toward a single spot.
Light of chaos soared into the sky. An enormous figure filled the heavens, and behind him hovered an ancient tree that propped up the sky.
Massive roots, luxuriant branches and leaves, and merciless fluff churned like a lurking savage dragon striking out to destroy the mortal world.
Just then, a crimson shaft of bloody light shot skyward with the force to pierce a rainbow, rapidly expanding. Billowing chaos surged and roiled, sweeping across the surrounding wilderness like a tidal wave.
The phantom of a tattered cloth appeared, its mottled surface stained with dark crimson blood. It resembled a war flag that had fought across all the heavens, bearing the weathered weight of countless ages and supreme majesty. It blotted out the sun and sky, suppressing this stretch of heaven and earth.
At that moment, people heard endless sounds of battle ringing between heaven and earth: the clang of weapons, the clash of metal, and the roars of immortals and demons. It was as though they were truly living through an ancient divine war.
"What is that? Another chaos artifact?"
The people rejoiced, for the tattered cloth had shrouded heaven and earth, blocking the Cursed Demon Whiskers and preventing them from falling.
"Go!"
Xi Yue shouted. This was merely an imprint of the Immortal King Burial Shroud. With her powering it, it could not truly stop the Pu Demon King's advance; it could only buy some time.
"Fairy, your righteousness is boundless!"
In the distance, a golden passage appeared. The gateway to the Hundred Broken Mountains had been forced open. The people shouted, then surged frantically toward the passage. Even the Native Inhabitants retreated in droves.
They knew this was a world-shaking clash. If they remained in this world, their fate would certainly be miserable.
That Pu Demon Tree's might towered to the heavens, surpassing even an Ancient Deity. It was absolutely beyond their power to resist!
Xi Yue had not done this out of concern for these creatures' lives. Once they entered the Hundred Broken Mountains, opportunities and dangers went hand in hand. Life and death rested with fate; there was nothing to lament.
But now that the Pu Demon King had awakened, leaving these creatures here would only provide him with an endless supply of blood essence.
"A mere junior dares challenge my majesty? Die!"
The Pu Demon King's figure emerged, cloaked in dense chaos. His pressure rolled out like a tide, and savage light blazed.
He had noticed long ago; he was no simple-minded fool. The person before him had deliberately used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to lure him out.
Though he did not know what she relied upon, or where she had learned of him, none of that mattered now. Since she had awakened him, he would kill her.
"So that's it. You took over that Pu Demon Tree's body. I was wondering where it had gone."
Xi Yue understood at once. Only a wisp of the Pu Demon King's origin spirit remained. She had not expected her arrival to stir him, prompting him to seize that Pu Demon Tree ahead of time to nourish his origin spirit.
After all, his previous body had been obtained through possession. It was not even of the same race, which ran contrary to the Great Dao. In the end, it could not compare with a body of his own kind.
Boom!
The heavens collapsed. One of the Pu Demon King's great hands reached out, covering half the sky, wreathed in pitch-black demonic mist as it pressed down toward Xi Yue.
The Immortal King Burial Shroud flashed with wondrous colors. Runes fluttered, weaving into a net that enveloped the great hand. Purple lightning streaked across the sky, and a humming sound resounded through the clouds, causing the void to shatter inch by inch with piercing cries.
"What are you acting so arrogant for? Your true body died long ago. You're nothing but a remnant spirit now. Do you really think you're still that Immortal King who looked down upon all the heavens?"
Xi Yue coughed blood from the corner of her mouth. Her clothes were in tatters and her hair disheveled as she was hurled backward, yet her tongue remained merciless.
"Junior, you are too arrogant! Know this: a king cannot be insulted!"
The Pu Demon King let out a long howl. His long-dormant fury ignited in an instant. His true body had fallen in the battle of Immortal Ancient, and his awakening already carried a towering measure of malice.
Now that she had struck his sore spot, he nearly went mad. He stared fixedly at the tattered cloth. It bore a familiar aura, one belonging to his former enemies, Without End and Reincarnation.
He could no longer remain calm. In the past, Reincarnation had grievously wounded him, and Without End had slain him. Now he swore to wash away that former humiliation and kill this junior who knew neither the height of heaven nor the depth of earth!
The Pu Demon King roared. Snow-white fluff poured down like falling snow, densely filling heaven and earth. Now it transformed into Great Dao Sigils, like the deadliest instruments of slaughter, and blasted toward Xi Yue!
"A loser of the past dares wreak havoc today? Disk, come and fight at my side!"
Xi Yue formed the Six Paths of Reincarnation seal. In an instant, a dazzling sphere of light flew out from the depths, resonating with her.
"As you wish." Dozens of fragments, shrouded in chaotic mist, landed in her palm, releasing a faint divine thought.
It had sensed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King's aura on the Immortal King Burial Shroud and recognized this Bloodied War Flag as well. More importantly, the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art had made it fully acknowledge Xi Yue.
Xi Yue's lips twitched. This disk is already shattered like this. Can it still be used?
Still, she hesitated for only an instant before she once
again formed a hand seal, using the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to awaken the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
In an instant, the phantom of a divine disk appeared in the heavens, its radiance suppressing the world as it echoed the Immortal King Burial Shroud.
"No matter what, with two Immortal King Weapons in hand, the advantage is mine!" Xi Yue chuckled. She was merely finding joy amid hardship; neither of these could truly be called an Immortal King Weapon in its current state.
The Pu Demon King was far stronger than she had imagined. Her cultivation was too low. Even forcibly awakening the Reincarnation Disk and the Immortal King Burial Shroud would not allow her to contend with him. She could only delay him for a moment.