A spear swept across the sky, its sharp edge descending like a beam of divine light, a vast white waterfall crashing against the curtain of light. It struck with the weight of a hundred thousand mountains, so heavy that the void began to collapse.
This was his life-bound divine weapon, a blade at the Great Power level.
In battles of this level, Tu Tian rarely used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. If he alone activated that half of an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, it would drain him dry in a very short time. And he simply lacked the wealth to power it with Source; after all, he had a whole band of subordinates to support.
"Pfft!"
Divine Radiance fell, and a Dragon Transformation Nine Changes cultivator was instantly reduced to dust, shattered in an instant by the divine light.
Below, a bandit at the Half-Step Great Power level was locked in fierce combat with a Yaoguang disciple.
The two were entangled like bolts of lightning, moving too fast to see. Their blows were fierce and domineering, powerful and terrifying. The cultivators around them dared not approach, for fear of being caught in the aftermath of their clash.
Tu Tian watched the battle with interest. Everything was under his control. His cultivation at the eighth minor step of Immortal Platform Second Heaven made him unrivaled here, enough to suppress everything.
With the body of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar as well, even if the Yaoguang Holy Lord came in person with the Immortal Gold Cauldron, he could still leave at his leisure.
The Yaoguang disciple, who was on the verge of entering the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, could be considered a genius, having fought an Immortal Platform cultivator for so long with Dragon Transformation Nine Changes cultivation. Even so, he was a spent crossbow bolt, already showing signs of impending defeat and death as blood imbued with spiritual essence dripped incessantly from him.
Suddenly, Tu Tian's divine sense detected a faint stirring in the void: the fluctuations of spatial teleportation.
He grew alert. The ancient Devouring Heaven Demon Jar emerged from his Immortal Platform to protect him, scattering dense dark light.
All at once, the ancient Devouring Heaven Demon Jar trembled, and the void immediately collapsed inward. An identical fluctuation appeared high in the heavens, and a pottery lid emerged at the edge of the sky. A black hole appeared, swallowing and expelling dark light as it drew in vital essence from all ten directions. Then the unfathomable black hole turned toward the body of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
"How is this possible..."
Tu Tian was horrified, a wave of dread sweeping through him. That was the lid of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. The Emperor Weapon's owner was going to take the jar body from him.
Suddenly, a presence that made spiritual bodies tremble came sweeping down from the heavens and covering the earth. Everyone's body hair and the hair on their heads stood on end against their will!
This was the pressure of an Ancient Saint!
Only Tu Tian remained able to move, unsuppressed by the Saint's might.
The next moment, a boundless suction swept toward him. Before he could react, he was drawn along by the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and flew straight into the sky.
"Buzz!"
The vast sky was red as blood. Beneath the lingering glow of the sunset, the two pottery-like vessels began to draw together. Finally, Tu Tian was swept away by the Extreme Dao presence and fell from the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, crashing into the ground like a bird with broken wings.
He coughed up blood incessantly. The injuries on his body were secondary; the sight unfolding before him left him utterly stunned.
The sky shook violently, as though it were collapsing. Countless strands of dark light hung down, bringing with them an even more terrifying presence of the Great Dao, as though starfields filling the heavens were about to fall.
The body and lid of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar became one. A complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon had appeared in the Northern Region.
Above the firmament was a vast expanse of white. Tens of thousands of Chaos waterfalls cascaded down, an incomparably magnificent sight that engulfed the sky and shook all who beheld it.
The Emperor Weapon trembled, and the presence of an Ancient Great Emperor spread without limit, suppressing everything. This vast, immortal-like sensation represented the pinnacle of this world.
This was a sacred object forged by one of the strongest beings on the human path.
"A complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon truly is awe-inspiring!" A clear female voice came from the void. From the pleasant sound of her voice, it was not hard to imagine her beauty, while Tu Tian's heart turned to ice.
"Your Highness, actually, half an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon is quite awe-inspiring too."
With those words, three figures stepped out of a vortex in the void: a young woman who resembled a goddess, a Daoist in azure robes, and an immense figure like a Demon Mountain, with azure hair and imposing features.
Tu Tian's eyes narrowed. That was the Azure Flood Dragon King.
Tu Tian strained to activate the divine sense imprint he had left on the jar body, but there was no response.
The reunited Emperor Weapon began to tremble violently, as though it were about to separate again. The Divine Silkworm Princess knitted her graceful brows and channeled divine power to control the complete Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, unleashing a beam of Chaos Divine Light.
"Boom!"
The jar opened and spat out a beam of divine light, descending like a Chaos waterfall interwoven with Emperor Dao patterns. It crushed a nearby mountain into powder on the spot, turning it into black ash that dispersed into the air.
"Chi!"
The Divine Silkworm Princess waved her hand, and seven-colored light spilled out in all directions as she struck Tu Tian down with a palm. The Great Power suffered grievous injuries in an instant, coughing up blood repeatedly in midair before crashing heavily to the ground.
Tu Fei and Tu Tian's other descendants were so distraught that their eyes seemed ready to split, but they could not move. They could only watch Tu Tian lie there motionless.
With Tu Tian gravely wounded and dying, the Divine Silkworm Princess gained complete control of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. As her divine power flowed into it, the traces of Tu Tian's blood sacrifice and his primordial spirit imprint were quickly removed.
After examining it closely, she cradled it in both hands and passed it to Su Yu, without a trace of reluctance on her face.
Su Yu gazed at the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar with immense excitement. In the end, this Emperor Weapon had fallen into his hands.
For this object, they had pursued their fleeing foes for more than seven thousand li. In the end, they had come straight here by following the pull of the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid.
This was a complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. Only by possessing it could one truly be a player on the board, able to stand on equal footing with those Extreme Dao powers and ancient imperial clans!
Chapter 40: Slaughtering the Great Bandits
The smile on Su Yu's face was radiant, like a ray of warm sunshine amid the snow filling the sky.
Yet to Tu Tian, it was incomparably terrifying. Still, for some reason, he also felt a wave of relief; the fear in his heart had finally eased. From the moment he picked up the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar more than ten years ago, he had worried that the Emperor Weapon's owner would return one day to reclaim the jar body. The fear its owner inspired in him had never gone away. After all, it was a relic of the Ruthless One's lineage, stained with far too much blood.
Yet at the insistence of the other great bandits, he had made it public all the same, because they needed the Emperor Weapon to stand against the Extreme Dao clans.
As time slowly passed, Old Undying, the foremost great bandit, drew close to entering the realm of the ancient sages. Meanwhile, there was no sign of the Ruthless One's lineage; it had probably been wiped out completely. For a time, Tu Tian's glory was unmatched. With half an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, he could look down upon all the heroes. Every sacred land and great sect feared him, yet had no choice but to treat him with courtesy.
Those Holy Lord-level Great Powers whom he could not defeat through his own strength were as vulnerable as infants before that half of an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. Even King divine weapons could not withstand the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar's assault.
The great bandits also valued him because of the Emperor Weapon. Old Undying, the foremost great bandit, had even given him a Saint scripture. His cultivation was also about to reach the peak of the Great Power realm, making him a master of this land.
All of this had put his heart completely at ease...
At last, the dream had ended. A trace of regret and remorse flashed through Tu Tian's eyes. In the bitter cold of this world of ice and snow, all the magic power in his body had been sealed, and his flesh, once as tough as refined iron, had lost its extraordinary qualities. Sweat began to break out all over him.
On this desolate ice plain, with an Ancient Saint and a complete Emperor Weapon against him, no one in the entire Eastern Wasteland could save him. Only...
Tu Tian struggled to turn over and looked at his descendants in the distance. Seeing the worried looks on the faces of Tu Fei and the others, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.
"Chi!!"
The flawless Great Saint Weapon, wreathed in streams of Chaos Qi, slowly shrank in the sky, becoming a small sword three inches long. It appeared in Su Yu's palm, crystal clear, with white light flowing across it.
After putting the Chaos longsword into the Divine Spring, Su Yu sent his divine sense into the body of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar while slowly stroking it as though he were caressing his lover, freely revealing all the tenderness in his eyes.
He had waited for this moment ever since he came to this world, and now he had finally achieved it! A complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon!
After repeatedly refining it with his primordial spirit and using drops of blood to claim ownership, he finally succeeded in sending his divine thought into the jar body. Three drops of true blood bearing the presence of Chaos also seeped into its patterns, and the ghostly face design emitted a white glow. The true blood became runes branded onto the jar, covering the once darkly glowing Devouring Heaven Demon Jar in bloodline patterns.
The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar began to accept him. It rose of its own accord above his head, pouring down waterfalls of dark light that sheltered him within.
He had gained initial control over this Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and become its owner.
He could now use his bloodline to summon the Emperor Weapon regardless of distance!
The deity within the Emperor Weapon did not resist him taking ownership, because this had originally been the Ancestral Artifact of his lineage. It was merely returning to its "original owner."
After obtaining the complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, Su Yu handed the Divine Silkworm Princess a jade slip, directly giving her the Wheel Sea Scroll and Dao Palace Scroll of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, part of an Emperor Scripture. This was also to win over this powerful expert; he would need her help with other matters later.
He even felt that this was still not enough to express his gratitude...
The purple-clad young woman raised her slender brows slightly. Without standing on ceremony, she accepted the token and began to look through it. Soon, she showed a look of surprise. She had not expected Su Yu to give her an Ancient Emperor Scripture outright. Though there were only two scrolls, their value was already enough to shake the heavens...
Su Yu's gaze turned from gentle to cold as he began to deal with everyone present. He walked casually up to Tu Tian and said indifferently, "Everything started because of this Emperor Weapon. Unfortunately, I'm the winner."
Then, without so much as looking at Tu Tian's expression, he flew straight into the sky. The vast, desolate red earth of the Northern Region covered the entire world.
Su Yu wore azure robes and a jade crown. Approaching from afar, his long sleeves fluttered and his black hair flew. His gaze was clear, and he had an ethereal quality about him. Five-colored divine light suffused his entire body, and his eyes were as clear as small lakes.
A near-immortal presence emanated from him. Two beams of golden light burst from his pupils, a powerful presence spilling out as he chanted aloud.
At that moment, a sacred fluctuation of divine power surged forth. His eyes turned gold, and his whole being acquired an ineffable charm, like an immortal spirit descending into the world.
Countless streams of Flying Immortal Power flew through the air. Each of the 365 golden vortices spat out a beam of divine light, which transformed into golden chains. Chain after chain of order bound everyone present.
Golden radiance flowed over Su Yu's body, making him look like a god descended into the mortal world. Specks of light appeared above his head, as though something were taking shape.
He stood quietly in the void, his eyes utterly vacant, drawing in the minds of those who looked at them.
Strands of dark light rushed from the crown of his head and formed a treasure vase above him. Dark light flowed over it, lustrous as black jade.
It was ancient and natural, its design not complicated, giving the impression that the Great Dao was simple in the extreme. It seemed to be a vessel of the Dao, capable of suppressing all heavens and myriad worlds, profound and unfathomable!
The Great Dao Treasure Vase that Su Yu had formed with his own Chaos divine power was a tangible embodiment of the "Dao." In the future, it could gather boundless magic power, and even now it already possessed tremendous divine might.
The Great Dao Treasure Vase, flickering with dark light, began to glow. In an instant, all the chains also erupted with fierce divine light. The great bandits and Yaoguang cultivators present all let out agonized howls as their origins and divine power were extracted by the chains and sent in an endless stream into the Great Dao Treasure Vase.
The Source all around also rapidly gave off streams of Source Qi, which transformed into life essence amid the radiant light filling the sky and poured into Su Yu's body.
Su Yu's presence grew ever stronger. These people's cultivation far surpassed his, and for him, this speed of cultivation was astonishingly swift. It could quickly propel him into the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.
After an unknown amount of time, Su Yu's body emitted dark light. At the crown of his head, his blood Qi shot through the heavens. His body crackled, and the black Great Dao Treasure Vase immediately flew over to hover above his head.
He could faintly sense that he was close to opening his Immortal Platform and entering the human body's final secret realm. His strengthened divine sense was exceptionally powerful and keen, and his understanding of heaven and earth had risen to another level. Many difficult questions about comprehending the Dao that had troubled him were readily resolved one by one...
Everyone present had been completely reduced to a dried corpse. Only a few Immortal Platform Secret Realm cultivators barely clung to life. Their primordial spirits were resilient enough to survive even after leaving their bodies; this was the strength of Immortal Platform cultivators.
Su Yu looked down at the great bandits, expressionless. His thoughts drifted somewhat, and he recalled a few things.
"Originally, by riding on Ye Fan's good fortune, you would have seen Tu Fei become a Quasi-Emperor in the future and gain Ye Fan's friendship. Your prospects were bright.
"Unfortunately, you ran into me. That's fate!"
Su Yu was cold and merciless as he activated the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. The Chaos divine power within him was incomparably vigorous, and the great dragon at his spine let out a roar. Endless Dragon Qi poured into the Emperor Weapon as he truly activated this Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, like black jade, floated up and down, emitting boundless light and swallowing and expelling the origin of heaven and earth. It sent down streams of dark light that engulfed him below. These were laws of the Great Dao!
The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar trembled slightly, and a brilliant beam of divine light shot from its mouth. Extreme Dao power reduced the entire place to dust.
The vast red-soil plain became an endless cloud of sand and dust. The place turned into a red ocean, its sands boiling and surging in every direction.
In the distance, mountains fell like stalks of straw as the terrifying shock wave struck them. They rapidly collapsed and were erased from the earth. Everything, including the mountain ranges and mining areas, became dust that settled quietly upon the land of the Northern Region.
Only the devastated earth remained, scarred by countless gullies and ravines, as though telling those who came later a story of what had once happened!
Chapter 41: Coercing Jade Lake
The Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness, the Jade Lake Sacred Land.
Under the light of the stars, a great lake lay in the sky above the mountaintop. The jade halls and magnificent towers within it resembled immortal palaces in the ninth heaven.
Clouds steamed and rosy mists gathered here. Heavenly palaces stood atop brilliant golden clouds, tall and majestic, solemn and sacred. Mist curled around both sides of the jade steps, exotic flowers bloomed, and celestial grasses carpeted the ground. All kinds of spiritual birds, shaped like Golden Crows and Divine Phoenixes, flew about in a splendid display.