A woman suddenly appeared between Chen Mu and Chu Xuanzi.
She wore a fiery red coat, was tall and slender, with stunningly beautiful features and eyes as clear as autumn water. Although her expression was calm, she possessed an indescribable air of sorrow that evoked pity in people.
She touched the silver missile with her delicate hand, and with a soft "poof," the missile instantly turned into powder and disappeared into the air.
After the missile disappeared, the time-space freeze effect around them also dissipated. Chen Mu turned to look at the mysterious expert who had suddenly appeared, his heart filled with shock.
The particle reactor inside a missile cannot be destroyed by simple physical means; it involves extremely precise and subtle physical reactions.
In theory, once this reaction begins, it is impossible to reverse; even Chen Mu, the inventor, could not do it.
But now, he was actually witnessing this happen, which, for someone as passionate about rune science as him, was even more interesting than mastering the rules of spacetime.
" Chu Xuanzi of the Yin Baleful Intent Sect pays respects to the Manju Sacred King!"
As soon as Chu Xuanzi was freed from his restraints, he immediately bowed and respectfully greeted the woman.
Chen Mu suddenly realized that this person was none other than the Manju Sacred King, one of the three great Saint Kings. But wasn't she in the Manju Imperial Capital? Why was she here?
At this moment, a purple streak of light flew over and stopped beside the Manju Sacred King.
" Chen Mu, the Holy Lord is here! Quickly pay your respects!"
Mo Kesha looked at Chen Mu and shouted angrily.
Chen Mu's mind raced, and he quickly figured out the whole story. It seemed that Mo Kesha hadn't lied to him; it was just that Chu Xuanzi had found him first.
" Chen Mu of Iron Soul City greets Manju Sacred King."
Chen Mu clasped his hands together, speaking neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Seeing Chen Mu's arrogance, Mo Kesha was about to rebuke him, but was stopped by the Manju Sacred King.
" Chen Mu, where is the person I'm looking for?"
The voice of the Manju Sacred King was ethereal and otherworldly, as if it were speaking right next to Chen Mu's ear.
Chen Mu subconsciously looked down at the battlefield, where the fighting had already stopped.
The spacetime freeze that just occurred was something that cultivators below the Emperor Level couldn't sense at all; they wouldn't even know that spacetime had frozen. However, for Fang Yin and the other cultivators at the Late Emperor Level and above, they could detect some anomalies.
So after time and space stopped, he immediately ordered his men to stop and looked up at the sky, trying to figure out what had happened.
" Mingye, come up here."
Chen Mu sent a telepathic message to Mingye, asking her to fly to his side.
"Good!"
Without hesitation, Mingye transformed into a streak of light and flew upwards, arriving beside Chen Mu in a moment and standing side by side with him.
The moment the Manju Sacred King's gaze met Mingye's, her eyes instantly welled up with tears. She stared blankly at Mingye, speechless for a moment.
When Mingye saw the Manju Sacred King, she was stunned, because she felt a blood bond between them.
"You... are my mother?"
Mingye couldn't help but speak up.
"It's me! My child, how much suffering you've endured all these years..."
The Manju Sacred King choked back tears as she spoke, her eyes already brimming with tears. She flew to Mingye's Mingye, embraced him tightly, and let her tears flow uncontrollably.
For cultivators, there is no need for any further proof; the bloodline connection between them is genuine.
Chen Mu watched from the side, genuinely happy for Mingye. After all their hardships in reaching the Nine Nether Netherworld, they had finally achieved a satisfactory result.
However, at this moment, Chu Xuanzi on the other side turned ashen-faced.
"She's actually the daughter of the Manju Sacred King?"
He was now filled with deep regret. If the Manju Sacred King knew he had just been about to kill her, would he have spared him?
Thinking of this, he subtly backed away, intending to escape.
"You old scoundrel, don't even think about running away!"
Chen Mu had anticipated that Chu Xuanzi would misbehave, and with a roar, he leaped after him.
Wow!
Just then, an incomparably terrifying pressure from heaven and earth enveloped the entire world, forcing Chen Mu to stop in place, as if this power was simply irresistible.
"Is this the domain of the Manju Sacred King? How terrifying!"
Thanks to the reconnaissance equipment of Iron Soul City, Chen Mu's perception range was very large, covering an area of twenty or thirty kilometers around Iron Soul City, but the domain of the Manju Sacred King was even larger than his.
Chu Xuanzi's domain only extends to a radius of seven or eight kilometers. Judging from this alone, Manju Sacred King is far stronger than Chu Xuanzi.
Chu Xuanzi released his Baleful Demon Blood Domain in an attempt to resist the Manju Sacred King, but his domain was suppressed by the Manju Sacred King's domain before it even reached ten meters.
Pfft!
Chu Xuanzi spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale and weak, clearly suffering severe injuries from the backlash of his domain.
The originally emotionally agitated Manju Sacred King released Mingye, and with a gentle wave of her hand, the tear stains on her face instantly evaporated, and she returned to her original calm and composed demeanor.
" Chu Xuan, I warned you long ago not to cause trouble in the mortal realm!"
"You led your men to attack Iron Soul City without authorization today, and slaughtered my Imperial Court's people. What explanation do you have for this?"
She pulled Chu Xuanzi in front of her and said in an icy tone.
Chu Xuanzi was by no means a benevolent person. For thousands of years, every time he was born, he brought considerable disasters to the mortal world. Although he did not reach the level of being universally condemned by both gods and men, he was still considered to have committed many evils.
For this reason, the Manju Sacred King personally sent someone to warn him, and only then did he restrain himself considerably.
Reaching the Saint Level already places one among the top cultivators in the Nine Nether Netherworld. As long as he doesn't cross the Saint King's bottom line, even the Saint King cannot kill him at will. Otherwise, other Saint Level experts would be in danger, potentially causing chaos throughout the world.
However, now, Chu Xuanzi has led the Yin Baleful Intent Sect to endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Iron Soul City and has even attacked the daughter of the Manju Sacred King. This has clearly crossed the Manju Sacred King's bottom line.
"Holy King, spare my life! Attacking Iron Soul City was not my idea; it was Fang Yin who made the decision on his own!"
And her, I didn't know she was your daughter beforehand."
Chu Xuanzi pointed at Mingye and explained with a look of fear.
The Manju Sacred King coldly shook his head and placed a hand on Chu Xuanzi's head.
"I am not satisfied with your explanation, so you Return to the Ruins!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a sharp light shot out from her palm and pierced straight into Chu Xuanzi's crown.
"You..."
Chu Xuanzi stared wide-eyed in disbelief; he hadn't expected that the Manju Sacred King would actually kill him like that.
His body crumbled inch by inch, then transformed into a continuously collapsing black hole with astonishing force.
Is this the Return to the Ruins?
Chen Mu, standing to the side, watched as Chu Xuanzi transformed into a black hole and gradually disappeared, deeply shocked.