A Dao Venerable Strikes, the Strong Preying on the Weak!
Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable's breathing became slightly labored as he looked at his old friend, whose Qi and Blood were depleted, yet who still roared like a trapped beast.
The coldness in his eyes gradually transformed into a heavy sense of desolation.
In large clans and powerful families, there is never any sense of benevolence or morality, only the naked pursuit of bloodline continuation and brutal warfare.
If it were his own Heavenly Wind Clan facing such a desperate situation of annihilation, his choice would probably not be any less lenient than the old Beast Emperor before him.
"And what about the Nether River Imperial Clan? How will you explain that?"
After a long while, Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable exhaled a long breath and asked in a deep voice.
A profound, dark light flashed in the eyes of the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor, and a cold, piercing smile curled at the corners of his lips.
"Explain?"
Why should the Profound Lightning Clan need to explain its actions to the Nether Realm?
"However, to be honest, I personally went to Peak Mountain three thousand years ago to report to the Emperor about my plot to Lightless Dao Fruit."
Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable's pupils suddenly contracted. "Peak Mountain Emperor Lord has agreed?!"
"With your extraordinary talent and ambition, how could the Emperor not see through the wolfish ambitions of the Nether Realm?"
The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor sneered, his tone revealing a chilling calculating intent. "The alliance between the two realms is nothing more than a stopgap measure in this era of great strife."
"On the battlefield of the Dao Realm, the Nether Realm, with the help of my Beast Realm, devoured the life of the Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable of the Dao Realm, perfecting the inheritance of the Death Dao. Its foundation in the Death Dao has expanded excessively."
"If we continue to allow the Nether River Emperor to plunder the fruits of the Dao of Darkness, once his Dao Embryo is perfected, he will turn around and hold a butcher's knife to the neck of my Beast Realm."
"One day, the Nether River Imperial Clan might even possess three supreme Dao Ancestor —Death, Darkness, and Soul—simultaneously, creating a colossal entity far more terrifying than the Space Heaven Clan."
"The Emperor needs a nail, a nail firmly driven into the Dao of Darkness passage's territory, to restrain the Nether River for all parties in the Nine Realms."
"This Lightless Dao Fruit is the trump card that the Emperor tacitly allowed me to retrieve!"
"With the Emperor's decree suppressing the Heavenly Fortune, even if the Old Ghost of the Nether River harbors suspicions, he would never dare to openly break ties with my Beast Realm before he has completely achieved his goal."
Upon hearing this, Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed.
He shook his head and gave a self-deprecating smile, "It seems I was overthinking it; indeed, for such a momentous matter concerning the fate of the realm, without that person's approval, even if you had the guts of a bear and the gall of a leopard, you wouldn't dare to take such a risky step of changing course."
As the two were talking, a piercing sound of void explosion suddenly came from the black mirror.
Within the dark swamp within the black mirror, the vast black mist had condensed into countless ink-black spears, sealing off all escape routes in all directions.
The eight-armed Nether Abyss Emperor, Ming Jue, possessed a Dharma form tens of thousands of feet tall, and every step he took shattered the mountains and rivers of the Death Realm.
His eight terrifying demonic hands, covered in black and gold scales, were carrying the immense power of the Extreme Realm, and were pressing down hard on Lei Jin and the other two who were already exhausted!
The void crumbled inch by inch, and darkness spread and poured in.
Lei Jin's hair was disheveled, his right arm was severed at the root, and half of his body was covered with black patterns.
He looked up at the eight-armed demon god that blotted out the sky, and finally, an uncontrollable look of despair appeared in his eyes.
There was nowhere to escape, nowhere to avoid.
Even though he was only ten thousand miles away from that boundary, in front of a berserk Extreme Realm demon, that ten thousand miles was like an insurmountable chasm!
"Ancestor... the descendants are incompetent and have failed the royal family's trust!"
Lei Jin cried out in grief, his remaining Xuan Lei Immortal Foundation within his body suddenly boiling over, and he was about to self-destruct his physical body to protect the fruit position in his arms.
However, as the massive demonic hand descended, the surging black tide transformed into layers of confinement, forcibly imprisoning his Qi and Blood and meridians, making even self-destruction of his immortal Immortal Foundation a pipe dream.
"Heavenly Thunder Demon, you stole the most precious treasure of my divine dynasty! Die, you wretch!!"
Ming Jue roared ferociously, his giant hands closing, seemingly about to completely obliterate Lei Jin and the other two, along with the entire swamp, into nothingness.
"Boom!"
At this critical moment, the ancient platform atop the towering sky suddenly trembled violently!
The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor's turbid eyes suddenly erupted with two bursts of azure-white divine light that tore through the heavens and myriad realms.
"Before me, you dare to kill my direct descendants of the Profound Lightning lineage? You, a crippled Vicious Spirit who has never ascended to the highest realm, dare to challenge me?!"
A low shout erupted from the old Beast Emperor's throat.
The old man slowly raised his arm, which was covered in lividity, and withered five fingers held together like a knife. Across the vast void, he gently slashed at the black glass mirror in front of him!
"Sizzle--!!"
The entire void of the Lightless Dead Realm seemed to be forcibly torn apart at this moment.
Above the raging, dark swamp, Lightless once solidified and resilient sky suddenly cracked open, revealing a pale fissure stretching for tens of thousands of miles!
The crack was not a shattering of space, but rather a result of the forceful suppression of an unparalleled will that transcended the Principle of heaven and earth!
The next instant, a withered giant hand, covered with dense, deep blue lightning tribulation divine patterns and so enormous that it could not be contained by the entire sky, fiercely emerged from the depths of the crack!
The body of the Dao Venerable has descended across realms!
The entire Lightless Dead Realm sank thousands of feet the instant this giant hand appeared, as if it were a toy in the palm of someone's hand!
"Dao... Dao Venerable?!"
The savage smile on the face of the Eight-Armed Nether Abyss Emperor Ming Jue suddenly froze, his crimson beast eyes contracted violently, and a panic originating from the depths of his bones instantly devoured his mind.
He frantically activated the five Dao of Darkness Immortal Foundation, and the eight ten-thousand-foot-long black Xuan Heavy Weapons turned their sharpness around, carrying the Dao of Darkness fortune of the entire world, and went against the heavens to smash fiercely at the withered giant hand that had reached out from the boundary wall!
However, he was facing an ancient Dao Venerable had lived for 100,000 years.
Even a dying Dao Venerable, or an ordinary Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage of their cultivation, is nothing more than an ant or dust in their eyes, easily destroyed with a flick of the finger.
If it weren't for the fact that the vessel of the fruition had stabilized the realm, preventing him from intervening, then...
Otherwise, there would have been no need to send the Myriad Realms Thunder Cultivator into it, allowing Shi Jian to help kill the Night Beast Emperor and seize the vessel for the Fruit Position.
"Roll."
The rolling sounds of the Dao pierced through the barrier between the two realms, and resounded loudly in the Lightless Dead Realm.
The withered giant hand merely flicked its wrist lightly.
Rumble rumble rumble--!
The vast emptiness, like fragile thin glass, crumbled into dust inch by inch under this single sweep.
The boundless Profound Lightning lightning, like a celestial river of destruction pouring down from the heavens, instantly shattered the eight divine weapons that Ming Jue had unleashed into nothingness.
The raging thunderous force continued its relentless assault, striking the towering demonic body of the Ming Jue with tremendous force.
"Snap!"
The sound of bones shattering was like a dense, explosive explosion, as if the sky were collapsing and the earth were splitting.
The black-gold armor on the Nether Abyss Emperor, which was said to be impervious to all magic, crumbled and flew in large pieces under this palm strike, like paper.
Ming Jue's enormous body was like a meteorite struck by a giant hammer, spewing out Dark Gold primordial Essence Blood from its mouth, transforming into a shrill black line as it flew backward for millions of miles.
He then smashed through eight towering bone mountains, eventually sinking to a depth of 100,000 feet underground, where he remained lifeless, his fate unknown.
The power of a single strike severely injures someone in the Extreme Realm!
The world was silent.