The void, far away.
On the continent of Haojing, there is a small, barren and secluded star on the edge of the large 'vacuum' area created by Lu Yi's relocation of stars.
The planet is not big, with a diameter of more than 20,000 miles, and can be home to hundreds of millions of civilians. Because the land is not fertile, there is not much production, and the eyes of those big families and big forces have never been set on this small planet. On this small star, hundreds of millions of people are divided into more than a dozen countries , large and small, fighting each other, scheming against each other all day long, performing scenes of the "Warring States Period".
A fierce battle broke out on the border between two kingdoms of similar strength. Both sides dispatched millions of troops, and blood and flesh were flying on the battle line that stretched for hundreds of miles.
On the edge of the battlefield, on the top of a hill, Monk Sanzang stood quietly on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the bloody battlefield. He had a half-smile on his face, and clasped his hands together. A string of white bone Buddhist beads made from human skull bones slid between his fingers like a living thing. Occasionally, the Buddhist beads collided with each other, making a shrill howl. The soul imprisoned in the Buddhist beads by the Dharma was burned by the Buddha's flames and was in agony, so it cursed and greeted Monk Sanzang crazily.
This string of 108 white bone Buddhist beads was made by Monk Sanzang during his days of wandering around and killing the great celestial monarchs stationed in the 108 celestial realms. He forced all of their energy, spirit, cultivation and soul into the one-inch square bone on top of their heads, then took them out with his own hands and polished them bit by bit.
One hundred and eight great celestial kings of heaven had their skulls turned into prisons, and they suffered the pain of the Buddhist teachings day and night in these Buddhist beads. Their crazy and hysterical curses did not hurt Monk Sanzang at all, but instead made him feel more relieved.
"Good, good, all living beings suffer. In the past, you were high above, like gods, sitting high in the clouds, overlooking all living beings. Could you possibly understand the suffering of billions of living beings in this world?" Monk Sanzang listened to the roars and curses of these great celestial monarchs, watched the bloody fight of millions of troops on the battlefield, and sighed heavily: "When will you be free?"
Bai Zun stood behind Monk Sanzang. At this moment, she was clearly a stunningly beautiful woman with beautiful features that could overwhelm a country. She had long, shiny hair that flowed like a waterfall, and she was wearing an extremely gorgeous blood-red wedding dress. There were several red lanterns, golden incense burners, and dozens of exquisite wedding jewelry floating around her.
Hearing what Monk Sanzang said, Bai Zun chuckled: "Yes, when you die, you won't suffer anymore. When you die, you will be free!"
After laughing a few times, Bai Zun suddenly raised his head and a sharp scream swept across the void.
On the battlefield below, the heads of the millions of troops from both sides, hundreds of thousands of logistical support troops, and even millions of large livestock such as cattle, donkeys, and mules, all exploded, and blood spurted all over the sky.
The blood turned into blood mist, and then condensed into very fine blood-colored spiritual light, which came across the air and was swallowed by Bai Zun. Bai Zun's aura increased a tiny bit, and then, this slight increase was like throwing a small flame into a sea of ​​kerosene. Bai Zun's aura began to advance by leaps and bounds, and began to soar wildly.
Monk Sanzang turned around in astonishment and looked at Bai Zun: "Why?"
Bai Zun's eyes flashed with blood, and she looked towards the direction of Haojing Continent in a trance: "The Shenyin formed by these little guys Lu Yi and Yin Yuan is killing a lot of people, and the speed is very fast. Moreover, the cultivation level of the dead is very high... Hehe!"
In Shenyin Continent, in the city of Haojing.
In celebration of Yin Yuan's wedding, the entire city was decorated with lights and red brocades were hung everywhere. Many wealthy families lit up various incense burners and tripods in front of their doors, with all kinds of incense curling around the air. There were also pairs of red candles, illuminating all directions.
No one noticed.
No one, including Lu Yi, could find the "non-heaven" hidden in those lanterns, brocades, incense burners, incense tripods, red candles, red carpets and other items!
In fact, the huge city of Haojing has hundreds of millions of citizens, and the number of red makeup and ceremonial objects of various colors is more than one billion. Feitian's abilities are mysterious and unpredictable. They hide in red lanterns, red brocades, and swaying red candles.
Unless these non-heavenly beings burst out with aura and do something weird, who would have nothing to do but check these incense burners, candles, lanterns, incense tripods and other things one by one, from house to house? Not to mention, there are so many young girls and wives wearing red makeup today, and wearing red robes that symbolize auspiciousness!
A large number of non-heavenly beings concealed their aura and hid in today's Haojing City.
The countless mutated citizens stirred up their magic power and blood, brazenly attacking the imperial city's defense formation, smashing themselves into pieces on the defense restrictions. They died, they died quickly, very cleanly... Their blood, their soul fragments, everything they had, turned into blood mist, spreading throughout the city, and turned into blood rain, falling down one after another, dyeing the streets, alleys, palaces and pavilions all bloody.
Emperor Taichu did this to add some psychological pressure to Yinyuan, Lu Yi, and the people around them, or perhaps Emperor Taichu also had a mentality of "malicious revenge".
However, it is still unknown whether Lu Yi and Yin Yuan were frightened by what the Emperor Taichu did. Bai Zun has already benefited greatly from it... These citizens of Haojing, whose bodies were invaded by the blood cells of the Emperor Taichu and who were forcibly transformed into the "weird clones" of the Emperor Taichu, and whose cultivation was greatly improved, blew themselves up and died.
They are, resentful!
Especially, on this happy day, on this auspicious and joyful day, a catastrophic disaster suddenly struck. One's life, body, and everything about him were completely out of control. They were directly destroyed by the Taichu Emperor with his strange and great magical powers... The total amount of such resentment is simply incalculable.
The source of Bai Zun's power is precisely the resentment, death, and all kinds of unlucky evil and strange energy that are difficult for outsiders to use.
More and more mutated citizens crashed into the city defense formation and continued to explode and die.
The many Feitian hiding in the city of Haojing frantically devoured the death energy and resentment emitted by the citizens, devoured their essence and blood, and devoured the magic power and soul fragments lost from their bodies. Some of them belonged to themselves, but most of them were directly transferred across the air into Bai Zun's body through the strange connection between these Feitian and Bai Zun.
These mutated citizens were infused with the star power of the ancient stars controlled by the Great Emperor Taichu, and their cultivation became stronger and stronger.
The cultivation bases of most of the mutated citizens who self-destructed at first were still below those of the Heavenly Generals…but when Yin Yuan and Emperor Taichu were confronting each other, the cultivation bases of those mutated citizens who rushed forward to self-destruct had advanced by leaps and bounds, soaring to above those of the Heavenly Generals.
Star Lord, Heaven Lord, Great Heaven Lord...
There was even a master with a ripple of Daoist aura, who could be called a "half-step emperor", who crashed headfirst into the crumbling city defense formation, and a large area of ​​light towers turned to ashes, and the half-step emperor-level mutant city dweller was also annihilated. At the same time, streets and neighborhoods in all directions were also destroyed...
The city of Haojing formed a large formation in itself.
With the Imperial City as the center, every street and every neighborhood naturally became a large formation, and was also part of a larger defensive formation. When these mutated citizens clashed and exploded outside the Imperial City, all the formations had already been spontaneously activated, and layers of light curtains covered all directions, and quickly nested into layers of larger combined formations.
However, faced with the self-detonation of these half-step emperor-level masters, streets were swept away, neighborhoods were flattened, countless magnificent buildings were reduced to ashes in an instant, and countless lanterns, brocades, incense burners, red candles and other objects were also completely dissipated by the terrifying power caused by the self-detonation.
Well, the area around the imperial city, nearly ten thousand miles in radius, is completely flat.
In the void, dozens of red lanterns, dozens of pairs of red candles, dozens of red brocades, and a dozen incense burners and incense pots spewing out smoke, are suspended in the air, very lonely, very confused, and very helpless.
All the shelters of these Fei Tian's hiding places were destroyed. They showed their true forms helplessly, and frantically asked their leaders using secret methods - uh, they can't hide anymore, they have been discovered, what should they do next?
On the small, barren planet, Bai Zun chuckled, laughing extremely happily and excitedly: "No need to hide, no need to hide, just show up and watch the fun... In this situation, will both of them be so reckless as to provoke us?"
As Bai Zun laughed, in the streets, neighborhoods, gardens, mansions, cottages, and pavilions in Haojing City that were far away from the imperial city and had not been destroyed, spots of blood rose up.
Embroidered shoes, red silk scarves, brocade sachets, sweat towels with the scent of powder... all kinds of strange objects flew into the air, with a total of about one million. Baiwan Feitian appeared, and they swayed in the wind and turned into vivid women in red skirts, standing in the air with a charming smile, pointing at Yinyuan.
Just as Bai Zun expected.
Yinyuan pretended not to see them.
They also stayed away from Emperor Taiyu and the 'bride escort' team standing in mid-air, as if these non-heavenly beings did not exist.
The 108 Great Emperors of Taichu, who were suspended in the air and had stepped into the Great Emperor realm, looked at Yin Yuan without blinking. Strands of starlight continued to come across the air and continuously injected into them and the bodies of the mutant citizens below who were ready to go. Their strength and realm were still rapidly improving.
A red figure appeared silently beside Yinyuan.
Wearing a red wedding dress, with a radiant face and extremely beautiful, Lady White sneered and stood beside Yin Yuan. She held Yin Yuan's arm with one hand and shouted at the 108 "Taichu Great Emperors": "Taichu, you are completely ignoring our friendship over the years. Are you going to completely break up with us?"
Across the rift in time and space, standing at the south gate of Heaven, Emperor Taichu sneered repeatedly.
"Fraid? No, has it already been torn apart?"
In front of the imperial city, in mid-air, an incarnation of the Great Emperor Taichu pointed his finger, and a hazy and chaotic halo emerged. In the halo, it was Dugu Jue who ordered the palace maids to beat Yun Niang with a stick, causing her to scream in pain and blood to fly everywhere.
The expression of Emperor Taichu became extremely strange.
He had cut off all the tenderness and affection for this woman in his soul, all the warmth and sweetness he had ever had... He had cut off all the emotions related to this woman with his own hands and destroyed them with his own hands.
At this moment, seeing Yun Niang being punished by Dugu Jue, he did not feel "heartbroken", but just "angry" and "ashamed"!
Among the 108 clones of the Great Emperor Taichu, half of them glanced at the Dugu clan's bride escort team in the distance. Of course, the Dugu clan had contributed to the smooth appearance of these clones in the city of Haojing. But Dugu Jue actually did such a thing, so the Dugu clan's crime was greater than their merits. After this incident, the Dugu clan must be destroyed!
The Great Emperor Taichu said in a very cold voice: "This is the woman I intend to canonize as the Queen of Heaven! She should be the Queen of Heaven! You, Shen Yin, are so bold and arrogant that you actually bully and humiliate my Queen of Heaven in this way."
"Today, there can only be one Heavenly Court or Shen Yin."
Following the rebuke from the Great Emperor Taichu, a mutated city dweller who was a thousand miles tall, with skin covered with a thick layer of dark golden dragon scales, the aura of a ferocious beast, and three pairs of dragon horns on his forehead, roared.
He rushed to the main gate of the imperial city of Haojing in one step. He opened his arms and slammed his body like a dark cloud. Countless dark golden dragon scales on his body lit up at the same time, and dazzling lightning and thunder spewed out from each dragon scale. With a loud bang that shook the earth, this incredibly large clone exploded.
A layer of flexible gray gas appeared above the imperial city of Haojing.
White Snake stood beside Yinyuan, with a thirty-six-story hexagonal pagoda hanging above her head. The small pagoda was gray and filled with a suffocating and uncomfortable air. When one's eyes fell on it, even the soul seemed to be sucked away by the dead silence.
Wisps of gray air gushed out from the doors of every floor of the pagoda, transforming into misty clouds that obscured the entire imperial city.
The original defense formation of the imperial city was blown to pieces by the self-detonation of this giant clone. Violent clouds of thunder and fire spread rapidly in all directions, and wherever it passed, the defense formations of streets and neighborhoods were all flattened. The self-detonation of this giant directly destroyed all the remaining buildings in Haojing City, and completely razed the originally magnificent and beautiful Haojing City to the ground. Only the imperial city in the center was still standing tall under the protection of White Snake's treasure.
“Tower of the Dead.” The Great Emperor Taichu exclaimed faintly, “Sure enough, it’s in your hands.”
"According to the original trajectory of the Supreme Primordial Heaven, and according to the original destiny of this world, this world should be divided into three realms." The Great Emperor of Primordial Chu murmured: "The Heavenly Realm is high above, ruling the world and mediating life and death. The living world and the dead world are two sides of the same coin, forming a perfect return of life, soul, and energy."
"It's just that, for reasons we all know, something went wrong with the creation of the heaven and earth of the Supreme Primordial Heaven. The Undead Realm was not successfully conceived and failed to appear. However, the control hub of the Undead Realm, the symbol of supreme authority, this Undead Tower that controls the true meaning of death, was already conceived at the beginning of the creation of the heaven and earth!"
"Over the years, I have always been curious about who owns this Death Tower."
The Great Emperor Taichu murmured, "Originally, I thought that Tai Mi had gained the advantage... He might be the most scheming person among the three of us. He gained the advantage but didn't say anything, pretending that nothing happened. This is something he can do."
"But I didn't expect that the one who really controls the Death Tower is you!" Taichu Emperor nodded slowly: "That makes sense. You seem to have stayed indoors all these years, eating and drinking all day long, and spending your days carefree. In fact, you are comprehending the great way of life and death and controlling the power of death, right?"
"But, although you have obtained the Tower of the Dead... the world of Supreme Primordial Heaven did not open up a world of the dead that is one and the same as the world of the living as planned. Without the world of the dead, you only have authority, but you have lost the source of your power..."
The eyes of the Great Emperor Taichu flickered, fixed on Yinyuan: "So, Bainiu, what do you want? With your status, your temper, and your pride back then... Taiyi and I both pursued you without regard for our dignity, but you just ignored us..."
"You are so proud, yet you actually fell for this dandy loser, a loser who already has so many women around him."
"Don't tell me that you really have love for him? For people like us, isn't the thing called 'love' too extravagant and too hypocritical?" Taichu Emperor chuckled, but there was no trace of smile in his smile.
Yin Yuan turned his head and looked at Bai Niangzi.
Um?
What did Emperor Taichu mean by this?
Isn’t it because of my charm and the true love between me and White Snake that she married me?
Yinyuan's expression changed slightly and he was about to speak.
White Snake had already hugged his arm and said calmly, "How strange! You have actually learned to sow discord and say that others have shortcomings... With your personality, you shouldn't do such things. So, what are you afraid of?"
The Great Emperor Taichu was silent for a moment, and then he gently shook the Star Flag in his hand. A stream of stars roared in, and poured into the bodies of the remaining half of the mutated citizens in Haojing City. The aura of these clones soared again, and they roared like wild beasts, flew into the air, formed a military formation, and rushed towards the imperial city.
Just as these mutated citizens formed a battle formation, countless clusters of stars suddenly lit up in the sky above Haojing City in broad daylight.
Clusters of starlight surged like a tsunami. Countless huge starlight whirlpools took shape in the void, echoing with the military formation formed by the mutated citizens of the city. The magical powers were like natural disasters, slamming towards the imperial city.
Lady Bai sighed, "Let's fight. This time, he is right. Even if we want to mediate, there is no way to mediate... How could that Dugu Jue be worthy enough to become the Imperial Consort of Shen Yin? Just depose her!"
"Ah? Ah? Oh!" Yin Yuan was stunned, then nodded vigorously - that's right, Dugu Jue, is to be deposed... Speaking of which, no matter how Yun Niang was sent into his own harem, but as an imperial concubine, if you are usually kind to others, you are nicer, gentler, and more kind to Yun Niang instead of pinning her down and beating her with a big stick , then even if Emperor Taichu wants to turn against her, he will not be able to find an excuse!
Of course, if Emperor Taichu wanted to cause trouble, he would definitely find other excuses.
But at least, he didn't have to bear the charge of "bullying weak girls", right? Because of this inexplicable charge, he was beaten up and his home was messed up. When Yin Yuan thought about it, he felt angry!
Even if Yinyuan and Emperor Taichu had a grudge against each other for killing their father, it would sound better if we said it out loud!
"Meet the challenge!" Yinyuan rolled up his sleeves and shouted in a very bachelor-like voice.
Although Lu Yi was not present, with the presence of White Snake and the Tower of the Dead that even the Great Emperor Taichu was quite vigilant about, Yin Yuan felt that our family was not weak either, and we could do it!
Around the city of Haojing, in large military camps, countless soldiers drove warships into the air.
Some of these soldiers were private armies of the Linghu clan, Dugu clan, Nangong clan, Beimen clan and other powerful clans, and some were recruited by Ahu and the Tiger Lords of Baihu Hall in recent years. The main force was the elite of the four major clans of Yaojiao, Yaksha, Rakshasas and Asuras, which had multiplied to billions in recent years under the effect of the time acceleration magic that Lu Yi had conquered in the small world outside the domain.
In the void, patrol fleets from the Haojing Continent also landed one after another, broke through the atmosphere, and gathered towards the direction of Haojing.
The one hundred and eight clones of the Great Emperor Taichu roared in unison. Their auras soared into the sky. Thunder, lightning, fire, dark clouds, and all kinds of strange phenomena surged. The space-time rift behind them suddenly expanded. Along with low whistling sounds, a large number of elite troops of the Heavenly Court drove warships and burst out from the space-time rift.
"Buzz!"
The army formed by countless mutated citizens of the city has heavily crashed into the gray deathly aura emanating from the Necromancer Tower.
The Tower of the Dead represents the way of the dead, one of the two supreme ways in the "regular way of heaven and earth" that was "destined" and "fated" by the Supreme Primordial Heaven during the "natural gestation" of the heaven and earth.
One can imagine the status and power of the Tower of the Dead.
Although due to some reasons, the Supreme Primordial Heaven did not succeed in giving birth to the plan of Heaven and Earth, and the Dead Spirit Heaven did not appear at all, the power of the Dead Spirit Tower is still extraordinary.
The huge army surged forward, and was swept away by the gray gas. Countless mutated citizens of the city closed their eyes silently, and fell from the army like heavy stones, landing on the ground with a "bang".
Their energy, their magic power, their souls were all devoured by the Tower of the Dead, leaving behind a shriveled body of no value. Everything they had was plundered by the Tower of the Dead.
These shriveled, pale corpses fell to the ground, and the millions of flying celestials who were watching the fun around them were actually unable to extract much useful things from them - well, that is, the overwhelming resentment and unwillingness were swallowed up completely by these non-heavenly beings... Even so, compared with the mutated citizens who had self-destructed before, the gains of the non-heavenly beings were reduced by 70% to 80%.
"Since we've torn our faces apart, then, let's just be shameless." White Snake let out a long howl, and pointed her finger, and the doors on the thirty-six floors of the Death Tower opened one by one. Tiny sickles flashed with a faint light and rushed out, spinning towards the countless mutant citizens in the sky. Many mutant citizens were harvested without even being able to launch a single attack.
In the void, Lu Yi felt the terrifying fluctuations coming from the direction of Haojing Continent.
He frowned and looked at Laojun of the Heavenly Book and the thirty-six obviously extraordinary alien powers.
"Can't we just let today's matter go?" Lu Yi asked Laojun of the Heavenly Book very seriously.
At this moment, Tianshu Laojun had understood a lot of things. He looked at the thirty-six aliens and shook his head gently: "Since they have all appeared...how can we let it go? This matter, I also had no idea about it beforehand!"
Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "With this posture, you want to..."
"You will be a very good specimen." An alien said, his handsome face like a god with a brilliant smile: "As humble as you are, you can actually condense the speed fruit... No matter what the reason is, you have irreplaceable value... If you surrender obediently, we can give you certain preferential treatment."
"What kind of preferential treatment?" Lu Yu interrupted him: "You treat me like an ancestor, worship me? Grant me whatever I ask for? Eat well and wear good clothes?"
The alien pondered for a moment and nodded slowly: "At our level, telling lies is meaningless. Our preferential treatment to you is to try to make your death as painless as possible during the process of you becoming our test subject."
"Death?" Lu Yi frowned. "Will the result of surrendering still be death?"
"Of course!" The alien said to Lu Yi sincerely, "What can I do? If I want to study the causes and consequences of your condensation of the speed fruit, and figure out the fundamental issues and key issues here... you will definitely be chopped and ground up bit by bit, and carefully and meticulously, and thoroughly studied from the macro to the micro."
"We will study your body thoroughly bit by bit. We will study your soul thoroughly bit by bit. We will also capture your relatives and clansmen, and all the living beings related to you, and then grind them down bit by bit for a thorough study."
"For the sake of our reproduction, for the sake of our strength, for the sake of our power, to always be above all other intelligent races... In order for our race to always dominate other races and not be surpassed by other races... A rare specimen like you must be studied thoroughly, and you will never be allowed to live!"
"All threatening individuals will be devoured and destroyed. Isn't this a very simple truth?" The alien asked Lu Yu very sincerely: "Do you think it is right?"
Lu Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Maybe you are right. But, in fact, I only have one small wish!"
"I don't want to get involved in your messy, grand, or ambitious plans... In fact, I just want to live a peaceful life and live longer!"
"A thousand years!"
"a thousand years!"
"If possible, let me live healthily and happily forever without any disease or disaster... I don't seek fame or status, as long as I can live healthily, happily and vigorously... Even if I live in a thatched cottage, even if I just eat corn cobs and sweet potatoes all day, I will be very happy!"
"But you want me to die..." Lu Yi smiled at these aliens very seriously: "In fact, I have never experienced what you did to the Supreme Primordial Heaven, so I don't care."
"In fact, no matter what you did to the holy land of Nalanda, I have never experienced it either. I don't care."
"In fact, even if you have an irreconcilable blood feud with my father in this life, Lu Yu... I haven't experienced it, so I don't ."
"In fact, if you don't bother me, and you let me be quiet and peaceful, and take my relatives and friends with you, and carve out a small piece of land for us to live happily... I don't care about anything."
"But you came to my door, you want me dead..." Lu Yi sighed: "You crossed my bottom line, I care a lot!"
The alien smiled even more brightly: "I can see that you are a bit selfish... What you care about most is to live longer? We have defeated and devoured countless enemies, and we have seen countless heroes, tyrants, or... bears... But we have never seen someone with your level of power who only has such a small wish!"
"But no matter what you think, your fate is determined."
In the void, strange flowers bloom.
Strands of dark green divine light condensed into strange runes.
The void was frozen, time stood still, and thirty-six powerful aliens attacked together, turning into streams of light and rushing towards Lu Yi.
Someone whispered, "Be careful and try to keep the sample intact!"