Chapter 1691: A Dance of Demons and Monsters, Wraiths and Fiends

In an instant, countless heavy gazes were cast this way.

Among them were Sovereigns who ruled over great thousand worlds, Fourth-Step Limit Dao Children, Fifth-Step Limit Dao Children, and there might even be True Immortals present.

There might even be terrifying beings who had taken many steps toward True Immortality, true overlords of the endless starry skies—these creatures cast their gazes toward the newborn star.

The pressure at this moment was so heavy it was nearly suffocating, threatening to split the divine soul apart.

"Honored guests,"

"First time meeting…"

Jiang Ding's pupils unconsciously revealed a trace of crimson longing, and he said in a friendly tone: "This Sovereign is Master Tushan, born in a remote, secluded countryside, with feeble strength and shallow knowledge—I humbly hope each of you seniors will not begrudge a word or two of guidance today."

A surge of intense excitement rose in his divine soul, so elated he was nearly suffocating.

The star-trails of the myriad heavens fell silent.

"Another sword cultivator gone mad."

"Sigh! Having a traitor like Dragon Slave Sovereign is already enough, and now another mad sword cultivator appears…"

"Can our Human Race never produce a few normal beings?"

Many powerful beings around whispered, all helpless.

The Human Race was far too chaotic.

If it were ordinary times it would be one thing, but in this era when the holy bloodlines of the Nine Great Immortal Clans rise together and gods and Buddhas swallow the four corners, such a dance of demons and monsters always makes one think of the various portents of a dynasty's collapse.

"Hahaha!"

"Guidance, certainly, certainly!"

Within the star-trail of Xuanyuan Sword Shadow, a star positioned quite far forward laughed boldly, his voice warm and friendly, instinctively inspiring strong goodwill: "Where does Fellow Daoist's great thousand world lie?"

"The two of us could well exchange friendly visits and together resist the enemy of gods and Buddhas!"

"Naturally it is in…"

Jiang Ding was about to blurt it out, but smoothly paused, smiling: "Naturally it is in the endless starry skies, my Fellow Daoist."

"Sigh,"

"So it is a cowardly wretch."

The bold voice said in disappointment: "This Honored One is Seven Kill Daoist of the Seven Kill Divine Dynasty. If Fellow Daoist has leisure, feel free to visit This Honored One's place, where the two of us might discuss the mysteries and debate the Dao—would that not be delightful?"

"Fellow Daoist speaks rightly."

"This Sovereign is indeed a cowardly wretch."

Jiang Ding very smoothly expressed his apology.

"Hahaha…"

"Interesting."

Seven Kill Daoist laughed, no longer continuing to show hostility.

This newly appeared star gradually faded into the crowd of Human Race stars, utterly unremarkable, with nothing special about it.

The Star-Trail Court Session cast a few glances toward the newborn star, then paid it no more heed, continuing to discuss the great trends concerning the situation of the endless cosmos and starry skies.

"Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou

Star Domain battlefield is in crisis!"

"Our Human Race is in mortal peril! Once the Sun God's divine army breaks into the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain, a massive breach will appear in Human Race territory, and from then on the great trend will be lost—this truly is a moment of survival or extinction…"

A white-haired elder with a violent aura called out.

His star revealed its form, and also revealed clear coordinates of a great thousand world—none other than the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain, one of the most ancient core territories of the Human Race, possessing multiple great thousand worlds.

Jiang Ding listened with some bewilderment.

Then his gaze began sweeping his surroundings, constantly assessing, and finally he steered his own star away from the star-trail of Xuanyuan Sword Shadow, moving toward the star-trail of Suilong.

—Such an act, if it were when the Human Sovereign was still alive, would be a grave breach of court etiquette.

If it provoked the Human Sovereign's wrath, being sentenced to death was entirely possible.

But now, such wandering scenes could be seen everywhere and were nothing unusual.

Jiang Ding's star idled for a while on the Suilong star-trail, and finally locked onto a figure—a pure and blazing flower, radiating a hazy glow.

This person radiated the aura of a soft persimmon.

Saying it was a soft persimmon didn't quite seem right either; in any case, in Jiang Ding's sword-soul premonition, this person would be relatively easy to talk to, relatively easy to communicate with.

"Hello."

Jiang Ding poked the flower.

"Ah!"

The flower let out a shriek and swiftly fled, vanishing with a whoosh.

After quite a while, she reappeared at the edge of the Suilong star-trail, peeking about cautiously, warily watching the Destruction Star that had suddenly appeared beside her.

Her face showed hesitation, as if debating whether to immediately leave the Ten Thousand Laws Pivot.

"Hello,"

"My name is Master Tushan."

Jiang Ding flew toward her as slowly as possible, doing his utmost to convey friendliness.

That's right,

Confirmed—this person was indeed a soft persimmon.

Jiang Ding closed in step by step, approaching the radiant flower, causing her to gradually show a frightened look, though for some reason she did not leave the Ten Thousand Laws Pivot.

"You…"

"You-you-you…"

The radiant flower stammered: "Don't come any closer! If you come any closer I'll run!"

"You can't possibly catch me!"

"Alright."

Jiang Ding was nothing if not amenable.

He did not approach any closer, but instead sent over a beam of starlight that flew before this radiant flower and once more formed a thumb-sized youth figure — plain in appearance, about the same size as the radiant flower beside it.

The radiant flower relaxed considerably.

"My name is Master Tushan. What is yours?"

Jiang Ding asked amicably.

This person was a Dao Child — that youthful aura about him was far too obvious.

"Evil sword cultivator,"

"you absolutely cannot bewitch me!"

The radiant flower was extremely wary, but after a moment's hesitation still said: "I am the Holy Maiden of the Fusang Sacred Land, Shi Daoling. My Master told me to keep watch over the situation in the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain and not to flee the battlefield."

"Evil sword cultivator, don't come any closer to me."

She warned again.

"I am a sword cultivator who represents righteousness — I am not the same as those other despicable sword cultivators."

"You've got the wrong idea."

Jiang Ding rebutted her, then asked: "Daolingzi, is the human race losing ground on the battlefield? Who was that senior just now?"

He knew absolutely nothing about the entire human race — any disguise would be pointless, because without any intelligence a disguise simply wouldn't hold up. What sword cultivators wanted was to be open and aboveboard.

"My Master says all sword cultivators are scoundrels."

"You can't fool me."

Shi Daoling gave a light snort, but even so she still answered the question from the star before her, her voice laden with worry: "That was Senior Qingfeng Beidou Supreme. He is a Supreme who has weathered three calamities, an extraordinarily powerful one among Supremes — yet even such an existence could not withstand the assault of the gods and buddhas."

"The Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain is about to fall!"

"If the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain falls, the core territories of the human race will be left wide open — the human race is in peril…"

Through her explanation, Jiang Ding gradually came to understand the situation.

The human race was currently embroiled in extremely fierce internal strife.

Even while facing external enemies, internally there were at least ten large-scale clashes between Supremes still taking place — completely unable to resist the invasion of outside foes.

This time, Qingfeng Beidou Supreme's thunderous address atop the Myriad Laws Heavenly Pivot had been meant to rouse the human-race powerhouses locked in internal strife, to form a coalition army and annihilate the invading army of the Sun God's Lord.

Yet it seemed almost no one responded.

Many human-race powerhouses merely watched coldly; quite a few Supremes — such as Dragon Slave Supreme and others — even spoke with particularly biting, caustic words, harboring not the slightest intention of throwing themselves into the battlefield.

Jiang Ding himself felt much the same.

The Xian Gao Jie faced external enemies, the Fallen Immortal Realm faced external enemies — so many external foes had yet to be cleared away, where would one find the effort to reinforce the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain, to fight to the death for another faction?

The Myriad Laws Heavenly Pivot fell silent. Qingfeng Beidou Supreme, who had kept roaring and shouting, could only depart in utter desolation.