Chapter 994: The Great Reckoning Between the Outer World and the Evil Realm

Ji Ling's voice was hoarse.

She curled her body up, arms wrapped around herself, as if this could ward off the cold seeping from her very bones.

That pair of arrogant, icy eyes had become hollow and lusterless.

It was hard to imagine that this was the Empress of Ji Province.

"Ji Ling..."

Zhao Zhugui's voice calmed down, knowing that Ji Ling was in great pain at this moment.

Everything Ji Ling had plotted all along was for the revitalization of Ji Province.

The other party had failed, but from beginning to end, she had taken the revival of Ji Province as her own responsibility.

It was just that things in this world cannot be decided by a heart alone.

"Ji Ling, you are too weak."

Zhao Zhugui's voice was indifferent; Ji Ling looked at Zhao Zhugui, coldness emerging in her eyes.

But this time, she did not refute.

"The weak will be beaten," Zhao Zhugui spoke:

"Ji Province was originally the weakest of the five clans; only by obeying Chen Yan's orders could one seize benefits.

So from the very beginning, the defeat of Ji Province was fated."

Ji Ling gritted her teeth, looking at Zhao Zhugui:

"So, this is what you have wanted to say all along?"

"Isn't it?" Zhao Zhugui looked at Ji Ling:

"Do you still intend to devour the Lord of Martial Dao in the future?"

As Zhao Zhugui's voice fell, Ji Ling's pupils shrank:

"You!"

Ji Ling's voice trembled:

"You knew all along!"

Zhao Zhugui did not refute:

"Your intentions were too obvious."

Ji Ling gritted her teeth, staring fixedly at Zhao Zhugui, yet in the next moment, she suddenly deflated.

"Hahahaha!"

She laughed out loud:

"Ji Chen!"

Her voice was shrill:

"Chen Yan, you two fooled me, fooled Ji Province!"

Zhao Zhugui looked at Ji Ling faintly:

"I did not fool you; I was always giving you hope."

Ji Ling stared fixedly at Zhao Zhugui:

"What did you say?"

Zhao Zhugui, however, looked calmly at the firmament, the streaks of flowing light in the night sky entering his eyes.

"Compared to a future destined for failure, isn't giving you an illusory hope a way of saving you?"

Ji Ling clenched her fists, endless killing intent erupting in the depths of her eyes.

Zhao Zhugui, however, turned around, leaving his back exposed to Ji Ling.

"Ji Ling, your heart is too small—so small that it can only hold Ji Province."

As Zhao Zhugui spoke, Ji Ling never made a move.

The next moment, Zhao Zhugui descended the mountain.

Ji Ling followed behind.

"Why follow me?" Zhao Zhugui did not look back.

"I want to watch you die with my own eyes," Ji Ling's voice was cold:

"The human world has reached the time of the apocalypse.

What can you, Chen Yan, do?

I want to watch you die with my own eyes, watch you die in endless despair!"

Zhao Zhugui did not speak, his pace quickening.

On the surface he was fine, but within his body, earth-shattering changes were occurring at every moment.

Ascending to the Ninth Rank.

At the same time.

Above the firmament.

Li Zhiyi was also ascending to the Ninth Rank.

At the same time.

The Evil Realm.

Malice as thick as ink surged on the sea surface, rolling and crashing against the void, emitting wailing-like roars.

The pitch-black tide was boundless, swallowing the sky and devouring the earth.

In that sea of boundless malice, there was an abyss formed by endless malice, frantically exhaling and inhaling even more violent auras, sweeping in all directions with the momentum to destroy the world.

The entire Evil Realm.

In the Central Divine Soil, all the Pure Lands were like boats tossing on the crest of a wave, like candles flickering in the wind.

"It's over, our Evil Realm is about to be annihilated!"

"Where is the Master of the Array, where is the Dao Child?"

"Where is the Venerable Chen Yan!"

Above every single Jing Tu.

Living beings had their eyes split with rage, their wails and screams swallowed by the sound of the tide.

Some held their children in despair, others knelt on the ground trembling.

Fear was like a cold, poisonous snake, coiling so tightly that even their breathing tasted of blood.

The abyss was still expanding, as if it would drag this entire world into eternal night.

People had witnessed powerful tides of malice, and they had seen the might of the supreme ancient divine beasts.

But this time today was the greatest, endless fear they had ever seen in their lives.

The kind of fear coiled within their bloodlines was enough to make everyone suffocate.

Yun Hai Dao Fu.

Inside the great hall.

Most of the Eighth-Rank powerhouses of the entire Evil Realm were here.

Because Turbid Core Umeng was guarding the Yun Hai Dao Fu under Chen Yan's orders.

Almost all living beings of the Evil Realm knew that the Yun Hai Dao Fu was the safest place.

Plus, the Yun Hai Dao Fu turned no one away, and now it housed the majority of the Tainted Blood Human Race of the Evil Realm.

On the main seat of the great hall.

"Venerable Chen Yan, where are you now?"

Mu Yanwan's eyes were filled with despair; feeling the constantly encroaching aura of the apocalypse, she felt hopeless.

To her, who had just ascended to the Eighth Rank, it seemed that within the abyss of malice that pierced through the Evil Realm, there hid evil spirits and filth that could instantly annihilate her.

At this moment, all Mu Yanwan could think of was Chen Yan.

Whenever she thought of that person, she would become dazed and vocalize.

But ever since that one time she saw him within the Court of Malice.

Mu Yanwan had never seen Chen Yan again.

It was as if that person had completely vanished from the world just like that.

Inside the great hall, looks of despair appeared in the eyes of all the Eighth-Rankers of the Evil Realm.

"If the Master of the Array does not appear, or perhaps he has already..."

"What should we do? I can feel that if I get close to that abyss of malice, I will die instantly."

"What about Venerable Chen Yan? Could Venerable Chen Yan have already..."

"Venerable Turbid Core Umeng, what should we do now?"

Someone spoke up, looking at the woman in the black dress who had been standing quietly beside a jade pillar.

That person was the strongest in the Evil Realm, and also the only Ninth-Ranker today.

Many people did not know that she was actually an ancient divine beast.

Endless fear appeared in the eyes of Turbid Core Umeng:

"I cannot go; if I go..."

She did not continue; ancient divine beasts held absolute faith in the Ancient Gods.

Now, she was already in extreme pain before she had even gone to help Fanni.

Seeing Turbid Core Umeng like this, everyone became even more desperate.

"Heavens, is my Evil Realm going to perish?"

A man named Peng Linjun knelt on the ground, eyes closed, as if already waiting for death.

And at this very moment.

Hum!

Countless sword shadows suddenly appeared from outside the great hall.

"Who is it!"

Someone shouted in a low voice.

Yet they saw a man wearing an outsider's military uniform standing suspended in the air at the entrance of the great hall.

Everyone looked at the other party, surprised by his strange attire.

Shen Yiwei looked at Mu Yanwan and the others inside the great hall, his mind shaken.

If the abyss of malice had not opened a path between the outside world and the Evil Realm, he might never have known in his entire life that there was another world for the human race.

"You all, come out for a moment," Shen Yiwei said.

Everyone narrowed their eyes, ignoring Shen Yiwei entirely.

"Listen to him," Turbid Core Umeng said, looking at Shen Yiwei with complex eyes.

Everyone frowned, then walked out of the great hall.

Yet they saw.

Outside the Yun Hai Dao Fu, there were dozens of humans wearing military uniforms standing in formation.

Mu Yanwan and the others felt suspicious and uncertain.

They did not know that such a group of people existed in the Evil Realm.

The next moment.

Shen Yiwei arrived before the numerous military guards and looked down at Mu Yanwan and the others, speaking with a metallic clang:

"People of the Yun Hai Prefecture, hear my order!

The Heavenly God General now commands you to divide into four groups and proceed respectively to the cities of Yu Prefecture, Lu Prefecture, Chen Prefecture, and Chi Prefecture to suppress the Ancient God Fanni!"

Shen Yiwei's voice was resonant, echoing outward.

At this moment, the hundreds of millions of living beings throughout the Yun Hai Prefecture looked up in bewilderment.

"What kind of thing are you, and what kind of nonsense is a Heavenly God General!"

An Eighth-Rank supreme expert growled aloud.

Shen Yiwei's brows furrowed.

Behind him, Zhang Ting and the others remained silent.

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Jiang Yuan's mouth; the next moment, he was stared at by Jidao Wu and the others, and he had no choice but to cover his mouth.

Shen Yiwei waved one hand, and a ball of light containing will appeared.

The next moment.

A golden-red stream of light tore through the air, condensing in the void into a phantom image of Chen Yan.

His figure was as upright as a mountain, his sleeves fluttering wildly, golden radiance wrapped in red light circulating around his body, as if a magnificent heavenly might were pouring down.

In an instant.

The entire Yun Hai Prefecture fell into absolute silence.

Jiang Yuan, Zhang Ting, Jidao Wu, and the others narrowed their eyes and looked down toward the earth.

Their gazes swept across those faces filled with awe.

"Greetings, Master!"

Mu Yanwan was the first to kneel on one knee, tears appearing in her eyes.

"Greetings, Master!" Peng Linjun's voice trembled, and he prostrated himself directly on the ground.

The next moment.

Whoosh!

"Greetings, Venerable One!"

"Greetings, Venerable One!"

"Greetings, Venerable One!"

"Greetings, Venerable One!"

Awe-filled, trembling voices resounded throughout the entire Yun Hai Prefecture.

Countless people gazed at his phantom image, knelt down, and tears fell from their eyes.

"It is the god of our human race; he has appeared!"

"The Master of the Array is not here, but he is still here!"

"Greetings, Venerable One!"

Passionate, trembling voices resounded just like this, surging like boiling water throughout the entire Yun Hai Prefecture.

Shen Yiwei and the other military guards who had come trembled, their hearts shaken.