Chapter 619: Liu Shen is Peerless

"Yutuo, what is the meaning of your existence?"

The Immortal Ancient war is about to begin; when that time comes, the heavens will surely collapse and the earth will shatter, hundreds of millions of living beings will be plunged into misery, and it may even turn into the Dharma-Ending Era, where the laws of heaven and earth crumble and the cultivation of all living beings becomes fraught with difficulty.

Yutuo was stunned, feeling that Anlan had changed a lot over the past thousand years; if not for the fact that he was familiar with the essence of Anlan's soul deep down, he would have thought that Anlan might have been possessed by a Great Ability from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

He thought for a moment and said: "If one must speak of the meaning of existence, it is naturally to pursue the true peak of the Great Dao, to become the strongest in the Foreign Realm, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and even the Immortal Domain, to assault that eternal, immortal imperial throne, to exist throughout the ages, and to appreciate such scenery. Of course, in this process of pursuing the Dao, one cannot avoid mountains of corpses and seas of blood numbering in the hundreds of millions."

Yutuo recalled the past; when he regained consciousness, he was already in the Foreign Realm, and his memories from before he woke up had long since been lost.

Because the Foreign Realm was corrupted by the power of Darkness and became soil for Darkness, the bodies of living beings who died on this land would become spiritual after tens of thousands of years and live another life, but the price was the loss of their memories from before death.

However, not just anyone could have their body become spiritual and undergo Reincarnation through Nirvana; most, even if reborn, became bloodthirsty monsters, lost and sinking into slaughter, becoming Death Puppets.

Yutuo was lucky; he possessed autonomous consciousness, and then, relying on instinct, he devoured other dark creatures, constantly growing stronger, constantly breaking through to higher realms, and finally, with the help of the Origin Ancient Artifact, became an Immortal King with heaven-reaching cultivation.

Like Yutuo, Anlan's evolutionary journey was the same.

In the process of Anlan's rise, Yutuo felt as if he were seeing his former self, which is why the two became close friends.

Fortunately, he did not live up to his expectations, and Anlan also successfully transformed into an Immortal King under the power of the Origin Ancient Artifact.

"Anlan, without special opportunities, I fear my realm will stop at Immortal King Giant. If we attack the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and use their living beings for Blood Sacrifice, the Origin Ancient Artifact will gather new sacrificial power, and our strength might be able to improve once again," Yutuo continued.

"The Origin Ancient Artifact! Without it, I would not have stepped into the realm of an Immortal King," Anlan could not help but sigh.

In distant legends, it seems that at the end of the Era of Emperor Fall, two mysterious objects drifted over from the Boundary Sea, which was full of darkness and terror.

A Bone Staff, an Imperial Bone Crown!

The Imperial Bone Crown fell into a region, and that place became a major Forbidden Area of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths: the Burial Earth.

Furthermore, a terrifying Burial King was born; like an Immortal King, a Burial King is immortal and undying, with an indestructible Primordial Spirit.

It is just that cultivators of the Burial Earth rarely participate in external disputes; their cultivation only requires burying themselves in the earth and sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years to become immortals, and those with exceptional talent even undergo extreme transformation.

The Bone Staff landed in the Foreign Realm, and subsequently, this land became soil for Darkness; one Immortal King after another was born, and the Dark Turmoil stirred up one bloody storm after another.

"It seems you still remember; after all, it has been hundreds of thousands of years since you became an Immortal King.

Besides the Origin Ancient Artifact, one reason we must fight the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is that the legendary key is also there; if we obtain that key, we could even become the legendary... Emperor!"

A look of undisguised fanaticism suddenly appeared on Yutuo's face; his whole person looked quite distorted, extremely excited.

Anlan took this scene in; the key Yutuo spoke of was actually the Rotten Wooden Box, which was even more weird than the Bone Staff and the Imperial Bone Crown.

He had read the Script, so he naturally knew what the Rotten Wooden Box really was; that thing was not something to be trifled with.

Hidden within it was a portion of the Primordial Spirit and Flesh of the legendary Corpse Immortal Emperor; if the Rotten Wooden Box were opened prematurely, the Corpse Immortal Emperor would be resurrected.

Never mind the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths; the Foreign Realm, the Boundary Sea, and the Immortal Domain would all be wiped out by the Corpse Immortal Emperor.

Because at this time, the Corpse Immortal Emperor had already been polluted and blackened by the black blood from the Heavens Above, and his true self was lost.

And in this era, there is no Huang Tiandi; once the Corpse Immortal Emperor is resurrected, this epoch will come to an end.

"What should I do? How should I explain it? Even if I explain, Yutuo probably won't listen; it's difficult."

Multiple thoughts flashed through Anlan's mind, but in the end, he did not speak.

"Anlan, don't overthink it. Although you are my junior, I have always considered you a close friend. If there is a war with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, I will protect you, although I feel your strength seems to have surpassed mine," Yutuo said, his eyes full of gratification.

"Ah... yes, yes. I have also always considered you a close friend, Yutuo.

But why do your eye sockets look a bit dark? Did you not rest well?" Anlan asked.

By logic, having already reached the strength of an Immortal King, it is impossible to lack vitality, and Yutuo had long since lost worldly desires, no longer creating descendants, and was focused on cultivation?

Yutuo was a bit embarrassed and said:

"It is strange to say; a thousand years ago, I don't know what happened, but whenever I cultivated, I only felt gusts of cold wind behind me, with the sounds of ghosts and gods whispering in my ears, followed by a cold sweat, and even the light of my Primordial Spirit dimmed a bit.

Although I have recovered quite a bit over these years, the feeling from back then is still vivid in my memory."

Hearing this, a flash of inspiration struck Anlan's mind.

A thousand years ago, wasn't that just after he joined the Chat Group and obtained the most weird divine ability in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations, the Nail-Head Seven-Arrow Book?

To test this divine ability, he used his good friend Yutuo as a test subject, and the effect was significant.

During that time, Yutuo never came to find him and was almost always in seclusion, sleeping to recover his vitality.

It was just unexpected that the aftereffects of the Nail-Head Seven-Arrow Book would be so severe; even now, Yutuo still looked completely drained.

Thinking of this, Anlan felt somewhat guilty.

Not long after, Yutuo gave some instructions regarding the plans for the Immortal Ancient decisive battle, urged him repeatedly to keep it secret, and then slowly left.

"What a pity, Yutuo. I am no longer the Anlan of the past. The Foreign Realm is already preparing for the decisive battle; I wonder how the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are preparing."

With a thought, Anlan left the Imperial City and went to the Imperial Pass near the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

This Imperial Pass Heavenly Abyss possessed the mysterious power of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths; as long as an Undying stepped into it, they would be swallowed up by the Heavenly Abyss, causing a Giant to fall.

And the Heavenly Abyss is not an abyss, but rather shoots straight into the firmament, with no known end. Looking up, one could see shattered stars, bones decayed by time, and weird mist; staring for even a little too long would make one's scalp tingle.

At this time, Anlan was in the vicinity of the Heavenly Abyss.

Even with his cultivation, which was close to the strength of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, he did not dare to enter rashly.

"Who exactly created this Heavenly Abyss? It is clearly meant to protect the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths," Anlan muttered.

Whoosh!

"If not for this Heavenly Abyss, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would have long been trampled flat by the Foreign Realm."

A soft yet domineering and majestic voice came.

One could see that in the Void, golden light was brilliant, sacred and dazzling; green willow branches and leaves constructed a mysterious bridge, upon which a graceful and peerless figure slowly descended, unstained by dust, beautiful beyond description.

To be precise, "beautiful" was no longer enough to describe the existence before him; she was perfect and holy. The moment she appeared, the surrounding Void seemed to be placed within a divine kingdom, and hundreds of millions of living beings from three thousand small worlds bowed in worship, with pious Faith.

"Liu Shen!" Anlan's eyes were full of amazement.

Compared to the Liu Shen of Shi Laoliu's world, the Liu Shen before him was absolutely a peak existence.

"It is you, the Immortal King of the Foreign Realm."

Liu Shen's face was shrouded in Chaos energy, making it impossible to see her true appearance; in the Void, willow branches transformed into chains of order, covered in mysterious runes, as if in the next second they would turn into peerless divine weapons to lash out at Anlan's immortal body.

Anlan hurriedly said: "Liu Shen, I am not here to cause trouble. A thousand years ago, you and I fought side by side to save the Ten Fiends Nine-Leaf Grass."

Upon hearing this, the willow branches in the Void vanished. However, Liu Shen did not descend, still maintaining a certain distance from Anlan, mainly because she did not like the thick aura of Darkness on Anlan's body.

Not only that, but at this moment, Anlan's cultivation had progressed by more than just a little compared to a thousand years ago; did Liu Shen even have the certainty to annihilate Anlan?

Anlan was already an Emperor Light Immortal King, and one more step would make him a Quasi-Immortal Emperor!

While Liu Shen was a Jueding Immortal King Jutu, one step away from Emperor Light, and two steps away from Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

"What is your purpose?" Liu Shen said calmly.

Anlan organized his words slightly, then said:

"I came today to deliver a message to you. The Foreign Realm is about to launch the final decisive battle. At that time, nearly a hundred Immortal Kings will come. You must be prepared and not be caught off guard."

"A hundred Immortal Kings!"

A rare look of gravity appeared on Liu Shen's face.

"The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are protected by the Heavenly Abyss. Any Immortal Level existence that passes through the Heavenly Abyss will surely be sucked dry and suppressed by it. How will you get across?" Liu Shen asked.

"Nothing is absolute!"

"Although the Heavenly Abyss restricts Immortal Giants, the Immortal Giant Kundi plans to use a million Foreign Realm living beings for a Blood Sacrifice to the Heavenly Abyss, using the Ancestral Blood and Flesh of a million beings to forge a passage lasting half an hour.

This half an hour is enough for a hundred Immortal Kings to step into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, sweep through you, and pollute the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a land of Darkness," Anlan said.

For a moment, the world suddenly fell silent. Liu Shen did not say a word, and her expression could not be seen, but clearly, the face behind the shroud of Chaos mist must have been extremely shocked.

"A million living beings for a Blood Sacrifice, what a grand gesture." After a long while, Liu Shen sighed.

"What is a million living beings? If necessary, hundreds of millions can be used," Anlan mocked.

In the eyes of powerhouses like them, life is just a number, without any emotion.

Being sacrificed to achieve the Great Dao is also their honor; this is the survival Law of the dark beings.

"How much time is left?" Liu Shen asked.

"Half a month," Anlan replied.

"You are also an Immortal King, why are you leaking this intelligence?" Liu Shen said.

"I don't know. My behavior counts as betraying my race; I am a traitor. If it were the me from ten thousand years ago, I definitely wouldn't have helped you.

But suddenly one day, I saw the truth of this world and met a few Diliu who call themselves Heavenly Emperor, and I couldn't help myself.

My conscience, which had been completely Devoured by Darkness, seems to have returned!

Perhaps, perhaps a very, very long time ago, before I was Devoured by Darkness, I might have been a good person in my previous life," Anlan mocked himself.

The "previous life" here refers to the era when Anlan was still a normal cultivator, perhaps at the end of the Era of Emperor Fall, when the Foreign Realm had just appeared.

The corpse, having slept for unknown years, was corroded by Darkness, and the unwillingness inscribed in his bones caused him to fall into the dark beings.

Upon hearing this, Liu Shen looked at Anlan with a gaze somewhat like looking at a fool, though she felt a trace of admiration for such an Anlan.

After all, this intelligence was too important for the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths; if they were unprepared, who knows how many living beings would be slaughtered by the Immortal Kings.

Liu Shen was confident she could take on three Immortal Kings, but if it were nearly a hundred, she would surely die without a shred of hope.

In terms of the number of Immortal Kings, the Foreign Realm was several times that of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

The gap was too large; it would be no exaggeration to say they were about to be crushed.

"You could join the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Even if you are an Immortal King, as long as you save these millions of living beings, you could be revered and worshipped for ten thousand generations in the future," Liu Shen said.

Anlan shook his head and said: "I can help you in secret, but joining the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is impossible. Even if I were revered by you, I would be nailed to the pillar of shame in the Foreign Realm?

Moreover, although the Foreign Realm consists of dark beings, not all of them are bloodthirsty and cruel; they just had their thoughts twisted by the will of the Immortal Kings.

Just like the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there are righteous people like you, Liu Shen; are there no treacherous villains or bloodthirsty Demon Dao thugs?"

"What you say makes sense. What we are doing now is just to make the sacrifices fewer," Liu Shen said.

"Hmm." Anlan nodded.

Immediately, Liu Shen left to head to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to formulate a strategy and prepare to meet this battle.

Anlan remained at the Heavenly Abyss, racking his brain for a win-win strategy.

"Right, everyone in the Chat Group is a talent. I have no way because I am a bystander who cannot see the truth; it would be better to gather everyone's wisdom. Perhaps there is a way to break the situation."

……

Chat Group.

Immortal King Anlan: "……. What are everyone's thoughts? Is there any way to stop this great battle?"

Anlan explained the conflict between the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Foreign Realm, being as concise as possible.

Demon Queen: "What way could there be? Isn't this battle inevitable? If there were no such battle, where would the later Xiao Shi come from?"

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Indeed, this is the historical trend and is crucial in the river of time. If there were no such battle, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would not collapse, Liu Shen might not have fallen, and might even have broken through to a higher realm, and thus would not have fallen into the lower realm. Without Liu Shen, Shi Laoliu might not have been able to develop."

Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "Not necessarily. Shi Laoliu's fate is inevitable; he was born to respond to the tribulation. Even without Liu Shen, perhaps a Grass God, Melon God, or Road God would have appeared."

Zui Ai He Shounai: "Wahaha, An Lao Liu. If Liu Shen were gone, such a huge Karma. Watch me hammer you."

Immortal King Anlan: "……, Shi Laoliu, even if she disappears, it would be the Liu Shen here. We two are not even on the same plane?"

Zui Ai He Shounai: "No, the Liu Shen of any plane cannot disappear."

Immortal King Anlan: "……, Xuan Ge, what do you think?"

Scripture Seeker: "What is difficult about this? You could just become the boss of the Foreign Realm. Whether to fight the battle or not, isn't that up to you?"

Immortal King Anlan: "That seems true? It's just that Kundi's strength is unfathomable, and I don't have much certainty."

Han Paopao of the Seven Profound Sect: "Immortal King Anlan, you could try the Nail-Head Seven-Arrow Book."

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