Chapter 1649: The Guiyi Hui's Ultimate Scheme

The instant the Divine Fruit Fire Aspect fell into the black coffin, Yin Li Tianwang and Jiang Li Tianwang sensed it as well, and at once the expressions on both their faces underwent different changes.

"Why did you only bring back the Divine Fruit Fire Aspect?" Yin Li Tianwang was somewhat startled in his heart. The one inside the black coffin had personally taken action, so taking the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Aspect" should have been the most natural thing in the world, and with the Pill Saint's current strength, there was no way he could have blocked it.

But looking at the result, how could only half of the "Divine Fruit Fire Aspect" have come back?

Where was the Divine Fruit Wind Aspect?

What exactly had happened inside Li Luo's aspect palace?

While Yin Li Tianwang was filled with doubt and uncertainty, Jiang Li Tianwang was similarly somewhat astonished. That black coffin emanated an aura that even he found daunting, yet the opponent's strike had still failed to achieve complete success.

Could it be that that Pill Saint had left behind some contingency?

Meanwhile, the Asura Arm and the two great demon kings, Lu Xue, that Li Li Jingzhe and Zhang Li Tianwang were dealing with, were thoroughly rejected by this realm of heaven and earth, forcibly driven back into the Dark World, and as they retreated, they also took away the broken and withered ghost-face head of the Eight-Headed Black Demon King.

This demon king, who had once left behind a fearsome reputation across the ten great Outer Shenzhou, had been manipulated like a mere chess piece in this round of schemes among the various parties, suffering grievous losses to his vital essence. Even if he preserved his life this time, his rank would plummet severely.

However, along with the retreat of the two great demon kings and the Eight-Headed Black Demon King, the malevolent Qi between heaven and earth likewise vanished. This strange calamity that had shrouded Great Xia for several years could now be considered to have been completely quelled.

But Jiang Li Tianwang and the others' focus at this moment was not on this strange calamity.

"Yin Li Tianwang, hand over that Divine Fruit Fire Aspect, and also, this black coffin must be sealed away!" Jiang Li Tianwang said in a low voice.

As he spoke, Li Li Jingzhe and Zhang Li Tianwang both stepped forward, their figures appearing in the void behind Yin Li Tianwang. One Divine Fruit Li Tianwang and two Li Tianwang striking at once sealed off this realm of heaven and earth, locking down space entirely.

With no more restraint from the great demon kings of the Dark World, Jiang Li Tianwang could finally lead the Li Tianwang of the ten great Outer Shenzhou to settle accounts with this Yin Li Tianwang.

Yet, facing the menacing glare of three Li Tianwang, Yin Li Tianwang let out a mocking laugh and said, "Jiang Li Tianwang, you don't really think this scheme of ours ends here, do you?"

"You're far too naive. The real show has only just begun."

"For this, my Guiyi Hui has been preparing for a very, very long time."

When his words fell, the bronze mask that Yin Li Tianwang had become looked toward the black coffin, and he muttered, "Having absorbed the Divine Fruit Crystal Aspect and the Fire Aspect, it should be about enough..."

"After waiting all these years."

"The great upheaval of this world begins from today."

Boom!

The black coffin at this moment suddenly erupted with a heaven-shaking roar. This roar almost in an instant spread across the entire Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou, and even continued to expand at an unimaginable speed.

In the end, it affected every inch of Outer Shenzhou's land.

At this moment, countless experts across the ten great Outer Shenzhou all raised their heads with drastically changed expressions. Vaguely, a sense of doomsday descending pressed down, filling heaven and earth.

A streak of black light rose from the crack in the black coffin, then spread out across the sky, transforming into a sky-covering black curtain. Within the black curtain, one could see scarlet stars twinkling one after another.

Faint traces were sketched out upon it, looking like a vast and complex star chart.

And at this moment, the scarlet stars on that star chart, as if stirred by some force, began to grow increasingly restless.

Boom!

When their restlessness reached its peak, they directly exploded apart, like a volcano that had been suppressed to the utmost finally erupting.

One scarlet star after another kept exploding.

And it was precisely as these scarlet stars exploded that the expressions of Jiang Li Tianwang, Li Li Jingzhe, and Zhang Li Tianwang all drastically changed. Their gazes pierced through layer upon layer of space, illuminating the eight directions of heaven and earth.

They saw... at this very moment, in various places across the ten great Outer Shenzhou, the earth was collapsing, the oceans receding, the great marshes drying up... blood light erupted from deep within these lands, and slowly rose.

Transforming into massive blood-red stars that ascended into the sky.

The entire world, at this moment, saw one after another ominous blood-red stars rise.

Within these blood-red stars lurked a terrifying power sufficient to make even King-realm experts feel daunting.

Such a heaven-shaking change caused Li Luo and the others, who had just retreated from the aspect palace, to all wear faces full of horror. Though they could not see the changes happening in the other Outer Shenzhou, they could see blood-red stars rising across the vast land of this Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou.

"These locations..."

Pang Pang Qianyuan gazed at the directions where those blood-red stars had risen, thought briefly, then said with a drastically changed expression: "They're all regions where strange calamities once occurred!"

"Over the years, Guiyi Hui has stirred up numerous strange calamities across the Outer Shenzhou. Those locations were all carefully chosen by them. Is this sudden upheaval their ultimate objective?!"

"Great Xia also experienced a strange calamity, so why didn't the blood-red stars appear there?" Lan Lan Lingzi said in a heavy voice.

"Because this land had just recently had someone ascend to Li Tianwang. The violent oscillation of heaven and earth's energy, while raising its density, also purified the 'Blood Stars' that Guiyi Hui had secretly buried." The speaker was the Pill Saint. Her iridescent pupils reflected the blood-red stars rising in various places of the world, and finally her gaze turned toward Yin Li Tianwang, her eyes filled with bitter hatred.

"This is the 'Celestial Capital Boundary-Severing Diagram.' Yin Qingkun, have you truly gone mad to this extent?"

"The Celestial Capital Boundary-Severing Diagram? What is that?" Li Luo asked in shock.

"It is a super-grade strange formation deduced by successive generations of Li Tianwang of the Faceless Holy Sect. Its power can influence the world's boundary walls. Back then, when the Sect Master led the Faceless Holy Sect to invade the Dark World, they split into two routes: one entered through the Wang Hou battlefield, and the other used the 'Celestial Capital Boundary-Severing Diagram' directly to split the boundary walls and cut into the Dark World."

"Now Yin Qingkun has completed the 'Celestial Capital Boundary-Severing Diagram,' and the power of those stars has been converted into malevolent Qi..."

The Pill Saint raised her head, her gaze looking toward the boundless depths of the firmament, and said in an icy tone: "He has reversed the 'Celestial Capital Boundary-Severing Diagram,' separating the boundary walls in the opposite direction. When the time comes, a second passage connecting the Dark World and the ten great Outer Shenzhou, apart from the Wang Hou battlefield, will appear."

The moment these words fell, everyone who could understand their weight felt their hair stand on end, an icy chill spreading through their entire bodies.

Because they understood what that scene represented... when the time came, the countless demons of the Dark World would descend upon the ten great Outer Shenzhou through it.

That would be... true chaos across the world.

Compared to it, the strange calamities that had erupted before would be child's play.

Jiang Li Tianwang's gaze also, at this moment, became completely cold and sharp. In the past, this leader of the Academy Alliance always gave off an air of composure, but at this moment, facing Yin Li Tianwang's attempt to unleash this world-shaking change, he could no longer maintain a calm state of mind.

Because he could sense that Guiyi Hui's scheme had already been set in motion, and stopping it was no longer possible.

Over the years, Guiyi Hui had stirred up strange calamities everywhere, causing chaos. Yet this deepest objective was to gather malevolent Qi and the resentment of perished living beings in those ravaged lands, ultimately forging these Blood Stars.

These Blood Star seeds were hidden extremely deeply; ordinary King-realm experts could not detect them. However, if Li Tianwang-level experts were dispatched to carefully search, they should still be able to find and purify them. But... the Li Tianwang of the ten great Outer Shenzhou all bore heavy responsibilities, guarding the Wang Hou battlefield. Where would they find the spare strength to search every strange calamity across the world?

During these few years of war between their Academy Alliance and Guiyi Hui, the Li Tianwang of the ten great Outer Shenzhou had already been under tremendous pressure at the Wang Hou battlefield, barely holding back the Dark World's incursions.

Jiang Li Tianwang raised his head, looking toward the edge of the firmament. There, the boundary walls were separating, and beyond them, he sensed those familiar and terrifying auras of the Dark World.

Those gazes—indifferent, mocking, sinister, and eerie—were piercing through the distant space, projecting toward them. These were the true top-tier existences of the Dark World, and Jiang Li Tianwang had crossed blades with them before.

"Yin Li Tianwang, is this your ultimate objective?"

"To prematurely usher in this era's..."

"War of Guiyi!"