Chapter 1078

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Kong Fang said nothing more, turned, and took a step toward the Demon Realm, then abruptly vanished.

Compared to the Demon God, who was unwilling to accept this, Xu Zhangqing was far calmer.

He did not care in the slightest about the Eternal Night Ruins, or the Return to Ruins Moment; the matters of eight hundred years from now could be worried about eight hundred years from now.

After fighting for so long, from start to finish he had only cared about one thing.

Quickly clean up this mess, go home, and hold his wife and children.

Frost Sister was still waiting for him at the Tai Xu Lie Yuan.

His eldest daughter Linglong's cultivation — who knew how much it had advanced again.

His second son Ping'an, following Li Wudao — what new skills had he learned.

And the youngest, Hehe and Suisui — had they grown taller again.

The time he owed his family, he had to find a chance to make up.

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni let out a breath of relief, then flew over from the distance.

They stopped ten zhang away from the Nine Extremes Heavenly King, and the two bowed respectfully.

Long Yuan spoke first, his voice carrying a hint of bewilderment: "Heavenly King, forgive this junior's bluntness, but Kong Fang threw the Tianyuan Realm into chaos and caused the deaths of countless living beings.

Why did you not simply slay him outright, to eliminate future troubles?"

The Nine Extremes Heavenly King's gaze fell on Long Yuan, his voice still that flat, nearly indifferent tone, yet every word made the surrounding star sky tremble slightly:

"Tai Yi is the beginning of the Great Dao.

The Great Dao wishes to transform the myriad phenomena; its flaw is 'Calamity'.

Calamity is the corpse of the Dao, the end of the myriad phenomena.

Its name is Ten Complete, called the 'Tai Yi Annihilation Return to Ruins True Ten Complete Calamity Lord'.

He wields the Seven-Colored Origins, commands the Eighth Extinction Color, his body becomes the Nine Calamities Pure Land; in one rage he unfolds the Ten Complete Calamity Realm.

All laws become empty, karma returns to void, the myriad phenomena as if they never existed.

Yet Calamity is also the Dao.

The Dao does not perish, Calamity does not die out.

Therefore the Ten Complete Calamity Lord is undying and indestructible, only awaiting the Seven-Colored Return, Calamity Full in the Human World."

Every word the Nine Extremes Heavenly King spoke left the listeners in a fog.

Seeing the three's blank expressions, he had no choice but to explain: "Kong Fang is the reincarnation of the Ten Complete Calamity Lord.

The Peacock Form you saw is merely the manifestation of the Calamity Lord's Seven-Color Law.

Killing him would be prematurely detonating the Calamity.

At that time all laws become empty, karma returns to void, the entire Floating World Four Domains will turn into Calamity Soil.

Therefore, for this Demon God, at present we can only seal, not kill."

As these words fell, Long Yuan and Mu Yunni glanced at each other, both seeing unbelievable shock in the other's eyes.

Ten Complete Calamity Lord, undying and indestructible.

His death is not the end, but the beginning of a greater disaster.

This information was too vast, so vast that the two Void Refining Daoist Lords momentarily did not know how to digest it.

Xu Zhangqing stood to the side, his face betraying nothing, but his heart had already stirred up shocking waves.

Previously, he had already imagined his opponent powerful enough, yet he had not expected the background to be this enormous.

Ten Complete Calamity Lord, undying and indestructible.

Corpse of the Dao, end of the myriad phenomena.

No wonder during the duel he always felt the other party was holding back, just like himself not using full strength; thinking carefully now, it truly made his scalp tingle.

Long Yuan took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart; since Kong Fang could not be slain, there was another matter pressing, and he spoke again: "Heavenly King, the Demon God matter will rest at that for now.

However, the Tianyuan Realm has another hidden danger.

In the Yaoguang Sea, there exists a suspected Immortal's corpse shell.

This junior dares to beg the Heavenly King to act and resolve this danger!"

After the Wu Sheng Chong Mu died, that corpse shell completely lost control.

Now it is sealed inside Yaoguang Cave; no one dares approach.

Alas, safety is only temporary; who knows when it will go out of control.

The Nine Extremes Heavenly King said nothing more, raised his right hand; the White Tiger Thumb Ring on his thumb, the white tiger's pupils brightened and dimmed for an instant.

The next second, a beam of white light spread from his fingertip, enveloping Long Yuan, Mu Yunni, and Xu Zhangqing.

Xu Zhangqing only felt his vision blur; there was no sensation of spatial tearing, no sign of law fluctuations, and the world beneath his feet had already changed.

The dark red demon clouds were gone.

The shattered void was gone.

The distant watching cultivators and Demon Emperors were also gone.

Beneath his feet was ceaselessly surging seawater, permeated with the unique yin-cold Qi of Primordial Heavy Water; the dull sound of waves striking reef stones reached his ears.

Yaoguang Cave was right ahead; its entrance was sealed tight by layer upon layer of spiritual arrays and prohibitions.

These prohibitions were personally laid down by Long Yuan and Mu Yunni when they left originally; they were still operating now, sealing that terrifying pressure dead tight inside.

Even separated by the restriction, Xu Zhangqing could still sense that aura continuously seeping from the cave — an aura that made one's divine soul tremble.

The Nine Extremes Heavenly King stood before Yaoguang Cave; his Star Xingyun Eyes swept a single glance through the restriction into the cave, and with just that one glance, those layer upon layer of restrictions were gently pushed aside as if by an invisible hand, retreating to both sides to open a passage.

The scene inside the cave once again appeared before Xu Zhangqing and the others.

A husk clad in a bright red wedding dress still floated suspended in mid-air.

It had already covered the entire cavern; countless threads fine as hair strands hung down from the edges of the fabric, weaving together into a gigantic net that nearly covered the sky and blocked out the sun.

That suppression originating from the life level itself caused Long Yuan and Mu Yunni to involuntarily retreat half a step, their complexions changing slightly in unison.

Star nebulae flowed in the Nine Extremes Heavenly King's eyes; when he spoke, a trace of reminiscence entered his voice: "Ten thousand years ago, in that vicious battle, the number of cultivators who perished was extremely great.

This one was a Corpse-Release Immortal.

Pity — though the flesh body remains, the true spirit has dispersed.

Originally, this husk should have worn away over ten thousand years, yet it was forcibly parasitized by the Wu Sheng Chong Mu's will, and instead, by a fluke, maintained the husk's incorruption.

After the Spirit Insect Mother died, the immortal power remaining in the husk had no one to suppress it, so it thoroughly lost control."

Corpse-Release Immortal?

At these words, Xu Zhangqing's heart shook.

The so-called Corpse-Release Immortal is an extremely special method of achieving immortality.

A cultivator does not ascend with the flesh body, but rather leaves behind an Immortal Shedding through methods such as "weapon release," "water release," "fire release," and the like, and thereby the true spirit transcends.

This method of achieving immortality is extremely perilous; those who succeed have their true spirit ascend, those who fail suffer destruction of both form and spirit.

This husk before us, for some unknown reason, died, leaving behind a complete Immortal Remains.

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni's shock was in no way inferior to Xu Zhangqing's.

The Tianyuan Realm of ten thousand years ago actually had a Corpse-Release Immortal in existence.

That was a true Immortal — not some False Immortal, not some Remnant Soul, but a genuine, bona fide Immortal who had transcended the mortal cultivation system.

And such an existence actually fell in that great war ten thousand years ago.

What scale was that great war, that it could even drag Immortals into it?

Xu Zhangqing rapidly digested this information in his mind, fell silent for a long while, and finally voiced the greatest doubt in his heart: "Your Majesty, since the Tianyuan Realm of ten thousand years ago had a Corpse-Release Immortal in existence, that shows the heaven-and-earth rules of that time could still support an Immortal's power.

But the Tianyuan Realm of today — even Refining Void Cultivators are few enough to count on one's fingers, and Combined Body stage powerhouses have never appeared at all.

Over ten thousand years, why has the Tianyuan Realm declined to this extent?

Especially those Immortals — where did they all go in the end!"