Chapter 193: The Final Step

The bronze bell on her wrist chimed without wind, the sound waves it rippled out carving new Heavenly Dao Laws into the void.

"Boom—!"

The Immortal King Tribulation continued; the ruthless Empress had already sustained significant injuries, and the Bronze Immortal Palace borrowed from Feng Qingyang had also withstood many peerless, world-destroying thunderbolts of slaughter!

Subsequently, cracks from the collapsing Nine Heavens Palace wound and grew beneath her feet, and dark cyan tribulation clouds surged once more from the end of time!

The ripples stirred by her fluttering white sleeves shattered eight million miles of void. The moment the copper rust peeled from the surface of her ghost-face mask, the wailing of the myriad Daos of the heavens condensed into substance, transforming into scarlet blood rain that poured down.

Those thirty-six thousand immortal corpses wrapped in chains crawled out from the lightning once again, their rotting finger bones clutching broken life-tablets!

The woman in white drew her fingers across her left pupil; deep within the iris, chaos mist emerged, instantly dyeing the tribulation lightning ink-black!

In the mist, those immortal corpses twisted into the shape of spider lily flowers, only to be pierced through by ice crystals falling from her hair tips the moment the petals bloomed!

Billions of chains hung down from the depths of her pupils, each chain tethered to a woman bearing a face similar to the Empress!

Some wept blood as they questioned the Heavenly Dao, others tore at their chests in madness; the harmony of three thousand trembling chains was the crying of a young child!

The bronze bell on the woman in white's wrist suddenly exploded, the nine bell shards transforming into immortal phoenixes biting their own tails, melting the chains entirely into crimson-gold liquid.

"Disperse."

The shattered bronze chains re-aggregated into nine bone-reflecting mirrors, yet what they reflected were not shadows, but seventy-two parallel space-times currently collapsing.

When the last mirror was shattered by the light of her gaze, a crisp sound of some ancient entity's spine snapping echoed from the depths of the tribulation clouds.

"Boom—!"

When the final tribulation lightning descended, the stars of the heavens simultaneously wept bronze-colored tears.

Ninety-nine Heaven Burying Coffins rose from the firmament, silhouettes of her every tribulation-crossing moment appearing on the coffin lids.

The woman in white tore off the time-chains around her neck, the links shattering into seventy-two Dao-slashing swords.

The ghost-face mask shattered completely at this moment, revealing a countenance that caused the surging lightning plasma to freeze; her left pupil pulsed with world-burning black flames, her right eye swirled with afterlife-green waves, while a vertical mark on her brow exuded the purest Immortal-Flying Light!

She reached into her own chest, pulling out not a heart, but half a blood-stained ring. When the ring resonated with the causal lines in the void, all the Heaven Burying Coffins suddenly turned their openings, swallowing the world-destroying lightning tribulation entirely into the coffins!

As the tribulation clouds dissipated, one hundred thousand stone tablets manifested from the void.

Each tablet was inscribed with the true names of the Great Daos she had extinguished, and beneath the base of each tablet, the remains of Immortal Kings were suppressed.

The woman in white stepped slowly down through the forest of tablets; where her toes touched, the re-condensed ghost-face mask was already entirely different, two sword scars extending from the corners of the half-smiling, half-frowning mouth to traverse the heavens!

She raised her hand to catch the falling tribulation ash, the ashes transforming into immortal sparrows in her palm, eager to take flight!

When the last grain of dust slipped through her fingers, nine mournful tolls of the Immortal King Dao-bell echoed from the border of the universe. The shattered void began to automatically weave laws, the newly born Dao patterns perfectly overlapping with the tears in her sleeves!

The Bronze Immortal Palace returned to the hands of the ruthless Empress, flashing with dazzling immortal light around her; the aura radiated by the Immortal King was enough to crush stars!

Her previously injured body also slowly recovered at this moment, and the ruthless Empress fixed her gaze on the Small World where Feng Qingyang resided!

Having now successfully stepped into the Immortal King Realm, this Bronze Immortal Palace naturally needed to be returned to Pangu Tianzun!

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Subsequently, the ruthless Empress arrived in the Small World once more, and Feng Qingyang naturally noticed her figure.

The aura she radiated was even more terrifying than when she had come to borrow the Bronze Immortal Palace last time!

### Appearance Description

She stood above the shattered void fissures, the residual fire of the lightning tribulation flickering between her plain white sleeves.

From every strand of her hair hung a drop of solidified crimson-gold lightning plasma, refracting seventy-two phantom images of a shattered Xianyu.

Her white robes were woven with a million sword scars, each crack harboring the essence spirits of devoured Immortal Kings, glowing with an eerie dark red under the reflection of the tribulation fire!

Bronze bells hung from her ankles, the bell bodies etched with nine immortal phoenixes biting their own tails; they were like dead objects when still, but when moved, they emitted residual Dao-sounds that made the galaxy tremble!

A broken half of a pottery jar hung from her waist, chaos liquid constantly dripping from the gap; upon hitting the ground, it transformed into weeping spider lilies, blooming for an instant before withering into ash!

The embers of the lightning tribulation condensed into a light cocoon around her, within which one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred Great Dao runes could be vaguely seen floating; each time a rune shattered, it reflected the fleeting glimpse of her face beneath the mask!

Her lips were the color of cinnabar that had faded of all blood, pressed into a line that severed the mortal world; the curve of her jaw was like the sharpest blade-light when an immortal sword is unsheathed;

Her neck was wrapped in translucent time-chains, the sound of the links colliding intermingled with the echo of a little girl running barefoot!

"Henren Dadi, have you entered the Immortal King Realm?"

Upon these words, she nodded and returned the Bronze Immortal Palace in her hand to Pangu Tianzun.

"Many thanks. The Bronze Immortal Palace is returned to you; I must go now."

As the words fell, she did not hesitate at all, turning to leave this place, seemingly to return to the Qiyi Shijie!

After all, having reached this realm, the opportunities to find a chance to resurrect her brother had increased significantly!

Meanwhile, watching the departing back of the ruthless Empress, Feng Qingyang sighed and retracted the Bronze Immortal Palace into his body!

This immortal artifact was, in truth, of no great use to him; gifting it to the ruthless Empress was fine!

Since she had left so quickly, not even giving him a chance to speak, it seemed he could only let it be for now!

Feng Qingyang was now getting closer and closer to the Supreme Giant level; he estimated that in a few tens of thousands of years, he would be able to reach it!

He cast his gaze over this heaven and earth, murmuring to himself.

"The eerie faction of the Soul River—I estimate it won't be long before I enter it to investigate!"

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Time passed second by second.

In the Qiyi Shijie, Ye Fan saw the ruthless Empress return, a flash of surprise in his eyes; she had broken through to the Immortal King Realm and was now on the same level as him!

He estimated that Wushi Dadi, who had left the Qiyi Shijie many years ago, should have reached this level as well!

Now, there were no great dangers that could threaten them, unless it were the kind of eerie entities that had pursued Pangu Tianzun before!

With Ye Fan's current strength, he had the power to fight even against eerie entities at the Immortal King Giant level, and with the ruthless Empress having stepped into the Immortal King Realm as well!

There was no need to fear eerie entities at the Immortal King Giant level, unless they were Supreme Giants; of course, they had not had any conflict with the eerie faction of the Soul River!

Furthermore, the eerie entities sent one after another last time had all been slain by Pangu Tianzun; for nearly hundreds of thousands of years, there had been no trace of any eerie entities appearing!

Who knows how much time had passed.

Feng Qingyang slowly opened his eyes; he was only one final step away from the Supreme Giant level, and if he were to cross the Heavenly Tribulation within this Small World, it would certainly affect the living beings here!

Given their strength, let alone facing the tribulation directly, even a trace of the residual power emitted would be enough to turn them into dust drifting in the heaven and earth!

"It is time to leave this place!"

As the words fell, Feng Qingyang rushed out of the Small World!

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 194 =====