Chapter 110: Returning to Battle Once More

In the boundless starry sky, there is eternal darkness and cold.

Sometimes, only after spanning countless light-years can one see some stars, and sometimes merely fragmented meteorites.

The entire Great Universe is truly too vast; desolation and dead silence are the theme for the vast majority of the time.

And on this day.

A stone stele broke this ancient silence.

It was not very large, many times smaller than even some meteorites.

Its appearance was ancient and simple, without any patterns on it, no different from the ordinary stele materials seen in the mortal world, even simpler.

However.

The startling immortal extreme speed it erupted with was far beyond that of any star or even black hole; in an instant it traversed countless light-years!

If at this moment a certain Supreme-level expert were to glimpse this scene, they would surely be able to perceive that this stone stele, even if not an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, was not far from that tier.

At this moment.

The stone stele faintly emitted a kind of Great Dao simplicity, naturally formed divine Dao Rhyme; inside it also faintly glowed, as if containing some Profound Mystery.

In just a moment, it had already crossed the Endless Star Domain, arriving at a Peerless Treasure Land where Chaos Qi lingered and imposing pressure surpassed ancient and modern times.

Xu Lie's Primordial Spirit, which had been somewhat muddled inside the stone stele, finally awoke in alarm.

Sensing this unmatched, peerless Imperial Prestige, and "seeing" those dozens of pitch-black-like-ink Great Peaks ahead, Xu Lie knew what place he had arrived at.

The Holy Cliff Dao Chang of a generation's Holy Emperor!

……

Another side.

The Ba Ti lineage's Ancient Weapon-Refining Land was a mess everywhere, wailing cries all over the ground.

And the Great Accomplishment Ba Ti Xuan Ming, watching the duck about to be gotten fly away, his disappointment and anger naturally need not be spoken.

"Clearly it was about to succeed, where did this stone stele pop out from!" His teeth gnashed with a creaking sound, his face iron-green as he muttered to himself, filled with anger and anxiety.

He was confident that with his powerful Divine Sense, he should have searched the Great Accomplishment Holy Body from Primordial Spirit to physical body, and suppressed it, with no omissions.

Why, in the end, did such a stone stele fly out again?

Could it be that this was the Holy Body lineage's body-protecting Forbidden Artifact?

And immediately following, Xuan Ming couldn't help but think of another even more troublesome possibility.

That is, perhaps this was a life-saving supreme treasure left by the Holy Emperor of that year for his descendants.

And having reached Xuan Ming's current realm, he had long known the many Great Secrets of the universe.

Originally in his view, the Holy Emperor had not manifested in the world for tens of thousands of years; perhaps like the many Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors in ancient history, he had already passed away in meditation.

Therefore, his original plan was to borrow the chaotic situation caused by the Forbidden Zone Supreme acting to kill, take advantage of the chaos to wrap up and take away the heavily injured Great Accomplishment Holy Body, and then refine it into a weapon.

In that sky-surge energy explosion, no one would know of this matter.

But now.

Judging from Xu Lie's escape, Xuan Ming even had to give birth to another even more terrifying conjecture.

That is: the Holy Emperor might be like the Forbidden Zone Supreme or the Ba Ti Ancestor, Self-Severing one knife, continuing to hibernate.

From his angle, if the Holy Emperor truly wanted to survive, this was probably the only possibility.

If that were the case, the matter would be very troublesome.

However, all these are merely Xuan Ming's conjectures.

For this, he still went first thing to pay a visit to Ancestor Kungu in the Ba Ti Ancestral Cave, both to discuss and to seek clarification.

Now having reached such heights, he was both Kungu's junior and a Dao Friend of the same Cultivation Level.

"Disturbing Ancestor's hibernation, hope for forgiveness; the matter is just like this……"

In the Ancestral Cave where Purple Qi steamed and rose, Xuan Ming told Kungu, sealed in dust within the massive Immortal Source, everything one by one.

"You suspect that Holy Emperor is still alive?"

Kungu was a Great Accomplishment Ba Ti from hundreds of thousands of years ago, purple hair shoulder-length, majestic to the extreme, also like a peerless overlord reappearing, courage crowning Heaven and Earth.

Hearing Xuan Ming's words, he also couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

For the Ba Ti lineage, this is absolutely a piece of not-too-good news.

"Hard to say……"

After a long while, Kungu shook his head, "The Immortal Path is not far off; these years I have been in deep hibernation, rarely paying attention to the Outside World; you had better be careful, best not to go out these years."

In fact.

In recent years, Kungu naturally occasionally woke up too, and had exchanges with the other Ba Ti Ancestor Canglan hibernating in the Ba Ti Ancestral Cave.

One of the topics of conversation was the Holy Emperor's whereabouts.

But the conclusion was a fog.

Thousands of years ago, the depths of the Great Universe transmitted that kind of faint tremor, suspected to be the Chaos Ancient Emperor breaking through the Immortal Road.

Some suspect the Holy Emperor was also among them, shielding and entering; either already become Immortal, or perished together with the Chaos Ancient Emperor within.

"Heavenly Secrets chaotic, difficult to see through."

This was Kungu and Canglan's conclusion that day.

Now.

Facing the junior Great Accomplishment Ba Ti's request for teaching, or rather discussion, Kungu could only give a most steady advice, which is to let Xuan Ming keep a low profile.

……

For over a hundred years, Xuan Ming indeed always heeded his own Ancestor's advice.

He always stayed low-key on the Ba Ti Zujing, honestly and steadily consolidating his realm, combing through his own Great Dao.

Everything was natural; his Qi and Blood and Combat Power step by step approached the peak of his life, getting closer and closer to a Great Accomplishment Ba Ti's road's end.

As time gradually passed, Xuan Ming felt increasingly stifled and vexed by this life of hibernating on the Ba Ti Zujing!

Before my Ba Ti reaches Great Completion, I cultivate bitterly cooped up on my own ancestral star.

After Great Completion, I still have to continue this kind of stifling life — then didn't I achieve Ba Ti Great Completion for nothing?

In fact.

After the Chaos Ancient Great Emperor perished, with no Great Emperor in the world, he, Xuan Ming who had achieved Great Completion Ba Ti, could be called the Current Era's Supreme.

Even facing a Supreme who emerged from a Life Forbidden Zone, Xuan Ming remained calm and unafraid.

Hence his strength now had also reached this height sufficient for confidence.

But have you ever heard of a Current Era's Supreme nesting at home, not daring to step out the door?

This made Xuan Ming feel increasingly stifled and unreconciled!

As for the so-called suppression and danger brought by a Holy Emperor being alive, he also doubted it more and more.

Because truth be told, so many years have passed, even the Chaos Ancient Great Emperor proved the Dao and then perished, yet the Holy Emperor has not manifested in the world, his Great Dao does not even show.

Xuan Ming was truly unreconciled, to stifle his whole life because of this baseless speculation.

As a Great Completion Ba Ti, this is not the Dao Heart he should have, nor the life he should live!

Once the seed of restless thoughts is planted, or rather once the voice of doubt is aroused, it will only grow more and more luxuriant.

Even, he fantasized that after a few thousand years, when the Chaos Ancient Great Emperor's Dao Marks suppression dissipates.

He might not be unable to break through the Ten Thousand Daos' suppression, defy heaven and become a Great Emperor, like the Holy Emperor of that year, becoming a Great Emperor unprecedented in the Ba Ti lineage, surpassing the most ancient ancestor!

This is an invincible Dao Heart, not letting that year's Holy Emperor monopolize the glory!

About the title he had also fantasized, just call it "Ba Di"!

Or "Xuan Di" isn't bad either.

This kind of title, just hearing it makes one's blood boil.

How could the current simple and pale "Great Completion Ba Ti Xuan Ming" be mentioned in the same breath?

Moreover the universe is vast and boundless, Life Source Xing Chen are countless, there is too much splendor, too much mystery.

Even for a Supreme-level figure, it is also extremely attractive, able to experience all kinds of different scenery and lives.

Although Xuan Ming does not reject bitter cultivation and enlightenment, it must be said, bitter cultivation is ultimately not everything, still needs other supplementation.

Sometimes, sitting in meditation for enlightenment for over a hundred years, perhaps still cannot compare to one patrol, one great battle, or one Dao discussion...

Finally.

Xuan Ming ended his dry sitting on the Ba Ti Zujing, once again set foot in the starry sky, patrolling all directions of the universe.

Wherever he went, people treated him with both reverence and fear.

Xuan Ming wasn't enjoying these; at his current realm, he had long since not cared much about these.

Merely in his view, this is the right and glory he should have as the "Current Era's Supreme"!

This day.

"Respectfully seeing off Great Completion Ba Ti!"

On Gouchen Ancient Star, numerous cultivators, like mountains shouting and seas roaring, prostrated to see off Xuan Ming who came on patrol.

Many people let out a long breath, even their bodies trembling slightly, obviously nervous to a certain degree.

Reason none other, the oppressive pressure brought by Great Completion Ba Ti was simply too powerful, like a Supreme God.

And the world has long had rumors, he acts extremely tyrannical and ruthless, in the past he once covered the sky with one hand, in a moment raised his hand and annihilated a Dao lineage he disliked.

Such a Supreme, in people's eyes, is a demon god-like existence, making people revere and look up.

In the starry sky.

A purple light Great Dao spread out, bearing the Ba Ti lineage's unique tyrannical aura, vast across the Heavens and Worlds.

It is Great Completion Ba Ti returning from traveling the universe, wanting to return to the Ba Ti Zujing.

Suddenly!

An inexplicable Qi mechanism appeared, locking down this stretch of starry sky.

Xuan Ming's complexion changed slightly, but quickly calmed down.

He understood who had arrived, because this Qi mechanism was not unfamiliar to him.

"Is it you?"

Purple light burst from Xuan Ming's eyes, staring tightly at that somewhat blurry figure in the void.

"It is me." That figure gradually manifested from the void.

This is a tall and martial man, majestic beyond ordinary, only his face somewhat weathered, and among his shoulder-length black hair, several strands of white hair were added.

Precisely the former Great Completion Holy Body Xu Lie!

In his originally flying and unrestrained temperament, now there was much more composure.

"Hmph, didn't expect you this dead salted fish could also turn over."

Xuan Ming's heart trembled slightly, but his mouth still did not forget to mock to the utmost.

Because before when he faced Xu Lie, he indeed had brilliant battle achievements; in that day's battle, he shattered all of Xu Lie's aspects including physical body and Primordial Spirit, almost can be said to have crippled him.

"Not bad, back then it was precisely thanks to your gift."

Xu Lie did not mock back, but faced him calmly, not a ripple on his face, as if unable to feel the other's humiliation.

But precisely this kind of reaction instead made Xuan Ming even more wary in his heart.

At their current realm, whether spiritual sense, spirit, wisdom, etc., all reached an extremely lofty tier; even in the most dangerous moments they can maintain calm.

But these are still not the most important; for their level of clashing, combat power is the foundation.

No matter how many battle strategies, conspiracies and schemes, ultimately they still have to land on the combat power of both combatants — that is the so-called one force drops ten meetings.

Now.

What Xuan Ming could confirm was that his former defeated subordinate dared to appear before him again, and must surely have sufficient reliance.

Just like back then, he himself underwent hundreds of years of bitter cultivation to the extreme, only then gaining the confidence to defeat Xu Lie head-on.

"You dare stand before me, it seems you have long been prepared."

Xuan Ming stood towering in the starry sky, his gaze cold and stern, faintly on guard.

In fact.

Over these years, he had also searched for Xu Lie's whereabouts.

That day, the furnace's single explosion, although he shattered Xu Lie's physical body to pieces, he could not sense the aura of his Primordial Spirit no matter what.

And amidst the surging-to-the-extreme explosive fluctuations, he vaguely saw a stele, tiny to the point of insignificance, depart, but was not too certain either, it somewhat resembled bone fragments.

Because at the time he was also somewhat flustered, busy avoiding being injured himself.

For over a hundred years, he patrolled the various starry skies, one part of the reason was also to find Xu Lie.

He even went to Xu Lie's native star, wanting to erase that small sect of his origin, to try to probe whether Xu Lie would appear.

Only for some unknown reason, that small sect seemed to have had a premonition of something, and relocated in advance.

Or perhaps, it was secretly protected by someone.

In short, Xuan Ming ultimately came up empty in the end, and ultimately gave up this action, after all eradicating such a tiny sect was not anything particularly important to him.

"Nothing about daring or not daring, today I will surely slay you!"

The Great Accomplishment Holy Body spoke with sonorous words, expression resolute, battle intent soaring to the heavens.

Xuan Ming's past deeds made this Hugu Holy Body hate him to the point of gritting teeth, even now thinking of it still shakes with rage.

As the two confronted each other.

The Gouchen Ancient Star Domain was the closest, the many great powers had long been alarmed by this terrifying Qi mechanism, one after another opening Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Arrays, Source Heaven Divine Eyes, and other sect supreme treasures, wanting to investigate the situation under that starry sky.

Who has such audacity, daring to block the path of the Current Era's Supreme, a generation's Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body's return?

What, it's actually the former Great Accomplishment Holy Body?!

He didn't die? And returned with this supreme posture of Qi and Blood like an ocean, battle intent surging to the heavens?

The crowd was shocked.

Hundreds of years ago, countless people through the arrays saw the Great Accomplishment Holy Body defeated by Xuan Ming, coughing blood in the starry sky, that scene.

Later, even the sect of his origin fell silent and vanished, suspected to have been entirely wiped out by someone.

All signs indicated the Great Accomplishment Holy Body should have already perished, drawing a sorrowful period to this generation's Holy-Hegemon Struggle.

However.

This moment, the scene before their eyes, forced people to marvel at the world's profundity, and also marvel at their own insignificance.

As expected, existences at the level of Great Accomplishment Holy Body or Hegemon Body, fundamentally cannot be fathomed by ordinary people, just as ants cannot fathom the True Dragon.

People couldn't help but sigh, simultaneously both tense and expectant.

This is the third clash between the contemporary Great Accomplishment Holy Body and Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body, perhaps it will truly decide life and death and superiority!

And across the universe, many supreme races and Dao lineages also one after another opened their respective sect supreme treasures, wanting to capture the full details of this battle.

Nothing to say.

A great battle on the verge of erupting.

Xu Lie's whole body shone brilliantly, as if Divine Fire burned blazingly, he swung the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist directly suppressing and killing forward.

Killing intent had not yet reached the body, yet it had already invaded to Xuan Ming's face, even the Peerless Hegemon Body faintly showed signs of being broken open.

This supremely rigid and fierce mighty power, made Xuan Ming also involuntarily knit his brows.

Obviously, the now-returned Xu Lie must have already returned to the absolute peak, and even combat power slightly higher.

But Xuan Ming naturally would not show weakness, these years he also absolutely had not wasted time, long since no longer the same as before.

"Form the array!"

He roared in anger, sacrificed seventy-two streaks of cold light, inserting them into the star domain.

This is absolutely a peerless killing array pattern of Immortal Swords, covering sky and earth, completely submerging the Xu Lie before him.

Word Secret of Formation!

Xu Lie was slightly startled, recognized this peerless killing array pattern, and he also fell into it, very passive.

And Xuan Ming's killing moves are not limited to this.

(Chapter End)