Chapter 470

When the Emperor saw the Big Dipper in the nine heavens being shaken by the backlash of the falling starlight, his mind went blank with a buzz.

His hands unconsciously gripped the edge of the table beside him, until both hands were used with such excessive force that they appeared deathly pale.

The ancient stars projected from the primordial heavenly realm to the countless realms of the cosmos made the starry sky of all realms a reflection of the same stars from different positions, and each star among them possessed the great power of a Great Thousand World.

But in the starry sky of the Earth Immortal Realm tonight, the seven stars governed by Master Sima Ziwei and pointed to by Beichen were swaying like candles in the wind...

Countless questions surged into the Emperor's mind at this moment: What exactly happened in the Jin Ling Cave Heaven? What exactly did the Seven-Star Lamp formation, left by the ancestor to deal with the remaining qi of the Immortal Han, collide with? What kind of terrifying taboo could actually cause a backlash that shook the Big Dipper? Was Liu Yu truly the True Dragon Son of Heaven, favored by destiny? Or...

The Emperor's hand gripping the table edge began to tremble. His face changed several times, and finally, unable to suppress the fishy smell surging in his chest, he opened his mouth and sprayed out a mouthful of blood, collapsing backward!

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Many attendants rushed up, but the old eunuch standing beside the Emperor glanced out the window, his face instantly twisting into an inhuman expression. He stared with wide eyes, horrified: "The Emperor Star is swaying! The Emperor Star is swaying, the True Dragon dies! Your Majesty, Your Majesty is collapsing!"

The Emperor had already fallen into a deep coma, his life force completely exhausted!

The True Dragon of National Destiny coiled above Jiankang also fell headlong from the spiritual cloud of destiny of all living beings at this moment, spilling large amounts of profound yellow true blood. At this moment, the decline of the Great Jin's national destiny was fully revealed; those whose destiny was the same, those who shared the same breath and branch, were all shocked.

On Xuanwu Lake, the old man standing side-by-side with Master Tao sighed up at the sky: "The Southern Jin is declining, the Master Sima clan... is about to perish!"

Xuanwu Lake, and even the entire city of Jiankang, were trembling slightly. Large patches of turbid yellow water welled up from the bottom of the lake and from beneath the Qin Huai River, the yellow muddy water mixed with a few strands of blood, appearing exceptionally eye-catching.

At the entrance of Wuyi Lane in Jiankang City, the young scholar who was mourning at the original site of the Bronze Sparrow Tower suddenly lowered his head, looking at the large patches of bloodstains resembling rust in the turbid yellow muddy water beneath the newly repaired Vermilion Bird Bridge. He stretched out his tongue to lick the bridge of his nose, and at the same time reached under the bridge, wiped up a bit of the blood color, and rubbed it slightly between his fingertips.

"Full of malevolent qi... it really is the residual blood of a True Dragon! Such dragon vein blood, unless a once-in-a-century earthquake severely damages the dragon vein, is rarely seen!"

"Good stuff... good stuff indeed! Hahaha... I didn't expect that before we even made a move, the Southern Jin would be unable to hold on!"

The young scholar looked up and laughed wildly. At this moment, he saw the stars in the sky, and his pupils contracted abruptly, like a venomous snake.

"The Big Dipper is shaking? Damn it... whose fate did Master Sima Yan cut off with the Seven-Star formation? Even if it were the master of the Central Lands, the True Dragon Son of Heaven with nine dragons gathered, there shouldn't be such a backlash! Did he cut off the Emperor's fate of the Heavenly Emperor?"

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Master Sima Yan did not know what kind of terrifying backlash he had triggered by recklessly moving the Seven-Star Lamp and using the Seven-Star formation to cut off fate and destiny.

If the Seven-Star Lamp's power had not been insufficient, only capable of cursing and killing cultivators below the Primordial Spirit, the power of the backlash returning after hitting the Dao Dust Pearl would not have been the strongest. But even so, the Southern Jin's national destiny, which was completely entangled with Master Sima Yan, was still thoroughly devastated by the backlash, even costing the current Emperor his life!

And just as Brother Qian Chen finished speaking, a blood-colored blade light rose from before him, then transformed into a river of blood, vast and mighty, emitting a stern malevolent qi that made it impossible to look directly at. Just by taking a glance from afar, it felt as if blade qi were scraping through one's bones from within.

The blood river surged through the seven stone platforms, even crossing the seven stars overhead...

Between the seven stars, the river course wound through nine curves, carrying an incredible demonic transformation. Master Sima Yan stood before the Kaiyang lamp, and the flickering lamp light before him was pressed to its lowest point at this moment, as if it were about to be extinguished in the killing intent.

He looked up and saw that Brother Qian Chen had already slashed open the dense and heavy seals on the stone platform, his figure appearing before him. But at this moment, his severely damaged spiritual sense was captured by the blade momentum, making it almost difficult to operate. Even if he barely managed to raise his magic power and cast a protective magic treasure, facing Brother Qian Chen's almost incredible blade momentum, it was all in vain.

The nine curves of the blood river contained changes that were difficult to describe. Master Sima Yan would have had to deal with it cautiously at his peak; now, in his greatly weakened state, he felt caught off guard.

Where the long blade pointed...

Between the two, separated by the Seven-Star Lamp, which was essentially approaching a spiritual treasure, the lamp light was dim, clinging tightly to the wick.

"Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao!"

In Master Sima Yan's sea of consciousness, he only had time for one more thought: "Does this Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao really come from the hands of the righteous path?"

"What a magnificent and righteous demonic blade!"

"Cultivating the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao to this realm, there is no longer any difference between righteous and evil!"

The dim flame of the Kaiyang lamp suddenly flared, the blue-purple flame changing into blood color. Under the reflection of the lamp light, the shadow slightly swaying behind Master Sima Yan suddenly twisted, opened its mouth, and whispered.

On the surrounding stone platforms, the firelight burning from the Seven-Star Lamps also turned entirely blood-colored.

Blood light rose in the eyes of the shadow behind Master Sima Yan. A blood dragon as thick as an arm flew out from the Kaiyang lamp flame, growing as it met the wind, becoming larger and larger. By the time it reached Brother Qian Chen, it had already transformed into a blood dragon several zhang long. The dragon claws beneath its belly were twisted and ferocious, the dragon horns on its head were straight like a bull's, and the dragon scales on its body carried bone spurs, tossing and turning freely in the blood river. Finally, it surged against the blade light, pressing straight toward Brother Qian Chen.

Brother Qian Chen had no choice but to swing his blade downward, slashing at the dragon's head!

The blood dragon, severed into two, circled its head and tail like an Ouroboros, forming a blood ring that swallowed all the residual blade qi Brother Qian Chen had slashed out.

"Blood Sea Divine Ability Technique, Netherworld Two-Realm Ring!"

Brother Qian Chen raised his blade and said coldly.

He already understood who had come!

"I should have thought of it earlier. The Nine Heavens hold the reins of the Demon Sect; where the Nine Heavens are, the Blood Sea will certainly not ignore it!"

Just by seeing the various traces on the blood dragon that resembled the Wujian Wujian Wujian Molong, Brother Qian Chen had already guessed much. After Master Miaokong's foundation of the Nine-Child-Mother Heavenly Ghosts was severed, he rebuilt the Wujian Wujian Wujian Molong by taking advantage of the opportunity to seize the Blood Demon, merging the true transmissions of the Blood Sea and the Nine Heavens to open up this true method.

"The Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao is the supreme demonic method created by the Nine Heavens Demon Ancestor after contemplating my Blood Sea! This Nine Heavens Wujian Wujian Molong, however, is the method created by my Blood Sea Demon Ancestor after contemplating the Nether River, specifically to restrain the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Ancient Shendao."

The shadow behind Master Sima Yan spoke calmly: "Master Sima Yan, you really are a piece of trash, actually being calculated by someone one realm lower than you. If I hadn't made a move in time, you wouldn't have died from being slashed by this blade, but you could forget about assaulting the Primordial Spirit!"

"The Nine Heavens are in the light, the Blood Sea is in the dark!" Brother Qian Chen sighed: "The Demon Sect's arrangements are indeed watertight!"

"I should have thought of it earlier. The matters hosted by the Nine Heavens Sect are all in the open! But the Seven-Star Lamp formation was left behind by Langya Zhuge Wu Hou, and Master Sima Yi later arrived, breaking Wu Hou's handiwork and leaving this foundation for the Master Sima family. For Master Sima Yan to want to use the Demon Sect to modify the Seven-Star Lamp formation, there must be another host!"

"Letting you check and balance each other... for people like the Master Sima family who love to play at balance, how could they only entrust it to the Nine Heavens Sect!" Brother Qian Chen's tone was very calm, not feeling any unease because his previous calculations had failed.

At this time, a voice of praise came from behind him: "Amazing! The current Dao Sect is truly amazing!"

Brother Qian Chen glanced backward and saw a gray-haired middle-aged man carrying Liu Yu, walking in from the God-Sacrificing Platform outside. He clapped his hands and laughed: "Such a demonic blade, such a demonic path, you are truly a natural-born demon seed. Your various calculations beforehand can also be called far-reaching! I am curious, which Dao Sect produced such a talented person... would you be willing to join my Blood Sea Sect and become a Holy Son?"

"Holy Son?" Brother Qian Chen asked curiously: "Is that what your Blood Sea Sect calls high-level heavenly materials and earthly treasures?"

"The Holy Son is a demon fetus reborn through the Blood Sea, and also a candidate for the Sect Master of my sect! He is even the biological child of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor!" the Yang Spirit master of the Blood Sea Sect explained with a smile.

Brother Qian Chen sneered: "Forget it! I'm afraid your Blood Sea Demon Ancestor couldn't afford to recognize my father, and I'm afraid he'd be struck by heavenly condemnation! Let's not mention this matter again!"

"I really can't bear to kill such an interesting young man just like that!" the gray-haired middle-aged man sighed: "Fortunately, a Holy Son doesn't necessarily have to be human. If I refine you into a Blood God Child and immerse you in the Blood Sea to fight with billions of Blood God Children, a Blood Sea Demon Fetus can also be born!"

Brother Qian Chen turned his head slightly, gazing at the Seven-Star Lamps in other directions...

The blood shadow saw a faint purple qi emerge in his pupils and was slightly startled, saying: "Innate Yin Yin Ziqi, 'Qi-Gazing' technique! So, you are actually from the Supreme Louguan Sect!"

At this moment, Brother Qian Chen's heart was sinking. Although he looked down upon Master Sima Yan's various methods, Brother Qian Chen had to admit that in usurping the Southern Jin's national destiny to repair his Primordial Spirit, and even smelting the pure yang dragon qi to enter the Yang Spirit realm, this person was one of the top-tier Yang Spirits he had ever seen in his life!

His cultivation was by no means inferior to the Peacock Demon King of the past.

Brother Qian Chen was able to calculate against him mostly because of the residual power of the Great Destruction Demon Blade, which made him unwilling to suffer any damage before assaulting the Primordial Spirit, leading him to be tricked into using the Seven-Star Fate-Cutting technique and colliding head-on with the suppressing power of the Dao Dust Pearl.

To be honest, this spiritual treasure, the Supreme Dao Dust Pearl, is truly useless.

If Master Sima Yan had honestly made a move head-on, this great master would absolutely not have moved a single bit.

Just like the style of this great master when the Peacock Demon King dissolved Brother Qian Chen's physical body. If Brother Qian Chen hadn't calculated that the Peacock Demon King's strongest point was also its weakest, and calculated that apart from the Five-Colored Divine Light in its belly, it had no other divine abilities to use, Brother Qian Chen would have died eight hundred times over in his state of having no strength to truss a chicken during his physical rebirth.

If he had the other two treasures of the Supreme Dao in hand.

Even if it were the Western Kunlun Mirror or the Heaven-Splitting Axe, Brother Qian Chen would have dared to resist several Primordial Spirits.

Having finally relied on his wits to calculate against Master Sima Yan, and having slashed down with that blade, although he couldn't kill a Yang Spirit like this—which was cultivated by a ghost and had the strongest ability to divide itself—Brother Qian Chen could guarantee that with this blade, the opportunity that the Master Sima family had spent countless efforts and planned for a long time for Master Sima Yan to assault the Primordial Spirit was definitely gone!

But the hidden trump card of the Demon Sect was truly startling.

When that demon went to capture Liu Yu, it could use a blood shadow to block Brother Qian Chen's blade, which made Brother Qian Chen only sigh secretly... he was ultimately fighting a battle he was unprepared for, and the information obtained from the Demon Sect side was insufficient to analyze more things.

The gray-haired middle-aged man could divide into blood shadows; what he cultivated should be the Blood God chapter of the "Blood Sea Demon Scripture," known as "Shadows in the Void, Blood Shadow Divine Technique."

Just looking at his physical body, which resembled an ordinary middle-aged man, one might think its essence was ordinary, but in reality, that physical body was just a transformation of countless Blood God Children gathered together. With a shake of his body, he could divide into millions of blood shadows, pouncing together, capable of turning a city of a million people into a dead land within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, refining everyone into blood shadows.

Cultivators below the Yin Spirit could not withstand a pounce from this person's blood shadows.

Liu Yu was such a hero, his martial path cultivation and spear technique were the best Brother Qian Chen had ever seen in the Central Lands, yet he was still easily captured by this person.

With these two joining forces, Brother Qian Chen calculated his various methods and did not have even a twenty percent chance of winning.

And that only twenty percent was something Brother Qian Chen would have to burn his Golden Core and shatter his magic treasures to exchange for with his life. Therefore, the only opportunity now was to make these two mutually wary so they could not join forces!

Brother Qian Chen's thoughts flashed through his mind, recalling the various things that happened when the blood shadow made its move.

The Kaiyang lamp flame turned blood-red, which allowed the blood shadow to attach itself to Master Sima Yan's shadow. And the firelight burning from the Seven-Star Lamps was the Heavenly Fate True Fire ignited by the mixture of Big Dipper star power and dragon vein destiny. The essence of the dragon vein was the most righteous and vast, fundamentally unable to tolerate even a trace of evil qi...

Thinking of this, Brother Qian Chen had a guess in his heart, and immediately used the "Qi-Gazing" technique to re-examine the dragon vein qi-connections carried by the Seven-Star Lamps.

On the seven bronze ancient lamps, the destiny connected by strands of veins was linked to several huge dragon qi strands, each approaching a complete dragon vein. The dragon qi was crimson all over, resembling a red dragon, burning with scorching flames, and a divine sword with red qi soaring to the heavens was vaguely suspended within it. Once someone offended the dragon qi, it would trigger the sword shadow to stab down, possessing the power of a Great Accomplishment Primordial Spirit...

If it were not a descendant of the Liu family, the outcome would be being separated from one's head and body.

"Legend has it that the founding ancestor of the Immortal Han Liu family was the son of the Red Emperor of the heavenly realm! Now it seems, this is not an empty rumor!"

Brother Qian Chen was speechless; the style of this son of the Red Emperor did not seem very magnificent or upright.

In the years when the Immortal Qin was still around, it is said that this person had seen the Emperor's procession with his own eyes. At that time, he did not have the prestige of the son of the Red Emperor slaying the son of the White Emperor. It is said that his two legs were trembling, his body was shaking, and he did not dare to raise his head! If he were truly a descendant of the Heavenly Emperor, he was, to say the least, too... sensible of the times!

But all the magnificence of the dragon qi was the remnant of the past...

The current dragon qi, apart from the red qi, was also entangled with countless grievances and curses of living beings. This monstrous blood-resentment qi transformed into blood flames, burning and entangling the outside of the dragon qi, making the dragon vein's eyes red and its body entangled with demonic qi, having already been bound and demonized by curse techniques!

"The Immortal Han did not lose its virtue... why is there such monstrous resentment?"

Brother Qian Chen's expression was solemn. Thinking of the demonization of the Seven-Star Lamp formation, he knew that this matter must be inseparable from the Demon Sect's handiwork.

"The remaining qi of the Immortal Han has already been thoroughly defiled!" Brother Qian Chen realized: "If Master Sima Yan had followed the original plan, using the Seven-Star Lamp sacrifice to steal the destiny of the Immortal Han to make up for the damage to the Southern Jin's national destiny, then wouldn't that be..."

The curses burning on the dragon qi were from more than several million people!

The thick blood-resentment qi made even Brother Qian Chen shudder. Once such polluted destiny merged with the Southern Jin's national destiny, although it appeared to have restored its destiny on the surface, in reality, it would never be able to escape its entanglement with the Demon Sect.

At that time, the Demon Sect would probably be able to openly mix into the interior of the Jin Dynasty and contend with the Dao Sect!

Brother Qian Chen's face changed, and he asked coldly: "Master Sima Yan, do you know that the remaining qi of the Immortal Han has already been thoroughly demonized and has long since been obtained by the Demon Sect..."

Master Sima Yan raised his head abruptly, the shock in his eyes almost impossible to conceal, but he quickly suppressed the impulse to ask about this matter and snorted coldly, blocking Brother Qian Chen head-on. Brother Qian Chen lowered his eyes slightly and said solemnly: "During the years of the Demon Tribulation, the world was in chaos, and those pseudo-dynasties built by the Hu people who invaded the Central Lands were also named Han. And they caused the most serious killing, viewing the people of the Central Lands as two-legged sheep..."

"This, there should also be the Demon Sect's handiwork!"

"Using the power of the spoken word, the resentment of the people of the Central Lands slaughtered by the Hu people was entangled with the Han lineage."

"Taking this opportunity to collect the remaining qi of the Immortal Han gathered by the Ji Han, and the Han lineage dragon qi suppressed by Langya Zhuge Wu Hou with the Seven-Star Lamp, after all, the Seven-Star Lamp was just a ritual instrument left behind by Langya Zhuge Wu Hou! How could it guard against the Demon Sect's constant demonization and defilement for thousands of years... I'm afraid you all have long wanted to use the dragon qi of the Immortal Han to open another demonic dynasty!"

"The Master Sima family's actions just gave you the opportunity. They were seeking skin from a tiger, still thinking that after Master Sima Yan achieved the Primordial Spirit, he could find a way to get rid of you!"

"Still thinking that what was sacrificed was only the Southern Jin, and that it could benefit the Master Sima family!"

"Little did they know, you all originally wanted to swallow the entire Southern Jin Dynasty, skin and bones!"

"*Clap clap clap clap... *"

A round of applause came from the side of the gray-haired middle-aged man of the Blood Sea Sect. He praised: "Amazing! The current Dao Sect is truly amazing!"

His eyes were full of cruelty, and he sneered coldly: "It's a pity that there is a survivor like you!"

"It's good that it was destroyed!" the middle-aged man sighed.