Chapter 904: Battle of the Youming Realm

In the Youming Realm where the River of Darkness hangs upside down, a ten‑thousand‑foot blood spear suddenly erupts on the Wheel of Reincarnation. The Yellow Springs River roils madly, countless white bones float and sink in the scarlet tide, and the Blood Daoist strides through the air on a lotus platform formed from a million resentful souls, with a hundred thousand Blood Divine Sons behind him like a swarm of locusts blotting out the sky.

"Two scraps of meat dare to block my ascension?" a hoarse laugh echoes through the blood wave, and the entire Youming Realm begins to fissure.

The true form of the Nether God Emperor's Nether Beast crouches on the east side of the Wheel of Reincarnation, the Nine‑turn Severing Sword hangs above his head emitting a ghostly blue sword tone, and wherever its blade passes even the cause‑effect threads snap inch by inch.

The Lord of the Starry Sky's body is awash with silver‑galaxy stardust; the Zhou Tian Star Chart unfurled behind him collides violently with the dead aura of the Youming Realm. He points at the North Dipper position, and seven star rays turn into prison‑dragon chains that coil toward the Blood Sea: "Blood Old Demon, do you truly think crossing nine ten‑thousand‑tribulation cycles lets you run rampant?"

Before the words finish, the Blood Sea suddenly boils. A hundred thousand Blood Divine Sons simultaneously press a seal, forcibly rewriting the spatial laws of the Youming Realm, and countless blood‑colored runes burn in the void. The Nether God Emperor's pupils contract sharply, the Nine‑nether fire forms a three‑thousand‑zhang massive claw that slams down, but the moment it touches the blood wave it corrodes into blue smoke.

"Careful! This is the Nine‑turn Blood Demon Disintegration Technique!" the Lord of the Starry Sky roars, and the Zhou Tian Star Chart detonates with a boom. Countless star fragments fall in the Youming Realm, colliding with the Blood Sea to create a chaotic vortex that annihilates all. The Wheel of Reincarnation begins to crumble, the Yellow Springs River water overturns upward, forming a pillar of water that connects the Yin and Yang worlds.

The Blood Daoist's true body suddenly appears between the two, his gaunt hand piercing layers of space straight to the Lord of the Starry Sky's forehead. The Nine‑turn Severing Sword erupts with dazzling blue light, the Nether God Emperor's beast claw grasps the sword hilt and slashes horizontally, and the blade completely severs the cause‑effect link between the Blood Daoist's arm and his true body.

The instant the Severing Sword leaves its scabbard, three‑thousand‑six‑hundred transparent fissures appear across the Youming Realm's space.

When the Nether God Emperor's beast claw holds the sword hilt, the claw tips' flesh instantly turns to bone; under the full power of the Nine‑turn celestial accumulation, even a Great Vehicle Stage practitioner would suffer the erosion of the Five Declines of Heaven and Man just by holding it.

"The sword divides the three talents!" the Nether God Emperor's antlers shatter into star‑dust across the sky, and the trajectory of the Severing Sword displays every war from humanity's birth to the present. Where the blade points, the Blood Daoist suddenly manifests seven life‑soul lamps around his body—a life‑preserving forbidden art of Great Vehicle cultivators—yet under the sword's aura three of them explode in succession!

"What a splendid Severing Sword!" the Blood Daoist shouts with wild laughter, and from behind the Blood Sea surge a hundred thousand Blood Divine Sons.

These replicas, forged from the refined blood of tribulation‑crossing cultivators, simultaneously form seals, dyeing the entire Youming Realm's yin aura crimson. Amid the reverse‑flowing Yellow Springs River waves, a scene from his ninth ten‑thousand‑tribulation appears: the nine‑layer heavenly punishment thundercloud is swallowed by the reversed Blood Sea, and the tribulation thunder transforms into a blood dragon that weaves through his seven orifices.

The Lord of the Starry Sky's tendrils suddenly pierce his own chest, extracting a pulsating star core. The Youming Realm's sky instantly displays the Zhou Tian Star Array, but the positions of the twenty‑eight constellations are pierced by bronze nails soaked in dragon blood— his hidden hand laid over ten‑thousand years in the Youming Realm. The resonating star nails cause space to fold, and three hundred transparent cavities appear on the Blood Daoist's left side, each housing a miniature black hole.

"Star Burial!" As the Lord of the Starry Sky roars, those black holes simultaneously unleash devouring power.

The Blood Daoist's right half collapses into a two‑dimensional plane, but just as he is about to be fully sealed, a coffin etched with ancient runes rises from the Blood Sea. When the coffin lid explodes, it does not emit corpse stench but the very source of his nine ten‑thousand‑tribulation passages!

Nine tribulation lights intertwine into a blood‑colored Dao diagram, forcibly bursting the Zhou Tian Star Array.

The Nether God Emperor's Severing Sword emits a mournful wail, and fine cracks appear on its blade.

The Lord of the Starry Sky's three tendrils snap at the roots, and from the ruptured ends spew stardust carrying fragmented destiny shards.

"Now it's my turn." The Blood Daoist's mutilated body reassembles within the Blood Sea, and a droplet of blood reflecting all heavens and realms forms at his fingertip.

This is his "Ten Thousand Tribulation Blood Essence," refined through nine tribulations; wherever it passes, even the concept of space‑time is dyed blood‑red.

The Youming Realm's reincarnation law begins to collapse, and countless wandering souls turn into ferocious blood demons in the crimson light.

The Nether God Emperor again reveals the true form of his Nether Beast; its nine‑ten‑thousand‑li body is cloaked in a decaying imperial robe, each scale sealing the fate of a fallen dynasty. The beast claw grips the Severing Sword and pierces his own forehead; the spouting imperial blood writes a primordial sacrificial text on the blade: "With the fallen emperor as offering, the heavens and mortals are forever separated!"

At the moment the sword light surges, the Lord of the Starry Sky burns his star core into a star‑meteor chain, binding the Blood Daoist tightly between the mortal world and the void. The Severing Sword, bearing the Nether God Emperor's lifelong cultivation, pierces the blood orb; the two forces, each beyond this realm's limits, collide, triggering the annihilation of the most primal law.

"Ka‑cha!"

The entire Youming Realm shatters like a struck glass cup, cracking from top to bottom into a fissure that pierces the three realms.

Fine cracks appear on the surface of the blood orb, yet the Severing Sword, after penetrating three inches, explosively fragments. The Nether God Emperor's beast body is consumed in a backlash, turning to ash, leaving only half a set of antlers embedded in the Blood Daoist's chest cavity.

The Lord of the Starry Sky's star core dims and falls, swept by the aftershock into the Wheel of Reincarnation's rift, disappearing without a trace.

The Blood Daoist staggers, kneeling on the shattered star chart; his left arm turns to ash, his right eye becomes a hollow vortex of law.

He tries to grasp the drifting blood essence, but finds the power condensed from nine lifetimes of tribulation has dwindled to less than a tenth. If he meets a saint now, even the chance of rebirth and cultivation would be severed.

"Damn it!" the Blood Daoist grits his teeth, ignoring everything else as he slips into the void and vanishes.

And at this moment.

Yan Buji stands thousands of miles away, feeling the terrifying might unleashed by the three great masters' battle, almost shattering the Youming Realm—truly unimaginable.

"The Blood Daoist has gone mad," Yan Buji remarks.

When Yan Buji narrowly escaped, he did not leave but watched the fight from afar.

After experiencing all this, Yan Buji gradually realizes some things cannot be avoided even if he tries to hide.

"Although the Nether God Emperor and the Lord of the Starry Sky may use different methods, their goals should be the same. Otherwise they wouldn't have been pacified so easily before," Yan Buji recalls their earlier conversation, realizing that a scheme between the Nether God Emperor and the Lord of the Starry Sky must have existed long ago.

Whether it occurred before the new Yan King or after, he cannot say.

Yan Buji is about to leave the Youming Realm when he suddenly senses a powerful aura rushing toward him!

Hm?

In the distance, many underworld cultivators guard a dragon carriage, and Yan Buji's pupils contract.

"Is this Brother Yan Buji, Brother Yan Dao?"

Hm?!

A voice from the new Yan King reaches his ears, making Yan Buji shiver instantly.

This....

How did he become so strong?

Yan Buji watches the dragon carriage descend, coming to his eyes, and he carefully senses the situation.

Besides the few ghost cultivators at the Convergence Path stage, the new Yan King behind the carriage actually broke through the Convergence Path stage, ascending to Great Vehicle!

Unbelievable!