Chapter 589 - 18: Chaos Origin

In the center of the Star Grinding Wheel, Night Queen’s tall, graceful body was pierced by a Profound Gold Iron Hand.

Like a small, exquisite, beautiful doll, she hung from the arm of the Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation, which stood over ten feet tall and was completely covered in Profound Gold.

It was an alluring, bloody, and chilling scene.

The Primordial Heavenly Demon Qi surged into Night Queen’s body, causing a violent evaporation. To her horror, Night Queen realized her Dharma Body was being corroded and transformed, turning completely into another kind of Demonic Qi and slipping from her control.

The smile was gone from her face.

"You’re easier to kill than I imagined..."

"Killing you will fill my ninth Thunder Pool, and this incarnation will have reached completion."

The mechanical voice was cold, flat, and devoid of emotion.

Night Queen had been suppressed by the Dragon Elephant Wanderer for a thousand years. When she escaped not long ago, she had fought another fierce battle with him, leaving her with severe injuries that had yet to heal.

To be so easily captured now by the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation"—one could only say that fate was cruel.

A mass of dark red Demonic Qi began to spread from her chest like a stain, slowly creeping across her entire body.

The Demonic Qi billowing from her body was thick and surging, its dark red hue already tinged with traces of a black glow.

All of this Demonic Qi flowed back into the Thunder Pool in the chest of the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation."

"Are you really an incarnation of Fang Cheng from the Red Profound Association?" Night Queen asked coldly, watching the Taishi Demon Qi continue to spread over her body.

The "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation" remained noncommittal. While refining Night Queen, it operated the Sutra of the Buddha’s Hidden Talisman, refining the souls of the many Cultivators, members of the Ancient Evil Race, and Demon Saints it had just slain into relics, which it then devoured one by one.

Night Queen was on the verge of despair, her heart like dead embers as she waited for the moment of her final annihilation.

’Is this my destiny...?’

She said faintly, "The Demon Lord will avenge me."

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Above the Vast Forest Sea in the Formless Realm, the Yellow Springs River flowed, vast and mighty, as if it would never cease.

A sky full of sword light clashed endlessly with thousands of Celestial Soldiers and Generals.

Aside from the three Nine Tribulation Celestial Generals who had not been slain by the Sword Array, the other Celestial Soldiers and Generals had all died several times.

However, after these Celestial Soldiers and Generals were slain, they would transform into streaks of white Profound Light and fly back into the Celestial Sect that Yu Wenxu had become. In no time at all, they would fly out again to continue their assault on Fang Cheng’s Sword Array.

"What an incredible Divine Technique!"

Standing in the center of the Great Inference Celestial Net Sword Array, Fang Cheng couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration as he watched the inexhaustible Celestial Soldiers and Generals.

These Celestial Soldiers and Generals were all "bodies of Qi," yet their own Cultivation and Divine Techniques were no weaker than those of ordinary Cultivators. Their Magical Power was condensed and vast, their Divine Techniques astonishing.

Fang Cheng had tried to counterattack the Celestial Sect several times, but was repelled on each occasion.

Clearly, any Great Cultivator who could survive the Ninth Celestial Tribulation was no mediocre figure.

Moreover, he knew his opponent was definitely holding back. For now, the two were merely probing each other. Their true killing moves were yet to come.

It was a matter of who would reveal an opening first.

Little did Fang Cheng know, Yu Wenxu’s astonishment at this moment was even greater than his own.

The Cultivator before him was merely at the Third Tribulation, yet the sheer immensity of his Magical Power was in no way inferior to the Eighth and Ninth Tribulation Cultivators he had seen!

The breadth of this man’s Qi Sea and the size of his Dharma Aspect were unlike anything he had ever seen in his life.

The Celestial Sect he had transformed into was comparable to a fifth-grade top-quality magic artifact. It contained an infinite, inexhaustible Spiritual Mechanism. When fighting him, ordinary Cultivators of the same rank could never outlast him.

Yet this rising star of the Red Profound Association, relying solely on his own Magical Power, was able to fuel a world-shaking Sword Array that kept his endless Celestial Soldiers at bay, showing no fear of the Magical Power consumption.

His main force—three Nine Tribulation Celestial Generals, nine Six Tribulation Celestial Generals, and twenty-seven Three Tribulation Celestial Generals—was powerful enough to raze any top-tier sect in the Red Profound Realm to the ground.

But now, facing a mere Third Tribulation Cultivator, not only had they failed to break the Sword Array, but they were also being repeatedly slain.

’If I don’t eliminate this man, he will become a grave threat!’

With killing intent surging in his heart, Yu Wenxu no longer held anything back.

The Celestial Sect in the void trembled, and a ball of treasure light split off from it, transforming into a mountain-sized seal that descended from the sky, pressing down on Fang Cheng.

This Treasure Seal possessed incredible might, forcefully shattering the sword light manifested by the Great Inference Celestial Net Sword Array as it crashed down toward Fang Cheng’s head.

Unperturbed, Fang Cheng pointed a finger. The Nine Yi Cauldron appeared out of thin air. Its lid flew open, and a boundless torrent of golden stars and red threads erupted, spinning like a vortex of lightning. It sprayed forth a thousand streams of auspicious aura mixed with ten thousand points of golden light, which shot out like electricity to entwine the Treasure Seal.

A brilliant radiance, so dazzling it was hard to keep one’s eyes open, suddenly erupted between the two.

The Treasure Seal, which should have been crashing down, abruptly tried to fly away, but it was ensnared by the divine light from the Nine Yi Cauldron and could not break free.

As the two were locked in a struggle, another ball of treasure light manifested in the sky, revealing a Demon Suppression Chain within.

The chain suddenly extended, darting into the Sword Array. After a series of violent clashes, one end shot toward Fang Cheng to bind him.

Fang Cheng let out a low shout and threw a punch, striking the tip of the Demon Suppression Chain.

BOOM!

A dark golden light suffused the air. The Demon Suppression Chain trembled several times before flying backward.

Just then, a chill ran through Fang Cheng. He spun around and grabbed at the space behind him.

Perhaps because his physical cultivation had reached a high level of mastery, he had become a bit too confident. A long spike, wrapped in a divine wind of gray and white, silently pierced his right hand and blew off the lower half of his right arm.

Had he not dodged in time, the spike would have pierced his Qi Sea and destroyed the foundation of his Dharma Aspect!

Even though he possessed the Netherworld Dharma Body Divine Technique, which allowed him to turn incorporeal to evade fatal attacks, he had failed to escape the gray and white divine wind on the spike.

This gray and white divine wind seemed specifically designed to destroy a Cultivator’s physical body. Like a flesh-dissolving poison, the slightest touch would cause the affected part to turn to ash. The stronger one’s qi and blood, the more violent the reaction.