Chapter 590 18: Chaotic Singularity (Part 2)

Celestial Gate, Treasure Seal, Demon Suppression Chain, Divine Wind Nail...

All four of these Magical Artifacts were Tier Five Top Grade, possessing terrifying power and endless uses. They were not to be underestimated.

Yu Wenxu could embody Magical Artifacts. With his strange and varied Divine Techniques and tyrannical combat strength, he was indeed the most formidable opponent Fang Cheng had encountered in years, second only to the Demon Lord's incarnation.

Of course, if he were to once again face those few from Qianyu Heaven's Ascension to Immortality List, Yu Wenxu's ranking would probably drop a few places.

After Xiao Yunyi and the others broke through to the Tribulation Realm, their strength was naturally greater than Yu Wenxu's.

The nail, wrapped in a divine wind of gray and white, relentlessly shot toward Fang Cheng's face again. A divine light flashed in his eyes as two beams of sword light flew from his pupils. With a twist and a flick, he sent the nail flying, neutralizing the deadly attack.

He snorted coldly and waved his right arm. Countless Dark Gold Profound Patterns appeared on his arm, wreathed in light. At the stump, blood-red buds and white bone emerged, and in just a few moments, a new forearm and hand had grown back.

"To receive without giving in return is a breach of etiquette!"

A massive Sun Dial materialized above his head. As ripples spread through the void, the attacking nail and the Demon Suppression Chain were both frozen in space, their movements slowing to a snail's pace in an incredibly strange manner.

Then, the Nine Yi Cauldron swept out a brilliant light, pulling all three Magical Artifacts, including the Treasure Seal, into itself.

And then—

Fang Cheng formed a hand seal, and a hundred-zhang-wide Yin Yang Vortex appeared behind him, from which an immense Cyan Lotus grew.

The Cyan Lotus blossomed, and from its stamen burst an axe-light that seemed capable of Heaven and Earth Creation, viciously chopping down on the Celestial Gate.

The first form of the Mixed Element Seven Tribulations Diagram: Primordial Light Division.

BOOM!

Wherever the axe-light passed, the three Nine Tribulation Celestial Generals were all annihilated.

The Celestial Gate let out a deafening crack as it was forcefully split apart. Amid a chaotic flash of infinite precious light, a figure appeared in a sorry state. It was Yu Wenxu.

"A Spirit Immortal's inheritance!"

He cried out in alarm, his face filled with fear. His aura was unstable, and he had clearly suffered serious injuries.

'A Spirit Immortal's inheritance is something one can only hope to encounter by chance; an ordinary person might not see one in their entire lifetime.'

'Even if one were to obtain such an inheritance from the Upper Realm, how many could successfully cultivate it?'

'Anyone who succeeds in cultivating a Spirit Immortal's inheritance is a person of great wisdom and great destiny. Not one such person has been seen in the last ten thousand years!'

'Yet this person before me possesses two Spirit Immortal inheritances, and he has cultivated them both to a profound level.'

'It will be difficult to kill him today...'

Yu Wenxu sighed internally. With a shake of his body, he transformed into a Giant Bronze Cauldron.

The moment the cauldron appeared, a world-shaking aura shot into the sky, shattering the illusion of the Sun Dial.

"You may possess peerless Divine Techniques, but in terms of cultivation maturity, you are still somewhat lacking."

Yu Wenxu's voice echoed from all directions in the void.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Three earth-shattering explosions rang out. The lid of the Nine Yi Cauldron, not far from Fang Cheng, was suddenly blown off. Three balls of precious light shot out and flew into the Giant Bronze Cauldron.

They were the three Fifth-rank Magical Artifacts that Fang Cheng had just collected.

The next moment, the Giant Bronze Cauldron transformed into a massive Golden Boat. Exuding an aura of traversing myriad tribulations to reach the other shore, it suddenly shattered the void and prepared to leave.

"Yuwen, the victor between us has not yet been decided. Why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

Fang Cheng took a deep breath, surged all the Magical Power in his body, and pointed out from a distance.

In that instant, the space within a thousand zhang of the Golden Boat was suddenly plunged into a strange dimension.

Within this space, earth, water, wind, and fire raged. The void fractured and Dao-marks filled the air, as if re-enacting the primordial spectacle of Heaven and Earth Creation.

The world around the Golden Boat was a patch of chaos. Earth, wind, water, and fire flashed as all things were destroyed and withered, only to be constantly reborn.

The Golden Boat dodged left and right, but could not escape the chaos.

From the outside, the thousand-zhang area of the void had become a mass of chaos, with streams of cyan, black, white, and red light completely submerging the Golden Boat.

Then, the thousand-zhang void abruptly collapsed and condensed, forming a chaotic singularity the size of a pinprick, about to return to nothingness.

Back at the Spirit Ruins Magic Competition in Qianyu Heaven, Xiao Yunyi had been defeated by this very move.

—The Mixed Element Seven Tribulations Diagram, Primordial Void.

Just then, from within the Grotto Heaven Chessboard encircled by the Yellow Springs River, a white chess piece flew out and landed precisely on the spot where the chaotic singularity was located.

The chess piece vanished in a flash, and in its place, a fist-sized Golden Boat appeared.

The next instant, the chaotic singularity disappeared completely.

The Golden Boat once again shattered the void and fled.

And that small white chess piece had actually "swapped" Yu Wenxu out...

Fang Cheng could clearly feel that the white chess piece had just mobilized a massive amount of Celestial Dao Origin Power, as if a heavenly tribulation were descending. It had twisted fate itself to forcibly rescue Yu Wenxu.

He turned his head to look at the Grotto Heaven Chessboard and saw the Demon Lord holding a white piece between his index and middle fingers, giving him a slight smile.

The simple, ancient-looking elder playing against the Demon Lord also flicked a black piece, which landed in front of Fang Cheng. However, he didn't speak to Fang Cheng, his focus still locked on the chessboard.

Fang Cheng calmly collected the black piece, and with a wave of his sleeve, dispersed the sword light filling the sky before gracefully returning to the Taixu Cloud Tower.

...

「In the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm of the Hidden Demon Sect.」

The Night Queen's body completely transformed into Taishi Demon Qi, all of it flowing back into the chest of the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation."

Her Divine Soul was also refined by the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation" into a brilliant, crystal-clear Divine Soul Relic, to be absorbed later to enhance the Power of the Divine Soul of this incarnation of Fang Cheng's.

The entire Secret Realm was overflowing with Taishi Demon Qi, which was now all flowing back like a torrential tide reversing its course, gradually swirling into a massive vortex of Demonic Qi.

To Fang Cheng, wiping out the Hidden Demon Sect was no different from slaughtering a large Celestial Demon clan in the Outer Void.

At this moment, the Nine Thunder Pools within the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation" were completely lit, having reached a state of perfection.

A tyrannical aura, comparable to that of a Nine-Tribulation Great Power, filled the heavens and earth, pressing down on the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm.

Compared to his main body, the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation" still had shortcomings.

The three Divine Power Relics obtained from Xiao Yunyi and the others were only three Divine Technique forms from three great Spirit Immortal inheritances, not three complete legacies.

Although he had refined them to the point where all three Divine Techniques had reached the Tribulation Realm level, they were still not as profound or versatile as the Mixed Element Seven Tribulations Diagram he cultivated. They were ultimately flawed.

'The only way is to continue killing and plundering.'

Of the Demon Lord's four great Demon Servants, the Spiritual Palace City Lord's whereabouts were unknown, and the Night Queen was dead.

Only the Bitter Elder and Master Xiaoyao remained.

'Fang Cheng had only one plan in mind: before the Demon Lord escaped, he would completely eliminate all of his supporters in the Red Profound Realm, leaving him with no pieces on the board.'

'At that time, he would gather the power of the entire realm to suppress him once again!'

'Once the Demon-Suppressing Celestial Stele was fully refined, he could cleanse the demonic intent from the Celestial Dao Origin, pass the subsequent heavenly tribulations, and ascend to the Upper Realm.'

After this recent battle against the Night Queen and Master Xiaoyao, Fang Cheng had a new understanding of his combat strength after entering the Tribulation Realm.

In less time than it takes to drink a cup of tea, the "Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation" had completely devoured the Taishi Demon Qi within the Grotto Heaven.

The entire Grotto Heaven Secret Realm had become a scene of devastation and ruin.

He waited for several days, but Yu Wenxu never returned. He realized that even though the Demon Lord was trapped on the chessboard, he could still transmit all sorts of information.

'Yu Wenxu had probably learned what happened to the Hidden Demon Sect through the Demon Lord's incarnation and therefore wouldn't be coming back.'

Thus, he decisively gave up his plan to ambush Yu Wenxu and drifted out of the Grotto Heaven, heading toward the Formless Realm.

His main body's battle with Yu Wenxu had deepened its connection to the Celestial Dao Origin, and it was about to attract the fourth heavenly tribulation.

He could take this opportunity for his Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation to also bathe in the heavenly tribulation, re-tempering its body and increasing its physical strength.

He had originally chosen to attack the Hidden Demon Sect precisely when Yu Wenxu was heading to the Formless Realm to assist the Demon Lord's incarnation.

'Now that he understood Yu Wenxu's true strength, as long as he planned properly next time, his main body and Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation could join forces and would surely be able to kill him with ease.'

As he traversed the heavens, he refined the Night Queen's Divine Soul Relic along the way and managed to obtain a good deal of useful information.

Specifically, why did the Night Queen, the Bitter Elder, Yu Wenxu, and the others follow the Demon Lord?

Besides being coerced by the Demon Lord, there was another important reason: temptation!

The Demon Lord had promised that once he retrieved his complete body, corrupted the Red Profound Realm with demonic power, and recovered his strength, he would only keep ten Demon Servants and allow them to ascend to the Upper Realm with him.

Some members of the Red Profound Association had also been bewitched by the Demon Lord's incarnation and were lying in wait.

Unfortunately, even the Night Queen didn't know exactly who had been turned by the Demon Lord's incarnation...