Chapter 502 440: Asura Emperor's Tomb

Qingming World.

The Immortal Dao World within the Nine Heavens of Primordial Chaos.

Three Thousand Dao States, countless Lower Realms.

After the Five Tribulations.

Like the Profound Yellow, Fu Guang, and Daluo Worlds, the Qingming World was, both openly and secretly, dominated by the Celestial Court and heavily influenced by its rules.

The Celestial Realm Space-Time was not a unified whole.

Instead, it was divided in a tiered fashion into numerous Lower and Upper Realms. Only by reaching the pinnacle of Cultivation in a Lower Realm could one pass the lightning tribulation and ascend to an Upper Realm.

The entry ticket to the Three Thousand Dao States required a Nascent Soul, that is, Dharma Cultivation.

Jun Tianwuji State.

The first-ranked Dao State, home to the Infinite Daoist Palace of the Common Lord, required a Saint's level of Dao Practice. Native cultivators, who were born in the Wuji Dao State, were an exception.

Of course, this wasn't to say that only the Wuji Dao State had Saints. It was simply that the closer one was to the Jun Tianwuji State, the more suitable it was for Cultivation, and the more experts there were—much like the inner and outer rings of a modern metropolis.

The 'fourth ring' of the Wuji Dao State.

Within a Grand Cosmos in the Nether Ancient Dao State.

The Star River was dazzling, and Great Realms were numerous.

Outside the Fallen God Realm, located in the Border Wilderness.

Three Second-Rank Great Saint Divine Envoys from the Primordial Sect had set their sights on the Fallen God Realm, a Middle Thousand World. They prepared to make their move and harvest the Spirits of Living Creatures as was their custom.

"Sigh, the rewards for harvesting Divine Souls are too meager. I wonder when I'll be promoted to a Fifth-Rank Divine Envoy and get to sacrifice the Tao Realm of a One Tribulation Great Venerable. Now *that* would be a spectacular reward."

One of the Great Saint Divine Envoys said with considerable envy. He was only a Second-Rank Divine Envoy, corresponding to the Great Saint Dao Practice. He was still three ranks away from reaching Fifth-Rank.

"I heard that Lord Red Lotus's master, the Karma Fire Demon Venerable, recovered from a nearly incurable Dao injury in a single mission after joining the Divine Sect. The master and disciple duo made a fortune together."

Another Divine Envoy beside him chimed in.

"Just keep working hard. As long as you contribute to the Divine Sect, you'll get what's coming to you. The great Star Mother is always watching us."

The last of them, an old Divine Envoy named Ji Bu, was full of motivation. He had once been a dispirited and unsuccessful old Demon, and he had thought his life was over.

But who would have thought? By a twist of fate, Ji Bu joined the Primordial Sect and quickly found a new lease on life. His cultivation, which had been stuck at the peak of the Saint realm for a thousand years, broke through to the Great Saint realm after just a few missions.

This made Ji Bu feel a constant, pious gratitude in his heart. He resolved to devote his everything to the Primordial Daoist Venerable and to burn brightly for the prosperity of the Divine Sect until his last moment!

"By the way, have you guys heard?"

At this, the Divine Envoy who had spoken first seemed to recall something, and his expression turned gloomy as he said:

"Recently, a mysterious group of people impersonating the Primordial Sect has appeared out of nowhere, and they're also frantically harvesting the Spirits of Living Creatures."

"They're courting death!"

Ji Bu said with a Sen Leng chill, "Daring to snatch food from the Primordial Sect is pure suicide. The great Star Mother recently opened the Divine Envoy descent channels. Once we find a trace of them... Hmph!"

"I heard a Third-Rank Divine Envoy clashed with that group. They're suspected to be Dead Guests from the Human World."

The second Divine Envoy said with a grave expression.

The Human World.

The number one assassin organization in the All Heavens.

It rose to prominence after the Five Tribulations, and its mysterious power was no less than that of the Dragon Hunting Tower. For hundreds of thousands of years, no one had been able to uncover its secrets.

This faction was somewhat similar to the Dragon Hunting Tower.

The Dragon Hunting Tower harvested the Horizontal Refining Celestial Prides of the All Heavens, while the Human World specialized in targeting the Spirits of Living Creatures.

One reaps the body, the other reaps the soul.

Many in the All Heavens often speculated that the two factions were a single group with a clear division of labor, but there was never any proof.

As for Wu Dao, with his control over the grand scheme of things, he was naturally aware that the Dragon Hunting Tower was using the Primordial Army's name to wantonly harvest the Spirits of Living Creatures.

The system of opening descent channels between superior and subordinate Divine Envoys was the very plan he had instructed the Star Mother to implement in response to the Human World.

It was, in a way, 'karmic retribution'.

In the past, he had made the Dragon Hunting Tower and the Human World take the blame for him on more than one occasion.

Now, the tables had turned.

The Human World had learned his methods and was, in turn, making his Primordial Sect take the blame.

In a sense, the Human World's scapegoating was a major reason why the Primordial Sect had so quickly become a pariah hunted by everyone in the All Heavens, branded as a terrorist organization.

It had always been Wu Dao who made others take the blame. Since when had he been the one left holding the bag?

This was an insult Wu Dao naturally couldn't swallow.

He had issued a divine oracle to the Divine Envoys of the Primordial Sect to purge the heretics. If they encountered any of the bastards from the Human World, they were to kill every last one of them!

This wasn't an overestimation of his own strength.

After the great battle in the Chaos three years ago, the Dao Rules of the Primordial Path had changed. Celestial Punishment was now countless times more terrifying than before, and Emperor Level Power was completely forbidden.

For this reason, in the current Hongyuan, Great Emperors did not dare to act rashly. Quasi-Emperors were now the top tier, and Great Venerables were Overlord-level existences.

The Primordial Sect was developing rapidly. Anyone Wu Dao could control, he would absorb as a Divine Envoy, and among the Fifth-Rank Divine Envoys were a good number of high-level Great Venerables.

A faction of this scale couldn't be said to run rampant and unopposed, but it was by no means small fry. It had the confidence to wrestle with the various ancient, powerful factions.

...

"Those rats are nothing to worry about. Let's get to it! This old man is about to break through to the Great Saint First Heaven, and today I'm going to reap three more Middle Thousand Worlds!"

Ji Bu stared down at the flourishing Fallen God Realm below. In his eyes, the countless living beings within transformed into walking Great Medicines, and he couldn't help but lick his lips greedily.

'The Primordial Daoist Venerable's Magical Power is boundless.'

'My own talent and potential are utterly lacking, but as long as I sacrifice Divine Souls, the Primordial Sect has plenty of ways to help me shatter my shackles.'

'In a situation like this, it's impossible not to get addicted.'

"Wait. The Fallen God Realm was supposedly a Five Tribulation Battlefield once. Let's check for any ancient ruins first."

The first Divine Envoy stopped Ji Bu.

Then, he took out a detection artifact shaped like an Evil Lotus from his robes. After infusing it with life Energy, the Evil Lotus instantly bloomed.