Paragon of Sin

Chapter 1877: Chapter 1869: Scheme Exposed

On the brink of its detonation, as the Heavenly World's energy fluctuations reached its unstoppable peak, Shadow Veil, the clandestine organization notorious for its assassinations, espionage, and nefarious racketeering practices, decidedly released an incendiary bomb into the mix, sending out critical information regarding Su Yi's confidence!

Su Yi's exit strategy was deduced!

He schemed to leverage the strength of a Shard of Heaven to resolve the situation!

A SHARD OF HEAVEN!!

Wei Xiaotian was a Shard of Heaven!

Young Master Shang, who was under the influence of the Heavenly Daos at the time for his Rite of a Sinner, had informed Wei Wuyin back then regarding how the Impartation of the Heavens had many levels, and how valuable demons were, which were born from this heavenly phenomenon, to those at the True Sage-level and above.

He described it as the heavens' performing the act correctly. Normally, the vessel of the soul was mundane or irregular—imperfect, and so, the subsequent result was demons. While the information given was heavily regulated to lure him to the temptation of primal lust and predatory desire without control or true understanding of one's sin, the vast majority was correct.

The result of this correct infusion of soul and vessel harmonization, birthing a perfect being sculpted literally by the heavens, was an entity known as a Heavenly Infant, or otherwise referred to by those ancient civilizations as the first Apple.

They were extraordinarily valuable for those at the Resonant Soul Realm whose primary cultivation path was emulating the heavens' realms of myriad laws. If not for Wei Wuyin's selflessly selfish sacrificial act of his Primal Yang for Wei Xiaotian, allowing him to maintain principles and morals gained throughout his life, her mere presence would have set off intergalactic war, and this was true beyond a shadow of a doubt.

However, what even Young Master Shang was unaware of was the potential possibility of a Microheaven of a deceased Resonant Soul Realm cultivator gaining the capability to give birth to a Shard of Heaven. It was an imperfect Shard of Heaven, born from incomplete heavenly laws, and was thus demonically irregular in appearance, normally unable to leave the Heavenly World.

Skepticism lasted for mere picoseconds in the minds of the Supreme Sages, Enlightened Sages, and erudite Ascended beings, and then realization dawned upon them light a world-crushing lightning bolt.

In the Incinerated Dominion, there was a creature that would slaughter any creature of a certain stage of cultivation. Despite the depth of cultivation understanding and variety of means within the Utmost Purity Galaxy, this also led to several problems of thousands of potential possibilities, when paired with a Heavenly World's innate protection against divinations, the very same protections that hid Su Yi from their gazes for so long, made it almost impossible to solve the mysterious of why.

Moreover, the Incinerated Dominion was inconsequential, and while it was valuable, it was a forbidden region that was avoided like the plague by those of significant power to affect its fate. It just wasn't worth it. Only when the shell was bound to be destroyed from the inside, an action that they had concluded by simple external observation of the rise of heavenly force exuding from the Heavenly World, did they find it fit to involve themselves in profiting from the event.

Still, the Zeniths felt it beneath them to oversee the event due to its low priority.

Now, after learning that it was a Shard of Heaven born from the Heavenly World's heavenly law, the situation clicked like a key entering a lock, hitting every single pin that couldn't be discerned at a glance.

And then, the minds of all those desiring to kill, hunt, capture, save, protect, or assist Su Yi that were scattered across the Utmost Purity Galaxy began to spiral in a swirl of hectic chaos.

A single move by Shadow Veil was all it took; Su Yi's trump card that would have allowed him to become the Main Character of this event, likely leading to him fighting against his enemies as he stalled for time, exhibiting his peerless strength as the chaos of the explosion and hectic grab for treasures shadowed the consumption of the Heart of Qi, pushing the Shard of Heaven's cultivation beyond reason, was exposed everything all at once.

The suspicious fact of Su Yi's capability to detonate the Heavenly World's Core was attributed to his Ascended Saint cultivation base and Supreme Sage-level strength, including the ancient knowledge of his former life that owned the Sword of the Transient Realm, allowing him to avoid any cultivation coming to that conclusion.

Much to their frustration, how could they possibly guess that a Shard of Heaven existed in the Incinerated Dominion?! And that it was the likely main perpetrator behind the Incinerated Dominion's detonation?!?!

IT ALL MADE SENSE!!!

"Is this true?" Sovereign Seafather, a rotund yet stout and robust man with a single curved aquamarine horn sprouting from his left temple, asked with an inquisitive tone, wanting to obtain the other's insight before proceeding, yet his words were met with a flash of indescribable killing intent that shook his True Soul.

Wei Wuyin's movements were gracefully swift as he kicked off lightly in retreat. His right hand reached out for the Incandescent Star Palace and pulled back towards himself. A swirl of mana engulfed his startled form, and he was instantly yanked away.

Simultaneously, Wei Wuyin pushed out his left hand, his fingers curled, and he aimed it at the ground. A surge of Draconic Void Mystic Force silently impacted the floor, sweeping across the room like a ghastly tidal wave and directly engulfing all except two. With expert precision and unsettling speeds, the seven Heavenly Saint Alchemists of the Heavenly Sage Tower and the Supreme Sages of the Star Palaces and Peerless Pavilions were Void Shifted.

In the blink of a Supreme Sage's eye, Wei Wuyin and the Incandescent Star Palace Lord exited the White Heaven Sage Palace, disregarding all its spatial protective formations as if it was non-existent. They appeared tens of thousands of miles away.

"Huh?" The Incandescent Star Palace Lord was stunned. Then, he sensed the abrupt emergence of eleven others, seven of whom were the Heavenly Saint Alchemists.

"What just—" Before any of them could inquire about the situation.

BOOOOOOOM!!!

A heaven-shaking explosion erupted throughout the Dark Void, sending soul-rending soundwaves across its blanket, empty void. It was akin to the sound of a megaton bomb exploding from inside a mine, muffled and accompanied by geysering debris.

The debris extended for three million miles, exactly. The calculations of the detonation were precise.

Wei Wuyin expertly switched mystic forces, tapping into his Alpha Origin Mystic Force. A white shroud enveloped the entire group protectively, absorbing the incoming raw, fiery energies flooding the Dark Void, seeking to eradicate all life with incinerating heat. Despite being so far away, they were within the range of the three million miles at the far edges of the Incinerated Dominion's gravitational orbit solely to oversee the event, like noblemen watching the show, but under the protection of the White Heaven Sage Palace's formations, they would have been wholly protected by the explosion.

However, staying in the White Heaven Sage Palace at the moment was dangerous!

While debris from the Heavenly World flew about, forming objects similar to miniature Solar Stars that jetted in all directions in varying sizes, some ranging from the size of a baby's fist, exuding a fiery aura enough to engulf a continent, to the size of a small mountain. The epicenter of these objects was none other than condensed and corporeal red crystals of fire essence of the purest form—Mystic-Heaven Fire Essence Stones!

That was only the most common material, as Mystic-World Essence Stones, that was either diluted by the explosion or fragmented portions of Mystic-Heaven Essence Stones that broke off without any heavenly properties, were geysering outward at an unsettling momentum. They included rare treasures, and if one with keen enough senses swept the fiery field of three million miles, they could sense an Edict Seed of Fire within its deep depths.

However, as if guided by some unseen rule, none of the explosions ever exceeded the three-million-mile range.

Almost immediately, those ignorant of Su Yi's plot or the fact that his scheme was exposed experienced a suffusion of greed and desire. For all of them, a single piece of Mystic-Heaven Essence Stone could change the very course of their life, granting them incomparably precious opportunities to seek out greater power, connections, and lifespan!

The Rune Kings, World Emperors, Original Magistrates, and Mystic Overlords, many of whom were brought here via a Star Bridge after paying out an absurd price, established a collaborative manifestation that involves thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of cultivators!

While those massive manifestations emulating the visage of sage-slaying swords, world-devouring beasts, or abnormal demonic entities formed and made their move as if given the go signal, the situation spiraled into a scene of death and struggle!

Due to the heaviness of these materials, only the smaller, weaker, and less valuable materials were at the outskirts of the three-million-mile region.

Wei Wuyin caught a fire-attributed Mystic-World Essence Stone the size of a finger nail, and from the corner of his eye, saw at the edges of the incinerated zone, an eight-thousand meter-sized Ice Sparrow of amalgamated Ice Power sped across the incinerated zone while shielding those piloting and powering the manifestation met a lone Heavenly Saint riding what seemed to be a surfboard forged from a large ice crystal. It bellowed out the frigid mist from the bottom that protected him.

However, the manifestation, which only had three thousand Rune Kings and eight World Emperors, took action, attacking the Heavenly Saint. The Heavenly Saint turned around, his expression totally indifferent, and seemingly without a single wisp of effort, swiped across the burning air.

A deluge of heavenly radiance and Wind Power took the shape of a world-shredding tornado. The Ice Sparrow tried to retreat, but its struggle was futile; the Ice Sparrow was caught, and the defenses provided by the Ice Sparrow collapsed, along with it, the end of the lives of thousands of hopeful, ambitious, and stupid cultivators.

Before that slaughter unfolded, the Heavenly Saint had ruthlessly seized a piece of spewed-out treasure that had been grabbed by the Ice Sparrow's claws. Unfortunately…

Wei Wuyin turned back to the White Heaven Sage Palace. The other twelve Supreme Sages beside him were focusing their attention on the palace as well.

Muffled explosions of heaven-rending intensity were repeatedly erupting from within. The opulent and richly built structure was littered with cracks and fissures, while the World Soul was crying out in agony, sending out waves of deathly howls into the void.

Yet none came to its assistance.

After all, who would get involved in the conflict of two Supreme Sages?!

"Bastards!" Sovereign Darkmother cursed vehemently.

BOOSH! BOOM! BAAAAM!

BOOM!!!!

Cracks.

And then, like an egg under pressure, the White Heaven Sage Palace EXPLODED!

WHOOSH!

Wei Wuyin pulled back another ten thousand miles. The others allowed themselves to be brought back as they observed the clash, sending grateful spiritual transmissions in the interim of the shift.

"I WILL KILL HIM! YOU CAN NOT STOP ME!" The familiar voice of Sovereign Vilesnow resounded with raging madness and righteous vengeance in his spiritual voice.

"I won't let you!" The other voice belonged to Sovereign Primal Star! And she had transformed into a dwarf-sized Solar Star!