Chapter 386: The Main God Space (42)

In an eternal space, a being composed entirely of silver-white light, impossible to gaze upon directly, quietly watched the scene displayed before him.

The image showed Su Chen locked in battle with the three True Immortals.

The Heavenly Gang Immortal King suddenly felt a trace of confusion.

"This king personally suppressed him and even erased his true name. Why is he still alive?"

The Heavenly Gang Immortal King had suspected Su Chen's identity as the former leader of the Immortal Alliance, and now he had confirmed it completely.

The leader of the Immortal Alliance had not died. He had released the Wisdom Immortal Monarch and Human Emperor Immortal Monarch as bait. Their life or death meant little to him.

Now that he had confirmed Su Chen's identity, a spark of interest arose in the Heavenly Gang Immortal King's heart.

"It is not time yet."

Just as the Heavenly Gang Immortal King prepared to seize the spacetime where Su Chen stood, a hand stretched out from nowhere and stopped him.

The owner of that hand... if Su Chen were present, he would have immediately recognized his true identity.

The Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King!

He had actually appeared here.

Upon seeing the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King, the Heavenly Gang Immortal King withdrew his outstretched hand and said with displeasure, "Lord of Scourge, you should not interfere with this king and do something so unwise."

The Heavenly Gang Immortal King had actually addressed the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King as... the Lord of Scourge!

The Lord of the Fourth Scourge had not died. Using some unknown method, he had replaced the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King.

If this news spread, it would cause an unimaginable earthquake across the myriad heavens.

The "Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King" spoke. "He is already being watched by some other Immortal Kings of the Main God Space. If he dies unexpectedly, it might lead them straight to you and me."

"What you seek is that vacant sole Immortal Emperor position. You have been laying groundwork as a quasi-Emperor for so long. Would it not be a shame to fail at the final step?"

The Heavenly Gang Immortal King fell silent.

The four Immortal Kings had joined forces to besiege the Lord of Scourge. In that battle, he had cooperated with the Lord of Scourge to kill two Immortal Kings and allowed the Lord of Scourge to replace the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King. All of it was to work with him to obtain that "item" from the Main God Space.

The Lord of Scourge knew what the Heavenly Gang Immortal King wanted. He had agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Gang Immortal King. He wanted to use the Heavenly Gang Immortal King to conceal his true identity while slowly laying plans in the shadows to restore his former realm.

After the Heavenly Gang Immortal King left, the Lord of Scourge looked toward Su Chen's direction in confusion. What secret did this person hold that nearly made even an existence like the Heavenly Gang Immortal King willing to risk exposure?

He observed for a long time but detected nothing unusual.

"Never mind..."

The Lord of Scourge's figure vanished. With the suppression of the Immortal King gone, Su Chen could once again find the direction back to the Main God Space.

He had escaped death, yet Su Chen felt no joy. He had slain three True Immortals with his own power and reclaimed the Wisdom and Human Emperor paths from his previous life. With four immortal paths, he stood as an absolute giant among True Immortals in the myriad heavens.

Yet Su Chen knew there remained an insurmountable gap between a True Immortal giant and an Immortal King. If the Heavenly Gang Immortal King wished it, he would have no path to survival. Su Chen did not believe the Heavenly Gang Immortal King had failed to notice what had happened earlier. His identity as the former leader of the Immortal Alliance could no longer be hidden. Yet the Heavenly Gang Immortal King had chosen not to act against him. This was not good news.

"What exactly is the Heavenly Gang Immortal King scheming in the shadows?"

Su Chen lowered his gaze. The fact that the Heavenly Gang Immortal King had not killed him immediately meant something even more important held the Immortal King back.

"The Main God Space can no longer be returned to."

Once he went back, his identity as the leader of the Immortal Alliance would surely be exposed.

Su Chen's figure gradually disappeared.

...

In the myriad heavens, the news of the Immortal Alliance Lord's return caused the various powers to gradually forget about the Fourth Scourge.

The Immortal Alliance Lord—the mastermind behind two sweeping wars across the myriad heavens that led to the fall of over a thousand True Immortals in a short time—aroused even greater dread than the waves stirred by the Fourth Scourge.

Yet after his return, the Immortal Alliance Lord seemed to vanish once more. He never appeared again. No matter how the powers searched, they found no further traces of him.

This led many to doubt whether his return had been real or false.

At this moment, Su Chen was with Oriental Cloud Star.

Asura Immortal Monarch had been slain by Oriental Cloud Star once again. The power of the Asura Immortal Position gradually merged with him, advancing him further as a True Immortal giant.

"Master... are you saying you suspect the Lord of the Fourth Scourge did not die?"

Oriental Cloud Star looked at the results Su Chen had deduced through the Gate of Truth with disbelief. He had heard about the Fourth Scourge war, but at the time he had been under Asura Immortal Monarch's watchful eye and knew little about it.

Still, Su Chen's mention that the battle had even involved Immortal King-level beings made Oriental Cloud Star realize its brutality. Yet even so, the Lord of the Fourth Scourge had not died.

Su Chen's expression was complicated. "I hope that is not the case... Otherwise, the myriad heavens will face an even more terrifying catastrophe. The havoc the Immortal Alliance once wrought may not even equal one-tenth, one-hundredth, or even one-ten-thousandth of this coming disaster."

Hearing his master describe it in such exaggerated terms made Oriental Cloud Star's heart tighten. He knew there were few things left in this world capable of unsettling his master, let alone to this degree.

"Master, would the Lord of the Fourth Scourge not dying truly be so terrifying?"

Oriental Cloud Star was puzzled.

Su Chen nodded gravely. He had one more thought he had not shared with Oriental Cloud Star. If the Lord of the Fourth Scourge had not died, then who exactly was the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King who had returned to the Main God Space and announced the successful encirclement of the Fourth Scourge?

The mastermind behind the scenes? Or... the Lord of the Fourth Scourge himself?

The thought made Su Chen's scalp tingle. He could not even voice it aloud. No matter who the Supreme Severing Fortune Immortal King truly was, the outcome was not good.

...

News of the Immortal Alliance Lord gradually faded into legend and was even dismissed as a rumor spread by some idle True Immortal.

Epoch after epoch passed. The myriad heavens remained calm.

It was an eerie calm. Then a single piece of news shattered that tranquility completely.

It seemed a certain "item" had gone missing from the Main God Space.

Not only that, the Transmigrator Alliance, the Heavenly Dao Academy, the Palace of Kings, and many other king-level orthodoxies had simultaneously gone mad—all because of the loss of that same "item."

The long river of time fell into chaos. Ancient palaces standing along this timeline sank one after another.

Countless parallel spacetimes were compressed into a single long line.

Immortal Kings... and not just one. Multiple Immortal Kings had been stirred into action. Each Immortal King did not belong to the same timeline. If more than five descended upon a single timeline, spacetime itself might collapse under the strain. Yet far more than five Immortal Kings had arrived now.

Even though spacetime had been compressed to withstand the descent of multiple Immortal Kings, the number of alarmed Immortal Kings was simply too great.

Countless beings across the myriad heavens died violent deaths.

Su Chen and Oriental Cloud Star looked up.

In the sky beyond spatial distance, indistinct silhouettes appeared.

Oriental Cloud Star's throat went dry. "Master... this catastrophe seems even more terrifying than you predicted."