The tender voice, like a song of a thousand blessings, slowly came to an end. Qiao San stretched his body and struggled to rise, slipping free from the entangled limbs of the three women.
Looking at their bodies marked with signs of love, feeling their long and satisfied breaths, what more could a man like Qiao San desire? What else could he possibly ask for?
Everything that followed was natural and inevitable. Qiao San displayed his newfound power, easily reviving the Three Sages, then casually tossing them aside in some remote and unknown location before turning around and leaving with the three women, his movements as free and unrestrained as ever.
“Wait, young friend!” the Three Sages, filled with discontent, could only skillfully remind the audacious Qiao San. “You’ve forgotten to return my treasures!”
“Oh!” Qiao San slapped his forehead, feigning sudden realization, then sighed in regret. “Oh no, how careless of me! I left the item back at the previous place. Don’t worry, Sage, just give me a moment or two and I’ll fetch it!”
The rogue waved his three companions into the clouds and soared away. But this “moment or two” stretched into eternity, and they never returned.
“You rascal, you truly never change! Why did you lie? The Star-Shift Disc is clearly tucked in your sleeve! Hehehe…” Longmu scolded with words, but couldn’t help bursting into laughter at the end. After all, the ruler of the Four Seas was never one to follow the rules.
Taiyuan cast a curious glance at Qiao San. The holy immortal girl, though slightly blushing at his thieving behavior, felt in her wise heart that Qiao San must have had a hidden reason.
Eager to prove himself not a petty thief, Qiao San quickly explained aloud, “My dear ladies, I only borrowed it! This treasure has great power—it can shift the battlefield into the disc, preventing the Three Realms from turning to ruins!”
He paused briefly, then struck a noble pose, cleared his throat, and concluded, “I did this all for the countless lives across the Three Realms. So, it’s not stealing, right? Hehehe…”
As Qiao San basked in his own self-satisfaction, the three women finally understood his good intentions and realized an undeniable truth—Qiao San was no petty thief, but a grand master of grand schemes.
Amidst their laughter and joy, the clouds danced happily. Just as Qiao San believed his heroic image had deeply embedded itself in the hearts of the three women, Longmu suddenly halted her cloud and eyed him suspiciously from head to toe: “So, you’ve had your eyes on the Star-Shift Disc all along, haven’t you?”
Before Qiao San could fully grasp the ominous feeling rising in his heart, Longmu’s heavy foot came crashing down. “You rascal! I knew you weren’t here just to save people. Pretending to be a savior! Taiyuan, attack this bastard!”
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“Boom—”
Plumes of smoke and explosions shot into the sky. The great battle of the Three Realms had finally reached the Island of Earthfire. The aura of the Primordial Demon God was now clearly felt.
Tension, intense and unbearable, filled the heavens and earth. Everyone knew—the moment of final confrontation was near.
Within the dark flames of the Earthfire Island, the Primordial Demon God opened his eyes. Glancing at the nearly lifeless Gouxin beside him, he coldly spat, “Useless trash!”
Before the words had faded, the Demon God’s eyes flared with two beams of sharp light. A full meter beyond his body, the beams suddenly fanned out, illuminating the restless swarm of countless beasts.
A mysterious call echoed in the simple minds of the beasts. In no time at all, all the creatures began slowly crawling toward the Primordial Demon God, step by step.
The first golden rays of dawn pierced the fog, and the morale of the allied armies of the Three Realms soared to its peak. With a surge of battle spirit, swords and blades were raised high, their dazzling light reflecting off the countless corpses of the beasts.
“Hu…”
A deathly silence suddenly fell across hundreds of miles around the Earthfire Island. Over a million soldiers from the Three Realms stood frozen in disbelief, statuesque and unable to move. Victory had come too suddenly, too strangely. Everyone stared at each other in shock.
Had the war truly ended? Was the Primordial Demon God also dead? Had some super, super, super powerful expert appeared?
“Yushan, form the formation—quickly!”
The first to recover from the shock was Madam Qiao. A sharp chill pierced her heart, spreading quickly through the bodies of the other women.
In an instant, centered around Madam Qiao, over a hundred experts of the Great Luo Realm from the Heavens and Earth took their positions. From above, one would see their formation blooming like a magnificent flower, their movements like petals opening and closing.
Almost the moment the formation was completed, the sea surrounding the Earthfire Island suddenly rose into the air, forming an immeasurable wall of water slowly advancing toward the heavenly army.
“Whoosh…”
The gentle water turned violent. Heaven and earth were covered in shadow. Suddenly, the wall of water contracted, transforming into a massive palm print the size of the sky, carrying destructive power straight down.
Still roaring through the air, the Demon God’s palm strike reduced several mountains on the ground to flat land. The peaks vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.
Madam Qiao, standing at the center of the “petals,” flew alone into the sky. Her sleeve gently fluttered, and her delicate jade hand slowly rose to meet the attack.
The power of a hundred Great Luo Immortals flowed into the “flower’s core,” magically condensing into a beam of light that shot into Madam Qiao’s body.
The massive palm and the delicate hand finally collided in midair—but no sound came. The sky suddenly turned pitch black, then brightened, then darkened again—this cycle repeated three times before the heavens and earth finally calmed.
“Boom—”
Only then did the Three Realms hear the deafening sound. It wasn’t that there had been no sound before—it was simply too loud, beyond the hearing range of all living beings.
Before the echoes of the impact had even faded, millions of soldiers suddenly fell into chaos like waves. The very ground beneath their feet was vanishing rapidly, turning into nothingness!
The experts of the Three Realms, now hovering at low altitude, felt their hearts twist in panic. They hadn’t expected that with just one palm strike, the Earthfire Island would be gone. If the battle continued, would there even be any space left for life in the Three Realms?
“Ha, ha… foolish brats who don’t know their place in death! Do you really think you can block my path?”
The dark clouds in the sky split apart, revealing a twisted figure darker than black clouds, heavier than ghostly winds. The Primordial Demon God stood a thousand feet tall, his wild hair rising into the sky. Each strand transformed into a beast, making his grotesque face even more terrifying.
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