“What a despicable wretch! How dare you humiliate me!”
Upon hearing these words, Tian Dou Xing Jun instantly flew into a rage.
Immediately, he summoned a supreme divine artifact called Starry Sky Multitudes. In an instant, the sky changed colors. What had been a bright, sunlit sky transformed into a starry night, with countless stars twinkling in the darkness…
This divine artifact was a treasured heirloom of the San Qing Sect, mysterious and wondrous, exuding unfathomable might.
Upon seeing the artifact unfurl and cover the heavens, Shui Miao remained unruffled, instead extending his divine consciousness to sense its nature.
At first glance, the vast starry sky appeared no different from an ordinary night.
However, under Shui Miao’s divine perception, he quickly discerned that this supreme artifact was nothing extraordinary. It was, in fact, a massive illusionary device composed of one hundred thousand illusion mirrors. Each star was an illusion mirror, and the mirrors, imbued with the five elemental forces and yin-yang energies, worked in harmony, trapping anyone inside in an inescapable maze of illusions.
“Ha! You dare brandish such a divine artifact to embarrass yourself?”
The Tian Ji Zun Zhe puppet merely laughed loudly, goading Tian Dou Xing Jun further.
It was time to teach them a lesson…
Shui Miao resolved to strike the San Qing Sect swiftly and decisively with the utmost force. He knew there were even more formidable experts lurking within the sect’s celestial city, so this battle had to be ended quickly, thoroughly subduing the San Qing Sect before he could fully focus on confronting Xuan Chizi.
At once, Shui Miao summoned his full strength, his consciousness penetrating the core of the formation, ready to obliterate the artifact spirit with overwhelming power.
But just as his consciousness entered the core, Tian Dou Xing Jun’s mental force intervened.
“Dare you try to stop me?”
Shui Miao reacted instantly, shifting tactics to employ the Dream Demon Cultivation Technique to bewilder Tian Dou Xing Jun.
Feeling an immense surge of mental force attempting to confuse him, Tian Dou Xing Jun was startled and immediately focused all his attention, channeling his full mental might to resist. As the sect leader of the San Qing Sect and a supreme being at the Saint level, he was no easy prey for Shui Miao’s manipulations. Yet, the force Shui Miao wielded was overwhelming—over thirty Divine Emperor-level artifact spirits previously subdued, plus another thirty recently awakened, totaling more than seventy Divine Emperor-level entities aiding him. Such power was simply unstoppable.
“How could this be?!”
“Who are you? Just who are you?!”
While resisting with all his might, Tian Dou Xing Jun realized that the opposing mental force was like a tidal wave—relentless and insurmountable.
“I am the Ancestor of the San Qing Sect, Tian Huang Lao Zi Xing Jun!”
Shui Miao spouted nonsense, aiming to confuse Tian Dou Xing Jun.
“What? The San Qing Ancestor? What nonsense is this? What are you talking about?”
Tian Dou Xing Jun hesitated, momentarily distracted by confusion. At that moment, Shui Miao’s Dream Demon Cultivation Technique surged forth. A series of seductive female giggles and whispers grew louder and louder, as if echoing right beside him…
“Hehehe… Tian Dou Xing Jun, don’t you recognize me anymore? I’m Xing Niang…”
“Star Brother, I’ve missed you so much. Do you remember what you whispered to me that night beneath the pavilion by the bridge and flowing stream?”
“…”.
Wave after wave of enchanting female voices, like whispers from the grave, reverberated in Tian Dou Xing Jun’s ears. Under the suppression of the Dream Demon Technique, his thoughts began to spiral into illusions, gradually weakening his resistance. The aura of the supreme artifact, Starry Sky Multitudes, began to wane, and the stars in the sky dimmed one by one…
Even before engaging in direct combat, Tian Dou Xing Jun, the sect leader of the San Qing Sect, was already on the verge of defeat.
Within the San Qing Sect’s celestial city, inside the San Qing Holy Hall, three men sat cross-legged in midair.
Between them stood an incense burner, emitting fragrant smoke that was intoxicatingly pleasant, almost addictive.
A middle-aged man with a pale complexion, sporting a mustache and narrow eyes with crimson pupils, dressed in a white robe embroidered with dragons, and with long hair cascading over his shoulders, turned grimly to the two elders beside him: “Xing Kui, Xing Ba, you must hurry and assist Tian Dou at once.”
This man with red pupils was none other than the false Celestial Emperor, Xuan Chizi.
He had already taken control of the San Qing Sect’s elders. The incense burner was a mysterious tool he used to bewilder the three great experts of the San Qing Sect.
“Uh…”
“Tian Dou… Tian Dou has been defeated?”
The two Saint-level experts, still entranced by the mind-bending fragrance, were reluctant to leave and found it hard to believe that Tian Dou had fallen so quickly.
“What are you hesitating for? Hurry up!” Xuan Chizi roared furiously. Shui Miao’s attack had been too swift, and it was already somewhat late for Xing Kui and Xing Ba to intervene.
“Whoosh… whoosh…”
Startled by Xuan Chizi’s outburst, Xing Kui and Xing Ba hurriedly vanished into the distance.
“Hmph! Even these Saint-level experts are nothing special—just two more fools coming to die!” Sensing the formidable power of Xing Kui and Xing Ba, Shui Miao quickly devised a plan. He continued to confuse Tian Dou Xing Jun, making him mistake Xing Kui and Xing Ba for himself and the Tian Ji Zun Zhe puppet.
“Damn you! How dare you deceive me! I’ll fight you to the death!”
With the pressure on him suddenly eased, Tian Dou Xing Jun sprang back into action. Instantly, he summoned an offensive supreme divine artifact and roared, “Enter the formation!”
At once, the ten Divine Emperor-level experts rushed into the formation.
This offensive supreme artifact turned out to be a massive meteorite cluster, three to four hundred meters in diameter!
As soon as the ten experts entered, the meteorite cluster erupted with flames. Under Tian Dou Xing Jun’s control, it hurtled directly toward Xing Kui and Xing Ba.
Caught completely off guard, Xing Kui and Xing Ba had no time to evade. They were struck and crushed beneath the colossal meteorite. As it began to spin rapidly, it threatened to grind them into dust.
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
In a panic, Xing Kui and Xing Ba activated their Heaven-Stealing Talismans and barely escaped.
Their appearance was pitiful—clothes torn, hair disheveled, blood flowing from their mouths and noses, severely wounded, and too weak to even curse Tian Dou Xing Jun.
“Buzz!”
Taking the opportunity, Shui Miao activated the pre-prepared Annihilation Void Formation, directly targeting the two.
With a deafening crash, the formations and artifact spirits within their already damaged treasures were instantly shattered. Their treasures turned into useless scrap metal, scattering to the ground.
“Fools! Absolute incompetence!”
Feeling the battle unfold outside, and seeing how easily the San Qing Sect he had painstakingly controlled was collapsing like a house of cards, Xuan Chizi was furious.
“Master, you summoned me?”
Before Xuan Chizi stood an elder clad in black robes, summoned from within a treasure. This elder was none other than Luo Tong, the Saint-level Artificer, whose mind had been clouded by Xuan Chizi’s manipulations.
“Luo Tong, that brat outside, Shui Miao, is the disciple of the soul you left behind in the Luosha Realm. I want you to destroy him at all costs—even if it costs you your life. Just hold out for an hour!” After his furious command, Xuan Chizi suddenly felt a violent churn in his dantian. Knowing he had disturbed his energy flow from anger, he hastily waved at Luo Tong before retreating into his treasure to continue cultivating his Chi Lian Grand Technique.
The Chi Lian Grand Technique had reached a critical stage, and Xuan Chizi dared not be careless.
One hour—just one hour. If Luo Tong could hold out for that long, he would complete the Chi Lian Grand Technique and become the most formidable being in the Demon Realm, surpassing even the Demon Emperor Wu Yezhi!
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