NOVPUBEven back in Cang Province, Shen Yuan could suppress the Spirit Refining Demon King with the newly acquired Gods Purging Divine Power, and with the resentment of tens of thousands, he stripped the River Ji Dragon Sovereign of his position.
As Shen Yuan’s Gods Purging Divine Power stepped into the Second Realm, his control over this 2nd Earthly Destroyer Divine Power became even more adept.
Under the suppression of the Divinity Path Origin, even if the Canonical Gods of the Eight Bureaus and the 10th Hall Yama were to descend, they could easily be subdued, let alone the mere Capital City God of Divine Monarch rank.
Of course, if it were only the Second Realm of Gods Purging Divine Power, Shen Yuan had more than enough power to suppress the Capital City God, but he could not make it serve at his whim.
After all, the gap in their realms was simply too great; even if Shen Yuan’s Primordial Spirit had already reached the Yang God Stage, it was still a good two major realms below Refining Spirit to Return to Void.
What truly allowed Shen Yuan to command the Capital City God was actually the Unimpeded Netherworld Divine Power, the 1st Earthly Destroyer Divine Power.
With the Unimpeded Netherworld Divine Power governing the essence of the Netherworld Path, the Capital City God might seem transcendent in rank, but in essence, he still belonged to the Netherworld ministry’s deity series, governing the world after the death of living beings.
In such a situation, the Capital City God was naturally subject to the suppression of the Netherworld Path’s origin.
The double suppression from the Gods Purging Divine Power and the Netherworld Path made it far from a simple sum of 1+1=2; not even an edict from the Mortal Emperor could wrest back control.
Shen Yuan easily manipulated the Capital City God and staged this scene using him, intending to draw out another force behind Emperor Xia.
The Capital City God was already the master of this incense offering magic domain, and with Shen Yuan deliberately strengthening him, the might of that sword was naturally formidable.
The two Void Refining True Monarchs hardly had time to react to the betrayal of the Capital City God, and with one strike, both their physical bodies and Spirit Souls suffered irreparable heavy damage.
"Have you gone mad?"
"Emperor Xia, what is the meaning of this!"
The Blind Old Taoist and the effeminate man issued frantic inquires, attempting to tear apart the void and escape from the incense offering magic domain.
However, a fair hand reached out from the void; the Pot’s Heaven Divine Power smoothed out the spatial fluctuations, causing the Blind Old Taoist and the effeminate man to miss their chance to escape.
The Sword of Incense struck again!
The two Void Refining True Monarchs had to hurriedly take out their spirit treasures to respond, but under that sword carrying the vast might of the incense offering magic domain, the two spirit treasures exploded with a bang, and the chaotic Sword Qi once again tore their legal bodies, worsening their injuries.
Atop the grand altar, Emperor Xia was already staring blank-faced at the scene unfolding before him.
"What are you doing?"
"Why are you attacking them?"
Emperor Xia roared angrily, questioning the other half of his own split Spirit Soul.
However, inside the divine body of the Capital City God, there was only silence; he received no reply, as if the mighty deity towering before him had nothing to do with him.
In that moment, Emperor Xia finally felt a wave of fear.
...
Within the incense offering magic domain, Shen Yuan, making use of the Pot’s Heaven Divine Power, hid in the void, watching the two Void Refining True Monarchs in combat with the Capital City God.
Before coming to the Imperial Capital, Shen Yuan had, following the guidance of the will of heaven and earth, realized that there might be other forces behind Emperor Xia.
With Emperor Xia’s incessant concessions to the Netherworld and ceding the position of the City God to local tyrants, these unusual actions further confirmed Shen Yuan’s speculation.
In terms of power alone, Shen Yuan certainly had the opportunity to deal with Emperor Xia earlier, nipping the trouble in the bud.
Yet in the end, Emperor Xia held half the rank of Mortal Emperor, and as long as he did not truly rebel against this world, he would always be the Emperor controlling the fate of humanity.
If Shen Yuan were to attack Emperor Xia without basis, he would inevitably suffer backlash from the fate of humanity and the will of heaven and earth, bearing the tremendous karma of slaying the Mortal Emperor.
Even with the Heavenly General Great Divine Power he possessed, he might not be able to bear such a heavy karma.
Therefore, the only method for Shen Yuan was to continuously disrupt Emperor Xia’s schemes, causing Emperor Xia to fall into disarray and reveal his true intentions, thereby deposing him from the throne of the Mortal Emperor.
Only when his rank fell from Mortal Emperor could Shen Yuan truly make his move against Emperor Xia.
Supporting Xia Yunqiu to ignite the Fire of Humanity was part of the plan, releasing the Secret Realm Square-Inch in advance to attract the attention of the Great Grotto Heavens Blessed Land was part of the plan, and blocking the grotto heavens for seven days to give Emperor Xia an opportunity to build the incense offering magic domain was also part of the plan...
Plan after plan interlocked, forcing Emperor Xia in his desperation to seek help from that power guiding him from behind.
"The Dusk Realm?"
Shen Yuan’s eyes flashed with a hint of contemplation.
The Primal Chaos Realm was one of the few great worlds among the Myriad Heavens, with as many as hundreds of affiliated worlds at its peak period.
For the Dusk Realm to be able to plot against the Primal Chaos Realm, it certainly wouldn’t be some obscure world, and its scale would at least have to be on the level of a mid-tier world.
However, in Shen Yuan’s knowledge, there was no mid-tier world named the Dusk Realm; this so-called Dusk Realm could well have emerged amidst the changes of the Great Schism in the Primal Chaos Realm over tens of thousands of years. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
It could be a newly born special world or a mid-tier world that has changed its name, but either possibility revealed the extraordinary nature of the Dusk Realm.
For in the two Void Refining True Monarchs, Shen Yuan sensed a trace of bizarre aura.
Though these strange auras were extremely faint and suppressed by some special force, having encountered the 18 Levels of Hell and the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda before, Shen Yuan still recognized the essence of these bizarre auras at a glance.
The two Void Refining True Monarchs dodged the blockade of the Nine Tripods, crossed worlds under the suppression of the Great Schism, with undoubtedly grand designs in mind.
With this thought, Shen Yuan’s Pot’s Heaven Divine Power once again solidified space, locking the escape trajectory of the two Void Refining True Monarchs.
